Chapter 185 Digital Life
"Perhaps that's why this place eventually fell."
After resting for a while, Yun Zhao walked to the middle of the living room, pointed to the bedroom door and said, "Instead of this, shouldn't we first try to figure out why people commit suicide?"
"And what about those unseen mutants? Why do they only attack people who rush into the street to commit suicide?"
Since we're already here, let's bring in two S-class teams together.
Once you've found the person, you can try to find the gatekeeper.
If we can also take care of this contaminated area, the thought of returning to base and receiving the reward for killing three gatekeepers is very appealing.
She even seemed to be in better spirits.
Xie Tu looked up at him.
She was clearly forcing herself to stay awake, and the little bluebird perched on her head was not as arrogant and domineering as before.
"You can sit down and rest for a while. They're here."
The peregrine falcon hasn't returned yet, and they won't go out until the little guy comes back.
"No need, I'm fine."
Yun Zhao replied casually, then noticed that two people were missing from the living room and asked, "Where are Rabbit and Tao Haohao?"
Song Liang was checking the computer, comparing the topographic map with Duan Xi, when he heard this and pointed to the bedroom, "He and Tao Haohao went in to search."
Xie Tu looked utterly helpless.
For some reason, I, who am strong and strict in front of my teammates, suddenly became less imposing in front of her.
The words I say seem to have no effect.
Tao Haohao and the rabbit, who were searching the house, quickly found new clues.
In the man's bedroom, there was a laptop on the bedside table.
The computer is powered on, and the screen is emitting light.
Tao Haohao and the rabbit tiptoed inside and picked up the computer.
"What's this?" the rabbit asked, pointing to the bedside table.
There was a flyer under the computer.
Tao Haohao glanced at the words on it and said, "Take them all out and study them together."
The man was hypnotized by the mental threads and was sleeping soundly, lying on his side with his back to them on the bed.
Rabbit reached out and pulled up the flyer, then left the bedroom with Tao Haohao.
After coming out, she used the light from the computer screen to see the words on it, and her expression changed slightly.
"team leader!"
Holding up the flyer, the rabbit said eagerly, "Take a look at this! Now I know why those people committed suicide."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately gathered around.
Including Yun Zhao.
Xie Tu took the flyer, and when he shone the flashlight on it, the people who saw the contents changed their expressions.
Including Xie Tu.
Yun Zhao, however, looked like a dwarf; he held his hand up too high, not high enough to see what was on it.
She had no choice but to hold onto Xie Tu's arm and press the man's hand down.
Xie Tu noticed this and lowered the flyer to match her height.
The large characters at the beginning read:
"Opening a New Era of Digital Life, Embracing Eternity".
The former prosperity has turned to ashes, resources are depleted, and the glimmer of humanity flickers and dies in the darkness.
As one of the survivors, are you weary of endless suffering and despair? Do you yearn for a haven where suffering ends and eternity is embraced?
Now, an unprecedented ray of hope shines in the darkness—the world of digital life!
When your body rests in the dust of the end times, your soul will leap into an infinitely vast and vibrant digital dimension.
Here, death is no longer the end, but the prelude to rebirth!
Here, there is no hunger, no fear, no loss, only eternal existence and exploration...
You can reshape your own image—appearance, wisdom, and power—everything is up to you. You can live happily with your family in another dimension, creating your own cosmic laws!
Yes, you heard right, this was a magnificent leap towards life in the face of death.
Why struggle in this cruel world? Choosing the digital life world is choosing an eternal paradise without tears or regrets...
After reading the above, everyone in Team Zero gasped in shock.
Everything that seemed strange now seemed to have an explanation.
Including the words spoken by those who faced death with a smile.
They were just discussing why so many resources are being spent maintaining the power system.
The answer is now right in front of us.
This base doesn't maintain ordinary power supply, but rather the power supply that powers the digital life world.
The rabbit murmured, "Those people committed suicide because they wanted to enter the digital life world?"
Imagine a person shrouded in despair, where every breath is a struggle for survival.
How many people can resist such temptation?
Duan Xi found it unbelievable, "How is this technology even possible?"
The so-called digital life world.
Essentially, it is a virtual space constructed from complex program code and data.
They knew that technology was very advanced in the old days.
However, after entering the 22nd century, technological development encountered a bottleneck, and no new technologies emerged for many years.
Even though Duan Xi was uneducated, he still completed all the base's coursework and sentry knowledge training courses.
"Didn't the previous materials say that there are 14 billion neural connections in the human brain? How is it possible to convert them all into data and upload consciousness to the network?"
Reality and virtuality are ultimately different.
Just like people in the old days, their minds were addicted to mobile phones, computers, various online entertainment, online games, virtual communication, and so on.
But those are just external extensions.
It is an interaction between a person and an electronic device, rather than an actual upload of consciousness.
What people see, hear, and feel through screens are nothing more than images, sounds, and touches converted from electronic signals.
Their consciousness remains firmly bound to their bodies, subject to the laws of biology and physics.
"This has reached another level."
Xie Tu handed the flyer to Yun Zhao and looked at the computer that Tao Haohao had taken out.
After fiddling with it for a while, Song Liang had already opened a screen.
On the screen, in a sun-drenched house, a young woman hums a song as she cooks in the kitchen, while two elderly people bask in the sun on the lawn outside the window.
They were talking about everyday things through the window, their voices coming through the computer.
The scene is beautiful.
It's like a pure land, a place that captivates the soul.
It forms a stark contrast to the outside world, which is riddled with holes.
The people inside must be the relatives of the man sleeping in the bedroom.
Xie Tu stared intently at the computer screen. The people on it looked indistinguishable from real people, like recorded video footage.
"Can a single line of code satisfy all your needs?"
Then who would still be willing to work hard?
Who would still be willing to stand up against this cannibalistic world?
Xie Tu said with a straight face, "A strong civilization cannot develop from adversity to comfort. It is born in hardship and dies in comfort. It is a path of decadence and escapism."
He was clearly opposed to the technology.
After reading the above, Yun Zhao pondered another question and asked softly, "Has no one considered that you, living in the data world, are still the same person you were before?"
A once very famous philosophical paradox.
—The Ship of Theseus.
There is a legend in ancient Greece.
The ship that Theseus was on was left behind by the Athenians as a monument.
As time passed, the wood gradually rotted, and the Athenians would replace it with new wood.
If a piece of wood is damaged, they will find the same piece of wood to replace it.
Finally, every single piece of wood on the ship was replaced, which raised the question: Is this still the original Ship of Theseus?
Just like this digital world of life.
Is the "you" in the data a version of yourself replaced by AI, or the real you?
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