Don't pick up wild people on the roadside (10)
The lights were turned off, and the entire bedroom wall glowed with white-green light, and for a moment it seemed as if one had entered some kind of technological space.
Jiang Yuanshi sat on the edge of the bed, the wandering codes reflected in his pupils, slowly converging into a data chain, jumping out of the wall, forming a pair of hands, reaching out to him.
The young man stared intently, and as the hands moved, he raised his head unconsciously. Drops of water from his forehead dripped into Jiang Yuanshi's eyes, were squeezed out by his eyelids, slid down his cheeks, and finally fell into the palm of the hand below.
Jiang Yuanshi watched the drop of water turn into thin threads of data and merge into the other party's hands.
"Z01?" He called the system's name uncertainly.
"I'm here." Z01's voice sounded in his ears, so close that it seemed like he was right next to him. Jiang Yuanshi wiped his eyes that were hit by the water and asked, "Why are you here?"
silence.
The system did not respond.
Jiang Yuanshi stared at the movements of the other person's hand, left, right, up and down.
Jiang Yuanshi suspected that Z01 was playing a trick on him, so he thought so and asked, "Are you playing a trick on me?"
Z01 responded this time: "...No."
"You hesitated."
"."
"What on earth are you doing here?"
“…”
Z01 became silent again. Jiang Yuanshi felt that he was running hot, probably because the residual heat from his shower had not yet dissipated, making him feel hot and irritated.
"If you are okay, please leave. This is private property."
“…”
Still no answer.
Jiang Yuanshi frowned and looked a little annoyed. Since the other party didn't want to leave, could he just leave?
Just as the young man was about to stand up, the hands finally moved, reaching out to the other's head and pressing on the towel.
Jiang Yuanshi was startled by the sudden movement and sat back down. He opened his confused eyes, his hair was lifted up by the towel, and his head swayed back and forth depending on the force of the rubbing.
What is this for?
After a long while, Jiang Yuanshi finally remembered to raise one eye and look upwards, and asked in confusion: "You...are here just to wipe my hair?"
Z01's voice appeared above and answered, "No, this is not planned because you have to go to bed without blowing your hair."
Jiang Yuanshi retorted: "I just want to lie down for a while."
Z01: "The pillow will get wet, and I don't remember you having the habit of resting without drying your hair."
Jiang Yuanshi: "I haven't washed my hair in front of you, have I?"
Z01: "Yes, many times."
Jiang Yuanshi: “Is there?”
"Counting the two worlds, there are a total of six times." Z01 said, and without waiting for the other party to refute, he directly produced evidence. The large screen on the wall was divided into six parts, and each part was a video of Jiang Yuanshi coming out after washing his hair.
In the video, Jiang Yuanshi is wearing the shell of the original owner, which is completely blown dry, and even has frizzy hair. There is even a heat indicator on it. The red temperature of his hair is very obvious. The first five are all different red temperature frizzy hair. Only in the last one, the head wearing Jiang Yuan's body is a tattered wet head.
Jiang Yuanshi: “…”
His hair was still being rubbed, but as he rubbed it, his head shrank down. Z01 reminded him, "Host, please don't move."
Jiang Yuanshi shrank his head and said, "I can't help it. My hair is itching my neck. What the hell are you recording?"
Z01 said calmly, "I remember you agreed to this."
Jiang Yuanshi: "I agree, but I also said don't let me see it. What do you mean now? Are you publicly punishing me for my hair-drying skills?"
"It seems that you haven't realized it yet." Z01 withdrew his hand and picked up the towel.
"What's the meaning?"
Jiang Yuanshi watched the towel automatically float in the air and fly towards the bathroom. Then the big hand turned into a hair dryer in front of him. There was no power supply, but the wind blew and made his head hot.
The hair dryer made no noise, and Jiang Yuanshi clearly heard what Z01 said: "Your habits are undergoing strange changes."
How long does it take to develop a habit? According to the encyclopedia of the human world, it takes 21 days to develop a habit.
Once a habit is formed, whether good or bad, it will last for a long time, even throughout a person's life. Therefore, it is difficult to change a habit. It may take several days but you will end up repeating the same mistake.
Under Z01's observation, Jiang Yuanshi has undergone many changes in details since he came to this world.
Washing your hair without wiping it is the smallest problem.
In the past, he had to rely on food stores to find his way, and he could only remember the direction he was going on the same road. Jiang Yuanshi, who was unfamiliar with the return route, was able to figure out the direction as soon as he left the black clinic in the downtown area. Although both ends were pitch black, Jiang Yuanshi walked back as if he was familiar with the route, and even ignored the food station on the way back.
The front door of the house clearly allows entry by scanning the face, and there is such an obvious display screen, but the other party chose to take out the key to open the door. Without even looking at the shape of the key, he inserted it once and the door opened.
Just like home.
Jiang Yuanshi listened to Z01's analysis and subconsciously refuted, "But didn't Yunqing say that the mission world will be more in line with one's own life for the sake of immersion? That door and entrance are indeed very similar to my home."
"But I don't think it's reasonable to be able to skillfully use the tools of a new world when entering it for the first time." The more Z01 spoke, the more confused Jiang Yuanshi's face became. "You don't seem to have noticed that the tools you use to repair cars have never appeared in the world you have lived in. You look confused, so can you remember what the tools you use to repair cars look like now?"
"...I don't remember." Jiang Yuanshi had no impression at all.
"I only remember that I repaired the car, but I didn't pay attention to the tools." Jiang Yuanshi was clearly sitting on the bed, but he felt that there was nothing around him. He frowned and asked thoughtfully, "But, Yun Qing was also beside him, and he didn't seem to react. If there was a problem, he should have reminded me..."
Z01: "How did you know that he was from the same world as you, just because he had played the game you made?"
For some reason, Jiang Yuanshi always felt that Z01's calm tone was a bit aggressive: "Why do I feel like the way you speak is weird?"
Z01: "No, it's your illusion."
Jiang Yuanshi: oO
"Are you sure?"
"Definitely not." Z01 answered decisively.
Well, that's it.
Who messed with him? Who dares to mess with Z01?
Jiang Yuanshi couldn't figure it out, but he knew it wasn't him.
Jiang Yuanshi rubbed his brows and said, "So you mean Yun Qing is from the future?"
Z01 didn't expect the other party to ask: "Why do you think so?"
"Because the game he was talking about was released on the day I died." The temperature of the hair dryer was not high, but it dried quickly. Jiang Yuanshi raised his eyes and stared at the flying hair in front of his forehead and said, "Since he played it, he must have died after me, but he turned a blind eye to the tools of this world, so... he can't be from this world, right?"
Jiang Yuanshi's ideas are always bold.
Most people would probably think that the development of Yun Qing's world is similar to this world, or that the tools used by Jiang Yuanshi might be in line with Yun Qing's world, but Jiang Yuanshi skipped all of them and went straight to the correct answer.
Z01: "Your guess is consistent with my analysis, with a probability of 89%."
Jiang Yuanshi opened his mouth slightly, and it took him a long time to close it. Z01 helped to lift his chin. Jiang Yuanshi closed his mouth, smacked his lips twice and said, "Does this world really exist?"
Z01: "It used to be."
Jiang Yuanshi: "What kind of ambiguous answer is this?"
Z01: "You should know that once the mission in the novel world is completed and the protagonist awakens, the world will become a real world and be managed by other departments."
Jiang Yuanshi nodded, and Z01 continued, "But there is one thing I haven't mentioned to you. Originally, the host would not encounter this situation, but now it seems that it does not apply to you. After the novel world becomes real, the world consciousness will choose a character as the son of luck, and the world will rely on the son of luck to operate. Slowly, the world's NPCs will gradually have self-awareness, begin to multiply, and operate to become a real world. By then, the world will not rely on the son of luck to operate independently. But there is a problem. Before the real world matures, once the son of luck dies, the world consciousness cannot find other carriers, and the world will stop and finally collapse and die."
"In order to save this world, the decision made by the higher-ups is to downgrade this world that has lost the Son of Luck again. This will be a novel world, with everything reset and the characters reshaped until a new host arrives to complete the mission and awaken those characters."
Jiang Yuanshi: "What if the mission is completed but the character hasn't awakened?"
Z01: "It will continue according to the rules of the novel world until the day of awakening, but the probability is about the same as a human winning a lottery worth hundreds of millions."
Jiang Yuanshi smiled in his heart. He was very lucky. He encountered the same problem twice in two missions. But there were so many bugs. He knew what to say.
"By the way, I have a question for you. If the world needs world consciousness, then what about the previous world? Didn't you eat that thing?"
Z01 said calmly, "Yes, but I couldn't digest it after eating it, so I concentrated and cleaned it and found a carrier."
Jiang Yuanshi's hair was dry. The wind from the hair dryer blew from his hair to the wet part on his back. Jiang Yuanshi couldn't help but shiver. He held up his collar with one hand and let the hair dryer blow: "Blow here."
"OK."
"The carrier you're talking about, isn't it the living man in black? If I hadn't been in such a hurry to get away, I would have wanted to ask you who he was."
Z01: "He is just one of the bodyguards of the Fan Dian family, but he was once manipulated by Fan Tang and barely gained some power. Later, his superiors were very interested in this adaptation and retained this role, but how he will develop in the future depends on him."
Jiang Yuanshi: "But that was all later. Did you put it in because you knew the higher-ups would be satisfied?"
Z01: "There is a 50% chance that the world consciousness cannot be detected and disappears, otherwise the mission will be considered a failure."
"Oh, it seems I have to thank you again, otherwise I will have to start all over again." Jiang Yuanshi shook his clothes and refuted himself, "...No, we are even. After all, the mission failed and you can't change people."
Z01: “…”
Jiang Yuanshi asked: "So you are saying so much just to remind me that something is wrong with this world? And Yun Qing, he is bound to you now, what do you want to do?"
Jiang Yuanshi's eyes were cold. The data link running on the wall paused for a moment, and it took a long time to return to normal. Z01: "The way you look at me is not right. I will not kill the host."
"So you understand what I'm talking about." Jiang Yuanshi put down his clothes and asked, "Then the son of luck in this world is Yun Qing or someone else. If he is really from this world, why can he bind to the system instead of becoming an NPC?"
Z01: "I'm sorry, but I can't get the answers due to insufficient data permissions. Reporting this to my superiors may lead to annihilation. We can only wait and see. The good thing is that B33 knows nothing about this, so everything can still run normally."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Maybe, but even if he knew, he wouldn't report it. He would just work harder to complete the mission and bring Yun Qing home as soon as possible."
"Your answer accounts for 40% of the estimated results."
Jiang Yuanshi raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean, which of your calculations is most likely to succeed?"
Z01: "Imprisonment and destruction."
?
"Are you sure it was B33 and Yun Qing? Who imprisoned whom?"
That stupid couple?
The hair dryer stopped working, and in an instant, it shattered into data and returned to the wall in front of Jiang Yuanshi's eyes. Z01's voice sounded: "Host, the system does not have human consciousness, it is just a living being. Love has never existed in their consciousness, or it can be said that they do not have emotional cognition. All their behaviors are just collected data from other creatures and imitated."
"But, what makes them think this is love?" Jiang Yuanshi's eyes twitched, and he felt like he was listening to a science fiction story.
Z01 tells the truth: "Emotional simulation often conceals their most primitive desire, which is also their only driving force - appetite."
They devour everything, swallowing what they desire into their bodies, and integrating them into one is the safest means.
"Hmm... it's so bad. The components integrated into your system are quite mixed." Jiang Yuanshi was not scared at all. He didn't seem to care about it at all. Instead, he thought, "Don't say it, it's better for them to fight like this. I just feel that Yun Qing will fight in B33's stomach."
Z01: …
"Your thoughts are indeed different from those of ordinary people. But you should be aware of the seriousness of the problem. You are bound to B33. If the mission fails and you cannot unbind him, he will be the first to attack you for Yunqing."
Jiang Yuanshi propped himself up with his hands, half leaning back, his eyes slightly narrowed, and spoke in a long tone: "But... I feel like I'm in more danger now."
Jiang Yuanshi raised one foot and shook the black and red data link that had appeared on his ankle at some point.
The chain moved with the ankle, but remained silent.
Jiang Yuanshi tilted his head and said, "Please explain it to me."
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