Chapter 1494: Someone From the Consumers Association

I looked at Xiling in front of me, who was thinking hard. Both of us were silent for a long time. Finally, Xiling blinked uncertainly: "...I don't know how I was attracted to it at that time."

...I knew it would be this answer. It seems that Xi Ling is usually in a state of mild confusion. Is this because I think that when the old empire network was split, the Abyss Xi Ling took away more than half of its intelligence? ?

"You're not sure what your connection is with Abyss Xiling, right?" I glanced at Xiling, but I still felt uncomfortable: the other person was in Tavel's face, but deep down it was someone else. When I was talking to her, I still felt uncomfortable. I have to remind myself at all times not to call her by the wrong name. You tell me how much effort it takes. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and had to remind her a little bit, "What, please change your appearance. You look like this now. I always feel like you are going to do it at any time." It's like it split into several more shadow clones in front of me."

Xiling rolled her eyes and thought for a moment, then the "bang" sound turned into Qian Qian...

I was suddenly sweating profusely: "Change another one, this one is even more unreliable - if you use this image, I won't dare to discuss any issues that need to be expressed with you."

Then Xi Ling changed several shapes in a row. The speed and the variety of images were jaw-dropping. I concluded two things on the spot: First, Xi Ling seemed to have transformed herself. She has become more proficient in using her abilities, and can change her appearance much more quickly than before; secondly, this is a girl with her own customized skin and emoticons...

In the end, Xiling finally chose an image that seemed to have no flaws: a tall, thin girl with an ordinary appearance. Then she continued to discuss the topic with me: "I usually check around the Rift Valley. movement. And according to Tavel’s instructions, a roll call of the backbone nodes is done every sixty seconds. In order to be able to detect intrusion links penetrating from the other side of the network at any time, but since the last time I isolated the Rift Valley, I can no longer I haven’t seen anything related to the Abyss Xiling. I can’t explain what happened the past few days... It’s not like external factors at all. I decided to go to the front line to have a look.”

"You 'decided on your own'?" I somehow noticed this common-sounding word, "Are you sure that this idea came to you independently and was not influenced by the outside world?"

Xiling looked at me in confusion. Although he said nothing, the expression on his face clearly expressed confusion.

"I just remembered one of Sandora's abilities," I scratched my chin. "Her psychic suggestion has an unknowable mode, which can make the person being controlled not feel that someone is controlling their heart, and make the other person think that he is acting under the premise of free will from beginning to end. Well, there is no other meaning. , I just accidentally drifted here when I was thinking wildly."

"My mind cannot be controlled," Xiling said seriously. He explained to me with his fingers, "First of all, my thinking process is the result of the synchronous operation of the entire mental network, and this network has a special structure. It does not have a starting point and an ending point, nor does it have any high-level key that can change other nodes. point'. Even Your Majesty the Emperor's nodes are the same in my eyes. From the level of 'node', all Xiling apostles are equal, so any external force cannot affect my thinking process by hijacking key points; secondly, my The thinking process can be checked by oneself. I have studied the way of thinking of most of your lives in the real world, and found that only a few of you can do 'secondary thinking' about your own thinking. You use one organ to think, but You can't think about your own thinking process from the perspective of a bystander at the same time. It's like people on earth think with their brains, but they can't create a second perspective in their brains to observe the thinking process of their brains. I don't understand this - because I This can be done easily. I can run the monitoring program for myself, and even let myself think about the same problem in two different processes. If necessary, I can completely jump out of my own perspective and act as a bystander. Observe how the individual 'Xiling' works..."

"This sounds incredible," I looked at Xi Ling in surprise, "It's like grabbing your own hair and pulling yourself off the ground... Um, can you understand this metaphor?"

"Of course, I know a lot of knowledge about the real world, and I understand why His Majesty the Emperor is surprised," Xiling nodded seriously, "This is indeed not in line with the common sense of real-world creatures, because you rely on a fixed organ or fixation." I'm using myself to execute the thinking process, and I've become accustomed to it all, and I am symbiotic with the Internet, between the program and the spirit body. My special thinking process is actually... a self-checking program. And these self-checking programs are not self-awareness. components, they will only be generated when they need to be run, so they cannot be hijacked in advance. To sum up, my thinking will not be controlled in an 'unknowable' situation, Your Majesty Sandora's The data intrusion of psychic abilities and abyssal spirits may affect my thinking, but I can definitely detect it, and have enough spare power - if necessary - to call the police on everyone and freeze myself immediately."

"Then rule out the possibility that Abyss Xiling can take the initiative to influence you." I waved my hand and quickly ended this topic that was about to become more sophisticated. "Then in your opinion, why did you take the initiative at that time?" Do you have the idea of ​​going to the front line to have a look? At that time, the Abyss Xiling had not yet appeared, and Lin Xue had not made any prophecies. You were almost acting like a prophet by going to the front line - but in the end, the Abyss Xiling actually appeared. Yes, it’s just that you two didn’t meet in the end.”

After returning from the Abyss Zone, I have been feeling that something is wrong. Whether it is the inexplicable big split among the fallen apostles or the ambiguous "cooperative" attitude of the Abyss Xiling, it makes people feel uneasy. However, there is no evidence that they are working together. There is no big conspiracy planned directly against the empire, and there is no evidence to prove that the division within the abyss is an illusion, so we can only look for clues from other places. Now the only person in the New Empire who can have some contact with Abyss Xiling is this slightly immature soft girl version of Xiling, so I can only come to her to ask questions.

Xi Ling thought for a long time this time. She usually seems to lack common sense, but she thinks equally profoundly on these issues. After some thought, she raised her head: "Your Majesty, I have always had a guess...but it probably has little to do with our current topic. It is about Abyss Xiling's policy."

I was immediately overjoyed: "You say it, you say it."

"If Abyss Xiling's life form has not changed, then her and my thinking processes should be almost the same," Xiling said slowly, "Although we all have free will, just like the thinking process of any intelligent creature, Limited by their worldview and level of cognition, network cluster consciousness like Abyss Xiling and I are also limited by basic protocols and network architecture when we think about problems. High-priority information will be processed first. Content prohibited by basic protocols Will be automatically included in the monitoring area, and individuals harmful to the network must be excluded... Abyss Xiling may not be completely controlled by these regulations, but her thinking tendencies should still be subtly affected by these things. This has nothing to do with whether she is affected by these regulations. Infection has nothing to do with it, it is purely determined by the form of life. Just like a human will never think in the way of a cat, no matter how well he understands cats, no matter how hard he tries to see the world from a cat's perspective. Even if he gets a The strange schizophrenic misunderstood himself as a cat from the bottom of his heart. Fundamentally, he could not think like a cat - his vision was different from that of a cat, his sense of smell, taste and touch were different from that of a cat, and even his brain function was different from that of a cat. The efficiency is different from that of cats. This is not something that can be changed by external forces. The limitations of life forms determine that an intelligent creature can only think in its own worldview... Oh. Mistress Qianqian seems to be a slight exception."

Me: "..." Qian Qian's brain can challenge the truth of the universe, right?

"I always think there is an exception," I couldn't help but add more words at this point, "You know little crow, she has been crowing happily these past two days - she thinks she is a chicken."

"It's just a misunderstanding," Xiling waved his hand. "The simplest thing is that she can fly. So she can't understand what it feels like to be a bird with wings but unable to fly. In addition, Your Majesty the Emperor, the Crow God's mind is not yet mature, so it's best not to let her see too many things that will destroy her outlook on life. Shit, she learned to crow only after reading the story of Zhou Papi..."

Me: "...How do you know so much?!"

"I am a network cluster consciousness," Xiling spread his hands, "I know everything that happens in the empire, and Mistress Qianqian has posted all the short videos of the Crow God crowing in the morning on the Internet..."

I was stunned for a while, then wiped cold sweat: "Let's discuss the topic at the beginning... So, do you know what Abyss Xiling thinks about the problem?"

"It's not that I know what she thinks about the problem," Xiling said word by word, "but that theoretically she would think about the same thing as me!"

I was immediately horrified by Xi Ling's words!

Fortunately, Xiling has a follow-up: "What I mean is that when exposed to the same information and faced with the same situation, Abyss Xiling's thinking process should be the same as mine. We are limited by various basic protocols and The network framework, so the flexibility when thinking about problems is in a subtle 'semi-programmed' state. I believe that Abyss Xiling is still a consciousness rooted in the network, so she cannot get rid of this limitation brought by life forms. .For example, when the network encounters the threat of necrotic nodes, she and I will make the same decision within the same thinking cycle and divide those necrotic nodes. Even the number of additional 'buffer nodes' we divide for this is It's possible that this is exactly the result of programmed calculations. On the surface, we have free will, but for each of us, it is basically possible to infer what the other is thinking based on our own situation: we are almost identical copies. .”

I frowned: "But you decided to maintain order, but Abyss Xiling decided to turn the void upside down."

"This does not mean that our thinking processes are different," Xi Ling said in surprise, "It's just that we are standing on two different positions. Facing the same empire collapse, my calculation result is that we should Immediately start rebuilding the empire. The result of Abyss Xiling's calculation is to rebuild the empire - but what she wants to rebuild is an abyssal empire. But if camp issues such as Abyss are excluded, I think Abyss Xiling and I are facing The same situation would lead to the same decision.”

I fully understood what Xiling meant, and then I began to think quickly about how valuable this information was.

It is still not certain how credible Xiling's speculation is, and she did not tell Tavel about these speculations. It is enough to show that even Xiling himself is not sure whether these conjectures are correct, but now we assume that they are all true.

Then what needs to be done is very simple: put Xiling in the abyss area. What does she want to do most now?

"Me?" Xi Ling was stunned when he heard my question. "Insufficient information makes it impossible to judge. I can only infer based on the premise of the collapse of the empire that Abyss Xi Ling wants to rebuild the empire, but I don't know the real situation in the abyss area. , so I don’t know what her rebuilding plan is.”

When I saw that this ultimate question was not that easy to answer, I immediately changed the question: "Then why do you think she came into contact with us a few days ago?"

This time Xiling thought about it seriously. Then she nodded firmly: "She hopes to cooperate with the empire, and may even let us participate in the great cause."

I just slipped to the ground!

"Don't look at me, I'm just thinking about it," Xiling stretched out his hand to pull me up. "If it were me, under the same general environment, I took the initiative to contact the empire and mentioned the great cause. Partially revealing the truth, then the reason There is only one thing: the next step of the great cause requires the participation of the empire."

I looked at Xi Ling blankly, and found that there was no joke on the other person's face. Of course, Xi Ling usually didn't seem to have the concept of "joking", so I could only believe that she was indeed deducing based on her own situation: She can deduce Abyss Xiling's thinking conclusion based on the situation. Of course, the motivation of the other party can also be deduced to a certain extent based on Abyss Xiling's final actions. Although the accuracy of this reasoning is still questionable, it is at least more reliable than my wild guess.

Abyss Xiling suddenly appeared and took the initiative to reveal part of the "Great Cause" to us, and thinking about those inexplicable words she said before leaving... Could it be that she really planned to bring the New Empire into the "Great Cause"?

Is she crazy or is she crazy or is she crazy?

"Who knows." Xi Ling sat on the edge of the bed and swayed back and forth. "The thinking methods of online consciousness and real creatures are inherently different. We will unconsciously ignore emotional factors and all objective influences from the real world, and have a negative impact on For us, 'logical demand' is the only motivation. Driven by logic, everything we do is reasonable. After all, we will not encounter any obstruction and interference on the Internet like in the real world. Nodes have no emotions, and network segments There are no camps, anything works as long as it follows logic and basic protocols.”

I nodded and put the matter aside for the time being. Then I was about to say something more when I heard a whirring voice in my mind: "Boss, boss!~ Someone is looking for me!"

"Lilina?" I was a little surprised, "Who is here?"

"There are some Consumers Association members from God Realm," Lilina replied cheerfully, "Boss, where are you?"

I didn't recover from the shock of the words " Consumers Association ", so I subconsciously told Lilina my location, and then I saw a green light screen flash in front of me, and Lilina teleported directly to me in front of me.

"Ah, boss, so you are here, I have been looking for you..." Lilina came up and jumped on my lap. After escaping, she lay on the bed and looked around. Suddenly her eyes were not right, "Lonely" A man and a widower live in the same room. The boss of a large group and his beautiful subordinate have a story that must be told in the employee dormitory... Oh, boss, please forgive me, I'm just opening..."

I lifted Lilina's belt and swung her in front of me. I waited until the girl was almost shivering and turned into an afterimage, then I gently knocked her on the head, and then I took this little 1.09 meter tall girl away. Clamping it in his armpit, he turned to say goodbye to Xiling: "Then I'll go check out the situation first. Don't forget what we talked about today. Discuss with Tavel on how to make use of the relationship between you and Abyss Xiling. connect."

Saying goodbye to Xiling, I took Lilina and teleported directly to the city where the World Tree is: the Temple District.

Shandora, Haran and the five-person group of protoss officers are already waiting here. In addition to their on-site greeting, there is no welcome ceremony in the temple square: anyway, the divine world and the capital of the empire have been directly connected. Now these small Large-scale personnel circulation no longer requires such fanfare.

I walked quickly over there, and soon I saw the appearance of the so-called "person from the God Realm Consumers Association". As expected, I didn't recognize him.

They were a man and a woman, both of whom seemed to be from the Dark God Clan. There was no need to elaborate on their appearance. Anyway, there were basically no crooked people from the God Realm (except for the non-mainstream God Clan). They were wearing a black trench coat and a The divine clothing between the robes looks like some kind of uniform, and the male protoss is also carrying a large box in his hand: could this be the disassembly tool of the World Tree? It doesn’t seem to go well with the tree that’s several kilometers high…

Several people at the scene had already seen me. Shandora waved happily to me, and the two God Clan experts (should they be experts, right?) came over with smiles on their faces. Before I could say anything, the tall dark protoss man bowed slightly and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, His Majesty the Emperor of Xiling. Father God personally asked us to take care of you."

I quickly waved my hand: "You're welcome, you're welcome, this place doesn't need to have so many rules - are you guys building the World Tree for Dingdang?"

"More or less, we are volunteers who maintain management systems without brand protection." The female dark protoss smiled, appropriately and elegantly - the star man over there who was giggling while eating melon seeds came over and imitated him!

At this time, the male dark protoss looked at something in my armpit curiously, and hesitated slightly: "...Is this your custom here? Or is this your briefcase?"

I quickly put Lilina on the ground. The little girl jumped up and down as soon as she landed: "You have a briefcase! All of you have briefcases!"

The Pope is probably the only one in the world who is so tough that he dares to shout against other true gods. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read.)