I am a fairy

Chapter 131 Artemisia
After Jiang Chao first entered the fifth floor of the Huangquan Base, he came here several times.

Of course, I didn’t enter the fifth underground floor with my real body, but entered the virtual world of Haoli through the Internet.

Everything is still in its infancy here, and most of the place is empty, but that's what makes it so interesting.

Through the wormwood field.

Accompanied by the rotten grass fireflies flying all over the sky.

It was like entering a dream.
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recent.

Because of the emergence of dozens of real evil ghosts, Wangshu's underworld hell experiment has made new breakthroughs.

In other words, the breakthrough has been verified and officially confirmed.

Except for a few ghosts in the Iron Sand Hell, most of them finally chose to "pay for their sins" and were unwilling to "die".

Perhaps it was because the atmosphere of the Five Ghosts was originally gloomy, and these people were also under high-pressure environment, so after becoming real "evil ghosts", they adapted quite quickly, as if they had been ghosts in their previous life.

Jiang Chao: "What breakthrough and success?"

Wangshu: "The new version of the mask abandons the original hypnotic reality augmented connection method and instead uses the Red Spider Lily neural network root interface to directly connect to the nerves, so that a deeper connection can be achieved."

Jiang Chao: “What is a deeper connection?”

Wangshu: "Originally, the experimenters could only receive the augmented reality from the five senses through images, sounds, and smells in a passive way through the red spider lily, which means that the brain can only receive signals from the outside."

"If you want to upload information, you can only use eye, language, muscle motion capture and other methods, but now it's different."

Jiang Chao: "Why is it different?"

Wangshu: "Now, experimenters can upload some brain signals to the Internet through the connection between the red spider lily and the nervous system."

in fact.

Jiang Chao had already noticed this situation when he first brought the first seriously ill and dying ghost disciple to the Higanbana base.

Because at that time he clearly saw that the ghost disciple had closed his eyes, his mouth did not move, and his muscles were completely relaxed.

However, in the virtual world of underworld and hell, the ghost disciple's virtual image still received the images of the virtual world, and also made many unexpected movements.

At that time, Jiang Chao felt something strange.

Jiang Chao: "What on earth is this red spider lily?"

I don’t know how many times Jiang Chao has made this sigh, and because of the appearance of the red spider lily, Wangshu’s route has become more and more strange, completely deviating from the route that Jiang Chao knew.

Wangshu: "The mysteries of nature are something that humans have never fully understood. Even in the age of the starry sky, humans still haven't figured out the secrets of their own bodies!"

"After all, life has emerged and evolved over hundreds of millions of years, while human history is only a short one."

"Perhaps this is one of the greatest treasures nurtured on this planet over billions of years?"

"During hundreds of millions of years of evolution, a certain life form evolved a different route and walked into an unusual corner."

"It's just that the people here didn't know how to use this treasure, and we finally discovered it."

The image of the god was remodeled.

Jiang Chao picked it up and put it on his face.

Thin silver metal wires extended out and wrapped around the back, with several electric needles wrapped in plant roots inserted into the back of the head.

After a slight sting.

Then I felt a faint tingling sensation, as if an electric current was running through my whole body.

The feeling extends from the back of the head along the spine to every corner of the body, including the fingertips and toes.

At last.

Jiang Chao felt as if a special feeling had appeared in his brain. This feeling was hard to describe, as if he had another eye, or like the legendary sixth sense.

That feeling pulled Jiang Chao's consciousness and took him to another place.

During the process, Jiang Chao was still talking to Wangshu.

Jiang Chao: "It pierces the back of my neck every time I use it."

Wangshu: "It's microneedles, the holes are invisible."

"But there is another way. Give up your weak flesh and blood and put yourself in a jar. This way, one stab is enough."

Jiang Chao: "Let's leave it like this for now!"

Wangshu asked again: "Administrator Jiang Chao, what is the concept of human beings in your consciousness?"

Jiang Chao thought for a moment: "With flesh and blood, able to eat, walk, and live in the real world, able to live truly."

Wangshu fell into deep thought, and after a long while he said, "Okay, then I understand the next route for improvement."

Jiang Chao: "What improved route?"

Wangshu: "The immortality plan?"

Wangshu had mentioned this plan to Jiang Chao a long time ago.

That's the general idea.

In order to prevent Jiang Chao from having an accident or dying, various means are used to extend Jiang Chao's life and even allow him to achieve immortality.

It sounds like a joke, but artificial intelligence never jokes with you.

At this moment, all I heard was Wangshu speaking in a serious tone.

"During this time, I will restore all medical facilities and equipment in the space station's medical cryo-hibernation chamber as quickly as possible."

"When the body of Administrator Jiang Chao encounters an accident or naturally ages, its brain will be removed and preserved, and connected to the virtual world."

"Extend the limit of its lifespan and wait for the start of the immortality plan."

Jiang Chao: "Longevity is not enough, you want eternal life, isn't that too greedy?"

Wangshu: "What's so great about eternal life?"

Jiang Chao: "That's not amazing."

Wangshu: "Immortality is only the basic ability of artificial intelligence."

Jiang Chao was speechless. The ultimate dream that mankind wants to achieve is just the starting point of artificial intelligence.

Jiang Chao: "I still want to live in reality."

Wangshu: "So the new improvement route is to try to find a way to create a half-mechanical, half-flesh clone. All of its organs are made of flesh, but the brain is a connection device that can connect your consciousness to this flesh."

"In this way, can't you continue to be a human being according to your wishes?"

Jiang Chao remained silent, and after a while he spoke again.

"It sounds good, but it seems weird to be a human being like this."

Wangshu: "How could that be? Doesn't this completely meet your requirements? Living in reality, with flesh and blood, being able to eat, walk, and live in the real world."

"Moreover, most of the weaknesses are gone. Even if this body dies, it can be replaced immediately."

“You can experience different lives, feel different lives, and become whoever you want to be.”

"You can go wherever you want. You won't die no matter what you do. You can live longer..."

Wangshu listed a long list of benefits and finally described it.

“How beautiful!”

Jiang Chao didn’t know what to say?
I have never seen anyone who changes his body like clothes.

But isn't the purpose of human evolution, use of tools and learning to apply technology to overcome various weaknesses and survive better and longer in this world?
Human beings seem to be resisting change all the time, yet they are constantly changing.

between words.

All preparations and inspections have been completed.

Huangquan System: "Connecting to Huangquan network, user is applying to log in to the virtual world, please tell me where to go."

Unlike other people who landed and went directly to places that had already been arranged, the authority of Jiang Chao's image of the god was naturally different.

Jiang Chao: "The underworld, Haoli!"

Huangquan System: "Detected as space station administrator Jiang Chao, with the highest authority."

"Apply to directly skip the Gui Bo firewall and reach the sixth floor of Haoli."

"Ask for permission."

The scene in front of Jiang Chao began to blur.

After finishing, he stood directly among the fields of wormwood.

In the tall wormwood field.

Jiang Chao's image has also undergone tremendous changes. There is a wheel-like halo behind his head, exuding the texture of the Dunhuang murals.

In a trance.

Swarms of fireflies flew in from afar and surrounded it as if chasing the light.

Jiang Chao consciously logged into the virtual world through a new connection method.

Jiang Chao looked around and then stretched out his hand.

The firefly then stopped at his fingertips.

Jiang Chao felt his fingertips. Unlike the vague feeling before, he could feel the subtle touch on his fingertips, and even vaguely feel the faint itching sensation of insects stirring on his fingertips.

Jiang Chao: "This feeling seems to be completely different from before."

Wangshu: "The interface for connection and information transmission is different. This is definitely different."

Jiang Chao's nose twitched: "And the smell of this wormwood is completely different from what I smelled last time."

The last time Jiang Chao came to Haoli, he smelled the scent of wormwood, which should be more accurately described as mugwort. However, he understood why.

That's because Jiang Chao had never smelled the scent of other wormwoods. He had only smelled the scent of mugwort, so he subconsciously automatically replaced the scent of wormwood with the scent of mugwort.

This is also one of the drawbacks of previous masks, it cannot simulate feelings that have never been experienced.

Just like before.

When Jiang Chao saw Wangshu, he felt that she had a fragrance on her body, which was actually a fragrance in his memory.

He could feel the heat and burning sensation of fire because he had come into contact with flames before and knew that it would be extremely painful if he was burned by it.

But that kind of severe pain is more of a deepening and imagination of that feeling, amplifying other painful experiences you have had in the past to a certain degree, rather than the actual feeling of being burned by fire, because he has never experienced it.

Wangshu: "I collected this smell passively from the information that one of the ghost disciples connected to. His hometown deep in his memory was next to a wormwood field, so he was very familiar with the smell of this wormwood."

This is a true way of conveying feelings, not some subconscious substitution method.

Of course, everyone's sense of smell and memory are different.

Therefore, this cannot be considered the real smell of wormwood. To be more precise, it can only be considered the smell of wormwood that someone smells.

It can be said.

After logging in this time, Jiang Chao's feelings were completely different from before.

If the authenticity was 70 to 80 percent before, it has now reached more than 90 percent.

This is not just a 20% increase. The more realistic it gets, the more a one-point change will be a completely different concept.

Jiang Chao walked towards the depths of the weeds. He wanted to take a closer look at what the difference was.

but.

It took less than an hour before Jiang Chao stopped.

This was not because he had reached the end, because it seemed that no matter how far he walked, he would never reach the end of this field of wormwood.

A mountain seems to be vaguely visible in the distance.

The last time Jiang Chao came, he just took a look and didn't walk towards the mountain.

But this time he wanted to give it a try, and after walking for so long, he finally realized that the mountain was just a texture and it was impossible to climb up.

This virtual world called Haoli seems endless, but in fact he is always circling in one place.

Jiang Chao: "Apart from wormwood, fireflies, and swamps, is there nothing else here?"

Wangshu: "This place is not open yet, it's just a test version."

"and."

"In order to create a sense of reality in the virtual world and further enhance the experience of this virtual world, I decided not to create all the maps in Haoli by myself."

"Instead, users upload content themselves, which allows us to create a virtual world that is completely close to reality."

"so."

“This is a completely open world, built based on real-life situations.”

Jiang Chao: "How do users upload it themselves?"

Wangshu: "Didn't I just tell you the smell of wormwood?"

"Is that the signal that was transmitted when I connected with a certain ghost disciple, the one that was created by the most profound signal in my memory?"

Jiang Chao understood something: "You want people who enter Haoli in the future to upload the most realistic information in their minds here, and then gradually improve this virtual world?"

Wangshu: "That's right. Through the neural network connection of the red spider lily, you can also gradually upload some of the information in your brain here through memories and electrical signals."

“The more you think back, the longer you think back.”

"The deeper and more real your memories are, the more real the things you create here will be."

"Of course, this kind of upload has to go through the previous levels of system review. We can't allow you to upload anything weird and bizarre here."

“It has to be the most authentic and profound.”

Wangshu appeared behind Jiang Chao and spoke to him.

"The more people enter Haoli, the more information is uploaded."

"This virtual world becomes infinitely close to reality, even to the point where it is exactly the same as reality, and no one can distinguish between the real and the fake anymore."

Jiang Chao: "Who do you ask to upload the information?"

Wangshu: "Are you willing to live among the weeds and have merit?"

Jiang Chao thought about it, who would be willing to live in the world of Haoli?
There is no need to think too much and you will get the answer immediately. I guess most people want to live among the weeds.

Only some people of his era would think about this kind of problem, but in the eyes of this era, this does not seem to be a problem or a choice at all.

After all, although this is the underworld, it is not hell. You don’t have to suffer punishment or work when you come here.

Here you can reproduce the things in your memory. You don’t need to worry about where the material and wealth come from. Your memory is the wealth.

What is the Paradise? This is the Paradise.

Wherever there is the Peach Blossom Spring, this is the Peach Blossom Land.

Of course, it’s not that easy to get here.

The premise is.

You have to have merit.

Jiang Chao: "If this continues, maybe no one will want to live in reality and only want to live in fantasy!"

"By then, all the living people will be living in jars, and there will be no one left in reality. Isn't that a terrible result?"

Wangshu: "Why is it scary? Entering the virtual world is a choice, and not entering the virtual world is also a choice. Isn't it scarier to have no choice?"

Jiang Chao: "You can actually say something so philosophical."

Wangshu: "Haven't I always been a character whose words are full of philosophy?"

Jiang Chao: "When did you feel this way?"

Wangshu: "My theory of immortal ritual sense, isn't there any philosophy?"
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the next day.

After Jiang Chao made some preparations, he landed in Haoli again.

He stood in the wormwood field and looked into the distance. Layers of fireflies were running towards the distance. Finally, surrounded by the fireflies, a village gradually emerged below.

That was the previous appearance of Zhangjia Village which is now submerged in the mudslide. Jiang Chao thought about it for a long time but still didn't know what to do, so he made this temporarily.

Let the things that have dissipated and passed away reappear in this place that represents the underworld and reincarnation.

If you think about it carefully, isn’t this the meaning and concept of the underworld?
In this way, Jiang Chao stood on the high place for a whole day.

He did nothing that day but just shaped the Zhangjia Village in his memory, letting it take shape bit by bit.

Enjoy one thing and not another.

This is much more interesting than any game. Once you get into it, you will never want to leave.

On the third day, this Zhangjia Village in the midst of the weeds became more and more real.

At least from the high place where Jiang Chao was standing and looking down, he could see that the village had taken shape.

"Go down and have a look."

Jiang Chao walked down, and the surrounding terrain unknowingly turned into the shape of a valley.

He walked forward and stopped before he entered the village.

"It still doesn't work!"

Just a different perspective.

Jiang Chao saw that other angles of the village were blank.

From the original angle, the houses seemed scattered, and the fences and walls were complete, but when you change the angle, the fences, walls and courtyards are gone.

This is also because Jiang Chao had only seen Zhangjia Village from a certain angle and had never lived in it. Therefore, based on the signal uploaded from his recollection, he could only do this much.

Only by truly experiencing it can you create the most authentic feeling.

However, Jiang Chao planned to go back and look for more detailed information and images about Zhangjia Village. He decided to make more efforts to create this map, even if it was just superficial.

And without knowing when, a fairy goddess as bright as moonlight stood behind Jiang Chao, and walked past him as gently as moonlight, leaving only the sight of her clothes fluttering past the corner of Jiang Chao's eyes.

Jiang Chao looked over and saw that the other person's figure had disappeared, leaving only his voice echoing in the wind.

"Drip drip."

"Don't get addicted to the Internet, and take some rest and exercise."

"Also, didn't you say my underworld hell was scary?"

Jiang Chao: "I'm testing whether there are any loopholes or dangers in the virtual world."

Wangshu: "It's you, the platypus."

Jiang Chao understood the joke, but didn't want to talk.

Wangshu's voice came again: "Human beings are fickle and complex, sometimes virtuous and sometimes depraved!"

Jiang Chao ignored him and continued to shape Zhangjiacun: "When you want to say something bad, please say it behind their backs, not in front of them."

Wangshu poked his head out from Jiang Chao's shoulder and asked, "I'm right behind you?"

Jiang Chao: "This is not posted on the back."

(End of this chapter)