Overturned Tower

The girl holding the gun did not move the muzzle, but still aimed at Russell's heart, motionless.

When Ringo turned on the light, he suddenly felt a numbness in his back——

Not only because of the gun, but also because she saw that there was more than one person in the room.

Strictly speaking, it is "full of people".

Not seven or eight, but twenty or thirty.

Except for the girl who opened her eyes, everyone else had their eyes closed.

They were male or female, as if they were dead.It was also like a doll shop that had been smashed, the dolls were scattered all over the place, revealing a gloomy atmosphere.The overcrowded atmosphere made it look like a warehouse.

Including the girl in the wheelchair, all the "dolls" looked to be no more than twelve or thirteen years old.

What they have in common is that, except for the girl in the wheelchair who has long, smooth black hair, everyone else has white hair.

Russell could clearly recognize that the prosthetic bodies they used were relatively cheap—except for the prosthetic body used on the girl with long black hair and straight hair, which was quite expensive.

"Should I...what should I call you?"

Russell said calmly: "Monkey-faced eagle? Or...

"—Naraku-7?"

"You really can understand all this smoothly."

The monkey-faced eagle program in Russell's brain did not speak any more.

The person who answered was the expressionless black-haired girl in front of Russell.

She also calmly made a clear and clear voice like wind chimes: "This is probably the difference in 'performance'.

"Your talent and talent really amaze me. But there are some things that cannot be solved by 'talent'."

"Naraku-7" is petite and wears a junior high school uniform.A dim yellow light similar to Russell's was shining in his eyes.

That steady and dazzling firelight is exactly the aura of psionic energy.

"Those people are your kind."

Russell's eyes did not waver at all, but kept staring at Naraku-7.

It's not that she's worried about the gun in her hand—with Russell's reaction speed, at this distance, he can definitely eject and start the moment he pulls the trigger.

He believed that the "monkey-faced eagle", who was also born in Happy Island and had turned into an electronic ghost before arriving at Tongshen Island, would be able to understand what Russell did on the airship back then.

She would raise the gun at this point, not to threaten Russell's life.

Instead, it is expressing a willingness to "don't continue to approach".

Russell, on the other hand, kept his distance and respect—looking at Naluo-7 who was sitting in a wheelchair at the door.

"You shouldn't have a disability."

Russell suddenly asked, "What's the significance of that wheelchair?"

"It's the base of the bomb."

Naraku-7 replied calmly: "It is a bomb that can blow up this building once it is activated. It can blow everyone into the sky with a 'boom'."

"So, the gun in your hand..."

"It's the igniter."

The girl made a crisp voice: "The igniter of the bomb. It will explode when you press it, and it will explode when you leave your hand. It will also explode when I die.

"I don't have the mentality of revenge on society like Tiansong. It's just a second hand that I hope I will never use to start a backup plan."

"I'm very happy that you didn't act rashly. This means that we can probably have a good talk."

The innocent tone was like pointing at a butterfly and pronouncing the other party's scientific name.

If one ignores the soul of a middle-aged man who died nearly ten years ago under the body of the other party...

Maybe you will feel a bit refined and cool and cute.

On the other hand, Lingo could only feel the cold sweat breaking out.

——The moment she turned on the light and saw the gun, she wanted to use her spiritual power to glue the gun to her.

But she thought about it before making the move, which might destroy Russell's plan.So she planned to wait for Russell's order before making a move.

...If she had just short-circuited her brain, and her hands were faster than her brain for a split second...I'm afraid everyone would have been blown away by now.

"Because I almost guessed it before."

Russell sighed: "Synthetics and humans...or, what is the biggest difference between a mind that has been uploaded and a soul that is imprisoned in a body?

"When I realized this, I probably knew it... Let Naraku-7 suddenly master the knowledge that she shouldn't know and should not master, and let her awaken the psychic power that should not have appeared in the synthetic human. Even What is the body of the "poisonous electric wave" that is more advanced program software than the "Chuangshen Project"?

"—It's you, monkey-faced eagle."

"Good guess."

Hearing this, the corner of the girl's mouth rose slightly for the first time: "The question you asked shows that you have already touched the essence. You are indeed the student brought out by that monster."

It wasn't a girl's carefree smile, but a hint of arrogance and satisfaction—it was like the joy a professor would feel when he saw a student give the most correct answer to his question.

From the girl's calm and delicate artificial face, Russell seemed to be able to see the approving gaze of the middle-aged man who couldn't see the face projected from behind her.

"What is the biggest difference between the mind that has been uploaded and the soul that is imprisoned in the body? The answer is easy to think of, and that is the only answer.

"That is, the consciousness transformed into a digital form can be stolen, usurped, peeped, modified, and copied.

"It is the same as other data. No matter what kind of encryption and protection it undergoes, it is also based on the protection of the code layer. As a form of pure data, it can be easily 'copied'.

"When a person is uploaded, there is only one 'mother'. But if necessary, it can be copied into hundreds or thousands of copies, and then sent back to the world.

"At that point, which individual will be the real 'matrix'?

"—I'm very curious about this. So when Naraku-6 was undergoing Nirvana, the data called 'Monkey-faced Eagle Program' was injected into her thinking information.

"A theoretically impossible task.

"The true fusion of two human beings into one.

"I've done this experiment. The first ever experiment in human history.

"It is I who is in front of you now—neither Naraku 7 nor monkey-faced eagle.

"An artificially fabricated soul, an artificially created body... mixed with the intellectual thinking of real human beings. The integration of artificial and natural, male and female, mature and immature, experimenter and The unity of the subject—the unity of life and death. At this point, who is the 'wild thing in the mind'?

"—There is no doubt that today's 'I' is the fusion of hypocrisy and truth. Liangyi in 'Tai Chi'.

"You can call me... Twilight.

"This is the new name I gave myself. Like the boundary between day and night, like the hue of my psychic power."

Chapter 58 Binary Twilight Seeds

--dusk.

When Russell heard this, he was slightly startled.

Not long ago, he just heard this term from Sally Ruth.

The existence that can bring the world to an end is called "Twilight".

The rather mysterious elf director, Russell's tutor for graduate students, the man behind the scenes who is suspected of sending Russell to this world... This is how she described the word.

Dusk will suck all the essence of this world and emerge from the ruined world.Its very existence is a harbinger of the imminent destruction of the world.

And Sally Ruth, the mentor, claimed that Russell was that dusk——his originally pale and empty psionic energy turned dim yellow after his awakening was a proof.

When the original Russell used the psionic power of the God's Container, all he did was "play and imitate".The light he held in his hand was just the afterglow that leaked from the seal.

——Russell's essence is the twilight of "Epitaph".

The so-called epitaph is a mourning style including the name, place of origin, life story and life evaluation of the deceased.However, narration in words, in any case, tends to be subjective, or not specific enough, or not detailed enough.Because no one knows himself better than himself, everyone will perform some performances in front of others, and there will be secrets that cannot be told to others.

The deceased in the eyes of others will never be—nor can be the "real deceased" itself.

And Russell's talent gave him this possibility.

He can completely store, describe, and represent the dead... In other words, [the dead are not dead].

Their existence will continue and become eternal in Russell.

If the teacher said... Dusk refers to a possibility of world destruction, and can also obtain nourishment from destruction.Then Russell could indeed be called Twilight.

As long as Russell thinks, he is invincible-if he doesn't need to maintain his personality as Russell, he can kill everyone he sees in front of him, and get the thoughts, talents, appearance, and abilities of each of them .Such a reciprocating cycle is like an avalanche... No one can stop the will of "human beings".And at the end of the killing, Russell himself is the walking "human epitaph".

From this point of view, he is equivalent to gathering the will of all mankind together.

... What the monkey-faced eagle did was somewhat similar to Russell in essence.

The technique of the monkey-faced eagle should be exactly the same as that of the deer head.She turned herself into an electronic ghost back then, who knows how many years earlier than the monkey-faced eagle.

But why, the deer head portrait did not become "Twilight"?

Russell quickly realized the difference between the two.

——Because of the head portrait of the deer, he did not try to use his own consciousness to integrate with others.

She is very clear about her position, she is an electronic ghost wandering in the Internet.Although she has long been turned into a virus, lurking in the brains of every member of the Tower of Babel, she uses this method to open any door between the roads that can only be opened by "a room that I have been to".Because she can indeed be counted as "been here".

Although she released the virus, she never thought of using this virus to "profit".

Her own body was so broken that only half of her head was left, and she didn't even have any limbs.In this way, it has been hung on the wall for more than a hundred years, as if it has become a real "deer head" hanging on the fireplace.

But even so, she never had any wrong thoughts about other people's healthy and vigorous bodies.

Obviously as long as she wanted to - she could easily take away other people's bodies through various means.

And the monkey-faced eagle just crossed this taboo wall.

... Think about it too.

When Naraku-7 got the faint yellow psionic energy, it was almost the time when she accepted the "poisonous electric wave" and her temperament changed drastically.

Since then, she has been completely integrated with the monkey-faced eagle.

While making such a taboo act, the world judged that he/she has the possibility of destroying the world, and gave her a faint yellow spiritual power.

If he can do it once, he can do it twice, or even more times.

As he himself said, the "monkey-faced eagle" that has been uploaded and saved can be copied countless times.In other words, although the monkey-faced eagle downloaded to Naraku-7 has become one with her, it has become an ambiguous state that is neither oneself nor the other, neither day nor night...

But he can still make the "monkey-faced eagle" in cyberspace continue to replicate infinitely, and then connect with everyone.Construct countless "monkey-faced eagle version individuals".

By that time, if human beings really upload their minds, they will be completely integrated by the monkey-faced eagle.Become an electronic ghost in the truest sense of the word...

...This may be the "God" that the Cyber ​​Church is looking forward to.

"It's ironic..."

Russell murmured.

The "God Creation Project" did not create the god who "rules the future destiny of mankind", but created a real god by accident - the "community of human consciousness" believed by the Cyber ​​Church.

What the monkey-faced eagle does is actually the same as that of Russell.

The only difference is that Russell still has a "true ontology".But the monkey-faced eagle has lost its anchor, and has become a rootless duckweed floating on the sea of ​​consciousness.

If Russell heralds the future of "all things are one", carrying all the memories of a civilization with his own power, and becoming a walking "living tombstone"...then the monkey-faced eagle symbolizes "the death of all things", It is a virus that uses itself to continuously infect organic matter, make it assimilate into itself, and become inorganic matter.

"1" symbolizes existence, and "0" symbolizes nothingness.

... No matter how you look at it, the other side is more like the World Destroyer Demon King.

The dim yellow at the bottom of Russell's pupils lit up slightly.

A sense of crisis that the essence of existence is being challenged... finally made him face this enemy squarely.

"Twilight...do you know what 'twilight' means?"

Russell narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice: "What's the 'division between day and night'...it's not that kind of illusory and ethereal existence."

"Contrary to what you think, I probably know a little bit."

The girl with long black and straight body sat in a wheelchair, put the gun away and placed it flat on her lap.

She said flatly: "A long time ago, I represented scholars from Happy Island to Sogo Island for exchange and study. From that time on, I realized... Sally Ruth is a monster.

"Her beautiful skin hides an unspeakable monster essence... just like you.