Soul Invasion [Rebirth]

These clean rooms are spacious and bright, with tempered glass walls on both sides, and the inside can be clearly seen from the corridor.

The scene where many devices are neatly arranged is very magnificent, especially when they are flashing light representing mass data transmission, those neatly planned data lines of various colors are entangled in the sky and submerged into the wall - just seeing these data lines , Li Chu probably knows how much data is stored in it.

If these data are printed on paper, it is estimated that a dozen times around the earth is more than enough.

Li Chu put his hands on the cold glass, watching with a little rapt attention.

"City Without Tears"... this organization is so weird.From the name, to the members inside, to the direction in which its funds are pouring in.

With so much data, why try to keep it all?Where did it come from again?

Li Chu turned his head and said seriously to Wang Yuting: "I want to see the data inside."

Wang Yuting was startled and said: "Hey, wait... These are all 'top secret' data. 'Top secret' hey! It's higher than 'confidential' and 'secret'! In case people find out that you saw it..."

Li Chu tilted his head and said flatly: "If I say no one knows, no one will know."

He looked at the equipment on the other side of the glass, and walked slowly with one hand against the wall, as if comparing and measuring, and finally came to a corner where there was no one, and Boyd's light radiated from his eyes.

Wang Yuting: "..." My god, it's so handsome to be self-willed.

Li Chu didn't use the ability for a while, and after turning it on, he deliberately maximized the range of perception and got used to it for a while.

The bright green data analyzed the physical world layer by layer, and the wind of electrons gently brushed his hair, as if paying tribute to the king.

Li Chu moved his fingers, blacked out the eight cameras in the corridor that could capture him, forged a short and repetitive fake surveillance video, and then stuck his palm on the glass.

From the nearest storage device, Li Chu saw the unusual golden light of data, revealing a little bit of clues from every flickering light of the device.

——It was as if someone was locked inside, and only a faint voice was heard.

Li Chu chose a data port, followed the data flow into the device, and was thinking about analyzing the data storage structure in it, when suddenly a piece of data was returned very quickly.

This data is: [Are you a god of death? 】

Li Chu was stunned for a moment. The data was extremely large. Except for the relatively normal data structure of the first few words, there were actually a lot of data fragments behind it, including some meaningless words, fragments of some scene images, and More subtle data.

While Li Chu was analyzing, a new piece of data came out of the device: 【Are you God? 】For some reason, Li Chu felt very strange, as if he was having a conversation with a person through the translation of this machine.He tentatively constructed a similar message: [I am not a god.and who are you? 】【My name is Gavin, Gavin Boyd.I am a person who died of illness in bed, and then suddenly... fell asleep here for a long time.What is this place? ] Li Chu: [Describe your environment. 】

Boyd: [I'm on an endless expanse of water, and there's no color, no wind, and nothing else.I was floating on water and couldn't feel my body.I guess I'm supposed to be a bunch of souls, or something. ] Li Chu: [When did you come here? 】

Boyd: [I don't know, when I closed my eyes in bed and felt overwhelmed with exhaustion, I lost consciousness.I was here when I woke up, I couldn't feel the passage of time, I just knew that my mind was very clear, but I was trapped here. ] Li Chu: [Are you so sure that you are dead? 】

Boyd: [It's a feeling.I am floating here in mid-air, I have no sense of time, no perception, memory and logic are intact, but I have no sense of existence for myself. ] Li Chu: [I probably know. 】

Li Chu thought: This "Boyd"...is it an artificial intelligence built by "City Without Tears"?Thousands of devices here are used to collect data, and use big data to pile up an artificial intelligence...it is still possible, except that it is a bit wasteful.

Li Chu was about to leave the instrument.

Boyd seemed to be able to sense his attitude, and immediately a new message came out: [Are you ready to leave here?I may continue to fall into a deep sleep.We've never met, but I really want to ask you something...it's very important to me, really, please. ] Li Chu was quite surprised that this "Boyd" request seemed to be out of the proper program of an artificial intelligence.

Li Chu: [Tell me about it. 】

Boyd: [I implore you to find a bishop of the Holy See, she is called 'Black Bishop'.Be sure to bring this sentence to her: Recalculated, Advent will be April 201, 4x.please!I have an old apartment in Houston, and in the lockbox under it is a brooch for my token, and some gems for your reward.The specific address is...] Li Chu wrote down this address, and then fell into the memory, where he seemed to have heard the term "Advent Day", and couldn't help but use his ability to go back in his memory, and then remembered this sentence talk.

——When Shen Xiu left the White Tower, someone also reported to him that "the day of advent has been revised to two months later"... No, counting now, it should be one month later.

While thinking, Li Chu withdrew from the device. Before turning off his ability, he could still see the golden data in it constantly surrounding this device that stored mysterious intelligence.

Li Chu thought in his heart: No, an artificial intelligence...how could it ask others to do this kind of thing.If what this "Boyd" said is completely true, and there are really some relics left in Houston... Could it be that the souls of people after death are carried in these instruments?

This guess is very bold and shocking.

Li Chu looked back, only to see countless expensive electronic devices lined up behind the tempered glass barrier, each with a few indicator lights, flickering faintly sporadically.

……

On the way back to Beiting Garden, Shen Xiu found that Li Chu was always thinking.

The car drove quite smoothly, Li Chu looked out the window.

The sky was too dark, Shen Xiu was not going to continue to work hard, watching Li Chu thinking hard, occasionally biting his nails.

Shen Xiu reluctantly handed over a pack of ketchup and said, "What did you encounter today?"

Li Chu picked up the ketchup and stopped biting his nails. After thinking for a while, he said, "Do you know the address?"

He found a pen in the car and wrote the address "Boyd" had given him on the palm of his hand.

Shen Xiu glanced at the headlights, frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Houston... I don't know this address. But if necessary, you can ask Marco to look it up."

Li Chu tilted his head, let out a cry, and began to wander off again.

Shen Xiu has been dissatisfied with his use-and-throw behavior for a long time, so he took off his gloves helplessly, turned Li Chu's face over, kissed him and said, "Look at me, I haven't seen you for a day, what are you going to do?" gone?"

Li Chu said: "We've only been separated for five hours. I'll just... take a stroll."

After thinking about it, he still told Shen Xiu about meeting "Boyd", and said, "I reckon...it shouldn't be artificial intelligence. It might be the soul."

Shen Xiu was noncommittal and said: "So far, there is no theory to prove the existence of the soul. However, some of the resources of the 'City Without Tears' are used as a laboratory for soul research. I remember that they conducted this kind of research. Experiments have been going on for decades, but there has been no progress."

Li Chu suddenly became interested, and said: "Hey, although it can't be proved to exist, there are still many conjectures. You know ordinary people... It seems that an American doctor has done this kind of experiment: measure a dying person It turned out that he lost about 21g of weight out of thin air after dying.”

Shen Xiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Then what? Get the result that the soul weighs 21g?"

Li Chu's excited expression suddenly turned into a smirk, and he said with a look of "you've been fooled": "Oh, you are so stupid. If this experiment is true, this kind of conclusion would have already caused an uproar in the public opinion, and scientists have rushed How about a study on the soul? Six people were measured in the experiment, and only one was successful. That doctor is talking nonsense."

Shen Xiu: "..." So your purpose of telling this story is purely to say that I am stupid?

Shen Xiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, rubbed the back of Li Chu's neck, and said: "Since there is no basis, don't think about it."

Li Chu had been looking sideways out of the window for a long time, his neck was a little sore, his eyes narrowed slightly after being rubbed by him, and he enjoyed it immensely.

After a while, Li Chu lazily said: "Actually... the soul may still exist."

"If people's thinking is not purely dependent on the neuron network, but a brain wave magnetic field independent of the brain, then people can really have their souls out of the body, and even retain a certain degree of consciousness after death. It's just that there is no medium to preserve it. The magnetic field is too fragile, it can only stay in the air for a few seconds at most..."

Shen Xiu's heart moved, and he said, "Do you doubt that the 'City Without Tears' has the ability to preserve this kind of brain wave magnetic field?"

Li Chu stroked his chin, and thoughtfully said: "If there is a brain wave magnetic field, if there is this ability to preserve them... then before a person dies, before his consciousness completely dissipates, it may really be possible to shut down his entire thinking. The body—or rather, the 'soul'—is preserved. Then the dead becomes... a thinking, talking dead? A ghost?"

After Li Chu finished speaking, he was stunned for a long while, then looked at Shen Xiudao after a long time: "If it is really possible to do this... all human beings will have obtained... another sense of 'eternal life'?"