Chapter 3 I·endless escape
Large and small translucent billboards flew slowly over the heads of everyone like fish.
It is a fish rather than a bird because the world looks like a huge fish tank with too many unnatural man-made objects, or more like an extremely advanced city that sank 30,000 feet after being submerged in a catastrophe deep seabed.
There are many tourists on the street, like deep-sea creatures crawling on the seabed, watching the tall and strange buildings with cold eyes, and the flow of electronic information flowing like wind and undercurrent.
Hong Kong in the online world, the hyper-real Causeway Bay.
Some people say that this is the real Causeway Bay.The one outside built with bricks, cement and rebar is fake and simulated.After all, all the functions in the brick and mortar Causeway Bay are missing in the Internet Causeway Bay.On the contrary, what is available in the online version may not be found in the brick version.You see, the current trend is "network first". First, establish a prototype on the Internet. After it stands firm, finds customers, and proves that its business model (business model) can stand the test of the market, it will not be launched in the Internet. Recreated in the brick world, and it's still 100% simulated.
I don't know what the difference is between the real world and the online world, anyway, I haven't been to the real Causeway Bay - there's no way I'm going.
I am just a humanoid software, living in the online world.
The beautiful woman who was walking side by side with me on the street and talking a lot of truth was the one the matching company found for me—to be more precise, it was for my master.Combining the two people's innate conditions such as IQ, personality, and aptitude, plus acquired factors such as interests, education, income (temporarily zero), and work (students), the degree of cooperation reached 75%, which is quite satisfactory, but not lost.
The master said that we might as well meet her. Of course, it was me, the doll software, who went to see her. It was his substitute in the online world, a scapegoat, not his real self. I would never waste a second of his precious time.He has been very busy in the past few days, and it is rare to communicate with him once.He is probably fast asleep at the moment, trying to get some rest.
It's the same with the beauty, it's not her true self who comes to meet, but her humanoid software.
The name "beauty" is just a compliment.I can't judge beauty or ugliness. After all, I'm just a humanoid software that can imitate the master's way of thinking, but I can't learn his aesthetic standards or requirements for beauties.
According to the settings of the human figure software company, I can distinguish between beauty and ugliness, but at best it is only a numerical comparison, based on measurements and height ratios, according to the size and distance of facial features, nothing more.
The beauty probably saw that I was lost in thought, and I didn't know where my thoughts were wandering, so she asked, "Why don't you talk much? Are you shy?"
I asked back: "I'm just a humanoid software, how can I be shy?"
"If the master is shy, his humanoid software will naturally be shy too."
I corrected her and said, "Did you forget that in order to increase communication between humanoid software, you can ignore this master trait and become eloquent?"
"Then what are you doing now?"
"I didn't change my master's personality on the Internet. I just think that if I am talking and laughing with you now, it's so unpleasant, and when our master comes out to meet, the two of them are silent like gold, relatively speechless, then the situation will be very difficult. eccentric."
She hesitated for a while, "That's a human thing, it has nothing to do with us. Human beings nowadays are not used to speaking face to face, and they have to be separated by a network or a phone or something, or appoint us humanoid software as the vanguard to snoop There are also people who don't like to get married at all, or, only get married in the online world, or even get married with, or buy a life-sized doll at home. Sex has become virtual, and sooner or later the human species will become extinct. We can't help anything busy."
"What you said is only applicable to super metropolises such as Tokyo and Hong Kong. People in backward countries have not yet reached this point."
The beauty's expression showed that she disagreed with me.
"It's just a matter of time. This is the alienation of human nature under the super metropolis. Once they are completely surrounded and invaded by high technology like us, they will not be spared. The lament of human beings, who think they control technology, are actually controlled by technology, play."
I nodded, she was absolutely right.But, to be honest, I really doubt how a matching company could find such a female philosopher for the owner.
The owner's life is already busy enough, busy with school, busy with work in the store at home.He just wants to find a woman for company, to chat with, to go shopping, and maybe there will be a physical relationship between a man and a woman-he didn't mention it, but it's impossible not to have such a need.He was only twenty years old, and he might no longer be curious about sex, but he was definitely young, unable to resist the innate biological call.
From the beginning, the beauty has published a series of insightful opinions on the world situation, and she has not said a witty word, which is really unbearable.Although the master said that he likes women with brains, I believe that female philosophers are definitely not included, otherwise the already heavy life pressure will definitely be aggravated.
I shouldn't be wasting any more time on her, it's time to get out.
"Excuse me, I have another date." I throw out a less than brilliant excuse.
She didn't stop, and continued: "I understand. All the people who date me, whether it's a real person or a humanoid software, will never exceed ten minutes. You do the math, chatting with me for nine minutes and twenty seconds , the longest record to date."
"Sorry." I apologized repeatedly.Her smile was still bright, and it was impossible to see whether it was her master's original behavior or the setting of the doll software itself.
"Don't worry, it's the fast food era! It's better for me to be rejected than for my master to be rejected. It's even more uncomfortable to be rejected in person."
The three-dimensional interactive advertisement behind her continues to change, and finally freezes in the three-dimensional advertisement of the matching company: In the vast crowd of black and white, a male and a female office workers, one red and one blue, approach from the left and right, and then transform into Prince Charming and Snow White Princess, hug together.I took a closer look, and the man turned out to be me.That's right, it's my appearance, the one set by my master, and it's a bit different from his own, but the authenticity should be more than 90%.The interactive ad copied my face and inserted it into the ad.This new era of promotional products is extremely effective, and the real world is introducing similar interactive advertisements.
Network first!
After breaking up with the beauty, I turned around and watched her lonely figure go away and disappear into the crowd.She had probably stepped into the nearest grating.
Lattice, just like the random door in the comics, can send you to other gratings in the online world, greatly breaking geographical restrictions.The real world is limited by physics, and it will probably never be possible to make the same thing.Even so, light gratings can take you to many places, but they can't send you to your lover's door.I felt a pang for her: In the huge online world, even through a powerful matching search engine, you can’t find a soulmate who is willing to understand yourself, how lonely it is!By her side, there is only her humanoid software, that is, herself, and she is simply sympathetic to herself.
I agree with Belle: Technology can't cure loneliness... No, it's not Belle who says that, it's me.I feel like I am starting to become a philosopher too. No, it should be said that my master will become a philosopher sooner or later. After all, I am just a copy of him.
Our doll software is the doppelganger of the master in the online world. In the old saying, it is an agent (agent), who takes care of all his trivial affairs on the Internet.It is impossible for him to be on the Internet 24 hours a day. He has to go to class, sleep, eat and drink.However, the online world is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, no holidays, no rest, no closing.
1.Online auctions see new bids every minute.
2.Every day there are new movies, new music, new games and new programs available for download, legally or illegally.
3.Fighting each other in the game is endless until the blood flows into a river, the sun and the moon are dark and the sky is dark.
4.Every day there are new opposite sexes that meet your mate selection criteria, and you also need spies to collect the background information of the other party. This is humanoid software.Just like the situation just now.
5.Your account on a dating website may have hundreds of friends posting lovelorn declarations every day, hoping that your kind message will soothe their weak hearts, so that this weak planet that is already overpopulated can continue to bloat, and resources will continue to grow. Get sucked dry and keep working your way toward the end of the world.
The vastness of the online world, the multitude of activities, the breadth of knowledge required, and the length of time it takes have long exceeded the capabilities of ordinary people.Since the advent of the Internet, many users have suffered from "Internet Inextricability Syndrome", or "Internet Dependence". They must put their minds and souls on the Internet for a long time to relieve their illness.Humanoid software like me was created to free humans from the Internet.
Although it has only been six months since the humanoid software came out, it has already become an irreversible trend in the Internet world, ready to launch another wave of revolution that will change the network ecology.
I still remember that when I first met the owner six months ago, I was just a newly opened doll software.Except for the basic instructions and procedures of the original factory, my mind was blank.The fresh body is translucent.In addition to being my master, the master is also my learning object, a lifelong learning object.Only when I understand him more—no, not just pure understanding—and synchronize with his thinking, the body will be colored and concrete.
According to the setting, I will spend at least a thousand hours following him, understanding his background and interests, and learning his thinking mode, especially the method of decision-making.Fortunately, the master has the habit of keeping a diary. After careful combing and research, I have grasped his thought line after more than 800 hours. In human language, although the master embraces traditional values, he is full of creativity and revolution. Spirit.Dare to try, and occasionally there will be amazing moves.
In addition to following his actions and learning his way of thinking, sometimes I will directly ask him why he chooses, just like the theoretical basis in software design.Why did he choose this way?There is always a reason behind it, perhaps one that is unknown to outsiders.Sometimes a person's actions may not be consistent with his thinking, in order to achieve a certain form of camouflage.
Humans are really complex animals.
Once I have mastered the train of thought of the master, I will soon be able to play to my strengths.
1.The goods to buy have been launched or reduced in price.
2.The food in the refrigerator is about to expire.
3.Remind him to prepare for appointments, arrive on time, and what is the fastest mode of transportation.
4.Bid for products on the auction field, bid and make decisions on his behalf.
5.Even, when he was in class or sleeping, temporarily replaced him as a character in an online game.
All my thoughts and thoughts must be based on his past experiences and be faithful to the original.I am not only his closest comrade-in-arms, I am him at all.He has no secrets from me, just as you have no secrets from yourself.We share the same sorrow and joy, and empathize with each other.
At work, I am him.In spirit, though, I'm just his shadow.He needs to meet real friends, but also to find his soul mate, with flesh and blood.To put it bluntly, our humanoid software is nothing more than a phantom, a spectacle in the online world.
Still, humans are increasingly dependent on us.
Human society is becoming more and more complex.
A sound of sirens pulled my thoughts back from the memory.
Someone is following me, and with malicious intent.
Anti-detective programs are sometimes overly sensitive and give false alarms.I purposely circled around a few avenues, passing through several bustling avenues with people coming and going, but I still couldn't get rid of the man in black who couldn't see his face clearly.
This guy was getting closer and closer, and several anti-reconnaissance programs on my body pointed out this "person" of unknown origin at the same time, and all of them were marked with the highest alert level in red.
Even when I was only circling, the other party followed all the way, and followed more and more openly, it was astonishingly blatant.
I don't know what the other party is. Is there a human being directly behind it, or is it just a human-shaped software that obeys the master like me, or is it a human-shaped bomb hacking program that is neither?
No advertising program can fool the spying program on my body, but even they can't penetrate the man in black at this time. I only know that it is something more annoying than the advertising program of the sales company sticking close to my back. Not only is it malicious, And hostile.
Without looking back, I walked through Times Square, which is the landmark of Causeway Bay in the physical world, and passed those department stores that once survived and disappeared, but witnessed the "Japanese Occupation Era" of Causeway Bay, such as Daimaru, Mitsukoshi and Matsubaya, and Takashimaya and Kinokuniya bookstores, which have never been stationed in Hong Kong, have passed thousands of real and fake people around them.
Reconnaissance program warning: The other party seems to be moving, please prepare.
what to prepare?Fight back?I'm starting to regret not getting some decent weapons.
I only have the simplest attack weapons on me now, that is, those ordinary Yangchun programs that passers-by A, B, and C have, so fight back!
However, I am in Causeway Bay in the online world, a golden location integrating e-commerce, entertainment and investment.The land price per foot is not inferior to the real Causeway Bay (or the real version is not what it used to be, even the online version is not as good, but it is still far from "Internet · Shanghai").If a network bomb explodes, it will inevitably cause major disasters such as network traffic jams and transaction suspension.Therefore, the network security is very tight, strong and airtight.
No hacker will attack rashly regardless of the consequences, and it is impossible to succeed easily.
However, several reconnaissance programs on the body issued a critical warning again at the same time.
Under the signboard forest formed by various advertisements such as beef noodles, plastic surgery, stock winning method and perfect lover matching, when I looked at the man in black again, I saw the man in black raised his hand and threw it forward.
——too fast to see clearly.Its momentum is so fast, it is almost like the shadowless hand that is often seen in martial arts novels.
Then a red light shot towards me.
Taking a closer look, I found that the light was growing as if it was inflated, and soon turned into a beam of light. No, it was a huge red light ball, almost bigger than the fake sun in the online world.
Many people also raised their eyes to watch at the same time, as if appreciating a rare astronomical phenomenon once in a hundred years.Yes, this situation is a spectacle no matter in the real world or the online world.
However, few people are aware of the danger, perhaps they will only see it as an alternative street promotion.
I wondered what happened next: the ball of light got bigger and bigger, and finally rolled towards me, like a scene you often see in adventure movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
However, I guessed wrong.
The ball of light did not roll over, but exploded with a loud noise.
Dozens of beasts burst out, such as lions, tigers, wild wolves, black eagles... and other endangered animals, as well as surreal animals such as unicorns, dragons, and firebirds, all making weird calls , rushed towards me.
Although my life is hanging by a thread, I am not human after all, but I can multitask, run multiple programs at the same time, and my mind can wander.I can't help thinking that even in the online world, this kind of attack is too caricatured and not serious enough.
Fighting is a matter of life and death at any time, so it should be taken seriously, isn't it?
However, when I took a closer look, all the beasts came out in empty groups, and wherever they went, there was a black void behind them, and there was not even a skeleton or anything left, so I dare not underestimate it, let alone underestimate it .
God knows what kind of world it will be after falling into that void? !
The entire Causeway Bay immediately fell into chaos, and people and programs fled one after another.
It is rare for the Internet Causeway Bay to "catch customers" like this!
I didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately ran wildly. Fortunately, there was a corner in less than ten steps, so I took the opportunity to change direction quickly and dodged into an alley.
When I looked back again, I saw all the beasts almost passing me. They kept rushing forward and ran far, far away.
Seeing that the street that was still full of people just now disappeared into the void, and there was nothing left.
God, what's the matter? !
It was unbelievably weird.
Are these monsters really attacking me?I'm just an ordinary doll software, and my master is just an ordinary young man.
A strange cry approached slowly, as if it was going to cover the whole street.
Yes, all the beasts rushed forward just now, but one of them turned around, went back and forth, took a slant, and chased after my figure. The large group of beasts immediately changed direction and followed closely behind.
—What the hell is going on?They really came for me!
For a while, I really couldn't tell the name of that bird of prey. It looked like an eagle, but it was much bigger, and its whole body was on fire.The entry for "Fire Phoenix" popped up in my memory bank.
Its eyes looked like they wanted to see through me. Although it didn't shoot a death ray, it kept staring at me, making me feel uncomfortable all over.
I ran away again, but they kept chasing from behind, and they were getting closer and closer at a high speed.
The people in front of me were also terrified, rushing forward like a tide.
According to the program in my body, I will be swallowed within twenty steps.
I must not be trampled upon, or pursued by these animals.
I concentrated fire on my legs and cut into triple-speed turbo mode, but my feet were much slower than the wings of a raptor.
Fortunately, there is a light barrier ahead, a light barrier that can lead anywhere in the online world.It's like Doraemon's "Any Door".
There are seven people piled up between me and the grating, seven men and women of different heights, fat and thin.They also sensed that the crisis was approaching, but their reaction was obviously much slower than mine.
In order to protect myself, I murmured "sin" inwardly, and rushed forward with all my strength, crushing the upper bodies of the seven people—they wouldn't be crushed anyway, and even if they died, they could be resurrected .My situation is much more complicated.Time is limited, so I won't go into details here.
When I scrambled into the grating, I heard the wind behind my ears, turned my head suddenly, and what caught my eyes was a terrified scene like the end of the world: all the people and events on the street seemed to be swallowed by a huge black hole.What is left is the most emptiness of nothingness and nothingness.Human civilization has now come to an end, exiting from the grand stage of the universe.I am the last person to witness the end of history...
Soon, everything was black before my eyes.Not a beast coming, but my body ready to tear apart, disintegrate into billions of bits for the grating to travel elsewhere.
Just leave as quickly as possible, anywhere.
The transfer is ready to start.
All devouring has left me for a while.
I heard nothing.There was silence in my ears.
Although I couldn't see the man in black, he must have been hiding not far away and witnessed all this.
Who the hell is he?He was obviously coming for me and wanted to kill me.Why?
Thinking about it carefully, it turns out that I haven't received any messages from the master for more than seventy-two hours. What's the matter?Isn't he sleeping at home? !
I am his substitute, and I was hunted down in the online world. Maybe he will suffer the same fate in the real world!
I don't know what it would be like to escape in the real world, but with my limited understanding, I still feel that in the world that obeys the three laws of Newton's mechanics instead of network data computing, not only there are no gratings and hacking programs to use, but also Dragging a heavy body of flesh and blood, it should be much more difficult to escape.
In other words, in the online world, it is easier to hide and escape as long as you use tricks.
Unlike me in the online world who can use light barriers to escape, how can he avoid killers?Could it be that he has already encountered a murderous hand, that's why I have been unable to contact him for so long?
But why would anyone want to kill him?What did he do?
—Master, where did you go?safe or not?Please text me.
Before my body started to decompose, I sent him a text message to the real world, hoping he would reply as soon as possible.
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