Chapter 136

    By the time things settled down, it was already winter in Southern City.

    After the winter, the job of killing zombies is even more difficult. The south is fine, but the north has a heavy snowstorm, and the heating supply in the shelter is somewhat insufficient. However, the zombies are not afraid of the wind and snow, and they fight against humans in the snow. It has gained the upper hand, so the North is now adopting more defensive strategies.

    Hao Jian seldom goes on missions anymore, after all, the safety of the shelter is more important now, of course, the problem of hunger and cold is also a safety problem.

    Lian Runing planned to tell her about the information she got from Kelly, but Hao Jian said, "You don't need to reveal too much to me, I have some things to verify."

    Lian Runing didn't know what her plan was , but I still mentioned to her that if you kill the "Apostle", you can get half of the opponent's experience.

    She didn't know whether Hao Jian knew about this before, but Hao Jian's behavior was a little surprised, so she knew that Hao Jian also knew about it.

    Lian Runing draws a conclusion based on Kelly's previous performance, this rule is hidden, that is to say, the people or forces manipulating the "Apostle" will not take the initiative to tell the "Apostle" these things, but they need to find out by themselves .

    And Hao Jian didn't want her to tell what she had done, and said that he wanted to verify some things, which also gave her a hint--Hao Jian discovered something related to them.

    Although she has not fully figured out what happened, Lian Runing believes that the tacit understanding between her and Hao Jian can solve the puzzle well.

    After Hao Jian and Lian Runing were doing their own things and could not communicate with each other, Hao Jian still had a dream that he forgot after waking up.

    Le Yan approached her twice, but she was indifferent, and gradually Le Yan stopped approaching her to make fun of herself.

    "2018" gradually discovered Hao Jian's intentions.

    To be honest, "Lian Runing" is a brain cell image extracted from the brain of "Hao Jian", and the relationship between her and Hao Jian is a master-slave relationship, that is, Lian Runing is the person in Hao Jian's memory.

    Compared to Hao Jian, Lian Runing is a set of real fictitious data, and her function is actually a program used to stabilize the "data body".

    Research has found that, whether it is a "brain body" or a "data body", what occupies the most memory is often the person or thing they care about the most. After experiments, these people or objects can quickly stabilize the "data body" from the unstable state stimulated by the outside world.

    Just like when the "data bodies" first entered the multi-dimensional information space, they were still active and would subconsciously reject contact with information that did not belong to them. And the data extracted from the "data body" of the most important person or thing to them is like giving the "data body" a sedative, they will tend to stabilize, and then believe more and more that everything in front of them is real.

    They have experienced the truth, so they firmly believe in the truth.

    When designing a multi-dimensional information space, researchers created a trustworthy object for these "data bodies" based on the information, whether it was a person, or the environment, or a thing, or just a vague appeal.

    For example, what Hao Jian extracted from his memory was related to Lian Runing, so in this case, Lian Runing's behavior was actually known to Hao Jian.

    The multi-dimensional information space needs to delete and bury the memory of the "data body", so she will not expose Lian Runing's information before seeing it with her own eyes.

    However, if Lian Runing did something that did not appear in Hao Jian's memory, it can only mean two possibilities: one is that this is a program that the committee added when designing her character design; Lemon is an action with self-consciousness!

    Leaving aside anything else, how can we be sure that Lian Runing's actions are not something that appeared in Hao Jian's memory? After all, Hao Jian, the data subject, had many things she didn't know before meeting Lian Runing, didn't she?

    The reason why "2018" feels abnormal is because of this!

    First, there was no doomsday survival system when the "data body" body was still alive, so all the data related to this was added later.

    The existence of Lian Runing itself is a program to appease Hao Jian, so even if she knows the existence of the system, it doesn't matter.

    However, this does not mean that the researchers will automatically add information about the system when setting her up as a character!

    In other words, after Lian Runing knew the existence of the system, all her actions, if not ordered by the "data body", were her own actions.

    Second, on the basis of the first point, since Hao Jian has no contact with Lian Runing, and there is no such thing in her memory, she cannot influence Lian Runing's behavior.

    After all, how can the "data body" have such a memory for things that the body doesn't even know?

    Since there is no such memory, and it is not the setting arranged by the committee members for Lian Runing, then there is only one possibility - that is Lian Runing's autonomous behavior.

    Now that Hao Jian has realized something, she will consciously avoid Lian Runing's information. She is verifying her relationship with Lian Runing.

    ____Hao

    Jian has indeed realized many things. Although the dream she had was forgotten upon waking up, she did it on purpose. She didn't really forget it, but buried the dream in her deep consciousness.

    The central processing terminal system could not detect her deep consciousness, let alone the Lian Ruming anomaly that existed only as a "substance". Because "2018" was not reported.

    This is no longer a question of winning or losing, but he has been thinking about some issues these days, why the committee does not allow the "data body" to awaken?

    The committee said that there will be legal, human ethics and other issues. After all, "data bodies" are just a set of data, and their brains still exist. Even if they are awakened, two hundred years have passed, so what status do they have to live in the world? ?

    What is their social identity?

    Are they human?

    They are not, they are just a set of data.

    So aren't they human?

    They are, they have memories of their lifetime, and their behavior and thinking cannot escape the human framework.

    So will the legal and medical professions redefine the standards of life and death?

    If a person dies, his family converts his brain cell image into data to create a "data body", so is it still alive? To avoid paying inheritance tax?

    If everyone dies like this, does that count as eternal life? There is no death in the world?

    ...

    These kinds of issues have been debated endlessly for decades.

    "2018" has even been heard in history lectures. More than two hundred years ago, human beings began to debate issues such as the beginning and end of life, and it has not stopped until now.

    But so far, the mainstream thinking is still that after the body functions stop, it is considered death. Therefore, many people think that once a person who has died, the brain is activated and the memory of being a human is restored. This is against human ethics and should be banned.

    It is also because of this that the committee wants to prevent the "data body" from awakening. After all, they are also an official organization. It would be bad if they are criticized by other countries in the alliance because of this.

    It's just that "2018" is confused. If Hao Jian has awakened, then she doesn't actually exist as "it". Then after he reported it to the committee and let the committee destroy her, wouldn't it be an indirect murder?

    But if he doesn't report, what can he do? The central processing terminal system will detect it one day, and destroy it.

    ____

    Hao Jian knows nothing about the troubles of "2018", and is not interested. The scene in the dream was very real, and she also told her subconsciously that Lian Runing was not a fictional character, and their feelings were not systematically designed.

    In their real memory, they met earlier than in this world, and they have experienced more than now.

    They were born and died together, experienced the blow of losing their loved ones together, experienced the pain of being betrayed by their friends together, and faced the cruelty of this world together...

    That world was much crueler than it is now, but they walked over step by step, and she joined the guards team, and Lian Runing is just like this world, engaged in scientific research, and they never left each other.

    Then it all ended in an accident. When she was escorting the researchers who were going out to do research, she was scratched by a zombie and injured her ankle.

    She knew she couldn't survive, but if Lian Runing found out, the other party would definitely do what she promised, even if she turned into a zombie.

    She can't let Lian Runing do this, because no matter how careful she is, she still has the possibility of hurting Lian Runing. In this way, Lian Runing will also become a zombie!

    So she explained to the team members about her future generations, before the other party tried to blow her head off in a well-trained manner, she proposed that she stay in the rear, and then asked them to take the scientific research personnel and hurry away.

    Lian Runing only realized when she saw that Hao Jian didn't get on the helicopter, and she was restrained by the guards.

    Hao Jian looked up at her for the last time, she knew that she loved Lian Runing very much, and in this short life, she had only loved such a girl.

    So even though the system tampered with her memory, when she saw Lian Runing for the first time, there were slight ripples in her heart. people.

    Hao Jian's superficial consciousness doesn't remember anything, and she doesn't know anything, but her subconscious and deep consciousness will change her thinking and behavior, so she wants to know if she has the memory of her previous life, what about Lian Runing? Will she be a puppet of the system, or will she be like herself?

    Lian Runing hasn't been able to think that much yet, but the science center has good news. The medicine she entrusted Lian Qingmiao to research for medical experts has also produced results.

    They all said that the main ingredients of this medicine were no different from those of the same type, but the medicine that Lian Runing brought over produced more significant effects than the previous formula under certain reactions.

    In short, this medicine has better curative effect than ordinary medicine of the same kind.

    Lian Runing asked: "It is obviously the same ingredient, why is there a difference in effect?"

    They analyzed that the production process may be different, or the formula may be different. The same ingredients, but under the action of different formulas, will also produce different medicinal effects.

    Experts also want to ask Lian Runing where the medicine came from. If the same medicine is developed in large quantities, it will be of great benefit to everyone! Some medicines can even be used to improve water quality, regulate soil and so on.

    Before the experts came to inquire about Lian Runing, Lian Qingmiao came to her first, and she had no choice but to tell her that this was the medicine provided by the "Apostle".

    When everyone heard it, it was as if they had discovered a new world: "Oh, I only tried to study blood, hair, and behavior before, and I didn't study anything else, but why did I forget about medicine and supplies?"

    Lian Runing I don't know why they didn't think of it before, but after thinking about Hao Jian's actions, they understand a little bit, because most of the items produced by the "Apostles" are consistent with the items produced in reality, and many people subconsciously feel that they are nothing difference, so instead of studying these, why not study the secrets of the "Apostle"?

    They walked into a misunderstanding, and if Lian Runing hadn't been reminded by Hao Jian, she wouldn't have thought of this level.

    In fact, she thought, if you want to know the secret of the "Apostles", you don't have to start from them. As long as you decipher the source of their materials, can't you start from the side and get closer to the secret?

    Starting from this conclusion, Lian Runing can basically conclude that the world, and even the forces behind the "Apostles" must be caused by civilizations that surpass the current world level.

Chapter 137

    Because of the apostle's medicine provided by Lian Ruling, the government launched another vigorous action. The government asked the apostle to provide the medicine. One medicine can replace ten servings of food.

    From this operation, the officials also learned that the apostles with greater abilities provided more types of medicines, while those with too low abilities could only provide over-the-counter medicines, and the quantity was still small.

    This time, under Wen Shanggao's proposal, the ranks of the apostles were redefined. Previously, they were only divided into four levels according to the degree of threat to the government. However, it seems that these apostles still hide a lot of secrets.

    He organized members of the "Special Response Team" to collect statistics on the range of abilities of all the apostles. Hao Jian took out a USB flash drive and said, "No need, I've already sorted it out."

    Everyone looked sideways, and Hao Jian said: " After the meeting last time, I think Chairman Wen’s analysis is reasonable. If we want to jump out of this framework, we must investigate the details of each apostle’s words, deeds, abilities, etc. So I asked the chairman for the information provided by them. The list of supplies, even photos, and other surveys are combined to calculate this data. Of course, it may not be accurate, and it can only be used as a reference for you.”

    With admiration in Wen Shanggao's eyes, Shi Gongyu hurriedly said: "I also helped with this matter. It took a lot of effort to sort out these materials, and Hao Jian did the same. Pull me and Minghui and treat us like animals..."

    An Ming Hui glanced at him, but like Hao Jian, he didn't mind him coming out in such a hurry to claim credit. In fact, the three of them really don't care about these things. Shi Gongyu's superficial claim for credit is actually to help Hao Jian distract everyone's attention. Will feel jealous.

    These people are trusted and entrusted with important responsibilities, but not everyone does these things willingly. They are always somewhat ambitious and want to use this platform to leap to the dragon's gate.

    Usually everyone has similar abilities, and Wen Shanggao treats everyone the same. This will not make them feel a sense of crisis, and it will not make them think too much. But once someone jumps out of this mode of getting along, they will start to worry, which will breed dark thoughts.

    Would a person like Hao Jian not understand? She could have given it to Wen Shanggao in private, but she didn't do it because she was confident and she didn't bother to fight for power with these people.

    But as her friends, he and Shi Gongdu still have to think about her.

    With such an interruption from Shi Gongdu, the atmosphere at the meeting improved a lot. Wen Shanggao took the USB flash drive and chose to cast it on the screen, and then An Minghui was in charge of explaining.

    "After sorting out these materials, the three of us preliminarily set seven levels, which are replaced by numbers. 1 is the lowest level, and 7 is the highest level of apostles so far..." An Minghui said.

    Everyone didn't speak, but listened silently, thinking in their hearts, why didn't they pay attention to these before?

    The documents prepared by Hao Jian and An Minghui all listed detailed data, and not only one apostle had such characteristics, so everyone thought it made sense after analysis.

    "Currently on the list of the Apostles Association, there are no level 1 apostles. Why? Because the information collected earlier shows that level 1 apostles only have one ability, which is to exchange food. They have no other ability except food. Among the dead apostles, Sixty percent of them only have this ability..."

    Followed by level 2 apostles, An Minghui believes that apostles of this level can produce a small amount of over-the-counter medicines, and this amount can be figured out after counting all the apostles ——Limited to 3 copies.

    And level 3 has one more ability to buy daily necessities and cold weapons than level 2. When defining this, the three also have differences. After all, the current data shows that the cold weapons they take out are actually machetes, kitchen knives, and crowbars. etc., can be planned to go to the daily necessities department. In the end, both An Minghui and Hao Jian agreed that controlled knives were actually cold weapons, so they decided on it.

    Of course, during this process, Hao Jian did not deliberately guide her. She just provided some directions, which seemed flawless, and An Minghui and Shi Gongdu would not think about her.

    Immediately after is level 4, from this level, only prescription drugs are provided, and the quantity is the same as the original over-the-counter drugs, only 3 copies a day.

    An Minghui kept talking until level 6. After listening to such a round of analysis, everyone was speechless. They had to compare and sort out thousands of apostles and hundreds of millions of documents. If they were replaced, they would have gone crazy. Thanks to these three people for being so calm.

    "Of course, it doesn't rule out that some apostles are hiding their true abilities, but if you observe carefully, you should be able to find out. It's just that we don't have the time and ability, so we didn't continue to investigate."

    Someone asked: "You just said Level 6, doesn’t it mean that the current highest level is level 7?”

    An Minghui didn’t speak, but Wen Shanggao said: “Currently there are no apostles under our monitoring range of level 7, that is to say, there is no specific data.”

    The man was dumbfounded. Hao Jian replaced An Minghui now and said, "Currently, the number of apostles registered in the Apostles Association is the most at level 4 and level 5, and there are only more than 30 people at level 6...But just imagine, you He is an apostle, with the ability of level 6 - no need to worry about food and clothing, and can buy hot and cold weapons, even if the capacity of the backpack is insufficient, there is still a storage space, if it were you, would you choose to join the official?"

    Everyone's complexion changed slightly , Yes, if they have such abilities... To be honest, they would be a little jealous. Although many apostles are under the surveillance of the