"Who is your child?"
Faced with the incoherent words of the wandering Chinese man, You Huan stopped and asked.
The homeless man probably didn't expect that someone would talk to him seriously.
As if he had regained some clarity, he said slowly after a long silence:
"Mingyue, my most proud work, my daughter..."
"We once lived under the same sky, we..."
As he spoke, his mind seemed to be in chaos again, and he began to speak incoherently:
"She is not just 'them', she is my daughter. I promised her that I would take her to see the real stars. We are under the same sky."
"I love her and they love it, they're more than just tools!"
"What happened next?" You Huan guided him patiently.
"Later, later..." The tramp looked dazed and he raised his head slightly.
Through the tangled stubble, you could just barely make out the deep wrinkles on his face.
He is very old.
The average life expectancy in this world is about 150 years, so this man must be at least 130 or 140 years old.
What is revealed in his nonsense may be the history of this society.
"Then the world fell, and the pillar of fire from God destroyed the world, and the sky was gone forever..."
"Mingyue also left. Once she left, she would never come back."
"But I know she is still here." The tramp's tone suddenly became low, and his weathered voice revealed a sober tenderness and nostalgia.
"So I'm still waiting for her, I'm still looking for her."
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and turned around abruptly.
There was a pleading look in his eyes when he looked at You Huan.
At this moment, You Huan suddenly felt that he was not the only one watching him.
There is more than one soul watching you.
"You...are willing to listen to me." The tramp said, "Can you help me?"
"If you see Mingyue, tell her... Dad misses you very much. Let's go home. I promised you that I would go to the top of the mountain to see the stars, but I haven't kept my promise yet..."
"If I can find your daughter, I will tell her." You Huan thought thoughtfully, "Your child should not be in the nursery, right?"
"No, that's not it."
The tramp shook his head, paused, and then said in a sad tone:
"But parents feel the same way. I've seen it..."
"What did you see?"
"I saw, I saw someone go to the orphanage and take back their child."
"It's the same, it's all the same...Emotions are not data that can be deleted with a single click."
The tramp suddenly laughed, muttered "I can't find it, I can find it", and staggered away.
You Huan looked at his back.
People come and go on the street. Because of their virtual images, they either look so delicate that they don't look like real people, or they don't look like humans at all.
No one looked at the homeless man, their vision was enveloped by the light screen.
The moon, them, tools, the sky, the world collapsed...
If he guessed correctly, the tramp should have experienced some old times.
An age when there is something to serve humanity, an age when the sky can still be seen.
The bright moon should be one of the tools created by the tramp in his early years to serve mankind.
Robots? AI?
Now, he can still see these things in this society.
However, there are very few physical robots. Except for baby sitters, most robots use virtual data images combined with AI to take on a large number of positions in society.
For example, shopping guides, maintenance workers, even doctors and police officers.
Anyway, people here can perceive the virtual, so there is no need to create an entity for AI.
But the tramp said that his bright moon was "gone" and "never coming back".
The world has become different from what he knew.
You Huan already had a rough idea of this world.
To verify this, he needed to explore the upper and lower levels.
With the help of Xiao Pu, he has already made some progress in the upper level, but the entry and exit of the lower level is more strict. Currently, he has only found a way to go through the company's formal recruitment channels.
In order to attract the company's attention, he had to show his "extraordinariness".
There is still no result from the previous interview, and I don't know whether I passed it or not.
I walked down the street, ignoring the people next to the building who were winking at me and enthusiastically inviting me to do something.
They are not virtual images, but professionals in this field.
Although virtual things can also provide a full set of sensory stimulation, many people still feel that the real ones are more stimulating.
He walked into the building and took the elevator, which looked sleek but was actually so broken that it could break down and stop in mid-air at any time, to the 25th floor.
Most of my colleagues have already arrived.
He is a programmer by profession, responsible for writing intelligent programs for new virtual sexual partners.
Virtual images may not have as many "feelings" as real people, but they will not break no matter how you play with them, and their personalities can be adjusted, so they have always been an extremely popular product.
Just lie at home, log into the virtual world, open a virtual room, and everyone can enjoy a wonderful time with their virtual partner.
Of course, You Huan didn't do this just because he was interested in this aspect...
It's because this small company has someone he has targeted, someone with "extraordinary factors".
"The recent new mermaid series is selling very well. I am considering making a new model." While he was thinking, the meeting began.
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After hearing the boss's speech, a certain image designer immediately snorted,
"I said it before, no one would dislike the fish tail imitating the angel tribe. The sticky feeling of flesh and blood is so comfortable..."
Another designer sneered, "A niche hobby is still a niche hobby. No matter how well your thing sells, it can't compare to the sales of the three major brands."
"What's so niche about it——"
"Stop arguing!" The argument was interrupted by the boss who was sitting cross-legged without any image. "There is one more thing. Didn't a big thing happen in Dream Spirit Master just now?"
"About the Guardian?"
"Now the screen recording has spread everywhere."
The boss touched his chin.
He said slowly, "I have a feeling that beast-type, especially dragon-type, companions will become more aggressive, so we should prepare early."
There was a wailing in the conference room:
"But Boss, we don't focus on making beast forms!"
"Boss, I'm not a dragon fetishist, so I can't build the model..."
After a long while, this topic, which made someone sweat a little, finally came to an end.
You Huan, who was sitting nearby pretending to slack off, breathed a sigh of relief.
It has to be said that the Internet will directly magnify people's habits. In this world, people are more open and more unbridled.
After discussing the topic of the new series of companions, the meeting got down to business.
General meetings can be conducted online without having to go to the building at all.
They gathered together mainly to attend the class -
The boss turned his gaze to a young man who had been silent the whole time: "Xiao Shui, it's your turn."
The man stood up silently and waved his hand. A large ray of light spread like water waves, surrounding everyone.
In an instant, everyone entered a privately built virtual room.
This is not a room built with the help of any existing resources, but was built by this young man using his own programming language, independent of the virtual world.
Compared to the vast world outside, his room was quite simple.
They can only be included if everyone is actually in the same place.
It is this person's quirk that he has to take classes in this kind of "private classroom".
What he talked about was programming.
——This person is the one that You Huan is observing, a young man with extraordinary talent in AI technology.
He once proposed a new AI model, which, although not as mature as the technology that has been developed in the world for many years, is also remarkable.
And he has confirmed that he will go to work for the company Mirror Intelligence.
In a week, he will move to the lower level to settle down.
Such a big Buddha is willing to stay in this small company, of course it is because he is not short of money, and he works just for his "hobby".
And I have had a long-standing friendship with you all.
But these have nothing to do with You Huan.
He was just observing the manifestation of the extraordinary factors in this person and thinking about how to "modify" his own body.
While observing, he was multitasking and his real body entered "Outside the Ark".
He noticed that the moment he entered the game this time, the surrounding environment fluctuated slightly like water waves.
After a moment of lag, he finally entered the game.
Soon, he saw the scene that he had not seen last time on the desolate land.
Under the blazing sun, in a valley with a rare shade, large patches of white fluffy things grew close to the ground.
(End of this chapter)