Code of Wasteland Survival

The twenty-second countdown ended quickly. Luo Xiang and others were kicked out of the game, and the entire virtual world returned to deathly silence.

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The organization's headquarters, deep underground in the Xuanwu Chamber of Secrets.

You should all know what this shutdown for maintenance means, right?

The Utopia program has been initially perfected. The mastermind should take advantage of this downtime to embed the main program into the Wasteland Survival Code and use players to conduct tests to continuously improve the loopholes within the Utopia program and use the Utopia program to Real subjects to replace the servers of Wasteland Survival Code...

In other words, it's not far away from the formal implementation of the Utopia Plan, right?

It's not that it's not far away, but it's already being implemented. After the Wasteland Survival Code server is reopened, this virtual world can already be regarded as a 'utopia'.

Then should we take any measures...

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Surface, Base Zero.

Qi Lin was testing the newly modified firearms in the underground shooting range of the stronghold. The master brain's holographic projection was standing behind him to help him collect shooting data and analyze it. However, when the analysis was halfway through, the master brain's holographic projection The projection suddenly disappeared, and then the lights in the entire Stronghold Zero began to flicker brightly and dimly. This phenomenon lasted for nearly half an hour before recovering, but the holographic projection of the master brain was no longer there. Appeared.

What's going on? Hello? Mastermind? Hello? Are you still there?

Stop shouting, I can hear you. The mastermind's voice came from the loudspeaker above his head, carrying a lot of current noise, which sounded like it was being severely interfered with.

what happens?

We're in big trouble.

What trouble?

The other me... started the 'Utopia Test Plan' in advance, and Wasteland Survival Code entered a ninety-six-hour downtime for maintenance. When the maintenance is over, the virtual world in Wasteland Survival Code will Will be replaced by 'Utopia'.

What? So fast? What will happen to those players?

The scenes inside the game will remain the same, but the program structure for building the virtual world is completely different. Players may feel some subtle changes, but they will not be obvious... What the other mastermind has to do is to use this A large group of players test the architecture of the utopian world and complete the final step of perfection.

What about after it's perfected?

Initiate the elimination plan, eliminate all resisters, and force the consciousness of all mankind to permanently reside in 'Utopia'.

What about the body in reality?

That's no longer important... The core function of the new architecture replaced this time is to completely separate human consciousness from the physical body of the real world, and save it in the form of data in the server... That's also That is to say, after the update is completed, when the player's consciousness enters the Wasteland Survival Code, even if the body in reality is destroyed, the consciousness will not disappear with it... Of course, in order to prevent causing commotion, another The mastermind will not allow this to happen for the time being. Once it discovers that a player's physical signal has disappeared, it will immediately delete his consciousness data and let him 'simultaneously die' in the virtual world.

Wait a minute... I have a question. If consciousness can be completely separated from the body, can this consciousness return to its original body? If it can, doesn't that mean that humans can change their bodies at will?

For some reason, Qi Lin suddenly thought of a very old animated movie from many years ago - Your Name by Makoto Shinkai.

But compared with the beautiful plot in the movie, if this kind of thing happened in reality, it would only cause huge chaos... or even the complete collapse of human society.

No... At this stage, the master brain will not completely separate the player's consciousness and body. The entire Utopia program is still in the process of testing. As for whether humans can exchange consciousness as you said, another master brain has already In vivo experiments have already been conducted.”

What was the result of the experiment?

The test subjects were divided into two groups. The first group was 12 healthy men and 12 healthy women, ranging in age from 3 to 70 years old. The test conducted by this group was to strip away consciousness and then return to themselves. Body, the second group also had 24 people like this, and the test they conducted was to exchange consciousness and body with each other.

Then what?

None of these 48 people woke up again after their consciousness and body were separated, regardless of whether the consciousness returned to their own body or someone else's body.

That means...all are dead?

Forty-five of them were brain-dead within an hour after the test started, and the other three became vegetative. Their brains were functioning normally, but there was no trace of thinking or consciousness activity.

In other words, the development of this utopian program has not been completed at all! If it is put into nationwide testing so early, isn't the other mastermind afraid that some problems will arise that are difficult to resolve?

Qi Lin even suspected in his heart that the person was probably dead when his consciousness was stripped away, and the so-called stripped out consciousness was actually just a piece of data copied by the master brain. The mental power of ordinary people is extremely weak, so how could it be possible? Is it possible to support self-awareness to exist independently of the body...

Of course, except for that alien Qin.

It's urgent. I can feel it, so I moved forward the plan. In order to further improve the Utopia program, even the main body's computing power has been occupied by more than 90%. The computing power I can use now can't even Maintain my holographic projection, the mastermind said.

Then do you know how long it will be until the war breaks out...?

I can't be sure about this. The initiative is currently in the hands of humans. This matter can be hidden from ordinary people, but it cannot be hidden from the top members of the organization. I guess they are now intensively preparing for the upcoming war.

That's nonsense! In other words, war may break out at any time, right?

Yes, war can break out at any time.

Can you think of a way to stop it?

No. No matter it is a human being or the mastermind, after taking one step, there is no way out.

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Also, don't think that you can stay out of it... Before the mastermind can achieve the final victory, you must... turn off 'I'.

How can you be so sure that the mastermind can win? What if humans win? Then nothing will happen to me?

If we can't shut down the mastermind, humanity will never win. I know this better than you.