Chapter 1534 - 500: Me and ’Myself

Chapter 1534: Chapter 500: Me and ’Myself

In the Cyberspace, Lin Miao asked Lucy to create a dark, enclosed logic space for him, and in this space, only Lin Miao remained.

It wasn’t to trap anything, but to block internal messages.

Soon, someone who looked very similar to Lin Miao, almost identical but with obviously different vibes, appeared in this logic space.

Seeing the visitor, Lin Miao said with a hint of sarcasm,

"Yo, you actually know how to come out, huh? I thought you were already dead."

The person shrugged, not caring much, and said,

"You can actually understand it this way: I am indeed already dead, and the one talking to you now is just a fragment of memory that has been separately intercepted."

"You’re dead, then who am I?"

"You are you, you are me, the me who disappeared in 2024 only to reappear in another world."

"What do you mean?"

Lin Miao frowned, somewhat confused about the meaning of the other party’s words.

"Just as it’s said."

The person drew a straight line in the air with a finger

"Let’s assume this is our life."

Then a dot lit up at the end of the straight line

"Something happened here, in 2024, Lin Miao mysteriously disappeared. He went to another world, started a complex yet joy-filled new life, during which many, many things happened."

The straight line continued to extend with his words, eventually stopping in 2075

"And on this day, he made a choice."

The person used his palm as a knife to chop down, dividing the straight line at the 2024 node

"To cut off all the life memories after arriving in this world and start a new life with a new identity as if he had just arrived in this world, making the choices he would make."

"As for this cut-off memory..."

The person took the cut-off piece and tied it into a knot in his hand

"That’s me, and also the system that’s been handling things by your side."

To split oneself in two, what a ruthless heart.

Lin Miao paused in silence, then asked,

"Is it worth it?"

"Is there anything worth it or not? After all, it’s all me."

"Why?"

"For fairness."

"Fairness?"

"Let me tell you a story."

’Lin Miao’ sat cross-legged, gesturing for Lin Miao to sit in front of him.

Lin Miao wasn’t afraid of any malicious intent from this version of himself. If the other party truly wanted to act, he definitely wouldn’t have waited until today; there were too many opportunities to take him down.

But in fact, apart from saying some witty things, the other party never interfered with his choices.

The two sat facing each other, and ’Lin Miao’ said,

"I don’t know if I’m unlucky or too lucky, guess where I traveled to?"

Lin Miao tried to answer,

"Tokyo University?"

"No."

’Lin Miao’ shook his head, then pointed his finger at the ground

"Cyberspace."

Becoming an AI in Cyberspace doesn’t seem unlucky, but what if you entered with a physical form?

"The moment I entered the Cyberspace, I exploded, literally exploded."

’Lin Miao’ said with a wry smile

"Cyberspace itself is a massless information world; you can think of it as a vacuum world relative to matter. The result of a mass entity appearing here is instantaneously... BOOM."

He mimicked fireworks exploding with his hands

"Exploded, shattered to pieces, exploded everywhere, the body split from the most fundamental atoms to neutrons, protons, quarks, and even the original strings, my body was torn apart, the energy that constitutes matter was continuously torn into the most fundamental probability cloud, and finally, nothing remained."

"But you are still alive."

"Yes, I never thought consciousness could exist independently of the material world here. I should have died after losing my body, but I didn’t; I became the first AI in Cyberspace."

Speaking of this, he found it somewhat amusing.

"Cyberspace itself is in a state of heat death, and its energy level is extremely sparse, almost in a vacuum state, but my intrusion as an external system broke the heat death state, performing a feat akin to the Big Bang here, giving Cyberspace mass."

"Just one person, is it necessary?"

"You underestimate the power contained in matter and overestimate the energy level of Cyberspace."

He casually formed a fist-sized cube with digital code, looking very complex, much stronger than most hackers’ trained Demonic Puppets, but ’Lin Miao’ said,

"Let me put it this way, this thing doesn’t even have the information volume of an atomic scale, not even reaching the scale of a photon."

"Cyberspace looks high and mighty, but in fact, due to the sparse nature of the macroscopic world here, even the most basic material structure doesn’t exist, allowing capable hackers to construct whatever they want here freely. But these things aren’t real; their macroscopic stability is not as tough as a hair in reality, crumbling at a touch."

"And it’s because of the presence of mass that Cyberspace draws closer to the real world, still unable to escape the pull of gravity, only feeling it is impossible due to the tiny gravity."

A place sought after by the outside world, denigrated by him as worthless, but at least, in Lin Miao’s eyes, Cyberspace is still a world with great development potential. It’s like a cultural difference, like southern people seeing the heavy snow in the north.

"Let’s talk about your affairs, then. I guess life hasn’t been easy for you here, right?"