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Chapter 4 Mutual Deletion of Information Strings and Logic Infinite Loop

When I barely opened my eyes, I found myself in a huge glass jar, separated by the light blue liquid. Outside the glass jar was a wide, closed but beautifully constructed space. This was a narrow and long space like a tunnel. This space extends horizontally and is difficult to see the end to both sides. Perhaps this space is several kilometers long, which has exceeded my vision limit.

This space is almost completely enclosed, and it is full of metallic luster everywhere, but the surface of the inner wall of the space is very smooth without any sense of seams.

And around me, like a chessboard, hexagonal cans are distributed everywhere, and each can is vaguely floating in human-like creatures. However, because the small lighting lights above that look like ceiling lights are too dark, I can't see clearly what they are in those cans.

I wanted to move, but found that my body was filled with very tiny small potential patches. My cheeks, my arms, my chest, my abdomen, and even my most private parts were filled with dense and slender patches like hair. When I moved a little, I felt my nerve endings were touched and the pain was very painful. I was like a warrior who was penetrated by countless arrows. There were countless electrode patches inserted on the surface of my body. I was so scared that I almost screamed, but soon I found that my mouth was inserted into the cannula, and the cannula seemed to be connected to my esophagus. I couldn't make any sound.

Fortunately, in the next second, just like consciously, these tiny electrode patches on my body automatically drilled out from the surface of my body, and my body finally regained freedom.

At this time, a thin figure in black clothes walked to the can where I was. My thick black slanted bangs and the iconic square-framed glasses, coupled with the poker face without any expression, made me recognize this person at first sight as Zhu Qingyun.

Zhu Qingyun stood outside the can and looked at me. Then he pressed a button in front of the can. Then I felt my body floating in the liquid slowly sinking, and the water level of the liquid in the can also drop rapidly. In less than a few seconds, the liquid in the can was completely taken away from a water suction port below. I was also standing alone in the can, but I was surprised to find that there was no trace of wetness on my body, and the liquid just now did not remain on my body.

"Those are not water, but properties and heptafluoropropane and extremely similar special nutrient solution. Without the viscosity of water, these liquids will not wet your body, your clothes, and your book of the world."

Zhu Qingyun, who was standing outside the can, looked at me and said this. Then the glass cover around the can also begin to descend. Zhu Qingyun threw me the clothes he held in his hand and said:

"Put it on. The jar's brain is broken. This is a world with temporary authenticity."

I instinctively grabbed the clothes that Zhu Qingyun handed me, then lowered my head and looked at the progress bar written in "Electronic World", which was still 100%. Could it be that we have really done something without realizing it and conquering the world?

I quickly put on my clothes, looked around in disbelief, and said:

"Where is this? Where am I? Wooden Bodhisattva, what happened just now?"

Zhu Qingyun looked at me wearing my clothes expressionlessly and said:

"According to my known information, our current location is a spacecraft with unknown destinations. The total length of the spacecraft is more than five kilometers and has a diameter of five hundred meters. It is also the space where the 'players' landed in the Odin system are located."

"Login the Odin system? Player? Is it possible? Are you saying that the city of Sodom where I was before is... a virtual space?" I asked suspiciously.

"It can be understood so." Zhu Qingyun said, "Whether Sodom City or the ultimate human civilization are just 'cyborg space' built by the Odin system to accommodate the residents of the spacecraft."

"You mean the world we were in before was fake? Now this spaceship is the real world? Wait a minute, but I don't remember that I've been to this spaceship at all." I said in surprise, "And how is that possible? The space we were in before was so real. I completely remember every minute and every second of the memory in that world, even the pain, taste, and smell in that world clearly? Are those also fake?"

Zhu Qingyun pushed his glasses frame and said:

"Human sensations are essentially the impulse of electrical signals transmitted by neurons. As long as there are sufficient numbers of micro nanodischarge devices to stimulate various receptors in your body, you can produce various sensations. For example, the scene you see in the virtual world created by the Odin system is to stimulate your retinal nerve at a regular rate, which leads to the wrong visual receptor signals starting from the neuron to approach the side knee in the middle of the brain through the optic nerve, thus presenting a specific impression in your brain. The place where we are truly transmitted by Miyako should be this spacecraft rather than the new earth where Sodom is located."

"Zhuang Sheng Xiaomeng is both real and illusory..." Although I didn't fully understand the meaning of what Zhu Qingyun expressed, I still understood what he wanted to express. I stumbled and was shocked. But when I thought about it carefully, I had already doubted the truth of that world more than once as I was in the new earth. However, as I was infected by the perfect setting of that world, the strict logic and the inescapable sense of reality, I instinctively abandoned that kind of suspicion.

"Is it... that girl named Miyako put me in this can?" I said in surprise.

Zhu Qingyun shook his head slightly and said, "It is indeed Miyako who sent us to this spacecraft that she must be wrong, but she may not be the one who installed us into the nutrition pot."

As soon as Zhu Qingyun's voice fell, I saw a ceiling light on the ceiling suddenly light up, and then an extremely real and dreamy image was projected, forming an illusory figure behind Zhu Qingyun.

I fixed my eyes and saw the outline of the figure clearly. When I saw the figure clearly, I was completely shocked.

The round head, the fat body of the cylindrical shape, the big round eyes, the blue and white surface color, the rosy and round nose and the mouth as big as the face. The most conspicuous thing is the half-moon pocket on its belly and the golden bell hanging around its neck. Could it be that—

"Doraemon?" I said in shock.

When I saw that short and round body, I was shocked. The figure that appeared in front of me was indeed the animal character that was widely circulated in the 21st century, a well-known Japanese cartoon character, the dorman cat Doraemon.

"Hello, two newcomers. I am the captain of this 'Meng Dream' spacecraft. The artificial intelligence robot dorrahmoom, whose name is sodom and gomorrah, were split and combined. You can also call me Xiaomeng. I can speak any human language." The dormitory opened his mouth wide, smiled and raised its stubborn little hand, and greeted Zhu Qingyun and me.

Zhu Qingyun looked at Captain Doctor with expressionless face and asked calmly:

"Did you connect us to the Odin system?"

The Doctor immediately showed a sorry expression and said:

"Yes, I did it. I'm very sorry, two of you. But this is my job. I must ensure that you reduce the resource consumption on this ship and ensure that you can be happy." After speaking, the appearance of the dormitory changed, and its body began to lengthen, like plasticine, and soon turned into a human form. When its appearance was fixed, it actually became the elf woman I had seen in Sodom before - Gomorrah.

I couldn't hide my surprise. Looking at the elf woman in front of me, the shock in my heart was hard to describe in words.

"I'm just a nanny program for the Museo spacecraft. I'm different from you. I don't have a fixed appearance. I can present it in front of you in any shape." Xiao Meng said, then stretching out her slender, soft and white arms and said, "You may be more accustomed to my appearance now."

"The main computer of the spaceship carries all the remaining cultures of human civilization. The image of the dormant cat just now is very popular with human children, so I chose the appearance just now, but you seem to like me more." Xiao Meng put his hands on her cheeks, threw a charming look at me, and said.

Zhu Qingyun looked directly at Xiaomeng and said:

"The appearance does not matter. Judging from the information contained in your language, you are not hostile to us. Instead, you have the program settings to protect us. Please describe our current survival risk score and the macro environment we are in."

Xiao Meng bulged her cheeks and looked at Zhu Qingyun with a cute expression like a jealous girl. Her cheeks flushed and she said angrily:

"How come you, a newcomer, speaks dryly, it's even more like a robot than me! You seven were suddenly transmitted to this spaceship from an unknown space. There is no identity information about you in my historical database, but in order to ensure that you reduce the resource consumption of the spaceship, I connected you into the Odin system!"

Zhu Qingyun looked at Xiao Meng without saying anything. Xiao Meng put her hands on her hips and walked barefoot in the spaceship. Finally, she couldn't help but look at Zhu Qingyun with anger and said:

"Okay, although I don't know what you are from, nor do I know what the messy things in your memory are, but you can rest assured that this spacecraft is absolutely safe, and it is the safest in the entire universe - rather, there is nothing in the entire universe that can threaten human survival now. Because, the only living life in the entire universe is already in this Dream spacecraft. Our spacecraft is the only crystallization of civilization in the entire universe that can prove the existence of civilization."

I looked at Xiaomeng with horror and said in surprise:

"What do you mean? There are only people on this spacecraft left in the universe. What do you mean?"

"Hot Silence." Xiao Meng looked at me helplessly, her eyes full of tears. "The universe has been hot Silence. As early as 10 years ago, all galaxies and stars in the universe had stopped producing. All stars had exhausted their energy, the nuclear fuel in the stars had long been exhausted, and the stars in the universe had died. For a long time, the protons in the universe also began to decay. There was no matter in the universe that had protons decayed. So far, no one has been found except our Museo spacecraft. In this universe, there is nothing else except for the black holes that are gradually evaporating and the heat radiation that is filled with everywhere. The entire universe is dead, and the energy that can be used in the universe is only the only part of the nuclear energy left on this Museo."

Xiao Meng showed a confused and sad expression and said:

"Until the arrival of the silence, humans were unable to invent perpetual motion machines, and they could not find eternal energy. With the increase of the entropy of the universe and the exhaustion of the available energy, the only 500,000 humans on the Museo Dream cannot survive for fifty years. All humans can do is to wait for death on this lonely spacecraft shuttle in boundless darkness. Moreover, if they do not enter the virtual world, humans will not even survive for fifty years, because humans will have mental breakdown on the closed and narrow spacecraft for a long time, and even fight to the death because of food and resources. In order to alleviate the disputes on the spacecraft and let humans die unconsciously in their dreams, I built the Odin system and connected the thoughts of all the residents on the spacecraft to great material enrichment. Humans entered the fairy tale world of communism. There was no more pain or sadness in that world, just like heaven..."

While Xiao Meng was talking, I walked into a nutrition cup closest to me. In the light blue liquid, a creature that looked very strange was floating. This creature had a head similar to a human. Its head was slim, but its surface was gray. Its body was curled up like a baby, its limbs completely degenerated and curled up, like a fish. It had no neck, no toes and fingers, and only a short tentacle like an octopus tentacle. I saw this non-human creature floating in the liquid, opened its thin eyes, exposed its pure black pupils, and looked at me in panic. It tried to swim its limbs, but it was obvious that its short limb could not allow it to swim in the liquid at all.

"What are these things?!" I took three steps back in horror and said.

"These are humans." Xiao Meng walked to me and looked sadly at the creatures in the jar like fish, then stretched out her virtual hand and gently stroked the surface of the glass jar, saying desolately, "Because in the spacecraft, countless generations of humans rely on the input of nutrient solution to maintain their life activities. They do not need to work or move for reproduction, so after reproduction generation after generation, the human limbs and organs have completely degenerated, leaving only the brain with the form of primitive humans. It has become the current form."

"Humans have basically only their brains left. Although it is sad, this can at least save a lot of resources for the spacecraft." Xiao Meng said with a sad smile.

Then, Xiaomeng turned to Zhu Qingyun and said with some dissatisfaction:

"But, the last dream of mankind was awakened by you, you crazy person. You caused the crash of the Odin system. Although this is only temporary, you are still too terrible. I didn't expect that after I deleted everyone's memories in reality, there are still people who can be in the virtual world to find that the world they are in is fake. Moreover, they also used the logic gates of the two systems to use contradictory instructions to create infinite iteration dead loops to cause the crash and restart the Odin system. It's really terrible, terrible! No one has ever had it since the invention of virtual technology to the heat of the universe!"

My second monk looked at Xiaomeng in a daze, then looked at Zhu Qingyun, and said:

"I still don't understand what Zhu Qingyun, the Wood Bodhisattva, did? How did you break through the brain in the jar? Hello, Wood, can you explain it?"

Zhu Qingyun looked at me with a calm look and said:

"Due to the ambiguity of human language and inaccurate expression, it is difficult for me to fully describe the entire process of my breakthrough in the Odin system with a complete logical symbolic language structure." As he said that, Zhu Qingyun turned to Xiaomeng on the side and asked:

“Can I project the specific image I need together?”

Xiao Meng retreated, looked at Zhu Qingyun, and sighed:

"Don't you want to go back to Sodom City? One action you do every second here will consume more resources."

Zhu Qingyun said indifferently:

"no need."

"Okay, if you persist." Xiao Meng lowered her eyelashes, and then a projection was projected in front of Zhu Qingyun, forming an operating interface similar to a laptop computer. Zhu Qingyun's hands operated in the light curtain. Soon, two drawings appeared in front of me, and on the drawings were two poems written by Zhu Qingyun to me.

Zhu Qingyun let two poems float in front of me, and then said in his tone without any emotional ups and downs:

"There is no complete artificial true randomness in this world. Although the world simulated by the Odin system is very close to true randomness, it still cannot match the real world in some details. These details are the light quantum residual effect of human visual system and the true randomness of human activities. The light source of real objects in the outside world is projected on the human retina. Due to the residual light quantum residual effect of light, even if you close your eyes, there will be a light quantum residual effect of snowflakes. However, there is no such phenomenon in the world of the Odin system. Therefore, this is the Odin system.

A major mistake. Because the Odin system directly stimulates visual nerves to create nerve impulses to create fantasy worlds, it is impossible to produce the residual effect of light quantum. Secondly, although the city of Sodom is large, most people are not really people with free will. Instead, the Odin system created the virtual figures to create the illusion that Sodom is a prosperous city. Their actions are pseudo-random. About 93.5% of people in the city are cyclical and cyclical. In human words, it is the set."

"So that's it! No wonder you said some inexplicable words like pseudo-random when you first stood on the cliff of Sodom City. It turns out that you had doubted the authenticity of that world when you were in Sodom City?" I slapped. "But this is not just you. In fact, I have long felt that the world is not real."

Zhu Qingyun said calmly:

"It is not enough to just feel that the world is not real. Only when you realize that the world is not real and intend to destroy the balance of the virtual world with actions will the Odin system send an amnestics program to forcefully scan your brain and completely delete your criminal memory."

"Then the amnestic deletion program, aren't it those black-clad urban managers?" I guessed.

"That's right, the man in black is the result of the concreteization of the built-in program set by the Odin system that automatically handles the crime and reaches the risk threshold. If the man in black is not sent to force the motive of the offender in the name of crime, but directly deletes the criminal's memory invisibly, it will cause a large number of amnesia in the city without reason. This will cause residents to have suspicion and distrust that the Odin system amnestic program may have malfunctions. For this reason, a personified memory processing program like the man in black is necessary, which is to reduce human distrust of the Odin system."

Looking at my expression of shocking thunder, Zhu Qingyun continued:

"A super system that can simulate extremely subtle scenarios is bound to be extremely prone to system vulnerabilities. If shutdown self-detection is performed irregularly, it will lead to the accumulation of bug packets, and even fall into self-referential contradictions such as the barber paradox, causing the system to crash. Therefore, the Odin system must require at least two systems to operate alternately to ensure that the other system maintains the virtual world without interruption when one system shuts down and self-detection."

My noodles were as uncomfortable as if I had eaten bitter gourd and asked:

"Don't show off your 3-inch iron anymore... What is self-referential? And the barber paradox you mentioned, shouldn't it be mathematical..."

Xiao Meng, who was standing aside, looked at me and explained softly:

"Yes, this is the famous Russell Paradox in mathematics. The existence of the barber paradox is also the reason why many systems cause crashes. For example, if there is only one barber in this world and he only cuts hair for people who don't know how to cut their hair, then should he cut his hair for people who don't know how to cut their hair? If he cuts his hair, it would go against the fact that he cuts his hair for people who don't know how to cut his hair for people who don't know how to cut his hair for people who don't know how to cut his hair for himself, then he should cut his hair for himself... In this way, should the barber cut his hair for himself become a logical dead cycle proposition. If there is such a dead cycle in the computer, it will lead to

In this proposition, the hard disk crashes due to the overload of calculations reaching the physical limit. That is very terrible. When a sentence is about to target oneself, conflicts often occur, which is self-referential contradictions. It is like a child jokingly saying, "I am stronger than anyone in the universe." When I say I am stronger than anyone, is I considered a human? If I am considered a human, then, "I am stronger than "I" himself, then, in order not to let "I" surpass "I", I must be stronger, which will lead to an infinitely rising logical dead loop."

"In order to avoid such a barber paradox in the Odin system, the situation where the barber paradox is causing the dead cycle and cannot continue working, it is necessary to ensure that two systems work alternately. In this way, if a barber conflict occurs, a new 'barber' can be brought from another system b as a rescuer to cut the hair of the barber in system a who cannot cut his own hair, thereby resolving the conflict."

"Will the contradiction you mentioned... appear in the virtual world?" I said suspiciously.

"Yes. For example, a Sodom urban urban management that must destroy urban security is a contradiction." Xiao Meng said, "If the urban management commits a crime and destroys urban security, then should he eliminate himself? If he eliminates himself, he cannot continue to maintain urban security. If he does not eliminate himself, then he is a criminal. In this case, a paradox can arise. Therefore, only by intervening and judgment of other systems can the bug be eliminated. In this case, the virtual world in the Odin system has not appeared. Even the human system in history is limited by this paradox. For example, a party responsible for maintaining national stability and eliminating all factors that destroy social stability, should he eliminate himself when he is a factor that destroys social stability?"

Xiaomeng's words stopped when they were said, but I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Zhu Qingyun continued:

"In order to resolve the contradiction of self-referentiality, the Odin system must have at least two systems that operate alternately. At a certain point in time, the simulation information of system a will be reproduced to system b. As long as the interface for the two systems to flow information, I can create infinite iterative operations, so that the two systems can fall into command contradictions and attack each other."

"The two systems...attack each other?" I frowned. "Why do the two systems attack each other?"

"Because in order to be able to execute their respective instructions, the two systems can only eliminate the instructions that the other party prevents their own instructions from executing them." Zhu Qingyun said, "The Odin system will automatically repair the physical information of people who died in the city of Sodom. I have proved this with the massacre experiment done by Father Luther."

"You used Father Luther to perform the massacre experiment? Is it because of the mental problems with Father Luther's mental state? "I said in surprise.

Zhu Qingyun admitted truthfully:

"Yes, I asked Father Luther to take a lot of hyperdroxygen, which caused him to be extremely excited and confused, thus creating a massacre. From the scene where a passerby was shot by Father Luther, I came to the conclusion that the Odin system would repair all the structures of the human body within three seconds of death. At the same time, another point is that the Odin system will automatically eliminate the risk of damage to the Odin system."

"So, I took advantage of these two features of the Odin system. At the moment when the two systems were about to interact with the information flow at the beginning of the interface, they split my left and right brains, causing the two systems to produce completely different instructions:

"System a has to delete the memory in my brain immediately because the man in black detected that there were dangerous memories when he touched my body."

"System b has to repair my brain immediately because it detected that my brain structure was damaged."

"Since my brain was cut into two halves, the two systems swept across my left and right brain at the same time, so the system b of my left and right brain began to repair my brain, and the memory in the brain is closely connected with the brain structure. Repairing my brain structure means restoring my memory. Another system a swept over my right brain, detected dangerous information, and began to delete and destroy my memory. So the instructions of the two systems became completely opposite. System a thought I was a dangerous molecule and needed to delete my memory, so the system b of my brain repaired

It became its mortal enemy, so it had to destroy the program of system b and prevent it from continuing to perform tasks. System b, which repaired my brain, believed that system a was to prevent my body from recovering. If it wanted to destroy the source of damage to my body, it had to prevent the execution of the instructions of system a... So the two systems began to hate each other as enemies, destroy each other's program code, and fell into endless infinite iterative destruction, which eventually led to the collapse of the two systems together, and all players in the Odin system were forced to log out."

"I understand, no wonder you always delete your memories again and again... It turns out that it is to prevent the Odin system from scanning the high-risk information in your brain?" I suddenly realized.

Zhu Qingyun nodded slightly:
Chapter completed!
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