Abyssal Wanderer.

Fanny's question caused Jiang Zhou to fall into silence for a moment.

Whether it was what happened to Jim Leiter in the past, or whether he came to the Eden Network to conduct deep dive salvage. Behind these things, there is no doubt that there are some existences beyond human intelligence that are driving it.

At this point, several of them didn't even try to hide themselves - after Liao Qi's death, if the goddess of the dark moon hadn't been dragging him for time, then there is a high probability that he would not have just "committed suicide" Jim as his new controllable factor.

In addition to Hecate, Christie, Minos, Apollo Biological Director, and even Charon may also be involved in this matter... It is true that the gap between these behemoths is also extremely huge, but for today's For Jiang Zhou, he is like an ant to a human being or an elephant. No matter which one he is, he cannot see the whole picture of them clearly with his own vision.

On the other hand, God knows how much nesting, redundancy, tampering, and improvisation there is between their respective plans... and eventually they are woven into everything they are experiencing today.

But in any case, as far as the results are concerned, the real reason why he came to the Eden Domain should be surprisingly simple.

The third last wish...

According to Fanny, the deep dive salvage of this network area is under the "Third Will Project Team". Since Fanny mentioned this name earlier, Jiang Zhou could roughly guess that this was the ultimate purpose of those existences.

After all, it involves the legacy of a super artificial intelligence, and it is normal for those beings to pay attention to it... Even if Jiang Zhou's intelligence cannot keep up with the rhythm of those inhuman things, he can guess this.

Although you can't see the complicated path clearly, you can still focus on seeing the destination clearly.

"You guessed it right."

As his thoughts flowed, Jiang Zhou answered Fanny's previous question:

"His purpose is indeed the 'Third Last Wish', and the complete technology of Pegasus involves a small part of it."

He did not talk about the existence of the "He" behind him, but only stated the information that he could roughly determine at the moment.

Since the "Pegasus" technology mastered by Apollo creatures came from the "Third Will Project Group", the depth 3 adjustment and transformation technology of Theseus' path will be left here, and it must have something to do with Janus, who designed this path. A subtle connection.

And this may be the reason why he was sent here.

In response to Jiang Zhou's answer, Fanny nodded slightly and then said:

"So...what exactly is the third wish?"

Good question, I want to know too.

Jiang Zhou complained secretly in his heart, and then asked:

"You have worked at Apollo Biology for so many years, don't you even know the inside story?"

The senior researchers who were poached here by Pluto Deep Diving Company should have some access to the core, right?

Fanny shook her head.

"I don't have permission to see the full picture of my work... In fact, all my work is to steadily reproduce the biological protein chips brought back by the salvage team - without the help of a multi-purpose printer."

Sighing, she continued:

"As for the salvage work of the Third Last Wish Research Team, its classification level is much higher than our research itself... Do you know why I risked a narrow escape and jumped to Pluto for deep diving?"

she asked.

Needless to say? A project with such a high level of confidentiality was deliberately promoted by a grassroots researcher. After the research project is completed, what will happen to these technical personnel without background?

But the problem is not here, but...

"How did you know at that time that you were about to face the fate of killing a donkey?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

Theoretically, it is impossible for an Olympus company to fail to do even this hospice care work.

Fanny didn't answer immediately, but Jiang Zhou immediately made a reliable guess after seeing the other party's expression.

"Héloïse Haenel, she told you, didn't she?"

Carefully observing the changes in the other party's expression, Jiang Zhou asked more confidently:

"Your...ex-girlfriend reminded you of the fate you might end up with. And her invitation to die with you is also related to this matter?"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of the scene in Jim's memory when Hanel invited him to die together. Seeing Fanny nodding silently, Jiang Zhou continued:

"She knows that you will be fired by the company after the project is completed, so she..."

"Do not."

It wasn't until she heard this that Fanny shook her head and interrupted him for the first time.

"She said that I will not die, but after the project is completed, I will face a fate more terrifying than death. If such a day comes, being able to freely choose your own death now is definitely a supreme blessing. kindness.

"And that is a mercy that future humans after me will not be able to enjoy... We will no longer have the inherent power, the power to choose death."

Fanny said, casting her gaze out the window.

"I thought she was just being alarmist at the time. It wasn't until she actually... committed suicide that I realized she was serious."

"Alarmist?"

This statement made Jiang Zhou feel very strange.

"I remember that your research topic was the stable reproduction of the biological protein chip 'Pegasus'."

He said so.

"Yes. Efficient, convenient and cheap implantation of this biological protein chip. Let it be popularized by all mankind like a brain-computer interface. In other words, this technology is originally a supplement to the brain-computer interface... and haha Nell feels this will lead to the demise of the human race."

Fanny replied.

This does sound a bit alarmist.

This is not to say that this technology is not scary enough, but now that a local armed organization can use a multi-purpose printer to hand-roll anti-matter bombs, just a technology for mass-producing biological protein chips will not immediately plunge all mankind into despair.

Even if biological protein chips can be passed on to future generations, it may threaten the human gene pool, but that will only happen many generations later.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou suddenly recalled the classic coffee gang's thug "Jin" - when Jim was retrieving the usage data of the lighthouse's multi-purpose printer, he did not see in the list that the other party had implanted "Pegasus". Record.

There are only two universal printers in the entire Nord settlement area, and Icarus's counterpart has no chance to use it. So where exactly did he perform the depth 3 adjustment and transformation?

Or... the technology of efficiently, cheaply and simply implanting "Pegasus" without using a multi-purpose printer has now been completed?

Jiang Zhou patted his forehead gently.

The adjustment and transformation of "Pegasus" itself is not destructive. Repairing the brain and zombie mode are both positive...

He understood what Fanny meant.

"So, these people in the Eden resettlement area twenty years ago..."

Jiang Zhou spoke slowly.

Fanny nodded and said:

"If all of them are equipped with Pegasus, then after their mental models are scanned and their self-awareness is uploaded to the Eden domain, their brains that were originally riddled with holes by the scans can be completely repaired. Now. The zombie mode can be used as a driver for the body, allowing those beings downloaded into their bodies to hide perfectly in human society."

Like...Jim's evil twin brother.

Jiang Zhou thought.

If that's the case... then as early as twenty years ago, something was mixed into the basic reality - it was not the "horse" model of cooperation between humans and malicious programs. As humans, at least we still have the ability to commit suicide by turning the table over. that power. The consciousness of those people was uploaded to the Abyss Dark Web, and their bodies were completely taken away and manipulated at will like living corpses.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou walked to the window without saying a word and looked at the lights of thousands of houses outside.

There may be hundreds of thousands or even more unknown beings who have put on human "leather jackets" and sneaked into the basic reality. The technology that supports their existence can be directly passed on to the next generation of biological protein chips.

What can they accomplish in twenty years?

What do they want to achieve? (End of chapter)