harleyscars Chapter 344 Parting Ways, Information Soars
Chapter 344 Parting Ways, Information Soars
Chapter 344 Parting Ways, Information Soars
"You're finally back."
As soon as Ye Yang landed on the asteroid, Qin Youyin came out to greet him.
Something unexpected happened, but thankfully it was resolved without any major problems. It was a day late, and I'm sorry to have worried you.
"Ye Yang" said with a slight apology, while putting down a metal cabinet that he had dragged behind him.
"What is this?" Qin Youyin looked at the metal cabinet, but her divine sense could not penetrate it to investigate.
Ye Yang said with a cold look in his eyes, "I ran into a desperate criminal who wanted to rob me—perfect, we're also lacking new data sources right now."
After purchasing new parts from the black market on Ganymede, Ye Yang completed the production of a higher-resolution and more powerful MRI scanner in just half a month.
The first experiment was conducted on the fugitive they captured!
After performing high-precision imaging of its head, the data was processed using their self-developed mind reconstruction and fitting software, and then imported into a virtual world environment to graft a body onto the virtual mind model.
"Where am I? I'm warning you! I'm one of Boss Beifeng's men. I gave you warnings before I left. If I don't get back in three days, you'll be in big trouble!"
The scarred man's eyes darted around. He felt his peak Golden Core cultivation completely gone and panicked, but he still forced himself to utter harsh words.
From the scarred man's perspective, he found himself in a strange place, like a virtual reality game.
In front of him was a screen showing a man and a woman in white coats intently observing him.
"Heh, this is already deep in the Kuiper Belt. Do you think your so-called 'North Wind Boss' could find his way here?"
"Ye Yang" sneered.
With just a few words, the scarred man's psychological defenses were broken down, and he begged for mercy repeatedly.
"It's been two minutes already, and it looks very stable," Qin Youyin said.
However, his expression didn't seem very happy, but the worry in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by a sense of relief.
On the contrary, Ye Yang was very excited: "It seems that our new theory, combined with higher-precision imaging equipment, may really have a chance of success!"
Six hours later, the digital life form with the scar was still alive and kicking in the virtual world.
Although his mental state seems very unstable, this instability is still within the range of normal people; it is the kind of instability that normal humans experience.
Rather than the kind of instability that is mentally distorted, diseased, or broken.
Even without seeing the results over a longer period, the two are basically certain that they have successfully created their first digital life!
Ye Yang excitedly operated the simulation software: "Connect this guy to his own body. He has comprehended the Dao. If the instructions issued by the mind model can manipulate the real body to unleash the power of the Dao, then it proves that our path is correct!"
Ten days later, the Daoist Rhyme Test Experiment was successfully completed.
"Yoo-yo! We're finally about to succeed!"
Seemingly noticing that Qin Youyin had been looking rather listless since his return, "Ye Yang" decided to prepare a good meal before attempting to revive Ye Fujin once more.
He even took out his treasured spiritual energy intoxicant drink, which he had kept for many years. Alcohol had little effect on cultivators after the Foundation Establishment stage, but some special spiritual substances could have a similar effect.
Both of them were a little tipsy.
Finally, Qin Youyin suddenly rushed over, hugged him, and then pinned him down.
A few days later, the two recovered and began to revive Ye Fujin.
"To be honest, the imaging precision of 18 nanometers is already close to the limit. It can even clearly show the state of each organelle within a neuron. If this still doesn't work, then I would really despair—fortunately, there's always a way out, and this path is feasible."
After more than a decade of perseverance, at this moment, Ye Yang's hands were trembling slightly.
"Fujin, it's been a long time. I hope you won't blame us after you regain consciousness."
Qin Youyin then held Ye Fujin's head, which had been frozen for over a decade, and placed it into the imaging device.
The scan didn't take long and was finished quickly.
The two couldn't wait to check the scanner and obtain a large amount of raw data.
Begin rebuilding your mental models.
Then import the virtual environment —
"Come on." Ye Yang licked his lips and started the environment.
The scene shows a virtual Ye Fujin sitting cross-legged on a wooden floor, slowly opening his eyes.
"Huh? Where am I?" He looked around with a puzzled expression and noticed that Ye Yang and Qin Youyin were both watching him on a screen next to him.
"Huh? Brother Yang, Sister Youyin, where are you? And where am I?" Ye Fujin looked at the two people on the screen.
"Fujin, listen to me, check if there's anything wrong with your body," Ye Yang said excitedly.
Then he started asking some logically rigorous questions.
The two sides exchanged words, and more than a minute passed.
"It really worked!" Qin Youyin took a step back and sat down in a chair, finally relaxing completely.
It seems everything can come to an end now, although it's not a perfect ending, it's not unacceptable.
Just as she was thinking this, she heard a voice coming from the loudspeaker: "Who is it?"
"Who's there?!"
"What's wrong?" Ye Yang asked quickly.
"Something is watching me, it's watching me!"
"Damn it! What are you? Where are you? Don't look at me! Don't look at me!!!"
My mental model has spiraled out of control and collapsed once again.
"Get out! Get out! Get out of here!!! Get out!!!"
Ye Fujin's voice was still roaring wildly from the loudspeaker, gradually turning into an inhuman scream.
Qin Youyin, sitting in the back, was deathly pale. She looked at Ye Yang, who was standing in front of her. His once incredibly tall and straight body now seemed to be swaying precariously.
However, on her unseen face, Ye Yang's eyes momentarily lost focus, as if he were dead.
However, she quickly recovered: "There must be something wrong somewhere. Did I mix up the data? I need to check it, check it."
The voice was no longer excited or agitated, nor did it express sadness or pain; instead, it was extremely calm.
For the next three months, Ye Yang tried again and again, but each time he failed.
"The Nascent Soul stage is different from the Golden Core stage. The Nascent Soul is extracted from the body and refined to death, which is also different from the experimental subject in a living state."
"Perhaps we could have successfully captured a snapshot of his consciousness while he was still alive, but it's too late now."
"A broken mirror cannot be mended, and a dead person cannot be brought back to life. Perhaps from that moment on, the spiritual structure that had been enriched in his brain collapsed, which must have also destroyed the key cognitive information. We are no longer able to rebuild his mental model."
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Seeing Ye Yang's expressionless face, but with his eyes becoming increasingly numb and lifeless, Qin Youyin couldn't help but try to persuade him.
She let go of Ye Fujin's death, no matter how unwilling she was, because she couldn't continue to watch another person she knew in Ping get deeper and deeper into it.
"What did you say?"
Ye Yang suddenly stopped what he was doing, but without turning around, he simply asked, "Are you going to give up?"
"We've come this far, are you going to give up?"
The zither's sound remained silent.
She not only gave up, but also wanted Ye Yang to give up.
After a long silence, Ye Yang calmly said again, "I understand. Thank you for all these years. If you want to leave, you can leave anytime. I won't force you to do anything you don't want to do."
He didn't even turn around to look at Qin Youyin; instead, he continued writing something on the program interface.
"Du Yue is dead," Qin Youyin said softly, but Ye Yang remained unmoved.
Du Yue is Ye Fujin's most outstanding student and has a close relationship with both of them, but Ye Yang doesn't care about this now.
"I haven't told you this for over ten years. She died of a brain hemorrhage after she became emotionally distraught upon hearing about your disruptive behavior at the funeral."
Ye Yang paused for a moment. He knew how much Ye Fujin loved this student; he practically regarded her as half a daughter.
But he no longer wants to care about such things.
Seeing this did not elicit any reaction from him, Qin Youyin slowly stood up.
Ye Yang soon heard the sound of packing behind him. His eyes were lonely and stubborn, like a gambler who had risked everything.
Suddenly, a powerful surge of spiritual energy rippled outwards, and the interface in front of Ye Yang instantly went dark.
He was immediately shocked. He turned around and saw that Qin Youyin had unleashed her full spiritual power, creating a huge hole in the base.
The server unit was half destroyed, and the high-precision MRI scanner that had been painstakingly built was also reduced to twisted fragments.
Qin Youyin, on the other hand, had disheveled hair and looked as if she was about to cry, tightly clutching a ball of flame in her hand.
Within that flame, a dark object could be faintly seen.
"Wait, what did you do?!" Ye Yang was stunned for a moment before he realized what had happened.
He could always save up for more machines, but what Qin Youyin had in her hand was...
"How could you destroy Fu Jin's brain?!"
Ye Yang was trembling all over, from anger to terror.
Stop.
Qin Youyin said with tears in her eyes, "If this continues—you will no longer be human."
"Look at yourself now. You're toying with your best friend's soul, and you're torturing yourself in the process."
"Do you know what it's like when you look at Fu Jin's mental model, it's like you're looking at an object. How long has it been since you last thought about what he looked like when he was alive?"
"It's been a long time, hasn't it?"
Hearing this, Ye Yang's somewhat distorted expression gradually calmed down, and he lowered his head.
Qin Youyin continued, "Now, think back to the memories the three of us shared. Doesn't it feel strange? Like being in another world? Another version of yourself? As if those memories weren't even your own?"
"That's enough!"
Ye Yang gritted his teeth and said, "So what? As long as we succeed in the end—"
Did it succeed?
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Qin Youyin's question silenced him.
Yes, but is it possible to succeed?
Ye Yang himself said that the imaging accuracy has reached its limit. To improve the accuracy further, the brain would have to be sliced, but that would be a secondary destruction and would result in the loss of more information.
The theory of mind reconstruction has been proven successful through verification by living individuals, demonstrating its ability to reconstruct digital forms of life thought.
The only problematic data would be the raw data sampled from Ye Fujin's brain.
The brain, the corpse, were already in a damaged state, beyond repair.
"No! There must be a way!"
Ye Yang's eyes were bloodshot. He used his spiritual power to collect all the remaining intact hard drives in the machine and put them away, so that Qin Youyin would not have a chance to destroy them again.
"I got word from a student that Civilization has recently decided to use automated surveillance systems to conduct a sweeping cleanup of the Kuiper Belt—you can't hide for long, come back with me."
Qin Youyin looked at Ye Yang almost pleadingly: "Come back with me."
However, Ye Yang shook his head, said nothing, didn't get angry, and ignored her, silently flying away from the asteroid.
In 2187 AD, the first fifth-order Void Realm cultivator was born.
In 2214, based on the rapid advancement of psionic technology, humanity created the first flying machine that reached one-tenth the speed of light.
In 2219, the Proxima Centauri exploration program was launched, marking humanity's first steps towards exploring other stars.
In 2298, the first sixth-order True Realm cultivator appeared.
In 2438, for the first time, a cultivator attained enlightenment and entered the seventh-order Dao Integration Realm.
At this point, the path of immortal cultivation reached a bottleneck, and it was difficult to make any progress for tens of thousands of years afterward.
Even so, cultivators of the first rank can live for tens of thousands of years. If they seal themselves with special methods, they can live for tens of thousands of years!
With the cultivators' powerful survival abilities combined with the ever-developing space travel technology, the era of great galactic expansion for human civilization has arrived.
However, none of this mattered to Ye Yang.
Because advanced cultivation methods are an invaluable treasure of knowledge in human civilization, it would be very difficult for a wanted criminal like him to obtain them.
Therefore, he only obtained the publicly available Void Realm cultivation method before the end of his Nascent Soul lifespan, and entered the fifth stage of Void Realm. As a result, he did not wait for the True Realm cultivation method to be made public before the end of his Void Realm lifespan.
The original body thus died of old age.
But it doesn't matter. Having mastered the theory of elementary mind reconstruction, he can replace his own body.
By replicating his body through cloning technology and reconstructing his consciousness through mental reconstruction, Ye Yang "theoretically could achieve an alternative form of immortality."
For tens of thousands of years, he devoted himself to studying the brain scan data of Ye Fujin, who was rescued back then, in an attempt to repair it.
In the interlocking space, he summarized the unified thinking algorithm theory of "the most primitive and natural ordinary Homo sapiens".
Then, by progressing upwards, a unified thinking algorithm theory was developed for Foundation Building Clamping, Golden Elixir Clamping, Nascent Soul Stage, and Void Penetration Clamping.
With the theoretical framework basically in place, the next step is to move towards a higher level of understanding, incorporating the thought processes and algorithms of more advanced cultivators into the theory.
At this time, the threshold for obtaining advanced cultivation methods was relatively low, so he easily obtained the subsequent cultivation methods and eventually achieved Dao.
This was his first time merging with the Dao. The Dao possessed unparalleled ability to interfere with thought, easily covering the personality consciousness of countless beings in the blink of an eye.
Before him, the number of sixth-order True Claw beings or even lower-level beings had lost its meaning; they were nothing more than chickens and dogs that could be turned into his enemies in the blink of an eye.
In this era of great voyages and pioneering, powerful figures of all ranks ruled by astrology, carving out their own territories in the sky. With his current strength, he was also qualified to become a regional overlord.
But so what?
Reaching this point, achieving countless results, and gaining terrifying power only proves one thing—Ye Fujin is truly beyond saving!
The original consciousness information in the brain has been damaged and cannot be repaired because the primordial spirit was forcibly extracted.
The more you know, the more you can feel this longing.
"Civilization is now in a state of division. The Lyra Group has its own governance system and army, and is essentially a country."
Ye Yang stared at the bustling life-bearing planet ahead, his expression filled with longing: "Youyin has been sealed away for 60,000 years. She can't hold on much longer. I should have come to deal with her a long time ago."
Ye Yang's expression suddenly darkened again: "Moreover—this is also the last chance. Only when her power weakens to the point where she can no longer even self-destruct can she complete the [Information Ascension] like me!"
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