Chapter 1 The Journey

"Ding ding ding!

In the dark UX solo cabin, there were three announcements, accompanied by melodious music, and the female customer service staff with a sweet voice reminded: "Your 039 vacuum tube train is about to arrive at the station, please pack up and get ready to get off... " "

Zhang Yunxi, resting under a blanket in his recliner, woke up at the cue and rubbed his sleepy eyes. Artificial intelligence automatically adjusts the cabin lights for him and pushes warm water, tissues and other supplies from the snack box.

Seeing the light, Zhang Yunxi felt a strong headache. He rubbed his temples with both hands to relieve the symptom.

Intermittent headaches are an old problem for Zhang Yunxi, who has suffered from them since he was born. But the strange thing was that no matter what hospital he went to and what advanced equipment he used, he could never find anything wrong with his brain.

Now the level of medical science has been very advanced, especially in the field of human brain exploration, is reaching a new height. Techniques such as consciousness channeling, neuron grafting, and memory downloading are so well established that, as a rule of thumb, there should be no brain disorder that cannot be identified. Even if it can not be treated, it should be able to understand the problem, but Zhang Yunxi's disease, has not been diagnosed.

But fortunately, this headache is intermittent, as long as there is no strong sensory stimulation, and rest discomfort, usually rarely attack.

Life and death have life, wealth in the day.

Since we can't find out, it's useless to tangle with this, so Zhang Yunxi has already adapted to this problem. When the pain is too much, he will take a rest to adjust his breathing and calm down his mood.

After a while in the cabin, the headache disappeared a lot. Zhang Yunxi drank a cup of warm water and called softly, "039, give me your backpack, thank you."

"Yes, Mr. Zhang." The artificial intelligence in the cockpit responded, flicking open the luggage rack and using its self-propelled robotic arm lifted the black backpack inside and placed it at Mr. Zhang's feet.

"Thank you, 039."

"You're welcome, Mr. Zhang. You're the most handsome customer I've ever had. It's my pleasure to serve you."

"Damn, Do you have to you?"

One minute later, the No. 039 vacuum tube train entered the station. The warning light above the cabin showed red, indicating that the passengers had not released oxygen in the train pipe.

"pū chī!"

With the gas coming out of the pipe, the wall exit, about a meter and a half away from the hatch door, was the first to open the gate and let in the bright sunlight.

The door of the cabin was open, the pedal was automatically ejected, and Zhang Yunxi left the car with his luggage.

The concept of vacuum tube train was put forward as early as the 1820s, and was widely discussed and developed in the early 20th century. However, due to the environment of the transportation market at that time, and the poor compatibility between vacuum tube trains and other tools, coupled with the high cost of construction, it could not be popularized, and subsequent research and development was put on hold.

However, with the rapid development of science, various refining technologies and infrastructure technologies have been advanced to more than one level, so vacuum tube train has been formally put into use, but has not been widely popularized. At present, only Pearl City in Asia has such a train No. 039.

Zhang Yunxi came to Qingshan Town, about 800 kilometers away from the Pearl City. His purpose was to enter Qingshan Theological Seminary to apply for admission.

Before his father died, he had more than once told Zhang Yunxi to come to Qingshan Theological Seminary to study, and the father and son had a big fight about it. Because Zhang Yunxi does not understand, with his graduation results, in the world famous pearl University, will become the focus of the cultivation of top students, why to come to a "technical school" rating similar to the seminary?

You just hear the name, it's not reliable!

Zhang Yunxi had searched online for information about Qingshan Theological Seminary, which was founded about 15 years ago and has no educational background at all. It also offers a variety of subjects, and its website looks like a late-night APP. It even shamelessly advertises for a company.

What is more outrageous is that the faculty of this school is also called the "floor" of education. The oldest professional mentor is 35 years old, the youngest is only 23 years old, to put it mildly, Zhang Yunxi even suspected that the other person may not be as professional as himself.

This is just a pheasant school!

But Zhang Yunxi came anyway, because he was too curious.

His father died to let him, AI nanny Li Yun before being executed, also - straight in Zhang Yunxi called castle peak Seminary.

What is the magic of this place that keeps people talking about it? Her father's motives were hard to grasp, but Li Yun acted strangely. Her daily job is to take care of the life of Zhang's family, which has nothing to do with "academia", so why did she call Qingshan Seminary over and over before she "died"?

Zhang Yunxi really couldn't figure it out, so he hesitated and changed his enrollment, gave up the chance to enter Mingzhu University, and asked his teacher to write a letter of recommendation for him.

He was going to study at Tsingshan Theological Seminary to figure out what was in his mind.

Zhang Yunxi, wearing a black shoulder bag and dark sunglasses, made his way through the crowded corridor to the lobby of Qingshan Station.

In the bright and clean lobby of the station, several large projection screens are playing a variety discussion program, which happens to be about Li Yun's killing of her employer's family.

In fact, the influence of Li Yun's case is very great, and it has even aroused discussions all over the world. Many experts and scholars are also discussing this matter, and the argument is the coexistence of AI and human beings.

When the systematic thinking of AI people gradually evolves into human thinking, does it mean that there are more new races in the world? Should we accept it and divide the world with it, or should we reject it? In the process of thinking evolution, AI people may have a lot of congenital defects, such as extreme, irritable, and abnormal thinking. In this way, will human's own security problems encounter a crisis?

The case of Li Yun is typical. When she was just produced and bought by Zhang Yunxi's parents, there was no human thinking, only systematic service thinking, but in order to make her show more humane, more emotional, more real, so in her program written a lot of personalized programs, and has sporadic.

So Li Yun has emotions, there is a kind of human consciousness, which only breasted the tragedy.

Zhang Yunxi glanced at the variety show and saw the three scholars arguing and discussing continuously.

As they discussed the details of the tragic death of their parents and sister, it was like throwing salt on Zhang Yunxi's heart.

Who can stand that?

Zhang Yunxi could not help quickening his pace, ready to leave this place quickly.

After going through the automatic exit gate, Zhang Yunxi came to the waiting place outside the station. While he was bored waiting, he happened to see a man in his 30s arguing with a young-looking AI waiter in the peripheral store of "Virtual Eternal World" next to him.

Since the concept of meta-universe was put forward again, after more than ten years of human efforts, Lingjing Group finally launched a trans-era product, the global Internet virtual universe, the Chinese translation of the name - immortal world.

As the immortal world has exploded across the globe, peripheral stores like these have proliferated.

Inside the shop, the middle-aged man in his thirties was dressed in a very sloppy manner, and his hair seemed to have not been groomed for a long time. He looked very greasy. He carried the luggage in his left hand, and waved his right hand to the young man opposite: "Come closer."

"Yes, Sir." The young man folded his hands in front of him and bent his face towards him.

"pa!"

The greasy man swung his right arm and slapped the young man squarely in the face: "Do you discriminate against me because you think I am poor, so you recommend second-hand goods to me? Do I look like a hand-me-down guy? !"

"First of all, Sir, you play very well, and you have great strength in your arms." Flushed, the young man moved two steps to one side and put his face closer to the other. "But I really didn't discriminate against you."

"Fuck you, you look at me with disdain." Greasy man mouth spit quintessence, go up again - slap.

"Sir, you look like a very rich and expensive person. I don't mean to despise you at all. I just recommend the products to you according to your economic strength... " "

"You really are a more civilized snob, I will kill you!" The greasy middle-aged man slapped each other's ears more angrily.

"pa pa!"

"... ... ! "

The two men, one willing to fight, the other willing to suffer, a full half minute in the shop.

"Can you call back later, Sir?" The young man's hair was disheveled and his cheek was swollen like a bun. "You let me go to rest. Is it okay to have a new face? You'll have a better experience... "

"peng!"

Greasy man leg lift is a stroke of the foot.

"Ah!"

The young man fell to the ground in pain.

Zhang Yunxi saw this scene nearby, and muttered to himself, "My God, what a cruel foot." "Check out! Tired of the greasy middle-aged man, he shouted into the house.

"Sir, you need to pay for 1800MB of traffic compensation and 9950MB of economical used brain computer interface chips." A beautiful shop manager walked out, look at the work number can know that she is not AI.

"Why pay compensation? He just discriminated against me!"

"If you have it physically spayed, of course you will lose money." The beauty clerk pointed to the pressure relief shop next to her with a smile: "If you want to beat someone, we have a special beating AI for you to use, 500MB per minute."

"Damn, bad reviews!" The greasy man swipes his account with his wristwatch phone, turns and walks out, and makes a call: "Wife! I figured it out. You were right. It was my fault. Yes, yes, I will arrive at Qingshan Seminary soon, you forget, I have to enroll today... "

Due to the explosion of the eternal world, a new round of financial reform has been gradually formed. In the virtual world of eternal life, traffic is the only payment currency, so the paper money and network payment currency in the world are gradually phased out. People trust more in the flow currency that will be strong in the next hundreds of years, so the world famous enterprise Lingjing Group, together with the world's major banks, launched the blockchain decentralized currency flow in real life.

"creak!"

A car stopped at the departure gate, the door automatically bounced open, inside the artificial intelligence called: "Sir, I am a highland barley taxi company driver, my name is Fang Fang, I am very happy to serve you."

"Castle Peak Seminary, turn off the temperature control system, thank you." Zhang Yunxi stooped and sat in the car. Looking up, he saw that the greasy middle-aged man was also on the special bus to Qingshan Seminary.

"We're going now, Sir." Fang Fang reminded me, "You can rest. A moment... ..."

The driverless car, carefully following the traffic rules, slowly left the station.

In an office at Castle Peak Theological Seminary.

A look at the very old old man, gently put down just finished reading Zhang Yunxi data, and picked up next to another man named Zhang Yunzhao data, softly murmured: "... I'm really curious... My body... Will it really last long enough for me to solve the truth?"