A person cannot exist in two places at the same time.

This should be a self-evident axiom, just like 11 cannot be equal to 3.

But at this moment, Jiang Zhou broke this axiom - his consciousness was in two bodies, so that he was in two different places at the same time.

"Theseus", who suffered from severe radiation sickness and whose body was half buried in the ground, was imprisoned in the cold deep dive prison of Tartarus; while the Icarus rebel named "Liao Qi" was in Nord

On the second floor of the resettlement area, in a cheap hotel in the Jiangke neighborhood, a street mercenary pointed a gun at his head.

He is using the same consciousness to perceive two completely different scenes and directing the two bodies to react at the same time.

This sounds equally incredible. It has always been difficult to do two things at once. Most people can't even "draw a circle with their left hand and a square with their right hand".

Not to mention controlling two bodies at the same time.

But Jiang Zhou felt that he was at ease, as if he was born with two bodies.

He can control two bodies with the same concentration (the avatar generated by connecting to the deep dive chamber through the brain-computer interface can be regarded as an extension of the original body), and the behaviors between the two will neither interfere with each other nor interfere with each other.

It will make him feel busy - just as natural as a computer processing parallel processes.

Jiang Zhou really couldn't find the right words to describe his feelings at the moment, just like he couldn't explain to a blind man what a rainbow was.

If he had to explain it, for example, vision - the two visual pictures he saw through his two pairs of eyes at the moment were not like the old two-player games, where the pictures were roughly divided into left and right or up and down screens.

I saw two different pictures at the same time in the same field of view.

Just like seeing angels and demons at the same time in Escher's paintings; or maintaining two different views of the Necker Cube at the same time (Note*).

Jiang Zhou knew very well that this was something that completely violated the operating mechanism of the human brain. Or to put it another way, his perception at the moment was simply humiliating the evolution of the primate brain's self-awareness over tens of millions of years.

At least from his perspective as a cognitive science scholar, what he is experiencing now is an even more incredible miracle than traveling through a long time and arriving a hundred years later.

As for the source of this miracle, its identity was revealed to him at this moment - as he sensed the body of "Liao Qi", an extremely familiar symbol appeared in front of Jiang Zhou's eyes.

It was an ancient image of a two-faced god.

One face looks backward toward the past, and the other face looks forward toward the future.

Jiang Zhou is very familiar with this pattern, or he will never forget this pattern in his life - it was the logo of the Janus project that he was responsible for a hundred years ago!

At the same time, a line of text prompts appeared in his sight together with the icon:

[The Janus system has been activated and new controllable elements have been launched]

Controllable factors? What do you mean?

Does it refer to the Icarus rebel named Liao Qi?

Jiang Zhou's consciousness looked through Liao Qi's eyes at the street mercenary who was pointing a gun at him and yelling.

Liao Qi's ears were still suffering from severe tinnitus due to the roar of the man who fired the gun before his head, so he couldn't hear clearly what the other person was shouting.

But this is no illusion...

There is no doubt that this newly activated "Janus System" is the super-artificial intelligence that once blew up the entire Internet. The existence that is suspected to be the ascension of his own digital personality has created a new world for his fellow humans who are still in the mortal world.

Origin, what remains.

Although I don’t know what principle the other party uses to achieve it, and I don’t know what the other party’s purpose is...but what the "Janus System" can do is completely clear:

At this moment, my consciousness has transcended the nervous system buried in the body and been projected out, occupying the unlucky young man named "Liao Qi" who was supposed to be shot to death.

In other words, this is equivalent to now having a body that can move freely outside the prison of Tartarus!

Maybe I can use this thing to help myself escape from the prison in Tartarus.

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Maybe I can survive with this thing.

…………

Janus's signs and reminders just flashed past Jiang Zhou's eyes.

But what happened at this moment was far from that simple.

If the employees of the Tartarus Detection Institute had the time to spend several months carefully checking the network fluctuation records of this day, they might be able to find that at a certain moment, an extreme abnormality occurred in the No. 3 deep submersible chamber.

Abnormal data fluctuations in a short period of time - the amount of data transmission at that moment was almost stretched into a straight vertical line.

But because the duration of this fluctuation is so short that it is difficult to say whether it really existed. Therefore, the main control computer of the No. 3 Deep Submersible Chamber just regarded this abnormal situation as a tidal wave in the abyss dark web.

Fluctuations or accidental errors caused by cosmic ray interference were ignored, and were not even independently filed.

On the other hand, after the signs and prompts of the double-faced god Janus disappeared, the No. 3 deep-diving warehouse also successfully pulled Jiang Zhou into the subnet.

Bright green grid lines spread around him, extending to infinity, and then the modeling and materials began to load. After a dizzying change, Jiang Zhou found himself in a field similar to field training.

Camp place.

In front of him was a shooting range large enough to accommodate a battalion of soldiers for training at the same time. Rows and rows of firearms and weapons were placed around it, making it dazzling to see.

Before he could figure out where he was, a familiar and enthusiastic voice came from behind:

"Hey! Brother native, you are really here! I thought those corporate dogs would trap you!"

Jiang Zhou turned around, and Black Falcon-136, whose eyes were still covered with "bottle caps", patted his shoulder enthusiastically.

Behind him stood Chinatsu Sakura and two other Icarus members who had been sleeping in the carriage. Each of them was fully armed, wearing red and black carapace armor.

"Brother 136, is this the Abyss Dark Web?"

Jiang Zhou asked curiously.

Through the common sense that "Liao Qi" knew, Jiang Zhou had a general impression of the Abyss Dark Web - a weird and twisted cyberspace like a nightmare, with dangers lurking in every corner, and countless dangerous malicious programs wandering in it.

, if you are not careful, you will be in catastrophe.

But at this moment, they all looked relaxed.

"Abyss Dark Web? Of course not. No matter how crazy those corporate dogs are, they can't just kick us into that abyss when we are completely untrained... This is a training ground."

Hearing Jiang Zhou's question, 136 shook his head and answered.

"Training Course?"

Jiang Zhou looked around - not just the shooting range, but all the tactical training facilities he could imagine and couldn't imagine were around them. And they were all "compressed" in a non-Euclidean form.

"It's within sight. It makes people feel that the real space here is far wider than what can be seen."

If this is a training ground, there is really nothing wrong with it.

136 continued to explain:

"Company Dog gave us twenty-four hours of training time to master the basic skills required for deep-diving salvage. It also opened a lot of military-grade 'tactical memory' to us. It was said to be used to improve the next level.

The survival rate of diving into the abyss of the dark web to salvage technology... I’m afraid we don’t go crazy fast enough.”

At this time, Qianxia Sakura on the side came over and took over 136's words:

"Actually, this is the area between the subnet and the abyss darknet. The industry generally calls this place 'Limbo'. We will complete the final adaptability training before going to hell here."

For some reason, Jiang Zhou felt that the other party was a little wary of him.

Sure enough, did your previous behavior still arouse the other party's distrust?

Jiang Zhou thought helplessly.

On the other hand, because I had previously read through the memories of Liao Qi, who was also a member of the "Icarus Liberation Front", I had a rough understanding of the personalities of Black Falcon-136, Qianxia Sakura, and the other two members of the rebel army - at least

They were the people Liao Qi knew during his lifetime. Now, Jiang Zhou has actually let down a lot of his wariness towards them.

In this era where super-corporations are as high as gods and control everyone's destiny. No matter what the reasons are, these people dare to fight against those super-corporations, which can be called tragic. This alone makes it difficult not to respect him.

Already.

Therefore, he continued to maintain his previous amnesia personality, and conclusively confirmed:

"In other words, after we train here for twenty-four hours, we will leave Limbo and dive into the abyss and dark web to mine?"

Qianxia Ying nodded first, then shook her head:

"For you, it is twelve hours. The time when you installed the brain-computer interface. We have already conducted twelve hours of training, and those corporate dogs will not wait for you. You only have twelve hours

You’ve trained, so hurry up.”

In twelve hours, he might not even be able to learn how to hold a gun.

But fortunately, the other party didn't really ask him to learn target shooting from scratch.

"Hurry up and absorb a few pieces of 'tactical memory', there is still time."

136 said with a somewhat anxious expression.

"What is a 'tactical memory'?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

Although he had gained a considerable degree of common sense by searching Liao Qi's memory, he understood that "tactical memory" is a "real-time experience" that allows elite soldiers to learn coping skills in a very short time when encountering emergencies on the battlefield.

"Book", but he still pretended to be ignorant as if he didn't know anything.

In response to this, Qianxia Sakura replied without changing her expression:
To be continued...