prynovel Chapter 4056: Consciousness Uploading
Chapter 4056: Consciousness Uploading
Chapter 4056: Consciousness Uploading
"But this is just my speculation. I can't be sure whether there is a new map with higher difficulty." Angel paused and said slowly: "Maybe the theme of this dungeon is an intelligence competition, and the square mirror is just a screen for questions."
Angel's words were not meant to create doubt, he really didn't know whether there was a new map or not.
When he used the box garden perspective to investigate the dungeon, he did not find any other maps except the cave.
If past experience were the norm, Angel would most likely think that there would be no new map.
but……
Who made the power of Wonderland become more and more extravagant recently?
Special spaces like the hidden waters of the modern city and the white town in the oil painting space could not be discovered by Ingres even if he turned on the God's perspective before they were connected to the main copy.
Therefore, he is not sure that the window copy only has the cave map.
But he was not sure if there were other secret maps.
That’s why his words are so conservative.
The giant city spirit pondered for a moment, and then discussed with Yota in a low voice for a while, and said to Angel: "Whether there is a new map or not, we trust Mr. Huici's judgment more."
"Since Mr. Huici has shown resistance to this copy, we have decided to make multiple considerations in the selection of candidates."
Like before, they might think that this copy is only F-level, so they bet everything on technical talents.
But now, after discussion between Giant City Spirit and Yota, they decided to add a certain amount of combat talents.
However, they have not yet determined how many to join, and the Giant City Spirit hopes to hear Angel's opinion first.
"My opinion?" Angel did not speak immediately, but turned his head to look at the line of words on the crystal slate.
He suffered a great deal in order to look up the literal translation of this line of text.
I almost flipped over while retrieving it.
Fortunately, when his mind was withdrawn from the sea of power, he used his remaining consciousness to retrieve this sentence.
In his own words: I have already suffered from the deep dive, so I must not return empty-handed.
Therefore, even though his mind was swaying like duckweed in the flood of information at that time, he finally relied on his willpower to find out the meaning of the unknown text on the stone slab when he escaped from the deep sea.
"Offering blood and flesh is the cheapest way..."
Ingres looked at the words on the slate and muttered softly.
The giant city spirit didn't understand what Angel meant at first. Angel paused, pointed at the stone slab and said, "This is what the text means."
After saying this, Ingres repeated it again.
"Offering flesh and blood is the cheapest way, uploading consciousness is the ultimate way. -Olobas."
After listening to Angel's recitation, the giant city spirit and Yota looked at each other in bewilderment: "I can understand the offering of flesh and blood, but what does 'consciousness uploading' mean? I don't quite understand what this sentence means."
Angel shrugged: "I don't know the true meaning of this sentence, I can only be sure that my translation should be correct."
Jucheng Ling thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps this sentence contains some secrets of the window copy? If so, it is normal that we do not understand it now."
After all, the window copy has not yet been officially opened.
"In any case, thank you Mr. Angel for your help in translation." The giant city spirit performed a ladylike courtesy to Angel to express her gratitude.
Angel nodded indifferently, then stepped aside and left the final decision to the giant city spirit.
Who to send in now depends on the discussion between Giant City Spirit and Yota.
While waiting for their decision, Angel was still pondering the words on the slate in his mind.
According to the translation, this sentence should come from "Olobas", but who this person is is still unknown. Maybe it's just a quote from a famous person, or maybe this Olobas is the NPC who will appear in the dungeon?
However, these are not important for now.
What is important is the meaning of the sentence itself.
In Angel's impression, "Blood Offering" is usually associated with "ritual". And it just so happens that the condition for opening this copy is "Ten Thousand People Ritual".
Therefore, Ingres guessed that this sentence was most likely closely related to the ceremony.
The offering of flesh and blood is a ritual. According to the meaning of the words and the antithesis of the sentences, the "consciousness uploading" in the following text should also be a ritual.
However, in Orobasi's judgment, offering blood and flesh is a very low-level ritual, while uploading consciousness is a high-level ritual.
The focus of this sentence is undoubtedly the second half of the sentence, "consciousness uploading."
If he only talked about "consciousness uploading", he would think of Dream Crystal. Isn't the process of everyone going online similar to "consciousness uploading"?
However, Angel was very sure that the "consciousness upload" in this sentence should have nothing to do with the "Dream Crystal Original Online".
Because "consciousness uploading" is a ritual, but going online is not a ritual.
So, what exactly is this ceremony?
Uploading consciousness... Uploading consciousness...
Angel muttered in his mind, not knowing why. This was the first time he had heard of the ritual of "consciousness uploading", but he felt it was somehow familiar.
But when I really want to look for it, I don’t know why this sense of familiarity arises.
While Angel was constantly recalling his memories, trying to find clues, on the other side, the discussion between the Giant City Spirit and Yota had ended, and they had already begun to discuss with the challengers present.
After a while, when the giant city spirit returned, Angel whispered, "Any results?"
Jucheng Ling nodded: "Sir, your translation is of guiding significance to the choice I made..."
“Although I don’t understand the deep meaning of that sentence, but judging from the literal meaning, it doesn’t feel so peaceful.”
Offerings of flesh and blood, uploading of consciousness, it sounds a bit weird.
Combined with Huici's previous resistance to this copy, Giant City Spirit and Yota discussed and unanimously decided to send more combat personnel.
Among the eight people who went to the window copy this time, four were combatants, and the remaining four were technical talents, and they were also combat-oriented technical talents.
For example, the gunpowder maniac Keleda, the trap master Yueyinta...
In short, all eight of them are related to combat.
From this we can see that the giant city spirit is also betting on Huici's netherworld sense...but even if it loses the bet in the end, it shouldn't be a big problem.
After all, there is a strongest prophet named Tunita in the copy.
If it is really a test of wisdom, Tunita alone should be able to replace an entire think tank.
In short, after the decision was made, the eight challengers who were selected slowly walked out of the crowd.
"There are still ten minutes left in the countdown to pulling in people. Are you sure you won't change people?" Angel looked at the giant city spirit.
Jucheng Ling nodded: "That's them."
Angel made way: "Then come over. As long as you get close to the stone slab, you will be pulled into the copy."
After Angel finished speaking, the atmosphere became slightly tense, but the eight challengers were very calm, and even had excitement in their eyes.
They came over one after another.
Just as they approached the stone slab, a dazzling light came down.
When the halo dissipated, the eight challengers on the field had disappeared.
Angel looked back at everyone and said, "Don't get close yet. I'll use a special tool to sense the changes in the copy's information again."
As he spoke, under the gaze of everyone, Angel came to the stone slab.
However, Angel did not trigger any strong light and successfully touched the surface of the crystal.
Then, Angel slowly closed his eyes, and the perspective of the box garden appeared before his eyes.
At this time, inside the cave.
With the arrival of eight challengers, the original sixteen people gathered around and asked about the situation outside.
Although they had previously learned from the two guards who had gone offline and then online that the outside world was "selecting people for battle", the fact that the preparers actually entered the dungeon still aroused their curiosity.
The eight challengers introduced themselves one by one and told them about the situation in the outside world, such as Gray Porcelain's danger perception, Angel's text translation, and the interpretation of the giant city spirit.
When everyone heard that there might be unknown dangers in the copy, they all looked a little uneasy.
But soon, they cheered up again.
Originally, many of them had died once, and now they were reborn. Even if they fell into hibernation again because of this copy, it was actually not a loss.
Moreover, everyone present is at the top of their respective fields, otherwise how could they become "elders".
As elders, they are confident that they can solve any problem through their own knowledge and means.
What's more, there is a backbone among the challengers this time: the Prophet Tunita.
Thinking of this, everyone's mood gradually calmed down.
"By the way, after you came in, there were already 24 people in the dungeon. Logically, the conditions for opening the dungeon have been met, so why is the square mirror in the middle still covered by the dome?" Bonita asked in confusion, glancing at the text column: "The information in the text column has not been updated, and there is still no mission information."
"Are twenty-four people not enough?"
When Bonita was puzzled, footsteps suddenly sounded from behind everyone.
Looking back, I saw a thin figure slowly withdrawing from the crowd and sitting on the stone bed in the outer circle.
And this person is Tunita.
After seeing Tunita's actions, Bonita seemed to realize something: "There are twenty-four stone beds in the field, corresponding to the twenty-four of us. This should be a hint that we must lie on the stone beds to trigger the real copy!"
While Bonita was still speculating, she found that everyone had already lay down, and only she and the guard behind her were still standing in the middle.
"Yes, this reasoning is very simple..." Bonita muttered to herself, and ordered the two guards to find a bed each. She also found an empty stone bed and lay down on it.
Originally Bonita wanted to sit down, but considering that the copy gave her a "bed" instead of a "sofa", it was likely that she should lie down here.
"When everyone enters the new map later, let's gather together and listen to me... listen to the orders of Prophet Tunita." Bonida said as she lay on the bed.
This time, everyone responded.
Although Bonita is the current prophet's secretary and is definitely talented, everyone present trusts the ability of Prophet Tunita more than Bonita.
Tunita also said "hmm" lightly, and then said: "Lie down first and see what happens next."
Soon, everyone was lying on the stone bed.
Just at this moment, everyone suddenly heard whispers, as if they were standing outside the window of a house, listening carefully to the whispered conversation coming from inside the house.
But the conversation inside the house was too subtle for them to hear clearly. The more they couldn't hear clearly, the more they calmed down and listened carefully.
As their moods calmed, the rustling sound gradually grew louder, as if the person inside was slowly walking towards the "window".
With a click.
The "window" was pushed open by the people inside.
At this moment, everyone felt their body and mind suddenly become light, the foul air dissipated, and only the feeling of freedom and pleasure of being free from the cage remained.
Just when everyone was immersed in this "lightness", Tunita's slightly hoarse voice reached their ears.
"It's like we're...out of our bodies."
Tunita's voice instantly brought everyone back to their senses.
When they opened their eyes, they found that they were no longer on the stone bed, but inside the "circle".
Looking back, they could still see their bodies sleeping with eyes closed on the stone bed. And now, they were really in the state of floating souls!
So, the whispering just now was forcing their souls to leave their bodies? !
"Oh no, we can't get out!" someone said at this time.
Following the sound, the man seemed to want to leave the "circle", return to the stone bed outside the "circle", and return to his body. However, no matter what he did, he could not leave the "circle".
Seeing this, everyone was shocked and tried one after another. As expected, no one could return to the stone bed outside.
There seemed to be an invisible energy shield around the "circle", blocking their way back.
"Don't waste your energy. The soul-out-of-body state should be the mechanism of this dungeon." Tunita's voice came slowly: "Only when the soul-out-of-body state can you enter the next stage of the dungeon."
"Also, didn't you notice that the square mirror at the center of the circle is already open to us?"
Everyone heard the sound and looked towards the center of the circle.
Previously, there was an obvious dome outside the center of the circle, and light would be distorted when passing through the dome.
But at this moment, the dome at the center of the circle has disappeared, and the square mirror suspended at the center of the circle is now glowing.
In the halo, a row of words appeared on the mirror.
"A special dream "window" is about to open."
"Current number of participants: 24."
"Mission Objective 1: Use any means to survive. The longer the better. The maximum survival time is thirty days. 0/30"
"Mission Objective 2: Find and touch the window of consciousness."
"Note 1: Completing either of the two tasks will count as clearing the game. Completing the second task will count as a perfect clear."
"Note 2: Please remember the information of the current task. After entering the "window", the text bar will be temporarily closed and will no longer display any information, nor will it trigger any tasks. Only after returning to the body will it be reopened and the final task settlement will be carried out."
"Note 3: If you die in the "window" or are marked as an alien, half of your soul power will be consumed immediately, and you will be forced to leave the "window" and return to your body. At the same time, it will be considered a mission failure and you will not be allowed to enter the "window" again."
"Note 4: Mission objective 2 may cause the soul to dissipate permanently. If you are not sure, please make your decision carefully."