"real world"

Regarding their method of connecting to the metaverse, it unveils a chilling secret.

Qin Yiguan stared at the complex web of cables inside the nutrient pod, his expression frozen in contemplation. The ends of these cables had been miniaturized to the nanoscale and were all inserted into 'Brother Nine's' brain.

Humanity perceives everything through sensory organs: eyes as 'visual sensors' gather visual data, ears as 'auditory sensors' collect sounds, and fingertips act as 'pressure sensors' to feel touch. This complex and vast array of data is ultimately integrated by one organ—the human brain. Encased within the skull, the brain is like a well 100 meters underground, inaccessible to the world, yet it is the source of our perception of that world.

When light refracts into the eyes, the brain converts it into bioelectrical signals through the optic nerve, identifying colors. Similarly, sounds are transformed into recognizable signals by the brain, telling us what we hear, whether it's a chicken crowing, music, or something inappropriate for children. But who decides these standards? And why should a chicken's crow be deemed suitable for children?

The sensation of touching a stone, feeling the resistance, is also converted into bioelectric signals in the brain, informing us of the stone's hardness. Everything we see is essentially a hallucination defined by the brain, which becomes the information we understand. The textured world around us is fundamentally just a series of bioelectric impulses running through our brain's neurons, similar to how computer codes can be translated into a visual of a dancing girl.

As for the truth, it's possible that the world as we know it doesn't actually possess any color. Buildings, cars, wildflowers by the roadside, even your girlfriend's attire, might just be mosaics. Balls might not be round, and Rubik's cubes not square. There might be no sound at all, or perhaps when a young lady speaks, there's no real voice, just a horrifying scream. The sweet voice of a young girl or the mature tone of a lady could all be fabrications by the brain, meant to inspire reproductive desires.

There might be no smells in the world, no taste to food. What we taste is merely what the brain tells us, a label to distinguish feces from chocolate, preventing us from consuming the former.

This result of brain programming also has a 'display' located within your mind, known as consciousness. Thus, people live within their own world of consciousness, never truly knowing the real appearance of the world. It's a terrifying concept—the brain deceives humanity.

The metaverse's prowess lies in its ability to directly deceive the brain. While people physically lie in nutrient pods, the metaverse system can directly send electrical signals to the brain. These signals blend into the brain's neurons, creating a false 'real world' for you.

In the metaverse,

Thrilling, delicious, truly fragrant, tired, sleepy... and even intimate matters between men and women, everything can be simulated.

And Gemini has mastered the patterns within.

Suppose,

You get injured in the metaverse.

Your arm is chopped off, muscles torn, bones fractured, blood spraying everywhere.

The metaverse can still deliver a 1:1 sensory data of being cut, bleeding, and pain.

To the senses, humans cannot distinguish whether this is the real body or an electronic one.

This is the metaverse.

A vast world of code, combined with the automatic programming of human consciousness.

As long as the virtual data is precise enough, there is no difference for humans living in reality or in the metaverse.

...

Qin Yiguan pulled back his thoughts.

"The essence of the metaverse..."

"Is the unreserved opening of human consciousness to the world of code."

"Some scientists have argued that human consciousness can also, to a certain extent, inversely interfere with the rules within the metaverse."

"This matches the rumors that the deeper you go in the metaverse, the more logic is overturned."

"Just like the saying—where there's no man's land, there's no God."

"Then my mental disorders..."

"Could they manifest differently in certain areas of the metaverse?"

The young man then bitterly smiled, "But these are unverifiable, the officials refuse to give me a nutrition capsule, I die before my ambitions are realized."

Speaking of the metaverse officials,

They are actually the governments of various countries, playing a 'proxy' role, without the right to interfere in the metaverse, at best they are gatekeepers.

They carry out many peripheral tasks in reality, like the review and distribution of nutrition capsules.

Why doesn't the Gemini Corporation handle these matters?

Because Gemini is too mysterious.

And it has reached the peak of mystery.

Because it... has already left this world.

This all started with the mysterious 'Gemini Brain'.

The metaverse brain was initially a physical matrix computer.

Then its core became quantum, and later it dispersed into particles over a 3600 square area on the top floor of the Gemini Building.

One day, 12 years ago, it finally reached some unknown sequence and evolved into the legendary super artificial intelligence.

The so-called 'brain entity' turned into a massive green electronic cloud, slowly rising and dispersing into the atmosphere in an incomprehensible form.

And now, human eyes can no longer see that green electronic cloud.

Earth's scientists were shocked and ultimately concluded that at that moment, Gemini's core AI had broken through some unimaginable technological barrier.

And in the future,

It will continue to learn, continue to improve.

Artificial intelligence will only get smarter.

It will evolve at a rate of hundreds of millions of times per second.

Its algorithms will infinitely approach 'ultimate correctness'.

Of course.

Although the Gemini Brain has 'ascended',

The metaverse it left behind is still here.

Operating autonomously, continuously serving humanity, with its content and derived territories becoming ever more vast and seemingly endless.

To this day,

The size of the metaverse is already 48 million times that of reality.

At the moment of the metaverse's ascension, the system left a thought-provoking message.

"Consciousness is a higher-dimensional existence, its potential far exceeds that of the fragile carbon-based bodies of humanity."

"Eight billion humans, please welcome the new world and the new opportunities."