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He had always been puzzled about how a game designer like Pu Yunchuan could be involved in such a world-changing project. Now it seemed... If this scene was a memory, then it was very likely that Pu Yunchuan became an important figure in the project because of the success of this experiment.

Thinking of this, he asked in a low voice, "There are some details I’ve forgotten. I’m curious, if the experiment succeeded and I became a data lifeform, wouldn’t they be afraid I’d cause some sort of chaos?"

"Chaos? What do you mean?" Chen Qing was taken aback.

"Like... um... I mean, like in the movies, I suddenly become an entity that can control the entire digital world, like the Mother Intelligence in those science fiction movies, controlling all networks and possessing the power to overturn the world..."

"Uh..." Chen Qing was initially dumbfounded, then couldn’t help but start to laugh. His big brother was indeed a game designer with quite a second-rate kind of thinking...

"How could that possibly..." Chen Qing held back the urge to laugh out loud, shook his head, and said, "To maintain the memories of the data life, the simulated environment is made as simple as possible to prevent corrupting the memory data.

And you still want to control the vast amount of network data? Do you realize how big that gap is?"

Pu Yunchuan was also a programmer, naturally aware that the data size of a game, once compressed into a client version, would be just a couple of TB.

But the massive amount of data out there was like the difference between a drop of water and the ocean.

Even surviving a data deluge in the game environment was not guaranteed, let alone controlling the entire network data. It indeed sounded a bit far-fetched.

"What if... it could evolve?" Pu Yunchuan said faintly.

"Evolve?" Chen Qing was startled. He initially wanted to treat it as a joke, but the seriousness in the other person’s eyes made him feel somewhat awkward, forcing him to consider the question.

Honestly, the other person’s ideas were quite second-rate, talking about evolution, but upon further thought... it wasn’t entirely impossible.

After all, the initial artificial intelligence models evolved by entering vast amounts of data and running calculations. That could be considered a form of evolution, right?

"Why do you think human memory can’t withstand the impact of large data?" he asked.

"Ah?" Chen Qing was taken aback. "What other reason could there be? The neural memory of the human body has inertia. Even if it’s entered into a system and detached from the nerves, that inertia can’t be changed.

Many methods have been tried to no avail.

Hence, current research on data lifeforms chooses to change the data environment, attempting to let the data test bodies experiment in simple and familiar settings. .."

"What if it adapts?" Pu Yunchuan retorted. "What if human memory adapts in the data? What if it becomes capable of accommodating more data?"

"How could that be possible?" Chen Qing reflexively objected.

"Why not possible?" Pu Yunchuan pressed on. "According to human physiology, repeated exposure often leads to tolerance. The data world is different from the real world. Many things aren’t the same, but many are. Let me give you an example..."

"Like... I mean just suppose, huh, that my experimental environment was inside a game, right?"

"Um..." Chen Qing nodded, patiently listening to the other party.

"Then in the game, could I have a completely new identity? For example... a player?"

"Uh?" Chen Qing was puzzled for a moment, struggling before replying, "As a simulated environment, being a player in the game world is naturally normal."

"Then... if the game is too realistic, and the player lives in it for a long enough time, like... ten years, a hundred years, ten thousand years..."

"Wait... wait..." Chen Qing quickly waved his hands. "What are you trying to say?"

"I’m saying, isn’t the reason human consciousness can’t control large-scale data simply due to human inertia, because of the innate limitations of humans themselves, making their memory subconsciously think it’s unachievable?

So under a barrage of data, this inertial memory breaks down and collapses, right? "

"Yes... I suppose..." Chen Qing swallowed hard, vaguely guessing what the other person was getting at.

"So how do you change this inertia?" Pu Yunchuan asked sharply. "Isn’t the best way to simulate a life once more? The more realistic and lifelike the life, the more it can reshape the memory’s inertia, right?"

"Even if you start over... human memory inertia wouldn’t increase by much.

.." Chen Qing stuttered, "Even if, in the design, you were born a genius, your brain’s memory would at most be a few times stronger than a normal person’s.

This kind of inertia couldn’t support you doing anything too extreme, right? "

"What if it’s a mythical world?"

"Uh...."

"Just like the game I designed." Pu Yunchuan said seriously: "Humans can become stronger, progressing step by step until they can move mountains and overturn seas. At that point, what would human memory inertia be like?"

Chen Qing: "....."

He had never considered this notion before; it was insanely... like a setup from a science-fiction novel, right?

Can such things even be realized?

"It’s impossible..." Chen Qing shook his head hastily: "Such things can’t be realized. Memories will subconsciously believe it’s fake, and won’t accept such a setup. Memory inertia as well..."

"What if it’s sufficiently realistic?"

Chen Qing: "....."

Sufficiently realistic?

"A game that’s sufficiently realistic, with a world view that’s sufficiently convincing, where people can completely immerse themselves, unconsciously beginning to believe in the logic within, and then gradually.

... start to believe in the powers they’ve obtained in that world.

When they come to see themselves as High-Level Life forms, would memory inertia still constrain data life forms? "

"This... this..... this...." In that minute, Chen Qing felt his worldview shattering.

He wanted to argue back, but for some reason, he just couldn’t find the words to do so.

Because deep down, a voice was telling him that this possibility... could actually exist!!

At this point, Pu Yunchuan, looking at the flustered Chen Qing, stopped pressing him and fell into contemplation.

Perhaps... the origin of everything is just as he had envisioned!

Why, out of so many games in Digital City, are there only a few that can evolve into worlds for data life forms?

The reason is simple: those few games are excellent, and also realistic enough to engross people. They aren’t like most fast-food games on the market, where you can tell it’s fake the moment you enter, with sloppily crafted AI NPCs.

Chen Qing remembered that back then, only a very few blockbuster games on the market were willing to spend a lot of money to make all NPCs in the world view intelligent, because the cost was prohibitive, requiring massive computations.

Such intelligent games demand high-performance servers, an extensive database, and even computational power, conservatively requiring a high-level supercomputer.

The more intelligent and realistic it gets, the higher the costs.

Even after he left that company, the game he designed still topped the sales chart in the ensuing years. Despite various harebrained schemes by the planners and relentless player complaints, its status remained unchanged because there were too few such costly and excellent games available.

So, if this situation hadn’t changed in the decades after his death, it would make sense.

After all, the world plunged into chaos less than fifty years after his death, and high-cost entertainment developments like online intelligent games would have stopped directly. A lot of resources would have been allocated to military and survival, with the entertainment industry coming to a halt.

And the chaos continued into the era of data life entities, during which the entertainment industry might have been discontinued for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Gradually, data life entities discovered they could achieve longer lifespans and abilities in a few game worlds, which kicked off the Parallel World era and saw those ancient entertainment games being brought back.

But probably only those who first designed this prototype of data life knew why data life entities turned out the way they did later...

So, that’s how it is!

Pu Yunchuan suddenly understood everything; Pu Yunchuan was the origin of it all, as he was the first data life entity to enter the Demonic World!!!