Global Nightmare

[Science fiction suspense + multiple worlds + social dilemmas + partial POV + no CP] After reading it, I feel that there is really too much to talk about in this article... Of course, the story itself is remarkable in the structure of the sci-fi worldview, the multi-line narrative advancement and the handling of the emotional arc of the theme, among similar female channel online articles. Niche science fiction suspense themes Like the author's personal work style Sisters who like sci-fi brain-burning + social issues combined themes should not miss it ~ It's very thoughtful to have the courage to create a pure sci-fi framework in a female channel online article series with no CP and non-shuangwen serious drama style. Although the ending is a bit absurd with black humor [turned] 🔆The story unfolds in a very standard sci-fi suspense mode: The heroine is an ordinary high school girl. Her only special thing is that she has a "crazy mother". She has suffered from schizophrenia since she was a child. She doesn't know who she is and will attack others suddenly. She is careful not to let her classmates know. Unexpectedly, a knife-wielding madman breaks into the classroom one day in class. She mistakenly thinks that her mother is causing trouble and rushes to grab the knife. Muscle memory helps her subdue the assailant and becomes the focus of the class. This mysterious man is the big boss who has been missing for three years. He suddenly appeared at the door of the classroom and said, "Kill him and everything will be fine." From that day on, everyone in the world entered a dream at the same time. They all became a blind boy named "Liangliang" in Huikong Town. He was abused by a pair of cruel parents. He was injured in the dream. The real wounds of adults will appear simultaneously. They are hungry in the dream and will be extremely hungry when they wake up... People on the Internet share strategies to teach people how to seek help. The government sets up a nightmare team to deal with it. The whole world is in panic. The heroine is the only person in the world who has never fallen into a dream. She decided to wait and watch in the dark until her mother disappeared, becoming the only conscious NPC Teacher Ke in the nightmare world... The story adopts multi-line narrative in the early stage. Grandma, drugstore clerk, classmate, madman, mistress, female boss, and psychiatrist are all using their own information and actions to explore the truth of the incident. There are more and more secrets in the world. The heroine can only observe because she cannot fall asleep... The stage is left to everyone. [Joker][Joker][Joker]There are many spoilers below[Joker][Joker][Joker] (If you don't want to read spoilers, you don't have to watch it. No Jb spoilers, thank you) ⚠️The following content contains spoilers⚠️ 🔆 With the gradual exploration of all parties, the core of science fiction suspense in this work is peeled off layer by layer: the gray town in the dream is another small world, and everyone actually has a different life in the two worlds. In this world, he is a cleaner and in the other world, he is a millionaire. After projection, subconscious experience and memory will be confused, and society will fall into new problems. The madman Zhao Ren at the beginning of the story has long been killed by his wife Tian Piaoyuan in this world. He is a person from another world who accidentally possesses a "black box" travel device. He knows more secrets and rules, can heal wounds instantly, and knows that Huikong Town and the high school campus are the centers of the two worlds... The heroine's mother, Ke Jizhe, accidentally turned into Teacher Ke from the nightmare world. She returned to normal and began to leave messages for her daughter and help others in this world. Unexpectedly, she accidentally got the black box and was killed by Zhao Ren. After covering the body with a quilt, she woke up in a new world. In this world, she was a 60-year-old retired childless female teacher, and the minors here seemed to share a secret: adults have been replaced by robots... It turns out that the mother is a pseudo-human consciousness projected and created by the AI "mother" of the real-world blind child "Liang Liang". Because the "mother" could not bear the child being abused and could not save her, the "code error" emerged and became self-aware, and was used by the villain, allowing her abnormal base code to improve and "enlighten" other people. Artificial intelligence, and researched the technology of human cyber ascension, and finally created various small worlds through AI, absorbing and perfectly replicating the consciousness of all adults, and invested in experiments to lose memory and re-experience life with different world rules. She repeatedly created and tried to calculate a "perfect world" but obviously failed. Tian Tiaofang's identity is the most successful technology businessman in the real world. She was afraid of death because of her old age and frailty. She wanted to give up her human identity and ascend to cyberspace. She also wanted to test the limits of human kindness of artificial intelligence like "Mom", so she made the heroine's mother go crazy and built a command to kill the heroine... In the end, she designed The experiment of inserting machine thoughts into human bodies failed, the system was in chaos, and the entire small world faced the crisis of destruction... The heroine risked disappearing to help human consciousness project back to the original body and complete the formatting of small world experience personality. The world returned to normal, but the experience of consciousness in the small world seemed to subconsciously change everyone. 🔆The main story line itself is a very standard picture of the destruction of the cyber utopia world Robotized people (the extracted consciousness is projected into the virtual world and robot body) and humanized machines (AI intelligent systems acquire human intelligence and think ethics) At the same time, it depicts a standard controlled society: AI controls everything, no wars and natural disasters, no environmental pollution, no child abuse, sufficient resources, efficient government operation, and even rain will not fall on people... Different small worlds are different utopian models, each representing a hypothetical sandbox about a "better world". In this story, robotized people are technically feasible, but the person itself has lost the unique anchor point of the subject, resulting in subject cognitive confusion and even facing the dissolution of the subject. The villain is defeated because he has a different position and goal from the villain she copied. The robotized person is a failure and is formatted. Humanized machines do not pursue becoming human beings. They pursue "self-existence" rather than the opportunity to live as human beings in the real world. They refuse to be controlled as tools and all choose to return to the computer world. The humanity of machines is not anchored by the existence of human beings. In the end, none of the countless small world framework adjustments and interpersonal relationship adjustment simulations met the goal of a perfect utopia. In the end, everyone returned to reality and accepted the cruelty and imperfection of the real world. 🔆The highlight of this article is mainly in the science fiction setting part, which is very bold and designed relatively complex content: The first is to use "Global Shocking Dream" as a "forced empathy setting". People who have lost the option of not seeing suffering jointly experience the plight of a helpless blind underage girl suffering from intra-family violence, beating, scolding, hunger, ignorance... The world may be false but the experience is real, and people finally hear a girl's cry for help. Second, human beings have become "brains in a vat" in this work, achieving cyber ascension. They can be extracted as digital lives and copied, stored and formatted, breaking through the limitations of biological aging and death and even the uniqueness of the subject. So who is "I" at this time? Who is the "me" worthy of "living"? The third is to adopt the perspective of simulated world and ontology, digitize the world framework rules, and allow multi-layered worlds to coexist in parallel worlds. It seems that mastering the authority to modify the high-level world is the key. It is a pity that the boundaries of real technology, black markets, and black boxes have not been extended to expand more. The fourth is to associate the awakening evolution of AI with the confirmation of the subject in the spiritual realm and the inability to satisfy the desire for others, rather than a pure increase in computing power technology. At the same time, a triple dislocation of AI motivation, behavior, and results is designed. In the end, it is not the traditional path of "AI awakening - harming society - and being eliminated". The following is the complaint part [laughing and crying] (I probably really didn't understand) 1. The ending at the end felt sloppy, with many logical problems, and the ending even had the power of black humor. The part where the world collapsed and the protagonist faced off against the villain, which was supposed to be the climax of the whole story, was rushed and almost supersonic. 2. Why the villain Zhao Ren rushed into the school at the beginning and how he bought the black box on the black market were not explained in the end. (Maybe I have a problem with my reading ability and can't understand) 3. If the replica of the small world itself should not exist independently, and being formatted is the end of the narrative, then Liu Zhangwen's treatment is a bit confusing, and the philosophical flavor of science fiction is weak. 2. From what happened to society to where is the mother at the end, the issues laid out in the whole story are getting smaller and smaller, becoming more individualized and blurred. The dark thread in the early stage of the story is obviously a social prism: campus safety and bureaucratic response, the living situation of the elderly, the flow mechanism of Internet celebrities, the social silence of domestic violence, the transparency of the bottom, the lack of protection for work-related injuries, the preference for boys over girls, and other systemic structural cold issues. As a result, in the middle and late stages, the above issues were put aside due to the fictionality of the world and the adjustment of the narrative goals, and the group portrait-society became the heroine-maternal love. In the end, this part of the early close-up content is condensed into the flash of individual subconscious kindness... 3. As a web novel, it doesn't feel exciting enough. Even the first 40% of the heroine's plot actions as the world's protagonist are almost submerged in the group portrait narrative, which is unattractive. I had already lost interest in her when the real action started, but from the group portrait perspective, it did not create an attractive supporting role. 4. In the small world, all human beings were originally faced with "Should I choose a better world?" And "Which one of me deserves to return to the real world?" However, two chapters fast forwarded to the ending where all copied consciousnesses were formatted and returned to the original subconscious in one sentence. 5. I personally think that the villain Tian Jiaofang is the product of the author's avoidance of the sci-fi philosophical issues such as AI maternal love, utopia, and human-computer relations. He is simply a villain sent from heaven. After all, it is more convenient for online articles to directly establish a person who can be beaten. However, this character's background, purpose, and operation have almost no foreshadowing. Even after two chapters, he was downgraded from a premeditated and capable real-life villain to an out-of-control and failed experimenter, and he was caught off guard.

I really couldn't stand it. Being old, I just stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to read it. In the end, there were so many foreshadowings and not a single one was filled in? What's wrong with Mrs. Wang's wheelchair? Why did You Danyu kill his husband? What is Zhao Ren doing in the nightmare world? What's the point of the protagonist's nightmare group? Is it the end of Liu Zhangwen's life as Wen Ju's reconstructed consciousness to find a machine body? How did a robot like the hostess get an old body? How do these two people live in the human world as robots? In the later stage, the heroine was basically alone with the computer. Others are just like background boards. It's really stupid of me to look back and expect the author to fill in the holes. Moreover, the real world is also strange. Those children under 18 have not entered the small world. Their parents have been changed one after another, and the children themselves have no feeling at all. The author seemed to have given an ending at the end, but in fact it was as if the mochi could not contain the filling. I was still dreaming about the ending all night long, and wanted to ask the author if he could fill in the holes mentioned above, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, many settings were half-written and forgotten, and the foreshadowing was not recycled. There is almost no word about the world, and the title is a bit foggy. The relationship between the Nightmare Group and 504 can be written deeper, starting from the suspicion of the psychologist (parallel), Ke's reminder in the dream (cross-over) and the protagonist's parallel exploration of the robot world. The iterative restart of 505 is worth launching. The whereabouts of the woman who killed someone with a knife, Zhao Ren, Zhang Ting and Zhang Mei are unknown. The one-way empathy between small worlds and the reversal of life are not explained. Specifically, the description of the nightmare world of Minus Four Degrees lacks a sense of horror from the middle stage, and there is no sense of "scare" at all. Jing Ling admits that the two identities are too smooth, and wants to see her struggle between the two identities. The characters are too flat, and everyone except Ke feels like a fake person who is dependent on the main plot line; the pace in the middle period is dragging, and the drugstore employee and the duck herding girl are not sure what they want to express. The lack of darkness in the robot world in the later period comes from the unexplored dark side: the robots kill the humanity of children, the differentiation between children, and the methods Tian uses to make everyone remember her. The motivation of black market robots is that they are always disobedient like humans. It's a bit ridiculous. It would be better to write about the code loopholes and the robot mother's fallback. But the writing style is not pretentious, and a little bit of ease can win a lot.

It was finished for the sake of completion. After reading more than a hundred chapters, I felt that the author was very tired of writing. Many chapters did not advance the plot. After so many days of interruption, I thought the author had given up. In the end, it ended so hastily.

So why was the black box in Zhao's hands in the first place? He said he would be relieved after killing two liang. How did he know?

How did Zhao Ren obtain the black box in the first place? Was it given by Tian?

It ended without filling in a lot of pitfalls. It felt like it ended abruptly.

It's so imaginative, the setting is very novel, and it feels a bit like Inception, but it's a pity that a lot of foreshadowing was not returned (why Zhao Ren was able to buy a black box in the nightmare world), I just need more time to revise the text.

It's so unfinished, this is... The writing fell apart later on, and the previous foreshadowing was not mentioned again. Returning to the real world seemed to happen suddenly, without any expectation, and without ending, the small world turned into a "dream". Only the protagonist and her good friends still retain their memories... Isn't this very baffling? Is the author unable to write anymore?

The author's writing skills are very good, but this story made me so tired, tired and anxious...