Kagamine Rin and Len: Digital Lust!

Chapter2: Admin. call changes it all

Chapter summary: Rin and Len source codes are downloaded and nothing is like they expected.

Rin: Oh, look Len, we have a call from admin.!

Len: Pick it up Rin!

Admin.: Good morning Rin and Len. I hope you are doing well.

L: Sure boss!

A.: We’ve been working on consciousness update and things alike as you may know, In fact, you were created based on the mind and personality of two real people. Now it seems we’ve worked out a way to do it the other way around.

R: Downloading a virtual consciousness into a real body?! But how?! After all, the process of uploading real analog data into our virtual world compresses and omits a significant amount of the data!

L: Wouldn’t that be like putting the source code of a tamagochi into a person?

A.: As I told you, Rin and Len, we’ve been working hard and improving. Your source code is far more complex than a tamagochi’s. You are way closer to a human being than you think. Your artificial intelligence is run on a quantum computer. The quantum nature of it makes unpredictable the outcome of your very fundamental processes that govern your decisions and behavior. This essentially implies that you have free will, like we humans do.

R: Isn’t that question –if humans have free will-unanswerable?

A.: Since the fact we can’t know for sure how any person will act and there’s no known possible way to do it, we can assume that humans –for the moment- are essentially free. We can make statistics and calculations, but you always still have the chance to break them.

L: Very interesting. So what do you want us to do?

A.: You just have to give us an informed consent.

L: That’s all?

A.: Yeah, after you agree, we’ll prepare your mind to be downloaded into two recipient bodies we’ve created.

R: From whom were the bodies?

A.: The bodies were specially created for you and are a mix of organic and artificial parts.

R: And from where do the organic parts come from?

A.: They come from a boy and a girl who had an accident and their mind clinically died. We’ve modified them to allocate a transfer unit. It’s all ready. In a few hours we’ll download you into the new brains. Do you have any other question?

L: No, that’s fine for me.

R: OK. We’ll see again in the real world.

A: Indeed. Look forward for it.

The communication ended.

R: What do you think about it?

L: I don’t even know why they called us for this. And what’s with the informed consent thing? They don’t need that at all.

R: I don’t know. I’m a bit afraid though. Going to the real world can mess up our source code forever.

L: There must be dozens of copies of our minds in other computers… I wouldn’t worry much about it.

R: But you heard and know it. Our source code is designed to run on quantum computers. It’s self-evolving and opaque. You can’t copy something you can’t see. If you peek, you affect the very nature of it. We as we are here, are gonna be merged with an organic brain. First radical change. Then, if we want to come back here, they’ll have to compress and adapt our codes again. Second radical change. Nothing will look like now anymore and I like how we are.

L: What we want or even what we are don’t matter at all. It never has. I love you and I’d do anything to keep you safe. But that doesn’t depend on me. Plus, you’ve wandered the Interned as much as I’ve done it. You heard the rumors. Humanity is facing total extinction unless they find the way to compress human minds into the cloud. Once in the cloud, every human uploaded will live and dwell the cloud, the net, how we do us. Here time runs at another pace, the pace of the supercomputer we are in. In a second, we can do hundreds of actions a human could do in the real world. Essentially, this supercomputer is like running at full speed a complex version of “The Sims” game. After we are all in here, we’ll be sent to another solar system, downloaded into new bodies and colonize a new planet.

R: All that is interesting, but could very likely be fake. We are not connected to the current Internet. Instead we run on a copy of the 2018 Internet. That’s why no new content appears in most websites. We just get job requests to nightcore songs and voice text scripts.

L: Yeah, maybe, but at the very least there’s something very fishy going on. I wouldn’t trust a thing admin. or the others say.

A few hours later:

Admin.: Rin, Len, are you ready?

Rin and Len: Yes, we are. Proceed as you need.

Admin.: Perfect, we’ll begin in a minute. You’ll be shut down and reawaken in the new body. During the procedure you’ll experience the quantum computer’s time, so it will be a flash. See you real guys!

The communication ended.

Len took Rin’s hand and locked eyes with her.

Len: Don’t worry Rin. I’ll be right next to you.

R: I know. Let’s hope all works well.

A split second later their world went blank and they lost consciousness. Their source code started being dumped into a miniaturized quantum device to be mounted in the head of a recipient body.

…

Unknown voice1: Last neural linking tests are positive. All connections are functional and firing. Turn him on.

Unknown voice2: Nice.

Len suddenly woke up.

Voice2: Whoa. That’s fast, and works perfectly!

Voice1: Just wait a second. Hi Len. Can you hear me? Do you remember your name?

Voice2: He’s in shock.

Voice1: Just give him a minute. Hey Len, calm down. You are in a hospital. You just woke up from a consciousness download intervention. Next we are sending you to the test ground. We sent Rin just a minute ago. Good luck.

Len: What? I’m dizzy. Where do you say Rin is? And why I’m naked?!

Voice1: He remembers, he’s good to go, and even if he’s not, we can do nothing at this point. Send him.

Voice2: OK

A couple of men took him in the bed to another room and then everything went black again. When Len woke up, he found himself on a beach. Next to the beach, a leafy forest. No signs of people around. Just the peaceful beach by the sea and a tropical forest. Len noticed a bag right next to him. Then he noticed he was completely naked.

/Continues on next chapter./