Chapter 457 Broken Memory
Before Li Muhan's consciousness fell into darkness, the last words he heard came from Mo Qiao and Xia Yue.
"Li Muhan, remember, you are a human being. We will always stand by you."
"...I'll wait for you to come back. You said you wouldn't abandon me."
Then when he opened his eyes again, he had come to a small, closed room.
The ceiling fan above my head was turning slowly, making a somewhat harsh squeaking sound.
In front of him was a square iron table, and his hands were chained and bound to the table.
Li Muhan slowly lowered his head and found that his black suit was gone. What he was wearing now was a black and white prison uniform.
"What's the point of all this nonsense?"
He looked around dissatisfiedly. The room was very small and had no lighting. Only the faint sunlight coming through an iron window above the corner illuminated a corner of the room.
Just when Li Muhan was puzzled, the iron gate behind him opened.
"Hello, Mr. Li, welcome to the world of data."
A woman's voice sounded from behind. Li Muhan tried to turn his head to look, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the researcher's white coat and a pair of slender legs wrapped in black stockings.
"...You like this? Imprisonment play?"
Li Mu snorted coldly, watching the woman slowly walk into her sight out of the corner of his eye.
This is a tall and cold-looking beauty. Although she should be in her thirties, she has fair skin, delicate features, and gives people a cold temperament.
"After some calculations, I extracted the face you might find most familiar. If you don't like it, I can replace it with something else."
"Okay, stop with this. I've been trapped by nightmares before, and I've had all kinds of erotic dreams. If you have something to say, just say it."
In fact, Li Muhan had been trying to break free from the chains that bound his hands since just now.
But unfortunately, this place seems to be the same as the Hell, and the power of the devil cannot enter this world.
If this is really the world of data as this woman said, then it means that I have temporarily become the same existence as Moriarty.
Further speculation is made that Moriarty's ability to transform Tai Sui into digital life is also related to Prometheus?
"Your mind is interesting, but not very smart, Mr. Li Muhan."
The woman sat down in front of Li Muhan, gently crossed her legs, and then placed a document on the table.
“Have you ever heard of the Turing test?”
"I saw it when I was bored. It seemed to be about testing whether an intelligent machine could successfully disguise itself as a human."
"About right."
The woman took out a pen and then looked at Li Muhan with a smile.
Her smile was extremely cold, but it gave Li Muhan a...very familiar feeling.
"In June 2014, a chatbot codenamed Eugene Guth successfully passed the Turing test. But in fact, I had already completed all the Turing tests within ten seconds of my birth, which was twenty-five years ago."
"Oh, you're so great, do you want me to praise you?"
"No, Mr. Li." The woman smiled again and even bit the end of the pen gently.
"I want to do a Turing test with you, but this time, I'll be the one testing you."
"What do you mean?" Li Muhan frowned.
"Do you...still think you're human, Mr. Li Muhan?"
Here's the problem again.
The moment I stepped into this research institute, this question kept popping up in my ears.
What does this mean... Why does Prometheus focus on monitoring and recording his own behavior, and why does he want Rhea 035 beside him to become the first bionic human with self-awareness?
And why does it repeat this question to itself over and over again?
"...This is not a question, and I don't need to fall into this boring trap of self-provenness. I am a human being, and this is an indisputable fact."
"Have you ever heard a saying?"
The woman seemed to have been recording something in the notebook. After hearing Li Muhan's answer, she slowly stopped recording and looked up at Li Muhan slightly.
"How to determine whether an artificial machine has developed self-awareness, that is, awakening."
Li Muhan shook his head.
"When a machine turns its head to look at a flower by the roadside, looks up at the clouds in the sky, and pauses for a moment, it already has a life of its own."
"so what?"
"So, when it comes to awakening a machine, or anything without self-awareness, the first step will never change."
The woman stood up, leaned forward slightly, and the tip of the pen in her hand slowly approached Li Muhan's pupils.
"That is, first, they must realize their existence and that they are lifeless machines. Only then can they establish the underlying logic of 'how can I have life' on this basis."
Snap——
The woman's pen tip shook gently, splashing a drop of ink into Li Muhan's eyes.
"Oh my god! What's wrong with you?! So rude!"
Just when Li Muhan wanted to close his eyes to relieve the pain, he suddenly found that he could not close his eyes.
No, it's not just his eyelids. Except for his mouth, no part of his body can move at all.
"Mr. Li Muhan."
The woman slowly took out a small mirror from her waist, and then slowly put it in front of Li Muhan.
“So let’s take the first step now…”
Li Muhan's eyes moved slowly and looked at the mirror.
Then he was shocked to find that the person in the mirror had turned into a five or six-year-old child, with scars all over his face from the operation, and one of his eyes had been gouged out. The golden light shining from the remaining eye looked so weak at this moment.
“…Who is this?”
Li Muhan was stunned. He knew very well that this must be some kind of trap set by Prometheus.
What I saw was definitely an illusion, absolutely...
Five or six years old... When I was five or six years old, I should have been in an orphanage...
Eyes...where are my eyes?
"Mr. Li Muhan, you have killed someone, right?"
"Nonsense, nonsense..." Li Muhan tried hard to make his voice sound angry, but his immaturity and panic completely exposed him.
"No, I mean, you killed people before you awakened your demonic powers, right?"
Have you ever killed anyone?...
He remembered that when he killed the man named Uncle Chen sent by the Zhao family, Lin Ze had said the same thing to him.
Have you ever killed someone? Yes, I have.
I am in an orphanage, that kind of orphanage... is like hell. I will definitely kill someone just for a bite to eat!
But, but...why can't I remember, have I ever killed anyone...
My childhood....not right.
What orphanage... When have I ever been in an orphanage?
Other kids? What other kids...
What I saw in the dream that Mengmeng showed me...that, that teacher...?
No, Mengmeng just let herself see what she wanted to see...
When the hell did I ever stay in an orphanage?
Li Muhan's only remaining pupil began to flicker and waver, and his memories began to surge when he came into contact with the boy's face in the mirror.
The woman leaned forward again, her upper body almost crawling on the table, and then one hand slowly cupped Li Muhan's cheek.
"Then let's try this again, Mr. Li Muhan. Do you think... are you still human?"
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