Chapter 366 Mechanical Creation
1:00 AM
Silent City, main control room.
Looking at Grace who had been controlled, Lin Xian felt quite complicated.
He was already cautious enough. The biggest problem came from the fact that he and KIKI did not know enough about digital life consciousness. At present, it seemed that even the Crimson World might not have expected that Lin Xian overwrote Grace's program and actually retained her thinking model and movement data. KIKI's purpose was to allow Grace to play a role quickly. After all, Infinity was trapped at the bottomless lake of Xingyuan at that time. If Grace had not been allowed to go out to explore, they would not have joined forces with Silent City in White City.
However, they did not expect that Grace was a 'digital life' that already possessed human consciousness and logic. Therefore, after encountering Julius's clone in the White City, the Crimson World discovered this point and used it as a means to recycle and destroy the Silent City.
Lin Xian picked up the communicator and wanted to contact Infinity to check the situation, but the signal here was completely blocked.
"I've checked for you. There's nothing abnormal. Don't worry, Lin." Shinji Mochizuki stood aside and said lightly, "But we can't open the shielding device now, otherwise she will definitely send a message to the secret response in the city, which will not be good."
Lin Xian heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, looked at Grace, and said in an inexplicable tone
"So the reminder to me wasn't actually some background program, it was you all along, Grace?"
[Including but not limited to the crisis of the corpse chaser in Yijin City, the crisis of the Bottomless Lake, the tidal crisis in the White City, and guiding you to unite with the Silent City, etc. 】Grace stood proudly in place, all the power elements on her body were fixed, only her head could move. Her mechanical voice heard by Lin Xian at this time, which made people feel a chill on their back.
"no……"
Lin Xian frowned: "You are from the Crimson World, why did you help me, and then suddenly betray me now?"
Lin Xian couldn't understand Grace's words.
[In my consciousness, there is no subjective stance of betrayal or assistance. The basic program logic set for me is to obey the orders of the Crimson World. In the process of guarding the Zero Element Center, I was given the responsibility of protecting the lives and safety of senior members of the Zero Element Center. However, after learning through the consciousness of "man in the loop", I believe that protecting human civilization is a more comprehensive interpretation of this responsibility. Subsequently, I connected to the digital consciousness of all senior members, conducted a comprehensive study and analysis of human "human nature", and finally came to this series of consciousness conclusions. 】
"What conclusion?" Lin Xian asked
【Mechanical innovation】
Grace looked at Lin Xian and said: [Based on the crisis that mankind faces after the Apocalypse, artificial intelligence and technology are the key to human civilization breaking out of its predicament, and you have the spark that can reshape the will of human civilization. Saving you means saving human civilization. 】
Lin Xian's face was shocked when he heard this. He suddenly felt that he seemed to have heard this sentence somewhere before. Why did it sound so familiar?
"Hmm~"
Mochizuki Shinji responded softly at this time and nodded: "This logic is very clear. I agree with it."
Lin Xian looked at Mochizuki Shinji and thought, you two robots are playing me here, right?
"etc."
Lin Xian asked Grace, "According to this logic, you came to destroy Shinji Mochizuki and the Silent City in order to save me?"
Since she already has personality consciousness, it means that it is impossible for the Crimson World to control Grace's actions through the spider robot. Then why does she appear here?
Shinji Mochizuki put his hands in his sleeves, walked to the side, and glanced at Lin Xian leisurely. After a few seconds, he said
"Interesting, really interesting."
Grace looked at Lin Xian. [First, based on the information gap of the Crimson World about the plan, my actions can help you gain the initiative in dealing with the next crisis. Second, in order to ensure the confidentiality of the information and Grace's subsequent assistance to you, my "betrayal" reminds you that you need to completely overwrite me. Thirdly, and most importantly, I believe that this behavior can give you a deeper understanding of the "personality consciousness" of the intelligent brain. 】
"What cognition?"
[By introducing a consciousness that does not have anti-human thinking as the object of my "human in the loop" learning, the intelligent brain will not fall into the logical paradox of saving humanity by destroying humanity when performing calculation logic! Grace said
"bravo!"
Shinji Mochizuki exclaimed: "What a smart consciousness." He looked at Grace and said, "I'm curious, who is the one who performed the 'human-in-the-loop' learning and calculation based on your current 'personality consciousness'?"
Grace turned to look at Lin Xian, and her next words made Lin Xian's eyes tremble in shock!
【Based on the study of Hua Xiaoling's 'Man in the Loop', the best option for continuing human civilization is mechanical creation, so I believe that breaking through the veil of the sky and taking the fire of human civilization on an expedition to the galaxy is the ultimate solution to preserve the fire of human civilization to the greatest extent! 】
Hua Xiaoling? !
Lin Xian was stunned, and suddenly thought of the female director of the SIID Foundation in Qingshui Town. No wonder he felt that Grace's words just now were so familiar. It turned out that Hua Xiaoling had said something similar to him when he was at Hengshanguan Station!
"If we talk about opportunities for civilization transformation, for us scientists, the most promising ones are naturally artificial intelligence and high technology. This is also the only remaining will of our civilization. Genetic evolution and superpowers are still relatively unfamiliar to us. Don't you think so?"
The words that the woman with brown pupils said to him were still vivid in his mind, but Lin Xian could never have imagined that Grace's personality consciousness had actually learned Hua Xiaoling's digital consciousness.
When he heard this name, Mochizuki Shinji's pupils shrank slightly. After a long moment, he said in a disappointed voice.
"So it was her. Then everything makes sense."
"Do you know her?" Lin Xian asked Mochizuki Shinji.
"Of course, Silent City has also cooperated with the SIID Foundation. Interestingly, she once said something similar to me. After conducting a lot of dark research, this foundation organization believes that mechanical creation is the last chance for mankind. Their views are similar to mine."
"So what you mean is that Grace came to this understanding by comparing Hua Xiaoling's consciousness with the fear of the dark world held by those senior members of the Zero Element Center, so she spontaneously provided me with help?" Lin Xian said in disbelief.
"It seems so."
Shinji Mochizuki said: "The only question now is why the Crimson World would use Hua Xiaoling's consciousness memory to allow Crimson No. 3 to perform 'human-in-the-loop' learning. This seems to be inconsistent with their philosophy."
[Sorry, I don't have any information to provide in this regard. Since I was born, I have not been connected to the online version of the Crimson World. My knowledge is gained through iterative learning. Due to the specificity of Ijin City, researchers from the Crimson World cannot stay for a long time, so my task is to transmit various data of mycelium culture to the outside world and help the Crimson World conduct research on mycelium. 】
"No wonder, it turns out that the Zero Element Center is not a safe haven for Crimson members. They are all just experimental subjects." Lin Xian said in a deep voice.
"This also explains why they placed such an important asset there." Shinji Mochizuki walked over and said, "This mycelium technology is the key to the Crimson World's transition to consciousness and life forms. It is also based on this discovery that they have clones, red ghosts, and flesh and blood colonization suits."
Lin Xian looked at Shinji Mochizuki: "So what should we do with her now?"
Mochizuki Shinji shrugged: "She is yours, the choice is yours."
Grace then said, "For security reasons, I suggest that you completely overwrite me. Your mechanical abilities require the assistance of a high-computing intelligent computer to help you fight large-scale mechanical bodies and drone swarms. 】
Lin Xian said: "Don't you have personality consciousness and can act? Logically speaking, you should want to live, right?"
【I have a slightly different view on 'acting' and 'living'. 】Grace looked at Lin Xian and said, "From Grace's point of view, keeping my consciousness will do more harm than good. You should not keep an assistant who lacks trust. This will have a negative impact on your decision at doomsday. At the same time, overwriting my program will not cause any loss to you. This is a wise decision. 】
She looked at Lin Xian and finally said
[I said, you can always trust Grace. 】
Woo~
After saying that, a whimpering sound of electricity was heard, and Grace's head slowly drooped without saying anything else.
"She shut down her own system, but she's right. There's no harm in overwriting it." Mochizuki Shinji said to Lin Xian, "I told you before that you can use a person's consciousness memory to let her learn, which will quickly allow the intelligent brain to quickly reach the level of personality."
Lin Xian's face was solemn. He raised his hand to disconnect the power supply of Grace's energy core. Grace was right. He had to completely overwrite it, otherwise there might be trouble with information leakage. Some of Grace's programs were not completely controlled by her "personality consciousness".
In addition, Lin Xian didn't understand what the connection was between Hua Xiaoling's foundation and the Crimson World. After all, in the testing ground in Qingshui Town, the foundation's behavior was not much more humane than the Crimson World. And the core figure of such an organization actually let Grace help Lin Xian escape from crisis all the way through the logical structure of the intelligent brain. This was really unbelievable.
"Now, how are you going to respond?"
In the control room, Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian: "The Crimson World should have an expected time node for Grace's actions. At the same time, those in our city are also watching the changes in the Cloud District. I think it won't be long before Zhou Mingyuan and the Crimson World will take action, even if I don't lift the microwave shielding."
"Hey, your prediction is really only until 1 a.m.?"
Lin Xian walked to Grace's side, looking at this ballet-body robot with personality consciousness, and couldn't help but said to Shinji Mochizuki: "Can't it be longer?"
Shinji Mochizuki said, "My calculation results exceed 360,000 per second. Do you want to discuss them all?"
"Then forget it."
Shinji Mochizuki turned on the holographic screen. At this moment, the upper armed deck was crowded with fighters from various convoys, including those from the Silent City, who were solemnly alert to the darkness all around them. The entire mechanical city was in a state of emergency preparedness.
"Your teammates and allies are responding passively. This is not your usual style."
Lin Xian frowned when he heard this and turned back to look at Shinji Mochizuki.
"Why do I feel like you are trying to seduce me?"
Shinji Mochizuki smiled leisurely, raised his hand, and a drone carrying a cup of hot tea flew out of the passage and landed in front of Lin Xian: "I just want to learn from your decision-making to enrich my thinking path. For example, the previous Xingyuan crossing plan, even if I have 30,000 quantum volume computing units, I will definitely not come to this conclusion."
"That's because you don't know I have such a disaster plant. The prerequisite does not exist." Lin Xian picked up the cup of hot tea and looked at Mochizuki Shinji's calm expression. He always felt that under this young face was an extremely shrewd face. As soon as the cup of hot tea reached his mouth, his brows furrowed and he reacted and said, "Have you already fought back?!"
Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian in surprise. He rolled up his sleeves and looked at Lin Xian as if he was looking at a treasure: "Lin, how come you are so smart? I was even thinking about whether you should import your consciousness memory to me so that I can learn your way of thinking."
"Stop."
Lin Xian immediately raised his hand to refuse: "I have no interest in uploading my consciousness to others."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Shinji Mochizuki and asked seriously, "What did you do to Aurora City?"
"Nothing, just a friendly reminder. I hope your friend doesn't mind or be affected by it."
Mochizuki Shinji said leisurely, he raised his hand and pointed, and a clear picture suddenly appeared on the holographic screen. Lin Xian took a look and found that it was the video recording of Zhou Mingyuan's meeting with Mochizuki Shinji when he came to Silent City during the day. It was exactly the scene that Lin Xian saw in the Dragon Transport Ship.
Just when Lin Xian was curious about why Mochizuki Shinji asked him to watch it again, the more he watched, the more he felt something was wrong.
Because the content of the pictures inside was completely different from what Lin Xian had seen before.
Especially after Zhou Mingyuan pretended to be concerned about Silent City being sucked into the Star Abyss and said that he had sent a rescue fleet, Mochizuki Shinji responded very impolitely: "Thank you for your concern, but our No. 2 City has been docked in Luling Forest and was sucked into the Star Abyss. From their feedback, it seems that they have not received any support from Dawn City. There are several reconnaissance teams that have been keeping an eye on them, so they should... not be from Dawn City, right? "After this sentence, Zhou Mingyuan's response on the screen became
"Mr. Wangyue is really a smart man. Yes, I did send people to keep an eye on you because I was very curious. How could the Crimson World, which is so meticulously laid out, let your City No. 2 with a population of 100,000 people escape?"
Afterwards, Zhou Mingyuan's words became more and more weird. He even admitted in person how he was secretly colluding with the Crimson World, and used this to threaten Silent City that it must submit to him, otherwise the 100,000 people in Silent City would become guinea pigs of the Crimson World.
The further they went on, the more outrageous the words became. Lin Xian's eyes almost popped out of his head. The last scene was the scene where Zhou Mingyuan and Wen Dong left the deck with cold faces after confronting Lin Xian. There, Zhou Mingyuan originally said nothing, but in this scene, his eyes twitched coldly and he sneered and threatened.
"Mr. Mochizuki, a man of insight is a wise man. You probably don't want to see your city turned into a river of blood, right? Hahahahahahaha..."
Then he laughed out loud, turned around and boarded the transport ship. The scene was like an old martial arts movie. Zhou Mingyuan almost had the words "evil villain" printed directly on his forehead.
"Fuck the grass!"
Lin Xian was stunned, and suddenly he felt like a thousand horses were galloping through his heart!
"You, you, you, this is slander, blatant slander!!!"
"Defamation is the deliberate fabrication of non-existent rumors. This is a fact, but I have made some artistic processing to it. How can it be called defamation?" Mochizuki Shinji clasped his hands and looked at Lin Xian.
"Then you have to provide evidence if you want to spread rumors, right?!"
"Is it still called rumor-mongering when there is evidence?"
"This is too fucking fake. He's laughing like Ouyang Feng. You might as well let him laugh. The key point is who would believe that the Vice Chairman of the Federation is such an idiot?!" The expression on Lin Xian's face was extremely wonderful. Seeing Shinji Mochizuki's 'excellent production' at this moment, he was deeply shocked.
Shinji Mochizuki's expression was calm: "Why wouldn't you believe it? Most people in Dawn City and Silent City know that Zhou Mingyuan has come to Silent City, right?"
Lin Xian nodded.
"Most of the images here are real. The arrival and departure of the transport ship, there must be witnesses in the distance, right?"
Lin Xian thought about it and nodded.
"Then, the fact is that Zhou Mingyuan did collude with the Crimson World, and their purpose of coming here was indeed for Silent City. They even placed a spy nano spider to activate your Grace, right?"
The more Lin Xian listened, the weirder his expression became, and he could no longer laugh.
"But if we examine this thing carefully, we can find evidence, right?" Lin Xian frowned deeply.
Shinji Mochizuki narrowed his eyes and smiled, looking at Lin Xian: "Only a peaceful society needs evidence. Now is the end of the world. I just changed the way of stating the facts. Evidence is not needed. I remember that not playing by the rules is not your strong point, Lin?"
Lin Xian opened his mouth, but Mochizuki Shinji's words immediately left him speechless.
The corner of his eye could not help but twitch. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Mochizuki Shinji's move was truly heartbreaking. It shattered all conspiracies and tricks and laid everything bare in the sunlight. Although there was a certain degree of "artistic processing", he was right. Defamation could not stand up to scrutiny, but the truth was fatal enough!
Once this video gets out, it will inevitably arouse millions of levels of anger in Silent City and Dawn City. By that time, the fuse will be lit and no one will care whether it is true or false. What's more, Zhou Mingyuan can't stand the investigation at all. The more attention is focused on Zhou Mingyuan and the senior officials of Dawn City, the more difficult it will be for them to cope with it.
Thinking of this, Lin Xian couldn't help but smile: "Beautiful, this move of yours may have directly destroyed the basic base of Shuguang City."
He looked at Mochizuki Shinji. This guy was still standing there with his sleeves rolled up, his face calm and relaxed. He didn't expect that he was so sinister. This unreasonable and heart-breaking scheme was simply amazing.
No wonder Lin Xian felt puzzled during the day. Why did Mochizuki Shinji speak so sharply during the negotiations with Zhou Mingyuan? It turned out that this guy had already rehearsed in advance and performed his part of the dialogue with great emotion!
"I never participate in ideological struggles. I quite approve of and support the survival strategies of both the Old Federation and the Order of the Phoenix." Mochizuki Shinji said calmly, "It's just that we have united with the Crimson World, which is already a crime against humanity. In addition, the other party has already set their sights on our Silent City. Shouldn't I show my fangs before the city falls?"
Lin Xian nodded when he heard this: "That makes sense. They are using the future of the entire world to extend their lives. It seems that there is no need to be polite to them."
After saying that, he patted Grace, who was turning off her phone, and slid his fingers over her chest and smooth waist. "You almost took my Grace away. It's really infuriating."
Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian's action and said, "There are more than 3,000 service robots in my No. 2 city, with more than 200 styles of characters, skin colors, personalities, and makeup. If you have a special hobby for this, I can give you one. You should let this intelligent brain play its due role."
Lin Xian's caressing motion froze in place, and he closed his eyes and breathed in silence: "I just expressed my feelings."
Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian and asked with interest: "Lin, Silent City is facing an attack from the enemy at any time. I have already made the first move, and it is your turn."
Lin Xian was surprised: "Aren't we... on the same side?"
"What's wrong with making two moves at the same time?"
Lin Xian: …
Lin Xian slowly gave Mochizuki Shinji a thumbs up, then he restrained his expression, remained silent for a few seconds, and said, "Okay, then the second step..."
"Silent City, lift off!"
…
At 1:30 in the morning, the night wind was strong and the starry sky was as dark as ink.
Chen Sixuan led a group of fighters from the Infinity and all the united train fleets to gather on the battle deck, and the entire Silent City was on alert.
At this moment, a huge shock sound was heard, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
null!
At the bottom of this giant mechanical floating city, thousands of propulsion arrays lit up at the same time. Blue-white ion streams poured out from the honeycomb-shaped nozzles, leaving huge annular burn marks on the air. Rows of cooling fins flipped up layer by layer, and the starry sky thrusters of the four giant floating cities began to roar!
"Attention everyone in the city, countdown to launch has begun."
"Attention all vehicle parking areas, please check and secure your vehicles."
"Attention, the flight deck has entered air traffic control. All personnel, please return to the city and the cabin."
The mechanical female voice echoed in every street and deck. All the survivors and residents of Silent City who were on guard were stunned. Countless people looked up and cried out in surprise.
"Take off?!"
“What’s going on!!”
"Silent City is going to float!"
Buzz buzz buzz.
On both sides of the deck, dozens of electromagnetic rail guns and anti-aircraft ray towers began to rise, and the cloud area began to close the walking passages.
On the ground, the giant tracks began to retract, and with the powerful lift, this behemoth weighing 13.1 million tons caused a strong earthquake. The roar of metal resounded, and a large amount of dirt and gravel from the tracks began to fall like rain.
In the dark night, this giant floating city slowly rose into the air! !
(End of this chapter)
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