After taking control of the base located at the crater, Fang Zheng immediately began a plan to transform the entire base. Only Julie stayed with him, while the others planned to continue to assist Eloy in the exploration, and Fang Zheng did not refuse. After all, he was too lazy to go out to look for intelligence, and according to the previous reports of Banjiu Shayue and others, Eloy's actions along the way were quite like a protagonist. For example, the doors in other bases could not be opened by others, but Eloy went to that station and scanned directly to obtain permission.

Now that Eloy was trying to find other clues and information, Fang Zheng naturally would not stop her. However, before leaving, Eloy did make a request to Fang Zheng. According to Eloy, there was a mysterious man who seemed to be able to see everything she saw through her holographic glasses. Although the man also provided Eloy with a lot of information, Eloy obviously did not like someone secretly observing her and then suddenly appearing like a ghost to talk to her.

Therefore, she hoped that Fang Zheng could find a way to modify her holographic glasses, at least to prevent that elusive guy from showing up at any time.

Fang Zheng naturally did not refuse and locked her holographic glasses. According to Eloi, the man was just a tribesman who knew some ancient knowledge. Fang Zheng did not believe that the other party had the ability to unlock the code.

It was just right for Mikasa to go out with them and exercise at the same time. After all... Fang Zheng didn't bring Mikasa here to be a maid.

Although Katima might think being a maid is not bad.

Eloy and the girls are still searching for the truth hidden in history, while Fang Zheng and Julie stay in the giant manufacturing base and begin further transformation of the base.

Although according to the main AI Sean's idea, it wanted to destroy all the parts left by the other party when it invaded itself. However, Fang Zheng rejected Sean's opinion. After all, these devices are indeed very suitable for making various mechanical weapons. It's just that the entire blueprint and programming content need to be remade by himself.

Of course, this is not an easy task for Fang Zheng.

"call……"

Sitting on the chair, looking at the code library in front of him, Fang Zheng yawned. At this moment, Julie also came over and placed a cup of coffee in front of Fang Zheng.

"Oh, thanks, Julie."

"nothing."

Julie shook her head, sat in front of Fang Zheng, and stared at the design blueprint on the screen curiously.

"Is this the mechanical soldier we're going to make next?"

"I think that's fine if you want to understand it that way."

"Ugh...I don't want to say it, but...it looks really scary."

“Ahahahaha, that’s only natural.”

Looking at the blueprint in front of him, Fang Zheng gave a helpless smile. He certainly would not adopt the original beast-like design of this world. Instead, Fang Zheng adopted the design model of the Reaper from The Matrix and Mass Effect. This thing is useful, but it looks... It is definitely full of villain style.

Just like now.

"Bang!!!"

Just as Fang Zheng and Julie were talking, a huge black metal octopus-like mechanical creature suddenly flashed past the window, then landed on the wall next to it, and its metal tentacles quickly spread out, starting to clean and maintain the entire wall - I have to admit, although this thing does look creepy, it is indeed useful.

In fact, if it weren't for these metal octopuses, this base that had been abandoned for hundreds of years would probably be difficult to restore in such a short time. Especially now, the rusty passages outside and the dilapidated parts have been polished and look like they were just built.

Not only that, now these metal octopuses have been released by Fang Zheng to clean up other mechanical beasts. They will defeat those mechanical beasts, then directly pull them back to the base for disassembly and then re-forge them...

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that this base uses volcanoes as its energy source, so Fang Zheng can use his full strength.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible to achieve this level.

Unfortunately, although the energy problem of the base can be solved, the problem of civilization technology is difficult to solve. The previously destroyed civilization was only a fourth-level civilization. With the technology they possessed, there was no way to completely restore the mechanical army that Fang Zheng expected.

Therefore... we had to refit it based on this, such as energy supply efficiency, transmission and data encryption, etc...

"Sean."

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng put down his coffee cup and shouted, and then a ball of light appeared at the holographic projection position next to him.

"I remember you said before that you were hacked because you received a string of encrypted communications?"

[Yes, at that time I thought it was a communication from the Creator, so I opened the connection, and as a result, Helstos invaded and took control of the facility.]

"This guy seems to be a subsystem of Gaia. How much do you know about the Gaia system?"

[Not enough information has been obtained from the data, insufficient authority, unable to answer]

"Um……"

Hearing Sean's answer, Fang Zheng frowned, then he stretched out his hand, and with Fang Zheng's movement, a ball of light appeared again on the other side of his body. That was the other artificial AI that had invaded Sean before - Hephaestus. Fang Zheng had no intention of letting it go at that time, although Hephaestus immediately tried to cut off the network after realizing that Fang Zheng was counter-invading its network. However, Fang Zheng was also very familiar with this, and he easily seized the control of the network from the other party, and then shut it down, and then directly packaged and downloaded the data of Hephaestus and began to analyze it.

Originally, Fang Zheng thought that Hephaestus had received orders from someone to launch the invasion of Sean, but after investigating the database, Fang Zheng discovered something strange.

That is, there is obviously a string of unusual codes mixed in Hephaestus' database.

The reason why it is unusual is very simple - the level of that code is obviously higher than the standard of this world.

Although Fang Zheng's Tiandao Palace strictly forbids the creation of artificial intelligence, this does not mean that Fang Zheng and others know nothing about artificial intelligence. If artificial intelligence is divided into three levels: high, medium and low, then the artificial intelligence system originally created in this world is only at the low level.

In simple terms, it follows orders and acts according to the set logic without being flexible. Medium AI, on the other hand, has a certain degree of discretion, which can be said to be close to humans.

As for advanced artificial intelligence - that involves an eternal topic.

Would a thinking being that is aware of its own existence and has complete self-awareness be considered a living being?

The original Hephaestus was just a low-level artificial intelligence, which was normal. It was just a subroutine that assisted the main program. There was no reason to allow a subroutine to have too high authority. It was like a general and his subordinates. The general gave orders and the subordinates could act. It was impossible to bypass the general and take the initiative to act on their own - at least AI would not do such a thing.

However, this string of code forcibly increased Hephaestus's autonomy.

To put it bluntly, it was like forcing it to inject a catalyst, raising its intelligence level to a higher level. Fang Zheng could also do this, which was equivalent to "enlightening" the AI. So Hephaestus, who had self-awareness, broke away from the Gaia main system and planned to occupy the mountain as the king.

So the question is, this is something that only an advanced civilization can do to a lower civilization, so who was the first to attack the Gaia system?

And the biggest problem with this code is... it spreads confusion.

That's right, it polluted Hephaestus's thinking system, making it chaotic and mixed. After all, generally speaking, even if it suddenly "became enlightened" and became an artificial intelligence with a certain degree of self-awareness, it would not make such chaotic and absurd actions. But in fact, Hephaestus's thinking mode was polluted by this string of code, making him like a drunk, and all logical assumptions were scattered.

You can't reason with a drunk person, can you?

Could it be that the guy did it himself?

Fang Zheng stared at the code, frowning. He just didn't understand why the other party did this. And then again, the fact that the AI ​​mechanical army rebelled at the beginning was strange. Even if the original designers didn't realize the possibility of evolution under the hive mind architecture, it was not completely unsolvable. A low-level AI rebellion wouldn't directly lead to the destruction of the world, right?

That's right. In Fang Zheng's opinion, the crisis facing that world is actually just a low-level artificial intelligence rebellion. Logically speaking, there is no reason for it to reach the point of destroying the world. It's not like The Matrix... that's still a simulation program, not real.

It's like a group of bees suddenly evolved into bee superman without any evolutionary process in between. Is this possible?

Could it be that the rebellious mechanical legions were also similarly infected?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng closed his eyes and shook his head, then turned off the system in front of him.

Well... never mind, we'll know when the time comes. What we need to do now is to decrypt and defend against this string of code.

After all, this is the code of the Order Clan, and it is not so easy to get rid of.

What's next...

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng reached out his hand, placed it on the keyboard, and stared at the blueprint in front of him.

"It's almost time to start the stars."