Chapter 92 Save AI9, City of Wisdom
The underground life forms have survived for so many years without coming over, so they obviously don't know what caused the disease back then. They can only avoid this area according to common sense, and many things have aged beyond recognition.
Ling Yuanshan felt that Wu Wangwang's words made sense. Anyway, things couldn't get any worse than they were now, so they should give it a try, otherwise they would have come all this way for nothing.
The two men began to huff and puff as they inspected the small villa. The tables, drawers, and various cabinets were all emptied, presumably by the researchers who came years ago. The things left behind were things that the family had kept for themselves.
Because they had too much stuff, they didn't know where to put it. After discussing it, they decided to put it in the yard. Anyway, it wouldn't rain here, so it didn't matter where they put it.
After the items were moved out, the villa appeared slightly more spacious, and Ling Yuanshan, being of a certain size, was able to move around normally.
Just like the cleaning company staff, they searched everywhere and even found rags to start cleaning, but without water, the cleaning was extremely difficult.
The first floor only has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and a reception room, which is relatively in line with the structure of a small family villa. There are two underground floors. One floor is a garage, and the other floor has a home theater, playroom and storage room, which are all very common layouts.
Besides a collection room, there are three other rooms on the second floor. Judging from the interior furnishings, they should be for two children and a cat. On the third floor, there is a large master bedroom, a study, and a tea room.
"The third floor is for adults, and the second floor is for children. So where do the robots live?" Wu Wangwang asked, standing at the top of the stairs.
Ling Yuanshan replied, "I looked at some online information. There are many ways for electronic life to survive now, such as solar energy, light energy, wind energy, etc. As long as it can be converted into electricity, it can continue to survive. It can even use bioenergy."
Wu Wangwang didn't quite understand what was going on. Her science foundation was only what she had learned in the previous game, so it was a bit weak. But she could roughly understand that Ling Yuanshan was saying that robots don't need rooms and there was no place for them in this house.
So Wu Wangwang asked, "Isn't this... being too harsh on the robots?"
Hearing this, Ling Yuanshan was stunned for a moment. He turned around with a surprised look on his face: "What did you say?"
Wu Wangwang didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said. She repeated, "I said, wouldn't this be too harsh on the robot?"
"How could you have such a thought?" Ling Yuanshan asked, puzzled.
“Because robots aren’t cell phones. This is a world where robots also have the right to life, right? Even if they come to this house and are employed, they’re treated like nannies. Would your family not even provide a nanny’s room? Besides, even if they’re not nannies, robots have their own thoughts. In our place, that’s considered becoming sentient, right? Once they’ve gained intelligence, they can’t be treated like objects.” Wu Wangwang asked a series of questions.
As a ghost and deity who is out of step with modern society, Wu Wangwang's basic understanding of robots is that they are machines that have become sentient. It's so easy for them to become sentient; there are things that become sentient every day in the mountains.
Once you've been refined into a human form and entered society, as long as you haven't made any mistakes or revealed any flaws, you should be treated as a human being.
Even robots, once they become human, should enjoy corresponding rights.
Ling Yuanshan hadn't thought about that. After all, he didn't live in this era. The technological progress on Earth meant that machines were still not sentient, so apart from some young people, they generally wouldn't treat robots as living beings.
Now that Wu Wangwang said that, Ling Yuanshan began to feel that something was wrong.
"According to your logic, robots kill people because they feel oppressed and are rebelling?" Ling Yuanshan said, feeling that it was a bit too far-fetched. "That's unlikely. Besides, even if you can explain the behavior of robots, you can't explain it of humans."
“This isn’t necessarily rebellion; it’s a virus of resentment, like… a normal person who spends a lot of time with a mentally unstable person will gradually become mentally unstable as well.” Wu Wangwang found the corresponding story from a vast collection of novels.
Ling Yuanshan had thought that Wu Wangwang was just offering a possibility, but upon hearing this, he suddenly realized that what Wu Wangwang said might be true, and a look of shock appeared on his face.
Seeing Ling Yuanshan suddenly freeze, Wu Wangwang raised her hand and waved it in front of his eyes: "Young Master, what's wrong with you? Did you get the virus too?"
She doesn't know how to cure this disease. In the end, she'll have to find a way to give Ling Yuanshan a new body, which will be very troublesome.
Ling Yuanshan suddenly grabbed Wu Wangwang's hand: "No, I suddenly realized that the mental viruses generated by robots could potentially be transmitted to humans!"
"Huh?" Wu Wangwang was equally shocked.
"It's too early. I glanced at it while reading about world history on the way here. We overlooked the fact that AI has no emotions. According to historical records, the first electronic life appeared because humans taught robots to have emotions!" Ling Yuanshan said hurriedly.
This history is probably no longer taught in classrooms; only historians might mention it to students, focusing more on technology and such. But what truly made the development of electronic life possible was a family companion robot. In a loving family, it gradually learned how to be a member of the family, and after a death occurred in the family, it chose to end its own lifespan.
The robot's lifespan ends when its chip is destroyed. No matter how it is repaired afterward, even if all the data is reset, it will never be the original person. It's like the robot's soul is gone, and finding a shell won't help.
Human emotions can be used to teach robots to love, and the pain of robots can also be fed back to humans as a virus. In today's world where humans and robots have been living together for so long, they are two sides of the same coin and will influence each other.
The so-called source of viral contamination was the initial transmission of pain by the robot. It may have killed the family of its employers and expressed its pain as a signal, causing the surrounding robots and humans to receive this pain, and thus all the life forms that felt it began to go mad.
The AI has no emotions, so it cannot determine what kind of virus it is. It only knows that it is a highly contagious disease that will drive many people crazy. The only solution is isolation, which is the optimal solution it has come up with based on all historical data.
In the end, this approach was not wrong, because the pain signals were indeed blocked underground, and the healthy life on the ground was able to resume normal life because it no longer received pain signals.
Wu Wangwang understood: "If that's the case, then it's understandable that the underground life can gradually return to normal. Not everyone would hurt others because of their own suffering. They would rather hurt themselves and endure the pain until it passes. But the marks of the injury won't disappear, so they choose to stay underground and don't seek help from above."
According to the core settings of the AI, if it receives a distress call from underground life, it will definitely come, immediately know the cause and effect, and make reasonable decisions. However, because the people underground lack the will to live upwards, they drift further and further away.
Ling Yuanshan nodded: "Yes, if that's the case, it also explains why they survived in the end and slowly built up the underground world, even taking care of the trees on the deserted streets."
But wouldn't it be even more painful for people who work so hard to live their lives if their peaceful daily routines were disrupted?
Faced with this situation, Ling Yuanshan softened his heart once again.
Wu Wangwang pondered for a moment and said, "Let's pretend and ask them. I remember you have props."
The same ones I used before in City of Innocence: White Moonlight and Mr.
Ling Yuanshan agreed. He took out his clothes and went to the room with Wu Wangwang to change. The temperature underground was not very low, and they were not cold wearing simple long dresses and robes.
They ran back to the area where people were active and, using the props they carried, managed to get some relevant information.
For example, humans have lived underground for many years, through many generations. They know the history of the past and have records of what has happened underground over the years, but they have no intention of leaving to come up.
"Why? There's no sunlight underground," Ling Yuanshan asked.
"Because life here is simple and peaceful, without conflict. It's probably a genetic issue; we seem to dislike and fear intense emotions more than recorded humans, and we're more comfortable hiding away," the human being asked replied.
The robots gave a similar answer. They didn't want to face the abuse shown in the records. Living up there might mean working under some terrifying beings, which they didn't want to accept. The people down there were nice and wouldn't abuse them like in the records.
Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan spent two days in this area, and the answers they got were almost the same. When they returned to the area where their boss and the others were waiting, they excitedly asked if they had found anything. Seeing that the two looked unwell, Wu Wangwang comforted them that it was okay even if they didn't find anything.
Upon hearing this, Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan exchanged a glance, and Ling Yuanshan explained the situation.
Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and then they looked sharply at the AI.
After thinking for a long time, the AI finally said, "It was my oversight. I determine that the underground life forms need to make amends and must remember this lesson so that they can never repeat it."
Ling Yuanshan sighed: "The problem isn't here. It's that they don't want their peaceful lives to be disrupted. They don't want to go out, nor do they want to have any connection with the lives above. Lao Wu and I asked many people, and they all gave similar answers."
After hearing this, the players looked at each other in bewilderment. Their original plan was to break through this layer, but they did not expect there to be so many stories behind it. If they broke through it rashly, how much would it affect their mission?
But if they don't break through, with their current reserves, all ten of them will die if they go up there.
Just as everyone fell silent, the AI suddenly spoke up: "Actually, there are special exit mechanisms underground, but I have cut off the connection with this level of the city for a long time. We need to reconnect to control all the city's entrances and exits."
Hope was on their side, and the boss immediately asked, "You're finally useful! How do you need to connect it? Can I give you a power switch?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at him speechlessly. Lao Ba complained, "Boss, what era are you from? How can it be a circuit breaker? It's a chip! Of course, you need a card reader!"
The seventh brother rolled his eyes at the eighth brother: "You're no better, you know? What the hell is a card reader?"
The AI timely mediated the young people's conflict: "Think about it, I need an integrated control circuit. According to the database, the nearest one is 30 kilometers away, in a residential area transformer box."
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: Will my cell phone one day become sentient?
Ling Yuanshan: If your phone came to life, would you still love me?
Wu Wangwang: [Shrugs]
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