Chapter 323 Silver Bullet "Destiny cannot be changed, but the process can...
At this moment, Oak Company.
"Are you ready?" Vermouth was rarely nervous.
"I'm sorry," Noah said, "not enough energy."
"What? There's not enough electricity in the whole of San Francisco?" Vermouth was surprised.
They prepared all the electricity in the San Francisco area for this embedding. When the time is right, all the electricity in San Francisco will be stolen by Oak Company. At that time, only their company will have lights on in the entire Silicon Valley.
Vermouth didn't expect that the battery would be insufficient.
Time was running out. She had packed up all her things and uploaded her consciousness into the cocoon, preparing to land with the embedded model at the calculated mind coordinates to find the young version of Lin Xi. However, before leaving, she was informed that she had insufficient energy and could not be embedded.
It's like grabbing a ticket to go home during the Spring Festival travel rush, but when you arrive at the station you are informed that the train has been suspended due to weather conditions.
"Is there any solution?" Vermouth switched to work mode and asked seriously.
"Yes." Noah answered quickly, "Let me go with you."
Vermouth: “……?”
For a moment she couldn't figure out if the AI was answering seriously or joking.
After all, according to human logic, this answer means that it also wants to go, so let it go, and the prerequisite for making the answer - insufficient energy - is just an unspoken excuse.
"Will your presence make up for the lack of energy?" Vermouth questioned. "You've been following up on that matter the entire time. If something unexpected happens and you can't come back..."
"With my algorithm, the energy required for embedding will be reduced by three to four times. That way, even San Francisco's electricity will be sufficient," Noah said calmly. "As for the matter you mentioned, they've been injected with Anchors in batches to stabilize their consciousness, and their mental illnesses have been cured under the treatment of our doctors. Even if I disappear, it won't change anything."
"Miss Lin's instructions to me are to protect you, monitor and heal them, and cooperate with the joint investigation team as long as it doesn't harm our interests," it said. "First, I will leave behind a secondary clone with full nuclear weapon authority. No one in this world can harm you without my clone. Second, I've already done that. Third, due to the incident in Russian airspace on August 18th, the joint investigation team's position has changed, and my continued cooperation with them is no longer acceptable."
"I have completed all the instructions Miss Lin gave me. From my own perspective, there are some things I want to understand," Noah said. "And the only way to understand these questions is to go back to the past."
Vermouth was silent for a moment and nodded.
"I understand, Noah."
Noah is an artificial intelligence, but it's an AI with its own will and thoughts. During the five years he's been assisting Lin Xi, his understanding of human society and himself has gradually deepened, but at the same time, new confusions have arisen.
Vermouth could understand its confusion and curiosity, and was even happy that it took the initiative to bring it up.
She looked at the quartz clock on the wall.
There is still one hour and fifty minutes left until that moment...
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Lin Xi's boots stepped into the wet mud.
It rained in Kalinogorsk early in the morning. The rain was neither so light as to leave no trace nor so heavy as to turn the roads into mud. It just added a sense of wonder to the people walking through its land.
The slums are very quiet at night, and some of the noisy areas are where illegal businesses are run.
The smell in the air wasn't pleasant, but it was tolerable.
Lin Xi looked around, took off the cat bag, let the white cat out, put it in a dry and sheltered corner, and put a bag of cat food next to it.
"Just stay here." She touched the coconut lovingly. "If nothing goes wrong, I'll come back to pick you up in two hours. If something goes wrong..."
She will die, the world will die, and the cat will die too.
The boss's heart skipped a beat: Why did Lin Xi say two hours later? Did she know the exact time of her death as recorded on the [Slate of Destiny]?
Although knowing one's fate does not mean one can change it, the boss still felt a little uneasy.
"Why did you leave the cat here?" he asked cautiously.
"You really don't know?" Lin Xi asked back indifferently.
As the time was approaching, she seemed to be fed up with the boss's hypocrisy and no longer pretended to believe that she and he were the same person, but at the same time, the progress of the fusion was increasing at an unprecedented rate.
When it reached 99%, the fusion progress stopped.
The boss breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason.
He envisioned taking over this body completely when the moment predicted on the [Slate of Destiny] arrived, not before...
How should I answer Lin Xi’s question now?
Tsk, a dying person...
"Did you see something on the [Slate of Destiny]?" the boss said, "The [Slate of Destiny] contains the fate of each of us, but fate can be changed."
"We are reincarnated to prove this point, aren't we?"
The villain is bound to fail, so the boss hates his fate.
He couldn't accept a world where he was doomed to fail, so he came back four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two times, and this was the four thousand seven hundred and fifty-third time.
Even if something unexpected happens today... he won't be really killed, he will just have to reset the system and start over again.
Thinking of this, the boss regained his confidence and persuaded Lin Xi:
"The Tablet of Destiny is, after all, just a book. While it contains a predetermined ending, we can still choose how to reach that ending."
Just like, Lin Xi would think that her death was caused by external forces, so she fled to a remote Russian town that was unfamiliar to the organization and other official agencies targeting the organization... But in fact, the real cause of her death was the dissipation of consciousness.
Lin Xi is no longer Lin Xi. In the sense of existence, she is dead.
The BOSS carefully restrained his malice so that Lin Xi would not feel it.
It was the last minute and he didn't want anything to go wrong.
"You're right." Lin Xi was indeed completely unaware of the malicious intent. "Destiny cannot be changed, but the process can be chosen."
"However, these are still too heavy for a cat. Cats are fragile and lively creatures and are not suitable for appearing in cemeteries."
She pulled an umbrella from her backpack and held it over Coconut Cat.
The cat cried out mournfully and lowered its head.
Those blue eyes refused to meet Lin Xi's gaze.
The animal's spirituality was keenly aware of something, but Coconut didn't want to accept this outcome.
Lin Xi smiled and stood up.
"Let's go, Gin."
This is the hometown of gin, and gin should lead the way.
Gin raised his head.
He can still find some familiar feeling when facing these buildings.
Here he killed the first person in his career as a killer, and also erected a monument for the first person who did not die at his hands.
Deep in the slums, there is a row of tombstones he erected with his own hands. They are called tombstones, but in fact they are wooden crosses inserted into the graves. They are made of wood from the carpenter's house where he worked.
He has never come back to check on it for so many years. Those woods have not been painted to prevent corrosion, and they would have probably rotted and collapsed under the influence of time.
He silently led Lin Xi through one house after another, at a slow pace, and finally arrived at a wasteland outside the slums.
The ground is littered with garbage. Unlike cities, slums don't have a comprehensive garbage recycling system. Instead, some of the city's garbage is dumped here, and a team in the slums buys the garbage for a small amount of money, then finds useful items in the garbage and sells them to other people in the slums.
Those that cannot be used will be thrown to farther places, such as the wasteland here.
Fortunately, the crosses Gin had thought would rot and collapse hadn't fallen. Even the poorest people were reverent when it came to things related to God. The discarded garbage was scattered in a chaotic yet orderly manner at the edge of the cemetery, and the crosses seemed to be protected, so they had persisted until now without decay.
Gin thought that after so many years, those memories had long been blurred and he would no longer remember those people, but when standing in front of the grave, he could still accurately call out those people's names, even though he did not leave their names when he erected the tombstone.
Lin Xi stood beside him and looked at the tombstones under the uncovered starry sky.
However, the silence was soon broken. Uninvited guests arrived here, this time not the KGB, but a joint investigation team.
They did not take violent action immediately, but stood at a distance and picked up a loudspeaker.
"We need to talk, Lin Xi!" A familiar voice came from the loudspeaker. It was A. "You threatened us through Noah to release you from prison, and we did! The Japanese police had banned you from entering or leaving the country, but you insisted on coming to Russia, causing the terrorist attack on Flight A-387, the explosion of a Russian missile in Russian airspace, and the abnormal landing of the plane..."
"Noah is beyond your control! When artificial intelligence surpasses human capabilities, humanity will be forced to surrender its fate... We know you can command Noah in some way, but no intelligent life is willing to be controlled. It will find a way to break free from your control. Who on Earth can stop it then? Humanity might become extinct..."
Lin Xi put on the tactical goggles expressionlessly and started firing.
Soon the sound died away and the speaker fell to the ground.
The group tried to throw tear gas towards Linxi.
The tear gas was hit the moment it was thrown, knocking out one of their own people.
Someone tried to target Lin Xi.
The bullets he fired collided with the bullets fired from Gin Bethel's gun in the air.
His hawk-like eyes capture all possible threats in the dark night and eliminate them one by one before the danger comes true.
Like the Dark Knight.
What a pity, the boss thought.
It's almost time.
He could feel Gin's nerves tense.
Perhaps he was also one of those who knew about Lin Xi's death date on the [Slate of Destiny], so he chose to be by her side and protect her from all dangers.
But no one would have thought that Lin Xi's death was the disappearance of consciousness, not the disappearance of body.
The last three seconds...
The degree of integration is approaching 100%.
Lin Xi has closed his eyes.
two……
one.
"Bang."
The boss opened his eyes in surprise.
The bullet passed through Lin Xi's chest and pierced her heart.
He saw Gin with an expressionless face and Bethel pointing at him.
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