Chapter 49 Night City (3) (3-in-1) [VIP]
Compared to Shi Zhou who always used simple words to describe the name, Bai Jinshu's way of answering Shi Ting was much simpler.
He simply read out the Baidu results for all the nouns to Shi Ting, and then continued to read out more Baidu results after Shi Ting asked new questions. It seemed that he was heading down a path of no return.
It was the first time that Shi Zhou felt that he had no chance to interrupt.
She twitched her lips as she watched Isaac explain the composition of matter to her like a spirit from Baidu Encyclopedia. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore and pulled him out.
"Shi Ting is my sister's name," Shi Zhou said to Bai Jin while sitting on the windowsill of the company after a period of chaos, "I mean Shi Ting, not Xc-12 Sp1354."
"There were ten people in the first group to explore Night City, and Shi Ting and I were two of them," she said slowly, looking at Shi Ting's back while he was working. "When we first explored the land, we didn't find many rules. It's too big to walk around in five days. We could only get a general idea. So when we finished our first exploration, we only had a vague idea of the three major disasters in Night City."
"The three major natural disasters are actually three disasters that occur in Night City indiscriminately according to a certain pattern. The first one is the mechanical riot disaster that you have seen. It will occur in a certain area according to a certain pattern, and the areas outside the area will not be affected. Within a fixed time, all robots in that area will indiscriminately attack the surrounding creatures. Only defense towers can withstand those attacks."
"If there is no defense tower, you will die. If you die, you will be cleaned by the scavengers and put into the suspension chamber behind you, and then become a supplement for the company's people."
"The second disaster is a chemical gas leak. This kind of natural disaster can happen in many places. The location is not fixed, only the time is fixed." Shi Zhou checked the time. "It's almost time. The second disaster has already occurred in Area C where we were originally scheduled to go."
"When this kind of natural disaster occurs, we guess that the gas pipeline hidden under Night City has ruptured, or there is a problem with the factory's emission system. There is a gas whose specific name is unknown and it will fill the air. Anyone who comes into contact with that gas will die, including the guards in Night City, the guards wearing light gray semi-mechanical skeletons who just chased us."
"The second disaster is not like the first disaster. There is no way to resist it. The only way to avoid death is to stay away from that area, or buy items that can resist it like we did," Shi Zhou thought for a while and said, "But there are exceptions. Sometimes not all company people die. We guess that it is because the poisonous gas cannot reach too deep, and the concentration has been diluted or absorbed by other company people, so some company people will survive the second disaster."
"What about the third natural disaster?" Bai Jinshu asked.
"The third one... The first two natural disasters are for everyone in Night City. The last one can't really be called a natural disaster in terms of its lethality, and no one died," Shi Zhou looked at Shi Ting, "but it is much more terrifying for the exploration team than the first two."
"The third type of natural disaster is the replication disaster," she said in a low voice. "After a certain period of time in Night City, all exploration team members will have many copies of themselves. These copies look the same as us and will also become wanted persons."
"Can you imagine?" She said with an expression that was hard to describe, "You can actually run into a clone with the same face as you on the street. If there is no communication, Foundation explorers can't even tell whether the other person is a team member or not."
"I'm sorry," Bai Jinshu shrugged, "The situation you described is very common in our place."
"The new humans with prosthetic limbs can choose the looks they like. It's not uncommon to meet people who look like you on the street. After all, based on human aesthetics and the arrangement of facial features, there are only a few good-looking faces," he pointed at his own face calmly. "This is the top male face in the alliance. It's a picture made by restoring the looks of 500 very famous handsome men in history and superimposing them according to the golden ratio. It's the pinnacle of human aesthetics. If you go to our place, you might see me everywhere on the street."
"You...you guys are quite tolerant." Shi Zhou's newly-risen disappointment was completely wiped out by his words. "Don't you find it scary to see people who look the same all over the streets?"
"Of course not," Bai Jinshu showed a strange expression, "After all, everyone's modifications are all weird. Besides, you can change it anytime you want. If you think the current appearance is used too frequently, you can change it to some unpopular faces. The Alliance also has the top 50 unpopular faces."
"...Okay," Shi Zhou rubbed her forehead, feeling that she was sick for talking to Isaac about something based on human sensibility, "I'll continue talking about the third disaster."
"I've said before that all human data is stored in Night City's central control AI. This is true for the replicants in these companies, and it's the same for us. As long as our data is in the hands of the central control AI, we may be replicated," Shi Zhou rubbed his forehead. "We don't understand why we are replicated by AI. The most likely guess at the moment is that we may exist in Night City like a virus, because unlike other humans, we don't have any jobs and are not under the jurisdiction of the central control AI."
"According to what you said, the model of Night City is actually a bit like a Gestalt," Bai Jinshu nodded, "a very typical utopian society."
"What is Gestalt?" Shi Zhou had never heard of this term.
"Gestalt is a manifestation of a true utopian society. You can think of it as a pyramid-structured hive consciousness," Bai Jinshu explained. "All humans are connected through neurons, and the queen bee's mind controls the individuals in the entire hive, and controls them step by step downwards."
"Let me put it another way... here, it's like everyone is connected to the central control AI? The central control AI controls the company, the company controls its people, the scavengers, the supplement robots, and those gray-white half-skeleton guards all exist to maintain this control?" Shi Zhou immediately understood what he wanted to express.
"Yes," he said with a hint of familiarity in his tone, "but there is not enough evidence to prove that the central control AI controls the company, so I am just making a hypothesis."
"A hypothesis is also good," Shi Zhou tried to analyze further, "So we are the bee colony in the Gestalt that has escaped the control of the central control AI. Once discovered, we will be destroyed?"
"It can be understood this way," Bai Jin thought about how to explain it, "In the Gestalt, people with self-awareness are separated from the group. Once discovered, they will be eliminated by the protection mechanism in the Gestalt, or their personal consciousness will be cleansed and they will return to their posts. Perhaps the way to cleanse the autonomous consciousness and return to their posts here is to be turned into supplements by the scavengers for secondary resource utilization."
"But I don't quite agree with what's happening in Night City," he added calmly, "because it's too barbaric. Gestalt has better ways to supplement and control it. What they're doing is too naked."
"You said that... as if you have really thought about something that is not barbaric or naked," Shi Zhou shook his back, "By the way, aren't you surprised why I said that we will also be wanted after being copied, but Shi Ting will not?"
"Such individuals occasionally appear in Gestalt, just like us. This is a matter of probability. There is a tolerance rate in the Gestalt program. This is the error allowed by the central control AI," Bai Jin said in a very calm voice. "And you also said that Shi Ting is your sister. You also said that the Third Calamity is a copy, so she is a copy of your sister."
"Yes, Xc-12 Sp1349 is a copy of my sister... Now it's 1354," Shi Zhou rubbed his hair angrily, "It's weird, right? According to the word 'Tingzhou', my name should be Shi Ting and my sister should be Shi Zhou."
"But we look so much alike that when we went to register after we had chosen our names, even my dad got them mixed up. Only after we finished registering did he realize that the names on the IDs of his two daughters were reversed," she said with a smile. "We have done everything together since we were young, including going to school and working. We then joined the Foundation together, joined the Night City project together, and left after the development was completed."
She rubbed her face and continued, "After we completed Night City, we moved on to the next project, and Shi Ting died in that project."
"I came out of that project and was in a daze. Just then, a familiar investor told me that Night City was going to send out the fourth group of exploration team members. The first three groups had produced no results. He asked me if I was interested in going again. He said there was something in it that I couldn't refuse. For some reason, I accepted the invitation."
"So you saw Shi Ting among the company's people." The male voice stated calmly.
"Yes, I saw Shi Ting's face among the company's people." Shi Zhou did not seem to be opposed to remembering this incident, and her voice gradually returned to calm. "I went up to her and called her name, and then she told me that she was Xc-12 Sp1258."
"Xc-12 Sp1258 was discovered by the investors in the previous live broadcasts. She only has a face like Shi Ting, but she doesn't have Shi Ting's memories. She mistook me for one of the guards who can walk freely outside. I stared at her without saying anything, and she asked me what the world outside is like."
"I lied to her. I told her that the outside world had a blue sky, white clouds that floated without power, and a warm, light yellow sun besides the colorful neon lights."
"That's great, but unfortunately I work for the company and can't leave here. I really want to go out and take a look."
"From that moment on, I knew I was done. I could never get out of here again. When I was in Night City, Shi Ting was still alive and could talk to me. When I left Night City, Shi Ting would die."
"Then you should know that she is no longer the Shi Ting from the beginning. When you met her, her number was Xc-12 Sp1258, which means she is from the Xc12 area, a company member numbered Sp, and has been cloned for 1258 generations." Shi Zhou was still as calm as ever when he heard Isaac's voice, as if he had not just finished listening to a touching story.
"I know, I'm not confused," Shi Zhou waved his hand, "I even know her life cycle. I said before that once a company person reaches the end of her life, the central control AI will issue a warning, and the company will clone a new one of her. Every six days, Shi Ting's code will increase by one number. Her life cycle is only six days. After six days, a new Shi Ting will appear."
"Copycats are such cheap creatures. Shi Ting can only live for six days. From the first time I saw her in Night City until now, she has been cloned 96 times, for a total of 576 days." She took a deep breath. "During these 576 days, the Foundation has conducted 17 explorations, and I have entered Night City 17 times. Once this project is sealed, Shi Ting will be sealed with it."
"During these 17 times, I have traveled to almost every corner of Night City. I only need one last clue to figure out all the rules here," she looked at Shi Ting's back again, "I can't just watch her being sealed away, even though I know that the current Shi Ting is no longer Shi Ting."
"And once the project is completed, you won't be able to see her again either." Bai Jin said.
"It's different," Shi Zhou jumped down from the windowsill. "The sealed project will not be restarted without a large amount of funds reinvested. Once the project is completed, the foundation can sell or develop this space."
"As long as I can complete Night City, I can meet Shi Ting one day," she re-tied her ponytail, "so there is no way I can give up Night City."
A humming sound floated across the barrage:
[Wuwuwu, I will not give up Tingbao either. Sister Shizhou, you can definitely do it——]
[It's not just you, Sister Shizhou. We also meet Shiting here every time. ]
【Tingbao, my Tingbao...】
[After the project is completed, I will definitely join the subsequent development. 】
[Don’t mention Sister Shi Zhou. I originally had no feelings towards Gemini, but after voting for Night City, I feel like Shi Ting has almost become my obsession. ]
[Eh, this is the first time I see so many high-end space bosses gathered together...]
[The atmosphere is so tense, I feel like I’m heartless if I don’t invest in something…Isn’t this the reason why you high-end space investors downgraded this project? ? ?]
"But thank you for not showing a disgusting sympathetic expression after hearing this story like the others did," Shi Zhou smiled slightly, "I haven't said this to the exploration team members for a long time. At least your reaction didn't make me feel that this was a wrong decision."
"You're welcome. According to statistics, a more handsome face makes people more willing to talk." Bai Jinshu nodded. "I've said before that my face is the pinnacle of human aesthetics."
Shi Zhou: ...
"So devastating," she rolled her eyes silently, "Isaac, you've reinforced my stereotype of programmers."
"But Shizhou, have you ever thought about a problem?" Guan Hongyan appeared behind the two of them at some point. She crossed her arms and said unceremoniously, "You have entered Night City too many times. All your reactions, including your escape routes, have been thoroughly analyzed and learned by Night City's central control AI. You don't want to give up Night City, but you can't outsmart the AI. You will be unable to move forward here."
This time it was because he could hide in Shi Ting’s company, but what about next time?
It is impossible for Shi Zhou to stay here without investigating anything. Once the old team members are lost, these newcomers will encounter many unnecessary pitfalls when entering Night City.
Not to mention that the rules of Night City are difficult to verify. Many of the rules that have been figured out at this stage actually only exist in the minds of the veteran team members. They are only communicated in temporary channels and not on site. Even Shi Zhou cannot guarantee that there will be no problems.
"I don't know," Shi Zhou spread his hands, very calmly, obviously because Guan Hongyan knew the inside story of her repeated entry here, "Shi Ting and I are identical twins, our DNA is the same, so I can use her identity to enter here, because the identity verification will recognize me as her."
"But Shi Ting is a company employee. She cannot leave here. Her identity is only useful within this company."
Therefore, even if she wanted to use Shi Ting's identity outside, she couldn't, because company people would not leave the company. Once they left, they might be considered wanted persons who needed to be eliminated.
If what Isaac said is true, this is a Gestalt, then once she is mistaken for Shi Ting outside, it might even implicate the real Shi Ting in the company.
"Did you find anything in the company?" Shi Zhou turned around and asked.
"Unfortunately, no," Guan Hongyan pointed at the huge and frightening office with her chin, "I can't even understand what their jobs are. It's too big in here, we can't even get to the end... Is there really an end here?"
"Yes, some people walked through it during the previous explorations," Shi Zhou said, "but when we got to the end, we still saw the same scenes. This office is like it has been replicated infinitely, and all the furnishings look almost the same."
While the two were talking, a sound started from above their heads. Lu Changfeng, who had just returned from his exploration, was startled: "What is that?"
"It's supplements," Bai Jinshu looked up at the ceiling, "A robot is here to deliver the supplements."
"Yes," Shi Zhou had passed by so many times that he was no longer amazed at Isaac's observation skills. "This is the highest level of the entire company. Next to it is the delivery port for supplements. In a while, the company will distribute supplements based on performance."
"We have to think about how to get out," she checked her watch. "We will be copied in a while. We have to leave the company first. Otherwise, the newly copied people will not be able to pass the security system's inspection and we will be implicated."
"Isaac," Shi Zhou stood at the edge of the building and looked out, "What if I don't follow my previous experience and use a counter-intuitive method to lead the way? Will the central control AI still analyze my path?"
"Yes," Bai Jinshu said bluntly, "I suggest you not to regard the central control AI as a computer that follows a program."
"Artificial intelligence means artificial first and then intelligence. Apart from fixed programs, all artificial intelligence that can coordinate a city can be regarded as a person like you in various aspects. Moreover, it is a hundred times smarter than you. It will think of all the methods you can think of."
"You are competing with another version of yourself who is a hundred times smarter than you. You can't win."
The one who knows the most about artificial intelligence here is Isaac. Although what he said may sound like a mythical teammate, it now seems that this is the most likely situation.
"What should we do?" Guan Hongyan frowned. "How about we lead the way and each of us walk a section, so that the AI won't be able to figure out who is who?"
"No," Shi Zhou pursed his lips, "You are not familiar with this place. You don't know which roads are the most suitable, nor do you know which roads have unavoidable patrols."
"Then why don't you remind us..." Guan Hongyan said halfway when she understood what Shi Zhou meant.
They are all newbies who have entered here for the first time. They are completely clueless about the road conditions. If they are asked to lead the way, they will inevitably take the wrong road. It would be fine if they just take the wrong road, but once they take the road with patrols, they will repeat what they just experienced.
Once Shi Zhou issues a reminder, their route is actually still planned according to Shi Zhou's thinking and experience, and Night City's AI can still pursue and intercept them based on its analysis of Shi Zhou.
This is a dead end.
The central control AI blocked all of Shizhou's paths, and also blocked the paths of the exploration team members who followed Shizhou in, forcing them to either follow Shizhou's experience and enter the full set of AI, or stumble around and step on landmines everywhere in Night City just like the first time they explored the new land.
In the former case, they will be wiped out, and in the latter case, they will be too busy to have time to look for clues.
This is an unsolvable situation.
"If it doesn't work, we can wait here for five days," Shi Zhou bit his lip. "After we get out, I'll ask those who have been here before during the next exploration if they are willing to come again."
Although those people were not as familiar with Night City as she was, they were not thoroughly analyzed by the central control AI.
Similarly, this is the most passive way of dealing with the problem. If you choose this method, it means that this exploration will be completely wasted.
[Hey... Pat Shizhou sister, it's okay, we'll come again next time. ]
[There is no way to raise data... I am powerless against AI. 】
[It's okay. Night City has been stuck at this level for so long, and I've explored it so many times without any results. This time won't make a difference.]
[Indeed, at least now that we have been downgraded to the mid-range, we have to invest much less money...]
【? Huh? Is this something I can say? 】
[Of course, why not? The investment in mid-range projects is not dividends but fixed points, which does cost less. However, if the dividends are changed to fixed points, it will be a problem whether those former explorers are willing to come... Maybe Sister Shizhou will have to use her connections.]
[Human relations... Guan Hongyan was invited by her through human relations.]
[Where is Isaac? Isn't Isaac a researcher of artificial intelligence? Can you save him? ]
[Isaac is researching artificial intelligence but he is not an artificial intelligence...what do you think of him?]
Not long after this comment passed by, Isaac groaned on the screen and said, "No need."
"You said that everyone's DNA data is stored in the central control AI. If they are scanned by the guards, they will be hunted down." His eyes flashed, and a blue light seemed to pass through them. "Then what if the data in our central control AI is tampered with or overwritten?"
"Okay, we've thought about what you said before, but we need to go somewhere else," Shi Zhou frowned. "The main supercomputing cluster server of Night City's central control AI is under the central tower. It is said that it has been standing in the center of Night City since its establishment. If we want to overwrite and change the data, we can only go there."
"But we..."
Everyone understood what she had not finished saying.
However, if they leave here now, they will be tracked. Not to mention reaching the central tower, they are not sure whether they can get rid of the pursuers behind them.
"No need," Isaac said calmly, "You don't understand artificial intelligence."
"Since all humans and machines in Night City are connected to his network, it is very easy to access his database. All we need to do is capture someone who is connected to the central control AI."
When AI opens the Internet to machines and authorizes them to access their database, if someone tampers with the machine, it is easy to change the content within the AI through this Internet connection.
The link is bidirectional.
"All humans here are connected to AI," Shi Zhou thought of the hive consciousness Isaac mentioned, and his eyes widened as if he had thought of something, "The same goes for the people in the company..."
"You said that AI's permissions are divided into different areas," Isaac's eyes swept calmly over the company people working at their workstations, picking and choosing like choosing goods in a supermarket, "The company people's permissions are not enough to view wanted criminals. I don't think hacking into their database can get the results I want. The best solution is to capture a security machine that is connecting to the wanted person database."
"It's easy to catch the guards," Guan Hongyan said, not thinking it was a problem, "but what should we do if we catch them?"
"The issue you should be considering now is not how to hack into the AI. That's what I should be considering. You can't do anything about it," Bai Jinshu said bluntly. "What you should be considering is how to capture a machine that is connecting to the central control AI database without alerting the Night City AI."
"If the central control AI discovers your intention, it can cut off this network at any time and call more guard machines here."
"This isn't difficult..." Shi Zhou muttered, "Since the central control AI has analyzed my behavior and wants to set a trap for me, I just need to go out again and follow its trap to lower its vigilance, and then I can catch it in return."
Although she might not be able to trick another version of herself who is a hundred times smarter, her goal has now changed from "escape" to "capture", which is equivalent to creating an information gap. The AI does not know that her purpose is to capture a machine connected to the central control, and still thinks that she is trying to escape.
At this time, as long as Shi Zhou thought according to his usual way of thinking, he would definitely fall into the trap set by the guards.
Her disadvantage against artificial intelligence has now turned into an advantage.
"I'm familiar with a lot of the streets here. If I want to subconsciously avoid all the machines while not following the routes I'm familiar with, then the first thing I'll do is... go out through the supplement delivery port above!"
"Below the delivery port is a blind spot for all scanning machines. This is determined by the angle of the building. Only robots delivering supplies and scavengers who have finished cleaning will go there. Without a miracle, it is impossible for humans to fight or climb that place. Even AI can't take care of that blind spot, so I will definitely go down from there and bypass all the places below where patrol devices may pass by. There is a pipeline behind, which is a dead end..."
The more she talked, the more she felt that this was feasible. She excitedly hit Guan Hongyan's shoulder and said, "Then you can just wait for me on the top of the pipe. That's a backup route that security robots won't take because the other side is a dead end. If I'm being chased by a group of security robots, I'll pass by there. You can take advantage of the chaos to grab one of the robots chasing me and take it in. I'll find a way to get rid of these pursuers and meet up with you. If there's any problem, we can contact each other through the temporary channel."
"Are you okay being chased by a group of people?" Guan Hongyan asked with a frown.
"It's okay," Shi Zhou shook his head, "If it doesn't work out, I can still re-enter the company and use Shi Ting's identity."
She wrote and drew on the screen, and sent a hand-drawn rough diagram to the temporary group chat: "The pipe opening I mentioned is right below. It will take about thirty minutes for me to go out from the supplement delivery port and climb down the building into the machine's field of vision. It will only take three minutes for you to go out from the company gate to the pipe opening if you don't need to avoid the guards."
She turned around and asked, "Isaac, if I am being chased, will all the security machines around here chase me?"
"Not necessarily," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "If it were me, I would call on some to join the pursuit, and the rest to stay where they are to do their daily guard work."
"But this also means that the original security level will be reduced." Without waiting for Shi Zhou to respond, he continued, "A few more people can go out."
"Take different routes and get as many guard robots as possible away from this area. It takes time to call in robots from other areas, so as long as you move fast enough, you will make it in time."
"How long will it take you to overwrite our information?" Shi Zhou bit his lower lip. "I can guarantee that I can hide from them for about ten minutes, but I don't know about the others."
"I'm not familiar with this place. I can only last five minutes at most," Guan Hongyan prepared for the worst. "And if I have to, I might attack other machines and guards..."
Shi Zhou: "That will attract the scavengers."
"It won't take five minutes," Bai Jinshu interrupted the conversation between the two men in time, "Give me thirty seconds, thirty seconds will be enough."
"Thirty seconds..." Shi Zhou was a little unbelievable, "Don't you need to type on the keyboard? Don't you programmers have to type a bunch of hacker-like codes on the keyboard..."
"Sorry, that happened centuries ago." There was no expression on Isaac's face, but Shi Zhou vaguely saw a kind of mockery based on technology from it.
"I have a data port." He stretched out his hand, and the extremely lifelike skin on the back of Isaac's hand popped open like a cover. "As long as my data is connected to the machine's data, it can replace it to connect to the database and overwrite all of our information."
"If it's true as you said that Night City's AI is capable of coordinating the entire city, then this process will take no more than five seconds. My computing power is much stronger than his, and it won't be blocked by his firewall at all." He said in a cold voice.
Lu Changfeng watched Isaac open a data port on the back of his hand like a modified person in a movie, and his mouth was almost unable to close: "Then...what if Night City's AI actually has more powerful computing power?"
"Impossible," Isaac glanced at him calmly, "Here even the resources of the replicants have to be reused twice or tertiary. If the computing power of the AI far exceeds the requirements for the overall operation of a city, then it is a waste."
Wasting resources is a crime.
Such waste might occur in other places, but it is impossible to occur in Night City where resource control is so precise.
Guan Hongyan was puzzled: "Then why did you say it would take thirty seconds?"
Wouldn't it be no more than five seconds?
"Error tolerance," Bai Jinshu also looked up at her, a blue light flashing in his eyes, "There is no artificial intelligence that can make absolutely accurate judgments. Any engineer knows that you need to leave some room for error in the machine."
"Oh...oh, I see."
Actually, I have no idea.
Lu Changfeng watched the others discuss the action plan without any sense of participation. Shi Zhou was about to leave from the feed delivery port above. Before leaving, she started a countdown and told everyone that if she had time to send a message in the temporary chat group, she would send a 1 before entering the AI scan. If she didn't have time, she would count according to the countdown. When the countdown ended in 30 minutes, it meant that she had entered the scanning and pursuit of the Night City security machine.
Guan Hongyan left a little later than her. She took another route and entered the machine scan a few minutes later than Shi Zhou. This was to lure away the second wave of security robots and once again divide the security network in this area.
The remaining four people are responsible for grabbing a machine from the pipe opening which is a dead end at the other end. If there are patrol devices on the way passing by Shi Zhou and Guan Hongyan, let Zhang Pei and Lu Changfeng go out again.
Lu Changfeng stood behind his brother Isaac, watching Isaac calmly lift up the back of his hand, revealing a bunch of interfaces, and even dragging a long data cable out from it. He couldn't help but be shocked and said: "Brother Isaac... There are also different data ports in the interstellar era."
There are Micro USB Android ports, Type-C fast charging ports, and Lightning Apple ports, but none of them are interchangeable.
It seems that even in the interstellar age, humans have still not achieved the pioneering work of the great Qin Shi Huangdi in data interfaces - standardizing the wheel gauge and the writing system.
"No, we don't use data cables in the interstellar era," Isaac, a member of the Human Federation who was standing high above him, glanced at him coldly, "I'm just worried that the AI here is too low-level."
Lu Changfeng: ...
I'm sorry, he was judging the belly of the Universal Federation with the heart of Earth civilization.
The author has something to say:
The Gestalt that Metal is talking about is not the Gestalt in psychology, but the Gestalt in the Paradox game Stellaris. In the game, the Gestalt can choose routes, one of which is the mechanical race route.
In this kind of society, all mechanical life forms have unified consciousness and everyone shares the same idea. There will be no deception, no crime, no generation gap, and no communication barriers in the society. This is a true utopian system based on mechanical life.
The meme of flesh and blood being weak and mechanical ascension comes from Stellaris. The three major ascension modes, genetic ascension, mechanical ascension, and psychic ascension, are also in Stellaris. The fourth disaster and your house turning into a mine are also memes from Stellaris.
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