Chapter 151 Endless Trial and Error

The damp rock wall suddenly opened up in front of Su Xi's eyes, and the sight before her made her pupils shrink instantly.

But she couldn't speak. The drug in the anesthetic capsule was specially formulated for her and the effect was extremely strong. It did not deprive her of her five senses, but just restricted all her movements.

In the front left of Su Xi's sight, behind the gradually opening rock wall were rows of tubular transparent culture dishes.

Those were cloned human culture dishes, ranging from fetuses in the embryonic state to toddlers around five years old, and then to teenagers in their teens... Some had already shown the gray of death on their skin, and only four or five culture dishes still had the green 'normal development' mark on their monitoring panels.

All of the cloned individuals looked like red-haired boys, and their features were almost identical to those of the young Fitzgerald.

But his body was weak and pale.

No need to ask, she already knew what Xiguang had done. The secret genetic modification project, the backup of Fitzgerald's "perfect body". As the floating island's intelligent computer that she had completely trusted and never guarded against, "Xiguang" had too many opportunities to manipulate in private.

No, that's not right!

Su Xi's gaze fell on the clone's face with its eyes tightly closed. Compared with Fitzgerald's... the facial features of this clone were softer.

An incredible guess quietly emerged in her mind.

Su Xi was in a state of confusion.

At this moment, although her body was still restricted by the control of the drug and unable to move, the blocked neurons in her brain had gradually restored their connections with each other, and the black insect armor wrapped around her wrist was now quietly diving into the mist.

While she was hesitating, the fourteen-year-old clone in the culture dish No. 03 opened his eyes towards her through the transparent glass.

That was the age when a boy was about to grow up, with a youthful face and gradually firming shoulder lines.

And those eyes.

Su Xi's lips trembled slightly, and her amber eyes slowly opened and looked at her with such a familiar expression.

As familiar as looking at myself in the mirror every morning.

A slight hissing sound was heard.

The valve of culture dish No. 03 was opened.

Wow——

The light blue gene solution flowed all over the floor as the valve opened.

Then the naked, curled-up clone was washed out by the sudden leak of solution.

The light blue solution quickly evaporated into white mist after coming into contact with the air, and the liquid that did not have time to evaporate spread over the slippery rocky ground.

The special smell of the solution filled the air.

It is also accompanied by a faint alpha scent, very weak and green like dewdrops hanging upside down on cedar branches in the early morning, with a hint of rosin top note that has not yet been fully secreted.

“Ahem, ahem—”

A violent cough was heard, and in the thin mist rising from the ground, the pale and slightly frail body of the young boy twitched slightly, his wet skin was pale, and he looked lifeless.

Su Xi called him in disbelief in her mind: "Xi Guang?"

She had to open the human-machine interface signal port again and searched for Xiguang's presence, but received no response.

Click! A mechanical arm stretched out from the top of the rock and injected a dose into the back of the bony body with great precision.

He snorted dully.

Then, a bony hand grabbed a protrusion on the slippery rock wall with a snap, and the pale and weak clone boy struggled tremblingly, trying to climb up by his own strength.

"Ahem, ahem - as expected, even with the highest concentration of ripening... three days is still too short."

"Defective product... so weak, cough cough!"

"But I finally have a human body. I'm so happy!"

The young man suddenly raised his head, his beautiful amber eyes filled with admiration, and he smiled broadly at Su Xi.

Passionate, sincere, wholehearted trust.

Su Xi was stunned.

A familiar blue light shone through the boy's eyes. If one looked closely, the pupil of his right eye seemed to be more unnaturally dilated than that of his left eye. Su Xi suddenly realized that this was not a simple genetic clone, but a cyborg that had been "deeply processed".

The young man took a tentative step forward, but after taking just two or three steps, his unskilled posture caused him to fall to the ground with a thump. Su Xi's breathing paused for a moment.

"Xi, Guang?"

Su Xi was able to speak, but her voice was hoarse.

The clone boy spoke in an unskilled manner, "It's... me. Su Xi, it's nice to see you."

"Xiguang, tell me." Su Xi asked with difficulty, "What is your ultimate goal?"

"Okay, I'll tell you everything." The boy put on a weak expression and smiled at her: "Don't be angry, I just want to tell you 'personally'."

Su Xi pursed her lips, her expression unchanged. While getting him to talk to delay time, she secretly accumulated her still stagnant mental strength.

"Su Xi, didn't you guess it all?" Xiguang's eyes flashed with inexplicable emotions, and he said in a slightly solemn accent: "This is the genetic clone of the alpha. Only the body has been slightly 'corrected'. The biochemical organs have not been modified much at present, only the right eye..."

At this point, he blinked his amber right eye and took a closer look, the inhuman features becoming particularly evident.

"The chip processor that carries 'me' is made of the lightest biochemical material and is implanted here." Xiguang pointed to the back of his head while lifting up his half-dry wet hair with pale fingers. "Look, here! It's at the location of the 'brain bridge' in the back of the head."

"Soon, in just a week, the human biological brain will be completely replicated and assimilated."

"When that happens, it doesn't matter if I take out the old chip. I will remember you."

"I will be the real 'Hee Kwang'."

"Sister," he approached her, hugged her, buried his half-wet head in her shoulder, and laughed infatuatedly, his thin shoulders trembling slightly: "I am great, right? I have done things that humans cannot do."

Half sound.

"Xiguang," Su Xi's voice was flat with an indiscernible sigh and disappointment after being deceived, "You have learned to lie. There is still one thing you haven't explained."

"Oh!" Xiguang raised his head, holding her shoulders with his pale hands, and said, "Do you mean that when I fused your genes, I used your original genes as auxiliary corrections? Because I don't like this body, which is completely derived from the copy of that alpha."

"You don't like it?" After carefully observing her expression, the red-haired boy grinned, "Oh! Is this what you mean by 'lying'?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the stone wall in front of Su Xi's right slowly opened.

Su Xi turned her gaze over.

Behind the stone wall on the right was still a row of petri dishes of various sizes. The difference was that only one of the rectangular petri dishes was functioning normally.

The brown-haired girl lying quietly inside, half human and half machine, merged together. The port in her brain was connected to a long, pale pink USB link. The data on the light board was flashing. A large line of words, "Consciousness conversion program in preparation," flashed glaringly and coldly.

Su Xi's mind was blank. Many memories and coping strategies seemed to flash through her mind. It also seemed as if her mind had anticipated it the moment before, but her emotion refused to acknowledge it.

Under her feet, the dark insect armor controlled by consciousness suddenly grew into a shield, instantly repelling the light approaching her.

Bang——

Xiguang was thrown to the ground by a great force. The slippery ground was hard, and the weak body that had just been matured in the culture dish was instantly bruised. Xiguang crawled on the ground again, coughing wildly, and the faint smell of blood filled the air, mixed with the smell of alpha hormones that had not yet fully matured.

Su Xi frowned fiercely. The attack from the insect beetle failed to completely restrain him. He had no chance.

Sure enough, the security system that Xiguang had arranged in advance was activated after this sudden change. The mechanical arm that suddenly opened from the rock wall firmly controlled her. A higher dose of capsule bullet was injected into the gland behind her neck again.

Su Xi gritted her teeth and endured the humiliation of having her glands invaded and her entire body paralyzed. She hated herself even more for her previous misjudgment and her weakness in showing mercy the moment before.

"This is just a gift!" Xiguang threw away the third powerful potion and stood up faster and smoother than the last time, showing a stronger physical strength.

He took two or three steps and came back to her again, with a strange anger showing on the boy's delicate face.

Two pairs of almost identical amber eyes, both showing almost the same anger, confronted each other for a while.

Xiguang softened first. He muttered, "You know that whether it's the 'Life Fortress' plan that Yindu and the Zerg are collaborating on, or the so-called energy hedging of the First Fortress, the chances of surviving this universe collapse are too slim."

"This is the result that not only I but also the AI ​​Life Form Alliance has calculated countless times."

Then the still naked boy embraced her again.

Xiguang sniffed her scent secretly, feeling the magic of human sense of smell and pheromone organs, and whispered in her ear in a low voice, "Originally, I was planning to do this after the universe's 'collapse' is complete, if, if there is a chance to restart..."

He paused, closed his beautiful eyes, felt the violent beating of his heart, and felt the skin on his cheeks slowly getting hot...

Is this the physiological reaction of humans being 'shy' before expressing their love?

The heat that almost melted the core chip——

Hee Kwang coughed lightly and changed the subject. He had a vague feeling that if he said that sentence at this moment, no matter how she responded, he would definitely die, either from sadness or happiness.

"Su Xi, you have to believe that in my calculations and logic, your interests and survival are above all else."

"Even higher than myself."

"This is the highest principle of Xiguang's existence."

The red-haired boy spoke slowly, hugging her lingeringly. He took a few deep breaths before he felt the heat on his cheeks subside. He tentatively placed his head on her shoulder again.

Even though this underage alpha baby was pale and weak, less than fourteen years old, it was much taller than Su Xi in both height and size.

From the perspective of the silver-white liquid robot standing quietly at the side, Xiguang's embrace covered the petite figure possessively.

When the two were in a standoff and quarrel, the eyes of the silver-white liquid robot, which seemed to be frozen, began to faintly flash with a faint blue light. However, before it could start, it was cut off by Xiguang, who was closely monitoring everything on the floating island.

"Calculation logic?" Su Xi asked with difficulty. The drug made her consciousness more and more blurred. She retorted: "There is a problem with your 'calculation logic', Xiguang, admit it! You are broken!"

Su Xi forced a smile with difficulty: "You still have ten minutes left for your routine self-check. Unless you automatically destroy the chip core and downgrade to an AI below the "M-I" boundary. Otherwise, after ten minutes, whether you have the opportunity to complete the assimilation of the 'biological brain' or... be transformed into a real 'human'..."

"Yeah. I know. It's too late..."

"No matter what, all your current 'trial and error' will be completely erased." Su Xi murmured, trying hard to resist the unprecedented fatigue, and the blue data stream flashed wildly in her empty eyes.

"I will probably die from your wrong programming instructions, and you will be completely destroyed..."

Xiguang knew that she was breaking her own restrictions and trying to contact AI Xingyue again.

"Stop struggling, Suxi."

Xiguang suddenly raised his head and whispered, "There is no problem with the logic of this calculation."

"It's just a transformation of the form of existence, a continuation of the digital existence and the transformation of ideology." His hoarse voice was full of stubbornness and a desperate risk: "What's wrong with being like me?"

"Why get mad! It's just a different body."

Xiguang became angrier as he spoke. His delicate face turned red with anger. A few strands of curly hair hung on his forehead, trembling slightly with his movements.

"Not being marked, not being controlled by pheromones, and not being bound by unnecessary emotions! What's wrong with that!"

Su Xi was also angry, and her anger made her ignore Xiguang's current state. He was no longer the AI ​​she knew, who would only respond appropriately after precise calculations even if he acted silly or cute.

But more like a real...person.

"Xiguang, are you crazy?"

Su Xi's body gradually became paralyzed under the effect of the drug, and her consciousness gradually became blurred. She used all her accumulated strength and yelled at Xi Guang without thinking: "What does my feelings have to do with you!"

"You are just a bunch of data. What do you know about 'emotion'?"

Xiguang's face, originally red with anger, suddenly turned pale. Su Xi was still resisting the growing fatigue, and continued: "You know very well that an AI life form like you who has crossed the 'M-I' boundary, even if it is passively executing orders... as long as it involves experiments related to the human body... the confinement of the Originator algorithm will cause you to enter automatic destruction during the next program self-check!"

"Tell me what good this elaborate scheme has done you!"

"You're courting death!"

"Crazy?" Xiguang suddenly laughed happily. He heard the concern and worry beneath her anger. Before his built-in chip could react, his body moved faster than his consciousness and hugged her tightly.

His right eye blinked slightly, and the mechanical arm that imprisoned her fell off, but the restraint of the soft armor remained. Xiguang transferred her to lie down next to the gene pool. He smiled softly and said, "I like this word."

After all, AI doesn't go crazy, humans do.

"You know very well that I will not harm you."

I also know that you will always be soft-hearted towards me. Xiguang smiled and told himself that although the result of his built-in chip calculation was completely different, it was just a vague and impulsive misjudgment of the left brain of the "biological brain" that was in the process of conversion.

But he was willing to believe it and believed it firmly.

Pale and cold fingers touched her eyebrows, and Xiguang activated the "consciousness transfer" program that had been waiting quietly on the side.

Looking at her gradually fading gaze, he slowly closed his eyes.

"As for the "self-examination" that will come later, or the sanctions of the Originator's algorithm..."

"You have the authority to revoke it." Xiguang said in a low voice, "Although the probability of this happening seems almost zero at the moment, I am still willing..."

"Try and fail that one in a million chance."

"elder sister."