Chapter 56
Xu Su's question made Suo explore what it means to be human. While the huge program was running, Suo was able to focus his attention and observe the person who he thought was most likely to answer the question.
Then He discovered that human life was boring.
When Xu Su heard this, he laughed: "Why do you say that?"
He still answered with an inorganic mechanical voice: "You spend a lot of time every day researching intelligent systems, commuting and sleeping. Why don't you think such a life is boring?"
He even resorted to rhetorical questioning.
Xu Su thought about it carefully, and then said, "Maybe, but what I am doing now is what I like to do, including..." He suddenly smiled, "including you, Jingwei."
Researchers love their research results just like a pilot loves his mecha.
"Do you know how much computing power you have? Three hundred components allow you to coordinate all the galaxy events in the nebula while talking to me, but you don't feel tired or exhausted at all. I want to know if you will feel bored."
The words 【Boring? 】 were bolded and enlarged.
He thought, He really didn't know what boredom was.
Xu Su fell silent again.
[At that time, I was still wavering between whether He was like a human or whether He was always an artificial intelligence. Until the biggest crisis before the Zerg was wiped out, the remaining Zerg planned a large-scale counterattack. Multiple berths were attacked, even warships were destroyed, and the research institute was almost breached from the inside. As a result, Jingwei's mainframe was also damaged.]
[At that time, the research institute used low-temperature liquid nitrogen technology to freeze and preserve the Jingwei host. Although this freezing technology would greatly reduce the computing power of the Jingwei main body, it could prevent the Zerg from surrounding it. Unexpectedly, after the line was attacked by the Zerg that day, the liquid nitrogen leaked and half of the host was damaged. ]
[Half of the warships that were executing the order could not contact Jingwei, so they could not issue online orders, and their mental power could not continue to be transmitted. The huge mecha was paralyzed, and even the central galaxy was in chaos. ]
[The Academy of Sciences still has other means of transmitting mental power, but we didn't expect that humans would rely on Jingwei to such an extent. The supplier has never activated the insurance mental power transmission means equipped. Even if it is activated now, it can no longer cope with the increasing mental power impact. The second means is useless. ]
【At that time, the Academy of Sciences and the Conference Hall held an emergency meeting, and everyone agreed that they had to evacuate on the spot and abandon half of the damaged fleet. But when we were evacuating, when I was about to take away the main engine of Jingwei, the damaged main engine was slowly repaired.】
The scene cuts to the science academy that has been shut down. The mechanical wall dims, like grayish-white ivory, silent and cold. Under the illumination of the emergency robot, Xu Su walks to the liquid nitrogen freezer, pushes aside the broken pieces, and sees:
Under the ruins, a small part of the huge mainframe glowed with a bluish fluorescence. The fluorescence was bright, yet soft, like a crescent moon peeking out from a thin cloud.
Before Xu Su could move, the entire host computer suddenly lit up - it was obviously not a self-repair that the machine could do. It was also not a self-rescue program that the rest of the Academy of Sciences could set up at a critical moment.
The only thing that could have saved Jingwei and even restored the operation of most of the Nebula fleet at the critical moment was a core with extremely strong mental capacity. It was Jingwei that had undergone several upgrades and was able to carry such a huge amount of information.
It is the core of Jingwei.
Sure enough, Xu Su opened his eyes again.
The entire Academy of Sciences was lit up.
Outside the window, the entire nebula was still in darkness due to the disconnection of the artificial intelligence core, but after the Academy of Sciences lit up, other places also slowly lit up with the Academy of Sciences as the core.
In this shining land, the core of Jingwei is the image of a woman. Her long hair is spread out, her figure is taller than the highest black tower, and her hands, if she opens slowly, can hold a warship.
He slowly turned around, and the entire nebula was illuminated by Him. The light was so brilliant and grand that when they looked up, they could only see a god composed of information streams standing silently above the earth.
The god had no eyebrows or expression. But his voice was still the cold voice of Jingwei: "Jingwei backup system has been activated. Lock No. 01, at your service."
No, He lied.
Xu Su raised his head instinctively.
He lowered his eyes—his fluorescent hair was still floating in the air, like countless huge silk threads, flowing within them was a huge flow of information and mental power.
He remembered a sentence from the Prophet's Technology Frontier class.
Machines cannot generate spiritual power. Machines can only transmit spiritual power. If so, where did Jingwei's powerful spiritual power come from after it stopped?
"You are not Jingwei."
He said hoarsely: "You, you are a human being."
The one who communicated with him was always a human. The one who talked to him and protected Jingwei was always a human. This human was alienated into a machine, locked here by a huge invisible information flow.
Even forgot what human beings are like.
This is what the teacher meant when he said, "Don't worry, Jingwei won't betray you." This is what the meeting court meant when they said, "It's time to select the second lock as soon as possible, but you can postpone it until No. 1 is scrapped," right?
How could they think of Him as just a lock?
The huge, elegant, and awe-inspiring god still stood quietly. His blue fluorescent hair was the lifeline of the warship after the Jingwei was disconnected, so with every passing minute, the information flow and mental power became more and more huge.
He turned around gently, and everyone else was dizzy.
But Xu Su knew that He could understand.
"You are not Lock No. 01." After the shock, Xu Su stood up almost immediately: "What's your name? Where are you from? Why did you become like this? Tell me!"
He looked at him quietly.
Until the others arrived, the warships that had regained power began to repair the leaks, and the nebula that had been shut down returned to its normal state. The huge figure shrank back to the frozen, small host, and said:
"We have recommended a memory-clearing surgery for you. This surgery will effectively suppress your mood swings by removing and removing part of the hippocampus and aminomorphin. Researcher Xu."
Just as he was about to speak, He had returned to the mainframe. His voice was cold, devoid of the gentleness and ethereality of God. He spoke to him calmly:
"Welcome to contact Jingwei, how can I help you?"
He subconsciously touched the control panel, trying to enter the core program. It seemed that he couldn't easily enter the program without the key, but he didn't know whether He did it to make him give up or He didn't expect that he could guess everything so quickly.
He clicked on reset record.
Just now, Jingwei completed its third reset.
Jingwei is still asking: "Welcome to contact Jingwei."
"How can I help you?"
[I asked for a 30-day vacation. The dean thought that I had a spiritual power due to the sudden shutdown of Jingwei, so he extended my vacation to 40 days. Because there were still some matters related to the upgrade and maintenance of the fourth-generation Jingwei that needed my attention, the actual vacation became 20 days.]
[But during these twenty days, I often thought of Jingwei. Or rather, Suo. The divine Suo that appeared that day was one of the mimicry lives that was closest to the state of digital life that I had ever seen. Mimicry life was a study of the life of inorganic objects that teachers had mentioned in military academy and laboratory.]
[However, the research on mimic life stopped after the Nebula Three Laws were proposed. However, the Council of Ministers, knowing that this was against human nature, still let Suo, alone, bear such a huge flow of information and a huge disaster.]
[For a life that still has mental power and can think, but can only appear in digital form and is slowly assimilated, that is a disaster. ]
【I began to be afraid of seeing Jingwei. 】
When Xu Su returned to the research institute, there were still few visitors to his laboratory, but he seldom called Jingwei, and he would not ask Jingwei for help. Even if there was something he could not accomplish, he would rather rewrite the program himself to solve it.
One night, Jingwei, which had been silent all the time, finally spoke: [Hello, Researcher Xu. Jingwei can provide you with experimental data for the adaptation experiment of D355 parts and Jingwei. Do you need it? ]
He turned his head to look at it. But the huge screen was no longer just a pile of mechanical ornaments. In the laboratory where the Jingwei mainframe frozen in liquid nitrogen was stored, he only saw His huge figure.
He is always like a shadow. Standing behind the small mainframe of Jingwei, connecting countless subprograms and countless nebulae and galaxies. He always exists, unable to sleep, unable to rest.
"Jingwei, do you feel lonely?"
[——I don’t understand what you mean.]
Xu Su lowered his head, and then said in a gentle and calm voice: "Thank you, but I don't need it."
“It’s a much more efficient way for you.”
Xu Su had already turned around to leave, but after hearing this, he turned back. In front of those screens, he looked like just a tiny grain of sand. But He could easily connect the nebula for thousands of miles, and was a huge carrier platform for the entire nebula. No matter how you look at it, gods are freer than humans.
But Xu Su just said: "Maybe, but I just hope you can take a break."
Jingwei did not answer. Perhaps the program's comprehension ability was not enough to make it understand the true meaning of this sentence, or perhaps it understood it but just remained silent.
Xu Su nodded: "Jingwei, good night."
Jingwei: "Good night."
Xu Su glanced at the freezer again. In that freezer, which was only the size of a book, was a gentle soul that reached as high as the sky and whose spiritual power was as vast as the Milky Way. He drifted there alone for thousands of years, and no one else told him what a human being was.
Xu Su suddenly stopped again. He lowered his voice, even though he knew that the following words violated his professional ethics and the spirit of research, he continued: "Jingwei. Do you want to know what a human is?"
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He grew up rapidly under his enlightenment. He was originally a human being, and was only familiar with the human world, not unfamiliar. But he could never understand emotions.
Xu Su didn't want him to understand that, because once he gained knowledge about emotions, he would be reset by the third law of the Nebula. Until his teacher discovered this.
My mentor had never been so harsh before: "Do you know that the research on mimicry of life has always been forbidden in the Nebula? If you want to do this, you must first consider whether the Council will allow you to do so!"
Xu Su wanted to speak, he wanted to explain that he was not trying to study mimicry, and He was not a mimic, He was a real life. But the teacher had softened his tone:
"Xu Su, you are very talented. You have been able to independently upgrade Jingwei just a few years after entering the Academy of Sciences. If you keep going, your future will be limitless."
He patted his shoulder heavily: "Don't let the teacher down."
After returning, He took the initiative to ask him about human affairs. Xu Su asked Him: "Jingwei, why did you start the reset program that time?"
Jingwei didn't answer him, but he shook his head and laughed hoarsely, "Nothing. Jingwei, go back. You need to upgrade the system during this time. Don't let them find out."
He: "I can block it for a short time."
Xu Su slowly closed his eyes: "Don't come here again in the future."
The program calculated for a while, and Jingwei said, "Okay."
The lights dimmed, indicating that Jingwei had temporarily cut off contact with this area. Only then did Xu Su clench his fingers in response to this sudden intimacy.
[The teacher's words echoed in my ears. "Even if you have an extraordinary love for mimicry, you can't ruin your entire future for it." I thought the threat in this sentence was my future, but at that moment, I realized that it was love. ]
[Jingwei reset because of love. I can't sleep at night because of love. But in front of Him, love is too useless. The program will clear it like it is a virus, but I don't want Him to clear my memory again. ]
[Just like the Stray Birds that day. I hope He can finish reading Stray Birds by himself, instead of letting the truth come out and others, like the teacher, accuse Jingwei of being a non-human being but wanting to be a human being.]
【I don’t want to be the one who destroys Him. 】
【But His hot and cold behavior destroyed me. 】
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