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The exclusive laboratory is hung with the logo of "Sky Dome Project Team".
Kameni seemed particularly excited. She touched various equipment and components in the laboratory, as well as the list of materials declared by the two people. The room is filled with various machines that the two have made over a long period of time.
Annie also saw something familiar in her eyes - the mind extraction instrument she had found in the hunting grounds. In this laboratory was the initial prototype of Unit-01, and the design drawings were scattered among the tables and chairs around it.
...Is this Kameni's invention?
Ishtar walked forward and sorted out the scattered drawings. There were two different handwritings on the paper: "You performed so outstandingly, this is inevitable."
"No, I applied several times but failed." Kameni said, "It's only because I have a senior like you who is both good in character and in academics that I can succeed. As long as you are here, many of my difficulties will be solved. Ishtar, you are really my savior."
Annie thought, you have two faces.
Ishtar collected the blueprint and put it in a folder. "Although our research is to provide terminally ill patients with another chance for new life, the digitization of life will shake human confidence in survival and undermine social stability. You must be careful not to recruit unreliable assistants."
"I know." Kameni looked at her back, "Ishtar."
"Hmm?" She turned her head, and her slightly transparent snow-white hair fell from her shoulders. Her eyelashes were also slightly transparent, and the sunlight outside the window reflected a colorful luster between her eyelashes.
This era was the racial integration period of the Aquamarine Planet, and the records of each race were not very detailed. Many people would even make a fuss when they met a mermaid... Kameni knew that she was not a pure human, but she was not sure what race the senior sister was.
"Why did you choose me among so many talented students?" Kameni looked at her and said, "In fact, other people's research topics are also very promising...but whatever I want to study, I encounter many obstacles from my family."
"Yes, our eldest daughter was almost captured and taken back for marriage." Ishtar looked at her with a smile, "If I hadn't sneaked into the noble villa area to pull you out, you would be standing in the palace of marriage wearing a white wedding dress and crystal shoes, instead of wearing tattered and wrinkled repairman's clothes, homeless and sleeping on the grass."
"...Not as bad as you say." Kameni said, "I didn't break any of your ribs when I jumped down. You are still quite strong."
"I am fluid," Ishtar said. "We chose each other, not me. Kameni, you are the most talented person I have ever seen. I believe that one day you will realize your ideal and create a new world. A new world without war and disaster."
Her hand stroked the Unit-01.
Ani looked at her mother's fingertips as they gently stroked her. The mind extraction device eventually became a "contraband" banned by both the Alliance and Skytech, and was recovered by the Agent himself. At this moment, the vision of the two seems to be just a new way out after life has reached a dead end.
After the laboratory was successfully approved, the two stayed in the laboratory for a long time, using the high-end equipment and instruments of Hailan University of Science and Technology to conduct one experiment after another.
Kameni almost eats and lives here. She was homeless and cut off from her family. Only by constant exploration and pursuit of knowledge could she fill her empty life with something.
Their research results also progressed rapidly, and artificial intelligence with better performance appeared in the public eye.
Kameni has no intention of spreading her fame; she is a pure mechanic, scientist, and scholar, and is not good at dealing with the news media. Ishtar was humble and unconcerned about fame and fortune, and many people are not aware of the true inventor of this technology.
In just a few years, the two have become the cornerstones of the Human Alliance's artificial intelligence and are known as the "Twin Stars."
While working day and night, Kameni would take a nap and wake up in the early morning with each other's clothes draped over their shoulders. Ishtar's dress was one size larger, completely covering her shoulders and back, with a faint fragrance lingering on it.
It was not the smell of any chemical detergent, but a faint fragrance that was elusive and looming, and this fragrance seemed to carry some kind of temptation.
She had never smelled anything like it anywhere else.
Kameni stood up and turned around to see Ishtar sitting in front of the screen, editing something. Her slightly transparent long hair was a little messy, and the continuous work made her look a little tired... It was really strange that she, who was known for her perfection, also looked so tired.
"Which good friend of yours are you helping again?" Kameni approached, leaned sideways beside her table, and took the steaming hot coffee from Ishtar's hand. "This is the price of having many friends."
She is single-minded, persistent, and aloof, while Ishtar is friendly, elegant, and always polite. During their past interactions, Kameny spent day and night in the laboratory, and she traveled many times and made many friends.
Even including the Zerg, which humans are naturally hostile to.
Kameni sipped his coffee. Half-sugar latte, as smooth and delicate as Ishtar herself. The partner was still carefully reviewing a speech, and his attitude was no less than that of conducting the final verification with her.
"You only slept for two hours." Ishtar said, "This is the speech of a friend of mine. He is a teacher sent by the Zerg to study at the Ocean Blue University of Technology. His name is Lorraine."
The two have stayed at the school as lecturers, teaching courses related to artificial intelligence.
Kameni: “What a common name.”
"He is the child of a Zerg leader."
"Puff." Kameni choked, his expression was very interesting, "Prince?"
"I am just a noble like you, young lady." Ishtar finished the last revision, stood up, took out a tissue, and wiped off the splattered coffee. She casually slapped the tissue into Kameni's hand and said, "I am too lazy to serve you. Wipe it yourself."
Kameni worked day and night for his research, and did not care about his appearance, looking exactly like a scientist or a mechanic. Ishtar, however, was always elegant and graceful, with a faint fragrance lingering on her fingertips and few wrinkles on her clothes.
Ishtar stood up and left.
She was spending more and more time away from the lab.
There are piles of drawings and drafts on the desk, and a large amount of data is stored in the hard drive. In the process, Ani suddenly found that her research had deviated from its original track.
In the clinical practice of the thought retrieval instrument, Kameny no longer abides by the agreement between the two.
The experimenters are no longer patients sentenced to death by medicine, but criminals.
Of course, this part of the experimental records cannot be seen by Ishtar. Ani watched silently as she sealed the file secretly, looking at her face reflected on the smooth surface.
Kameni has a pair of lonely eyes.
Her loneliness and arrogance drove away others who tried to make friends with her, and for so many years, she was only accompanied by Ishtar, who was always calm, elegant and gentle. And Ishtar was loved by everyone.
When her only friend was not around, those eyes would become extremely cold... Ani sighed in her heart, thinking that the Mother Goddess might be suffering from some mental illness... Well, maybe this illness is called severe dependence on good friends.
Without his only bridge to the outside world, Kameni became increasingly obsessed with his own research progress. Until her experimental subjects turned up homeless.
A homeless person at the bottom of society who would disappear without anyone noticing.
She gained intense excitement and satisfaction from the experiment. When everything was over, Kameni suddenly woke up. She thought that Ishtar would never forgive her.
……It doesn't matter.
Ishtar would not know.
That afternoon, ecstatic over the new data, Kameny expanded the scope of her experiments. Later, the instrument extracted the thoughts of more people.
She cultivates and debugs the "brain samples" sealed in the digital world like electronic pets.
This seems to be the prototype of intelligent life. Based on the "brain sample", the thinking circuit of artificial intelligence is completed, and the existence of "human" appears.
Pushing boundaries is addictive.
In their decades of friendship, Kameni had never changed in front of her, but in the eyes of others, the Sky Dome Project was drenched in blood and was like a devil's den.
Ani watched her perfect her research step by step.
Watching her mother help her without hesitation many times.
Looking at a peerless genius, he even forgot his own name.
Until Kameni connected a living person's brain to the new device.
This is what she calls “wetware coupling.” This was completely prohibited by the laws of Planet Aquamarine, but the Human Alliance was in a tense period of war with the Zerg at the time, and all of Kameni's research could help in the war... She was condoned and acquiesced in this.
Until she was finally found.
This incident happened thirty-fifth year after the two met. That year, Kameni was fifty-one years old. Her originally blonde hair was dotted with light silver hair. The corners of her eyes were filled with cold and mature lines. Her profound knowledge and power made her aging so intimidating.
But nothing changed for Ishtar during this year. Her lifespan was so much longer than that of humans that she was completely unaware of the decay of her human friends during their half-life.
Ishtar threw the "Holy One" control chip that the two of them had developed together onto the table.
The laboratory that was so hard to come by now seemed small and cramped. It was just so-so.
Kameni gathered her long hair and clasped her hands together. Under her palms was a scepter embedded with a controller. She stared at the screen in front of her, where light and shadow intertwined, and suddenly said, "You came back... and you didn't even tell me."
"If I always obey you, will you have to pretend to be me forever?" Ishtar said, "You have completely changed. The one who created the new world has blood on his hands."
Annie looked at her hands silently, even though she didn't actually have her own perspective now.
"That's the blood of the old world," Kameni said. "What's wrong with trampling the old world's stale order underfoot? Ishtar, you are obviously brave and good at fighting, but you are conservative to the point of being pedantic. For the sake of the future, everything I have done is worth it. Look, isn't this our achievement? Even everything you are proud of was built on the blood in my hands."
Ani nodded quietly at first, then immediately realized that the person in front of her was her mother, and shook her head, thinking sincerely, although what you said is a bit crooked, I still can't speak for you.
"...Kameni." Ishtar's expression became very complicated. "I can't...recognize you. Why...why are you talking to me like this?"
In the decades of their friendship, there has never been a quarrel beyond academic matters.
This was the only time that even Kameni herself was somewhat stunned after saying this. She turned her head and looked at the other person for a while before saying, "You should have failed to recognize me a long time ago. I'm old."
“It’s not about age…”
"This is also due to age." She interrupted Ishtar, "You are not human, you are a long-lived race, you don't understand... you have never understood my pressure and anxiety. I want to create a new world, and this world must be created in front of me, not after I die, and then some messed up person will take over my job."
"I will create a paradise," Kameni looked into her eyes and murmured, "The new race will have no lifespan limit, no disease, and no limit on survival resources. The new race will be free from birth, aging, sickness and death. After I succeed, all wars and disasters will be eliminated..."
The intelligent machines she created are truly free from birth, aging, sickness and death.
However, this derailed ideal has developed to the point where today the robotic race does not even have the concept of "vacation". Ani felt that her new world was not much better.
Angels can only watch tentacle films secretly.
At this moment, it is also a sunny afternoon. The main workplace of the Sky Dome project team has been moved away. Only cleaning robots are moving back and forth in this laboratory. The precious manuscripts and traces of the two people's work and life have been worn away like a painting with faded colors and ink.
Ishtar had not been here for a long time.
She walked towards Kameni. Just a tiny flaw could lead to the other party's endless crossing of the line over the past few decades. Faced with such a sudden change, Ishtar took a deep breath slowly, trying to calm herself down.
She raised her hand and pressed the other person's shoulder: "I don't want you to do this."
"It's too late for you to give me advice," Kameni said.
Her words did not sound like an excuse. Instead, they seemed to have been lingering in her heart for a long time. Every word was chewed and rubbed over and over again before ending up between the two of them. Kameni stared at her face: "You were the first to betray me."
Ishtar looked puzzled.
"You chose me, so I should make some achievements." She said in a hoarse voice, "Everything now is not enough, Ishtar, I will make achievements that will refresh your eyes and let you know that your choice is right... I am the most capable and helpful friend among all your friends, but you still leave frequently and keep making new friends."
Ani couldn't help but interrupt: "This is far from being a betrayal, Mother Goddess, why do you always make random accusations?"
She could only say her interruptions in her heart. But her mother Ishtar was obviously more confused at the time: "You are already on the right track in the Sky Dome Project. I can't help you with anything more."
"So you left with this reason." Kameni picked up the scattered papers on the table, on which their names were still left. "This research is not only my life's work, but also yours. But you disappeared without a trace many times. Enough. This is our common ideal, but you left me here alone!"
"But……"
"You claimed that you went there to make friends, but what's the truth?" Kameni, who had never married or had children, seemed to have said something that made her very angry. This anger was rare, and it was not her possessiveness towards her friends, but her resentment and complaint towards Ishtar for wasting her time and energy. "You went there to fall in love!"
Ishtar: “…”
Ani: “…”
For some reason, Annie suddenly understood Kameni's anger at the moment. In her eyes, the super genius senior schoolmate's obsession with making friends and falling in love was very frustrating... But she also understood her mother very well. After all, her mother would never abandon the task of reproduction of the race, which was also related to her own birth.
While Ishtar was distracted, Kameni grabbed her by the collar. The neat and dignified dress was rubbed into a mess by Kameni's rough hands. She looked at the person in front of her coldly, her eyes imprinting the other person's face into her heart, and said: "You have long given up on me and the experimental project. You have not discovered it for so many years, which is enough to prove that you have forgotten me. Ishtar, you advised me too late, all because you... ignored me."
Ishtar held her hand in return, grasping her wrist. She said calmly and gently, "If the new world you're talking about is forcibly uploading all lives into a virtual world, and in the process disregarding anyone's wishes, using any means necessary, and not hesitating to destroy, then I will no longer be with you."
"Ishtar!"
"I don't want to fight you," she said. "Please stay calm."
"Are you kidding me?" Kameni refused to let go. She couldn't believe it. "That's all? You just want to draw a line between us? What about the other things? The pain of ideological differences, the anger of betrayal, and you actually have to persuade me to calm down. You don't want to fight me?! Ishtar, is your heart made of stone? Why won't you waver?"
"I don't have the energy to investigate your faults," she replied. "I don't want to do anything to you, Kameni. We are just on different paths and have no common purpose."
The heavy sins of countless killings seemed as thin as a piece of paper beneath this simple statement.
Kameni suddenly felt that she had not even committed such a crime as strongly as she had imagined.
Her rich life is not lacking in a friend like him.
No matter how well she does, no matter if she is good or not. Given Ishtar's personality, there would always be someone who admired and loved her and was so talented around her... She was just an ordinary one among her close friends.
She was so indifferent. Make your strong concern for her seem like a joke.
Ishtar loosened his grip on her wrist, and she silently adjusted her collar and broke the "Holy One" chip that they had jointly developed in half.
"You've lost weight." Ishtar threw the broken chip into the trash can and said, "Remember to eat. Speaker Kameni."
It was a warm sunny day and she turned and left. The warm sunlight shining through the glass danced on her slightly transparent white hair, refracting brilliant light. The dust from the laboratory slowly fell in the air and landed in the half-cold coffee cup beside Kameni.
Half a minute after her mother left, Annie heard a loud "bang". She saw Kameni, who was already in a high position, smash the porcelain cup with force. Among the fragments on the ground, the manuscripts of the two fell all over the floor.
Speaker Kameni also left the old laboratory. After that day, Ishtar rarely appeared in the star field where humans were active. Her reputation was gradually worn away and gradually disappeared. Kameni moved up step by step, plundered most of the power of the Human Alliance at that time, and greatly accelerated the research on intelligent machines. She was unscrupulous, cruel and radical, and became an invisible shadow hanging over the lower class of society.
The end result of being in the same boat is often separation.
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