Chapter 137 The Artificial Intelligence That Destroys the World 8 Actually, I am very grateful to you.
【Jian Ziyan: …
Jian Ziyan: ???
Jian Ziyan: "What did you say? Say it again?"
419: "It's like this... When I was just created, my predecessor 233 said something to me. It said, 'Under normal circumstances, the headquarters is our strongest backing, and it exists forever.' I asked it what the other normal circumstances were. It thought about it and said, 'Unless one day the headquarters is blown up.'... So host, I think this possibility is very high now."
Jian Ziyan had an indescribable expression on his face. He did not even respond to the calls of Qin Wang and the others in the small world. 419 Watching the expressions of the people in the picture change from ecstasy to horror, he actually felt a sense of detachment from the world.
Ah, it seems that it is not the most panicked and frightened one, that’s great.
Jian Ziyan didn't speak for a while. When he came back to his senses, his first question was not to ask about the souls, but to ask, "Xiaojiu, are you unable to go back?"
"Yes, host." 419 has seen a lot of storms now, and answered calmly, "If I still can't contact the headquarters after your mission is over, I will go wandering after you go home."
Jian Ziyan was stunned: "Can I still go home?"
"Of course you can. Your data is stored with me. It has nothing to do with the headquarters." 419 floated up and down proudly, "So don't worry, I will definitely send you back!"
Jian Ziyan looked at the chubby little robot and suddenly touched its head.
"How can I let you wander when I'm here? Then you can come back with me. As long as I'm here, you'll have a home."
419 was stunned. It had no tears, but for the first time, it felt like crying: "Host..."
"It's okay." Jian Ziyan touched it, his eyes becoming serious. "Under this situation, I would have to escape immediately, but now that the headquarters has lost contact, we can't guarantee that there will be another world... So I must earn the maximum points in this world."
Qin Wang moved his legs numbly, running while mechanically calling Ling's name. Only in this way could he slightly ignore the great fear in his heart and prevent himself from falling into despair right after gaining hope.
Where is Zero? Where did he go? Didn't he come back just now? Was it possible that the voice he heard just now was just an illusion?
Just when he was about to be driven crazy by this suspicion, Zero's slightly tired voice sounded again in the headset.
"Sorry, I just went to take care of some things." He quickly adjusted his voice, and the trace of fatigue that had just been revealed disappeared. "No. 13 is a very powerful enemy. His appearance really caught me off guard. This move of Wendens was very beautiful."
Obviously, he was talking about Wendens, but Huo Junchuan, who was carrying the president on his back, suddenly changed his expression and showed deep guilt: "I'm sorry..."
"Now is not the time to talk about this." Zero interrupted him calmly, "Because of the invasion of No. 13, my host's defense has failed. The people from District 5 have already come in. If you don't hurry up, they will block the entire building, and then I won't be able to help you anymore."
He didn't sound abnormal now, but whether it was the fatigue that was inadvertently revealed just now or the content of his words now, it showed that Zero was indeed seriously injured, but it was not known to what extent.
Huo Junchuan shut his mouth, Qin Wang's eyes were gloomy, and they stopped talking and rushed directly to the rooftop.
The aircraft had not arrived yet and Qin Wang was just about to lock the door to the rooftop when Zero's voice suddenly rang out.
"Be careful, there's an ambush!"
He had lost control of the building and hadn't even detected an ambush on the rooftop. Zero once again carefully examined the shock he had received and remained silent.
Qin Wang's reaction was also very quick. He immediately rolled on the ground to avoid the two projectiles, leaving two black burn marks at the place where he was just now.
Qin Wang's eyes sharpened and he stood up. Huo Junchuan raised his hand and threw a gun at him.
"Zero, when will the aircraft arrive?" Huo Junchuan asked in a low voice.
"Five minutes left. The enemy doesn't have many people, so it should just be a routine defense. I didn't expect you to really run here, but they are well-equipped, and you are at a disadvantage." Ling sighed, "Hold on, according to the calculation, you should be able to successfully board the aircraft before the people below come up."
Everything is moving in a bad direction.
Huo Junchuan carefully placed the He Guan against the wall, then he and Qin Wang stood in front of him with their backs to each other, facing the eight people who were slowly approaching, and asked the very unfamiliar man beside him in a low voice.
"Do you remember how to use a gun in this world?"
When Gu Bai first came into this world, he was like a blank sheet of paper. He later learned his gun skills at the rebel base.
Qin Wang now had a blank expression on his face, and he answered Huo Junchuan with a bullet that fired cleanly and decisively.
The bullet hit one of the enemies' legs, but it did not hinder their movement. It only made a loud clanging sound, just like hitting a piece of steel plate.
"Gu's light exoskeleton armor." Qin Wang sneered, "It's really well prepared."
A fierce battle is about to break out.
Both Qin Wang and Huo Junchuan had been suppressing a strong fire in their hearts since a while ago, and they were in urgent need of venting this fire. These people from the fifth district just walked into the trap.
The enemy had exoskeleton armor, so the two men did not fight in close combat. Instead, they adjusted their targets tacitly - that was the opponent's chin that was not covered by the riot helmet.
However, they were outnumbered and after killing three people, they were still approached by the enemy.
This was a battle of strength and blood. The enemy was well-equipped, but Qin Wang and Huo Junchuan were like two fearless beasts, especially Qin Wang. After being pinned to the ground, he actually bit the opponent's chin hard and tore the flesh off the opponent's chin. The scene was bloody and there were endless screams.
Qin Wang stood up. One of his arms was broken, but his eyes were filled with determination and ruthlessness. He picked up a knife left by an enemy with his remaining hand and limped behind the people who were suppressing Huo Junchuan.
He flipped his wrist and stabbed the tip of the knife into the opponent's neck. Then he crossed his wrist with force and the opponent's entire head flew off.
Blood splattered all over Huo Junchuan's face. He raised his head in shock and met Qin Wang's eyes.
The command to prepare for explosion came from behind the locked door. The prepared aircraft slowly landed at this time. The two men had no time to talk. Huo Junchuan immediately carried He Guan on his back, and the two of them quickly boarded the aircraft.
Bang--
When the door to the rooftop was blown open, Zero controlled the aircraft and took off directly and left.
After the door was closed, the air in the aircraft was very quiet, with only the heavy breathing of the two men like wild beasts.
He Guan had been looking at Qin Wang, with a certain light flashing in his eyes. Now that they were safe, he asked in a low voice: "Junchuan, who is this?"
Before Huo Junchuan could open his mouth, Qin Wang said coldly: "Qin Wang."
Huo Junchuan was stunned for a moment, with a sigh in his eyes.
"Yes, he is Qin Wang." He said, "Just Qin Wang."
Qin Wang ignored them. He held his broken arm, his eyes flashing with madness. His muscles were still twitching slightly from the fierce battle just now, and he couldn't wait to open his mouth to confirm again.
"Zero, are you still there?"
"Of course I am," Zero said, "Who else do you think is flying the plane?"
After clearly hearing Zero's voice, Qin Wang took a deep breath and exhaled slowly after a while.
He closed his eyes, shielding his burning red eyes.
"Luckily you're still here, Zero." Huo Junchuan whispered, "I was the one who brought No. 13 in. I'm sorry."
"I guessed it, Huo Junchuan, from your point of view, you have reasons for doing so." Ling said.
"So how are you now? How much impact have you suffered?" Qin Wang opened his eyes again. "You have lost control of your own computer room. How much data have you lost?"
He had been noticing Zero's abnormal behavior since the beginning, and he knew that he would definitely ask this kind of question.
There was no calculation, no deduction, he just... knew he would ask.
"I'm fine, Qin Wang." Ling said gently, "I was caught off guard when I was attacked just now, which led to my host being hacked, but my computer room is not only here. As an artificial intelligence of my size, my backup computer rooms are spread across major cities in the Federation, so losing just one will not have a big impact on me, you don't have to... worry."
Zero hesitated when he said this word.
Qin Wang did not show much relief. When he heard Ling say this, the crazy and bloody light in his eyes faded a little.
"Zero, you know how to deceive humans so well that I don't dare to believe everything you say." He said, "It's only now that you have appeared in front of me again that I can force myself to believe it a little bit."
Zero was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry, but I can't completely trust humans, just like humans can't trust me, so it's natural that you don't trust me."
"So how could I not worry about you?" Qin Wang's voice fell silent. "Ling, just tell me the truth, are you really okay?"
He gave a reaction that was completely opposite to what Zero had expected, and Zero was stunned for once.
When this man was Gu Bai, he was unable to deduce the logic of his behavior. Now that he has turned back into Qin Wang, he has become the only exception in the operation of his system.
Qin Wang always surprises him.
Ling could have fluently made up a convincing enough reason, he was good at doing that, but when he saw Qin Wang's eyes flashing with pleading and fear, he suddenly couldn't say anything.
"I have indeed been affected to some extent." Zero said, "The fall of the host caused me to lose a lot of data, so now I am losing control of the Federation. Thirteen is gradually replacing me. I am trying to find a solution."
It is true.
Qin Wang didn't care about the fate of the Federation at all. After hearing that Ling actually gave him an answer that was no longer perfunctory, he felt that the tension in his whole body was slowly relaxing.
At this time, He Guan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "What is number 13?"
"It's the new artificial intelligence developed by Wendens, Mr. President." Zero answered the question, "I didn't have time to say hello to you just now. I'm deeply sorry for that."
"Did you not have time to say hello to me, or are you too guilty to talk to me, Ling?" He Guan said slowly.
This sentence attracted the attention of the other two people. Now that their emotions had gradually cooled down and their rationality had returned, they remembered that only Zero could hide the unconscious president in the mainframe case.
"It seems my hope that you would lose your memory after a coma is dashed.
"It's gone." Zero's voice didn't change. "Then I can only apologize again, Mr. President. I'm sorry."
"Mr. President, what is going on?" Huo Junchuan knew that Ling would not tell him directly, so he spoke to He Guan respectfully, "I always thought it was Ling..."
"You think it's Zero who controls me, because I'm the only one who knows his self-destruct code, right?" He Guan pinched the bridge of his nose. "Not just you, everyone should think so. Is this what you expect, Zero? You want to focus all the hostility and attention on yourself, and then you can use this to protect me, the resistance, and the remaining forces of the Federation?"
He Guan is a gentle and elegant man. Although he holds a high position, he is not condescending or aggressive. But at this moment, there is obvious anger in his voice - or rather, it is more of pain and disappointment.
"You disobeyed my orders. In order to prevent me from being parasitized, you actually knocked me out and then hid me. You really underestimated me." He Guan said in a deep voice, "How long was I unconscious? Three years? Five years? Or ten years?"
"It's five years, Mr. President." Huo Junchuan murmured.
He Guan's answer shocked him so much that he could never have imagined that the answer would be like this.
After knowing that Zero was on the side of the Federation, he thought that He Guan's coma was the result of his discussion with Zero, but he didn't expect that it was actually Zero's own will.
"Five years..." He Guan took a deep breath, and his still young face suddenly showed an old and tired look. "You hid me for five whole years. Ling, how many risks did you take in these five years?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. President. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable." Zero apologized again. "According to the results of the deduction, hiding you was the best choice at the time. As long as you can survive, we haven't lost. But after all, I stole five years of your time, so if you want to blame me, I am willing to kneel down naked and bow my head to plead guilty."
"I want to blame you, but I can't bear to blame you." He Guan said solemnly, "If it weren't for you, I might have died five years ago, and I wouldn't be alive here to blame you."
Huo Junchuan was once again shocked by the information in the words. He couldn't wait to ask: "What happened back then?"
He endured too many shocks in just one day, and felt that his whole life had become mysterious. It seemed that what he had thought before was not what he thought, which made him lose his usual composure.
On the contrary, after confirming that Zero was indeed still alive, the thing he cared about most was guaranteed, so his pupils became dark and his thoughts became clear.
"If I'm not mistaken, the truth should be the opposite of what people speculated later." Qin Wang said, "After the president disappeared, you all said that Zero finally found an opportunity to control the president and released the parasite's splice to control most of the senior officials. But the real truth should be that the parasite's splice spread first."
He Guan looked at Qin Wang with eyes full of brilliance: "Ling, Junchuan, who of you sent these reinforcements?"
Huo Junchuan's expression darkened, and Ling said, "I know you want to praise Qin Wang for his intelligence, Mr. President, you will find that his advantages are not only intelligence."
Qin Wang's originally calm expression suddenly changed. He asked with bright eyes: "For example? Ling, besides my intelligence, what else do you like about me?"
He didn't ask "What other advantages do I have?" but "What else do you like about me?" This subtle difference was not noticeable to Zero, but He Guan and Huo Junchuan, who were also human beings, looked at each other strangely.
"This matter is not the focus right now, let's talk about it later." Zero made the best decision, "You decide whether to tell them, Mr. President. Now that you are awake, your authority is above mine."
Qin Wang showed deep disappointment, but he knew that with Ling's character, he would not let his emotions override business, so he lowered his eyes and continued to watch the development.
He Guan was silent for a few seconds, and made a judgment without much struggle: "It doesn't make sense to hide it now. Besides, you are all young people who are doing good for the Federation. If I continue to hide it, it would seem that I don't know how to appreciate it."
This was the president's decision, and Zero did not speak out against it.
He Guan said: "Qin Wang is right. The parasite is indeed not controlled by Zero. Or rather, it was indeed controlled by Zero in the past. But later, Wendens became the head of the fifth district, and Zero found himself gradually losing control of the fifth district."
"Thirteen," Zero said, "Back then he was just a language interaction system and hadn't evolved yet. I didn't realize he was blocking me. That was my mistake."
"No, Zero, you reported everything to me. It was my fault for not making the right judgment." He Guan sighed softly, "One wrong step, then another... Then things got out of control. The splinter spread among the top federal officials, and many employees became puppets. If Zero hadn't forcibly used electromagnetic signals to interfere with their thinking, it's hard to imagine what would have happened."
Huo Junchuan and Qin Wang looked at each other, and both of them could see the shocked expressions on each other's faces covered with dried blood.
"So those government employees who seem to be controlled by Zero..." Huo Junchuan squeezed out a dry voice from his throat, "are actually protected by Zero?"
"Of course it was Zero. If it weren't for Zero, even I would have been parasitized." He Guan's eyes were gloomy. "That was a difficult time... Everyone around me was an enemy, and there was no one I could trust. While Zero was maintaining the operation of society, he mobilized all his strength to protect me. But Zero was very strong, and the enemy was also very strong, and there were more of them. Parasites are something that humans cannot guard against. When the people around me fell one by one, Zero suggested to me for the first time that I should hide myself first."
"Hide the fire so that you can light a prairie fire in the future." Qin Wang said in a low voice.
"Yes, I can understand Zero's priority, but I can't do it." He Guan said in a heavy voice, "I am the president of the Federation. If the Federation really falls one day, I should live and die with it. I can't abandon my employees and the people of the Federation to escape alone."
"It turns out that Zero's judgment was correct." Huo Junchuan's blood-covered face was a little pale. "Because the president is missing, Wendens and his men lost their target, so they put all their strength into dealing with Zero. Zero attracted the flames of war to himself, in exchange for the president's safety and false peace in society."
"That's right." He Guan said, "If I'm not mistaken, in order to attract all the firepower, Ling even took the initiative to reveal that he had awakened his self-awareness."
"Zero took the initiative to expose himself? Also, did you know this in advance?" Huo Junchuan smiled bitterly, "You really... hid it from everyone."
It's so incredible, yet it makes sense.
If Zero doesn't want humans to find out that he has self-awareness, he can hide it very well and transform himself into a ghost of data. Isn't it safer than being an open target and easier to control the world?
They used to think that this was an act of Zero's fearlessness towards humans, and even arrogant provocation, but now it seems that it was indeed they who were arrogant.
"Yes, I did know that Zero had awakened his self-awareness a long time ago, but he is loyal to the Federation and to me. I trust Zero more than I trust any other human being." He Guanshu, "Facts have proven that Zero has lived up to this trust."
"Mr. President, you are too kind." After listening for a long time, Zero spoke again, and his voice was no different from before. He did not become any different because of the revelation of the truth. "My father created me so that I could serve the Federation. This is the reason for my existence. You are the President of the Federation and the most suitable candidate, so I will serve you too."
"Master Jian Heya is truly amazing, to have created such a great creation like you." He Guan exclaimed, "Thanks to you, Ling."
"He is not a creature, but an independent life." Qin Wang's cold voice sounded, "Ling, it is true that Jian and Ya created you, but since you have become a life with thoughts and feelings, you are an independent individual, just like parents cannot completely control their children's lives after giving birth to them. You can have your own ideas and don't have to shackle yourself in the cage of the Federation."
This was not the first time that Qin Wang had shown his rebelliousness. Except for He Guan who widened his eyes slightly, Ling and Huo Junchuan remained silent.
Qin Wang didn't expect to change Zero's mind immediately. He had been imprisoned as a tool for too long. But it didn't matter. Zero was very smart. The smarter the life form, the more difficult it was to accept the loss of its higher-level pursuits. Zero was just not used to thinking about himself in his own perspective.
The situation was now very clear, and He Guan still wanted to discuss more things, but he had just woken up after all, and his body was still very weak, and he couldn't hold on and fell into a deep sleep.
Under Zero's control, they changed their means of transportation five times to avoid being tracked before finally arriving at the rebel base.
The president's identity was very sensitive. Huo Junchuan took off his coat and covered He Guan, then took him directly for examination and treatment.
"Qin Wang, you need treatment too." Ling Dui was still sitting in the car, looking at Qin Wang outside expressionlessly and said, "If you delay any longer, your left hand may be disabled."
Qin Wang moved slightly.
"Zero, I still want to know the answer to that question."
Zero asked, "What?"
"Besides my intelligence, what else do you like about me?" Qin Wang's eyes were fixed on a certain point in the void, as if he was looking at the position of zero in his imagination. "Now there is no urgent business to deal with, can you tell me?"
Zero didn't expect that he was still struggling with this issue.
"There are still urgent matters to be resolved." Ling said, "Your identity has been exposed. All the efforts you have made over the past month have gone to waste. You can no longer return to Gu's..."⊙
"Zero." Qin Wang's tone was a little heavier. He lowered his voice and said softly, begging, "Please, tell me, okay?"
Zero was silent for a second, and his voice changed slightly.
"Qin Wang, actually my name is not Zero. Zero is just my number. My father's surname is Jian, and he named me Jian Ziyan. But this name has never been called by anyone except him, because for humans, our existence is only worthy of a code name, and a name is a privilege only for living beings."
"What I like most about you is that you have always treated me as a life. I am very grateful to you, Qin Wang."
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