Southern Cross. Fifty meters underground.

This once abandoned laboratory has been reactivated by the academy, and after a large-scale renovation it has become an important stronghold of the academy's mechanical faction.

At this moment, there are more than a dozen scientific researchers in white coats busy in front of a pile of precision instruments in the laboratory. On the central experimental table, there is a sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters. Inside is a bionic man made entirely of metal with a large number of precision bionic components in his body. His outer layer of skeletal fiber muscles has not yet been sprayed with synthetic skin.

Dr. A, who has not been seen for a long time, has also come to this secret base.

His expression showed a hint of nervousness and excitement. His eyes were fixed on the display screen in front of him, observing the various scan data.

a long time.

Dr. A took a deep breath, came to the center of the console, and said in a deep voice: "Prepare for consciousness uploading!"

As his orders were given, the entire laboratory quickly became busy. A large number of staff members came to their respective operating instruments and stood by. Then, extremely precise mechanical arms stretched out, and they first opened a completely sealed box immersed in a strange liquid, and carefully took out a complete human brain from it.

Then, one after another silver-white needles pierced into the brain, and along with the stimulation of bioelectric current, the brain immediately produced some slight fluctuations in thoughts.

"Prepare for consciousness upload."

“Open up the brain structure.”

"Implanting an artificial brain."

Inside the sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters, three delicate mechanical arms stretched out and gently opened the head of the central bionic man. The superalloy skull was opened, revealing the internal cavity and the densely packed sensor structure. A bionic human brain made entirely of unknown crystals was taken out by the mechanical arms and then carefully placed into the bionic man's head.

"Consciousness uploading begins!"

As the progress bar appeared on the instrument, everyone held their breath and stared at the instrument in front of them.

The mechanical faction of the academy began to study bionic humans a long time ago. The bionic technology they mastered was hundreds of years ahead of the wasteland. The early bionic humans controlled by artificial intelligence could already perform actions that were no different from ordinary people, but what they wanted to pursue was not to create a smart robot, but to completely replace the human body with bionic technology.

Therefore, this must involve a rather high-tech field, that is, "consciousness uploading."

Most of the manpower and resources of the mechanical faction of the academy were used to overcome this difficulty. They had achieved some results as early as 20 years ago, but the final results were not satisfactory. It was not until Dr. A cleaned up the internal affairs of the academy and integrated the resources of the entire academy that they really made some key breakthroughs in this field.

They discovered a special silicon crystal synthetic material and created the first truly bionic human brain.

It is quite unrealistic to upload consciousness directly to a chip. The sophisticated and complex structure of the human brain cannot be replaced by a small chip. The same is true for conventional artificial brains, because human consciousness will disappear quickly after uploading and will soon be completely assimilated by the program to become a part of artificial intelligence.

From a mystical perspective, the soul disappears after the consciousness is uploaded, leaving only a basic "human" intelligence program in the artificial brain, which does not have the ability to think.

You can understand that he has become an intelligent bionic person with the behavioral habits of his previous life.

He will do some things according to his previous habits and will retain the same way of action as before his death, but he will have no thoughts and will not think. He will only generate intelligent action instincts according to the memory instincts left in his brain.

This is not what the mechanical faction wants.

What they want is not bionic humans, but a more advanced synthetic human, a body synthesized by bionic technology but retaining human intelligence and thoughts.

The progress bar starts to increase slowly.

Dr. A stared at the thought waves on the screen in front of him. This time the opportunity to upload consciousness was very precious, because Leon was one of the few high-level bionic people in the world, and his brain itself was more adaptable to bionic technology than others.

Leon had been dead for less than 24 hours, so he should be the most likely experimental material to succeed that could be found so far.

Thinking is the key to consciousness uploading.

The human brain is actually a carrier of consciousness. The mechanical faction of the academy has long been able to extract memories from the brain, and they can even read out some memory images stored in the brain with instruments. However, memory is not the key to creating synthetic humans, but thinking is the foundation of everything about synthetic humans.

Unable to preserve human thinking, at best they just used the human brain as a chip to build a machine.

certainly.

This is also a development idea.

Because the oldest version of the STC modular system obtained by Su Ziyu is also the most advanced and most authentic version. The mother body of the STC modular system is made using the human brain as the core operation. That is the top black technology of the ancient lost empire. The central core component in the STC mother body is a complete and powerful brain component, which is the most important component of the entire body.

Of course, this technique was eventually lost.

Because using the human brain as a tool to create the STC mother machine must involve the field of psychic energy, the ancient lost empire only had the ability to use the human brain to create the STC modular system during its most prosperous period.

The technologies that Su Ziyu later acquired all used artificial intelligence as a substitute.

The progress bar moves forward bit by bit.

Just when Leon's brain finished uploading the last bit of consciousness, the thought wave signal on the screen in front of him suddenly interrupted.

Dr. A stood up almost instantly.

He stared at the instrument in front of him nervously, his face flushed red, his expression was quite complicated, and his eyes were fixed on the sealed glass instrument in front of him.

One minute, two minutes.

The entire laboratory was in a dead silence. Everyone held their breath, as if a pin drop could be heard clearly. "Failed?..." someone muttered to himself.

But at this moment, the eyelids of the bionic man in the glass instrument suddenly trembled, and then active thought waves emerged again, and it could even be said to be quite intense, just like a person's struggle before death. The thinking became dozens of times more active in an instant, and then the bionic man in the instrument opened his eyes. No emotion could be seen in his slightly glowing mechanical eyes, but the super-fiber bionic muscles on his face made a puzzled expression.

Leon looked down at his alloy arm, moved his metal fingers, and murmured, "I'm still alive?..."

Success!

In an instant, the entire laboratory was in an uproar, and many staff members cried for joy, because this represented that they had entered a new era, an era of synthetic humans.

"You're still alive." Dr. A stood up nervously, looked at Leon in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "When we found you, your brain was still intact."

"So we brought you back."

"We have uploaded your consciousness, and now you are a real synthetic human."

"How do you feel now?"

Leon fell into silence after hearing this. He closed his eyes as if he was reminiscing, but his expression gradually showed a hint of pain. This change in expression made many people nervous.

"I..." Leon moved his new body, as if he was feeling something, and murmured, "I don't know..."

“I seem to have forgotten a lot of things.”

"I only remember some scenes from the previous battle..."

Memory loss?

This discovery made many people look surprised and disappointed. Complete consciousness uploading should copy all life experiences into the artificial brain, including some forgotten scenes that were engraved in the deepest part of memory.

A complete synthetic human is almost comparable to a supercomputer and can easily retrieve all the memories stored deep in the brain.

But Leon is not in good condition now.

He seemed to have lost a large part of his memory. Although he still retained his thinking consciousness before his death, the missing memory made his current behavior confused.

"Calm down first." Dr. A said nervously, "At least you are still alive now."

"Isn't it?"

After hearing his words, Leon paused, then smiled, an ugly smile, the superfiber muscles on his face squeezed out a bitter smile, and then said: "That's true."

"But can you spray me with artificial skin first?"

"My current state."

"Honestly, it's very uncomfortable."

Leon's words brought a smile back to Dr. A's face, because Leon's current thoughts and his current needs undoubtedly showed that their consciousness uploading experiment was successful, at least mostly successful.

This is normal human thinking.

Have needs, desires, emotions, and preferences.

Although the physiological desires that synths ultimately represent will gradually disappear with the mechanical evolution of the body, synths are not emotionless robots. On the contrary, their spiritual needs will be stronger than before.

"No problem." Dr. A said hurriedly, "We will apply bionic skin to you now."

"What skin color do you like?"

"What are your needs in terms of appearance? We can satisfy you!"

Leon showed a serious expression when he heard this, then he looked at his lower limbs, hesitated for a moment and said: "I think you should install it for me first."

There was dead silence in the laboratory.

Dr. A looked a little surprised. As a pure scientific researcher, he didn't expect Leon to care so much about that place. He even saw a hint of anger in Leon's expression, so he hurriedly said, "It was our mistake."

“Time is too tight.”

"This machine originally had no gender. The specific gender characteristics were reconstructed after the consciousness was uploaded."

"We can install it for you right now."

"The latest bionic accessories are already able to transmit most of the limb touch sensations, and the efficiency of the sensors can reach about 75% of the human limb senses."

"What model do you want?"

“We can arrange it here.”

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