Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 820

[Chapter 801 Doomsday Tour]

Dusk has fallen, and a disorderly breeze blows across the plains, picking up the fallen leaves on the hills and swirling them into the high sky. The silhouette of the city at the end of the horizon is soaked in the sunlight, and is gradually coated with a brilliant golden glow. .

This “illusion” simulated by Pilot 2 based on the remaining information in the database is so real and terrifying that even a speck of dust and a wisp of breeze are simulated to perfection. If you hadn’t known in advance that you were only consciously related to this machine, Talking to the ancient artificial intelligence, Duncan couldn’t even tell the difference between the hill and the plain and the real world.

However, this is just an illusion after all, and the perfect simulation itself is its biggest flaw – every particle of dust here is part of the calculation results of Pilot 2, and those seemingly disordered breezes, before they blow across the plain, Their trajectories have already appeared on the computing core of Pilot 2. There will never be an event that exceeds the database and calculation results, even if it is a “randomly” blown dust.

The ancient kings all knew the end trend of the world and the truth of the Great Annihilation, but only Pilot 2, a strong artificial intelligence built by advanced civilizations that once crossed the sea of stars, understood the subtle and fundamental laws of the “world”. The fatal…”difference”.

Now, he finally found another individual who could understand it all.

The tired man in a white researcher uniform sat down on the hillside. He sat on a big rock and looked at the simulated dusk in the distance in a daze.

“My creators, they have not yet reached the height that your civilization has reached, so I cannot understand the specific properties of a 0.002 second slice of the universe and what kind of future it will create – so I have to worry that your plan is just creating a larger ‘infinite sea’.

“It may be huge, even enough to accommodate trillions of stars, and it may have a long lifespan, even like a real one.” The universe is measured in units of hundreds of millions of years, but as long as the problem of “final boundary crossing” is not solved, it will still be a “sanctuary” and the development of civilization cannot exceed the upper limit of the blueprint. Then those things that once destroyed our hometown will still be You can destroy it…

“‘Paranoia’, this is the second concept related to ‘human nature’ that I learned after the creators disappeared. This ‘paranoia’ and ‘fear’ together are like The source code is usually deeply imprinted on the bottom layer of my system, which makes me think and calculate constantly to seek the possibility of making the ‘two-dimensional villain’ ‘stand up’ on a flat surface – I will Sex is called a ‘supersystemic event’

“But I failed.

“Events beyond the system are not allowed to occur in a closed-loop system. I can allow myself to continuously adjust iteration after iteration to make my logical system perfect. However, the fact is that non-closed-loop and super-systematicity are the prerogatives of the real universe.” Xiao The hillside became quiet, and Duncan looked into the distance with Pilot 2. After a while, he suddenly broke the silence: “…So to the Infinite Sea, Shirley is a ‘super system’ exists, but is it possible? This is just because the ‘information’ I carry exceeds the frame of the Infinite Sea itself – within the 0.002 second universe that I represent, this part of the information is still part of the closed-loop system. It cannot achieve self-transcendence.”

Duncan said this possibility quietly. He knew that this conjecture was not very good, because once this conjecture was established, it meant that the situation that Pilot 2 was worried about was bound to happen: no matter where it is. The old world is still in the new world, and “supersystem events” will never happen – civilization is destined to be trapped and die in a cage, even if the cage can be made very big.

Pilot 2 fell silent, and after thinking for a long time, he shook his head slightly.

“After meeting the girl, part of my thinking process considered this possibility, but in the final calculation, I rejected this conjecture,” he said slowly, “because you are not completely ‘reinvented’ She, except for your “influence,” everything that makes up Shirley is still a “product” of the shelter…

“This process can be regarded as a supersystemic event occurring in the originally closed-loop system. And you have not really changed the ‘total amount of information’ in the Boundless Sea Sanctuary during this process. In other words…that 0.002 seconds of cosmic information is still completely encapsulated in your ‘body’.

“According to me .

Based on this judgment, the ‘super system’ itself should be your ‘characteristics’. The changes that occurred in Shirley were not because she was added with ‘information’ outside of the Boundless Sea Sanctuary, but because she was contaminated with your ‘characteristics’. ‘.”

Duncan frowned in thought, but still couldn’t help but say: “But your judgment may not be accurate. As you said yourself, you have the ‘limitations’ of the closed-loop system. “

“Yes, I have a closed-loop. The limitations of the system, so I can’t really perfectly analyze and calculate things related to you, the possibility of “the new world is another boundless sea” still exists. “

Pilot 2 stopped at this, and shook his head after a moment.

“But it doesn’t matter, anyway, even so, we can’t have a better plan, ‘do our best’, many times this is the only thing we can do matter. “

Duncan didn’t say anything more, just nodded slightly, and then sat on the hillside with him, enjoying the luxurious tranquility in the dusk breeze, looking at the sparkling waves in the river on the plain.

In this In the simulated illusion, time can flow very slowly – and Duncan has not let his mind go like this for a long time,

but

as long as there is an end, the luxurious rest time always seems short.

It’s time to leave,” Duncan said suddenly, standing up from the hillside, “There’s still a long way to go. “

Yes, you still have a long way to go,” Pilot Two also stood up and looked at Duncan calmly, “You still have to meet the remaining two of us before traversing the external barrier.” After all the nodes, Gemona is still waiting for you to make an appointment – don’t keep the lady waiting too long. “

Listening to the other party’s words, Duncan was silent for a moment: “…You should know my plan, right?”

“…You are patrolling along the outer barrier, which is to destroy the world. The first step,” Pilot Two laughed, with a child-like innocence in his smile, “I know that when you leave Gemona, the countdown to the real destruction of this world has already begun – after all No matter what form the new world will be born in, the destruction of the old world is the most basic part of this process. We must first find a way to end the war that continues to this day…’The Great Annihilation’. “

He raised his arm and extended a hand to Duncan, still with a pure smile on his face.

“I don’t know what the success rate of this is, and I don’t know if we can really be ‘retained’ by you. That new world, and if it really comes, what new “attitude” will we usher in, but I believe that you will do your best, so see you in the new world. “

Duncan looked at the hand stretched out in front of him. After a brief hesitation, he held the other person’s palm.

A little green fire jumped silently between the two clasped fingers, and disappeared in an instant.

“We Goodbye in the new world. “

Duncan’s figure gradually disappeared into the air – the access link has been disconnected.

The invisible breeze blowing on the plains and hills gradually stopped at some point, and the golden-red glow that filled the sky became dimmer unconsciously. , the man wearing a white researcher uniform stood quietly on the hill, and in his field of vision, the whole world was gradually disappearing into darkness.

The vague memories from his hometown returned to sleep in the darkness, and he stayed in the darkness for a long time. After standing there for a long time, he slowly raised his right hand.

A little green fire was still dancing on the fingertips, but in the blink of an eye, the green fire was dyed with a hazy starlight, as if it had transformed into its original “true posture”.

Pilot Two raised his hand and waved lightly in the darkness.

A large area of intertwined light and shadow instantly emerged from nothingness, and in a series of astonishing changes, a picture was quickly outlined – the vast boundless sea, the city-state shrouded in darkness, the fog surrounding the entire world, and the looming figures on the edge of the fog. Nodes and barriers.

This is a “surveillance” picture of the entire world.

Pilot 2’s eyes swept across the projection, and he saw a faint star glow on the looming nodes and barriers at the edge of the screen.

Those stars spread from the node representing “Queen Leviathan”, drew a quarter arc along the outer barrier, and were currently staying on his “Navigator Node”.

The starlight seems to have eroded the barrier. Even if it is just a scene of “simulated data” transmitted through countless sensors, it still exudes some powerful and vast… “sense of presence”.

And the smell of destruction.

Pilot 2 waited quietly. After an unknown amount of time, he finally saw the starlight that stayed on the Navigator node suddenly flicker, and then began to spread towards the next node.

The starlight spreading on the barrier ring is like a “dial” indicating the day when the world will end.

After thinking for a moment, Pilot 2 turned his gaze slightly, and a line of information appeared in his field of vision and was sent to the distance:

“Sending source – LH02, to – the Lord of Fire – he is heading to you. .”

In the darkness, Pilot 2 waited for a long time. In his memory, Tarijin seemed to have never responded so slowly to a message.

But he finally received a reply, and a line of information appeared in front of him:

“The source of the message – Lord of Fire – I understand, I am ready.”

“The source of the message – LH02 – you responded very slowly, the situation is still Okay?”

“…The fire is dying out, but I’m still here.”

“…Bartok, are you still there?”

“Yes.

Queen Leviathan, still .

Are you there?”

“…Hmm.”

The hollow roar from the Death Wilderness and the murmurs from the Deep Sea Temple came vaguely. Pilot 2 breathed softly and waved away the remaining darkness in the air. shimmer.