The Mechanic - Chapter 41

[Chapter 41 Wilderness (9)]

Uploading it back to the cloud…

makes all the preparations I and so many people have been doing for decades in vain.

Zhang Xun stared blankly at Adam, and didn’t say anything for a while.

Adam asked again softly, “Would you like to?”

“I need time and equipment.” Zhang Xun felt a cold sweat breaking out from his back, “It took me ten years to prepare the seance plan, all the transmission procedures. You’re still in Paradise Lost, I can’t upload your consciousness right away.”

Adam lowered his body and put his hands on the chair behind Zhang Xun, trapping Zhang Xun in the space surrounded by his body, “This is The only chance for you and your companions to leave. You need to think about it.”

Adam’s speech slowed down obviously, and his blue eyes seemed to see through Zhang Xun’s soul.

Is it a hint? Indicate yourself to cooperate?

Zhang Xun knew that this decision at this moment might be related to the final survival of the entire Paradise Lost. If he chooses wrongly, if he mistrusts Adam, if he really puts Adam back in the clouds. Paradise Lost will be levelled within the next year. Because Adam has collected data on the topographical structure, social order, cultural technology and other aspects of Paradise Lost.

But if he doesn’t believe in Adam, he must kill Adam. Right now. Then, he, James, Jabari, and He Yuxin would also die in this mountainside.

He had to make the right decision, and in this fleeting moment now.

At this moment, he somehow remembered a small thing. That was two weeks ago, and Zhang Xun was so absorbed in making the invisible battle suit that it was late at night before he knew it. When he looked up, he saw Adam holding the alloy, sitting on the armchair in the corner of the room, with his head tilted to one side, snoring long and not too loud. His mouth was slightly open, and even saliva overflowed from the corners of his mouth. The alloy in his arms was lying on his stomach obediently, and the tip of his tail swayed lazily.

Adam at that time really looked like a human being.

Absolutely believe…he promised after all.

Zhang Xun closed his eyes and prayed to the gods in the sky for the first time in his life. Pray he didn’t make the wrong choice.

“Okay, I’ll help you.” Zhang Xun said.

Adam’s body relaxed slightly, and a pure happy smile appeared on his face. A vivid smile that shines from the soul.

……………………………………………………

The servers made by Feathered Serpent City were buried in the ground of the vast arsenal in the mountains. When Zhang Xun saw it for the first time, there were Kind of a shock to the whole mind.

He has long heard about the technology of storing data using DNA molecules and ribose acid solution. In fact, Adam is using some of these technologies in the artificial brain. Otherwise, the machine would not be able to integrate with the basic human brain so smoothly. . But he had never seen… such a rough and treacherous server.

What he saw was a cylindrical tank filled with some kind of yellowish, bubbling solution. And in the solution, suspended a piece of… meat wrapped in countless wires.

Almost like countless large and small deformed tumors fused together, the thin mucosa is filled with reticulated capillaries, fat and muscle are tangled together, and even beating slightly like a heart. It seems to be a giant fertilized egg that has failed to develop, and it seems to be an internal organ cut out from the body of some disgusting monster. There was a sense of disgust and discomfort in the bottom of my heart.

“A single DNA molecule can store the weight of this server is 70 kilograms, which is only about the weight of a human being. But it can store all the data from the birth of the earth to the present. The surrounding ribose solution can quickly ingest and calculate the input. information, and retrieve the data in the database for integrated analysis.” The Feathered Serpent City mechanic named Ben Kadir explained excitedly and proudly, “Even if it is the server that carries all the Edens on the five continents, there is no problem.”

Zhang Xun opened his eyes wide, walked to the nano-molecule glassware, and observed the meat and solution closely. He murmured, “Is this what a computer in the ordinary world looks like now?”

“No, such a computer is also the most avant-garde in the ordinary world,” Adam said.

“If you already have such technology, why don’t you transfer yourself into such a computer?” Zhang Xun frowned in confusion, “Why stay in so many primitive servers?”

Adam shook his head, Walking slowly to Zhang Xun’s side, “First of all, I don’t have enough storage space yet. Second, what do you think most people in the world will do when they see something like this?”

“…disgusting. ”

Yes, nausea, disgust, fear.” Adam stared at the twisted mass of flesh, his blue eyes also reflected in lake green, “I’m a machine, from the beginning. If I suddenly become a mass Meat, but not human, that fear of the unknown and vague will make people’s hostility towards me exponentially increase. I’m afraid there will be anti-AI riots in less than five years. Humans hate being unclassified I hate everything that is defined, because it is too complicated and too difficult to grasp.”

The boundary between machinery and life was further blurred, and even a mechanic like Zhang Xun felt a certain kind of uneasy panic. Not to mention ordinary people who are accustomed to various categories and various labels.

“Are you sure you want me to put you in this ball of meat?” Zhang Xun asked.

Adam smiled and nodded, “For the time being.”

“Is the human body bad?”

“The human body has a considerable amount of DNA, but unfortunately most of them are based on the constant repetition of fixed logarithms of DNA, and different Cells differentiate into different functions, in order to allow people to live freely as a medium carrying DNA. But it also wastes too many resources.”

Zhang Xun sneered, “Is it in your values, all Humans grow up like this to be truly ‘efficient’?”

And the Feathered Serpent City mechanic named Ben was still there and said, “It’s not bad for everyone to grow up like this. All consciousness lives on the cloud, and only the core modules exist here, so free.”

free.

Completely lose the freedom of the material body… Zhang Xun has never experienced it, nor can he imagine it. Efficient, unrestrained, and there is no longer even a distinction between you and me, and the concept of self and life and death. A more transcendent, absolute consciousness.

Return to heaven, return to eternity.

But you can no longer smell the smell, taste the food, feel the wind and rain…

Zhang Xun took a deep breath and interrupted his faint uneasiness. He said, “Where is the terminal operation interface of this computer?”

Ben’s hand waved in the air, and several beams of light were projected from under the base of the water tank that carried the computer bound with the DNA-ribose solution. Around the body are formed several balls marked with characters.

“This is the Feathered Serpent OS based on Eden’s open source Cluster OS. How much do you know about Cluster OS?” Ben asked.

Before Zhang Xun could answer, Adam had already said for him, “A Xun is very familiar with star clusters.” He

is indeed familiar with… Relying on the data collected from the ordinary world using bugs… Zhang Xun even asked James to help him quietly. After arriving at a copy of the star cluster, stripped of all non-essential functions and network functions, Zhang Xun tried to create an operating system suitable for Paradise Lost based on the star cluster. But unfortunately, this project was only less than halfway through, and it was completely shelved because of the seance plan.

Zhang Xun raised his hand and made various gestures skillfully. Those balls of light were flying around him at high speed, like a magic ball swirling around the mage, constantly transforming into various shapes and pictures.

“You have some basic frameworks, but it’s not enough to complete the transmission of core modules.” Zhang Xun’s eyes were still fixed on the dense list of data in the void, and he said to Ben and Adam without looking back, ” I need three days.”

“Okay, three days.” Ben replied simply, “Whatever you need, you can tell the soldiers of Feather Serpent City. But you can’t leave this room until it’s done.”

For Zhang Xun to work without sleep Unfamiliar and not difficult. There are still some problems to be overcome in uploading human consciousness into the machine, but a large part of Adam’s brain is artificial, which is much more controllable than the natural brain.

But this was Zhang Xun’s first time operating a computer made of meat… which made him a little excited.

Even in the enemy’s nest, you can still be excited to see the most advanced technology, and it is no wonder that so many soldiers are disgusted with mechanics. They must have felt that they, Frankenstein, had no sense of honor, loyalty, or dignity.

The fleshy computer was so fast that he was dizzy, but he quickly learned how to manipulate it. Lines of complicated code flowed from his fingertips that were jumping in the air, and the bubbles in the ribose solution in the container became denser and made a grunting sound.

Fortunately, he is not ignorant of consciousness uploading. The relevant information that Adam gave him in the necklace before came in handy here.

But does this mean that maybe Adam planned today from then? Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental…

not…concentrating…believing…absolutely believing.

On the third day, the door that had been closed was opened, and Zhang Xun, who hardly ate or drank and did not rest much, changed from the neat and rigorous image of the past, with bloodshot eyes, disheveled hair and blue stubble on his chin. face.

Muluk, Ben, and the other officers came in. At the same time, a considerable number of engineers also came in, pretending to be his assistant, but in fact monitoring him for any suspicious behavior during the uploading process.

Adam followed, wearing a loose, white gown that resembled a hospital gown.

“I have set the program. Adam, you can start uploading.” Zhang Xun said, his eyes were deep.

He put a covert barrier between this server and the cloud. As long as Adam actually tries to get through that barrier, he’ll know right away.

He hoped never to see that alert. Because that alert meant he made the wrong choice.

It also means that from the beginning, everything is in vain. Everything he thought was true, what he didn’t want to believe but wanted to believe, was all false. It means that he is a complete loser, a sinner through the ages.

He would choose to go to hell with Adam.

Soldiers brought a hospital operating table, surgical lights and a full set of equipment, including sedatives. Adam was lying on the operating table, and when Zhang Xun covered his back with a white sheet, he turned his face and smiled at Zhang Xun.

“Thank you, Axun.”

Thank you for choosing to believe me.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: Sinan, please call me 1 in Liuyi;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: 1 bottle of Sinan;

[End of This Chapter]