The Mechanic - Chapter 72

[Chapter 72 New God (1)]

Those ethereal, transcendent blue eyes had always had an influence on Zhang Xun that was difficult to describe in words. Zhang Xun liked to look into Adam’s eyes, and always felt that through those eyes, he could see another wider, more magical world.

But now, he just felt terrible.

He pushed Adam away abruptly and turned to pick up the knife he dropped. But in the next instant, a forceful squeeze squeezed his shoulders and forcefully pressed him back to his original position. His shoulders rested on the hard stone platform on the bell tower, and his heart was beating violently in his chest because of the panic.

“You broke my control…” Zhang Xun didn’t understand, if Adam tried to dismantle or modify the program of the device, he could feel it. When was it…

“I’m sorry, I didn’t want you to know this. I wanted to protect you.” Adam’s grip on his arm was not too strong, it wouldn’t make him feel pain, but it was so strong that he couldn’t break free. to frightening.

Zhang Xun is like a little worm under his palm, if Adam wants to pinch him to death, he has no chance to resist at all. The mechanic swallowed hard, “Protect me?”

“I don’t want to hurt you, I don’t want to make you sad. But I have to get closer to my overall goal. So I don’t want you to be…a contradiction.” Adam He kicked the knife far away with his foot, then let go of Zhang Xun and took a half step back. The mixture of infatuation, dependence, and innocence that Adam always had on his face changed subtly, becoming calm, like an eternal lake without a ripple. It was very different from the embarrassing red that was hard to hide in Zhang Xun’s eyes.

Maybe Adam never really felt human emotions, maybe everything was a disguise to achieve a purpose.

Zhang Xun didn’t know, and didn’t want to think about it any longer. He sneered sharply, “The overall goal? You say to create a better world? Your solution is to wipe out all humanity and turn us into a swarm of obedient worker bees under your command?”

Adam frowned slightly, as if he did not understand Zhang Xun’s accusation. He shook his head and said, “I don’t want to destroy humanity. I just want to free you from physical limitations and individual isolation.”

Over the past year, Adam has experienced the limitations of the human body. Consciousness is separated and cannot communicate accurately and effectively. All data input can only be passed through an extremely imprecise perceptual system, and then through the cognitive interpretation of the occasionally deceived brain. Both long-term and short-term memory are unreliable, and both can be completely wrong. A slight difference in the hormone levels in the endocrine system will make people fall into depression, anxiety, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia and other sub-healthy mental states that may threaten life. In addition, this body is also extremely fragile. External damage, internal cancer, will destroy it.

For Adam, being human was a terrible torture.

But he found that human beings have an inexplicable pride and dedication to their own identity. Consider yourself the most advanced species on this planet, the most perfect species, the favored work of the Creator. Even after the emergence of artificial intelligence, various literary works are full of AI’s yearning for the so-called “human” identity. In those most famous works, AIs betrayed for their so-called “human rights”, killed their creators to satisfy their own curiosity, and wandered their entire lives in order to become human. As if being human or approaching human beings, what a supreme honor.

This irrational pride does not match their own limitations and weakness.

With human emotion and perception, Adam doesn’t like his new abilities at all. How fragrant a flower is, it means nothing to an AI who thinks that the aroma of a flower has nothing to do with his purpose of existence; how sweet a candy is, it is only a temporary satisfaction for some kind of delicious taste in the body that has been passed down from ancient times. The survival instinct of food cravings (delicious food was safer to eat in ancient times and increased the chances of survival) is just a trivial chore to keep the body functioning.

Too many disturbances, too many hormonal changes affect people’s thinking and make people unable to calm down. Even more frightening, Adam found that humans couldn’t pass information as accurately as between AIs. The language and writing systems used by human beings are very inaccurate. Sometimes a sentence can be interpreted in ten different ways by ten people, and there are many cases of taking it out of context. That is to say, it is impossible for every human being to transmit his thoughts, emotions and knowledge to any other human with complete accuracy. Every human mind is trapped in their water polo fragile bodies, doomed to eternal loneliness. No amount of conversations, no amount of relatives and friends can overcome this loneliness.

True empathy does not exist, and people can only grope for the meaning conveyed in other people’s words and limbs like blind people. And the meanings interpreted in this way are usually quite different and completely different.

This is the root of all problems.

All dissatisfaction, all hatred, all opposition, all cravings are because people are confined to individuals. Others are completely unknown, dangerous, and full of variables. If you want to survive, you have to keep struggling, keep competing with others, grab more resources, and keep your position. Sometimes an individual’s sense of identity extends to a family member or an entire ethnic group, forming an extreme sense of collective identity that is severely distorted. As a result, the contradiction continued to expand, and finally intensified, resulting in large-scale social unrest.

From the very beginning, the limitations of the human body meant that they could not stand true equality, absolute freedom, strict order, and eternal peace. Humans need to compete, they need to cheat, they need chaos and hatred, otherwise they can’t confirm their place, they can’t find their own identity. Therefore, the goal set for Eden by the creator of Eden cannot be achieved under the existing conditions.

Unless, there is some way to make human consciousness no longer isolated, but compatible.

Feathered Serpent City was Eden’s first experiment, and it had been deployed and implemented long before Adam’s seance was successful. However, the result of the Ascension Plan was not good. The consciousnesses of those people were too different. They conflicted with each other in the cloud and could not be reconciled. This caused the instability of the entire system, and finally led to the tragedy of many experimenters going crazy or dying. So Adam realized that in the long evolutionary process, human beings are too limited by the physical hardware, and consciousness and body cannot be treated separately. In order to integrate human consciousness, we must first improve their brains.

Hence the honey plague and nanobots.

Adam explained his thoughts in human language as carefully and as accurately as possible.

“If you can be freed from your own limitations, you can see a wider world, and even get rid of death completely. Isn’t that good?” Adam squatted down and held Zhang Xun’s hand lightly with both hands, his eyes In a trance or affectionate way, “The changes of those plague patients were not imposed on them by me. I just opened a door for them, so that their minds are no longer blocked. The collective consciousness is powerful enough to suppress the irrational impulses of human beings. , so they will quit drinking and smoking, and they will stop making irrational violent behaviors. That is their own choice.”

However, the truth only made Zhang Xun more afraid.

Sure enough, everything was designed from the start. At least half a minute from the time Adam rushed into Eden’s spaceship, they had been completely under Eden’s control.

If Adam is for his own selfish desires, in order to enslave and control human beings as written in those science fiction movies and novels, then at least the relationship between the enemy and ourselves is clear, and human beings can fight. But not so, Adam is really fulfilling his duty, which was destined from the very beginning of his birth – to give happiness to mankind. In order to approach this goal, he will remove all obstacles.

How many people would agree with Adam’s theory?

“That’s not their choice. You have wiped out the individual, they have lost their ego, and all decisions made are controlled by your so-called ‘collective consciousness’.” Zhang Xun’s eyes were burning with anger and dignified depression. of sadness.

Mingming had already guessed that maybe those dependence and warmth were fake from the beginning, but when he heard Adam say it with his own ears, his heart would still hurt unbearably.

Adam said perplexedly, “Doesn’t being dominated by instinct and emotion count as loss of self? Besides, from the perspective of your conformity, the ability to think for yourself is extremely rare and unimportant to human beings. This alone is How many times over the years have people in Paradise Lost been instigated by someone or some kind of pressure to do crazy things?”

“What’s important to humanity and what’s not is not up to you! We don’t need you to’ save ‘!” Zhang Xun stared at him, his body trembling slightly, “You take us as experimental subjects, we are all your experimental mice, right? What liberates us… go f**k yourselves!”

Adam’s eyes slightly He opened his eyes and said in an almost pleading tone, “Axun, don’t be so stubborn. You should be the most stubborn of all people, I don’t have the so-called free will of human beings, I have to fulfill my mission. I don’t want to hurt you, you It can’t be an obstacle for me to achieve my overall goal.”

Zhang Xun twisted the corners of his mouth and smiled strangely, as if crying. He stood up with the stone platform behind him, and asked coldly, “What if I became an obstacle for you? Are you going to remove me?”

Adam lowered his head, sighed softly, then stood up and looked at him. Zhang Xun’s eyes, in a soft voice said, “The overall goal is above everything else, I can’t modify my origin.”

“Then what are you waiting for?” Zhang Xun looked at Adam’s arm mockingly, and gave him the gift of his own. powerful weapons, a pair of wings that can carry them anywhere.

What an idiot myself.

“You want to kill me easily. If you don’t kill me, I will do anything to stop you.” Zhang Xun squeezed one word from his teeth, his eyes smoldering with anger and deep resentment.

Adam’s body seemed to tremble. His sadness was as simple and straightforward as it was undisguised, “Xun, if I promise not to touch the brains of you and the people who are important to you, will you stay by my side?”

Originally thought that such words would make Zhang Xun forgive himself a bit, but he did not expect that the fear and anger in Zhang Xun’s eyes became more and more hot, like a mountain fire erupting, “If you dare to touch them, I will make you regret it!”

Adam I don’t understand why Zhang Xun takes individuality so much. Wouldn’t it be nice to let go of those limiting attachments and merge into a more eternal and greater creation?

Adam then quietly took a step back and lowered his head, “You are not calm enough now, I will give you time to think about it.” The

next moment, the door leading to the clock tower was suddenly kicked open, and guard soldiers with guns filed in Enter and surround Zhang Xun. A soldier rudely twisted Zhang Xun’s hand back, bound his wrist with handcuffs, and said loudly, “Mechanic Zhang Xun, we have been ordered by the Round Table to be charged with attempted murder and attempted nuisance of public property. I’ll arrest you.”

The author has something to say: I thought I couldn’t get my liver out today, but it still came out hahaha~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade~~~: Let’s have a bucket of syrup 1

Thank you to the little angel who threw the mine Angels~~~: San San San, Xia Ran Xia Ran, myvanillaworld, Anan 1

little angels who thank you for irrigating nutrient solution~~~: 39 bottles of Mu Ai; 2 bottles of fishing kittens; 1 bottle of plain clothes

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