The Mechanic - Chapter 99

[Chapter 99 Feathered Serpent City (5)]

Luke’s new personality was named Johansson, and he seemed to be a young man in his twenties. He had a violent and aggressive temperament. It took Zhang Xun fifteen minutes to calm him down a little so that he could communicate to some extent.

Johansson was one of the volunteers who participated in the experiment. According to the psychological test records of the experimental subjects, Johansson had only a slight tendency towards radical environmentalism before being uploaded by consciousness, but he was generally more rational and neutral. The current state of affairs is very different.

“Humans are the virus on the earth. If there were no humans, the world would not have been consumed to the point where it is now exhausted. All the killing of those animals is just by instinct, only human beings because of desire. There are no humans in this world. It will be better, and all human beings should be eliminated.”

Such extreme and hateful words are completely different from the people in the record.

Zhang Xun wanted to ask more about what happened after the other party’s consciousness was uploaded, but Johansen’s account was very confusing, with different ideologies and ideas all entangled together, and in the end it was like nonsense.

No third personality appeared, Zhang Xun had to ask Paulino to bring the prisoner back and meet the second prisoner.

This prisoner was only twenty years old, and his expression was so calm that he had no symptoms of multiple personalities. But he stared at Zhang Xun’s expression as if he was looking at a prey to be slaughtered, causing the hairs on the back of Zhang Xun’s neck to stand up.

“Hello, Alex.” Zhang Xun leaned back on the chair, raised his chin slightly, and tried his best to take control of the situation, “My name is Zhang Xun. I want to ask you a few questions, I hope you can cooperate .”

“Ask, sweetie,” Alex said frivolously, even winking his right eye at him.

Zhang Xun cleared his throat and looked at the profile displayed on the tablet, “You are one of the leaders of this rebellion, what is your motive?”

“Motivation? Do you need a motive?” Alex shrugged, “I mean… aren’t those nuclear warheads made just to blow up?”

“But if you succeed, you will also die.” Zhang Xun paused, “Anything within a radius of 300 kilometers will be razed to the ground, all living things within a radius of 20 kilometers will be instantly vaporized, and all living things within a radius of 20 kilometers will be instantly vaporized. The skin of the person will begin to melt and the whole body will ooze blood. Whether it is a child or an elderly person, they will die in great pain. Is this what you want to see?”

Alex’s expression did not change, “You know what a human being is. What kind of species?”

Zhang Xun didn’t answer.

“They connected all of our brains together, and I saw everything. There was something beautiful, vast, captivating, endless imagination. But you go further down and the rest is madness.” Alex After speaking, he suddenly laughed softly, a light laughter that was almost perverted,

“The memories are all chaotic, distorted, and thoughts and ideas are entangled together, a bit like the kind of octopus in the deep sea. All these consciousnesses are in Try to attack each other, any difference will turn into a fight. Guilt, superiority, moral inconsistencies, jealousy, fear…everything…crazy. I’ve only been uploaded for a day. Lost your body, you can’t do it Fall asleep. These things will follow you 24 hours a day. Even if they pull me back into this body, they will come back with me.”

Alex’s smile faded slightly, he looked at Zhang Xun, there was a hint of pleading in his eyes, “You should execute me, execute everyone. Because one day… one day you will see the same thing. Your own memory and consciousness will be swallowed up, and finally what? There’s nothing left. Die now, at least you’re still yourself.”

His eyes didn’t blink for a second, and the tone of voice was deeply disturbing.

Several prisoners after that, some tried suicide, some wanted to use a nuclear bomb to destroy the machine that uploaded their consciousness, and some couldn’t communicate at all.

Zhang Xun recorded the conversations with everyone in detail, collected the brain scans and comparison information of each prisoner, and brought them back to his studio. After walking through the door, he didn’t say a word, slumped on the only sofa, feeling exhausted like never before.

As he thought, the brains and consciousness of these people cannot accept the invasion of foreign consciousness and cannot be reconciled. Some people try to isolate different consciousnesses to protect themselves, and they form multiple personalities; some people go crazy because of the mutual engulfment and dissolution of consciousness; some people are imaged more and more extreme; Relief… From

their brain scans, it can be seen that after the experiment, the brains of all people showed a state of hyperdischarge, and the red and yellow on the image spread almost the entire cerebral cortex. And this state is persistent. After a month, several subjects went into a state of brain death due to excessive neuron depletion. And such cases continue to increase over time.

He tossed the tablet aside and rubbed his face vigorously with his hands.

Enoch quietly picked up the tablet and looked at the image on it.

“Whose cortical scan is this?” Enoch asked.

“Those rebels who participated in the Ascension Project.” Zhang Xun looked at the intricate pipes and metal beams above his head, “The human brain simply cannot withstand this level of stimulation.”

“Maybe they just haven’t adapted enough.” Enoch said softly, “This may be a process of mechanical selection. Survival of the fittest.”

Zhang Xun suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Enoch, “What did you say?”

Enoch said, “You humans have been selected by nature. Six million years or more, isn’t the survival of the fittest a very common thing for you?”

“It’s different.” Zhang Xun’s tone became a little cold, and there was a little more suspicion in his eyes, “Naturally Selection is intergenerational, evolution that happens slowly to adapt to the environment, not artificial or value-oriented. And this is not for survival, but a machine that uses human life to achieve its stupid end goal Just kidding!”

I don’t know if it was Zhang Xun’s illusion, Enoch seemed to tremble. It lowered its eyes and put the computer back on the sofa, “Sorry, I made you angry.”

Zhang Xun stared at it for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and suddenly asked, “When Lucille gave you an order, did she specify how long you should follow us?”

Enoch said, “No instructions.

” So, she gave you to us?” Zhang Xun sat up straight from the sofa.

Enoch thought for a while, “Before she changed the order, I thought yes.”

Now that I think about it, after Hope Town met her, all the communication after that was through Button. Where is Lucille at this time?

Zhang Xun had a few doubts in his mind, but he didn’t say it. He stood up and activated the biological computer.

The blue light was refracted from the cylindrical vessel, illuminating the entire empty hall as if it were in the deep sea.

“Hello Zhang Xun.”

Pan’s familiar voice came from the loudspeaker, the same as in Lab, deep and gentle.

Zhang Xun had already awakened Pan yesterday, adjusted the weights of several parameters, and added a piece of code he wrote overnight into the core module.

At this moment, there are two Pans running in this world. It’s just that Zhang Xun didn’t know whether the other Pan who had lost its administrator had been corroded and corrupted by Adam.

The familiar chest tightness was ignored by Zhang Xun. He looked at the camera and said, “Are you still used to your new console?”

“This is a very advanced and wide space. I like it very much, thank you.”

Zhang Xun suddenly turned to look at Enoch and said, “You You can leave now.”

Enoch widened his eyes in surprise. Before that, Zhang Xun never let him leave.

“Now James needs your services even more. Please take good care of him.” Zhang Xun gave the order lightly, “I don’t need your assistance here.”

Enoch still didn’t move, there was no obvious change in expression, but anyone who can read micro-expressions can read a moment… sad, “You are running out of time, I thought I could help.”

Zhang Xun turned his head and looked at the computer screen intently, his fingers began to jump quickly on the keyboard projected in the air, and said casually, “Thank you, but it’s not necessary. You go, if there is anything wrong with Jamie, let me know in time. After a

while, Zhang Xun heard the sound of the door opening. He turned around, only to see Enoch’s lonely back disappear behind the closed door again.

Zhang Xun sighed softly, but suddenly heard Pan ask, “I remember Enoch, he was a fully functional service robot. Why did you let him go?”

“Because I lost trust in machinery.” Zhang Xun smiled bitterly, “I don’t want the situation in the Lab to repeat itself.”

“You mean Adam?”

“Yes. I know, he has a great influence on you.” Zhang Xun looked at the camera, “He uses AI The data input by the language has already affected your parameter weights. If I hadn’t copied you out in advance, your core modules would probably start to evolve and change themselves. So from now on, we must be careful.”

Pan was silent. After a moment, he asked, “Do you no longer believe me? Zhang Xun.”

“…”

“The silence of human beings can be understood as affirmation. This is what Adam once told me.” Pan’s voice was still calm and gentle, It gives people a sense of comfort in the spring breeze, “Do you want me to do something to improve our relationship?”

Zhang Xun turned his head, looked at the piece of meat wrapped around countless pipes, and nodded, “I hope You can grow as fast as you can, and grow into an AI that can compete with Adam…even Eden. Because Adam will destroy all your target groups, including me.”

Pan asked immediately, “But Adam told Over me, he loves you. Logically, he wouldn’t destroy someone he loves because that would make him miserable. Right?”

Zhang Xun’s body froze slightly, and after a long while he whispered, “That’s a lie. He doesn’t love me.” If there was such a thing as love, how could he lie to him again and again with that bright smile on his face , using his hands to create a terrifying weapon that would destroy the entire Paradise Lost.

If you really love him, how can you let him live in remorse and escape all the time. How could he be willing to let him stay away from home and never go back.

That’s not love, that’s just exploiting, to make him cooperate with the icing of the Eden Project.

Even if… even if there is really a little bit of emotion, it is still vulnerable in front of the so-called ultimate goal.

Zhang Xun was just an important pawn to Adam. If he could accept this reality sooner, he might not have gotten to where he is now.

But people always have hope, and always hope that the person or thing that they have invested in their feelings will also have the same feelings for themselves.

“But…”

“No but. Now, I want you to call up all the nanorobot designs.” Zhang Xun decisively interrupted Pan, he didn’t want to continue this topic, because they had more important things to do Do – build nanobots and save James and Cindy’s lives.

So Pan was unable to tell Zhang Xun that although AI can lie, AI language cannot lie. Only human language can lie.

And Adam told him in AI language.

The author has something to say: The day is getting closer and closer…

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: myvanillaworld, Xia Ran, Xia Ran, Xiao Jin 1

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