The Star Knight - 37. Chapter Thirty Seven

Ten universe days later, Liexing, Sunlight City Mercenary Union.

Opal: “I almost lost my life there! A tracing mission! I want to rush to the pirate den and get a laser. Do you understand my mood!!”

Clerk: “We can only negotiate with the employer! How much do you want to pay! You can do it well, give me an accurate figure!”

Raymond squeezed up and said: “No, want, money! Listen clearly, the employer is bankrupt! No more money can be squeezed out! Now what we want is the promotion score, the score!”

Clerk: “No point can be added! This is a fixed assessment by the union! It has nothing to do with us! Only money! We have to wait for us to negotiate with the employer! Leave without saying how much money is added! There are still people in line behind! You are a hundred years old!”

Opal yelled frantically: “This task is completely out of order!”

A handsome man behind him said: “Is there too many tasks for the wrong version? I received a commission from a guard lady last time, and finally turned into three thousand combat robots! Save it! I can only blame myself for the bad luck! Get out of the way!”

Opal: “No way, so much difference? Dude, are you serious?”

The handsome mercenary said, “Of course! The eldest lady said that she was going to get married, and she was depressed and wanted to find a bodyguard to go out to relax. In the end, do you know what she was doing? She just let her elope! Elopement!! The groom’s house is Do you know who opened the robot factory? Who wants to run away with her! I am still waiting for the union to arbitrate the job! A group of robots are chasing over, and they are almost killed there. They are so handsome as a bird! Go away! I want to hand over the commission!”

Opal: “…”

Raymond: “…”

Two hundred and forty points, Raymond said: “Wait, there is one more thing. Haitang said not to assist the commissioned commission, and we will be deducted separately for this one.”

With a word, the noisy hall was quiet.

Opal: “?”

“Iron Hen doesn’t need your help commission?” a mercenary asked incredulously.

Everyone’s looks became very strange, Opal said: “Of course! She still owes us two lives! I plan to count her 200,000 for each one!”

The whole hall gasped.

The two walked out of the union, and the last time they kept the greenhouse had their scores settled. Opal and Raymond gathered together to read the mercenary diary. Raymond was still D, and Opal was E, so they were about to catch up with him.

Raymond: “Go check the accounts, buy things, and contact the spacecraft.”

Opal: “I’ll go see Sid.”

Raymond: “No, I have to go together.”

Opal: “Do you need two people to buy something?”

Raymond: “The communication ear buttons are gone, how can I find you if I run away later?”

Opal said: “Cut, am I like someone who can get lost?”

Raymond smiled: “It’s very likely.” Said Bi put one hand on Opal’s shoulder and walked toward the commercial street.

The bright sun shone on him, and Opal felt a warm feeling in his heart. The two walked past the entertainment shop. Opal was attracted by a large and colorful poster and stopped to take a look.

[The latest version of fantasy music, sex/love park set, only sells 18888 credits, for a three-day period. 】

Raymond: “Give you one?”

Opal: “…”

It’s okay to do so many new styles! The advertisement is still playing like a playground. Opal roars silently in his heart. Every time he is attracted, he thinks there is something new, but in the end it turns out to be a fantasy movement. This company really likes to make money.

Opal looked embarrassed and said: “No need! Thank you!”

Raymond bought a pair of new ear buckles in the store next door, put them on himself, and put the other on his ears for Opal. Opal was still looking in the mirror. Raymond said, “Don’t be stinky, you can Fuck, flick.”

Opal said: “Then I’ll go see Sid.”

The corners of Raymond’s mouth were slightly tilted, he hummed, looked down at the new product, casually chatted with the female salesperson, Opal glanced at him, feeling a little bit sour in his heart.

Clerk: “Handsome guy, what do you want to buy?”

Leimen leaned over in front of the cargo platform, turned his head to look at Opal, raised his eyebrows, and made a questioning expression.

Opal said: “I’m really gone.”

Raymond: “Well, get out.”

Opal: “…”

Opal came out of the store boringly and went to the hospital. He asked at the consultation desk and went directly to the ward on the third floor. Sid was sitting next to the bed while his father was lying down, not awake.

The two spoke in the same place.

Sid: “Where is Raymond?”

Opal: “How about Xun?”

Opal: “…”

Sid: “…”

Neither of them answered each other’s question. Opal touched Sid’s father’s hand and asked, “How is he?”

Sid was a little haggard and said, “I can’t wake up. The doctor said that the result of over-anaesthesia has caused permanent damage to his brain… Maybe they want to transplant his father’s brain to the queen, but they are afraid that she will be rejected. So the anesthesia is overdone.”

Opal didn’t say anything.

Sid also said: “If I knew it, I shouldn’t have rushed to find him in the spacecraft. If I came to entrust you three years ago, maybe…”

Opal said: “Sid, look at me, hey, look in my eyes.”

Sid raised his eyes and stared at Opal. Opal narrowed his eyes and murmured, “Don’t say you knew it, you understand?”

Sid nodded blankly, Opal sat on a chair with his hands on the back of the chair, and said in a deep voice, “Don’t say what I knew before, if I was what I did—such words, no matter what. Say, don’t say it for a lifetime, you can’t change the past that has happened, but you can determine your own future.”

“Now I tell you, he can wake up, you have to be happy, when he wakes up, don’t you feel sad now?” Opal looked at his eyes and said seriously.

Sid’s eyes wandered for a moment, and then smiled: “Yes, I also believe he can wake up.”

Opal nodded and said: “That’s good.”

The ward was empty, and Opal thought that he would come to visit with nothing, and forgot to buy a bunch of irises.

Mercenaries rarely suffer serious illnesses that must be hospitalized. Large groups are equipped with medical ray equipment, which is very useful for treating traumatic injuries. If they are seriously injured, they will die directly on an alien planet. The rest is to bring the body back and bury it. Those who stay in the local area have any minor or serious illnesses, come directly and use radiation to stimulate body regeneration. One or two courses of treatment can be over in a few days.

It’s quiet outside, but Sid’s father has been in a coma. He has to spend money on hospitalization and nutrient infusions every day.

Sid: “By the way, Xun is on the tarmac, repairing the spacecraft for you.”

Opal nodded thoughtfully, and asked, “Do you have enough money?”

Sid said: “It’s okay at the moment, I still have more than 10,000 credits, enough for me and Xunhua.”

Opal got two hundred thousand from Sid, but he became friends with him. The two hundred thousand always feels too much to spend. The employer went bankrupt and entrusted the task. Although he retrieved his father, he was a vegetative person. Sid is in a bad situation, and Opal always feels a little guilty when he spends his money.

“What about you in the future? You have to plan a little bit.” Opal said.

Sid: “Yes, I have a plan, and I have thought about it with Xun.”

Opal’s face changed, thinking that they would not go to pit outsiders together and do the kind of work of wiping a spaceship to collect three thousand dollars.

Opal: “You better not listen to him.”

Sid: “Why, Xun is a good man, I plan to be a mercenary.”

Opal: “You are not kidding me!”

Sid: “I’m serious! Even if I take my dad back to the home planet, Sparks has already paid the money in one lump sum, and it is impossible to pay for medical expenses. But you can enjoy the mercenary country by becoming a registered mercenary in Liexing. Welfare, medical care for relatives are free. Of course I can support myself. Xun also intends to register, and we will work hard together.”

Opal’s mouth twitched, and then he said, “I’ll be honest, your little lover… his character is really not good.”

Sid frowned: “You, no, know, Tao. You don’t know anything at all.”

Opal raised his hand and surrendered: “You like it, I have no right to interfere, and I don’t intend to hypnotize you.”

Sid said: “He didn’t like to be a mercenary before, because he…because of his father’s relationship, he hated this profession. Later he accepted it and went to the recruit training school. It is said that one course is will training, his fear Rejection…I can’t accept it every time, and I can only interrupt the course in the end.”

“Oh.” Opal nodded, thinking that it was excusable, but he was still a bit dissatisfied with Xun, even if he had any difficulties, he shouldn’t cheat outsiders, it was like a mischief.

Opal finally said: “It sounds like a good idea. Come on, you can ask us if you don’t understand, but there are some things that you need to experience in person, such as the mercenary stage… I think Raymond might… um, no You will be recruited into the regiment after the recruit exam. Maybe in the future…”

Sid smiled and said, “Of course I know that you can’t tolerate a third party. I didn’t plan to be a light bulb.”

Opal: “…”

Sid: “Ah, I just mean the partner relationship!”

Opal stood up and said fiercely: “Whatever you say, I wish you a C in the recruiting exam, just like me.”

Raymond bought a medical X-ray device and walked into the apron on his shoulders. Xun is wearing sunglasses and is repairing the gap of the small photoball cannon that was hung up in the era-VI.

“I didn’t let you repair the spaceship.” Raymond said.

“It’s free!” As soon as he threw the tool away, Lei Meng made a “yo” expression and said, “When I didn’t say anything. E7, open the door.”

The hatch opened, Raymond moved the radiograph up, took the coffee and threw it to Xun, quickly raised his hand to catch it, and found a place to sit and rest.

Raymond: “Who did you learn from?”

Xun: “My dad.”

Raymond nodded slowly and said, “Where is the other person? Where is it?”

Xun: “Dead, in the cemetery of the heroic soul.”

Raymond almost said the wrong thing. Fortunately, he is not like Opal. If he changed to Opal, he must be “You still have a dad? Why don’t you see your dad discipline you?” Such things, Xun is simply a □□ Bucket, bad-tempered, bad-mouthed.

Raymond: “Is there finally someone who wants to protect?”

Xun coldly said: “What is your business.”

Raymond: “You should find something to do. You don’t want to be kidnapped by your dad.”

Xun: “Dead! People! Yes! Look! No! Here! Don’t use my dad to look at me in the sky to trick the ignorant boy!”

Raymond smiled: “I didn’t mean it.”

Xun said in a huff: “I’ll take Sid to the recruit course in a few days.”

Raymond commented: “Not bad.”

Xun said, “Will you go? Let’s go together. I heard that you haven’t taken a recruiting class. It will be very helpful for future assignments.”

Raymond thought for a while, and said: “Think about it again. Opal may want to take a vacation. If you take a vacation, you won’t go to class, but there is one thing I want to make clear first.”

fast:”?”

Raymond: “I never collaborate with anyone. Opal is an exception. Our mercenary group does not plan to recruit anyone. Opal is a softhearted person. You don’t need to…”

Xun was insulted right away, and shouted: “Who wants to join you?! Don’t feel too good about yourself, can’t you! You two are just rubbish! Your mind is full of muscle trash! Take a pee and take a picture yourself. !”

Raymond was not irritated at all, and said politely: “You know it.”

Xun was almost out of breath, kicked Times-VI fiercely, and raised his middle finger at Raymond. Opal just saw this scene when he came back and said, “Hey! Don’t look for death!”

Going madly, Opal put his middle finger back and said, “It’s just crazy. I have an appointment with a wrench to meet, let’s have lunch, and take E7 with me by the way.”

Raymond went back to put on a coat and a pair of sunglasses. The two arrived at the city of sunset. Opal asked for a wrench to come out and handed E7 to him.

The wrench yawned and lazily said, “Anything new? Let me see, little boy…”

Opal looked at Raymond and said, “Why do you wear my glasses?”

Raymond said: “These glasses are good.”

Opal: “That’s mine.”

Raymond: “It’s mine now.”

Opal: “You think I look good on me, so you want to wear this one too, am I right? But you ignore the problem of people. I wear it as a beautiful man. When you wear it, you are at best a personal high horse. Big girly gun.”

Raymond said politely: “You look like a Kodo frog when you wear it, but if I wear it, it’s the Prince of Stars.”

Opal: “Dude, the Star Prince is a frog species on Green Mercury.”

The wrench was still in that plain tone: “My God, you actually ran on the pirate ship.”

The sound of the wrench makes people want to sleep every time. No matter how arrogant things happen to him, his mouth is as common as eating a pie. At best, it is just a few pirates in the pie or a king of meteorites. The difference.

Opal explained the process. Wrench transcribed the mothership information into his portable terminal and said: “It’s very useful. Go ahead and test it. I’m planning to install these programs on a batch of mechas that Wang bought from the Empire not long ago. I hope they can have the same elementary intelligence as E7, and can rescue mercenaries in times of danger.”

Raymond said: “Aren’t you afraid of causing trouble to Azeroth? The Star Alliance will prosecute the member states that develop artificial intelligence. This is a very serious problem. If it leaks out, someone will come to investigate soon.”

Wrench replied casually: “It’s true… you have to know that the rules of the Mechanical Intelligence Ethics Society must be followed, but we can hit a side ball.”

Raymond said: “Self-rescue measures already involve autonomous thinking. I don’t think E7 can only be’primary’.”

Wrench: “Uh, no matter what impression it gives you, we can only call it’junior’ at present. This is for your personal safety, and I don’t think E7 itself will mind.”

Opal was a little surprised: “Raymond, do you know the category of autonomous thinking? What is that?”

Raymond nodded slightly: “Know a little, it means a robot with self-will.”

Wrench took a deep breath, looked at E7, and said, “All non-intelligent beings with the ability to think independently will be completely destroyed. There is no doubt. But do you know? Little robots like E7, strictly speaking, they What can’t be done with it.”

“Let’s put it this way, the biggest difference between machine life and humans is not in quantifying production and biological cell activity, but in the basic stagnation rules formulated by the Ethical Society. In short, it is about what it is doing when it is boring.”

“For example, it is on standby at this time.” The wrench pointed to E7, and there was no light on its head: “But when you call it by its name-‘E7.'”

A red light flashes on top of E7’s head, and it makes a beep.

Opal and Raymond didn’t understand what he meant, and the wrench explained: “The voice-activated keyword is activated, and it resumes from standby mode, starts to check the surrounding environment, looks for matching words in the central processing unit, and prepares to recognize your commands.”

Opal: “So what?”

Wrench: “If you don’t give it instructions, what will it do? Do nothing, just keep the data flowing. In other words, it will just be in a daze when there are no instructions and think about nothing.”

“Then let’s make a hypothesis and replace it with a human core. Will it still be in a daze?”

Opal shook his head and said with a wrench: “If E7 is a person, this time he will think,’What is he calling me? Will he do something for me? Oh this troublesome master, always the next mess of instructions , Can’t you make it clearer? It’s okay to tell me to play with my heart? The little girl robot in the next street looks good. I will steal a little bit later to take a look at it… The bottom axle of my track is a bit loose recently. I need some oil…'”

Opal and Raymond were amused by the wrench, and the wrench said: “This is the fundamental difference between robots and humans. Even if the program has rich processing methods, it is also thinking passively, as long as it does not pass the’active’ thinking. The bottom line, the Society of Machine Ethics has nothing to do with us.”

Raymond nodded slowly, and asked, “What is the difference between passive and active thinking modes?”

Wrench said: “This is a subject that has been completely destroyed after the intelligent revolution, but I once saw in a mission that scientists before the dark age believed that the state of thinking originated from a variety of hormones secreted by brain cells. Stimulus, you can understand it as an aspect of emotion.”

“For example, boring.” Wrench said: “Eating and holding is one of the motivations for human beings to think independently; love makes people pursue beautiful things; anger makes people abandon reason and make a decision that ignores reality and the environment; these The production of hormones can be traced without a trace. Its composition is very very complex, and its randomness is very strong, and it cannot be simulated with photoelectron signals.”

Raymond said again: “So artificial life means that the human brain is installed on the robot, so is it a human or a robot?”

Wrench said: “It’s hard to say… The wisdom revolution has been arguing for a long time and I can’t reach a definite conclusion. But I don’t plan to play E7 like this, I will play it badly, this topic will stop here, there is too much discussion. Obviously it is not good.”

Opal remembered another thing-Azeroth bought a batch of mechas, produced by the Empire.

This means that the mercenaries will be able to touch the mecha in the near future…It doesn’t matter, has Azeroth decided to take refuge in the empire?

Raymond took out something and placed it in front of the wrench: “Do you know what this is?”

It was something a bit like a ring, with a red gem inlaid on it. The wrench picked it up and took a look, took out the equipment for testing, and said, “Wait a minute.”

Opal: “Where did it come from?”

Raymond: “From the ants.”

Opal: “Why didn’t I! When did you embezzle it?”

Raymond: “At that time, you had already boarded the spaceship, and the elder Ant gave it to me. He said that this was left by their god to give them. The human god also taught them many things…”

“The human god of ants.” Wrench murmured: “This is a very interesting thing.” He took a finger-long tube mirror and began to analyze the composition of the gems in the ring.

Opal thought of the question mark man in the guild mission. He vaguely felt that there must be an unknown relationship among many things.

He asked the mysterious man’s question to Wrench. Wrench focused on analyzing the composition of gems and said: “You have to ask Azeroth, what he has lived on this planet for thousands of years, what he knows, and the history he has witnessed. most……”

Opal said: “But he has no time to see me.”

The wrench murmured: “There will be time, you know, he has even met Kolorin, the king of the meteorite.”

Lei Meng said with emotion, “Have they fought against each other?”

Wrench: “That’s not clear. I just heard that he almost never talks about Cololin. At least we know one thing… The king is not afraid of him. This is indeed not afraid, unlike some people. That way, I said that I was not afraid, and my heart kept trembling…This ring has a very special function.”

Opal said: “Good stuff?”

Wrench: “Let’s do the calculation for the time being. There is a small chip cluster in the gemstone, which is activated by the stress of bio-electric waves. You wear it on your finger with the inner side against the skin. It will sense the fluctuations in your thinking. When you fall into When you are in a state of near-death intuition beyond your physical stamina… this kind of time is usually not far from death, and this ring will send a distress signal to the universe.”

Raymond: “…”

Opal: “…”

Raymond: “Where did the launch go?”

Wrench shrugged and said: “I don’t know, do you want to try it now? Take a gun out and we can complete this test. It’s best for you two to choose one and shoot at the other. I’m only responsible for watching. I don’t want to cause trouble here. .”

Opal: “…”