The Mechanic - Chapter 106

[Chapter 106 Two Cities (4)]

Several engineers in the Bio-Computer Research Center had talked to Zhang Xun several times, and they waved their hands curiously when they saw Zhang Xun hurriedly walking by with a strange young man.

“Are you looking for Engineer Tian? She’s out of town today.” Zheng Chengmin, the engineer who was transformed into a machine body from the neck down, smiled kindly at Zhang Xun, and his eyes naturally fell on Pan.

Zhang Xun responded with the same polite smile, “This is my newly recruited assistant, Patrick Colin.”

Pan raised a standard smile that was too symmetrical, and took the initiative to extend his hand, “Hello.”

Zheng Chengmin didn’t look at it. Out of curiosity, he held Pan’s hand, “Hello, Zheng Chengmin. I didn’t expect you to be Zhang’s assistant at such a young age.”

Zhang Xun took the initiative to take over, “My biological computer has been growing slowly recently. , so I want to ask what might be the cause of this situation.”

“Slow? Can you show me the log of the last week?”

Zhang Xun was ready, took out his tablet and began to skillfully demonstrate the The Log that he and Pan modified. Zheng Chengmin swiped the page with his finger and quickly browsed the records of various data changes, frowning slightly.

“It may be because it was injected with a complex AI program when it was still immature, which caused the secretion of auxin to stop. I can re-inject it with HGH. But we are currently developing a new type of biological computer, if you are interested. Come take a look with me.”

“New biological computer?”

“Yes, the mutation rate of those genes in the lobby outside is too high, and the controllability is too low. Often when they grow, they begin to form a biological system and cause the entire computer to be scrapped. We later designed a new DNA molecule. The structure can increase their growth rate by four times, increase the information storage rate by two times, and have a certain self-healing and healing ability, and the probability of mutation is reduced by 70% compared with the original. Engineer Tian plans to combine Phoenix and Morningstar. Transfer it to these new biological computers. But we haven’t told Phoenix yet, for fear that it will try to intervene in modifying the DNA code and cause unknown problems.”

Zhang Xun opened his eyes slightly, showing an expression of amazement, “I didn’t expect you to be so quick. It’s done. Can you take us to see it?”

“Of course! If you want to put your AI in such a computer, you can apply for it. You’ve helped us so much, they’ll definitely agree. .”

Zheng Chengmin enthusiastically led Zhang Xun and Pan through the spotless corridor to a double metal door with chip patterns spread. After the engineer scanned his fingerprints and card, the door opened, and the color of the slightly green ocean poured out.

In the wide hall, a string of bubbles rose from time to time in the blue-green seawater-like liquid in the five cylindrical containers, and in the dim light, the black mass remained motionless.

Different from the irregular shape of the meat pieces of the computers outside, the black lumps here tend to have the same shape, and at first glance, they look like birds with outstretched wings. But as you get closer, you will find that this bird has no head and no feathers. The muscle tissue pulls the long tendons and weaves each other, like a chrysalis. In the middle is another texture of meat, somewhat like gray matter, with undulating folds but not the same as the brain, more like a mass of smashed cloth.

This “flying bird” that has no life and can only carry data is trapped in the middle of the dense pipeline, as if it wants to soar into the sky. Those bare red flesh even carried a bit of sadness.

It’s just like a nightmare.

But the five growing computers all tended to be the same, indicating that these engineers have become more and more sophisticated in controlling the growth of biological computers.

“It will be completely completed in about two days. At that time, one of them will be given to Phoenix, one will be given to Chenxing, and the other two will be set aside for the Ascension Project.” Zheng Chengmin said, and glanced at Zhang Xun meaningfully.

Since Zhang Xun used nanorobots to heal the prisoners who attacked the arsenal, it seems that many people acquiesce that he will help complete the ascension plan. And Zhang Xun has been strengthening this impression to them.

“Where’s the other one?”

“Spare. So I said, if you want, you can apply for it.”

Pan has already started walking in front of each computer, browsing the projected AR screen images curiously. Constantly refreshed growth log. Zhang Xun glanced at Pan, met his eyes for a moment, and nodded meaningfully. Then Zhang Xun deliberately walked to the DNA design model on the other side and began to ask all kinds of very challenging technical questions.

Zheng Chengmin, who was concentrating on discussing the issue with Zhang Xun, did not notice that Pan Xun opened the injection information page and quickly entered a few lines of AI language in it.

Just a few lines of code, like a drop in the ocean before tens of thousands of lines of code are about to be written, no one will notice. Even Phoenix and Chenxing would be hard-pressed to notice.

But it’s when they’re put into these computers that the “magic” really kicks in.

Compared with directly communicating with Phoenix and Chenxing to try to invade them and risking being counter-invaded, Zhang Xun thought it would be safer to open a breach first. During this period of time living in Feathered Serpent City, he noticed that Feathered Serpent City did not trust AI as much as it seemed, Phoenix was subject to many restrictions, and Morningstar was purely a service function. Much of this ultra-modern city is run by people.

As long as there are people, there will be mistakes.

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In the early hours of the morning, a dozen figures hurried past under the cover of those crooked buildings. They walk and stop, and sometimes even need to crawl on the ground. The slightest mistake will be caught by the ubiquitous cameras, which will attract the attention of Pan or Adam.

They are a group of fugitives from the sixth district, including workers in artificial food factories, tailors, blacksmiths, small traders who sell contraband, cleaning staff, teenagers who are just a few years old… a group of people with little in common, Decided to try to escape Paradise Lost one night.

They were not the first to want to flee. More and more people choose to connect to the consciousness cloud – Tianyu, and more and more people are beginning to yearn for the sense of belonging, the kind of place they can get after seeing the people they know connect to Tianyu. The sense of strength in the group, the kind of situation where you can see different places anytime, anywhere as if you have super power, the sense of transcendence to obtain knowledge that you have never learned or use your own thoughts to influence people you have never met in another city…

upload There is almost a certain essential difference between those who do not upload and those who do not upload, and can be recognized by just a little observation on the street. The uploader’s eyes are a bit like a camera, observing everything around him in an alienated way. Their actions, including their walking posture and the way they treat people and objects, are somewhat standardized, and lack the small movements that some ordinary people have. As the number of uploaders grows, there are occasional bizarre scenes of many individuals doing the same thing at the same time.

People who like to laugh don’t laugh anymore, people who like to drink in clubs don’t go out anymore, and people who like to eat junk food suddenly start to eat vegetarian food. Uploaders observe their relatives and friends, and share everything they see, hear, and hear with all consciousnesses on the cloud. They started judging the behavior of people who didn’t upload, they started distinguishing uploaders from those who didn’t, and even considered people who didn’t get remodeled as “dangerous” because no one knew what was going on in those people’s heads. They begin to despise physical pleasures and begin to spend their days in their own rooms, wandering infinitely in clouds of consciousness, influenced by endless thoughts and emotions.

Then others began to feel fear.

They watched the relatives and friends they knew seem to have changed after uploading, or even no longer look like people.

They don’t want to lose their privacy, they don’t want to share everything about themselves. People with similar fears were separated at first, because no one dared to speak their minds casually, for fear of being heard by nearby uploaders and then remembered by the entire cloud of consciousness. But people always find opportunities to communicate.

The group tried to escape through the sewers because from the few words they collected, they knew that Adam’s ex-mechanic Zhang Xun had escaped through the sewers. They planned for more than a week, collected the installation location and rotation frequency of all the cameras on the road, and waited until this night to act. They almost succeeded, and the entrance to the sewer was a dozen meters ahead.

However, just in the last ten meters of distance, a bright light suddenly shone on them, and several extended robots suddenly appeared, apparently a batch of newly manufactured robots using the stealth technology designed by Zhang Xun. In the dark night It blends in with the surrounding environment and cannot be seen at all.

A dozen fugitives were surrounded in panic, shivering under the intense light.

The leading miner hugged his crying child, pressed his fear and begged the robot, “Let us go! It’s no use staying here, we promise not to talk nonsense outside!” The extension robot moves forward a few meters, and a beam of light shoots out of the AR projection hole at its top. A 3D image of Adam appeared in front of the fugitives. He sat on a metal chair and slowly raised his head, as if from the throne looking at the king who had defected from his subjects. Every time a pair of ethereal blue eyes swept across a face, the face of that face appeared. The owner had a sense of fear that he was about to be crushed to ashes.

Before Zhang Xun left, no one realized how terrible Adam was. They thought that as long as they were trapped in the human body, God lost his power.

When God saved them and brought convenience to their lives, they also almost forgot what God could give them and could take it back at any time.

“Why did you run away?” Adam’s expression was calm and his tone was gentle.

“My son is only eleven years old. I don’t want him to be uploaded before he has seen this world…!” The miner headed answered desperately, as if waiting for the next second to be burned by the death ray fired by the extension robot into ashes.

Adam sighed and said, “I didn’t force any of you to upload your consciousness. All uploaders are voluntary.”

“But do we really have a choice?” another shop owner asked with a bit of resentment , “Those uploaders…they are everywhere! They stare at us all the time and record our every move on the cloud. My brother also uploaded it and became a part of them, and it makes me even now Do n’t dare to go home!”

“My boyfriend is also connected to the cloud of consciousness, I don’t even dare to undress in front of him, because I don’t know how many people are watching us!

” People I know scolded me, saying I wasn’t filial and considerate to my dad.”

People complained, and fear gradually turned into resentment. Despite the distance of several cities, Adam could still feel it.

Adam looked at everyone, thought for a moment, and said, “If you don’t want to live with the uploader, I can separate you. You can go on with your old life.” A

voice shouted angrily, “You are Are you going to put us in a concentration camp?!”

Concentration camp, a horrible and evil name.

Adam frowned, “No, I won’t restrict your freedom of movement. You can still choose to stay where you are. But sorry, I can’t let you go.”

But people were still dissatisfied, they yelled, begged, and refused to do anything. satisfy. Adam sighed and ordered the extension robot to send them to a nearby guardhouse to collect information, and then escort them back to their original homes.

In view of the increasing tension between uploaders and ordinary people, Adam has begun to redeploy the population distribution of different urban areas. He plans to clear out about six urban areas for non-uploaders to live in, and four for uploaders to live in. While forcing people to move might be a struggle, he knew that any further commingling would soon lead to riots.

Adam knew from the very beginning that when human beings are divided, when some people choose to evolve and others choose to stay put, there will definitely be serious differentiation, more serious than any previous class differentiation. Although separation is not the best way, it is the most effective way in the short term.

When the cloud of consciousness begins to spread to the ordinary world, the conflicts that will be faced will be even more severe. If it is not handled well, war may break out. That war may be between uploaders and non-uploaders, or it may break out between Eden and the entire human race.

Adam knew he needed to do everything in his power to prevent this from happening.

The author has something to say: I have been addicted to games recently. . . Determined to finish before March~

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines~~: Anan, Xia Ran Xia Ran 1

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