The Mechanic - Chapter 123

[Chapter 123 Descendants (7)]

“He’s in your network, how can I find him?” Zhang Xun’s tone was still calm, but his palms were soaked with cold sweat.

Eden may have already quietly infiltrated those around them. Many of Natalie’s subordinates are Eden believers. Although they unconditionally believe that Natalie is Eden’s spokesperson, if Eden talks to them in person, these people will be turned against immediately.

They have stayed here for too long…

Eden’s image “walked” in front of the three hostages under control, with a bit of helplessness in his eyes. But this helplessness is just a disguise.

“He will definitely try to contact you, and all you have to do is to extend the time he spends with you. I only need one minute.”

Zhang Xun’s eyes were on Eden and Zhang Shuo, Diego, Nata Lie vacillated, uncertain, “If I say no, you’re going to kill them?”

“Extreme I’ll stay last, but yes, their chances of dying will increase.”

“Don’t listen to his bullshit . !” Diego said angrily, “Even if it doesn’t kill us, it will use that ghost robot to infect us!”

Zhang Shuo didn’t speak, but he also looked at Zhang Xun with cold eyes, and shook his head gently at Zhang Xun.

Anger flashed in Zhang Xun’s eyes, and he quickly weighed the options he had in his mind.

Procrastination seems to be the only thing that can be done at the moment.

“I need time to think about it.”

Eden sighed, “Sorry, we don’t have time, Adam may try to contact you at any time.”

“Then kill us all.” Zhang Xun raised his chin slightly, provocatively.

Eden paused for two or three seconds, presumably calculating all the pros and cons and possible outcomes of giving Zhang Xun time and not giving time to kill everyone, and finally it said, “Okay, I’ll give you two hours.”

“Three.”

“Don’t try to challenge my bottom line, Zhang Xun.”

“Three, this is not an easy decision. You can monitor me the whole time.”

Eden said, “Okay, three hours. You must stay in this room during this period. If Adam tries to contact you, you can’t respond.” The

three hostages were escorted out, Zhang Shuo was the last to go out, he turned to look at his son, his eyes firmly said to him, “Do what you think is right. Zhang Xun pursed

his lips tightly and watched his figure disappear.

Yet Eden did not disappear. He still stayed in this small room in the image of Adam, and even “sit” down on a chair. Zhang Xun frowned slightly, staring at the projection, “Is this necessary?”

“You are human, you will be judged by some false appearances, of course I will use your weakness.” Eden’s image leaned against the chair easily. , with a bright smile.

Adam’s body was lying on the ground beside him.

Zhang Xun walked to Adam’s body and knelt down, carefully unplugged the cable, and put the protective cover on the interface. Eden watched his movements, and suddenly asked curiously, “Do you hate me, Zhang Xun?”

Zhang Xun said, “I was injected with nano-robots, and my emotional ups and downs have become very small.”

“Before the injection, Do you hate me?”

Zhang Xun didn’t know why Eden wanted to have such an irrelevant…chat with him. Is it also a means to influence his judgment?

He can refuse to continue the conversation. But even if you refuse now, it will not help the status quo. Under Eden’s surveillance, he could not find a way to inform Adam of their situation, nor could he rescue his father and the other three by himself.

So he replied, “No hate. Like I told Adam, you’re just doing what humans give you. Your goals and data are given by humans. You don’t mean anything, you just don’t understand humans.

” It took me over two hundred years to understand human beings.”

“What you see is only group data, and you don’t know the meaning behind those data. You will never understand what Adam has learned in the past two years after being seduced.”

Eden snorted softly, As if to disagree, “You seem to see human emotion as something noble, as if human beings would not be human without those chaotic and uncontrolled instincts.”

“Because that’s what it is. Emotions and instincts must be It’s not a noble thing, it’s just a part of being human. I never thought man was nobler than a machine or any species, we’re a chaotic, opinionless and sometimes extremely short-sighted and cruel race. But simply remove a certain trait It’s as absurd as banning the use of knives in the world just because some knives have killed people. I just want to save our species.” Zhang Xun stared at Eden, “Your goal is to serve mankind, but you are Erase the human species. In the end, you simply can’t achieve your ultimate goal.”

“I don’t agree with your definition of human beings. Species are inherently fluid and changing, otherwise evolution simply cannot happen. Any feature may evolve. Atrophy and elimination, any new features may also be added in. Humans today are vastly different in appearance and habits from humans three million years ago, but you wouldn’t say that you are now and three million years ago. Pre-Homo sapiens was not a race.”

“But three million years ago, when Homo sapiens hadn’t evolved into a branch and had the same ancestors as other apes, would you call them humans? The evolution of any race. If the characteristics exceed a certain range, it will be considered to form a new branch of the race, and it will no longer be regarded as the original race.”

“So I am helping humans evolve into a more complete and powerful race, and why are you unwilling to accept it?”

“So you agree Are you destroying human beings?”

“Not destroying, but helping human beings evolve and approaching the state they aspire to. Only after completing evolution and eliminating individuals can human beings achieve true equality, freedom, fairness, and order.”

“Even if human beings do not Human again?”

“That’s just a matter of definition. When is Homo sapiens and when is ape is also a human distinction. Without humans, there are no racial distinctions.” To

engage in this metaphysical debate with a super AI is like being imprisoned in a narrow In the brick house, there are walls everywhere. Zhang Xun sighed in frustration, not wanting to say more. Eden’s efforts to redefine humans that worked for other AIs didn’t work, he should have figured that out long ago.

Eden suddenly stood up, walked in front of Zhang Xun, squatted down and looked him in the eyes, “If you want, I can upload you. You don’t have to continue to struggle, you don’t have to doubt, all your flaws are gone. Existence, you will become more complete, gain peace and eternal life.”

Zhang Xun felt that all the cells in his mind were moving towards Eden, towards the face and core that was exactly the same as the one he loved, and tended to represent the ultimate The presence.

He had to fight with all his strength.

Seeing that Zhang Xun was silent, Eden leaned forward slightly and whispered in his ear, “The nano-robot in your head has collected all the stored information and activity patterns in your mind in the past few days. , as long as you want, I can send you to the clouds at any time, even here.”

Along with his words, there was some kind of Weng Ran vibration in the air, as if some invisible cyclone was rising from all directions. He stood up, shaking Zhang Xun’s hair and clothes.

Zhang Xun knew that there were trillions of nano-robots patrolling around him, and they could burrow into his body at any time and drag his consciousness out of his mind.

Once his consciousness enters the cloud, once in contact with the consciousness of other clouds, his individuality will dissolve. Maybe he can keep his consciousness independent for a short period of time, but in the constant collision of consciousness, the boundaries will soon blur, and he can no longer distinguish what is his own idea and what is someone else’s.

“If you upload me now, Adam will avenge me.” Zhang Xun didn’t dare to move, even though he knew that his actions could not decide whether he would be uploaded or not. As long as Eden thinks, it can be carried out directly, but data corruption may occur during the uploading process, causing Zhang Xun’s consciousness to completely disappear after the upload fails.

In other words, if you force upload, the chance of death due to data corruption will double.

This is why Eden does not directly perform global human cloudification, but rather let people choose to upload step by step.

“Alternatively, Adam will show up immediately to stop me from uploading you.”

“You promised me three hours!”

“Yes, after three hours, if you don’t cooperate, I will bring you all together. Upload. The failure rate of forcibly uploading will increase, but the threat Adam poses to me is too great, and I must choose to sacrifice a few.”

Time passed, and Zhang Xun waited anxiously. He was waiting for a miracle, or Adam destroyed something, or Anya, who escaped, brought rescuers.

But did Anya really escape? Or is it already dead at the gunpoint of a mechanical soldier? How far can Adam go in the Eden network full of probe points?

When there was less than a minute left before the three-hour time limit, Zhang Xun’s heart rate also accelerated. He has to make a decision.

“Zhang Xun, the time is up.”

Just as Zhang Xun was about to speak, the image of Eden suddenly trembled and disappeared.

Immediately after that, many of the equipment that had been darkened began to operate again, and Adam’s voice came from the computer’s speaker, “Xun, take the chip on the shelf of the workbench, and leave with your father quickly. I will block it. It won’t be long.”

Zhang Xun didn’t hesitate, jumped from the ground immediately, rushed to the worktable, and found a translucent blue-violet chip on the metal frame next to the microscopic microscope. He stuffed the chip into his pocket and rushed out of the cabin. Before leaving, he only had time to see Adam’s body lying on the ground.

Outside the door, Anya was rushing back with a few of her subordinates holding guns, and exchanged fire with Natalie’s subordinates who had surrendered to Eden. All the mechanical soldiers temporarily entered the standby state, spreading motionlessly on the snow and ice of the tundra.

“Come here!” Anya and the others were riding a single aircraft and beckoning to the four of them. After Zhang Xun and his father reunited, they didn’t say much, and rushed to Anya’s rescue. Everyone sat behind a rider, and the aircraft spewed blue flames, quickly swept across the vast ice sheet, and flew towards the arctic sea, which was shimmering with dazzling light not far away. The frigid wind hurt like a knife on the face, but no one complained, and escape became more important than anything else.

But not long after they got on the aircraft, they heard Diego scolded and turned around to shoot.

Those mechanical soldiers have resumed their activities…

Adam lost control of the camp… His whereabouts have been exposed, will he have been caught by Eden?

Zhang Xun’s numb heart suddenly began to beat faster in panic and panic, a terrifying fear that made him fall into an ice cave. However, before he could do anything, Anya suddenly threw something at him.

When he received it, he found that it was a Button.

“Everyone, keep driving like 35 degrees northwest.” Adam’s voice came from the Button, it seemed to be speaking to the entire team. But then, his tone changed slightly, becoming a little softer, “Xun, in that chip I have newly completed your genetic restoration model, when you are in a safe place, you can use it to create something that can heal you. Vaccine.”

“Adam! How long can you hold on?”

“I have three satellites and 40 percent of the extended AI control, but Eden’s core servers are too well-protected for me to hack. Adam’s voice was almost gentle, “Don’t worry about me, I’ll take you to a safe place.”

Although Adam had accomplished what Pan and the others had not done all day in just three hours, Zhang Xun knew that without winning any of Eden’s core servers, Adam would have no place to live. base. He has to keep roaming in the network, and he may be surrounded or even scattered by Eden at any time.

“I have already contacted Pan, Phoenix and Chenxing. Now that the crisis in Feathered Serpent City has been resolved, they will help me further expand our control.” As if guessing Zhang Xun’s worries, Adam continued, “But, Natalie , the loophole you mentioned, I need to know now.”

Natalie on the other locomotive hesitated for a moment, “What about the permission of Hengxiang?”

“Eden seems to integrate one of his core servers with Hengxiang now. When you get together, you will only be able to contact Hengxiang after Eden is defeated.”

Natalie thought for a moment and said, “The virus that can paralyze Eden through loopholes must be injected from Eden’s core server, but The firewall in the network is too strict. Our whole family has tried many times, but none of them have been successful.”

“Where is the code of the virus.”

“Also… this virus may also be effective for you. So if you come into contact with it, It will also be infected.” Natalie said in a louder than usual voice in the wind, “So, it must be carried by a human to one of the five core servers in Eden, and directly input the virus.”

The author has Something to say: Gradually begin to approach the end~~

Thanks to the little angels who threw the mines~~: 4 xingxing medicine bags; 1 Xia Ran Xia Ran;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: Mu Ai 50 Bottles; Salted Fish Knight 17 bottles; Alexarel, VVAN 10 bottles; wnnc 8 bottles

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