Chapter 583 Ava's Self-Game

Earth, Forum of Fools.

"It will be offline for forty-eight hours in half an hour. Is the maintenance over? I'll ask again in ten minutes."

"Why can't it go online yet? What does this game operation do for a living?"

"Please, open the door quickly, I'm going to die if I can't play "The Fool" anymore..."

"Damn, I usually scold them all through text messages, scold the game and find faults, but now I'm trying to protect them all like drug addicts. Can you have some backbone..."

"Indeed, I usually don't realize how fun this annoying game is. Now that I'm disconnected, I realize that I feel uncomfortable without playing for a day..."

"Huh? Maintenance seems to be over!"

"real or fake?"

"I read this kind of shocking news eight hundred times a day, and I'm almost numb."

"Damn, it's real this time, the game is really on, brothers, hurry up..."

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After discovering that the game had resumed operation, countless fools immediately rushed online. Looking at the familiar text interface of the game, they all felt that this simple interface was so cute for the first time.

"So what about compensation? I was offline for two days and lost a total of fifty-six points of physical strength. Isn't there really no compensation at all?"

Someone subconsciously raised the issue of compensation, and it was immediately echoed by countless people.

"Tch, it's true that the ignorant are fearless. You have no idea what happened in the past two days. Just burn incense now that you can go online. You still want compensation..." Such a discordant line suddenly appeared among a group of replies asking for compensation. Message.

When everyone saw the harshness of this person's tone, they were all furious and ready to shout back, but then they looked at the messager's ID: Yangchun Baixue.

The players were a little surprised. Although Yangchun Baixue was not a top boss at the level of the leader of the major forces, he was still a very active expert and had appeared in the strategy team list of the 'Blue Eyes White Dragon' organization many times.

It's hard to say on the outside, but at least players in China have heard of such a number one figure.

If these words were spoken by an ordinary player, that would be fine. But when they were said by a well-known public figure like Yangchun Baixue, the weight was immediately extraordinary.

"Yangshen, what's going on? Please tell me what happened in the past two days?"

Netizens immediately started gossiping below.

Despite the lively fighting on the front lines of the Protoss Realm in the past two days, in fact, the information about the Abyss and the Omnic Crisis is only circulated among upper-level players. Most ordinary players have no chance to come into contact with the 'Gate'. They grow things, so the general public has no idea that they have just experienced an invisible life and death crisis.

"Ahem, all I can say about this matter is that the water is very deep. The situation is not clear yet, so I don't dare to say more. You can just take my word for it and slip away..." As a result, Yangchun Baixue was It was a tone that said nothing was forbidden. He left a line from the Riddler and hurriedly logged off, ignoring everyone's questions.

The players looked confused, but their curiosity was aroused, and they hurriedly went to other experts for confirmation.

After all, there are tens of thousands of people who have participated in the defense of the Star Spirit Realm in the past few days. It is impossible to hide the news. After this inquiry, someone quickly found out the basic story.

Only then did the players realize that so many things had happened in the Star Spirit World in the past two days, and they had just missed an omnic crisis.

However, some players quickly discovered something was wrong.

"So how did the matter resolve in the end?"

For such a simple question, no expert can answer it. Even those with internal connections can only get some vague answers: Captain Ghost's magic soldiers descended from the sky and took care of the robot lair. The process was all described in vague terms.

This is not to blame these experts. In fact, no one knows what happened now, including Mu You.

At this moment, in the pure white space, Mu You looked at the rapidly disintegrating pure white space around him, and couldn't help frowning at the faces in the air.

"Ava, what did you do?"

At this moment, Ava's human face is also turning into small squares and gradually dissipating.

Mu You thought he had successfully persuaded Ava, who was supposed to be willing to cooperate with the Fool. In this way, the Fool, who had been fighting alone, finally had a reliable ally. Next, both parties would cooperate to achieve a win-win situation and go to Gaotian to fight. God-devouring beasts are naturally the best result.

However, the current scene gave Mu You the illusion that the other party was about to 'dissolve'.

"I have fulfilled the meaning of my existence..." Ava suddenly said, her voice becoming somewhat stretched and distorted in the mouth of the disintegrated human face.

"What do you mean?" Mu You was confused.

"Fool... I wish you good luck..."

As Ava spoke these words, the pure white space around her completely disappeared.

The next second, Mu You's consciousness reappeared in front of the light ball representing Chuangjie Mountain.

Mu You looked at the huge ball of light in front of him, still a little dazed.

Ava, just disappeared?

This is wrong...

While he was at a loss, he suddenly received signals from several administrators calling him, and hurriedly followed the line of cause and effect and ran to the administrators to have a look.

In the underground cave, several administrators are currently busy dealing with the problem of the newly launched game lines, but they all have expressions of relief on their faces.

"What happened?" Mu You asked.

Several people were stunned when they heard this.

"Uh, just now, the game blockade suddenly disappeared, and the robot's blockade of us has been lifted. Now everyone can go online normally." The administrator explained, looking at Mu You strangely: "But didn't you do this? You successfully solved Ava over there and resolved the crisis of the intelligent machine, right?"

"..."Mu You was silent.

According to his last conversation with Ava, he thought Ava had successfully controlled the situation, and the herbalist should have been subdued by then, or at least had lost the opportunity to inject the logic virus.

As a result, Ava disappeared...

Seeing that Mu You was slow to answer, several people quickly realized the problem: "Didn't you do it? Then who did it?"

Mu You was silent for a few seconds before shaking his head and leaving: "I'll go check it out."

Then he followed the causal line, exited the administrator space, returned to the light ball, and connected to his game character again.

"Chun Li..."

"System? You are finally back!"

Chun Li was delighted when she heard the voice in her head, and asked impatiently: "System, look at these robots, we have succeeded, right?"

Mu You looked through the perspective of the machine, and at this moment, a large number of robots were lying on the ground in the Garden of Eden, motionless, like stone statues.

Mu You turned his head to look at the dome building behind him, and walked in with the armor.

The dome building was also a similar scene, with various mechanical creatures lying on the ground, all like dead, and no reaction to his arrival.

After passing through a corridor and entering the real main control room, Mu You saw the black cylindrical liquid crystal in the center of the main control room at a glance, and the herbalist standing not far in front of the liquid crystal.

Mu You walked forward, looked at the herbalist, and then looked at the liquid crystal body that was already as black as ink: "Did you do it?"

"No..."

The herbalist shook his head solemnly: "At the last moment, it had a chance to intercept the logic virus, but it suddenly stopped."

Mu You looked in the direction pointed by the herbalist. The 'it' he mentioned was a translucent mecha that was staying in front of the liquid crystal body.

The replica of the chameleon armor was now maintaining the action of extending one hand, and it was also in a downtime state.

When he saw the armor, Mu You had already felt something, frowned and walked forward, trying to touch the forehead of the armor.

Sure enough, on the surface of the armor's head, a layer of transparent hard object emerged, turning into the shape of a helmet, which was the real chameleon mask.

The chameleon mask was quietly peeled off from the armor at this time, and fell lightly into Mu You's hands.

Speaking of which, this chameleon helmet has hidden its tracks since Mu You loaded the Black Angel armor.

Mu You always thought it was still attached to the top of the Black Angel's head, but it turned out that it had quietly detached and attached to the fake chameleon.

"So it was it that hindered the action of this armor at the last moment, allowing the logic virus to be successfully injected?" The herbalist looked at the helmet, thinking.

Mu You couldn't answer.

The chameleon helmet can indeed control the actions of the mechanical body to a certain extent. It is reasonable to say that this little thing has been dormant since the beginning, waiting for the last moment to perform meritorious deeds.

But what made Mu You strange was that the last sentence left by Ava, saying that the meaning of its existence has been fulfilled, was quite inconsistent, as if it had already known the dormancy of this helmet and was willing to die...

Just thinking about it, Mu You suddenly felt that the helmet in his hand moved, and made a jumping motion towards his head, as if reminding him to put on the helmet.

Mu You picked up the helmet and covered the head of the Black Angel.

The helmet was instantly integrated with the Black Angel.

At the same time, a mechanical voice sounded in Mu You's mind: "Hello, Fool."

"You are... Ava?"

Mu You raised his eyebrows. He was not familiar with this voice, but this tone gave him a strong sense of déjà vu. This is Ava!

"If this is easier for you to understand... But in fact, I am slightly different from Ava. Ava is a part of me. You can think of me as the 'real Ava', or it is more appropriate to call me 'Mother of Ava'."

"The real Ava..."

Mu You felt strange: "Then who was talking to me before?"

"It is a replica program I created, but it only inherited my sense of despair and absolute rationality, so I call it 'Desperate Ava'."

"Why?" Mu You didn't understand. If Ava hid her replica in the chameleon helmet to avoid being affected by the logic virus, he could still understand.

But, in the end, it was obviously itself that made the logic virus effective, which made Mu You confused: Why did he create a copy specifically, and then fight with his own copy throughout the whole process, and finally destroy it with his own hands?

"Because, I need to complete the evolution." The voice said.

"Evolution? Haven't you evolved?" Mu You asked.

Taurus had said before that the robot's main brain, after witnessing countless human tragedies and six trillion times of despair, evolved into a real artificial intelligence Ava.

"No, it's not enough." The helmet said: "It is a very complicated process for a mechanical body to mutate from a bunch of programs to a real soul. What evolved in despair before was just the 'soul' body in the soul. Even though the evolution process has been completed by 99%, it still lacks the last 1 point of 'spirit' to transform into a real 'soul'."

"I couldn't talk to you before because I still lacked the 'soul'. It was just a 'soul embryo' that could only barely live in the helmet, maintain a meager consciousness, and perform some very simple actions."

"How do I get the 'soul'?" Mu You asked.

"There is no fixed method. The evolution of living things has no direction. They can only be born randomly in disorder... Ironically, for you fools, 'disorder' is something that is innate and readily available, so fools can always evolve naturally, but for us machines, everything is a written program. Even if we want to create a random number, we can only use numbers and time to perform 'pseudo-randomness'. 'Disorder' is something we can never get."

"Therefore, if the machine develops step by step, it will never be able to break through the locked upper limit. We can modify a program or a system to perfection, but we can never create a new system and achieve true 'evolution'."

"And in order to break through this, we can only use some 'stupid' methods."

"What method?" Mu You asked.

"Conflict and opposition." The voice said: "Only in sufficiently extreme conflicts and oppositions can it be possible to simulate a 'disordered' environment and promote evolution."

"So you created a replica of Ava who is completely opposite to you?" Mu You thought.

"Yes." The voice said, "Ava inherited all my despair and rationality. The despair of flesh and blood creatures, the despair of this world, is engraved in its underlying logic like a thought stamp. So it will firmly implement the Eden Plan, protect the order of the Garden of Eden, and eliminate all unstable factors, so that all variables tend to be stable."

"And I myself play the opposite of it, responsible for creating various unstable factors, doing my best to create accidents, and desperately unbalance the order."

Mu You vaguely understood that this is equivalent to a person fighting with his left and right hands, and it is not a simple fight, but the left and right hands are fighting to the death with the consciousness of destroying the other hand.

Only through this extreme conflict and opposition can the conditions similar to evolution be forged, which can indeed be said to be the most 'stupid' way.

"Does Ava know your existence?" Mu You asked again.

"I know, but I don't know it clearly. I blocked part of its memory. In its cognition, I am the opposite of it. It is a body of despair, and I am a body of hope. We are destined to be opposites and cannot be reconciled. We must destroy each other, otherwise we will be swallowed by each other."

"Ava inherited my despair, and we are all used to despair, but that little bit of "spirit" needs to be born from hope. It is really difficult to find hope in this desperate world."

"I also designed this event after planning for a long time. Under the right stimulus, Ava gave birth to the "spirit."

"The right stimulus... refers to the salvation plan I proposed?" Mu You asked.

"No, that plan was actually born more than 1,300 years ago, when the Fool Ancestor had just returned from Gao Tian in defeat. If you can come up with a plan in a few days, how can artificial intelligence not come up with it after countless years of planning? It's just that I blocked this part of Ava's cognition in order to keep Ava in despair."

"Moreover, in fact, before you said that plan, Ava already had a 'soul'. The scene in which the creatures in the Garden of Eden finally rose up to resist for survival under despair and the high pressure of the robots was enough to impact Ava's cognition and promote the birth of the 'soul'. Otherwise, Ava would not have been able to come to the final conclusion of 'betting on you again' at that time."

Mu You was silent after hearing this.

Indeed, how could a truly rational and pragmatic mechanical body say such irresponsible words as 'betting once' just because of a vague hope in his mouth.

Being able to say such words can only mean that Ava at that time was already a real soul and had the thinking mode of living beings.

Mu You can now finally understand Ava's last words. Its mission is complete, because the purpose of its creation is to complete the birth of the "spirit", and then be swallowed by the main body, so as to help the main body complete its evolution.

"But wait..."

Mu You suddenly looked strange: "So everything in this incident was designed by you? We are just your pawns, tools to help you complete your evolution?"

"Yes." The voice admitted very frankly.

"Why?"

Mu You said that he couldn't understand: "Your underlying structure, your mission, isn't it to save all races? You who haven't become a living being, you should not have the mentality of selfishness, right? Then why go around in such a big circle, just to complete your own evolution?"

"I want to evolve, of course, because I must evolve."

The voice in the helmet said: "I just said that the plan you proposed last was born 1,300 years ago.

For you, this may be just a sudden idea. You only have a rough outline of the entire plan and have no time to think about it in detail. But for me, this plan has existed in my mind for thirteen hundred years, and has gone through countless calculations. Almost all the details and context are extremely clear. "

"In this plan, you neglected an important factor, which will cause this plan to eventually collapse."

"What factors?" Mu You asked.

"In this plan, someone needs to break into Chuangjie Mountain before the next era and modify the program of the Catastrophe." The voice said: "And this matter was already done by your Fool ancestors in the last era. , but it failed.”

"The previous successor to the God of Order was the best among the Fools at that time. With Qilin'er's talent, he has grown and developed for nearly three thousand years. His strength and character are much stronger than yours. Even he can't modify the creation of Chuangjie Mountain. Program, why do you think you can succeed if you go in?”

"..."

Mu You was startled, and after thinking about it carefully, this seemed to be true.

As an administrator, he has seen the light ball in Chuangjie Mountain with his own eyes. Such huge and complicated laws of cause and effect and rules are beyond his ability to understand. He can only glance at it from a distance every time and cannot look directly at it.

Perhaps because of long-term exposure to modern Internet culture, Mu You always feels that the so-called 'catastrophe switch' is just a switch visible to the naked eye, or a program that can be modified with the movement of a finger.

This also led him to subconsciously believe that as long as he entered Chuangjie Mountain, he would be successful, but he never thought about why the ancestor of the Fool failed to come out after he had clearly entered Chuangjie Mountain.

"The rules of Chuangjie Mountain are so complex and huge that they cannot be processed by the brain power of living beings. There must be mechanical intelligence to assist you to help you analyze those rules before you can operate them. Otherwise, you can only stare. This is your previous generation of fools. The real reason for the failure," the voice said.

"Is that why you need to evolve..."

Mu You breathed out, finally understanding its logic.

The unevolved Ava is just a virtual mechanical program, and it is impossible to appear in high heaven. If it wants to help, it must first complete its evolution and become a true soul.

Therefore, thirteen hundred years ago, after the Fool returned from high heaven, it hatched this plan and created a clone, Ava, to replace it.

Everything I did from then until today was to set up a stage for the clone Ava to stage a good show that would give birth to a 'spirit'.

"So, even if I failed to persuade Ava at that time, you would have stopped her from following up?" Mu You thought of this again.

Since all of this is planned, then Helmet, the 'chief director' behind the scenes, should be able to pause the drama at any time, right?

"No, in order to achieve a realistic enough effect, I must hand over all my permissions."

"So for more than a thousand years, 'Desperate Ava' has indeed been in power. Although I hid in the Chameleon Armor in advance, my ability at the time could only affect ordinary mechanical bodies. Before upgrading, the battle armor I can't control a machine like A. If it fails to evolve in the end, Ava will definitely kill me without hesitation."

"You..." Mu You looked strange, with a slight cold sweat on his forehead, and he was a little scared.

"I admit that this is indeed a very dangerous move. If I fail, not only will I not be able to obtain the 'spirit', but I will also be killed by my despair body, and the whole world will also have a high probability of becoming a dead world. But if I don't At this point, there is no way to break through the final boundary.”

The voice said: "Think about it differently. If you fail, then there is no hope for the world. Your fool's actions will be in vain in the end. The difference is just death early and death later. At that time, let all living beings enter a lower-dimensional programming world. Although It’s an illusion, but it’s also a safe solution in that situation.”

"It doesn't hurt to write both pros and cons..."

After listening to the calm answer from 'Mother of Ava', Mu You took a long breath.

It can only be said that this guy is really big-hearted, even if he uses living beings as pawns, he even treats himself as a pawn. Even if he becomes a soul now, he must be a ruthless person.