Chapter 1560 Humans

Doudou waved her hands to the mastermind, with a pure and innocent smile on her face. She seemed unable to understand what "different life forms" meant, but just regarded the thinking and talking black pillar in front of her as a new friend, which was incredible. Yes, the mastermind also responded to this.

Hao Ren held Dou Dou firmly in his arms and glanced down at the little mermaid. Before he came here, he had already noticed that Doudou's behavior along the way was not quite right, so he asked about the little guy's situation - Doudou's mind was not yet mature, so she was not able to clearly express what she felt. However, through guessing and reasoning, Hao Ren still vaguely grasped the truth of the matter.

Doudou sensed the decline and demise of a group of people. This group could only be humans located in the Fortress of the End, and the malfunction of the master brain was probably related to it.

"To be honest, I have dealt with many races, all kinds of life forms - even elemental creatures and pure spirits, but artificial intelligence is the most difficult one to deal with in my mind," Hao Ren looked at The mastermind said, "I don't know how to convince a supercomputer with stubborn logic and strict thought process, because the evidence I can provide so far is vague and unverifiable and unfalsifiable to you. All I can say is ——If you really hope to fulfill your mission, if you really are still loyal to your creator, then you should at least try to believe in us outsiders, even if it lacks any logical support, it is at least a kind of choose."

The mastermind was silent for longer than before. Even the light on the surface of the black cylinder was dimmed by two-thirds. Just when Hao Ren thought that the super artificial intelligence had crashed, the latter's voice suddenly sounded again. He stood up and said, "Humanity is going to die."

"Humans... are about to die?" Vivian frowned, "Can you tell me what's going on?"

Doudou waved her little arms vigorously in Hao Ren's arms: "My dad can help you, my dad is super powerful!"

In response to Hao Ren and his entourage, there was a sudden sound of slight mechanical friction coming from across the hall.

Hao Ren saw that countless neatly arranged cracks suddenly appeared on the ring wall on the other side of the rotunda. Based on these cracks, the entire wall surged like water waves, and the layers of metal shrank in the surge. , folded, and after the wall faded away, a wide passage appeared in front of everyone.

"The door leading to the Palace of Finality?" Hao Ren realized the mastermind's intention the moment he saw the passage, and was immediately surprised. "You want us to go in?"

"Humans once said that we cannot give up any hope - even if it is as slim as a fantasy," the mastermind said quietly, "The situation cannot get worse. My logic system cannot continue to deduce what happens after this, so Come in, maybe this is what humans mean too."

Hao Ren and his party exchanged several glances with each other. They thought about entering the Palace of the End to meet those humans, but they did not expect that the mastermind would be so happy when he finally opened the door. But no matter what, the door to the final palace is already open, and they have no reason to stop.

It is completely different from other places in the fortress. The corridor leading to the Final Palace is brightly lit and the walls are white. The bright lights dispel the sense of depression accumulated by everyone along the way and seem to add to the cold steel world out of thin air. A touch of vitality and vitality.

After walking along the corridor for a while, murals depicting the world of the home star began to appear on the walls on both sides. There were green mountains and green waters, towering trees, and bustling cities hidden among the mountains. It seemed like a series of The history frozen in memories is vividly hung on the wall, allowing people to imagine the idyllic and beautiful time nearly 10,000 years ago.

And after passing through these beautiful scenery of the past, there is only the cold reality.

Another rotunda appeared in front of Hao Ren's eyes - this rotunda was similar in size to the hall where the main brain center was located, except that the main color was bright white, and there were no buzzing servers and cable ducts around it. The wall opposite the hall is a layer of transparent polymer. Through that layer of polymer, Hao Ren can see a large "greenhouse" with various plants and integrated houses. However, there is no one moving in the greenhouse.

Lily ran to the transparent "glass" curiously: "Mastermind, where are the humans?"

As if in response to Lily's inquiry, as soon as she finished speaking, a round hole opened in the center of the ground in the rotunda, and then a glass container like a giant test tube slowly rose up from the round hole.

The cylindrical glass container was filled with a pale pink nutrient solution, but the solution was soaked with lumps of twisted and mutated flesh and blood polymers. Those polymers were like pieces of meat crushed and mixed in the craziest way. They do not have any fixed shape, nor can any rational activity patterns be seen. They are just soaked in the nutrient solution, squirming and deforming aimlessly, sometimes merging with each other, and sometimes splitting apart.

Every short period of time, a faint blood color would ooze out from the surface of the squirming pieces of meat and spread into the solution. Although there seemed to be a filtering device running in the container, the dispersed blood color still dyed the solution into a light pink color.

After seeing these things, Yzaks subconsciously asked: "What is this?!"

"This is human." The mastermind's voice came from the speaker in the corner of the hall.

"Human?!" Hao Ren was stunned, "The humans here look like this?"

As he spoke, he looked at N-6 not far away, and saw the same look of shock and disbelief on N-6's face. Obviously, the human data downloaded from the agent's memory bank were not The appearance of this pile of meat in front of me.

Vivian frowned: "When did humans become like this?"

"Mutations have been happening, and there is no clear point in time. From the day this war began, or from the day the creators first escaped from their home planet, the power of Galactus has been imprinted on humanity. ,” the mastermind said in an emotionless electronic synthesized voice, “Before creating the agent, they had realized that humans would never be able to escape the power of Galactus. This power is difficult to explain with worldly knowledge, and will eventually be completely destroyed. End their civilization - the survival rate of newborns is declining, fatal diseases and limb mutations are increasing, millions of people have fled their home planet, but their population is declining every year. So they created the agents, Let the agent complete the mission on their behalf and regain their homeland."

The voice of the mastermind still continued: "In the first few thousand years, human beings could still move with agents. During that time, they taught agents many things, including how to think; after that, for a thousand years, due to With deformity problems and rapid physical decline, it was difficult for humans to continue to maintain social functions, so they built a large think tank to turn human knowledge and thinking into data that can be downloaded and understood by agents. At the same time, they also created me and gave me The responsibility of guarding and guiding the entire society; in the next thousand years, the mutations that occurred at the genetic level finally deteriorated to the point where they could not be alleviated at all. The greenhouse environment in the fortress could not sustain human survival, so they had to enter the culture container.

“In the next thousand years, no newborns were born, and humans survived for a long time with the help of incubators.

"In the next thousand years, they began to lose their bodies and even lost their individual isolation from each other. They were getting closer and closer to the original cell community form. In ancient historical records, similar forms also appeared on the home planet. Exactly - that is a phenomenon caused by the red blood tide released by the planet devourer. After the organism is exposed to the red blood tide, it will dissolve into this kind of cell group in a short time.

"Then, this is what you see."

Vivian's brows were still furrowed tightly: "...the agents outside know nothing about this?"

She glanced at N-6 next to her, and from the latter's almost dead expression, she already got the answer to her question.

"Secrets are buried deep within the fortress," the Mastermind replied. "Ordinary agents do not know what happens to humans."

Lily asked curiously: "Because this will cause them to collapse?"

"The mission of the agent is to assist mankind to regain the mother planet. This mission is engraved deep in the memory bank of every agent when they walk off the production line," the mastermind replied, "If we lose humanity, we will still have What?"

Hao Ren's eyes moved back and forth between the sluggish N-6 and the glass container in the center of the hall, thoughtfully.

"The human condition has been deteriorating for so many years," he raised his head and said to the air, but he knew that the mastermind had been watching him. "It deteriorated to a critical point a few years ago, which caused your malfunction. ?”

"Humans created me and asked me to serve them, but they didn't tell me what I should do if they leave one day," the mastermind replied calmly, "For thousands of years, my entire mission has been to complete their instructions. The mission given to me - to build a lunar base, develop a society of agents, create an army, and counterattack the home planet, all this is because humans need me to do this."

Hao Ren slowly exhaled: "But now, even 'humanity' itself is about to disappear."

This is why the mastermind suffered a fatal malfunction.

He has already discovered that the mastermind and agent created by humans on this planet are actually not the same thing - if the agent is a kind of extreme imitation of human beings, from words, deeds to thinking ability, it is the same as human beings. An intelligent individual with perceptual thinking, then the main brain is more like a super computer with superior computing power but lack of perceptual thinking and fuzzy computing capabilities. This design should have far-reaching considerations at the beginning, perhaps to ensure the safety of the entire society of agents. Stability may also be to ensure the eternity of the long-term goal of "recapturing the mother planet", but in any case, the results of this design so far are far away from the original purpose of mankind.

When no technological means can save mankind's fate of destruction, the mastermind's strict logic system can only come to one conclusion: he will never be able to complete the tasks assigned to him by the creator.

So he began to malfunction, became confused, and began to enter the countdown to self-destruction.

"Do 'human beings' still have the ability to think? In other words, can they still communicate?" Hao Ren asked.

"...That was a long time ago." The mastermind replied.

Just as Hao Ren thought: no human beings can correct the logical conflict of the master brain - they may have had this opportunity, but now, it is too late.