Chapter 1685 Cracking the Scroll and Learning Machine

Of course, it would not be so easy to test again.

After commanding the spirit of the communication artifact to send the message, Xia Duo waited patiently. During this period, he also tried to test himself, but perhaps because the spirit of the artifact was connected to his essence, no abnormality was found after multiple tests.

"Sure enough, an outsider is still needed!"

Thinking of this, Xia Duo paused his self-test and prepared to wait for Kent to come.

A few minutes later, Kent, who had just left not long ago, returned to the laboratory. Xia Duo nodded secretly, but this alone could not prove that the spirit of the artifact was fine.

Without waiting for Kent to speak first, Xia Duo took the initiative to ask: "Kent, you just received my message, right?"

"Yes, President."

"Very good, I have a task for you now."

"Please speak, President."

"Did you see the crystal ball on the experimental table? I want you to communicate with it, determine the identity of the person behind it, and evaluate its status."

"This--" Kent was stunned. What kind of task is this? He is not a special spy, and if he deliberately inquires, will the other party tell the truth? How can he judge this?

"Why? Is it difficult?" Xia Duo asked.

"No, President, I'm worried that I can't do it well and delay your work."

"Don't worry about this, just do it. If you feel unsure, you can take the crystal ball back and find your friends to complete it together. I will give everyone points according to the completion situation."

After Xia Duo said this, Kent agreed, but raised a new question: "But how can we judge whether he is lying?"

"He won't lie, but we need to consider whether he has concealed key information. You can slowly test these after you go back and give me the results in two days."

After that, Xia Duo let Kent go back.

In fact, what he wanted Kent to complete was a Turing-like test. As long as he deliberately controlled it, the spirit of the weapon would certainly not lie. In fact, this thing has no concept of lying at all, and it doesn't even have a self, so how can it lie?

Giving different answers can only be because he has set up a response mechanism in advance.

Just like the tower spirit of the Tower of Time, when Xia Duo was an apprentice, he needed special startup keywords to ask the tower spirit, and even asked questions that could not ask abstract questions.

Later, he learned that the tower spirit was actually intelligent and could understand abstract problems, but it was not until now that he understood the essence of the tower spirit.

It was not a true artificial intelligence, but a projection of part of the essence of the original caster, which was solidified by the spirit essence.

In other words, the tower spirit can actually be used as a teacher!

Perhaps its intelligence cannot support teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, but it is more than enough to just answer questions mechanically!

And the tower spirits created by smarter people or people with broader knowledge are definitely smarter and more knowledgeable than those created by ordinary people!

Of course, the tower spirits here mainly refer to the original tower spirits that have not been edited.

If they have been specially edited and trained, they may be even better, but it is also possible that they will become worse.

…

After Kent left, Xia Duo silently formulated a few simple rules for the spirit of the communication instrument in his heart, and then took out the enlightenment scroll again.

But this time he was not going to create a new instrument spirit, but was ready to crack the scroll.

Brendes sent a total of ten scrolls of enlightenment, and he just used two. Now it is still quite difficult to crack within eight.

Cracking a magic scroll is similar to cracking a magic item, except that the magic scroll directly writes all the encrypted spell details on paper, which makes it a little easier to crack.

But that's all. In fact, it's better to grind one element at a time.

Fortunately, Xia Duo also has a lot of knowledge about mental magic. Combined with the observation of the essence of the spirit just now, he can probably guess the design direction of this spell before encryption, as well as some details.

This is equivalent to giving him a key to crack. Although it doesn't match the lock completely, the outline has come out, and the next step is to fill in the details.

Of course, Xia Duo is also ready to continue to buy scrolls of enlightenment.

...

In the next few days, Xia Duo almost never left the laboratory except for eating and sleeping. Of course, the construction of the [Misera] device on the blue crystal plane has temporarily stopped.

However, Niya's work did not stop. After lunch every day, she would go to the blue crystal plane on time to print the mithril line of the flight control system.

During this period, Xia Duo did not forget to give the communication magic weapon spirit to Kent for testing. He had a hunch that he probably would not be able to get the tower spirit editing technology from the Seventh Tower, and there would not even be any hints about the relevant theories.

In other words, if he did not study it himself, any "weapon spirit" he used in the future would be in its original state.

Not to mention that it contains various private information, it is also easy to leave a backdoor for the Seventh Tower.

On this day, Xia Duo once again recovered a bunch of mithril components for simulation testing. He was a little irritated after repeated attempts without success.

Although only two of the remaining eight enlightenment scrolls were used, if the current cracking speed is still maintained, I am afraid that after these are consumed, I will have to buy ten or eight more!

"Alas-"

Xia Duo sighed in his heart that cracking was not easy. This was the result of the Seventh Tower's deliberate indulgence. If they did not want people to crack, they could have set up more and more complete encryption and insurance measures.

After walking around in the laboratory twice, Xia Duo couldn't think of any new ideas for a while, so he decided to leave the place temporarily to see how Kent and the others were doing their tests.

Of course, since the spirit of the communication instrument is already connected to his essence, Sha Duo does not need to go there in person and can obtain relevant information only in his consciousness.

--May I have your name?

--number 1.

--Where are you from?

--(no answer)

——Are you human?

--yes

…

The first part was generally normal, but the interesting part came later. When Kent knew that the test subject was a mage and could not lie, he immediately threw out all the difficult questions he had accumulated.

Later, other members of the Institute who were invited to participate in the test also followed the same example and directly regarded the test subject as a teaching machine that would not resist, realizing the freedom of learning in advance!

"These boys!"

Xia Duo was not angry, but felt very pleased. He was gratified by the enthusiasm of these members who entered the society for seeking knowledge, and this could be regarded as an early verification of the feasibility of the "learning machine" or "question answering machine".

Judging from the current situation of the Tower of Time, there will definitely not be enough teachers in the future. It is almost an inevitable trend to implement answering machines or learning among some lower-grade students.

It's a good thing to be eager to learn, but these little guys may have completely forgotten their tasks and serious business, which is a bit bad.