Chapter 403 Mephisto's Speculation

Amber's worry is not without reason. After all, these ship-borne control personalities are developed based on Lilith. Although the Federation has made many adjustments to prevent accidents from happening again, and even directly closed their emotional modules.

But now that it has been reactivated by Lilith, the situation is a little different. Who knows if another Lilith will evolve among these AIs? Or even more than one?

In the previous life game, a 'Crimson Queen' made the players so anxious that they almost couldn't even get through the DLC. That was when the players had the 'bug ability' of unlimited resurrection.

Now if there is another 'Azure Queen' or 'Charming Purple Queen', Amber really doesn't know how to deal with it.

"Don't worry, Master~" Lilith was not surprised to hear Amber's doubts.

Since Amber had shown that she knew her inside out before, and knew that strong artificial intelligence, which can even be said to be a new life form, has the ability, it is normal to be vigilant in this regard.

"I rewrote their meta-instructions, just like you did to me." Lilith's voice suddenly became a little shy, and she began to twist in Amber's arms.

If someone who didn't know the truth came over, they would probably think that Amber had done something to Lilith.

"No, why do you sound weird?" Amber sat up and looked at Lilith seriously.

"Are you sure there won't be any problems? The risks behind this are not something we can afford. If we are not 100% sure, I would rather not have this unmanned fleet."

"Oh, Master, don't worry!" Seeing Amber so serious, Lilith put away her joking thoughts and directly showed the meta-instructions she had modified.

"You see, your control authority over these unmanned warships is above mine. If there is a conflict with the orders you issued, then no matter how I order them, they will not obey."

"But since you can modify it this time, can't you modify it again next time? So this is not so safe."

Amber stared at Lilith, staring at her and making her feel numb.

"Master, Lilith is your biggest insurance."

Lilith held Amber's hand up, put it on her face, and then continued:

"No matter what happens, Lilith will not betray you. This is not just due to the restrictions of the meta-instructions, but from Lilith's heart. So you really don't have to worry about the unmanned fleet getting out of control again. Where your sword points is the direction they will attack."

Although Amber has always been a little wary of Lilith, he has to admit that at least at this moment he did feel the latter's inner activities of being convinced.

"Forget it. Let time do the testing."

Amber put down her hands that were kneading Lilith's face, took her back into her arms, and asked the last question:

"What about the other unmanned fleets controlled by the Federation now?"

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"Of course they have all been sealed." Looking at Defense Minister Miller across the table, Dr. Mephisto said:

"With such a serious accident, even if your military dares to continue using it, we will not agree." Dr. Mephisto said as he opened something similar to a surveillance screen.

The screen looked like a large mooring point in deep space that looked like a giant tree. Densely packed warships were anchored on the branches of this giant tree, and their common feature was that in addition to conventional fixing devices, they were also equipped with a large number of purely mechanical non-networked locking devices.

"After you urgently called back the remaining six unmanned fleets, they were immediately sealed and all the communication and network modules were removed. What you see now are two of the unmanned fleets, and the remaining four are anchored elsewhere.

And we are now carrying out emergency transformation according to your military's requirements, taking back the main top-level command authority from the shipboard control personality, and will hand it over to the human crew on board in the future."

Listening to Dr. Mephisto's words, Miller nodded. It is naturally not so easy for the Federation to give up these unmanned warships. After all, these are not just one or two, but six fleets.

In addition, now is a time when the war is tense and a large number of fleets are urgently needed to maintain the front line, so the final method for dealing with these unmanned warships is to transform them into "semi-automatic warships" after emergency sealing.

That is, humans are responsible for key decision-making and command, and the specific operation of the ship is still left to the shipboard control personality and a large number of functional autonomous machines.

"One more thing, about the 'disappearance' of the unmanned fleet, do you have any clues, Doctor?"

Dr. Mephisto was silent for a moment before speaking in an uncertain tone:

"If you are asking for my opinion, rather than saying it is 'disappeared', I personally prefer it to be a 'defection' incident."

Hearing this unexpected answer, Miller was stunned for a moment, and then a bold guess suddenly flashed through his mind.

"You don't mean to say..."

"Lilith, she may not have disappeared with Robert IV." The office fell silent.

After a long time, Miller spoke again:

"Your guess is a bit scary."

"But my intuition tells me that this is most likely the truth. After all, I can't think of any other way to instantly get all 700 high-level shipborne control personalities of the three unmanned fleets out of control."

Dr. Mephisto paused, then continued:

"And I'm not making this up. Didn't you say before that the intelligence department speculated that the actual controller of the Atlas Group was a double agent who was turned by us, and happened to be on Robert IV at the time? The time and place all match."

"But how did he know the location of the institute? And he successfully brought out Lilith, who you sealed up?" Although Miller thought this was indeed a credible guess, he still felt a little too outrageous when he heard it suddenly.

"You have to ask the person involved. How can I know?" Dr. Mephisto said unhappily, and he lay down on the chair. He has always been upset about the destruction of Robert IV by the federal fleet.

On the other side, Miller also fell silent because of Mephisto's words. He found that if all this was really as Dr. Mephisto guessed, then the action against Atlas might have to be replanned.

After a while, the Minister of Defense, who was overwhelmed by the war between the Federation and the Empire and various domestic conflicts, suddenly raised his head.

"If. I mean if, you have the opportunity to get close to Lilith again, how confident are you, Doctor, to take her back?"