"dad… "
Pepe feels that today's father is very different - although he usually has a frowning, worried and even unpredictable look, but today's father is particularly chilling and indifferent, like a layer of invisible blood armor, Wrap him tightly.
For a moment, Pepe even suspected that the man standing in front of him, who seemed to be shrouded in darkness and scarlet, was not her father, but the cruelest creature that could be found in countless star fields.
The girl took a step back and stammered, "Just because of this? Just because Shannuya has awakened his self-awareness and wants to know who it is? Isn't this a question that everyone wants to know? When a child grows up, he must figure out who he is!"
"Others may be able to, but Void Hunters can't, because they are too huge and control too dangerous power. Once they figure out their own destiny and develop independent ideas, it is very likely to cause... unimaginable consequences."
Dad said coldly, "Thousands of years, countless tragic experiences and lessons have taught us that we cannot be too vigilant when dealing with void hunters, so we formed the 'Dream Control Bureau' and came up with various mental scans And the method of consciousness test constitutes multiple lines of defense, and the core and most critical of all lines of defense is its name.
"You may not know that since our ancestors encountered the first void hunter 'Blast' in the depths of the star sea, all the newly born void hunters are called 'Shannuya'. Of course, the name refers to " The cruel and heartless king in One Thousand and One Nights is a metaphor for the fate of all of us, just like Shan Ruzod, the prime minister's daughter and all the girls living under the king's clutches, our life and death depend on' The king's joy and anger, and the king's joy and anger depend on the stories we provide. Only by constantly providing fresh stories and sincere emotions can we survive one difficult night after another and usher in the day of hope.
"When a brand-new Void Hunter has just been 'reborn' from its tentacles and started another journey of life, its nervous system is relatively simple, and it has not been able to produce enough intelligence—in fact, if it is not stimulated by the unexpected factor of us humans, Void hunters never need to be 'intelligent' to live well in the universe.
"Unfortunately, we humans need the Void Hunter to master a certain degree of intelligence so that we can better... cooperate with it and let it grow, jump, swim, devour and destroy according to our wishes. After thousands of years of hard work, Various methods to stimulate the growth of the Void Hunter's neural network, including how to communicate and control the secrets, are already very mature. Shannuya and all its "brothers and sisters" are the products of artificial intervention and enhanced stimulation.
"However, we don't need the Void Hunter's intelligence to be too mature and powerful, and we don't want it to learn all the darkest things in the depths of the human brain during in-depth communication.
"In other words, we hope that the Void Hunter can maintain the intelligence level of a child of four or five years old, at most seven or eight years old. Once its intelligence level exceeds ten years old, it will be too, too dangerous.
"A four or five-year-old child may not be curious about the origin of his name, but a child who can understand the connotation of 'Shannuya' and express clear disgust must have intelligence beyond the level of seven, eight or even ten years old, and Judging from the fact that he made his own claim and named himself the 'Happy Prince', he has a strong personality, even uncontrollable - which is why we had to arrange for him to be 'reborn'."
"Just because of the name?"
Pepe listened dumbfounded, feeling that the whole world had become distorted. She wanted to laugh to relieve the absurd atmosphere, but the laughter sounded like a sob, "What's the danger? I mean, even if Let Shannuya understand who it is, and what does it matter? Even if its intelligence level develops to the level of adults in their twenties and thirties, so what? Aren't we friends? We need each other and fight side by side A close partner for thousands of years! We can’t treat friends and partners like this, can we?”
"Remember, my daughter, always remember that there are never any 'friends' among the dark stars before your eyes."
Dad said coldly, "Only the prey and the hunter, or the ruler and his slaves."
Pepe hugged her arms subconsciously, and the girl felt so cold.
"What's more, even if we are willing to treat it as a friend, what about it?"
Dad asked back, "Will it be willing to keep us as friends forever, and always be selfless for us, as our towns, battleships, and mines, when it knows all about it and wields a power that grows stronger every day?"
"certainly!"
Pepe said without hesitation, "Shannuya is very kind, and it will never change!"
"Don't be stupid, Pepe, things will change, everything will change. When we humans come from the earth to the center of the universe, we become unrecognizable, and all races struggling in the sea of stars, in order to survive, they are always Everything is changing dramatically.”
Dad sighed, and said, "Now Shannuya is like a child of seven or eight years old, from seven or eight years old to 20 or 30 years old to seventy or eighty years old - no one knows how much people's thoughts will change in this one It can be said clearly, but its power is too powerful, just turning over a little bit, or making an unprepared four-dimensional 'thrust' is enough to destroy our entire fleet, no one dares to take such a risk, no one dares No one dares to entrust the lives and future of hundreds of millions of people in the entire fleet on the trust of a little girl and a big octopus.
"What's more terrible is that Shannuya's intelligence level will not stay at the age of thirty or forty. No, its number of neurons is far more than that of humans. Even if the growth mode of the neural network is relatively primitive, after our After the intervention and stimulation, no one knows how terrifying the fire of consciousness will be when the "neural network of the void hunter" and the "human thinking mode" collide. If it is not restricted, its intelligence is very likely to be infinitely improved , to the level of '10,000 times smarter than the wisest human being'.
"A monster 10,000 times smarter than human beings, with the power to smash stars, can jump four dimensions at will, and roam the entire sea of stars—it will become the most terrifying life form since the birth of the universe, or in other words, it will be the eternal immortality of all human beings." end!
"In order to prevent this from happening, in order to prevent it from awakening a stronger ambition than us, to kill hundreds of millions of people, to become the eternal ruler of the universe, and to enslave us forever, we must take precautions before they happen, and kill all dangers in the bud In the swaddling baby, what's wrong with this?"