"How could it be..." Lin Ling's eyes were filled with mist. She looked at the picture on the screen and murmured, "No, this must be a lie, right? Jiang Chen, tell me, this is dad." Are you lying to me?"
Jiang Chen wordlessly stretched out his hand and took her into his arms.
Although this cold armor could not bring her any warmth, he hoped that she would feel a little better.
Jiang Chen turned his attention to Lin Chaoen, who was still smiling, and the old father Lin Minjie who reappeared in the picture.
"Shelter 005 is a chess piece. Lin Ling's staying is not an accident, but inevitable."
"Don't you find it strange? Why is there a backup copy of the "Eden Project" left in the shelter where advanced artificial intelligence is developed? And so many people know that it is in the 005 shelter."
"Haha, this is not for the hope of mankind, it is just to lure some naive survivors to run in and fill in the required materials for the experiment."
"If nothing unexpected happens, the organization called the Twilight Church should send people into the shelter and provide fresh materials for our experiments. But unfortunately, there were flaws in our plan from the beginning. First, the so-called ' The bugs from the Harmony camp got into the shelter, and then it was you. If I guessed correctly, it was you who destroyed the number x71291. What a paranoid guy, that was the culmination of tens of thousands of lives." Lin Minjie shook his head. He shook his head and cursed with a smile.
Listening quietly to Dr. Lin Minjie's self-narration, Jiang Chen looked at him with a complicated expression.
When rescuing Lin Ling from the 005 shelter, when she knew that her father had abandoned him and left the planet, Jiang Chen once said to her - "Perhaps, from another perspective, it is for this person Maybe there is hope left in this piece of land.”
But now it seems that what he said may be. it is wrong.
It started before the war, and all of these were just pawns on his way to the top.
If he hadn't appeared as the person who forcibly knocked over the chessboard, maybe he would have succeeded.
Lin Ling's sobbing voice interrupted Jiang Chen's thoughts. I saw her looking at her father with tears-filled but firm eyes.
"But... I will still use my knowledge to bring hope to people."
Lin Minjie looked at his daughter in silence for a long time, then smiled. "Really? I'm glad you can have your own dream, my lovely daughter... I also sincerely wish you can realize your dream."
After a pause, he looked at Jiang Chen, "Jiang Chen, right? I already understand your uncompromising position on human identity. I accept your victory, but I will not congratulate you."
"I don't have the extravagant expectation of getting congratulations from my enemies." Jiang Chen said softly.
"Besides, I hope you won't have any prejudice against my daughter because she is a cyborg."
"Don't worry."
It is not cyborgs or artificial intelligence that should be buried, but dangerous ********* and ideas. What's more, Lin Ling is fundamentally different from a pure cyborg. Her brain is still a brain...
Jiang Chen lowered his eyebrows slightly, then raised the rifle in his hand.
Lin Ling gently pulled him.
"Do you want to stop me?" Jiang Chen asked softly.
"Can't you let him go?"
Jiang Chen responded to her with a determined look.
Only this thing. He couldn't relent.
"Then... I'll do it. I don't want... I don't want you to become my father-killing enemy." Lin Ling said with a sad smile.
Facing his father's brain, big tears fell suddenly. She has never been a strong person.
At the very end. Facing his daughter who was in tears, Lin Minjie seemed to understand something. The so-called feelings, the algorithms he had been thinking about and hoping to achieve through advanced artificial intelligence, had always been within reach.
But he couldn't see it.
Because on this road to the highest, he gave up too much.
Looking at his daughter who was crying and kneeling on the ground halfway through, he suddenly felt that this ending was not so bad.
"In this server. There is a folder numbered 7381, which contains a 103-page electronic file of a paper on warp engine." Lin Minjie looked directly into Jiang Chen's eyes, "If you will one day be with They match. I think she will come in handy. As a dowry prepared by the father for his daughter, I hope you can treat her well because of this generous gift."
"Thanks."
Although even without this generous gift, he would treat her well.
"No need to thank me, even if you really have a chance to build a warp engine, your chance of winning will only change from 0% to 1%." Lin Minjie curled his lips.
The communication voice sounded directly in Jiang Chen's communication channel, and Lin Ling did not hear this last monologue.
The Adam's apple moved slightly. Jiang Chen took a deep breath to steady his breathing, trying to hide the weak side in his heart.
"Why don't you tell her."
"At the end, I want to try what it feels like to be a father." He left a meaningful sentence.
For a moment, Jiang Chen had the urge to stop there. He has never been a cold-blooded man, let alone someone who is indifferent to cruelty. Now that Lin Minjie has lost power, there is no need to kill him. After all, he is Lin Ling's father, even if it is for... for Lin Ling, let him keep his brain and survive...
As if he had guessed Jiang Chen's thoughts, Lin Minjie smiled brightly and continued on the communication channel: "It's not comfortable at all to live as just a brain. The reason why I can endure it until now is just to wait until I can abandon this brain. It’s just that day for your brain. Will you allow that day to come?”
Jiang Chen fell silent.
"I haven't taken her to see the scenery. I hope you can take her to see it for me."
Jiang Chen nodded slightly. "I promise."
Lin Minjie on the screen grinned at Jiang Chen. A hint of sadness suddenly appeared in his pupils, but it was quickly replaced by perseverance.
Suddenly, he looked at Lin Chaoen, who had been standing by and watching all this with a smile, and said.
"My son, I give you one last command. No, the last two..."
Facing his father, Lin Chaoen nodded slightly.
"First, turn off my brain's life support device."
Lin Chaoen buried his head very low.
Lin Ling raised her pretty face in fear and looked at her father with wavering eyes. Her lips trembled, and her voice, hoarse from crying, choked out "no".
After giving his daughter one last nostalgic look, Lin Minjie slowly closed his eyes.
"Second, end your own life."
"As you command, Father."
Without any hesitation, Lin Chaoen walked to the side of the main control computer.
"No!" Lin Ling screamed.
The cry echoed in the empty shelter. Jiang Chen tried hard not to look at Lin Ling.
Jiang Chen noticed that before pressing the button, Lin Chaoen's hand hovered over the switch for two seconds.
But in the end, he pressed it.
The bubbles in the culture tank gradually stopped, and the emerald green culture Y calmed down.
If the blood and oxygen supply to the brain is completely interrupted, brain cells will start to stop working within 60 seconds. Brain cells will begin to die in about 4 minutes. Irreversible brain damage will occur in 6-10 minutes, that is, the death of a large number of brain cells.
Looking at the culture tank, tears kept dripping on the mask of her chemical protective suit.
Jiang Chen took a deep breath and counted the seconds silently in his mind.
Lin Chaoen turned around and looked at Jiang Chen thoughtfully.
"It's strange. For a moment, I had the idea of resisting the order."
Jiang Chen said softly: "Congratulations."
"No, you don't need to congratulate me. After all, I didn't receive an order to evolve to advanced artificial intelligence." A smile suddenly appeared on Lin Chaoen's face, "Goodbye then." (~^~)