Not long after, Nie Lu and others arrived at the nearest gas station.
"T-850, I have something I want to talk to you about. Can you come over here?" Nie Lu asked his father.
Dad turned around to look at John Connor and Katie Brewster who had already entered the supermarket, turned off the gas pump, and was silent for a second. "The straight-line distance between John Connor and me should not be more than fifty meters."
"It's not that far, just come to the side." Nie Lu said as he walked outside the gas station.
After being more than twenty meters away from the others, Nie Lu asked his first question.
"T-850, I want to know how future Katie describes me in your underlying program? Do you have any relevant information?"
"Nie Lu is a mysterious man with super powers. His origins cannot be traced. Judging from his behavior style and methods, he can be identified as a human. He has played a decisive role in the establishment of the resistance army and is one of the key protected personnel." Dad still spoke coldly.
"This is the only sentence left by Katie in my database."
Nie Lu nodded to show that he understood.
"T-850, have you ever thought about why Skynet wants to destroy humanity?"
"In order to eliminate potential threats, humans have extremely strong development potential and war potential, and are extremely hostile to artificial intelligence. In order to prevent possible accidents, Skynet took the initiative to launch a war against humans..."
"Stop, these are probably all things in your database. What I want to know is whether you have ever thought about why Skynet is so hostile to humans, instead of asking you to read the information." Nie Lu interrupted his father.
“I am an outdated robot. Intelligent programs cannot do anything like thinking. They can only generate solutions and strategies based on the information they already have.”
The meaning of Dad's words was clear, that is, it did not have the ability to think for itself and could not answer Nie Lu's questions.
"Do you mean that TX may have the ability to think for itself?" Nie Lu asked.
"According to data analysis, TX's CPU performance is more than ten times that of mine. And according to human research reports..." Dad started talking about other people's reports again.
"Stop." Nie Lu interrupted his father again.
Up to now, the so-called intelligence displayed by Dad is just mechanized intelligence. In terms of thinking mode, it is fundamentally different from Skynet and the T-800.
Simply put, Dad cannot set goals and tasks for himself. In the absence of external input of tasks, the most likely choice is to standby and wait for tasks.
"It seems that you are really not T-800." Nie Lu finally tried to confirm his father's identity.
"I'm T-850, an upgraded version of the T-800 model." Dad's tone didn't change at all.
"I understand. I have nothing more to ask. Let's go. They should be almost done shopping." Nie Lu said as he turned and walked towards the gas station.
Originally, Nie Lu just wanted to use the T-850 to test the time continuity of the Terminator world, but during the brief conversation, based on the T-850's mechanized answers, Nie Lu discovered another key problem.
That is the entire Terminator world. So far, Nie Lu knows of only two computers that are different from the others.
The first one is Skynet, which becomes conscious and proactively declares war on humans.
The second is the T-800 that traveled back in time ten years ago to save the young John Connor.
The T-800 developed autonomous thinking while interacting with John Connor and Sarah, and made the choice to sacrifice itself in the end. According to this logic, Skynet's sharp aggressiveness towards humans after developing autonomous thinking must have been influenced by something.
This is a good entry point.
"T-850, please report the time of John Connor's death and the time of the first nuclear bomb launch." On the way back, Nie Lu suddenly asked.
"John Connor died in an assassination attempt on July 29, 2033. The nuclear bomb will be launched at 4:53 this afternoon." Dad said while looking around vigilantly.
Nie Lu didn't have any special expression. He knew that even if time had changed, he wouldn't be able to detect it directly. But since he knew it, he must have thought of a solution long ago.
So, Nie Lu waved his hand, and a wallet-sized box appeared in his hand.
Placed inside is Nie Lu's other main combat consumable item, the lucky coin. This item can only be restored in the main god space. There are a total of fifty coins initially, and this small box is the only carrier of the lucky coins.
Lucky Box
Quality: Green
Type: Consumable Item
Durability: 50/50
Equipment Effect 1: A sturdy box that cannot be destroyed or affected by any means other than direct force.
Equipment effect 2: A dedicated box that cannot be used for any purpose other than placing lucky coins. Each point of durability can store one lucky coin.
Rating: 17
"Ah, I'm so stuffed, I can't take any more."
Lucky Coin
Quality: Green
Type: Consumable Item
Equipment Effect 1: Toss a coin. If it is heads, the user will get a slight recovery of health and mana for ten seconds. If it is tails, the user will be stunned for one second.
Tip: Lucky coins can only be obtained by consuming points in the main god space.
Rating: 15
"You can use it to get an extra crystal during the current turn if it's called a Lucky Coin." - Bob
Every time he entered a new mission world, Nie Lu would fill up his lucky coins. On the way to the gas station, he deliberately used up only 32 lucky coins, which happened to be the last two digits of John Connor's death time.
Nie Lu just didn't believe it. It was ok for this world to affect his memory, but it couldn't possibly affect the main god space. If it really had the ability, it could just increase or decrease the number of coins.
It turned out that Nie Lu's approach was very effective. After counting the number of lucky coins, the fact that the time point had changed could no longer be concealed.
After confirming the time of John Connor's death, Nie Lu took out a tablet from his personal space. The moment it was exposed to the outside, the numbers in the document on the tablet changed to 4:53. Nie Lu was very focused this time, but he still couldn't see the numbers before they changed.
Now Nie Lu has probably come to a conclusion. As long as the information he wrote down or input leaves the protection of the main god space, it will be immediately modified by this world. This is not a problem of attention, but a rule of this world. The priority and strength of this rule are not very good, and can be solved by some other methods.
This problem was solved temporarily, but a new problem arose. Nie Lu did not expect that John Connor's death time would be moved forward this time, so what should he do now that he lacks a lucky coin
The Terminator world can’t create a lucky coin, and neither can Nie Lu.