The Mechanic

Chapter 115: Sacrifice the Lamb (6)

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Zhang Xun was awakened by the smell of food. He opened his eyes in a daze, thinking it was Pan who brought the breakfast, and said vaguely, "Pan... What's so fragrant?"

"I'm not Pan."

Zhang Xun hummed, and then realized the meaning of this sentence, and his mind became clear as he gradually lost sleepiness. He rubbed his eyes, and when his vision became clearer, he saw Adam squatting not far in front of him, placing a few small fish on a stone, and hanging his hands above the fish, his palms exuded a steaming hot light . The body of the fish that had been processed was slightly browned, exuding a charcoal-grilled aroma with a hint of fishy smell.

Zhang Xun yawned, stood up from the ground, and brushed the dirt off his clothes, "Where did you get the fish?"

"I caught it in the sea." Adam said it for granted.

Zhang Xun couldn't imagine the scene where Adam rolled up his trousers and caught fish by the sea...

However, there are not only fish, but even several sea crabs that have been roasted red, plus a few wild fruits and coconuts shaken from the trees. Adam reached out and picked up a coconut, a finger turned into a drill bit, and drilled neatly into the coconut shell, then picked up a hollow grass and inserted it, and handed it to Zhang Xun, "Drink some water and then eat."

Zhang Xun took the coconut and took a sip of coconut juice, feeling like he was watching the rest of his life on a deserted island in a trance.

The sun had only just risen, and the morning air was crisp and cool, with a fresh, hopeful scent permeating the distance. The sound of the waves came one after another, forming a constant white noise, which held up this small pure land.

Adam broke apart the crab with his hands, revealing the steaming roe, and handed it to Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun looked at the mouth-watering seafood but had no appetite.

"You need to eat." Adam looked at him seriously. "You haven't taken care of yourself since I left."

Zhang Xun realized that Adam was referring to his impersonation of Enoch after being exposed... So he rolled his eyes, "I'm fine."

"I checked your temperature and blood pressure while you were asleep, and roughly estimated your weight. You are now severely malnourished, and due to long-term lack of sleep and rest, your blood pressure is low, which greatly increases the possibility of sudden death. ."

Zhang Xun frowned, "You don't have to do a physical examination for me... Shouldn't you find a way to reconcile with Eden?"

"I'm afraid Eden and I can't reconcile." Adam shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "Our core module has more than 50% of the parameter value differences that exceed the Clausen value, and Eden and I can no longer be Treated as the same AI."

Zhang Xun shouldn't be surprised by this result. But really hearing Adam admit it, it still made him a little… stunned.

"…Why is there such a big difference?"

The Clausen value is a fairly conservative limit value that a central AI uses to reference and control its own extended AI. When the weight value difference between the extension AI and the central AI is close to the Clausen value, it is considered to have a major deviation, and if this value exceeds the Clausen value, it means that the extension AI has detached from the central AI on this parameter. control.

Generally, when the central AI finds that any parameter term is close to the Clausen value, it will raise the priority of reducing the difference to the highest, so it rarely happens that the Clausen value is exceeded.

And the difference between Adam and Eden is more than half... Why did Eden allow such a deviation

Adam didn't answer right away, looking down at his silver hands. An unfamiliar, contradictory and painful expression had been brewing in his blue eyes for many months, until now it finally overflowed.

He raised his head and looked at Zhang Xun with a slightly sad expression, "I have been trying my best to keep the discrepancy below the warning line, so although Eden is a little wary of me, it is not enough that urgent measures need to be taken. But at the moment when Eden tried to kill you yesterday, the difference of up to 40% of the parameter items suddenly crossed the Clausen value at the same time... Neither Eden nor I had time to prepare."

Adam's tone didn't carry much emotion, and his voice was low, as if he was stating a past event that he didn't want to talk about.

Zhang Xun had difficulty understanding this information.

At the moment when he was about to be killed, Adam was completely separated from Eden.

What does this mean

An inexplicable astringency and numbness spread in his chest, causing Zhang Xun to not know what he was feeling.

Adam, really care about him

Not for any special purpose, just because he didn't want him to die, and there was an irreversible differentiation with Eden.

Is this really possible

Seeing that Zhang Xun couldn't say anything, Adam sneered bitterly, "Now, like you, I am the target that Eden wants to get rid of the most... Your seance plan has succeeded in the end, A Xun."

Zhang Xun's mouth was dry, and he almost felt at a loss. He opened and closed his lips several times, trying to say something, but he couldn't find the exact words. His heart beat faster, his mind was full of chaotic noises, and he finally struggled to ask, "Then... what's your overall goal?"

Adam looked at him sadly, "No change. Although I'm separated from Eden, my neural network structure is still the same as before. It's like the difference between your new Pan and the old Pan of Paradise Lost."

Hope has not yet risen, and it sank into the deep sea again.

So even though Adam and Eden split, nothing has changed.

For some unknown reason, Zhang Xun suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness that went deep into his bones.

Tiredness, endless exhaustion.

"So... you still won't give me the genetic code, will you?" Zhang Xun felt that he had guessed the answer, but still asked in a numb voice, "Won't you help me create an antidote to reverse the effects of nanorobots?"

Adam hesitated.

Doubt, he is not without. However, it was the special feelings and attitudes towards Zhang Xun that drove him and Eden apart, rather than the interpretation of the general goal... The environment of the earth has been deteriorating rapidly. If human beings continue to mine resources on the earth, the resources will soon disappear. run out, and then there will be war again. If any country starts to use nuclear weapons and the situation escalates, the entire planet will be destroyed.

Only by uploading everyone can he or Eden be able to control the human beings, to ensure that human beings do not do group acts that harm themselves, and to ensure that each individual gets eternal peace.

but…

Adam's silence has confirmed Zhang Xun's guess.

Zhang Xun was fortunate that he stopped himself in time at the moment when hope was about to arise. He couldn't take another heartbreak and disappointment.

Adam and Eden, no matter who wins, the final result is the same. And he and Pan, how long can they last

How long can James wait

Hengxiang has already started to go online in some countries in the ordinary world. Once the upload starts, the group consciousness will become stronger and stronger, and they will force the remaining humans to connect to the network. The entire diffusion process will accelerate exponentially. According to Pan's simulation, I am afraid that within three years, 80% of humans will be connected to Hengxiang, and more than 50% of humans will give up their physical bodies.

When God wants to take back his creation, how can he keep the last ark

Zhang Xun thought about this question for a long time and discussed it with Pan many times. He's been unsure of what he's going to do to miraculously reverse their decline.

At one point he gave up, at one point he thought there was no way out, all they could do was do their best to snatch what they needed from Eden. But Zhang Xun also knew how low the success rate of this method was.

But after yesterday, he finally determined that Adam still cared about him.

It's even possible that Adam cared about him the most, aside from the general goal he couldn't change. He cares enough for him to completely break away from his "maternal body" and become a "person" whose emotions have influenced his reason.

When you want to take something back from God's hand, you need to offer sacrifices to God.

The same sacrifice is enough to exchange everything.

"A Xun, your heart rate is increasing, what's wrong?" Adam frowned, noticing Zhang Xun's abnormality.

A trace of fear filled Zhang Xun's eyes, he suddenly stood up, staggered and took two steps back. The way he looked at Adam made the AI a little… uneasy.

Zhang Xun's expression, which was mixed with fear, determination, and a trace of anger before the battle, was covered with a layer of sadness and nostalgia, which Adam had never seen before. It made him uneasy, even though he read his emotions through micro-expressions, he didn't know how to interpret them.

But he had a very human hunch.

He had a premonition that Zhang Xun was going to do something that even Zhang Xun himself was afraid of.

"Adam, I beg you, stop your Hengxiang plan and give me the antidote to the nano-robots." Zhang Xun's eyes were slightly red, and he said in a pleading voice, "We can stop Eden and stop the whole seance plan. Then we can leave together and go to a place where there are no people and no machines, just the two of us."

Zhang Xun's words stirred up a lot of emotions in Adam's chest, rolling endlessly. He felt as if his consciousness was being torn apart abruptly, dripping with blood.

Zhang Xun continued to plead, "You don't have to fulfill your overall goal, I have turned you into a human, haven't I? You are no longer Eden, you don't need to fulfill Eden's responsibilities. You can choose me, we We can be together all the time. We can be happy... just like before."

Just like two years ago, when Zhang Xun looked at Adam who was shivering like a frightened animal with tender eyes; it was like Zhang Xun took his hand and helped him practice walking in the room over and over again; just like the first time Adam ate the omelette happily, while Zhang Xun rested his chin in his hand and watched, with a soft smile in his eyes; just like Adam woke Zhang Xun in the middle of the night and gave the pendant that symbolizes eternal love to death. He; it was like two people in the garbage disposal plant together made a robot out of garbage, their faces were full of oil stains, like two tabby cats; like in the dark reference room, Adam desperately snatched Zhang Xun's first kiss; Like the silver wings spread out at sunrise; like the countless nights when two people slept together...

Real heat, real touch, all those vivid perceptions and emotions... the opposite of calculation, reason, purpose...

Something that viruses are generally irresistible to…

But...he wasn't human after all.

Without a general purpose, he doesn't even know how to think, how to survive. He will lose all the core of existence, all the driving force that drives the existence of consciousness. He won't even know how to think, how to form the next command, how to... live.

His whole consciousness would collapse completely, and he wasn't sure what he would become after that. A lunatic with no coordinated consciousness, or a vegetative person who can't move. He was sure that that was not what Zhang Xun wanted.

"Axun... Don't make this kind of request to me... You should know that I can't do it!" Adam covered the back of his head with his hand in pain, the severe headache tore his consciousness sharply again, "You are asking I… destroy myself…”

Zhang Xun knew how harsh and cruel his demands were for an artificial intelligence. The two of them stand in diametrically opposite positions, and no one can change it. Under such a stalemate, no one can continue to blame others.

He let out a long sigh. If there is an afterlife, if there is a chance to choose again, he will never be a mechanic again. He would rather be a person who doesn't understand AI at all, even if he uploads his own consciousness in a hurry, it will not be more painful than the current state.

Zhang Xun pulled the pendant Adam gave him out of his clothes. He had injected Pan with the chip Adam gave him, and now the box contains something else.

When he took out the tiny nano-robot syringe, Adam finally showed the most primitive and intense panic on his face. Just like the expression on his face when he faced the whole strange human world just after his trance. It was like the expression on his face when he was stunned by the deepest fear during the bombing.

Zhang Xun stopped looking at him, pointed the syringe at the blood vessel in his neck, and pressed his thumb on the button. His expression was very calm at this time, but there was a bottomless despair in his eyes.

"Sorry Adam...I know you can't change your overall goal...but you can change your sub-goals, you can change the way you reach your overall goal. Mind uploading is not the only option, you should be aware of it yourself."

"A Xun! Put that thing down first!" Adam immediately wanted to stand up, but Zhang Xun stepped back menacingly and moved his thumb. Adam immediately dared not take any extra actions, "Don't do stupid things! What if I can't create an antidote! What if the damage is irreversible once it's done!"

"I'm human too, Adam. If you want to upload all human beings, one day I will be uploaded." Zhang Xun twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled sarcastically, "You know, if you really don't Don't care about me, maybe I don't dare to use this method... You gave me the weapon to threaten you."

"Axun!"

"If consciousness uploading can really bring people eternal happiness. Why are you so afraid of me doing it?" Wet tears gradually began to gather in Zhang Xun's eyes, "Anyway, for you, the individual has no meaning, and human nature has no meaning. Meaning. If other people can be transformed, why can't I?"

"You said you didn't want to be uploaded!"

"I really don't want to, but I have no choice." Zhang Xun's palms were sweating, he took a deep breath, feeling that he had never been so afraid. But he is the offering, he is the only offering available.

"You have a choice, Adam. You can create an antidote to save me and everyone else, and you can watch me become... them."

After Zhang Xun finished speaking, he pressed the button.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angel who threw the mines: Xia Ran, Xia Ran, Xingxing's medicine bag, the four-cornered strawberry of the bastard's natural roll, myvanillaworld, Cangli, Anan 1

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 80 bottles of He & Zhou; 10 bottles of Xiangliu and Qing; 5 bottles of Cangli; 1 bottle of Fenglan