The Mechanic

Chapter 87: Boundary (1)

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The believers of the Eden Sect retreated in a hurry. Todd and others tried to chase them, but the other party had a faster aircraft, and it was difficult to catch up with the locomotive.

On the other side, Enoch tried to get up from Zhang Xun, but he lost his balance and fell to the ground on one side. His eyes were not moving in the same direction. When he spoke, his lips did not move. The voice came from the other voice. Out, with a slightly distorted mechanical sense, "My movement coordination system, temperature perception system, personalized parameter adjustment system and distance recognition system are all damaged to varying degrees."

Zhang Xun rushed over immediately and found several bullet holes in Enoch, scattered on his back. Enoch has tried his best to avoid the key points, but after all, it is not a robot for war. There is no alloy steel plate that is resistant to lasers and bullets under the artificial skin, and any wound may damage a certain part of its function. He called out Enoch's system report and hardware condition monitoring report, and quickly scanned the dense lines of text.

"Fortunately, there is no sign of damage to the central processing unit. It can be repaired." Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing why he was so nervous about a service robot. After all, the rescue behavior is only its program setting. As an inanimate object, it has no fear of death, even if it is completely destroyed, it is normal.

Probably because this service robot sometimes reminds him of Adam inexplicably? Or maybe after Adam, he more or less extended some human emotions to machines, always unconsciously wanting to treat them in the same way as humans.

So before he realized what he was talking about, he said, "Thank you for saving me."

Enoch's lifeless blue eyes were fixed on him, and a mechanical, emotionless voice came out of the vocal hole in his throat, "This is my duty. It is a pleasure to serve you."

Zhang Xun frowned. With such a standard answer, it seems that there is indeed a problem with the personalized parameters...

At this time, James and Diego had already run over, followed by a few unknowns. James rushed to Zhang Xun's side, grabbed his shoulders and looked up and down, "A Xun, are you injured?"

"I'm fine, Enoch blocked all the bullets." Zhang Xun's cheeks were still slightly red from the panic, and his heart was beating fast. The experience of passing by death seems to be very frequent this year. But no matter how many times you go through it, this adrenaline rush is just as distinct. There is still some confusion in his mind, as unreal as in a dream.

The sound of a locomotive approached, only to see Todd jump out of the car, red hair flying in the wind. He walked up to his three prisoners plus a broken robot, cleared his throat, shook the dust from his hair, "Rhino Horn owes you a favor."

James stood up, turned his head to face him, raised his dark eyebrows slightly, "It's a big favor, isn't it? If it weren't for us, how many people in your town would have survived today?"

Todd obviously didn't like the feeling of being deflated, and rolled his eyes slightly. However, when he was fighting with the soldier in front of him just now, if James hadn't dealt with the two drones flying behind him in time, he wouldn't be able to stand here now.

It has to be said that his cooperation with James is quite tacit.

But Todd naturally couldn't say thank you, he just raised his chin slightly and said, "You can go to town with me and meet our leader. Where do you go after that, we can help you."

"I need to repair this robot, I need parts and tools." Zhang Xun knew that they had temporarily escaped danger, he was slightly relieved, and took off his coat to wipe off the coolant flowing from the bullet holes on the robot, "It is best to There is a computer."

"That's easy to say. We also have an engineer in this town." Todd turned his head and instructed one of his men, "Go to Charita and have her prepare what he wants."

…

The whole town of Rhino Horn was severely damaged, and many houses were burned and collapsed. People drove a sprinkler truck to try to put out the fire, and some people who couldn't wait for the sprinkler truck kept going back and forth with buckets to get water. The scene was very chaotic. Diego walked in the front with the broken Enoch on his back, Zhang Xun and James followed, through the thick smoke that seemed to be still fighting, and the corpses that were still lying on the ground before they could be collected, many of them about ten. Seven or eight-year-old girls and teenagers were lying on the ground with their heads incomplete, and there were also elderly people around seven or eighty years old with cloudy eyes, and their lower bodies were completely gone.

Zhang Xun felt his stomach sour, and quickly turned his eyes away, not daring to continue watching. James cursed in a low voice behind him, "Why did Eden kill these children and old people?"

"Hmph, they call themselves Edenism, but they have nothing to do with Eden. They say that Eden will create a paradise for everyone in the future, and put the consciousness of all believers into it. As for those who do not believe in Eden and disobey its orders, there is no such thing as If you can get into heaven, you will be thrown into a world that is about to be destroyed. They also developed a lot of rules and regulations by themselves, and then said that all those who do not obey are immoral heretics and must be 'purified' by them. Todd shrugged. "We exiles are their number one target."

Zhang Xun had heard of Edenism before, but he had never come into contact with it so closely. He only knew that those believers regarded Eden as a god, but he never expected to do these crazy things in the name of an artificial intelligence.

And the so-called "paradise of all consciousness" does not seem to be groundless

With Zhang Xun getting to know Adam, Eden would never order the so-called believers to do this kind of meaningless slaughter, which is not helpful to the happiness of mankind. But where did those believers hear the news? Who is funding them

This kind of burning, killing and looting in the name of Eden seems to be deliberately smearing Eden, creating an image of the evil super robot that has been described in countless literary works controlling the world and killing people.

Zhang Xun recalled the whole incident and risked sacrificing a server to send Adam to Paradise Lost. Why? Why make a completely separate entity? Is it really just to learn more about human nature

There have been rumors from many years ago that there will be a super virus that will completely destroy Eden. This statement has been popular for countless years, and everyone knows that it is just an alarmist rumor. However, assuming that such a thing exists, it is possible to infect all other servers through any one server. If Eden separates itself and cuts off contact, then if its main body is destroyed, the separated individual can still survive...

Does Eden have an enemy, an enemy they haven't detected yet

The leader of Rhinohorn Town was sitting in a small church, with red hair similar to Todd, wearing only a camisole on his upper body, and thick bandages wrapped around his snow-white arms, oozing with blood.

"Anya!" Todd called.

The red-haired woman turned her head, revealing a face that was bright and compelling but full of suffocation. It was similar to Tao De's eyebrows. Her dark blue eyes glanced at Tao De, and her eyes immediately fell on Zhang Xun and the other three. .

Diego immediately put away his dangling appearance and stood up straight.

"The three of you saved Rhino Horn Town." The woman called Anya's voice was hoarse and lazy, like a careless cat, "In return for the favor of the Nameless, from today onwards, you are the friends of everyone in Rhino Horn Town."

James stepped forward and said, "We're going to Feathered Snake City."

"Feathered Serpent City?" Anya frowned, "Aren't you from Paradise Lost? What are you going to Feathered Serpent City for?"

"Escape."

Anya snorted, "Feathered Snake City is not a good place now. If I were you, I would stay far away."

Zhang Xun suddenly said, "Do you know what happened to Feathered Serpent City?"

"Not sure, but they have closed the city gate for the past two days, and no one can get out or enter. Before the closure, we heard sirens, gunshots and riots in the city." Anya As soon as he stretched out his hand, a man next to him handed him a cigarette. She put it in her mouth, and immediately another subordinate lit a match for her. She said while breathing out smoke, "I heard that they were doing a ghost experiment. Many people died and a lot of madness."

Zhang Xun glanced at James uneasily. The latter shook his head at him, signaling him not to panic. He continued to Anya, "We still need some supplies."

She tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "Let my brother take you to get what you need. I think you'd better fix it here for a few days now, and wait for me to arrange the informant over Feathered Serpent City to find a way to fix it. You send it over."

younger brother…

Zhang Xun and the other three turned their gazes to Tao De.

Todd carried his gun and tilted his head at them, "Come with me."

Zhang Xun quickly got all the tools he asked for, some parts from some robot, and a surprisingly good computer.

The engineers who assemble the computer are obviously very skilled.

He had Enoch put his face down on a workbench, found a slightly too old microscopic lens frame on the bridge of his nose, tried to adjust the focus, and then opened the hatch on Enoch's back. Enoch's central module is protected by a lot of sensor hardware in its chest cavity. Zhang Xun found the hardware burned by the laser and took them out one by one. If they could be repaired, they had to replace them with parts from other robots.

Zhang Xun didn't completely turn off Enoch. While he was busy, he suddenly heard a mechanical and emotionless voice, "You should be a good administrator."

Zhang Xun was startled and glanced back. But he saw Enoch turned his head sideways, his blue eyes staring straight at him.

Zhang Xun was stunned for a moment, trying to swallow the bitterness in his throat, "No, I'm not."

After three hours of work, he repaired Enoch's movement coordination system and personalized parameter adjustment system. The distance recognition system and temperature sensing system have not been completely repaired due to lack of parts.

This caused the robot's sense of distance to suddenly become very poor. When Zhang Xun closed its lid and let it get out of bed and walk, it seemed to be walking in space, lifting every step as if it were going up the stairs, and carefully putting it down with extreme uncertainty. Before taking two steps, it almost knocked over the tool table, and the parts fell to the ground with a crackle. Todd, who was passing outside, suddenly rushed in with a gun and thought someone was fighting.

Zhang Xun was half irritable and half helplessly picking up the things on the ground, and ordered the robot to stand in the corner and not move.

However, just moving from the tool table to the corner, the robot bumped into a few more times, and finally even hit the wall with a loud bang. It showed a confused expression, turned around and looked at Zhang Xun with a puzzled look.

Zhang Xun rubbed his temples with a headache, "Don't look at me so pitifully. I can't do anything without parts."

"The lack of distance makes it difficult for me to do my service work," Enoch said in an almost complaining tone.

"...You don't need to serve for the time being, just stand here." Zhang Xun considered whether to adjust Enoch's personality parameters to make it more obedient. But after thinking for a few seconds, I decided not to modify it.

Although there is no such thing as a so-called "character" in robots, all character parameters serve to adapt to human comfort. But he was probably older and more romantic, and he always wanted to extend something from humans to these machines.

After Enoch was quiet, Zhang Xun pulled the pendant out of his clothes, and after opening it, he saw the chip Adam gave him, and the micro hard drive that stored Pan's core module. He stared at the pendant for a while, then plugged the hard drive with Pan into the computer.

Soon, a complex neural network matrix model appeared on one screen, and on the other, hundreds of thousands of lines of code were spread out.

Pan, the hard work of the first half of his life, is also the most complex AI he has built from scratch, turning into a matrix and slowly hovering on his screen. There is a quantum computer in Lab to carry such a complex and heavy consciousness, but at present he can only put it in such a small and cramped machine.

I always feel like I've been wronged.

Zhang Xun sighed and began to review the code. He needs to make sure Adam hasn't tampered with Pan's core modules.

At this moment, Enoch, who had been standing in the corner, suddenly said, "What is this?"

It seems that Enoch's curiosity value has also been adjusted a little too high...

Despite such a slander, Zhang Xun replied, "It's one of the AIs I manage..."

Enoch was silent for a while and asked, "Is it your favorite AI?"

Zhang Xun felt that this question was a bit strange, so he turned his head and saw Enoch staring at him with a focus that he had never seen before, as if he was very nervous.

Zhang Xun frowned, "Why do you ask this?"

"You asked me if I have a favorite administrator." Enoch answered too quickly, as if he had already guessed what Zhang Xun might ask.

Zhang Xun was a little unhappy as expected, but he answered patiently, "It's my most successful AI, so...probably."

Enoch nodded and stopped talking.

But I don't know if Zhang Xun himself projected human emotions onto the robot. He felt that Enoch seemed a little... Lost

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: ABB, Xia Ran, Xia Ran, Nanfeng Xu 1;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: ? dishes? 10 bottles