Hao Ren didn't dare to say that all the maintainers had died in this hall, but he could guess that there might not be a single active maintainer inside or outside the fort—there might be more than one scene in this hall, In other server rooms and other mastermind equipment rooms, there may already be densely packed with the charred remains of maintainers.
Because the mastermind obviously planned and planned to destroy these loyal workers who were usually in charge of maintaining him.
Hao Ren came to a scorched wreckage and carefully turned the washbasin-sized steel beetle. The hanging mechanical arm of the latter had been jammed by its own joints. Hao Ren had to cut off its two mechanical arms to move The metal plate on the belly of the thing was removed.
"It was destroyed from the inside out, the core circuit board was almost completely burnt, and these coils... They were obviously the initial fire point," Hao Ren pointed to the messy internal structure inside the maintainer's body, "Typical The result of the electrical pulse attack."
"They should have been working when they were destroyed," N-6 recovered from the initial shock. She looked at the cable connectors and servers around which the covers were opened, and quickly restored the situation at that time through the scene. The scene, "Recently, it is not a day for hardware replacement. There is no need for such a large-scale demolition operation, so these maintainers should be called by the mastermind."
Lily's ears twitched: "That is to say, the mastermind summoned his team of maintainers on the grounds that he needed urgent maintenance, and then 'murdered' them in these computer rooms? Is this the grand feast of the robot world?"
"Although most of the defenders are usually active inside the fortress, they belong to a team that can contact the outside world. It won't be long before they are all destroyed." Hao Ren frowned. "Terminal, you can judge that these robots are probably When was it burned?"
At this time, the data terminal had finished sampling and analyzing the ablation marks in the hall, and it floated over after hearing Hao Ren's words: "About a month ago. To be honest, according to the information about the maintainers provided by N-4, This is already enough time to arouse the vigilance of those agents outside. The main reason why no one questioned it is probably because the rule of the mastermind over the lunar base is always in an absolute position on weekdays. The agents completely follow the orders of the mastermind, even if they have Their own thoughts and feelings can't get rid of this 'thinking lock' set in the program, so all abnormal situations in the fortress are subconsciously ignored by them."
"However, sooner or later, the abnormality in fact and the content set in the program will accumulate a lot of conflicts. If the conflicts accumulate to a certain extent, it will be a disaster for this kind of artificial intelligence society," Yizaks said in a low voice. Said, "There used to be a kingdom of magicians called Retitos in my hometown. Their technology of using artificial souls to create smart golems was unparalleled in the world, but in the end it was because of a logic error that no one noticed that all the smart golems collectively If it gets out of control, the country will be destroyed in three days.”
Hao Ren nodded lightly. There are huge congenital defects in the society dominated by artificial intelligence on the moon. Before that, he had only a vague feeling about it, but now seeing the situation that the inside of the fortress is on the verge of collapse, he thinks of it again. This kind of birth defect is extremely obvious for the agents who seem to be doing business as usual on the outside.
As for N-6 who was standing blankly not far away, she was already caught in a huge conflict at the moment.
After entering the fortress, everything she saw greatly shocked the poor robot girl. All the things she had never doubted and regarded as her "life" life principles were shaken here. The fortress that was supposed to never fall, the mastermind that was supposed to be always correct, the fortress defense system that was supposed to have no logical loopholes or safety issues... all of them are gone now, inside this solid steel fortress, everything is decaying, is collapsing, a process that happened years ago and reached a rather dire level a month ago: the mastermind even personally destroyed its own maintainers.
But the compatriots outside knew nothing about it. They could only see that the fortress was still standing on the moon, and then they faithfully executed the order sent from the fortress—even if the order would be crazy enough to drive them in the next second. Collectively go to the home planet to blew up.
A surge of power beyond the limit appeared in her logic circuit, and N-6's field of vision was quickly occupied by the error message window. She felt that her thinking became intermittent, and her body fell to the side uncontrollably.
But in the next moment, she felt that her unbalanced body was supported by someone, and the once chaotic logic circuit gradually stabilized, and some codes that did not belong to her were clearing up system errors that would cause fatal failures.
Vivienne quickly supported the N-6 that fell down like a dead machine, and saw that the latter reopened its eyes after a few seconds with the buzzing sound of system restart, she couldn't help being a little worried: " What’s wrong with you?"
"It's not a big deal, it's just a shutdown due to too much stimulation," the data terminal replied for N-6, "Every agent's program has set absolute obedience to the mastermind and absolute trust in the fortress, And the truth she saw in the fortress is enough to cause fatal bugs in these programs. But now it seems... Her system seems to have the ability to repair itself? It recovered by itself after such a faint."
Hao Ren blinked: "Isn't it because Nolan wrote some security software into her system when he repaired her?"
"No, Nolan hasn't touched her core system at all, but just wrote a bunch of drivers for her. Her system recovery function should be built-in."
N-6 felt that her auditory system was turbulent for a while. The conversation between Hao Ren and the data terminal sounded like a distant and roaring noise in her ears, and it lasted for a long time before it gradually became clear. She heard the word system recovery, but she didn't understand what it meant, because she didn't know when the code that helped her clear the fatal error just now was stored in her chip.
She stabilized her body by herself, and showed a grateful expression to Vivienne: "Thank you, I have recovered."
"Are you sure there's no problem?" Hao Ren glanced at the robot lady uneasy, "Can we go on?"
Lily next to him followed closely to remind: "Let me remind you, you might see something more exciting if you go further..."
"I'm fine," N-6 nodded. "The system error has been ruled out. I think I can continue."
Seeing the other party's insistence, Hao Ren didn't say much, but just looked at the messy place thoughtfully: "To be honest, this is really an act of killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred... These servers seem to be A lot has been destroyed."
"These are the mastermind's secondary servers, and their destruction will not cause the mastermind to completely lose its ability to function," N-6 immediately explained, "but the loss of these secondary servers will cause excessive pressure on the mastermind's main server and Degraded performance. I think the Mastermind was completely insane when he destroyed these maintainers, he didn't care how much damage his structure would take."
Hao Ren was noncommittal about this.
At this moment, Doudou got out of Hao Ren's collar again. The little guy blinked his bright eyes and looked around.
Seeing this situation, Y'zaks couldn't help muttering: "To be honest, don't you feel uncomfortable with such a big fish in your arms?"
"You usually have a girl sitting on your shoulders, but I don't see you being awkward."
"That's true..."
At this time, Doudou had already looked around. The little guy thought about something, and suddenly grabbed Hao Ren's chin: "Dad, over there..."
Hao Ren looked up in the direction of Doudou's finger, and found that it was the exit of the computer room.
The group didn't stay in this area for too long. After leaving the remains of the defenders behind, they entered the true core of the fortress.
They entered the corridor leading to the palace of the end.
What they saw along the way was not much different from what they saw elsewhere in the fort.
Incapacitated titanium guards can be seen everywhere, and surveillance equipment and weapon platforms that are offline can be seen everywhere. In addition, they also saw more computer rooms and subsystems related to the main brain-and in these Everywhere, without exception, is full of the wreckage of the destroyed defenders, and even the hardware of the main brain itself has been seriously damaged due to the release of super-strong pulses.
The scale of the main brain is beyond imagination. It is almost the fortress itself. This most powerful artificial intelligence in history occupies nearly two-thirds of the volume of the fortress. Rather than saying that Hao Ren and his party are walking inside the fortress, it is better It is said that they are walking through the body of the main brain now, and what they are looking for is nothing but the external interface of the main brain.
The interface is right in front of you.
A heavy black mechanical door stood in front of Hao Ren. There was a slight streamer of light on the door. Weapon systems that had lost power supply were installed on the walls on both sides of the door. A gloomy and oppressive atmosphere lingered in this door. On the door, when Hao Ren stared at it, he couldn't help but think of the scene he had witnessed many times before—
The end of a civilization, the end of an era.
N-6 told him that behind this door is the center of the main brain, and it is also the location of the only "general interface" that can directly communicate with the deep consciousness of the main brain.
And the only entrance to the final palace is behind the center of the main brain—for thousands of years, the main brain has been guarding the only door leading to the human hermitage like the most loyal guard. It has never been opened to a "representative" like her.
"Open it." Hao Ren instructed the data terminal.
"We may encounter resistance from the Mastermind," Y'zaks said, "most likely electrical pulses—that's what the Mastermind uses to destroy the defenders."
Hao Ren nodded: "Be more vigilant. Lily, you stand back, your impedance is low."
Lily wanted to refute at first, but after thinking about how miserable she would be every time she was hit by Vivienne's lightning ball, she obediently hid behind Hao Ren with her tail between her legs.
The energy system of the black door has not been offline yet, and the data terminal was able to unlock the access control system through virus injection. Soon, with the notification sound of the locking device opening and a slight mechanical friction sound, the heavy gate in front of everyone slowly receded to both sides.
A wide circular hall appeared in front of everyone, and in the center of the hall stood a majestic and silent black cylinder with flashing lights on its surface.
This is the center of the master brain.