Doudou waved at the main brain, with a pure and innocent smile on her face, she seemed unable to understand the meaning of "different life forms", but just regarded the black column in front of her that could think and talk as a new friend, and it was unbelievable. Surprisingly, the Mastermind responded.
Hao Ren hugged Doudou firmly in his arms, and looked down at the little mermaid. Before coming here, he had already found that Doudou's performance along the way was not quite right, so he asked about the little guy's situation—Doudou's mind is not yet mature, so he couldn't clearly express what she felt However, through speculation and reasoning, Hao Ren still vaguely grasped the truth of the matter.
Doudou sensed the decline and demise of a group, and this group could only be the human beings located in the Fortress of Finality, and the failure of the main brain was probably related to it.
"To be honest, I have dealt with many races, all kinds of life forms - even elemental creatures and pure spirits, but artificial intelligence is the most difficult one in my impression," Hao Ren looked at the main brain Said, "I don't know how to convince a supercomputer with stubborn logic and rigorous thought processes, because the evidence I can present so far is vague and unprovable and unfalsifiable to you. All I can say is— If you really want to be able to fulfill your mission, if you really are still loyal to your creator, then you should at least try to trust us outsiders, even if it lacks any logical support, at least it is an option. "
The main brain was silent for a longer time than before, and even the light on the surface of the black cylinder was dimmed by two-thirds. Just when Hao Ren thought that the super artificial intelligence had died, the latter's voice suddenly rang again. Get up: "Humanity is going to die."
"Human beings... are dying?" Vivian frowned, "Can you tell me what's going on?"
Doudou waved her small arms vigorously in Hao Ren's arms: "My father can help you, my father is super powerful!"
What responded to Hao Ren and his party was a sudden sound of mechanical friction from across the hall.
Hao Ren saw countless neatly arranged cracks suddenly appear on the surrounding wall on the other side of the rotunda. Based on these cracks, the entire wall surged like water waves, and the layers of metal shrank in the surge. , folded, and after the wall faded away, a wide passage was presented in front of everyone.
"The gate leading to the final palace?" Hao Ren realized the meaning of the mastermind the moment he saw the passage, and was immediately surprised, "You let us in?"
"Humans once said that you can't give up any hope—even if it's as slim as a fantasy," the mastermind said quietly, "The situation can't get worse, and my logic system can't continue to deduce what happened after this, so you guys Come in, maybe this is what humans mean too."
Hao Ren and his party exchanged a few glances with each other. They thought about entering the final palace to meet those humans, but they didn't expect that the mastermind would be so happy when he finally opened the gate. But no matter what, the door to the final palace has been opened, and they have no reason to stop.
Completely different from other places in the fortress, the promenade leading to the final palace is brightly lit, the walls are white, and the bright lights dispel the depression that everyone has accumulated along the way, and it seems to be added out of thin air in the cold steel world. A trace of vitality and vitality.
After walking along the corridor for a certain distance, murals depicting the parent star world began to appear on the walls on both sides. There were green mountains and green waters, towering giant trees, and bustling cities hidden among the mountains. History frozen in memory, vividly hung on the walls for people to guess about that idyllic good time nearly 10,000 years ago.
And after passing through these beautiful scenery of the past, it can only be a cold reality.
Another rotunda appeared before Hao Ren's eyes—this rotunda was about the same size as the hall where the main brain center was located, but the main color was bright white, and there were no buzzing servers and cable ducts around. The wall opposite the hall is a layer of transparent polymer. Through that layer of polymer, Hao Ren can see a large "greenhouse" with various plants and integrated houses, but no one is active in the greenhouse.
Lily ran to the transparent "glass" curiously: "Mastermind, where are the human beings?"
As if in response to Lily's inquiry, at the same time as her voice fell, a round hole was opened in the center of the ground of the rotunda, and then a glass container like a giant test tube slowly rose up from the round hole.
The cylindrical glass container is filled with a pale pink nutrient solution, but the solution is soaked in clusters of distorted and mutated flesh and blood polymers. Those polymers are like lumps of meat crushed and mixed in the craziest way. They don't have any fixed shape, and they can't see any rational laws of activity. They are just soaked in the nutrient solution, wriggling and deforming aimlessly, sometimes merging with each other, and sometimes splitting apart.
Every short period of time, a faint blood color would ooze out from the surface of those wriggling pieces of meat and disperse in the solution. Although there seemed to be a filter device operating in the container, the diffuse blood color still dyed the solution a light pink.
After seeing these things, Y'zaks asked subconsciously: "What is this?!"
"This is a human being." The mastermind's voice came from the speaker in the corner of the hall.
"Humans?!" Hao Ren was dumbfounded, "What do the humans on your side look like?"
As he spoke, he looked at N-6 not far away, and saw that N-6 also had a look of astonishment and disbelief on his face. Obviously, the human data downloaded from the agent's memory bank was not The pile of meat in front of him looks like.
Vivian frowned: "When did human beings become like this?"
"Mutations have been happening all the time, and there is no definite point in time. From the day this war started, or from the day the creators first escaped from their parent star, the power of Galactus has been imprinted on human beings. " said the Mastermind in an emotionless electronically synthesized voice, "before they created the agent, they realized that human beings could never escape the power of Galactus, which cannot be explained by worldly knowledge, and will eventually be completely destroyed. Ending their civilization - the survival rate of newborns is declining, deadly diseases and limb mutations are increasing, and millions of people are fleeing from their home planet, but their population is declining every year. That's why they created agents, so that Agents will complete their mission in their place and take back their homeland."
The mastermind's voice continued: "In the first few thousand years, human beings could still act together with the agent, and they taught the agent many things during that time, including how to think; in the thousand years after that, because The problem of deformity and the rapid decline of physical fitness make it difficult for human beings to continue to maintain social functions, so they built a big think tank, turning human knowledge and ways of thinking into data that can be downloaded and understood by agents. At the same time, they also created me and gave me The duty of guarding and guiding the entire society; in the next thousand years, the mutation at the genetic level finally deteriorated to the point where it could not be alleviated at all, and the greenhouse environment in the fortress could not sustain human survival, so they had to enter the culture container.
"In the next thousand years, no newborns were born, and humans survived with the help of incubators for a long time.
"In the next thousand years, they began to lose their shape, and even lost their individual isolation from each other. They were getting closer and closer to the original cell community form. In ancient historical records, similar forms also appeared on the parent star Over - that is the phenomenon caused by the red blood tide released by the planetary devourer. After the organism is contacted by the red blood tide, it will dissolve into this kind of cell group in a short time.
"And then, it's what you see."
Vivienne's brows were still tightly frowned: "... the agents outside don't know anything about this?"
She glanced at N-6 next to her, and from the latter's almost dead expression, she had already got the answer to her question.
"Secrets are buried deep in the fortress," replied the Mastermind, "ordinary Agents don't know what happens to humans."
Lily asked curiously: "Because this will cause them to collapse?"
"The mission of the agent is to assist humans to regain their home planet. This mission is engraved deep in the memory of each agent when they leave the production line," the mastermind replied, "If we lose humans, what are we left with?" What?"
Hao Ren's eyes moved back and forth between the sluggish N-6 and the glass container in the center of the hall, thoughtfully.
"For so many years, the human condition has been continuously deteriorating," he raised his head and said to the air, but he knew that the mastermind had been watching him, "it deteriorated to a critical point a few years ago, which caused your malfunction ?”
"Humans created me to serve them, but they didn't tell me what I should do if they left one day," the mastermind replied flatly, "For thousands of years, all my tasks have been to fulfill their instructions. The mission given to me - to build a base on the moon, to develop a society of agents, to create an army, to counterattack the home planet, all of this is because human beings need me to do so."
Hao Ren let out a breath slowly: "But now, even the 'human' itself is about to disappear."
That's why the mastermind malfunctioned fatally.
He has already discovered that the master brain and agent created by humans on this planet are actually not the same thing. If the agent is a kind of extremely imitating human beings, from words and deeds to thinking ability, they are the same as human beings. The main brain is more like a super computer with superior computing power but lacks perceptual thinking and fuzzy computing power. This design should have far-reaching considerations at first, perhaps to ensure the stability of the entire agent society. , It may also be to ensure the long-term goal of "recapturing the mother star" is eternal, but in any case, the result of this design has been far from the original purpose of human beings.
When any technological means cannot save the fate of human extinction, the strict logic system of the mastermind can only draw one conclusion: he will never be able to complete the task entrusted to him by the creator.
So he started to malfunction, started to get confused, and started to enter the countdown to self-destruction.
"Do 'humans' still have the ability to think? Or, can they communicate?" Hao Ren asked.
"...that was a long time ago," replied the Mastermind.
Just like what Hao Ren thought: no human being can correct the logical conflict of the master brain—they may have had this opportunity, but now, it is too late.