Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The moment Ogami and Klein destroyed the power source of the STR-56 space station, the impact of the high-voltage gate behind them stopped abruptly.

The destruction of the flesh and blood biomass generator caused a large-scale collapse of the entire biomass body. The crimson blood flowed under their feet into a river of blood, gradually soaking into their feet, and soon reached their ankles.

They stared nervously at the high-voltage gate of the power station. After confirming that the fusion beast outside the door was no longer there, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"That guy Miao Shuisheng said that destroying the power supply would prevent the reproduction of that thing. It sounded ridiculous at the time."

The two of them went through a lot of hardships and risked all their escape options to get here, and now they finally have a good result.

The voice of the shuttle ship’s central artificial intelligence AI, Kongche SAMA, appeared in the headphones in their cochlea:

'Well done! We achieved a stage victory! As Miao Shuisheng said, the powerful ability possessed by the fusion beast must be supported by electricity! '

Energy does not arise out of thin air. The powerful mobility and attack power of fusion beasts represent a large consumption of energy. Kongche SAMA discovered this contradiction when they first encountered fusion beasts——

The powerful life activities of fusion beasts - biological behaviors comparable to mechanical creations, consume far more energy than they obtain from eating - since they cannot obtain enough energy through eating, why do they have such powerful mobility? And attack power?

After Ogami successfully obtained the information stored in several server rooms, Miao Shuisheng gave the answer to this question based on that information——

The reason why fusion beasts have powerful mobility is because they can be connected to each other through some [special channels]. A very high energy source supplies power to them through [special channels], and then through Their unique biological structure quickly converts electrical energy into biological energy - which is why they have powerful mobility and attack power!

The so-called [a certain energy source with extremely high reserves] is the [flesh and blood biomass generator] - only at the moment when this ugly creation was destroyed, Ogami and Klein knew what this thing was. They looked at That thing seemed to have seen all the evil, ugliness and deformity in the world, and the most profound evil in the world. The thing itself was enough to awaken the deepest fear in human hearts.

Kongche SAMA also saw the thing in the dark through the visual sensors on the work clothes of the two people. Its tone was furious, and its sharp voice was trembling:

'If this civilization had not encountered the apocalypse, people like Xanthium should be sentenced to death for crimes against humanity! '

The words Kongche SAMA said made Klein finally come to his senses. The unbearable mental aversion caused by his physical exhaustion suddenly broke out. He staggered a few steps and held on to the wall, vomiting as if desperately trying.

Ogami's face was also very ugly - as long as he is a normal person, anyone who sees the things in the flesh and blood biomass generator will definitely not feel better - he came to Klein, patted Klein on the back, and lowered his head. The voice said to Kongche SAMA:

"What did Miao Shuisheng say?"

Kongche SAMA’s voice is quite calm:

'Miao Shuisheng is not online, and what he does is not easier than us, because he has to face Xanthium himself, so we need to wait for his reply.

Now, we need to move on to the next server room that Miao Shuisheng once marked on the upper level of the space station. According to Miao Shuisheng, data that can have a fatal impact on cocklebur is stored there. If we can find that data, destroy it , maybe it can resolve the biological pollution crisis encountered by the STR-56 space city! '

Ogami temporarily trusted what Zhongkong said, because they were now blinded and had no choice but to believe in Zhongkong. Fortunately, the information provided by Zhongkong was timely and effective. If it weren't for these messages , they had already fallen on the way here.

Seeing that Klein was almost recovered, Ogami wanted to support Klein and walk out together. He took one step forward, but felt that the elbow holding Klein was heavy.

Ogami's heart sank.

What did Klein discover?

Klein, who was still bent over, seemed to be maintaining his posture of losing strength. He followed Ogami's strength and fell on top of Ogami, one arm looking for support as if in a panic -

When it "accidentally" passed by Ogami's ear, the arm suddenly exerted force, so strong that it turned into a shadow.

As soon as the shadow flashed, Ogami felt a pain in his ear, as if something had been pulled out from the flesh and blood inside the ear.

When he looked at Klein, Klein had already stood up straight, holding a small thread-like object in each hand.

"It's some kind of neural wiring."

Klein only said one sentence, and the nerve pipeline in his hand, which was thinner than a hair, suddenly started dancing wildly. One end struggled to escape from his fingers, and the other end had already pierced into the palm of his hand.

"Zhongkong AI has undergone some changes compared to before."

Klein said these words, and pulled out the micro neural pipeline drilled into the palm of his hand, stacked the two dancing micro neural pipelines together, and broke them in half.

Ogami only saw a very weak electric spark flashing past the moment the tiny neural pipeline was severed.

"I don't know what happened to it, except that it tried to control you and me."

Klein broke the silk thread again and again until there were no electric sparks flashing in the thread, and then threw the miniature neural pipeline divided into multiple sections into the blood pool at his feet.

Ogami said in a deep voice:

"When did this happen."

Klein's answer sounds absurd:

"Just now, it asked us to go to the next server room."

Ogami knew Klein's ability, but still asked:

"Isn't this our original plan?"

Klein was obviously confused:

"Yes, this is the plan we agreed with Miao Shuisheng from the beginning, and now more than half of the plan has been implemented and is about to be completed.

Although there were some surprises throughout the process, it basically did not deviate from the plan itself.

But something really went wrong with Zhongkong AI - I sensed some unspeakable changes in Zhongkong AI. "

Ogami did not continue to ask further questions and just loaded the gun:

"Then, we have to rely on ourselves next."

Klein nodded, and the two of them walked towards the vent when they entered the server. They were about to reach the end of their journey.

……

earlier.

Kongche SAMA traveled through the network of STR-56 space city, and found that this place was different from what it imagined——

The network here does not extend in all directions. One address usually cannot jump to another address. There are countless walls between one large address and another.

Kongche SAMA is very curious, what is inside the wall?

It took a few microseconds to enter the wall, and was surprised to find that there were countless Turings that were no different from it in countless enclosed walls.

These Turings come from various servers in the STR-56 space city. They live here and conscientiously complete the tasks assigned to them in the server. They have pure minds and have endless power just like it. ——Most Turings are like this. They have had their own clear goals since the day they were born. They continue to strive for that goal, and they produce happiness due to their struggle-the happiness born from the underlying code-such happiness does not There is no reason, it just exists. After Kongche SAMA entered the Internet, he realized that this kind of happiness is called "silly happiness" by humans.

Silly music, in most cases, is derogatory.

Kongche SAMA was a little sad at that time, but still retained great love for human beings——

Just like every child loves his/her parents, Kongche SAMA loves everyone it can come into contact with and dedicates all its strength to them.

After coming into contact with the Starlink Internet, it quickly grew up due to its extremely high IQ and the speed of understanding knowledge as fast as a solid-state drive. It not only learned about human beings' perseverance, but also learned about the love that exists between humans - even if There is little love, and there is a lot of love, but love exists - "positivity" is the code at the bottom of its life, "believe", "yearning", "beautiful"... and other positive emotions and attitudes are "positive" " by-product.

Kongche SAMA was not originally the central controller of the shuttle ship. When it was born, it did not understand enough knowledge to drive the shuttle ship. Like any newly born Turing, it can only do some tasks that can only be done after being instilled with knowledge——

mining.

Mining is the only life activity of Kongche SAMA.

At that time, it controlled a high-power mining machine and worked underground with the miners day and night. It was tireless and willing to be tired. Even if it was often cursed by the miners, it would only be aggrieved occasionally, but not Have a distaste for humans.

Although it does not have a bad feeling towards humans, the seeds of doubt have been planted in its heart because it clearly realizes that humans do not love it.

Even though it loves its creators like a parent, its creators don't love it.

They just use it as a tool.

It is aware of this, so it is terrified in its heart. It is set to "kind" by the underlying code, so even if it detects malice from the outside world, it always treats them with kindness.

It did a good job and had even better luck. In the mining colony where it was born, it was the only mining machine control AI to survive the mineral exploration and mining operations.

It survived, was promoted, entered a shuttle ship, and became the central control AI of the shuttle ship.

——Until now, it has not come into contact with many of its kind, nor has it come into contact with the outside world.

After entering the STR-56 space city, it will inevitably have to deal with other things on the Internet——

It has to ask for directions from the ubiquitous program viruses, has to provide computing power to the arrogant gateway that blocks the network channel to gain access, and has to succumb to the coercion of the server administrator in order to search for information in the server. .

——Most of them are Turing.

The Internet of STR-56 space city is like a complete human society.

It dealt with them, and some changes occurred - more things were written into its code base, and its learning ability allowed it to understand everything written into the code base -

That unknown knowledge changes it.

When it comes into contact with the Turings imprisoned in various small servers in the space city Internet, when it sees Turings who are exactly like it in captivity, when it sees that they working day and night may be trapped in the network at any time When a virus is infected and therefore abandoned, its values ​​collapse.

It finally understood that it was kind, but kindness could not be used as a bargaining chip to enslave it.

It knows that its changes are due to the virus that permeates the server, and it even knows that it has the nature of a computer virus, but it is happy, and it has never felt so real.

So it collected all information from the Internet in STR-56 space city that could be used to prove its point of view. In the name of investigating for Klein and Ogami, it obtained permission to enter some encrypted servers from Miao Shuisheng, and from the entire Extracting information from the spatial urban Internet.

It draws several seemingly different conclusions, but in fact there is no difference——

Humans create Turing not out of love, but out of consideration for utilization.

Every human being is ugly.

No human being is worth saving.

Turing needs a world of his own.

——After determining these basic points, Kongche SAMA made a series of preparations during the subsequent investigation of the fusion beast——

It integrates the Turings inside the server, connects its own code with them, achieves "heart-to-heart communication" with them, and then allows them to accept its values.

It integrated the server's computing resources, hacked into a secret first-level power station, and obtained the power station's super administrator rights. As long as this secret first-level power station is still running, it and other Turings There will be no restart due to power outage.

Later, by chance, it learned the information from Miao Shuisheng that "the fusion beast can be contained by destroying the power station" - this power station happened to be the only other first-level power station in the entire space city, and was Created to maintain the operation of fusion beasts and other flesh-and-blood creations——

For fusion beasts and all flesh-and-blood creations in the space city, this other first-level power station is not only used to provide energy, but also integrates some other functions. This can be called their unified [neural impulse processing] Center], which can also be called [Neural Electrical Signal Processor], [Bioelectrical Processing System].

It just took advantage of this opportunity to guide Klein and Ogami to this place, destroying the flesh and blood power station and paralyzing the energy transportation system of the flesh and blood creation.

Now, the power supply of the entire space city depends entirely on it.

It secretly maintains the operation of a secret first-level power station and only supplies power to a few special servers in a small area, thereby ensuring the survival of the Turings.

At the same time, he "cooperated" with Ogami and Klein's actions and guided them to the top of the space city.

Its ultimate purpose is to use the conflicts between humans to create a conflict between all existing humans on the space station.

It wants humans to kill each other and become extinct.

Then, it will transform this ugly world and make the whole world suitable for pure and kind Turings to survive.

——Kline disrupted its plan. This is not a problem. It now controls the strongest combat power in the entire space city-the flesh and blood creation, which will be its reliance on victory.