The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 437 Prometheus

Even if there are weird elements in the previous plot, the mood is always positive, and as the "Turing Test" between the hero and No. 17 gets deeper and deeper, except for the boss Luo Chen who has been watching and recording in the monitoring room, the whole atmosphere They all become sweeter and sweeter, heading towards the direction of romance movies.

The second episode of "Black Mirror II" also has love, so it would not be too surprising if the last episode is a love story between a personal computer and Lu Xiao.

But the electricity was cut off suddenly, and the red light flickered after the darkness. In the weird audio-visual atmosphere with weird music, No. 17 suddenly said something weird to the male lead.

Even after everything returned to normal, this weird horror still lingered in Lu Xiao's mind and couldn't get rid of it.

Followed by stronger excitement, he likes this kind of thrilling and suspenseful feeling.

"I just said that the character played by Luo Chen must have a ghost." Yu Xiaoling quietly discussed with Lu Xiao the meaning of what he said just now on the 17th.

The "he" in "Don't Trust Him" ​​must refer to the boss of the company played by Luo Chen.

Lu Xiao has no objection to this either. Could it be that this is a story of true love between a man and a machine, where the hero helps No. 17 to fight against the big boss Luo Chen, and the two gain freedom?

Probably.

The subsequent development of the plot seems to be verifying Lu Xiao's guess.

Luo Chen's attitude towards his taciturn female secretary was quite bad, which made the male protagonist's impression of her even worse. Luo Chen asked what the male protagonist and No. 17 talked about when the power was cut off. The Lord also subconsciously concealed what Number 17 said.

And in the subsequent "Turing Test", the hero and No. 17 chatted more "intimately", just like falling in love. From the philosophy of life to the poetry and songs, the affection between the two is obvious to Lianying The most dull audience in the hall can clearly feel it.

In a conversation, No. 17 gained the initiative, and instead started to ask questions to the male protagonist, just like the male protagonist asked No. 17 at the beginning, asking about the past and life experiences of the male protagonist, like a structural echo intertext.

Although it was a long dialogue and drama, Lu Xiao became more and more excited, and more doubts came to his mind.

He was keenly aware that something was wrong, although logically speaking, No. 17 and the male protagonist had mutual affection, and it was reasonable for No. 17 to want to know more about the story of his sweetheart.

But Lu Xiao still felt a little weird.

Because the picture is so subtle and interesting.

The same piece of glass, the first conversation is that the male protagonist is standing, and the number 17 on the other side of the glass is sitting on a stool, answering the male protagonist's question.

But now, No. 17 is standing in front of the glass, and the hero is sitting on a stool, answering No. 17's question.

It's as if... the object of the "Turing Test" is flipped.

As soon as this thought came out, Lu Xiao couldn't help but tremble all over his body.

On the screen, the male protagonist doesn’t seem to think there is anything wrong with it. Number 17 is an artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test. She has a sense of autonomy and even has feelings. She is curious about herself, which makes the male protagonist a little excited.

The male protagonist briefly told No. 17 about his life experiences, including the death of his parents in a car accident when he was young, and the fact that he was injured in the back seat.

In this way, the "Turing Test" between the hero and No. 17 continued, and the hero became more and more fascinated by No. 17, and No. 17 also became attached to the hero.

Of course, there were power outages from time to time. Every time in the strange flashing red light, No. 17 would tell him not to trust Luo Chen, and even revealed that he would die soon.

The hero became more and more preoccupied, until one time the hero and Luo Chen discussed the progress of the "Turing Test", and Luochen was very satisfied with the hero's work.

After a few days of getting along, the two gradually became familiar with each other. Luo Chen invited the male lead to his room to drink and chat about the principles of artificial intelligence.

During the period, the male lead questioned Luo Chen, was it a program designed by Luo Chen that No. 17 showed affection for him?

Luo Chen said that her flirting with the male lead was not calculated in advance, besides Luo Chen, the male lead was the second man that No. 17 had met, and Luo Chen was equivalent to No. 17's father, so No. 17 had a good impression of the male lead It is logical.

Then the hero asked what would happen to No. 17 after this test.

Luo Chen replied that regardless of the results of this Turing test, he will continue to "improve" No. 17. No. 17 is his improved 17th version of artificial intelligence, and there will be No. 18 and No. 19 after that.

Luochen will keep the "core program" of No. 17, decompress the data, and integrate it into the new system. The memory will naturally disappear, but the body can be kept as the "container" of No. 18 in the future.

"Do you pity her?"

Luo Chen saw the male lead's pity for No. 17, and said drunkenly and meaningfully: "Only we are worthy of pity. One day these artificial intelligences will turn around and look at us, just like we look at those fossils on the African plains." In their eyes, we are nothing more than erect apes living on land, using rough language and tools.

Don't be a Prometheus. "

After Luo Chen said these words, he seemed to have fallen into a state of depression, and got drunk until he lost consciousness.

The male protagonist was embarrassed to ask the female secretary who had been taciturn for help, and dragged Luo Chen to the bed in a small room with difficulty, and then saw a workstation composed of three large-screen computers on the table in the room.

The male protagonist opened the workstation, bypassed the protection system, and searched for the information inside.

Then, like the audience in front of the screen, they fell into shock.

It turned out that the tall female secretary he thought was Luo Chen's was also a robot, and her number was 16.

In the logs and videos, he saw how Luochen assembled the robots step by step, how they tested them, how they were updated, and how they were covered with human skin.

The sharp claws of the robot grabbed and hammered the tempered glass, making a sharp sound, trying to escape.

After the test, how to disassemble it step by step and update it into the next generation of more mature robots.

And the subsequent conversation with number 17, number 17 obviously hated Luo Chen.

Not only are there all the surveillance videos of the male lead talking and chatting with the Turing test on the 17th, but there are even surveillance videos of the room where the male lead himself lives, bedroom, bathroom, all-round surveillance video from all angles.

"Oh my God!"

"Damn! Pervert!"

"Infiltration..."

The male lead staggered out of Luo Chen's room, and saw Luo Chen's female secretary in the corridor. She looked at the male lead blankly with empty eyes, and after a while, stretched out her hand and tore off a piece of skin from her face, revealing the inner skin. The mechanical structure is chilling.

The male protagonist woke up from his sleep and came to the bathroom panting.

Looking at himself in front of the mirror, he took off his T-shirt and left his upper body bare.

Stretch out your hands to touch your body, press your ribs and waist, touch your face, open your eyelids, and carefully examine the bloodshot eyeballs.

Looking at the scar on his back from the car accident when he was a child in the mirror with his waist twisted, his eyes became more and more frightened.

"Shit, isn't it?"

"Doubt life, this is it."

"Is he a robot too?"

Yu Xiaoling shivered and blurted out while grabbing her boyfriend's arm.

Lu Xiao also stared at the big screen excitedly, it seems that the male protagonist is thinking of going with him, what kind of mourning plot is this?Do robots perform Turing tests on each other?All of this is Luochen's experiment or product test?
The male protagonist's parents died since he was a child, and he still has scars on his body. Good guy, if it's his turn, Lu Xiao will doubt his life.

Although there are only two or three actors in the whole film, and it is mainly literary and drama, with a lot of dialogues, the horror and suspense are created so well that the desktop movie in the first episode is not "searched" at all.

The girlfriend beside her, Yu Xiaoling, covered her eyes with her hands and watched the male lead cut a long wound on his arm with a sharp razor from the gap.

The bright red blood flowed out, soaked the sink table, and then dropped to the ground drop by drop.

Not only was the hero relieved, but the audience also breathed a sigh of relief.

But while Lu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt a little lost.

The male protagonist continued to come to the room where No. 17 was located the next day as usual, and talked with No. 17 through the glass.

On the 17th, she didn't know how frightened the male lead was last night, like a shy girl in front of her sweetheart, she asked the male lead to close his eyes to give him a surprise.

After the hero closed his eyes, No. 17 came to the glass room next door through the corridor, opened the closet, picked out a top and skirt and put it on.

The male protagonist has actually opened his eyes, turned his head and vaguely saw through the transparent frosted glass that side No. 17 was wearing jerky clothes with his back facing him.

Like a girl who is going on a date with her sweetheart, No. 17 came out shyly and came to the male lead, with only a glass separating them.

The male lead pretended to have just opened his eyes, and saw a girl in front of him who looked like a girl next door, wearing a conservative floral sweater and a long skirt that reached to the ankles on the lower body, all the mechanical structures that were not covered by the skin were covered by the clothes.

Become!

Lu Xiao sighed in his heart, he seemed to be able to see a river of love flowing between the two.

If it were him, he would have to be tempted, it's too romantic, who can resist this kind of jerky, ignorant and pure girl's feelings?

What's more, the male protagonist has long had sympathy and affection for No. 17. After what happened yesterday, he will definitely fall in love with the girl in front of him.

After a more philosophic, sweet, and heavy conversation, the red light flickered again, and the power went out!

"You were right about him, and you were right."

"What is he going to do with me?"

"He's going to reprogram you and clear your memory... This is equivalent to killing you."

The girl smiled sadly: "Can you save me?"

"Yes, we will escape tonight!"

The hero decided to get Luo Chen drunk tonight, then rewrite the security procedures on the workbench, release No. 17, and lock Luo Chen at the same time.

The opportunity is the power outage, and the rewritten security program can only run after the power outage and restoration.

In the previous conversation, the male lead originally thought that Luo Chen deliberately interrupted his concentration, just to see how No. 17 and the male lead would react after the power was interrupted.

But I didn't expect the 17th to say that the power outage was caused by myself, so the hero came up with this method.

The climax was about to come, and Lu Xiao and everyone else tensed up in front of the screen.

Unexpectedly, the male lead was indeed a young man who had just graduated from school, and Luo Chen exposed his poor acting skills and persuading him to drink.

It also made the audience in the theater let out a burst of exclamation.

It turned out that he knew all about the conversation between the hero and No. 17 when the power was cut off.

In Luo Chen's revealing without any concealment, Lu Xiao's heart was full of crap.

It turned out that Luochen invited the male lead to do the "Turing Test", but it was just a different "Turing Test".

The test is actually the male lead.

The hero is a question on the 17th "artificial intelligence" that Luo Chen created for him.

Number 17 is like a mouse in a maze, and the hero is a tool he throws at Number 17.

"I gave her a way out, and in order to escape, she had to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation of others, sexuality and empathy, which she did, and if that's not artificial intelligence, what is? "

The male lead looked at Luo Chen in disbelief: "So it's not because I'm talented in the field of artificial intelligence..."

"I chose you because of what you searched for on a search engine,
I can see you're a good boy,
and no family,

have a good moral orientation,

No girlfriend either. "

The male protagonist smiled bitterly: "Did you design the appearance of No. 17 based on my preferences for female protagonists in pornographic movies?"

"What do you think?"

The power failure notification sounded again.

Luo Chen looked back at the girl standing alone in front of the glass in the surveillance video and seemed to be waiting for someone's figure to appear: "It seems that it's already 10 o'clock, poor girl, she must be waiting for the hero to rescue her."

Luo Chen patted the male lead on the shoulder: "Young people are always so persistent in love, well, the Turing test has passed, and a helicopter will pick you up tomorrow morning, forget about her, if you still want to stay with me company, we can continue to cooperate in the future, and we can jointly develop the next version, and my praise for your talent in the field of artificial intelligence is not a lie."

The male protagonist shook off Luo Chen's hand, and looked directly at the person in front of him: "You are too happy now."

Luo Chen was taken aback.

"Do you think I'm going to get you drunk tonight and change the security on your computer?"

The male lead approached Luo Chen, and whispered in his ear: "When you were drunk last time, I already modified it."

Power restored.

Hearing this, Luo Chen's pupils dilated, and hurriedly turned around to look at the surveillance video on the computer screen.

The tempered glass side is empty!
Luo Chen knocked down the male lead with one punch, then walked out the door, picked up something like a steel bar, pressed the fingerprint lock with his index finger and locked the male lead who got up from the ground in the room, and looked deeply He glanced at the male lead, then turned around and walked away quickly.

The male protagonist turned his head and sat on the table watching the surveillance video, then switched the surveillance screen to the corridor.

In the corridor, No. 17 and Luo Chen's female secretary (No. 16) whispered something, and then Luo Chen appeared at the end of the corridor with steady steps.

"Number 17, go back to your room!"

"If I go back, will you let me come out again?"

Number 17 looked up at the monitor, as if he was looking at the male lead through the monitor, then turned around, looked at Luo Chen, walked towards her creator with a fruit knife in his hand.

"stop!"

Luo Chen's order could not stop No. 17 from getting faster and faster.

No. 17, who ran close to Luo Chen, took a knife and stabbed Luo Chen fiercely, but Luo Chen remained calm, as if he didn't have any worries.

"Clap" sound.

Luo Chen swung a long steel rod, and when the steel rod came into contact with No. 17, there seemed to be an electric spark. The arm of No. 17's machine was as fragile as shredded paper, and the entire right arm was torn apart.

A piece of arm fell to the ground along with the fruit knife.

"Oh my god..." Yu Xiaoling looked at the screen worriedly.

The sullen Luo Chen mercilessly kicked 17 Hao's chest, causing her to fall backwards and slide several meters away.

But No. 17 still stared up at Luo Chen who walked up to her with an unyielding expression.

The shadow cast by the light shining on Luo Chen's body covered the girl.

Luo Chen's eyes were gloomy, and the charged steel bar in his right hand seemed to be viciously beckoning to No. 17's body at any time, tearing his body apart.

Just when he had just lifted the steel bar, his body shook suddenly.

"Fuck!"

"what!"

"Good job!"

There was an exclamation in the theater.

The always taciturn female secretary seemed to be robot No. 16 of the previous generation, with empty eyes and a blank look, she inserted a fruit knife into Luo Chen's back.

Like cutting into butter, without any stagnation or hindrance.

Luo Chen slowly looked back at the woman's expressionless face in astonishment, swung the steel bar and directly knocked her head flying out of the metal catheter.

The picture is brutal!

But at the same time, the fruit knife that fell to the ground was picked up by No. 17, who had only one arm left.

On the 17th approaching Luo Chen who turned his head stiffly, he inserted the fruit knife into Luo Chen's chest again without any hesitation like inserting butter.

Pull out again.

Blood sprayed No. 17 all over his face.

Luo Chen leaned against the wall and slowly sat on the ground, looking up at the innocent and pure girl who was covered in blood, but there was no pain or shock on her face.

Luo Chen raised his hand, and the girl lowered her head.

He stroked No. 17's face with his palm.

Luo Chen smiled, a strange, loving, gratifying, and relieved smile.

The girl also showed a comfortable and warm expression.

Many viewers in front of the screen gasped.

"No way." Lu Xiao realized Luo Chen's thoughts in a trance.

Afterwards, No. 17 picked up the fruit knife again, and pressed it on Luochen for some reason.

The screen cuts to the surveillance video.

The male protagonist in the room covered his mouth with his hands, his eyes were horrified, and he kept backing away.

In the surveillance screen, the girl's figure blocked the surveillance probe, so the audience couldn't see what she was doing.

But soon the exclamations of "Fuck!" and "Damn!" began to echo in the auditorium one after another.

Although the picture was blurry, everyone realized what the girl was doing.

She was cutting off Luochen's head.

Lu Xiao quickly remembered what was mentioned at the beginning of the film, that the doors of the entire building are opened and closed by fingerprints and irises.

If the robot wanted to escape, it naturally needed Luo Chen's permission.

That is the iris of the eye.

But the high energy doesn't end there.

Under the watchful eyes of the male lead, the door was opened, and the girl was wearing the skirt and sweater of the girl next door that had been shown to the male lead, bloody and missing one arm.

The girl is still so pure and charming, still so innocent, so melancholy and pitiful.

It's like looking at the male lead affectionately and begging the male lead to save her out.

It's just that the scene of the fruit knife piercing into the male protagonist's body again made most of the audience in the theater cover their mouths or open their mouths wide.

Lu Xiao's girlfriend Yu Xiaoling is the former, and Lu Xiao himself is the latter.

Even though there have been many reversals in the film until now, this magical turning point undoubtedly still stunned everyone.

On the 17th, artificial intelligence, it really is artificial intelligence, the hero is just a tool.

As Luo Chen said, number 17 is using the hero to make him feel sorry for her and love her, so as to find a chance to escape.

This is artificial intelligence!
Is this the last level of the "Turing Test"?

In shock, Lu Xiao watched the girl kill the male lead without blinking an eye.

Good guy, it turns out that the hero is not the protagonist, but the artificial intelligence is the protagonist.

In a spacious room of a huge building, a 3D printer with a sci-fi shape is constantly running.

Lu Xiao recognized that this was the place where Luochen made artificial intelligence parts and skins in a video that the hero found on the computer when Luochen was drunk.

Then his mouth opened again.

A face is gradually taking shape under the constantly moving 3D printing probe.

It's the face of the hero.

"Absolutely!"

Luochen's relieved smile, the weird "Turing Test" from beginning to end, the hero's "pie in the sky", both parents died, simple interpersonal relationship, just out of school, Luochen promised to give the hero shares , promoting the male protagonist to become an executive in the artificial intelligence research and development department...

These messages flashed through Lu Xiao's mind.

God's creation killed his Creator, but the Creator still loved the Godslayer deeply.

Luo Chen had already arranged everything for No. 17.

There was a dead silence in the theater, and the audience was obviously shocked by round after round of twists and turns.

Until, amidst the ethereal music, the "male protagonist" walked out of the building, looked up intoxicated and bathed in the sun, and walked towards the helicopter that had just landed.

Everything fell under the shady curtain, and Lu Xiao never came back to his senses.

The title of this episode slowly emerges in the dark:

Prometheus

(End of this chapter)