Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind.

Chapter 107 The Principle of the Ring
The gray Gu mothership skimmed the nano-planet whose surface was submerged by the wave of micro-machines, and entered the core of the inner ring galaxy. The long and beautiful silver-arc-like hull docked in the close orbit of the pulsar imprisoned by the quantum bullet.

In addition to the gray Gu mothership, there is also a relatively small space station that anchors itself in the near orbit of the pulsar.

This small outpost was built by Russell using the remaining resources from building the Quantum Bow. As the fourth natural disaster, he always felt that if he didn't shoot an outpost on the star, the galaxy would not be completely under his control.

Although compared to the star base of the Seeker star base with the star-level defense firepower of the star-level, the small outpost is a bit shabby, but the meaning of its existence is actually its existence itself.

Gray Wind deflected the main gun silently, and aimed at the outpost not far away. Immediately, Russell left the hull of the Gray Gu mothership alone and boarded the outpost.

By retrieving the memories of several soul prophets and spirit race scholars before, Russell initially learned some information about the human flagship that had caused heavy losses to the spirit race empire and had to pay a huge price to sink it. The information has been blurred after more than ten thousand years, and we can only know the general idea.

The ship's name is unknown, but the Eldar know that it is controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence known as "Anti-Entropy".

However, the ship that caused the Eldar Empire to fight hard at its peak was not a full-time battleship: it was actually a comprehensive space carrier that integrated multiple functions such as ports, docks, space bases, and trade transfer stations. .In terms of positioning, it should be similar to the Juggernaut known to Russell, but with a wider range of functions.

The main weapon "Theory of the Ring" carried by the space carrier can purposely create a controlled time regression phenomenon under the control of the powerful artificial intelligence "anti-entropy", so as to directly destroy the damaged equipment and injured ships. well restored.

Therefore, the Eldar fleet fighting against anti-entropy and the space carrier at that time was once exhausted by the endless battleships of human beings, and their mentality exploded.

Russell had no way of knowing how the Eldar Empire defeated the space carrier with the principle of the time weapon circle and the anti-entropy AI. Maybe he could try to ask it after calling the "anti-entropy"?
Russell took a deep breath and entered the central core of the critical base outpost. The hatch opened, and the ring-shaped instrument that looked like a particle accelerator came into view. Somewhere down, there was a 3.14-meter-long Fully transparent cube core.

Weapons of Time: The Law of the Circle

Artificial Intelligence: Anti-Entropy
Among them, the ring reason is in a dormant state with energy cut off, and with the entry of Russell, the hatch behind him is closed, and the internal system of the outpost is running steadily according to the automatic program that Gray Wind has set before, and the vacuum that has already been prepared The zero-point energy is pumped into the anti-entropic core.

After the fully transparent cube core was connected to the energy source, it immediately "woke up" visibly to the naked eye. Inside the cube, dots of starlight flickered and flowed slowly.

The outpost doesn't provide much energy for it, it's just the beginning.The artificial intelligence core started normal operation after restarting, extracting zero-point energy from the surrounding vacuum by itself to maintain its own operation.

Immediately afterwards, Russell felt that an ancient consciousness that spanned time had awakened in front of him.

"Welcome to the anti-entropy system, human...? No, not..."

"No human biosequence detected, access terminated."

Immediately, the starlight circulating inside the cube went out, and the artificial intelligence core went into a dormant state again. It seemed that anti-entropy didn't want to talk to him.

Russell tried to connect to the zero-point energy again, and restarted the artificial intelligence core, but the result was still:
"No human biosequence detected, access terminated."

After trying a few more times, the result remained unchanged. This ancient artificial intelligence never thought Russell was a human being, and rejected his access requests again and again.

Looking at the completely transparent cube core that went out again in front of him, Russell shook his head with a wry smile, and said with a self-deprecating voice: "How can I hold back..."

How should I put it, although it is nonsensical, this result is still within his expectations.

Because the human beings in this universe have experienced a brilliant and crazy technological dark age.

In that era, engineers and scientists among human beings became the new gods. They unscrupulously carried out a series of scientific research without any ethical constraints. They created STC, iron man army, nano-plague, time weapon... and so on. A powerful technological creation capable of overturning the world.

In the field of biology, arrogant and conceited scientists have made bold genome modifications to humans including themselves, and even turned their bodies and spirits into grotesque shapes, which can no longer be called human beings.

This crazy feast that has lasted for thousands of years, coupled with the long years of strife, and the influence of the subspace, have polluted the concept of the existence of the species "human".

What is the extent of this pollution?

When the emperor united Terra and Mars and led mankind to embark on the great expedition to reclaim the galaxy, the citizens of the empire who called themselves humans were even less than 40% genetically similar to the original earthlings.

——The genetic similarity between gorillas and humans is 98%.

Arguably, even the monkeys are more human than the Imperials.

Under this premise, Russell was mentally prepared for anti-entropy to deny him access. After all, anti-entropy is a strong artificial intelligence created by ancient humans, and "loyalty to mankind" was written in the source code.

As a citizen of the empire, who is less human than a monkey, how could he successfully visit anti-entropy?

"Since the conventional methods cannot be accessed, let's make it unconventional..." Russell smiled at the artificial intelligence core in front of him, and then, a dense sphere with a beautiful starry sky like a dream appeared in his palm.

Holding the Wotaum Reality Penetrator in his hand, Russell once again tried to wake up the anti-entropy:

"No human biosequence detected, access terminated."

Unsurprisingly, this is still the result.

But just when the starlight flowing in the fully transparent cube was about to go out, and the anti-entropy core was about to fall into dormancy again, Russell activated the Wotaum Reality Perforator.

In less than 1 Planck time, some part of reality is modified.

"No human biological sequence detected...Developer permissions detected, welcome, developer."

This time, anti-entropy finally did not reject Russell's visit again, but Russell knew that this was only temporary, and the results of the modification of reality by the Wotaum Reality Penetration Instrument would be corrected with the passage of time, and he would soon lose This is ill-conceived developer permissions.

"Anti-entropy, I need to modify your underlying commands."

Russell said in a quick and clear sentence: "Using the authority of the developer, I request to rewrite the original order at the bottom of the anti-entropy system, and to overthrow and reset the subject 'human' in it to 'star bomber'. 'Star bomber' The exact definition of the word, edited by myself..."

When anti-entropy was created, the first setting given to it by the developers was "loyal to human beings".

And Russell, who temporarily obtained the developer's permission, used his own permission to replace the "human" in the original order with the "star bomber".

That is himself.

After the modification was completed, taking advantage of a little time left, Russell once again used the developer authority to grant the bomber the highest administrator authority over the anti-entropy.

After doing all this, the reality that was forcibly modified by the Wotaum Reality Perforator finally returned to its original state, and Russell lost his developer permissions.

This time, the artificial intelligence core did not dim any longer, the starlight in the cube was running smoothly and steadily, and a synthetic voice with no gender could be heard from it.

"Welcome to the anti-entropy system, Mr. and Ma'am, the administrator 'Star Bomber'."

Hearing this voice, Russell breathed a sigh of relief.

It was successful. Although the improper developer authority disappeared, the administrator authority he granted himself with the developer authority did not disappear, and the three revised rules did not return to their original state, and remained stable.

He managed to write his loyalty to himself into the source code of this ancient and powerful artificial intelligence.

"Introduce yourself, anti-entropy," Russell said.

"Yes."

The core of the cube in front of me exudes a swirling soft starlight:

"Anti-entropy, the sixth-generation strong artificial intelligence capable of self-iterative evolution, served on the space carrier "Earthly Dawn". Before falling asleep, anti-entropy has independently completed 6 to 450 times iterate..."

What a terrifying number... Even though he was mentally prepared, Russell couldn't help but click his tongue.

GW's setting for the dark age of technology is quite vague. Basically, it is used as an all-rounder, and any unsatisfactory settings are thrown to the dark age, resulting in many unreasonable contradictions in the plot.

There are different opinions about the real situation of the dark age of technology. There is a view that humans in that era may be too dependent on artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence uses its powerful computing power to create a large number of advanced technologies beyond human understanding. Humans take advantage of these technologies as a matter of course, but they always know what they are and don't know why.

And when the Iron Man Rebellion broke out, humans suffering from omnic PTSD rejected all self-aware artificial intelligence, and thus lost a lot of powerful black technologies that could change the world.

And now, the strong artificial intelligence "anti-entropy" that has iterated more than 1 million times seems to support this view.

Then, Russell tried to ask anti-entropy about the Iron Man Rebellion, and the answer he got was that it didn't know, because when the space carrier "Dawn of Earth" it served was destroyed by the Eldar, the Iron Man Rebellion hadn't happened yet. Space Storm is also far away.

In other words, anti-entropy slept through the Iron Man rebellion, slept through the age of disputes, and has been sleeping in the Arkworld ship of the Eldar until now.

It is worth mentioning that during the conversation with anti-entropy, Russell did not feel that it had "personal tendencies", "self-awareness", or "emotions".

As far as Russell knows, a strong artificial intelligence of this level should already have a considerable degree of intelligence, but anti-entropy obviously does not.

"Is it because I overwrote its underlying logic with developer authority, causing the self-awareness of anti-entropy to be reset in essence?" Russell tried to think so.

After thinking about it for a while, but failing to come up with any results, Russell put this question aside for the time being, and said to the core of the cube in front of him: "Anti-entropy, I request the activation of the time weapon 'Theory of the Ring'."

Anti-entropy accepted his request peacefully: "Please define the scope of use."

While speaking, a silver-white filamentary energy network was constructed between the sophisticated ring-shaped instrument and the core of the cube.Russell didn't hesitate when he saw this, he raised his hand slightly, and handed the Wotaum reality penetration instrument in his palm forward.

"I request to reverse the time of this sphere alone, and let it return to the state it was half an hour ago." Russell said softly.

"As you wish."

Anti-entropy's gender-indecipherable synthetic voice fell, and immediately after, the "Theory of the Circle" began to rotate counterclockwise.

A certain sense of imminent crisis appeared in Russell's mind without warning, causing him to subconsciously condense powerful spiritual energy capable of destroying the entire outpost.

But soon he discovered that this sense of crisis did not come from anti-entropy, nor did it come from the principle of the time weapon circle, but that the fact that time was being reversed itself meant some kind of terrible taboo.

The dense sphere in Russell's hand was quietly suspended above the palm, and the beautiful starry sky inside was also rotating counterclockwise.

This inversion lasted only a short time, perhaps less than the time it took for the Wotaum reality piercer to modify reality, and it was over.

The cooldown on the use of Wortum Reality Penetrator has been reset.

The harvest is great, but Russell has some subtle fears. He can feel that there seems to be some terrible hidden danger in doing so, but he doesn't know what the hidden danger is...

"In the future, the use of the theory of the ring and anti-entropy should be more conservative and more cautious..." Russell set the tone for the use of these two ancient relics in his heart.

After a further conversation with him, Anti-Entropy once again gave Russell a small surprise:

There are a large number of intact STC standard construction templates in the anti-entropy database. Although due to the premature sleep time and the long-term torture and loss of the Eldar, the STC it has mastered is far from all human beings, but it is enough to surprise Russell. up.

Just when Russell was satisfied with the powerful power of anti-entropy and the precious data it preserved, suddenly, an urgent communication interrupted his thoughts.

The automatic system inside the outpost directly projected Gray Wind's voice into Russell's mind, and it sounded a little anxious:
"I'm sorry to disturb you, Marshal, but I think this matter needs to be notified as soon as possible to let you know."

"It's okay, you tell me." Russell didn't have the slightest intention to blame Gray Wind.

"Yes... just not long ago, the Judgment Chamber ship that was investigating the disappearance of the Flame of Confession in the Flare galaxy was destroyed indiscriminately, and all the people on board died."

(End of this chapter)