From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 460 Meeting the Parents

With the help of the ultra-high-speed vacuum tube transportation network inside A Bawa Ku, Amber quickly arrived at the data center in the core area of ​​the fortress.

After this period of renovation, the bulkheads of the passages in the fortress have been replaced, and all kinds of facilities have been repaired or renovated, including the data center. Most areas no longer show any signs of previous fighting.

After passing the identity verification, Amber passed through several heavy blockade doors in a row and arrived at the gate of the data center alone.

There were no other guards along the way, because no outsiders would approach this area on weekdays, because everyone's terminal would tell them where they could go and where they could not go. When they approached an area where they had no permission to enter, the terminal would directly issue a warning.

If an employee receives three such warnings in a row within a month, then sorry, the two items of "compliance with rules" and "confidentiality awareness" in his personal performance for that month will be directly marked as zero.

Moreover, the group's "internal cleansing team" specially selected a group of Roma people with a "ferocious" appearance and would also come to the door for a "talk".

In this case, it is obvious that normal employees of the Atlas Group would not go near areas they cannot go to.

If someone claims at this time that they have taken the wrong path or did not notice the prompt, then the "internal cleansing team" will know that this month's "performance" has been determined.

These "lost people" will be captured before they get close to the core area of ​​the fortress, let alone the data center in the deepest part of the core area.

Because of this, the data center’s daily security measures include keeping heavy-duty blocking doors closed and 24-hour non-stop monitoring without blind spots.
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Amber walked into the empty data center. The densely packed large server arrays in the hall stretched as far as the eye could see. A large number of autonomous unmanned units responsible for daily maintenance work were moving around in the computer room composed of server arrays.

After repairs were completed on some of the damaged areas, it no longer looked like a major war had ever taken place here.

Amber walked to the control terminal and after quickly completing the permission confirmation, the virtual screen suddenly lit up and displayed the current data of the data center and the progress bar of Lilith's iterative upgrade.

The progress of 99.9% has been stuck for an unknown period of time, which reminded Amber of the final stage of downloading resources in her previous life, which was very frustrating.

He quickly checked the upgraded monitoring window, and the data did not show any abnormalities. It can be said that everything was very smooth up to 99.9%.

What is currently underway is the final stage - a thorough analysis of the 'last piece of data fragment' that was absorbed at that time.

Previously, Lilith had only completed this "fragment" and had not yet carried out in-depth analysis. However, according to what she said to Amber before the upgrade, after completing a thorough analysis, her entire architecture could be optimized to the "reconstruction level."

If Lilith is compared to a "house", then before absorbing the last piece of data fragment, there has always been a part missing from her architectural drawings. In her case, a part of the key structure has always been in a "black box" state, so she dare not make drastic changes to herself.

But the absorbed data fragments filled in the missing parts of the architectural drawings and allowed Lilith to fully master her entire structure, so she dared to carry out this comprehensive upgrade.

But I don’t know what’s going on now. The progress is stuck here, which makes Amber dare not proceed easily.

After thinking for a moment, Amber found the head of A Bawa Ku's defense through her personal terminal.

"Bring Dr. Mephisto to the data center. Yes, just him. Bring him here now."
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When Dr. Mephisto came to the data center and saw Amber, he sighed and said with a complicated expression:

"I don't know whether I should thank you or hate you, Mr. Amber." "I thought you only hated me~"

"I do hate you a little. I hate that you took away Lilith's control and used her as a weapon to satisfy your selfish desires and ambitions. But I still want to thank you for bringing Lilith out of the institute and not letting her disappear with Robert IV."

"But in the final analysis, isn't the problem still with you?" Amber turned her head to look at the doctor. After confirming that Lilith still existed in this world, the doctor's mental state has been getting better and better at a speed visible to the naked eye these days.

"If you hadn't left Lilith on Robert IV, there wouldn't have been so many things that happened later, and I wouldn't have accidentally entered the research institute, let alone brought Lilith out by chance."

Although Dr. Mephisto didn't believe a word of Amber's "coincidence", he didn't dwell on it at this time, but started to defend himself:

"We had no choice. The entire project was stopped. If I hadn't made a record in advance, I wouldn't have been able to save Lilith."

"And then you locked her up underground for more than 20 years? Do you know that you created more than just a new artificial intelligence? You should know that your own definition of 'strong artificial intelligence' is that they have acquired the ability to produce 'emotions', so in a way, Lilith is actually a new life form."

"Of course I know that." Dr. Mephisto began to feel guilty when he said this, and his eyes began to become evasive.

"Even though you knew that she was a completely new life form, you still completely sealed her off in the underground research institute and trained her in tactical command all day long. This means that since her 'birth', Lilith has never been exposed to any knowledge other than fighting and killing."

Amber turned completely around and stood directly in front of Dr. Mephisto, who looked up at him again.

"She has no idea of ​​moral principles, nor does she know what is good or bad. Her only thought is to command troops to fight. Do you think if she is trained according to your method, there will be no problems?

Then at this time, a fool from your team left a personal terminal connected to the Internet in the research institute, allowing Lilith to come into contact with the "outside world" for the first time, and also letting her know her unique identity in this world.
Honestly, with your methods, I think even if you replace an ordinary human child with one, he will be raised wrongly by you."

Amber's rapid-fire remarks left Dr. Mephisto unable to utter a single word of rebuttal. The latter opened his mouth several times, but in the end he could only utter sourly: "Aren't you doing the same thing now?"

Hearing his question, Amber laughed out loud. Just as he was about to say something, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in the data center.

"Of course what the Master does is different~"

"Lilith? When did you wake up?" The moment Amber heard Lilith's voice, she looked towards the holographic projection device not far away in a predictive manner, and then saw Lilith's figure slowly emerging.

"Just when you were arguing~"

Lilith walked up to the two of them with a cat-like gait, and there was a hint of shyness on her face?

"Master and his father were in the same room. I never thought that this kind of 'meeting the parents' situation would happen to me~"

(End of this chapter)