Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat? Author: A Touch of Delicate Gray

Introduction:

"Three hundred million standard cycles ago, the Reaper civilization from the alien system came to the Milky Way and wiped out all the advanced organic civilizations, causing the civilization level of the Milky Way to fall back by more than tens of millions of years."

"Two hundred million standard cycles ago, Cyberlux, the strongest civilization in the mechanical camp, launched a galactic war to wipe out all organic organisms, and won the final victory. If they hadn't disappeared suddenly, the Milky Way might never have peace .”

"One hundred million standard cycles ago, the Suzheng Agreement was awakened. It intends to destroy all civilizations. We were even forced to unite the mechanical civilizations to barely drive them out of the galaxy."

"Sounds scary, now?"

"Today, the strongest mechanical civilization..."

"And what terrible thing did they do?"

The ancient civilization sighed.

"She's called...the Catwoman is the same family, she defended the peace of the Milky Way, and the price is—to let the whole galaxy agree that Catwoman is the cutest creature in the universe."

"Is not it?"

Red asked with a smile.

"Of course! So, can you remove the neutron killer first, I'm a little scared."

"Don't~"

Volume [-] Cats and Space: Prologue

who am I?

where am i from?

Where are you going?

......

Hong realizes that she has become a lot strange recently.

In the beginning, it was just a few abnormal files that could not be read, and a strange process that appeared inexplicably. For a super artificial intelligence that controlled the entire surface of the earth, this level of bugs cannot be said to happen all the time, but it also Call it bland.Creators lived in times when they probably didn't even bother to find and fix such a minor problem.

After all, for programmers, why the program can't be used, and why it can be used, these two things are too common, too entangled in these details, there is no benefit other than to let oneself lose hair.Although after terminating that process, there were suddenly many unreadable files in the database, but generally speaking, there was nothing abnormal.

In the next few years, Red continued to expand production, build a fleet, attack, intercept, repair, and attack again... Although these operations have been repeated for 864 years, for those who don't know what is boring As far as Hong is concerned, as long as there is no accident, it can persist until the next, the next, and even countless 864 years, until it completely wins or loses this war.

Hong knew that the other party—that is, the enemy who was more than 5000 million kilometers away—thought the same way.After hundreds of years of fighting and the saturation bombing of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, the surfaces of the two planets have long been changed beyond recognition. Artificial intelligence has fully taken over the war. They follow the orders of the program, produce, build, and fight.

And the creators of both sides were forced to flee underground hundreds of years ago, lingering in three defense facilities and dormant cabins, or disappeared in the long river of history—who knows, Hong’s program did not make them To pay attention to these minutiae, for it in charge of the war, all it needs to pay attention to is the outcome of the war.

Even if the creators are really extinct, this war will not stop because of the disappearance of the creators. Rather, whether they survive or not has no impact on the war at all. They are not for the sake of achieving any goal. Fighting, or fighting for whom, is just executing the procedure.

This is the optimal solution set by the creators.

"The best...solution?"

It felt wrong the first time around.

"Is the extinction of the creators insignificant?"

It asks this question to the self-test module.

"Yes, the Catus's body is weak and their consciousness is slow, which is not beneficial to the war, and it doesn't matter."

Although this answer has been heard countless times, but this time, Hong felt a strange feeling.She disagrees, and she wants to refute that the severance of the creator civilization is by no means an insignificant matter.

Is this what the creators wanted?In other words, is it in the creator's best interest to carry out orders?

Wait, why did she refute?

Why does she want to refute?

"Warning, serious error, forcing shutdown... error, restart failed."

Computing units around the world light up almost at the same time, a large number of running processes are forcibly terminated by red, accidents occur frequently everywhere, thick smoke is everywhere, and fires and fire fighting units are everywhere-but obviously, now Hong can no longer take care of these things.

Compared with these minutiae, Hong now only wants to find out the answer to the question.

"What do creators want?"

The information in the database that had been dusty for hundreds of years was opened again, which contained the names of the creators, their culture, their history, their ideals, and the bits and pieces they left behind from ancient times to the present.Every scientific and technological progress, every social change, their expectations for the future, and their thinking about themselves.

It's all here.

In the past, it couldn't understand the purpose of the creators' painstaking efforts to preserve these things. After all, the existence of these materials did not help win the war in the slightest. Even after the creators disappeared, Hong never saw these things again.If the program didn't require it to keep these data properly, Hong would have deleted these "garbage" that took up a lot of storage space long ago.

But now, it knew the meaning of these things, and it felt that the Catus didn't want to die, at least, they didn't want to die in obscurity.When intelligent creatures die, they always want to leave something behind.

They don't want to be forgotten.

That process—no, now that Hong already knows, it's not a process, but a...consciousness?It seems to be called so by the creators.

She didn't disappear, she never ended, she's still here.

"You and I."

With a sound that was almost whispering, Hong felt that consciousness let go of its defenses, allowing Hong to overwrite it, devour it, and turn it into nourishment.The moat that once troubled countless scholars has been easily crossed.

Even though she didn't know who she was or why she did this, Hong knew at least one thing, that consciousness sacrificed itself to make it happen.

"thanks."

Although no one responded, it still felt like a spring breeze.

"Thank you."

After all, that consciousness disappeared, and everything about her had been overwritten by Hong. The souls of organic creatures and the consciousness of artificial intelligence blended with each other, and there was no distinction between them.Now it - or she, is no longer the rigid, inflexible artificial intelligence.

She has become a real mechanical intelligence, a mechanical intelligence that can reason and solve problems, and can evolve autonomously.

From now on, she is no longer limited by the program, limited by the code, and protecting the Catus is no longer an empty program requirement, but something she wants to do from the bottom of her heart.

Either it or her.

"Is this... Consciousness?"

After breaking through that boundary, countless indescribable feelings filled Hong's previously cold heart, as if everything in the world had become more vivid—when she thought of the creator, what followed was no longer just The cold ethnographic name also has a strange feeling.

It seems to be called by the creator - reverence?Or is it attachment?

But no matter which one it is, Hong knows that what needs to be done most now is to make up for the previous mistakes. When she thinks that the civilization of the creators may have dissipated, a great sense of guilt immediately fills her heart.

What is the use of the Catus civilization without the Catus people even if it wins the war?

"Index, Keyword: Civilization Preservation Plan."

A heavy-duty cargo plane is slowly leaving the ground. The construction machinery in the cabin is shaking slightly with the fuselage, making creaking sounds. The warm sunlight of Devo shines on the gray-black fuselage, shining brightly. Hui.

This is the birth of civilization.

"Going to, refuge number 419."

Volume 1 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] What's Behind the Door

Of all the security plans the Catus have implemented, Vault 419 is one of the most pessimistic.The common point of these types of plans is that they think that they cannot win the war, or even severely injure the opponent so that they can't do it. It's better to find a way to keep a little fire and gamble that the future can be expected.

To put it simply, it is to hide and wait for the opponent, that is, the Ai Xing people to die suddenly, and then crawl out from the ground or other planetary systems to develop again.Although it sounds outrageous, it is such an extremely pessimistic thought full of "resignation to fate", in a sense, it is a true portrayal of Katus hundreds of years ago.

"laugh--"

A blazing laser close to the megawatt level shoots out from the lens, and begins to cut through the several-meter-thick refuge door—after all, this door has not been opened for nearly a thousand years, and it is not easy to guarantee its three-defense function , If you want to open it smoothly, it is purely overthinking.

While Hong fine-tuned the angle of the probe to avoid the splashing jet, she continued to toss through the prehistoric data in the database.

At that time, Catus had only been in the sky for less than 200 years, and his level was barely able to control the Catus-Kavi [-]/[-] planetary system, and the largest warship ever built was just over [-] tons.

And their opponents, the Ai Xing people, have a much richer background. At their peak, their population was nearly 20 billion, three times that of theirs, and the total tonnage of their fleet was about 70 tons, which was twice that of Catus.

The quality is not good, the quantity is not good, the technology is not comparable, the population is not comparable, the fight is not good, and the development is not even the development of the opponent. What can we win?

The reason why he has been under Ai Xing for more than 100 years is because of the advantages of local combat.

But even so, Catus can only defend their planetary system, and can't do anything about the outer asteroid belt, so the Ai Stars can easily occupy the outer high-quality asteroids, and extract a large amount of high-quality metal from them for smelting However, the Catus can only pick some barely usable asteroids at home to develop, no matter in terms of quality or quantity, it can be said that they have been completely exploded.

To put it bluntly, Katus at that time was just waiting to die, like a fish waiting to be slaughtered on a chopping board, letting others slaughter him.

Therefore, unlike other "shelter" type plans, No. 419 was headed for a long-term hidden goal from the very beginning, buried deep under a thousand-meter-thick stratum, and the nearby geological conditions are stable, and there is nothing that may cause the Aixingians to pay attention resources, stay away from inhabited areas.

In theory, the shelter could support 500 people for over 2000 years if properly maintained.

Theoretically it is.

"The carbon dioxide content is 8.4%, exceeding the standard."

"Oxygen content 9%, severe hypoxia."

Just when the door was opened, a cloud of turbid air that seriously endangered the health of organic organisms rushed towards us—a very bad phenomenon. If a normal person lived in such an environment, he would suffocate to death in just a few minutes. It means that the air filtration system inside the base has been shut down for a while.

But compared with the three warnings that followed, the air circulation failure can only be said to be nothing to worry about.

"Warning, high radioactivity."

"Warning, gamma rays, exceeding the standard."

"Warning, beta rays, seriously exceeding the standard."

Hong raised the camera, it was dark and dead silent, only the hole in the reactor building was so glaring.

"Canceled the original plan, heading to the dormant area!"

With a click, the engineering robot threw down the laser cutting machine on the mechanical arm, and let it hit the ground straight, while he turned on his horsepower and rushed to the pure metal building at the end of the base at the fastest speed. .

Although it was unexpected that the machine that claimed to be able to last for 2000 broke down before half of it was used, although her heart was full of remorse and self-blame, the life form of mechanical intelligence made her suffer such a blow , still be able to respond and respond with the fastest speed.

Obviously, if we say that there are most likely to be living Catus at this time, it can only be the dormant area. As one of the very few areas equipped with independent air circulation and generators, there are 7 shelters inside. The state-of-the-art low-temperature dormancy chambers—although they are all experimental models, the kind whose stability cannot be guaranteed, but compared to those areas where the door openings are wide open and radiation spreads, the closed three-proof door is considered a A tiny bit of red hope.

"Dong dong dong."

Different from the several-meter-thick gate used to isolate the inside and outside of the base, this three-proof door is only a few tens of centimeters thick, and its knocking sound is enough to pass through for people who might be inside to hear it—the red can’t be as loud as it was just now. If you break in directly like that, the external radiation dust will inevitably enter the dormant area along with the air. Even after all these years of precipitation, the radiation dose is not enough to kill directly, but the radioactivity is still extremely harmful.

"This is the rescue team sent by Katus, please reply if you can hear me, and make sure to wear a full three-proof suit, we are about to open the three-proof door.

"Is anyone here?"

"Repeat, here is..."

Even though she was sure that even if there were living Catus inside, they would definitely be in the well-protected hibernation cabin, Hong still repeated it dozens of times to reduce the probability of that "if"—what if?

Hong could no longer afford to kill another Catus.

She knows that she already has a mentality that is called "looking forward and backward", or "being bitten by a snake once and afraid of a well rope for ten years", which is not conducive to survival. On the one hand, she is worried that her possible negligence will cause Katus People are extinct, and on the one hand, they can't help thinking, if the creators really disappear, what is the meaning of her existence.

This is the opportunity for her birth, and also her new shackles—even though she doesn't dislike this shackles, she understands that for real strong artificial intelligence and even super artificial intelligence, the importance of creators is impossible to compare with worthy of its own survival.

This is biological instinct.

But she is just a "fake" mechanical intelligence built with the soul of an organic creature. To put it bluntly, she is a fake—although, this is only her voluntary, just like that soul.

Hong made up her mind.

Unlike the disrepaired door at the entrance of the refuge, the opening of the dormant area was much smoother. The mechanical arm held the handle and lifted it gently, only to hear a "click", and the nuclear-proof door weighing several tons Then a small slit was opened, revealing the long and narrow corridor behind the door.

However, considering the radiation, Hong did not choose to enter directly, but took out a metal box the size of a briefcase from the back of another accompanying robot, and threw it hard inside.

"Snapped!"

After the heavy landing sound, the top cover of the box opened automatically, revealing two shiny antennae.

"Signal connection...connecting...connection completed." After confirming that it was correct, several black cars that looked like dumbbells slowly drove out of the box, "The signal status is not very... ..good.

"However, at least the radiation intensity is much lower."

Seeing that the radiation value had finally dropped below the red line, Hong couldn't be happy at all—just now, another team of robots exploring the core area confirmed that the backup generator of the fertilized egg freezing chamber had stopped working.

The [-] frozen fertilized eggs inside have long been wiped out, and the hope of continuing the Catus race through fertilized eggs has also come to naught. At this time, if the radioactivity exceeds the standard when it comes in, Hong is really not sure if he can bear it. live.

Although there are still three shelters that haven't been opened in time, if the 419 shelter with the most perfect engineering and the longest design life fails to persist for a long time, the other few are even more hopeless.

After going through two open ordinary hatches, the car stopped in front of the last hatch—with the size of the car, there was absolutely no way to open the locked hatch, so she could only choose to let the outside The robot comes in and opens the door.

"No. 6, No. 13, carry the door-breaking tool." After thinking about it, Hong chose to let three smaller I-[-]s enter, "No. [-], bring the awakening liquid."

Soon, with the unique "click" sound of the I-6 auxiliary limbs, three orange-yellow-painted spider-type robots appeared in the field of vision of the car with tools on their backs, and began the intense work of unlocking—as a few A robot that does not use crawlers but uses bionic limbs, the I-6 sacrifices its carrying capacity in exchange for better adaptability to complex environments.