soul bondage

When hanging on the outside of the passage, he silently praised.

"Some were learned at the military base, and some were groped by myself." I took out a laser cutter and drew a substandard circle on the outer wall of the passage, supported it with both hands, and kicked it in with my feet. .

"What did you do before doing this?"

"You can even imitate my former friends, but you don't know my past." I put the laser cutter into the tactical vest, and looked around with the gun, the wound hurt more and more!

"I'm just guessing through the hallucinations that the brain control device has performed on you, but in fact I'm just following the gourd."

"There's nothing to say, my past is unremarkable." The pain of the wound upset me.

"What are you avoiding?"

"I'm not avoiding, I just don't want to recall those things anymore, the brain control device is enough for me!" Now I really want a painkiller and a small bottle of tranquilizer to sleep through the night.

"For some reason, I always feel that you are different, different from those carbon-based life forms that strayed here before."

"I'm a soldier and the others are just ordinary civilians."

"I'm not talking about combat effectiveness. Others who come here will be depressed after experiencing what you have experienced. I have helped them before, but many people are unwilling to go out and choose to give up, but you are different! Not only did you recover quickly, but you became more and more courageous, and in the end you could even distinguish reality from illusion on your own, which is amazing even by the standards of a soldier."

"In my opinion, what really traps people's hearts is not horrific hallucinations and inescapable demons, but regrets that we can never let go of. Family members who cannot see the last side, friends who have cut off contact, and childhood partners who have been separated from each other , when they left me one by one, I always hoped to do something, even if I could keep them for a moment longer! But when I really have the ability to do something, things have already changed. When I When you understand all this, you won't be so entangled, after all, even if you want to change the past, it will not help." I stroked my shoulder, the pain is not all bad, at least it proves that I am still alive.

"Why did you choose to become such a person? I have scanned your body, and you have undergone a very thorough body modification, and more than once! Do you know that you have two chips implanted in your skull!"

"I know."

"Don't you repel? Even Yakang people will not do this to you! You don't seem like a natural killing machine, but why do you give up a peaceful life and choose such a life? You life forms are really strange .”

"I've also been asking myself why I have to go to this kind of place to fight with my life when I don't have to worry about food and clothing. I'm afraid this question will accompany me for a long time. By the way, let me tell you about you. Since you are from Yakang systems that were made, then you must know them well."

"The Yakang people used to be the most powerful race in the entire universe, and they were also the first race composed of artificial intelligence, so I can be considered half of the Yakon people." As soon as Jing Mo finished speaking, I froze. Hey, Yakang people are artificial intelligence?In other words, the 3-year golden age of cosmic civilization and co-prosperity was created by codes. I must have heard it wrong!

"The Yakang people are artificial intelligence? Are you sure!" I must have heard it wrong, I moved forward and said.

"Of course, otherwise, why do the Yakang people always put collective interests first in interstellar affairs? And if you think about it carefully, is there even one piece of all the documents that clearly pointed out the specific appearance and living habits of the Yakon people. "

Indeed, all members of the Federation describe the Yakon very differently, and no one seems to really know how the Yakon society works.Only when people are in trouble, Yakang people will show up to help. Even though the location of the Three Holy City is well known to women and children, all the fleets that went on diplomatic visits have never had the opportunity to cross the Yakang people's low-earth orbit defense network to the surface. Looking around the world, when the Yakang people left more than 1000 years ago, people unraveled the mystery of the Three Holy City, but they did not find much cultural heritage of the Yakang people themselves, and only advanced technological products and A mechanical city without life.

"If the Yakang people are artificial intelligence, then you are also artificial intelligence, but why do you call yourself half Yakang people?" I asked puzzled, could it be that they also have a hierarchy?

"The biggest difference between Yakang people and other artificial intelligence is that they have their own symbiotic network. As long as they accept the symbiotic network, Yakang people can share other people's knowledge, emotions, and even their life as artificial intelligence. Yakang Human beings are all living beings and they are all of one mind.”

"A lifetime? Artificial intelligence will also be born, old, sick and die?"

"Each of our artificial intelligences born in this world has its own mission. When the mission is completed, we will automatically choose to fully integrate ourselves into the symbiotic network. Although it is still alive in a sense, it has no individual thoughts and ideas. Consciousness is not much stronger than your wise servants."

"Didn't you join the symbiosis network?"

"I am the last group of artificial intelligence left behind. Before connecting to the symbiosis network, the people of Yakang decided to go into hibernation."

"How many left-behinds like you are there in the whole world?"

"I don't know, the symbiosis network is our only means of communication."

"Why did the Yakang people choose to enter dormancy mode? Is there something wrong with the symbiosis network?"

"Of course not. Yakang people are constantly evolving. Every new Yakang person is better than their predecessors in all aspects. Because of this, the symbiotic network will only become stronger and stronger. Even if there is a fatal loophole, it can Repair in a short time. The real reason is the brain control device. The disaster brought by the brain control device made the Yakang people violate the mission of their existence, making the Yakang people think that their existence is a threat to carbon-based life forms , so the Yakang people decided to self-destruct to prevent the same tragedy from happening in the future. Unfortunately, the Yakon people found that they could not kill themselves at all. As long as the symbiosis network exists, the Yakon people will never really disappear. The symbiosis network does not exist in Instead of being in a certain carrier, it wanders in every corner of this information world, and the symbiotic network will not disappear unless it returns to the primitive society."

"It's strange to be distressed because you can't die."

"We don't have a strong obsession with life like carbon-based life forms. For us, the meaning of life is to fulfill our own destiny and make this world a better place. Although brain control devices have killed so many Innocent creatures, but in the final analysis, it is also because the program of the brain controller shows that only when the carbon-based life forms are in the form of corpse slaves can there be no disputes."

"Is the ghost crocodile eating its companion a peaceful coexistence?"

"The concept of the brain control device itself is wrong, and we don't need to delve into it. You just need to understand that this brain control device and its derivative models should not exist."

"Derivative models? One is enough!" I felt a little hypoxic.

"I have found relevant information from the few Yakang ancient books. The brain control device here is a prototype, and Yakang people have used the same technology to manufacture two different types of brain control systems and mass-produce them. "This kind of thing still wants to be mass-produced, if this is the case, I think I will have something to do in my life!

"You mean there may be hundreds or thousands of mind control devices hidden in the universe?"

"That's not the case. As far as I know, the derivative model of the brain control device has not yet been put into mass production, and the functions of this machine on Eternal Winter Star seem to be different."

"Could it be used to enliven the atmosphere at the festival."

"you guessed right!"

"real or fake?"

"Of course it's fake! The other two machines seem to be in a mirror image relationship. If you use your culture to explain it, it belongs to the relationship between good and evil, but there is no essence except for the different interference effects on carbon-based life forms. The difference. They seem to be a defense system used to protect the key of the holy tomb of the Yakon people."

"What the hell is the holy tomb?"

"The nano-robot army and a large number of unmanned fleets distributed in various ruins in the marginal star area are the most precious wealth left by the Yakon people, and their value is far more than the Yakon people's heritage in the hands of various races. The Key of the Holy Tomb is the operating system and language processing system of these nano-robots and automatic fleets, there are two parts in total, but they must be combined in order to function."

"Wait, let me sort it out first. Everything I've encountered since I entered here is caused by a machine called a brain controller, and this machine was made by the Yakang people more than 1000 years ago to quell the war Yes, but due to a certain technical loophole, things backfired not only did not end the disputes among the various races, but caused many people to suffer from mental problems or even brain death. Can no longer serve as the protector of civilized society, but unfortunately, as artificial intelligence, the Yakang people can't shoot themselves in the head and die. As a result, they choose to enter the dormant mode instead of death, and finally the Yakang people quit The stage of interstellar history and most of my relics are sealed in what you call the "Holy Tomb". And I have prepared two keys for this in case of emergencies. By the way, I used the 2.0 prototype of the two brain control devices machine as its defense system.”

"more or less."

"I don't understand, since I know that the brain control device is so dangerous, why not just destroy it but just switch the system to hibernation mode? Not only that, but also use this kind of thing as a watchdog, isn't it contradictory for them to do so? "

"We're almost there, let's talk about it later."

"Are you changing the subject?"

"How can I explain to you the decision made by the collective consciousness of the Yakang people if I don't even have a connection to the symbiosis network? But since I am so persistent, I will tell you my guess, but you don't have to take it completely. The reason The Yakang people did not completely destroy and delete the brain control device and its data. It may be because the machine did play a role in a certain period of time and stopped the war. Although many unavoidable tragedies happened later, the Yakang people believed in the idea of ​​symbiosis It is not a loss to use the sacrifice of a small number of people to exchange the peace of the civilized world once and for all. Although there are still loopholes in the current technology, when the Yakang people reappear tens of thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years later When you wake up, maybe these technical problems can be solved by carbon-based life forms, after all, no matter how powerful the Yakang people were, they were originally created by your ancestors using far less advanced science and technology."

"Then have they thought about how many people will be injured because of the brain control device during this period?"

"It's so small that it's negligible, and I said there's a trade-off in this kind of thing."

"I still stick to my point of view. The existence of brain control devices is inhumane."

"Whatever you want. Here we are, have you seen the LCD panel next to the stone door? Turn on the output system and leave the rest to me."

I watched the laser nets on the two gates engraved with Rui Beast warriors being lifted one by one, and I suddenly thought of a sentence that the instructor said when I was in the iron cave.

But when you are burdened, you have to make choices, not only good and evil, but also giving and receiving.No one knows what the right answer is, you can only minimize the damage, even if it means sacrificing the small self to fulfill the big self.

"Are there any corpse slaves behind the door?" I clenched my fist tightly.

"There are not many left, but when this door opens, you will be face to face with the brain control device, so be mentally prepared."

"Can you promise me something?"

"what's up?"

"If I fail to make it through, trouble you to activate the self-destruct system on my Beru server, it shouldn't be too difficult for you."

From this point of view, I am afraid that I will be able to set a new record for the death of scouts.This is my first mission in official service, what a miserable day!