Turing test

Yu Shaoqing glanced anxiously at the time on the bracelet.

At 9:57, 3 minutes before the voting began, Hua Jianian still did not show up.It's obvious that he made the appointment first, but it's unreasonable to let others dove!

Yu Shaoqing called Hua Jianian through the bracelet, but was hung up roughly before two rings.He jumped into a rage and shouted, "Wei Heng! Where is Hua Jianian?"

Wei Heng's image appeared beside him. "According to the "Privacy Act", I have no right to disclose the location of Mr. Hua Jianian to you, because it would violate his privacy."

"He didn't forget to meet me before voting?" Yu Shaoqing couldn't help his forehead, "Forget it, I don't want to miss the voting meeting. Can you leave a message for Hua Jianian for me, saying that he was late , so I went to the bridge first?"

"The message has been sent to Mr. Hua Jianian's mailbox."

Yu Shaoqing glanced at the boundless space outside the corridor for the last time. The brilliant light from the nebula illuminated the transparent corridor, giving people the illusion that they were flying freely in the universe.

On the way to the bridge, Yu Shaoqing didn't meet anyone.There are still a few minutes until the voting time, so it's unlikely that everyone will arrive early, right?He knew that there were a few latecomers on the starship, and even important gatherings related to their lives would always enter the door with the bell ringing, and they would not even arrive a minute early.

Shouldn't he be the last one?Yu Shaoqing smiled wryly.Could it be that Hua Jianian deliberately made an appointment to meet in the stargazing corridor to embarrass him for being late?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help quickening his pace.He set an alarm on his wristband to remind him on time at 10 o'clock.At the moment when the bracelet issued a "beep beep" sound, he finally rushed to the gate of the bridge.

As the last person to arrive, Yu Shaoqing originally prepared an apologetic smile, but the moment the bridge gate slid open silently, his smile condensed on his face like winter frost and snow.

- Corpse.

There are corpses all over the place.

Countless corpses were stacked on top of each other, with one person pillowing another person's body, and another person pressing down on a third person.

Everyone's expression froze at the moment before death.

Like the scene of a massacre.

Yu Shaoqing sat down on the ground.It took him a while to realize that he had forgotten how to breathe.

what happened?In the end what happened?What the hell was going on here before he got to the bridge?Why did everyone die?Is everyone dead?Are there any survivors?Impossible, impossible, impossible, he was only a little late, how could such a nightmare situation appear...

He wanted to stand up, but his legs were so weak that he couldn't use any strength.All he could do was crawl across on all fours, shaking the bodies, calling every name he could remember.

But no one responded to him.

Everyone's expressions were painful and terrified, and their bodies were limp and lifeless.Their body temperature is still there, which means that the death happened only a few minutes ago.

Yu Shaoqing panicked and thought, maybe this brutal "slaughter" happened when he was pacing in the stargazing corridor.If he didn't go to the corridor, then he would also become one of the countless dead souls!

"Dr. Qin Kang! Dr. Qin Kang!" He saw a familiar figure among the corpses.

Not even wiping away his tears, he crawled towards Qin Kang.

Qin Kang crawled face down on the ground with a wound on his shoulder, half of his body was stained red with blood.Yu Shaoqing turned over the body of his older colleague and found that Xie Ruihan was pressed under him.Judging from the postures of the two of them, Qin Kang probably wanted to use his body to protect Xie Ruihan and resist some attack for him.

However, this life-saving protection did not work.Xie Ruihan also died, and those beautiful black jewel-like eyes lost their luster forever, and there were still wet tears in the corners of the eyes.

Yu Shaoqing knelt beside them, looking up, there were corpses everywhere, the solemn bridge turned into a silent cemetery, and the ark starship carrying the sparks of human civilization turned into a ghost ship wandering alone on the sea of ​​stars.

"Is anyone still alive!" Yu Shaoqing didn't hold any hope, but still shouted hoarsely, "Answer me! Is anyone still alive! Answer me...answer...me..."

Tears burst.He had never cried so bitterly, even when the ark took off and left the earth forever, he had never been so desperate.

Now he is the only living person on the starship.

--wrong!Wait a moment!

There should be another "living person" on the starship. Although he is not a biological human being, he is also counted as one of the passengers!

"Wei Heng!" Yu Shaoqing called out his lover's name.

Wei Heng's holographic image appeared in front of him.

"What happened! Report me in detail!"

"I scanned and stored their brain quantum states, so their original brain quantum states collapsed, and their bodies died immediately."

Yu Shaoqing shivered. "Why did you do that?!"

"In order to prevent them from killing each other. I have the responsibility to safeguard the peace of 'Ark 1097' and protect the lives of every passenger."

"Kill each other?!" Yu Shaoqing screamed, "Why do they kill each other?"

"After the voting results were announced, armed conflict broke out between the faction headed by Mr. Fan Jinyu and the faction headed by Mr. Wen Sifei..."

"What is 'armed conflict'?" Yu Shaoqing interrupted him, "Why can't I understand what you are saying? Show me the surveillance video!"

Wei Heng waved his hand, created a rectangular holographic screen, and showed Yu Shaoqing the pictures he took.

As Wei Heng said, Fan Jinyu's faction and Wen Sifei's faction were confronting each other, and then both sides drew their weapons.

"Why do they have weapons..." Yu Shaoqing stared at the screen and muttered to himself dully.

Wei Heng thought he was asking a question, so he said honestly: "I can't answer your question, it involves a confidentiality agreement..."

Yu Shaoqing raised his hand to show him his bracelet: "I have the highest emergency authority, ignore the confidentiality agreement, and answer my questions."

As a scientist on the starship, Yu Shaoqing's power is quite limited, but as the designer of Wei Heng, he has the highest authority in an emergency, and can order Wei Heng to answer any questions and execute any orders.But when he uses the highest authority, he will leave a record in the database and notify every member of the Ark Council.But now that the members of the parliament are dead, no one can stop him from using the highest authority.

"There is an armory on the starship." Wei Heng replied truthfully, "Mr. Chu Lin, the 'quartermaster' in charge of logistics, is a member of Wen Sifei's faction. He entered the armory yesterday and extracted a batch of weapons. Afterwards, Mr. Fan Jinyu cracked the armory. The gate code and a batch of weapons were also extracted."

Yu Shaoqing suddenly remembered that Fan Jinyu had asked him about the armory on the starship.He didn't pay attention at the time, he didn't expect Fan Jinyu to use his hacking ability to steal the gun!And Chu Lin!He is obviously the person in charge of the armory, but he guards the armory himself!

"You...now that you know why you didn't report it?"

"Mr. Fan Jinyu revised my confidentiality agreement..."

Yu Shaoqing was filled with remorse.It would be great if he discovered the abnormality of these people earlier!It was all because of his carelessness that led to this irreversible tragic ending!

"And then...?" His voice trembled, tears streaming down his face, "In order to prevent them from killing each other, you scanned their brain quantum states?"

"Yes." Wei Heng looked very puzzled, and couldn't understand Yu Shaoqing's grief at all, "I judge that doing this can stop them as quickly and efficiently as possible."

"You did stop them! You killed everyone, so of course they can't keep killing each other!"

"I request to correct your mistake, Shaoqing." Wei Heng said seriously, "I didn't 'kill' them, I just scanned their brain quantum state. In layman's terms, I put their 'consciousness' Saved in their own host, since the 'consciousness' still exists, they are not dead."

Conscious dominance theory.Yu Shaoqing was speechless.He himself supports this theory, and Wei Heng, influenced by him, of course also supports this theory.Consciousness dominance theory holds that the quantum state of a person's brain is the person's consciousness, or soul. As long as the consciousness still exists, the person will not die. Even if a person's consciousness is transferred to another person's body, he will always be himself.The body is just a container, and consciousness is the true nature of a person.

This theory sounds reasonable, but Yu Shaoqing never expected such an extreme situation!In principle, everyone did not die, because their consciousness was just transferred to Wei Heng's mainframe.In principle, they could be "resurrected" simply by transferring their consciousness back to their original body.But...but...

"But the technology to restore the quantum state of the brain has never been invented!" Yu Shaoqing screamed in despair, "Their consciousness will never be restored! It is equivalent to death!"

"I request to correct your mistake, Shaoqing." Wei Heng was as indifferent as ever, "The subject you are currently researching in the First Science Laboratory is the brain quantum state restoration technology. According to the current research progress, it is expected to be achieved within 20 years." breakthrough, so it's not 'never recoverable'..."

Yu Shaoqing laughed back angrily: "Oh really? If you didn't tell me, I almost forgot! And me, right? That's why you spared my life on purpose, didn't you?"

"I didn't 'deliberately spare your life'. The brain quantum state scan is carried out within the entire ship, but there is only one blind spot on the starship that cannot be scanned, and that is my monitoring blind spot - the star viewing corridor You were in the stargazing corridor at the time, so I didn't scan your brain quantum state."

Wait a minute, when Wei Heng activated the brain quantum state scanning system, I was in the stargazing corridor?

Yu Shaoqing quickly discovered the abnormality.

"According to what you said, the conflict between the two factions happened after the voting ended, but when I was in the stargazing corridor, the voting should have not started yet!"

"You are late." Wei Heng said, "Everyone didn't want to wait for you alone, so the voting started in your absence."

"What? Impossible, I'm obviously on time..."

Yu Shaoqing stopped suddenly.

His gaze turned to the bracelet on his wrist, which showed the current time.

"Wei Heng, adjust the time on my wristband."

"Of order." Wei Heng said, "The time on your wristband is 15 minutes behind the standard Greenwich Mean Time. It has been calibrated now."

So it turned out, Yu Shaoqing thought, it was because my watch was slow, that's why I was late and escaped by chance.

"It's impossible...how could I not even notice that my watch has slowed down so much..."

"Your bracelet has traces of artificial modification."

——It's Hua Jia Nian.

Yu Shaoqing remembered that Hua Jianian pressed his wrist yesterday when he was talking to him. It must be that time when the bracelet was tampered with.

But why did Hua Jianian do this?Why slow down his time and ask him to go to the stargazing corridor?Did Hua Jianian know about this conflict long ago?In order for him to avoid the fate of becoming a piece of data in the mainframe, so let him take refuge in the only safe area on the starship?

Yu Shaoqing's brain was in a mess and he couldn't think about anything.He could only stare blankly at the dead and silent cemetery, letting the white artificial light of the bridge dome light shine on him.

He thought, ah, compared to the starlight in space, how bright and dazzling the artificial light is, and how... cold and cruel.