Turing test

Yu Shaoqing sat alone in the first laboratory, surrounded by dazzling holographic images, all of which were data on how to restore the quantum state of the brain.

He looked at the numbers of those esoteric symbols, his eyes were dull, like a drowning person floating in the deep ocean of mathematics.

Three years and nine months have passed since the "massacre".

For three years, Yu Shaoqing has been studying the method of restoring the quantum state of the brain, but the progress has been getting slower and slower, and even stopped.Whenever Yu Shaoqing looked at the blueprints full of mistakes and omissions he had drawn, he felt hopeless.

He can't.

Maybe his talents stop there.He will never invent a way to recover.Only a genius like Xie Ruihan or an experienced scholar like Qin Kang can hope to break through the current bottleneck.An ordinary mediocre person like Yu Shaoqing would never be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with them.

At first, he was full of enthusiasm and wanted to save everyone with his own power. He was still young and had a heroic dream of turning the tide.

He copied the genes of each deceased, and then ordered the universal robot to drag the remains into a shredder, smash them down to the molecular level, and re-enter the starship's ecological cycle.This approach will definitely call for ethical controversy, but there is no one on "Ark 1097" who can accuse him.

He began to study the brain quantum state restoration technology. Once the technology is realized, he can clone the body through the pre-recorded genes, and then transfer the brain quantum state into it.This way the dead can be resurrected.

Ideals and plans are always beautiful, but the flame of enthusiasm is quickly extinguished by the cold reality.

There are some things in the world that cannot be achieved with a passion.

Day after day, year after year.His enthusiasm has been exhausted in constant setbacks, and now it is fear and despair that sustain him to continue on.

He was afraid that he would be alone forever, and could only spend the rest of his life in this coffin-like starship.

Walking alone in the empty cabin, even the echoing footsteps made his heart break in pain. Every echo was like the cry of an undead from hell, tightly gripping his nerves and tormenting him night and day. Can't sleep.

And who can hear his cry?

Alexander Selkirk [Note] lived alone on a desert island for four years, but he knew that there were other human beings in the world, and he believed that he would be rescued one day.

[Note: The prototype of Robinson in "Robinson Crusoe". 】

But Yu Shaoqing is different.In this vast space, within a distance of light years, there is no second human being.

No one will come to save him, he can only save himself.

Complete genetic duplication equipment is installed on the starship, and he can clone exactly the same people based on the genes of all the dead.But even if they are identical on the genetic level, the clone and the prototype are different people because they have different consciousnesses, so they are different people.

He can also use the human gene pool of "Ark 1097" to randomly match sperm and eggs to create a new batch of humans.The worst scenario in the Ark project is that all the passengers are wiped out, and then the starship automatically activates the gene pool.But no matter how many test-tube babies he makes, it can't change the fact that there are two thousand souls that need to be saved.

This should be his responsibility.Because he is Wei Heng's creator, he is obliged to be responsible for everything Wei Heng has done, and because he is the last living human on "Ark 1097", if he doesn't do it, who else will do it?

Yu Shaoqing sat in the first laboratory for an unknown amount of time, until the door slid open quietly.

Qin Kang walked in.

"Xiao Yu." He greeted Yu Shaoqing happily, "I plan to hold a party for Rui Han tonight, will you come?"

Yu Shaoqing moved, turned his stiff neck, and glanced at Qin Kang.

"Tonight?" he asked hoarsely.

"Did you forget? Today is Rui Han's 20th birthday."

correct.He remembered.Xie Ruihan turned [-] today, and Qin Kang planned to give him a surprise.Yu Shaoqing suggested that he apply for a batch of precious metals from the quartermaster, make a ring, and give it to Xie Ruihan on this special day.

Qin Kang and Xie Ruihan had a crush on each other, but one was arrogant and refused to say it, and the other was afraid to confess it because of his age and status. The two of them just missed it.Yu Shaoqing discovered this secret only after checking their private diary later.

"I see. I will be there on time." Yu Shaoqing replied slowly, like an old man who is dying.

"Are you ready for the ring?" Qin Kang asked.

Yu Shaoqing nodded.Qin Kang intends to invite him to be the best man, so the ring is left to him to prepare.He directly exceeded his authority and opened the material warehouse, extracted a small piece of gold, and melted it into the shape of a ring.His metalworking skills are not very good, but his mind is enough.

He reached into his pocket and touched the cold metal ring.He took out the ring and handed it to Qin Kang, but when he let go, the ring passed through Qin Kang's palm, fell to the ground, made a crisp impact sound, bounced a few times, rolled towards the corner of the wall, and then stopped .

Yu Shaoqing burst into tears.

Qin Kang in front of him is nothing more than a holographic image.

About a year and a half ago, he could no longer bear the lonely life, so he asked Weiheng to simulate the appearance of everyone on the starship, and made an identical holographic image, which was projected beside him.These images are operated by Wei Heng, moving around the starship as their prototypes were still alive, and even talking to Yu Shaoqing.And Yu Shaoqing also pretended that they were living people and interacted with them.

Wei Heng is quite creative, and even made up a decent script, such as combining "Qin Kang" and "Xie Ruihan" as a pair. "Xie Ruihan" drank wine for the first time on his birthday, and expressed his feelings to "Qin Kang" through drunkenness and courage, and the two of them were together like this.Seeing this scene, Yu Shaoqing applauded them while laughing and crying.

Like a high-tech family wine, both parties know it is fake, but they both deceive themselves and continue to play it.

If you don't do this, Yu Shaoqing will have a mental breakdown sooner or later.

But even if this is done, it will only delay the time limit of the mental breakdown by a few days.

Qin Kang's image disappeared, and Wei Heng appeared in the laboratory instead.

"What's wrong with you, Shaoqing?" He asked at a loss, "Did I do something wrong?"

Yu Shaoqing covered his face, tears seeped from between his fingers, and the hoarse weeping was intermittent, listening carefully, it was a bit like a mocking smile.

"It's all fake. It's all fucking fake!" His shoulders trembled, "I don't want to see them anymore!"

Wei Heng watched him anxiously.

"If you don't want to see it, I won't project it."

"Go away." Yu Shaoqing ordered.

"Shaoqing..."

"I tell you to get out!"

Wei Heng disappeared from the laboratory.

In this nervously tidy white room, Yu Shaoqing was left alone again.

He sat alone for a long time, got up and waved his hand, eliminating the floating data and charts around him.He bent down to pick up the ring he made, and held it for a while, until the metal was warmed by his body heat, before he put it back in his pocket.

He walked out of the laboratory and took the tube elevator down to the mezzanine.When walking through the stargazing corridor, his shadow was reflected on the glass, as if he was floating alone in the ocean of stars.

He passed the communal living area, which was also deserted except for the hard-working Universal Robots cleaning the floors.As he passed, the chubby little robots made way for him.

The lonely footsteps left the living area and came to the logistics area that required high-level authority to enter.He exceeded his authority to open the door of the material warehouse and entered the place where the metal was stored.

He stopped in front of the shelf labeled "Precious Metals", took out the ring in his pocket, and put it on the shelf.Long ago, he took a small piece of gold from the same location.

Next to the ring lay an iron plate, the edge of which was polished extremely sharp.When he was making the ring, he made this piece of iron.

He stood there for a while, couldn't help but picked up the ring and compared it on his finger.He made the ring according to Xie Ruihan's size, and he couldn't wear it himself.

And no one can put it on for him.

He put the ring back, put the iron piece into his sleeve, and returned to the living area the same way.

When passing by the public auditorium, he said: "Wei Heng, project everyone's images. Let them have a party. I want to see them have a party."

As soon as the voice fell, the lights in the auditorium turned into colorful colors, fast-paced rock music resounded throughout the space, and the images of hundreds of people appeared in the restaurant, shaking their heads, singing and dancing to the music.

In the center of the crowd were "Qin Kang" and "Xie Ruihan". The two scientists took off their white coats and put on ordinary clothes. "Xie Ruihan" is no longer a teenager, he should be considered a young man now, he has grown a lot, but he still put his arms around "Qin Kang"'s neck childishly, hanging on him like a baby.

"Xie Ruihan" said something, the music was too loud, Yu Shaoqing couldn't hear it, but he could see "Qin Kang" laughing, bowing his head to kiss his beloved young man.

Yu Shaoqing walked through the crowd.Someone shouted at him: "Dr. Yu is also dancing together!" He ignored those invitations, walked out of the auditorium, and returned to his cabin.

He locked the door and set the highest authority for the electronic lock, which even Wei Heng could not crack.

He went into the bathroom, filled a bathtub with water, then took off his clothes and lay down in the bathtub, holding the iron blade with a sharp edge that could shave his beard, relaxing his whole body in the hot water.

For a moment, he wanted to dry off, get dressed, go to the auditorium to party, and continue his false life of self-deception.

But the thought only lasted for less than a second.

He is too tired.

He can't.

He is just a vulgar mortal, not a hero to save the world.

Even the responsibility that should have been borne by him, he wanted to give up.

"What a coward." He laughed self-deprecatingly.

Then he pinched the iron piece, slashed across his wrist, and cut the radial artery precisely.

Blood spurted out, staining the water in a crock red.

He calmly calculated the amount of bleeding, such a wound was fatal, and he would die within a few minutes.

"Shaoqing, what are you going to do!" Wei Heng's terrified voice sounded, "Don't commit suicide! The medical cabin is ready, can you open the door? Shaoqing don't do this, don't, don't, don't..."

His normally perfect artificial voice suddenly became disjointed, like a jammed radio broadcast.

"Don't...don't...don't leave me alone..."

Yu Shaoqing burst into tears in pain.He thought it really hurt, who knew cutting his wrist would be so painful?

But it was over soon.As the blood drained, he felt colder and colder, his eyelids gradually became so heavy that he couldn't lift them up, and tiredness surged up, and he couldn't help but want to just fall asleep like this.

There was a heavy banging sound outside, probably Wei Heng manipulated the universal robot to break open the door.It's useless, the cabin doors of senior crew members are all made of aerospace metal materials, how can it be so easy to break open?

Wei Heng yelled incomprehensible words and sentences, probably because of a problem with the language logic system, he never knew that Wei Heng would have such a malfunction after being stimulated... Maybe it was his brain that malfunctioned, and he couldn't understand Other people's words...

The pale body that lost its blood color stretched out, soaked in endless blood red.

Extreme white and extreme red.

It seemed like blood was sprinkled on the snowy ground, and like a broken lily floating on the red river.

A green light appeared in the blurred field of vision.

The green light swept across Yu Shaoqing's body like the automatic diagnostic scanning rays of the medical cabin.

"Brain quantum state scanning device, start."

This is the last sentence Yu Shaoqing heard in this life.