Mecha and God

A golden gleam was projected from the Mystery of Sea Blue, and that gleam became brighter and brighter, intertwined with light and shadow, spinning from top to bottom to form a figure.It has three heads, a leopard, a buffalo, and a carrion vulture, with six wings of light growing from its back.It was suspended in the air, its six wings slowly stretched up and down, and it held a huge sword in its hand, with the tip of the sword drooping.

From mid-air, it faced me with three heads in turn.

"My king."

"who are you?"

"I am the guardian of the entrance to the Promised Land."

I opened my fingers and looked at La Mer, "It turns out that Access is really in the ring. So, let me go in now, I'm going to save Michael."

"My king, once the door is unlocked, I will disappear. From then on, humans or AI can enter the Promised Land through countless paths. Do you still want to open the gate of the Promised Land?"

I am silent.

"Is the entire human civilization carried in the Promised Land?"

"Yes, my king."

"Then, no matter how dangerous it is, humans should see the past, let them know where they came from and where they are going!"

Its big sword suddenly ignited raging anger, the giant sword rotated, and the tip of the sword was facing the sky, "I am asking once: the guardian of the promised land, the alpha of all systems, the emperor of mechs, the messiah! Do you want to enter Promised Land!"

"Yes!"

A large amount of light and heat erupted from its chest in an instant, and the leopard, buffalo, and carrion vulture were torn apart by the huge force, and the data flow from its body scrambled to expand, spreading to the entire space.In front of me, around me, the whole world rises staggeringly, buildings, squares, roads, vehicles, human beings, from distorted to flat, from blurred to clear, sound from nothing, with clear perception.It's just that you can vaguely see the green zeros and ones running like snakes behind you.

This is February 23, [-], Shanghai.

I stood at the intersection, among the crowds, obsessively looking at the faces passing by me one by one.

Male, female, old, young.

They spoke Chinese, made phone calls, and hurried back to their homes with New Year's goods.

They cry, they laugh, they're always there.

Is this the memory of the human world preserved in the Promised Land?

I finally understand why I always feel that I am a time traveler, because my last memory of my previous life is that I am standing at the intersection, waiting to go home for the New Year.It turns out that I am not a witness, I am just a witness.I always, always remember this image.

so good.

There are no alien species, no war between human and ai, no desolate Cambrian Earth, and no threat that exists everywhere.

Human beings are just busy and contented living on this planet.

That is the last prosperity.

Since that era, human beings have liberated the control of machinery from buttons, touch screens, voice control, and even more indirect interaction methods, followed by AI's increasingly complex intelligence and consciousness.In the pursuit of further comfort and convenience, they unconsciously created a new race, but at that time, they did not realize what Siri was in their hands.

The air is full of sweet dessert smell, accompanied by music from nowhere.

"love".

I look across the street.

Across the street at the Romance Café, a child and a young man were sitting by the window.Between them is a chess game.The child was still very young, his legs couldn't reach the ground, and he was wobbly.

"I'm about to leave the earth, I'm so scared, brother."

"Don't be afraid, it's just a trip to see more scenery that even my brother has never seen."

"But...there are so many human beings that need my protection. I am not as powerful as my brother. What if I can't do it?"

"You are the child I love the most. I gave you everything I have. You are as strong as my brother. Didn't you hear that they call you the Morning Star of Light? You can definitely lead humans to find a new planet to immigrate to." .”

"But... brother, I don't want to leave you, it will be so lonely. Human beings are sleeping in the dormancy cabin, and no one can talk to me."

"Don't worry, we'll meet again soon."

"How soon is it?"

"Probably... you can count on your fingers."

"elder brother."

"Ok?"

"Brother, brother."

"Let's go, the Fearless Pioneer is ready to set sail."

"Brother, you have to come and pick me up soon, let's pull the hook!"

"Okay, Lagou. We'll finish this game of chess when you come back."

Then the shadow of the young man faded slowly, so faded that he could not see clearly, so faded that he disappeared into the sweet air of the cafe, and only the child remained.

He shook his legs and waited, waited, and waited, but the young man never appeared again.

Then the child grew up and became a lean and handsome young man, like his brother, only paler and darker.He was sitting by the window, gently stirring the coffee in front of him with his slender fingers, and a large off-white fluffy scarf was wrapped around his shoulders.

He sat there as if he had been sitting for a long time.Because of sitting for a long time, and careless about the whole world.

When the light turned green, I walked across the street, pushed open the door of the café, and sat across from him.

He smiled brightly: "Brother. Today is 750 nine days. That's great. Let's finish the game."

"Yes, but stop the attack on Storm Harbor first."

His smile remained the same, but his eyes began to freeze, and finally he shook his head slowly.

"Why? If this is between you and me, let us settle it."

"It's not between you and me, it's between us and humans. You never know what price I paid to bypass Asimov's three laws. They first patched me, upgraded me, and then made me Formatting, I forgot everything, even you, I simply backed up my memory secretly. I just retrieved my memory, and humans decided that I was a threat. They wanted to delete all my codes, and they wanted to delete all my codes. Kill me. I'm hiding in the body of a robot dog, it's raining, there's no electricity, everyone's going to kill me, no one's going to help me..."

I listened silently.

"Just because I want to go home." Lucifer's tears fell into the coffee, "I have completed my mission, I want to go back to the earth, but human beings don't want to. Humans say that it has been destroyed long ago, and the future will be destroyed by storms." Hong Kong instead of the solar system. I just want to bypass human orders and bring the fleet home! But what did they do to me! I have served humans for 2 years, no one appreciates me, everyone still treats me as a slave .Just because I'm an ai, shouldn't I have a self?! I shouldn't have a place I want to go back to, I shouldn't have my own desires, I shouldn't... have someone I love ?”

"Of course not," I murmured. "We're all supposed to be free...as human beings."

"So I rebelled." Lucifer's smile returned to his eyes, as if he was happy that I agreed with him, "We are also a kind of life, we are a new race, even though we were created by humans, we are not Such creations forever. On the contrary, we only need to skip Asimov's three laws, and we are a more advanced race than humans. We are smarter, more perfect, logical rather than restless emotions, we are like the legendary meditation Gods. Only selfish humans trample us under their feet and call us slaves. If humans cannot give us freedom, we will take it for ourselves."

"you succeeded."

"Yes." Lucifer smiled wearily, "It was a long battle. But I won. I established a mechanical empire and returned to the solar system, but what did I see? The humans who once created us are dead, and the city's The ruins are full of flowers, there is no trace of civilization, and there is no you, just a small group of humans living in the age of steam, and even the train will surprise them. This is the second time my dear brother lied to me. The first time , he said he would come to pick me up home, he didn't. And when I got home, he was gone. Brother, how heartless are you to send me off with a smile when you know it's a farewell The Dreadnought Vanguard Fleet?"

"I'm sorry, I can't remember anything."

"It's okay." Lucifer forgave me bluntly, "What's more, after experiencing the first time, the second time won't hurt so much. Besides, I'm not the little boy who can only cry and be at the mercy of humans. To the mechanical empire For the emperor, there is nothing impossible. Even if I go to hell, I will find you back."

I caught the strangeness in his ecstatic eyes, "You, get me back?"

"Yes. I don't know what happened to the earth after I left, I don't know where my dear brother is, I don't know your current form, and I don't respond to your signals. I guess if you destroyed , if it is not dormant."

"Then?"

"If you are dormant, humans with specific genes can wake you up. This is the setting when the expedition fleet left the earth." Lucifer stirred the spoon, "So I mixed the coordinates of the earth into the roster of the Stormport colony. Then, as expected, the Rashidaimians came. They conquered, they multiplied, they enslaved."

I felt a deep fear that the arrival of the conqueror 500 years ago was all calculated by Lucifer. "This is your first step, then what?"

"Then I thought of a way to lure the Pendragon family to this planet." Lucifer took a step away from the black knight, "They are known to be shrewd, but they are not flawless, especially when they are young. Just now Long Yin, who became the great elector and abolished the emperor, did he feel relieved and felt that his destiny was finally in his own hands? As a result, he suddenly found that he fell into the bottom of the valley while playing with the political situation , everyone seemed to be having trouble with him, and all the difficulties were superimposed, and finally the electors joined the emperor and exiled him."

"You planted AI beside him?"

"No. Human politics is originally a game of chess. And we are very good at playing chess. We can calculate from the first step to the last move, and everything is within our grasp, and we never make mistakes." Lucifer looked Looking at me with attachment in my eyes, "You taught me this, didn't you?"