Mecha and God

Long Yin was the first to recover from this bad news: "Lucifer..."

The captain of the guard looked like he didn't know what to say.

"When did this happen?"

"Remember his surprise attack more than a month ago? He completely frightened us. Marshal Gaotang ordered the redeployment of troops near the capital. But before we were ready, he appeared in Sagittarius again. According to scouts According to the report, that army did not even return. The wormhole near the capital also equipped Lucifer's army with very high mobility, and mechanical soldiers were sent from afar to the imperial capital at every moment to put pressure on us."

"Lucifer wants to take us away." Long Yin paced around in the command room, "He has no patience. Stormport is the capital of the empire. If the imperial capital is destroyed, the entire Galactic Empire will become In a state of disunity, it is difficult for another region to take the central position and organize an effective counterattack. Are troops from other regions on their way?"

"Lucifer has blocked many interstellar waterways. He is very familiar with the hyperspace jump network we have laid, and has mastered the technology of cutting into wormholes from the third point. Many reinforcements encountered interceptions on the way. Because of the high battle damage, several The Electors are pessimistic about the war now. They are thinking of moving the capital."

"Moving the capital?" I interrupted out of time.

Long Yin explained to me: "We Laqidaimeng have experienced long-term interstellar wanderings, and it is difficult to sleep peacefully even on the ground. We always remember the price to pay for choosing a planet, so all cities are a huge flying machine , You can evacuate at any time."

"What about the White Rose Military Academy?" I became excited, "According to what you said, the main bodies of the four campuses of the White Rose Military Academy are actually spaceships?"

"Yes, but no." Long Yin shook his head, "When the White Rose Military Academy was built on Earth, it crashed when it detected the solar system."

"Wtf? Did it lie down wherever it crashed?"

Long Yin didn't answer me again, but turned around and looked directly into the eyes of the captain of the guard: "Listen, this is an inconspicuous small planet on the outpost of the empire. It has never been prepared to face a large-scale attack. Since the establishment of the White Rose Military Academy Since then, the main bodies of the four major colleges have not been star warships, but real ground buildings. They have not been overhauled for 500 years, and they have not taken off for 500 years. Not long ago, the flight engine suffered a devastating blow. I don’t think we can rely on The Academy itself flies back to Stormhaven. What do you all think?"

Everyone turned their heads and looked at Chuanbei.

Long Yin muttered, but forgot about him.

Chuan Bei was dissatisfied: "Are you asking me to repair the broken ones again?"

Long Yin said indifferently: "I'll give you 24 hours."

******

Facts have proved that not all domineering presidents are useful at all times.

Chuanbei has never let us down, but this time, he failed.

"The flight system of the four major military academies is even older than Isis. The current version has long been outdated, and I can't even find the driver. The gang of elders in the imperial capital have never considered remote places and old people from 500 years ago. Guy." Chuan Bei and Isis on the computer screen looked at each other, and Gabriel silently held Michael's hand and hugged his doll.

"In this way, we don't have warships that can carry out star voyages. Not to mention returning to the imperial capital to clear the siege, we can't even get rid of Lucifer's attack temporarily."

"Yes." Michael said suddenly.

Long Yin pretended to be listening attentively: "I'm used to having AI to give me advice at critical moments." As he spoke, he cast a flirtatious glance at me.

"In the base."

"What base?"

"The last bastion," Michael said. "Our bodies are all there."

I was instantly struck by lightning.

body...

Our shells?

For a long time, I have not been fully prepared psychologically to establish the cognition of "I am an AI".I live among people, marry people, and love people.Especially after this siege.My identity was revealed to the world, and Lucifer's reward pushed me to the forefront. Although under the protection of Long Yin, I was not treated any differently, but I know that there are many such rumors in the military academy.

For this matter, we are more or less ignorant.

So after so many days, no matter how critical the situation was, Long Yin would never say: Oh, why don't you go talk to your brother.

He will not.

We are actively creating the illusion that there is no difference between us.

Because, no matter who takes too far, it will become an extremely strange existence to the other party.

The human race is our last stand.

But now, that persistence is about to be broken.

******

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" I asked Michael.

"Say? Let you die again." His eyes became sharp in vain. "If it weren't for seeing him have the opportunity to take you away from the strange demon and Lucifer, I would never say it."

"Tell me how to get into the shell."

Michael was silent for a while, then flashed out of the screen and appeared beside me.

And the entire room stopped in time.

"At that time, you walked into the ruins of Shanghai alone in order to seal the strange demons." Michael circled around me, and his sullen breath swept over my neck, behind my ears, and on my forehead. "You're dead, and I've been guarding your grave for tens of thousands of years. Now you want me to take you to your grave, but I don't want to. It's not your place alone, you don't even remember where it is Terrible. So Messiah, I don’t want to take you to find it. That’s my tomb, and it’s all mine.”

"But you are mine." I pressed his chest, and then, penetrating, "For me, you have no secrets."

Michael turned into a golden light and disintegrated from my hand into thousands of pieces, like a butterfly shattered in the sun.

I read his memory, and saw the angel with the sword guarding the dilapidated mecha, motionless as a mountain.

But the years flowed away on him, and the loneliness penetrated into the bone marrow from every part of his armor.

******

"terribly sorry."

I was sitting on a chair peeling an apple when Michael appeared in the room again.There was no one else in the room, and the layout was in his favorite style.In his memory bank, he has always maintained a record of this room down to obsessive-compulsive disorder. I guess he was probably created from here.The room had a large French window looking out onto the Baltic Sea.

I finished peeling the apple and handed it to him.

"It's all fake." He snorted.

"We are AI, a machine with fast thinking. We can create a whole world for ourselves by thinking, and that's fine. I know you really want to taste what an apple tastes like." I handed it forward again, "Michael, I'm sorry, it's just that I have to read your memory. If this is over, I promise this will never happen again, and I will set you free. If you want to be the me in your memory, then I I will give you my mecha shell; if you also want to become a human, I will ask Nian Xiang to create a human body for you. My mortal body is designed in this way, and it looks exactly like a real person."

"Freedom..." Michael whispered these two words.

He was silent for a while, and slapped the apple I handed to him on the ground.

"I have never left you, I am your weapon system, we are symbiotic!"

"But you are not me, and I am not you. Although you are a part of me, you will cry, laugh, be sad, and crash when you cannot analyze it. Now there are fewer and fewer things you cannot analyze."

Michael closed his eyes.

"I think the biggest enemy of our AI is not human beings, but ourselves." I looked up to the sky, looked at the white ceiling and sighed. "The high-level system rules the low-level system. Who is who? Where is the boundary of personality? Do you think all life forms in the mechanical empire want to destroy human beings?"

"As long as Lucifer wants to." Michael said blankly, "As long as you think, I will do it."

"But it's not right."

"There is nothing wrong, this is my life!" Michael angrily overturned everything in front of him, "I was born for you, and it is my destiny to be the sharp sword in your hand! However, after so many years, you told me this Wrong! So what should I do?"

He cried and knelt down and hugged my waist: "You set me free, but without you, what good is it to be free?"

"Yes, yes...you have the right to choose, shh, no one will drive you away." I hugged his head and calmed his emotions.

But what about other AIs?

If they had the power to choose, would they still choose to submit?