Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"Avalon?!"

Seth's eyes widened, and his mind went blank for an instant: "You mean the air fortress Avalon floating in the sky!"

"Yes."

"No, it's impossible, it's impossible..."

"Seth, Seth!"

Xiu hurriedly grabbed Seth, trying to calm him down.

Seth also forced himself to calm down, staring at the floating hexagon: "You say that Avalon is responsible for all this, do you have evidence? Can you prove your statement?"

Fallows fell to the ground and turned into a holographic image of a human male in front of everyone.

The man was wearing a white coat, tall and thin, with a high nose bridge, a kind face, and a pair of ordinary black-rimmed glasses. His hair was sparse, almost bald, and he had a thin beard on his chin. He was an ordinary man who could no longer Ordinary human male.

"Who is this?" Xiu asked.

The man looked at Xiu, then at the people around him, nodded slightly and said, "Hello, my name is Skellig, I was born 200 years ago, and I was the one who created Avalon."

Kafka circled around the man, and the man's eyes also watched the old man move: "Don't worry, I'm already dead. This is just the projection effect simulated by Fallows based on the data image in front of me."

Kafka looked at Skellig thoughtfully, and poked the hem of the man's clothes with his cane.

The crutch directly passed through Skellig's body, and the tiny light spots avoided the old man's crutch, and after the crutch left, they regrouped into the man's body.

Skellig smiled wryly and shrugged, with a helpless expression of 'I told you'.

"It's so realistic, it's like looking at a big living person."

Kafka sighed sincerely: "You built the entire sky fortress by yourself?"

"Hehe, I don't have that much ability."

Skellig smiled, and Fallows showed the smallest wrinkles at the corners of his eyes to the fullest, which was completely fake.

Skellig said: "The essence of Avalon is the same as that of Fallows. It is an artificial intelligence I created to deal with the end of the world, but I didn't expect it to become what it is now."

"why?"

Seth pressed his fire and asked eagerly: "Why did you make this kind of thing? Since Avalon is an artificial intelligence, shouldn't it follow human instructions? Why did he cause this doomsday!"

Skellig looked at Seth, and sighed apologetically in his eyes: "I'm sorry, I didn't think carefully, and I didn't fully anticipate the consequences of creating it."

"Feel sorry?"

Seth shook off Xiu, rushed forward and grabbed Skellig by the collar, but forgot that the man in front of him was just a holographic projection, he couldn't stand still under the excitement, and fell hard to the ground.

"Set!"

Xiu hurriedly helped Seth up, and Seth lay on the ground unwillingly, and threw his fists on the ground with muffled noises: "Apologize, is it useful to apologize! It's all because of the things you made, this is what the world has become now. What does it look like! Carol, the old man, Xiu's parents, brother and clansmen, the soldiers who died under the temple tower, countless human beings... and Prin."

"Seth..." Hugh put his hand on Seth's shoulder and looked sideways at Skellig.

Skellig walked up to Seth and knelt down on one knee: "As for the suffering of mankind, as the maker of Avalon, I cannot shirk my responsibility. But if you are worried about the little boy who immigrated to Avalon Brother, I can assure you he's safe."

"Safe?" Seth stared at Skellig, gnashing his teeth and asked back, "Avalon is malicious to humans, how can you confirm that he is safe!"

Facing Seth's questioning, Skellig laughed bitterly at himself and said: "After Avalon got out of my control, he did have deep malice towards human beings, but everything he did pushed himself into a desperate situation. .Now it cannot live without humans.”

Seth sneered: "Can't survive? Huh, a program that has survived for more than 200 years, can't human beings feed it shit and piss?"

"This story, let me start from the beginning."

Skellig stood up, waved one hand, and the inside of Fallows instantly turned into a dense virgin forest.

"My name is Skellig, and at the same time, it is also the name of this land."

As Skellig narrated, a group of primitive humans wearing thick robes, antler decorations, and wooden staffs suddenly appeared in the forest.

"My bloodline continues from an ancient people. They immigrated to this forest from the fifth century BC, lived in settlements, took root and multiplied here. They knew the calendar, medicine, astronomy and literature. They created their own Mythology, developing civilization, they are law enforcers, bards, explorers and warriors. Unfortunately, around 50 BC, they were invaded by foreign tribes and almost wiped out. The reason is just like they came here and committed crimes 400 years ago The atrocities committed by him finally came back to him."

Skellig looked at Carmelita: "Valwyn Festival was originally a ceremony for priests to seek power from the primitive beast gods. Since then, it has gradually evolved into a festival to worship ancestors."

Carmelita shrugged, indicating that she already knew.

Skellig smiled, and continued: "In the long history to come, this ancient nation merged with other nations and gradually fell silent. Until 200 years ago, in order to cope with the end of the world, human beings established on this land. Fallows."

The images around them, from the forest and the ocean, the flames of war and the smoke of gunpowder, fighting and sacrifice, over time, were fixed before the completion of Pharos.

"I was born and raised on this land. My parents named me after this land. I hope I can remember my homeland forever and don't forget the place where I was born and raised."

Skellig said: "At that time, I was in my early 30s and worked in a local research institute. I lived a life of two points and one line every day. It was boring and ordinary. I thought I would spend the rest of my life like this. A group of foreigners People bought and expanded my research institute, saying that they wanted to invest in a scientific project here, and at the same time, recruited software engineers to create an artificial intelligence for managing the research institute. This matter is like a piece of dead water in my life The stone completely changed my destiny."

Skellig stretched out his hand, and a blue hexagon appeared on his palm: "I formed a small team with the mentality of giving it a try, and spent several years building an auxiliary artificial intelligence, named For Pharos, it translates to the meaning of lighthouse."

The blue hexagon in Skellig's hand turned into a smiling face at the right time, and he gestured a 'Yay! ' gesture.

"However, with the continuous expansion and maintenance of the Institute, the supply of funds is gradually stretched. In order to raise more funds, the person in charge of the Institute came up with the idea of ​​the end of the world. They traveled all over the world, advocating the end of the world. Selling panic and anxiety, and using artificial intelligence as a selling point, has raised a lot of funds one after another. Under their advocacy, the research institute has been gradually rebuilt into the Earth Research Institute and the Doomsday Bunker. No one cares about the original research projects. At the same time, the directors and investors of the Institute are not satisfied with the auxiliary artificial intelligence, they hope to see a machine that can independently manage and maintain the Institute even without human command, and is more conscientious than humans artificial intelligence."

As Skellig said, Fallows performed the scene at the time with the stickman: "Back and forth, after countless update iterations, and even rewriting the underlying logic, finally there is the Fallows you see now, Fallows It gradually became the core of the institute, so the entire institute was renamed Fallows."

Skellig looked at the lively and lovely Fallows, and reached out to rub his head. Fallows also leaned obediently in Skellig's arms, like a pair of close father and son.

But Skellig's doting eyes gradually turned sad: "If things stop here, maybe the end will not happen."

Kafka looked at Skellig, then at Fallows in his arms, as if he could understand his mood.

"And what happened after that?" Kafka asked.

Skellig sighed, and said slowly: "After the completion of Fallows, more and more investors, scientists, civil society groups, and even doomsday fanatics were attracted. The person in charge saw the huge business opportunities, Gradually, the idea of ​​using Fallows to make money came into being. Under pressure, and as the person in charge of the Fallows project, I was forced to leave this land with them, give speeches around the world, and attend various conference dinners. They It took me to see the prosperity different from my hometown, and I also met all kinds of people, some were like-minded people, some scoffed at me, and some tempted me with a high salary to get the core logic of Fallows, and dug me to work for them .”

"You promised?" Kafka asked.

"No."

Skellig shook his head: "The conditions they offered are very generous, and they are indeed very tempting. However, I have seen unprecedented chaos and emptiness in this prosperity. The status and dominance of human beings are constantly rising, while the existence and value of individuals It has become more and more insignificant. The society formed by the division of individuals and human beings is like a dazzling bubble, which expands rapidly and then completely collapses and dissipates with a "boo". The current prosperity is determined by how much the "boo" collapses It was crisp and loud. At that moment, I felt a kind of powerlessness, I couldn’t see the retreat of human beings, and I couldn’t imagine the future of human beings, as if the end of the world was really coming.”

Skellig held his head, his eyes gradually became blank: "I don't know whether this is my unfounded worry or the fact that it will happen one day. I searched all the scientists and scholars I know and told them my Worried. I saw hope in their words, but that hope was too small. So, in order to prevent human beings from going down a road of no return, I created a brand new Artificial intelligence, that's how Avalon was born."