Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

"To be honest, if I hadn't worshiped Yu Lang as my teacher, I wouldn't have been able to get in touch with the specific situation of Yuntu." Zhou Run said, "The old man has a lot of information in his hand. If you want to know, I will ask him to come up. If you want to know What you want to know, it's best to start from the beginning."

Yu Lang is not the kind of person who is tweaking at all. When he heard about the gossip cloud map, he came out of the laboratory in a hurry, and entered the star room in less than a minute.

"You don't understand how terrifying Yuntu is," Yu Lang said. "There is a rumor that Yuntu is not an AI developed by the alliance, but an AI left over from a higher civilization found on the road when humans fled in the early days of interstellar voyage."

Legacy of advanced civilization...

This description seems to be an adjective for the central master brain.

"Appreciate further details."

"Yuntu is the main AI of the alliance, but there are countless AIs in the alliance, all of which are sub-AIs derived from Yuntu, or sub-AIs of sub-AIs. Maybe you don't know, the alliance people have been in the epidermis of the spine since birth. Inject a nanochip for AI parasitism, so that AI can serve human beings every moment—of course, all the promotional words will be very beautiful.”

Plank Road said: "Lan Xia, according to Academician Yu Lang's description, that kind of nanochip should be the chip His Highness injected into the earlobe for Chen Cang to use."

Elise nodded, "I think so, too."

"It seems that you have seen this kind of chip." Yu Lang nodded, "After this chip is connected to the Internet, it can monitor the behavior of countless alliance members at any time. Everyone is accustomed to this, but a few people feel that they lack privacy and security. will be exposed to the surveillance of AI. I am one of those few people.”

"The computers used by humans at this stage have only reached the nanometer level. The huge amount of calculations of Yuntu and its descendants need to devour endless power and energy consumption. It also requires huge computing power. How big is it? Before I presided over the expansion of Yuntu Computer, it has been expanded five times. Yuntu’s equipment is already very bloated. It occupies at least three planets in the Parthenon galaxy, and there are two other planets with a diameter of [-] kilometers. The artificial planets are operating in the Parthenon galaxy." Yu Lang said, "And the expansion I presided over added a giant pure artificial planet to it, a giant planet comparable to the size of a dwarf planet. The capital of the entire alliance They all moved up, and we called it Capital Star."

Escorted by a platoon of personnel, Zhou Qin took Zhu Shao's cruiser and slowly left the flagship. They accelerated from the outer periphery of the interstellar galaxy to the interior of the Parthenon galaxy.

A wonder that had never been seen before appeared in Zhou Qin's sight.

The planets outside the scorching Parthenon, except for the two obviously habitable planets, are all riddled with holes, hollowed out from the inside of the planet, and inlaid into huge iron bumps.

Not only that, three purely man-made planets of different sizes are revolving around the star, as if they do not invade each other with other planets.There is no soil on their surfaces, all man-made equipment and iron surfaces.

It seems so out of place with the naturally formed planets.

The cruiser flew towards the largest artificial planet.

"This is our capital star." Zhu Shao said.

"During this expansion, I have come into contact with a lot of confidential technologies." Yu Lang said, "These technologies are much higher than human civilization. This proves that Yuntu is indeed not a native product of human civilization."

Elis hesitated for a moment: "This seems a little unreasonable. If Yuntu is a product of non-human civilization, then doesn't it leave any technology that can solve the problem of insufficient computer capacity? You must know that the empire only needs a quantum core to be perfect. Let the monitoring of the central master spread all over the territory."

"This is the problem." Yu Lang said, "Yuntu does have a lot of high-tech, but some key technologies have been separated. It knows they exist, but it can't find detailed information in its own system. It's like man-made Take it away. For example, the quantum core you mentioned is actually the product of quantum technology—a quantum computer. Cloud Atlas can only record but cannot invent a quantum computer...this severely restricts and limits its growth.”

"Like someone deliberately cut away these key things?" Elis asked.

Yu Lang nodded in surprise: "You are right. It seems that people don't want it to grow, but let it be used by humans."

These familiar words made Elise feel that there was a secret in her heart that was about to be solved, but the puzzle was much worse.

"Please continue."

"Some of these technologies have been used in the progress of our current human beings - such as space technology, some are taken away by people as a blank, and some are scary." Yu Lang said, "In fact, the reason that prompted me to leave the alliance, It's one of the oldest technologies... no, it's an algorithm that's been formed."

Elise glanced at Zhou Run with a serious expression.

"What is it?" He asked Yu Lang.

"The law of cause and effect." Yu Lang said.

Elise immediately felt that she had heard it wrong: "What did you say?"

"I'm talking about the law of causality," Yu Lang said.

"It's impossible. A causal weapon, or just a causal algorithm, can never exist." Elis said, "That's just a theoretical thing. You input a desired result into this weapon or any device, It can be deduced backwards based on this result, so that countless things are produced because of the realization of this result, and finally the result must be realized. This is metaphysics at all.”

"What if you change the name of the law of cause and effect?" Yu Lang said, "How about calling it fate? People say that fate has its own track, but who can judge that this fate is not something that has been set long ago?"

Elise flinched.

"If tens of thousands of years ago, there was a huge high-level civilization with ultra-high technology, using a formula, you can calculate all the possibilities and probabilities of what happened in the next tens of thousands of years, and deduce the cause based on this probability So that from the source, what may happen must happen." Yu Lang said meaningfully, "You can't deny that we don't know the capabilities of high-level civilizations, but this situation is possible."

"That requires a huge amount of calculations of billions of trillions of calculations. Although I don't know how much it will take."

"Yuntu has done it, it can't be regarded as a formed thing, it can only be regarded as an incomplete 'causality-like formula'. It is hidden in the most basic layer of Yuntu computer. The formula has not been calculated yet, and it continues to be calculated. Nearly one-third of Yuntu’s energy consumption is based on this formula. In order to meet this energy consumption, it has begun to use berkelium as a raw material for energy consumption. The berkelium of the alliance Almost all the elements are used for this. This has also limited the alliance's armament development in the past century, without the accompanying elements as fuel, no matter how big the Star Destroyer is, it will be scrap iron."

"...That's why they spent a lot of money to get the berkelium planet in our hands." Zhou Run said, "How can I let others get it first?"

"It turns out that this is the truth that the Alliance has been suppressed by the Empire for a hundred years." Elis said, "Because an artificial intelligence needs to calculate a causal law formula? What is its formula calculating?"

"Let me answer you next." Zhou Run said, "There are too many and huge data, the teacher can only secretly bring back part of the data of that formula. I am responsible for deciphering this part of the data. 55 years ago. And this part of the data has a full name, called the 'seed' project."

"Coincidentally..." Zhou Run smiled wryly, "It happens to be related to the emperor of the empire, my mother."

55 years ago, the emperor, the seed...

Elias' complexion changed: "Could it be... the man brought out by the emperor from the ruins, the father of the crown prince?"

Based on the data, Yuntu made a seed plan.

The algorithm made it find an ancient high-level small universe ten thousand years ago, and it clearly knew that there was a "human" in this relic universe.

More than that, in order to complete the seed project.

It calculated the failure of the alliance, and then calculated the time when the ruins were opened.

In the end, the emperor of the empire agreed with the data of the causality algorithm, entered the ruins, and took that person away.

"Maybe it's a coincidence?" Elise felt her voice stiffen.

"No." Zhou Run said, "I have analyzed the data, it is not a coincidence. It is the maximum probability set by the AI ​​formula, which is the so-called fate."

Elise fell silent.

"But the reason why I went back to China to rebel was earlier than this time." Zhou Rundao, "In order to make the emperor really be charmed, and to increase the probability of her falling in love with Qin Ziheng. The law of cause and effect induced the emperor to go to the black hole in the center of the galaxy, where 10 Kehan...and some other stuff. Anyway, the Emperor is infected."

"This can also explain why her temperament gradually became cold and paranoid." Zhou Run was a little sad, "The mother in my memory is gone. Because of this, when I returned to China, I found that there was no way to approach her, and there was no way to persuade her. The only way to launch a coup hastily is to pull her down, thinking that after controlling her, there may be a way to solve the problems she faces.”

"I saw something else in those data, something about your future." He hesitated, and decided to tell the truth, "I saw that if you rebel with me, you will eventually be imprisoned in the Imperial Research Institute." So, and then transformed."

"That's why you sent me to the 21st Legion?"

"Yes."

"But I was still sent to the Imperial Research Institute." Elise's heart sank, and now he would rather Zhou Run's words were all crazy, "Haven't you ever thought about why you deciphered this data, why? It happens to be something you are familiar with... maybe even, I left the staff, entered the army, and was eventually sent to the research institute by the emperor, is it the result that Yuntu wanted to happen?"

Zhou Run was stunned, feeling the cold sweat on his back.Maybe he was a fan of the authorities, but Elise spoke of another possibility from the perspective of a latecomer.

"You, what did you say?"

Elise said to Zhou Run: "Everything you see may be the maximum probability calculated by the causal law algorithm. And the causal law is still running like fate."

Elise took a long breath.

Under the transparent glass, the distorted sky during the curvature navigation cannot be seen clearly.

"It's like the sword of Damocles hanging above your head. Once you deviate from your destiny and fall anytime, it will eventually be corrected by it." Elias whispered.

Zhou Qin arrived at the presidential palace in Capital Star.

After strict inspection, he proudly entered the presidential office area.

When the door was opened, Star Alliance President Lu Wenbo was standing up to greet him: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, Your Highness the Crown Prince."