Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 667 The Core Mastermind
At the bottom of the black well, the general archives.

The entrance to the main computer room of the Ark core.

Aphdirote rolled up her gauze-like sleeves, revealing a section of her white and smooth forearm.

She put her forearm close to the wall in front of her, and within half a second, the wall seemed to sense something, and a gap was opened on its own initiative.

Aphdirote took a step forward and stuck her forearm into the gap.

At this moment, Ke Lan was standing behind her, relying on his height advantage, he could clearly see the change of Aphdirote's forearm after reaching into the wall——

The fake bionic skin on the surface of the arm was lifted, revealing the delicate structure hidden underneath.The metal skeleton and mechanical joints are wrapped in realistic fat and muscles that have cushioning and protective effects. The thin hydraulic tubes that replace blood vessels are embedded in the hollow metal tubes, which contract and relax regularly with the rhythm of breathing.

If that guy Layton saw the structure of this arm, this machine would probably be bokied on the spot.

More than a dozen metal probes protruded from the cracked wall, and after a moment of stagnation in mid-air, they pierced into Aphdirote's forearm.

Her body trembled violently like an electric shock, but soon, the probes retracted into the wall again.

A semicircular imprint lit up in the center of the wall.

"It's your turn." Aphrodite turned around and said to Ke Lan, "The passage to the core computer room must be opened by two members of the Undead Crew Club."

Ke Lan glanced at the arm she had just stretched into the wall. The lifted bionic skin has covered it back, and the edge of the incision has almost healed, leaving only a faint pink mark.

"But...my body doesn't have this function." Ke Lan said.

"It's the same, you just need to stretch your arms over it."

"Really?" Ke Lan raised his arms suspiciously, and approached the wall just like Aphrodite just now.

Sure enough, the wall also sensed him, and a crack opened.

Ke Lan gritted his teeth and stretched his arms in.

Anyway, his recovery ability is abnormal enough, even if the whole arm is cut off, a new one will grow in a few days.

But this time it was not a probe that protruded from the wall, but a slender blood needle. After drawing a small amount of Ke Lan's blood, it retracted into the wall again.

The other semi-circular imprint also lit up.

The wall was separated from it, and a passage just enough to accommodate two people in parallel appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes.

"Let's go." Aphdirote took the lead and walked forward, while Ke Lan followed closely behind her.

The passage is not long, only about 50 meters, but the entire passage is located within the wall, that is to say, the outer wall of the computer room is also 50 meters thick.

Even without additional protective devices such as energy shields, the wall itself can resist the next direct shot of the main gun of the "Yu" class heavy cruiser.

The temperature in the computer room is very low, only about five degrees Celsius. Although it is a bit cold for living things, it is an excellent ambient temperature for sophisticated electronic equipment.

It's just that... the "thing" that appeared in Ke Lan's vision... can it really be regarded as a pure "electronic device"?

Located in the center of the machine room is a glass jar with a diameter of more than [-] meters. The glass jar is filled with a light yellow, clear liquid that looks like LCL. A huge "head" is soaked in it and suspended in the middle of the glass jar.

"This is the core brain of the Ark?" Ke Lan murmured, "It's really a... brain..."

If calculated according to the proportion of a human head, this giant head has been magnified at least a thousand times. From the metal parts leaking from the gaps in the flesh and blood, it can be seen that the basic structure of this head, that is, the body of the supercomputer, should still be made of A non-biological body made of metal and polymer, but on the surface of the non-biological body, there is a layer of flesh and blood tissue like tattered cotton wool, covering the entire body of the supercomputer.

Perhaps it was soaked in the liquid for too long, and the flesh and blood showed a pale and swollen state, just like a corpse that had been dead for many days... But Ke Lan can be sure - it is alive.

These pale, swollen, torn cotton-like flesh and blood formed a fragmented human face, and vague facial features could be vaguely recognized——Ke Lan compared this somewhat horrifying face with the virtual projection of all members of the Undead Crew, It was found that there was no one with a similar appearance.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the face in front of him is too deformed—if the flesh and blood can become the same as the simulated skin on Aphdirote, maybe Ke Lan will see a completely different face. Face.

Countless thick pipelines and cables are connected to this "head". Among these pipelines and cables, some are connected to the electronic equipment under the flesh and blood, and some are directly inserted into the flesh and blood. Ke Lan can even I can vaguely see that the liquid pumped out of the tube spreads along the fibrous structure inside the flesh, and then gets absorbed...

Ke Lan did not see the parietal bone at the position of the head of the skull, and the soft tissue almost identical to the human brain was packed in a reserved metal container. On this mass of "brain tissue", countless With the output of electric current, this group of brain tissue will twitch slightly from time to time... Multiple twitches come together, and it looks like this group of brain tissue is constantly wriggling. Dinner.

"Yes, this is the core mastermind of the Ark." Aphrodite replied, "The highest achievement of human computer technology."

"Is it a creature...or a machine?"

"It is both a creature and a machine." Aphdirote raised her head slightly, staring at the "head" in the glass jar, "The core brain has undergone three major upgrades, and the second upgrade is to implant biological tissues into it The matrix allows it to grow and integrate with the computer. Relying on the efficient processing of bioelectrical signals by the biological 'brain', the computing power of the upgraded core master brain has been doubled."

"Then does it have self-awareness?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking, "I mean...real artificial intelligence, not those artificial mentally retarded outside..."

"Of course, there is."

[PS Thank you for the 700 starting coins rewarded by sweet sweets; thank you for the 100 starting coins rewarded by stdc. 】

[The prototype of the PPS core mastermind is inspired by the comic work "BLAME! The central AI of East Asia Heavy Industries in "... In addition, I found that in the spiritual cage, the biological computer of the air prison seems to have a similar setting. 】

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