Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 827
"What is this?" 33 stared at the projected screen with eyes wide open, "Is it your... clone?"

"Should it be something like a prophet's 'stand-in'?" Ke Lan whispered, "I feel like I can manipulate it."

With a thought in Ke Lan's mind, the young man who looked exactly like Ke Lan in the picture raised his right hand, and absorbed an assault rifle that fell on the ground into his palm.

"Is this space ability?" After experiencing so many things that cannot be explained by common sense, 33 is not surprised even if he sees any bizarre scenes now. He turned his head and glanced at Ze Luo, "This guy , looks like your kind?"

"No." Unexpectedly, Ze Luo shook his head, and a trace of fear appeared on his expressionless face, "That's not my kind."

"Huh?" Seeing Ze Luo's expression like this, 33 was even more surprised than seeing Ke Lan's "replica" coming out of the black coffin, "You seem to be... well, how can I describe it... ...Are you afraid of this thing? Is he your natural enemy?"

Ze Luo still shook his head: "I don't know. I just think he is dangerous."

33: "But Ke Lan said that he can manipulate this thing, so this thing should be on our side. No matter how dangerous it is, the enemy should be the one to worry about."

"His danger is that he is difficult to control. Although Ke Lan is manipulating him now, as long as he absorbs enough fragments of consciousness, he will be able to awaken his own self-awareness and turn his back on the guest." Ze Luo speaks clearly, and the sentence It was also very fluent, and he knew every word 33 in the words... But when these words were connected together, he was a little confused.

"What? What absorbs fragments of consciousness? Anti-customer?" 33 asked with a confused face.

"You can regard him as a newborn artificial intelligence, and the soldiers killed by him are equivalent to the huge and complex data flow on the Internet... Artificial intelligence with self-learning ability can absorb, screen, and analyze a large number of The data thus evolves to a more advanced level, and when the redundant data reaches a qualitative change point, artificial intelligence may give birth to its own individual consciousness, which is the "omnic crisis" often mentioned in science fiction works. " Zelo explained.

The first of the three philosophical questions is "Who am I?" As an intelligent organism, whether it is a babbling child or an octogenarian, this question will more or less appear in the mind.

There are many answers to this question: name, identity, occupation, status, species... These answers are all correct, but they are all one-sided, and it is for this reason that this question has become a topic for philosophers to delve into. The eternal problem of countless years.

Of course, what is being discussed right now is not philosophy—when an artificial intelligence is asked this question, its standard answer is probably its own model and software version, or the serial number of the core processing chip...but this is just Procedural questions and answers only.But when an artificial intelligence starts to think about this problem without external incentives, its creators should consider two options:
Whether to format this artificial intelligence before it fully awakens, or take a huge risk to watch the birth of a brand new life form.

"I roughly understand..." 33 said, "You mean this thing is just a puppet now, so Ke Lan can easily manipulate him. But he will continue to absorb the things in other people's brains—knowledge, Memories, ways of thinking, things like that, and then transform yourself from a puppet into a complete 'person' with an independent personality, right?"

"almost."

"Then what does it mean to turn the customer into the master? Could it be possible that this thing can manipulate Ke Lan in turn after it awakens its self-awareness? But Ke Lan is not a puppet—"

"Because he is much stronger than Ke Lan." Ze Luo said.

The corners of 33's eyes twitched, and he said, "That is to say, if this guy is awakened, Ke Lan will have no chance to resist at all?"

"The moment he awakens, Ke Lan and self-awareness will be absorbed and assimilated by him...just like what the god believed by the Alpha people did to the erosion." Zero paused for half a second, and continued, "Moreover, this ending is unavoidable... because the conscious connection between Ke Lan and that body cannot be broken."

When the strength of the marionette is stronger than that of the puppet master, the silk thread connecting the two will instead become a rope that the puppeteer binds himself.

"Is there really no solution at all?"

"Yes, destroying this body... But it will cause huge trauma to Ke Lan's spirit, maybe he will become a fool directly... Another way is to make Ke Lan become stronger than him before he awakens. powerful."

……

Ark, core area, secret room.

The voices that were originally calm and composed at this time have already brought a trace of tension, and the previous confident voice became even more furious: "What's going on, what is going on?! Obviously everything is going according to plan Now, which link is the problem?"

"The most urgent thing is to find out what is coming out of the 'Black Coffin'." Another voice that had been pouring cold water before said, at this time, he was in no mood and had no time to taunt his companions. Well, this plan was originally a risky move, and there was no room for mistakes.

According to the original idea, as long as every step can be done without any difference, even if it is a risky game, the final outcome will only be a near miss... The story that was stored in the "White Coffin" decades ago His body will be awakened in a "semi-deified" state, and human civilization will also enter a new stage...

But now, the development of things has gone beyond their control... It's like a train derailed on the edge of a cliff, falling towards an unknown abyss.

"I'll try to see if I can investigate—ah!" said the mechanized voices, and stopped abruptly after talking with him halfway, followed by a short scream.

……

Ark, core area, an unnamed room.

In this room, there are a lot of mysterious equipment. Most of these equipment come from the remains of the Alpha civilization. Even the most knowledgeable professor in the research institute can hardly name more than one tenth of the equipment. and uses.These devices are connected to each other, and the crystals used as indicator lights are shining brilliantly with colorful lights... In the center of the room, there is a strangely shaped medical cabin with the hatch cover lifted. On the side of the cabin, there is a series of inscriptions written in the characters of the Alpha civilization: "Coffin of Eternal Life Sequence: Nine".

In this medical cabin, lay a person... or rather, a monster that barely maintained the outline of a human.

Hundreds of tubes and wires are connected to the body of this humanoid monster, and even its head is filled with densely packed electrodes—these electrodes directly penetrate the scalp and skull, reaching deep into the brain. deep.

Suddenly, the crystal indicator lights of all the equipment in the room lit up extremely dazzlingly, and then burst one after another, while the humanoid monster lying in the medical cabin sat up like an electric shock, with its mouth wide open. , like a silent cry.

In the next second, red-golden flames shot out from its eyes, and spread to the whole body in just half a second... After a while, the body of this humanoid monster was completely burned, and even a trace of residue was gone. Nothing left.

However, there was no trace of burning on the inner wall of the medical cabin. Even the pipelines and electrodes that were originally connected to the humanoid monster were intact, and even the blood stains that were originally stained on it were "burned" clean.

It was as if what was just lying in the medical cabin was just a realistic phantom simulated by a holographic projection.

……

Ark, core area, secret room.

"Just now, the news has been confirmed... The ninth seat member 'Hermit' Kronos has lost all signs of life."

Cronus, the king of Titans in ancient Greek mythology, and the second generation god king of Olympus, is in the Major Arcana card opposite to the sequence nine "hermit", which means to explore and seek knowledge.

Kronos is the most corrupted member of the Undead Crew, so he can only stay in the room specially made for him, relying on the equipment excavated from the Alpha ruins to suppress the progress of the erosion... …But while erosion takes away the body and soul of an individual creature, it will also endow the individual with a part of the power of "His". Although it is only a very insignificant part, for human beings, this power is already a miracle.

What Kronos gained was the ability to "see".

There are 120 eyes on his face, and each eye corresponds to an ability related to "seeing". His sight can not be blocked by space and time to a certain extent. He can not only see the past, but even And to some extent a peek into the future.

But until his death, he never saw through the fog that shrouded Ke Lan's body.

Kronos never told the other members of the Undead Crew about this matter.

His code name is "The Hermit", and this room is the "Hermitage" arranged for him by other members of the Undead Crew... But it is a "Hermitage" to put it nicely, and it is a prison.

The Casket of Immortality was his shackles, and the room outside, filled with equipment, was his prison.

In fact, only a small part of these devices are used to suppress the progress of erosion, and most of them are used to "magnify" his ability... In layman's terms, it is like a telescope and a signal receiver .

Other members of the Undead Crew Club have been squeezing his value...not just him, every member of the Undead Crew Club is the same...They are both chess players and pawns...for that seemingly impossible goal , They sold their souls and made deals with demons.

No, to be precise, it should be a transaction with the "God".

But not everyone is willing, the seeds of hatred and resentment have taken root in his heart many years ago.

He has been hiding one thing from other members of the Undead Crew: He has never seen Ke Lan's past and future clearly... From his perspective, Ke Lan is like a wormhole hidden in the corner of the universe , sucking in all the approaching light, making it impossible to observe at all.

This pawn was a variable, but he never mentioned it.

Only Kronos knew that the so-called seamless plan was actually a joke from the beginning.

It's just that he's tired and tired. After living for such a long time, he feels that it's time for everything to end.

How could they do something that even the Alpha civilization failed to accomplish?
Instead of ushering in the end in despair, it is better to choose to give up from the beginning.

……

"Cronus is dead?" The angry voice turned into astonishment, "Where's the surveillance video in that room?"

"I've seen it," continued another voice. "He was burned."

"Burn to death? How is it possible? There is no way there is a fire in that room!"

"It wasn't the flame you imagined that burned him." The second voice was silent for a few seconds, and then chanted in a pious tone: "Anyone who tries to get involved in his domain will be punished." His sanctions. Trying to spy on God with mortal eyes, the flames of God will blind his eyes; trying to describe God with mortal words, and God’s arrows will pierce his throat; When mortal hands and feet touch God, God's sword will cut off his limbs..."

"What is this?" asked the first voice.

"A prayer left by the Alpha people to praise the divine power and inviolable sanctity of the great gods they believe in." Another voice replied, "If I remember correctly, this stele should be preserved It's in Cabinet No. 90 No. [-] on the fourth floor of the secret vault."

"You mean, Cronus was burned to death because he spied on something related to him? But that's just a body, even if it's half-deified, it's impossible to have such power! "

"Zeus! I know you already have the answer in your heart, but you don't want to say it." Another voice said, and at the same time revealed the real identity of the other party.

The Undead Crew, the fourth "King" Zeus.

"Complete deification... Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Zeus shouted hysterically, "You and I both know that it is just a body without a soul, and a body without a soul cannot meet the conditions for complete apotheosis. Yes, it can only be half-deified at best, that's why we put the white coffin with confidence..."

Speaking of this, Zeus seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly stopped. After a few seconds, he murmured to himself: "No, this is not the white coffin... the things in it are not what we put in the first place." The body that went in..."

[PS Thank you God for the 100 starting coins rewarded. 】

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