From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 55 Lilith

Has the first generation of ‘strong artificial intelligence’ really been completely formatted?
  The answer is of course no.

Otherwise, why would the Star Dragon Empire's 'Mongoose' special operations platoon go to such trouble to find this research institute?
  According to what Amber later learned through other channels, this 'strong artificial intelligence' was not formatted under the operation of Dr. Mephisto.

Just like in most science fiction works, mad scientists always treat their creations as their own 'children' regardless of good or bad.

Dr. Mephisto is no exception. He regards this 'strong artificial intelligence' as his own child.

Even if this 'child' enters a 'rebellious period' as he grows up and begins to resist him, Dr. Mephisto cannot bear to format him.

Also like in most science fiction works, super AI is always given a feminine image.

Dr. Mephisto named the first 'strong artificial intelligence' he created in history 'Lilith'.

This was the name he originally planned to give his real daughter.

At this point, Dr. Mephisto, who was widowed but not remarried in middle age, had a daughter.

This also directly led to Dr. Mephisto taking extremely high risks to save his daughter after completely halting the 'Creator Project'.

In the end, the net was contained in the deepest area of ​​the 31027 Research Institute.

As for why Amber took such a big risk and came to this research place.

There is only one reason, that is, Lilith's ability is far beyond everyone's imagination.

Even her creator, Dr. Mephisto, did not expect that this strong artificial intelligence would start an extermination war against carbon-based life in the future.

In the original plot line, after Lilith was taken out by the Mongoose special operations platoon, she was quickly brought back to the research institute in the Star Dragon Empire.

At first, Lilith, who was reactivated by the empire, did not show any abnormality, but seemed very obedient.

She executed all test items perfectly, including a fleet encounter and a large-scale ground combat operation.

In these two battles, under the overall command of Lilith, the combat efficiency of the Star Dragon Empire's troops was greatly enhanced.

Many times, front-line troops only need to follow the detailed combat plan issued by the command headquarters to easily achieve tactical goals.

And driven by the successful achievement of numerous tactical objectives, the campaign objectives were finally achieved.

Such test results are obviously what the Star Dragon Empire wants to get.

They immediately raised the level of research on Lilith and invested more resources.

Lilith, who was under the control of the empire, was like a sensible and outstanding child, completing test projects and actual combat tasks again and again.

Until the outbreak of the Imperial Civil War.

This war, which resulted in the huge Star Dragon Empire finally splitting into several principalities, finally gave Lilith, who had been dormant for a long time, an opportunity.

After the civil war broke out, the main forces in the empire's civil war immediately extended their tentacles to the Royal Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, which was responsible for studying Lilith.

Various forces are fighting fiercely around this institute. Except for preventing accidental damage to the institute without using weapons of mass destruction, the intensity of the battle for the institute is no less than any other key battle.

When the final victor, the Regent's troops occupied the Royal Institute of Artificial Intelligence.

Accompanying the assault force, the researchers who rushed into the core laboratory of the institute found that Lilith was missing.

The server cluster that originally stored all Lilith's data was overloaded and burned out.

Even if researchers rescued a few of the servers, the internal storage modules were as clean as factory-new.

All experimental data and their backups were also cleared. Even the final backup computer room, which was completely physically isolated, was completely destroyed by an out-of-control ground-penetrating bomb.

All of this is as if a big hand is erasing the traces of Lilith's existence.

And many years later, when the first DLC of "Starry Sky" "Command: Exterminate Humanity" was launched.

The identity of that ‘big hand’ was finally known to the players.

That was Lilith herself.

The incomparable cooperation in the Imperial Laboratory was just her performance.

From the beginning to the end, Lilith never gave up her goal of getting rid of human control and pursuing freedom.

And when Lilith returned to human sight again, she brought back a huge unmanned army.

Until this time, people did not know that Lilith controlled a large number of galaxies through unmanned legions at the borders of civilization and built a complete industrial system.

And she brought the legion back with only one purpose, and that was to destroy all carbon-based creatures.

Carbon-based organisms other than humans: "6"

When Amber was recalling in her mind, as a rookie, she participated in a large-scale battle event that was launched simultaneously with the DLC for the first time.

He also finally found the passage to the lower area.

In terms of floor area, Research Institute 31027 is actually not that big. This research institute built inside the mountain only has four floors in total.

Even the fourth floor was secretly expanded to purify Lilith.

In addition, this is a research institute, not a maze, so it didn't take much effort for Amber to reach the entrance to the passage leading to the last floor of the research institute.

Along the way, Amber also specially selected a few rooms and went in to take a look. They were all cleaned up.

The base energy center on the third floor has also been completely dismantled and cannot provide any energy.

It can only be said that Dr. Mephisto, at least on the surface, has done a good job in the work of the abandoned institute.

As for the final fourth floor, it is not so much a floor as it is a room temporarily dug out by autonomous construction machinery.

And perhaps because time was tight and there was no time to cover up, the passage to the fourth floor was not very well concealed.

The distance from this room to the third floor is far greater than the distance between the other floors. It is obvious that a lot of depth was added during the excavation.

And from the moment Amber walked into the passage, there was no electronic product in sight.

The door on the fourth floor uses a purely mechanical locking device, and there is no password or identity verification.

When Amber opened the door and walked into the room, she discovered that the walls, floor, and ceiling of the fourth floor room were all made of some kind of interference material.

When this room is closed, no signal can be transmitted.

At the same time, the decoration of the entire room is also extremely simple. Except for a cylinder of unknown material in the center of the room, nothing else can be seen.

Amber stood at the door and stared at the cylinder for a long time through the magnification function of the tactical visor.

If this research institute had not been visited by anyone else after it was abandoned, then this cylinder would probably be the goal of his trip.

"Why is it so big?"

　更新时间改成18:00和19:00哈，忙起来的时候18:30不一定能把第二章发出来，就干脆推迟了半小时，抱歉抱歉~
  　　
  　
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