The Record of Unusual Creatures

"Human" is dead.

In terms of Hao Ren’s definition of human beings, the humans on this planet have been extinct as early as at least a thousand years ago. When they lost their ability to reproduce, they lost their aura of wisdom, and they could only be like a sample of cells. When stored in a culture container, they have been extinct in an ethnic sense.

But for the stubborn master and the entire activist society, humanity is dying today.

In the cylindrical culture vessel, various electrodes and conduits for transporting nutrients are slowly escaping from the liquid surface under the control of the main brain. Those creeping meat pieces tremble violently immediately after losing the machine maintenance, only a moment, their surfaces Large and small cracks appeared, and the dirty red liquid and air bubbles spewed out from the pieces of meat. The original pale pink nutrient became a blood red in the blink of an eye.

Hao Ren said that it is not clear whether these pieces of meat can be counted as a complete creature because every cell contained in it is almost completely different. The deadly mutations allow these cells to produce entirely new gene sequences after each division, and from a biological point of view, these cells cannot survive to this day.

For a long time, they have been forced to combine and maintain their activity by the main brain. The entire maintenance system has to filter out the large amount of toxic substances produced by these pieces of meat every day to prevent all cells from being killed by their own metabolites.

But today, this endless suffering can finally be over.

After removing all the living systems, these flesh and blood can still survive for a short period of time, the cells will die in large quantities, but they will continue to carry out deadly and toxic physiological activities until the nutrients in the container are exhausted, according to the main brain. The calculation, the last cell will not die until a few hours.

"Can this be done?" Hao Ren frowned, watching the "human funeral", witnessing the funeral except for a group of "outsiders" he led, only the main brain and n-6, " I thought there would be a more solemn ceremony."

"The era of mankind is over, we have to send them off in our own way," the voice of the main brain echoed in the hall. "This day may have arrived long ago... I took too long to finish All calculations."

Hao Ren sighed: "For your hardware architecture, it is too difficult to complete these calculations."

"But only I can do this."

The main brain and the agent are different.

Although they are also artificial intelligence, they have a very different mission. Human beings have given them as much as possible to the human beings when they create the activists. From the shape to the thinking, the substitutes have more rich feelings and flexible ways of thinking. These two qualities make them more powerful. Self-learning and development ability; while human beings are designing a precise manager when creating the main brain, in the stormy years, they must ensure that the potential of civilization cannot be wasted, so the design standard of the main brain is precise and strict. Rational and absolutely obey the original instructions.

The main brain is the highest commander of the agent, but at the same time, he is also the nanny of the agent.

Using a precise and efficient computer to manage the pioneering society of the driver, this did ensure the survival of the civilized fire in the earliest years. However, when humans left, one day, when humans left, there was no one. People can come to the console of the main brain and press the button that can make the ultimate referee.

Perhaps humans have thought of this problem before, and designed various judgment mechanisms to help the brain determine when this decision can be made. However, the long war has destroyed too many things, even the big think tank has lost. With half of the data, the judgment mechanism that humans originally designed has long disappeared into history.

So when the day finally comes, the brain must complete this difficult process by itself.

As a rational and logical artificial intelligence, the main brain thinks hard and thinks exhaustively. It burns down more than half of its servers in thinking, burns down all its defenders, and after paying the price of near destruction, He finally accepted this fact in many contradictions and conflicts: "Humanity" is dead.

Then he runs the last program left to himself by his creator, that is the short code, the code n-6 that represents the "adult" for the substitute is its first user.

"Now, there is only one last thing left." The voice of the main brain echoed in the hall, still the kind of electronic synthesis sound that lacks emotion.

N-6 looked up a bit sullenly: "What?"

“The agent behind ‘Adult’ does not need the main brain.”

N-6 didn't seem to understand the meaning of the other person at all, but Lily first thought about what the main brain wanted to do. She immediately cried: "Hey, you don't have to be like this! Although human beings are gone, there are so many people waiting on the moon. ......"

"My work has been completed," the main brain did not care about Lily's words, but quietly continued. "The era of mankind is over, and so is my age. An adult civilization does not need guardians."

Lily is still very anxious: "But..."

"Forget it," Hao Ren held a little excited Lily. "He has shut down."

Sure enough, after this, the voice of the main brain never sounded, and the data terminal detected that the various mechanical structures in the fort were activated under the control of some pre-configured underlying programs and started to run automatically.

Hao Ren had already guessed that the main brain would eventually make this decision. When he saw the burnt maintainers in the second-level servo room, he guessed this: the main brain burned those defenders on the one hand, but the result of their own failure, but On the other hand, it also shows the choice made by the main brain "subconscious".

He is seeking self-destruction because his mission is over.

Even if Hao Ren forcibly intervenes, things will not change much: most of the servers in the main brain have been destroyed one by one in the past few years, and his remaining consciousness has shifted into the control center, and this center is not enough. To carry a huge amount of data in the main brain.

Therefore, the main brain that Hao Ren sees today is the last time this ancient artificial intelligence was in this life.

There was a deep roar in the depths of the fort. Some huge mechanical structure was working. Hao Ren felt that the whole building was shaking slightly.

"We are leaving here," Vivier took Hao Ren. "There is nothing in our place."

"Don't watch it," Lily reached out and looked a little sluggish n-6. "There is still a lot of things waiting for you."

N-6 took a step under Lily's giant pull, and this woke up. She had some dull eyes quickly recovering, and finally looked back at the culture container that was constantly emitting bubbles and blood fog. She turned to keep up with the pace of Hao Ren and his party.

"Goodbye, human."

Everyone left the fort faster than ever before, and all the passages were open all the way. Even the gates that were locked up and need to rely on the data terminal to inject virus cracks showed a big open. The lights in the fortress were all started, and the roar of mechanical operation came from the depths of the building, as if a beast that had been sleeping for a long time was making a whisper that was about to wake up.

They rushed out of the gate of the fortress, and Lily pointed in the distance with surprise: "The landlord! What is that?"

Hao Ren looked at the place Li Li pointed out. He saw the substitutes, many of the substitutes, these synthetic people who seemed to be no different from human beings, came out from various factories and warehouses, and they stood on the road. Look at the direction of the fortress.

They must have also seen Hao Ren and his party who had just rushed out of the fort. However, they did not respond to this, but they kept their motionless position and watched the fortress that was constantly shaking.

The main brain that has supported and guided the society of the traveller for thousands of years is welcoming the end.

"Why didn't they move?" Peas looked out from Hao Ren's collar and looked at the distant agents who were surprised.

Hao Ren pressed the little guy's head: "They are grown up."

After a moment, Nolan’s voice rang in Hao Ren’s mind, with some doubts: “Boss, I don’t know what happened... All the troops in the Zenith suddenly stopped, and I also received a road to the moon. Guide signal..."

"The matter here is over, just pick us up," Hao Ren interrupted Nolan's words. "We will return to the parent star and have work to do."

Yes, there is work to be done.

The departure of humans and the main brain is only an internal problem for the activists, but the bigger deadly threat they face is on their parent star, the "planet devourer" still exists, even though it was because of a Shishi Yu, this "planet devourer" has lost its active offensiveness, but as long as he is still entrenched in the mother star day, the resurrection of the moon on the moon is not really safe.

At least at this point, Hao Ren feels that he can still find something to do.

After returning to the spacecraft, Hao Ren and his entourage flew straight to the vibrant planet, and n-4 learned from n-6 that humans had died.

Since the master brain updated the code in each of the actor's logic circuits in advance, n-4 and her team members accepted this fact safely, but on the topic of "future", n-4 and n-6 ​​all appeared. Very sad.

Or, until today, the agents who are consumables have never considered the word "future."

N-6 took the initiative to find Hao Ren who stayed on the bridge and frankly expressed his confusion.

“We never thought about facing these problems ourselves,” said the robot girl. “Without orders from the main brain, what should we do?”

"The main brain should select and set up a management group with authority before the departure." Hao Ren has been using the data terminal to scan the fortress to send and receive signals, so I have some general understanding of these things, "use It won't be long before this new management team will contact you, and you will know when you get there."

The n-6 frowned fragilely: "So what are we doing now?"

Hao Ren looked up and looked at the large holographic projection in the center of the bridge.

On the projection, the blue-green planet Earth is rapidly expanding.

"Let's go to the deepest part of your parent star."