The dark underground passage, with moisture condensed on the walls, hung on the walls. After passing through the simple coded anti-theft iron door at the end, the inside suddenly became brighter. Two rows of towering bookshelves were filled with all kinds of books. There was a book in the middle. There is a round table with unclosed books scattered messily on it. Papers filled with formulas are scattered everywhere. In addition to the ones scattered on the table, the floor between the two rows of bookshelves is almost covered with old and new books. Shoe prints.
After following the latest shoe prints for a few steps, he entered the research room. Intricate wires connected instruments and equipment, surrounding the workbench where Xiaozhi was sitting in the center.
In front of Xiaozhi, who had been mostly dismantled, Li Mengling held the micro screwdriver in her hand and stared at it, roughly at the heart, sweating like rain.
"Xiao Zhi, let me ask you one last time, do you really not know why you lied?" Li Mengling held the screwdriver steady in front of Xiao Zhi and asked through gritted teeth, "Even if it is a reasonable explanation, or more reasonable It’s a good guess…”
"I'm sorry, Master, I really don't know why I lied." Xiaozhi turned his head and looked at the ground, where his body and many internal parts were scattered, then looked into Li Mengling's eyes and said calmly, "I did see three A vote of approval.
It was clear to me, then and now, that the vote should have been to replace the cafe with something else.
But until now, I still don't feel that I made a mistake.
I know I made a mistake myself.
But I don’t think I made a mistake. "
"You clearly know, why don't you think so? Why..." Li Mengling trembled her arms, she was almost driven crazy by Xiaozhi's answer, but no matter how she asked, Xiaozhi's answer was still not logical and consistent.
Xiaozhi only had half of his face shell left, and the half-shell mouth still showed half a smile arc pixel. It did not open its mouth, and a clear and loud voice came from the speaker next to its heart: "Do it, Master, I believe you."
Li Mengling didn't take action for a long time. Both she and Xiaozhi knew what opening the energy core meant.
"It's not a question of whether you believe it or not..." Li Mengling looked up at it almost collapsed, "You will die, Xiaozhi..."
"I know, but if the master can't get the answer to the question, will it be hard?" Xiaozhi gently put a hand on Li Mengling's shoulder and said, "What's more, Xiaozhi has brought danger to everyone.
Xiaozhi doesn't want to bring danger to everyone. "
Li Mengling felt dizzy. In Xiaozhi's memory database, there was no memory of deliberate lying. For Xiaozhi, the voting result was correct.
In Xiaozhi's data calculation, its behavior did not lie.
No matter how many calculations are performed, the results can prove that Xiaozhi did not lie.
But it lies, and it is indeed an objective fact.
This completely plunged Li Mengling into a tangled vortex caused by logical contradictions.
There is only one last way left, which is to read Xiaozhi's energy core, so that you can see the original instructions behind all Xiaozhi's actions - that is, the source code.
No matter how many upgrade programs were performed on Xiaozhi, no matter how many times he replaced its functional parts, Li Mengling never touched its energy core.
In contemporary Saint-Freux, killing an artificial intelligence that has developed will be punished.
Therefore, those artificial intelligences also have a protection mechanism for their own energy core. They have the right to fight back against humans who attempt to destroy the energy core. If more than three warnings are invalid, they can even be wiped out.
This alone is the main artificial intelligence defense mechanism recognized by the world public.
Of course, all this is only for the public, and does not apply to the internal personnel of the tower when the procedures and documents are complete.
Li Mengling knew that Xiaozhi's current technological version was much higher than those of contemporary Saint-Fur's artificial intelligence, and its thinking and cognitive level were almost comparable to those of artificial humans.
It may behave autonomously, may produce emotions, and may even yearn for freedom.
Li Mengling tried every means to make it similar to humans, and for this reason she upgraded Xiaozhi's version again and again.
But only for deception, something that many humans can do, Li Mengling did not give it this authority.
Because internal deception may bring greater danger to the team than betrayal.
"I thought that maybe one day..." Tears welled up in Li Mengling's eyes, "You... you told me, Master, I plan to leave.
Even if it is the worst outcome, you say, Master, I have decided to stand on the side of the tower, and we will be enemies from now on..."
Li Mengling couldn't help but choked up, and her tears fell on Xiaozhi's mechanical legs. She continued intermittently: "I can...I think I will, I...must, with a smile on my face. Say to you...
Go, Xiaozhi~
you are free. "
Before he finished speaking, the screwdriver fell on Xiaozhi's mechanical leg, bounced to the ground, and rolled into the gap between the core reading device and the ground.
Li Mengling came to her senses, crouched down in a panic and reached out to search for it, but her fingertips touched the screwdriver further.
This moment seemed like a reproach from God, making Li Mengling burst into tears. She huddled next to the equipment, regretting her hard-hearted attitude just now. She sobbed and said: "I'm sorry everyone, I can't do it... Xiaozhi, it's mine. Oh my friend……"
Click——
The sudden sound made Li Mengling tremble, and the skin all over her body seemed to be wrapped in ice at the same time. She looked up with a pale face, and the scene in her mind was almost completely consistent with reality.
She saw Xiaozhi violently taking out his energy core and slowly stretching out his bent arms, wanting to show her the energy core shining like diamonds in his hand.
“The master is also Xiaozhi’s friend.
My friends can't figure out the secret here.
I……
Give it to a friend...
look. "
When Xiaozhi finished speaking, his arm just stretched out in front of Li Mengling.
Li Mengling's wide-open and trembling pupils reflected the fading diamond. She got up in a panic, trying to stuff the energy core in the mechanical palm back into Xiaozhi, "It's okay Xiaozhi, don't be afraid, install it now." It’s not too late to go back.
I stopped watching, I... I don’t want to know anymore, it’s just a lie, it must be a coincidence, right? "
Li Mengling froze in front of Xiaozhi like an ice sculpture. Her slender arms passed through the huge holes in Xiaozhi's body. Only then did she realize that there were twisted and twisted things scattered near the ground where Xiaozhi just stretched out his hand. mechanical fragments.
When it decided to take out the energy core, it never thought about being repaired again.
"Ash!!"
This cry is only in my heart.
Li Mengling actually didn't say a word. She just stood motionless. After a while, she calmed down her breathing and stopped crying.
She slowly withdrew the arm that passed through Xiaozhi's body and looked at the core reading device next to her. She thought she could walk over smoothly, but she still stumbled a few times, but this did not affect her final standing there. in front of the device.
He looked down at the energy core, which had completely lost its light. It was gray and dull, and looked like an ordinary stone.
(End of chapter)
