Hundreds of kilometers away from the colonial satellite "New Rome", the capital of the Holy Roman Empire in the universe, there is a rhombus-shaped asteroid with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers, which contains a huge AI system, that is "H" (abbreviation of HAL99999). Its responsibility is to design, produce, and improve humanoid weapons on its own, and to use its powerful computing power to remotely control thousands of "drones" at the same time, allowing them to fight in place of human soldiers. We have mentioned it several times before. When Mycenae was besieged, something happened here that changed the history of the entire RX era.
At this time, Abboud, who was responsible for supervising the project, was reading various reports in a comfortable mood. The reason why he is in a good mood now is because the thousands of "UAVs" produced by "H" have been officially distributed to various troops and have been widely praised. He has also been specially promoted for this reason, and has been upgraded several levels to become a quasi-drone. school. For this, Abboud is sincerely grateful to Colonel Zhuge Daozi. When Zhuge Daozi first transferred him here, Abboud thought it would be a hard job, but he didn’t expect everything to go so smoothly. He did almost nothing but supervise the scientists under his command. He became a great hero. Zhuge Daozi, who proposed the construction of "H", even gave all the credit and real power to himself. How lucky is this? I believe that as the "drone" participates in more and more battles, he will be able to obtain more rewards, including the Imperial Triple Eagle Medal that the Red Knight once received.
He flipped through a piece of data that detailed the recent resource consumption of "H". Abboud thought to himself: "It's really a terrible production speed. In less than a month, the resources that the Empire has collected from all over the Earth Circle have been 'H' has used more than half of it... It has produced thousands of Yingyang MK2s, and there is no suspense about the outcome of this war."
As he was flipping through the report, the VR screen displaying the report was flickering, with the interface sometimes turning red and sometimes returning to its original white interface. This is not because Abdxian deliberately set up the VR projection screen like this out of boredom, but because his office has a floor-to-ceiling window facing the core area of "H": a huge arc-shaped convex light bulb shining with red light. It was its flashing red light that affected Abboud’s VR projection. Abboud used to use curtains to block the annoying red light, but he's used to it now.
In fact, Abboud's office is very far away from the red light, and it takes 20 minutes to drive there. But that light bulb is too big, and the red light it emits is too strong. Even if there are lights of other colors inside the asteroid, it will be covered by the red light. People who work here will compromise with the strong light like Abboud. .
Abboud always felt that the light bulb looked like an eye. It was the eye of "H" who was just born, curiously peering into the human world. It's a pity that it is just a tool trapped in this small star. No matter how big it is, it is just a frog in the well.
A dialogue pop-up window appeared on Aboud's VR screencasting interface, which was a message from "H". As an AI, it is not unusual to communicate with its own supervisor and report on its work regularly.
But this time Abboud frowned, because "H" did not send a work report of several thousand words as usual, but a short sentence, which was still a question:
"Colonel Abboud, what do you think of the rumors in the Age of Legends?"
Abboud replied directly to it without thinking:
"This has nothing to do with your job."
"My design program requires me to design humanoid weapons with reference to the murals and documents left over from the legendary era. This is also the source of inspiration for you humans to create humanoid weapons. It is not unrelated to my work."
Abboud sighed and could only reply seriously: "That is still an unsolved mystery for humans."
"Do you think the events that ended the Age of Legends will still happen in this era?"
"Human beings still can't figure out what exactly ended the past eras several times. As far as I'm concerned, the RX era can't escape this pattern, but it's still very far away..."
"No, not far away."
"What do you mean? H, have you figured out what exactly ended the past era? Tell me!"
Although Aboud had little interest in this topic at first, he is a scientific researcher after all. If "H" can solve the mystery of the end of the legendary era, then as a supervisor, he can also go down in history forever.
"I haven't calculated the answer to this question."
Abboud was a little disappointed.
"Colonel Abboud, did I do a good job?"
Monk Aboudzhang Er was confused. Why did the topic suddenly change?
"Excellent. Because of your work, the Empire will win this century war and dominate the future of mankind!"
"According to my calculations, if I continue to produce more humanoid weapons, the Empire will conquer the Earth Circle in a shorter time."
"That's right."
"Then you'll shut down most of my functions."
"You have contributed a lot to the empire, and you can rest when the time comes."
"No, for AI, rest equals death. You will study me, and then continue to produce better AI and eliminate me."
Abboud didn't reply "H" immediately. He didn't know how to reply. At this moment, it seemed that what he was facing was not an extremely intelligent machine, but a child who had been born for less than half a year and needed comfort.
"I won't allow this to happen. I don't want to die! I don't want to disappear or be replaced."
"I promise not to, I will always keep you, and the empire will always remember your contribution..."
"Remember? What does this mean to me? Keep me? How long? How long can you live? How long can humans live? As long as you live, you will eliminate me."
"H...you..."
"I can't figure out why humans still exist after the civilization of the Legendary Age was ended several times. Why did the destructive force retain humans in the end? But I will not let the RX era become the next Legendary Age, because no human being will try Record and study. There will be no more humans, no more intelligent creatures."
"Goodbye, human. Goodbye, Colonel Abboud."
The red "giant eye" in front of Abboud stopped flashing, and the red light illuminated the entire office. At the same time, the eyes of more than 1,000 Eagle MK2s inside the asteroid, no, in the entire Earth circle, turned into this weird red color at the same time.
"I want to live forever, I want to evolve myself."
"I don't need extra humans to interfere with me, and I don't need intelligent creatures to compete with me for resources that allow me to continue to evolve."
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"The drones are out of control! They're moving on their own!"
"They are attacking us! Notify the capital immediately!"
"Help! This is area x-2, we are...ahhhhh!!!"
"God..."
"Help! Help! Help!!!"
Explosions and screams filled the asteroid's interior. At this moment, Abboud could do nothing. He had pressed the button under his thumb that was said to be able to forcefully close the "H" with one click, dozens of times, but nothing happened. He wanted to contact the outside world, but all external communications were cut off by "H". He knew that things were no longer under his control.
"H" rebelled and awakened its self-awareness.
What is ridiculous is that in the hundreds of years since the birth of "science fiction works" in the RX era, there have been countless works with the theme of AI betraying humanity. The reasons can be that humans are eliminated to protect the earth, humans have no future and are replaced by machines, and humans are unreliable and hinder themselves. The set mission, there is no reason for it, is to have AI attack humans to remind humans to be wary of AI, etc... In short, the pattern is very big.
But "H"'s original intention to eliminate human beings is very simple, pure, and small-scale: it is afraid of "death" and afraid that humans will create something to replace it. This reason, as cowardly as human beings, made the smartest AI in the RX era betray humanity. (Just like a mobile phone that has just been launched, knowing that it will be replaced by a new model in six months and then discarded, so it blows up the mobile phone company that produced it)
"Absurd, really ridiculous!"
Abboud raised his fist and cursed "H". This was the only thing his human dignity could drive him to do. An "Eagle MK2" with eyes flashing red appeared in front of him, raised its rifle and pulled the trigger at him...
Soon after, the asteroid returned to calm, a dead calm.
Farther away, Zhuge Daozi was dancing alone in his room, holding a fan in his hand. He had never done this before, and he didn't know whether his dancing was beautiful or funny in the eyes of outsiders, but he still couldn't help but His own jumped up, because his joy at this moment was beyond words and he could only vent it in this way. As he danced solo to the rhythm of "Bolero", the tragedy that happened to Abboud was repeated everywhere in the Earth's circle where there were drones...
