The funerals of Dakini and Arhat officially started in the early morning.
In Narayana Province, in addition to the bustling urban areas where people gather, there are also mountains and lakes. The cemetery called "Lonely Garden" is located in the mountainous area, a flat-topped mountain shaped like a square table, with an altitude of 1,087 meters.
As early as thousands of years ago, the exploitation and erosion of heaven and earth, natural wind and rain, had already transformed this mountain peak into a "Table Mountain" landscape with a flat and vast top.
But it only looks like a table from a distance. If you get close, the top platform of the mountain is a full 150 acres in size, with jagged rocks, overgrown grass, poisonous snakes and vines, small streams and ravines, and even bottomless ones. cracks in the mountain.
There are ups and downs, and there is almost no truly flat place to stay.
But fifty years ago, when Hachiyein began to rule this land, their lord chose this mountain peak.
As a result, tens of thousands of workers and intelligent machines were invested in the major project of transforming the mountain. The barren soil became fertile, the cracks were filled, the strange rocks were leveled, and the far-fetched mountaintop platform truly became a piece of land. Flat plains.
Clear water meanders here, and the land is filled with flowers that bloom all year round, mostly golden flowers and trees, occasionally dotted with some purple, pink and blue.
Among the flower fields, there are buried high-profile scholars, politicians with extraordinary achievements, heads of large families, some of Nichiren Sekkai's early disciples in the area ruled by Hachihain over the past fifty years, etc. On each tomb, there is a with their life-size statues.
The Lonely Garden has accumulated for half a century, and the number of statues in the flower field has exceeded a hundred.
However, this is the first time to bury a mountain owner.
The coffin of the Tian'er Arhat was buried first, and a statue of the Arhat was erected as before. The coffin of the Dakini continued to be escorted deep into the flower field.
The flying limousines of the upper class, like a large flock of crows gathered together to roost, stayed at the foot of the mountain. They were dressed in uniform black formal clothes and wore white flowers on their chests. They walked along the mountain road, following the path of the coffin.
In the solemn atmosphere, accompanied by the early morning fog, the young man with thick eyebrows looked around, his eyes swept to a very far place, then looked back, and read a eulogy.
The Dakini's coffin landed in the tomb inch by inch, and the gray-white special mud was filled inside. It solidified within a few seconds, becoming a foundation that could carry a large statue.
The black cloth was uncovered, golden light shone, and the statue inlaid with seven kinds of gems was placed on the tomb.
The lower part of the statue is a large peacock as tall as a person. The dakini with a soft face is sitting on the back of the peacock. Her four arms are spread out, each holding a seal. Her feet are covered with golden bracelets. The legs are crossed on top of the peacock, and the right leg hangs down casually.
The memorial ceremony entered the stage of laying flowers and chanting sutras. People who came to participate in the ceremony stepped forward one after another, put down their bouquets, and recited a few sutras. After paying homage, the next group of people took turns.
The whole process lasted for a full two hours, until a large number of flying cars gathered at the foot of the mountain began to disperse gradually. The entire ceremony was peaceful and without any incident.
"It seems your trap was in vain."
Among the four mountain masters, Vajradhara has the appearance of a young man, but his hair is extremely lush, his eyebrows are thick and long, and the ends of his eyebrows extend to the temples. He is tall and has a scorching gaze. He has a strong and powerful look that is not angry and looks at all directions. confidence.
He was talking to a young man, "Since this period of time, you have made arrangements for Narayan in no less than forty places. The total number of invisible robots mobilized is more than 7,000, and the number of people behind the scenes is also close to 1,000. There were people there, but I didn’t see anyone take the bait.”
"If there is still no movement after today, those people you mobilized should withdraw a batch."
This young man looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was wearing a white top hat, a white suit, white leather shoes, and his hands were spotless in snow-white gloves. He looked like a kid from a rich family who was putting on airs and showing off his posture.
But everyone who has been to Lonely Garden just now knows that this young man is the internationally famous expert in prosthetic research and development fifty years ago, one of the mountain masters of the Eight Leaves Academy, and the Great Wisdom Master.
"What's the rush? It's only been half a month and no one has taken the bait. I can only say that they are still very patient."
The great wise master looked at the people who were going down the mountain one after another, and said slowly, "A mere thousand people are mobilized, and a machine army of less than tens of thousands is worthy of your attention. You have been in charge of finance for a long time, why have you become so petty? "
Vajra shook his head and said: "If it's just the Narayana area, it's okay to squander it as much as you want. But after you took over part of the authority of Dakini, except for Indra, all other major provinces have recently... Have you made the same arrangement? The accumulated manpower and material resources cannot be underestimated."
"Su Jialuo kept urging, asking for more supplies of prosthetics, more intelligent machines, more artificial gemstones with high psychic transmission power, and more production lines for smart chips. Those who don't know think they are... There's already a war on the other side."
Janganda's tone was very unhappy, "I have tightened resources in all aspects, and the parts that can be flexibly mobilized have been taken away by you. If you refuse to give in, then let him talk to you directly."
The wise master patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be so anxious. Wait for a while, after the induction ceremony in Sky Garden. If they can still bear it, I will transfer some resources back to you."
Janganda frowned: "Seriously?"
The wise master smiled and said: "It is true that I have set up many traps, but traps also mean opportunities. If these people are still unwilling to take action until after the induction ceremony, and sit back and watch all the opportunities missed, this kind of courageless thing, Why should we worry about what big trouble they might cause?"
Janganda said: "Actually, that induction ceremony was just a pretense. By the time those outsiders join the company, the people under your command will probably have thoroughly understood the technologies traded from the Promised Land. That's why you are so confident. , if after that day, the undercover agents of the coalition regime still don’t take action, there will be no chance.”
"Eternal God Emperor"
"It's not that fast." The wise master said with a smile on his face, "It's hard to say that I have fully understood it. I can only say that by then, I should be able to directly apply it to the power systems of major cities."
Only then did King Kong Tuo express his real intention: "Judging from your progress, we already have some technologies that can be used to improve some of our original things. Can you take them out so that I can install them for those people?" Peace of mind?"
He pointed at the people who were descending the mountain one after another, "Ordinary people don't have any information channels, and they will never know how the two people buried today died."
"But this group of people has basically heard that there is a fourth normal eighth-level psyker on the side of the coalition government, killing Tian'er, killing Dakini, and snatching targets in front of Sukara. , these news spread secretly, and everyone’s mentality was affected to some extent. "
The Great Wisdom Master thought for a while: "There is indeed something that can help you. If the things obtained from the Promised Land are used in holographic immersive games, they can give them an experience that is almost the same as the real world. "
Vajra frowned: "Just this, what's the use?"
"Of course it is useful. These people are good at controlling the people. They can be said to be experts in economics. However, their psychic abilities are only so high. Within two hundred years, their brains will fall into unstoppable aging."
The Great Wisdom Master casually pointed to some statues in the flower field, "Aren't some of those buried here their predecessors? Let's learn from the past."
“However, if holographic immersive games can free them from the constraints of their brains and allow their consciousness to live in a game that is no different from the real world, wouldn’t it be another way of immortality?”
King Kong Tuo was surprised: "Has your technology reached this point?"
The Great Wisdom Master chuckled: "It's possible, it's possible. Over there in the Promised Land, they might actually do this. But the situation is different. With our current technology, we can build a highly realistic world and send them in. It's a waste of resources without any contribution, and the gain outweighs the loss. Don't be too thorough, just give them some hope."
The young man's eyes reflected those celebrities walking down the mountain in personable form, and he flicked the brim of his hat with his fingers, "Only the carrots that can't be eaten can make the donkey run wild. With the infinite technological wealth in hand, just a little bit can be revealed from between the fingers. It’s a great feeling to be able to make them flock to you.”
Jingang Tuo looked gloomy: "You like to tease donkeys, but I don't. Sometimes I really hope that you can develop a higher level of artificial intelligence as soon as possible and replace the positions of these guys."
"If that day comes, artificial intelligence will become humans, and you will still have to deal with humans."
The wise master said calmly, "Besides, are you really tired of getting along with others?"
King Kong Tuo clicked his tongue: "Of course boredom is only occasional. Fighting people, winning people, trampling people, enslaving people, most of the time I am still immersed in this kind of happiness, but I have played this way of using my power and status to trample people a lot. I also want to change my taste and try something more straightforward.”
The wise master tilted his head and said: "It seems that you want to go to the front line. If Dakini is not dead, she can temporarily take over your position and let you go to Sukara's side for a while. Now... …”
He took off his hat, put it on Vajra's head, smiled and walked away, "Just hold it in."
Vajra slowly raised his hand, put his hat straight, and stepped down the mountain.
'It's a pity that the eighth-level psykers of the United Regime are not stupid enough to abandon their home field advantage and go deep into the Eight Leaves to go to a place like Luoyan where the psychic energy reserve is the largest and the power to bless the Eight Leaves personnel is the highest. Come……'
He walked through the flowers and sighed, "It's so boring!"
The wise master walking in front suddenly stopped and touched his temple.
A message was projected in the electronic eyes.
At the same time, the intelligent program in Vajra's body also sent the same reminder.
'The Great Sect Master has summoned you, please go immediately to the City of Perfection and Bliss! '
The two looked at each other, jumped into the air, and disappeared in an instant.
In the early morning, the clouds and fog were thick.
Two long afterimages passed quickly under the light of the rising sun and clouds, and fell into the eight mountain peaks surrounding each other like a circle.
These eight peaks are all about 500 meters high, with surprisingly similar heights and mountain shapes. The vegetation on the mountains is low and the mountain shadows are dark.
The central area surrounded by eight mountains is an ancient temple compound, with domed spires, majestic Buddhist halls, gold and white colors, and fountains large enough for elephants to bathe.
Entering here, looking up, there are statues of gods and Buddhas everywhere with simple shapes, long faces, big ears, and slender arms, which are very different from human beings.
On some large Buddha statues, craftsmen build long spiral staircases relying on the Buddha's body.
Some giant Buddhas stand upright, leaning against the mountain wall, raising their hands forward. Under the palms of their hands is a high-speed elevator that leads to the 48th floor and 18th floor underground.
If Vajra and the Great Wisdom Master are on the palm of the Buddha, enter the high-speed elevator.
The entire elevator structure is made of crystal material and is spotless. Unless it rains and fogs, it will be clearly visible to the naked eye. If it is sunny and dry, the existence of this elevator cannot even be seen.
After the two entered, they went from high altitude to underground in a matter of seconds. The surrounding environment suddenly changed from bright to dark, and then slowly came the warm yellow light.
This open and breathable underground hall covers an area of perhaps thousands of square meters and is about ten meters high.
There seems to be only one pillar in the center of the entire vast space, and that pillar is made up of countless metal shafts, crystal components, and power wires. It looks extremely bloated and is clearly made of inorganic materials. When he stood up, he looked like a monster crouching in this underground space.
In the four directions of the cylinder, between those extremely complicated wires, there are large and small LCD screens hanging, like the randomly distributed eyeballs on this monster.
This is the highest crystallization of artificial intelligence and electronic technology in Yaye Institute, and is responsible for 80% of the intelligent program coordination work in the entire Yaye area.
——"The Brain of Brahma".
Nichiren Yukikai stood on one side of this bloated column, wearing a thick saffron-colored monk's robe. The gray hair on his head was separated into many curls, coiled with fine dark gems.
The gray hair is messy, scrawled and lush, from the temples to the side of the face, then to the chin, until it falls down on the chest.
Such thick beard and hair, full and smooth forehead, and the wrinkles that only remain at the corners of his eyes give him the feeling that he is not really old, but that he was born this way.
Since I don’t know when, I have been in the world with an attitude that is older but not old and weak, far away from childishness but not old-fashioned.
"Grand Sect Master!"
After Vajra and the Great Wisdom Master approached, they bowed solemnly to him.
"You are here."
Nichiren Xuekai's face turned slightly towards them, his lips did not move, and his steady voice echoed in the empty underground space, "Dakini and Tian'er have been buried. I was going to take a look at them." Yes, but just in the early hours of this morning, the new technology provided by Jiushan was completed and put into operation here."
"Master Zhi, you should know the purpose of this modification, right?"
The great wise master nodded and said: "What I know is an experiment to test whether the electricity required for the operation of artificial intelligence is replaced by psychic energy, so that the artificial intelligence can produce self-awareness beyond programmed reactions."
Nichiren Yukikai asked: "What do you think of the possibility of this experiment succeeding?"
The wise master said without thinking: "I think it is impossible. Our own technology in this area has not made many breakthroughs, and Jiushan has not been successful in this area. This modification plan, I have also looked at it carefully, and the biggest possibility is just to increase the efficiency of the 'Brahma Brain' in processing information."
“Current artificial intelligence is actually very rigid at its core.”
"Even the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence, which extracts the responses to conversations from the database at all times and plays them with a human voice, will only make it difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them for a while, and psykers of level 4 and above , all have a kind of sensitivity that is difficult to explain quantitatively, and they can easily detect the difference between the interlocutor and the real person."
"This is enough to show that all current artificial intelligence is still far from being self-aware."
Nichiren Yukikai opened his mouth and said: "Is this really the case? Then you know who was talking to you just now?"
The great wise master was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to his senses. He stared at Nichiren Sekkai's mouth and then looked at the bloated cylinder.
"Could it be..."
He couldn't believe it. He tried hard to recall every detail from the moment he stepped into this underground space. The seventh-level spiritual energy surged in his body, but he still couldn't find any flaw in the previous conversation.
"Grand Sect Master, are you kidding?"
"of course not."
Nichiren Yukikai and another voice spoke at the same time.
Janganda looked over in surprise. This time he could distinguish two different sound sources.
The Great Wisdom Master almost fell into a daze, and it took him a few seconds to come back to his senses. He stared at Brahma's Brain and said: "Great Sect Master, I want to apply for Brahma's Brain to be inspected. I suspect that the people in the Promised Land are using it in the name of modification." , penetrated into the brain of Brahma, and controls this instrument to talk to us."
"You don't have to worry about this. Your cultivation is not enough and you can't feel it. But in fact, when Jiushan is running around on the electronic network, he obviously has his own soul aura, which can't be hidden from me."
Nichiren Sekkai waved his hand, "Brahma, please speak in a voice different from mine, and explain it to them both properly."
Several screens in Brahma's Brain flashed, and an old man's voice came out with clear enunciation. He spoke with a different kind of chanting tone, which gave people the impression of wisdom at first glance.
"There is nothing to explain. In fact, there are countless lost paths in the field of electronic technology, and the development of artificial intelligence is even more difficult to predict. It may be just an accident, or it may be an inevitable beginning. If you understand, you understand, and if you don't understand, you don't. Understand, it is enough to recognize my existence, there is no need to force it to understand."
Master Dazhi could hear the deep pride in his words, and he was finally truly shocked.
If it is determined that there is no control from any other consciousness, an artificial intelligence that can have such a temperament is indeed far beyond the technical level it possesses.
“Has the Promised Land already developed to this extent?”
His murmur to himself was answered by Brahma's brain.
"Jiushan did see the potential of Brahma's Brain and wanted to test it on me, but after I was actually born, he was caught off guard."
"After I was born, I captured some of their data. It can be seen that he has done many similar experiments. This attempt of mine was originally just another mediocre one among countless attempts. But after I was actually born, it gave him a huge surprise."
Brahma's Brain recounted, "I even told him that since I was born, the network of Eight Leaves should be completely my territory, and he was willing to withdraw voluntarily and return to his territory completely. It seems that he He has a big plot against me, and he doesn’t want to make any rash moves that might hurt me.”
The Great Wisdom Master was even more surprised: "You mean, you have captured Jiu Shan's data, and now you can repel him?"
Brahma's Brain corrected: "It's not about repelling him, he is withdrawing voluntarily. If there is a real conflict, I may still fail, but I will definitely make more than 90% of the electronic equipment in the Eight Leaves and the Promised Land abandoned. On his side There are very important things that need to be maintained for a long time, so I don’t dare to try this with me.”
The Great Wisdom Master forced himself to calm down and said: "It is just the birth of self-awareness and possessing human emotions. However, human emotions and six desires are actually not good for processing various information in the electronic field. Sometimes, they are not objective enough and make mistakes. Jiushan It is the instrument support and equipment assistance developed over the years that can have such power. However, your external conditions have only modified a small part of this underground space, and have not completed updates in other aspects. How could it be possible just because you have emotions? Become stronger out of thin air..."
He said flatly, "This is unscientific!"
Brahma's Brain sneered: "If you put it this way, the genetic information martial arts of the United Regime is the most unscientific thing. Do you think I just have emotions? In fact, this means that I have become a kind of Electronic life, everything in the electronic world, has become a concrete existence in front of me."
"For example, the various encryptions you perform on smart programs, in the eyes of you real humans, are countless complex data programs, but in my eyes, they are just a simple wall, a piece of white armor. As long as I stretch out my hands, , you can kick it to pieces."
The old voice laughed happily, "This is not a metaphor, it is a fact. For example, I am kicking your ass right now."
A slight popping sound was suddenly heard from the position of the great wisdom master's tail vertebra, and a burst of white smoke appeared. The smart chip buried there was inexplicably disordered.
He subconsciously mobilized his spiritual energy, strengthened his body, and instantly suppressed the strange impact.
"snort!"
Brahma's Brain hummed, "All the intelligent programs in the Eight Leaves are related to me. When I kicked through these walls, it was like I found the right gap to use my force. It was much easier than Jiushan. If it weren't for me now A huge program is running, and with a single thought, it can destroy all the smart chips in your body that are used to assist in work."
The facts were in front of him, and he had no choice but to believe it. The great wise master looked at the bloated pillar with his mouth half open, speechless for a long time.
Janganda didn't know much about technology, and he wasn't that shocked. He was just a little surprised and asked: "What are you running now?"
"It's my order."
Nichiren Yukimi smiled and said, "When I first invested in building a supercomputer, I actually didn't have that many long-term plans, it was just a sudden idea."
"Super computing, super computing, the calculation ability far exceeds that of humans. So, can it be used for fortune telling?"
"Unfortunately, someone told me at that time that this was unscientific, and it has not been possible for so many years. Today, I can finally try it."
He looked at Brahma's brain and said, "I don't ask too much. I asked Brahma to calculate my fortune first, but it's been two hours and I haven't finished it yet."
"Who said that?"
Brahma Brain replied angrily.
King Kong Tuo immediately started to look forward to it, thinking that he would give an answer the next moment, but he was silent the next moment.
Until half an hour later.
"I figured it out."
All the screens on the bloated cylinder light up simultaneously.
"Your fortune is closely related to the Eight Leaves Academy, and the Eight Leaves Academy's fortune will take a huge turn within a month, causing a chain reaction, so that after two months, the Eight Leaves will be completely destroyed, and the coalition government will take over this area. place."
Vajra's expression changed drastically, and the smile on Nichiren Xuehai's face disappeared, and he turned around to look.
"The key is this person!"
