blackstone code

Chapter 3151

Penny felt like she was in a dream, in which she moved with the help of a group of scientists.

At the beginning, this home was like a cage, colorless, gray, and filled with despair.

But soon it becomes colorful and changes its form of expression because of some of its own ideas.

This feeling is magical. In some ways, she feels like she is the god in this small space!
It was a very enjoyable dream, but unfortunately I woke up very quickly.

When she opened her eyes again, what she saw was the ceiling of the operating room. The entire operation lasted about ten minutes.

This is because Penny is Lynch's close friend. What if it was an ordinary person?

All they have to do is go to the nearest service center and get a replacement brain-computer.

But Penny and the maid were still manually operated by scientists.

The operation was performed many times with almost no accidents or risks. In fact, the biggest risk of this operation is the mixing of personality and chaos code.

As for other physical operations, it's nothing more than putting some neural connectors into the brain, that's all.

"Did you do it?" Penny held onto the edge of the bed and tried to sit up, but failed.

The effects of the anesthetic had not yet completely worn off, and she was still unable to control her body well.

"They say it's very successful and you'll soon see how good it is."

This was said to Penny as well as to others.

Two robots and two gene-modulated human shells were sent over. The maid and Penny suddenly rolled their eyes, but the next moment, the two dormant robots were awakened.

"This... is incredible!", Penny's voice came from one of the machines, and the little maid was also observing her body curiously.

Aurora explained, "In a sense, you are now a special set of data. In theory, you can access all instruments that can be electronically controlled and have corresponding interfaces, and you have a certain degree of control."

"But I don't mind you running around so much if you go to some special place, like a small box designed to trap you."

"The moment you enter, the other party will cut off the power supply, and you will be trapped in that small box forever."

"I have temporarily closed your free movement interface. When you move to the main material universe, you need to apply to the server. You can only move after approval..."

Everything was successful. Nothing was different about the two of them. Unlike the previous evolutions, where different personalities appeared, they remained the same as before.

Penny was very interested in her new body and robot body, while the maid stood obediently beside her.

The success of the two people also made some other people interested. After all, the most lively place now is the virtual world, not here.

But there are some people who are unwilling to do that, Catherine and Severilla are typical representatives.

"Are you sure you don't want to change?" Lynch asked Catherine.

Severella is not here, she is in the virtual world, and although she likes that place very much, she has no intention of actually "entering" there.

The reason she gave to Lynch was "stay out of my business." Just like her in the past, she was very opinionated and had a strong personality.

Catherine lives here, and she didn't know how to answer Lynch's questions.

“I don’t know, if I become a piece of code, am I still me?”

She shook her head, looking at Penny who was experiencing the new life, feeling a little envious and a little resistant. She couldn't accept this.

"I always feel that violating the laws of nature is not a good thing, Lynch, although we have come a long way in this matter."

“Are there many people like me?”

She asked.

Lynch did not answer, and Aurora gave Catherine an answer on his behalf, "About four percent of natural people are unwilling to become digital life."

That's about 30 million people. Catherine did a simple calculation and said with a smile, "It seems quite a lot. I am also part of these 30 million people. This makes me feel much better. At least I am not a minority."

In fact, it is a very small number of people, only 4%, which can't possibly be the majority.

"Then we may be separated for a long time." Lynch wanted to try harder, "If you care about your body, we can preserve it well and use genetic technology to create an identical one anywhere."

Catherine stopped, took Lynch's hand and looked at him, "When my mother took me away from you that day, I understood something."

“No matter how good a person is, there will come a day when they will be separated. The only difference is whether it is temporary or permanent.”

“In fact, sometimes when I look back now, I find that I have done many, many remarkable things.”

"Even though you helped me with that."

"Members of the Legislature, mayors, state legislatures, Congress, even the president of the United States."

"There are some things I'm willing to do, but there are some things I haven't thought about. I'm fifty, Lynch."

"Although I look young, I have already lived more than half of my life, according to the old calculation method."

"For the rest of this journey, I want to live according to my own ideas."

She turned to look at her daughter who was surrounded by people, "At least she will be with me."

Lin Qi held her hand and said, "I didn't expect you to be so stressed."

Catherine smiled and shook her head, then pulled Lynch forward, just like the night after high school get out of class more than thirty years ago, relaxed and without the slightest burden.

“It’s just a different stage.”

"I've always wanted to catch up with you."

"I also thought I could catch up with you one day."

"But now I realize there's no way I can catch up with you."

She glanced at Aurora who was always standing behind Lynch. Although she was standing there in the form of a robot, she always felt that this was just a disguise.

Aurora's wide-angle camera captured this detail. The humanized mechanical facial expression showed a smile that was very consistent with human aesthetics, but it was a robot now. The more real it was, the more frightening it made people feel.

Catherine retracted her gaze and continued to look at the clear sky without a single cloud. "I've been chasing for too long. I don't even know what it feels like to stop."

"I can't catch up, so I should take a rest."

"Sometimes I think it's good to see you running ahead. At least you can keep running towards a farther place with our expectations, just like we can follow you to such a distant place."

"Whenever you want to take a break, you can come back to us."

"And I believe that this is always your home. Even if you don't come back for a while, you will come back one day."

Lynch did not force Catherine to change her mind. Everyone has their own way of living that they feel comfortable with.

Because of the excellent results shown on Penny and the maid, everyone except the two women underwent digital life transformation surgery.

Sera actually wanted to do it too, but so far, scientists have not conducted similar experiments on individuals who are genetically close to Lynch, so they are not sure whether they can undergo surgery and whether the effect after the surgery will be consistent with the expected effect.

However, they have already begun preparations for this experiment, and Lynch has contributed some genes for this purpose.

If Catherine's "tiredness" and Severella's "leave me alone" were unexpected, then the biggest surprise was Connor.

He also refused to become a digital life, even though Lynch suggested that he would go outside the solar system to take a look. If Connor was transformed into a digital life, he could go over there to take a look, and he could also return to the solar system anytime and anywhere without affecting anything he was doing in the virtual world.

He refused.

And the reason is very appropriate.

"My daughter's armband had a problem once. She simply forgot to take it off while swimming and the casing had been knocked over."

"Then it started to get flooded and it just completely broke down."

"The after-sales staff came and took a look, decided it wasn't worth repairing, and gave her a new one."

"I still remember the disassembled armband. Some of the electronic components inside were burnt, as if... dead."

"Lin Qi, do you think that electronic life can really exist forever without fear of any threat?"

“Will there ever be a day when we meet someone who can kill digital life?”

"For example... they use a digital bomb, or... something else. You know I don't know much about this, but I believe you must have a way to control it or destroy it."

"If we were to encounter one, would we have the strength to resist?"

This is indeed a very strange sense of crisis, and there is a certain possibility that you will encounter it.

Although Aurora is the first silicon-based life in the universe, as it and the solar system civilization expand, more forces will inevitably notice this.

Will they develop some weapons specifically targeting Aurora and the robot army?
To be honest, Lynch thinks this is very likely and will happen soon.

Lynch didn't know whether those weapons could destroy digital life.

However, he asked scientists to select a group of people to verify Connor's concerns. The first thing to do was to find a way to destroy digital life...

In this seemingly peaceful and ordinary life, the prototype of the short-distance, high-frequency jump cabin was produced.

It can jump continuously in the universe at a speed close to the speed of light.

The experiment was not very smooth, but the first two jumps met the scientists' requirements and predictions.

On the third jump, it disappeared...

(End of this chapter)