Abyssal Wanderer

"So, he just let us go?"

About two hours later, there was a remote underground clinic on the first floor of the resettlement area.

Donata, who regained consciousness after simple treatment, asked with a look of disbelief after hearing what Jim said.

"Otherwise we can still chat here?"

Jim said as he took out the cigarette, but as soon as he put it in his mouth, he caught a glimpse of the rusty "No Smoking" sign on the wall.

He sighed and silently put the cigarette back.

"But... that's the 'Black Three', a loyal dog raised by the 'Tenth Floor' government! I've never heard of him releasing an arrested person before."

Donata was confused.

"Maybe you just haven't heard of it."

Jim shrugged and said perfunctorily.

Of course, he did not tell Donata the extremely informative conversations he overheard.

Regarding the recent frequent cyberpsychosis attacks, the similarities and differences between the collapse of the Black Feather Gene Editing Studio, and the private connections among those born adjusters.

Regarding Jim's obvious perfunctory, Donata shook her head vigorously:

"It's impossible. You have to know that he is a natural adjuster."

"Thank you for reminding."

Jim replied nonchalantly:

"But generally speaking, native people wouldn't give themselves names like Black Falcon-111."

"That's not what I meant..."

Donata struggled to sit up and said:

"There is a reason why the 'tenth-level' government puts a natural adjuster in charge of the first-level public security bureau..."

She lowered her voice as she spoke, as if she was telling some shocking secret:

"There was actually some manipulation in Black Falcon-111's brain."

Jim turned his head when he heard this, with a shocked expression on his face.

"Is that really the case?"

With an exaggeratedly serious expression, Jim said solemnly:

"Then this is really unexpected - a natural adjuster who has been edited from the embryonic stage can actually have someone tampering with their brain! Don't you think this is incredible?"

At this point, Jim himself couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"I told you, that's not what I meant!"

Donata immediately became anxious after being ridiculed by Jim. She clenched her fist and hammered the hospital bed several times, and the "bang bang" sound covered Jim's laughter.

"Okay, okay, just say it."

Jim waved his hand, indicating for her to continue.

"The so-called innate adjustment of humans is to use biological protein chip technology to integrate the adaptive transformation of the brain to the prosthetic body, so that it can naturally adapt to the sub-human beings implanted with the prosthetic body... Of course I know these things."

Donata said seriously:

"But what I mean by manipulation is that those natural adjusters employed by government departments have written instructions into the biological protein chips in their heads - to ensure their absolute control over the 'ten layers' of government. loyalty."

"Can instructions be written into the bioprotein chip that has already been formed?"

What Donata said was somewhat beyond Jim's expectations.

"How do I remember that writing instructions into a biological protein chip can only be done during the embryonic stage?"

he asked next.

Donata immediately explained:

"What I just said is somewhat wrong - those instructions have actually been written in the embryonic stage, such as 'obey his orders', 'loyal to the organization', 'end oneself', etc. And the 'ten-level' government only obtained Method used to activate certain commands.

"That's why Nord's poor place has always had relatively loose policies towards them. Nowadays, more and more wandering natural adjusters choose to flee here. In recent years, more and more natural adjusters have also Entered a government department and held an important position.”

Her words made Jim couldn't help but think of the scene he saw earlier - four natural adjusters with high degree of transformation, planning something that seemed to be great at the border.

Seeing that the other party did not reply, Donata continued:

"These things were told to us by a big customer we did business with before - Black Falcon-111 had just been transferred to the Public Security Bureau. The customer told us to stay away from that guy and not to mess with him at will.

"My second uncle didn't believe what the client said. When Hei Sanzhu was first promoted to the position of chief, he planned to follow the old rules and use both soft and hard tactics to recruit him into the gang. But the guy backhandedly launched a special operation and almost uprooted our family. rise……"

She said with a frightened expression on her face.

Finally, she sighed and said:

"In short, that guy can't be bribed at all, and he can't explain the reason clearly. He only accepts the tasks assigned to him by the 'Tenth Floor'. Fortunately, because he doesn't make money, his status in the Public Security Bureau is also semi-empty. Generally speaking, He can’t mobilize any resources.”

If it sounds like this, sending controlled "natural adjusters" to hold important positions in local areas can also be regarded as a means for the resettlement area government to balance power?

Jim thought so.

Just... absolute loyalty based on instructions?

Jim shook his head secretly.

He recalled the conversation he had overheard earlier - to untie the shackles imposed on them by the Creator, to fully integrate into human society, and to be able to untie their own reproductive restrictions.

Then gradually change and change human beings...

This doesn't look like an artificial being imprinted with the idea of ​​"absolute loyalty".

Or does it mean that Black Feather Studio did not write in the underlying logic such as the "Three Laws of Robotics" at the beginning of the design?

Thinking of this, Jim walked to the clothes rack nearby and picked up the windbreaker.

"We've been here too long, it's time to go."

He walked to the door as he spoke, and then turned his head as if recalling something:

"Also, the total cost of your treatment is 500 Ore. I registered the number in your name, so remember to pay it before going out."

…………

City of Sages, Museum of Genocide.

After hundreds of deaths and resets, Ye Qian, who was trapped in the endless hell, recorded everything he knew of value in order to end the pain as soon as possible - basically enough to write nine volumes of "Ye Qian's Memoirs" .

The amount of information was so large that Jiang Zhou could only give a rough preview of what the "City of Sages" AI had summarized.

But Jiang Zhou, who was now rushing to the surface, spent his last moments carefully reading one of the detailed information.

That's a report about natural adjusters.

A natural adjuster, a product of Black Feather Gene Editing Studio.

Generally speaking, adjusters must be born through a "universal printer". Although they are powerful and extraordinary, if they are to be regarded as a new race that can replace humans, in addition to quantity, the adjusters also have an unavoidable problem - reproduction.

Adjusters can of course retain their genes and breed future generations, but they cannot pass their adjustments to the next generation through reproduction.

There are many so-called "human purists" who even believe that the so-called adjusters are actually using "universal printers" to parasitize cancer on human society and are an evolutionary trap left by super artificial intelligence for mankind.

In a sense, Jiang Zhou and even himself felt that this statement was not wrong.

Black Feather Studio is a fanatical organization that fervently hopes that all human beings can evolve and become adjusters.

It is different from the slogan they promote to the outside world that adjusters should serve mankind. The real purpose of their creation is actually two points: to solve the problem of adjuster reproduction; and to solve the dependence on multi-purpose printers during the transformation process.

Both of these problems were ultimately solved by the same technology - biological protein chips.

The control program for the corresponding prosthetic body is integrated into the biological protein chip, causing a certain part of the brain to mutate into a structure similar to the hacker's "Hongqiao Brain Area".

Then, the growth of this protein chip is written into the genetic material.

In this way, the "prosthetic drive" that is the most difficult to adjust and transform can be inherited during reproduction.

After the birth of new natural adjusters, although they are still mortal bodies at first, they are born with high adaptability to prosthetic bodies.

In fact, many depth 1 and depth 2 adjustment and transformation technologies have been cracked. Even many depth-1 and depth-2 prosthetic implants have actually been mass-produced and entered the military field.

But the reason that hinders their further popularization is still the step of installing a "prosthetic driver" in the brain. Compared with the precise transformation of a multi-purpose printer, the current human medical equipment to operate on the brain's neural connections is not only expensive, but also takes a long time. , and the failure rate is also unacceptably high.

In other words, if the technology of natural adjusters becomes popular. Once the genes that produce biochip proteins enter the human gene pool, the depth 1 and depth 2 adjustment technologies will be completely popularized in the future.

By then, human beings' complete prosthetics will no longer be limited by the "universal printer". Everyone is born with the ability to install and upgrade their own body parts.

When the "Anthroposophical Ethics Supervisory Committee" reviewed the technology of the "Biological Protein Chip", they sternly rejected this point - they required that all natural adjusters produced by Black Feather Studio must remain consistent with the original Reproductive isolation among humans.

Jiang Zhou didn't quite understand this approach, because the Anthroposophical Ethics Supervision Committee did not prohibit reproduction between those who were born with adjusters.

Of course, the self-propagation growth model is definitely superior to incubator reproduction. As a technology popularized, this can definitely significantly reduce costs.

However, is it really safer than contaminating the human gene pool to allow a human subspecies to emerge that can change its prosthetic body at will and is reproductively isolated from the original human beings?

And speaking of biological protein chips...

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou suddenly thought of something.

He remembered the adjustment and modification in depth 3 of "The Path of Theseus", called "Pegasus" brain modification - the thing that could save his life, and the entry for its classification was the biological protein chip. (End of chapter)