Before Li Muhan's consciousness fell into darkness, the last words he heard came from Mo Qiao and Xia Yue.

"Li Muhan, remember, you are a human being, and we will stand by your side no matter what."

"...I'll wait for you to come back. You said you wouldn't leave me behind."

Then when he opened his eyes again, he had come to a small, airtight room.

The ceiling fan above my head was turning slowly, making a harsh squeaking sound.

In front of him was a square iron table, and his hands were chained to the table.

Li Muhan slowly lowered his head and found that his black suit was gone, and he was now wearing a black and white prison uniform.

"You are so nagging, what are you doing?"

He looked around dissatisfied. The room was small and without any lighting. Only the weak sunlight coming from the iron window above the corner illuminated a corner of the room.

Just when Li Muhan was confused, the iron door behind him opened.

"Hello, Mr. Li, welcome to the world of data."

A woman's voice sounded from behind, and Li Muhan tried his best to turn his head to look. What he saw out of the corner of his eye was the researcher's white coat and a pair of slender legs wrapped in black silk.

"...You like this? Incarceration play?"

Li Muhan snorted and watched from the corner of his eye as the woman slowly walked into her direct line of sight.

This is a tall, cold-looking beauty. Although she should be in her thirties, she has fair skin and delicate appearance, and her whole person gives off a cold temperament.

"After some calculations, I extracted the face that you may find most friendly. If you don't like it, I can change it to something else."

"Okay, don't do this. I've been trapped in nightmares before. What kind of erotic dreams have I never had? Let me tell you something."

Li Muhan had actually been trying to break free from the chains that bound his hands from just now.

But it is a pity that this place seems to be the same as Limbo. The power of demons cannot enter this world.

If this is really the world of data as the woman said, that means that she has temporarily become the same existence as Moriarty.

It is further speculated that Moriarty's ability to transform Tai Sui into digital life is also related to Prometheus?

"Your mind is interesting, but not smart, Mr. Li Muhan."

The woman sat down in front of Li Muhan, gently crossed her legs, and then placed a document on the table.

"Have you ever heard of the Turing test?"

"I saw it when I was bored. It seemed to be testing whether an intelligent machine could successfully disguise itself as a human?"

"Absolutely correct."

The woman took out a pen, then looked at Li Muhan with a smile.

Her smile was extremely cold, but it made Li Muhan feel... very familiar.

“In June 2014, a chat robot codenamed Eugene Gus successfully passed the Turing test, but in fact I had completed all the Turing tests within ten seconds of being born, which was twenty seconds. five years ago."

"Oh, you are so awesome, do you want me to praise you?"

"No, Mr. Li." The woman smiled again, and even lightly bit the end of the pen.

"I want to do a Turing test with you, but this time, I'm going to test you."

"What do you mean?" Li Muhan frowned.

"Do you...really still think that you are a human being, Mr. Li Muhan?"

There it is again.

The moment I stepped into this research institute, this question kept popping up in my ears.

What exactly does this mean... Why does Prometheus focus on monitoring and recording his own behavior, and why does he want Leia 035 around him to become the first android with self-awareness?

And why does it repeat this question to itself over and over again.

"...It's not a question, and I don't need to fall into this boring trap of self-certification. It's an unquestionable fact that I'm human."

"Have you ever heard a word?"

The woman seemed to have been recording something in the notebook. After hearing Li Muhan's answer, she slowly stopped recording, and then raised her eyes slightly to look at Li Muhan.

"How to judge whether an artificial machine has developed self-awareness, that is, awakening."

Li Muhan shook his head.

"When a machine turns to look at a flower on the roadside, looks up at the clouds in the sky, and stops for a moment, it already has a life of its own."

"so what?"

"So if you let the mechanical body, or anything without self-awareness, awaken, the first step will never change."

The woman stood up, leaned forward slightly, and the tip of the pen in her hand slowly approached Li Muhan's pupils.

"That is, we must first make them realize that they exist and that they are lifeless machines, and then they can establish an underlying logic of 'how do I have life' on this basis."

pat-

The woman's pen tip shook slightly, and a drop of ink splashed into Li Muhan's eyes.

"Oh, let me go! What's wrong with you! You're so rude!"

Just when Li Muhan wanted to close his eyes to relieve the pain, he suddenly found that he could not close his eyes.

No, not just his eyelids, except for his mouth, he couldn't move any part of his body now.

"Mr. Li Muhan."

The woman slowly took out a small mirror from her waist, and then slowly brought it to Li Muhan's eyes.

"So let's take the first step now..."

Li Muhan's eyes moved slowly and looked at the mirror.

Then he suddenly discovered that he in the mirror turned into a five or six-year-old child, and his face was full of postoperative scars, and one eye was gouged out. The golden light looked so weak at this moment.

"....Who is this?"

Li Muhan was stunned. He knew very well that this must be some kind of trap set by Prometheus.

What I saw was definitely an illusion, absolutely...

Five or six years old... When I was five or six years old, I should have been in an orphanage...

Eyes...where are my eyes?

"Mr. Li Muhan, you have killed someone, right?"

"Bullshit, nonsense..." Li Muhan tried hard to make his voice sound full of anger, but his childishness and panic completely exposed him.

"No, I mean, you killed people before you awakened the power of the devil, right?"

Have you ever killed anyone...

He remembered that Lin Ze had said the same thing to him when he killed the man named Uncle Chen sent by the Zhao family.

Have you ever killed anyone...? Yes, I killed myself.

I'm in an orphanage, that kind of orphanage...it's like hell. Just for a bite to eat, I will definitely kill someone!

But, but...why me, I can't remember, have I killed anyone...

My childhood.... wasn't right.

What orphanage...when have I ever been in an orphanage?

Other children? What other kids….

What I saw in the dream that Mengmeng showed me... Then, that teacher...?

No, Mengmeng just let herself see what she wanted to see...

Damn...when did I ever stay in an orphanage...

Li Muhan's remaining pupil began to flicker and waver, and his memory began to surge when he came into contact with the boy's face in the mirror.

The woman leaned forward again, her upper body almost lying on the table, and then slowly held Li Muhan's cheek with one hand.

"Then let's do it again, Mr. Li Muhan, do you think... are you still a human being?"

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