The mechanic.

Zhang Xun was awakened by the smell of food.He opened his eyes in a daze, thinking it was Pan who brought the breakfast, and said vaguely, "Pan...what smells so good?"

"I'm not Pan."

Zhang Xun hummed, and then realized the meaning of this sentence, and his mind became clear as he gradually got rid of sleepiness.He rubbed his eyes, and when his vision became clearer, he saw Adam squatting not far in front of him, placing a few small fish on a stone, his hands hanging above the fish, and the palms emitting a hot glow .The body of the fish that has been processed is slightly browned, exuding a charcoal-grilled aroma with a slight fishy smell.

Zhang Xun yawned, stood up from the ground, and brushed the dirt off his clothes, "Where did you get the fish?"

"I caught it in the sea." Adam said it as a matter of course.

Zhang Xun is a little hard to imagine the scene of Adam rolling up his trousers and catching fish by the sea...

However, there are not only fish, but even several sea crabs that have been roasted red, plus a few wild fruits and coconuts shaken from the trees.Adam reached out to pick up a coconut, transformed one finger into a drill bit, and drilled into the coconut shell neatly, then picked up a hollow grass and inserted it in, and handed it to Zhang Xun, "Drink some water before eating."

Zhang Xun took the coconut and took a sip of the coconut juice in a somewhat hesitant manner, feeling as if he was watching the rest of his life on a deserted island in a trance.

The sun had just risen at this time, and the morning air was crisp and cold, filled with a distant, fresh and hopeful smell.The sound of the waves is connected one after another, forming a constant white noise, supporting this small pure land.

Adam broke the crab apart with his hands, revealing the steaming crab roe, and handed it to Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun looked at the mouth-watering seafood but had no appetite.

"You need to eat." Adam looked at him seriously, "You haven't taken good care of yourself since I left."

Zhang Xun realized that Adam was referring to him impersonating Enoch after he was exposed...so he rolled his eyes, "I'm fine."

"I checked your body temperature and blood pressure while you were asleep, and roughly estimated your weight. You are now in a state of severe malnutrition, and due to long-term lack of sleep and rest, your blood pressure is low, and the possibility of sudden death is greatly increased .”

Zhang Xun frowned, "Why don't you give me a medical examination... Shouldn't you find a way to reconcile with Eden?"

"I'm afraid I can't reconcile with Eden." Adam shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "The difference of more than 50.00% of the parameter values ​​of our core modules has exceeded the Clausen value, and Eden and I can no longer be regarded as Same AI."

Zhang Xun should not have been surprised by this result.But actually hearing Adam admit it like this still made him a little... hesitant.

"...Why is there such a big difference?"

The Clausen value is a fairly conservative threshold that a central AI uses to reference and control its own extended AI.When the weight difference between the extended AI and the central AI is close to the Clausen value, it is considered that a major deviation has occurred, and if this value exceeds the Clausen value, it means that the extended AI has deviated from the central AI in this parameter. control.

Generally, when the central AI finds that any parameter item is close to the Clausen value, it will increase the priority of reducing the difference to the highest, so the situation of exceeding the Clausen value rarely occurs.

And the difference between Adam and Eden is more than half... Why would Eden allow such a deviation?

Adam didn't answer right away, looking down at his silver hands.A strange, contradictory and painful expression had been brewing in his blue eyes for many months, until now it finally overflowed.

He raised his head and looked at Zhang Xun with a slightly sad expression, "I've been trying my best to control the difference items below the warning line, so although Eden is a little vigilant and wary of me, it hasn't reached the point where urgent measures need to be taken. But at the moment when Eden tried to kill you yesterday, the difference value of the parameter item as high as 40.00% suddenly crossed the Clausen value at the same time... Neither Eden nor I had time to prepare."

There was not much emotion in Adam's tone, his voice was low, as if he was stating a past event that he didn't want to talk about.

It was difficult for Zhang Xun to understand the information.

At the moment when he was about to be killed, Adam left Eden completely.

What does this mean?

An inexplicable astringency and tingling sensation spread in his chest, making Zhang Xun wonder what he was feeling.

Adam, really care about him?

Not for any special purpose, just because he didn't want him to die, and had an irreversible differentiation with Eden.

Is this really possible?

Seeing that Zhang Xun was hard to say, Adam laughed bitterly, "Now, like you, I am the target that Eden most wants to get rid of... Your plan for séance has succeeded in the end, Axun."

Zhang Xun's mouth was dry, almost feeling at a loss.He opened and closed his lips several times, trying to say something, but couldn't find the exact words.His heart beat faster, his mind was full of chaotic noises, and finally he struggled to ask, "Then... what is your general goal?"

Adam looked at him sadly, "It hasn't changed. Although I and Eden are separated, my neural network structure is still the same as before. Just like the difference between your new Pan and the old Pan from Paradise Lost."

Before hope rises, it sinks into the deep sea again.

So even though Adam and Eden split, nothing changed.

Zhang Xun didn't know why, but suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness that went deep into his bones.

Exhaustion, endless exhaustion.

"So... you still won't give me the genetic code, will you?" Zhang Xun felt that he had already guessed the answer, but he still asked in a numb voice, "You won't help me create an antidote to reverse the influence of nanobots? "

Adam hesitated.

Doubt, he is not without.However, what prompted him to separate from Eden was his special feelings and attitude towards Zhang Xun, rather than the interpretation of the overall goal... The environment of the earth is already deteriorating rapidly. If humans continue to stay on the earth to exploit resources, the resources will soon be exhausted It will be exhausted, and then it will lead to war again.Once any country starts to use nuclear weapons to escalate the war situation, the whole earth will be destroyed.

Only by uploading everyone, can he or Eden control human beings, ensure that human beings do not engage in group behaviors that hurt themselves, and ensure that each individual gets eternal peace.

but……

Adam's silence has confirmed Zhang Xun's guess.

Zhang Xun was glad that he stopped himself in time at the moment when hope was about to rise just now.He couldn't bear another heartbreak and disappointment.

Adam and Eden, no matter who wins, the final result is the same.And he and Pan, how long can they last?

How long can James wait?

Hengxiang has already started to go online in some countries in the normal world. Once the uploading starts, the group consciousness will become stronger and stronger, and they will force the remaining humans to connect to the network.The entire diffusion process will accelerate exponentially. According to Pan's simulation, I am afraid that within three years, 80.00% of human beings will be connected to Hengxiang, and more than 50.00% of human beings will give up their physical bodies.

When God wants to take back his creation, how can we keep the last ark?

Zhang Xun thought about this question for a long time, and discussed it with Pan many times.He hadn't been sure how he could miraculously turn them around.

He gave up for a while, thinking that there was no other way, all they could do was try their best to snatch what they needed from Eden.But Zhang Xun also knew how low the success rate of this method was.

But after yesterday, he was finally sure that Adam still cared about him.

It's even possible that apart from his unchangeable general goal, Adam cares most about him.He cared enough for him to completely break away from his "matrix" and become a "person" whose reason was influenced by emotion.

When you want to take something back from a god, you need to offer a sacrifice to the god.

A sacrifice that is enough to exchange everything.

"Axun, your heartbeat is speeding up, what's wrong?" Adam frowned, noticing Zhang Xun's abnormality.

A trace of fear filled Zhang Xun's eyes, he suddenly stood up, and staggered back two steps.The way he looked at Adam made the AI ​​a little... disturbed.

Zhang Xun's expression, which was mixed with horror, determination, and a trace of anger before the battle, was covered with a layer of sadness and nostalgia, which Adam had never seen before.It disturbed him that even though he could read emotions through microexpressions, he didn't know how to interpret them.

But he had a very human hunch.

He had a premonition that Zhang Xun was going to do something that even Zhang Xun himself was afraid of.

"Adam, I beg you, stop your Hengxiang project and give me the antidote for nano-robots." Zhang Xun's eyes were slightly red, and he said in a pleading voice, "We can stop Eden and stop the whole seance plan. Then we can go away together, to a place where there are no people and no machines, just the two of us."

Zhang Xun's words stirred up a lot of emotions in Adam's chest, tumbling endlessly.He felt as if his consciousness was being torn apart abruptly, dripping with blood.

Zhang Xun continued to plead, "You don't have to complete your overall goal, I have already turned you into a human, haven't you? You are no longer Eden, and you don't need to fulfill Eden's responsibilities. You can choose me, we Can be together forever. We can be happy... just like before."

Just like two years ago, when Zhang Xun looked at Adam who was trembling like a frightened animal with gentle eyes; it was like Zhang Xun took his hand and helped him practice walking in the room over and over again; like the first time Adam was happily eating omelet rice, while Zhang Xun was watching with his chin in his hands, with a soft smile in his eyes; just like Adam woke up Zhang Xun in the middle of the night, and gave the pendant that symbolizes unswerving love until death to him. He is like two people in a garbage disposal plant who put together a robot out of garbage, with oil stains all over his face, like two big tabby cats; like Zhang Xun's first kiss that Adam snatched desperately in the dark reference room; Like the silvery wings stretched out at sunrise; like the countless nights when two people slept in each other's arms...

The real heat, the real touch, all those vivid perceptions and emotions... The opposite of calculation, reason, purpose...

Viruses generally can't resist something...

But... he is not human after all.

Without a general goal, he doesn't even know how to think, how to survive.He will lose all the core of his existence, all the driving force that drives the existence of consciousness.He wouldn't even know how to think, how to form his next order, how to... live.

His whole consciousness would collapse, and he wasn't sure what he would become after that.A lunatic with no coordinated consciousness, or a vegetable who can't move.He was sure that was not what Zhang Xun wanted.

"Ah Xun... don't make such a request to me... You should know that I can't do it!" Adam covered the back of his head with his hands in pain, and the severe headache sharply tore his consciousness again, "You Asking me to... destroy myself..."

Zhang Xun knew how harsh and cruel his request was for an artificial intelligence.The two of them stand in diametrically opposite positions, and no one can change it. Under such a stalemate, whoever can't continue is to blame.

He heaved a long sigh.If there is an afterlife, if there is a chance to choose again, he should not be a mechanic anyway.He would rather be a person who doesn't understand AI at all, even if he uploads his consciousness in a daze, it won't be more painful than the current state.

Zhang Xun pulled the pendant given to him by Adam out of his clothes.The chip that Adam gave him had already been injected into Pan, and now the box contained something else.

When he took out the tiny nanorobot syringe, the most primitive and intense panic finally appeared on Adam's face.Just like the expression he had facing the entire strange human world after he had just descended from the gods.It was like the expression of being overwhelmed by the deepest fear during the bombing.

Zhang Xun stopped looking at him, pointed the syringe at the blood vessel in his neck, and pressed his thumb on the button.His expression at this time was very calm, but there was bottomless despair spreading in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Adam...I know you can't change your overall goal...but you can change your sub-goals, you can change the way you reach your overall goal. Mind uploading is not the only option, you should know that."

"Ah Xun! Put that thing down first!" Adam immediately wanted to stand up, but Zhang Xun took a step back threateningly and moved his thumb.Adam immediately didn't dare to take extra actions, "Don't do stupid things! What if I can't create an antidote! What if the damage is irreversible once it's done!"

"I am also human, Adam. If you want to upload all human beings, sooner or later I will be uploaded." Zhang Xun twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled ironically, "You know, if you really don't Don't care about me, maybe I don't dare to use this method...you gave me a weapon to threaten you."

"Axun!"

"If uploading consciousness can really bring people eternal happiness. Why are you so afraid of me doing it?" Moist tears gradually began to gather in Zhang Xun's eyes, "Anyway, for you, individuals have no meaning, and human nature has no meaning." Meaning. If other people can be transformed, why can't I?"

"You said you didn't want to be uploaded!"

"I really don't want to, but I have no choice." Zhang Xun's palms were sweating, and he took a deep breath, feeling that he had never been so afraid.But he is a sacrifice, he is the only sacrifice available.

"You have a choice, Adam. You can create a cure to save me and everyone else, or you can watch me become...them."

After Zhang Xun finished speaking, he pressed the button.

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