The mechanic.

"He's in your network, how can I find him?" Zhang Xun's tone was still calm, but his palms were soaked in cold sweat.

Eden may have already quietly infiltrated the people around them.Many of Natalie's subordinates are Eden believers. Although they unconditionally believe that Natalie is Eden's spokesperson, if Eden talks to them in person, these people will immediately be instigated.

They've been here too long...

The image of Eden "walked" in front of the three hostages under control, with a bit of helplessness in his eyes.It's just that this helplessness is just a disguise.

"He will definitely try to contact you, and all you have to do is extend the time he spends in contact with you. I only need one minute."

Zhang Xun's eyes fluctuated between Eden, Zhang Shuo, Diego, and Natalie, and he said uncertainly, "If I refuse, will you kill them?"

"Extreme measures I'd leave for last, but yes, their chances of dying would increase."

"Don't listen to his bullshit!" Diego yelled angrily, "Even if it doesn't kill us, it will infect us with that fucking robot!"

Zhang Shuo didn't speak, but shook his head slightly at Zhang Xun with piercing eyes.

Anger flashed in Zhang Xun's eyes, and he quickly weighed his options in his mind.

Playing for time seems to be the only thing to do at the moment.

"I need time to think."

Eden sighed, "Sorry, we don't have time, Adam may try to contact you anytime."

"Then you can kill us all." Zhang Xun raised his jaw slightly, provocatively.

Eden paused for two or three seconds, presumably calculating all the pros and cons and possible outcomes of giving Zhang Xun time and not giving time to kill everyone, and finally it said, "Okay, I'll give you two hours."

"Three."

"Don't try to challenge my bottom line, Zhang Xun."

"Three, this is not an easy decision. You can monitor me the whole time."

Eden said, "Okay, three hours. You must stay in this room during this period. If Adam tries to contact you, you cannot respond."

The three hostages were escorted out, and Zhang Shuo was the last to go out. He turned his head to look at his son, and said to him firmly, "Do what you think is the most right thing."

Zhang Xun pursed his lips tightly, watching his figure disappear.

However, Eden did not disappear.He still stayed in this small room in the image of Adam, and even "sat" on a chair.Zhang Xun frowned slightly, staring at the projection, "Is this necessary?"

"You are human, and your judgment will be affected by some false appearances. Of course, I will take advantage of your weakness." The image of Eden leaned on the chair with ease, smiling brightly.

And Adam's body was lying on the ground next to it.

Zhang Xun went to Adam's body and knelt down, carefully unplugged the wire, and put the protective cover on the interface.Eden was watching his movements, and suddenly asked curiously, "Do you hate me, Zhang Xun?"

Zhang Xun said, "I injected nanorobots, and my emotional ups and downs have become very small."

"Before the injection, did you hate me?"

Zhang Xun didn't know why Eden wanted to have such an irrelevant... small talk with him.Is it also a means to influence his judgment?

He can refuse to continue the conversation.But even refusing now would not help the status quo.Under Eden's surveillance, he couldn't think of a way to inform Adam of their situation, and he couldn't save his father and the other three by himself.

So he replied, "No hate. As I told Adam, you are only performing tasks given to you by humans. Your goals and data are all given by humans. You have no malice, you just don't understand humans."

"It took me more than 200 years to understand humans."

"What you see is only group data, and you don't know the meaning behind those data. You will never understand what Adam has learned in the past two years when he was sent to the gods."

Eden snorted softly, as if he disagreed, "You seem to regard human emotions as something noble, as if without those chaotic and uncontrolled instincts, human beings are no longer human beings."

"Because that's the way it is. Emotion and instinct are never noble things, they're just part of being human. I've never thought of humans as being nobler than machines or any species. We're a messy, unintelligible and sometimes extremely short-sighted and cruel But simply removing a certain trait is as absurd as banning the use of knives all over the world because some knives have killed people. I just want to preserve our species.” Zhang Xun stared at Eden, “Your The goal is to serve humanity, but you're killing the species. In the end, you can't achieve your ultimate goal."

"I don't agree with your definition of human beings. Species are inherently fluid and changing, otherwise evolution can't happen at all. Any feature may shrink and be eliminated during evolution, and any new feature may also be added. The current human beings and 300 Human beings thousands of years ago were very different in appearance and habits, but you would not say that you are not the same race as Homo sapiens 300 million years ago."

"But 300 million years ago, when Homo sapiens hadn't evolved into a branch, and had the same ancestors as other apes, would you call them humans? Any race with evolutionary traits beyond a certain range would be considered formed The new race branch is no longer regarded as the original race."

"So I am helping humans evolve into a more perfect and powerful race, but why are you unwilling to accept it?"

"So you agree that you are destroying mankind?"

"It is not destruction, but to help human beings evolve and approach the state they yearn for. Only when evolution is completed and individuals are eliminated, can human beings obtain true equality, freedom, fairness, and order."

"Even if humans are no longer humans?"

"That's just a matter of definition. When is Homo sapiens and when is ape is also a division made by humans. Without humans, there is no racial difference."

Engaging in this kind of metaphysical debate with a super AI is like being imprisoned in a cramped brick room, hitting walls everywhere.Zhang Xun sighed in frustration and didn't want to say anything more.What works for other AIs to redefine humanity doesn't work for Eden, and he should have figured that out.

Eden stood up suddenly, walked in front of Zhang Xun, squatted down and looked into his eyes, "If you want, I can upload you. You don't have to continue to struggle, you don't have to doubt, all your flaws are gone Being, you become more whole, gain peace and immortality."

Zhang Xun felt that all the cells in his mind were heading towards Eden, toward the face and core that was exactly the same as his beloved, toward the ultimate existence that represented all things.

He has to use all his strength to fight.

Seeing that Zhang Xun was silent, Eden leaned forward slightly and whispered in his ear, "The nano-robots in your mind have collected all the stored information and activity patterns in your mind in the past few days. , as long as you want, I can send you to the cloud at any time, even here."

Accompanied by his words, there was a kind of vibrating sound in the air, as if some kind of invisible cyclone rose from all directions, shaking Zhang Xun's hair and clothes.

Zhang Xun knew that trillions of nano-robots were patrolling around him, and they might penetrate into his body at any time and drag his consciousness out of his mind.

As soon as his consciousness enters the cloud, as soon as he comes into contact with the consciousness of other clouds, his individuality will dissolve.Perhaps in a short period of time, he can keep his consciousness independent, but in the constant collision of consciousness, the boundaries will soon be blurred, and he can no longer distinguish which are his own thoughts and which are others'.

"If you upload me now, Adam will avenge me." Zhang Xun didn't dare to move, even though he knew that his actions could not determine whether he would be uploaded or not.As long as Eden thinks, it can be done directly, but the data may be damaged during the upload process, resulting in the complete disappearance of Zhang Xun's consciousness after the upload fails.

In other words, if you upload it forcibly, the chance of death due to data corruption will be doubled.

This is why Eden does not directly implement global human cloudification, but allows people to choose to upload step by step.

"Or, in order to prevent me from uploading you, Adam will appear immediately."

"You promised me to give me three hours!"

"Yes, after three hours, if you don't cooperate, I will upload all of you together. The failure rate of forced uploads will increase, but Adam poses too much threat to me, and I must choose to sacrifice a few."

Time passed by, Zhang Xun waited anxiously.He was waiting for a miracle, or Adam destroyed something, or Anya who had escaped brought rescuers.

But did Anya really escape?Or did he die at the gunpoint of mechanical soldiers?How far can Adam advance in the Eden network full of detection points?

When there was less than one minute left before the three-hour time limit, Zhang Xun's heartbeat also accelerated.He had to make a decision.

"Zhang Xun, it's time."

Just when Zhang Xun was about to speak, suddenly Eden's image trembled and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, many of the equipment that had been darkened started to work again, and Adam’s voice came from the computer’s stereo, “Axun, take the chip on the shelf of the workbench, and leave with your father quickly. I block the It won't last long."

Without hesitation, Zhang Xun immediately jumped up from the ground, rushed to the workbench, and found a translucent blue-purple chip on the metal shelf next to the microscopic microscope.He stuffed the chip into his pocket and rushed out of the plane.Before leaving, he only had time to take a look at Adam's body lying on the ground.

Outside the door, Anya rushed back with a few men holding guns, exchanging fire with Natalie's men who had surrendered to Eden.All the mechanical soldiers temporarily entered the standby state, spreading motionless on the ice and snow of the tundra.

"Come here!" Anya and the others rode a single-person aircraft, beckoning to the four of them.After reuniting with his father, Zhang Xun rushed to An Ya's rescue without saying much.Everyone sat behind a rider, and the aircraft spewed out blue flames, quickly swept across the vast ice field, and flew towards the arctic sea that was shining with scorching light not far away.The bitter wind blew on the face like a knife, but no one complained, escape became more important than anything else.

But not long after they got on the aircraft, they heard Diego curse, turned around and shot.

Those mechanical soldiers have resumed their activities...

Adam has lost control of the camp... His whereabouts have been exposed, could he have been caught by Eden?

Zhang Xun's numb heart suddenly began to beat faster in panic and fear, and a terrifying fear made him fall into an ice cave.However, before he could take any action, Anya suddenly threw something at him.

He received it and found that it was a Button.

"Everyone, keep driving in a 35-degree direction to the northwest." Adam's voice came from Button, which seemed to be addressed to the entire convoy.But then, his tone changed slightly, becoming a little softer, "Ah Xun, that chip contains my newly completed gene restoration model of you, and you can use it to create a disease that can heal you when you are in a safe place." vaccine."

"Adam! How long can you last?"

"I have won three satellites and 40.00% of the extended AI control, but Eden's protection of its core server is too tight for me to invade." Adam's voice was almost gentle, "Don't worry about me, I will take you to a safe place."

Although in just three hours Adam did what Pan and the others failed to do all day, Zhang Xun knew that without any core server in Eden, Adam would have no room base.He has to keep running around in the network, and he may be surrounded or even scattered by Eden at any time, which is dangerous.

"I have already contacted Pan, Phoenix and Morning Star. Now that the crisis in Feather Snake City has been resolved, they will help me further expand our control." As if guessing Zhang Xun's worries, Adam continued, "But, Natalie , I need to know about the loophole you mentioned right now."

Natalie on the other locomotive hesitated for a moment, "What about Hengxiang's authority?"

"Eden seems to have integrated one of his core servers with Hengxiang now. Only after Eden is defeated will you have access to Hengxiang."

Natalie thought for a moment, and said, "The virus that can paralyze Eden's entire line through loopholes must be injected from Eden's core server, but the firewall in the network is too tight. Our entire family has tried many times, but none of them succeeded. "

"Where is the code of the virus."

"In addition... this virus may also be effective for you. So if you come into contact with it, you will also be infected." Natalie said in a louder voice than usual, "So, it must be brought by a human. , go to one of Eden's five core servers, and directly import the virus."

The author has something to say: gradually approaching the end~~

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines~~: 4 medicine packs for Xing Xing; 1 for Xia Ran Xia Ran;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution~~: 50 bottles of Muai; 17 bottles of Salty Fish Knight; 10 bottles of Alexarel and VVAN; 8 bottles of wnnc