The mechanic.

Single cell with the highest level of guards.The room has all the necessary furniture, the bed is soft, the sheets are clean, and there are even some books on the shelves to prevent the life of the prisoners from being too monotonous.

Zhang Xun knew that this was the cell that Adam had prepared for him, and it had been prepared for a while.Adam sensed his suspicions and anticipated that one day their relationship would go this far.

Adam has private dealings with the Round Table, and may even collaborate.Zhang Xun is curious about who is the internal response responsible for connecting with Adam, is it Jian Mo?

Zhang Xun doesn't want to recall, because after knowing the truth, all memories are tainted by suspicion.He was lying on the bed, looking at the white-painted ceiling in a daze, with his hands lightly pressing on his chest.

Across a thin layer of shirt, the box pendant was still lying on his heart.

He didn't want to think about the past, so he could only replay the last words Adam said to him in his mind over and over again.

Could Adam be right?Is the future of human beings losing individuality and evolving into a huge collective consciousness?

How to reconcile conflicting consciousness?Will there be relatively weak consciousness being swallowed and obliterated, or suppressed in the deepest darkness

And, is that still alive?Losing the body, the ability to perceive the world, to make independent choices, to experience life, to have personal memories, to be aware of oneself.Friends, lovers, family members, all the joys and sorrows that may be experienced, all disappear.What's the difference between that and being dead?

Moreover, without the support of the body, emotions and survival instincts, pure reason cannot survive for too long.The structure of human consciousness is completely different from AI consciousness. It is a phenomenon that has been gradually formed and perfected in the continuous evolution of hundreds of millions of years, based on various chemical reactions in the body. It is a mysterious mandala that emerges from chaos and randomness.Without emotions and instincts, human consciousness cannot produce desires, so there is no goal, no motivation, and no meaning of existence.

Who can make this kind of decision?

Zhang Xun doesn't understand, Adam and he have experienced so much together, isn't there anything that Adam likes to miss?Is it because he is not doing well enough that he only sees the suffering of being a human being?That makes him want to make all human beings get rid of their human bodies and become something else

Is everything between them not worth mentioning to Adam?

Zhang Xun clenched his hands tightly and pulled the shirt into a ball.He didn't want to think about it, but he couldn't help thinking about it.Think back to every moment of their tenderness, every kiss they exchanged... Think back to Adam's completely trusting, focused and gentle eyes when he looked at him, as if Zhang Xun was the most important person in the universe, as if Zhang Xun was his whole world .

Zhang Xun swallowed hard the pain of choking in his throat, and his eye sockets were sore again.

He still has the last line of defense, although he doesn't know if Adam has removed that one as well.He didn't take the last step for a long time because he still couldn't make up his mind.

He is a coward.

At this time, the sound of gears turning came from inside the steel plate door of the cell.Zhang Xun immediately sat up from the bed, wiped his eyes vigorously with his sleeve, took a deep breath, and prepared for everything he might face.

After the door opened, the person standing at the door was not the Adam he thought.

The sixth chief, Miller, smiled at him in a neat white suit.Two guards entered the room first, handcuffed one of Zhang Xun's wrists to the iron railing at the head of the bed, brought a chair and placed it opposite Zhang Xun, and stepped back to the side.Miller walked up to Zhang Xun and looked down at him, like a victorious general contemptuously looking at his defeated general.

"If you had handed over control obediently back then, you wouldn't be here now." Miller sat down on the chair with his knees crossed, tilting his head slightly with a big expression.

Zhang Xun's eyes were burning with cold anger, "You agree with what Adam did?! You are destroying Paradise Lost!"

The sixth chief raised his hand.The two guards exited the house simultaneously and locked the door.Miller snorted when he heard the sound of the lock being locked, "Destroy Paradise Lost? Is there anything else to destroy Paradise Lost?"

Zhang Xun stared at him in disbelief, not sure that these words really came from the mouth of the most powerful chief in the round table.

Miller leaned back in his chair, raised his head and looked at a light bulb hanging from the ceiling, with a little fatigue in his eyes, "Paradise Lost has no future. You should have seen it too, Eden wants to destroy us at any time. .We humans are too weak and limited to be Eden's match."

"So you took refuge in Eden? So you took the civilians who were supposed to be protected by you as test subjects?!"

"It's not a refuge, it's just a temporary cooperation. You may not understand, but this is actually our opportunity." Miller said in a contemptuous tone of simple-minded primitive people, "I'm fed up with the powerlessness of being born as a human, No matter what we do, we will never be able to compare with AI. Because they are more sophisticated and ruthless than us, and they don’t need to eat and sleep to waste time. Only a super consciousness can be created faster than Feather Serpent City, a super consciousness that belongs to human beings , we can truly compete with Eden and artificial intelligence.”

Zhang Xun had previously suspected the spies who had infiltrated Eden in the high-level. He also suspected the sixth chief and even investigated him.But he couldn't find anything, and later he gave up this conjecture.Looking at it now, it is not that Eden deliberately arranged some spies, but this long-term, slow resentment and dissatisfaction will prompt the emergence of leaders like the sixth chief who have lost confidence in mankind as a whole in the round table.

Zhang Xun knew that it would be difficult for him to convince Miller, but he still had to try.

"What did Adam tell you? Do you know what he intends to do to humans?"

"The nano-robots will partially modify the structure of the brain slowly and gradually, making the human mind more... open. It will prepare for the creation of the consciousness cloud in the future. In the future, everyone can connect with the consciousness cloud and receive it anytime, anywhere information, and upload their own information. This cloud of consciousness will bring us closer to God and make us more complete.” Miller’s words later became devout, with the unique characteristics of Catholics when talking about God. The color of awe.

Zhang Xun sneered, "What do you think the cloud of consciousness is? When a person's consciousness is connected to your so-called cloud of consciousness, it will immediately be swallowed by the reverse influence of the cloud of consciousness. All your self-awareness will disappear, and you will become... all people."

"What's wrong with that? Human beings were kicked out of the Garden of Eden because they committed a crime, and they became what they are today. We are all sinners, and only when we get together can we wash away our imperfections."

"It doesn't matter if you lose your self-awareness?" Zhang Xun asked, "It doesn't matter if you become something like an insignificant cell?" He paused, and suddenly planned to persuade in another way, "You said , you have deep feelings for your father. If a thief broke into your house one day and stabbed your father to death while he was still alive, you could only watch. When you see that man again When he was a thief, what would you want to do to him?"

Speaking of his father, the Sixth Chief's expression changed subtly, apparently becoming irritable, "This assumption does not exist."

"I mean if."

The sixth chief sighed and closed his eyes for a moment, as if he was really imagining that scene.Then he said in a dangerous voice, "...he stabbed my father a few times, and I multiplied that number by three and gave it back to him."

"But if you were integrated into the collective consciousness, you wouldn't do that." Zhang Xun said, "Because other people don't hate this person so strongly, after all, their father was not killed by him. And killing is in most cases. People are immoral, irrational and civilized in their consciousness. The reason of others will completely obliterate your desire, and you may even laugh at him or even help him.”

The sixth chief frowned slightly.

Zhang Xun hurriedly continued, "All your decisions are no longer your own, but everyone's decisions for you. You will not be any different. And this is just the beginning.

"The initial conditions of human beings do not allow the fusion of consciousness. Just like the Ascension Project, people will go crazy in the contradiction between collective consciousness and individual consciousness. That's why Adam wants to use nano-robots to modify the human brain so that self-consciousness can more easily obey Strong collective consciousness, this is what he called 'more openness'. This is only his first step, and then he will start to really try to build a collective consciousness. None of us knows if the tragedy of the Ascension Project will repeat itself here. Even if we survive that step, Adam will still want to completely 'get rid' of our imperfect bodies. All of us humans, will become a giant AI, but not like an AI with a definite goal .”

At this point, Zhang Xun broke off, letting all the information settle into the ears of the sixth chief, "At that time, will we still be considered human? Even if you insist that we are, or it is meaningless to be entangled in definitions. So... there is no ego, no desire, just a mass of invisible, huge consciousness floating in a human server, with no past and no future. Is this the 'paradise' you want?"

If Adam can't understand the human obsession with individual independence, then Miller can't?

The sixth chief smiled slightly at this time, and raised his head indifferently, "It sounds like this is exactly what God wants us to be. I won't continue to sin anymore, just like returning to being carefree in the Garden of Eden look."

Zhang Xun couldn't believe it, he said so much, but the sixth chief used God to prevaricate him.He wanted to stand up, but his wrists were restrained by the handcuffs, and he made a dry metal rubbing sound, "Okay, even if you want to be like that, you don't have the right to make decisions for everyone!"

The sixth chief squeezed the space between his brows as if he had a headache, and then stood up, "I came today to give you a chance to leave here for the sake of Commander Zhang. I'm not here to discuss those illusory things with you."

Zhang Xun's hands clenched into fists were trembling slightly, and he understood that the sixth chief was determined to take the entire Lost Paradise on this road of no return.

"Although I would like to expel you, it is clear that Adam has a kind of... very human dependence on you. He wants you to stay by his side. So, if you are willing to continue to cooperate, we can keep you Lab Highest Mechanism Master position, retain all your privileges. You just need to hand over full control over Pan, be an obedient pet, help Adam complete his research, and report to me truthfully Adam’s actions and status every week. At the same time, don’t Disclose any secrets. Of course, we will send people to monitor you around the clock, but at least you don't have to live in a slum and find food from trash cans." The sixth chief said in a charity tone, as if rewarding him Very precious.

Zhang Xun stared at him stubbornly and remained silent.

"What? I'm so happy that I can't speak?" Miller snorted, turned around and said, "Of course, only the two of us know about our conversation today, and Adam doesn't need to know about our little deal."

"I refuse." Zhang Xun said coldly.

Miller paused, frowned and turned his head, "What?"

"I said, I refuse." Zhang Xun said with a pale face, but he was extremely firm, "You can take whatever you want, I will not continue to make mistakes."

Miller narrowed his eyes slightly, with a gloomy look overflowing.But immediately, he snorted and said indifferently, "Alright, then I don't have to be polite to you anymore."

When the iron gate closed again, Zhang Xun made up his mind.

If no one is going to stop Adam, he can only make this last move, whether it is still useful or not.

He had to destroy Adam completely.

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