The mechanic.

Zhang Xun's words stirred up dark ripples in the clean and white meeting hall, and suppressed anger smoldered under the calm surface.

But the high priest Yizli was not affected by Zhang Xun's words.

"Men are guilty." Izli said slowly, "Patriarchy has lasted on the earth for thousands of years, and during these thousands of years we have consumed the earth to the point where it is almost unsustainable. We regard women as belongings and plunder them. They are proud of possession, hate and fight each other, manufacture weapons that can destroy our only earth, and keep plundering and taking it for granted. If there is no Eden, if Eden does not take various necessary measures, the current earth may be It’s a piece of scorched earth that has been hollowed out. Yes, we don’t hate Eden as much as you do. When a man makes a mistake, he must atone for his sin and find a way to evolve instead of standing still and being stubborn.”

"It doesn't matter even if Eden uses you for experiments?" Zhang Xun took a step forward and asked, "How many of you died in the Ascension Project?"

"Ah, you've heard about the Ascension Plan." Izli smiled, stood up slowly from the chair, and walked down the three circular steps, "Did you hear about it from the prisoners you captured?"

"And those who fled from you."

"Any experiment has victims. All our subjects are voluntary."

"I'm not blaming your actions. It can even be said that I can understand what you want to create." Zhang Xun slowed down his tone, showing all the sincerity on his expression, "You want to get close to God and discard The sinful male body becomes something greater. So you try your best to transform your own body, and even want to upload the consciousness of all people. But you can't do it."

"We can't do it, can you do it?!" A priest with the appearance of a soldier said angrily.

Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and said in a deep voice, "We may be able to do it, because we are the subject of Eden's experiment."

A burst of whispers filled the air, and the high priest raised his hand, gesturing for everyone to silence, "Could it be that Paradise Lost also has a plan to ascend to heaven?"

Zhang Xun's eyes roamed the hall for a week, clearing his dry throat slightly, "The human brain is an extremely complex and precise organ. After thousands of years of evolution, it is closely integrated with all other systems of the human body. , any physical change may affect the brain, and when that effect exceeds the limit of the human brain, it will cause confusion and mental illness.

When you transform your body, you should already know that all sensory inputs must be limited within a certain value range, otherwise it will overload the brain and cause damage.You also know that it is necessary to use the flow of the solution in the machine to simulate the fluctuation of hormones and the periodic changes of various typical chemical reactions in the human body, because when these fluctuations are gone, the human brain cannot normally interpret the external stimuli they receive, resulting in Emotional and perceptual confusion.

The human brain is flexible in some respects. Even if part of the brain is injured, other parts of the brain can continue to replace the injured part of the work.But at the same time, the human brain is also very stubborn and very fragile.Like a piece of soft tofu floating in the cerebrospinal fluid, a slight collision will cause serious injury.It needs to form its own inherent thinking mode to facilitate it to understand this too complicated and chaotic world, which is the so-called consciousness.

It can be said that consciousness is attached to the brain and the body. Without external stimuli and the support of the complex bioelectrical transmission system in the brain, consciousness is empty and indeterminate.Like a puff of smoke, if you submerge it into a cloud and take it out again, what you take out is no longer the same puff of smoke as before.It may have incorporated everything it has touched, and it is impossible to separate it again. "

Zhang Xun paused here, wanting the information in his words to penetrate into the minds of these people in front of him.

The female engineer said softly, "You mean, if we convert the consciousness of the brain into data and extract it, put it in the cloud, get in touch with other consciousness, and then download it back to the original human body, what will go back is not The original person?" She frowned and shook her head, "But I have added a protective shell to the data of each individual consciousness, and this shell will filter out most of the consciousness when it is connected with other consciousnesses. Noise, only conveying certain information."

"How does your so-called shell distinguish which information is relevant and which is not? Humans can't even control what they think. For example, I tell you not to think about an elephant now. Can you do it?"

Don't think about an elephant. When the word elephant appears, the image of an animal has already appeared in the mind like a conditioned reflex.

"Consciousness is constantly glued together. When you pull out a fragment, it will naturally bring out other related information. Because this is how our brain remembers and understands the information it receives. If you insist on filtering, it is hard to To cut these connections somewhere, you either cut too much and the information fragments and loses meaning, or you cut too little and the consciousness of the bond is passed along. There is no clear line You can define what is related consciousness, so you can't create a universal 'shell'." Zhang Xun stared at her, and could see the growing uncertainty in her eyes.

She must have guessed the reason for the failure of the Ascension Plan, but she couldn't think of a solution.

"The effect on consciousness is irreversible. Just like when you learn to ride a bicycle, you will always ride a bicycle. It is impossible to forget how to ride a bicycle unless your brain is damaged. When you read a book, the ideas conveyed in the book are Once it has entered your consciousness, you can never go back to a state where you have never seen it.” Zhang Xun turned his eyes to other people, “Think about it, if this consciousness encounters hundreds of other consciousnesses. They Without the support of the body, colliding and merging. All those very different modes of thinking, worldview values, all the madness and chaos that lurks in our subconscious are all mixed together. What do you think will be the result? When these are stirred What will be the result if the things that are together are forcibly separated and then forced back into the original body and mind?"

All people have repressed primal desires, uncontrolled evil thoughts.But people have brains, organs of expression, and countless barriers that can suppress those thoughts.But even so, even when people are individuals, human beings have a strong conformity and are easily affected by the environment and the will of the group.And when the body is lost, the barrier is lost, when the darkest and most chaotic side of all consciousness is completely exposed, devouring and killing each other, the final result can only be madness.

The priests sitting on the chairs were lost in thought, but the few people behind Zhang Xun were all at a loss.Diego quietly leaned into James' ear and said, "Can you understand what they are saying?"

James glanced at him, but said nothing.

Diego snorted, "I guess you didn't understand either."

After a moment of silence, Yizli, who was already standing in front of Zhang Xun, stared at him, and said slowly, "More than a month ago, there was indeed an extremely serious accident in Feather Snake City. Among those who participated in the Ascension Plan , 26 people tried to blow up our arsenal. There are two nuclear warheads in the arsenal, if they succeed, I am afraid that Feather Serpent City will no longer exist now."

Zhang Xun opened his eyes slightly.

Did Izli speak out about this incident, does it mean he was persuaded?

The high priest continued, "There are a total of 30 people who voluntarily participated in the Ascension Plan. When the initial experiment just started, it went smoothly, but as more and more consciousnesses were uploaded to the cloud, everything It's all messed up. Almost everyone has a different degree of mental illness. From depression to schizophrenia, several people even have multiple personalities, and at most there are more than [-] personalities in the same body. We urgently The plan was stopped, but it was too late. Every day someone commits suicide, someone even kills all his relatives and then shoots himself, and someone rushes into the crowd and starts shooting indiscriminately. As a last resort, we can only isolate all participants. "

It went smoothly at the beginning because there was not much awareness of integration. Perhaps they were lucky, and the values ​​and thinking patterns of the initial subjects were relatively close.

But the subsequent development was completely expected.

"Are those people still isolated by you?" Zhang Xun asked.

Izzy nodded.

"The damage that has been done may not be able to be completely repaired. But... I may know how to alleviate their symptoms and prevent similar situations from happening in the future." Zhang Xun put his hand on his chest, where the pendant is, "as long as You are willing to help us and give me the necessary assistance."

"How do we believe that you really have this ability?" There was no provocation in Izli's words, as if he simply wanted to solve the problem, "

"Give me a week and all the materials and equipment I need." Zhang Xun said hurriedly, "I may be able to 'cure' those 26 thugs, at least make them lose their violent tendencies."

Izli hugged him heavily, and then looked at the people behind him.The rest of the priests were silent, and only one said loudly, "I don't believe his words. I think they might be spies from Paradise Lost."

Todd spat on the ground, "I'm not a minion of Paradise Lost."

"One week, I only want one week." Zhang Xun looked at Yizili intently, as if he wanted to convey his will through his eyes, "You can let the Phoenix monitor our every move, if we do something suspicious , you can put us in prison at any time."

Izli's quiet eyes lingered on Zhang Xun's face, as if he wanted to see the secrets deep in his mind through his appearance.He asked, "According to the report of the soldiers who escaped from our base last time, Adam has a strong emotional bond with you. Tell me, why did you leave Paradise Lost? Why did you betray Adam?"

Zhang Xun was taken aback for a moment, feeling a tightness in his chest.

betray……

What a cold and heartless word.

He opened his dry lips and tried to make his voice calm, but it sounded hollow, "He betrayed my trust in him. AI doesn't have the ability to love. The so-called fetters you see are just for him to pass My means to an end."

Enoch, who had been standing quietly behind Zhang Xun,'s eyelashes trembled a little, and his lowered eyelids covered his sight.

It seems that there is some sadness.