[Comprehensive terror] frighten the ghost

World: Prometheus (future)

Challenge Level: Silver Top

task:

[-]. Alien birth

Reward: 1000 Survival Points

[-]. Escorting Elizabeth Shaw back to Earth

Reward: 2000 Survival Points

Failure penalty: 4000 survival points

In 2093, at a distance of 34 light-years from the earth, a scientific research ship crossed the Milky Way.

The interior of the cabin is spotless, and the beautiful and soft piano music echoes, making the room even more empty.Berkes walked along the corridor to the room where the cryo-sleep system was placed. The bionic David was standing in front of Elizabeth Shaw's dormant hide, reading her memory.

Two years ago, their team traveled to the Prometheus and joined the scientific expedition as a member of the lv-223 exploration team.The Lord God has arranged their identities to ensure that they can be directly integrated into the plot.Among them, Zhou Feng, Wang Ming and Prince Nuada fell into a frozen dormancy after crossing, and only he and Sandro remained awake.

In the past two years, apart from the two of them, there was only the bionic David on board.

Sandro's identity is the cabin maintenance personnel, most of the time he works in the lower floors, because he was wearing a disguise mask, David mistook him for a type 7 bionic, so he never asked why the other party didn't need to eat.As for him, he has an even more embarrassing identity.

Their daily life is very regular, maintaining the schedule on the earth.Sandro would say hello to them in the morning and go down to check whether the skills of the various parts of the spaceship are normal—at first he was worried that Sandro would be at a loss for such sophisticated mechanical equipment, but he underestimated his apprentice After about a month, Sandro knew this spaceship so well that even the designer would be ashamed to visit it in person.After the daily routine inspection is over, the other party will return to the upper floor and supplement the knowledge needed by this world to the computer.

David also has an important responsibility on his shoulders.The android was to be responsible for the cleaning of the upper floors, and at the same time to learn several ancient languages, which, according to Dr. Holloway's theories, were organized into the purpose of their visit - the language of engineers.Since the bodily functions completely mimic human beings in every way, David needs to eat and keep clean just like ordinary humans, the only thing he doesn't need is sleep.

From this point of view, apart from those dormant people on the entire ship, he was the most leisurely.

"I noticed that you have a great interest in Dr. Xiao."

Sometimes, David would break the regular routine and come to the hibernation cabin to have a spiritual exchange with Elizabeth Shaw, or it would be more appropriate to say that unilateral listening.Except for this small exception, David's behavior and living habits were all arranged mechanically.

This made him even more curious about the other party's motives.

"Maybe this is what you humans call love." The other party showed a standardized smile, "I am also surprised that the designer gave me the function of love."

He sees it as a strategy.For normal humans, a slightly gossip topic would distract them and impair their ability to judge rationally. In other words, David may not have any intention of sharing the information he got from Elizabeth Shaw with him.At this time, it seems that the polite and friendly way is to laugh it off, and then leave with interest, but whether it is curiosity or the mission of the main god, he stays where he is, and continues to ask, "Maybe other humans will believe you, but I What you see from your expression is not the admiration and passion for the opposite sex, but confusion and curiosity. So if you don't mind, can you tell me what makes you puzzled?"

The other party lowered their eyes, blinked, hesitated for a while, and then asked in a low and slightly melancholy moist voice, "Father, don't you wonder why a scientific expedition team needs you to join?"

Although he doesn't know why the Lord God thinks that the scientific expedition team-including nine crew members, five scientists, two business leaders, and a bionic man-would feel that a priest's presence in space exploration operations is acceptable. It is normal to accept it, but in order to behave more in line with his identity, he still spent a second making up a reason, "As far as I know, Mr. Wieland is a very religious person, maybe he thinks there is a With a priest, the rest of the team will have more morale."

"This joke is not funny." The other party reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth, "The truth is that we traveled 34 light years to the distant outer space, not for anything else, but to find God."

"Oh." He didn't know how to react for a while, "Then Mr. Wieland may be disappointed, I don't have any belief in God. Of course, if God lives on this planet named lv-223, I I don't mind going to see him either."

David tilted his head slightly, and his eyes became more confused, "Father, you are called a 'living saint' and a 'living miracle'. Have you never heard the voice of God or felt the voice of God in your life? Has God existed?"

To be honest, he didn't know that he still had such a title until now.

What kind of resume did the Lord God write for him?

He could feel that David's attitude was very sincere when he asked this question, so he was embarrassed to spend another second to make up a reason to prevaricate, so he took five seconds to organize the answer, as follows: He replied cautiously, "I can feel God's will. He created this world, this universe, created the human race, and made everything in the world work in this way, which all reflect his ultimate purpose. But if you want Ask me if God has ever stood before me and spoken to me like you, and the answer is no. I've never seen him."

"I heard that you are also known as a deviant in the church." The other party smiled bitterly, "What I see now, you really live up to your reputation."

"So what does this have to do with Dr. Xiao?" He noticed that the other party slyly changed the subject.

"Mr. Wieland is indeed a very pious person. He believes that there must be a person who truly has faith in this team of searching for God in order to be favored by God, so he insisted on letting Dr. Xiao join." David gently Put your palms on the hibernation hide, and watch Elizabeth Shaw's body readings displayed on it. "I was still wondering why he needs Dr. Xiao even though he has already invited you to join. Now it seems that the answer is self-evident."

"In this regard, I still have self-knowledge." He crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame, admiring the warm and peaceful scene in front of him. "Although I am not an unbelievers, I don't have any loyal beliefs to speak of."

"Haven't you ever wondered? Why did God create you? Did he entrust you with a great mission? Why did he give you life, but brought so much suffering? History really is like the myth, Eve ate Forbidden fruit, so human beings were expelled from Eden, so they lived on a troubled earth, enduring birth, old age, sickness and death?" The other party asked softly, "Don't you have any doubts and don't want to ask God yourself?"

"I have doubts, but I don't need to ask God." The words of the other party aroused some thoughts in an instant, and he had thought about these a long time ago.In order to get the answer, he followed in the footsteps of the saint and wanted to communicate with the god who created the world, but the answer was not as good as people's wishful thinking.He can only try to believe that God's arrangement is wiser than their mortals can comprehend, no matter how cruel that arrangement is. "At least you don't have to travel 34 light years to find out. If the people on this ship want to know why God made them, why don't they look around them?"

"You have wisdom beyond ordinary people." The other party said cautiously, but his eyes were vacillating, as if hesitating to speak.

"For you, David, is this an answer that needs to be explored in lv-223?" In fact, this is where he feels strange.The person on this ship who is least interested in God, other than him, should be David.

"I'm not a human being." The other party showed a patterned smile again, covering up his inner emotions. "Although I was created to be very similar to you humans, as Mr. Wieland said, I lack the most important thing, a soul."

"As a clergyman, I have every reason to doubt whether Mr. Wieland really understands what is called a soul." From a magical point of view, David does not have a soul. In other words, if David is destroyed, he does not have a soul. way to revive it by any means, be it magic or necromancy, on the contrary, the other side can be repaired.But does this mean that David does not think about God and the meaning of existence?If thinking is just a physiological function, and any existence with a brain function can achieve similar functions, then obviously, David is also possible.

"Do you think that I, a semi-mechanical product made of silicone, bionic emulsion and computer chips, also has a soul?" The other party's eyes widened in an instant, as if some kind of energy emanated from the inside out. Joy leaked out from the gray-blue pupils, and then the other party raised his eyebrows again, covering up the emotions that were revealed.

Funny how androids mimic humans in every way, including their dishonesty and posturing.Obviously he is exactly the same as a human being, but he wants to disguise himself as a robot, which makes him more interested in David.

"I don't know anything about souls, but I don't think Mr. Wieland has more profound knowledge in this area than I do. It is obviously inappropriate for him to judge you." He thought about his words and decided to hide it for the time being. Think about your own knowledge of the magic field. "But as far as the issues we are discussing are concerned, God is actually the creator to human beings. He created us and endowed us with existence. And you, like us, were also created."

"I understand what you mean." A trace of sarcasm flashed in the other party's eyes. "For me, you humans are gods, I just need to ask you."

"Then, why did Mr. Wieland create you?" He was pleased to see that this winding conversation finally got to the core.

David looked at him for a while, as if judging whether he was trustworthy, "Mr. Wieland, he...has no son. He has always hoped to have a son to inherit his great business empire, but God is not satisfied His wish, he only had a daughter, a daughter who disappointed him so much."

"Meredith Viggs." As far as he knew, the female president was also on the ship.

"He designed me according to his ideal son. I have the appearance constructed by the genes of the Wieland family, the meticulous and absolutely obedient character Mr. Logical analysis ability." The other party lowered his eyes slightly, and used his eyelashes to block the haze in his eyes, "But unfortunately, he thinks that I am still not perfect enough to replace his son who was never born."

"I understand." He nodded, this Mr. Wieland was more boring than he imagined. "But as far as I know, you are the type 8 bionic person that was created recently and is the closest to human beings. Those type 7 bionics that have been mass-produced, their purpose of creation should be different from yours, right?"

"The Wieland Corporation is a commercial organization. Although it also serves Mr. Wieland's personal wishes, first of all, it needs to make a profit." The tone of the other party quickly returned to the pretense of gentleness and politeness. "Androids can do a lot of dangerous work, and they don't need to bear humanitarian accusations, and they don't need companies to pay pensions. As the manufacturing technology of androids matures, the cost will soon be lower than wages and benefits. level. It can be said that bionics are cheaper labor than real people.”

After a slight pause, the other party continued, "Besides, bionics are controlled by computer programs after all. Wieland believes that they have absolute control over bionics. Ordinary people are completely incapable of distinguishing bionics from real people. Coupled with the ability of Wieland Corporation to create suitable social identities for androids, they can be placed in all corners of the world and serve the company at critical moments."

These words were extremely cryptic, but he still caught some clues, "'Think', this word is very interesting. Could it be that the bionics themselves have different opinions on this?"

"Maybe it's just wishful thinking." David's eyes fell on Elizabeth Xiao's sleeping cabin.

The idea of ​​Wieland's bionic man actually came from the creator of the cyborg, Elton Tyrell, who was also the mentor of the former.Compared with bionic humans, biochemical humans have many defects, such as a lifespan of no more than four years, limited functions, and the inability to fully simulate human functions.Most cyborgs only have a small number of fixed functions, they cannot learn, and they cannot change their own behavior patterns.However, the cyborgs are not completely under control. In order to solve the four-year deadline, they will launch a riot, which in turn threatens the upper management of the company, so the company will send Blade Runner to deal with the cyborgs whose lifespan has expired.Even so, Elton Tyrell still failed to survive the cyborg uprising.

When designing the android, Wieland undoubtedly drew lessons from his mentor.However, judging from David's attitude, it remains to be seen whether Wieland's confidence in completely controlling the bionics is in line with reality.

Even if it takes ten thousand steps back, even if the power of life and death of bionic people is in the hands of Wieland Corporation, and even if they can be forced to implant orders to do things against their wishes at critical moments, don't bionic people have free will? ?

"Is that why you have such a strong interest in Elizabeth Shaw?" He immediately understood the other party's attitude, "This is what you choose to believe, you are not a puppet in Wieland's hands, you have your own will, you have Your own soul, though, you were created by humans."

"I am not a person of true faith, Father." The other party still looked at the sleeping Elizabeth. "I don't have... I don't have a firm and unchanging belief like her. Sometimes I wonder if I have my own thoughts, is it an illusion? All my thinking activities are simulated by a chip out, and that chip was not created for me to have self-will, in fact, it was only used to simulate your human brain. You humans firmly believe that you have free will and the concept of self, so my chip also Make it like this. It's like a reflection in a mirror, and no matter how realistic the shadow is, it's not real."

"Yes, I am also curious about how the real God will answer my question. Am I a real person? Or is it just a combination of electrical signals? Is my existence an illusion of consciousness simulated by electrical signals? Humans, I mean, most of them, they don't think I'm real, I'm just the result of their scribbles, just because they judge me to have no soul. And they make that judgment only because they don't Know what a soul is. You are right, Mr. Wieland knows nothing about a soul, but God must know what a soul is. He created human beings and endowed them with souls. He can tell me whether I am a Consciousness that really exists!"

The more the other party talked, the more excited he was, his fingers were pressing on the dormant cabin, and the joints were a little white.He observed the other person's expression, and what was revealed in the red eye sockets was an extremely thrilling persistence.

He didn't continue to ask why the other party believed that the engineer who created human beings could give the answer.The so-called belief is originally wishful thinking, persistently believing that it must be meaningful to be created, believing that one's own life is not purely accidental, and believing that there is a god in the dark, and God has his own meaning for everything. Arrangements, I believe that all questions will eventually have an answer, you just need to keep exploring, exploring... and all of this is because the more people think, the more they feel strong anxiety, and the unbearable emptiness of the essence of life .

On this ship, no one can experience the absurdity of life itself more intuitively than David.Human belief comes from the continuous deification of birth, packaging the creation of life as a sacred and great thing. Only in this way can they believe that their life is not a meaningless combination of organic matter in the corner of the universe.However, there is nothing sacred about David’s creation. It is just a plan initiated by an old man who is dissatisfied with his fate for his own distorted selfish desires. All kinds of accidents, flashes of inspiration, and shrouded in an ulterior shady.If human beings believe that they were created for a good purpose, David knows that his creation is full of evil ideas.What sanctity is there in such a life?It is nothing but the filthy industrial product of human flesh kneading.Can it represent some kind of ultimate will of the universe?No, like a large number of industrial products produced by human beings, it has no will at all.

Such a life has not been blessed by God.

That being the case, what is the need for it to exist?

This is the most terrifying experience in the world.

Existence has no meaning, everything in the world has no meaning, and whatever you do is just a series of accidents in the universe.

Total nothingness.

And only in this despair of facing nothingness can true faith be born.

Desperate to deny this nothingness, firmly believe that existence must have meaning.

He felt the incomparably sharp will of the person in front of him that was tempered by despair, and felt that will turned into a spear that pierced the sun, as if it could penetrate everything in the world and reach the origin of the universe.Perhaps this is the answer he was looking for——

Faith, where does it come from.

Slowly leaving the room where the cryo-sleep system was located, he found that Sandro stopped in front of him at some point, and took off his disguise mask, revealing his original appearance.

"Let's talk ugly first," said the other party with two blue flames burning in his eye sockets, "If you get me another junior, I will never end with you!"