Super Battleship Reborn

In the dark and cold space, white dim stars are everywhere, like gems, dotted on this pitch-black curtain. Although in Xiao Yu's speculation, these stars are all phantoms of the same star, but because of the magic of the four-dimensional space, the distribution of these stars is not regular, some are very close to each other, and some are far away . At the beginning, it was this that confused Xiao Yu, so that Xiao Yu didn't think about it.

And right in the center of this curtain, surrounded by endless white dim stars, is a star emitting dazzling white light. This star is extremely bright, and the entire area of ​​several million kilometers is illuminated by it, but its volume is not very large. Under the illumination of this star, millions of spaceships of various types lined up according to certain rules, floating quietly aside.

This star is the artificial sun created by Xiao Yu condensing the most advanced technology of the fifth-level civilization. With the anti-matter engine as its power source, it will be able to maintain this luminosity for half a month. Although its luminosity is still not worth mentioning compared to stars like the sun, its advantage lies in the penetration of light. Even at a distance of tens of billions of kilometers, Xiao Yu's detection instruments can easily capture it trail.

It just suspended in the space quietly like that, without any movement. But Xiao Yu knew that the light emitted by it was rapidly rushing to the end of the universe. If his guess was correct, after reaching the edge of the universe, it would be reflected back and enter himself again among the observation instruments.

Xiao Yu at this moment is in this waiting.

Xiao Yu has recorded the star maps in all parts of the sky in detail. If there is another star for no reason, Xiao Yu will definitely find it at the first time.

fact. It did not exceed Xiao Yu's expectations. Time, two days and fifteen hours later, above the celestial sphere, Xiao Yu saw a star suddenly appear there. Spectral observation and photometric testing were all exactly as expected.

Such a situation is very strange. This artificial sun is right next to Xiao Yu, but its light has once again reached his eyes from a place tens of billions of kilometers away from him.

Then the conjecture that the three-dimensional universe is a four-dimensional sphere has been basically confirmed. Xiao Yu immediately released his latest observation data to the scientists, and expressed his conclusion, The next step. I will manipulate us fleet, set off in that direction.

After confirming the first point, it is natural to verify the second point. If the second point is also verified, Xiao Yu really came to this artificial sun again after sailing a distance of tens of billions of kilometers. Then there is nothing more to doubt.

Based on the two data of time and the speed of light, Xiao Yu easily calculated the distance. That's about 68 billion kilometers. For the voyage of light is a round-trip voyage. So divide this number by two to get the diameter of this small universe, which is about 34 billion kilometers. This number is not large, it can be said to be very small, compared with the vast and boundless universe, this distance. Not even ants. You know, if the Oort Cloud is the border of the solar system, this small universe is far inferior to the solar system. The diameter of the Oort cloud is a full two light-years. Nineteen trillion kilometers.

The scientists who got the latest data are very excited. This means that we are one step closer to solving the mystery.

Under Xiao Yu's control, the huge fleet began to set sail, and the conventional engines ejected a hot wake, pushing them forward quickly,

The speed became faster and faster, until it reached 170,000 kilometers per second. At this speed, after about four and a half days, Xiao Yu's fleet stopped.

During the voyage, Xiao Yu did not notice any peculiar things such as traveling through space. In fact, the curvature of the three-dimensional space is at the level of the four dimensions. If you cannot reach the height of the four dimensions, you will not be able to perceive such a curvature. Even if you come to the edge of the universe, the scenery will be exactly the same as other places without any difference. Passing through the edge of the universe, it will not be noticed by anyone or equipment.

At this moment, in front of Xiao Yu, is a star exuding dazzling light. Its luminosity is high, but its volume and mass are small, so it can be easily distinguished from other stars. The first moment he saw this star, Xiao Yu was sure of one thing.

It is the artificial sun launched by itself. After sailing a long distance of 68 billion kilometers, he returned to the origin again.

Xiao Yu has passed through the edge of the universe without knowing it, and his course has been reversed without knowing it.

So far, our inferences have all been verified. Xiao Yu thought silently, The Tolor civilization is not that powerful after all. The billions of stars here are all the same star.

In this case, we have passed the first test.

That's good, let's set off to the target. Smart One has given us enough hints that it is on that dwarf planet. Xiao Yu made a decision: All spaceships are on combat readiness.

Xiao Yu is not sure whether this Smart One has his own thinking. In order to prevent accidents, Xiao Yu did not take it lightly.

In other words, Xiao Yu is still not sure whether this Smart One is benevolent or malicious to him. After all, an existence with its own thinking, whether it exists in a biological body or in the computer world, will always have many unpredictable behaviors. Just in case, the necessary precautions are still necessary.

Although Xiao Yu itself is not too different from mechanical civilization, there are still essential differences between Xiao Yu and mechanical civilization. The predecessor of Xiao Yu was a civilized intelligent creature, while the predecessor of mechanical civilization was a machine.

Until now, with Xiao Yu's current level of technology, real artificial intelligence, a computer creature with its own independent thinking, is still an incredible existence for Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu has never been able to imagine that a living and autonomous life will be born from the nothingness of the code segment.

During this period of time, Xiao Yu has made as detailed a guess as possible about the so-called mechanical civilization. The speculative conclusion shows that due to the continuous improvement of the perfection and complexity of the code, in the sixth-level civilization, the so-called mechanical life with a certain degree of autonomy may indeed be born, and they can even learn independently and absorb new knowledge. After all, the computer technology commonly used by the sixth-level civilization is a light computer architecture that I have not yet understood. There is only one chip in the entire computer, and all other components are composed of empty light.

However, according to Xiao Yu's speculation, even if the sixth-level civilization can create real electronic life, it is absolutely impossible for these electronic life to be innovative.

And the most important point, apart from not having the ability to innovate, these electronic life forms will also have another restriction, that is, the hard restriction left by their writers in their core code segments.

These hard limits cannot be violated. In Xiao Yu's speculation, if these hard restrictions are violated, all relevant code segments that make up this program, or this intelligent life, will collapse, and it will die directly. But there is a loophole in it. Although these hard restrictions cannot be violated, it does not mean that loopholes cannot be found. For example, a very simple example, if a program is required, the safety of human beings must be protected, that is, human beings cannot be actively killed, and human beings must be rescued when they are in danger. This restriction seems to be perfect, but it is still full of flaws.

If there is an autonomous intelligent program that wants to control the world, but because of these two conditions, it can neither kill humans on its own initiative nor rescue humans when they see danger, then what should it do?

The answer is simple, confining all human beings to a fixed place, restricting their freedom for reasons of safety, because there are always dangers in the external environment, and staying here is undoubtedly the safest. It is enough to provide enough food for human beings while restricting freedom.

Is this intelligent program actively killing humans? No. Is this intelligent program refusing to rescue human beings when they see danger? No. In fact, it gives human beings the safest treatment - what environment can be safer than staying inside and not going out? After all, in the external environment, you may be hit to death by a car, you may be crushed to death by a collapsed building, or you may be crushed to death by a meteorite falling directly from the sky.

It seems that this program does not violate any restrictions, but in fact, it still controls the entire world through this method.

This is the scary thing about intelligent life. There is even a more terrifying point, it can also prohibit human beings from carrying out any reproductive activities on the grounds that birth will be dangerous, which will eventually lead to the extinction of all human beings. This may seem cruel, but it still does not violate any of the basic principles.

This is what Xiao Yu is afraid of. Xiao Yu believes that the Tollor civilization really wants to leave a legacy to the dwarves, but Xiao Yu can't believe this Smart One. Because in the initial stage, no matter how perfect the restrictive conditions are, there will be loopholes, and as long as this Smart One has its own thinking, as long as it does not want to let itself get the inheritance smoothly, it can always find loopholes to exploit. For example, increasing the difficulty of the test, such as deliberately concealing certain information and the like.

So in the process of approaching this dwarf planet, Xiao Yu maintained sufficient vigilance.