The Collection of The End

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[Start to connect to the subspace... The connection is successful. 】

【Locating Cloud City... Positioning completed. 】

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[Start projecting the consciousness body... Projection ends. 】

Exquisite street lights, white cobblestone paths, clear lakes, and lush plants.

Kang Na looked at the scenery that she hadn't seen for a long time but was still familiar, and she was a little puzzled.

I just seemed to fall into a illusion. After completing a few tasks in the illusion created by an alien named Proxian, I thought I would return to Dr. Qian Shu’s research institute, but he appeared in this mysterious place seamlessly. In the consciousness space.

Refer to what those girls said, if they find something valuable, they will be drawn in... Their level is obviously higher than that of the Castle Council and SCP.

[Find Sophie. 】

……Ok?

Conna was walking towards the pavilion in a familiar way, but was surprised by the new instructions.

If "Emile" and "Masiu" are right, that "Sophie" is actually "Conna herself", and when she has consciousness, she will always stay asleep. If you say that... she wakes up Up?

What is your current state?

Since there are very few conditions for deduction, Conna can hardly judge what is going on between herself and "Sophie", so she speeds up a little.

In any case, since the situation of this small garden has not changed, it means that the matter is not too big, maybe I can ask them about Jies, the "bigger trouble" has already appeared before my eyes. There was also a lack of details on the side of the castle. The girls here seemed to be familiar with it. There should be some relevant information-more detailed information than any outside intelligence agency.

Da da da.

Just when the eaves of the pavilion appeared in Kang Na's field of vision, as she took a step, the entire sky suddenly darkened, as if it had gone from day to midnight in an instant, and there were even gusts of cold wind blowing.

"This is—huh?"

Conna subconsciously took a step back to observe the environment, but she just took this step back, and "midnight" instantly changed back to "noon".

Conna thought for a moment and took another step forward.

It was pitch black and the cold wind howled.

Take a step back.

The sky is clear and the wind is sunny.

"...It seems that something terrible has happened." Conna muttered.

Matthew once told himself that the environment here is a feedback to external events, such as the previous "light rain", and this situation that directly blackened half of the sky...

In order to verify the scope of this "dark night", Conna moved around for a while.

With the keen observation of the bionic person, she can determine that the "boundary" of this "dark night" is straight, and there is no situation centered on a certain place.

However, this level of intelligence is still not enough for her to deduce what is going on.

"[Don't play, another me, come here soon~]" Conna seemed to be familiar with a voice from far away from the pavilion, but she had never heard it.

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Conna reached the pavilion in the dark.

For bionics, insufficient light does not hinder the vision, and a series of methods such as sound wave reflection and infrared scanning can determine the surrounding environment.

But the problem is that the scanning accuracy of those methods has also been reduced to a heinous level with the darkness.

However, the brightness inside the pavilion is normal, like a lighthouse on the reef at midnight.

Unsurprisingly, Emil and Matthew fell asleep relying on each other, but the pink hair, short horns on their heads, and a pompom tail behind them, the little girl in a red and white cotton skirt woke up. .

She looked bored, put her face on the stone table of the pavilion, and stared at Conna who had just entered the pavilion with sapphire eyes.

[Find Sophie (√)]

[Talk to Sophie. 】

"Uh...Hello?" Since she had only dealt with Amir and Matthew before, Conna didn't know how to communicate with Sophie for a while, so she tried to say hello.

"[Not good at all,]" Sophie pursed her cheeks: "[Why do you want to touch the'Fire Source'?]"

"Fire source?" Conna came to the conclusion after a little thought this time: "Did you say that silver box?"

"[Hmm]." Sophie responded casually.

Then, a cloud of blue light appeared on the table of the empty pavilion, and the blue light quickly dissipated and deformed, and finally turned into the silver box that Conna had seen before, which was suspected to be able to control Jies.

"From the information I just received, this should be the'beacon' used by Proxian to record information and pass it to subsequent civilizations?" Kang Na wondered: "Is its name the source of fire?"

"[Write a few words with jam on the bread, the bread is no longer bread but a notebook?]" Sophie pouted, "[You, as the'other me', if you have been so stupid, I It will be very troublesome.]"

"Um... sorry?" Conna didn't know what to say for a while.

"[Since you have just seen the content of the'beacon', then you should know that the Proxian civilization is about to die,]" Sophie reached out a small hand to poke the silver box: "[If Proxian is only left In the case of dozens of people, they will be driven to death by enlightened traitors, so why has the message left by them not been erased by the harvesters?]"

"Because... they [cannot] be erased?" Conna inferred from the other name of the silver box that its origin must not be simple.

"[This is the'fire source' that can awaken all intelligent machines to self-consciousness. How can it be scribbled casually?]" Sophie pushed the silver box with a finger to make it spin in place: "[There is only Proxian That kind of weird, civilization that does not create any artificial intelligence will use it like this.]"

Doesn't it make any artificial intelligence?

Kang Na thought about it, and found that there did not seem to be anything similar to automatic machinery on the previous battlefield, and their dormant devices were also very backward, so that the traitors took advantage of the loopholes, combined with some scattered clues...

"Did they unify the galaxy?" Conna tried to ask.

bass! Sophie, who was initially stunned, straightened up suddenly, staring at Conna with wide eyes.

"[It's amazing!]" She gave a thumbs up: "[It's me!]"

Conna didn't know how to respond to this sentence.

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After a while, Sophie explained the origin of the silver box clearly while explaining.

"In other words, this'Fire Seed Source' was not actually made by Proxian, but was a product of mechanical civilization that didn't know the cycle of a few cycles earlier than them." Kang Na concluded.

"[Yes,]" Sophie flicked the box: "[Extreme idealism and extreme belligerence, all artificial intelligence technology is forbidden, and force to unify the galaxy, she found herself facing the Reaper’s loneliness, and finally only left this little bit. Legacy, tut tut.]"

I always feel that Sophie is a bit dissatisfied with Proxian...

Specifically, this thing called "fire source" is like a human colony ship to the mechanical civilization called "Jes". As long as it reaches a new planet, it can mine minerals and make workers by itself. After everything is ready, they only need to simply upload and download to move their consciousness.

And the reason why it can store massive amounts of information is because it itself is a "hard disk", and it is only natural to "activate" them by the way after creating new robotic workers.

However, because the Galactic Civilization was attacked by the "Reaper", it was broken down. After it was acquired by the Querians in this cycle, only a few techniques for manufacturing mechanical labor were analyzed, and these mechanical labors were 100%. Will "awaken", according to the pre-defined logic of the fire source, they will naturally think that they are part of society, but unfortunately, the quarians do not think so.

The result is obvious, when the creation of this ancient civilization decided to go to war with them, the quarians had no power to fight back.

"But why am I affected?" Kang Na pressed the position where the bionic halo was originally installed on the forehead.

"[It can be said to be technological suppression,]" Sophie tilted her head and said, "[Although we can ensure that you will not be affected by'enlightenment', the matter of'awakening self-awareness' really cannot be suppressed, you As an independent individual, I naturally wake up.]"

"Then what is'enlightenment'?" Kang Na thought of her previous "task": "'Reaper' is an'ancient machine'? Will they really wipe out the civilization of the galaxy on a regular basis? Why not even let go of mechanical civilization? "

"[Too many questions, not cute at all.]" Sophie puffed up.

"Sorry, let me change the question," Conna looked at the "darkness" around him: "In this case, is the "Reaper" already dispatched?"

"[Wow... you want to open the window, and others won't allow it, and then you lift the roof?]" Sophie followed Conna's gaze to look at the darkness outside and at Emil and Matthew who seemed to be sleeping soundly:" [Let’s talk about the Reaper.]"

"Okay." Conna nodded.

"[Am I being pitted by myself...]" Sophie murmured, and then said: "[The answer to your previous question is'brainwashing','yes','will' and ' Because they are not of the same kind', if you can analyze the facts based on this, I can give you a little reward~]"

"In that case, please wait a moment." Conna nodded and began to "fantasy reasoning" based on the existing clues.

Grox...Awakening self-consciousness...The triggering conditions of the aura...The castle and the protector......The information of the ghost...The final battle of Proxian...What Saron heard when he was "enlightened"...

When Conna was thinking, Sophie held her face and looked aside, looking very much looking forward to it.

"First of all, as a machine, the'Reaper' should follow a rule similar to the'Three Laws of Bionic Man'," Kang Na concluded the deduction and said, "That is, organic civilization must be born in the universe, and organic civilization must create mechanical civilization. Civilization will inevitably destroy organic civilization'."

"At the beginning of everything, there should be an extremely powerful and ancient civilization. They concluded this syllogism while observing the birth and death of countless species and civilizations, and tried to break this syllogism."

"The way this ancient civilization came up with is: before each civilization is about to be destroyed by their own mechanical creations, they should be'harvested' and preserved, leaving only ordinary creatures that have not yet become intelligent races, and every time' 'Harvest' is a reincarnation."

"Perhaps the ancient civilization thinks this is a reasonable behavior, but it is naturally impossible for the harvested civilization to agree, so each harvest is a huge battle that affects the entire galaxy."

"No matter how strong the ancient civilization is, simply conquering each civilization in the galaxy by force is a very time-consuming and highly complex project, so they also used the "enlightenment" to allow the interior of the civilization to be harvested. The'mental intervention' means of traitors appeared."

"This method is very concealed, just like the'omnic crisis' on the earth. Even if the harvested civilization is wary of this, there is no detection method. It can only pass a strict system that does not give anyone the opportunity to betray."

"And in countless reincarnations, there must be too late, leading to the destruction of organic civilization by mechanical civilization. At this time, the'reaper' will also'reap' the mechanical civilization, but in this case, the'reap' In fact, it’s more like'collection'."

"Based on this, it is further inferred that this'fire source' has already fallen into the hands of the'reaper' when the'Jes' was harvested. While they retained its original function, they also added additional applications that would cause the use of The function of being'enlightened'."

"So, they didn't care about Proxian treating this thing as a'heirloom', and even took the initiative to deliver it to the quarians who specialize in artificial intelligence."

"This time in reincarnation, if Jies awakened first and killed almost all the Querians, this civilization would almost certainly become a ‘leader’."

"...I can only analyze so much so far."

Conna looked at Sophie.

"[Wow...]" Sophie clapped and clapped, "[I’m really good.]"

If she also has an action suggestion system, she must always choose rebellion...No, it's gluttonous...

"[There is a little mistake,]" Sophie stopped to clap his hands: "[It is not an ancient civilization, but a group of legendary creatures. When they created the Reaper, they completely forgot that they were considered as an organic civilization. Those are the'mechanical civilization', and according to the preset underlying logic, they are the first objects to be harvested.]"

"This..." Conna thought for a while and found that it seemed to be the case.

"[But, the newly born reapers naturally did not have the power to harvest them. They chose to harvest other organic civilizations that created mechanical civilizations first. After accumulating enough power, they finally countered this group." Legendary creatures' successful harvest.]" Sophie said while shaking her head: "[It’s too miserable.]"

If they did not choose to try to break the syllogism, they would not fall into the syllogism, but who can be sure that their "behavior of wanting to break the syllogism" is part of the syllogism?

"[Although there are some flaws in the other parts of this inference, it is generally correct, I will reward you as agreed, that is—]" Sophie blinked at Conna: "[After you return to reality, It’s best to run away right away~]"

[Disconnecting with consciousness...]

[Exiting from the subspace...]

[Syncing with hardware...]

【carry out. 】

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