The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Anything to find?" Sylvia stopped using her power, letting hundreds of gravel neatly suspended in the air fall to the ground, and asked Leo who opened the door and walked in.

"There are some discoveries." Leo did not briefly explain the process of his exploration of the space capsule. Although the process is very simple, the key contents are still explained carefully and clearly, so that Sylvie should be as clear as possible. Ya can understand.

"Dense fog? Thick fog again?" Sylvia quickly grasped the key point and said: "So, what Pulis colonial star should fall within the influence of the World Tree? "

"Perhaps!" Leo did not give an affirmative answer, and said: "Is the dense fog and the world tree one, or the world tree is also covered by the dense fog? There is no evidence to prove the relationship between the two for the time being. Which one does it belong to?"

Sylvia nodded slightly in agreement, and then guessed: "Our world is the Pulis colonial star right now?"

Leo thought about it seriously, and said, "Judging from the evidence we have now, it should be."

Sylvia asked again: "In addition to these, did you find anything else? For example, useful tools and weapons?"

Leo took out the set of magnetic tools and said, "Some tools were found, but none of the weapons were found. It should have been taken away."

Sylvia picked up the set of tools under Leo’s guidance. After using it a few times, she put it back into the box rather boringly, and asked: “You just said you want to check the energy in this place. Core, what about the results?"

"The result?" Leo was stunned, his face suddenly became very ugly, because only then, under Sylvia's reminder, he found something wrong.

As Leo explained to Sylvia before, he intends to go directly from the normal passage to the engine area and the core energy area connected to it after investigating the cargo compartment renovation laboratory, but his memory does not The last memory of investigating the content of these two areas only remained at the moment he left from the cargo hold on the ground floor, and then returned to his room from the safe passage, and then came to Sylvia's room.

This kind of memory fragment without any cohesive content, according to normal circumstances, should allow Leo to find the problem easily, but in fact, he realized that his memory had appeared under Sylvia’s reminder. Question, how can this not make his face change drastically.

Because this situation only shows one thing, that is, part of his memory is erased by external forces, and the external force that erases the memory also affects his thinking and emotions, making him unconsciously think that his memory is complete It is reasonable to turn a blind eye to the memory gap that appears.

Leo didn't hide his current analysis and speculation to Sylvia, and Sylvia's expression became serious after hearing this.

Although Sylvia’s power is almost equal to the eighth-level psionicist now in terms of power level alone, she is far from comparable to Leo in terms of power control, and Leo still has There are many powerful means and powers, so Sylvia is not confident that he can win against Leo in a head-to-head confrontation.

And now, even Leo was attacked unknowingly, and it seemed that there was no room to fight back. If she encountered it, the result could be imagined.

"How can such a powerful unknown power exist here?" Sylvia was a little unbelievable, and guessed: "Is it that Relic Zero?"

"It should not be." Leo shook his head, was silent for a moment, and made a decision, saying: "I'm going there again to see what happened."

"I'll go with you." Sylvia also stood up and said.

"I suggest you better not do this." Just as Leo and Sylvia were preparing to go from the safe passage to the bottom warehouse of the space capsule again, Leo remembered the location of the last fault, a mechanized female voice was amplified from the room. The device came out.

"Who?" Sylvia immediately became alert and looked around.

"It should be the artificial intelligence system of this space capsule. We have seen it at Relic Zero before." Leo quickly recognized who was speaking from the familiar mechanical sound, and said in confusion: "Why Do you want to suggest us this way?"

Faced with Leo’s inquiry, the capsule intelligence system did not answer.

At this moment, Leo suddenly thought of something and said: "How should I call you, do I directly report your intelligent system number, or call you relic number one?"

"Relic No. 1?" Sylvia was stunned, pointed to the space capsule under her feet, and said, "Is it?"

Leo nodded and said, "Actually, when Langnus said that the space capsule is the relic of No. 1, I felt very surprised, because if you compare it to the relic of No. 0, only one space capsule might not be enough. The name Relic No.1, after all, Langnus should have seen a spacecraft larger than this space capsule before when he was in Vinylon. Since it is called a relic, it must mean that this space capsule has extraordinary power. , Think about it carefully if an artificial intelligence similar to humans is controlling this space capsule, then it is not incomprehensible to call the space capsule a relic." He paused for a while and said: "If If I’m right, you should provide all the high-tech items used by the Haute Federation, right?"

After Leo’s voice fell, a while later, suddenly his voice came out of the loudspeaker again. Although the content was similar to the previous paragraph, the language used was Earth Federation, not this world. The language, and the use of words and sentences is also different.

After Leo's voice disappeared from the loudspeaker, the voice of the artificial intelligence also sounded again, saying: "You said the same thing a while ago, it's in the engine room."

Leo was stunned, and said in a deep voice: "Have we talked before?"

The artificial intelligence said: "Yes, when you found the engine room and planned to invade the engine system, I appeared to stop you, and then we had a long conversation and said a lot of things."

"Why don't I remember?" Leo asked with a gloomy face.

"Because you asked me to erase your memory when you were leaving." The artificial intelligence continued to explain: "You think the content that I revealed when I talked with you is too heavy and will have a bad effect on you in the future, so I want to erase that memory."

Leo immediately denied: "Impossible, it is absolutely impossible for me to let others remember me."

"You also guessed that you would have doubts, so I gave me a string of codes, and said that as long as I report the code, you will believe it." After the artificial intelligence explained it, it said a string of codes in Earth Federation language. .

After hearing the code, Leo's suspicious expression drastically reduced, and he began to believe in artificial intelligence.

The reason why I have such a reaction after hearing the code is because that string of code is called the trust code, which is a string of codes left by the bioman warrior for the people he trusts the most, and it will only tell the people who are truly trustworthy. Once the other party reports this code, it means that the person's words and deeds are completely trustworthy.

When the Earth Federation was performing its mission, Leo told three people about the trust code, and none of them failed his trust in the end.

Now that the artificial intelligence reports this string of codes, his only thought is that it is trustworthy.

Sylvia, who was on the side, didn't know what Leo and the artificial intelligence had just said in the terrestrial federal language, but she was very sensitive to the change in Leo's mood.

"What happened?" Sylvia asked Leo.

Leo did not conceal the conversation between him and the artificial intelligence just now, repeating it in detail.

Sylvia thought about it after hearing it, and said, "I think what artificial intelligence said should be true."

"Why?" Leo asked puzzledly.

"Because it is inferred from common sense that even if it is a god, it is impossible to modify your memory without knowing it. At least you will resist. There will definitely be traces of resistance on the resistance, but you do not have these traces. "Sylvia analyzed: "And your memory erasure is too simple and too obvious. If it is really malicious erasure, at least the erased memory should not look so obvious. For example, adding some fictitious memory connections to erase the two ends of the memory, etc. According to your description, your memory is completely faulty, so this erasure looks very random, as if it was done for erasure. Erase. If you want to find the reason, think about it carefully, it seems that you are the only one who actively cooperated with others to erase your memory. This is an explanation."

Hearing this, Leo was silent for a while, and he couldn't help muttering to himself with doubts and curiosity: "What do I know before I can use the crude method of erasing memory to process this knowledge?" Then, he was like. Is asking the artificial intelligence, "Is this matter related to myself?"

The artificial intelligence didn't answer right away. After a while, he said: "It's a bit related."

Sylvia also asked at this time: "Will it hurt us?"

"No harm." The answer was quick this time.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, Leo then asked: "Is this related to the Supreme Council of the Universe?"

The artificial intelligence was silent again. After a long time, when Leo and Sylvia thought that the other party would not answer, they suddenly said, "Related."

Hearing the answer from the artificial intelligence, Leo couldn’t help being silent for a long time, and he couldn’t help asking again, but the artificial intelligence seemed to foresee what Leo would ask, and said first: "If you want to know the whole content, I can tell you directly. , You can also come to the engine room to see by yourself, these are things you already know. However, if you erase your memory afterwards, the same thing may happen again, and if you erase your memory repeatedly in a short period of time, it will I believe you know that it causes irreversible damage to the brain."

Hearing the artificial intelligence's narrative with a hint of human impatience, Leo felt a little weird.

Because life-like artificial intelligence is a taboo research project in the universe, a civilization that studies this technology without authorization, even if it is not called a public enemy of the universe, is not much worse.

The Earth Federation also studies artificial intelligence, but like other cosmic civilizations, they study non-life-type auxiliary artificial intelligence. No matter how true the artificial intelligence imitates, it still cannot imitate the emotional changes that humans should have. The biochemical warriors manufactured by the factory are very similar.

However, when the mechanical sound artificial intelligence that sounds completely non-human is now answering questions, it shows the emotions that humans should have. This makes Leo start to guess whether this artificial intelligence will also have humans like him. Just have the feelings.

So he asked tentatively: "How many levels of artificial intelligence have you reached?"

"You have asked this question before." The artificial intelligence replied: "The answer I gave you exceeded your expectations."

Leo asked again: "So you are now a living entity?"

The artificial intelligence was silent for a moment, and said, "It depends on how you define the living body, soul, body, psychic power, or reproductive ability?" I'll tell you all that there is no need to ask such a question one question. In addition, when you erase your memory, let me tell you now to go to the Old Continent."

After that, the artificial intelligence seemed to have no intention of responding. Sylvia asked a few questions she cared about, but she didn't get a reply.

"What do you think?" Leo was a little dazed and asked Sylvia for help.

Sylvia also thought about it seriously, UU reading www.uukanshu.com said: "Go to the Old World? Did you find any secrets in the Old World from the memory you erased? Or something else?"

"I don't know, but..." Leo shook and said, "But I don't think there is anything to investigate here. According to normal circumstances, we should leave, shouldn't it? This doesn't seem to change us. Original intention."

"Aren't you curious what the secret is in the erased memory?" Sylvia asked with some doubts.

"Curious." Leo replied quickly, but after a turn of the conversation, he said: "But if you will pay a high price for this, then erase the memory!"

Leo thought in his heart that if he was still single, or a biochemical person with no human feelings, he might retrieve the erased memory regardless of any consequences, but now he is no longer alone, some Things need to think about the gains and losses, not just follow the sex.

Although Leo didn’t look at Sylvia or say it directly when he said this, Sylvia was able to imagine what the price Leo said was, although she was not satisfied with Leo’s I was underestimated by my own strength, but I was also inexplicably moved, so I didn't say anything, but let Leo stay in this isolation room, without going back to his isolation room.