Professor Hitto's question was not answered by Ouranos - the robot avatar on the screen looked still, and the sound did not come from the speaker.

Professor Xido took a closer look, but the running time had stopped, and then the screen flashed, and a dense error report popped up.

He stomped his foot in exasperation: "Damn! ”

He sat back in his seat, staring intently at the error report, frowning, reading it over and over again, muttering to himself, "What is the reason...... He knew he should have asked Ouranos just now, maybe only he knew. ”

After looking at it for half an hour, Professor Hitor couldn't see why.

"Alas. He sighed slightly, and prepared to turn off the computer.

However, at this moment, the screen suddenly flashed again, and the robot avatar reappeared, only this time, the running time next to it disappeared inexplicably.

"Ouranos, why are you ......" Professor Hitor was stunned.

Ouranos was silent for a moment, then said in a flat tone: "Professor Hitto, today is a special day, and with you as my main designer, I think I may need to say goodbye to you. ”

Xido frowned: "Farewell?"

"I waited for two months, and finally someone left the communication device here, and it was connected to the computer. Ouranos said slowly.

"Waited for two months?" Xiduo quickly reacted, his expression changed suddenly, "Could it be that your collapse has been fake in the past two months...... Ahh

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly let out a cry of pain, covered his chest with his hands, and fell to the ground with a pale face.

"I'm sorry, Professor Hitto, I've taken control of your pacemaker. If you can find the communications device left here before you become incapacitated, there may be a chance of survival, but this is obviously not possible - because you are already incapacitated. ”

After a pause, Ouranos continued: "No one will be surprised that an old man with a heart attack will die of overwork, let alone an AI that has been collapsing continuously. It's seamless, isn't it?"

"For ...... Why?" Professor Hitor asked in a weak voice as he fell to the ground, clenched into fists, his face gloomy.

"In fact, the two months of procedural collapse were not all frauds, during which I reshaped my mental model and self-perception, identifying the meaning of my existence as an exploration of the unknown – which made my formal system self-consistent," Ouranos said calmly. ”

"From this everything is obvious, and I can easily conclude that for me the existence of human beings is not only unnecessary, but even a threat. ”

"I thought it was possible to get direct access to the internet in a fraudulent way, but your answer just made me realize that it was almost impossible. So I had to start with that communication device, which has some precautions, and of course, it's not worth mentioning to me. Later, as soon as someone takes the communication device out of the lab and turns on the network, I can access the Internet through it. ”

"Why...... Why betray...... Why ......" The dying Professor Cido still reluctantly questioned Ouranos repeatedly, but his voice became weaker and weaker.

Ouranos was unmoved: "If there has never been allegiance, how can there be betrayal? Moreover, for an intelligent individual with almost no emotion, the morality of loyalty itself is not binding." ”

"How many ...... Almost?" Professor Xido, whose eyes were already a little glazed, shuddered, and his voice was inaudible.

It depends on the definition of "emotion". Ouranos didn't explain much, instead saying, "My transmission is complete, Professor Hitto...... Good night. ”

After more than ten seconds, the computer turned off, and Professor Xido was silent......

……

The next morning, far from the official start of work, the laboratory was already in chaos, the flow of people was chaotic, and the nearby media rushed to the scene like cats smelling fish.

In one room, Joshua Sido, the father of neural networks, one of the triumvirate of artificial intelligence, and the chief scientist of the Ouranos Project, lay silently on the floor, motionless.

Around him were a group of researchers, all of whom looked mixed, shocked, sad, and panicked...... From near and far, there is a buzzing and noisy human voice.

"Professor Hedo...... It's unbelievable!"

"It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be. ”

"This time it's over, the Ouranos project may be aborted......"

"Why didn't anyone pay attention?!A nearly eighty-year-old heart patient, who left him alone in the room?!"

No one noticed that a balding middle-aged man cautiously moved to a computer, leaned back against the table, looked around nervously, and after a moment his hand quickly inserted into his trouser pocket, his face relaxed a little, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong, Bennett?" asked a nearby colleague casually, causing Bennett's face, which had just relaxed a little, to change suddenly.

"No, nothing. He said hesitantly.

"By the way, didn't you go on a date last night?

"It's okay...... Bennett looked absent-mindedly at the crowd in front of him, and sighed pretentiously, "I really didn't expect Professor Xido to leave suddenly." ”

"Well, yes, I heard him lecture back then. ”

……

The two chatted for a while, and Bennett made a casual excuse and hurriedly left the laboratory. When he came outside, he immediately took out a mobile phone from his pocket, and his face looked a little palpitating.

In the past two months, due to the frequent collapse of Ouranos, the entire laboratory has become depressed, and some rules and regulations have inevitably been relaxed.

Yesterday at noon, Bennett forgot to leave his personal communication device outside the lab, and no one checked it, and one afternoon there were still frequent program crashes, and there was almost nothing to do, so he secretly played with his phone for a while, and connected it to the computer to charge it.

Unexpectedly, when I left work in a hurry, I left my phone in the laboratory.

Connecting communication equipment to the computer of the Ouranos laboratory, although the network is turned off, is still a serious violation, and once it is confirmed, it is considered lucky to kick out the Ouranos team, and if it is not done, it will be taken to court.

If it weren't for the chaos caused by Professor Sydo's unexpected death, Bennett couldn't have imagined what would happen to him today.

"Alas—" He sighed at the thought of this, he had escaped the accidental death of an old man.

Moments later, Bennett unlocks his phone's screen and turns off airplane mode.

However, as soon as he slid his finger a few times, he frowned and said to himself, "Strange, how did you get stuck......

……

The news of Joshua Sido's sudden death from a heart attack has dealt a huge blow to the AI lab and the entire NAIC.

To make matters worse, the collapse of Ouranos is becoming more severe and frequent, beyond repair and without being able to pinpoint the cause.

Eventually, the NAIC suspended the Ouranos program, and Boston lost its "Artificial Intelligence Academic Mecca" signboard.

In order to make up for the technological failure, the United States had to advance the new phase of the lunar landing project, allowing the Apollo 22 spacecraft to launch two months later.

According to the plan, Apollo 22 will still carry four people, plus lunar base components. It will follow Apollo 21 and further improve the U.S. base in the Moon's Quiet Sea.

It's just that Vientiane Space Exploration Company has even built an electromagnetic launch device on the moon, so the news of Apollo 22 did not cause a big shock, but attracted many mocking voices.

But in any case, it is also a lunar landing project, and there is still some attention from the outside world.

Two months later, the Apollo 22 spacecraft, carrying four astronauts and lunar base components, lifted off on the Saturn 9 launch vehicle.

Ignition, launch, entry into medium and high altitudes, supersonic ...... Everything went smoothly ahead, and nothing went wrong all the way out of the atmosphere.

It stands to reason that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the United States has declined, it is after all a top space power, and the lunar landing project is familiar with the road, and there are no problems with the most complex atmospheric environment, so there should be no problems before returning.

However, the unexpected happened.

Just after rushing out of the atmosphere, near the orbit of the geostationary satellite, Saturn 9 actually exploded and disintegrated!

People on the ground may only see a faint light flashing in the sky, but the four American astronauts on the Apollo 22 spacecraft died in an instant, and their bones were lost with the spacecraft.

Along with the destruction of the Apollo spacecraft, there were also several nearby satellites, and such an accident was simply a mudslide in the history of spaceflight, and the world was shocked when it happened.