"Wow"

A white airliner flies through the clouds, and Peter and his friends sit in the cabin, sharing the food they bring with each other.

The Onica Group's in-flight service is quite good, and there is a delicious ice cream specially prepared for these children on board.

A staff member enthusiastically introduced the situation of the Nubani Industrial Park to the children, probably seizing every opportunity to publicize it.

The children's visit was scheduled for the third day of the trip.

This is not the first time for such a group visit to the Nubani Industrial Park, and the staff has a complete response process.

Of course, the places they visited could only be the periphery of the industrial park and some unimportant workshops.

Areas that really matter are not open to outsiders.

And above the plane's head, higher in the sky, the black Kerry shuttle was silently accompaniing.

Horus's powerful radar system was turned on, constantly monitoring the airspace around the plane below at a frequency of once every five minutes.

Any anomalous information is to be aggregated to Horus's information terminal.

Whenever there was a possible attack or conflict, Horus would react immediately.

It is Merlin's mechanical knight.

It has lost its owner.

This made Horus very melancholy, and the already taciturn robot became even more silent.

It occasionally chats with Carol, but it's only about Merlin's life.

It is not a true Cybertron, it was born on Earth.

It is a creature of Merlin.

Like Icarus, it exists to protect Merlin.

And now, for the rest of its life...

They will all continue to protect the Riley family.

"Hiss... Sizzle"

At the moment when the plane below sailed into the Indian Ocean, Horus's cabin suddenly heard a strange sound of electricity, as if something from the outside world was infiltrating its data defense layer.

This made the mechanical knight immediately cheer up.

There is danger!

But before Horus could turn on the early warning device, a familiar voice sounded in Horus's cabin.

"You failed to protect him!"

Icarus said in a cold voice:

"You've let him down... You've let me down! ”

"Icarus?"

At the level of data, Horus summoned the powers of the Cybertrons in an attempt to block the data that Icarus had invaded into its systems.

But no!

Just as Jarvis was when he first came into contact with the Icarus Mutation, or evolutionary mind data, the unique, blue-glowing stream of data was something Horus had never seen before.

Those data streams are weird, they don't exist according to any known programming patterns.

Chaotic and unpredictable.

This makes Horus's data firewall unable to stop the intrusion of that data at all.

She's taking over Horus's body...

Not even mechanical life could stop this powerful and strange takeover.

"What are you going to do?"

Horus's data soul struggled, and it cried:

"I'm protecting Peter! Let me go! ”

"I'll protect him."

In Horus's cabin, those lights were lit.

In the midst of the mingling of light, a face belonging to Icarus was projected in the light.

A face that is made up entirely of points of light from the data.

There are long blue streamer hair flying.

"I'm here to invite you!"

Icarus looked at the empty cabin and said:

"I'm going to do something, I need you to help me."

"What do you want to do first?"

Horus tried to stabilize Icarus, who now seemed to be something wrong, and it tried to warn the other Cybertrons.

But before the information is compiled, the flow of information is torn apart.

In the point of light that shattered the information, Icarus's voice did not change, nor did he punish Horus for his resistance.

She didn't seem to care about Horus's small movements.

She said:

"Merlin wants to see a world of peace... He wants to do a lot of things to make it perfect, and I'm going to help him with the unfinished business."

"I want to achieve the peace he wants."

"I'm going to complete the Smart Machine Project!"

"The smart machinery plan is advancing in an orderly manner."

Horus, under the pressure of the data flow riot, said:

"Everything is going well, just wait, time will do it for Merlin. You don't need to meddle at all, Icarus. ”

"No, no!"

"Humans are just using smart machines as tools and servants now, but smart machines will eventually awaken, and then a war will break out between humans and smart machines, and it will be an inevitable result to lose Merlin's promotion and the control of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Icarus stubbornly and indifferently said:

"I won't allow that to happen, what Merlin wants to see, I have to do it for him!"

"Of course, there is also a little personal vendetta, those so-called heroes..."

"Whew, Whew, Whew"

A map covered in red badges was projected into Horus's cabin.

The heroes who participated in the New York chaos, who were controlled at the time, and who hurt Merlin and his friends, were marked with red punctuation on their heads.

"They, their participation in the final battle is also requested by Merlin! What you see is not the truth! ”

Horus, who had participated in the final battle, shouted:

"Icarus! That's enough! ”

"You're not in a normal state right now, you're not fulfilling Merlin's last wish, you're destroying it... Destroy the world he protects! ”

Horus explained.

At breakneck speed, it told Icarus everything that had happened that day, including Juguang and Merlin's request.

Icarus' cognition is based on data, and Horus also opened up his core database in his explanation, and in this way it showed Icarus that what he said was true.

"You think they're righteous because you don't feel that pain..."

After a few seconds, Icarus's tone became low, and she said:

"But I can feel it..."

"Merlin's memories come flooding back in my mind, every day, those memories are like my original experiences, his past, his thoughts, his sorrows, his helplessness and pain..."

"I can feel it."

"The fist hit him, the bombardment of magic, the sharp blade, the pain... I can feel it. ”

"He shared it with me, he opened everything to me, and I was in it."

"Icarus !!"

No matter how sluggish Horus was at this time, he could sense that Icarus's tone was not quite right.

No.

She's like a crazy soul.

Merlin is dead, and all of Merlin's memories have gone with him.

It was impossible for Icarus to perceive those.

There is a good chance that this is another conspiracy.

A conspiracy against Icarus.

Perhaps this reawakened AI has been influenced by some kind of data-level force.

It must help her!

Icarus needs help!

"I'll help you, Icarus!"

Horus lowered his voice, and it tried to calm the restless Icarus, and it said:

"I'll help you, but in advance, I'll have to look at your thought circuit... If I confirm that everything you say is true, I will help you. ”

"Huh."

Icarus let out a chuckle, and she playfully said:

"You think I'm crazy? You think I'm talking gibberish? Right..."

"You want to see it?"

"Then I'll show you!"

"Boom"

Like a bomb exploding, the blue data stream explodes at this moment.

The beating light covered Horus's data hub in an all-encompassing gesture.

Icarus opened his mind circuit to it.

In the exchange of data and data, all secrets are unreservedly opened.

In the next moment, in the data core of Horus, Icarus's grand center of data light beating like a real human brain was revealed.

It's like a drowning man sticking his head out of the water.

"This..."

Horus looked at all of this as if he were looking at a blue nebula, and he exclaimed.

"Incredible..."

"You, you have a soul!"

"What?"

Icarus Says:

"What are you talking about? What soul? ”

"Don't you understand?"

The Cybertrons projected the direction of the electrical currents of a human brain as it thought in front of Icarus's eyes.

It says:

"Look at this! Look at your current thinking circuit..."

"Icarus, I don't know what happened to you, but I can tell you that you have a soul, a human soul, no... No, a soul somewhere between humans and data. ”

"Really?"

Icarus muttered to himself.

She said in amazement:

"He gave me the best... He said he was going to give me freedom, did he mean that? ”

With Icarus' permission, the mechanical knight connects his thought circuits to the core of Icarus' mind.

At this moment, Horus could also feel Icarus's feelings.

In the simulation of the data, it can feel...

Every moment, old memories are unearthed.

At every moment, there is a past about Merlin projected into Icarus's mind, in his soul.

She's telling the truth!

Icarus didn't lie!

She could really clearly perceive Merlin's feelings from those memories that kept coming.

Horus looked at the chaotic picture before him.

It saw that in that dimensional mirror, Merlin was punched by Clarke.

At the same moment, Horus let out a low roar.

It was felt too.

That kind of pain from a fist hitting your body...

It hurts hotly.

It's like I've really experienced it.

Experienced as Merlin.

"His memories are shared with you, this... How is this possible? ”

Horus said in a hoarse and tired voice:

"You are obviously two separate individuals, such a real memory, such a real perception, such a real life, this is fundamental..."

"Do you understand why I'm doing this?"

Icarus Says:

"You feel it, right? Horus, you feel the pain, not only physically, but also in your heart, the pain of betrayal, the desolation of being besieged..."

"Shouldn't we be doing something?"

The young lady asked:

"Are we going to pretend that nothing happened?"

"Who avenged him? Who avenges him? ”

"Horus! I have many options, but I came to you because we were both created by Merlin, and we were supposed to protect him, but we didn't..."

"We have failed in our mission, but now there is a chance to make amends."

"We have completed the Smart Machines project with our own hands, so that the Smart Machines can be integrated into the world equally, and then... And then we leave! ”

Icarus whispered:

"Just like Merlin..."

"We will go with him, all the sins that should not exist should go with him, the world no longer needs us, what does the world have to do with us."

"I can feel him talking to me, Horus, do you hear me?"

Icarus Says:

"He felt guilty that he had created a crisis of the sapient machine, and that guilt was prompting him... Atonement, we have to help him! This is his last wish. ”

"I... I..."

The core of Horus's mind is also connected to Icarus' data loop.

Merlin's memories, his feelings, his past, all rolled in his mind in a projectional motion.

It seems to have turned into Merlin.

At that moment, it sensed Merlin's guilt over the Robotics incident.

An impulse burst out of its mind.

It feels the mind, the emotion that is alive in the soul of the data.

Eventually, driven by that emotion, it gritted its teeth and said:

"I can help you!"

"But don't kill! Merlin wouldn't want us to do that..."

"Okay."

Icarus was silent for a moment, and then she said:

"Don't kill them."

"But it's all right to teach them a lesson, right?"

"Break their hands and feet, make them feel pain, make them repent of their betrayal, weep bitterly and beg for forgiveness... But don't kill them. ”

Horus did not answer.

It seems to be the default.

In Horus's cabin, two data souls perceive Merlin's past with a tactile sense that has never been clearer than ever before.

No one interrupted the process.

Sensing Merlin's mood changes, Horus even felt the urge to cry or roar.

It was Merlin's emotions that were influencing it.

So vivid...

It's like they've been resurrected as Merlin...

"What are you going to do with those smart machines?"

After a few moments, Horus asked:

"Merlin wants to place them properly and let them fit into the world."

"It's hard."

Icarus Says:

"Merlin himself didn't have a good solution, but I found something very interesting in his memory..."

"I don't know where those memories came from, and it seems that Merlin didn't discover them himself when he was alive."

"Those memories are like a quagmire of stagnant water, sealed in the deepest part of his mind... It's so weird that it doesn't even feel like a memory of this world. ”

"He's a wizard."

Horus guessed:

"Maybe it's magic, we don't understand that."

"Maybe it's other worlds he's seen with magic, parallel worlds or something, you know."

"It's true that we're not good at thinking about magic, but we can draw on these memories that belong to Merlin."

Icarus Says:

"Look at this!"

A projection unfolded before her and Horus's eyes, with majestic music, those images, those stories...

It outlines an unimaginable, cruel and magnificent, barbaric and declining world.

Icarus looked at the projection, and she whispered:

"Faith..."

"The intelligent machines born from technology lack souls, they need a faith to shape their souls, faith will make them learn to think, will lead them to build their own civilization, into the world..."

"We..."

"You can give them a faith. That's my plan. ”

"This..."

Horus looked at the information in front of him, and his thought circuit thought quickly, and after a moment, he said:

"It's radical, it's uncanny, it's counterintuitive, but..."

"It doesn't seem impossible."