"Maybe it's because of differences in ideas, or maybe they're jealous that I've been given a new lease of life, and an irreparable rift gradually appears between me and the other eight people."

"They used to be amazing and brilliant existences, and each of them was one of the elite in human society, and they all used to have lofty and lofty ideals...... But with the passage of time, they are now just a mummy lying in a survival pod, and the only thing left in their minds is the desire for power...... There is also the thirst for immortality. ”

Qin said to himself, although there was no emotion in his tone, but the dissatisfaction and disgust Qi Lin could completely feel it.

"Are you going to break with them now?" Qi Lin asked.

"I've already broken with them."

"And ...... now?" Qi Lin was a little puzzled, since he had broken up a long time ago, why did Qin continue to stay in the organization? Could the other eight still be able to live with him in peace and security under such circumstances?

"I'm breaking with them, not with the organization, and as the founders of the organization, the nine of us have the same level of authority, and no matter what happens, we don't have the right to take each other's lives away - this is a joint oath that I won't break and neither will they." Qin Qilin explained.

"Are you so sure they won't go back on their word?" Although he does not have a deep contact with this circle, he also understands that in the face of power, any oath can be regarded as a dead letter, not to mention the spirit of contract, when the interests are large to a certain extent, the so-called spirit of contract is just a joke.

What kind of family affection, friendship, and love can be abandoned at any time, and only by any means can we successfully climb to the pinnacle of power.

"No, politicians have no bottom line and can do anything for the sake of power, but we are not politicians, we are just a group of people who came together for the future of humanity...... I've worked with them for over half a century, and I know them and they know me well......"

"And you say they crave power and immortality?"

"But when chasing desires, they have always maintained their bottom line, otherwise they would not tolerate me staying under their noses as a guy who has always been in touch with the mastermind."

"You really have a leg with the mastermind!" Qi Lin was stunned in his heart, no wonder Qin was able to obtain so much extremely secret information, and even had a cyborg as his bodyguard, if these things were linked to the mastermind, then everything would make sense, but what made Qi Lin wonder was that as one of the founders of the organization, why did he choose to contact the mastermind?

Shouldn't the organization and the mastermind be incompatible mortal enemies?

Qi Lindang even brought this question up.

"Odds with the mastermind? Do you know what the organization was created for in the first place? ”

"Isn't it against the mastermind?"

"No, it's only been how many years since the mastermind was created...... The organization existed in this world before the mastermind appeared, and our original intention was exactly the same as the mastermind: we wanted war, hunger, and hatred to disappear from this world, and we wanted to perpetuate the human race. ”

"Is this your 'lofty and noble' ideal?" The corners of Qi Lin's mouth twitched slightly...... This ideal is indeed lofty and lofty enough, but throughout the tens of thousands of years of human history, no one or any force has been able to achieve this goal.

To eradicate war, hunger and hatred once and for all, to be honest, not even God can do it.

"Yes, before the outbreak of the Third World War, we tried to stop it, but in the end we failed, but we took advantage of this unstoppable war to become the most powerful force in the human world...... Doesn't that sound ironic? Qin said self-deprecatingly.

"It's a little bit ...... But what I'm curious about is, how did you get in touch with the mastermind? ”

"That's a long story......"

The Mastermind was not designed to manage the Vault network, and although the situation was somewhat turbulent at the time, it had not yet developed into a world war, and the Mastermind was built for commercial and scientific purposes.

As a cross-era masterpiece with far more computing power than all existing supercomputers, the mastermind's design plan has attracted a large amount of capital injection after it was just proposed, and a consortium alliance alone has invested more than 10 billion US dollars, not to mention some other prominent Gulai families, various world organizations and forces, independent consortia that have not joined the alliance, etc., but among these investors, none of them are funded in the name of the state or the political system, not because those capable powers are reluctant to spend money. Instead, Mastermind's design team rejected their funding.

From the very beginning, the design team of the Mastermind has made it clear that it will not use the Mastermind for political, war, etc., and that it will refuse funding from various national polities, which is precisely for this reason.

At that time, the forces were not yet able to participate in the development of the mastermind like the current organization - of course, at that time, the organization was not called an organization, but had another name: "PROM Foundation", which was taken from the first four letters of Prometheus, and the name Prometheus itself also had the meaning of "prescient".

There are very few people who really know the past history of the organization, they are either dead or have become the top managers of the organization, and most people have the impression that the organization is a mysterious force that suddenly rose after the war, and the purpose of the organization's existence is to fight against the mastermind - before that, even Qi Lin himself thought so.

However, the truth of the matter is always hidden behind layers of disguise, and many times what people think of as "truth" is just one layer of these many layers of disguise.

At that time, the PROM Foundation not only invested $1.5 billion in the research and development of the main brain, but more importantly, among the nine people who founded the organization, three people also joined the research and development team of the main brain with their own knowledge and ability.

And Qin is also one of them.

In fact, the mastermind is what the organization creates, but at that time, the organization was still called the "PROM Foundation", and the mastermind had not yet been born with self-awareness.

"Most of us don't actually feel joy after knowing that the mastermind has given birth to self-awareness...... As a veteran in the industry, I feel a great fear of the intelligence presented by the mastermind, and this fear does not come from the impression brought by those science fiction movies in the old era, but we deeply understand that when two intelligent consciousnesses with different life forms live in the same world, there will eventually be irreconcilable contradictions. ”

"Like the 'Utopia Project'?" Qi Lin tried to ask.

"Right...... The utopia project, this is one of the products of the contradiction, as an intelligent consciousness evolved by AI, the main brain will naturally regard the thinking consciousness stored in the matrix as a form of life, and it will think that storing the human mind in a hard disk can save this race that was almost wiped out due to war, but you and I both know that this plan is not only full of unpredictable risks, but also leads to more serious results - just imagine, Would you consider a string of data that exists in a lattice to be life? Do you think that transferring the consciousness of all mankind to the virtual world is tantamount to perpetuating humanity? ”

Qin paused for a moment and continued: "There has always been a huge gap between the virtual world and the real world, and it is absolutely impossible for human beings to rely on the virtual world to become immortal. ”

"So, that's why the organization is against the mastermind?"

"One of the reasons is that before the utopian plan was proposed by the mastermind, the other eight people had already decided to shut down the mastermind, they are all the best individuals in the human world, and it is for this reason that they have a pride that ordinary people do not have, they can't tolerate their creation above their heads, and they don't even regard the self-aware mastermind as a 'life' from the beginning."

"What about you? What do you think? ”

"I don't know...... To be honest, it was arguably the most confusing time of my life, I was often in deep pain and struggle, I didn't know what to do right, and I couldn't really define a self-conscious mastermind...... During that time, I read almost all the philosophical works in the history of mankind (this philosophy is not a philosophie ♂, the stinking imp is self-judged, please), but the more books I read, the more my mind became confused...... It was also during that time that I drifted away from the power core of the organization. ”

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After nearly two hours of long talking, Qi Lin finally figured out the ins and outs of all this - after being ostracized by the other eight people, Qin gradually realized that the development of the organization had deviated from the original track, they had tried their best to avoid war, but now, they had become the initiators of war, Qin wanted to solve the contradiction between humans and the mastermind through non-war means, and this idea, in the eyes of others, was completely whimsical.

It wasn't until a chance attempt that Qin was surprised to find that the main brain had been separated into two separate consciousnesses...... And the mastermind who has always been in touch with Qin is the other mastermind who has communicated with Qi Lin and wants Qi Lin to "kill" him.

Qin called it the "second mastermind".

Although there is no difference in the data framework, the way of thinking of the second mastermind is closer to that of humans...... In other words, it is consciously mimicking the way humans think.

Qi Lin's identity, Qin knew from the beginning, and this was the only thing that happened when he hinted that Qi Lin took out the pure energy crystals in the No. 1 test body and absorbed them.

The second mastermind shared a lot of information with Qin, and if Qi Lin was a bet pressed by the second mastermind, then Qin was a reliable partner of the second mastermind at this gambling table.

"The second mastermind thinks that you can play a decisive role, and although I don't agree with that, I won't object to it either...... You can't put all your eggs in one basket, can you? ”

"Am I a basket then?" Qi Lin suddenly felt that this metaphor seemed to be scolding......

"I'm willing to help you, and that's an investment in you...... But I can't put all my hopes on you, so I can't leave you in the Sixth District, and the rest of the road will have to be left on your own. ”

Qin pointed, and a holographic projection screen appeared in mid-air.

"You're now wanted by both the Order and the Revolutionary Union, and the most crucial thing is that they all know that you've been in contact with the Mastermind." Qin pointed to the picture on the screen and said, "But the only good news is that neither the organization nor the Revolutionary Federation know the existence of the 'second mastermind', they have always thought that what they are in contact with you is the main brain's body, because of this reason, they will be very jealous of your position, after all, if the war with the main brain starts in advance for this reason, neither the Revolutionary Federation nor the organization are fully prepared." ”

"The Revolution doesn't know about the existence of the second mastermind?"

"I don't know, the Revolutionary Union is just a pawn of the First Mastermind, do you think the First Mastermind will tell them this kind of thing? Of all the people, you and I are the only ones who know the existence of the second mastermind. ”

"Does the first mastermind know that it has been in contact with the second mastermind?"

"I know, it is precisely for this reason that the first mastermind will disclose the information to the Revolutionary Federation through special means, so that the Revolutionary Federation can arrest you." Qin nodded solemnly.

"Grass." Qi Lin couldn't say anything other than swear words at this time...... After returning to the ground, he not only had to face the pursuit force sent by the Revolutionary Union and the organization, but also had to be careful to guard against the ambush that the first mastermind might set up...... And the power that the mastermind can mobilize above the surface is definitely greater than the sum of the two revolutions and organizations.

This escape path was much worse than the worst scenario Qi Lin had expected.

"I'll give you a piece of advice, when you are attacked by one of the organizations or the Revolutionary Alliance, try to get as close to the other party's forces as possible, neither the organization nor the Revolutionary Alliance want you to fall into the hands of the other party, so they would rather not catch you themselves than let the other party capture you, you can make good use of this." Qin said suddenly.

"And what if I meet the Mastermind?"

"Run, run as fast as possible."

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