Somewhere in the northwest, at the "Karakoram" test base, the "No. 1" of the base is sitting in his room, drinking tea while watching the live broadcast on the screen, and the special mechanical left arm is regularly tapping on the table. He was uninjured, and his left arm was replaced by a machine because he could fit into his fingers many of the tools needed to perform subtle operations, such as a super electron microscope and a nanomanipulating whisker — yes, a whisker, which was so small that it was invisible to the naked eye, but could only be called a whisker, and could perform various movements based on the magnetic field emitted by the arm.

The robotic arm can also directly grab some high-radiation raw materials, although the doctor at the base repeatedly reminded "No. 1" to pay attention to his body, but he himself calculated that the radiation exceeded the standard and the lesion would be replaced by a mechanical one, anyway, this is the cost of work-related injuries.

Of course, No. 1 is not called No. 1, the so-called No. 1 is his call sign in the communication, which means the director of this test base, and the more commonly used job titles are "Base Director" and "Director XXXX".

No. 1 watched the live broadcast and drank tea unhurriedly.

Suddenly, the voice of Base No. 2 came from the communication: "This one is good, I want to support them." There is definitely an organization behind it that acts on the principle of idealism. ”

"Idealism is bound to fail, and the successful revolutionary organizations in history are loyal followers of realism."

"You're consequential, number one. Don't judge heroes by their success or failure. ”

"I'm not like you, I'm not a supporter of tragic heroes. I think heroes should still embrace the beauty and then sit on a thousand miles of rivers and mountains. ”

"It's really utilitarian." No. 2 said in a mocking tone, "Speaking of which, their revolution, if our project is successful, there will be no need, right?" ”

"You're so naïve." No. 1 sneered, "The reason why there is such a big gap between prosthetic people and natural people is because there is a huge gap in physical fitness, and most ordinary people are indistinguishable in terms of intelligence level, which leads to the estrangement caused by the difference in physical fitness being magnified. Why don't many intellectual workers like us resent prosthetic people? Because the prosthetic people don't threaten our survival. ”

"If you say this kind of thing, you will be judged by those fools as too proud, don't you advocate realism, or restrain your attitude."

"It doesn't matter, the intelligence level of the person who has access to me can still recognize that there is a huge intellectual gap between me and him."

"You arrogant fellow, alas, what do you say? But what you just said does make sense, prosthetic humans are just more physically capable humans, and if our project is successful, it will give birth to a new species that is vastly superior to existing humans in all respects. ”

"It's the next stage of evolution."

"Yes, that's what I meant. If the details of this project are leaked, it will cause panic, right? ”

"Don't worry, after the project is successful, the newborn of each family will get a ticket to the next stage of evolution."

"That's just an ideal situation, remember Murphy's Law? What goes wrong always goes wrong. Have you ever thought about what a terrible future these children will face once only a handful of newborns have been given tickets? Maybe even their mom and dad won't accept them. ”

Number One was silent.

Of course he thought about it.

The fable of Fang Long is always valid, and the pioneer will be stoned to death by the ignorant villagers under the shouts of the old old man.

But the path blazed by the pioneers will remain, and eventually people will conquer the mountains pointed out by the pioneers and reach their new homeland at the cost of blood.

One switches the images displayed on the screen, and the image of singing the Internationale in unison fades into place, replaced by a young mother lying on a chaise longue gently caressing her belly.

"How's it going?" Number One asked.

The young mother looked up and smiled in the direction of the camera: "He's kicking me, it's very hard." But don't worry about him tearing my stomach apart and getting out just yet. ”

"No kidding, the injection of nanomachines hasn't started yet."

"But I can't wait to play this joke with you, I've been thinking about it for a long time, my dear." The young mother paused and asked, "Honey, have you decided on a name?" Or just call it Adam. ”

"No, I'm not interested in the West. What Adam and Eve, what Prometheus, there is a supreme god above the head, and human beings will never be able to control their own destiny. Or is it Chinese mythology to my appetite, a chaos dwells uncomfortable, so I use a big axe to split, the sky leaks to make up for the stone, the sun is too fierce to shoot a few with a bow and arrow. I love the style. ”

"Then it's called Pangu?" The young mother asked.

"No, Pangu's ending is not good, I don't want my son's body to turn into mountains and rivers and die."

At this time, No. 2 interjected: "How about calling Noah?" Although it is also derived from Western mythology, it is implicitly said that he will save human society that has entered a post-utopian era. He was accompanied by a great flood that destroyed the old order, how apt. ”

"No, that's the same name as our mascot." Number One resolutely refused, and at the same time glanced at the little robot sitting on the table next to him and chirping and eating.

"I don't really care." So says the artificial intelligence.

"I care."

One's gaze turned to the main window of the room, where a group of points of light swam and rotated like a living substance in the strong magnetic barrier formed by the tokamak device.

Nanomachinery, codenamed Tinder, is the first silicon-based microorganism created by humans, a purely mechanical lifeform.

Having completed experiments with their fusion with rats, the cyborgic and half-biological rats have shown intelligence similar to that of primate orangutans, as well as physical abilities similar to those of small predators.

Since Tinder can fuse with mice, it must be able to fuse with humans, who are also mammals.

The possibility of evolution is hidden in the cage created by the tokamak device.

One whispered to himself, "It looks so beautiful." ”

"Actually, it was originally a stupid metal cube that didn't pull and chirp." Noah said suddenly.

"What?" One turned his head to look at the mascot of the base, this artificial intelligence has become completely different from when she was first created after a long period of self-learning, and sometimes even the designer of One cannot figure out what she is thinking, how her strange statements came out.

Noah had searched Noah's study records thoroughly, but he couldn't find the reason.

It can be said that Noah is not only an epoch-making masterpiece in the field of artificial intelligence, but also an extremely difficult puzzle in the field of artificial intelligence.

One always believed that if he could figure out what happened to Noah, he would be able to figure out how the human soul and consciousness worked.

When the Tinder Project is completed, One will definitely have time to study Noah well.