This is the artificial lifeform that Zhuge Yun got from that strange realm-slug.

Originally, it was the navigation terminal of the destroyed starry sky flagship "Yaoguang Taiyuan", which was equivalent to the powerful brain core of the spaceship, and belonged to the creation of the Atlantean ancients.

For a long time, the slugs faithfully carried out the orders to protect the host, but due to the "forging flame and burning blood" of the host, they did not know when they evolved self-awareness.

It even used the materials of the vehicle to create a movable body for itself, and in the years that followed, it continued to replicate a powerful android guard.

Because Zhuge Yun inadvertently broke into the "Yaoguang Taiyuan", destroyed all the low-level guards, and fought fiercely with the slugs. It was suppressed by Zhuge Yun's powerful spiritual power, and it was shattered, and even its body was deprived.

In desperation, the slug can only commit to his crevices.

Now, this artificial lifeform has been assimilated by Zhuge Yun, who inherited the "Forging Flame and Burning Blood", as if it had found a new host.

"Are you awake?" Zhuge Yun looked at the slug and asked, and spiritual power poured out of his palm, injecting some into it.

This spiritual power should be enough to last for a long time in terms of its consumption.

The reason why he did this was because Zhuge Yun kept an eye on it, used his spiritual power as a password lock, and set up a spiritual power ban to limit the ability of the slug.

Although it regarded itself as a new host, Zhuge Yun didn't dare to guarantee that this guy would replicate his consciousness like last time, and also create a large number of clones.

"Yes, master."

"I've found you a new home, and you'll live here from now on."

"Yes, master."

"This person's will always takes precedence, I have marked you with spiritual power, you have to cooperate with him, act as his brain and assistant, understand?"

"Understood, master."

In fact, it was happy to carry out Zhuge Yun's decision, after all, it could get a body again, and the space was too crowded, making it very empty and boring.

After being infused with spiritual power, the slug obediently merged with the consciousness of Dongfang Road, and its artificial consciousness was very advanced, far beyond this era.

Zhuge Yun certainly understands its value.

Think about it, as the intelligent brain of the spaceship, how much information and knowledge are stored in the slug's body, these things will be of great benefit to the development of mankind in the future.

It's just that Zhuge Yun doesn't have time to study the history of the ancient heirs and more mysteries recorded in it, and those ancient knowledge and stored data records are better to hand them over directly to Dongfang Lu, and he can slowly crack them in the future.

With a brain of self-evolutionary consciousness and terrifying computing power, controlling two floating cities is not a problem.

Before the final fusion, Dongfang Lu asked Zhuge Yun a question.

"If it's a new brain, will my consciousness still exist?" There was no wave in Dongfang Lu's tone.

"Of course. You're still you, it's like a new pair of armor. ”

Zhuge Yun looked at the countless flickering light screens in front of him, and the data showed that Dongfang Lu's mood fluctuations were a little unstable.

Zhuge Yun nodded, "Heh, you don't have to worry about this, I have already taken the necessary measures."

It's called a slug, and it's just the brain core of an ancient civilization, and it's very advanced. Now, you've got two brains, yours and its.

Just like the CPU and GPU of the brain, your consciousness is divided into the main brain and the secondary brain, and the division of labor is different. Your brain's thinking is still yours, it won't change, it's just that you have a huge computing power and database. ”

"Oh, just like I used to connect to the Central Brain of the Ancient Iron City?"

"Right, the slug and you are one and the same, you share all the perception, the creativity, the ability to learn.

In terms of learning ability, you are tens of thousands of times stronger than it, but the ability to process data, it is tens of thousands of times stronger than you, and together you form a body and control all the brains here.

But you have the human brain, your will, your dictates can command it, and the opposite doesn't work. ”

"Oh, I see."

Through Zhuge Yun's simple explanation, Dongfang Lu finally understood-

This is like replacing the old host with a new chip and hard disk, and the original memory and thinking consciousness will be retained, but it will not affect the main chip that gave the command.

"I feel ...... It has a strong sense of self, is it really an ancient artificial intelligence? Dongfang Lu asked.

"That's right. However, this kind of artificial intelligence has gone sour, and strictly speaking, it is no longer worthy of the word 'artificial'. ”

"And what is it supposed to be?"

"Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call it an autonomous life form."

"That's amazing, autonomous lifeforms!"

Zhuge Yun shook his head, not surprised at all, how big is the universe?

Since there are inorganic matter, they can spontaneously undergo entropy change over a long period of time, synthesize into organic matter, produce a self-evolving system, and give birth to life.

Then, there will also be inorganic life synthesized by inorganic matter.

During his travels in the universe, he had seen a civilization composed entirely of silicon-based lifeforms, which, according to his speculation, were likely remnants of consciousness created by some organism that evolved into self-consciousness after an unknown number of years.

It sounds incredible, but facts always speak louder than words.

According to the classification and theory of human beings, life is a unique phenomenon of organisms composed of high-molecular nucleic acid proteosomes and other substances.

Unlike non-living things, living organisms can use external substances to form their own bodies, reproduce offspring, and grow, develop, and move according to their genetic characteristics. Demonstrates the ability to adapt to changes in the environment.

But the concepts of life and living things are different.

Reproducing offspring and giving birth to new generations is not a principle that all living beings follow.

For example, those creatures that have evolved to the apex.

It should also be noted that human beings are superstitious creatures of science.

Once the existing knowledge is insufficient due to the limitation of vision, there will be no reasonable explanation. As a result, human beings often save the country, using known science and low-level thinking to forcibly speculate on the nature of things and draw a conclusion.

This has become superstition, such as the historical geocentric theory, heliocentric theory, etc., which have been falsified by other theories.

However, falsification is originally a part of science, putting forward hypotheses, proving truth and falsehood, and science is a yin and yang community where right and wrong coexist.

The case of living beings and living beings is still in debate and inconclusive.

Because human beings define other life forms from the perspective of known life forms or themselves, which is not scientific in itself.

Are species that have not been seen by mankind to be excluded if they do not meet the definition of life?

"Master, I don't understand, what is the difference between an autonomous life form and me?"

"Oh, do you want to explore the mystery of creation? This is not something that can be explained in a sentence or two. Zhuge Yun's eyes flashed with essence, and he said slowly, "You can call it an artificial life form, because you are originally a human being, your consciousness is also human, and human beings are living beings, and you are just attached to a shell." ”

Zhuge Yun paused and continued, "It's different, because it's completely artificial, even if you have self-awareness and wisdom, no matter how huge your knowledge base, no matter how powerful your computing power, no matter how strong your body, it's hard to compare with you."

You know, artificial intelligence is the ability given by other life, although it is very powerful, but it will always have the shadow of the creator, and there are constraints, or there are password or switch restrictions at the beginning of its birth.

Those additional functions are like prosthetics, although there are many functions, but they are dispensable, and life itself is unchanging.

No matter how many additional functions there are, it is difficult to change and affect the proprioceptive consciousness.

In other words, it is locked and cannot shake the consciousness of the ontology.

Among them, there are necessary additional functions, and there are also non-essential additional functions, and non-essential additional functions are like the original organs that have been abandoned after the evolution of the human body, such as the appendix.

All artificial intelligence, even if they can have countless functions attached to them, and the knowledge is as vast as a library, can never replicate a single thing. Zhuge Yun smiled faintly.

"Oh? What is it? ”

Dongfang Lu felt that the problem that had plagued him for a long time was about to come out of his master's mouth.

"Oh, it's emotion, the emotion that any creature has."

Zhuge Yun said calmly, "You should know that even a leaf will have unique memories and reactions to the creatures that touch it.

And the most difficult thing to obtain and replicate in artificial life forms is the emotions of living beings.

Emotions produce judgment, which is a judgment beyond reason, a judgment of right and wrong, good and evil, this kind of judgment is not like a cold intellectual brain, which can explode and destroy the opponent without saying a word, but takes its own survival as the first priority.

This is also the prerequisite for life to be called life. ”

"Ah, what a surprise to me!"

Dongfang Lu finally understood, and the master was right. In fact, he had thought about the answer to this question for a long time, but he couldn't confirm it.

He's not the same as a cold machine.

There is no doubt that in his heart, he still retains all human emotions.

Before he dies - meat. The moment his body died, he realized the existence of that emotion.

"I'm pretty sure that after you are fully integrated, you may feel that the world is different, and the worldview will open up to a new level." Zhuge Yun said lightly, "In addition, I have a long-term task to hand over to you. ”

"Your will is my mission, master."

Zhuge Yun nodded, very satisfied with Dongfang Lu's answer.

"I need you to decipher all the information stored by the slug, and then sort out the information that humans can use, and transform knowledge into human scientific and technological power as quickly as possible, so as to serve the construction of the two floating cities in the future." Zhuge Yun paused and said slowly, "This also includes-"

"Please, master."

"I want you to use the deciphered information to build an android army."

"Cyborg troops?" Dongfang Road was stunned.

But he quickly understood what Zhuge Yun meant, and this matter was not difficult for him. "Oh, I see, like I did before?"

He has done this before, using intelligent AI-controlled armed reaction forces to create many different clones through the communication line of the intelligent brain center, including drones flying in the sky and power armor running underground.

For Dongfang Road, none of this control takes much effort.

"No, that's too unreliable, too rudimentary." Zhuge Yun's cold eyes flickered, and he shook his head and said, "What you did before should be called remote control, right, I want a truly powerful artificial intelligent creature, just like you." ”

"Like me?" Dongfang Lu suddenly felt a chill in his back, and the human sensations simulated by the conduction nerves suddenly became extremely sensitive.