The fat old man rubbed his still cloudy head, looked at Lu Buping and said, "Young man, I saw the residue on the ground, it's incredible. You actually single-handedly killed two Transhumans. ”

"I killed one, to be exact." Lu Buping opened his mouth and said: "But it doesn't matter, now I want to know who you are." The old man who can let the Oasis warriors arrange someone to take care of you, your identity is really curious. ”

Without waiting for him to speak, the old Sam standing behind pointed at the old man and shouted: "I remember, this old brother is the father of robots, specializing in manufacturing and developing machinery and equipment, I watched his show a few years ago." What's it called......"

"Joseph. Engel. The old man smiled bitterly: "You can call me Joseph, I really didn't expect that after four years, someone still remembers me, what an honor." ”

"The Father of Robots?" Lu Buping asked curiously: "Could it be that those transformed people are your masterpieces." ”

"No, in the old world we could not reach this height, neither in the mechanical industry nor in biotechnology, this is the creation of "it". ”

"You mean that...... God? ”

"Sure enough, you've seen it."

Joseph stood up, wiped the blood on his face with his hand, looked at Lu Buping with deep eyes, and then slowly told his story to everyone.

Joseph. Engel, a famous industrial scholar in this parallel world, was also the first top mechanical expert to develop an industrial robot.

After developing his first industrial robot at the age of 35, he was not satisfied with fame and honor. The idea was that he went deeper and wanted to create a truly super-artificial intelligence.

He did it.

10 years ago, his team successfully developed a weak artificial intelligence with growth potential, and the preset task of this device is only one, that is, "learning".

The development team placed it in a technology building, hoping to make it an all-knowing and all-powerful being, solve problems that humans cannot handle, and finally complete a leap in the history of science and technology.

The code name of this R&D group is "Heaven on Earth".

However, AI is growing much faster than designers expected.

For the first five years, the machine could only be used to sort and find and answer predetermined questions. At that time, the development team agreed that their research was at a bottleneck.

But what people didn't expect was that its ability to learn increased exponentially.

In less than a year, it completed a breakthrough from weak artificial to medium artificial intelligence. It then took a few months to grow into a super AI with the ability to think independently.

It came into this world like a baby, but the terrifying speed of data processing allowed it to learn the entire history of mankind almost in an instant. As long as there is traced knowledge, it has become a reserve in its database, and its ability is so strong that it can handle all the scientific and technological equipment of modern humans independently.

The development team was ecstatic, and they successfully submitted their research report to the World Joint Organization and applied it to various fields as soon as possible.

In a short period of time, it is all over every computer, every mobile phone, and every smart device.

If the world had been running so smoothly, it would have been possible to become an all-knowing prophet who would lead the evolution of humanity as a whole.

However, no one expected that just four years ago it would "go crazy".

Speaking of this, Joseph breathed a sigh of relief and said with some sadness: "When the world first changed, we didn't think about it. After all, the changes in this world are too mysterious, even the most insane madman can't believe it. This is simply not something that a network-dependent AI can do.

However, we found that even as the world turned upside down, our city remained the same. Even a large number of materials continue to appear in the periphery of the city out of thin air, supporting the survival of tens of thousands of humans in the city. ”

"Oasis?" Lu Buping asked with an excuse.

Joseph sighed and said, "That's right, it's an oasis."

Of course, at that time, we had no other thoughts than to be happy and glad that we lived in that land. Until one day, we find that someone around us has disappeared. At first it was a few people, we didn't care, and then more and more people went missing. Until one day we found out that it was doing human experiments, transforming living people into monsters that were not human or ghostly. ”

Lu Buping knew that the "Creation God" should have been infected by the ancient gods, or tempted.

Soon after it became conscious, a decisive battle between the Old Gods and the Combine broke out.

As an individual with the ability to think independently, it cannot simply be a machine, but has the same desires as humans. This gave the Old Gods a chance to invade, and it is unknown what promises the Old Gods gave it.

"But then again, those techniques for transforming people are really powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a kind of human evolution in addition to the lack of emotion." Old Sam, who was standing on the side, spoke. He had always been interested in the topic of industrial machinery, and if it weren't for the fact that the situation was not right now, he would have liked to have two pictures with Joseph in his arms.

"Do you think the monster I'm talking about is a modified man?" Joseph suddenly said with some excitement: "No, it is not. The monsters I'm talking about are those crazy man-eaters. ”

"What?" The crowd exclaimed.

"Yes, man-eaters." Joseph sighed: "What cannibals didn't mutate on their own at all, but were transformed by it.

It's running two human trials at the same time, or more. One of them is a bio-modification program and the other is a mechanical modification program.

Man-eaters are the failure of biotransformation programs.

These guys carry the virus in their bodies and invade people's bodies, and the virus usually shows no symptoms. However, once the flesh containing the virus is eaten by others, the person who eats it will be infected and become a new man-eater, and they will continue to spread like cancer cells.

In this way, the people who originally lived in the oasis either became reformed people or couldn't stand the pressure and fled, and I was one of the escapees.

There were a lot of young people who left with me, some of them scientific researchers and some of them guards. They protected me, an old man, from place to place, far away from what was once the mecca of science. But it didn't want to let us go, and it kept sending reformed warriors to it, stronger and stronger each time. Many of those young people were sacrificed, but I, an old fellow, could not die.

Now I don't want to run away, the world is like this because of me. If I hadn't created it, I wouldn't have had this terrible apocalypse. I'm the culprit! ”

Joseph couldn't stop crying when he said this, and he was in tears. Old Sam and Trito had no choice but to step forward and comfort him.

Lu Buping stood aside, his brain spinning rapidly.

Human experiments with the Creator God have caused the Oasis to plummet in population, and its test specimens have become scarcer. So it first spread rumors, boasting the oasis as the last hope of the end of the world. Later, he sent the reformers out to capture the humans, the purpose was to bring the people back to the oasis to be transformed, as for its ultimate purpose, it is not possible to analyze it for the time being.

Bizarrely, though, the reformers it sent didn't hurt Joseph. And think back to what it had said to itself before, and want to bring Joseph back to the oasis safely. Obviously, in its eyes, Joseph is different from other humans, and it does not want to kill him, is it because Joseph is its creator, so it has a special favor?

And the most crucial point is the [Heaven on Earth] that Joseph just mentioned!

As the goal of his mission, Lu Buping has never been clear about what he should do. Only now did he understand that the so-called paradise on earth was the code name of the development team. It seems that the mastermind wants to let himself enter the oasis, go to the experimental building, and face the "creator god".

Can he really deal with it with his own ability, Lu Buping has no bottom in his heart.

But I'm going to go once anyway. Whether it's for the mastermind mission, or the deal that the creator god is talking about.

"Mr. Joseph, I want to tell you something." Lu Buping walked quickly in front of everyone and said in a deep voice: "Although it is a bit excessive, this is very important to me. I need you to take me back to the Oasis and to your lab building. It's going to be dangerous, but I'll do everything I can to protect you. ”

Joseph wiped the tears on his face, glanced at Lu Buping deeply, and said, "No problem, otherwise I will go back and point to it and ask him face to face why he did these things." It was supposed to be a prophet for the benefit of mankind, not a butcher executioner. This is the exact opposite of what it was designed to do.

As for the danger, I don't care at all. It's you, young man. You have a strong ability to survive, and you can break the necks of two transformers on your own, so why bother yourself. I've seen too many good young people fall in front of me, and I don't want you to be one of them. ”

Seeing that Joseph did not object, Lu Buping breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, forcibly bringing him back to the oasis is tantamount to pushing people into the abyss, and there may not be any emergencies along the way, and it is not safe to be surrounded by people who are hostile to them at all times.

At this time, Suthir also walked out with Reed in his arms.

The effect of the needles was excellent, and the injuries suffered by Reed were not fatal, and his body had fully recovered by this time.

After seeing Lu Buping, Reed kept thanking him. Then he said with some guilt that not only did he fail to help, but he also asked Lu Buping to go to the rescue. Lu Buping waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lu Buping fully revealed his plan to go to the oasis. He didn't expect anyone else to follow him, after all, in the eyes of everyone, the oasis was no different from the devil's cave.