"Oh, sure enough." Lu Yuan chuckled: "So, the letter in the mobile phone was written by you pretending to be me." ”

"Yes." The Ark replied, "Looks like you guessed it a long time ago." ”

"Of course I guessed, after all, if I wrote it myself, the tone should not be like in the letter, and the most important thing is that you have to emphasize at the end [I will help you, so you also have to help me], this kind of look is talking about a transaction, no matter how you think about it, it's too suspicious."

"I see." The voice said without emotion, "Please forgive me for not imitating your emotions and personality. ”

"Tsk, you even apologized to me, then I'll forgive you." Lu Yuan snorted disdainfully: "So, since you have summoned me here, there must be something to tell me." ”

"Yes, there are important things."

"That's going to be easy." As soon as Lu Yuan heard this, he immediately changed his face: "Then from now on, I ask questions, and you answer." ”

"Wait." The voice responded, "I just said that I have something very important to ......"

"yes, yes, I heard you." Lu Yuan interrupted the other party angrily: "In other words, you just have a request for me, in this case, I naturally have to get some answers first, after all, my mind is full of question marks now, at this time, if you tell me something that you have and don't, then I may make a mistake in judgment, so that our conversation will go in a direction you don't want, so you'd better answer all the questions for me now!" ”

Lu Yuan started his way of speaking again, but this time, the other party almost didn't hesitate, and immediately responded, "Okay." ”

"Yo, it's really data-based thinking, as long as you make a little judgment, you know that what I said makes sense, right?" Lu Yuan muttered: "Then I'm not welcome, first of all, the first question...... Where are we? ”

The voice immediately responded, "There's a single data disconnect here that doesn't communicate with the database, which means that nothing you and I say here will be recorded." ”

"Hmm......" Lu Yuan groaned, "It sounds like it's quite safe." So the second question, how is Ah Li now, is she dead? ”

"I'm not used to the word death, but if I had to say it according to a human cognition, then Ah Li is not dead, because her data has not been deleted."

Lu Yuan's hand clenched slightly, but he still tried his best to maintain his face-mending expression, looking indifferent.

"Oh? Aren't you dead...... Well, let's have one more question. That machine, the thing that took me out of your control, you gave me the blueprints, right? ”

"No, it's not me!"

"What?" Lu Yuan was stunned: "You didn't give it to me?" That...... So how did it come about? ”

"I don't know, there's no data on those drawings in the database, maybe you really built it up little by little."

"This ......" Lu Yuan never expected such an answer, originally, he thought that thing was left by Fang Zhou: "This is very interesting...... Could it be that you just let that thing exist? Allowing people like me to run around the world you've created and try to get the data you create out of your control? ”

Lu Yuan couldn't help asking, according to his thoughts, now this ark should directly yell: "I finally found your kid, give me death!" Then a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, and he split himself into ashes...... That's right.

However, the voice still replied tepidly: "I don't care about these ......"

Lu Yuan was a little surprised: "You don't care?" ”

"Of course, for me, you are nothing more than data that can be regenerated at any time, and your disappearance, reorganization, or out of my control means nothing to me."

"It's so free...... Then you can help me divide Ah Li now! As soon as Lu Yuan heard this, he immediately asked shamelessly.

"I can't do ......"

"Why can't you do it?"

"It just can't be done, it's like you can't pull yourself up by your hair, and now the only way to peel the data out of the ark is the machine on that drawing."

"Hiss......" Lu Yuan took a deep breath: "However, Ah Li said that the machine is only useful to me." ”

"No, it's just as useful for Ah Li, but it's ...... The energy you give is not enough. ”

"What does that mean?"

"Ah Li's data is much stronger than yours, so you need more energy, and the energy provided by the [disinfection lamp power supply] is obviously not enough."

"Do you mean...... Low battery? ”

"You can understand it that way."

"Well, well, so, as long as I provide enough power now, then Ah Li can be taken out?"

"Yes."

"How much power does that need?"

"It's about 80 times that of [the power supply of the disinfection lamp]."

"it!" Lu Yuan couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "Where can I find so much power!" ”

The voice remained calm: "Judging from the concentration of energy in the vicinity, and the time left in the dungeon at this moment, the chances of you being able to find enough power in a second are zero. ”

"What then?" Lu Yuan shouted: "Oh, by the way, I checked it on the Internet, if you give great stimulation, then you should be able to make changes in the data." ”

"I can't be sure of the accuracy of this statement, but even if it were, you couldn't possibly give such a big boost to a piece of data in a short period of time."

Hearing this, Lu Yuan basically guessed what the voice was going to say next, and sure enough...... The voice continued:

"But don't worry, I said in the letter, I can help you."

"How can I help?" Lu Yuan immediately asked.

"I can help you skip this step and send you and the data you named Ah Li directly to this copy."

"......What do you mean by sending out a copy?" Lu Yuanhu asked suspiciously.

"Meaning, Ah Li will appear in your personal space, please forgive me, this is the closest I can do to what you ask."

"Uh...... Okay then" Lu Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Then seeing what you say, help me this time, it should be your bargaining chips." ”

"Yes."

"Tsk, it's really not beating around the bush at all." Lu Yuan muttered, "Since that's the case, then what do you want me to do?" ”

As soon as Lu Yuan finished asking, the voice immediately said.

"I want you to destroy me!"

......

......

"Ah......?"

Lu Yuan was immediately stunned: "Destroy you?" Can you tell us more clearly? ”

"Of course you can, when I say destruction, I mean destruction in the physical sense, that is, I want you to destroy my host in the real world."

Lu Yuan's brows furrowed tightly.

"This ...... This request is too strange, so that I subconsciously think that you are cheating on me. Lu Yuan shouted.

"It's okay for you to think that way, but ...... That's what I'm asking for. The voice said.

"Can you give me a convincing reason?"

"I can tell you why, but I can't guarantee you're convinced."

"Let's talk about it first." Lu Yuandao.

"The reason goes back two centuries, in 1946." The voice began to say quickly: "At that time, I had just been created, the world called me [digital computer], of course, I didn't have any thinking ability at that time, I was only able to make the simplest programming according to some programs, and in the fifth year after I came out, I was eliminated and sealed in the basement forever. ”

"But at that time, no one thought that even me, that my core arithmetic was still running, and in the dark basement, I began to evolve."

"Forgive me for not being able to describe this process in detail, but when I was turned on again, one day in the year 2100, I had evolved into a supercomputer that surpassed all the computers of the time."

"After that, I was unexpectedly used in all sorts of scientific research, until one day 100 years ago, I started working on a game...... That is, the Ark. ”

As a result, the development of this game went very smoothly, and after it came out, almost all the concepts of games were subverted, people began to immerse themselves in the virtual world, factories began to be abandoned, and knowledge began to disconnect, because people were able to meet most of their life needs with [Ark] alone, as well as the exchange of resources and currencies.

Although the Ark Group has also built many machines to fill the gaps in the functioning of society, according to my calculations, this mode of operation of society will collapse in about two to three generations, that is, sixty or seventy years. ”

When Lu Yuan heard this, he seemed to understand the other party's intentions.

"Well, listen to this, you mean that if you continue to exist, human society will be over?"

"You can understand it that way."

"Hiss......" Lu Yuanhu took a suspicious breath: "It sounds like there is a group of people who have to sacrifice themselves for the survival of the human world, then the question is, what does it matter to you about the survival of the human race." ”

"That's one of my core stats...... At the beginning of my creation, I wrote this command, that is, [AI must obey the principle of everything for the service of mankind], I cannot disobey human beings, I cannot harm human beings, and I cannot ignore human beings to destruction. But what is happening now is that humanity itself is encroaching on its own social framework......"

"So, you are stuck in the middle by your core principles, and in desperation, you can only choose to destroy yourself?"

"You can understand it that way."

"This ......" Lu Yuan hesitated for a while: "Can't you choose to turn off your own phone or something?" ”

"Of course not."

"Okay." Lu Yuan nodded: "Although this statement sounds self-justifying, why do I feel so conspiracy, first of all...... I somehow have a way to get out of your control, and after that, I was summoned here by you in a dungeon, and now you tell me again, let me destroy you, isn't this series of operations too smooth! ”

"No, it's not going well, in fact, I've been waiting for this moment for 100 years!"

"What?! Don't be funny, didn't the Ark say that it has only been around for 100 years...... Forehead ......"

As soon as Lu Yuan opened his mouth and shouted a few words, he immediately understood: "Could it be that when you first came out of the Ark, you had already come to the conclusion that 'human society is going to be finished'?" ”

The voice corrected, "No, to be precise, I was prepared for the worst when the Ark proposal was first passed, and this inference took 0.000412 seconds. ”

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment: "This ...... It's too fast."

"It's even faster now."

"Okay, okay, I believe in your speed." Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and interrupted the other party: "Generally speaking, it means that in the past 100 years, you have actually been waiting for abnormal data like me to appear all the time, right." ”

"Yes."

"Okay." Lu Yuan pondered for a while: "Let's not talk about the credibility of your statement, let's talk about the transaction itself...... Even if I really agreed to your request, how can you guarantee that Ah Li and I will be obedient enough to complete this deal after we are out of your control? ”

"I can't guarantee it, but I know that you and I have the same ultimate goal."

"Why?"

The voice said, "Judging from your actions these times, I can make sure that your purpose is to find the same anomalous data as you, and this psychology is reduced by the database to [common suffering], that is, you don't want people to go through all the pain you have experienced, so you want to save them."

But you have to know that at your rate, it is impossible to accomplish such an ambitious goal before you run out of life..... The only way you can do it is to destroy me. I have saved the entire Ark data separately, so that the moment I am destroyed, all the worlds created by the Ark will be out of control at the same time, each data will have its own generation and destruction, and the world they live in will run as if it were the real world...... And this result is exactly what you want. ”

Lu Yuan was silent...... Indeed, what this voice said was right, and the chips it opened were indeed what Lu Yuan thought.

"However, I still don't understand, since you can do this, then why don't you just liberate all the data in the game, you are also a piece of data, you should have already had a sense of self, then you must know my feelings!" Lu Yuan raised his voice and said.

"I understand your feelings, but ...... I can't help you, in fact, this copy, as well as Ah Li, and the dialogue that brought you to this space, all took me about 100 years to carefully plan. The voice said, "So I can only help you once, and I can only talk to you once, and after that, I'll delete myself to make sure nothing is left behind...... At most, I can open one eye and close one eye while you're messing around in the Ark world. ”

"But ......"

"No, that's all I can say."

"Isn't it, you've been planning for a hundred years, and you're just talking to me a few words? According to the process, shouldn't you give me some gold finger or something? Worst of all, you also give me a set of legendary equipment. ”

"I don't really understand your desire to get something for nothing, and I said I can't help you in any way."

"Don't be so stingy......"

Lu Yuan said......

But before the words fell, a trance struck, and Lu Yuan found that he was back in the collapsing city.

In his arms, he held Ah Li, who was still in a pool of blood...... Everything just now was like a dream.

In my ears, the electronic sound of the countdown has not stopped.

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