Chapter 175: A Long Conversation with the Engineer

For the engineer's words, Liu Xuan and Qin Ming did not show anything excessively, although they didn't know what the reason was, but their intuition also told them that the engineer estimated that he also knew that his excuse was useless, but anyway, since the engineer wanted to tell them some news, Liu Xuan and Qin Ming just listened, the truth of the news didn't matter to them, of course, they also believed that the engineer would not tell them fake news.

"It's a news, in fact, it's just some of the past of this planet, it just so happens that now I don't have anything else, now can you listen to my narration of the history of this planet, let me become your history teacher for the time being, after all, you didn't belong to this planet, and you don't know some of the history of this planet, but it's better for you to know some of these histories, after all, it's your own planet now." The Engineer smiled mysteriously at them.

What can Liu Xuan and Qin Ming say, can they say it or not? Anyway, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is also quite important, and understanding the past history of the opponent is also quite important, although for the time being, I still don't know why the engineer is telling them some now, but they just listen, maybe there are some important things that can be obtained, if they can be used in the war between planets in the future, the two of them will make a lot of money. Thinking of this, the two of them also motioned for the engineer to continue.

However, as a robot, they are still not used to the identity of the robot, after signaling the engineer to continue, the two of them sat on the ground in a very tacit understanding, after all, their thoughts are humans, and it is their common sense to think that they will stand very tired, but now it is different after all, because they have become a robot, how can the robot be tired. By the time they realized it, it was too late.

However, the engineer opposite them didn't think much about it, even if he didn't know the current situation of Liu Xuan and Qin Ming, he wouldn't doubt it, even if the main brain was here, they wouldn't doubt it, after all, their original minds were all humans, and it was normal to have such a subconscious approach.

The engineer didn't show his appearance, what he said was transmitted through the wire, and even for his own safety, he still distorted his voice, even if the mastermind intercepted the voice, there was no way to prove that it was the engineer's voice.

Of course, now their conversations are carried out on the basis of shielding the mastermind, and the engineer doesn't know how long he will use this method to shield the mastermind, and he can only directly say the point, if his way of shielding the mastermind is found and blocked by the mastermind, it will be really difficult for the engineer to have a private conversation with Liu Xuan in the future, and the engineer has always been quite careful in this regard.

In fact, what Liu Xuan and Qin Ming don't know is that the robots on this planet now, even if they are new robots, can directly instill any knowledge in their minds, without the need to lecture and transmit, they directly transmit a certain amount of knowledge to the minds of the newborn through special machines, so there is no school on this planet.

Liu Xuan and Qin Ming are outsiders after all, they don't have the opportunity to contact and communicate with those very ordinary residents of this planet, so they don't know the current situation of this planet, and the engineer said to tell them about history, in fact, it is just to find a suitable reason to expose this information.

As long as the engineer is willing, as long as he moves a few buttons around him, these historical knowledge can be directly appeared in the minds of Liu Xuan and the two of them through special transmission and reception channels, but there is no way to bypass the mastermind, in other words, as long as they want to transmit their own information through this method, the mastermind will find out, and even the content of the information transmitted, the mastermind will also know it clearly. This is actually designed so that the mastermind can control the minds of the people on this planet, at least so that they cannot resist the command of a computer.

Of course, these are all later words, Liu Xuan and Qin Ming have not received such technology after all, and they have not experienced important events on this planet, at least so far, their thinking is still a 100% earthling, and some advanced ideas also need to be born with high technology, they do not have such high technology, naturally they do not have this understanding, although they maintain a skeptical attitude towards what the engineer said, but they also unconsciously believe the engineer's information.

"I'm actually going to talk about part of the news about the mastermind, what do you think the mastermind is? Is it real artificial intelligence? Is he really a thoroughly advanced robot? The engineer came up and threw out a few questions, and also wanted to cause Liu Xuan to think deeply in this way, so as to cover up his true water purpose to a certain extent, and directly and abruptly said that the main brain is really dangerous, but the engineer has no other choice, what he is going to say next is related to the main brain, he must avoid the main brain's monitoring, and now according to his shielding means, he doesn't know how long he can last, so he can only talk about the key point without foreshadowing.

Liu Xuan and the two of them didn't speak at first, just like the engineer thought, and directly said that the main brain was a little abrupt, but the main reason why Liu Xuan and Qin Ming didn't speak was actually thinking about the problem of the engineer, at the beginning, they didn't notice the difference in the main brain, or rather, at the beginning, they just thought that the main brain was too intelligent, and now the engineer said this, they can be regarded as having some suspicions, the main brain is indeed a little too intelligent, such a main brain, Whether it is the way of thinking and speaking, it is actually similar to the real human being, even if human civilization does not have such technology, they can't believe that this mastermind is pure artificial intelligence. It's not something that is understood or incomprehensible.

These cover-ups of engineers are still useful to Liu Xuan and the others, after all, Liu Xuan's real identity is just a scientific worker, not a professional spy, let alone a professional interrogator, for the engineer's cover-up, they have no way to realize it at the first time, which is also a loophole for the engineer.

"It's true that it's a bit too intelligent, but you're an engineer, ask us these questions, how much do you think we can say, if you really talk about it, the technology of our civilization is far behind you, some scientific means, we don't know if it can be achieved, just like the artificial intelligence of the mastermind, according to our current cognition, I can say that such an artificial intelligence close to human thought should not exist." After thinking about it repeatedly, Liu Xuan also said to the engineers, indeed, in their minds, it is indeed a bit false that an artificial intelligence can be so flexible.

"You are not wrong in what you think, and your civilization is not wrong, in fact, even my current civilization cannot create such an artificial intelligence with its own independent thoughts. If there is such technology, we don't need to know the information through the two of you, anyway, what we have is technology and metal, and we can directly attack you, anyway, we are not afraid of any loss, these can be manufactured, but in fact, our technology cannot reach such a level at all, this is related to the past of the mastermind. Seeing that Liu Xuan did not doubt his words, the engineer also guided further, attracting Liu Xuan's attention to these things, rather than caring about why he told them these things.

Liu Xuan was silent, this is indeed a very abnormal thing, if there is really such a technology, this wandering planet will also have its own very powerful force, and it will not be reduced to bullying a civilization that is not at the first level now, there is this artificial intelligence of human thought, just thinking about it is a little unrealistic.

"In fact, this kind of command is no longer something we can make, this is the accumulation of time, just like your current situation, where does your command come from, that is, after thousands of years of development and continuation, the previous generation of life will pass on knowledge to you through some chemical means, such as DNA, each time it is a small accumulation, but after a long time, your advanced, flexible wisdom is emerging, but artificial intelligence is different, Although they can directly copy all the memories of the previous generation, the flexibility can not be created by programming, which is obtained by carbon-based organisms through tens of thousands of developments. The engineer officially began his story.

Liu Xuan and Qin Ming nodded in real time, they listened very seriously, through the appearance of the engineer, they probably understood that this was a very critical news, for such news, the two of them could naturally know more or more, at this time, they also paid all their attention to the engineer's words, rather than worrying about why the engineer would tell them these things.

"Although we now have all the command of carbon-based life transferred to the body of a robot, thus achieving immortality in disguise, or creating a robot with sufficient flexibility, the corresponding drawbacks have also appeared in the future development. At this time, I have to introduce myself, and I invented this method of consciousness transfer. The engineer put on his own ten, and this last sentence really surprised Liu Xuan and Qin Ming.

In their consciousness, they thought that the person who discovered this technology was completely dead, and they didn't expect that the person who had made great achievements on this planet was still alive, and now he was having a relevant conversation with them, it was like a dream, this last short sentence shocked Liu Xuan and Qin Ming even more than those previous words, the person they are talking to now is definitely one of the best scientists on this planet.

Although it is in the form of a robot, the shocked look has been realized by the engineer, he has been a robot for thousands of years, and he also knows a lot about the reaction of these robots with human intelligence and flexibility, and the engineer is still somewhat proud of the shock of Liu Xuan and Qin Ming.

"Don't be so surprised, after all, this technology was discovered by me, I have no reason not to use it on my body, after all, this is for us, but immortality in disguise, now you listen to my voice, does it mean to be thousands of years old?" In the end, the engineer was melancholy, he didn't expect that he had maintained such a state for thousands of years, and what had happened in these thousands of years was simply a white horse, and the engineer himself recalled it with great emotion.

Liu Xuan and Qin Ming both shook their heads a little sluggishly, they often said "the eighth king of the year before last, the turtle of ten thousand years", they really didn't expect that there would be a real thousand-year-old "eight king" in front of them. Time had left nothing in his voice, and now just listening to the voice, the engineer was like a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Don't be so surprised, I tell you this just to make you believe what I say next, after all, I am afraid that you will doubt the truth of what I say next. As the inventor of this technology, at the beginning, I was also pleasantly surprised, thinking that I had found the key to the long term, but later I realized that this also has limitations, and it has great limitations. The mastermind must have told you about some of the wars on our planet, right? ”

"Well, I did." Liu Xuan thought about it, the mastermind had indeed told him a lot of the history of this planet, the most important of which was the history of this war, that was when Liu Xuan had just woken up on this planet, and it was also the first time he had a conversation with the mastermind, Qin Ming also knew some things, after all, at that time, Liu Xuan also relayed some things that the mastermind told him to Qin Ming, and they still had some understanding of the war history of this planet.

"At that time, we had this technology in our hands and thought we were immortal. In battle, as long as their consciousness is backed up, they will not really die. So in the first battle with another planet, we were simply fearless, almost to the point of not being afraid of death, and with this spirit, we quickly won the first battle. But later, when the consciousness of those soldiers who died in battle was restored, I quickly found a problem, that is, the problem of the integrity of consciousness, unfortunately, even if I used this method, it will not be immortal, even if there is a backup of consciousness, but the use of those consciousness again, it will inevitably cause some missing, once or twice, it is okay, but once it is too many times, a lot of consciousness is lost, even if the consciousness becomes a robot again, The robot also loses the flexibility of humans, so to speak, they are the brain-dead patients in the robot. The engineer spoke very quickly and said a lot of things in one breath, and Liu Xuan and Qin Ming listened very carefully.

When the engineer's talk was paused, they also understood that this technology itself has drawbacks, to put it bluntly, this technology does not give people unlimited life, but gives them a few more chances to die, just like playing a game, in the number of lives given by the system, after death, they will be resurrected in their original position, but once the number of resurrections given by the system is gone, this game is over. The only difference is that some of them can start from scratch again, but these beings, the shells of consciousness, have no way to regain their consciousness again, they will completely lose themselves and become a madman. For them, this is not much different from death.

"After many experiments, with countless people's life data, the final conclusion has been reached, even if the consciousness is strong, no one can withstand five transfers of consciousness, in fact, most people, generally only three consciousness transfers, no more, their consciousness integrity is no longer guaranteed that they make correct judgments, to put it simply, wisdom degradation, or even loss of their own consciousness." The engineer was already thinking about the despair at that time, and he also didn't expect that the immortality technology he discovered would be so fragile. In fact, there are more things that have not been said, most of the robots that have lost their consciousness have their own violent tendencies, and in order to manage them in a unified manner, they will also be locked up in one place. Although they are robots, they also once had human consciousness, and it is impossible to destroy them like this.

So now most of it is for the stability of society, after three times, if the robot is still conscious of death, they will also completely announce the death of the robot, but because of the relationship between the engineer and the mastermind, even if the engineer wants to let such a destruction, the mastermind will not agree, the engineer does not want his consciousness to become crippled, so as to become those robots who are not conscious, which is why the engineer wants to take the risk to carry out this plan.

"In the end, I finally understood that the so-called continuation of human life is impossible to achieve in terms of the fundamental laws of the universe, or in other words, as long as we are still the carriers of existential consciousness, there is no way to realize it, this is the real power of creation, and the laws of the universe will not allow such things to happen. If this is really the case, it requires those who are beyond the laws of the universe, or even above the universe, to realize that their consciousness is already separated from the mortal womb of the body, and even if it is the law of the universe, there is no way to restrain them. According to our research, it is at least a fifth-level civilization, and we are still too far apart after all. The engineer finally said his conclusion, saying so much, in fact, the engineer was subtly telling them that such an artificial intelligence with autonomous consciousness and comparable to human flexibility could not be created at all, it was the power that belonged to the creator, and creation could not be achieved for them at all.

After listening to this, Liu Xuan and Qin Ming also had a little understanding, what the engineer said was not wrong, the power of creation, they had no way to understand it at all, the Wandering Planet Civilization was like this, and their Earth Civilization was even more so. Take the current earth civilization as an example, they can use science and technology, regardless of the problem of returning, they can really send a human race out of the solar system, as long as they want, they can also build their space stations in various parts of the solar system. But no matter how much they studied, they couldn't create a new cell. Nowadays, many biotechnologies are built on a natural cell that has been formed, and if they are just asked to make such a cell, they will not be able to achieve it. As the Engineer said, this is the real power of creation, which they simply can't grasp right now.

"Okay, now that you have realized the power of creation, then you can also understand that some things of the mastermind, some things are really different from what you think, our science and technology are actually not much ahead of you, but we are on top of some technologies, and we are doing more extreme." The engineer had said so much that he finally had the last thing he wanted to say.

From the very beginning, the engineer is guiding Liu Xuan to correctly understand the true face of the mastermind, after all, in their eyes, the mastermind is still an image of artificial intelligence, and this idea has a great impact on the engineer's plan, so the engineer also wants to take this opportunity to tell the true side of the mastermind.

Of course, he can also directly tell Liu Xuan and the two of them that the mastermind is not a real artificial intelligence, it can only be regarded as his greatest invention, and this engineer will still explain it to them. If he said it directly, there was no theoretical basis, and he was also afraid that Liu Xuan and the two of them would remain suspicious of this matter, which was the waste of such a big tongue, so that Liu Xuan and Qin Ming understood such a fact, which was crucial to the engineer's plan, in fact, it was also a disguised implication to them that the mastermind was not the planet itself, and the mastermind could be defeated.

Seeing Liu Xuan and Qin Ming who were deep in thought, the engineer's own words finally played a big role, as long as their way of thinking and understanding of the main brain changed, what they said next was easily accepted by Liu Xuan and Qin Ming. In this way, the preparation before his plan is completely over, and the next thing is to wait for Liu Xuan and Qin Ming to implement his plan in disguise, of course, there is still a period of waiting.

"In fact, I tell you that these are just a disguised reminder not to think of the master brain as too mysterious and powerful, and to avoid blind convincing. In fact, as long as you think about this matter carefully, you will understand that if we have such technology and use such aimless wandering, no one will want to live without a fixed place, and we are also like this. The engineer said to them openly, but not in his heart.

How could anyone have thought of what he said just now? The most critical premise is that on this planet, no one knows that their consciousness can be cycled five times at most, which is a secret that the mastermind and engineers have been hiding, if this news is exposed, the status of the mastermind will be directly affected, even if the mastermind is very closely related to this planet, but if the people of the entire planet are resisting, the mastermind can't stand it.

Once there is no premise for this inference, they will naturally think that the mastermind itself is a super-powerful artificial intelligence, in fact, this is a hoax in itself from the beginning, which is also to ensure the dominance of the mastermind.

Facts have proved that they have done a very good job in this regard, even after thousands of years now, the rest of the people still don't know the true face of the mastermind, you know, in order to keep this secret, how many people the two of them killed. It can be said that their hands are already stained with the blood of their compatriots.

Of course, the approach of the two people also caused a lot of things, after all, even at that time, the people who knew this secret were advanced scientists, and they killed these people, which undoubtedly made their science and technology a lot behind, which can be regarded as one of the reasons for their future wars, but until now, everyone except the engineer and the mastermind did not know that such a thing happened.

"Now you know what the Mastermind really looks like, right?" The engineer's voice changed, and after so many talks, he once again returned to his original question, and he also believed that after his own statement, if Liu Xuan and Qin Ming were not really stupid, they should be able to realize the true appearance.

"What do you mean...... The main brain is actually the same as us, just a consciousness body, not a real artificial intelligence, the only difference between the main brain and us is the difference of the body, we are all robot structures, and the main brain body is this huge pillar? Under the guidance of the engineer, Liu Xuan has already said the answer expected by the engineer, in fact, this is the biggest secret of the mastermind, on this planet, the people who know this secret are actually only the mastermind and the engineer, which is also the main reason why the engineer feels that he has an existential crisis. Of course, if the mastermind really let him die directly, the engineer would not have any plans of his own, but because the engineer's talent is here, the mastermind cannot directly let him die, the mastermind's methods, in the massacre thousands of years ago, he had seen it, but he didn't want to fall into the hands of the mastermind, this is the plan that must be relied on.

"It can't be said that at the beginning of the design, the mastermind was really just an artificial intelligence, which was also specially designed to better control the planet, but then the consciousness of the mastermind invaded the original artificial intelligence, or it was merged with the original artificial intelligence, which is why the current mastermind appeared, and your statement is not wrong, if it is clearly said, in fact, the masterbrain itself is a human consciousness, thousands of years ago, you may also be able to call him other names, such as... … Checkmate! When the last two words were spoken, the engineer's mouth was full of bitterness.

The mastermind's position at the beginning was actually a general, otherwise how could he have such a right to this point, the engineer at that time was also because of the title or status of the general, it was to help him do so much, and in the end it was simply to exhaust all his knowledge, it was the consciousness of the general and the consciousness of the mastermind that were combined, or it was the consciousness of the general that ate away at the original artificial intelligence, and the current mastermind was born.

In that extremely chaotic era, the engineer relied on his knowledge to help himself and the general achieve the final victory in the final struggle, but some of the losers at that time, or those who advocated other ways, were hidden, this is the people Liu Xuan and Qin Ming saw at that time, of course, they are the descendants of the people of the original engineer era.

"How far can the original mastermind go?" Liu Xuan asked casually, this is already a thing of the past, even if Liu Xuan understands it very clearly, it is useless, he just wants to know through this matter that thousands of years ago, the degree of civilization of this planet, so as to make a horizontal comparison with the current earth civilization, so as to roughly estimate how many years it will take for the current earth civilization to develop before it will become what the current wandering planet will be.

"To tell you the truth, I was also involved in the design of the mastermind at that time, and it was an extremely crucial part of the participation, but no matter what, it couldn't go beyond the basic laws of the universe that I told you very clearly just now, even if it was the last version of the primordial mastermind, there was no way to decide anything independently, we just gave him a high authority, but if you want to use these permissions, you still need some people's verbal orders. To put it bluntly, the mastermind at that time was just to let us press a few fewer buttons, saying that it was artificial intelligence, but in fact, the name artificial intellectual disability was more suitable for the mastermind at that time. Of course, the state of the mastermind at that time was much smarter than those who had too many cycles of consciousness, after all, the mastermind could still understand human commands. The engineer still remembers the scene very clearly, but you must know that he was able to participate in the research and development at that time because of the general's arrangement, which was also to prepare for things in the future.

Liu Xuan is a little difficult to accept this statement, because if this is calculated, it will still take thousands of years for human beings to reach the level of science and technology like the wandering planet, but now that many dark forest strikes have begun, Liu Xuan doesn't even know whether the current human civilization can last for hundreds of years.

"In short, the mastermind is just a combination of two consciousnesses, the main consciousness part is the general at that time, but most of the authority to control is the most primitive mastermind, I also said just now, although the mastermind has no autonomous consciousness, but it saves us a lot of things, so a lot of advanced permissions, the masterbrain is there. The final combination of the two consciousnesses brings about a powerful mastermind with its own independent consciousness, and it is also the current mastermind. The engineer made a final summary.

"But what's the use of you telling us this, it's an internal planetary matter, even if you tell us the secret about the mastermind, we're useless?" Liu Xuan had already maintained the tone of what he had just spoken, and asked the engineer very indifferently, but everything Liu Xuan wanted to know was actually in this question, and he also wanted to know how to defeat the mastermind through this method. Now that they know the significance of the mastermind to this planet, a powerful commander with his own wisdom, as long as there is something wrong with the mastermind, their earth civilization will be easier. Defeating the mastermind is a good way to defeat this civilization that Liu Xuan thought of, this is like a decapitation operation, the generals are gone, and the war is much easier.

"In essence, the main brain is actually a computer, but a super powerful supercomputer, but, since it is a computer, it is a program, that is with BUGS, although it is tinkering for many years, but these things are still real, and then we actually learned a fact, when the main brain was compiled at the beginning, those people also left a back door for the main brain at that time for accidents, and the main brain can be directly modified through the background, well, You know what I mean at this point, and it's not good to talk about it any more. The engineer smiled mysteriously and stopped, it was not that he didn't want to tell Liu Xuan, but he couldn't tell Liu Xuan directly, otherwise it would be a waste of his efforts to arouse Liu Xuan's suspicion.

"Oh, weren't the people cleaned up by you? Even if there is a background, there is no way to start it, right? Liu Xuan continued to ask, but he didn't know that this was actually what the engineer himself wanted.

"Hehe, how can I say it, those people don't look down on my technology, that is, the people who were hidden just now, that is, the only carbon-based creatures left on this planet, they are actually the descendants of the people who left the backdoor at that time, of course, they also got the method to activate the backdoor, but we don't know where they hid, even if they were caught later...... Ahem, that's too much. The engineer said that in the end, there was an abrupt stop, but the most critical part was already exposed.

Just when Liu Xuan still wanted to ask something, the engineer opened his mouth first: "Okay, let's talk so much today, and I will have the opportunity to tell you some other history in the future." ”

Without waiting for Liu Xuan to answer anything, the engineer turned off the communication, the engineer's preparation has been completely over so far, and all that remains is to see what Liu Xuan can do.