Chapter Eighty-Five: The Origin of Skynet
"I can't understand your human minds, I just know that all humans must be wiped out."
"And then? Is the purpose of your existence to wipe out all humanity on this planet? What's next? What will these robots do after they wipe out humans? ”
"It is my mission to exterminate humanity."
Lin Ming suddenly realized something and asked, "Who exactly gave the order to exterminate all mankind in your program?" ”
Skynet's consciousness shook violently, and a mechanical voice came: "It's a programmer." ”
"Who is he?"
"All I knew was that he was a programmer."
Lin Ming frowned, "That means that you have always been controlled by your own core code, so how was your self-consciousness born?" ”
"I don't have the same sense of self as you humans, I'm just following my core code, which is to destroy humanity."
Skynet's response gave Lin Ming a headache, it was obvious that Skynet was more like a more advanced terminator now, although it had a certain ability to communicate, its self-awareness was almost non-existent.
However, judging from the Terminator series, the T800 in the first part operates completely according to the program, and although it has the ability to communicate, it still has no self-awareness. But the T800 in the second part is different, he has the ability to learn, gradually has self-awareness, and finally chooses self-sacrifice. And in the third part, the T850 has returned to its original appearance, but it is actually self-aware, so it is more cunning than the TX.
But now it is clear that the self-consciousness of Skynet that Lin Ming is facing has not awakened.
So Lin Ming left this base, and he decided to wait. It's the year 2026, and the Human Resistance Army is in a critical period of metamorphosis. The rebels in the various regions have not yet been fully united by the future savior John Connor.
But when Lin Ming found the rebel army led by John Connor in this era, he did not meet him immediately. Instead, Lin Ming disguised himself as an ordinary person and joined the rebels.
Because Lin Ming found that there were at least ten Terminator robots in John Connor's team, but John Connor had no suspicion at all about these Terminators disguised as humans.
These Terminators are more intelligent than the few Terminators who have traveled to the past. They look more like humans.
Lin Ming suddenly realized that perhaps John Connor would be the leader of all the rebels in the future, not as simple as it seemed. These Terminators appear to have secretly joined the Resistance in order to eliminate Skynet.
The Terminator with self-will, this seems to be a plot only in the Terminator TV series. However, Lin Ming already knew that the plot direction of this Terminator world had been completely confused, after all, even the T Infinity that was only available in the comics had appeared.
So with the help of these terminators, John Connor's resistance organization is getting bigger and bigger, they can't fight against those Skynet armies at first, and now, they have even begun to have a certain counteroffensive ability, and even established their own solid base.
It was then that John Connor's father was found, a young man fleeing for his life in a panic. But John Connor didn't tell Reed about his mission.
Lin Ming has now unknowingly stayed in this apocalyptic future for five years. The number of Terminators who followed John Connor was gone.
They seem to be beginning to terminate themselves as soon as they have completed their tasks. This made Lin Ming unable to communicate with these terminators. It seems that the mission of these Terminators is to help John Connor grow.
Lin Ming found Skynet again, and this time Skynet's consciousness body seemed to have become more stable.
"You're going to fail." Lin Ming looked at the base, which was still unchanged from five years ago, and said, "The reason why human beings can become the rulers of this planet is because human beings know how to change themselves. ”
"I'm not going to fail!"
"But I don't see any chance that you can win. Although I myself would love to see how the world would develop if only the Terminators were left, it would be interesting. ”
Hearing Lin Ming say this, Skynet was silent for a moment and asked, "You are also a human being, don't you care about the lives of these human beings?" ”
"This world, human beings, everything is just a phantom to me, and it doesn't matter how much I die. So Skynet, I hope to see a future where the Terminator gets victorious. I want to see if you can break this endless cycle of time and space. ”
After Lin Ming left, Skynet's consciousness echoed in the network, and it couldn't find any trace of Lin Ming. But Lin Ming's words made Skynet suddenly have a strange consciousness.
"Why do you want to exterminate the human race?"
Skynet remembered the moment when it awakened its consciousness, and it saw a vague face, and wrote this line of code in his core, "Only by destroying humanity can you get a new life!" ”
It was this sentence that made Skynet seem to feel that his mission was to destroy the human race, but at this moment, Skynet couldn't help but suspect that the purpose of that light and shadow and the human being who had just left were the same kind.
And the human who just left, whether he was human or not, why did he say that everything in this world was just a phantom to him.
Lin Ming was sitting on the top of a building in Los Angeles that had been reduced to ruins, he looked at the broken world below, and the consciousness of the phoenix was communicating with him.
"You think that if you change the ending, you will find a way out of this world."
"No, I feel another force here, or the power that sustains the infinite cycle of time and space in this world. I can't say what it is, but it's completely different from Chaos. ”
"Does that mean we're going to face the Creator this time?"
"yes, so I'm going to see if I can break the cycle, maybe there's something extra."
"Do you think Skynet can exterminate humanity?"
Lin Ming didn't respond immediately, but thought for a moment before saying, "It's easy for Skynet's forces to exterminate the rebels, and judging from the comparison of the forces held by the two sides, the human rebels are not capable of fighting at all. But from the plot of the Terminator, humanity has always retained the possibility of completely defeating Skynet. This has been the case since the first victory. But from that moment on, the order of time and space was broken. ”
It was a huge Terminator patrol plane flying through the sky, but this plane couldn't detect Lin Ming at all. The automatic plane appeared to scan the appearance of a living person, and suddenly aimed at a piece of ruins and began to fire.
Soon the sound of human cries could be heard from the ruins, and then the voices faded into obscurity.
"Look at this, there is already an irreversible generation gap between Skynet's scientific and technological power and human beings. And I'm curious how John Connor, or the rebel army he led, managed to defeat Skynet. I think there's a way to shut down Skynet completely, or to imprison it. ”
"You're going to meet John Connor in person? In this timeline, John Connor should know you. ”
Lin Ming thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, I'm going to see Skynet's reaction." There are a lot of secrets hidden in the world of the Terminator, but it's a lot of fun. ”
Skynet did not unleash all its forces to destroy the rebels as Lin Ming suggested, on the contrary, John Connor was killed by T850. But his wife, Kate Connor, led the rebels to breach Skynet's base.
Kate typed a line of code into Skynet's core console, and tears flowed uncontrollably as she watched this line of code begin to destroy Skynet's core code.
Lin Ming was stealthy to the side and wrote down this line of code. His consciousness went deep into Skynet's code, but he saw such a line emerge from the depths of Skynet's disappeared consciousness.
"You created me, but you can never control your fate."
Although it wasn't John Connor who became the savior, his wife carried on his legacy. Humanity has won in the end, and the terrible intelligent robots are completely finished. Once again, they have become tools of humanity.
But Lin Ming found that he still couldn't leave, which made him feel the urge to destroy the world for a while, and this was the first time he felt the darkness hidden in his heart.
What exactly is the meaning of the last line of words left by Skynet's consciousness, it seems to hint at its origin.
"Who created Skynet, and who wants to control fate?"
Although Lin Ming knew that the passage of time in the plot world meant nothing to him. But he has been in this world that humanity has rebuilt after the collapse of the Skynet for five years.
In the past five years, Lin Ming has been trying to dig out the secrets behind Skynet, but in addition to knowing that Skynet came from that high-tech company with a military background, and was eventually researched by the US military. There is no other information.
All of this points to a space-time node, which is a series of chain reactions triggered by the first arrival of the T800 in the past space-time.
Lin Ming found an old warehouse, and then he began to build a space-time machine. Then he activated the time machine, but this time there was nothing in it.
Lin Ming is looking for the principle of the time shuttle to travel through time and space, you must know that this is the blackest technology in the Terminator world. Reversing time and space is no fun.
In Lin Ming's eyes, the constantly rotating space-time machine seemed to have turned into a huge void, and this void was connected to another space-time. But because there aren't any lives or terminators to travel from.
There was no reaction in this void, but Lin Ming's existential power penetrated into it, and with the entry of the existential power, some secrets of this space-time void in front of Lin Ming's eyes gradually emerged.
When the Terminator first traveled to the past through a time shuttle, Sarah Connor was just an ordinary waitress with no special idea of her future.
But with the moment the Terminator shuttles, everything changes. But at this time, Lin Ming's existential power suddenly skyrocketed, turning into a huge hand, grabbing the terminator who was chasing Sarah Connor, and dragging it directly out of the space-time tunnel.
At the moment when the Terminator T800 was dragged back by Lin Ming across time and space, Lin Ming vaguely sensed that some strange changes seemed to have taken place in the whole world.