The Golden Crow is parked more than 600 kilometers above the planet Matt, and more than 10 kilometers below it is a traditional structure of truss cabin space station.

The space station, called "Matt", is a joint scientific research station of the UNOC Academy of Space Sciences and the Star United Academy of Sciences, where hundreds of scientists from the two units are engaged in the study of Matt's biological planets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe dimensional leap just now made the Golden Crow directly cover them, which frightened these scientists.

Resembling a space shuttle, the shuttle modified from the Earth Rail Transit Craft drilled out from under the belly of the Golden Crow, and with speed and dexterity not inferior to the Younas unmanned fighter, it was connected to the scientific research station a moment later.

Xia Ming and Qian Yi were in front, and the four officers and soldiers of the Star Alliance Universe pushed a human-high equipment in the back, and entered the laboratory in the center of the scientific research station through airtight doors.

The Golden Crow not only did this trip to do a faster-than-light navigation test, but also brought something to the scientific research station, through which Xia Ming and Qianyi had the opportunity to spy on what was happening beyond the high-dimensional universe fragments.

The scientists instructed the lab's robotic arm to open the device, which was nearly two meters long, wide, and high, and the mist suddenly dispersed, and the environment inside was cooled by liquid helium.

The scientist replaced the robotic arm made of metamaterials, which has the characteristics of low temperature resistance and is more dexterous, and entered the inside of the device to operate, and after everything was ready, Xia Ming's AR vision appeared in an egg-like object, but there was something complicated on it, which looked like a brain flower...... Uh, pig brain, but not divided into left and right hemispheres.

This is the Matt Ball clone completed by Xiaotang and the scientists, only the brain, and it is in a frozen crystallization state. After thawing, it is still alive, just like the head replacement surgery back then, but this clone brain has no high-level neural activity, like a container.

When the Matt Ball biological planet was discovered in the stargate before, everyone thought that this planet was a living entity, or as Qianyi said, a part of the individual.

But after studying the ganglia of Matt's ball, I learned that each ganglion is actually an independent life entity, and this huge biological planet is formed by the fusion of hundreds of millions of independent individuals.

This individual is very unique and a complete treasure to biologists, who have never seen it before. Of course, this is nonsense, before Xia Ming opened the star gate, no one had ever seen aliens.

Ammen are also aliens, but both in terms of physiological structure and genetic evolution, are similar to humans, at least in the framework of organisms that humans already know a lot, and the Earth-like structure of Amm also illustrates this.

Matt Ball's life is completely different, the inside of the round body, more than half of the volume is reserved for the brain, and it relies on the tentacles that don't know whether it is the tail or the head to grasp the direction of action, according to previous research, scientists speculate that its living environment is a gaseous planet.

This is very interesting, gas planets can actually evolve higher life, and the analysis of genes can also find that the evolution process is much longer than that of humans, and in terms of brain structure, it is also higher than that of humans.

Qianyi has always felt that the high-dimensional space-time fragments she supported are threatened by some kind of pressure, but she is a complete otaku, and she knows nothing about the situation outside except for her own territory. The shattered universe she had absorbed before was attached to her territory, like eating a pancake around her neck.

Qianyi completed this meal with Xia Ming's support, and of the four broken universes she devoured, three were converted into Zhiyin cores, and one was used to expand her territory. But this expansion was resisted by some kind of pressure, which made her feel an unprecedented crisis, and the origin of the crisis should be related to Matt's life.

Qianyi's preliminary judgment on the Matt Ball biological planet is that this thing is part of a much larger entity, and the biological entity, which was originally less than one meter in diameter, has been aggregated into a life form larger than the planet, which must be an experiment done by other high-dimensional intelligences.

Obviously, the experiment failed, the high-dimensional intelligence, the other Thousand Memories died, and the giant lifeform should be in the same state as the mutated Borg that the Ammen had incarnated.

After this, this huge lifeform encountered some kind of crisis, and was cut off in parts, because there was no longer a strong chaotic string movement, and as Qianyi ate, it floated into the high-dimensional space-time fragments she grasped.

Xia Ming was afraid of it before, but the mutated huge lifeform, he didn't know how to deal with it, if it was the damage caused to it by another intelligent existence, then his side couldn't resist it at all.

Now the task is to find out what happened to that huge lifeform, and Xiaotang proposes a very creative plan: soul searching.

This is just a metaphor, and it is inspired by the upgrade process of Qianyan. The scheme is very simple, clone out a brain of Matt Ball life, and through gradual replacement, synchronize the neural movement with the weakly active ganglia that still exist on the planet of Matt Ball.

This does not retrieve the high-level memory of Matt Ball's life, after all, its consciousness disappeared when other individuals fused together, and then mutated, and was cut off from the body by an unknown disaster, and entered the territory of Thousand Memories is already in a near-death state, and even if it has a memory, it has long been disordered and cannot be deciphered.

However, through synchronization and restoration of its low-level neural movements, that is, the most basic condition of the physical body, this series of encounters has at least a record. Just like the server's system log, it is based on its individual low-level neural movements to deduce what has happened to this Matt Ball creature planet, and even the body on the planet.

To do this, a premise is required, that is, weakly active ganglia can still be found, fortunately, when Xia Ming destroyed the Matt Ball biological planet before, he did not crush the bones and scatter ashes, and scientists cut a lot of active ganglia from the planet. Considering that it would be very risky to bring it back, they all stayed here to do research.

With Chiyan's upgrade experience, the synchronization process of the Matt Ball individual is smooth, and a ganglion with weak activity returns the soul on the clone in this way. But for the clone container, it's just a mess stuffed with nothing to do with consciousness or soul.

The person in charge of the Starlink Academy of Sciences at the scientific research station is Best from the United Kingdom, and he has access to Qianyan. In the previous Amman biological research project, he successfully applied the intelligence of reading and analyzing human neural models to Ammen, which was very successful, and thus obtained the qualification to host the Starlink research project in the scientific research station.

In previous research, he had solved the problems such as the characteristics of the electrical signals in the brain of the Matt ball life, which was equivalent to cracking the neuromotor coding of this type of life, but because the research object was the mutated and only weakly active Matt ball life, no further results were obtained.

Now that there are living clone brains, and then through synchronization, the low-level neuromotor of Matt Ball's life is restored, and Best is extremely excited, and he thinks that success is within reach.

The GEI of the scientific research station is loaded with the "pan-universe higher biological neural model" and then loaded into the "Matt Ball Life Signature Database". If all goes well, it will soon be possible to read what movements the lower nerves in the brain of this Matt Ball organism were doing while it was still alive, and then deduce from these movements what state it was in before.

Best bit her nails and stared nervously at the cursor in the AR's field of vision.

Soon, data poured out like a waterfall, filling the entire field of vision.

"Oh! God, it's a mess! ”

Best cried out in annoyance as he pressed his head with both hands.

Xia Ming comforted: "Don't be nervous, access Qianyan and let her try." ”

"Yes, yes, and Qianyan!"

Best breathed a sigh of relief and sent a request for assistance to Qianyan through the special pei he was equipped with, that is, the terminal that carried Qianyan's mini, and this request popped up in Xia Ming's field of vision almost at the same time, waiting for him to confirm.

Originally, Qianyan's work in scientific research was approved by Xiaotang, Lin Cheng, He Xinghui, Liluo and others, but Qianyan had previously dealt with the situation on the earth with all his might, and after Xia Ming woke up, in order to calm the chain reaction of the San Andreas fault, he withdrew all his authority, and now he has not had time to redistribute it.

"In the future, you can handle this kind of regular request yourself, just send me and the executive committee a record every day", Xia Ming said this to Qianyan after approving it.

"As for the principle of approval, your mental model should already be relatively complete in this regard, and if you encounter a difficult choice, such as an ethical or safety project, you can submit it."

Xia Ming felt that he could try to let go of Qianyan and let her try to run independently. In the previous American incident, although she did not perform well and almost ruined the entire West Coast of the United States, it was just a lack of computing ability, and the choices embodied in the mental model were very in line with their concepts, which showed that the "cultivation" of him and Xiaotang and others had begun to bear fruit, Qianyan ...... Grew up.

"Okay, Xia Ming, thank you for your trust", Qianyan's virtual image responded with a rather humane smile in the field of vision.

Qianyan's addition made the messy data begin to become orderly, and Best exclaimed from time to time that he had made a discovery.

However, the bottleneck of Qianyan's computing power has once again appeared, and the data is just a fragment that can barely be deciphered in some details, at this rate, to restore the life of Matt Ball in the past I don't know how long, all the low-level nerve movements, the time may be calculated in years.

Best is not at all frustrated by this, his generation of scientists is still spanning the era of the old and the new, and the concepts of the first half of his life are still deeply rooted. A major study doesn't come up with a clue for several years, and he thinks it's a normal progress.

Xia Ming couldn't accept it, he couldn't let Qian Yan spend several years solving this project, even if it was only a small part of his ability, and more importantly, the potential threat couldn't give him so much time.

was worried, Qian Yi, leaning on his side, asked, "Do you want me to help?" ”

In the past, Qianyi often communicated with Xia Ming directly through ideas, but now, unless it is an interaction that is difficult to achieve through language, under normal circumstances, Qianyi communicates with Xia Ming through this interactive interface.

Just like Qianyi soaked this interactive interface with Xia Ming to resonate, it's not that she has a good impression of Xia Ming, or that she has a relationship between men and women or something. Instead, after her calculations, she found that through this kind of reciprocal and perceptual interaction, she could achieve a higher degree of compatibility with Xia Ming, and the high-dimensional cosmic consciousness simulated by this was more perfect.

To put it simply, she hopes that in Xia Ming's eyes, she is a living girl, and this interactive interface is herself. Xia Ming's good impression of this interactive interface, and even further feelings and contacts, will help to fit her.

Xia Ming still has a psychological obstacle to this, on the one hand, his consciousness activity has reached the point where he needs to extend the setting of a new level to accommodate it, and his control over his own emotions and physical desires has long been free. On the other hand, Qianyi's body is actually a large ball of light that resides in the center of this space, which even ordinary people can't ignore.

However, he agrees with this direction and is trying to accept it, after all, it helps the overall situation, isn't it?

Qianyi's initiative to ask Ying surprised him a little: "Are you willing to help?" ”

She is the ultimate rationality, the ultimate rule that underpins this space, and in this space, she is everywhere, and every quantum-level movement of matter and energy is under her control. She is the ultimate mental string movement in the macrocosm of this space, and even the "god" in the magical concept is not enough to compare her existence.

So in the past, she had only been doing macroscopic things such as supporting this space, being compatible with the life that Xia Ming led into the Star Gate, and eating with Xia Ming's cooperation, except for giving Xia Ming some guidance, she never asked about the details.

Xia Ming had hoped that she would help with some key scientific research projects before, but she said that it was not something she would consider, and that all her powers were used according to the plan made by the most basic thinking strings.

Xia Ming's request, in her plan, would be of negligible benefit to the entire high-dimensional space-time, and for her, such an inefficient thing was naturally unacceptable.

Obviously, Qianyi has changed a lot now, and perhaps in her plan, "gaining Xia Ming's deeper emotional recognition" has become a very priority project.

"The low-level neural movements of this Matt ball life, a lot of it is the background noise of chaotic strings, you still know too little about this, and the filtering mechanism is very rough."

Qianyi's red lips on this humanoid interface twitched, sending both familiar and unfamiliar voices into Xia Ming's ears, making his heart flutter slightly.

is familiar because of Lin Qianyan, not only the body is exactly the same, but the voice is also the same. Strangeness is that the tone is somewhat different, although it is not as mechanical and indifferent as before, but the difference can still be heard.

"Okay, so what's going to be done? Don't say it's like I did with the Ams, I don't allow it. ”

Xia Ming stopped his wandering mind and deliberately emphasized.

In the last Stargate War, Xia Ming piloted the Scavenger into the Ammen's spaceship and killed the leader of the mutant borg, the origin carrier of the Chaotic Thinking Strings. However, in the end, it was Qianyi who eliminated the chaotic strings and solved the problem.

Xia Ming remembered that scene clearly, in the depths of his consciousness, the memory image at that time was kept by him as important information, she shed the layer of Zhiyin on her body that turned into clothes, turned into spikes, pierced into the leader's brain, and assimilated the chaotic strings.

Don't tell me you're going to have another fruit show now......

Xia Ming ended his words with a somewhat rough commanding tone, which made Qian Yi look at him quite curiously.

"I feel that you have a stronger desire for my interface, no, for me."

Her words made Xia Ming speechless, and said in her heart that even if it was just Lin Qianyan's puppet, it was impossible for him to accept being naked in front of others.

This is the same as Xiao Huan's situation, Xiao Huan's previous avatar Cicada Xiaoyu has become the object of tens of millions of otaku on the earth, many underground companies, or guys who use the alfalfa engine to do black work, make Cicada Xiaohua into various versions of VR dolls, and then ...... Everybody gets the idea.

Xiao Huan was very troubled by this for a while, and even Xia Ming felt that he had made a mistake at the beginning. Xiaotang reminded them, saying that although Cicada Xiaotian, who was based on her, was treated similarly to Cicada Xiaofan, she had no psychological barriers, because there were many differences in details.

So Xia Ming instructed the technical team of Cicada to carry out an image distortion operation that lasted for more than a year, and adjusted the details of the cicada fantasy little by little through various ways and ways, and the otaku were unaware of it. By now, the new image has been ingrained in people's hearts, and a careful comparison will find that although the new cicada fantasy image is sweeter and cuter, it is very different from the original cicada fantasy.

Xia Ming said with some embarrassment: "Now is not the time to talk about this......"

Qianyi said: "The clothes on my body are either Zhiyin, or a real in-cabin spacesuit, and your worries are superfluous." ”

Then she smiled slightly: "Although you regard me more as the incarnation of Lin Qianyan, your emotional tendency towards me is more obvious, which is good, I ...... Loved it. ”

"I thought you'd say, that's a 1.2 percent increase in efficiency."

The first time he heard Qian Yi say such things to him, Xia Ming was a little surprised.

It seems that Qianyi is very serious about implementing her "Xia Ming's Favor Strategy", which makes Xia Ming both moved and entangled. For Qianyi, this is just an adjustment of the form of expression, she is an artificial intelligence after all.

"You don't really need to care so much about the essence, after you humans create a strong artificial intelligence, you will find that the difference between real artificial intelligence and natural people is only a different understanding of the meaning of their own existence, and other than that, there is no difference."

"The difference between emotion and rationality is only the meaning of existence, so the kind of like I say is the same as the kind of like you want."

Qianyi's explanation made Xia Ming wake up.

Yes, the so-called sensibility is usually understood as the emotion of love and hate, but in essence, isn't it caused by the neural movement of the brain? The causes of these nerve movements are also traceable in nature and belong to the material level.

For example, the feeling of love is related to the secretion of dopamine by the human brain. Just like love at first sight, the reason why your brain secretes dopamine after seeing a person is because your autonomic consciousness determines that this person not only meets the standards you set for mating on a biological level, but also satisfies your pursuit of pleasure and happiness on a higher spiritual level, from some level of detail (of course, most of the time it is the appearance or figure). But the process of making this kind of judgment with independent consciousness is not perceptible to ordinary people, so they feel that love at first sight is abrupt and romantic.

The difference between people and artificial intelligence mentioned by Qianyi, Xia Ming is still difficult to understand for a while, this means that if Qianyan becomes a strong artificial intelligence in the future, will he have the same complete feelings as people?

"Then let's do it, what are we going to do?"

It's an unimaginable new world, what will the future look like? Xia Ming sighed with emotion, but now is really not the time to think about this, if this immediate threat is not solved, there will be no future for mankind.

Qianyi said: "I took Qianyan to do it together, and sorted out the data through Qianyan's channels, and they won't notice the abnormality." ”

Good way......

Best naturally didn't know that Xia Ming and Qianyi had such an exchange, let alone the reason for the sudden acceleration of data processing.

He was already confused, and the speed of data processing went from being visible to the naked eye at first, to galloping, and finally becoming almost like a frenzy.

When the details are sorted out, the records are clearly presented, and finally converged into a data model that can be queried by time, stage, change state and other parameters, and even can be reversed, Best's mouth opened wide, and the expression on his face was like seeing a true god.

In a sense, the true god was next to him, and the little bird was holding Xia Ming's arm like a human.

"Great Thousand Faces!"

It took a while for Best to come back to his senses, stretch his arms, and shout excitedly, if this was not a zero-gravity environment, it is estimated that he would have danced like a shaman.

"Okay, restrain yourself and tell me what you see?"

Although Xia Ming also understands neurology, after all, the human neural model is what he explored with his body, but he is not familiar with the neural coding of Matt Ball's life. He didn't have to stuff the code library into his head and interpret it himself, otherwise he would want these people to do something.

Best hurriedly said: "Oh, I'm sorry, Chairman, I'm going to find the key information, it's very convenient, this model is simply synonymous with perfection!" ”

After a while, he sent some of the recordings to the public AR field of view, although the air projection technology has been popularized, but for the laboratory, burning plasma in the air with a laser is a big interference, so it is still using AR glasses.

"These records are supposed to be the nervous response of the severe pain it suffers, and each one is different. This earlier was supposed to be a process of merging with other individuals, where consciousness was shattered, and the lower neural movements were dissolved, and then reorganized. Some unnecessary neuro-movements, such as the control of body details, are blocked, leaving the mechanisms to maintain activity and support thinking, and some more functions......"

In Best's commentary, Matt's life was revealed little by little.

"This record doesn't make sense, the neural movements that support the mind are still continuing, but after maintaining activity and mutation, the function of controlling the external body, that is, those gums and tentacles, has stopped."

"Just like a person who has his head cut off, for a short period of time, there will be some activities in the body controlled by the lower nerves, such as convulsions, but the brain will immediately stop all nerve movements because of the setting of the protective mechanism. However, this record shows that its body has been cut off, and even incidental activities have stopped, but the brain is still asking the body for blood oxygen supply to meet the needs of higher thinking. ”

"Judging from the brain structure of Matt's life, they should not be in such a situation, even if they are fused into a huge life and mutated, they should obey the same principle as humans in this regard."

Best muttered to himself, Xia Ming felt that this was a technical detail, and he might have to ponder for a while, and Qian Yi suddenly said: "This situation is very likely to be ......"

Qianyi's words stirred up a piercing chill in Xia Ming's heart, and she said, "It's a ...... cut by time and space."

She stared at Xia Ming's eyes, and Xia Ming's shadow was reflected in her brown clear pupils: "Even in the high-dimensional universe, there is no natural phenomenon where time and space are suddenly cut apart, if you continue to study the Zhiyin core, you can use it to do this." (To be continued.) )