Hansen sat in a homemade maglev chair and came to the only church in the London area, where science was highly developed, and people seemed to be getting closer and closer to science than religion.

Hansen was greeted by a handsome young pastor about twenty years old, dressed in an orthodox black clerical uniform, who walked slowly from the pulpit to Hansen's side, bowed respectfully, and said softly, "Professor Hansen, can I do something for you?"

"Pastor of Great Love," said Hansen, who spoke very slowly, "I am afraid that my time is short, and I am here for a very important and very difficult matter, please ask the pastor for a favor." ”

It's been more than a hundred years since Professor Horn died, and Hansen has gone from being a teenager to a complete old man. Hansen's physical strength is obviously not good, so he speaks slowly, but his brain is clear and his thinking is quick.

"Professor Hansen, you're welcome, Da Ai Dao is happy to serve you!" Da Ai Dao has always respected the scientific master in front of him, and knows that what this lonely old man entrusts must be within his ability and will not embarrass him, so Da Ai Dao agreed to the old man without much hesitation.

"I have followed in the footsteps of Mr. Horn in my life, devoted myself to the research of life science and artificial intelligence, increased the intelligence and life span of human beings, and opened all technologies to the world of humans and intelligent robots, so that both parties benefited, and at the same time, there were some bad voices between humans and robots. But technology is unbiased, so I don't have any regrets in my life, as far as research is concerned. The only regret in my life is that I didn't fulfill a teacher's last wish....." Hansen was already speaking slowly, and he paused here and there.

"Entrusted by the teacher, I have been looking for a Chinese woman all my life, but I don't know who the Chinese woman is, and the teacher told me that a man named William, George William, who used to work in the teacher's studio, should know the clues of this woman, and to find the Chinese woman, you must first find Mr. William. And now Mr. William is being besieged by robots in Manhattan, where humans and machines collide. ”

Hearing William's name, Pastor Da Ai Dao interrupted Professor Hansen's remarks and asked the professor to pause and rest.

"Are you talking about Mr. William, who was chased by robots?"

Hansen slowly closed his eyes, smiled knowingly, and nodded slightly, indicating that it was the person the pastor was talking about.

"For more than 100 years, Mr. William's identity has slowly been known, at first it was chased by heretics and old saints, and then it was the continuous large-scale pursuit of extreme intelligent robots, and Mr. William had to hide everywhere, so for more than 100 years, I have been trying to find Mr. William but I have no choice. Now the robots are surrounding Manhattan, and Mr. William is inside, but for a person of my profession, robots will not let me through the quarantine area, plus the reason for physical exhaustion, I would like to ask the priest to help me go and meet this Mr. William. You're the only pastor in the precinct and the only one most likely to pass the robotic quarantine check. ”

Pastor Da Ai Dao understands what the professor said about the quarantine inspection, and the robot will not let people on both sides of the conflict enter Manhattan.

But as far as the pastor is concerned, he is not very willing to meet the legendary Mr. William, and to a certain extent, he is not willing to accept the fact that Jesus is a mortal William. But it seemed that it was difficult for Da Aidao to refuse the respectable old man in front of him, and he hesitated for a long time.

"So, Professor Hansen, do you want me to bring you any news or anything for Mr. William?"

"You can help me bring this stone to Mr. William," Hansen said as he handed over a delicate wooden box containing a stone to Da Ai, "and when he saw this stone, William knew what was going on." ”

Da Aidao took the wooden box, opened it, and looked at it for a while.

"Is there anything special about this stone?"

"It's an ancient stone, nothing else special"

"What's the origin?"

Hansen hesitated for a moment

"You can just give the stone to Mr. William"

"Do you need anything else to bring?"

Another wave of hesitation

"There is no need for anything else, just be careful, you must not get involved in that conflict, and do not look at or ask about the affairs of both sides of the conflict, otherwise, it will cause you problems when you enter and exit the inspection area of both sides. ”

This is a very small matter, and it is not a difficult thing for the Great Aidao, who agreed to the old man's request.

The priest agreed to the old man's request, but the old man had an indescribable expression on his face, and after a polite end of thanks, the old man drove his magnetic levitation wheelchair and left the church.

The distance from London to New York is about 5,600 kilometers, and it takes about 40 minutes to take a vacuum superelectric potential capsule from London. The cost is not low, but now Da Aidao is not worried about this, and Hansen's funding is enough for his casual living expenses.

Capsule traffic is a horizontal cylinder shaped like a capsule, there are no seats in it, only three rows of vertical frames erected similar to ladder structure, the vertical frame is fixed at the bottom and top of the capsule, and each shelf has an automatic fixed arm for fixing people vertically on the vertical frame. In order to reduce the load on the overpotential capsules, each capsule can only accommodate six people, and the space is also cramped, and the travel is not very comfortable.

When starting to start, the system first confirms various safety measures, the capsule first enters a pipeline isolation bin, the sealed door in front of the isolation bin is closed first, and after the sealed door is closed, the isolation bin begins to be vacuumed, and the voice prompt isolation bin vacuum is established in less than a minute, the sealed door in front of the capsule is opened, and the system starts the overpotential and loads the negative charge on the outer layer of the capsule after confirming the safety again, and the capsule begins to start, and then the acceleration process lasts for two minutes and three times the gravitational acceleration, which is equivalent to three times the weight of the human body, fortunately, the weight is evenly borne by the back, otherwise if it is supported by the legs, it is likely that ordinary people cannot bear it。 The intermediate process is a completely weightless state, the fixed arm can be released, passengers can move freely in a small space, feel the weightlessness state, during which the voice will gradually prompt the number of negative charges of the capsule to decrease, and the charge of the capsule is neutral for a period of time in the intermediate uniform process. The increase or decrease in charge does not have any effect on the passengers, and the change in charge is only to maintain the capsule in a uniform motion of about 10,000 kilometers per hour. After about thirty minutes, everyone was fixed to the vertical frame again by the fixed arm with their backs facing forward, and the charge of the capsule had changed to about the same positive charge as it had been when it set off, and the capsule began to decelerate for two minutes with three times the acceleration of gravity, and the passenger was still stressed on his back. After the capsule decelerates and stops, the front sealing door opens, enter the isolation bin, confirm that the two sealed doors are closed, and start to restore the pressure to the isolation bin, and the recovery pressure is faster, and the normal air pressure of the isolation bin is completed in about ten seconds, and then the sealed door is opened, and the capsule enters the platform.

The road was not easy, with acceleration, deceleration, weightlessness, and the need to worry about the capsule bursting caused by the vacuum of the pipe chamber set up to avoid the effects of the sound barrier. It's not so comfortable for a human who is used to walking on the ground. Fortunately, although Daai Dao is a pastor, he is very healthy, and although this trip is the first time for him, there are no physical abnormalities.

Like London, New York is full of self-service maglev bikes, with two seats, a ring-shaped skeleton jacket and a glass cover, which are somewhat comical in appearance. The maximum speed is 400 kilometers per hour, which is about one-third of the speed of sound, which is enough for short-distance transportation.

New York did not form a large-scale war between humans and robots, the United States, like other Western countries, each intelligent robot has its own identification number, like other humans, as an independent individual, enjoy completely equal civil rights, with equal rights to participate in politics, government agencies and business executives, everywhere intelligent robots figure. So, on the streets of New York, humans and robots live in harmony. Except for Manhattan, a battlefield formed by a war between extremist robots and human rights defense groups.

This skirmish between robots and humans in New York seems to have been completely expected by humans. Professor Horn's invention of memory has improved human intelligence and delayed the difference in the development speed of human beings and artificial intelligence, but after more than 100 years of use, the shortcomings have finally been exposed. Although after hundreds of years of research, memory still cannot be inherited between hosts, while artificial intelligence is completely free from the limitations of the body, the body is almost immortal, and even if an individual is damaged, the developed intelligence is very easy to be transplanted to the next robot, and the information sharing between robots is much easier than that of humans. After more than 100 years of development, the power of robots and humans is evenly matched, and the two sides have reached a temporary balance.

But a man who is likely to upset this balance, a war between man and machine, in Manhattan, is also for one man, William. Yes, that immortal, William, is a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the robot. In the more than 100 years that his memory has been operating in William's body, he has become far more intelligent than all humans and all machines. The robot wanted to kill him, and human rights organizations wanted to restrict the robot's rights, so the two small groups gathered in Manhattan for the same person.

Although both sides possess devastating nuclear fusion weapons, the air on the entire battlefield is almost completely devoid of the smell of gunpowder, which is not as strong as a local war more than 100 years ago.

Human rights organizations were besieged in Manhattan by extremist robots, but human rights organizations simply erected three steel walls in Manhattan, and the inner and outer walls were not high, less than five meters, and they were high and unobstructed. Inside and outside the city, there was only a battle with cold weapons, not even guns and artillery.

This skirmish looks a bit comical, and anyone can easily kill the other, but it smacks of medieval cold-weapon warfare.

In fact, the reason is very simple, if you really fight to the point of despair, the killing moves of either side can destroy the entire earth, which neither side wants to see. And the third-party government outside the conflict, although much stronger, is no different from destroying the earth once and destroying it a thousand times. As a result, with the government's strong coordination, it was agreed that the two sides of the conflict could only use cold weapons, thus forming this slightly comical scene.

This war looks comical, but it is actually a battle of restrained and rational gentlemen.

Daai Dao was a complete Christian priest, he didn't even have a memory implanted in his body, and he came here as a person, William.

Da Ai Dao came to the war zone and explained the origin to the guard robots. The guard robot waited for a while, and then let Da Aidao go to check, and the moment of waiting was the process of the guard and his commander's conversation, and the communication between the robots did not require voice signals through electronic signal transmission, so humans couldn't detect it at all, just a little sluggish.

Daai Dao took out a red strip of cloth and blindfolded himself, hung a conspicuous cross, held a Bible, and was guided by the guards to inspect it.

Da Ai Dao does not want to see the inside of the building, and tries to avoid unnecessary trouble.

It has to be said that robots are much more advanced than humans, at least in terms of inspection technology, and robots have generally adopted quantum detection technology.

After arriving at the quantum examination room, Da Aidao was asked to take off the blindfold, and Da Aidao slowly adapted to the indoor light after opening his eyes.

The room was empty, and the hall was surrounded by a two-story building, and the corridor on the second floor surrounded the hall, on which there was a commander-like female robot officer leaning on the railing and looking at Da Aidao. The most conspicuous thing in the hall is a huge stretched mechanical arm in the center, and at one end of the mechanical arm is fixed several glass lamp-shaped devices arranged up and down in circles. There were two soldier-like robots standing in the hall, these two robots were very cold, with metal shell skin, metal masks, cold, unlike the one upstairs, it was completely ordinary human image and looked much more acceptable.

The officer upstairs raised his hand, and one of the soldiers downstairs found the counter in the hall.

The dialogue between robots does not need language, and instructions from one robot to another only need electrical signals, and do not need to be converted into sounds.

The soldier operated the mechanical arm and put the glass ring on the manipulator on the body of the Great Aidao, the radius of the ring was very large, and it did not completely restrain the Great Aidao. Then the soldier activated the quantum emitter, the glass tube around the Great Love Dao was lit, and the quantum detector was ready.

The communication between the robot and the Great Love Dao must be transmitted through sound.

"Good morning, I'm Master Chief Quinn, let's ask a few questions, please answer them as they are. "It's a very pure American woman's mid-bass tone, and there is no stiffness of low-level intelligent robots at all.

"What's your name, where are you from?"

"Good morning, Ms Quinn, my name is Da Ai Dao, and I am a priest from London. The scene of the church where he was located flashed through his mind.

The lights flickered, and the empty hall appeared with the image of the church where the Great Love Dao was located, and the quantum detector could detect people's conscious activities and project the image in a holographic way in the hall, and the image of the church showed that the priest was not lying.

"What are you doing in Manhattan?" said Quinn to an English tone, as he was British.

"I was asked to go inside and find a man named William, George William. ”

Quinn let go of his left hand holding his chin, stopped pacing slowly, turned around and held the railing with both hands, and looked down at Da Aidao.

"What are you looking for William?" spoke a little faster than before, and it was clear that the person the priest was going to meet was a little sensitive.

"Hand over a stone. As he spoke, he took out the delicate wooden box that Hansen had given him that contained the stone.

The quantum detector projects the stones inside the wooden box in the hall and examines them in all directions.

"What's the origin of this stone?" The quantum detector showed that it was an ordinary stone, nothing special, but it was a little old, and Quinn didn't need to ask questions about the stone itself.

"I don't know the origin of this stone, I was just entrusted to pass it on, and the client did not explain the origin of the stone. ”

The quantum detector showed that there was nothing abnormal, and Da Ai Dao was an honest person. Da Ai Dao, I kind of understand why Hansen didn't explain the reason.

"What is the name of the person who entrusted you? Please recall his image in your mind."

"Professor Hansen. ”

The holographic projection in the hall shows Hansen's image, just as Daai Dao imagined.

"Is that this the person?"

"Yes. ”

"He is the most famous scientist in the world today and the most brilliant scientist in artificial intelligence. ”

"Yes. Da Aidao confirmed, but Quinn wasn't asking him.

There was silence for a while

"The person you're going to see is a big threat to us, and we can't assess the risk of you going in this time," Quinn said.

"I was only entrusted to bring him a stone. Professor Hansen is already a hundred years old, and Mr. William never seems to have done anything prejudiced about robots since the birth of robots. I wonder where the risks are?"

"Hansen is the most outstanding life and artificial intelligence scientist in the world today, William is the smartest human in the world today, and we can't find the origin of this stone, we can't assess what risks you will bring to our robot world after you go in, maybe ........" Quinn paused for a moment and continued.

"Perhaps......., of course, a peaceful solution can be found between humanity and us. ”

Quinn's face was expressionless, his tone was single, and Da Aidao still heard the change in the meaning of two completely different voices, and the meaning behind it should be the instructions conveyed to Quinn by Quinn's superiors, and the robots talked to each other, and outsiders couldn't detect it at all. Da Aidao is just guessing like this, and he doesn't know the reason for this.

"You have a point, you can get through to enemy-occupied territory, but please don't do anything that is harmful to the robots. "This attitude has changed too quickly, thanks to Quinn's not being human, otherwise I would have felt embarrassed.

Of course, Daai Dao knows this, so every time he finishes an inspection or conversation, he will take the initiative to bring a strip of cloth and blindfold him, so as not to cause trouble when he leaves after being checked by both parties, because he has seen a scene that he should not see.