The stars were sinking in the west, and the night was silently filled.

The clean-up of the battlefield is still well underway, and the Red Nightmare hovers over the edge of the Alpha atmosphere, and as one of the few ships left in the entire Butterfly Nebula, it has taken on the heavy responsibility of receiving visitors from afar.

Everyone sat in the conference room, more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Gu Xingtang, who had the appearance of Jesus, and all of them felt awkward in their hearts, and a pair of round eyes turned around on him, and they couldn't connect the thinking of Jesus with the director of the calm Bionic Science Research Institute.

But at this time, Jesus was indeed a real person, even in the face of a lot of questioning eyes from everyone, his face did not change, and he even drank water very leisurely.

"You say you're the pioneer of the digitization of human consciousness, the first designer of the muse server?"

Cheng Sikong, as the spokesperson of the noun "the sky is not afraid of the earth", took the lead in asking: "As we all know, the muse was born in the era of natural disasters on the ancient earth, so are you also a person in the era of natural disasters?".

Gu Xingtang nodded, and said unabashedly: "That's right, I am indeed an ancient earthling, I was born forty-five years before the extinction of the ancient earth, at that time it was the most serious period of natural disasters, and the government collected feasible methods to deal with natural disasters for all mankind, I was sixteen years old at the time, and I was a special student in the junior class of the Academy of Sciences, and our class focused on artificial intelligence, I designed the prototype of the muse, and later built the first muse server with my classmates."

"It doesn't sound like a fake."

Cheng Sikong crossed his arms and leaned on the back of the seat, and continued to ask, "But the era of natural disasters is more than 1,400 years away from now, how did you, as a mortal human being, survive for so long?"

This question seemed to touch Gu Xingtang's sadness, he let out a long sigh, put down the water glass, and lowered his eyes to reminisce.

"That's a long story, the idea of the electronic humanization of human consciousness designed by my classmates was included in the list of the first batch of government funding programs at that time, and we took the government's investment to complete the manufacture of the consciousness extractor when I was twenty-seven years old, and the muse server was also iteratively updated, it has more powerful computing power, and can accommodate at least three billion human consciousness online at the same time."

Gu Xingtang crossed his fingers on the table, his eyes looked at his fingertips, and said calmly but with a hint of sadness: "I and the other researchers agreed that the time was ripe, and at the same time, other government-funded projects have also seen obvious progress, and we urgently need to come up with results to prove the feasibility of our plan, so my research associate and the first person in the class to support my research on the electronicization of human consciousness volunteered to be the first to try consciousness extraction."

"Her name is Dai Yingzhi, and she is a girl, and in my opinion, her name should have been in the annals of history, if she hadn't been so stubborn."

Gu Xingtang's eyes darkened, and countless complex emotions were intertwined, but there were no people who could understand these emotions.

"The first consciousness extraction work went very smoothly, Yingzhi's consciousness smoothly entered the muse server, we nervously guarded the server for a whole month, and finally got her feedback, she used the data code, and sent back three words from the muse server for the first time——"

"New World."

Shu Yungui's eyes widened suddenly, he had only heard Dr. Han Le mention the "New World" project not long ago, but he didn't expect the actual participants of this project to appear in front of them so soon.

"From that day on, the 'New World Project' became the code name for the 'Digitization of Human Consciousness' project, and with her successful experience, more than 100,000 people around the world soon volunteered to enter the New World as the second batch of experimenters, all of whom were dying patients who wanted to gain immortality with the help of 'Digitization of Human Consciousness.'"

"The second large-scale consciousness extraction also went very smoothly, with the help of Yingzhi in the server, everything went smoothly beyond our imagination, but at the same time, disaster came, and it was soon pointed out that the consciousness of the second batch of experimenters did not really enter the muse server, and they said that the existence of a 'new world is yes' in the server is a lie, and the signals sent back through the server were all set by us in advance

's fake Q&A program."

"Soon, the angry family members of the experimenters gathered to make trouble, no one listened to our explanation, they forced the government to disqualify our project, cut off our financial support, and at that time, the muse server had developed to a very critical period, and it would take a lot of money to continue research, for which my companions and I spent all our savings, so that our wives were separated, but we still couldn't keep the 'New World Project' going."

Gu Xingtang shook his head self-deprecatingly: "Desperate, we can only choose to give up, before completely shutting down the Muse server, I had a final conversation with Yingzhi, she was very angry, this is a level of anger that I have never seen in the human world, I even feel that she is going to break through the server and come to the real world, and hack to death all those who question the 'New World Plan'."

"She ordered me not to give up, but we were running out of money to pay the electricity bills, and in the end we chose to terminate the project, but we were reluctant to tear down the server, after all, it was our decades of hard work, I hid it in the old house, and then accepted the government's order to preside over the design of the intelligent mastermind of the immigration spaceship project."

This is a detail that has never been noticed in all the natural disaster documents that have survived in later generations, it turns out that the chief researcher of the muse server and the intelligent mastermind designer of the immigration spacecraft are actually the same person, this news surprised everyone on the scene, but for Gu Xingtang, this is just a trivial experience in his legendary life.

"After the termination of the New World Project, I spent another fifteen years designing the intelligent mastermind of the immigrant spacecraft, because the research bases of the two projects are located at the north and south ends of the ancient earth, so I haven't looked back at the muse server in the past fifteen years, I don't know when it evolved self-consciousness, and has been entrenched in the online world for a long time, constantly tricking humans to serve it, and even taking in a group of believers."

"By the time I found out what it was doing, it was too late, I tried to stop it, but the followers of the Muse wouldn't even let me get close to the server, I knew Dai Yingzhi's hatred for humans, and I also knew that she transplanted the muse into the master of the immigrant spaceship, but at that time, it was the end of the natural disaster, all the resources of the human race were invested in the immigrant spaceship project, this plan must not be terminated, the spaceship must take off, I can only stop the muse in my own way."

"Now there's the answer to your question, about how I've survived so long."

Gu Xingtang smiled faintly: "I don't know which spaceship Dai Yingzhi copied the muse to, or if it is on the main brain of all spaceships, although the muse is indeed a very powerful artificial intelligence, but if you want to enter the intelligent main brain through the firewall I designed, its power will definitely be greatly weakened."

"I'm sure it takes a lot of time to grow secretly, in order to still suppress her after thousands of years, I rushed to rebuild a batch of consciousness extractors, and found the group of researchers who were like-minded at the time to study the 'New World Project', we selected twelve people, and decided to extract consciousness and follow the spaceship to the human colony, curb the growth of the muse, and do everything possible to destroy it."

"So we found some newborn but dying babies, implanted tiny control centers in their brains, and then transplanted our own consciousness into their bodies to gain new identities."

"According to the government's immigration policy, these babies will follow the migration spacecraft to the new resettlement site as a population reserve resource, and in this way, we live in the resettlement area, and whenever our life is about to come to an end, we will use the consciousness extractor to re-transplant ourselves into the new baby's body, and the cycle will be repeated from generation to generation."

This is an almost impossible task that spans tens of billions of light years and spans 1,400 years, and Shu Yungui believes that this can be called the loneliest task in the universe.

How can there be such a stubborn person in the world, Gu Xingtang said that Dai Yingzhi was stubborn, but in Shu Yungui's opinion, Gu Xingtang was 10,000 times more stubborn than Dai Yingzhi.

"You're transplanting your consciousness into the body of a dying baby over and over again, growing and dying as a half-android, just to wait for the muse to appear?"

Shu Yungui couldn't describe what kind of mood he was in now, he thought that he would never be able to do it alone for a thousand years.

"Sounds incredible, isn't it, but you must know that there are eleven other people like me in this universe who are persevering, I heard about the ninth star, the muse must have appeared so late because someone was holding him back, I want to remind you, but I can't leave the underground fortress, I can only take the risk of letting Jesus carry two consciousnesses, and it is also a little accident in the transplantation of consciousness that caused me to wake up now."

Hearing Gu Xingtang say this, Shu Yungui suddenly remembered the king on the ninth star who ordered the destruction of all electronic products, although he didn't know his name, he did single-handedly delay the time for the muse to destroy the ninth star for decades.

He suddenly looked at General Ake, like the king of the ninth star, General Ake was also born with a natural rejection of artificial intelligence, this psychology is particularly out of place in an almost electronic world, but according to Gu Xingtang's explanation, it seems to make sense.

Shu Yun thought that perhaps in the thousands of years of consciousness transplantation, some of these twelve muse monitors have suffered damage to their consciousness, they may not remember where they came from, they do not remember their purpose, but they still insist on fighting against artificial intelligence, because this is a mission that has gone through generations and is deeply embedded in the DNA.

"What about Jesus? Whose memory does the original Jesus carry? He often says he has human brain cells." Tang Yue was anxious to know if his good brother Jesus would ever return.

"Jesus is just a android designed by me, its consciousness is completely fictional, I originally wanted to design it as a android with a simple sense of self, which can help me avoid the surveillance of the underground fortress during the next consciousness transplant, but the self-consciousness it produces is too shallow, and it always says, 'Daddy, a stupid boy who didn't even pass the Turing test.'"

Gu Xingtang comforted Tang Yue and said, "Don't worry, I have all the data backups of Jesus, and when I go back and re-upload the data, it will be 'resurrected.'"