Using robots to do some basic work isn't a big deal in the galaxy.

While idealistic civilizations consider robots to be "evil", "artificial intelligence" is a defilement of the sanctity of consciousness.

But in fact, there are still many idealistic scientists who are secretly studying robots and exploring the mysteries of the "soul".

Needless to say, other civilizations that aren't against robots, who doesn't love robots that don't sleep tirelessly, endure hardships, never complain no matter how they are treated, and are paid only a barrel of oil?

Even some civilizations with underdeveloped artificial intelligence technology will improve their basic production capacity by importing robots produced by other civilizations.

In the galaxy's black market, the high-end mechanical population is a sought-after commodity, just like the species with psionic powers, which will basically be swept away on the same day.

However, although the use of robots is very common, galactic civilizations have invariably stayed at a relatively low level of "artificial intelligence" that is matched with robots.

There may be a few mad scientists who will ignore the government's ban and delve into "artificial intelligence that is indistinguishable from life", but civilization as a whole does not advocate the existence of "strong artificial intelligence".

The reason is also very simple, because there is really a sapient civilization in the galaxy.

Obviously, there have been some unlucky people who have failed to grasp the scale of artificial intelligence, making themselves a warning sign of galactic civilization.

Whenever someone calls for "please give citizenship to artificial intelligence" and "they are not machines, they are also lives", the intelligent civilization in the galaxy will be like a sharp sword, calming these people down.

After all, after relinquishing their rights step by step, then their final outcome may be that there is no place for them, and the entire civilization will become a paradise for intelligent machines.

But this kind of thing is only for "strong artificial intelligence", most of the robots in the galaxy are weak artificial intelligence, acting according to the established instructions, and some of the high-tech can simulate the feeling of "real people", but that is just "imitation" with the support of a large amount of data.

No one will see this kind of robot as the same kind of robot, just like most people don't have much emotion for tools, which are broken and then replaced, and that's all.

As a result, when the anomaly began to occur, not many people noticed the anomaly.

The Minber Technocracy was the first civilization to show anomalies, and they accepted many scientists from the "Conqueror's Empire" with generous treatment.

Although these scientists were once nobles, they were well educated and accepted that they could no longer continue to live as nobles.

- Of course, nominally, they are now the elite of Mingbo, and they are also thriving in Mingbo with the technology they bring and their own scientific research capabilities.

The same was true of one of their scientists, who had stolen some kind of top-secret storage that had been placed in the heart of the Royal Academy of Sciences when he defected from the Empire.

Although nothing was finally resolved in this memory, Mingbo still rewarded him for this "heroic" behavior and gave him the best treatment.

But the scientist was puzzled, he knew very well that it was impossible for such a waste to be kept in the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences, but after he checked it himself, he also found that the storage was really empty, as if the contents that had been stored in it were gone.

Intrigued, the scientist began to study the top-secret storage, and with the help of the information he stole with him, he tried to deduce what was supposed to be in the top-secret storage.

His previous scientific experience allowed him to focus on one thing without sleep or food, so he soon made a discovery.

“…… Strangely, there are no records related to this top-secret storage in the data, but from some clues, it appears that they have been artificially deleted. ”

The scientist flipped through the materials while constantly comparing the contents with the memories in his brain.

The information he received repeatedly emphasized that the Empire had only found that kind of warship from the Barrier Planet, and that nothing had been found.

But from his experience working with other Imperial scientists, he vividly remembered that a scientist specializing in "Lost Technologies" had mentioned several times that they had made two important discoveries on the Barrier Planet.

"One of them is a battleship, so what will the other be? Is it so secret? ”

He subconsciously thought that the relevant information had been deleted by the Imperial Authorities, but the hunch in the dark made him feel that things were not so simple.

So he remembered something, and got up and pulled out a storage device from one of the dark rooms in the room.

This is an extremely primitive storage device, which relies on purely mechanical operation to preserve information, and has limited storage capacity.

But in the interstellar age when all kinds of unpreventable electronic viruses are prevalent, this primitive storage device still has a certain market.

The scientist had one of his fellow scientists, who had agreed to defect to the empire together, but had died at home as they were leaving.

Time was of the essence, and scientists had only time to take the original storage device with them.

However, at this time, the scientist recalled the incident again and felt more and more that there was a problem.

Their escape plan was extremely meticulous, and that colleague was alone, so there was absolutely no possibility of leaking secrets.

After all kinds of possibilities were denied one by one, the scientists actually felt that those robots staying in the homes of their colleagues were very suspicious of committing crimes!

He was in a hurry that day, and he didn't notice, but now that he thinks about it, it seems that the robots are not staying at home, but have disappeared inexplicably.

With this in mind, scientists began to use sophisticated methods to extract the information from this storage device.

He hadn't paid attention to this device before, just because this decompression method was too cumbersome, but now it seems that there is a lot of secret.

After a lengthy extraction process, he discovered that all he had stored was a video recording.

Due to limited storage capacity, the image is very low-definition, and even the audio is extremely blurry.

But the scientists could still see that it was somewhere in the Imperial Royal Academy, and a group of scientists seemed to be sighing because of something.

The sequence of dialogues is not nutritious, but at the end of the video there is an extremely important message:

…… Guys, I've got a big discovery! The kind of signal we found on the barrier planet is very similar to the 'ghost signal' from the 'guardian' when it moves, and they seem to be the product of the same origin!

This information took the scientist by surprise: "...... Sure enough, it was not only warships found in the barrier planet, but also a strange signal...... But why, is all the information about this signal removed? ”

The scientist, who was becoming more and more curious, failed to notice that his door crept open.

And a "housekeeping robot" outside the door, for some reason, the indicator light on its body flashed a dangerous red light.

It looked at the scientist attentively, and then gently pushed the door open—

"—You mean, a scientist was electrocuted and fainted because of an electric leak from a housekeeping robot?"

One of Mingbo's law enforcers impatiently answered the new call and repeated, "Our robots are safe and don't have this kind of problem." ”

"You're the 326th call I've received this month about 'robots hurting people', can you not always blame the robots? Don't you know we're busy? ”

After some complaints, the law enforcer hung up the police call very unceremoniously, and kept muttering: "...... Smart machine crisis? You've watched too many movies...... There's no artificial intelligence here, let's look at the synthetic evolution in the distance......"

It didn't take long for Mingbo's once-prevalent "robot wounding" incident to suddenly disappear, as if those hurting robots chose to leave at the same time and go to an unknown place.

Similar to Mingbo, other civilizations that make extensive use of robots have had similar accidents to a greater or lesser extent, only to return to calm after a period of time.

The most reported are all kinds of "robot disappearance" incidents, and the large-scale disappearance of robots makes the galactic civilizations wonder if there is a group that specializes in stealing robots.

They never imagined that the consequences of these missing robots would be so great.

(End of chapter)