'—Emergency!' 'Ghost Signals' have been tested again for the phenomenon of mass propagation! ”

A piece of news about the "guardian" was taken over layer by layer, and finally passed to the upper echelons of various civilizations.

There are quite a lot of introductions and corroborations related to it, but in the end, they all integrate one meaning: "guardian" may be wrong again.

The difference between organic life and mechanical intelligence makes it difficult for ordinary people to understand what it means to be "sick when a mechanical body is 'sick,'" but it doesn't prevent them from enjoying it.

- For example, is it possible that after being "mentally ill", the mechanical body will ignore all previous logic and start attacking indiscriminately?

This seems to be a kind of "evil fall" that cannot be solved by idealistic means, and it cannot be "awakened" by words.

This is a materialistic program error, and perhaps only the best engineers, after overcoming all odds, will be able to find a way to fix the code.

The cause and speculation of the possible anomalies of the "guardians" have always been the focus of secret investigations by various civilizations, and many scientists have been secretly studying the "guardians" and the civilization that created them.

Even if there is no large-scale transmission of "ghost signals" in the galaxy, it is impossible for the galactic civilization to stop exploring such a special lost empire.

The most popular theory is that the "Guardian" gradually corrupted over a long period of time, and the errors accumulated in mechanical intelligence reached their limits, causing the "Guardian" to develop anomalies.

Such speculation is not groundless, and there are also "rumor busters" who have conducted experiments with some artificial intelligence systems that are common to the galaxy, and found that it doesn't even take that long to make an "artificial intelligence" problematic in theory.

Although they know that the artificial intelligence of the "guardian" is certainly not comparable to the big road, their "experiments" may not be applicable to the cutting-edge intelligence of the "guardian".

But who can say clearly about the long river of time?

There are even vicious conspiracy theories speculating that it was the "guardians" who destroyed his creator, and that the appearance of goodness is now nothing more than a disguise.

Even if this speculation is unfounded, and many people scoff at it, they can still show their attitude to some extent.

Therefore, when the signs of a large-scale spread of "ghost signals" reappeared, almost everyone turned their attention to the "guardians".

After all, the last time this happened was when the "guardian" had an abnormality.

The destructive and contagious power of the "ghost signal" is obvious to all, and it is known that this peculiar signal virus can theoretically infect any electronic device.

Even if the "guardians" don't seem to need this to destroy them, they must be held accountable.

"I knew it! That mechanical intelligence is definitely not at ease! Now the true form is revealed, right? I propose to nominate the 'Guardian' as a 'natural disaster'! Otherwise, when it does, we won't have a chance! ”

In the "Star Sea Community", some people who are extremely hostile to robots and artificial intelligence have issued such lawsuits.

A small number of them are extremely idealistic people with sincerity, and this part of them regards all artificial intelligence as "blasphemy", even if the other party is the "guardian" who has saved the galaxy.

The other part is the planners, whose target is not the "guardian", but the other intelligent civilizations in the galaxy, and the "guardian" is just an excuse to lead to their next proposal.

While the proposal to designate the "Guardian" as a scourge seems to be the right reason, there are still the majority of sober and neutral people in the galaxy.

"Are the cells that fill your barren brain tissue called discrimination, stereotypes, and self-judgment?" It took so much effort for the Guardian to destroy you? We can't fight the whole galaxy together! ”

The Tinder Alliance was the first to express its opposition, and the rhetoric was as fierce as they had been.

They stated that they would never do anything that might be hostile to the Guardian unless they sent warships to bomb their planet.

Those neutrals have made it clear that they are "going to talk about evidence", and they objectively do not support the issue.

So the nominees began to talk about the "ghost signals" that had been gathered within the civilization:

"As you can see, the waveform of this signal is very similar to that of a 'ghost signal', and even its function and propagation speed are almost identical, and our scientists believe that it is a 'ghost signal' more than 80% likely, and it is very likely that it is a variant of the 'ghost signal'......"

“…… You also know that it is a variant of the 'ghost signal', how can you be sure that it was released by the 'guardian'? Could it be that some civilization in the galaxy deliberately unleashed it to create chaos? ”

Some delegates felt that the reasons were not sufficient and hoped that they would come up with more evidence, but the person who was the subject of the motion sneered and said in a big way:

"I'll leave it here, if this wasn't the work of the 'guardians', I'd be on the spot-"

Before he finished speaking, the entire venue of the "Star Sea Community" suddenly fell silent, and even the representative who was speaking was stunned as if he had suddenly received some information indirectly.

After a while, the expressions on the faces of all the delegates present changed slightly, and then you look at me and I look at you, and after confirming from their eyes that the other party also knew about it, they all looked at the representative in the center of the venue, who was still talking nonsense just now.

The representative was also stunned for a moment, and after a moment of hesitation, he returned to his seat without saying a word.

The entire "Star Sea Community" collectively fell silent, and every representative was thinking about the message from the home planet just now:

[The "ghost signal" has been found to be spreading in the galaxy, and the source is ...... Guardian! 】

Originally, everyone thought that the special signal of unknown origin and very similar to the "ghost signal" was actually the "ghost signal" of the "guardian", but it had changed a little.

Now, however, the real "ghost signal" seems to be just starting to spread.

They all thought about one thing: was this a precursor to the Guardian's corruption, or was it another step up for him?

As the center of the incident, Li Wenyuan did not expect that the Galactic Civilization had compiled a complete set of self-justifying background stories for him.

His idea of using "ghost signals" is simple, and now that he can't use the "observation terminal", he may be able to use the extremely diffuse nature of "ghost signals" to find clues to the "active purification protocol".

Compared with the "privacy" that may be snooped on by him, the galactic crisis of the "active purification protocol" is obviously more important, after all, the "active purification protocol" is also an artificial intelligence in theory, and it is within the influence of the "ghost signal".

He hadn't figured out how to explain to the galaxy what the situation of this "galaxy exam" was that had not yet come, and he couldn't directly tell them that "there was once a race called human beings who thought you were too rubbish, and set up such an exam to test the progress of civilization, and those who didn't pass it would go back to the indigenous era and practice hard".

However, a certain sociological technology on the technology tree gave him the idea of using this "galactic exam".

[Social Experiment: The Great Tragedy]

[Technology Level: 3]

[Introduction: Good tragedies can often resonate with living beings.] Through guidance, this emotional fluctuation may be transformed into the strength of life to move forward. Tragedy is not only destruction and hatred, but also sacrifice and dedication, a tragedy great enough will sublimate life, if the impact is far-reaching enough, then it is not impossible to reshape the spirit of the collective.

[Possible Technology: Theory of Social Stage (Studied)]

This was where his idea came from, and he could craft a "story" that would ignite the determination of the galactic civilization to move forward, even if only a few civilizations could achieve it, than to wait for a long time for them to self-destruct and self-improve.

After that, he can also complete the "perfect ending", and releasing the "ghost signal" to find the "active purification protocol" is only the first step.

“…… At what point to make a move, I still need to plan carefully, and I don't know the 'active evolution protocol'...... Well? ”

Li Wenyuan, who was still designing the script for the "story", was suddenly stunned because he received unexpected news.

“…… This kind of signal seems to be the same source as the 'ghost signal'...... There should be no other civilization in the galaxy that can reach the point of replicating this kind of signal, and most likely the 'Active Purification Protocol' is gone...... Just coming so fast? It doesn't seem to be the scheduled time yet, right? ”

Li Wenyuan tentatively passed this signal into the core database, and then found that the countdown began to decrease rapidly, and soon there were only a few months left.

Even if it hasn't started yet, this anomaly clearly shows that this "ghost signal" is a precursor to the "Galactic Civilization Stress Resistance Test", and it also means that the "Galactic Crisis" is coming.

However, he did not panic about this, but had a feeling of "waiting for a long time".

(End of chapter)