Chapter 44: The Maniacs in the Jar
Dr. Goddard frowned and pressed a button.
There was a sound of electric shocks.
The brain finally quieted down.
Dr. Goddard raised the microphone again and asked.
"From now on, answer my questions."
"First question, who are you?"
The brain's EEG movements are clearly visible on the monitor.
“...... My name is, Tom Polywobor. ”
Dr. Goddard didn't react.
"Go ahead..... Answer me, what will you do? ”
This time the brain fluctuated violently.
"I'll ..... Chopped, broken, be sure .... There was a black guy who always spoke in my ear, and he told me that by chopping people into minced meat, you can gain power. ”
"So.... The more I kill, the more I raise my sword, they will obediently wait to die..."
Dr. Goddard disagreed, because he had heard enough crazy talk.
"Nonsense, if that's the case, wouldn't you be invincible in the world?"
The brain gets a little excited, and the voice inside the synthesized speaker becomes incoherent.
"Ahh .... He.... He knocked my knife off... That bastard, he gave me my knife...."
Dr. Goddard pursed his lips and pressed a button.
"Shutdown ....."
The brains were taken away by the robotic arm unplugging the sockets and mixed into the other brains.
Dr. Goddard walked up to Andy with his hands behind his back and explained, a little helplessly.
"As you can see, the source of the brain here is very complex, I have communicated with more than a dozen crazy heads, and they are meaningless except to feel mental pollution, they are all some anti-human monsters."
"And the total number of crazy people in here is incalculable, and it is as difficult to find a needle in a haystack as it is to find those who are useful."
"But I've recently come up with new ways to search for specific synapses that we can analyze which brains aren't crazy... It's genius. ”
Dr. Goddard had a grin on his face.
"So far, I've found 25 brains that meet the criteria, and while the accuracy is not guaranteed, but... I believe this will be valuable. ”
He turned, and the mechanical arm moved continuously, lifting a strange chimera out of the depths, what appeared to be a bunch of specific selections from the brain and placed in a single biochemical device.
This process lasted about an hour, and after 25 brains were plugged in, the machine was blasted into action.
"Booting.... Completion 26%.... 42%.... 89%...”
"The boot is complete."
A large image of a human brain appears on the display, with a horizontal line fluctuating underneath.
"What's your name?"
Dr. Goddard leaned close to the microphone and asked.
"My name is Think Tank."
The strange brain chimera answered.
Dr. Goddard nodded back to Andy.
"As you can see, it's a collective intelligence that I've put together using a boutique brain I've picked out, and I've named him after that project in the Old World.... Think tank, worthy of the name.... Thoughts that were put in the vats .... This is your unique opportunity, and the remnants of the entire dome are now in front of you. ”
"These brains have been dormant for too long, and it's almost impossible to keep them sane after activating them alone, so I thought of a way to relieve their mental stress... In the previous preliminary tests, the results were quite good. ”
Andy stepped forward and looked at the brain.
Actually, it's a brain made up of 25 brains.
"I want to ask you some questions, about those stories of the old world before the war .... I'm with those."
The think tank began to answer almost before the words were spoken.
"This function requires deep personality chimerism, and in the process the unit's functionality will become unreliable, and the outcome may be unknown, are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
The think tank soon began to undergo some unspeakable changes, and it seemed that certain priorities had changed.
"No. 01 mating complete."
A series of strange background sounds that resembled signal interference suddenly appeared, and then the voice of the think tank changed.
"I see..."
The voice resembled that of an old man.
"I saw the sun coming down from heaven, not in the past, but in the future..."
Dr. Goddard decisively ordered the think tank to switch personalities, as it was clearly a psychopath.... The reason why this brain is thought to be a genius brain is because there are many abnormal indicators found in the brain. Dr. Goddard speculated at the moment that it was probably the result of the haphazard testing of the original CODE technology.
"Let's go straight to the next one..."
Immediately after Dr. Goddard's order, the think tank changed again.
“..... Hello. ”
The next personality finally sends out a calm greeting, and it seems that this one is not a madman.
"Hello, what did you do before? How did you end up like this? ”
Andy asked with some hope.
"I used to be a soldier."
The brain replied.
"I used to belong to the 5th Mountain Division of the SA .... As for how it got to be like this..."
The brain suddenly stirred.
"We received orders... Testing a new prototype military equipment called Stealth Kid ... It looked like a small metal box, but something emanating from it made it invisible. Each of us was asked to use that thing, and we could actually be incognito, as those pesky BA people could do. ”
"Later... Each of us has been using it for more than 100 hours, and I don't know why... Something went wrong. ”
"There are many people who become suspicious, constantly questioning whether others are plotting to kill them, or they become afraid to contact other people, whether they look directly at each other or are looked at by others, they feel extremely uncomfortable, as if the fire in their hearts is burning, and they are therefore agitated and irritable."
"At that time, only Albert was supporting me, Albert was a very powerful person, every time I forgot something, it was the first to notify me of the news, it seemed to be omniscient and omnipotent, and any question would be answered by him..... So I didn't get terrified by the changes in the others, and I continued to use the Stealth Kid. ”
"Later someone said I was attacking someone else in the middle of the night, how could it be? Some people say that I call myself Albert when I attack people, and it's crazy...."
Dr. Goddard couldn't take it anymore, and he pressed the toggle button again.
"Okay, I know this is another madman, it looks like that prototype technology can still make people schizophrenic.... There doesn't seem to be any need for such a dangerous thing.... Let's see if the next few can really help. ”
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