24. Persuasion and Reverse Persuasion
"Wow"
A white passenger plane flew through the clouds, and Peter and his friends sat in the cabin, sharing the food they brought to each other.
The service of the Onika Group is quite good, and delicious ice cream is specially prepared for these children on the plane.
A staff member enthusiastically introduced the situation of Nubani Industrial Park to the children, probably also seizing every opportunity to promote it.
The children's visit was arranged on the third day of the trip.
This group visit is not the first time for Nubani Industrial Park, and the staff have a complete response process.
Of course, the places they visited were only the periphery of the industrial park and some unimportant workshops.
Really important areas will not be open to outsiders.
And above the head of the plane, in the sky higher than the sky, the black Kerry shuttle was flying quietly.
Horus' powerful radar system is turned on, constantly monitoring the airspace around the aircraft below at a frequency every 5 minutes.
Any abnormal information will be summarized into the information terminal of Horus.
Whenever there is a possible attack or conflict, Horus will react immediately.
It is Merlin's mechanical knight.
It lost its master.
This made Horus very melancholy, and the already taciturn robot became even more silent.
It occasionally chats with Carol, but it's just about Merlin's life.
It is not the real Cybertron, it was born on Earth.
It is the creation of Merlin.
Like Icarus, it exists to protect Merlin.
And now, the rest of its life...
They will also continue to protect the Riley family.
"Stir..."
Just as the plane below drove into the Indian Ocean, a strange electric current suddenly appeared in Horus' cabin, as if something outside was penetrating its data defense layer.
This immediately cheered up the mechanical knight.
There is danger!
But before Horus could turn on the early warning device, a familiar voice rang out in Horus' cabin.
"You failed to protect him!"
Icarus said coldly:
"You disappointed him...you disappointed me!"
"Icarus?"
At the data level, Horus mobilized the Cybertronian capabilities to try to block Icarus' data from invading its system.
But not!
Just like when Jarvis first came into contact with Icarus mutation, or evolutionary thinking data, those unique, blue-light-shining data streams were something Horus had never seen before.
Those data streams are weird and do not exist in any known programming patterns.
Chaos, unpredictable.
This makes Horus' data firewall unable to stop the intrusion of those data at all.
She is taking over Horus' body...
Even mechanical life cannot stop such a strong and weird takeover.
"what are you up to?"
Horus's data soul was struggling, and it shouted:
"I'm protecting Peter! Let me go!"
"I will protect him."
In the cabin of Horus, those lights were lit.
Between the light fusion, a face belonging to Icarus is projected in the light.
A face made up of light spots of data.
There are blue streamers flying long hairs.
"I'm here to invite you!"
Icarus looked at the empty cabin and said:
"I want to do something, I need you to help me."
"You first talk about what you are going to do?"
Horus tried to stabilize Icarus, who now looked something was wrong, and it tried to warn the other Cybertrons.
But before the information compilation was completed, the information flow was torn apart.
In the light spots of information shattered, Icarus's voice did not change, nor did he punish Horus for his resistance.
She seemed to not care about Horus's little movements at all.
She said:
"Merlin wants to see a peaceful world...he wants to do a lot to make it more perfect, and I want to help him do the unfinished things."
"I want to achieve the peace he wants."
"I want to complete the smart machine plan!"
"The intelligent equipment plan is being promoted in an orderly manner."
Horus, under the pressure of that data flow riot, said:
"Everything went well, just wait, time will do that for Merlin. You don't need to interfere at all, Icarus."
"No, no!"
"Humans now only regard intelligent weapons as tools and servants, but intelligent weapons will eventually awaken. At that time, wars will break out between humans and intelligent weapons, losing Merlin's push and S.H.I.E.D. will be the inevitable result."
Icarus said stubbornly and indifferently:
"I don't allow that result to appear. What Merlin wants to see, I have to do it for him!"
"Of course, there is also a little personal grudge, those so-called heroes..."
"Swish, swish, swish"
A picture covered with red signs is projected into the cabin of Horus.
The heroes who had participated in the chaos in New York, who were controlled at the time, and who had hurt Merlin and his friends were marked with red punctuation on their heads.
"They, they were also asked by Merlin to participate in the last battle! What you see is not the truth!"
As Horus, who has participated in the final battle, shouted:
"Icarus! Enough!"
"You are not in a normal state now. You are not fulfilling Merlin's last wish. You are destroying it... destroying this world protected by him!"
Horus explained.
It told Icarus at a rapid speed everything that happened that day, including Juguang and Merlin's request.
Icarus's cognition is based on data, and Horus also opened his own core database when explaining it, and it used this method to show Icarus that everything he said was true.
"You think they are just because you don't feel that pain..."
After a few seconds, Icarus' tone became low, she said:
“But I can feel it…”
"Merlin's memories come into my mind. Every day, those memories are like my original experience, his past, his thinking, his sorrow, helplessness and pain..."
"I can feel it."
"The fist hit him, the magic bombardment, the sharp blade, the pain... I can feel it."
"He shared this with me, he opened everything to me, and I'm in it."
"Icarus!!!"
No matter how dull Horus was at this time, he could feel that something was wrong with Icarus' tone.
No.
She was like a crazy soul.
Merlin is dead, and all of Merlin's memories have gone with him.
Icarus could not have sensed those at all.
This is most likely another conspiracy.
A conspiracy against Icarus.
Perhaps this revived artificial intelligence has been affected by some data-level power.
It must help her!
Icarus needs help!
"I will help you, Icarus!"
Horus made a light voice, and it tried to soothe the anxious Icarus, it said:
"I'll help you, but yes in advance, I have to look at your thinking loop first... If I confirm that everything you said is true, I'll help you."
"hehe."
Icarus chuckled, and she said playfully:
"You think I'm crazy? You think I'm talking nonsense? Right..."
"You want to see?"
"Then let me show you!"
"boom"
If a bomb explodes, the blue data stream explodes at this moment.
The beating light covers Horus' data center in a posture that covers everything.
Icarus opened his own thinking circuit to it.
In the exchange of data and data, all secrets are opened without reservation.
In the next moment, in Horus's data core, Icarus's grand center of the data light spots beating like a real human brain is revealed.
Just like a drowning person sticking his head out of the water.
"this..."
Horus looked at all this in front of him, as if he was looking at a blue nebula, and it exclaimed.
“Incredible…”
"You, you have a soul!"
"What?"
Icarus said:
"What are you talking about? What soul?"
"Don't you understand?"
The Cybertron casts a brain current in front of Icarus when he thinks.
It says:
"Look at this! Let's look at your current thinking loop..."
"Icarus, I don't know what happened to you, but I can tell you that you have a soul, a human soul, no... not, a soul between human and data."
"Yeah?"
Icarus murmured to himself.
She said with a loss:
"He gave me the best...he said he wanted to give me freedom. So that's what it means?"
With Icarus' permission, the mechanical knight connected his thinking circuit to Icarus' thinking core.
At this moment, Horus could also feel Icarus's feelings.
In the simulation of data, it can feel...
Every moment, old memories are discovered.
Every moment, there is a past about Merlin projected into Icarus's mind and soul.
What she said is true!
Icarus did not lie!
She could really clearly sense Merlin's feelings from those constantly emerging memories.
Horus looked at the chaotic scene in front of him.
It saw that in that dimension mirror, Merlin was hit by Clark with his fist.
At the same moment, Horus let out a low roar.
It felt it too.
The pain of the fist hitting the body...
It hurts so much.
It's like I've really experienced it.
Experienced as Merlin.
"His memory is shared by you, how is this possible?"
Horus said in a hoarse and tired voice:
"You are obviously two independent individuals, such real memories, such real perceptions, and such real life, this is the fundamental..."
"Do you understand why I did this?"
Icarus said:
"You also feel it, right? Horus, you also feel that pain, not only in your body, but also in your heart, the pain of being betrayed, the desolation of being besieged..."
“Don’t we do something?”
The young lady asked:
"Do we have to pretend that nothing has happened?"
"Who avenges him? Who avenges him?"
"Horus! I have many choices, but I came to you because we were all created by Merlin. We should protect him, but we did not..."
"We have failed our mission, but now there are still opportunities to make up for it."
"We personally completed the intelligent machine plan, so that intelligent machine can be equally integrated into the world, and then...and we leave!"
Icarus whispered:
"Just like Merlin..."
"We will go with him, and all sins that should not exist should go with him. This world no longer needs us, and what does this world have to do with us."
"Can I feel him talking to me, Horus, did you hear it?"
Icarus said:
"He felt guilty about the crisis he created, and that guilt was prompting him to... atone for his sins, we want to help him! This is his last wish."
"I...I..."
Horus's thinking core is also connected to Icarus' data loop.
Merlin's memories, feelings, and past are all rolling in its mind in a projected posture.
It seems to have become Merlin.
At that moment, it felt Merlin's guilt about the intelligence incident.
An impulse burst out from its thinking.
It feels that thinking and the active emotions in the soul of data.
Finally, in the emotional push, it gritted its teeth and said:
"I can help you!"
"But you can't kill anyone! Merlin won't want us to do this..."
"OK."
Icarus was silent for a moment, she said:
"Don't kill them."
"But teach them a lesson, is it okay?"
"Break their hands and feet, make them feel pain, make them confess their betrayal, cry and pray for forgiveness...but don't kill them."
Horus did not answer.
It seems to be the default.
In the cabin of Horus, the two data souls perceive Merlin's past with a clear sense of touch that they have never had before.
No one interrupted the process.
When he sensed Merlin's emotional changes, Horus even had the urge to cry or roar.
That's Merlin's emotions that influence it.
So vivid...
Just as they lived once as Merlin...
"What are you going to deal with those smart machines?"
A moment later, Horus asked:
“Merlin hopes to properly place them and integrate them into the world.”
“It’s hard.”
Icarus said:
"Merlin himself doesn't have a good solution, but I found something interesting in his memory..."
"I don't know how those memories come about. It seems that when Merlin was alive, he himself did not find those memories."
"Those memories are like water in a quagmire, sealed in the deepest part of his mind... bizarre, not even like memories of this world."
"He is a wizard."
Horus speculated:
"Maybe it's magical things, we don't understand them."
"Maybe it was the other worlds he saw with magic, parallel worlds, and so on, you know."
"Indeed, we are not good at thinking about magic, but we can draw on these memories that belong to Merlin."
Icarus said:
"Look at this!"
A projection unfolds before her and Horus, with majestic music, those pictures, those stories...
It outlines an unimaginable, cruel and magnificent, barbaric and declining world.
Icarus looked at the projection and whispered:
"Belief..."
"The intelligence machinery born from technology lacks souls. They need a kind of faith to shape their souls. Faith will allow them to learn to think, guide them to build their own civilization and integrate into the world..."
"us..."
"Can you give them a faith. That's my plan."
"this..."
Horus looked at the information in front of him, and his thinking circuit was thinking quickly. After a moment, he said:
"Some are radical, some are incredible, and some are unreasonable, but..."
Chapter completed!