"Due to the escalation of the war, we were required to research smarter AI and technology that would allow elite combatants such as pilots to have a higher survival rate. Since there were not enough research conditions in the hiding city, we were moved to a large military base where there are still
There are other colleagues I haven’t seen for a long time.”
"Wouldn't it be dangerous to be in a place like that during a war?"
"The base in the hinterland is okay, and we have no choice. They moved all the cutting-edge research equipment of various companies there, and if you want to conduct relevant research, you can only go there. From that time on, we experts and scholars really
They were put under house arrest and spent all day studying the technology they needed in an underground bunker where they couldn't see the sun."
"And how were you treated?"
"Of course the treatment is good, but in the case of a total war, it can only guarantee basic survival supplies, and there are almost no things that can improve the quality of life. This is fine for those scholars who only have their own projects in mind, but for restless people like me
It was unbearable for people. Even at that time, I only needed to recharge and refill the engine, could not walk in the sun, had no wine parties and dance parties, and had no new movies to watch... all of this made me feel very irritated and painful, and even unable to
Carry on work as normal.”
"Are you...depressed?"
"Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? A cyborg with only a human brain left is actually depressed. He is depressed because he still has a brain."
"What should we do?"
"There is no way. I am a cyborg and cannot even take medicine. Psychological intervention is useless if the real situation does not change. I was responsible for two important projects of 'making AI have flexible thinking' and 'zero delay brain-computer synchronization', and was the research director.
Without me, these two projects would not be able to proceed at all. Those idiots who only know how to obey their superiors even forced me to return to my post with a gun, but I am not someone who is easy to scare. I feel that living under those conditions would be worse than death.
Okay. Well, of course your father didn’t think so. He actually used his small body to block in front of my machine. But in the end, the military still had to compromise with us, because we were indeed too important and completely unavailable.
Fungibility. They promised to let us go to the ground every week and try to buy some products that improve the quality of life."
"Do you like going outside that much? Even if you just died because of this?"
"Son, I don't think you should ask this question."
"Why?"
"The outside world is very dangerous. Didn't you still run out resolutely and don't want to go back at all?"
"Ah...this..."
"For some people, there are indeed many things more important than living. Obviously you have inherited my restless heart."
"Character cannot be inherited..."
"No, the formation of human psychology is affected by the type of hardware. Different nervous systems will bring different temperaments and personalities, and this is heritable to a certain extent. You were once a natural person, and your psychological model was already formed at that time
Even if you are installed in the electronic brain, you will still be the same. You are really similar to me in the past, from appearance to heart."
"I'm not your replacement."
"Of course you are not. Please don't be so sensitive. I didn't mean that. I just want to say that you are really my biological daughter, even if you were not born when I died."
"Stop talking about me, just keep telling your story."
"Well. We stayed at the base for nearly two years and achieved a lot of research results. Some of them were not yet mature, but they were rushed into the practical stage. Continuous wars destroyed most of the industrial systems, and all countries
Caught in a tug-of-war, some small countries have been destroyed. The output of automated war machines is getting lower and lower, mainly due to insufficient production capacity of precision electronic components for control modules. Therefore, more and more humans are being thrown into the war, and casualties are also increasing.
It’s getting bigger and bigger. Although we have technological advantages here, technology also requires resources to be transformed into products, and things like brain-computer interfaces are more complex than simple computers.”
"Then is your research still meaningful?"
"Of course it's meaningless. It can only be stored as a reserve technology. As casualties increase, the people begin to develop anti-war sentiments and refuse to go to the battlefield. Oh, but the war has developed to this extent, how can they want to stop it?
It will stop. AI will stop losses in time, but people always want to get back their capital from their opponents. This war is destined to be unstoppable when AI withdraws. So the military turned to us to study an extremely inhumane thing.
An extremely evil technology. At that time, the vast majority of our researchers refused to obey, but after a few less important scholars were executed, most of them were forced to obey the order."
"What technology is that?"
"You should be familiar with that technology. It is a technology that erases people's desires and perceptual thinking and turns people into machines."
"You mean the kind my father used?"
"Yes. I was the leader of the most violent riot at the time, and even organized an uprising among scholars. As a result, one can imagine how a group of unarmed scientists could be opponents of the army. We were quickly subdued. Although I existed
It means a lot, but the military decided to execute me in order to scare the monkeys."
"So you were killed by the military?"
"No, in order to save me, your father promised to be solely responsible for the research of that project, and the military accepted it and just locked me up. After that, your father and I had a big fight.
I can't accept him doing this kind of inhumane research for my sake. I would rather die. But your father... he loves me so much that he becomes selfish because of this love. As long as I can live, he is willing to
Go be the bad guy."
"……Then what?"
"Then...I'm actually very sorry for you because I did something completely irresponsible."
"What? Why do you say this suddenly?"
"My child, I died before you were born, and the cause of death was actually suicide."
"suicide?"
"Yes, after I failed to escape from prison and failed to negotiate with your father, I chose to kill myself to express my will. I absolutely cannot accept my husband doing inhumane things, and I can't persuade him to stop.
, then I can only choose to escape and choose self-destruction. I destroyed the life-support system that supplies energy to the brain and died alone in a special prison."
"What happens after that?"
"Of course I don't know what happens after that, kid, I'm really dead this time, how can I have any subsequent memories?"
"But I want to know more!"
"Then you have to investigate on your own, or ask your father directly."