Overturned Tower

Russell was originally a world-class prosthetic engineer.

When he heard this, he immediately understood Shenzhi Heavy Industry's train of thought.

The prosthesis in other parts can be replaced at will, because only the brain is the main body of thinking.After the other parts are replaced, as long as the brain can be tricked, it can maintain compatibility.Their ego is always in the head, still in place.

But if a "prosthetic brain" is to be transplanted, how to transfer the consciousness in the brain to the mechanical prosthetic brain?

This is the biggest difficulty, and it is also the limit wall faced by the "cyber immortality" technology conceived by the Cyber ​​Church.

——And the monkey-faced eagle is a breaking point.

He has completed consciousness uploading.With the technical support from the elves, he imitated this lost "dragon technology"... although the completion rate is not yet known.

But one thing is for sure.

That is, if the monkey-faced eagle’s consciousness can really exist in the form of data and programs, it means that its consciousness can be downloaded—since it can be stored in the program, it means that it can be compatible with mechanical meanings. brain.

The fake Tokifat needs this technology in order to build a "second mother tree" to put his consciousness into the new body.

But what Shenzhi Heavy Industry and Cyber ​​Church need is to put consciousness into pure "mechanical"——

Because if they can't completely download the uploaded consciousness into the body again, it means that the so-called "mind upload" is just another kind of suicide, and it is not at all the eternal life they promote.

"So far, no one has been able to complete the uploading of thoughts, and no one has actually held the uploaded source files in their hands. This also means that Shenzhi Heavy Industry cannot determine what kind of brain should be created in order to be able to Enough to carry consciousness. The monkey-faced eagle is a rare copy, because he did successfully turn his thinking into a collection of 0 and 1.

"But before him, Shenzhi Heavy Industry could only use experiments of the level of 'introducing the consciousness of the human brain into the electronic brain'."

Amirus said lightly: "Of course...they consumed a lot of 'brain'.

"Until the end, they didn't make a real, complete prosthetic brain.

"—But in the process of this research, they have created a lot of 'synthetics'."

That's what Amirus said, the synthetics that sparked the rebellion.

"Their consciousness was directly poured into the artificial brain without data rectification. This means that severe cyber psychosis is almost inevitable-almost everyone has become a lunatic, but there are always exceptions.

"There are some younger children who barely survived this 'thinking rectification experiment'. They continue to assist the experiment as precious observation samples."

"The younger children..."

Russell murmured.

He didn't have time to get angry—because he had already realized the crux of the problem: "Is it related to spirituality?"

"Yes."

Amirus said contemptuously: "They don't understand what it means to be a spiritual relative, so they carried out such a crude transplant. The root of spiritual kinship disease lies deep in the soul. They transplant their consciousness, but their bodies do not have the characteristics of a spiritual kinship. Definitely not compatible.

"And their way of making up for it is to transplant children who have just developed psychic disease into artificial brains. Their psychic disease quickly deformed into a kind of 'cyber kinship'. That is to say, their souls This kind of 'cyborgization' sees a new kind of kinship, and fuses their souls with prosthetic brains."

"That is to say...they still haven't solved the mind uploading adaptability of ordinary people?"

"That's right. This kind of thinking rectification is undoubtedly going astray... If only newborns who don't understand the language can upload their thoughts, this kind of technology is meaningless. But Shenzhi Heavy Industry has created this kind of 'synthesis' people' and 'brought them up' for continued observation and research. Now they have reached their teens, which is considered 'teenagers' according to human terms.

"They are like artificial intelligence, but they don't have the computing power and learning ability. And their unique 'simulation personality' limits what they can do.

"So far, under the public opinion control of Shenzhi Heavy Industry, the existence of these synthetic human teenagers, together with the entire artificial brain research, is a secret. Because of this, they cannot resolve the synthetic human rebellion through internal forces. We can only borrow strength from the outer islands... because this incident cannot be leaked from beginning to end."

"If I'm not mistaken," Russell pondered, "their motive for rebellion is because of the monkey-faced eagle."

"Because of the existence of the monkey-faced eagle, all previous research by Shenzhi Heavy Industry has been overturned and invalidated."

Amirus looked relaxed, smiling without stress: "Although it is not clear whether they were detected when they planned to destroy these synthetics, or whether they had internal sympathizers who told them of the existence of monkey-faced eagles." The fact that the human race will not increase in number is no longer shaken. They themselves are outcasts created as an experimental intermediate state. Unless the mind-uploading technology proves impossible to assist, they will eventually It is impossible for them to see the light in their whole life. It is only the meager "hope" that allows them to survive.

"Now that hope has been completely extinguished, and his existence has been proved to be worthless - it is only natural that synthetics will rebel."

"...I don't really want to care about it."

Russell leaned back and sighed: "This is obviously the mess they made themselves. Let them clean up by themselves."

"Yes, I think so too. How to deal with it is very troublesome, and I don't want to participate in it."

Amirus nodded in agreement: "That's why I entrusted this matter to you."

"?"

"You owed me once, and now it's time to pay it back."

Amyrus said lightly.

"You mean prosthetic hand?"

Russell squeezed his powerful left hand.

His originally pitch-black engineering prosthetic hand has become a combat prosthetic hand given by Amirus.

It is white all over, slender and elegant.Using the highest strength material produced by Shenzhi Heavy Industry, the strength has been increased to the point where it can easily block heavy bullets without the weight being too outrageous.

If electrified, further weight savings can be achieved through magnetism.And as the power is further increased, the output can also be increased - the grip and impact can be increased to a fairly strong level.

It also has four backup batteries that can go a while without recharging.It is also implanted with a spiritual weapon made of "Heaven Sent Misfortune", which can deploy a polarized shield after rushing into a specific emotion.

It is more suitable for Russell's current work than Russell's previous fragile engineering prosthetic hand.

——It has to be said that Russell still lived up to the expectations of his mentor.

She hopes Russell will become a cyber security engineer, but instead he ends up killing people.

"It's not this...it's just a gift."

Amirus chuckled and said, "You owe me once for the 'prototype' thing.

"That house was destroyed by an inexplicable fire. Even the transparent glass walls melted and decomposed, but no waste was produced... We all know that this special flame cannot be made by 'Voids' It is also not in the scope of the ability of "budded lovers".

"That's something that only high-level spells or the power of the Holy Order can do. And you haven't reported that you have these two abilities."

Seeing Russell who suddenly fell silent, Amyrus just smiled: "But you don't have to worry... because I helped you take care of this matter at that time. I said, it was because I took care of the heroes under me, Do it yourself.

"Do you know the godfather of the Fuji Society? He has a principle, that is, if I help you, you should help me... Do you understand what I mean?"

"Okay," Russell sighed helplessly, "I'll take over the job. But to what extent? Just help them clean it up? Kill all these synths?"

"That's not necessary."

Amirus narrowed his eyes, like a kind and ordinary old man: "There is no need to help them deal with it so cleanly, you and I are not from the Island of Gods... just suppress it beforehand. Convince those children It’s okay to hand over the fighters, or let them leave Tongshen Island. You can go to other empty islands, or go to land... Anyway, they are not afraid of radiation. Maybe Happy Island is willing to accept them, after all, the chairman is a 'good man' Well, maybe the church can accommodate them too.

"It's really not possible, just destroy that machine soldier-let the red machine soldier that can instantly destroy one-sixth of Tongshen Island eliminate the threat to Tongshen Island. This is your task."

Chapter 5 event reenactment

Accompanied by weak vibration and dizziness, the airship gradually moved away from the ground.

The snow-capped mountains and fields bathed in the sun, and the clean and elegant steel city seem to be shining with holy light under the sunlight at noon, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

And the densely packed high-rise factories in the lower city are like countless sharp thorns, piercing in the shadow of this empty island.

Even in "daylight" they are still lit.

Lights of different colors appeared in the high-rise factories that were upside down at the bottom of the floating city.After a long distance, it looks like a group of monsters crouching on the factory and crawling in the shadows opened a pair of soul-stirring pupils.Just looking at it will give people a strong sense of uneasiness.

But Russell knew that the residents of the lower city never cared about day and night.

As long as they lived in Lower Town, it was always night—and the day without the sun was still a kind of darkest night.

Russell looked at the Isle of Happiness receding away outside the cabin, with his right hand resting his chin.

He couldn't help sighing.

After half a year, he boarded the first-class cabin of the airship again.

If you put it in the animation, it's like the end of the first season or the beginning of the second season, which forms a wonderful contrast with the first scene.Just like the "duel of gratitude", once the classic BGM of the past is played, there will be a power called "feeling" that will make people cry.

Because everything seems to be the same as it was half a year ago, it has changed but it seems not to have changed——

...Even the fact that Bad Sun was sitting in front of him was perfectly reproduced.

"What are you doing here?"

Russell said angrily: "It's rare that I want to really enjoy the first-class treatment of an airship."

"Your girlfriend asked me to come."

Bad Ri sat in front of Russell in a symmetrical posture, dragging his chin with his left hand as if looking in a mirror, and said lazily: "Anyway, if I have an extra mouth, I won't be able to eat up your food."

There is no doubt that he opened the door out of thin air again this time.

Russell was a little weak: "I always feel that seeing you is not very auspicious..."

So far, it can be said to be a perfect replica of half a year ago, but Russell sincerely hopes that it will stop here.

At least, I hope there will be no more accidents with the airship this time...

Russell called Delphinium after he left from director Amirus.

He had to make it clear to Delphinium that he wasn't going home tonight.Otherwise, seeing that she has not returned home late, she may be anxious or panic.

It's like opening the door and letting your cat go out to play by itself.Usually the cat will come back to eat on time before dinner, but one day it suddenly didn’t come back in the middle of the night, and I would worry about the cat’s accident.

Russell and Delphinium did not say something inappropriate for others to know because the phone could be "tapped along the way" by those colleagues in the cybersecurity department in the cyber world.It's just that director Amirus has urgent business and asked him to travel on business.It is roughly estimated that I will not be able to go home for about a week.

Delphinium didn't talk nonsense about "Don't be a hero", "Save your life first", and "Take care of yourself first".

She knew that if Russell really encountered a strong enemy that had to be dealt with desperately, and saw a person who had to be saved in front of her eyes, she would definitely rush forward without thinking.

Because Russell was that kind of guy.

Or... that's why she started to like Russell.

All the changes came from Russell's first day of employment.

Standing alone in the crowd like a shadow, the immature cat-eared boy like a boy was willing to risk his life to dismantle the trap left by the prisoner for the sake of a child he had never met on his first day of work in the Special Operations Department. .

In fact, there is a unique solution.

That is to completely ignore the problem left by the veil of ignorance, and go directly to evacuate all the guests... Although it may cause a stampede accident, the "child" wearing the iron mask will probably be the only one who will be killed in the end.

Rationally speaking, this is the best and most correct way to deal with it.

But Russell didn't investigate at all, didn't know who the prisoner was and what he did... Even when he wasn't sure whether the other party would inject viruses into the mask, or leave unanswered death questions on purpose, he never After hesitating, he moved his hand.

—coincidentally, if Delphinium had been here instead of Russell, she would have done the same.

It is the radiant self-confidence, the courage to stand up despite being deeply aware of the degree of danger... plus the sense of responsibility that will put oneself in a dangerous place even if it is just to save one person.

They are the same kind of people.It's like another me in the world.

It was then that Delphinium began to pay attention to the new hero she had considered a "troublesome".

So Delphinium was able to understand every decision Russell made.

She also believed that Russell never needed her own advice.

Russell would think of everything she could think of; what she was afraid of, even persuasion would be useless.

So the delphinium just said: "If you come back safely, I will give you a present."

But she turned around and contacted Bad Day, asking her real uncle to help and protect Russell who was going on a long trip.

He was alone, and he was going to Tongshen Island... How could this be possible?

In Happy Island, there are basically no people who don't know Russell.No matter where he goes, he can meet acquaintances who know him.Because of this, Russell didn't have to worry about where Delphinium wandered, because someone would always see him, someone would always know where he went... and she would always find Russell.

Don't even bother to investigate.No matter where Russell goes, he will be discovered by netizens as soon as possible.You can know where your cat has gone by looking through the major forums a little bit.

——But that is Tongshen Island.

After Delphinium joined the Tower of Babel, she also knew a little about the past.Because of this, she also knew about the "Pale Incident" that happened on Tongshen Island.

To this day, there are still many Tongshen Islanders who are still worried about the fact that other sky islands did not lend a helping hand when their family was facing a crisis.

Although other sky islands have no obligation to help them in terms of law and justice, they still cannot accept it emotionally.

If the people of other sky islands can't survive, they will choose to go to other sky islands.This is also the only way to spread news among empty islands with no internet and no private transactions.

Those who want better medical conditions but are worried that they will lose their jobs will go to Holy Blood Island, where there will never be a shortage of high-paying drug testers; those who want to see natural landscapes, real animals, and keep real pets will go to Taoyuan Island; if you want to work and entertain, you can come to Happy Island...

But only the residents of Tongshen Island, no matter how hard life is, would rather starve to death than move to other empty islands.

This is not because they have enough sense of identity and belonging to Tongshen Island, but because they have a stronger sense of xenophobia.Even if you only hear the accent of the foreign sky island, you may even be discriminated against in Tongshen Island-it's the kind of taxi driver or tour guide who cheats you and can't find anyone to speak for you.Because of this, Tongshen Island has the least number of foreign tourists among the seven empty islands.

If one of the seven empty islands was the most dangerous to Russell, it would undoubtedly be Tongshen Island.

In Tongshen Island, it is not a big deal for the heroes of other empty islands to disappear here... Tongshen Island is different from Happy Island, their entertainment industry is not developed, and their idols do not have such a high status.

For them, the "heroes" promoted by the directors of the head office are nothing more than "agents" used by those directors to kill people and do some dirty work.