Little Robot on the Run

testing method.

Monitoring ends here.

The whole scene became silent.

Suddenly, a researcher asked: "Is there no more after that?"

"The rest have been checked before, and there is no abnormality." The data officer said, "including the corridor on the office floor."

As he spoke, he put all the monitors on that floor on the screen.

I saw that everything in the monitoring was very normal, the base personnel flowed normally, they came and went with materials or documents for office work, and nothing abnormal could be seen.

Lin Ze: "Is that all?"

"Yes." The researcher said, "According to the time node, the shadow should be captured in this section, which is exactly right."

"Is there anything other than personnel?"

The researcher thought for a few seconds: "During this time, a new batch of security robots has arrived. When the base personnel are transferring, they will pass by here."

Lin Ze frowned slightly.

At this time, the data officer zoomed in on the surveillance at that location, occupying all the split screens: "This is the surveillance that the security robot passed by."

All eyes are on the top.

Seeing that this is the corridor near the elevator, the base personnel are carrying the robots up through the freight elevator one after another. Because of the space of the freight elevator, they are divided into several batches, five at a time, and stacked in the corridor.

Nan'an also followed their gazes. They had a silver-white metal shell, and the chip was on the chest, protected by a transparent cover.Except for the chip, the limbs and brain are the size of a human being. The only difference is that they have no facial features—although they also have eyes, noses, and mouths, but they are all simple mechanical devices installed directly on the mechanical face.

At first glance, it looks normal.

Nan'an looked at Lin Ze.

I saw him raise his eyes calmly, without too much expression on his face.

After a while, he turned around and strode out: "Contact the police department, all security robots are gathered in the lobby."

"Ok!"

Nan'an looked around and saw all the members of the base present—whether it was the data department or the research institute, they all took action after Lin Ze gave an order.

Nan'an was confused for a moment, he blinked his eyes, not knowing where he should go.

So he followed Lin Ze with the pup in his arms.

Lin Ze was still walking very fast. When Nan An finally followed, he heard the elevator ding, and the floor gradually descended from the sixtieth floor.

At this moment, Lin Ze turned around and looked at Nan An who had just trotted over and was still panting.

They stared at each other for a few seconds.

Looking into those silver eyes, Nan An didn't know what to say. After a few seconds, he saw the other party's thin lips slightly parted, and said, "Follow me to the temporary storage area."

Nan An nodded: "Okay."

He took the puppy into the elevator.

At this time, Lin Ze was contacting the staff in the temporary storage area.

For some reason, whether it is a normal frequency or an emergency, the phone will be hung up within a few seconds after dialing, and there is no way to get in touch.

Listening to the beeping sound of being hung up, Nan An whispered: "What should I do next?"

"Go to the storage area to confirm the situation."

Nan'an responded.

They came all the way to the temporary storage area.

Just like a few hours ago, there were almost no people in the corridor, including the closed doors of the passing laboratories, without any signs of abnormality.

Lin Ze stood still in front of the temporary storage area.

Before Nan An came back to his senses, he swiped the magnetic card.

Accompanied by the sound of the door opening gently, the mechanical door was slowly pulled open——

Nan'an followed Lin Ze in.

This is a large storage room, just as it is named, with ten rows of shelves filled with all kinds of express delivery and packages.

Under the dim light, the two base personnel were working. Seeing Lin Ze approaching, they nodded and said, "Dr. Lin."

"Where's your communicator?"

The base personnel were taken aback: "What?"

Lin Ze scanned the shelves and said, "There is an emergency, but I can't reach here."

"This is strange." The base staff said, "We don't have any abnormalities here."

Lin Ze looked at him: "No?"

The staff at the base shook their heads: "It has been six hours since the morning shift ended. During this period, except for one break and going out, the rest of the time is here, and I haven't seen any suspicious situations."

With that said, the base personnel handed over a data sheet: "This is the shift change form at that time."

Nan'an looked over.

I saw that the above time was when they had just left, and there was still more than an hour before the incident, so the time did not match at all.

At this moment, Lin Ze's communicator rang.

After connecting, it was Flo's voice: "Dr. Lin, according to the latest investigation by the police department, there are no other intrusion incidents in the entire base."

"Where's the Eden?"

"The security of the base is being deployed." Flo said, "All of them have been replaced by police officers to carry out manual security work."

Lin Ze responded lightly.

The moment the communication was hung up, he tapped his fingertips and quickly dialed another one.

"Institute, Lin Ze."

Lin Ze said, "Are all the robots in the hall now?"

"It's all here." Ke Luoyi's voice came from the communicator, trembling slightly under the hasty tone, "Ai Li and the others are contacting the data department, and all the police and base personnel have arrived, including the ones that were jointly developed before. The department is on the scene."

"Let them block the hall."

"Roger that!"

The communication was cut off again.

Nan An hugged the pup tightly, looked at Lin Ze, and asked in a low voice, "Now go to the lobby?"

"Yes." Lin Ze responded and looked at the base staff, "Temporarily stand by and cancel all shift changes."

"Okay, it will be canceled immediately."

After deploying everything, Nan'an followed Lin Ze downstairs again.

Even for a robot, he felt a little physically exhausted for an hour after the emergency.I don't know if it's because of the bionic robot, or something else.

But Lin Ze didn't see any fatigue at all—it was the same as every time before, it seemed that this human being didn't need to rest at all.

All security robots are gathered in the lobby.

This is an area specially designated for this incident. It is said to be a hall, but more appropriately it is a large warehouse - above, there is a ceiling nearly five meters high, surrounded by iron frames. These are robots lined up densely.

But as soon as he followed Lin Ze into the door, Nan An froze in place.

He knew that there were a lot of robots in the base.

I also saw the security robots at the Triangle Base at that time.

But none of them have been able to reach such a large number as they are now.

Thousands of robots are lined up here, divided into hundreds of columns, standing neatly in place, densely packed, like a silver, vast ocean.

"Dr. Lin." Koroy came over with the electronic board, "There are a total of 3045 security robots in the base, and 535 backup robots, and all of them are now in it."

Lin Ze: "Is it all here?"

"Yes." Croy said, "All the security robots are in place, and the power has been cut off. At the same time, corresponding researchers are assigned to monitor each column."

The voice fell, and there was a rush of footsteps in the distance.

Ellie rushed to the scene with two researchers.

Nan'an looked over and saw that they brought three robots with them in a power-off state.

"The security robots urgently dispatched from the research institute." Ellie said, "According to your request, all of them have been powered off."

She paused for a few seconds, seemingly not understanding: "What do you want these robots to do?"

Lin Ze: "The test method."

Ellie was slightly stunned: "What?"

"Move to the platform in front of you first."

"Ok."

Although no one at the scene could understand, Ellie still put the three robots on the platform—in front of the three robots, thousands of the same kind stayed quietly in place.

Lin Ze took the silver gun to the platform.

Nan'an and Ai Li stood on the side. As members of the research institute, they didn't say anything.But the other side was different. When Eden arrived with the police officer, he obviously expressed his dissatisfaction with Lin Ze's arrangement.

"Eden." Lin Ze didn't look at him, "The area is blocked."

Eden cursed, his rough voice mixed with a little growl: "What are you doing?"

"Screening."

Lin Ze's answer was still short.

So Eden cursed again. He seemed very reluctant, but he did it anyway—because a few minutes ago, the base directly approved the institute's application to implement the robot screening plan.

Although no one knows what Lin Ze wants to do.

Including Nan'an too.

He obediently hugged the pup and stood beside Koroy, watching the police officers seal off the area.

With a bang, all the windows were closed.

Nan'an trembled slightly.

"Don't be afraid." Croy said reassuringly, "It's just a screening."

Nan'an responded lightly.

But even so, he still looked tense, his eyes didn't blink, and he just fell on Lin Ze like this.

The last slam of the door.

The steel door behind them closed slowly, completely blocking the connection with the outside world.

The whole hall fell into silence.

After a few seconds, it seemed that some base personnel knew what Lin Ze wanted to do, so they stepped forward to persuade: "Dr. Lin, these robots all meet the production standards."

Lin Ze swept him lightly.

Just listen to the man continue: "If you want to say that the robot has self-awareness, if you want to screen, it is impossible."

Lin Ze didn't answer, his cold eyes quickly glanced around, and said, "Get ready to power on."

The base personnel were taken aback.

It may be that Lin Ze has a strong sense of oppression. The base personnel turned their heads and signaled, and turned on all the security robots temporarily pulled over from the platform.

For a moment, all the robots beeped.

This is the sound of opening, which means that after the next 20 seconds of loading time, it can be put into use accordingly.

Lin Ze remained expressionless.

He stood on the platform and watched the chips of the robot light up one by one.

For a moment, all the chips shone brightly.

Nan An narrowed his eyes and blocked the light with his elbow.

At this moment, amidst the beeping sound, he heard the base personnel continue to say: "Their chips have been uniformly debugged, installed, and passed various production and testing indicators, and there is no sign that they will Move automatically, or attack researchers without authorization."

As soon as his words fell, there was a crisp click.

Lin Ze lowered his eyes and loaded the silver gun.

"According to the standard, that's true." Lin Ze's voice was cold, "They don't have any consciousness."

Upon hearing this, the researcher at the base smiled, as if he breathed a sigh of relief: "Since you said so, Dr. Lin, I'm also relieved..."

Before he finished speaking, a gunshot rang out at the scene!

A silver bullet quickly hit the robot on the platform, followed by another hasty gunshot.

Bang bang bang!

Countless bullets passed through the robot, and in a few seconds, its face and chest were covered with muzzles, and green smoke rose from the black holes, and soon sparks flickered and sizzled.

At the moment when the robot fell to the ground, Lin Ze aimed at its chip again——

Another shot!

The bullet passed through clusters of sparks and hit the chip precisely.

Almost everyone held their breath.

"Dr. Lin, what are you doing?" The base staff obviously didn't expect Lin Ze to shoot. He looked at Lin Ze, "This is a complete security robot!"

Lin Ze didn't reply him.

His silver eyes coldly scanned all the robots on the scene, and then he lightly pulled the trigger.

The second robot fell to the ground.

The exclamation of the base personnel, the bewilderment and roar of the police officers were all intertwined in the field at this time, hidden in the continuous gunfire.

After the second one was completely scrapped, Lin Ze said lightly, "You're right."

"What do you mean?"

"It's intact, so it's more of a warning." Lin Ze turned the handle of the gun and shot at the fallen robot again.

The base personnel opened their eyes wide: "What did you say? Who do you want to warn??"

Lin Ze didn't say a word, his eyes fell on the security robots again, they stayed in place quietly, the chips kept lighting up, as if they were receiving the information in front of them, but they didn't seem to be.

"It's impossible, it's impossible at all..." The staff at the base also wanted to explain that Nan'an knew that he was in charge of the daily affairs of the security robot, and if he made a mistake, he would also be held accountable.

Just when he took a step forward and wanted to say something to Lin Ze, he directly pointed at the gun.

"Please don't interfere with official duties." Lin Ze's voice could almost freeze, "This is the screening plan in charge of the institute."

The base personnel looked at him for a few seconds.

Dead silence.

A few seconds later, at the moment the base personnel retreated, the gunfire rang out again.

The third security droid falls.

It fell over the previous two with flickering sparks.In just a few seconds, there was a mechanical cracking sound, and the head and body of the robot broke apart, becoming a pile of meaningless parts.

"I've never seen Dr. Lin like this before." Koroy murmured, "Nor have I seen such a screening plan."

Nan'an hugged the pup tightly, but didn't make a sound.

His eyes stayed on Lin Ze's back, and at this time the third robot was completely smashed by him, turning into a pile of scrap metal.

Accompanied by the gunshot, Nan'an looked into the distance - falling on thousands of robots.

Nan'an knew what Lin Ze wanted to do.

He'd known it from the first shot.

At this time, the platform is about half a meter away from the ground, and the reactions of all robots can be seen at a glance.And Lin Ze seized this point, and shot at their kind in front of all the security robots.

Under such circumstances, if the security robots do not have any consciousness, they will stay in place quietly, waiting for the instructions given, because for them, they will only obey the program.

Even if Lin Ze shoots at them in the next second, they will not have any reaction.

but……

"If it is conscious." Nan'an suddenly said softly, as if talking to himself, "That robot will think about running for its life."

The three robots burned to ashes.

The researchers stepped forward to clean up the robots, and put the blackened parts and scrapped chips into bags.

In the dead silence, the incandescent lights of the hall hit the robots, all the way to an almost endless depth, and Lin Ze stood on the platform, his cold eyes swept over each robot.

With the sound of beeping, all the robots are loaded.

They stood where they were, silently waiting for orders.

Lin Ze looked at them.

For a moment, Nan An felt that the way he looked at these robots was like looking at humans—a feeling of treating thousands of suspects.

A few seconds later, footsteps sounded, echoing in the hall.

Lin Ze stood in front of the first row of robots, turning his head slightly, so the researchers and police officers were all on standby. They stood on the left and right sides of each row, all holding silver guns in their hands.

"You need to answer a few questions." Lin Ze said lightly.

Nan An was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

After a few seconds, he realized that he was talking to the robot.

There was a beep from the robot's chip.

Lin Ze: "Where are you today?"

After the words fell, the robot's toneless voice sounded: "Materials Department."

"doing what?"

"Moving the books stored in the school."

Its tone was stiff, without a human tone, and in such a situation, it added a bit of weirdness.

Lin Ze continued to look at him: "Which books?"

"The book "Words and Things" published by Gallimard in 1996, by Michel Foucault." The robot replied, "A reading for advanced grade 12."

Hearing the title of the book, Nan An was a little taken aback.

He is no stranger to this book, because the words "People are like sand, will eventually be erased" are still vivid in his memory. He has seen this sentence before, whether it is Alina or the cub exams later. .

At this moment, he heard an intern ask Allie: "What is Dr. Lin doing?"

"Test the reaction." Ellie said, "Unless there are no accidents, each robot operates in the same way, so their answers will follow a certain logic."

"logic?"

Ellie nodded: "Yes."

Intern: "But I didn't hear anything unusual..."

"Almost no one can draw a conclusion directly through dialogue." Ellie said, "Because every word of the robot is processed through tens of thousands of neural networks, and then transmitted to form a sentence, but correspondingly, if the robot If there is a question, it will be directly reflected in the answer."

"Dr. Nalin..."

"Now he's testing."

Nan'an listened to their conversation and looked at Lin Ze not far away.

At this time, he was still talking to the robot.

"Then if we can become regulars in the future, can we also conduct training?" the intern said, "I also want to contribute."

Ellie glanced at him and shook her head: "The training was suspended early."

"what?"

"Because in addition to training, you also need a strong talent, and most people can't react quickly." Ellie said and paused for a few seconds. "In the past few hundred years, only Lin Ze has emerged."

"The base has spent too much manpower and material resources on this training, but the error rate is still high, so it stopped training many years ago and changed it to machine screening." Ellie said, "But because of Lin Ze's performance He is too prominent, and he is the youngest C-level scientist, so the base made an exception to train him."

Hearing this, Nan An was taken aback.

He took a breath, looked at Lin Ze, and saw that the other party had finished the question and answer.

No shots were fired.

Although Lin Ze was holding a silver gun, his expression was flat and he didn't make any movements.

Nan'an felt that this robot should have passed the test, so he took a breath and lowered his head to rub the pup.

But only for a second.

Gunshots sounded again.

Nan'an's pupils shrank suddenly, and he raised his head suddenly.

I saw a black hole in the robot's chest, emitting a scorched smell.

A few more gunshots followed, and the robot fell completely.

Almost everyone froze in place.

They looked at Lin Ze and got up to discuss and exclaim in a low voice.

Scattered sentences were transmitted to Nan'an's ears.

It sounded like they were saying that everything about this robot was normal, and from the monitoring instruments, the response was in compliance with various regulations, but even so, Lin Ze didn't stop.

He wiped the muzzle of the gun lightly, and walked towards the robot beside him, his eyes were cold.Re-ask a new robot.

For a moment, there were only his cold questions and robotic answers in the whole place.

Not long after, Nan'an heard another gunshot.

He took another quick breath, looked at Lin Ze, and saw a robot slowly fall down in front of him.

This seems to be a cycle.

For every few robots, one will be shot by Lin Ze—no matter how normal it behaves, or how standard the sentences are.

Lin Ze checked the past one by one.

Nan'an no longer remembered how many robots he had shot at. The moment they swayed and fell down, a researcher would step forward and turn the scrapped robots into bags.

Nan'an knows that this is a necessary detection method, and it is the only screening method when all the detection instruments are normal.

But Nan'an also knew how much risk Lin Ze faced.

Regardless of whether the robot in front of him is conscious or not, he has placed himself in a very dangerous situation.

If any abnormality is detected, or if the robot can't stand the pressure, Lin Ze will be the first to attack.

Nan'an's breathing became short of breath.

He looked at the police officers as if asking for help, but found that their faces were pale and unattractive—even though they were standing at a distance from the robot.

Lin Ze is still checking.

Compared to before, his questions were much simpler, from the first five questions to three, and then two...

In the end, at the No.12 row, Lin Ze shot the security robot as soon as he named a location.

The whole scene became more and more dead silent, and there were only the cracking of chips after the shooting and the sound of electric leakage.

No one moved a step. Whether it was the base members who stopped before or Eden from the police department, they all seemed to be shocked-it seemed that they had never seen a screening before.

Lin Ze aimed his gun at another robot.

He still had no expression on his face, just leaning against the robot's chest - the running chip behind the transparent cover.As long as he shoots, this robot will be like countless others before, completely turning into a pile of scrap metal.

at this time.

Lin Ze suddenly raised his eyes.

He looked over the thousands of robots, and quickly locked on the last few rows.

In the neat queue of robots, something moved quietly.

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