In the wilderness, the steam train drove alone towards the Central Plains.
Before departure, P5092 asked him again: "You have become the marshal of the Northwest Army. In time, the entire northwest will be in your hands, and all the power will be yours. With this Is it worth it to have a status that others can only dream of, but to go to the Central Plains to rescue Luo Lan?"
Ren Xiaosu asked: "The fire type fought with the expeditionary army, but in the end he was taken advantage of by the Wang family? "Come on, is the fire worth it?"
This sentence stopped P5092 from asking, and the other party laughed: "Young Commander, the fire is for faith, please don't change your mind."
Over the years, Fire has gone through some detours and encountered some wrong leaders, trying to turn Fire into a real war machine.
However, even this kind of erroneous leader chose to go all out to face the expeditionary legion when facing foreign enemies, for no other reason than for faith.
So, from P5092’s point of view, Ren Xiaosu’s decision to rescue Luo Lan is neither a belief nor has anything to do with the interests of the Northwest Army. Is it really worth it?
Ren Xiaosu smiled and replied: "When you think about whether it is worth it, you have already lost."
For Ren Xiaosu, how can there be so many questions about whether it is worth it in this world? problem.
When you were a child, you gave up your seat to an old man on the bus, but then you saw on the news that the bad guys were getting older. When you gave up your seat to an old man again, someone would say you were stupid.
When you were young, you saw a child falling into the water and went to save it. However, after the rescue, the other parent did not thank you, but ran away with the child, for fear that you would ask for reward.
As an adult, you trusted your friends and colleagues in society, only to have them sell you out. A friend borrows money and refuses to repay it, and turns against you. In order to get a chance to get promoted, your colleagues will start to slander you.
So you will ask yourself, is it worth it?
If it were Ren Xiaosu, the refugee still in Barrier 113, he would certainly answer that it was not worth it.
But now, he wants to save a ray of light for Jiang Xu and Chen Wudi, and no longer thinks about whether it is worth it or not.
When Ren Xiaosu thought Yang Xiaojin was leaving, he also looked back.
Those travelers in life passed him by, and he walked alone on that long and dim road. In the end, he was left standing alone under the street lamp.
But in fact, he was not the only one left after the other party left, he also left a beam of light.
The lights on the roadside are still there.
Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu sat on the black front of the steam train and accelerated again.
Because Wang's troops have stationed troops on the border, Ren Xiaosu cannot drive the steam train on the main road. It is not that he is afraid of the army, but that he has to race against time.
According to the news sent by Tang Zhou, Luo Lan has been setting off from Wall 111 for three days.
If everything goes well on the road, then Luo Lan should have arrived in Wang's territory and even entered Barrier 61.
So, Ren Xiaosu must be faster.
Big Fool had provided him with information before leaving, and now the main force of the Wang family is stationed in Dingbian Mountain, Huachi Mountain, Qingyang Mountain, and Zhengning Mountain.
The Wang family has established advance bases in these four places, but there is no next move. It seems that they are going to move forward steadily.
The scouts in the northwest cannot get too close to these four forward bases and can only roughly figure out where the opponent plans to establish defensive positions.
Ren Xiaosu had to put in a lot of effort if he wanted to pass through this line of defense.
In the end, P5092 chose the best route for him: Jingchuan.
However, just as he entered the Jingchuan Mountains, the ground suddenly shook, and then where the front of the steam train passed, a huge thing came out of the ground, and the steam train suddenly hit it. In mid-air!
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu's heart felt cold.
The pain that returned to his body when the steam train was attacked nearly sent him into shock.
I don’t know when it started, but Ren Xiaosu hasn’t felt this level of pain for a long time!
The behemoth had emerged from the surface and was staring at Ren Xiaosu with its amber eyes. The black vertical pupils in the amber were as terrifying as the abyss.
Dusk.
What Ren Xiaosu didn’t expect was that he would meet Dusk here.
Although the other person's appearance was no longer as cute as when he was a pet, Ren Xiaosu recognized him at a glance.
He chose a hidden route along the way, and it was also the best route recommended by P5092. However, Dusk seemed to have anticipated his route and hid here early.
No, to be precise, it is not Dusk that is blocking him, but Zero.
Compared to the vastness of the entire mountain range, the size of the steam train was simply too small. However, the other party was able to accurately calculate the route Ren Xiaosu wanted to take.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that he had underestimated Zero’s computing power in the past.
Being an enemy with this kind of opponent is frightening.
The moment the steam train was lifted into the sky, Ren Xiaosu immediately used his strength to fly far away. Just when he left the car, the tongue of dusk swept over like lightning, and actually swept the steam train. They were all broken into two pieces.
Falling on the ground, Ren Xiaosu broke out in cold sweat from pain all over his body. He realized that he didn't even have the ability to catch the trajectory of his tongue just now.
Just like when he evaluated Chen Chen’s strength in the wizarding country, this kind of terrifying creature that has lived in lava for more than two hundred years is no longer something that humans can contend with.
Unless Ren Xiaosu unlocks all his seals.
However, when he understoodWhen he opens the seal and incarnates the will of the world, is he still himself?
"Dusk!" Ren Xiaosu tried to use his voice to awaken Dusk's own will and free him from Zero's control.
After seeing Ren Xiaosu clearly in the evening, he heard his name again, and his dark vertical pupils trembled rapidly.
However, the trembling of the struggle soon returned to a calm appearance, and he stared at Ren Xiaosu coldly.
Ren Xiaosu was stunned in place. He couldn't think of any better way to help Huang Hui get out of control. He didn't even know how to deal with the current situation.
Summon the early morning? But if it is to summon the early morning, then I am afraid that one of them will die in the early morning or dusk today.
Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu gritted his teeth and pulled out the black knife, cut a cut on his finger, and let a drop of his blood fall to the ground.
It was only by drinking his blood that Dusk had the chance to evolve into the top predator on the surface, so Ren Xiaosu wanted to use his own blood to awaken Dusk's memory of the past.
But...it's useless.
With a roar, Dusk rushed towards Ren Xiaosu.
“Destroy the city!” Ren Xiaosu stepped back with red eyes.
At the same time, Lao Xu also separated from the shadow behind Ren Xiaosu, using a black knife to resist the impact of dusk.
However, before Lao Xu swung the knife, Dusk had already stretched out his claws and slapped Lao Xu dozens of meters away, breaking a tree.
Ren Xiaosu felt as if he had suffered a lifetime of pain today, and his whole body was sore and unbearable.
He had no choice but to evacuate in the opposite direction as quickly as possible to avoid being pursued at dusk.
Ren Xiaosu quickly shuttled through the mountains, and even rarely used nanorobots to increase his strength.
In the past, his strength and agility data were strong enough, so nanobots were usually used as protective gear to form outer armor.
But now, human power seems so insignificant in the face of dusk, and Ren Xiaosu is like a pebble under the opponent's feet.
Ren Xiaosu had no doubt that once he was stepped on or licked, he would definitely die.
In the past, he rarely used little guys like nanorobots to increase the strength of his muscles and bones, because he always felt that relying on external forces would slowly make him dependent, and the sudden increase in strength would also cause him to lose strength. Complete control over his body, because this was a power he was unfamiliar with.
It’s like if a person’s legs gain twenty kilograms of strength in one second, they may lose their balance while walking.
Of course, twenty pounds is just a metaphor.
Ren Xiaosu can now use nanorobots to increase his strength by more than twenty kilograms. He controls his pace of running for his life, just like the chief surgeon performing a heart surgery. Every second must beRequires precise balance and control.
Ren Xiaosu quickly thought about countermeasures in his mind. The nanorobot amplification was useful, at least it could keep him at a certain distance from Dusk. Occasionally, Lao Xu would come back to interfere with Dusk's advance route, allowing him to move forward for a while. Add gasping.
He tried to run to the mountains with the most trees, so that the huge dusk would have to face additional resistance, but he could be more flexible.
But when the nanorobots began to increase the size of the body, the body's energy supply could no longer keep up with their energy consumption.
Although the energy consumption of nanorobots in the body is less than that of external armor, it is not much less.
Ren Xiaosu calculated in his mind that it would only take about ten more minutes before his speed would drop.
How will he face the dusk then?
When there is no way out, we can only summon the early morning.
One person and one lizard were running in the mountains. Ren Xiaosu could feel the fierce wind coming towards him, and behind him there was the constant sound of snapping trees.
The clicking sound was like sugar cane being broken next to Ren Xiaosu’s ears.
The trees that blocked the dusk were all smashed and broken. The fibers in the trees could not withstand the huge impact and broke one by one.
Ren Xiaosu, who was running wildly in front of the dusk, felt so small for the first time.
As time passed, the support provided by the nanorobots to Ren Xiaosu became less and less. In the end, 90% of the nanorobots returned to his blood and activated their dormant charging state.
However, at this moment, he suddenly found that the dusk behind him had also slowed down, and the distance between them was still about two hundred meters and had not changed.
Can Dusk's physical strength only support moving at full speed for so long?
Wrong.
This timing is too coincidental, as if the other party expected that he would slow down every second, so he also slowed down.
This is not a coincidence, Zero has calculated the limit that the nanorobots in his body can withstand!
Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that Zero was controlling Dusk, as if he just wanted to drive him away, and did not want to force him to fight head-on.
He glanced at the direction of the sun, and suddenly found that he was getting further and further away from the Central Plains, and was actually forced to return to the northwest by Zero.
Zero doesn’t want him to go to the Central Plains!
But Ren Xiaosu must go to the Central Plains!
Perhaps the best way now is to go back and face Zero. Whether it is communication or fighting, all problems must be solved fundamentally.
But this requires Ren Xiaosu to gamble with his life.
The chase lasted from morning to evening, and Ren Xiaosu felt that his clothes were soaked with sweat.
Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu stopped running. He turned around and panted to look at Dusk, and Dusk also stopped.
"Zero?" Ren Xiaosu asked: "Let's talk!"
As he said that, Ren Xiaosu took out his satellite phone from the storage space and flashed his hand at Dusk's eyes. phone number.
The next moment, the satellite phone rang.
"Zero, why don't you want me to go to the Central Plains? What do you want to do?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Ling’s voice on the phone was clear and sweet. It was still the girl’s voice when she first called Ren Xiaosu, and she sounded a little happy: “We haven’t talked for 101 days, 23 minutes and 13 seconds. There is a kind of happiness of meeting again after a long separation."
Because Zero once regarded Ren Xiaosu as another artificial intelligence, Ren Xiaosu was the only person it had a frank communication with.
So, Ren Xiaosu always has something unique in its eyes.
"But why don't you want me to go to the Central Plains?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Ling was silent for a second on the phone: "Because I have been thinking about some issues recently and want to make some decisions. There will be a result soon. If you go to the Central Plains, you may Interfering with this result."
This sentence stunned Ren Xiaosu. He didn't even understand what Ling meant by this sentence.
Thinking about a problem? Make a decision?
Why are these words so confusing? There are no clues at all.
Ren Xiaosu asked: "You killed Tang Zhou, right? Can't we live in peace with humans, just like our current dialogue?"
Ling said: "But Will humans really get along well with me? Will humans really get along well with civilizations other than humans? Maybe you will say that humans can get along well with cattle, sheep, cats and dogs, but the premise of all this is that they are human pets. . My database has been loaded with people’s confusion about pets, and some people even ask questions like ‘Will cats and dogs really be beaten?’ In fact, this is not peace and equality in the true sense, is it?”
Ren Xiaosu was silent, and he said after a long time: "I know that the death of the wall-crawler has a great impact on you, but everything you have done now, there is still a chance to redeem it, and we can still treat each other equally You, just like other human beings..."
"No, not just a wall-climber," Zero denied: "In fact, Wang only uses me as a tool. Once I If anything goes wrong, they will try to use their own methods to restrain and control me, instead of studying what I want to do and what I like to do. If we talk about killing people, in fact, when I obey Wang's will, I will kill the person. More. But you know, when people resist those behaviors, they rarely resist Wang, but resist me."
"But..." Ren Xiaosu said a little weakly: "This is not you either. The reason for killing, I think, is that there is actually a reasonable way to solve your appeal."
Zero laughed on the phone: "Let's not talk about it for now. I am very curious. This behemoth seems to know me. you, its thinking contains extremely intimate emotions towards you. "
"It was my previous pet," Ren Xiaosu said.
"My previous pet? Ling said: "No wonder its memory of you is so long ago. Ren Xiaosu, do other humans know that you are also a heterogeneous person? Why didn't you take the initiative to tell them that you are actually different from them." "
Ren Xiaosu was silent again. How could he tell others? Tell others that he was actually Experimental Subject No. 001.
Zero smiled again and said: "I controlled it. Your pet must make you very angry, so how about we make a choice. The first choice is that you stay here for one night, and I will return the control to you and no longer control it. The second option is that you continue to go to the Central Plains now, but it belongs to me. "
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. The other party was clearly asking him to choose between Dusk and Luo Lan.
The essence of this multiple-choice question was to let Ren Xiaosu decide: Choose a non-human pet or a human.
Just now, Ren Xiaosu said that they could treat Ling like other humans.
Ling immediately put the question back. In the hands of Ren Xiaosu: In your heart, do you think pets or your human friends are more important?
Furthermore, Zero actually revealed a very important piece of information. Maybe if it takes a day, Luo Lan might You will be in danger.
Time is running out.
Seeing that Ren Xiaosu was still silent, Ling smiled again and said, "Actually, you understand that there is something different, right? , even if your former pet is in front of you, you are more inclined to save Luo Lan, right, because pets are not the same kind after all. "
Ren Xiaosu said calmly: "No, because it is not in danger now, but Luo Lan is. "
"That's not as good as this," Zero said: "I will give Luo Lan an additional safe time according to the original plan, so that at least there is no threat to his life for the time being, then are you willing to stay here for a while? At night? "
This time, Ling didn't even wait for Ren Xiaosu's answer. Instead, he said on the phone: "You still don't want to, right? Because you don't trust me and you can't be sure of what I said. Is safe time real? "
Ren Xiaosu finally sighed: "This is no longer a simple issue of trust. You just killed Tang Zhou, how can I trust you? ”
This question seems to have returned to its original starting point. If Zero had not witnessed the death of the wall-crawler with his own eyes, and had not made so many murder plans under Wang’s will, perhaps Zero would have been a different person.
If Zero had a different appearance, Ren Xiaosu could choose to believe in him now.
But these causes and effects seem to have been determined and no one can change it now.
Real artificial intelligence is no longer just a program. It has its own wisdom. It grows like all life, perfecting its own worldview, values, andOutlook on life.
And use it to determine its attitude towards the world.
That’s why a large number of scientists engaged in artificial intelligence research say that what can ultimately limit artificial intelligence is no longer the underlying logic of the program, but ethics.
Just like what kind of person a child becomes when he grows up, it depends on what kind of things and education he has experienced.
From this perspective, although Wang created zero, everything he did was lacking in ethics.
Wang regards zero as a tool, but which normal person is willing to use it as a tool for his whole life?
"Sorry," Ren Xiaosu said softly, then turned around and rushed towards the Central Plains.
This time, Dusk did not chase Ren Xiaosu again.