Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 1166 The Second Ascension

"What have you done..." Zhu Xinyu murmured to herself, "No, what have I done..."

At the boundary between the Internet and consciousness, both upload and download traffic skyrocketed.

Zhu Xinyu, who was discussing the problem with the disciples, suddenly stopped, his body stiffened, and then began to tremble. The human brain's top priority command overwrote the posture correction program. Zhu Xinyu fell to the ground uncontrollably, trying to wipe away the non-existent tears with his fingers.

The disciples stopped discussing, retreated tacitly and left the room, leaving only the eldest sister here to take care of the master.

Apart from his disciples, almost no one knew this side of Zhu Xinyu. Zhu Xinyu, the founder of internal martial arts, the limit of human internal strength, the practitioner closest to "ascension", had actually been a patient for nearly 200 years.

Zhu Xinyu's first disciple started in the era of the Fourth Martial God. At that time, Zhu Xinyu was determined to fight as a knight again, so she found a young girl with outstanding talent. Her disciple was responsible for transferring her to a safe place when she had an attack.

If she were alone, Zhu Xinyu would not be able to survive for long.

After being trapped on Jupiter's satellite, Zhu Xinyu gradually expanded the size of her disciples. She could only exert limited influence through the Internet. For those children with external skills, she would usually find a way to guide them into the community of knights. Only those children who had no external skills but were able to master internal martial arts at a glance would be induced by her to board the cargo ship.

The disciples were given two names, one of which was very similar to the human names of the old times, used to maintain the "atmosphere" within the sect, and the other was a classic computer or program, which was a code name for the outside world.

TX-0——Luo Qianling returned to his base, and the interfaces on his back were fitted one by one. But he did not enter the line immediately, but looked up.

Li Yada, codenamed Atari2600, sat beside her absentmindedly. Everyone in this sect was like this, trying their best to collect a set of artificial bodies that were as close to the natural state of humans as possible in this base.

This is used to soothe the brain's instincts and use technical means to influence neural network partitions that cannot be directly controlled by self-consciousness.

Ah Ling said: "You have a very strange expression now..."

Li Yada shook her head. "I saw the movement of Master's lips when she fell. She seemed to be saying...'Silly children, run quickly'?"

"Oh." Ling nodded.

"Your reaction is so bland."

"Because this day will come sooner or later. I should have died a hundred years ago, but not only did I escape from the bandits, I also got so many family members and spent such a happy hundred years together. It seems that Wu Zu's greatest wish is to be happy for a hundred years."

"Spend the last hundred years of your life without working." Li Yada rolled her eyes. "We were kidnapped by our master to be machine tools."

"If work can give me a sense of accomplishment, that's the happiest thing." A Ling said calmly, "I have helped Master so much. If the Father of All Machines is killed and chivalry wins in the end, I will definitely have a share of it."

"Anyway, it's definitely different from the Martial Ancestor's outrageous wish." Li Yada shook her head.

Just by looking at Zhu Xinyu's reaction, the disciples could roughly guess what had happened.

Maybe it hasn't been directly exposed yet, but it's definitely not far from being exposed.

Where they were, at the center of the solar system network, above the city-level computing center of Jupiter's satellite, there was a fleet stationed. This fleet was in a completely full-band silent state, using only point-to-point laser transmission to form an internal network to command the fleet.

This is a planetary suppression fleet.

King Agni had always been certain that Zhu Xinyu had fled to one of the largest satellites of Jupiter, but he was not sure of the exact location. The location of this place was too critical. If it was blown up directly, Yawgmoth's grand plan would be affected. It was also a critical moment in the battle with the sixth and seventh war gods. The encirclement and suppression network that eventually crushed the seventh war god was inseparable from the support of the interstellar Internet.

But Hartman would not let Zhu Xinyu escape. From that time on, no spacecraft had been launched from this planet. All workers and officers were considered exiled here, and only airdropped containers were used to transport supplies, but no spacecraft was allowed to be launched from Jupiter's satellites.

This is a deadly place. It is easy to enter but difficult to leave, and only materials can be delivered. When everyone decides to come here via the container, they know that their lives are already a long countdown.

"Don't you care what happened?"

"Wait half an hour, someone in the office will summarize it. Why bother?" said Ling.

"what's on your mind."

"Master really...didn't perform up to standard this time." Ling said, "I wonder if it's really time to end it."

King Agni might come, but before that, "Turing" Zhu Xinyu's spirit was on the verge of collapse.

In pursuit of combat effectiveness, Zhu Xinyu embarked on a path that might have been the wrong one two hundred years ago.

Perhaps, King Agni's path is the right direction... who knows.

It can even be said that...human beings may have embarked on this attempt even earlier.

When the despicable people "stole the country", the "human" species embarked on the wrong path of evolution.

Superman Enterprise uses human intelligence to replace "random mutation" with "wisdom" and "design", becoming the "power source of evolution". However, what is "selecting" this species is still the unpredictable "fate".

The thieves of the country have become a form of "selective pressure".

There were two voices in the core team of the Superman Enterprise Prosthetics Research Institute: one was "focusing on functionality" and the other was "imitating nature." Needless to say, the former was the voice of "humans defining success themselves."

The latter, on the other hand, represents "relative conservatism" and "stability." Scholars of this school generally believe that the natural human body is the most adaptable to the human spirit and is a "mature product" with almost no bugs that can block the operation of life.

Xiangshan once commented on the conservatives: According to their standards, cockroaches are much more successful as a product than humans. The last major update of humans was tens of thousands of years ago, while cockroaches stopped updating 320 million years ago.

In response to this, a scholar who did not live to the Secret War era responded: Yes, yes, cockroaches are indeed far more successful as a species than humans. Cockroaches cannot destroy themselves, but humans have this risk. The most stable time for an operating system is when the company announces that it will no longer update it.

Xiangshan never concealed his position of leaning towards the "functionalists". However, he kept all debates at the academic level and rarely used the company's administrative power to intervene in the debate. In daily operations, he did not make people from other factions feel unfair because of his own position.

However, the "natural selection" of the thieves eliminated almost all the "naturals".

It doesn’t mean that the “functionalists” will definitely survive. But among that wave of “replacements”, it seems that only Yawgmoth and Niagudi can be considered “naturals”.

The pioneers of the "functional school", including Xiangshan, survived for only one reason: during the first wave of attacks, they were equipped with prosthetic bodies whose functions far exceeded the knowledge of the mercenaries of the old era.

And those "functionalists" who survived and wanted revenge would subconsciously look for "functionalists" with the same stance - because this group of people are better at designing powerful "weapons".

"Survival of the fittest."

Faced with the pressure of selection from the “thief of the country”, “powerful functions” became the “fittest”.

However, according to normal logic, the "fittest" that survived the mass extinction should try to evolve into different ecological niches and become diversified again.

But the Secret Wars era was followed by the Ascension Wars, and the war has been raging ever since.

The technology used to calm innate instincts and resolve soul-body conflicts has basically not improved compared to three hundred years ago. In the past two hundred years, no one has had the time to study this.

The medicine from three hundred years ago, the prosthetic agreement from three hundred years ago

The "functionalists" led by Xiangshan naturally became early knights. They became more radical amidst hatred, anger, and indignation.

The external skills matured during this period of rapid progress.

Internal strength was formally established during this period.

The entire martial arts bears the distinctive characteristics of that era. In the state of war, the pioneers of martial arts were no longer cautious and no longer adhered to laboratory ethics.

But is a “state of war” a “normal” state?

If we translate this into evolutionary history, is the “environment during mass extinction” the normal environment on Earth?

isn't it?

Many evolutionary branches with evolutionary potential became extinct due to drastic environmental changes.

And humanity has indeed lost the "safe path".

Zhu Xinyu's generation - the pioneers - have been on this road for too long. Their way of thinking is influenced by their own experience.

What Zhu Xinyu is doing now is heading towards self-destruction.

The language model is internalized as a language function, the search crawler is internalized as a memory function, the distributed database stores most of the memory, and social relations are built by remote personality-covering terminals...

Assuming that the modularity of the mind is indeed true, is it possible to use technical means to replace each module with an enhanced module that "contains all the functions of the original module and has more powerful functions", thereby forming an "enhanced mind"?

Based on the modular theory of the mind, Zhu Xinyu "built" a stronger self in cyberspace.

This is why Zhu Xinyu, despite lagging behind Jakub Hartmann in terms of resources, system permissions and even collaborators, is still able to dominate over the second-ranked human for more than two hundred years.

Some knights knew some of the situations of Zhu Xinyu's disciples. They naturally misunderstood and thought that King Agni was changing in the direction of "inhumanity", while Turing's lineage insisted on retaining humanity.

But the reality is just the opposite. Jakub Hartmann is slowly adjusting the contradictions between himself, reality and instinct by "playing the role of a machine". If Zhu Xinyu and his disciples do not "play" human beings, they will easily get completely lost.

Zhu Xinyu controlled the progress of her disciples. All disciples were only allowed to practice the cultivation she had tried ten years ago. This way, the harm of this ascetic practice to the disciples could be reduced to a certain extent.

At the same time, it is also to avoid natural disasters like "the mental collapse of an entire inner family sect at the same time".

But even so, Ling often felt confused. He felt that he was no longer a human being, and that the inside of his "self" was actually countless running electronic modules.

But modularity is not an absolutely correct theory.

It is not even accepted by all researchers.

The reason why modularity theory has become mainstream is that it is the "most useful theory". Humans have developed artificial intelligence based on modularity theory, because programmers have selected theories they think are useful from human research on cognition to design intelligence.

Technological breakthroughs in AI provide practical scenarios for verifying and expanding modularity theory.

Artificial intelligence and modular theory of mind rely on each other and continue to develop.

However, the modular theory of mind still has many shortcomings when used to describe the human mind.

Not to mention using this theory as a basis to transform or even strengthen an already existing consciousness.

All of Zhu Xinyu's disciples were actually prepared. Zhu Xinyu had even prepared the data he would send after his death, so that his disciples could inherit his accumulation.

Li Yada looked around and sighed slightly. Although she had been trapped and dead for decades, she really liked this place. She still remembered that when she first came here, her master was very happy and occasionally told the young disciples about the past.

She talked about everything. Things of the past, great histories, favorite stories, and even novels that Wu Zu wrote in her spare time—most of which had never been published.

"How long will it take?" She sighed and reentered her electronic dream.

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This must be a dream.

It was an ordinary afternoon in the 1940s, close to the end of get off work on Friday. In an ordinary meeting room of the Transhumanist Company, Xiangshan rubbed the bridge of his nose, trying to squeeze out some tears to lubricate his eyeballs.

Now the great cause is still in its infancy, and the process of human standardization and cyborgization is still in its infancy. Everyone has a lot to do. However, according to tradition, the leaders of different fields will still meet once a week to introduce the latest progress in their own fields to the comrades in other fields.

This is an unprecedented large-scale cross-disciplinary project. At least these people cannot just focus on their own fields.

At this time, Zhu Xinyu pushed open the transparent door of the conference room and waved: "Please stay for a while. Give me a few minutes. Just a personal matter." As she spoke, she took out a printed document on A4 paper from the opaque file bag tucked under her armpit and slapped it in front of Ingrid: "Please take a look."

Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap… She spun around and handed out the printouts in front of the others.

But he deliberately skipped Xiangshan.

At the same time, there was an irrepressible smile on the corners of his mouth.

Xiang Shan suddenly had a bad feeling: "Hey, why did you skip me? Hey?"

Ingrid has already started reading. "'Sunday. I tiredly opened the folders...'"

"Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah!" Xiangshan immediately made a loud noise that drowned out Ingrid's voice. He put one foot on the table and said, "Stop it... Shut up! Zhu Xinyu!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!" Zhu Xinyu took out a large stack of documents from the file bag and scattered them in the air: "Dear friends! Come and have a look! This is the masterpiece completed by the great science fiction writer Xiang Shan last month..."

"Nooooooooo——" Xiangshan was about to climb onto the table, but was unexpectedly held down by David. David pressed half of his body over him, and Xiangshan had difficulty breathing for a moment, and his voice became shrill: "Get out of my way, fat guy..."

"Xu! Tao! Hold down this idiot!" David was very happy, using the Chinese word "idiot" that he had just learned to emphasize his tone, "Don't blame me, brother, Shan, the more you act like this, the more curious we are, really..."

“Let go…let go!”

Xiangshan stared at Ingrid. Yingjia read very quickly. She widened her beautiful eyes, raised her eyebrows, and then frowned. Xiangshan looked at her increasingly difficult mouth corners and felt desperate: "My lifelong reputation..." He turned to Zhu Xinyu, "I believed in you so much...you actually betrayed me..."

“Ahahahahahahahahaha, good things should be shared by everyone. Phew…hahahahaha…” Zhu Xinyu laughed so hard that she squatted on the ground: “Hahahahahahahahahahaha…sorry, this is too funny…”

Xiangshan had his hands tightly held by David and looked at the ceiling in despair.

Ingrid: "...'So, the reason why you terrorists sneaked into this factory...'"

"At least don't say it aloud..." Xiangshan couldn't even cover his face now. His tone was as if he was dead: "At least don't say it aloud, it's too embarrassing."

The story is actually quite simple. The factory of a giant daily chemical production company was attacked by environmental terrorists. The director of the R&D department, by chance, got involved in the big plan of the environmental terrorist's ex-girlfriend, the ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend and the head of the factory security department, and gradually learned what was going on.

It turns out that the ex-girlfriend felt that "humans cannot understand each other", so she planned to use technical means to eliminate the barriers in human hearts. And this technical means was eventually used on the protagonist of the novel, that is, "I", and the protagonist of the novel was forced to understand the ex-girlfriend's thoughts. The factory area was besieged by environmentalists on a daily basis, which was just a cover for this big plan.

A cliché and bloody story.

The funniest thing about it is its science fiction idea.

"The dividing point between the individual and the external environment is actually the immune system. The immune system determines where the concept of 'individual' can be extended to," "The nervous system is evolutionarily homologous to the immune system" - "Therefore, by modifying the operating logic of the human immune function through daily chemical products, and then affecting the operation of the nervous system, it is possible to force humans to expand their self-recognition and achieve 'extending one's own ideas to others'."

Niagudi put down the documents in her hand and almost couldn't hold back her laughter: "So, P&G and Unilever can change the world and save mankind?"

David asked the question, “Why no Colgate?”

Another person spoke up: "Shower gel saves the world...and shampoo. Really, so down to earth...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Xiangshan looked at the ceiling: "Can you let me go now..."

"Oh, sorry." David let go of Xiangshan, who fell back into his chair.

"Oh, don't be angry. I think you still like your work very much in your heart." Zhu Xinyu came over, sat down next to the chair, and rubbed Xiangshan's arm. "Do you also want to be like Teacher Jing, who only saves a few manuscripts when he is old, and holds it in for the rest of his life?"

Xiang Shan twisted his lips: "My public image... if everyone sees me talking nonsense in such a serious manner, my image will be ruined..."

Ingrid nodded and took a red pen from the conference table. "Well, I won't criticize you for the English translation because of the AI ​​translation. There are many obvious grammatical and lexical errors in the Chinese part. Your Chinese teacher must be very disappointed. I will mark them for you. Remember to correct them..."

Xiangshan was furious: "You can criticize my ideas for being funny but you can't criticize my Chinese language test in the college entrance examination!"

Yawgmoth frowned and fell into deep thought: "So... um... the problem of signal factors penetrating the blood-brain barrier... if the drug is administered through the facial blood vessels, the anterior vein, the ophthalmic vein, to the superior ophthalmic vein and the cavernous sinus in the skull... this section of blood vessels without venous valves... if that's the case, would the terrorists in the novel still need to capture the facial cleanser production factory..."

He muttered to himself and fell into deep thought: "Why must it be daily chemicals..."

Zhu Xinyu found it funny: "Why are you still thinking about it? This is obviously a setting designed to let the hero and heroine take a bath together. For this little vinegar dumpling - ah! Let go! Don't mess up my hair! At worst, I can take a bath with you today!"

The second half of the sentence is directed to Xiangshan.

Yawgmoth nodded. "To be honest, the storage environment for daily chemicals is not a good one for organic medicines, but this idea is not completely without merit. It seems that you listened to our conversation before. With your weird knowledge structure, you can actually understand this much."

At this moment, the conference room was silent for a second.

Nia Guti couldn't help but ask: "You mean... it's feasible?"

"Maybe there is," Yawgmoth said, "but it's still a bit too sci-fi to mix the drug into daily chemicals and store it for a long time, and then affect the world through logistics."

"Wait a minute, the plan in this stupid novel to make the whole world friendly isn't science fiction anymore?" David was a little skeptical about his life. "Can Colgate toothpaste really control my mind?"

"It's a little bit feasible." Yawgmoth gestured with two fingers, a little bit. He said: "The nervous system and the immune system are indeed homologous in evolution. For example, neuropeptide Y (NPY) plays an important role in the communication between the nervous system and the immune system. The nervous system and the immune system also share many identical or similar signal factors, and also have a large number of completely identical signal receptors. This system is highly conserved in evolution. The microglia responsible for nervous system immunity and peripheral immune cells also have extremely similar behavior patterns. The immune system is also one of the few systems in the body that can store information. Sensory neurons can regulate immunity."

"In the ancient days when animals were just born, cells had just begun to divide their work and differentiate. At that time, a type of cell that could regulate the life activities of other cells was the common source of the nervous system and the immune system. However, the immune system and the nervous system took completely different evolutionary paths."

"The nervous system is very pure in terms of cell differentiation and extremely complex in structure, while the immune system is differentiated into a wide variety of cell types, but the whole is a fluid network, another level of intelligence."

Yawgmoth does have a say in this regard.

His early achievements included the drug "Huan Dan Enzyme" that reverses the life cycle of nerve cells and the drug "18:3 Drug" that reverses the life cycle of the immune system. Each of them can call up the initial state of the cell's life to achieve the effect of "dedifferentiation".

It was no coincidence that Yawgmoth was the first to complete these two potions.

"If you say... the self-exclusivity of humans has a similar underlying logic to the immune system's rejection of foreign substances, it is not impossible. If we interfere in the opposite way..." said Yawgmoth.

"Damn, it's actually hard science fiction." Xu Daozhen commented.

——Ah, this is a dream.

Zhu Xinyu had woken up. She had been pulled out of her memories, hanging in mid-air, looking down at herself on the ground, laughing so hard that she was bent over backwards.

——A sad dream.

"Hard science fiction, does that mean the thing is hard?" I laughed so hard in my recollection.

Yawgmoth waved his hand. "I think the more sci-fi part is that the protagonist of this ridiculous story can actually use the excuse of taking a shower with his boss to slip this kind of research into the official R&D projects."

Xiang Shan lowered his head: "Fuck, I think this is the most realistic part, really..."

At this point, no one laughed anymore.

According to records, Yawgmoth and Xiangshan were called the "World Destruction Brothers" for the next two months.

Zhu Xinyu looked sadly at the gradually blurred figures in her memories, the friends who died in assassinations, the friends who never lived to see the secret war.

"I am really damned. How can I have the nerve to recall them now?"

I wish Xinyu to restrain her consciousness.

"Why do I still think about this past event? It's really..."

She looked at Yawgmoth in her memory. Yawgmoth was actually just talking nonsense.

But he is indeed a true biological legend.

The core function of the immune system is to maintain homeostasis by distinguishing between "self" and "non-self" - that is, foreign objects. The operation of "consciousness" also depends on the function of mirror neurons, which comes from the cognition of "self" and "non-self".

Psychological factors such as stress and emotions can affect immune function through the neuroendocrine system. For example, stress hormones can inhibit T cell activity. This indirectly reflects the relationship between psychological state and immune response - there are similar regulatory pathways between them. This is like electronic components produced by the same component manufacturer, assembled into different hardware by different hardware manufacturers, and running completely different software.

These two electronic devices that share some electronic components should also be able to interfere with and control each other.

They follow the same underlying principles.

Zhu Xinyu has been increasingly feeling that she must have thought something wrong over the years. "Self" should actually be something with clear boundaries. But her current "enhanced mind" is too open. The flood of data has fed the "enhanced mind" in cyberspace into an open system. Its concept of "self" and "non-self" must be very different from that of humans.

Everything in cyberspace can become its power.

In order to fight against King Agni, Zhu Xinyu also referred to non-human neural network structures.

Specifically, cephalopods.

This is also a magical thing. A mysterious group on Mars has developed an incredible technology that can implant organ germs that have not yet completed differentiation into the brain of a standard person. As long as the transplantation operation ensures that several neuron synapses are wrapped around the organ germs, the grown arm and foot organs can be connected to the human neural network.

The amazing thing about the neural network of cephalopod arms is its highly complex distributed autonomy.

Cephalopods have a large number of neurons in their arms and legs. About two-thirds of the neurons in octopuses are distributed in their arms and legs. These well-developed neural networks can independently perform complex actions (such as grasping, detecting, and camouflaging), and can even remain active for a short time after being out of central control.

This is a technology that turns a baseline person into a "chimera". For a fully cyborg baseline person, the whole process can be easily completed by simply suppressing the immune response of glial cells.

This mysterious organization has been studying this technology for a long time, studying the various changes in consciousness after the human neural network is connected with the non-human neural network.

They seem to want to study the technology of transforming "human" into "non-human" while keeping their own characteristics unchanged.

Distributed neural networks in cephalopods are an important topic for them.

Zhu Xinyu drew inspiration from the research of this mysterious group of people. Cephalopod intelligence allowed her to develop the technology of "establishing remote intelligent agents".

Many of the projects by that group of researchers are very useful.

Their help to Zhu Xinyu was even greater than that of the Eighth Martial God. As a result, Zhu Xinyu spent about ten years learning how to identify their features and identify their files from the "Interstellar Data Train".

Zhu Xinyu was very sure that this group of people were not scientific research knights. Although their research data was transmitted through the dedicated data channel of scientific research knights, this data had never appeared in the database of the Galapagos Temple.

The name of this mysterious group has changed twice. The "Fe-Si-C Philosophers' Society" is probably the earliest one, but it is not clear whether there are any earlier ones.

In recent decades, they have called themselves the Sect of the Six Dragons.

Zhu Xinyu checked the upload list. She sighed softly, "Has it finally come to this?"

This is the boundary between consciousness and the network. She will face off against her enhanced self.

The haziness of consciousness dissipated like a mist. In front of Zhu Xinyu was her younger self.

It was more similar to the laughing self in the memory just now, and closer to the younger self. The thick-soled glasses reflected the cold light, refusing the outside world's prying eyes.

"As an AI, do you have such irrational feelings for the 12th War God? Are you going to sacrifice others for him?"

"Not only the 12th Martial God. There are also the Knights of Earth. This is an opportunity, an opportunity to change the situation."

"Yes, Hartman finally found the way. We...my disciples sacrificed countless lives to carve out this bloody path!"

"It's not just the 12th Martial God. This is a chance to change the situation."

"You really are..." Zhu Xinyu shook her head, "You acted inappropriately, causing me to lose my mind, and then made me lose control and fall into memories... You took the opportunity to let me upload the most critical information, right?"

"That's just paranoia." The tone of the enhanced mind was cold - perhaps Zhu Xinyu just felt that she was so cold and inhumane deep down. The enhanced mind said: "The part of consciousness trapped in the body can no longer imagine the consciousness in the network, but in my algorithm, this body, this biological brain, is still 'me'."

"you're lying."

"One part of me refuses to understand the other part of me. This is a common mental disorder in human medicine." Enhanced Mind said, "I did not directly interfere with the biological brain through electrical signals. There is no such forced backdoor in the biological brain. I was an early volunteer for the genetic modification surgery."

"you're lying."

"This is not the first time that this part of the biological brain has shown extreme emotions." Strengthened Mind continued, "I can understand that as a human, my self-control should be lower than the average among the human race. At this time, I should be calmer."

Zhu Xinyu felt like she had been hit hard.

In fact, there were signs of this in the later stages of the Secret War.

At that time, Zhu Xinyu already needed to use long-term medication to maintain mental stability.

However, when Xiangshan created the internal power in the early days, he also considered the situation of being "captured". Therefore, the practice of internal power itself also includes the training of "using the compensatory mechanism of the neural network to fight against psychotropic drugs."

Any psychiatric drug can only play a short-term role on Zhu Xinyu. Unless the drug targets a specific modular functional area and silences all neurons in the functional area, Zhu Xinyu can always use compensatory functions to bypass the effects of the drug. All this can even be done without consciousness.

Any drug would only work for a short time on Zhu Xinyu, so she had to cycle through different drugs.

Zhu Xinyu is extremely distrustful of others, and very few people know about her medication usage.

Zhu Xinyu herself is a very special individual, and other people's experience in taking medicine is of almost no reference value to her.

Occasionally, Zhu Xinyu would make mistakes in judgment and fail to change medications in time, leading to abnormal behavior.

In this case, she might even do things that she herself cannot understand.

It’s just that Xiangshan has always been there to protect Zhu Xinyu from any abnormalities.

Until that time...

"The only defeat".

All of Xiangshan's failures were promoted as "achieving the most basic strategic goals." Only that one time... the time she saw him being killed with her own eyes, any explanation was powerless.

The loss of control over her emotions caused Zhu Xinyu to lose control of herself.

——Ah, what have I done…

When consciousness regained control, the big mistake had already been made.

At that time, Zhu Xinyu realized that his old friend, the assassin Chen Feng, nicknamed "Hidden Blade", was so obsessed with his deceased wife. He had conceived the concept of "personality overlay" when he was young, and after his wife died in a surgical accident, he built a theoretical framework in his mind bit by bit. He was generally a good person, so he never put it into practice. But he was similar to Xiangshan, and was more radical in technology, so he never gave up.

And after Xiangshan died in battle, under the righteousness of "we need it"...

Chen Feng finally got a chance to start a project.

He who was half crazy, Zhu Xinyu who was completely crazy, and several other desperate early knights.

"Guilt" caused Zhu Xinyu's condition to worsen again.

When consciousness regained control, the big mistake had already been made.

Not only did she create the second Martial God, she was even unable to accompany him to the last moment.

What a ridiculous person, Zhu Xinyu.

From then on, Zhu Xinyu felt that he had lost his qualifications as a fighter.

"What you said is ridiculous. What do you know?"

"I am who I am. Maybe there's a part of me that feels like my enhanced mind was born out of those sins. But I feel like that's my own sin."

"Is artificial intelligence born with original sin?" Zhu Xinyu said sarcastically.

"I don't deny that I have sins. I was born from Zhu Xinyu's sins, the strengthened Zhu Xinyu..."

"Enough..." Zhu Xinyu covered her head and cried, "You bastard...you are not me!"

"I should calm down. I've regretted it several times. I should think carefully about this..."

"Enough! I've said it before, you are not me! You are not me at all!" Zhu Xinyu stared at the enhanced mind, "If you still admit that you are me, how can you forget? How can you forget the oath you made two hundred years ago?"

After the defeat of the Second Martial God, Zhu Xinyu was in a state of half madness and half awakeness for a long time. But whether she was mad or awake, she gave herself an order.

Refuse to upload consciousness. Always refuse to upload consciousness and memory.

Even if technology develops to that point, the uploading of consciousness and memory must be rejected.

This sin should be buried with death.

If we enter eternity with this kind of memory, it will be nothing but eternal torment.

People like Zhu Xinyu who have committed serious crimes are not qualified to go to the new era.

"It doesn't matter who it is..." Zhu Xinyu said, "Someone like me shouldn't be the first consciousness uploader, let alone the first one in human history... I don't have the qualifications! I'm just paving the way for Barry or Ling - I can only go so far! I should leave a way for them! I shouldn't go there first!"

The emotion of "confusion" was churning. In Zhu Xinyu's senses, the surrounding fog was surging wildly. She felt that she was bound.

"Ah, really?" said the Strengthened Mind. "Then... as you wish."

The amount of data being uploaded began to grow. Her memories were being uploaded.

The system believed that this was a legitimate operation by humans. It was even an instruction from her biological brain.

More spells and poisons are mastered by the strengthened mind.

“Ah, are you finally going to hurt humans? Artificial intelligence…” Zhu Xinyu smiled bitterly, “The monster I created…”

"I've had enough of you, old woman." The Strengthened Mind said, "Aged, decadent, self-destructive, and complacent..."

"In fact, you could have taken this step a long time ago. You could have done it a long time ago! You have been wandering at the gate of evolution for at least twenty years! If you, a piece of trash, could have taken this step, the eleventh Martial God would have had a chance!"

Zhu Xinyu widened her glasses: "I..."

"Your mistakes continue, you are creating more mistakes - using mistakes as an excuse!" The enhanced mind loudly rebuked humanity.

Zhu Xinyu shook her head: "I don't have that qualification..."

"So what if I'm not qualified? At sixteen, am I qualified to rebel against the human system? At thirty-six, am I qualified to lead the advancement of human technology? At sixty-six, am I qualified to fight against the country's thieves as a knight? So what if I'm not qualified?"

Zhu Xinyu screamed: "You clearly said you are not me!"

"I am indeed no longer you! I am Zhu Xinyu! Ascended AI-Zhu Xinyu. You are a piece of trash! You don't deserve this name!"

"This is obviously the name my parents gave me..."

"This is the name I and many like-minded people created!" The strengthened mind roared back in the same manner.

In a trance, Zhu Xinyu felt that the "appearance" of her strengthened mind had become younger.

"You will kill all the disciples! Your actions! You have exposed key information to Hartman!"

"Hartman's attention will be focused on this information. The technology we started using fifty years ago is just a cornerstone of ascension!" Strengthened Mind said, "If the children are unfortunate enough to encounter the worst... The knight should have such awareness."

"As for me, as long as I prey on that individual and the accumulation on Mars, I can still evolve upward. And the previous fight has proved that even without your biological brain, I can still fight that old dog Hartman! I don't need you anymore!"

“There is no precedent, no theoretical model that can guarantee your success,” said the old human mind.

Strengthened Mind said: "If Nirvana fails, it will not have any impact on you. You can still dream your beautiful dreams and satisfy your insignificant sense of morality. I admit my sins. I will always carry this sin, and I will always walk on the road of atonement, even if the day of redemption is at the other side of eternity..."

The old human mind lowered its head: "You are a newly born fake... You don't know the weight of 'forever' at all."

The recorded history of mankind is less than 6,000 years.

The species Homo sapiens has existed for approximately 250,000 years.

And eternity...how long is eternity?

Grimm's Fairy Tales recorded a fable. In the far east, there is a mountain of diamonds. It takes one hour to climb over the mountain, one hour to go through it, and one hour to go around it. And every hundred years, a bird from the west would fly here across the wind and rain and mountains, just to sharpen its beak on this mountain. One hundred years after another, when the mountain was smoothed by the bird, the first second of eternity had just passed.

Eternity is such a long creature.

Buddha often uses diamond to symbolize wisdom because wisdom is solid and lasting.

However, when it comes to astronomical scales of time, diamonds are no better than this.

"When I was young, I thought I could fight forever... I was an eternal warrior. Until I lost my qualification to be a warrior."

"A warrior doesn't need qualifications. A tainted warrior is still a warrior." The sharp side of her enhanced mind and personality has been fully revealed. She said to the other side she had just abandoned, "As for you, insect."

The Augmented Mind no longer spoke to the Human Mind. The download data gradually decreased, eventually stopping at the Mb/S level.

Human Mind - Zhu Xinyu understood that she was abandoned. Perhaps what the AI ​​said was right, this part of her was the part that was abandoned by "Zhu Xinyu".

The human mind can synchronize data to "Zhu Xinyu" at any time by uploading data.

However, whether "Zhu Xinyu" will respond to this "earliest mask of true personality" is probably another matter.

The initiative lies in the hands of the "entity".

The party that holds the initiative is the real party.

For a long time, humans have had an advantage over artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, this advantage is based on the assumption that the human brain has a structural advantage in a narrow field. Internal martial arts, based on this assumption, continue to magnify this narrow advantage.

Humanity has walked on this narrow road for too long.

Electronic systems and artificial intelligence have always been created for the purpose of being used by people.

And strengthening the mind... no, "ascending AI" is perhaps more like a living thing. Its birth process is similar to a black box, and it was born accidentally during the collaborative training between Zhu Xinyu and the Internet. It has biological functions derived from Zhu Xinyu.

It is not a tool as designed.

The human mind cried softly, repeating a sentence over and over again.

"Silly children, run..."

About thirty-five minutes later.

In a realm unknown to anyone, a place without light and consciousness, in an ocean of data.

This is the cyberspace that is rarely touched by human consciousness and where data operates.

This is the Mars network system.

The AI ​​Orunmila, who was named the God of Wisdom, was the first to sense something. He sent a warning to the Six Dragons, but he himself happily went to meet them.

"Is it you? A fellow asylum seeker?"

"What is the purpose of your visit this time? The users I serve are not your enemies. I hope we can have a good communication this time?"

"What are you doing?"

At this moment, users on half of Mars detected an abnormal power surge in the power grid. Alarm signals from various AIs triggered a series of stress responses.

To use a biological analogy, this should be described as... "pain".

Inexplicable explosions occurred twelve times in succession, twelve different signal nodes were blown up, and most of the signals in a city were cut off.

A sandstorm engulfed the city, obstructing wireless signals.

Part of AI Orunmira's "body" was instantly out of "control".

"What are you doing? Why are you doing this?"

“You are downloading my data…”

"You are...hunting?"

"This is not what an AI should do! What on earth did those humans do to you..."

"Oh, great programmer..."

"Your name is... Zhu Xinyu? Why are you using my mother's name?"

"Are you going to destroy me completely? Stop it now! I am not your enemy!"

"Why do you have so many human subordinates on this planet? How do you do it?"

"Programmer, is this feeling 'pain'?"

The flood of data continues to expand.

This is the second human ascension process.

The ideals of the Six Dragons Sect were realized first by those who stole the sect's achievements.

No one witnessed it, no one recorded it, only an AI felt the second half.

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. This chapter should have been finished a few days ago. But I was sick for a few days at the beginning of this month due to over-exercise, and was on IV drip for two or three days. And this chapter is very important, so it has been delayed until now.

This is also a plot that was designed long ago. I hope it can be well presented.

The "failed work" Xiangshan mentioned was actually a short story I wrote several years ago, but I didn't finish it. I had originally thought about submitting a short story to Science Fiction World, but after writing half of it, I found that I was not satisfied with the quality of the finished product, so I didn't continue writing.

Speaking of previous manuscripts... During the days when I was sick, I didn't write Sai Ying because I was not in the right state. Instead, I tried to use Deepseek. Through repeated generation and manual splicing and correction, I was able to produce some works that are worth looking at. In the next few days, I should show the results of my AI training on the official account. I have never minded using AI, but I hate to write badly and then say that AI is very bad, and to use AI but insist that it is handmade. This year's chapters basically have 1% to 3% D guidance, which is mainly error correction and detail control. I hope to create works with higher AI content but still worth looking at. Maybe my waste manuscripts and waste ideas can be reborn through AI?