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Chapter 227 Energy Core
The dark underground passage, because of the damp and condensed water droplets hanging on the wall, passed through the simple password anti-theft iron door at the end, and the inside suddenly became bright. Two rows of towering bookshelves were filled with all kinds of books. There is a round table with unclosed books scattered on it. Papers full of formulas are scattered everywhere. Except for those scattered on the table, they almost cover the ground between the two rows of bookshelves. shoe prints.

Walking a few steps along the latest shoe prints, he entered the research room. The intricate wires connected the instruments and equipment, surrounded the workbench in the center where Xiao Zhi was sitting.

In front of Xiao Zhi who had been disassembled for most of it, Li Mengling pinched the tiny screwdriver in her hand, stared at its approximate heart position, sweating profusely.

"Xiaozhi, let me ask you one last time, do you really, don't know why you lied?" Li Mengling held the screwdriver steady in front of Xiaozhi's body, and asked through gritted teeth, "Even if it is a plausible explanation, or a more reasonable My guess is also good..."

"I'm sorry master, I really don't know why I'm lying." Xiaozhi looked at the ground with his head tilted, where his body and many internal parts were scattered, and then looked into Li Mengling's eyes, and said calmly, "I did see three agree vote.

It was clear to me, then and now, that the vote should have been to replace the coffee shop with something else.

But until now, I still don't feel like I made a mistake.

I know I made a mistake.

But I don't think I made a mistake. "

"You know it, why don't you think it? Why..." Li Mengling's arms trembled, she was almost driven crazy by Xiaozhi's answer, but no matter how she asked, Xiaozhi's answer was still not logical and self-consistent.

Only half of Xiaozhi's face remains, and half of the remaining half of the mouth is still in the mouth, showing half a pixel of the arc of a smile. It has not opened its mouth, and the clear and loud voice comes from the speaker next to the heart: "Do it master, I believe in you."

Li Mengling didn't do anything for a long time, she and Xiaozhi both knew what it meant to open the energy core.

"It's not a matter of believing or not..." Li Mengling looked up at it almost collapsed, "You're going to die, Xiaozhi..."

"I know, but if the master can't get the answer to the question, will it be hard?" Xiaozhi put a hand on Li Mengling's shoulder lightly and said, "What's more, Xiaozhi has brought danger to everyone.

Xiaozhi didn't want to bring danger to everyone. "

Li Mengling felt dizzy in her brain. In Xiaozhi's memory database, there was no deliberate lying behavior memory. For Xiaozhi, the voting result was correct.

In Xiaozhi's data calculation, its behavior did not lie.

No matter how many calculations the results can prove, Xiao Zhi did not lie.

But it is a lie, and it is indeed an objective fact.

This made Li Mengling completely plunged into the entanglement vortex formed by this logical contradiction.

At present, there is only one last way left, and that is to read Xiaozhi's energy core, so that he can see the original instructions behind all Xiaozhi's actions—that is, the source code.

No matter how many times he upgraded Xiao Zhi, no matter how he replaced its functional parts, Li Mengling never touched its energy core.

In contemporary Saint Feuer, killing an artificial intelligence that has already grown would be a crime.

Therefore, those artificial intelligences also have protection mechanisms for their own energy cores. For humans who attempt to destroy the energy cores, they have the right to fight back and resist. If more than three warnings are invalid, they can even be obliterated.

Only this one is the artificial intelligence defense mechanism recognized by the public in the backbone world.

Of course, all of this is only for the public, and it is not applicable to the internal personnel of the tower, as long as the program documents are complete.

Li Mengling knew that Xiaozhi's current technological version was much higher than those of the contemporary Saint Feuer's artificial intelligence, and his level of thinking and cognition could almost be compared with artificial humans.

It may have autonomous behavior, may have emotions, and may even yearn for freedom.

Li Mengling once tried every means to make it similar to human beings, so she upgraded Xiaozhi's version again and again.

But only cheating, which many humans can do, Li Mengling did not give it this permission.

Because of internal deceit, the danger that may be brought to the squad is far greater than betrayal.

"I thought about it, maybe one day..." Li Mengling's eyes welled up with tears, "You...you told me, Master, I'm planning to leave.

Even if it is the worst outcome, you say, master, I decided to stand on the side of the tower, and we will be enemies from now on..."

Li Mengling couldn't help choking, tears fell on Xiaozhi's legs, and she continued intermittently: "I will... I think I will, I... must, with a smile say to you...

Go Xiaozhi~

you are free. "

Before the words fell, the screwdriver fell on Xiaozhi's leg, bounced to the ground, and rolled into the gap between the kernel reading device and the ground.

Li Mengling came back to her senses, squatted down in a panic and reached out to search, but her fingertips touched the screwdriver farther away.

This moment seemed to be an accusation from heaven, which made Li Mengling cry bitterly. She curled up beside the device, regretting her hard-heartedness just now, she sobbed and said: "I'm sorry everyone, I can't do it...Xiaozhi, it is mine. Oh my friend……"

click-

The sudden sound made Li Mengling tremble, her entire body seemed to be wrapped in ice at the same time, she raised her head pale, the scene in her mind almost completely matched the reality.

She saw Xiaozhi violently pulled out his energy core, and was slowly stretching out his bent arms, wanting to show her the energy core shining like a diamond in his palm.

"The master is also Xiaozhi's friend.

Friends can't figure out the secret here.

I……

bring it to a friend...

Look. "

When Xiaozhi finished speaking, his arm just stretched out in front of Li Mengling.

Li Mengling's wide-open and trembling pupils reflected the diamonds whose light was gradually fading. She got up in a panic, trying to put the energy core in the mechanical palm back into Xiaozhi, "It's okay Xiaozhi, don't be afraid, install it now." There is still time to go back.

I don't watch it, I... I don't want to know, it's just a lie, it must be a coincidence, right? "

Li Mengling stiffened in front of Xiaozhi like an ice sculpture, her slender arm passed through the huge hole in Xiaozhi's body, and she realized that near the ground where Xiaozhi just stretched out his hand, there were twisted and crooked mechanical fragments.

When it decided to take out the energy core, it never thought about being repaired.

"Xiaozhi!!"

This cry is only in my heart.

Li Mengling actually didn't say a word, she just stood there motionless, and after a while, she calmed down and stopped crying.

She slowly withdrew the arm that passed through Xiaozhi's body, and looked at the core reading device next to her. She thought she could walk over smoothly, but she still staggered a few times, but this did not affect her standing in the end. in front of the device.

Looking down at the energy core that has completely lost its light, it looks like an ordinary stone.

(End of this chapter)