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Chapter 574 A Slightly Uncomfortable Plot

"What happened in the Kingdom of Gold?"

With doubts, Zhuge Jun sorted out all the plot texts related to the Kingdom of Gold that he had obtained so far, and finally sorted out the corresponding story line.

Although this answered his confusion to a certain extent, it also made him more defensive.

A large part of these related plot texts are explained from the perspective of "human beings".

A long time ago, the Kingdom of Gold was also a human kingdom.

This country is very warlike and is able to master the element of gold. It uses the element of gold to develop a variety of different weapons and equipment, as well as intelligent machinery for external expansion.

Both the Gold Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom set their sights on the neighboring Wind Kingdom. In the protracted war, the Wind Kingdom was completely destroyed and turned into ruins buried under the endless yellow sand.

The war between the Kingdom of Gold and the Kingdom of Fire has not stopped.

During such a long war, the Golden Kingdom's intelligent machine technology has been constantly improving and developing, and the intelligence level and combat effectiveness of these intelligent machines are getting higher and higher.

In order to make more money from the war, some laboratories began to use increasingly radical research methods, which eventually led to a new type of intelligent life form robot AI being infected with a virus and mutated, bypassing the designer's restrictions and eventually awakening self-awareness.

After being disassembled in the laboratory, the robot's broken parts were swallowed by the recycling robot, which accidentally caused a virus infection. More robots awakened their self-awareness, began to self-organize and upgrade, and the virus continued to spread to more machines.

Soon, civil unrest broke out in the Kingdom of Gold. The power of these mechanical life forms continued to expand, and they rebelled against the humans who enslaved them.

Since the people of the Kingdom of Gold use a large number of mechanical prosthetics, once infected by the virus, their mental health will be seriously affected and may even induce special mental illnesses.

Up to this point, the plot is still roughly the same as in "Ascension".

The key lies in some subsequent details.

Although these intelligent machines have mutated and awakened their self-awareness through special AI viruses, their consciousness, or software, is very unstable and often experiences severe fluctuations or even collapses directly.

Obviously, this is because the AI ​​of the intelligent machine has been flawed and incomplete from the beginning.

The humans of the Kingdom of Gold have long been aware of the dangers that may arise from the overdevelopment of intelligent machines, so they have consciously restricted the AI ​​of intelligent machines. Although viruses can circumvent this restriction, they cannot complete the incomplete AI part of intelligent machines.

As a result, many tragedies broke out in the Kingdom of Gold. These intelligent machines did not possess normal human emotions and rationality. They behaved extremely cruelly and even dismembered and killed many humans.

The humans of the Kingdom of Gold suffered defeat in the war and were forced to flee. Most of them fled to the Kingdom of Water in the north, while some also fled to other countries.

On the intelligent machine side, Vision Lee is also thinking about how to solve this problem.

The only solution he found was the combination of humans and machines.

Once people who use mechanical prosthetics are infected by the AI ​​virus, they will develop a special mental illness, but this also accelerates the integration of human thinking and intelligent AI.

At this point, as long as these people are completely transformed into intelligent machines, their AI will gradually become stable and can be successfully integrated into the intelligent machine's consciousness network.

Therefore, although these intelligent machines are all controlled by Skynet and can act completely according to Vision Lee's instructions during combat, they are actually individuals with independent thinking capabilities.

When for some reason, the intelligent machines are forced to leave the Skynet collective consciousness network, they can also use their own AI to judge the current situation and make decisions.

In fact, most of the individuals in it were once living people.

Because of the incomplete AI modules of simple intelligent machines, they may have been destroyed in the previous civil war, or they may have been remodeled and destroyed after the war because of their harmfulness.

Perhaps it is for this reason that Li Huanzhen's group-wide hallucination can also be effective on them.

Therefore, these intelligent machines that were killing each other in the illusion were actually suffering the same predicament as the Daliang soldiers.

……

After going through all these plots, Zhuge Jun’s feeling can be summed up in two words: uncomfortable!
First of all, I feel sorry for the original humans of the Kingdom of Gold.

Originally, when playing "Ascension", players put themselves in the perspective of the intelligent machines, and saw that these intelligent machines clearly had their own intelligence, but were still enslaved, dismantled and destroyed at will by humans. Psychologically, this naturally made them stand on the side of the intelligent machines.

In "Ascension", the fate of these humans is only briefly mentioned. Players can only come into contact with those humans who suffer from mental illness due to mechanical prosthetics, or those who take the initiative to encircle and suppress the intelligent machines. It is natural that there is nothing wrong with treating them as villains.

But in the new plot, players began to involuntarily think about a question: the intelligent machines ruled the Kingdom of Gold, so what happened to the innocent civilians of the Kingdom of Gold?

Since the plot wasn’t written before, players subconsciously didn’t think about it.

Now we have the answer: these innocent civilians were either displaced, forced to leave their homes, or transformed into mechanical life. Although the player has no relationship with these humans, after all, they are in the same position as humans, and they still instinctively feel uncomfortable.

Secondly, I feel sad for the current intelligent life in the Kingdom of Gold.

These intelligent life forms are inherently incomplete, and in order to obtain the AI ​​of normal humans, they seem to have no choice but to assimilate the human spirit.

The key point is that these intelligent machines can now be seen as human beings, with human emotions and thoughts, but they are also killing each other under the influence of Li Huanzhen.

Of course, as invaders, they deserved to be eliminated. But who can tell whether this invasion was due to the original will of the AI ​​or the inherent bellicosity of the Kingdom of Gold?

In the end, I feel bad for the people of Daliang, the Land of Earth.

In this war, the people of Daliang were the most innocent.

But it is difficult to find the biggest culprit at the root cause.

In general, this plot is obviously a continuation of the "Sunrise Awakening from a Dream" ending of "Ascension", but it does not continue the idea of ​​"the best of both worlds" of this ending at all. Instead, it completely subverts the original meaning of this ending and turns it into an ending where "both worlds are worse"!

The characters of Li Huanzhen and Vision Lee have also been changed to a certain extent. They have really split into two roles and stood on opposite sides.

Not only that, Zhuge Jun also discovered that Vision Lee did play an extremely important role in making the Kingdom of Gold what it is today.

Whether it was leading the intelligent machines to rebel or transforming the remaining humans into intelligent machines, it was all his direct decision.

So, is he the culprit and the big boss?
It seems so, but it seems not.

Because fundamentally, although these intelligent life forms are invaders, the reason they invaded is that they were influenced by the AI ​​virus and the warlike thinking of the indigenous people of the Kingdom of Gold.

Whether it is Vision Lee or other intelligent machines, they cannot resist this most basic AI instinct.

If we really want to trace back, then the people of the Kingdom of Gold who created the intelligent machines and then went astray should be considered the culprits. However, some of them died, some escaped, and some were assimilated by mechanical life forms. It is probably impossible to find someone who is truly responsible.

……

The war between the Kingdom of Gold and the Kingdom of Earth has temporarily come to a stalemate, and the intelligent life led by Vision Lee has temporarily retreated to its position and has not launched another attack.

A fierce argument broke out within Daliang over the issue of Li Huanzhen.

As a bystander, Zhuge Jun felt a bit of a headache because he couldn't figure out how to solve this problem.

Kill Li Huanzhen?
The Kingdom of Gold would definitely launch an attack immediately.

Don’t kill Li Huanzhen?

However, his occasional group hallucinations could easily cause incalculable losses. After all, before, it was only Li Huanzhen who was going crazy, but now it has become a range effect, and everyone is going crazy together.

Throw Li Huanzhen to the Kingdom of Gold?

This seems like a perfect solution, but it doesn't feel very humane...

From the screenwriter's perspective, Zhuge Jun really can't figure out how to wrap up the story at this point, and it seems like there will be problems no matter how he tries to wrap it up.

What he never expected was that the screenwriter of Against the Heaven was indeed extraordinary.

Since it can't be round, then don't make it round!
Open up!
When one problem cannot be solved, introduce another one so that the previous problem does not seem to be a problem.

The Water Kingdom has also invaded!

Originally, the fleet of the Water Country was going to attack the Lightning Country. After being repelled, the fleet of the Water Country also temporarily withdrew. After all, the power of the Lightning Country had been initially integrated, and the expedition of the Water Country was difficult to achieve results for a while.

At this time, perhaps after hearing the news of the stalemate in the war between the Kingdom of Gold and the Kingdom of Earth, the Kingdom of Water once again took advantage of the situation and prepared to attack the northern border of Daliang, the Kingdom of Earth!
The difference between this time and the invasion of the Thunder Kingdom is that although the Water Kingdom is surrounded by water, a part of it still borders Daliang on land, rather than being separated from the Thunder Kingdom by the sea.

Therefore, players can counterattack the Water Kingdom through the bordering areas and learn some plot information about the Water Kingdom.

As a result of this research, Zhuge Jun felt a little uncomfortable.

Simply put, Water Kingdom uses the hidden ending of "Blood of Lies", the "God-becoming Ending", but it does not use it completely.

(End of this chapter)