The mage arrives

The other party stood quietly in front of Gordon, motionless, and did not ask him for a library card or other compensation, but just looked at Gordon with eyes that had neither flashes of inspiration nor energy flow.

Seeing that the strange creature didn't say a word, Gordon felt that the other party would probably not pursue his little rude behavior just now.In the current situation where the situation is unknown, such a non-hostile creature suddenly appeared. Gordon felt that he had to negotiate with the other party to see if he could get some information.

So he tentatively asked: "Big guy, I'm mage Gordon Freeman, do you have a name?"

"Don't you already know my name?" The strange creature asked back, "I'm called the big guy. You are the stupid mage who was tricked by me into the floating city, but you are still a little quick-witted and escaped me." ambush."

Gordon had never been called a "stupid" before.Well, this is not a critical issue, just skip it.But Gordon noticed that the name of this creature called "big guy" was very confusing.The person who led Gordon to Floating Void City and planned to capture him was clearly the "little guy", why did the "big guy" say it did it?Also, why would it know what happened to itself?

"Can you explain to me carefully what you mean, Mr. Big Guy?"

The other party didn't seem to intend to hide anything, so it would be best if he could take the opportunity to get more information from it.

The big guy was silent for a moment, and finally decided to explain to Gordon from the beginning: "The 'little guy' you mentioned is also me, and I and it are actually the same existence. Both are the controllers of this floating city, and they were created for the purpose. It is to serve the great Arcanist Hytras Osht. It's just that after the death of the master, I fell ill..."

This artificially produced fine creature.Life is almost infinite, as long as the control center of the floating city and the secret energy core are well preserved, it will exist forever.The "disease" in everyone's mouth is of course not a physical illness in the usual sense, but a mental illness called split personality.

The artificial intelligence of the floating city was created to serve its master.Although it has nearly infinite vitality, there is also a very critical question: if its owner dies, what should it do?

Whether it is called "big guy" or "little guy", when Hytras was alive.This artificial intelligence is not a creature with independent personality, it just follows the dogma established by its master and serves for its operation of the floating city.But when Hytras died, this artificial intelligence lost its meaning of existence for a while.

After that, it kept struggling and moving forward in the spiritual cage formed by the many dogmas and guidelines set by Hytras during his lifetime, hoping to find its own new meaning of existence.

This is a very painful process, because no one can teach it, and there are no other examples to learn from.But in the end.This artificial intelligence has once again found its own meaning of existence.It's just listed as the primary survival goal, there are two.One is to maintain the existence of this floating city and protect it from being invaded by external forces.Second.It is to find a qualified successor for the floating city.

The first goal is not in doubt, the problem lies in the second goal.Before Hytras died unexpectedly, he did not establish a very detailed and strict inheritance system for the intelligent managers of the floating city.Just tell it yourself if an accident happens.Then let its descendants inherit the Floating Void City, and it will continue to serve it.

But when Hytras died.There are no descendants of the Osht family in the floating city.And it is impossible for this Mr. Artificial Intelligence to leave the mysterious space trapped in the Floating Void City and go to other places to find the mage with the blood of the Osht family.

However, the city cannot live without an owner for a day. In this long-term anxiety and sense of failure that the goal cannot be achieved, this Mr. Artificial Intelligence developed symptoms of schizophrenia and gave birth to two personalities.One is the big man that Gordon encountered now, he is the part of the Floating Void City's artificial intelligence that strictly abides by the original dogma, only thinking about how to protect the Floating Void City, and let it try its best to maintain normal operation.The other one is the little man I met in the witch's hut for the first time. It is paranoid to use all its strength and no matter the cost to find someone who meets the standards and can inherit this floating city.

Of course, this lucky one must not be Gordon, otherwise he would not be greeted by betrayal and traps, but by the artificial intelligence of Floating Void City respectfully sent him to the throne of the city lord.

Because it is a unique fine creature that exists by relying on the energy core of the floating city, after the split of the personality of this Mr. Artificial Intelligence, his body is also divided into two, becoming a unique state of one life and two bodies.Usually, although the two personalities do not interfere with each other and do not belong to each other, when one party enters the core center of the floating city, then the two personalities can share memories.

The radical part of Floating City's artificial intelligence, that is, "little man", its plan to find a new heir for Floating City is more crazy and radical than Gordon imagined.

"The little man wants to resurrect the master." The big man said to Gordon, and then quietly looked at the surprised expression on the other's face.

"Resurrection Hytras?" Gordon thought this was a "genius" idea.Yes, no one is more qualified to inherit this floating city than Hytras Osht himself.But the question is, can the other party do it?

"Have you kept Hytras' remains intact?"

"No. The dead body of the master has been lost in the void storm." The big man shook his head.

"Then have you found the soul of Hytras? If you find it, and you have the cloning technology to regenerate the body, then you can also complete this huge and complicated project. But the longer the time from death, the more difficult it is to resurrect. I Although I don’t know when Hytras passed away, but it must have been quite a while, you—well, I mean the little guy, the success rate of the plan to resurrect the great arcanist is very small.”

"Yes, you are right." The big man nodded.It seems to only nod and shake the head these two simple body language.

"Rather than resurrection, it's more about re-creation." The big man continued, "The little man is going to create another master. To achieve this goal, you are needed, mage. To be precise, it should be an arcanist." .” (To be continued..)