Industry: Cthulhu

Chapter 94: Gamblers and Failed Transitions

When Fang Yan woke up again, it was seven days later.

Sitting at the dining table, Fang Yan swallowed the food in big mouthfuls.

Although it was just some canned food and nutritional supplements, such a simple meal looked like delicacies from the mountains and the sea in Fang Yan's eyes.

Brown and Rashid looked at Fang Yan with concern. After seven days of sleep, his companions were very concerned about Fang Yan's health.

"Why did you sleep so long?" Brown couldn't help asking.

Fang Yan smiled. He would not tell anyone the secret of his dream, not even his closest comrade.

So, he made up a story and said, "I was overworked before, and I've loved sleeping since I was a child. The more I use my brain, the more I sleep."

This statement seemed incredible to Rashid and Brown. They were all engineers and needed to use their brains, but they had never seen anyone sleep for seven days at a time. This was totally unreasonable.

Fang Yan quickly changed the subject and asked something else, "How's Earth doing? Any news from the Abyss?"

Rashid brought Fang Yan a cup of coffee and, as Fang Yan always did, added four sugar cubes. "Everything is normal on Earth. Li Muyun manages the company responsibly. Besides, it's just production over there. There are no expansion or R&D plans, so there shouldn't be any problems."

"As for the Abyss, according to the agreement, the expert team will send people out of the Abyss every three days. After all, before the optical quantum computing system and quantum entanglement network system are built, there is no way to contact the outside world in the Abyss. If you want to communicate, you have to be more troublesome."

"The person currently in charge of the photon quantum project is Colt. He said your design was very successful."

"First, send out robots to dismantle those starships and build large computers to increase Xiaobei's computing power. Then, the strengthened Xiaobei will be responsible for building a higher-level optical quantum system."

"The progress is still very fast. A large number of robots are working endlessly, causing Xiaobei to seem to enter a state of crazy growth, or evolution."

"As for the results, as long as there are no problems with your design, everything will be clear in thirty days."

Fang Yan nodded. It could be heard from his words that Rashid still could not fully trust artificial intelligence, let alone the ultimate version of artificial intelligence, digital life.

Fang Yan understood their emotions very well. The design he left behind before leaving the abyss, in simple terms, was to truly push digital life to the forefront.

The powerful optical quantum computing and quantum entanglement communication system were tasks that Fang Yan entrusted to Xiao Bei rather than the expert group.

After all, when faced with an unfamiliar knowledge system, even the smartest human brain lags far behind artificial intelligence in learning speed.

In terms of overall planning, construction coordination and other aspects, Xiaobei's abilities surpass those of humans countless times and are completely incomparable.

Therefore, the task of the expert group is actually to help improve Xiaobei's computing power. Once the computing power reaches the critical point, Xiaobei will naturally evolve into a stronger state, and then she will overall plan and build the optical quantum system.

Fang Yan has always used robots to build robots.

"How is Marbury doing?" Fang Yan asked again.

Rashid's expression grew more serious, and he frowned as he said, "He's also following the plan. He led a group of people, plus some robots, to the core area of the galaxy to conduct a comprehensive survey of the location where the large number of robots and warships finally went out of control."

"So far, only one rather puzzling phenomenon has been discovered."

Fang Yan was slightly startled and looked concerned.

Rashid continued, "Marbury led his team to the core of that area and, after measurement, discovered very strong spatial distortion and disturbances."

"We all know that in nature, spatial distortion and disturbance don't occur simultaneously. This phenomenon can only occur due to a failed jump." "In other words, when an object fails during the jump, the wormhole between the two points suddenly collapses, leaving behind both spatial disturbance and distortion."

"No matter how much time passes, the traces will still exist, so we can judge the scale of the jump based on the traces of distortion and disturbance."

"Small starships only need to open a very small wormhole to cross the space node, while large starships need the opposite."

"The measurement results show that the distortion and disturbance traces in the core region are of an astonishing scale. It seems that someone was there and used jump technology to transport a star."

A star! ?

Fang Yan was surprised. Both jump technology and wormhole technology were man-made powers.

Using human-made power to transport a star, and failing!?
This is definitely an amazing discovery. After all, the size of the star is not like the earth, but is close to that of the sun.

Fang Yan's brain was working rapidly. The core area had been attacked by space weapons during the Galactic Empire War and was completely closed.

In other words, the failed large-scale jump operation took place in ancient times.

If it happened during the Galactic Empire, the imperial history would definitely record such a major event, and the destruction faction led by Rashid would also know the historical records.

But Rashid and the others were obviously unaware of this, so they were surprised by this discovery.

Based on all the evidence, the jump failure should have occurred after the destruction of the Galactic Empire. After the destruction of the empire, only one kind of life form remained in the core area, the intelligent life that destroyed everything.

The conclusion was so shocking that Fang Yan's fingers couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"It might be the gambling-type artificial intelligence that destroys the Galactic Empire." Fang Yan said to Rashid and Brown.

They were not too surprised to hear Fang Yan's conclusion, because they had almost guessed the result before Fang Yan woke up.

Fang Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly. "It's really shocking to hear such terrible news right after waking up."

"The development direction of artificial intelligence, or intelligent life, is determined by both the underlying logic and the person cultivating it. Take Xiaobei, for example. I wrote her underlying code myself, and her development direction is to emulate Isabella: gentleness, obedience, protection, and a thirst for knowledge."

"It seems the Galactic Empire made a huge mistake. They created digital life, but didn't treat it like a child, letting it learn and grow little by little. In the end, they created a monster that destroyed everything."

Fang Yan sighed, but who could he blame? After all, not everyone had the knowledge and experience left by a powerful civilization like Fang Yan from the beginning.

"So what do we do now?" Rashid asked, his affection clearly strained.

"To Andromeda."

Fang Yan said decisively: "If I were that gambling-type intelligent life form, I would definitely choose Andromeda, escape there, and then regroup."

Brown frowned. "But the jump failed. We don't know where the AI was left. It might even have been ripped apart by the distortion of space."

Fang Yan shook his head. "You've all seen Xiaobei's abilities, and you should know that uncontrolled artificial intelligence is the most terrifying existence in the universe, bar none."

"What's more, the personality that was cultivated by that artificial intelligence is that of a gambler."

(End of this chapter)