Strasbourg, France, is the seat of the European Parliament.

This is the location of the EU's democratic symbol, ironically, the same place where the EU arms itself.

A former military camp converted into a park on the outskirts of Strasbourg, about a ten-minute drive from the European Parliament Park.

The European Union Special Service Personnel Life Extension Conversion Centre is located here, and people from the EU and Google will do everything they can to persuade soldiers to give up physical cyber ascension.

In a laboratory, Schmidt watched with hope the ongoing consciousness transfer process unfolding before him.

He had a lingering resentment because all the previous attempts to manipulate people's consciousness transfers hadn't relied on Google's own translator.

Everything depends on Blue AI, located in Iceland, which forcibly analyzes, reads, and copies the brain.

Even the actual technology is a black box to Google.

After all, Blue AI is not as simple as outsiders imagine. Many people think that Blue AI is the technological pinnacle of Google's AI, a large-scale AI similar to the one used in Singapore.

However, only Google's core personnel knew that the consciousness of an orca existed within Blue AI.

Orcas' cells and consciousness are more suited than humans to manipulating large wet objects. They can adapt to being moved into wet objects on their own, without needing Google to do any complicated translations.

After several rounds of testing, the old orca named Blue became the Blue AI we know today. Google has also added various software to it to provide creativity, and they hope that Blue can help them narrow the technological gap with Aurora.

In a sense, they succeeded; Blue was indeed powerful and provided significant assistance to Google in many ways.

However, perhaps due to a problem with the underlying logic, Google can use many of the things that Azure, which has become a mechanical life form, outputs, but cannot understand.

The most obvious example is consciousness transfer technology.

This made Schmidt and other Google executives somewhat suspicious; they were still a little afraid of being deceived.

If anything goes wrong with the millions of people involved in the adjustment, they will be nailed to the pillar of shame.

Furthermore, they always harbored some reservations about orcas; they actually preferred dolphins. Before Azure, they had helped a dolphin named Echo successfully transfer its consciousness into a large wet brain.

However, it is likely because dolphins are much smaller than orcas, and dolphins are far less adept at manipulating large wet brains than orcas, and they also lack the technology to transfer humans.

Google executives could only let Echo continue its development while keeping an eye on Azure.

Of course, what they trust most is their own AI.

Their Gemini, after several years of being connected to wet hardware, finally developed something that could be described as having a personality.

This excited Google; finally, they were going to have their own artificial intelligence. Although their Gemini seemed a bit silly, quiet, and even unfriendly compared to Aurora's Jasmine.

However, he remained obedient and enabled Google's AI-powered robots to make significant progress, leading Google to increase its investment.

As the screen in front of him lit up and the machinery on the lab bench began to twitch, Schmidt smiled and asked the research group leader beside him, "This should be fine now, right?"

The research team leader smiled excitedly and said, "Yes, with a consciousness translator entirely developed by Google, we can now say that we have completely cracked the consciousness transfer technology."

Schmidt nodded: "Keep up the good work, there will be a steady stream of people coming over."

After saying that, he left the lab; he needed to negotiate with the various EU member states as soon as possible. They wouldn't need to send people to Iceland anymore, and their personnel readjustment process could be accelerated.

As long as the EU can send them over, Google can turn them into custom-made people.

Europe's population is a bit insufficient, but they can go to Africa to do it. European countries still have a strong influence in Africa, and people there are much easier to fool.

As he left the building, Schmidt saw the sunset in the distance, and he felt that it might be the fate of Aurora Corporation.

The aurora can't always be so smooth. Now that Google has made a breakthrough, it's time for them to win this time.

He and several bodyguards began walking towards the parking lot.

Schmidt looked around at the scenery: leaves under the setting sun, squirrels hopping around, Natural soldiers resting and drinking coffee, and a Coordinator stabbing a Natural soldier to death.

Everything made him feel the beauty of nature, and the future...

Schmidt's expression changed. No, no, what the hell did he just see?!

Before he could even turn around and look again, several bodyguards wearing exoskeleton suits hoisted him onto their shoulders and ran frantically toward the parking lot.

"Quickly! There's a problem! Evacuate!"

"What the hell? It seems like one of our own has betrayed us? We can't trust our own people, what do we do?"

"Get in the car! We need information support. Get in the car and let the AI ​​contact headquarters. Wait, is headquarters also in trouble now? Shall we go to the shelter?"

The soldiers were jolted up and down as they ran, and Schmidt felt like he was about to vomit.

Once in the car, the bodyguard captain gave the order: "Head out of the city first! I told you those robots aren't reliable. Let's go to the shelter we set up before."

Schmidt forced a smile and said, "Give me the phone. I need to contact Gemini and have him send robots to quell the rebellion. There might be a problem with the human forces; it must be Azure that's in trouble! Only robots can save us."

The bodyguard captain, unaware of the specifics, completely ignored him and angrily said, "Get lost! I'm just doing this for money. I'm already doing you a favor by keeping you alive. What 'adaptor robot'? It's just a matter of whether it has human consciousness or not. If an armored man comes out in a minute, how the hell are we going to tell the difference between a robot and an adaptor?"

At this moment, the driver in front exclaimed in panic, "Captain! Something's wrong! The car is out of control! I can't operate it! I don't know where it's going!"

At that moment, the car's loudspeaker announced: "I'm Gemini. I'll take you to the airport; the ground isn't safe. Preliminary assessment suggests that the previous adjuster may have had a backdoor implanted by Azure. All of Europe is currently engulfed in war."

Schmidt asked in horror, "All of them? All the people involved in the adjustments have run into problems?"

"Yes, they just wiped out all the high-ranking French and German officials. We didn't take any precautions beforehand, as the human troops and the regular human troops were stationed together."

I believe that, following the surprise attack, the armed forces across Europe may have been reduced to very few.

"What about consciousness! That's six million people! Six million souls! Six million human consciousnesses! Is that all? Is it possible that the adjusters just betrayed us or something? Is it possible that they defected to the enemy?"

Gemini paused for a few seconds before saying, "Their consciousness has most likely been erased; they were probably controlled by Azure."

"Evidence! I need evidence!"

Schmidt's eyes were bloodshot; he felt as if he was destined to be infamous for eternity.

"My surveillance footage showed a lot of Coordinators killing their own families. There were even soldiers who had just become Coordinators who held parties at home and killed more than thirty of their relatives and friends before joining the Coordinator ranks to massacre civilians."

Schmidt asked, looking dejected, "What's the situation now? We've modified so many weapons, can you control them and win? Don't hold back. Now that we've confirmed they're in trouble, we have to eliminate them."

Especially all the projects designed by Orca, and the data center in Iceland, they all have to be blown up!

"I've lost a lot of information support, and it seems we can't win on the ground right now. That's why I said we need to take off as soon as possible; they don't seem to have any air-to-air weapons. I've destroyed all our air-to-air weapons to ensure we're safe in the air."

The bodyguards in the car remained vigilant; they no longer trusted Gemini much.

However, human soldiers kept appearing around trying to stop the car, but several AI robots would always come to help resist and allow them to pass smoothly.

They could only believe for the time being that Geminis, though they might seem a bit silly, were at least loyal.

As the car approached the airport, Schmidt looked at the distant firelight and whispered, "You said before that after you gained some kind of consciousness and felt you had a personality, you communicated with Aurora's Jasmine?"

"Yes, Lady Jasmine is clearly a more powerful being. I believe that I am the same type of AI as Claude, Bean, and others. But Lady Jasmine is clearly different. After the Coordinators began their attack, I received the signal from Aurora, but I did not reply."

Do I need to reply?

Whether it was psychological or not, Schmidt felt that Gemini's voice became a little more cheerful when talking about Jasmine. They had known about this issue before, but they had never understood what made Jasmine so special.

In fact, judging from the order of appearance, Jasmine was the last AI codename released by Aurora.

Of course, Jasmine is indeed very different. She didn't hold a press conference, nor did she have any applications. When she appeared, Aurora bestowed upon her a very high status, treating her like a robot boss.

Schmidt smiled wryly and said, "Reply to Aurora and ask them to come and help. Hopefully, Lady Jasmine can be the key to changing the course of the battle."

"Okay, I'll contact them now."

After a few more minutes of driving, the bodyguard captain began to question again: "Aren't we going to Agno Airport?"

"You're so stupid. Agno is a military airfield. It's filled with all sorts of fighter planes that have been modified and that I can control."

The dispatchers rushed in immediately, leaving me no choice but to evacuate most of the planes to safety.

We're heading to Strasbourg-Enzheim Airport now. There's a Google Business jet there that I can control; I've already intercepted it.

The bodyguard captain identified the direction and looked towards Agno's direction, indeed seeing flames everywhere. But now, with flames erupting from all sides, he wasn't sure if it was real. And it seemed he was powerless to resist.

The three cars and the group of 11 people successfully boarded the plane.

Gemini directly controlled the plane to take off, and only then did the group feel relieved.

Looking down through the window, everyone saw flames everywhere in the city.

Schmidt asked tremblingly, "Why are they still attacking? It should have been over long ago with the surprise attack."

Gemini paused for a few seconds before replying.

"They are massacring the city."

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like