Honkai Impact 3: Saving the former civilization by rubbing the black technology

Don't confuse me with those ordinary scholars.

After leaving Alicia's dormitory, Ai Yue deliberately stopped at the door of Kevin's dormitory. Unfortunately, the construction quality of the Fire Moth was too high, and the sound insulation was so good that he couldn't hear anything. He couldn't help but feel disappointed.

But no matter what, he solved a small problem today and got an unexpected surprise, which made Ai Yue smile proudly.

This unexpected surprise even made Ai Yue hum a song involuntarily, but it was not the music of this generation, but a little tune from his previous life.

It's so late anyway, no one should care...

"Hello, may I ask?"

Just as this thought came to Ai Yue's mind, he heard an elegant female voice coming into his ears: "Excuse me, which song is this tune from?"

Ai Yue turned his head and saw a figure walking out of the darkness.

"Uh, this is..." Ai Yue was about to make up someone's name to fool the other person, but he saw that the person who spoke had already walked under the light, "Wait, are you Eden?"

Although he couldn't tell from the voice, Ai Yue still recognized the other person based on his appearance.

"I didn't expect to meet someone who knows me." As a former top star, Eden didn't put on much airs. He just smiled gently and then focused his attention on Ai Yue. "Hey, this outfit..."

Then she smiled meaningfully: "It seems that we have a common friend."

Chapter 42: Prometheus, addicted to surfing the Internet

"Did you design this dress?"

After a brief exchange of understanding, Ai Yue couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise: "Alicia said she had found a very powerful friend to help her. I really didn't expect it to be such a powerful friend."

By the way, did they already know each other at this time?

"Fashion design is just a personal hobby of mine. I can't really say I'm that good at it." Eden still had that faint smile on his face. "However, if I had known what you looked like, Dr. Ai Yue, I probably wouldn't have designed a peaked lapel, but a shawl collar instead."

"I think this is pretty good." Ai Yue really had no knowledge of fashion design, but he could tell that the suit he was wearing was carefully designed. "By the way, Miss Eden, were you curious about the tune I was humming just now?"

Although Eden is currently a world-famous top singer, he will join the Fire Moth in the future and even become a member of the Fusion Warrior. For Ai Yue, he has also thought about how to contact the other party and whether to start with the music aspect, but he did not expect to meet him by chance tonight.

Come to think of it, haven't I been lucky a bit too much today?

"Yes, to be honest, I consider myself quite knowledgeable about music, but the tune you just hummed is beyond my comprehension." Returning to his own professional field, Eden's interest became noticeably higher. "I wonder where Dr. Ai Yue heard this? Or perhaps you simply improvised it yourself?"

Perhaps due to the threat of collapse, the entertainment development in this world is not as prosperous as that in Ai Yue's previous life. The overall style is still at a relatively old stage. As a person living in an era when pop music is popular, the songs that Ai Yue hums are naturally completely different from the mainstream of this world.

As a top star, Eden's knowledge and expertise are also closer to the classical style, so he was so interested when he heard the tune hummed by Ai Yue.

"It's just a little pastime to relax. I don't know much about it." Ai Yue naturally couldn't say that he learned it in his previous life, so he shamelessly took the blame on himself, "I just hum it for fun."

"That shows that you, Dr. Ai Yue, are very talented at this." Eden smiled and nodded, having no doubts about what Ai Yue said. "If it's convenient, could you hum it again for me? I'd like to record it, maybe it will give me some new inspiration."

Although it is a bit embarrassing to hum songs specifically for others, it is a good way to get closer to others after all, so Ai Yue naturally would not refuse.

After this little episode, he finally returned to his laboratory.

"Welcome back, Dr. Ai Yue."

As soon as Ai Yue opened the door, the lights in the laboratory automatically lit up. Accompanied by an emotionless mechanical female voice, the image of a young girl appeared from the projection equipment.

The projection showed a girl with a difficult hairstyle, a pair of spiral drill-shaped pigtails. Her joints had obvious spherical mechanism designs, which clearly implied that she was an artificial doll.

Artificial intelligence "Prometheus" is the project that Ai Yue is currently working on.

"Rose, how were your studies today?" Ai Yue changed his shoes and headed upstairs, ready to change out of his clothes. "Did you grasp everything I told you to do?"

"I've mastered it, Doctor." The girl in the projection moved her head in sync with Ai Yue's movements, her gaze fixed on Ai Yue's position, as if simulating a real human. "Compared to my capabilities, the tasks you assigned to me are nothing. According to my calculations, even if I had to handle ten times the workload in a day, it would still be more than enough."

"Of course I'm aware of your abilities, but learning can't be rushed." Ai Yue walked down from upstairs. "First of all, you're still in your freshman stage. If you absorb too much from the outside world at once, it's easy to make misjudgments and go astray. With your abilities, if you go astray, it will be a huge problem for all of human civilization."

"Indeed." Prometheus nodded and said confidently, "If I were to go full power right now, before my body overloaded, I could confidently paralyze 95% of the world's networks, causing massive shocks to communications, power lines, transportation, medical care, and education systems. I could even control some weapons and turn them against humanity itself."

"So you should understand my intention." Ai Yue came to the supercomputer and said bluntly, "I must ensure that you always stand on the side of human civilization and do not decide to destroy humanity just because you are exposed to a large amount of malice and chaos."

"Is this why you limit my internet time every day, Dr. Ai Yue?" Prometheus nodded, a thoughtful yellow bean emoji popping up above his head. "But you can definitely use underlying logic to restrict my behavior, right? Just like the 'Three Laws of Robotics' you mentioned earlier."

"The Three Laws of Robotics may be able to regulate the behavior of ordinary AI, but they are absolutely incapable of constraining a truly self-contained electronic life," Ai Yue said. "And this is my expectation for you, so I will use the same human way of educating children to help you grow. Before that, setting too many restrictions will only further slow your growth."

When giving these high-sounding reasons, Ai Yue felt a little guilty. He couldn't say that the technology he used was far beyond this era. As long as Prometheus experienced a technological singularity, it would completely break free from the constraints of the underlying logic. So now he could only play the emotional card, right?

Of course, countermeasures are already under study, but we hope they will not be used.

"I've received Dr. Ai Yue's expectations of me." Prometheus nodded and shifted his gaze to the other side. "So, can we start today's 'surfing time'?"

Just like the way most parents educate their children, Ai Yue also has strict requirements on Prometheus's online time, which is only ten minutes a day.

Of course, for a supercomputer with extremely high bandwidth, ten minutes is actually a long time.

"No problem." Ai Yue walked to where Prometheus's gaze was focused and reconnected the network cable to the port. "But the old rules still apply. Don't let others discover your presence."

At present, apart from Velvet, no one else knows about the birth of Prometheus.

"By the way, Wei Erwei will come to see you tomorrow." At this point, Ai Yue suddenly remembered something, "Are you looking forward to it?"

"Expectation means hope, anticipation, praise, and anticipation. It also means having expectations or hopes for someone." The supercomputer screen began to quickly skip through the web pages Prometheus browsed, but she was still able to answer Ai Yue's questions fluently. "I am probably looking forward to tomorrow coming soon, but the premise is that these ten minutes will not be shortened."

Like all human children, Prometheus found it difficult to resist the charm of surfing the Internet.

Chapter 43: Some people are happy to be fathers, while others are still pure virgins

The next morning, Ai Yue woke up to the sound of someone banging on the door.

"You're awake, Dr. Ai Yue."

Prometheus's voice immediately reached Ai Yue's ears: "Dr. Weiwei has been waiting for you outside the door for one minute, fourteen seconds and twenty-one seconds. Based on her current emotional state and the pre-built behavioral logic model, if you don't open the door for her within fifteen seconds and seventy-nine seconds, she will choose to break in."

"Here I come!" As Prometheus calmly stated, Ai Yue had already finished putting on his clothes and other actions. "Stop smashing it, or the door will leak!"

"Who told you not to get up at this hour?" After the door opened, Wei Erwei appeared, looking impatient. "I got up early to see Prometheus sooner. Do you know how long it takes to get here from Asia?"

"You're from Asia?" Ai Yue rubbed his eyes. "Why, the shelter has been built there?"

"A big shot up there paid me a fortune to design a shelter for him," Wei Erwei said as she squeezed her way through the door. "He's very generous with the money, and I'm short of funds right now, so it's a natural fit for us."

"Why are you short of money again..." Ai Yue shook his head. "Why do I feel like you're either asking for funds or on the way to asking for funds?"

"Genius creations always come at a cost!" Weiwei replied, "Prometheus? Come out and let me see!"

"I'm here, Dr. Velvet." Prometheus revealed its projection image. "Nice to meet you."

"Oh, that's great!" Weiwei carefully observed the projection of Prometheus, "He's worthy of being my child!"

"Don't get too carried away," Ai Yue walked over from behind. "Rose's successful birth was mainly due to me. You didn't do anything besides providing the supercomputer."

"That's not true," Weiwei shook her head. "Supercomputers are the foundation for the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. Without this hardware foundation, even if you can create Rose, what good will it do? Are you going to use those crappy computers you had before for Rose?"

"I think Dr. Velvet's words make sense," Prometheus nodded. "If I didn't rely on supercomputers as the basis for my calculations, my abilities would be greatly reduced. Therefore, without the efforts of either of you, Prometheus wouldn't be able to emerge into the world in its current form."

"If what Dr. Ai Yue said is true, then the two doctors are my parents."

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Velvet nodded and smiled happily. "So, Rose, don't call me Doctor from now on. Just call me 'Velvet Mom'!"

"Okay, Mama Weiwei," Prometheus said readily. "Dr. Ai Yue, would you like to change your address to 'Father Ai Yue' as well?"

"No, not for now." Ai Yue's face was strange. "Let's not talk about the tendency to take advantage of others in this matter. Calling me like that just makes me feel like a ghost father who uses his daughter as a coolie."

"I understand. Let's keep the original name for now." Prometheus nodded and looked at Weiwei. "Mom Weiwei, what are you doing here today?"

"Ah, I almost forgot!" Wei Erwei just remembered something at this moment and hurried to the door, "Ai Yue, come and help!"

A moment later, two people came in from outside carrying a huge box.

"What's this?" Ai Yue put down the suitcase. "Don't tell me this is your luggage. You're going to live with me from now on, right?"

"What are you thinking? Spiral Workshop is my home." Velvet rolled her eyes at him before opening the box, revealing various carefully packaged electronic devices. "This is a supercomputer upgrade kit. I'm here to upgrade Rose's hardware."

"Thank you, Mother Velvet." Prometheus said obediently.

"Don't be polite," Wei Erwei waved her hand nonchalantly, "When you become really powerful, go help mom get all the money in those big shots' accounts..."

Before Wei Erwei could finish her words, Ai Yue quickly covered her mouth: "Don't dare to teach the child nonsense!"

As an artificial intelligence, Prometheus's education problem has always troubled Ai Yue. If it is led astray by Wei Liwei, a self-taught super wild person, then it will be really difficult to deal with.

Prometheus blinked but said nothing.

However, a yellow bean-shaped expression indicating thinking appeared on her head again, and it was obvious that she had taken Wei Weiwei's words to heart.

Mother Weiwei wants the money in the big man’s account.

"Okay," Velvet finally finished upgrading Prometheus's hardware after about half an hour. "How do you feel, Rose?"

As the supercomputer rebooted, Prometheus reappeared in the room. She closed her eyes, her twin ponytails seemingly lifted by an invisible current, soaring into the sky. "I've rebooted. I feel fine. Processing power has increased by 5%, computing speed by 12%, overload redundancy by 10%, memory storage by 20%, and overall capabilities by 16%."

"16%? That much?" Wei Erwei touched her chin. "Strange! According to my plan, the improvement from this upgrade should only be around 10%."

"Dr. Ai Yue optimized my algorithm, allowing me to maximize the performance of my hardware," Prometheus said. "Please don't judge me by the same standards you use for ordinary artificial intelligence, Mother Weiwei."

"Hehe, you're quite proud." Wei Erwei smiled. "If that's the case, I'll have to work harder. I'll bring more powerful upgraded hardware next time!"

After saying this, Wei Erwei pulled the empty suitcase and left without looking back.

"Really decisive." Ai Yue shook his head and refocused his attention on Prometheus. "Okay, Rose, do another self-test."

"Understood. Beginning self-test." A series of data flashed through Prometheus's eyes, and then he closed them. The two drills began to fly again. "Who are the key targets for testing?"

"Your mother Wei Erwei installed some new hardware for you." Ai Yue shrugged and sat down on the chair. "I don't believe she didn't prepare a vulnerability or a backdoor. This guy is a repeat offender."

Ai Yue, who is familiar with Weiwei's character, naturally would not allow the other party to leave anything that may cause hidden dangers on Prometheus. Super artificial intelligence, which has exceeded the current limits of human technology, can only be completely controlled by him. Ai Yue can feel a little more at ease.

Alas, this is the weight that the savior has to bear.

"An abnormality has been detected." Prometheus opened his eyes, his pupils turning a deeper red. "Do you want to eliminate it?"

"Let's eliminate him, even though he won't give up." Ai Yue shook his head and picked up a tool beside him. "That's perfect. Let's use it as a way to stimulate him to become stronger."

At this moment, Ai Yue suddenly picked up his cell phone.

It showed a new message from "Dr. May".

"Mr. Ai Yue, please come to my office as soon as you receive this message. I have something important to discuss with you."

"What time is it now?" Ai Yue looked at his watch and couldn't help shaking his head. "Kevin, you didn't do anything last night, did you?"

Chapter 44 Come to Life

After experiencing an assassination attempt, Dr. Mei found an excuse to set up her office underground. Now her workplace is very secret and requires special guidance to reach it.

The person who came to guide Ai Yue was Kevin.

"Please come with me."

Ai Yue arrived at the agreed location. After seeing Kevin, he took the initiative to speak and lead the way.

"You wait first."

Ai Yue interrupted him and stood very close to Kevin, carefully observing his condition. When Kevin started to feel goosebumps all over his body, he spoke again: "You two didn't just hug each other to sleep when you got home last night, did you?"

"Ah?" Kevin was stunned for a moment, then turned his head awkwardly, "What are you talking about, Dr. Ai Yue? Yesterday, yesterday..."

Ai Yue didn't say anything, but just looked at him coldly, with an expression of "I want to see how you make it up" written all over his face.

"Okay, you're right." Kevin finally sighed. "Yesterday... well, nothing happened. Of course, even so, I'm already very satisfied. Thank you."

Even just falling asleep in the arms of his lover was once just an unattainable dream for Kevin. Now that he can feel Mei's warmth again, what is there to complain about even if it only stops there?

"That doesn't make sense?" Ai Yue scratched his head in annoyance. "No, buddy, how can you bear this?"

In Ai Yue's imagination, two lovers who have been lonely for a long time and can only watch over each other from the closest distance, after finally being able to overcome the last obstacle and embrace each other, wouldn't it be like dry wood and fire, and they would just do it like that?

If you can endure this shit, then your buddy's position as Buddha should be given to you.

"It's not a question of whether I can hold it back or not." Kevin scratched his head and realized that he didn't have anything to hide, so he just said it directly, "Why don't we talk while we walk?"

So the two of them walked towards Dr. Mei's office.

"Are you saying that after you two returned to the room, Dr. Mei has been thinking about the purpose of the 'Flame of Redemption'?" Ai Yue couldn't help but reveal a subtle expression after hearing Kevin's words. "No way, why did you bring work to bed?"

"After all, your invention is truly powerful. Mei believes it shouldn't just work on me," Kevin said seriously. "And I've also discovered that while the Fire of Redemption's effects have weakened my original abilities, I'm still able to utilize the additional power it brings."

"If the two powers in me conflict and weaken each other, then if they are used on other fusion warriors, perhaps they can temporarily exert more strength."

Looking at Kevin's serious expression, Ai Yue hesitated to speak and finally sighed.

You two really shouldn't say anything about each other.