I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

Within the light curtain, Gray's perspective clearly paused.

Clearly, the topic between the two of them was still about Gray's favorite food, snacks and bagpipes... This is part of caring for the patient.

She had never expected that Amys would take the initiative to change the subject to her own death, which was clearly a topic that the medical staff had been actively avoiding.

I never imagined that this little girl, who was only a little over ten years old, had such a clear and calm understanding of her own death.

"No, no..."

Gray shook her head, subconsciously about to deny it.

But then, she saw the blonde girl on the bed smiling slightly.

"Don't hide it from me, Sister Gray."

"I actually know everything. I know exactly what a mess my body is in."

She raised her frail arm and stared at the tubes connected to various life-support devices. "Right now, I'm only one step away from death."

"It's just that you, Gray Sister... have been desperately trying to hold me back, preventing me from being completely dragged into hell by the God of Death."

The little girl's calm expression made Gray silent again.

After a long while, she finally spoke softly and hoarsely:

"sorry."

"No, you don't have to apologize, Sister Grey."

Amys shook her head slightly: "I know that all of this is not your original wish."

She turned slightly and looked at the corner of the ward and the blue sky outside the small window.

"It's just me, I'm still a little unwilling..."

"And, I'm worried."

"Are you worried?"

"Ah."

The thin little girl nodded slightly. "Sister Gray, you told me before that Luster... also survived the fire in Canaan."

"And unlike me, he hasn't suffered any serious damage to his body, nor has he suffered from the 'sequelae of space-time collapse'—it's just because you were worried he wouldn't be able to accept it, so Sister Gray, you temporarily concealed the matter of Canaan and me from him, right?"

"Ah."

"That's why I'm a little worried."

"I'm worried about him."

The blonde girl looked at the blue sky outside the window, her voice a little hoarse which was not in line with her age. This was because the disease had affected Amy's vocal organs.

"I know. Even though he usually likes to act cool and pretentiously, pretending to have everything under control."

"But in reality, that was just a disguise he put on to protect himself."

"The real Rast is actually a very sensitive and fragile guy who is afraid of cold and loneliness."

"I know this better than anyone else."

On the hospital bed, the blonde girl seemed to smile.

"He's lost his hometown, and the company of everyone he knew... If he knew the truth, I'm really worried he'd completely lose control and go down a path from which there's no return."

"Even...the abyss of self-destruction."

"I'm unwilling and worried about leaving him alone, adrift in this strange world."

Looking at the reluctance and unwillingness that slowly emanated from the blonde girl's sky-blue eyes, the strong feeling that was almost condensed into substance.

Gray's eyes were slightly startled.

Until this moment, she finally knew——

Where did the faith that supported this fragile girl, who was only a little over ten years old, to survive the fire in Canaan, endure the pain of illness and actively cooperate with treatment come from?

"Sister Gray, can you please grant me one last request?"

Suddenly, the blonde girl on the hospital bed spoke again.

"of course can."

Gray nodded, without even asking what the other party's request was.

Whether it was out of a sense of indebtedness to Amys or because she had witnessed this scene with her own eyes... she couldn't open her mouth to refuse any request from the girl in front of her.

"Then can you let me try out the latest artificial intelligence technology?"

Amy's voice sounded softly again.

"I heard about it by accident from the nurses in the medical team."

"It's said that current AI technology can build an ultra-high-precision bionic AI model by collecting a large amount of a person's voice, conversations, interactions, and biographical information...using massive amounts of big data."

"This kind of personality model, whether it's dialogue, expression, movements... even reactions to different questions, can be made to be exactly like the original real person. Even acquaintances can't tell them apart, right?"

"Ah."

Gray nodded again.

But then, she suddenly understood the real intention of the girl in front of her.

"You mean..." She looked at the girl on the hospital bed in disbelief.

"Yes."

Amys nodded gently: "I know I can't hold on for much longer."

"But I'm really worried about him... I know he's lost his family and the company of everyone he knew. In this strange world, he's bound to go astray."

"so."

Amy's eyes seemed to be twinkling with stars: "Let another me replace myself——"

"Go and stay by his side."

……

In the library of the Watchtower, Dean Yin subconsciously glanced at Last under him with some worry.

Although it knew nothing about Last's past, after listening to Gray's description at this moment, it had a little understanding of Canaan and the whole picture of the little blonde girl named Amys.

The border town named Canaan, which mysteriously disappeared in the "Fran explosion" more than two hundred years before the current time point in the world, is a kind of safe haven and spiritual harbor for Last.

However, at this moment, Gray fully explained the truth——

Canaan has been destroyed, so the safe haven in Rast's heart is most likely a fabricated fantasy.

Even the little girl named Amys might be fake.

According to the logical development of the story on the light screen, the little blonde girl named Amys might have died painfully from the aftereffects of "space-time collapse" long ago.

What was left in the end was just a bionic AI simulated using an unparalleled large database, with the appearance, temperament, and personality of Amys.

The moment he heard the truth, Dean Yin was really worried that Last would collapse because he could not bear the truth.

However, immediately afterwards, Dean Yin was somewhat surprised to find that—

Beside it, there was no trace of hesitation in Rast's dark eyes.

"Artificial intelligence simulated through big data might be able to deceive most acquaintances... but it absolutely cannot deceive those closest to you."

As if he had guessed what Dean Yin was thinking, Last spoke softly, yet seemed to assert:

"The Xiao Ai I know is not an artificial intelligence."

……

It seemed to be in response to Last's words.

Within the light curtain, the water-like ripples spread out again.

Gray's voice also slowly sounded again along with the fluctuations of the light curtain.

"I agreed to her request."

"After that, I watched helplessly as Amis forcibly revived her terminally ill body and began to attempt to create her own bionic personality."

"At the time, artificial intelligence technology was still in its infancy, with numerous flaws and imperfections... While the replicated bionic intelligence could be identical in appearance, it couldn't completely replicate the personality."

"So, in order to make that blank AI real enough, to replace her, to accompany you, Brother Rust."

"Amis, holding on to her almost completely decayed and broken body, continued to converse with the blank bionic personality, repeatedly correcting it until the reflection gradually became real, until it was indistinguishable from her own self."

"She believes that only this way can she create a replacement for herself who can stay by your side, Brother Rust, and prevent you from going astray and falling into the abyss."

"Seeing her trying so hard to communicate with the blank intelligence, even as a bystander, my heart was torn as a knife."

Gray's voice paused slightly.

"So, I once again looked back at my memories of when I first made a wish and observed the future infinitely."

"Then, I found a new way out... not to save civilization, but to redeem the little girl named Amis."

"That is the reason why the Third Machinery Research Institute was established—"

"Artificial Angel Project"

Chapter 211: That Prosperous Future Will No Longer Have My Figure (Two-in-One)

The image displayed on the light screen was still the pure white and bright intensive care unit.

However, ever since the conversation between Grey and Amys that day, a rather special instrument has appeared among the many medical devices in the ward.

This is a large optical quantum computer equipped with an external voice input interface... It can use virtual calculations based on massive language samples to simulate a similar personality in the optical quantum computer based on big data.

That is the reproduction of the human "soul" by means of artificial intelligence——

If the soul stored in the human brain is called "natural fluctuating light", then the virtual soul created by technological means is the so-called "artificial fluctuating light".

However, the virtual personality born in the optical quantum computer, which is like a soul... also needs to be filled with information and big data to make it complete and lifelike.

Without the completion of massive amounts of data, artificial fluctuating lights without any memories or data would be as empty as the soul of a newborn baby.

But Amis was not a visitor from the Sixth Epoch. She had never left any traces in this world, and naturally, there was no data at all... Therefore, the artificial Fluctlight that simulated Amis' soul was initially as empty as a blank sheet of paper, with no sense of reality at all.

Only through her constant dialogue with it, constantly leaving her own language samples and dialogue data, and correcting and adjusting it step by step, can the artificial flute become gradually perfect.

On the originally blank white paper, it was gradually stained with her color, the color called Amys.

……

Within the light curtain, the flow of time continued to accelerate as if the fast-forward button had been pressed.

Both "pseudo-personality" and "artificial fluct light" were cutting-edge technologies in the Sixth Epoch at the time, still in the experimental stage...with numerous flaws and shortcomings.

No one knows how much time it would take, and how much big data and language samples would be needed to perfect a completely blank "artificial fluctuating light" to the point where it is lifelike and comparable to a real person's soul.

Perhaps one day it could be completed, but everyone knew that the time left for the girl named Amis would be counted in weeks, or even days.

That's why, at the very beginning.

Both Grey and the medical team members simply regarded it as a small wish of Amys and the spiritual sustenance she was looking for.

It is also the last bit of "hospice care" provided for this little girl who is only in her early teens but is much stronger than most adults and always faces a terminal illness with a smile.

The so-called "hospice care" is to provide the highest possible quality of life for terminally ill patients who are destined to be incurable and are heading towards death... This includes using medication to relieve physical pain and spiritual comfort, and that's all.

They believed that fulfilling Amy's wish would bring her spiritual comfort, so they played this last game with the little girl.

However, no one could have imagined that the thin little girl's seemingly unintentional words, spoken on a whim, were actually extremely serious.

After that, in addition to cooperating with the medical team's treatment with a more positive attitude, Amis devoted almost all of her waking time and energy to the cold optical quantum computer, constantly talking to it.

Some of what she described was very ordinary, just some daily details about the small town of Canaan - for example, the white windmill by the lake outside the town would stop turning every time it rained, and for example, on the third Sunday of June every year, traveling merchants from other places would come to Canaan, and Amis would then use the cloth she had saved to exchange for various cooking seasonings from the merchants.

Some of the content is quite private, such as when Amys was lost in the cave, it was Rast who led the adults to find her in the heavy rain.

For example, the dishes and snacks that Rast likes to eat, and the flavor of his preferred porridge for breakfast...

These were the most secret things in Amy's heart, precious memories that she regarded as treasures and was unwilling to share with anyone else.

But at this moment, everything is told in great detail, bit by bit.

Day and night.