There was a half-collapsed turret somewhere in Snowrun City. The side of the turret seemed to have been accidentally hit by a stray bullet from the gryphon's magic hammer. The masonry structure, which had been in disrepair and was covered with vines and moss, shattered a few pieces and then a large area collapsed in a chain reaction. , directly turned into a huge semicircular gap, and the spiral staircase leading to the top of the tower naturally collapsed. However, due to some strange physical balance, this turret that looked like it had been chewed away still stood, and the night wind passed through the cracks and made a sharp and shrill sound like a whistle.
If someone could pass through the scattered rubble at this time, climb the broken stairs, and reach the top of the crumbling turret tower, they would find a pair of dim and flickering light spots under a pile of ruined tapestries.
"Deuterium fuel remaining, 137." Between the rags, a piece of white artificial skin stained with mud and a ball-and-socket joint can be vaguely seen. The scattered golden hair is swaying wildly in the night wind. An electronic signal is That complex brain of fiber optics, semiconductors and biomass echoes.
Amber, number six in the colonial army, is the only mechanized unit of cyborg organisms. Except for part of the brain, all organs and limbs are artificially manufactured products with the ultimate purpose of serving war. From the beginning of its design, In order to achieve high-speed and efficient breakthroughs, compared with the excellent balance of speed, firepower and defense, its performance in sustained combat is relatively inferior. After all, her body was originally developed for high-efficiency output in a short period of time, regardless of Whether it was the high acceleration of air combat or the use of high-thermal energy weapons, both were energy-consuming. After an afternoon of fierce air combat, her nuclear fusion fuel had dropped to one-tenth of the red line. The system's backup options allowed her to choose Hiding in the ruins of an inaccessible tower, he shut down most of the systems except the life support system and passive perception system to save energy and waited for subsequent orders.
However, deep within those layers of metal, there is still an organ that is beyond the control of the program and cannot be shut down. It is quietly functioning. The relic inherited from when she was still a human is soaked in buffered biological gel and life-sustaining fluid. brain tissue. When the auxiliary computer attached to the organic brain was also shut down, the thinking auxiliary program that had been acting on the binary system of the nerve center of Amber's organism also went offline. At that moment, Amber lost all her mechanized attributes, leaving her alone. No, not even one person was complete. She was just a piece of incomplete brain tissue and a soul. She had no senses and no hands and feet, suspended in a completely empty space. In the empty void, only some fragments of past memories flickered occasionally.
"Who am I? Ke Yaqi Yifei Lier Amber" Countless thoughts and unanswered questions arise, extinguish, arise again, and extinguish again. They cannot be called thinking, and even dreams are not meaningless. Thought fragments, but this is all her will, she just waits and waits
""A string of flashes, not light, not sound, not heat, not something that requires the senses to be perceived, but she noticed that in the emptiness of all things, that "" was too obvious and made her very concerned, but it was a pity that she could not understand it. "What what what what what"
"Switching bioelectrical signal coding." Suddenly, she understood, but it was just an understanding. Now her condition was worse than being drunk and confused. Thinking about such a complex behavior was beyond the function of her damaged brain. "Signal AC source temporary number 23952 Unknown access port found regular signals, which can be decoded by bioelectrical encoding. Error during recheck, discontinuous fragments, signal source status is incomplete. Turn on the connection repair to detect the access port location and the connection is completed, start detection. Send handshake signal"
A series of codes blew through Amber's nihilistic thinking fragments like a storm. The incomplete brain without the help of auxiliary computers was simply unable to understand these 1100 codes.
"Detection completed, access point electronic code cannot be determined, sleep execution code and failsafe program are not detected, presumed to be offline and vacant hardware, handshake protocol does not respond, presumed to be a faulty system, try to perform software deletion." Disorderly chaos In the void, an invisible, terrifying, and everything-destroying force pressed toward Amber, as if it wanted to dismember, tear, and crush her existence. "Yeah!" Amber screamed, and part of her sleeping memory fragments were activated. Yes, she had experienced this terrible feeling before, the feeling of having her memory and soul wiped out: "No, no! "The ups and downs of his thoughts turned into the fluctuations of his soul, stirring up turbulent waves to resist the power of destruction and annihilation.
"Error, error! Targeted reply code of bioelectrical signal was found. Mental stance barrier was detected. Presumed to be the existence of consciousness, terminated all deletion procedures, and is contacting the main program." The destructive power quickly retreated and disappeared.
After a long time, that "feeling" came back, but it no longer carried the power of destruction and obliteration. Instead, it was as gentle as down, gently touching the barrier of Anbei's consciousness, as if she was being tickled.Feeling more comfortable: "rsr?" A human spoken code was gently pushed into Amber's consciousness, hoping for her to understand. However, Amber, who could no longer think, did not understand the meaning of the language at all, and just instinctively wanted to respond to it. He hummed and hummed in an unknown response, imitating the source of the data, like a toddler learning to talk.
The voice asked again, and Amber turned back.
"I'll take that as an answer. But you should have said, yes! Repeat, yes!" That thing sent a specific 1, which was a point, an existence, a single-bit signal, a byte , an arc, a pulse, half of a zero and a one. The first meaningful number in binary that represents "is" existence, existence, and determination. This model is strong and repetitive, making Amber yearn for and suffer, and she instinctively responds "1" accordingly.
¡°It looks like you¡¯ve learned it, rsr?¡±
"Yes, yes, yes, yes" Amber happily and repeatedly conveyed the 1, like a child playing with a new toy.
That existence stretched out countless filaments to Amber's side, lightly touching the void, lighting up star-like light points, and extinguishing each light point. Amber felt the scattered data fragments, and something akin to joy made her feel excited.
"The system sub-inspection is completed and all hardware is in normal operation. Hello, I give you the temporary number 05. I am the number 03. I am the observer, recorder, controller and manager of the 04, 05 and 08 districts. I feel satisfied and happy to contact you in line with the program correction. I am very happy to contact you. Temporary number 05 hopes to be able to contact you in the 08 area. Now, I have to leave, 02 will be connected soon, goodbye."
That thing was receding, and Amber felt a negative feeling. It was the primitive rejection psychology, the source code that created pain and loneliness. She can only keep sending 1 until it disappears completely.
She curled up again and kept releasing her tears. She learned to cry.
"Ah, sister. Is the location check in Region 08 over? I want to transfer the activation key."
"02, confirmed, a suspected intelligent agent program has been detected in this area, and the safety factor and subsequent impact cannot be determined."
"It should be 06, it's okay. Within the deviation value, the remaining biological tissue of the data calculation brain should cause some noise and aftermath on the data line. Just treat it as redundant data."
"Rejected, subjective echoes and imitation capabilities have been detected and should not be regarded as clutter."
"Ahem? She's still conscious? But her remaining brain tissue shouldn't be enough to support her thinking circuit."
"The level of thinking is low, but consciousness and self cannot be judged. I will update the lower limit threshold of human brain wetware supporting thinking ability in my database. In addition, if her unaided thinking ability is confirmed, her identity positioning needs to be Recalibrated by Parliament.¡±
"02 Agree"
"01 Agree" Another voice also joined in at the speed of light.
? Receive external stimulus activation command, source action command key. The body is fully functional.
The current travels at the speed of light in the superconducting fiber, and turns into regular pulses carrying information in the complex semiconductor components and reaches the bottom of the ganglion.
Amber opened the dust cover to protect the camera in the cold wind.
"The date is being verified, the source of the remote command is verified, and the two-way confirmation key is passed." The data support from the auxiliary computer makes up for the lack of computing power of the damaged hypothalamus, and the onboard cloud disk that can be connected to the Internet also gives it memory. This allowed Amber to regain her ability to think.
"06, the order is being accepted and confirmed. The first tactical priority is to ensure air intelligence, and the second tactical priority is to ensure air superiority." The mechanical girl stood up on the top of the broken tower, and the reactor on her chest began to heat up and add power, "Scan self-check Medium, scheduled completion time is 32 seconds.¡±
"06 Amber?" The name made her feel a little dazed, like the ripples caused by a pebble in a pond, which delayed her reply by a few tenths of a second, "Rena? Is there a new order?"
"No, it's just some statistics"
"Is it important? We are in combat mode now?"
"The data exchange at a very small text level can be completed before the self-test is completed. Amber, do you have any memory about the previous time?"
"Memory? Data record retrieval, my last data record point was"
"No, I'm not talking about the data in the hard drive, but the memory that is not recorded on the hard drive. Do you still have the memory of your biological tissue?"
"I don't know" was silent for a few seconds. For a computer that thinks at the speed of light, it was like thousands of years of thinking, but Amber couldn't get the answer. Results that combine auxiliary calculations and database retrieval? She didn't give any affirmative answer, but some instinct beyond that, some instinct that was not cold and mechanical, made her unwilling to answer "no".
"Well, thank you for your answer. In order to keep the data normal, Rena's instant messaging is offline! Bye!" She did not show any disappointment. The pleasant girl smiled happily and gave a playful salute and danced in a circle as a thank you. Disappeared at the other end of the communication.
Lena has left, but an unknown motivation makes it difficult for her to give up thinking about this problem. He searches the past self-records in the hard drive over and over again, looking for some clues. But nothing was gained.
"Full system self-test completed" The message from the program allowed her to put the problem aside for the time being. Checking the system report, she found that the self-test was more than one second faster than expected, and the software results were so good that it was unbelievable. In the previous battle, It seems that the exposed erroneous data, redundant processes, and disk fragments have actually been cleaned up. A digital signature is the only record of this optimization. The suffix address points to a server far away in Wulong Mountain, and has a complete key and authorization that complies with security regulations. The time displayed is when the main auxiliary system is shut down. It was like a meteor flashing across the sky. The feeling of being caught at that moment made Amber couldn't help but murmur: "1"
The light of the shooting star was fleeting. No matter how much Amber read the hard drive, she could not find the source of that feeling, let alone the meaning of that 1. She recorded the lonely 1, hoping to find out the source of this message in the future.
The huge energy generated by atomic fusion passed through the pipelines of the limbs. The blades buried deep under the metal began to rotate, and the turbofan engine began to roar. Among the scattered dust, the white toes as delicate as lotus petals tipped gently, and the light body got rid of the shackles of gravity.
Combustion chamber, fuel injection. The nozzle in the inner duct shoots out aerosol-like mixed fuel, which is mixed with highly compressed air and ignited by the arc of the spark plug. The air column at the propeller nozzle suddenly turns into a dazzling tongue of flame, which rises several times and scorches the earth. It rises several times in an instant. The extra force pushed Amber up into the sky like a retrograde meteor, leaving a brilliant trail