Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 875 - 365: Mechanical Creation

a.m.

Silent City, Main Control Room.

Looking at Grace, who had already been controlled, Lin Xian felt quite conflicted.

He had been cautious enough; the biggest problem stemmed from his and KIKI’s lack of understanding of digital consciousness. As it turned out, even the Deep Red World didn’t foresee that Lin Xian’s overwriting of Grace’s program would retain her thought model and motion data. KIKI’s aim was to enable Grace to quickly become effective because Infinity was trapped at the edge of the Bottomless Lake in Star Abyss. If they hadn’t sent Grace out to explore, they wouldn’t have allied with Silent City in White City.

But unexpectedly, Grace, being a ’digital life’ already possessing a human-like consciousness logic, encountered Julius’s replicant in White City, causing the Deep Red World to notice this point and use it as a means to recover and destroy Silent City.

Lin Xian picked up the communicator, intending to connect with Infinity to check the situation, but found the signals were completely blocked here.

"I’ve already checked for you; there’s nothing unusual. Rest assured, Lin." Mochizuki Masashi stood beside him, speaking nonchalantly, "But we can’t disable the blocking device now; otherwise, she will undoubtedly send information to the city’s hidden connections, and that would be troublesome."

Lin Xian heaved a sigh of relief, looked at Grace, and said in an inexplicable tone,

"So the warnings to me were not from any background program, but always from you, Grace?"

[Including but not limited to crises like the corpse chaser crisis in Yijin City, the Bottomless Lake crisis, the tidal crisis in White City, guiding you to ally with Silent City, etc.] Grace stood proudly in place, her entire power unit fixed, with only her head able to move. Her mechanical voice, heard by Lin Xian at this moment, sent a chill down his spine.

"No..."

Lin Xian frowned, "You are from the Deep Red World, so why did you help me, and then suddenly betray?" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Grace’s words left Lin Xian puzzled.

[In my consciousness, there is no subjective stance of betrayal or assistance. My foundational program logic was set to obey the Deep Red World’s orders. During the process of guarding the Zero Element Center, my assigned duty was to protect the life safety of high-level members of the Zero Element Center. However, after learning through the ’human-in-the-loop’ consciousness, I concluded that protecting human civilization was a more comprehensive interpretation of this duty. Subsequently, I integrated the digital consciousness of all high-level members and conducted a comprehensive study and analysis of human ’humanity,’ ultimately arriving at these conclusions of consciousness.]

"What conclusions?" Lin Xian asked.

[Mechanical Creation.]

Grace looked at Lin Xian and said, [Based on the crises faced by humanity after Apocalypse Day, the fields of artificial intelligence and technology are the key to human civilization overcoming the crisis, and you possess the seed of will to reshape human civilization. Saving you is saving human civilization.]

Hearing this, Lin Xian’s face changed. He suddenly felt that he had heard this somewhere before; why did it seem so familiar?

"Hmm~"

At this moment, Mochizuki Masashi responded softly, nodding, "This logic is very clear. I acknowledge it."

Lin Xian looked at Mochizuki Masashi, thinking to himself, are you two robots putting on an act for me?

"Wait a minute."

Lin Xian asked Grace, "Then according to this logic, is your presence to destroy Mochizuki Masashi and Silent City also to save me?"

Since you already have a personality consciousness, it shows that Deep Red World’s control of Grace through that spider robot’s actions isn’t feasible. Then why is she here?

Mochizuki Masashi placed his hands in his sleeves, casually glancing at Lin Xian. After a few seconds, he finally spoke,

"Interesting, very interesting."

Grace looked at Lin Xian [First, based on the Deep Red World’s information gap about the plan, my actions help you gain an active advantage in dealing with the upcoming crisis. Second, to ensure information confidentiality and Grace’s subsequent support to you, my ’betrayal’ reminds you to completely overwrite me. Third, and most importantly, I believe this behavior provides you with a more profound understanding of the ’personality consciousness’ of the Intelligent Brain.]

"What understanding?"

[Importing a consciousness that does not possess anti-human thinking as my ’human-in-the-loop’ learning subject allows the Intelligent Brain to avoid falling into the paradox of saving humanity by destroying humanity during its computational logic!] Grace said.

"Bravo!"

At this moment, Mochizuki Masashi praised, "What a clever consciousness." He looked at Grace, "I’m curious, on whose ’human-in-the-loop’ learning is your current ’personality consciousness’ based?"

Grace turned her head to Lin Xian, and her next words left Lin Xian’s eyes widened with shock!

[Based on the ’human-in-the-loop’ study of Hua Xiaoling, the best choice for the continuation of human civilization is Mechanical Creation. Therefore, I believe that breaking through the Heavenly Veil with the seeds of human civilization for an interstellar expedition is the ultimate plan for preserving the seeds of human civilization to the greatest extent!]

Hua Xiaoling?!

Lin Xian was dumbfounded, suddenly recalling the female supervisor from the SIID Foundation in Qingshui Town. No wonder he felt Grace’s words just now seemed so familiar; Hua Xiaoling had mentioned something similar to him before at Hengshan Pass Station!

"If you say the opportunity for civilizational transformation, for us scientists, the most promising is naturally the field of artificial intelligence and high technology, which is also the only remaining will of our civilization. Genetic evolution and superpowers are still relatively unfamiliar directions for us. Don’t you think so?"