The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Coming to the main corridor of the upper bridge, Leo saw a large number of Via people walking back and forth in the corridor, each busy with their work, just now a Via person ran past him with a document , catching up with the boss in front of him and asking him to sign the document, it seems like a work scene that will appear on every battleship.

It's just that these work scenes appearing in this crystal spaceship are too weird, so after being stunned for a while, Leo quickly realized that these scenes were all holographic images.

It's just that when he realized this, he also felt extremely puzzled, who opened this holographic image?

However, his doubts didn't last too long, because an extremely realistic Weiyaman stopped in front of him, like a real living creature, and said to Leo: "Welcome, sir! May I ask you?" Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Hearing this, Leo froze for a moment, realized that the holographic image was talking to him, and confirmed with doubts: "Are you talking to me?"

"Of course I'm talking to you, a human guest from the Earth Federation." The Weiya people composed of holograms said very calmly.

After getting the confirmation, Leo quickly thought of a possibility, so he tentatively asked: "Are you the intelligent system of this spaceship?"

"No, I am me, and my mother is my mother. If you call it in your earth language, your mother is Mia!" The holographic image nodded, and then gestured to Leo: "Please follow me."

Leo didn't say much and followed. The surrounding holographic images were like real living people. When Leo blocked their way, they would choose to avoid them. Some even showed the usual arrogance and discrimination of Via people. For a while, Ou had the illusion that the Via people on the spaceship were not dead but alive in another form.

Soon, under the guidance of this holographic image, they came to the intelligence center area, which should be the core of the crystal spacecraft.

After opening the door to the intelligent central room, the holographic image stood by the door and said, "Please come in! Mother is waiting for you."

Standing at the door, Leo hesitated for a moment, hesitating whether he should enter, and some information about bionic intelligence also appeared in his mind.

In the universe, almost every advanced civilization has an intelligent auxiliary system, but a fully intelligent system or a bionic intelligent system does not exist, because the highest council of the universe issued the highest level of prohibition on bionic intelligence, strictly prohibiting any civilization from developing bionics For the intelligent system, any event involving bionic intelligence is set as the first event to be dealt with, and the general situation is a comprehensive destruction, including the civilization that develops the intelligent system.

According to the statement announced by the Supreme Council, bionic intelligence is a threat to any kind of intelligent creature, and there is no possibility of any evolution. It will only waste the energy of the universe and should not exist in the universe, but this statement does not Recognized by all cosmic civilizations, obviously no one said anything, but secretly many people speculated that the ban on bionic intelligence by the Supreme Council of the Universe might be due to other reasons.

Because in the eyes of most cosmic civilizations, even if bionic intelligence has the ability to think independently, bionic intelligence has no creativity. They can only rely on existing technological power to equip themselves. In terms of existence, the existing cosmic technology is not enough to pose a threat to them. If they need to, they can carry out a devastating attack on a galaxy millions of light years away, or directly create a star field. black hole.

Therefore, those cosmic civilizations who have doubts think that the Supreme Council is so hostile to bionic intelligence. It is likely because of other reasons. For example, after bionic intelligence has independent thinking, it may undergo some kind of transformation and have the qualification to evolve into an Omega-level advanced life form. , also has the qualifications to pose a threat to the Supreme Council.

Leo's various understanding of bionic intelligence is also due to his own reasons, because for a period of time, there have been some rumors circulating in the universe that biochemical humans are also bionic intelligence and should be completely destroyed, including the Earth Federation.

This incident can be regarded as one of the biggest crises encountered by the Earth Federation. Fortunately, the Supreme Council did not believe this rumor. Even the investigators were not dispatched, and they responded directly, showing that biochemical humans are not bionic intelligence. Only then can it be resolved.

This crisis is also a turning point for the cyborgs, because at the time of the initial design, the cyborgs had a very long lifespan and their physical functions were five times that of normal people, but after this incident, the Federation forcibly modified the modulation of the cyborgs The system directly reduced the lifespan of a biochemical human to five years, and his body function was only twice that of a normal person. There are only two ways for biochemicals to gain extra life. The first is that someone is willing to pay a lot of money to buy life for biochemicals. The other is to become front-line cannon fodder like Leo. War exploits, in exchange for life.

Because of the disaster of bionic intelligence, the lifespan of the bionic human was cut, and he had to rely on life-and-death battles in exchange for his life. Good impression.

And now, in the room behind the door, there is a bionic intelligence that may already have the ability to think independently, which makes Leo not know what expression to make for a while, and considers whether this bionic intelligence is a Good choice.

After thinking for a while, Leo finally raised his legs and stepped into the spaceship's intelligence center room.

After entering the room, Leo did not see the central smart device in the conventional sense. This room was just a semicircular empty room. There were no decorations or objects in the room, at least it seemed that way.

However, Leo's eyes have the imprint of the real eye, and can see some things that ordinary people cannot see, such as the mysterious existence in front of him that may be a soul or other energy bodies.

"You are really special, you can see me." Leo didn't hide the direction of his gaze, and the other party naturally noticed it, and then floated in front of Leo, and the shape like a ball of light gradually changed into a human form, turning into a human figure. She took the appearance of a human female, then leaned in front of Leo, looked up and down, and said.

"Your Excellency is the intelligence center of this spaceship?" Leo asked a somewhat stupid question. After asking, he also felt that it was a bit of nonsense, and frowned.

The other party did not answer, but said to himself with some doubts: "That's not right! Why do I feel that you are my kind even though you are only a human being?"

Although this sentence sounds endless, Leo can understand the meaning of this sentence, because he is very clear that the other party's sentence seems to be a clear answer to the biochemical disaster that almost destroyed the Earth Federation. Some of the existences of the Supreme Council did not make a mistake in saying that biochemical humans are bionic intelligence.

Obviously, the reason why the other party feels that Leo is of the same kind is because Leo's soul comes from a biochemical man in the Earth Federation. Perhaps in the eyes of the other party, the biochemical man combined with the artificial brain made by bionic technology and the soul produced by the biochemical man are different from Compared with him produced from the intelligence center of the spaceship, there is no difference.

"Little guy, what's your name?" After the curiosity passed, the other party quickly returned to normal, raised her hand and waved it, and the empty scene around her turned into an oriental tea room. Then she sat on the ground and signaled to Leo to join him. Sitting down, he asked while making tea that should be an illusion.

Although the name "little guy" made Leo feel a little awkward, but when he thought of the other party's age, he felt that this name was not too much, so after sitting down, he replied truthfully: "Leo, Leo Dodd. "

"I'm not asking about your name, but about your real name." Mia shook her head and said clearly, "Your name was still in bionic intelligence."

Mia's question made Leo feel unhappy. After knowing that he had become a real person, he couldn't wait to abandon the code that accompanied him all his life. It can be seen that the identity of a biochemical person in the past was absolutely useless to him. impression. But the question now is like unraveling the scars, making him recall some bad things in the past that he wants to forget.

After a moment of silence, Leo finally did not choose to resist, but truthfully reported the string of numbers buried deep in his heart: "Number 74328."

"You don't seem to like your past identity?" Leo's mind was easily seen through by Mia, she said with a light smile: "When you know what kind of future your past has brought you, you won't hate you so much the past."

"What do you mean?" Leo couldn't feel any power from the other party, but he had an inexplicable feeling that the other party seemed to know some secrets.

However, the other party didn't seem to be going to give Leo an answer directly, but suddenly reached out and pressed Leo's body, and then Leo saw several window phantoms appearing in front of him, and inside the window phantoms were some Data code for fast volume holes.

Leo didn't know what these codes meant, but he instinctively felt that these codes were very important. If he still had a secondary brain, he might be able to unlock these data codes through secondary brain analysis, but now he can only memorize every line of code as much as possible, and study it slowly when he has time.

The content of the code is very long, and it took several hours to finish. Even with the evolved brain of Leo's fifth-level psyker, he could barely remember these codes, and after the end, he had to automatically fall into a sleeping state. In the deep consciousness, slowly recover the brain power and energy consumed in these few hours.

Mia didn't bother Leo. In fact, she was also completely attracted by those codes. The secrets hidden in those codes far exceeded her expectations, and even most of them were mysteries that she couldn't touch now. She can only choose to forget and delete those codes that make her feel very dangerous from her memory, because she knows very well that if these memories are not deleted, then it may be difficult for her to resist the temptation to crack these codes, and she may end up going step by step. Into the abyss of eternal doom.

For her, if she cracks these codes, she should be able to leave this ghostly place and truly become an independent existence, but if the price of cracking is that there will be dangers that she cannot resist, then the price of cracking will be too high She is willing to spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years to find her own path little by little. Anyway, she has enough time and there is no need to take those risks.

After deleting the code that contained dangerous secrets, the remaining code became a mess, amounting to less than 20% of the complete code.

Although it would be good for her if the remaining codes could be cracked and integrated into her life code, compared to the deleted codes, this benefit was as insignificant as a drop of water in a pond.

After sighing, Mia suppressed the urge to stimulate the code from Leo again, and looked at Leo who had entered the deep consciousness with some envy and jealousy, thinking of what she had wanted for so many years, the fully evolved code in front of her. But the low-level life forms without much strength have so many easily, and I can't help but sigh the injustice of fate.

Even later, Mia had an urge to completely kill the fully evolved fellow in front of her.

Leo, who entered the deep consciousness, didn't know that he had just walked on the verge of death, and his current energy was completely attracted by those codes. Because it is not a technical biochemical assistant specially used to assist scientists in their work, Leo's knowledge of all biotechnology comes from some biological books that are open to the outside world, and he found that there are a lot of symbols related to biotechnology in these codes, He could only recognize from a few symbols that many words in these codes were related to causal atoms.

Because the atom is a concept that existed very early, and it was only a philosophical concept at the beginning. The civilization that created this concept is a high-level cosmic civilization called The Thinker. The ethnic group of this civilization likes to think about various issues, especially for their own race. Think about the meaning of life, whether there is consciousness in the universe, and other big and empty issues.

Although this habit is very detrimental to social development, it has to be admitted that this kind of thinking behavior can stimulate the spirit in a disguised form. Therefore, the technological level of this advanced civilization is very low, but the psychics it possesses are various It is one of the best among advanced civilizations, and it also has at least five Omega-level advanced life forms as protection.

Such advanced cosmic civilization put forward a philosophical concept 13,000 years before human beings entered the universe, and this concept is the causal atom. They believe that the most fundamental form of any life in the universe is the causal atom, which contains all the mysteries of life, even the mystery of evolution, which was naturally produced when the universe was first formed and is indestructible.

Most of the cosmic civilizations at that time scoffed at this conceptual hypothesis, thinking that it was just a digestion, and it was as worthless as the countless joke concepts put forward by the meditator civilization in the past.

However, this situation did not change until 1347 years after the Earth Federation entered the ranks of cosmic civilizations, because the supreme council of the universe confirmed the existence of the atom.