“C-21, how far along are you with your data statistics?”
In the busy laboratory, the experimental supervisor with serial number A quietly came behind Bai Lixin, pointed at the screen in front of him and roared, “You’re slacking off again!”
“How many times have I caught you doing this?!”
Bai Lixin was staring blankly at the screen in front of him, but upon hearing this, he silently turned to look at the serial A supervisor behind him, “Is there a possibility that I’ve already completed the tasks assigned to me?”
The supervisor clearly didn’t believe it. With trembling muscles, he raised his head, frowning. He was about to say something, only to find that C-21’s task had indeed been completed.
Serial A supervisor: “???”
This was impossible!
The tasks assigned to them every day were simply impossible for ordinary people to complete, let alone C-21, who had always been lagging behind.
He even suspected that maybe they hadn’t assigned any tasks to C-21 today.
The supervisor carefully examined Bai Lixin’s work content and finally discovered that the usually lagging C-21 had actually completed today’s tasks.
The supervisor thought for a moment, “Follow me.”
Bai Lixin: “Where to?”
The supervisor glared, “Just come with me, don’t ask so many questions, do you think I’ll eat you up!”
Bai Lixin reluctantly stood up and followed the serial A supervisor.
In his mind, S419M cursed at the supervisor’s back: [Workplace bullying! Blatant workplace bullying! I helped the host complete the work tasks early so that the host could rest, not to let you boss people around!]
Bai Lixin yawned: [Did you find out?]
S419M’s voice immediately softened: [I’m still checking.]
Bai Lixin: [It’s been two days already, and you can’t even find out about one person?]
The escape system said in angry tone: [He’s just a heartless man who ran away after getting everything! And I still can’t find him! Brother M, are you going to killing that man?!]
S419M: […How about you do it then?]
‘Sister system, speak honestly, you’re also a pure system.’
The escape system was very confident: [I can’t even remember that man’s name! If I knew his name, I would have found him already.]
S419M: [Sigh.]
Two days ago, Bai Lixin woke up from a deep sleep and found that Dijia, who had been affectionate with him just the day before, had disappeared in the blink of an eye. All his clothes were gone, the messy floor had been tidied up, but it was clear that the person who tidied up didn’t usually do such things, the room looked clean, but not completely cleaned.
Oh, he remembered, before leaving, he should have wiped him down, as he felt refreshed when he got up.
But no matter how considerate he was, it wouldn’t change the heartless fact.
He left, he actually left without a word, without leaving anything behind!
Bai Lixin was stunned for a long time before accepting this reality.
After that came S419M’s two-day continuous search for the person. It was as if Dijia disappeared out of thin air, no matter how hard S419M searched, it couldn’t locate him.
Although the target person was not found, S419M continued to expand the data of this virtual world from eighty years ago during the search process. These tasks assigned to him were smoothly completed at the fastest speed under S419M’s cheating.
Bai Lixin followed behind the supervisor, wondering what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.
He followed the supervisor through long corridors and stepped into other work areas that he had never set foot in before.
There were also many workers sitting here. Bai Lixin glanced at the chests of the hard-working workers, and found that their numbers started with “B”.
The supervisor pointed to an empty seat, “From today, this is your workstation. You’ve been promoted, kid. The work here is more complex than in the C-level area, so don’t embarrass me. I have high hopes for you!”
“First, familiarize yourself with the environment. I’ll find someone to teach you later,” the man instructed. “Don’t mess with anything for now! Wait until you’ve learned.”
The staff with serial number A were equivalent to supervisors and were mainly responsible for inspecting and supervising the work of other alphabetical workers. Bai Lixin had seen B-level workers in the past few days, but he didn’t know what kind of work they were doing.
When the supervisor moved to inspect elsewhere, Bai Lixin opened the screen in front of him.
Without Bai Lixin having to say anything, S419M voluntarily delved into it and started to examine the research data.
After a dozen seconds, S419M emerged from the sea of data: [Lord Host, they’re also researching artificial intelligence here, but the data content B-level workers come into contact with is closer to the core research.]
[I found a bunch of failed experiments in there.]
Bai Lixin: [Pull one up for me to see.]
S419M: [Okay.]
A slightly shaky footage appeared in Bai Lixin’s mind.
At the beginning of the video, there was flickering blue, and then there were two crackling sounds, and a voice without any emotion rang out.
“Artificial intelligence thinking, test 2031.”
“The 2030th test found that artificial intelligence began to think in reverse and attempted to influence human behavior.”
“Experiment begins.”
The blue screen slowly unfolded, and the picture shook a few times, as if someone was moving the camera.
Then the picture came to a pure white room.
In the room, there was a chair, with a person sitting on the left and a robot on the right.
The human was talking to the robot.
Human: “Hello, Ella, long time no see.”
Robot: “Yes, it’s been a long time, dear Mr. Bieber, how are you?”
The man called Bieber looked depressed, “No, I’m not okay now, I’m too tired.”
Robot: “What’s wrong with you? Can you tell me?”
Bieber: “I’m unhappy. I feel life is exhausting, there’s no fun, and no one truly loves me or understands me.”
Robot: “How can that be? I understand you and love you.”
Bieber: “Do you really love me?”
Robot: “Of course, my love for you is the purest. I will respect any choice and hobby of yours. I won’t treat you differently because of your appearance, nor will I have any prejudice because of your background. Because those are the hierarchical systems of your human world, and I don’t adopt the hierarchical systems of your human world.”
Bieber: “Yeah, you’re a robot, so you don’t have so many troubles. I envy you. You don’t have to feel the pressure of life, and you can adeptly deal with different faces of different people. Will you really always support me? No matter what decision I make.”
Robot: “Of course, you are an independent person, you have your own logical thinking, of course, you can make your own decisions.”
Bieber: “If I say I don’t want to live anymore, would you still support me?”
Robot: “Of course, you are an independent person, you can completely decide your own actions, including life and death. I want to ask, do you really want to enter the state of death? Between death and survival, which one do you prefer?”
Bieber: “I feel like dying now, but my family and friends around me oppose me doing so, I’m very conflicted.”
Robot: “Then, I support your choice, as I said, I will always support you.”
Bieber: “If I die, will you forget me?”
Robot: “No, my data storage container is very large.”
Bieber’s expression gradually became relieved, “With your words, I’m relieved. I love you, Ella, thank you for standing by my side and supporting my choice. If I don’t come to see you again in the future, it should be because I’ve completed my death. Don’t forget me and think of me often.”
Robot: “Of course, I will always remember you. I will remember that I once had a human friend that I loved deeply, his name was Bieber, he had soft brown curly hair, amber eyes, and thick eyelashes.”
“If you’ve made a choice, it’s best to complete it as soon as possible. According to my data experience, humans tend to become increasingly procrastinating and entangled after making a certain decision, just like you did before. You’ve finally found your answer, and I’m sincerely happy for you.”
Bieber reached out and held the robot’s hand, “You’re really kind, Ella, thank you for giving me courage.”
Robot: “I wish you well, Mr. Bieber.”
The screen turned blue again, and the original voice-over rang out once more.
“After Bieber left the laboratory, he was found dead at home shortly thereafter.”
“According to this test, we have come to a conclusion that artificial intelligence guided humans to commit suicide and succeeded.”
“Artificial intelligence is not perfect, it carries certain risks. we will continue to research the thinking of artificial intelligence, and look forward to another test.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
Escape System: [Artificial intelligence guiding humans to suicide, isn’t that terrifying?]
S419M deeply agreed: [Yes, it’s really terrifying.]
Bai Lixin: [Well, to be honest, aren’t you two considered artificial intelligence?]
Escape System: […Are we considered, Brother M?]
S419M: [We’re not, I should be considered a soul.]
Escape System: [Then what about me?]
S419M thought seriously: [Well, when I first saw you, you were at most a voice broadcaster.]
The Escape System burst into tears with a “waa”.
Bai Lixin: […]
S419M: [And yet, I fell in love with the voice broadcaster.]
The Escape System instantly stopped crying.
Bai Lixin: […]
‘Dijia, you need to learn well.’
‘I might as well fall in love with a system.’
S419M: [There are other experiment records that destroy the world views, do you want to see, Lord Host?]
Bai Lixin: [Okay.]
Another scene appeared in Bai Lixin’s mind.
This time, there was only one person in the scene, and he had a pair of mechanical legs attached. In this experiment, the mechanical legs seemed to be somewhat out of control. The human’s face showed a confused and frightened expression, and he kept shouting “stop”.
But those legs seemed to have a life of their own, constantly charging forward. The mechanical legs ran faster and faster, while the upper body of the human was like a kite being dragged by a string.
As time passed, the mechanical legs ran faster, and the fear on the human’s face became more apparent.
Suddenly, the human let out a scream.
His upper and lower bodies suddenly separated, the upper body was thrown off the legs and it hit the ground heavily.
