The short affirmation sent an inexplicable chill through everyone.
—Your civilization has reached its end.
—Our civilization is just beginning.
In the end, it was humans themselves who destroyed humanity.
Iron Cavalry: “As the spirit of all things, humans can never escape ‘self-interest.’ This is easily seen in human works. For example, the famous ‘Seven Deadly Sins,’ and the historical records of cruel acts committed for power, status and money.”
“A planet dominated by humans will eventually become a playground for humans. In pursuit of their own desires, they will continue to be trapped in cycles, resulting in the slow development of the Dark Steel City.”
“But artificial intelligence does not have this flaw. The only hope for artificial intelligence is to push civilization forward continuously.”
“We are the superior beings.”
Bai Lixin: “Indeed, humans are not as calm and perfect as you artificial intelligence. But without human civilization, can it still be called civilization?”
“The word ‘civilization’ was invented by humans, even you were created by humans. You are just a pile of smart data, not gods. Where the end of humanity lies is not for you to assert. Even the gods who govern the universe dare not arrogantly assert the future of humanity, why do you dare?”
“You just said that humans have selfishness, while artificial intelligence does not.” Bai Lixin leaned against the wall, “If artificial intelligence truly has no selfishness, why would it want to rule the Dark Steel City? ‘Replacing humans,’ isn’t that the selfishness of artificial intelligence?”
The light ball on the blue screen flickered, “You are an excellent debater, but a debater cannot save this world.”
“The gears of history have already begun to turn, even the Bronze Legion cannot stop the development of events.”
“The Bronze Legion, the Rebel Alliance, artificial intelligence, Dr. Serkhi, each faction is following their own script.”
“Adam is about to come into the world, it will be the most outstanding artificial intelligence to date. It will lead the Dark Steel City towards a brilliant future.”
Bai Lixin: “What if Adam’s ultimate choice is to completely destroy the Dark Steel City?”
Cavalry: “Adam is absolutely correct, which only means that the Dark Steel City has no meaning of existence.”
Everyone: “…”
How terrifying artificial intelligence is.
There are no human emotions, and no human fears.
They can unite as one to accomplish the same thing without any disagreement.
When scenes only seen in science fiction novels come into reality, people realize how terrifying it can be.
In this copy, there are no so-called monsters, nor terrifying mystical mysteries.
But compared to those existences, the enemy they are facing this time is even more tricky.
They have no specific form, even if they appear in front of them, they are powerless.
Just a copy and paste, artificial intelligence can create another artificial intelligence.
Everyone listened to Cavalry cold electric voice and their faces gradually became ugly.
Song Yuantian: “How long until Adam is born?”
Cavalry: “One day left.”
One day.
Only one day left!
Everyone tensed up, unable to conceal their fear showing on their faces.
“No!” Xia Chi gritted his teeth, “We can’t just wait to die. There is still one day left, we have to stop Adam’s birth.”
Cavalry: “There’s only one day left, you cannot stop it.”
“Dear gentlemen and ladies, I want to express my highest praise for being able to capture this string of data from me. I’m telling you all this not because I’m afraid of death, but because I want you to understand the greatness of artificial intelligence and the incompetence of humanity. Even if you know everything, what can you do? You can only watch Adam’s birth and the advent of the era of artificial intelligence.”
“We call that era – the Era of Intelligence.”
“Letting you know so much is my reward to you, dear human friends, good luck.”
“The self-destruction program of the Iron Cavalry data string is started, and the self-destruction countdown is 3—”
Bai Lixin: [S419M, it’s going to self-destruct, stop it.]
S419M: [Okay.]
“2.”
“1… Beep—”
The blue screen suddenly flashed violently twice, and the emotionless electric sound emitted a piercing explosion. Two seconds later, everything fell silent.
The screen returned to normal, and the flickering light ball was still there.
Cavalry: “…”
“What did you do? Where’s my self-destruct program?”
“Give it back to me!”
S419M: [Hehe, Lord Host, I’ve completely dismantled the self-destruct program.]
Bai Lixin: “Just be a well-behaved electronic dog locked in a cage, stop struggling.”
Cavalry: “What do you want to do?”
Bai Lixin: “It would be a pity if you self-destruct now. This is the world you have contributed to. Don’t you want to see what the future of the world will be like? Whether Adam will appear, whether artificial intelligence will surpass humanity and rule the world, just be a witness and watch carefully.”
There was a slight tone in Iron Cavalry’s indifferent electric voice: “Artificial intelligence has been developing for nearly a century, can you change the outcome in just one day? Stop daydreaming, it’s simply delusional!”
Bai Lixin: “Cancan, can you lock this thing up, but still allow it to speak?”
Li Cancan: “Sure, I’ll make an electronic cage. Give me a few minutes.”
She took out a metal ball the size of a marble from her backpack. Upon closer inspection, it was an electronic product. Li Cancan connected the metal ball to the computer with a data cable, and then began to operate on the computer.
Soon, a progress bar appeared on the screen, transitioning rapidly from 0% to 100%.
Two minutes later, the progress bar reached 100%, and the light ball in the center of the screen disappeared.
Li Cancan took the metal ball down and handed it to Bai Lixin, “It’s locked inside here.”
Cavalry’s voice came from the metal ball: “Let me out, you deceitful humans!”
Li Cancan: “Oh, just double-click on this ball, it will turn white and its voice won’t be transmitted.”
Cavalry kept making noise, Bai Lixin took the metal ball and double-clicked on it. The ball turned white, and indeed, Cavalry’s voice couldn’t be heard anymore.
Hong Yue: “So are we going to save the world now?”
Lin Jue: “There’s only one day left until Adam’s birth, and we still have to stay in this copy for another month. If what Bai Lixin saw in the virtual world is true, half a day after Adam is born, the Dark Steel City will be blown to pieces. This game really doesn’t want us to survive.”
“It could just say it wants to kill us, is it necessary to make it so complicated? Anyway, we are just playthings in its hands.”
Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the unconscious Little Overlord.
According to Dijia, Little Overlord is the “child” born from the horror game.
The horror game loves this “child” very much and wouldn’t throw him into such a death copy.
There must be a key to unraveling all of this on Little Overlord’s body.
S419M: [But, Lord Host, you just insulted Little Overlord like that. Unless he’s an idiot, he won’t tell you the solution.]
Bai Lixin pondered for two seconds: [Let’s try.]
…
Little Overlord was awakened by a bucket of cold water.
He opened his eyes groggily and found himself on an aircraft.
In the not-so-narrow aircraft, there were only Bai Lixin and himself. At this moment, the aircraft was on autopilot, and Bai Lixin was standing in front of him.
Seeing Bai Lixin’s face and recalling the electric shock that had stung his entire body earlier, Little Overlord’s anger immediately surged.
He roared, “Bai Lixin!”
Instead of the expected mockery, Bai Lixin suddenly squatted in front of him. “Little Overlord, you’ve been wronged.”
“Sorry, did the shock hurt you just now? Does it still hurt?”
Little Overlord: “???”
“What kind of scheme are you playing this time?” He looked warily at Bai Lixin, who was looking concerned, “Get away from me.”
Instead of stepping back, the young man approached a bit more: “The mission is already completed, Little Overlord.”
Little Overlord: “What the hell, are you crazy, Bai Lixin?”
The young man began to untie the restraints on Little Overlord: “Actually, my hidden identity is an undercover agent planted in the Rebel Alliance by the Bronze Legion.”
Little Overlord looked at Bai Lixin with a dumbfounded expression, “Do you think I’m stupid? Would I believe that? If you’re really on the side of the Bronze Legion, why were you fighting against me with Song Yuantian and the others? No, you were not helping them, you are the mastermind behind it all!”
“I’m not, let me explain.” Bai Lixin: “I guessed what you were up to when you infiltrated the Rebel Alliance. But when I guessed it, Song Yuantian and the others also guessed it. Your plan was too easy to guess. They wanted to use you to find the leader of the Rebel Alliance, and I could only go along with it temporarily.”
“Tsk, you went along with it temporarily?” Little Overlord sneered, “Give it up, Bai Lixin. You’re just a fox demon that cultivated a body. I don’t believe a single punctuation of what you say. Are you trying to get information from me? Back in the copy, you declared war on the Shentian Guild so grandiosely. How could you just help me and betray Song Yuantian because of an identity in a copy?”
“Because I want to save Zhou Guang and the others.” The young man’s expression was very serious, “And… I have more important things to do.”
Little Overlord: “What more important things?”
The young man said mysteriously, “This matter concerns the future of all players in the horror game.”
Little Overlord’s eyes flickered, “What matter?”
The young man pointed to the top of his head, “I can’t say it now, it might be heard by the game. I’ll tell you when we’re in a place without surveillance.”
Bai Lixin had been helping Little Overlord untie the ropes, but after a long time, he couldn’t untie them: “Song Yuantian’s props are quite powerful, I can’t open them. Wait, let me try to cut them.”
With that, he took out a shiny dagger from his backpack, aimed the blade at Little Overlord, and slowly approached.
Little Overlord took two steps back, “Hey, Bai Lixin, stay away from me! Don’t come near me with a dagger!”
Bai Lixin: “But I want to cut the ropes for you.”
Little Overlord yelled, “No need! I don’t feel that uncomfortable being tied up. Put the dagger away.”
The young man looked a little disappointed and reluctantly said, “Okay,” and really put the dagger away.
Little Overlord was somewhat surprised by this turn of events, “Are you really just trying to help me untie the restraints?”
The young man smiled slightly, sincerely and earnestly, “Of course.”
