Chapter 160: The Sky is High and the Sea is Vast
The man who stepped in through the window did not speak. He turned around and closed the window, then stood quietly by the window with his hands hanging at his sides. There was not a single emotion on his face, which could be called a common face.
Rong Yuan sat on the sofa and asked, "What are the test results?"
The common face said in a toneless voice: "The test was normal and met the expected standards."
Rong Yuan said to the intelligent brain again: "Noah, replay his test process for me."
Noah said nothing as various surveillance images began to appear on the TV screen, showing ordinary faces taking a walk, buying things, putting two coins in a beggar's jar, and finally catching a thief who put his hand into his pocket.
The whole communication process seemed so natural and normal, without any abnormality. Apparently, the person communicating with him did not notice anything unusual. Rong Yuan nodded, very satisfied, and said to the common face: "ai668x, simulate me, and start testing at the institute tomorrow."
"yes."
When ai668x responded, Noah sent him Rongyuan's data package. Since the appearance of ai6681x, Noah's chatterbox symptoms have been significantly improved, because he can communicate with ai6681x anytime and anywhere through radio waves, and although this quiet robot rarely responds, it never finds it annoying.
ai6681x downloaded the data package and analyzed it quickly, saying, "Appearance has been recorded... behavior pattern has been recorded... emotional pattern has been recorded... gait analysis has been recorded... audio timbre has been recorded..."
As it spoke, its facial features also adjusted slightly. After a moment, a person who looked exactly like Rong Yuan except for his clothes stood by the window, with the same cold and distant look in his eyes. It stood there for a while, then walked to Rong Yuan and sat down in the same position as him.
"Repeat your daily work." Rong Yuan ordered.
"Yes." ai6681x said in the same , with natural emotional changes in the tone. "Wake up at 6:00, run in the playground from 6:30 to 7:00, go back to the dormitory at 7:00, turn on the shower for 15 minutes, flush the toilet once, have breakfast in the cafeteria at 7:30, do experiments in the laboratory from 8:00 to 11:00, have lunch in the cafeteria at 11:05, pretend to sleep in the dormitory from 11:30 to 12:00, flush the toilet once, do experiments in the laboratory from 12:00 to 16:20, have dinner in the cafeteria at 16:30, study through online videos from 17:00 to 22:00, turn on the shower for 15 minutes from 22:00, flush the toilet once, turn off the lights at 23:00 to pretend to sleep."
"Very good, let's start now." Rong Yuan said.
"Yes." ai6681x stood up. It knew the current time without a watch, so it turned off the lights in the living room, walked into the bedroom, pulled back the quilt, lay on the bed, folded its hands in front of its abdomen, and closed its eyes.
Rong Yuan sat in the dark for a long time. He walked to the window and opened it. The cold February wind blew in. The curtains rustled in the wind, making him feel cold all over. However, he held the window frame tightly, and his heart was burning.
The research institute was just a springboard for him, and he never thought about staying here for a long time. Although he didn't know how far the highest level of technology in this world had developed, Yan Ce beside Xiao Xiao confirmed that the technology tree of intelligent robots had undoubtedly been raised a lot by Xiao Xiao. He was unwilling to spend so much time studying how to make the same intelligent robot. The reason was simple - it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it could not bring direct merit gains. So Rong Yuan directly exchanged a mimic robot ai6681x with a similar intelligence level from the Merit Mall, and let it take the invisible rain shuttle to the market for testing. Facts have proved that ordinary people did not die after contacting it. Perhaps this was because they did not "use" it as non-contractors, or perhaps because ai6681x did not belong to the products that exceeded the technological level of this world. In short, for Rong Yuan, only the result was the most important, that is, this robot could continue to stay in the research institute to do experiments instead of him.
All along, he has been extremely aloof and indifferent in the institute, with very simple interpersonal relationships and extremely fixed behavior patterns, even more precise than a clock with the help of the intelligent brain, all for this day. He has reduced the difficulty of simulation and the probability of being discovered to the greatest extent. In case of emergencies, he can also operate remotely with the help of the intelligent brain Noah. Moreover, ai6681x's own intelligence is not low, of course it is far behind Noah, but it can also calculate its own response strategy.
At this moment, Rong Yuan truly felt what it meant to have the sea wide enough for fish to leap and the sky high enough for birds to fly.
As long as Noah can successfully simulate himself in the institute, from now on, no matter if he disappears for a few days or a few months, no one will ask where he has been or doubt what he has done. He no longer needs to worry about the time of return and cannot travel to planets too far away in the universe. He can really go anywhere he wants. When he wants to return to the identity of "Rong Yuan", he only needs to change ai6681x back here.
Rong Yuan never worried that Noah and ai6681x would betray him or replace him. Although these mechanical products did not regard humans as special creatures that needed protection, their loyalty to their masters was written into their source programs.
As expected, the next day, ai6681x—or Xiao A, as Noah referred to it—was active in the institute all day, and no one noticed that it was not the real Rong Yuan. On the one hand, it was because Xiao A's imitation was highly similar, and on the other hand, it was because there was no one here who was truly familiar with Rong Yuan and cared about him from the bottom of his heart. If it was Jin Yang, he might have discovered at first glance that it was just a fake.
After waiting for another two days without finding any abnormalities, Rong Yuan handed a list to Xiao A. It contained the molecular formulas of drugs for thirteen incurable diseases in the world, such as HIV, leukemia, rabies, several types of cancer, etc. Rong Yuan redeemed the drugs from the mall and obtained their molecular formulas. The rest was to reversely deduce the manufacturing process, just like making cotton candy, and then make it a reality through repeated experimental research. This tedious and lengthy work can be done by anyone, and intelligent robots can only do better than humans with their superhuman computing speed and accuracy. So Rong Yuan did not plan to do it again in person, and handed over the rest of the work to Xiao A and other assistants in the institute - it can be said that these assistants are only beginning to play a real role now, and they were basically directed by Rong Yuan to do soy sauce before.
Recently, researchers all feel that the big boss seems to be a little less scary than before, and has started to assign them formal work. They finally realized that they are not just here to eat and wait for death. They are so touched. What can we do? ?
——So in fact, in this research institute, the robot Xiao A unknowingly established more harmonious interpersonal relationships than Rong Yuan.
On the third night, Rong Yuan boarded the Yusuo and left this closed hidden cage.
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In front of the Baroque church, the steps were so clean that they were almost spotless. An old man sat on the steps and sprinkled a handful of grains. Many white pigeons flew to him, pecking at the grains on the ground, and some bold pigeons flew directly to him and pecked at his hands.
On a stone bench not far away, there was a homeless man lying. He was wearing a tattered coat, covered with a few newspapers, and sleeping soundly. A fat pigeon landed on him, and for some reason it immediately flew away with a scream. The homeless man scratched his face and continued to sleep unconsciously.
"Is that the guy?"
"yes."
"It's a bad mix."
Above the church, Rong Yuan sat in the rain, and a video clip zoomed in showing the homeless man. He watched for a while, and then said to himself, "Without any self-protection power other than external forces, it doesn't seem like a good idea to rashly go to an alien planet."
Even though he had countless merits, he still had to consider the possibility that he and Wandou might be separated due to some circumstances, and thus he could not redeem the money in time when he encountered danger. Hesitating for so many days on a question that did not actually require a choice was simply not like him. Rong Yuan made a decision and asked Wandou, "What was that thing you mentioned last time?"
Wandou understood what he was asking about, pulled up a product image, and said, "It's this [legendary stone]."
The name of the product is "Legendary Stone". It looks more like a piece of stone that has been sharpened like a knife. It has a very ordinary appearance with dark green stone texture. If you have to say what is special about it, it is probably that its dark green and lime colors are intertwined, vaguely forming a seemingly spiral structure.
But this seemingly ordinary stone is a unique and special item in the mall, and there is no price tag on it.
At the beginning, peas were a special item that could not be transferred, abandoned, or redeemed, and its price was only 15,000 merits.
Rong Yuan asked: "How much is this stone worth?"
Pea said, "All." Rong Yuan looked over and continued, "No matter how much merit the contractor has, its price is - all merit points."
"Interesting." Rong Yuan laughed and asked, "What is the function of this special stone?"
"Legend has it that this stone contains all the truths of the universe. Whoever possesses it can comprehend all the rules of the world, such as the evolution of stars, natural life and death, and the changes in time and space. There is nothing unknowable and nothing that cannot be surpassed. Moreover, because no matter how much is understood by the contractor himself, even if the contract is terminated, it cannot be taken back by the Book of Merits." said Pea.
"It sounds wonderful, but it won't be too simple?" Rong Yuan asked.
"Yes." Pea said, "The probability of an intelligent life having the required comprehension is one in a trillion. If your comprehension is slightly lower, this will be just an ordinary stone to you, and you may not gain anything from it in your lifetime. Moreover, exchanging it to improve [Intelligence] will not help increase your comprehension ability at all."
——Trillion? The total number of humans on Earth is only seven billion... Well, considering the invisible microns, perhaps this number can be adjusted up a few times, but the total number will never reach a trillion.
Rong Yuan smiled and said, "I like challenging things, peas, exchange."
"Are you sure?" Wandou hesitated at this moment. Rongyuan now has more than 257 million merits, and most of them are the huge gains from the last earthquake. It is unknown when he will be able to accumulate so much again . Although there are cheap cultivation methods in the Merit Mall, the merit requirements for the better ones all start at 100 million.
"I'm not blindly confident, but I won't be satisfied unless I try." Rong Yuan saw its worry and said nonchalantly, "I still have a lot of time now, enough for me to start all over again after making mistakes. If I really don't have that talent, I still have a chance to accumulate enough merit to exchange for normal skills. Don't worry, Pea."
Wandou felt relieved, smiled a little embarrassedly, clicked confirm, and completed the exchange.
A small stone fell into Rong Yuan's palm. He held it gently. With a slight coolness, the stone did not react at all, as if he was holding just an ordinary stone picked up from the river.
After a long time, Rong Yuan felt as if he heard faint music. When he listened carefully, he could not catch anything. He couldn't even tell whether the sound just now was his hallucination.
He came back to his senses and saw Wandou looking at him with some concern, with her thin eyebrows slightly furrowed, as if she was worried that he would be disappointed. So Rong Yuan smiled again and said, "Let's go down and meet the guest."
In order to facilitate communication, Pea obediently turned into an invisible headset. Rong Yuan put it on, took out the universal translator mask and put it on, activated the mimicry suit, turned into an ordinary young man, controlled the rain shuttle to slowly descend, walked out from the corner of the church, and walked straight to the homeless man who was still lying on the stone bench.
The tramp suddenly shuddered in his sleep and muttered something that no one could understand.
