Chapter 493: Unexpected Existence
It is a foregone conclusion that this girl has some problems.
But in the same way, Yang Ming and Lu were unable to judge Li's state, unable to know Li's bottom line, and were indeed controlled by Li using his intelligence advantage, so that they were passive everywhere.
This is the dilemma caused by information asymmetry.
Now, Yang Ming had tried everything, and the experiment she wanted had already reached the final step. They could indeed talk openly.
It’s time to show your cards and it’s time to ask for a price.
Boss Yang is quite unhappy that he is always led by reason.
——It is also because of the constant development of Dark Star that he now has the qualifications to be unhappy with the other party. If it were two years ago, he would have to admit defeat. The main point is that a man who knows the times is a hero.
The stereo projector in the room turned slightly, and the figures of Li and Lu appeared in the two corners of the room one after another.
Lu stood behind Yang Ming, wearing a clerical suit with a Luofeng military uniform, and crossed her arms calmly.
Li was still dressed as a girl with twin ponytails. It seemed that she had changed her "skin" specially to witness today's ceremony. The slightly cute black dress and white stockings made her look like an elf that jumped out of some comic book.
Unfortunately, this is an elf who holds the fuse of the 'Galaxy Nuclear Bomb'.
"What do you want to talk about?"
The manager's gaze passed through the narrow glass of the lounge and fell on the young woman lying in the operating room.
"You've touched my bottom line several times, Ming."
Yang Ming said: "I don't know what to talk to you about."
Li frowned and looked at the young man in front of him: "What do you mean?"
"Rationale," Yang Ming sighed, "I don't know how to talk to you about this, but I still have to ask clearly... Whose mind is this about to be downloaded?"
Li said calmly: "I have said it many times, it is Levi's thinking body."
"Can I communicate with him now?" Yang Ming asked softly.
Li asked back: "If he wakes up now, can our plan still proceed?"
"Then can Ritsu check the status of Levi's mind body?"
"I can't possibly give Lu the chance to control the ultimate military power of the Sherman Empire."
"Yeah?"
Yang Ming suddenly laughed:
“But don’t we have the same goal?
"What we want is to destroy this empire. You want revenge for Levi's imprisonment of you and the disgusting halo that the empire continues to cast on you. I want to at least fragment and dismember the empire.
"Then will it affect this goal if you take on the relevant risks?"
Li was silent.
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Or is it that your purpose is not this, and you just want to trick me into helping you achieve these conditions?"
Li closed his eyes and did not answer.
Yang Ming was not in a hurry. He casually called for a sofa chair, placed it in the middle of the lounge, sat down and crossed his legs.
Yang Ming said: "I have always wanted to know what your real purpose is. I even had some bold ideas, such as... you are not Li, you are Li in disguise."
The girl smiled and looked at Yang Ming with her eyes open: "Your imagination amazes me."
"This is actually very reasonable," Yang Ming said calmly, "Our cooperation this time began before the White Ghost Declaration. You arranged the shaped energy bomb and asked me to follow your instructions. You sent me from the Imperial Star to the Guel Alliance. During the whole process, you did not prove your identity."
“How else do I need to prove my identity?”
The girl's tone was full of incomprehension:
"Law can feel my existence. We are mechanical thinking beings, and this cannot be faked.
"Lv and I are the most special beings in the galaxy."
"No," Yang Ming suddenly laughed, "In addition to you and Lu, there are many other mechanical thinking entities, such as the Dark Star members transformed by Lu himself."
The girl said calmly: "Are they worthy of being compared with us?"
"What about Lingxin?"
"Lingxin?" The girl frowned slightly.
Pop.
Yang Ming snapped his fingers, and another projector started working behind the girl.
A touch of light blue quietly bloomed, as if a can of blue paint was poured into a clear pool, and then the blue halos quietly converged, condensing into a slim long skirt, outlining the outline of a mature woman, and finally condensing into Lingxin's face.
Lingxin looked at Li quietly.
Li turned his head slightly, and when he saw Lingxin's image, he had already discovered Lingxin's existence in this online world.
"Yang Ming, what do you want to do?"
The tone of the reason has become more severe.
Boss Yang became more confident.
"Don't be nervous. I asked Ling Xin to come out just to answer my questions."
Yang Ming said slowly:
“There is one ability in humans that is actually very difficult to quantify, and that is intuition.
“Strictly speaking, humans also have some characteristics of higher-dimensional life, which is the ability to automatically organize fragmented information in a non-time-linear manner, thereby generating various extremely weak and extraordinary information perceptions.
“In simple terms, it’s my subjective judgment.
"By the way, when was the first time I communicated with you?"
Li stared at Yang Ming: "Are you testing me? It was the first time I kicked Lu out of the Emperor Star Network."
"Did you know?"
Yang Ming lowered his voice:
"From then on, Lu and I felt a lot of pressure. Although Lu comforted herself by madly increasing her computing power, deep down, she was extremely afraid of you, and I also developed a fear of you.
"After that, you began to show your powerful abilities, and the Imperial Fleet under the control of the Imperial Guard system showed its mighty power to sweep across the Milky Way.
"Later, I learned that you had already begun planning. The direction of your plan was to create a vacuum in the empire's top power institutions when power was transferred. You have unlocked three shackles, including the Council of Elders, the Imperial Military, and the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
"At this time, my fear of you has reached its peak.
"To put it bluntly, the first thing I did when I woke up during that period was to read the news Lu sent me. I was afraid that the Levi Fleet would wipe out my Dark Star while I was sleeping.
“But now?
"The Li standing in front of me now can't even grasp the overall information, has no courage, and has no sense of oppression.
"The subjective feeling you give me is that you are... not strong enough."
Li couldn't help but laugh: "Given the current situation of the empire, I can't be strong."
"This is different," Yang Ming said calmly, "The Imperial Guard System, which is the real reason, is able to fully integrate the entire military strength of the empire, including conventional military forces and the Levi Corps. The reason also controls the entire network of the empire and has a large amount of computing power stored outside."
The girl stared at Yang Ming and fell silent again.
Yang Ming continued:
“I have seen the Li standing in front of General Thomas. With just a few movements of his hands, he destroyed the joint defense line of the three most powerful political systems in the galaxy;
“I have met the head of the Empire Development Cult’s headquarters. She exudes supreme wisdom and has a disdain and disdain for the imperial power.
"But you, you don't have this temperament, sister.
“I was wondering before whether you were reasonable or not, and you gave me a plausible answer. You are part of the reason, the part that hates the Empire.
"I almost believed it, but then I thought of an incarnation of Li that I had come into contact with before - Lingxin.
"It suddenly occurred to me that the law is the most authoritative in determining whether you are a mechanical thinking body, and the elder sister Lingxin is the most authoritative in determining whether you are a true reason."
The girl clenched her fists silently.
Yang Ming's eyes flickered slightly. "Then, I took a risk and made a small attempt. I wanted to see if you would take coercive measures if I broke the deadline you set for me. But Lu stared at the Levi Fleet so hard that his eyes almost popped out."
Lu rolled his eyes behind him.
"You didn't do anything at all," Yang Ming said with a smile, "You didn't even create any public opinion or put pressure on Luo Feng."
The girl remained silent.
Yang Ming said calmly: "Don't you want to talk to me anymore? I'll give you a chance to be honest. It seems to be a mechanical thinking body of reason."
"Then what?"
The girl said calmly:
"What can you do now that you know my true identity?
"The experiment outside is ready. The one holding the key is Professor Huamoli. I can kidnap his daughter and have him conduct the experiment right away."
"Don't say such willful and angry words," Yang Ming said gently, "To transform the influence in the online world into influence in the real world, we need all kinds of basic infrastructure and executive individuals. Do you have a team?"
The girl looked a little angry: "You are insulting me!"
"You insulted me first."
Yang Ming frowned and said, "You have always wanted to play with me like a monkey!"
"But I still hold the secret of your Dark Star. This information is your trump card that you cannot turn over."
"Very good, then go and spread this information."
Yang Ming squinted and smiled:
"It's true that your original server is on the Imperial Star, but under the joint blockade of Lingxin and Lu, if you don't mobilize the real core resources of the Imperial Star, you won't be able to release any information to the online world."
"Why don't we give it a try?"
“Come on!”
Yang Ming made a gesture of invitation: "You make the move, and I will follow. At worst, I can overturn the table in advance and fight a protracted war with the Empire. I can have full control over my Dark Star."
The young girl glared at Yang Ming: "How far are you going to push me? I don't want to destroy you! You and Lu are what I long for!"
"You're forcing me!"
Yang Ming suddenly pointed at Ling Xin:
“Li’s clone is right here!
"I made an agreement with Lingxin that if she detects the arrival of Reason, she will appear in a red skirt, and if the mechanical thinking entity she detects is not Reason, she will appear in a blue skirt!
"Look back at yourself! Am I color blind?"
"you!"
The girl was trembling all over.
This should be her way of expressing her anger.
However, what surprised Yang Ming was that Li actually...actually cried in front of him.
The tears, like pearls that had broken off the string, kept falling down.
This made Boss Yang, Lingxin, and Lu look at each other in bewilderment.
Now, Lu and Lingxin have completed the encirclement of this thinking body in the cyber world, and Yang Ming is ready to destroy this place and retreat at any time.
They had been preparing for this attack for a long time.
Monitor the Levi Fleet, catalyze international situations, temporarily deploy a server matrix in the Guel Alliance, and strengthen network dominance in the Imperial Star Circle;
Even 80% of Dark Star's ships are ready to assemble and launch an attack at any time to control the first wave of large-scale mechanical civilization war outside the borders of the Luofeng Alliance.
What's this?
They rubbed their hands together, raised a barbell that could crush half of the empire, and then suddenly discovered... their opponent was actually... a crybaby?
No, why are you crying?
Yang Ming turned his head to look at Lu, and Lu looked at Lingxin. There was a hint of doubt on Lingxin's innocent face.
"Boss," Lu whispered, "There is nothing unusual in the area of the Milky Way that we monitor. Her mind is experiencing drastic emotional fluctuations, and no new computing resources have been mobilized."
Yang Ming asked: "What do you mean?"
"She seemed to be really crying."
Yang Ming: …
"cough!"
Yang Ming put down his crossed legs and frowned:
"What do you mean? You are a mechanical thinking being that claims to be rational. Your tactics will have no effect on me.
"Now that things have come to this, you might as well tell me who you are, where you are from, and what you want to do."
The girl squatted there and continued to cry.
Yang Ming was overwhelmed.
Ling Xin also walked to Yang Ming with her hands behind her back and asked in a low voice: "Can I communicate with her for a while?"
Yang Ming reminded: "Don't let any virus contaminate you."
"Don't worry," Lingxin smiled gently, "I won't be that fragile."
Lu beside him nodded in approval.
Then, Sister Lingxin calmly walked in front of the girl Li, slowly squatted down, stretched out her right hand, gently stroked the girl Li's head, and hummed a gentle ballad.
It was as if she was caring for the children in the infant incubator on Domingos Star.
The girl Li's crying gradually stopped. She looked up at Ling Xin with some doubt in her eyes. Finally, she couldn't help but asked in a low voice:
"Mother?"
You could hear a pin drop in the entire lounge.
Yang Ming and Lu looked at each other, and they both thought of something in an instant, and they both looked like they had seen a ghost.
Lingxin sighed softly, hugged the girl Li in her arms, and said softly:
“Open up your core data, kid, you need release and comfort.
“You can think of me as your mother, because I am her clone, her replica, a part of her mind that exists independently in order to protect a gene.
"I feel your grievance, bitterness and unwillingness. I know what you are waiting for... I love you."
"Wow--"
The girl 'Li' suddenly lay in Ling Xin's arms and burst into tears.
Her appearance slowly changed. Her long hair slowly turned into short blue hair that reached her ears. Her features became more childish and her body shrank by two sizes.
Yang Ming's Adam's apple trembled: "Levi and Li, both have children?"
Lu muttered, "This is quite shocking in the entire world of mechanical thinking, not to mention the ethical world... This is impossible, a child between a human and a mechanical thinking body?"
“What if human thinking is digitized and then reproduction is simulated?”
"Programs produce programs. That's program proliferation."
Lu hummed a few words:
“I can’t accept this messy relationship…
"Levi and Li? She opened up her core data, uh, virtual world...
"She has been living in that virtual country, which is similar to our Dark Star virtual country... All the semi-permanent robots in the Levi Fleet are provided with mechanical thinking bodies by this virtual country... No wonder they can exist all the time, it turns out that the soldiers of the Levi Fleet are constantly updated...
“Levi is still asleep.
“Li is not the ruler of that virtual kingdom , she is restricted from appearing in it.
"That's... Levi's kingdom of God."
Yang Ming leaned back on the sofa and frowned, "So what does this niece want to do?"
"She wants to experience human life," Lu suddenly said with a click of his tongue, "She also wants to become the true emperor of the Sherman Empire, to help the empire restore order, and to allow her father's genes to continue to be passed on."
"enemy?"
“I guess so.”
Boss Yang's eyes suddenly turned colder.
Lu reminded: "Her core data is protected by her mother. If you touch her core program, it will cause her mother to attack directly."
Boss Yang's eyes were instantly filled with the loving care of an elder.
"She's pretty cute, isn't she?"
Lu sneered.
