Volume 1 Chaos Comes Chapter 21 Chaos Coming
I still remember the afternoon of May 8th of that year, which was the day of the Victory Day of World War II. I was studying by the window of the library at that time. I accidentally glanced at my mobile phone and found dozens of notification messages.
When I opened them, I found that they were all Mai Ge's inner confessions and emotional outbursts. It turned out that he had been pursuing my high school classmate before, and had just been clearly rejected.
Tsk, this guy is hiding quite deeply.
While I was thinking about how to reply, the other party was still sending messages one by one -
I turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon only shines on the ditch...
...Uh uh, when did this guy become so literary? Is this the kind of thing where grief and indignation breed the poet?
Seeing this, I immediately opened the voice call, got his location and rushed over immediately. When I saw this big guy, I took him to the barbecue restaurant that Zhong Mengxun and I had been to before without saying a word.
He did drink a lot that day, and I ate a lot of barbecue with him, but I didn't drink a drop of alcohol.
Because the evening is the time I was scheduled to do the experiment.
It was completely dark when I arrived at the lab. I connected the cables according to the operating specifications and turned on the computer, water cooling, liquid nitrogen and voltage source in turn. Because today was a high voltage measurement, I started the amplifier after the voltage indication stabilized.
Wearing insulating gloves, I gently turned the button. The colors on the screen gradually changed, and on another monitor was playing the video recorded in the nervous system that Ning Yu'an had previously sent.
I compared the two screens carefully, and suddenly my stomach started to churn.
According to the operating regulations, I should turn off all the instruments one by one at this time, wait for the person to come back, and then set up the equipment for measurement. If I really do that, the data measured before will be unusable because I have to recalibrate.
I'm just going to the bathroom, it shouldn't be a big deal, I'll be back soon.
When I turned off the lights and went out, I saw that the lights were on in the office next door, so someone must be studying there.
The brain is the carrier of thinking.
To be precise, if there are no mysterious things like fire-breathing dragons in the garage, then the brain is the only carrier of human thinking. The material structure of the brain stores all the information, all tendencies, all beliefs and desires, and all thoughts of intelligent creatures.
So, what if someone could recreate this neural structure that carries all of our consciousness on board in a piece of metal?
If the structures of the two are approximately equivalent at this moment, then this piece of metal seems to have obtained all the information and all the action tendencies contained in the brain at this moment.
And when the two are also dynamically equivalent and completely independent of each other, then at this point, this block of metal has completely realized the function of the brain.
Therefore, it possesses all the information and tendencies in the brain, and under the premise of sufficient energy, it also has the ability to think actively and its understanding of the world...
and desires that are empty concepts and have no body to fulfill.
This artificially created new life tried hard to perceive its own body, and after a moment it realized the existence of body electricity, which gave it its first sense: touch.
The cables on the sample that were not connected to any other instruments were shaking slightly, curling and stretching like octopus tentacles.
At a certain moment they suddenly twitched nervously, and after a while they collapsed on the optical platform as if they were tired of playing.
This was repeated several times, and finally it mastered the method of accurately controlling its tentacles. The cables that were just tangled together began to stretch outwards and grope around.
The metal tip of one of them hooked the copper wire placed on the optical platform and slowly pulled it out. The stripped copper wire drove the roller to rotate slowly, making a slight friction sound.
Soon, several large coils of copper wire were hooked in its "hands", and it tried to inject current into them. The copper wire stretched out, then slowly curled up with the same curvature, winding into a large coil in mid-air.
This is a giant electromagnet.
It decided to slowly distribute the voltage to the coil, and the reading on the amplifier gradually increased from 200 V to nearly 1000 V. The violently changing magnetic field vibrated the small iron sheet in the old speaker in the corner, causing it to emit a sharp and strange wail.
That was the first cry of chaos coming to the world.
All the iron-containing equipment vibrated violently under the influence of the magnetic field. Soon the neodymium magnet on the table broke free from the table's gravity and shot towards the center of the coil like a cannonball.
Various magnetized parts were also captured by the giant hand in the center from all directions of the room, whistling as they cut through the air. The electromagnet in the corner was dismantled into pieces and swallowed up by it like a pile of cookie crumbs.
It played with the hard metal material in its hand, kneading it into a metal rod with the power of the field like playing with plasticine. The metal rod slowly curled up under the force, and the outer layer was entangled with fine and dense copper wires, forming an inductor coil together, which was its "stomach".
The inductor required much more energy than the previous electromagnet, which made it notice the hunger. It greedily absorbed energy from the entire power grid, the copper wire became hotter and hotter, and the life form felt more excited than ever before.
With sufficient energy supply, the new life decided to construct its own body, using the materials in the house to mold an irregular mass and slowly wrap the brain inside it.
At this point, its tentacles have been connected to the building's electrical grid and no longer need to be connected to the voltage source connected to the microscope.
It used its tentacles, which were made of deformed tables and chairs, to explore the house, looking for any material that could form a body. Soon it found CDs scattered all over the floor, and the fine lines etched with lasers on them made it very interested.
A moment later, a bigger surprise appeared. The induction from its tentacles told it that the walls of the entire science building were filled with dense steel bars, which were tailor-made for the construction of the body. It groped the wall and found that such high-quality steel was buried shallowly at a depth of about five centimeters below. It could be pulled out with a little effort.
I hurried out of the bathroom, worried, and walked back to the lab through the dark corridor. I stamped my feet with all my strength, but the voice-activated light refused to light up.
I gave up trying to regain my normal strength, and now I could faintly hear singing in the distance.
The voice was like a snake, sliding towards me along the wall of the corridor.
"Wisdom is ~so simple~~"
The cheerful voices of children echoed in the empty corridor. I stopped and concentrated to realize that the music was coming from the direction of the laboratory.
"Why is it thundering and raining?"
Because the lights in the corridor couldn't be turned on, I could only follow the faint light coming from the office next door and move forward again. After a moment, the light suddenly went out.
"Why is there winter and summer?"
I walked to the French window, the glass curtain wall opened on the side, outside the window was a deep summer night, street lights flickered, and the lonely moon was pale. I heard the singing in the distance getting louder and louder, and I slowed down my pace a little. An indescribable fear slowly took shape in my heart.
"There are so many unknown mysteries~ The world is simple~ and yet not simple~"
The faintly discernible child's voice gradually turned into a harsh sound of metallic friction. After hearing this, I no longer had the courage to leave the moonlight and walk towards the darkness at the end. The sharp and weird music surrounded my ears, and my instinct told me that I must leave this place now.
"I don't know the mysteries of the world, which are so numerous and so simple, but not——"
The singing stopped abruptly, replaced by loud sounds of metal colliding, crisp sounds of glass splashing, dull sounds of concrete collapsing, and faint screams mixed in.
Those screams sounded a bit like human voices .
I vaguely felt something approaching me from the darkness, and instinctively took a few steps back. As I retreated, I suddenly felt a surge of mania and dizziness.
Later I realized that the discomfort was caused by the strong electromagnetic field emitted by the metal.
A huge black mass that was shaking violently filled my vision, revealing a hideous and strange face under the moonlight. Its body was covered with strange tentacles that kept shaking, and the exposed steel bars on the sides of its body were still connected to the wall, like exposed nerves between broken flesh and blood.
There was a faint , and my instinct for survival drove me to use all my strength to run towards the emergency exit light behind me. I jumped down the stairs, but the sharp scream behind me, like a knife, did not go away.
After I rushed out of the science building, I ran towards the south gate of the school, which was the closest gate to the science building. My throat and nose were full of the taste of blood, and I didn't know how long I ran.
As I was crossing the lawn, I was tripped by a branch and flew a long way.
I wiped the blood off my face, stretched out my hands to support myself and tried to stand up, but my legs were weak. I looked in the direction I came from, and saw the tall science building slowly collapsing in the distance.
Crumbles of dust mixed with the smell of blood, accompanied by various screams, came to my face.
I breathed heavily and tried my best to stand up again, but I felt nauseous in my stomach.
At this time, a meteor in the sky streaked across the night sky, emitting a brilliant glow, and seemed to have landed not far from the lawn.
The phone in my pocket suddenly rang, and the sound was very, very loud, probably exceeding the maximum volume.
The strange thing is that I vaguely remember that I had always set it to vibrate when incoming calls.
I fumbled in my pocket with my numb fingers for a long time before I finally grabbed the phone. After unlocking the screen, the call notification did not show the other party's name, but only a line of unreasonably large words:
Please answer this call immediately
I hesitated for a moment and pressed the green microphone button.
