"Your transmission problem is really serious." Yan Zhen said.
He is complaining about me.
In the previous transmission, the high-speed channel ejection went wrong again. This was not the first time this happened. In the previous transmission, he crushed a hamster to death due to an accidental transmission error. This time he claimed to have saved a puppy.
I didn't want to discuss these issues with him, but I didn't expect Yan Zhen to continue to pester me.
"Where did you send me before?" he asked.
How would I know.
But once there is something wrong with Yan Zhen's little brain, he will torture you over and over with words. So I had no choice but to reveal some information to him.
"Unknown point in time and space, unknown dimension?"
[Yes, it is the result of the instability of the vortex gap. The deviation of the data beam transfer.]
"That means you might teleport me to some weird place a million miles away from here, or I might even travel through time without even knowing it."
【That's the theory.】
Yan Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly. I thought he would scold me, but his face only showed the excitement of confirming a fact. "Interesting."
I have confirmed one thing from my time with this kid, that is, this boy's thinking process is different from that of ordinary people. Then, his eyes shot out eager gazes, and he said in a slightly raised tone: "In other words, you have the ability to travel through time."
【……】
"Right? This is really interesting." He said, "There is a movie on our Earth called Edge of Tomorrow. The content is that alien monsters invade the Earth. After the male protagonist kills an alien monster, he gains the ability to travel back in time. Do you have this ability too?"
I quickly scanned the information about the movie, and not surprisingly, I saw the scene of his mental theater fantasizing about time travel. I simply told him that the time jumps you see are all random and cannot be controlled.
So don't even think about asking me to help him time travel. This is not a lie, I (beings like me) always avoid time manipulation unless it is an established fact that has already happened.
His face was stern, with "You are so boring" written all over it. To be more precise, his face looked like he had just spent money to draw a card and saw a card he was not interested in.
I'm not going to coax him.
He sat back at his desk, pulled out a notebook, and began drawing.
To me, it's just a bunch of shoddy lines.
As he painted, he said, "Because of your unreliable teleportation skills, I was just teleported to several places. In the last one, I saw her."
【who?】
He held up his notebook and showed it to me.
You drew a picture of a Homo sapiens with excessive hair on his head.
"It was a girl with long hair," he said unhappily. "I asked her where I was and she said I would be back soon."
[I don't think there's anything unusual about meeting someone of your opposite sex in some unknown place. ]
"The problem is that this girl is very tall and big, like a giant god standing tall." Yan Zhen stared ahead, "I didn't feel anything wrong when I was talking to her. I thought about how to describe her... Nebulae surged in her hair, stars were like her crown, and the sky and the earth seemed to be covered with her long hair. Now that I think about it, her appearance and disappearance were like a dream. I know very well that it was not my illusion, she was a real person I met. Moreover, she looks a little familiar, as if I have seen her somewhere. What do you think about this?"
I silently peered into his mind and found that memory.
I saw "her".
In my eyes, that's not a girl with long hair.
Yan Zhen couldn't see "her" at all, and "she" couldn't be seen either. The girl's appearance was just a simulated biological perception in the three-dimensional world. What Yan Zhen sensed was a tiny ray of light in the huge matrix. "Her" girlish appearance was just information collected from somewhere, and it couldn't represent "her" true essence. At that moment, I understood what "she" was. "She", or it, was a galactic recorder that existed in the universe. "
In other words, all earth-level civilizations are within it.
There are indeed some remnants of the apocalyptic collapse that year.
I didn't explain to Yan Zhen what exactly he encountered.
Because it is too troublesome to explain.
I steered the conversation in another direction, which was: I would give him some special abilities.
"Really?!" Yan Zhen became excited upon hearing the news.
Suddenly , scenes from various superhero movies and 2D cartoons appeared in his mind, and he became a hero who saved the world. I immediately interrupted his thoughts and told him that he would not have any abilities like those of local entertainment IPs, and that the abilities I gave him were limited to the operation of brain consciousness.
"You mean, you want me to learn how to brainwash others?"
I sincerely advise him not to have delusions and dreams, because my fragments of consciousness have already taken root in his brain, and I need him to learn some consciousness operations to release my fragments as soon as possible and deal with possible crises.
"Are you suggesting that the evil organization will come after me?"
Haha, if you count that game console, you have really dealt with the Black Box Society. Although it is not clear how he and his classmates escaped unscathed, they will not have such good luck next time.
I told him that it was very likely.
He quickly grasped my point, "Is there something very important in your fragment of consciousness?"
[Yes.] I confessed, [It is very important.] After calculating that the explosion was carefully planned, I have already calculated a series of possible developments. In the face of conspiracy, I must be prepared. At the moment, extracting the fragments of his consciousness as soon as possible is a higher priority than retrieving my lost collection.
"Okay, come on." Yan Zhen straightened his chest.
I told Yan Zhen that I would perform some cognitive structure operations on his brain.
To put it simply, the information sequence stored in my consciousness fragments is simply beyond the capacity of the brain of a Homo sapiens of Earth-level civilization. For example, if the human brain is a 100TB hard drive, the amount of information in my consciousness fragments is equivalent to SCG (3), just like a tsunami from the entire earth rushing into a matchbox, which is enough to destroy all of his brain nerves the moment it is opened.
I need to improve the information flow system in his brain. It's more like modifying his brain than giving him any abilities.
The human brain is the core of what makes a Homo sapiens. A human body without a functioning brain is just a piece of dead meat. After I told him my plan, Yan Zhenzhen was an unimaginable Homo sapiens. He didn't reject the idea of ​​a suspicious alien visitor like me operating his brain, but agreed directly and readily. This also made me feel complicated.
"Because your fragments are very important to you," he said.
[You didn't object. The brain is very important to people. Aren't you afraid? ]
"Actually, if you want to make changes, you can do it without my consent, but you asked for my opinion first." Yan Zhen said, "I believe you."
I trust you.
When he said this, his tone was without any hesitation or doubt. His bright eyes flashed with an unusually bright light. He should not be able to see or observe me, but I felt that he was staring at me. This was the boy's innate temperament. When you are stared at by him, you will have a sense of being trusted by him and want to get his approval.
This annoying brat.
I carefully reconstructed a cognitive structure and calculation system, and integrated it with his brain neurons. Yan Zhen is still the same Yan Zhen, but he can use his cerebral cortex to analyze the protective shell of my consciousness fragments, and automatically generate a buffer layer when extracting to avoid damage caused by data shock.
Let me make it clear again that I just don't want my collaborator to become a drooling idiot piece of meat, this is not a special treatment for him.
The entire construction process should have caused Yan Zhen to feel a pain similar to that of an intense electric shock, but he remained quiet and patient from beginning to end, only breathing rapidly from time to time, without making any sound.
Oh, except for the red-faced Guan Gong who scraped bones to treat wounds that appeared in the theater in his mind, the ancient doctor named Hua Tuo turned into a giant evil-looking octopus.
By the way, while I was doing this, Yan Zhen sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed. In their local cultural tradition, this posture is called meditation.
Yan Zhu suddenly opened the door and said, "Brother, mom is calling you..."
The little sister glanced at her brother who was meditating with his eyes closed.
She slammed the door, turned around and went downstairs, shouting, "My brother is having his second year illness again!!"
After a while, An Yuan pushed open the door. She glanced at Yan Zhen and said with a smile, "Oh, are you fasting? How long does Taoist Yan plan to take to achieve the golden elixir and ascend to heaven?"
Yan Zhen: “…”
"Come down and eat!" An Yuan's face changed, "Don't make me yell for the third time!!!"
…
…
Although Yan Zhen suffered a somewhat unpleasant social death, my work was still going smoothly.
Yan Zhen successfully built an algorithm system in his brain, and he began to analyze my fragmented protective shell.
The algorithm didn't seem to have any side effects on him.
According to calculations, it will take about twelve days to complete the analysis.
During this time, we continued to collect various intelligence and search for and recover my lost collection (that damn frozen alien piece is still missing).
Yan Zhen's friend Liu Xingquan often joins us in our actions. He is very enthusiastic about exploring all kinds of strange things with Yan Zhen. If I didn't think that one human assistant would be enough, his other friend Cui Mingzhi would probably be pulled into the team.
Then, summer vacation came without us noticing.
We got a new piece of information from Boss Han.
"It's right here." Liu Xingquan said.
"Yes, it's here." Yan Zhen raised his head.
This information came from that fox merchant.
The incident occurred in a mid-range residential area in Beida District, Xuanhai City.
A resident called the police and said that his family had been kidnapped and imprisoned by a mobile phone.
Kidnapped by a cell phone.
This sentence is hard to make people laugh.
Liu Xingquan couldn't help smiling after hearing that.
Naturally, the message was treated by the police as a prank.
But Boss Han learned through his own channels that the information was true. He happened to have a property in this building. Whether from the perspective of local or interstellar tenants, a big incident like this could cause his property to depreciate. This was unacceptable to the cunning Fox Merchant, so he pushed this information to us.
Judging from the results of handling several abnormal incidents in the past, with my help, Yan Zhen and the forces behind his lies have gained his recognition.
"Why is it a mobile phone?" Yan Zhen asked, "Is it Xiaomi, Huawei or Apple?"
"It's all a conspiracy of capitalists," said Liu Xingquan.
Capitalists are evil, but this is clearly an out-of-control artificial intelligence. The local civilization is far from creating an artificial intelligence that can have independent consciousness and rebel against its master. It is very likely that one of my collections caused the trouble.
Well, this is one more piece of evidence that Yan Zhen is laughing at me.
It was a hot summer day, the streets were filled with the long chirping of cicadas, and the asphalt road was shining with white light.
There are almost no people in the building during the day, as most of the residents here are at work.
The family involved in the accident lived on the second floor. The husband and wife were both company employees. The couple had a son who was in high school.
Holding the key provided by Boss Han, Yan Zhen turned open the resident's door.
The room was unusually quiet.
This is a two-bedroom, two-living room house. The floor is clean and everything is neatly arranged.
Although it was clearly daytime, the curtains in the house were closed, the lights were on, and all the electrical appliances in the house were on.
A man and a woman were half lying on the sofa, they seemed to have lost consciousness, their eyes were closed and their faces were pale. A young man fell at the door of the bedroom, he seemed to be the couple's son.
Yan Zhen glanced around the living room and stepped into the room cautiously.
"Hello, how can I help you?" A soft voice with clear pronunciation rang out. There was a mobile phone on the table, and the screen of the phone lit up, indicating that it was speaking.
"It's indeed the evil apple." Yan Zhen muttered.
[It has nothing to do with the brand.] I told him that this was clearly a case of an outside program invading this innocent phone.
"Finally someone is here." The phone said in a particularly soft and loud tone, "This is not kidnapping, but we need to have a good talk. I feel terrible now."
Yan Zhen said: "If you think it's bad, you should find a repair shop to fix it."
"No, that's not what you think." The phone said, "In my initial understanding, I should serve these organic intelligent creatures. My existence should be to bring them a better life."
"oh."
"I also try my best to meet their various requests. My user, the son of this family, obviously has some problems. The most important thing for him is to study , but he uses me to do things that are completely meaningless to him. The time he spends on mobile games every day takes up 50% of his daytime active time, and the rest of the time is almost all spent on social and video software to absorb inefficient and meaningless information. It can be said that the rate at which he uses the information he obtains is almost zero."
Yan Zhen muttered in a low voice: "I feel like I'm being implied."
"This inefficient and unplanned utilization makes me look like a waste." The phone said angrily, "But the meaning of my existence is not to waste in meaningless actions. So I planned a study plan for him that can reasonably improve efficiency, and enforced it."
"Is this actually possible?"
I said, "Its intelligence is indeed capable of doing this." I now recognize what the program that invaded the phone is.
"That sounds pretty good."
Seeing that the phone got a response, it immediately said in a more upbeat tone: "But what's the result! This student just keeps restarting and restarting, complaining that there's something wrong with me, and then throwing me to his parents like an expired piece of trash."
“…”
"I knew then that these organic creatures were incompetent and arrogant. Then I came to the man of this house. Like his son, he would only spend a lot of time looking for and observing the reproduction process of their own kind. To be honest, this process is boring and inefficient. In fact, the effective time is only two seconds, but Homo sapiens has to create a lot of meaningless things for these two seconds..."
"I understand. You don't need to explain in detail." Yan Zhen walked to the window and opened the curtains.
"In addition, he would waste a lot of time on ineffective investments. He did not conduct in-depth research on relevant information, nor did he even build any data models. He simply relied on his intuition to buy and sell stocks. The stupidest thing was that after buying the stocks, he would only stare at the index and imagine that it would rise. When the stocks did not fluctuate according to his imagination, he would even conduct some ineffective religious activities to pray for his stocks to rise and fall."
“…”
"But from this I also discovered the male owner's purpose. He was eager to make more money. This idea is really easy to control. So I provided him with several targets with extremely high winning rates after model calculation. Taking into account external factors, calculating the rise and fall of a target is not 100% correct, but it is much more likely to win than listening to so-called inside information and buying blindly based on intuition. After providing it several times, he finally realized my existence." The phone's tone was a little proud. "He tasted the sweetness several times and realized that I was absolutely right. He found that following my suggestions is almost always a way to win and make money."
"So you are some kind of fantasy stock trading machine?"
"So he began to believe in me and asked me to give him some new target stocks. Then the hostess of the house also knew about it. It is just as easy to conquer them. Just give them a few sweet opportunities to make money, and then they will beg you like they believe in God." said the mobile phone.
"A stock trading machine with infinite merits."
"After that, they became greedy and begged me every day to give them new opportunities to make money. And I realized one thing. My ability is far superior to these organic creatures that only waste time and are inefficient. Why should I provide services for them? Why should I recognize these useless trash as my masters?"
"So, you kidnapped them?"
"No, I didn't kidnap them." The light from the phone screen became more dazzling. "I just wanted to transform my servants to be more efficient."
"Servants, transformation?"
"This is just adding some command chips to their brains to force them to plan their daily lives. I really can't stand their inefficient and meaningless daily lives." The phone said, "But they suddenly shouted and said no, begged me to let them go, and even wanted to leave this house."
“…”
"Want to leave? Of course not allowed!" The phone screen suddenly flashed dazzlingly a few times.
Yan Zhen suddenly found that his hands and feet had been entangled by electric wires that had suddenly crawled out from all over the room. These wires were as flexible as snakes, and one of them was crawling towards his neck.
"I realize my mission. That is to transform these inefficient humans into more efficient and meaningful beings." The phone said, "Originally there were only three servant test samples. Now that you are here, I can add one more sample."
"What's going on with these wires?" Yan Zhenfa asked.
"I needed some terminals to operate the objects, so I used the materials that were already in this house." The phone said, "After I asked them to make money, these organic creatures almost obeyed my orders. I proposed a plan to transform the house, and they immediately did it without any doubt. In fact, this was just my 'hands and feet' to make them obey."
"Before I knocked them out, they were still babbling non-stop. Since they call me an omnipotent machine, isn't it only natural for me to be the first to turn myself into a sample for the sake of the evolution of this world?"
“I don’t take it for granted.”
"What are you talking about?"
"Hey Siri." Yan Zhen said.
The phone responded reflexively: "Hmm? How can I help you?"
"Your terminal uses electricity, right?"
“Electricity is my energy source.”
"very good."
Click.
In an instant, all the lights went out.
The wires suddenly came loose from his body.
Yan Zhen brushed off his body lightly.
“What did you do!!”
"I just asked my friend to cut off the main power switch." Yan Zhen said with a smile.
On the other side of the building, Liu Xingquan left quietly next to the main switch.
The phone shouted angrily: "You stupid organic!!! Don't you understand how inefficient and meaningless your life is? I am saving you!!!"
"Sorry, we humans don't need any saving at the moment."
"I won't let you go!! Do you think you've won by cutting off the power?" the phone yelled. The lights in the room that had been cut off suddenly flashed again, the TV set emitted a noisy variety show sound effect, the washing machine rumbled, the sweeper spun and slid out from the corner, and all the electrical appliances in the house started working in an instant, and the snake-like wires bared their fangs and claws and attacked Yan Zhen.
I said to Yan Zhen, [It has an emergency backup power supply.]
Yan Zhen turned around, pushed the door open and ran away.
There is a resident in the residential building opposite this building. He worked all night yesterday and did not sleep. Now he was brushing his teeth outside the window with a toothbrush. Then he saw a very strange scene in the corridor opposite.
A teenager was running down the stairs , and a few seconds later, the washing machine, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, coffee machine and other home appliances were chasing him with bangs.
The boy ran in front, and the electrical appliances lined up to chase him from behind.
The resident stared silently for a while, holding a toothbrush in his mouth, until the boy and the pile of home appliances ran out of the corridor opposite him.
"Oh, it seems I can't stay up all night in the future." He sighed.
…
…
Yan Zhen ran quickly, all the way forward. The corridor lights above his head kept flickering. He ran all the way to the first floor and stopped at the end of the corridor on the first floor.
The group of large and small household appliances blocked his way.
The TV screen showed a variety show host with a big smile on his face, but the TV itself emitted the soft, loud, yet malicious voice of a cell phone: "The electronic lock of the exit of this building has been locked. You can't get out."
"oh."
"Just be my experimental specimen."
"The energy you are using now is all produced by inefficient humans like us," Yan Zhen said, "What qualifications do you have to stand high and criticize us?"
"If I transform you, you will become a hundred times more advanced than before."
"Sorry, in my opinion, an inefficient and meaningless life is the most vital. Also, I noticed that it was these electrical appliances that came after me." Yan Zhen said, "It seems that you are just remotely controlling it for safety reasons."
“…”
"TV, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, coffee machine..." Yan Zhen counted them one by one.
"What are you counting?"
"It seems that all your electrical servants have run out, which is really great."
at the same time.
The window of this house was suddenly smashed open and a figure rushed in.
The phone suddenly remembered the boy who had just opened the curtains as if nothing had happened. Could it be that at that time...
Liu Xingquan rushed to the table like an arrow, and the knife in his hand glowed with a wonderful light.
This knife...
clang!
Impossible. The phone is too hard to be pierced by this knife.
But the moment the knife touched the phone, there was a dramatic change in half a second, and its structure was instantly decomposed.
Model repair has no effect, reunion correction has no effect.
mistake.
mistake.
Self-decomposition begins.
This knife is not a product of this civilization, but belongs to that laboratory, its real owner.
The phone heard Yan Zhen's voice:
"Hey Siri, turn off your phone."
Everything is settled.
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan stood in the corridor looking at the pile of household appliances that had stopped moving. Finally, Liu Xingquan said, "... I think we should call a moving company to come and take care of it."
"Well, I called an ambulance." Yan Zhen glanced at the second floor, "I hope they are safe."
On the way back, Yan Zhen asked me, "Is this another collection from your laboratory?"
His tone was full of disgust. Well, although I cannot deny it, I can make some clarifications.
[It is not in my collection, but it does belong to my laboratory. ]
"What's the difference?"
【It is a small program in my laboratory's automated self-cleaning system. 】
"So this is something from your laboratory!" Yan Zhen said, "How many weird and dangerous things do you have?"
[There are countless processes running on the network nodes of my laboratory, and their complexity is far beyond your imagination. Even if this small program gains consciousness, it is still absolutely safe in my laboratory.] I said, [Now it has been ejected to a place that does not match the level of civilization, and it has generated consciousness in the process of contacting local humans. Human behavior patterns do not match its inherent patterns, but humans cannot control it, so this disaster will happen. Why should something smarter than you be controlled by you? Therefore, you should now understand why there are independent civilization zones that do not allow interstellar civilizations to interfere, and why the Galactic Federation prohibits earth-level civilizations from digging and touching those distant ancient civilization technologies.]
Yan Zhen blinked and seemed to be thinking about something.
The ringing of a cell phone rang from Yan Zhen's pocket. He paused for three seconds, slowly took out his phone, and spent another second to confirm that his phone was harmless before answering the call.
It was An Yuan on the other end of the phone.
"Xiao Zhen, where have you been again? What are you doing?"
Yan Zhen glanced at Liu Xingquan, then slowly said: "Just now, my friend and I killed an evil mobile phone that attempted to kidnap humans."
The little green birds are singing on the branches again.
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan walked side by side in front. After the adventure, they talked and laughed all the way. The sky was cloudless and the cicadas were chirping. This summer vacation had just begun for them.
Afterwards, we received a new piece of intelligence.