Interlude Reality 02: Reason and Matter Chapter 7: The Unspeakable Message
There was no need to deliberately add any old-fashioned filters or anything fancy to create a good atmosphere. Although Zhang Lingmeng was only a teenager or a junior high school student, it was obvious that she had a clear view of such major issues and would not joke around here at all.
It can be seen that the girl has indeed carefully arranged a lot of things for the Spiral Company. From the tip of the iceberg shown in the film, it can be seen that the place where Li Lin and Zhang Lingmeng are currently located is only a small part of the entire Spiral Company structure. Other places are still interacting and building with countless nanomachines and large-scale engineering machinery at the same time. There are even some nuclear fusion reactors specially used for commercial operations that have been sent one by one to certain corners or dark rooms to provide power for the entire Spiral Company.
The production lines and defense mechanisms have also been set up. Judging from the scenery that the reconnaissance machine saw before it stepped out, the entire Helix Corporation already has the foundation of other large multinational companies. With the full support of AI judgment, technology and related things are not a problem at all. As long as the nanomachines are used for targeted reproduction and reinforcement, all other contradictions are not a big problem. If the computing power is sufficient, everything can be solved.
This simple and crude idea and spirit is reflected everywhere within the Spiral Corporation, so much so that when the reconnaissance machine walked outside, the camera on the side and rear could see the huge steel plate lying on the outside of the moon rock like a curtain. The fluorescent light shining on the LOGO looked like a behind-the-scenes boss.
"It should be for aesthetics. I left it to AI to design and organize it. I didn't intervene at all."
The little girl frowned as she looked at the company structure displayed by the reconnaissance machine, seeming a little dissatisfied.
She is essentially an efficiency-oriented person who doesn't like any degree of waste or other things that are not related to work. Although she is very focused on having fun and her own ideas, she often shows a terrible hostility when something she cares about is wasted.
For example, the little girl's apology message that Li Lin received after logging off and going back online yesterday, she also put on a very scary look at the time, and apologized to Li Lin in a grand manner, saying that her time estimate was wrong. Although Li Lin herself did not care too much, it was obviously a big deal for this opinionated little girl. And she herself paid unusual attention to such things, which was even more so.
"Why is this happening? This is completely different from my original idea and plan. They should be more precise..."
"Maybe the AI thinks this is good? If the AI doesn't make mistakes, then isn't it good to just watch from the sidelines?"
"That's true, but I hate things like this that are out of plan."
Very very annoying.
Seeing that even if the reconnaissance mecha walked into the Darwin mine, there would be faint light and shadows around it, and the little girl's face became more and more ugly.
The productivity that she originally thought might be insufficient actually seemed to be quite sufficient. She could often see the logos looming on some silver-white signs, which looked very technological, with an inexplicable sense of the times. However, this was undoubtedly a mockery to the pragmatic girl. So she basically watched the reconnaissance mecha go through the last spiral engineering structure with a gloomy face.
After a few minutes of fast forwarding, the scenery around the reconnaissance mech gradually became deep and full of some abnormal patterns. The surrounding structures also gradually became old and dilapidated. There were even some electric sparks bursting out from the inside from time to time, which looked extremely dazzling and scary.
Looking at the slightly dark scene on the screen, the little girl's brows gradually relaxed and she smiled.
"Now we have finally reached the interior of the Darwin Mine..."
“Is there such a big difference between the inside and the outside?”
"Of course."
In response to Li Lin's question, the little girl gave him a bright smile and nodded vigorously.
"Because the entire internal logic is completely different, the overall architectural style and related building order, structure, and support points are all completely different. The original style was more complicated, and some unnecessary support points were due to concerns about the survival of ordinary humans, as well as pure calculation errors and redundancy. So the internal things can be seen at a glance. This kind of thing is completely basic for those of us who have a database."
"Really? Then these things can be considered as AI's own creation? Or is it something else?"
Are these seemingly regular patterns decorations?
Pointing at some abnormal images appearing on the screen, Li Lin raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The little girl also looked a little bewildered, and curiously found the relevant data and photos to compare with each other. Looking at the strange traces and structures left on the wall, she showed some signs of thinking.
“How strange…”
Looking at the pictures captured in the video, the little girl magnified the structure of a series of traces in a somewhat strange way and fell into deep thought.
"There are no similar pictures in my database, nor any reports of relevant data. If these things are man-made, it is impossible for there to be zero records in the database, unless these things appeared after the Darwin Mine was closed? But is this possible?"
"It's not impossible, is it? Haven't you checked it yourself? These videos?"
"No? Because the best things should be shared with the people you love the most, so I waited until you came here, Brother Li Lin, before I read these things."
“…”
Looking at the seemingly calm little girl, Li Lin opened his mouth, but his thoughts on what he was going to say were immediately shattered by this straight shot.
After staring at Zhang Lingmeng who was concentrating on watching the video for a while and confirming that she seemed to have said such words unconsciously, Li Lin sighed helplessly, turned his head and continued to look at the scene that seemed to be getting more and more weird. The things he had thought of in his mind suddenly became a mess.
He had wanted to speculate what these patterns were, but because of the girl's unhesitating direct shot, Li Lin fell into some kind of confusion. The keywords and some guesses in his mind were all mixed up into a mess at the girl who was still watching the video very seriously, and continue to stay beside her to observe the traces on the video.
