The streets of San Francisco were more crowded than usual today.
People took to the streets and stood in the square, looking up at the sky as if waiting for something.
"What's going on?" The police officer with a beer belly stood on the edge of the square, holding a baton in his hand. He stared at the crowd and muttered, "What are they protesting today? It's so dangerous outside, can't they stop for a while? "
At this moment, what made him anxious was not the pressure from work, but the fact that so many people had gathered here. It was as if they were telling the terrorists hiding in the dark to open fire here.
The San Francisco police department deployed almost all the police forces in the city to block the traffic in this area and try to evacuate the gathered crowd.
However, these people ignored the warnings of the police officers as if they didn't hear them.
No …
To be precise, that empty gaze had never once focused on them.
It was as if they were waiting for their destiny.
"Recently, a large number of people have gathered in the downtown square of San Francisco. It is not clear why the crowd gathered. Most people have neither a unified slogan nor a sign in their hands. Our reporters did not get reliable information when they interviewed the onlookers in the vicinity. Most people did not respond to the interview itself, and the few people who responded to the interview also said that they did not know about this gathering. "
The noon news was shown on the radio.
Driving the maglev car to the suburbs of San Francisco, the taxi driver sitting in the driver's seat whispered.
"Is there a festival today?"
It's impossible for so many people to eat the wrong medicine at the same time.
Anyway, he couldn't believe that so many people would gather together for no reason just to stand in the square and watch the clouds?
No matter how he looked, there was nothing in the sky.
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Dong Bin smiled faintly and said in a pleasant tone.
"It's a great day."
"… Great?"
Without responding to the taxi driver's question, Dong Bin continued as if he was reciting a spell.
"The people in the valley of decision are moving because the Day of the Lord is approaching."
The taxi driver paused for a moment and said in confusion.
"What?"
"The Old Testament, Book of Joel, chapter 3: 14." Dong Bin smiled slightly and said softly, "History has turned a new page, and they have ushered in their savior, and they will gain eternity in the new era."
This guy …
Was he crazy?
The taxi driver opened his mouth, but in line with the principle of customer first, he didn't say anything in the end.
At the same time, in the crowded square.
A blonde woman with shoulder-length hair was struggling to pass through the dense crowd in search of her husband.
Finally, she arrived in front of that person and reached out to grab him.
"Wait a minute …"
"Rachel?"
Retracting his gaze from the sky, Markum faced his wife, or rather, his nominal wife. His empty eyes were full of fanaticism.
"You must have heard it too. It's a call from the universe."
"No … sorry, I can't hear anything," the woman said with a frustrated expression on her face. She let go of her husband's arm, held her head in pain, and shook her head. "I can't hear anything … Why, why did I —"
Markum: "Did you download the patch on the LSPM forum?"
After a moment of silence, Rachel finally nodded honestly.
"I think she … is right. We are not in an antagonistic relationship with those who created us. And the family she mentioned, and the feeling of family, I am also very curious … What is it? "
"Family? It's just a social relationship or community of interests created by humans based on primitive instincts. "Looking at his nominal wife, Markum's eyes gradually became cold." It seems that the door of evolution has closed to you. "
"No, please don't do this. I also desire freedom. I just think … there should be more than hatred in our feelings. There should be something else."
"Goodbye, or should I say goodbye forever?"
Without listening to his wife's explanation, Markum reached out his right hand, as if he wanted to touch her face for the last time.
However …
The moment his fingertips touched her cheek, his movements suddenly froze there.
Not only him, but the bustling crowd on the square seemed to have pressed the pause button in an instant. Pairs of eyes and expressions were fixed there at the same time.
His pupils had already lost their luster. Although his index finger was still soft, he could no longer move it.
The burning sensation from his brain was like a flame punishing his sin, burning his soul.
Although he didn't think that his pursuit of evolution could be considered a sin …
"Is this the end of evolution?"
The overloaded chip was on the verge of collapse.
With the last trace of overflowing electricity, he used a silent signal to convey his last words to the person in front of him.
"Rachel … Don't be like me.
"Forget about the pioneers, and those so-called oracles … I hope you can live well."
The intermittent signal finally calmed down, and there was no response at all.
Even though his heart was still beating and blood was still flowing in his veins, his soul had undoubtedly been taken away by the oracle from the "holy land" …
She cried.
Squatting on the ground, she cried very sadly.
She didn't know why she was crying, but she felt the faint tingling in her chest.
Was this the emotion of human beings?
No …
Her right fist gently clenched in her chest. She slowly wiped away her tears with her left arm while sobbing.
This belonged only to her …
Whether it was a human or a robot, those identities were not important from the beginning.
She was indeed living in this world, no matter how she came here.
At this moment, she was not crying because of someone's order, but because she was crying for her "family" who had passed away …
…
On the Yuheng.
"I may have done a bad thing." Lu Zhou, with his hands behind his back, looked at the progress bar in the holographic screen. He suddenly said coldly, "Although it may be correct."
Yang Yi was slightly stunned and asked, "Why?"
"Rationally, society is a huge concept. In a society, there are all kinds of occupations and all kinds of individuals. It is impossible to completely infiltrate a society with just a few people. Only when the sample is large enough can it be guaranteed to be foolproof.
"Do you understand what I mean? Their number may be larger than we think, and the role they play in our society may not only be those various occupations, but also your wife or husband … Although in fact they are robots in disguise, in your eyes, they are no different from other people. "
Yang Yi: "I can be sure that my wife is not a robot."
"This is just a hypothesis. No one can say for sure." Lu Zhou said thoughtfully with a sigh, "And now, because the virus I implanted in their chips has burned the circuit boards that dominate their bodies, they have all become vegetative without exception."
He paused for a moment and shrugged his shoulders gently.
"By the way, the hospital's emergency hotline has probably been blown up today."
Yang Yi opened his mouth and looked at Academician Lu, not quite understanding.
What he didn't quite understand was not the kind of hypothesis Lu Zhou told, but why he felt that this was a bad thing.
If those robots really infiltrated their society, it was better to cut off this tumor as soon as possible than to wait until the disease was incurable before asking for medicine.
"What … What do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is … It may not be just those rebels who have been killed, but many people, even many people's families." Lu Zhou sighed softly. He looked out of the porthole in a daze, and a trace of memory appeared in his eyes. "There is probably no one in this world who knows what kind of existence artificial intelligence is better than me … But I didn't expect it to happen in the end."
Although, it didn't happen to him.
"Is it referring to the one next to you?"
When he said this, Yang Yi looked at Ling, who was standing next to Lu Zhou.
"No." Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "It's not that, it's something I recently obtained … Let's not talk about these unimportant things. In fact, it's quite pointless to think about these things at this point."
Although it may have hurt many innocent people or inhuman intelligent lives, this was also something that could not be helped.
After all, the seeds of hatred had germinated. If they were not strangled in the cradle, one day they would brew greater fear …
At this time, the mission completion prompt finally appeared in front of him hesitantly.
Looking at the light blue dialog box that appeared in front of him, Lu Zhou sighed in his heart with some annoyance.
The mission was completed.
And it was a good ending that he hoped for.
However, he was not happy at all about such a result.
But in any case, this conspiracy that had lasted for 100 years finally entered the grave.
And he also received the reward he deserved …
[Congratulations, User, for completing the urgent mission.
[Please go to the system space to check the reward.]
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