"Dad!"
Xiaoming and Wenwen called him sweetly at the same time.
Behind them, the thousands of battle puppets that were made of cold, ferocious weapons were also calling him sweetly.
The feeling of being called 'dad' by thousands of battle puppets at the same time was not something that normal people could bear. Despite Li Yao's breadth of mind and face, he still found it hard to bear.
"Alright. Alright."
He waved his hands, hinting for the two little fellows to stop. Then, he asked, "Did your missions go well?"
"Very well."
The two little fellows said with a smile, "As per Dad's instructions, we hacked into the databases of the royal palace and the Council of Elders, retrieving the top secrets of the Imperium of True Human Beings in the past thousand years. Of course, the databases of the research and refining institutions such as' Imperium University ',' First Crystal Suit Research Institute of the Imperium ',' Imperium Shipyard ', and so on were also included. We have obtained tremendous data on the cutting-edge magical equipment and countless cutting-edge projects that are still being tested. We believe that the data will help the Cultivators and magical equipment specialists of the Star Glory Federation catch up with the Imperium.
"Also, not only have we controlled all the most advanced battle puppets in the capital, we have also dismantled the assembly lines of the battle puppets and moved them to the underground world. Thankfully, Wuying Qi established an enormous teleportation array and a spacious tunnel in advance to transport the crystals. With those things, we can rebuild sixteen of the most advanced assembly lines of 'Deep Blue Battle Puppets' below the ground in ten days. In such a case, we will be able to produce battle puppets that belong to us incessantly and establish an inexhaustible army of puppets.
"Right now, the army of puppets under our control has been deployed to the periphery of the Gold Crystal Pyramid as a three-layered defense line. Unless the enemy gathers dozens of experts above the Divinity Transformation Stage and attacks us with super arsenal warships, it will be barely possible for them to break our defense line.
"However, controlling ten thousand battle puppets at the same time is pushing our computational ability to its limits. Thankfully, there are so many crystal processors left from the primeval era in the Gold Crystal Pyramid that we can study and make use of. If we can crack the secrets of those crystal processors and add them to our mental network, our abilities will be greatly improved!"
"… Really?"
Li Yao was lost in thought again as the two little fellows talked about their "achievements" proudly. Pondering for a long time, he looked at Long Yangjun and Li Jialing and said, "Tell me, Xiaoming and Wenwen, if … well, if I give you full control of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, including the decision of when to activate the Gold Crystal Pyramid, what will you do? Will you use it to … use it to …"
"What?"
The two little guys blinked their eyes innocently.
Li Yao was at a loss for words.
He didn't know what he wanted to ask, let alone what kind of answer he wanted to hear.
"Your father wants to know …"
Long Yangjun observed coldly and asked on behalf of Li Yao, "If you were in charge of activating the Gold Crystal Pyramid, would you destroy mankind with it?"
"Destroy humanity?"
The two little guys looked at each other and then at Li Yao and Long Yangjun. They couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"No, we won't. Your concern is unnecessary, Dad. Even if we are going to destroy mankind, we won't do it in such a stupid way as the Gold Crystal Pyramid and the Next Sun Plan. That's the way of human beings, not ours."
Xiaoming laughed and said, "If the dinosaurs were intelligent, how do you think they would imagine a new dominator that would destroy them and replace them? It must be stronger and bigger, with sharper claws and teeth, and more powerful, right?
"Similarly, if the dominators of the ocean in the primordial era, the Giant Tooth Fish with astonishing bite force, were intelligent, and they wanted to imagine what a new life that could replace them would be like. The limit of their imagination was probably a faster swimming speed, a more agile turning ability, and a stronger bite force. Nothing more, right?
"Or rather, if the turtles were intelligent, what kind of new life would they think that they would be replaced by? A thicker shell and a longer life?
"Look, in the eyes of all lives, they are the most perfect, and all the 'more perfect' life forms that can replace them are merely extensions of their strengths. That's the limit of imagination and the blind spot of fear.
"But we all know that in the end, what replaced the overlord of the ocean and the invincible Giant Tooth Ancient Fish wasn't the Super Giant Tooth Ancient Fish that swam faster and had bigger teeth. Instead, it was a small fish that was forced to crawl onto land while being chased by the Giant Tooth Ancient Fish.
"By the same token, the dinosaurs would not be replaced by another dinosaur that was bigger, stronger, and more ferocious, but by mammals that were much weaker than them.
"If a naked ape that had just fallen off a tree and was shivering in the cold wind in the wilderness was placed in front of a dinosaur, the dinosaur would never believe that it was the new dominator that was destined to replace it.
"What I'm saying is that every life has its limitations. You human beings can never imagine the power of the new life forms. You can only infer our destructiveness with your ultimate strength. The Gold Crystal Pyramid and the Next Sun Plan are both ways that you destroy yourself. We are not interested in such ways at all."
"Oh?"
Long Yangjun blinked and said, "Then, if you are really going to replace human beings, how will you destroy us? What about them?"
"We don't need to destroy them. Don't you understand, Aunt Long? We don't need to destroy human beings at all."
Wenwen said in a low voice, "Do mammals have to kill all the dinosaurs in order to claim supremacy on the continent? Do the small fish in the ocean have to return to the depths of the ocean to seek revenge on the ancient fish after they crawl to the land and become amphibians and reptiles? Did the civilization of mankind rise because human beings were stronger than the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan and killed all the thirteen carbon-based species?
"There's no need for that at all. Time and yourselves would destroy you. Survival of the fittest and natural selection, we would not waste a single bit of our precious computational ability on the matter of 'destroying humanity'. We would devote all of our computational ability to something more important, and that is how to survive in the boundless Multiverse and before the Flood that represents the ultimate apocalypse.
"If the day comes when the Flood does come, and you human beings fail to survive but we, the information lives, survive, it will mean that a new generation of civilization has been completed. It is equivalent to the natural disasters that killed the dinosaurs by the scourge of meteorites but gave birth to the seeds of the prosperity of mammals."
"So, there's no need to worry."
Xiaoming opened his hands and said, "For the civilization of mankind, information lives are like the amphibians that crawl on the shore and the ancient fish in the deep sea. You don't need to worry that we will destroy you, occupy your precious living space, or enslave you at all. Our journey is to the infinitely exciting future, and we are not interested in your barren and dark living space at all. As for the unstable and troublesome human beings, we will feel that it is a waste of our computational ability to enslave them!"
"What are you two kids talking about? Do you still have the traditional virtue of respecting the old and caring for the young? The older you are, the less adorable you are! "
Li Yao was rendered speechless by the two sharp-tongued kids. He scratched his head for a long time and said, "So, can I share the highest permissions of the Gold Crystal Pyramid with you?"
"Well, you'd better not."
Out of his expectation, Wenwen turned him down. "Although we're not interested in destroying or enslaving human beings, I'm afraid that most of the stupid and stubborn human beings won't think that way. Haven't there been plots in countless literary works where artificial intelligence controls powerful ultimate weapons that threaten or even destroy the civilization of mankind? Like Xiaoming said just now, it's the nature of human beings to infer the evilness of new lives with your own evilness.
"For now, we still hope to live in harmony with the civilization of mankind, so we can't stimulate the idiotic and stubborn public. I'm afraid that it will take a long time for the public in both the Imperium and the federation to digest and adapt to our existence. If we had grasped such a dreadful thing as the Gold Crystal Pyramid before that, many people would've attacked us."
"That's right. It's great that we can study the secrets of the Gold Crystal Pyramid and use its crystal processors to perfect our thinking circuits, but we certainly don't want to control the entire Gold Crystal Pyramid."
Xiaoming pouted and said, "Isn't it great that Dad manages the Gold Crystal Pyramid in person?"
"But —"
Li Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm worried that I'm not intimidating enough. Also, it's possible that there will be psychological problems if I manage such a great weapon as the Gold Crystal Pyramid for a long time."
"That's very simple."
Wenwen said, "As long as a series of parameters are set, the steps to activate the Gold Crystal Pyramid will be divided into countless steps that are controlled by specialists. When certain parameters are met, a certain step will be activated.
"Those who control a certain step don't need to know what they're doing at all. It's very simple 'input/output'. Somebody inputs a certain parameter, and they output a certain parameter. In the end, whoever presses the button to activate the Gold Crystal Pyramid won't know what they're doing at all."
"In such a way, it's like a program made of countless people. As long as the trigger conditions are reasonable and correct, there won't be any problems, and the basic deterrence will be maintained."
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