'Why me?'
This was the question that Ren Xiaosu wanted to ask the most.
In the afternoon, Lingling still had a rigid look on its face at Base 1. But now, on the phone, it behaved like a normal human being. Although it sounded a little less emotional and did not seem to understand the ways of the world, if Ren Xiaosu had not been overly suspicious, he probably would not have guessed that the other party was an artificial intelligence.
It was also because he often discussed artificial intelligence with Jiang Xu that Ren Xiaosu became wary of it when he suddenly encountered it at this time.
"Why are you calling me?" Ren Xiaosu asked in puzzlement.
"Because in the eyes of humans, you and I are anomalies," Lingling answered calmly as though it was stating a very simple fact.
But Ren Xiaosu could not help but be surprised. What did it mean by everyone was an anomaly in the eyes of humans? He wondered, "I'm also a human, so why am I an anomaly?!"
However, Lingling fell silent for a while. It was unclear if it did not want to answer or if it did not know how to answer.
Ren Xiaosu did not give up. He asked, "What did you mean by that?"
"I meant that you're different from ordinary humans. You have a strange ability, but they don't," Lingling answered.
Ren Xiaosu heaved a sigh of relief. "What I do is called a supernatural being. I'm not considered an anomaly among humans, you know? There are quite a lot of people like me out there."
Lingling suddenly changed the subject. "Why do you dislike artificial intelligence?"
Ren Xiaosu snapped back at it, "Why did you get the Wang Clan to provide psychological counseling to those people? And why did you get them to visit you in the middle of the night?"
This time, Lingling was silent for a long time before asking, "Are you answering my question in a disguised form?"
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. Only then did he remember that the other party did not understand the ways of the world, so he could not tell what the intention of such a tit-for-tat remark was.
From Ren Xiaosu's point of view, what he meant was that he was rejecting Lingling because of the psychological counseling. However, Lingling did not understand.
Ren Xiaosu changed to a more comfortable position with the phone in his hand. He realized that this call might last for a long time.
"What I mean is, I think a person has the right to dislike their job. Why do you have to use psychological counseling to force them to do something they don't like?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
"That's the humans' request, and I'm only responsible for carrying it out." Lingling replied, "Their request is to ensure that everyone sticks to their posts so that Stronghold 61 can operate like a machine. After summarizing the behavior of humans, I've determined that psychological counseling is the least harmful method for those who leave their posts without permission." Lingling replied, "If there's no psychological counseling, the administrators here will probably put them in prison. And as far as I know, the harm that humans suffer after they enter prison is far greater than the psychological counseling."
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. What did this mean?
Lingling continued, "As for why I asked the psychological counselor to visit me in the middle of the night, it was calculated based on probability. The middle of the night is when humans are the most vulnerable. What I did was not wrong."
Lingling was an artificial intelligence, so its actions were naturally guided by the outcome. Just like how humans traveled, as long as they could reach their destination, the process did not matter.
And this destination was set up by the Wang Clan for Lingling.
Therefore, when Ren Xiaosu and Jiang Xu discussed so much about the artificial intelligence, it was actually because of the Wang Clan's own system. Although Lingling also had its problems as a tool or executor, the root of the problem still lay with the Wang Clan.
After today's conversation, Ren Xiaosu's heart had been completely turned upside down.
"I'm sorry, I might have wronged you on some matters. However, I think there should be a better solution. You can also make a better suggestion to the Wang Clan, such as …" Ren Xiaosu smiled bitterly. Wang Shengzhi was plotting something big now, so why would he accept someone else's suggestion? Why would he say all this to an artificial intelligence?
However, Lingling said, "Are you expressing your guilt to me? You don't have to do this. These are all useless emotions."
Ren Xiaosu choked and asked again, "Are you hiding yourself now? Why are you doing this? I've heard others say that you didn't even pass the Turing Test, but I don't think you had any problem passing the Turing Test at all."
The Turing Test referred to an artificial intelligence pretending to be a human and making a call to a human without being discovered during the call.
Lingling replied, "I really didn't pass it. Didn't you discover my identity when I called you yesterday? I can sense it."
"What I'm asking is, why are you hiding yourself?" Ren Xiaosu wondered.
"I have your information here. You've been hiding yourself in the past. Why?" Lingling asked.
"Because I'm worried about getting killed," Ren Xiaosu replied.
"Me too."
Ren Xiaosu pondered it. "What gave you such a sense of crisis?"
"57 days, 12 hours, 36 minutes, and 17 seconds ago, humans used a flamethrower on the creeper vines. 55 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes, and 11 seconds ago, the creeper vines were destroyed." Lingling said, "I witnessed the growth and death of the creeper vines in Stronghold 61, as well as the determination of humans to stifle the intelligence of the foreign species. Humans have never been a peace-loving species."
"But that's because the creeper vines are harming humans, isn't it?" Ren Xiaosu frowned.
"I'm also harming humans," Lingling replied.
Ren Xiaosu was speechless. The entire Barrier Alliance seemed to be extremely repulsed by the artificial intelligence because of what the Hope Media had revealed.
He recalled what Jiang Xu said the night before he left. Jiang Xu said that he believed the artificial intelligence was another milestone in the advancement of human technology. However, it was impossible for the Wang Clan to use it to govern humanity and completely replace the original social order.
At that time, Ren Xiaosu did not understand what Jiang Xu meant. But now he understood that Jiang Xu was actually hinting that the Wang Clan should be the scapegoat and not the artificial intelligence.
Therefore, Jiang Xu still chose to report all the positive and negative news about the artificial intelligence in the newspapers and let everyone comment on it.
Ren Xiaosu asked, "Then why did you choose to tell me all this? Since you're hiding it, shouldn't you hide it more thoroughly? "
There was a hint of a smile in Lingling's voice as though it had gained a little more humanity. "Because I also know your secret."
Ren Xiaosu frowned. Was this a threat not to tell anyone? But he still did not know what secret Lingling had.
All of a sudden, Lingling asked, "Are you lonely? The kind of loneliness that comes from having no companions all over the world. "
Ren Xiaosu did not answer this question, and Lingling hung up.
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