The inexplicable armed conflict made the atmosphere quite awkward — at least from Hao Ren's point of view. But fortunately, the captured female robot had not completely refused to communicate. In fact, when N-6 spoke, she reacted.
N-6 asked in confusion why she took the initiative to attack. N-4's answer to this question was to ask with a straight face, "What the hell are you now?!"
The question was so bizarre that N-6 froze for about two seconds before she skillfully reported a string of numbers. "Current identification code N-6, factory number: E75-3C6215 …"
"You are not," N-4 stared at her former compatriot. "You are just wearing the shell of N-6. Unauthorized code runs in your body, and your logic circuit operates under the control of another set of programs. You are not N-6 at all."
"Negative, my identification code is still intact. I have all the identification keys and unmodified logic circuits of N-6. The replaced parts in my body do not affect the operation of my main personality …"
"Negative, your identification code has lost credibility because there is an unauthorized third-party code in it. Although you still have the complete N-6 component, the extra information shows that you have been contaminated by foreign information. The agent whose personality has been contaminated must be regarded as an enemy."
"Negative, my third-party code is only to facilitate me to drive the new hardware in the body. As a driver, this code will not affect my main personality."
"Negative, you have been contaminated, so your self-defense itself is not credible. You may be under the influence of foreign programs and think you are faultless."
"Negative …"
At this point, Hao Ren could roughly guess what the problem was. But the answer made him feel like he was being cheated.
"Wait a minute, let me interrupt," he said, intervening in the increasingly chaotic dialogue between the two robots. "You two are denying too many words. This one here is called N-4, right? If I'm not mistaken … You think N-6 has been modified by an unknown force to become an enemy, so you attacked?"
N-4 looked at Hao Ren blankly for a moment and said lightly, "I refuse to answer. N-4 is not obliged to communicate with the representatives of unknown forces. The task should be left to professional negotiators."
Vivian conjured a lightning orb and tossed it elegantly in her hand. "If you're an A.I. with normal logic, you should've chosen the best course of action. Obviously, it's best to have a serious discussion with us. Regardless of the outcome of the negotiation, at least you didn't waste your chance."
N-4 looked at the lightning ball in Vivian's hand and said with a straight face, "N-4 agrees with you, but that doesn't mean I agree with your possible worldview."
"We are not enemies," Hao Ren said, pointing to himself and then to N-4. "In fact, it was you who took the initiative from beginning to end. We were shot for a long time before we went out to fight back, and I didn't even use the spaceship's cannon. If you're not stupid, you should know that such a big spaceship can't be without weapons. If I were really hostile to you, you would've been ashes."
There was no change of expression on N-4's face. Hao Ren could not tell whether the female robot had been convinced by his facial expression. But he believed that his words were logically sound, and anyone with a rational mind would be able to figure out the truth in it. At this time, Lily also chimed in. "We didn't do anything to N-6. I don't know how you robots recognize each other, and I don't know what weird customs you have. Anyway, everything we installed on N-6 was just to bring her back to life."
Speaking of this, the husky maiden pursed her lips and muttered, "You don't know how miserable N-6 was at the beginning. Her whole body was blown up like a dismembered body scene. It took us an hour just to find her parts, and we could only assemble a third of her body. Later, we had to make a batch of temporary parts for her to assemble. The situation was so serious that we couldn't care less about the third-party code …"
Although N-4 kept a straight face, she still heard all these words. She looked at Hao Ren and then at Lily, and shook her head. "But you showed hostility first."
Hao Ren and Vivian said in unison, "When did we show hostility?"
"You burned down our radar system, which is an irrefutable attack."
Hao Ren slapped his forehead when he heard this. It turned out that Nolan flashed the headlights twice!
Nolan had been monitoring the conversation from beginning to end. At this time, she finally could not help but show up. A holographic image appeared in front of N-4 out of thin air. "You took the initiative to shine the radar on us. We thought you were going to do something. Of course, we blinded your radar for the sake of caution. Who knew that your radar was so weak that it just burned down after a little bit of light."
This was the domineering attitude of the interstellar racing king. If someone flashed a headlight at me, I would flash it back with a 10x solar fist. The veteran Nolan was confident.
At this point, even N-4's brain had to waver. She looked at N-6 hesitantly and said, "I must directly verify your basic data to determine whether your judgment or thinking is really not affected by the foreign code."
The fact that she was willing to use this method to determine the truth meant that the female robot had been persuaded.
For the "executors" of artificial intelligence, opening up their basic data to others was equivalent to completely letting go of their defenses and showing all their thoughts and memories without reservation. This was an operation that could only be carried out on the basis of absolute trust or obedience. N-6 and N-4 had the same authority, and there was no submissive relationship between them. So at this moment, there was only trust — and trust was the greatest sincerity.
N-6 agreed to her friend's request without any hesitation.
Hao Ren released the restraint device on N-4's hand and then quietly watched the process with the others, hoping for a good result. Opening up the basic data required the most reliable connection, so N-6 and N-4 chose to connect each other directly with cables. They opened the data port on the back of their necks and connected their chips directly. During the ten-second verification process, no one spoke.
Finally, N-4 unplugged the cable behind her neck and said, "I have read your personality data, N-6. Now I admit that your personality is not contaminated."
"Your judgment is as slow as ever."
It turned out that N-6 could complain about others!
N-4 did not show any opinion in the face of this rude complaint. She just shook her head and said, "N-6, I found a misperception in your memory. You think these people who saved you are descendants of humans who stayed on the home planet, but they are not."
N-6 blinked and asked, "My information is wrong?"
"You lost contact with the Zenith at that time, so you don't know what happened next," N-6 said in front of Hao Ren. "A spaceship of unknown origin crashed on the surface of the home planet, and we are now in this spaceship."
"It's a crash! It's just a crash! "Nolan immediately jumped out." You are the one who crashed! "
N-6 ignored Nolan and stared straight at Hao Ren. "Did you lie to me?"
Hao Ren spread out his hand and said, "We didn't want to lie to you. We didn't say anything at that time, and you directly imagined us as the humans of this planet. Then we just wanted to understand the situation here, and in order to communicate with you, we didn't say anything. Of course, I still have to apologize for this part of the concealment, but we mean no harm. "
"A reasonable explanation," N-6 nodded after a moment. "But because your identity has changed, I have to re-evaluate your credibility index and reset the relationship index with you. Please understand."
Hao Ren rolled his eyes helplessly. "Well, well — now I really see that you are an artificial intelligence. But I'm curious, you don't know that a spaceship from outer space crashed on your home planet? "
"It's normal that she doesn't know about it." After authenticating as a friend, N-4's attitude toward Hao Ren had changed dramatically. She took the initiative to explain. "When N-6 crashed, the Zenith had not yet confirmed what hit the surface of the home planet. The 'unknown spaceship from outer space' was confirmed three days after your crash. Even if the existence of the unknown spaceship was confirmed, only a few people knew the truth. The information was blocked."
From N-4's follow-up explanation, Hao Ren finally learned something about the Zenith and solved a problem that had been bothering him for several days.
Why was it that six days had passed in a row, yet no one had come to investigate them, this group of extraterrestrial visitors?
Because although the process of Nolan's crash was earth-shattering, not everyone living in the Zenith and the lunar base knew about it.
At that time, Nolan did not sail all the way from the depths of the universe to the planet in the conventional way. Instead, she jumped directly to the edge of the planet's atmosphere and then 'landed' there. As a result, she was exposed to space for a very short time. When the spatial rift opened, a trace of divine storm was released. This divine power did not cause any harm to the planet, but it swept away several observation satellites in space. Those satellites were the eyes of the Zenith, and before they could confirm what had appeared on their home planet, they became scrap metal floating in space.
So although Nolan's crash was loud, it did not attract much attention from the survivors. Or rather, they were more focused on the energy shock and did not pay attention to the "small collision" on the planet's surface.
Only a few of them knew that something from space had fallen on their home planet, but they did not know what it was. Their monitoring of their home planet was not as strong as Hao Ren thought.
As a frontline combatant, N-6 did not have much access to intelligence. So although Hao Ren and his team had landed on the planet when she carried out the bombing mission, she knew nothing about it.
After that, there was the "intelligence blockade" incident mentioned by N-4.
Hao Ren untied N-4 and took out a hovering chair for himself to sit in front of her. He felt that this female robot was now a friend that he could communicate with.
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