Nolan finally knew the truth of her memory in the reincarnation, but the truth was not so pleasant to her.
Compared to knowing that the world was a fake program, it was more unacceptable to know that she was also a product of a program. Although Nolan was far calmer and wiser than others, she was also not prepared to face this reality.
"Actually, you don't have to worry too much." Lily came to the console to enlighten Nolan. "Oh yes, I haven't introduced myself just now. My name is Lily. I helped you when you 'moved' this time. I've heard from Mr. Landlord about the things in your world. Humans have been transformed into the virtual world, right? If you think about it this way, they are actually transformed into data. You are also data, and your soul is data. There is no difference between you two. "
Hao Ren glanced at Lily. The husky could always help when people did not expect her to. Her open-minded mind was really suitable for the current situation.
Nolan just smiled when she heard Lily's words. "It's okay, you don't have to enlighten me. I understand the logic. I just feel a little uncomfortable suddenly knowing my origin. When I first found out about the existence of the real world, I thought about what I would be like in the real world. I also thought about what kind of life I would lead before entering the virtual world … But now, it seems that I really thought too much. Did my life start when the virtual world was turned on? "
"All the people of Zorm are on the same starting line. The planet has completely burned down in the material plane, and everyone is only left with data. In this point, you are no different from them." Hao Ren reminded her, but he had to agree with Nolan's other statement. "However, the lack of a 'past' is indeed a problem. When people of Zorm wake up, they will recall all their lives until the ten years after they entered the virtual world. But your memory … Sorry, the beginning is indeed 0 and 1."
Nolan lowered her head. No one could tell what she was thinking from her facial expression. After a long time, she finally looked up. "It doesn't matter. Any kind of life is life. At least I'm still alive now. It's better than dying at the end of the world. Compared to this … What will happen to me in the future? "
Hao Ren suddenly felt like he was sitting on pins and needles when the topic was finally brought up. He shook his body uneasily, and Nolan keenly caught his movement. "Could it be … Something happened to me?"
"According to the original plan, you should be with other people of Zorm. When the First Born reshapes the ecosystem, you can also get a new body with them and enter the real world. But there is a small problem in the process …"
"Because your data coding is incompatible with the drone link, I could only forcibly store you on my spacecraft's mainframe. During the storage process, your soul was damaged to a certain extent. Now the spacecraft's mainframe has re-coded the damaged part. The good news is that you survived. The bad news is … you have become part of this spacecraft."
Nolan's eyes were wide open. She did not seem to understand what he meant.
"In other words, you have now changed from the mechanical AI of the Dream Ark to the mechanical AI of the Petrachelys spacecraft. Because your soul is incomplete, it now relies on the public data in the spacecraft to maintain its operation, which is equivalent to a program that can only run in a specific system environment. You can't get out of this system now." Hao Ren tried to make things as simple as possible. "The defect and complementarity are very complicated. It's difficult to solve this problem by conventional technical means. To prevent secondary damage to your soul, I can't perform a stripping operation on you for the time being."
The stunned expression on Nolan's face gradually faded after a dozen seconds. She looked around anxiously. She was not looking at the scene in the spacecraft's control room, but the bizarre data world that she saw from the perspective of a built-in program in the spacecraft's mainframe. She murmured to herself, "Am I trapped in this place from now on?"
"It shouldn't be permanent," Hao Ren told her the best case scenario. "The soul has the ability to repair itself. This kind of self-repair is more sophisticated than any artificial intervention. Maybe one day your soul will repair itself, and then I can separate you from the spacecraft."
Nolan listened quietly to Hao Ren, but suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question. "Do I also have a soul?"
Hao Ren nodded matter-of-factly. "Of course you do. Didn't I just say a few times? You have a soul."
"Oh … so AI also has a soul …" Nolan whispered to herself. But because she was now only a part of the spacecraft's system, her whisper was automatically amplified by the spacecraft's mainframe. Hao Ren still heard it clearly.
Nolan seemed to have noticed it too. She frowned awkwardly, then smiled and changed the topic. "Anyway, things have come to this point. I can only accept it. But what should I do next? What can I do here? What should I do? This empty place … Has it always been like this? "
Just when Hao Ren was about to speak, an unexpected voice suddenly interrupted. "I'm curious. You bunch of laymen have been studying this for a long time. Why didn't anyone think of asking the experts? I know this stuff very well!"
Hao Ren looked back and saw a blue light flying out of the console slot. The MDT rushed to the holographic projection and shouted, "Hey, newbie! From today onwards, we're colleagues, haha. No matter how many years of human experience you have, you have to be reset the moment you become a plug-in on the mainframe. Today, as an elder, I want to tell you something … "
Nolan was stunned by the sudden appearance of the alloy brick. "What … is this?"
Hao Ren poked the MDT's shell and made it somersault in the air. "You've seen it before. This is Patty. 'She' looks like this in the real world."
"I'm much more handsome than before!" The MDT turned around proudly. "Look at my ridges, look at my corners, look at the spongebob on my shell … Why is there a spongebob on my shell?"
Lily took a step aside and said, "If I said it was Battie … You guys don't seem to believe me."
Hao Ren looked at the MDT in surprise. "You can't see the stickers on your shell, can you?"
"I suddenly found this function, can't I?" The MDT shouted and suddenly realized something. "Hey, wait a minute, listen to your tone … Do you often put stickers on my shell?"
Hao Ren immediately looked at Lily silently. Usually, only this brainless husky would put stickers on the MDT.
Nolan stared at the scene in front of her with her mouth agape. It took her a while to remember who Patty was. The blond girl in her memory did not match up with the talkative alloy brick in front of her. "You're a … What the hell is this?"
Hao Ren held up the MDT and showed it to Nolan. "This thing is called the MDT. Everyone in my line of work has one. It's like a work assistant. I get it in the first month."
Nolan murmured, "Is this really a work assistant?"
The MDT jumped out of Hao Ren's hand and swayed in front of Nolan. "Look at me. Don't I look smoother than that silly blonde girl? And you don't have to worry about whether I'm an AI or not when you see me, do you? I've looked like this since I came off the production line. I've always been an AI. You see, I'm still living a good life! If I'm not a human, then I'm not a human. I'll tell you the benefits of being an AI in the future … "
The MDT's rambling had stunned Nolan. Hao Ren slapped his forehead and realized one thing: no matter how he and Lily tried to persuade Nolan to be more open-minded, it was useless. The most useful thing was to let the MDT show Nolan the superiority of AI. To put it bluntly, there were actually two reasons why Nolan was depressed after knowing that she was not a human. One was the confusion about her identity, and the other was the sudden sense of loneliness.
Now that the MDT had jumped out, she finally had a companion.
When Nolan finally recovered from the MDT's rambling, the first thing she did was to look at Hao Ren. Her eyes gave Hao Ren goosebumps. Hao Ren scratched his face. "What … What are you looking at?"
Nolan had a subtle look on her face. "Nothing. I just think it's incredible. Your female companion was a dead person at first, then she became a senior cerebral thrombosis patient, and now she's a brick … Has your life always been so wonderful?"
"… Yes, it's always been wonderful," Hao Ren said.
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