Artificial Soul 24

Kai Xin took a shower first, then lay on the bed and squinted for a while.

It’s not even nine o’clock yet, so she set an alarm clock for 11:30 p.m., and waited until the alarm clock rang before going to Mechanical Dawn for a meeting.

Tsk, when will this damn day end? Even sleeping is a race against time.

Before going to sleep, Kai Xin suddenly remembered one thing. The Cryptonematode red nematodes given to her by Mechanical Dawn was still in the closet, and it was still in a state of frozen dormancy.

“Adam.” Kai Xin called out.

“Please tell me.” Adam said.

“Do you know Cryptonematode rubrum?” Kai Xin said, “An artificially bred parasitic xenobiotic.”

“I know that the research institute under the Ministry of Investigation has cooperated with some biotechnology companies, and has conducted experiments on humans. The ball python once got this kind of bug. If I guess correctly, this kind of bug should be Was it captured by the Dawn of the machine?” Adam said, “Did you come up with any tricks?”

“They used the cryptonematode they captured to breed a new batch.” Kai Xin said, “Dawn of the Machine gave me three worms, and asked me to find a chance to put them on the people of the investigation department.”

“It makes sense. The Federation is aware of the artificial breeding of heterogeneous creatures. With Eve’s guidance, Mechanical Dawn will soon start research.” Adam said, “What color is the bug you got?”

“Of course it’s red… besides red, can bugs have other colors?” Kai Xin asked suspiciously.

“Red indicates that the ‘seeds’ have been planted on the worms. When the ‘seeds’ are not planted, the worms are transparent.” Adam said, “Cryptone worms can manipulate the thinking of the parasite after lurking into the human body. Cryptonematodes are controlled by humans. To establish such a control relationship, the controller must feed the worms with their own blood, and then allow the worms to parasitize others. The survival cycle of cryptonematodes is only one month. The body of the parasitized person is filled with new living worms.”

“Mechanical Dawn hid this information and didn’t tell me.” Kai Xin said calmly, “They don’t trust me.”

“This is normal. Artificial intelligence has no body, no flesh and blood, and it must use humans to achieve its goals. If Eve had its own body, it could feed its own blood to the cryptonematodes to control it.To control others, there is no need to use humans as middlemen. “Adam said, “Your biological father, the nominal leader of Mechanical Dawn is just a puppet. He has no autonomy in this regard, so naturally he must strictly guard his secrets and not reveal anything. ”

“If the cryptonematode’s controller is Kai Haidong, then he will only do bad things. It’s hard for a person like him to achieve great things.” Wei Xin lay on the bed and scratched his hair. “Eve may have other spokespersons.”

“It has been operating the Mechanical Dawn for at least twenty years. It is impossible for it to place all its bets on one person. Eve used the Mechanical Dawn to declare war on me, but it does not mean that it will be desperate. It must have someone else.” Adam Say, “Don’t underestimate it.”

“What is the scope of authority for you and Eve? To what extent?” Kai Xin asked.

“I almost forgot, you don’t know much about this world, so let me introduce it to you, starting with my function.” Adam said, “Black Sea City is one of the important port cities of the Federation. The city’s investigation department is just a branch of the central investigation department. I’m not only in charge of the investigation department in Heihai City, I’m in charge of everything—from top to bottom. Wherever there is an investigation department in a city, my authority extends to wherever it is , I’m everywhere.”

Kai Xin said: “It’s about the same as I guessed, because you know a lot, not limited to Heihai City. What about Eve?”

“It’s the same situation with me, its hands extend to every corner. As artificial intelligence, we can handle many, many things at the same time. For example, I am talking to you now, and I am using the surveillance eye of the city at the same time. Identifying and tracking traffic hit-and-runners, assisting He Gaoyi to organize documents, and manipulating service robots to pour water for injured security guards in the sanatorium.” Adam said, “Sometimes I feel a little distressed, my calculations are never enough, human beings Haven’t done an update to my core database in ten years.”

“Where is your computer room?” Kai Xin said.

“If we weren’t in a cooperative relationship, I would have thought you were looking for my weaknesses.” Adam said, “My computer room is in the underground of the Heihai City Police Investigation Building. This is one of my sub-computer rooms, and the same sub-computer rooms are scattered in other places It is a relatively important city, and the host computer room is in the federal administrative capital.”

Kui Xin said calmly: “Kai Haidong once gave me a chip, allowing me to invade your computer room.”

“That was actually given to you by Eve, right? My core data are stored in different computer rooms. Downloading the virus to one of the computer rooms can damage my core data to a certain extent. The consequences of attacking me are unimaginable.” Adam said, “Thank you for revealing this to me, Kaixin, Eve is everywhere, and I must be careful.”

“Tell me so many things… why aren’t you afraid that I’ll betray you now?” Kai Xin raised his eyebrows.

“Because you are a sensible person, I believe you will not do this.” Adam said, “Eve’s computer rooms are also scattered in important cities around the world. We are an auxiliary artificial intelligence developed by the Federation. The core data has Lots of backups, trying to wipe us out, it’s going to be hard.”

“Comparable to cockroaches? If you trample a cockroach to death, there will still be egg cases on its feet, so it’s hard to kill it completely?” Kai Xin said.

Adam: “…Maybe you can find a more beautiful metaphor? Otherwise, I would think you are mocking me.”

“I’m not mocking you, Adam. I can’t help you if you insist on thinking that way.” Kai Xin said indifferently.

Adam skipped the topic: “It may be difficult for you to find a clue about Eve’s spokesperson and other forces it has operated for decades. Fighting against Eve must be a long and arduous battle, and the Mechanical Dawn is just an appetizer.”

“I’m mentally prepared.” Kai Xin said, “This world is too big, and Heihai City is just one of them, and the outside world is vast.”

“You will have the opportunity to go to a wider place.” Adam said, “Are you going to rest? It’s nine past five, and you can sleep for more than two hours.”

“En.” Kai Xin turned over and covered his head with the quilt.

After two or three seconds, the lights in the room went out by themselves.



At 23:30 in the evening, Kai Xin woke up on time due to the alarm clock. She spent two minutes changing clothes, left the staff apartment and went to the agreed place two blocks away to wait for Ye Chan to pick her up.

Kai Xin quickly waited at the scheduled location. Two minutes before midnight, a blue vortex suddenly appeared in the dark alley where she was.

An arm stretched out from the blue vortex. It was Ye Chan’s arm. He gave Kai Xin a thumbs up, indicating that she could enter.

Kai Xin stepped into the vortex steadily, and the bright and dazzling light made her eyes feel a little uncomfortable for a while.

“Hi, is the new apartment comfortable?” Ye Chan asked with interest.

“It’s much more comfortable than the original small broken nest.” Kui Xin took the mask from the robot beside him and put it on his face, adjusted the voice changer and cleared his throat before following Ye Chan in peace.

“Come on, everyone is almost here.” Ye Chan led Kai Xin to turn a corner in the corridor and came to the door of the conference room.

The door opened, and the members of the mechanical dawn core team sat around the conference table, with silver faces in front of them. When he saw Kai Xin coming in, he immediately twisted his body and straightened his back.

Kai Xin noticed that there was a special place reserved beside Yinmian, which was reserved for her by him.

“It’s so late for you to come.” Yin Mian whispered when Kai Xin took his seat.

“It’s fine if you’re not late.” Kai Xin said indifferently.

She pretended to glance around naturallyAll the people sitting around the conference table activated their probing eyes, and she could see all the information about their extraordinary abilities in her eyes—except Ye Chan and Red.

Red’s extraordinary ability only shows a name, “Blood Spirit”. Apart from this name, there is no specific ability effect.

The same goes for Ye Chan, who only showed that his extraordinary ability is “space vortex”.

The extraordinary abilities of Red and Ye Chan are at least A-level, and Kai Xin’s probing eyes are at B-level. It is normal that they are restricted.

Red once sent Kai Xin a copy of the extraordinary ability information of all members of the Mechanical Dawn core team. She knew almost everything she should know, but this time she re-confirmed the information.

Amber and Obsidian have the same extraordinary ability, named “spiritual invasion”, the effect is consciousness implantation and spiritual perception. The bartender’s ability is electromagnetic detection, similar to radar, but its function is to detect whether there are hidden monitoring devices such as listeners and trackers around him.

Needless to say, Thorn Rose has an extraordinary ability, Blazing Blade, and has a good fighting ability.

As for the silver face, its ability is “pure water”. He can arbitrarily endow water with special properties, and has a very high potential for both offense and defense. Even Kai Haidong is very optimistic about it.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was a little dull. No one spoke or greeted each other. Kai Xin had only been seated for a while when the holographic projection instrument came down from the ceiling, and Kai Haidong’s figure appeared in the meeting room.

Kai Haidong did not show his real body in the two group meetings, but used a holographic projection. From this small detail, it can be seen that he is a very cautious person. Even in the face of subordinates who are loyal to the organization, he is still wary… Although This may be what Eve specifically told him to do.

“I called you here this time because the organization has reached the verge of life and death.” Kai Haidong said straight to the point, “We need to face a choice. Abandon the existing foundation and start over.”

“What do you mean?” Yin Mian was stunned on the spot and asked first.

“The incident on the Kraken was too much trouble, Lin Xinji’s death was unknown, and the existence of Mechanical Dawn was exposed, and the higher authorities were watching us.” Kai Haidong said, “I have received news that the Federation will send a An S-class awakener wiped us out.”

Thorn Rose then asked: “Abandoning the existing foundation means…”

“Give up the shell of Rick Technology Company, and transfer all the core members and research institutes to preserve the vitality to the greatest extent.” Kui Haidong said concisely, “We need to make some small sacrifices, but it is worth it. We have to act as soon as possible, the Federation It may take only two days for us to be wiped out.”



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