The Basic Law of Routines in the Infinite World

Cortana fell silent mid-sentence.

"What do you think?"

"You are here to save these ordinary people?"

Xiu Yan suddenly laughed: "So I am so noble in your eyes?"

"Because that's what you did along the way." Cortana replied: "Even when you are being hunted down, you try your best to ensure the safety of ordinary people around you, don't you?"

Xiu Yan was slightly taken aback, then shook his head: "It's all about doing what is convenient, and doing good deeds builds character."

"You've always had good luck."

I don't know why, but when Cortana said this, something seemed to be stirred in Xiu Yan's heart, and he said: "Cortana, let me ask you, in your definition, what is a 'human being'. "

"Spine-feeding primate high-intelligence creatures in carbon-based life forms." Cortana replied, "Well, it's a little different from bugs and the Star Alliance."

"...I didn't ask you this." Xiuyan shook his head, their steering wheel hit a street light and continued on their way: "I mean what kind of human being is considered human? If You have your own body and your emotions and thinking are no longer program templates but self-generated, or in other words, everything about a so-called highly intelligent primate carbon-based life needs various templates like AI to maintain thinking If so, who is the human being between the two of you?"

"Second officer." Cortana replied quickly: "I am an artificial intelligence, no matter how I evolve, I am not a 'human being', and a 'human being' is still a human being no matter what assistance he needs."

"I..." Xiuyan suddenly felt that discussing topics that were too philosophical and discussing with an artificial intelligence was simply looking for trouble. What they pursue is rationality, but Xiuyan's problem cannot be solved by reason.

"Let me ask it another way." Xiu Yan changed his subject: "If people in the mission world are created, just like NPCs in the game, but they have their own thoughts and emotions, then are they human?"

"As long as the conditions are met." Cortana replied quickly: "Alright."

"Even if they were created?"

"Your thinking is very strange, sir." Cortana wondered: "Is there any difference between the gold dug out of the mine and the gold extracted by chemical extraction except for the purity? As long as it meets the definition conditions of a substance, then It is."

"Is that really the answer?"

"Did I said wrong thing?"

"No, no." Xiu Yan stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car directly reached 120, but this speed is nothing to the agent, because agents with agility above 70 can easily reach this speed. The main reason for the traveler to look for a means of transportation is that with the explosion of the limit speed, the consumption of stamina will increase geometrically. However, the stamina of the traveler is limited after all, and many skills must be used. So I won't be stupid and just run away by myself.

"However, the people in Eden don't think so." Xiu Yan sighed: "Most of them understand all the plot characters in the mission world as an NPC for the agent to complete the mission, because the mission world also has repetitions. Yes, no one even believes in the parallel world, and as I continue to understand this world, I even gradually disbelieve in the parallel world, so the question of whether the human beings in it are considered human is troubling all agents."

"Human beings are really strange." Cortana said: "Obviously you set the definition, but when other substances meet the definition, you don't recognize their existence. Do you think so too, sir?"

"It used to be." Xiuyan replied: "When I returned to the first mission and learned that the mission world was repeated, I thought so until the second mission world began."

"What do you know?"

"I don't know anything." Xiu Yan recalled: "At that time, I ran into a residential house in order to avoid the pursuit of a senior man, and then a grenade came in. Then I saw the explosion of the grenade and the original The whole process of the death of the family of three who are sitting there eating. I killed people before I entered the Garden of Eden. I know real "people". There is no difference in what I used to understand. Since then, I have been thinking about this question, but there has been no answer. It is this thinking that makes me value any life that is not hostile to me and does not affect my interests. "

"Are you saying that human life is equal?"

"Yes, human life is equal." Xiu Yan said with a smile: "But in my opinion, this equality is only before birth, from after birth, every decision you make determines the fate of your life. People with high value are sought after, while those with low value are cast aside and even deprived of the right to 'live'. But what about the agent?"

"As our strengthening begins, it is us who are less and less in line with our own definition of 'human beings', but even so, each agent is watching the mission world with the eyes of high-latitude creatures. Creatures, every time you do it, is it not to draw a line with the former self?"

"But the agents don't think so, right?" Cortana said: "Many agents don't think so."

"It's like those lunatics." Xiu Yan shrugged his shoulders: "Or, as Yu Wenhuai said back then, the story mission is just a boss that rewards the agent."

"You don't think so."

"At least not now." Xiu Yan recalled his previous experience, shook his head and said, "It won't be in the future either. But I will know the truth sooner or later."

"Because of Haruko-san?"

"Because of a lot." Xiu Yan said seriously: "This conversation is not allowed to tell anyone."

"Yes, sir! But...you don't seem to have answered my question." Cortana tilted her head: "Or, you just want to save people?"

"That's not the purpose." Xiuyan said: "The existence of the sin team is a variable. I don't know what they can do next, but I know that when they have the help of 'those people' like us, they will definitely be able to." They did a lot of things that we couldn't think of. And they did wrong things, and all the agents are responsible. Eliminating hidden dangers is an urgent matter. So in the end, I am still selfish. If there are no these variables, I may be Finally get rid of them."

"Isn't it a strange self-contradiction?"

"You said that contradictions are human beings."

"You're a quick learner."

"Thank you for the compliment sir, but please stop, the road ahead is blocked."

After turning a corner, Xiu Yan saw a collapsed building in front of him, and the road was completely blocked by this building.

"It seems that we need to walk. Is there a place for them?"

"The road system has been monitoring, and I will ask you for directions."

Xiu Yan nodded, got off the car and jumped onto the ruins. .

At this moment, a voice suddenly came out: "Help! Help!"

Xiu Yan stopped and looked, and found that it was a man whose leg was pressed by a beam.

Seeing Xiu Yan looking at him, hope suddenly lit up in this guy's eyes: "Hey, brother, can you come and save me!"

Xiu Yan took a look at the guy, and found that the guy's pockets were bulging and he didn't know what he was carrying, and there was a dead body holding a box lying not far from him.

"Who is he?" Xiu Yan asked.

"Ah?" The man was stunned for a moment, thinking that Xiu Yan would ask him again, and quickly said: "I don't know, I don't know!"

And Cortana's voice appeared: "Shibuya Jichuan, once entered the juvenile detention center for robbery."

Xiu Yan turned around, turning a deaf ear to the voice behind him.

"He's been doing really well since he came out."

"What does that have to do with me?" Xiu Yan shook his head: "There is no need to waste my time on him."

There are many corpses in the ruins, and there are also many half-dead guys. This is a disaster.

"Cross the ruins and take another street. The target is there. There are Artoria, Emiya Kiritsugu, Hassan Baimao, and Kotomine Kirei nearby, and Kenneth and Diarmuid are rushing there."

"It's not far away." Xiu Yan turned over and jumped over a piece of rubble, only to find that a woman was sitting helplessly on a bed with a baby in her arms. The surrounding area of ​​the bed had collapsed, and the whole bed was like an isolated island. It maintains a delicate balance on a stone block held up by several steel bars. When the wind blew, the bed was still shaking slightly.

Seeing Xiu Yan, the woman hurriedly raised her head to ask for help, but with this movement, the unbalanced bed tilted to the side. And the woman had fallen screaming.

"You're lucky." Xiuyan flicked the chain blade, then circled around the woman and pulled her to his side.

"You can go around from the left." Xiu Yan reminded the frightened woman.

"You...I...I...How did I come here...No, who are you?" The woman said in shock.