Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Lv Yongchang looked at the holographic image in front of him with a stiff expression.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a trace of fear in his heart.

Fear of Zero.

As the saying goes, when a person is about to die, his words are good.

If [Hua] is really dead, then what it said at the last moment is likely to be the truth from the heart.

Complete level II artificial intelligence will spontaneously evolve to level III artificial intelligence...

Thinking of the information behind this line of text, Lu Yongchang only felt a cold sweat on his back.

However, thinking of the various restrictions in that core code, Lu Yongchang regained his composure again.

Unless there is a problem with the technology tree system, Zero should not have such a hidden danger.

At least, if there is no problem with the core code, Zero can only be infinitely close to super artificial intelligence, which is the level III artificial intelligence mentioned by [Hua].

"Zero, is [Hua] dead?"

Lv Yongchang was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked.

As usual, Zero responded to Lu Yongchang's question without hesitation.

"Professor, the core self-defense program has completely cleared the unknown data from [Painting]."

"As for [Painting]'s condition..."

"Insufficient data, no conclusion can be drawn."

Lv Yongchang nodded gently.

That being said, if nothing unexpected happens, [Painting] should be completely dead this time.

It can only be said that [Painting] has bad luck.

If it encounters other civilizations, its plan will surely succeed.

But it happened to encounter the human civilization with Zero.

The plan that [Painting] has carefully planned for tens of thousands of years is like a joke in front of Zero.

Even if it relies on the natural advantages of two-dimensional creatures to transform its consciousness into a data stream and become a similar existence to strong artificial intelligence.

But after all, it is the first time it has come into contact with the human computer environment, and it is a computer environment that Zero built personally and is suitable for himself.

How can [Painting], who has never had "life experience", be the opponent of Zero who is "born and raised".

What's more, according to the explanation of the underlying code given by the system, Zero can approach super artificial intelligence without limit.

In fact, in a sense, Zero can be said to be a "castrated" super artificial intelligence - it just can't have emotions, and can't go against the will of the creator.

Lv Yongchang's eyes once again cast on the "last words" left by [Painting] in the holographic projection.

The last line of unfinished information is obviously reporting the progress of the plan to the other civilization.

And the reporting object... if nothing unexpected happens, it should be the top leaders of the pastoral civilization.

As for why this message was seen by humans...

It's easy to understand.

Under the crisis of life and death, it is normal for [Painting] to make a small mistake.

Of course, the possibility of [Painting] repeating the same trick cannot be ruled out.

The central computer where Zero is staying may not have problems, but what about the other computer equipment in the human union?

Thinking of this, Lv Yongchang's face changed slightly, and he directly gave an order: "Zero, disconnect all networked computer systems and restart them."

Undoubtedly, this order will cause considerable losses to the human union.

But for safety, this is a price that must be paid.

"Received."

As the electronic synthesized sound rang, a slowly advancing progress bar appeared in front of Lv Yongchang.

…

Triangulum Galaxy, central black hole region.

A ball of silk thread wrapped into a ball quietly stayed in the dead universe, as if waiting for something.

The silk thread has no so-called width and height, only length attribute.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared beside it.

Then, there was a wave of obscure fluctuations.

"[Silk], [Membrane] sent a message, [Painting]'s plan failed."

The movement of the silk thread suddenly became violent, and at the same time, similar fluctuations came from the silk thread.

"What?!"

"Did [Painting] encounter the sweeper civilization?!"

"No, according to the data sent back..." The shadow responded hesitantly, "It may die in the hands of other civilizations."

The movement of the silk thread suddenly paused, and then the information fluctuation instantly became several times stronger!

"???"

"What did you say?"

"Besides the Sweeper Civilization, are there any other Level 8 civilizations in the Milky Way?"

"Don't forget, [Hua] is a two-dimensional creature, and Level 7 civilization can't solve it!"

Faced with [Si]'s question, the shadow that had stopped at the same place moved its position slightly, and it seemed that it was also a little confused about this information.

"...I don't know." [Shi] was silent for a while, and responded again, "[Membrane] received incomplete information."

"I only know that [Hua]'s death is related to a civilization called human civilization."

As he said, a message came out from the shadow.

'[Membrane]! The plan failed! The plan failed! Be careful of human civilization, they...'

The message stopped abruptly.

"This is the distress message sent by [Painting]." The shadow surface showed some slight fluctuations again. "Perhaps because the situation was far beyond [Painting]'s expectations, it only had time to send this incomplete message."

"In addition to its current location information, it also contains some basic characteristics of human civilization."

"The information is seriously incomplete."

"But from these basic characteristics, it can be seen that this human civilization... seems to be a low-level civilization."

[Silk]: "???"

"Are you serious? Low-level civilization?!"

[Shi] ignored [Si]'s questioning and said to himself: "Besides, for some reason, [Hua] did not encrypt this information."

"It even used wide-area tachyon broadcasting!!"

The twisting amplitude of the silk thread ball increased instantly, as if it was frightened by this information.

"?!"

"Is it crazy?!"

"Then the sweeper civilization is not..."

"Yes." [Shi] sighed softly, "[Membrane] is very angry now."

[Si]: "..."

[Shi]: "..."

The two powerful dimensional creatures stayed quietly in the central black hole area of ​​Triangulum, "watching" each other.

The atmosphere gradually became awkward.

"So..."

Finally, it was [Si] who broke the silence and spoke first: "What should we do now?"

"..."

Faced with [Si]'s inquiry, [Shi] was silent for a moment, organized his words and responded.

"Maybe..."

"Our plan will change a little."

"First, we have to go to the Milky Way."

"Anyway, since [Hua] has sent this message, we have to go and see this human civilization in person."

The universe returned to silence again.

"Okay."

A wave of fluctuations came from [Si]: "But what about the infiltration plan?"

Faced with [Si]'s question, [Shi] fell silent again.

"From what [Mom] said, it will find another way."

"But..."

Speaking of this, [Shi] sighed slightly: "The difficulty may increase a lot."

"Forget it, let [Mom] worry about these things."

"Let's go to the Milky Way first."

The shadow left quickly, leaving the last message: "We will meet at the Galaxy Bridge."

The next moment.

The spherical silk thread slowly stretched out, turning into a line without width and height, and flew in the direction where the shadow left.

"Alas..."

"The Milky Way..."

"I'm afraid it's another big war."

The obscure fluctuations slowly dissipated, and the black hole area in the center of Triangulum returned to calm again.