Alien Relic Hunter

At the bottom of the black well, the main archives.

Entrance to the Ark Core Master Brain Computer Room.

Aphrodite rolled up her gauze-textured sleeves, revealing a fair and smooth forearm.

She put her forearm close to the wall in front of her. Within half a second, the wall seemed to sense something and opened a gap.

Aphrodite took a step forward and inserted her forearm into the gap.

At this time, Ke Lan was standing behind her. With his height advantage, he could clearly see the changes in Aphdirota's forearm after it reached into the wall——

The fake bionic skin on the arm was lifted up, revealing the precise structure hidden underneath. The metal skeleton and mechanical joints are wrapped in simulated fat and muscles that have a buffering and protective effect. Slender hydraulic tubes that replace blood vessels are embedded in the hollow metal tubes and contract and relax regularly with the rhythm of breathing.

If that guy Layton had seen the structure of this arm, this machine guy would probably become a boki on the spot.

More than a dozen metal probes stretched out from the cracks in the cracked wall. They paused in mid-air for a moment and then stabbed into Aphdirota's forearm.

Her body trembled violently as if she was electrocuted, but soon the probes retracted into the wall.

A semicircular mark lit up in the center of the wall.

"It's your turn." Aphrodite turned around and said to Ke Lan, "The passage to the core master computer room must be opened by two members of the Undead Crew."

Ke Lan glanced at the arm she had just extended into the wall. The bionic skin had been lifted up and covered back, and the edge of the incision had almost healed, leaving only a faint pink mark.

"But...my body doesn't have this function." Ke Lan said.

"Same, you just have to extend your arm."

"Really?" Ke Lan raised his arm suspiciously, imitating Aphdirota's behavior just now, and approached the wall.

As expected, the wall sensed him and opened a crack.

Ke Lan gritted his teeth and stretched his arm in.

Anyway, his recovery ability is so abnormal that even if his entire arm is cut off, a new one will grow back in just a few days.

But this time, what protruded from the wall was not a probe, but a slender blood-drawing needle. After drawing a small amount of Ke Lan's blood, it retracted into the wall again.

The other semicircular mark also lit up.

The wall separated from it, and a passage that could accommodate two people walking side by side appeared in front of Ke Lan.

"Let's go." Aphdirota took the lead and walked forward, while Ke Lan followed closely behind her.

The passage is not too long, only about fifty meters, but the entire passage is located within the wall. In other words, the outer wall of this computer room is also fully fifty meters thick.

Even without additional protective devices such as energy shields, the wall itself can withstand the next direct shot from the main gun of the "Yu" class heavy cruiser.

The temperature in the computer room is very low, only about five degrees Celsius. Although it is a bit cold for living things, it is an excellent ambient temperature for precision electronic equipment.

It's just that... this "thing" that appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision... can it really be regarded as a pure "electronic device"?

Located in the center of the computer room is a glass jar with a diameter of more than 100 meters. The glass jar is filled with a light yellow clear liquid that seems to be LCL. A huge "head" is soaked in it and suspended in the middle of the glass jar.

"Is this the core mastermind of Ark?" Ke Lan murmured, "It's really a...brain..."

If calculated according to the proportion of a human head, this giant head has been magnified at least a thousand times. From the metal parts leaking from the gaps in the flesh and blood, it can be seen that the basic structure of this head, that is, the body of the supercomputer, should still be made of It is a non-living body made of metal and polymer, but on the surface of the non-living body, a layer of flesh and blood tissue like tattered cotton wool grows, wrapping the entire body of the supercomputer.

Perhaps it had been soaked in the liquid for too long, and the flesh and blood showed a pale and swollen state, just like a corpse that had been dead for many days... But Ke Lan was absolutely sure - it was alive.

These pale, swollen, torn cotton-like flesh and blood formed a fragmented human face, and vague facial features could be vaguely discerned. Ke Lan compared this somewhat horrifying face with the virtual projections of all members of the Undead Crew. I found that there was no one with a similar appearance.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the face in front of him is too severely deformed - if the flesh and blood can become the same as the simulated skin on Aphdero beside him, maybe Ke Lan will see a completely different face Face.

Countless thick pipes and cables connect this "head". Among these pipes and cables, some are connected to electronic devices under the flesh and blood, and some directly penetrate into the flesh and blood. Ke Lan can even I could vaguely see the liquid pumped out of the tube spreading along the fibrous structure inside the flesh and blood, and then being absorbed...

Ke Lan did not see the parietal bone at the top of the skull. Soft tissue that was almost identical to the human brain was placed in a reserved metal container. On this mass of "brain tissue", there were countless With the electrode patch, along with the output of current, the brain tissue will twitch slightly from time to time... The twitches in many places come together, and it looks like the brain tissue is constantly squirming. The scene is extremely Serve the meal.

"Yes, this is the core mastermind of Ark." Aphdirota replied, "The highest achievement of human computer technology."

"Is it a living thing...or a machine?"

"It is both a living thing and a machine." Aphrodite raised her head slightly and stared at the "head" in the glass jar. "The core master brain has undergone three major upgrades, and the second upgrade is to implant biological tissue into it. The matrix allows it to grow and integrate with the computer. Relying on the efficient processing of bioelectrical signals by the biological 'brain', the upgraded core master brain's computing power has been fully doubled."

"Then does it have self-awareness?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask, "I mean...real artificial intelligence, not those artificial retarded people outside..."

"Of course, there is."

[P.S. Thanks to Sweet Sweets for the 700 starting coins; thanks to stdc for the 100 starting coins. 】

[The prototype of the core mastermind of P.P.S. was inspired by the comic work "BLAME!" created by Tsutomu Tsutomu! "The Central AI of East Asia Heavy Industries"... In addition, I found that in the spiritual cage, the biological computer of the air prison seems to have similar settings. 】