Earth Era

General Emerk's words stunned Xiao Yun, and Xiao Yun reflexively asked: "Devil? What is the devil?"

"Sit down first." General Emerk pointed to the sofa next to him and gestured to Xiao Yun, so Xiao Yun sat down with full of doubts.

At this time, Xiao Yun had time to look at the layout of this office. Although he is an important figure in the military of human civilization, General Emerk's office layout is extremely simple, even a bit crude. Xiao Yun did not find any luxurious decorations in this office. Instead, he saw many cold weapons that exuded the aura of iron-blooded killing as well as some very ancient primitive hot weapons.

There is also a long knife placed on General Emerk's desk. The blade of the long knife is pitch black and has no luster, but one can detect the cold aura emanating from it at a glance. The handle of the knife has been rubbed and rounded. It is obvious that this knife must have been held and played with by its owner often.

General Emerk himself is like this long knife. He is extremely tall and not very strong, but his eyes are particularly sharp. When he looks at Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun will feel like there is a knife swimming around him.

Xiao Yun suppressed the anxiety in his heart and looked at General Emerk with some doubts. General Emerk stood up, but did not speak. Instead, he looked at Xiao Yun carefully, and then said: "It seems that you don't know these things yet. It doesn't matter, I can tell you all about the origin of this matter." you."

Xiao Yun's heart was suddenly clenched. Xiao Yun realized that next, he would hear many things that were strictly confidential within the scope of human civilization. And the reason why I am qualified to hear these things... is undoubtedly because General Emerk said before, "I am the person designated by the devil to challenge."

Recently, I have only received one so-called challenge, and that is an unknown challenge message from the Raqqa galaxy. But General Emerk called it a "devil's challenge", so it was obvious that General Emerk knew something he didn't know.

"You may have heard about the Martian civilization." General Emerk said, "Our human civilization is not the first civilization to appear in the solar system. Four to five hundred million years before the emergence of our human civilization, on Mars A great civilization was also born on it, which we call the Martian civilization. The technology of the Martian civilization has developed to the point where it is about to enter the interstellar era, but it eventually perished due to the limitations of the dead knot. Originally, our human civilization would also die because of the dead knot. Trapped and dead in the solar system, but the original human hero Wei Feng brought back those key scientific data from the Nanmen II system, and our human civilization finally broke the deadlock and developed to what it is today."

These things are not secrets, it’s just that too much time has passed. If they don’t collect them intentionally, even if ordinary people have heard of these things, they won’t know them so clearly. Xiao Yun also belongs to the category of ordinary people, so Xiao Yun has only heard about it.

"Yes, I have heard about the Martian civilization, and I have also heard about Wei Feng." Xiao Yun nodded.

General Emerk continued: "But what you don't know is... that the Martian civilization is not actually trapped by a dead knot. The survivors of the original Martian civilization have already sailed to the South Gate II system, and have been able to recuperate and recuperate there. If there are no accidents, the Martian civilization will prosper again, but in the end the Martian civilization will die, then... do you know the reason why the Martian civilization eventually died?"

These things that General Emerk said were not something ordinary people could know. Naturally, Xiao Yun didn't know these things either, so Xiao Yun shook his head.

"When Wei Feng arrived in the Nanmen II system, he discovered a pyramid left by the Martian civilization on the Blue Night Star. Inside the pyramid was a Martian hibernating. According to the information he left behind, the Martian civilization was eventually He died at the hands of the devil, but he did not say what the devil was. According to our speculation, he did not tell what the devil was and how to defeat the devil, because he wanted to use this to coerce our human civilization to resurrect him. But... unfortunately, the Martian has been hibernating for too long, which means that we have no way to resurrect him. Until now, the Martian is still stored in a certain scientific research base on the earth. The secret of the devil and the method of defeating it were buried in the dust of time as the Martian slept."

Xiao Yun listened silently while thinking rapidly.

Xiao Yun didn't think that General Emerk would talk about these things for no reason, so... what General Emerk said was that the demon that led to the final demise of the Martian civilization and the demon now entrenched in the Raqqa galaxy What is the connection between things?

"Because this involves catastrophic events that may be encountered in the development process of a civilization, our human civilization has always attached great importance to this. After all, the demon that caused the extinction of the Martian civilization in the first place did not exist when our human civilization developed to a certain stage. , may also occur in our human civilization. So our scientists conducted a lot of research on the remains left by the Martian civilization, and finally we came to a conclusion. I think, as an artificial intelligence expert, you should have guessed What the hell is this?" General Emerk said.

Xiao Yun was shocked and immediately raised his head: "Could it be that the so-called demon that caused the extinction of Martian civilization was a robot that could infinitely copy itself?"

General Emerk said: "We have no direct evidence, but we all agree that this is the case. And... you also know what happened in the Raqqa galaxy, and we also doubt those that exist in the Raqqa galaxy. The thing is the same thing as the so-called demon that caused the destruction of Martian civilization."

"They caused the extinction of Martian civilization in the first place. Who knows whether they will cause the extinction of our human civilization now?" General Emerk spread his hands: "It is for this reason that we are acting like this on this matter. At the same time... I also attach such importance to you. Because the devil's challenge is directed at you, that is to say, the creators of these demons believe that in human civilization, only you have the means to solve this crisis. And we... Choose to trust the enemy’s judgment.”

"Who is the enemy?" Xiao Yun asked quickly. After a slight pause, Xiao Yun continued: "The scientific and technological strength of the Martian civilization was much weaker than ours now. General, why do you think that it led to the demise of the weak Martian civilization? Will things also lead to the demise of today's powerful human civilization?"

"As for your first question... my answer is I don't know, and we don't need to know." General Emerk said, "You should know one thing, that is, no matter who creates these robots that can replicate themselves infinitely, It doesn't matter who the guy is. The fact is...as long as our technology develops to a certain level, it is likely that making robots that can replicate themselves infinitely will become a very simple matter, so simple that perhaps an ordinary person in the future All can be manufactured. Therefore, even if there are no guys who are making those robots now, there will always be people who will make this type of robots in the future. Therefore, from the perspective of the development trend of human civilization, human civilization will one day Faced with this problem, if we find a way to deal with robots that can infinitely replicate themselves, we will have solved this crisis. If we cannot find it, then human civilization will inevitably perish - just like the Martian civilization in the past."

"Since this challenge will come sooner or later, it is meaningless to worry about who the enemy is at this moment." General Emerk continued, "As for your second question, my answer is, since the "devil" comes from Born within a civilization, the strength of a demon must be directly and obviously related to the strength of the civilization that gave birth to it. For example, assuming that the overall strength of the Martian civilization is one, they can only create demons with a strength of one. Then the demon with a strength of one destroyed the Martian civilization, and the strength of our human civilization at this moment is one hundred... Then, the strength of the demon we created is also one hundred, and it also has the strength to destroy our human civilization."

"Do you understand?" General Emerk asked.

Xiao Yun pondered for a while, then nodded: "I understand. I agree with both of your answers, but I still have a question to ask you, that is, how much evidence do we have at this moment to prove that there is a Are those things in there robots that can replicate themselves infinitely?”

"There is no direct evidence, but we think... they should be something like this. The data given to me by the head of state's think tank team is that the possibility is at least 40%." General Emmerk shook his head, " This is exactly why I met you today. I hope you can play your role in this expedition. If those things are really robots, you have to find out their existence form, operation mechanism, and most importantly How to eliminate them. In this process, I will provide you with the greatest support."

Xiao Yun felt a little powerless at this moment: "If they haven't developed yet, then just destroy the planet directly. This does not require my participation. But if... they have developed, I, I don't know what to do." How to get rid of them.”

General Emerk said: "Since this challenge is for you...then, we also believe in your ability to win." (To be continued ~^~)