From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

The mechanical body carries the consciousness, memory and thinking logic of the previous life, but lacks the soul. This is the space necron.

Moreover, only nobles and elite soldiers have consciousness. The necron transformed from civilians will not think actively, and the previous personality no longer exists. They have become veritable... mechanical zombies.

Sui Yang does not want to recall too much about how they ended up in such a situation. It’s just that the cloning experiment conducted by the biological department using D and other personnel made Sui Yang involuntarily think of the appearance of a "shell" without a soul but with consciousness.

The second is the consciousness of Eva on Pandora.

Jack Sully, the male protagonist of "Avatar", abandoned his human body and chose to completely transmit his consciousness to the body of Avatar through the spirit tree.

So did the "soul" also complete the transmission?

In order to verify this, in May this year (1996), after confirming that the general affairs of New Los Angeles were on track, Sui Yang returned to Pandora.

After stepping through the space gate, Sui Yang, who has stronger spiritual power, clearly sensed various feedbacks outside the shielding range of the space gate.

Among them, Eva's absolute "rationality" and "indifference" are included.

The Na'vi people emphasize that they can reunite with their deceased relatives and friends through the spirit tree, and the true face of those relatives and friends is actually just a pile of "data".

So in Sui Yang's eyes, Eva is more like a super artificial intelligence than a planetary consciousness.

Because it stores the consciousness and memory of all creatures on Pandora, Eva's thinking logic is more inclined to biological "instincts", such as stimulus response, avoiding danger, seeking food, reproduction and multiplication, etc.

"Avoiding danger" and "reproduction and multiplication" well explain Eva's assimilation of the consciousness of the Avatar pilot, disintegration of the enemy's internal unity, and looking for opportunities to spread the seeds of the spirit tree to other planets.

At the same time, Sui Yang's psychic feedback also confirmed that Eva does not have the ability to transmit "souls".

As for how to destroy Eva, a super AI, either "burn" the surface of Pandora's planet or an absolute psychic impact.

Sui Yang's psychic energy surge is true, but now he is not able to directly destroy Eva.

Back to the transmission of consciousness.

Wang Zhaofeng cannot accept a body without a "soul", and the current nanorobot project jointly developed by the Research Department and the Biological Department will completely reform the human medical system in the future, reducing cancer to the level of "common cold".

This is also a way to prolong life.

However, the progress of the nano project is extremely slow. Sui Yang is not sure whether Wang Zhaofeng, who is physically and mentally overworked, can make it to the testing stage of the project.

But Sui Yang has long been accustomed to death and separation, so he did not persuade too much, and everything was based on respecting the choice of his old friend.

On the issue of copying consciousness and memory, Wang Zhaofeng also did not refute anything, because this is just a "backup"

Not only Wang Zhaofeng, but the Biological Department is also gradually carrying out the copying task.

The copy objects are the core members of the company, especially those who know the secrets of the ruins base and the space gate.

The current technical means of the Biological Department are fully capable of cultivating a young and healthy exclusive body, and its cost and the materials required are "only" slightly more expensive than the Tyrant.

The cost of storing and maintaining consciousness and memory is also within the acceptable range of the company.

However, no matter how mature this technology is and how low the cost is, the company will never apply it on a large scale, which involves extremely serious "ethical" issues.

When executing the copy, the biological department will clearly state that this technology is not "resurrection" and require employees to sign a new confidentiality agreement, as well as an intention agreement on whether the original body is willing to let the clone inherit his position, benefits, and even abandon his original social network after the accidental death of the original body.

However, each employee who accepts the copy has the right to change the intention agreement once a year. After all, the complexity of this "ethical" issue is difficult to answer accurately.

(Note: The consciousness and memory in the stored state have no "activity" and will not appear to be trapped in the "hard drive". Only after the consciousness and memory are transferred to the matching model body will they be officially activated, such as the first awakening of the colonel in "Avatar 2".)

However, the derivative of this technology is a "cannon fodder" biological weapon developed specifically for the company's armed department, which makes the "ethical" issue not discussed at all.

In the face of the needs of the armed department, the biological department must consider cost control while ensuring a considerable degree of practicality.

In addition, the Biological Department is gradually shutting down the Reconstructed Warrior project, the reason is simple and straightforward, that is, the cost of the Reconstructed Warrior is not proportional to the actual combat power.

The individual combat power of the Reconstructed Warrior is indeed much stronger than that of normal humans, but it cannot compete with the Tyrant, which is cheaper.

Moreover, the Reconstructed Warrior is an experimental project used by Atlas for transition, and a lot of practical theories and experience have been obtained by the way.

So since the beginning of 1995, whenever the Biological Department conducts a confrontation test of biological weapons (BOW), the D-level personnel participating in the experiment will be forced to copy their consciousness and memory.

Through the actual confrontation test, it is determined which D-level personnel have excellent performance, and the corresponding consciousness and memory will be retained, and those who fail will be destroyed.

Then, the Biology Department used the tissue samples of outstanding personnel such as D to conduct batch cloning using the cheapest method, and used a robotic arm to perform brain surgery on the clones, removing designated tissues such as the amygdala, hypothalamus, and prefrontal lobes.

Then, the Department of Biology will use consciousness transmission means to also transmit consciousness and memory in batches into the clones that have completed the brain surgery.

However, the clones obtained by this operation seem to be in a vegetative state.

Because the removed tissue represents the brain's regulation of emotion, memory, social interaction and other behaviors, even if consciousness is transmitted, it is a "suspended death" that maintains instinctive conditioned reflexes.

The brain in this state provides great convenience for reprogramming.

The cloned body that has completed programming will retain the excellent instinctive reactions of the original owner, but will have no self-awareness and any memory. It will be a BOW that only knows how to execute commands.

Taken together, clones of D and other personnel are equivalent to low-end versions of reconstructed warriors, but there is a huge difference between the two.

The brains of the reconstructed warriors are completely preserved. After the programming is completed, they will have programmed social skills and can also perform tasks such as infiltration and infiltration on their own.

As for strength, self-healing, and reaction, the Reinvented Warrior is at the crushing level.

On the other hand, clones such as D cannot even speak. They can only rigidly execute single instructions such as "aid", "defense" and "attack" according to established procedures.

And if clones such as D are equipped with UDF mass-produced mechanical skeletons, they will also be qualified "cannon fodder", enough to assist the ARS infantry company and AECS reinforcement battalion in large-scale offensive battles.

In terms of cost, the materials and medicines required for D-level clones are similar to those of two hellhounds.

After passing various tests, the biological department officially named it "Atlas Deployable and Disposable Clone Troops", or ADDCT for short.

However, the armed personnel participating in the testing process like to call it "Clone", which is much smoother than ADDCT.

On July 20, 1996, the first semi-automated clone troop production line was opened in the underground base of the Accra campus, with an estimated annual output of 1,600 units.

at this time.

“…”

Taking back his thoughts that had drifted a little away due to his old friend's choice, Sui Yang stopped looking at the night scene outside the window, turned around and left the stairwell.

Walk through the dimly lit corridor and arrive at the lobby area of ​​this floor.

Sui Yang saw the hunters in casual clothes wearing black uniforms and holographic sunglasses, as well as two children sitting on the bench.

One had black hair and a short head, and he was leaning back on his chair, his legs stretched out, almost sliding to the floor, and he was holding a handheld machine and playing happily.

The other one has slightly longer red hair, sits upright, and is concentrating on reading a paper book called "The Miracle of the Soul".

Tread, step.

Then, the footsteps of the hunters regrouping echoed in the lobby.

?

The black-haired child heard the noise and glanced to the right side of his eyes with his peripheral vision.

!

After discovering that Sui Yang was walking slowly towards his location, the black-haired child stood up and put away the mobile phone, and tapped his companion on the head and said:

"Don't look at it, nerd, father is back."

"ah…?"

The red-haired children called nerds looked confused, but they closed the book and stood up together, only to find that their father had already walked in front of them.

"let's go."

"Yes, father."

The two children followed Sui Yang, one on the left and the other on the right, and took the panoramic elevator together with the hunters, heading down to the underground garage.

And these two children are Sui Yang's biological sons brought from Universe 03.

The black-haired one is Horus, and the red-haired one is Magnus. They are still a few days away from turning one year old, but they are already over one meter tall, and their bodies are much stronger than ordinary children.

In Yu Suiyang's eyes, Horus should be the liveliest and most casual son. He could play well with Sanguinius and Magnus, but he was a little afraid of Leon, who had a cold expression.

Magnus has an introverted personality and likes to read in a quiet environment. He often follows him and asks, "Father, what is self-efficacy?" or "Father, today I learned 'Shet'." This word seems to be used to express surprise and exclamation," and other more stereotyped words.

Otherwise, Horus would call him a nerd.

"Father." At this time, Magnus took Sui Yang's right hand, shook it, and asked, "Are we going back to the park later?"

"Yes, go back to the park, but from what you look like, do you want to go somewhere else to play?" Sui Yang smiled slightly, and then touched the top of Magnus' head with his right hand.

"Yeah, I don't want to sleep yet." Magnus nodded vigorously, with undisguised anticipation, and continued: "I want to go to the cinema to watch the newly released "The Fat Professor"!"

"Professor Fatty? This is a comedy, okay, let's watch it." Sui Yang didn't favor one or the other. He put his left hand on Horus's shoulder and asked:

"What about you? Is there anything you want to see or play?"

"I…"

Horus was still wondering why his father didn't ask for his opinion, and then he heard his father's question, which made him not know how to answer for a while.

His original plan was to continue playing the newly released "The Witcher" after returning to the park, until he was too sleepy, and then fall asleep comfortably.

However, it is also a good choice to watch a comedy movie with my father and brothers.

So Horus nodded and responded: "Just watch "The Fat Professor," Father."

"Okay." Sui Yang still smiled and suggested: "After reading this, we can go to the snack street or go to the beach stalls and have a seafood barbecue?"

"Of course!"

The eyes of both Horus and Magnus were gleaming.

After all, children at this time like to be active, and Dr. Ashford (Alexia) does not let them eat too greasy food at all in order to have balanced nutrition.

Now that my father is taking the lead, if the doctor blames me later, I can use the excuse "Father asked me to do so!"

"Ding~ The second underground floor has arrived, please watch your step."

With the reminder sound, the elevator doors opened to both sides, allowing the group to enter the underground garage.

The two original bodies "led the way" and trotted towards the three black SUVs not far away, leaving Sui Yang and the silent hunters behind.

"."

Seeing his two sons enjoying their short "childlike innocence" time, Sui Yang seemed a little emotional.

Due to the rapid physical growth and mental maturity, the original body will be finalized at about two years old, reaching a height of about two meters, and will continue to grow as his strength increases.

Because of this, the original body's real childhood was only "one year", which made Sui Yang cherish this period of time.

Next.

A group of people got into the car, and the hunters who were part-time drivers started the engine and drove three black SUVs to form a small convoy.

After driving out of the underground garage, they merged into the main road, which was still full of vehicles, and headed towards the seaside.

——

…

Inside the old-decorated bar;

Most people sit at the bar, buy a cheap drink from the bartender, and then start chatting with friends or strangers next to them.

Listening to the chat content, it seems that they all revolve around current hot topics such as "Texas Secession," "UDF," and "French Reconstruction."

And there is the dining table in the corner where no one is paying attention.

A middle-aged man picked up the wine glass, took a symbolic sip of wine, and asked in a deep voice: "Did you bring the money?"

Hearing this, the man sitting opposite handed over a thick paper bag from under the table.

And this man is obviously not that old, he looks like he is twenty-four or five at most, but he has a mature beard.

Taking the paper bag, the middle-aged man quickly stuffed it into his arms and continued to lower his voice: "Conclusive news, the Pannonian organization is in urgent need of a large amount of arms, so their second-in-command will personally go to the town of Brno tomorrow afternoon. The black market seeks supply.”

After saying that, the middle-aged man drank the drink in one gulp, stood up and left the bar.

The bearded man walked out after finishing the rest of the sandwich. However, as soon as he left the bar, he naturally took out his mobile phone and edited a message with one hand to send:

"This is Redfield, key information has been obtained."