The Collection of The End

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[Start connecting to subspace... The connection is successful. 】

[Locating Cloud City... Positioning completed. 】

[Login request sent...permission granted. 】

[Start projecting consciousness body...projection ends. 】

Exquisite street lamps, paths made of white cobblestones, clear lake water, and lush plants.

Kangna looked at the scenery she hadn't seen for a long time but was still familiar with, and was a little confused for a moment.

I seemed to have fallen into an illusion just now. After completing several tasks in the illusion created by the alien named Proxian, I originally thought I would return to Dr. Qian Shu's research institute, but instead, I seamlessly appeared in this mysterious place. in the space of consciousness.

Referring to what those girls said, if they find something valuable, they will be pulled in... Their level is obviously much higher than the Citadel Council and SCP.

[Find Sophie. 】

……Um?

Kangna was walking towards the pavilion by a familiar route, but she was startled by the newly displayed instructions.

If what "Emil" and "Matthew" said is correct, that "Sophie" is actually "Kanna herself", and when she has consciousness, she will always remain asleep. In other words...she wakes up Already?

So what's your current state?

Since there were very few conditions for deduction, Kangna had almost no way of judging what was going on between herself and "Sophie", so she sped up her pace slightly.

In any case, since the situation in this small garden has not changed much, it means that the matter is not too big. Maybe he can ask them for news about the Geth. The "bigger trouble" has already appeared in front of him. The castle's side is vague. The girls here seem to be very familiar with it, so they should have some relevant information - information that is more detailed than any outside intelligence agency.

Da da da.

Just when the eaves of the pavilion appeared in Kangna's field of vision, as she took a step forward, the entire sky suddenly darkened, as if it had entered midnight in an instant, and there were even gusts of cold wind blowing.

"Is this—huh?"

Kangna subconsciously took a step back to observe the environment. However, as soon as she took this step back, "midnight" instantly changed back to "noon".

Kangna thought for a moment and took another step forward.

It was pitch black and the cold wind howled.

Take a step back.

The sky is clear and the wind is gentle.

"...It seems something terrible happened." Kangna muttered.

Matthew once told himself that the environment here is a reflection of external events, such as the "light rain" before, and what exactly is this situation that directly dyes half of the sky black...

In order to verify the scope of this "dark night", Kangna moved back and forth for a while.

With the keen observation of the android, she can determine that the "boundaries" of this "dark night" are straight and there is no situation centered on a certain location.

However, this level of intelligence was still not enough for her to deduce what was going on.

"[Stop playing, the other me, come here~]" A voice that seemed familiar to Kangna but had never heard came from far away in the pavilion.

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Connor arrived at the pavilion in the dark.

For bionic humans, insufficient light does not hinder vision, and a series of methods such as sound wave reflection and infrared scanning can determine the surrounding environment.

But the problem is that the scanning accuracy of those methods has also dropped to an outrageous level with this darkness.

However, the brightness inside the pavilion is still normal, like a lighthouse on the island at midnight.

As expected, Emil and Matthew fell asleep leaning on each other. Instead, the little girl with pink and white hair, short horns on her head, a pom-pom tail swinging behind her, and wearing a red and white cotton skirt woke up. .

She looked bored, putting her face on the stone table of the pavilion, staring at Kangna who had just walked into the pavilion with her sapphire eyes.

【Find Sophie (√)】

[Talk to Sophie.

】

"Uh... hello?" Since she had only dealt with Emil and Matthew before, Kangna didn't know how to communicate with Sophie, so she tried to say hello.

"[It's not good at all,]" Sophie puffed up her cheeks: "[Why do you want to touch the 'Source of Fire'?"

"The source of fire?" This time Kangna thought for a moment and came to the conclusion: "Are you talking about that silver box?"

"[Hmm]." Sophie responded casually.

Then, a ball of blue light appeared on the table of the originally empty pavilion. The blue light quickly dissipated and transformed, and finally turned into the silver box that Kangna had seen before, which was suspected to be able to control the geth.

"Judging from the information I just got, this should be a 'beacon' used by Protheans to record information and pass it on to subsequent civilizations?" Kangna asked doubtfully: "Is its name the source of fire?"

"[Write a few words on the bread with jam, will the bread no longer be bread but a notebook?]" Sophie pouted: "[As the 'other me', if you are always so stupid, I It will be very troublesome.】"

"Um...sorry?" Kangna didn't know what to say.

"[Since you have just seen the contents of the 'beacon', you should know that the Prothean civilization has probably perished," Sophie stretched out her little hand to poke the silver box: "[If the Protheans are the only ones left, Even if there are dozens of people, they will be exterminated by the indoctrinated traitors, so why haven’t the messages they left behind been erased by the Reapers?]”

"Because... they [cannot] be erased?" Kangna deduced from another name of the silver box that its origin must not be simple.

"[This is the 'fire source' that can make all intelligent machines awaken their self-awareness. How could it be scribbled on casually?]" Sophie pushed the silver box with one finger to make it spin in place: "[Only Prothean can That kind of weird civilization that doesn’t create any artificial intelligence would use it like this.]”

Not making any artificial intelligence?

Kangna thought about it and found that there seemed to be nothing similar to automatic machines on the previous battlefield, and their dormant device was also very backward, which was why the traitors took advantage of it. Combining some scattered clues...

"Did they unify the galaxy?" Kangna tried to ask.

bass! Sophie, who was originally unhappy, stood up suddenly and looked at Kangna with wide eyes.

"[Amazing!]" She gave a thumbs up: "[As expected of me!]"

Kang Na didn't know how to respond to this sentence.

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After a while, Sophie explained the origin of the silver box in a cute way.

"In other words, this 'fire source' was not actually made by Protheans, but was the product of a mechanical civilization that was several times earlier than them." Kangna concluded.

"[Yes,]" Sophie flicked the box: "[Extreme idealism and extreme bellicosity, prohibiting all artificial intelligence technology, and after unifying the galaxy by force, found that they were alone in the face of the Reapers, and in the end only this little was left. Inheritance, tut tut tut.】"

I always feel like Sophie is a little dissatisfied with Prothean...

Specifically, this thing called "Fire Source" is like a human colony ship to the mechanical civilization called "Geth". As long as it arrives on a new planet, it can mine minerals and create workers on its own. , when everything is ready, they only need to simply 'upload' and 'download' to move their consciousness there.

The reason why it can store massive amounts of information is because it itself is a "hard disk", and it is natural to "activate" them after creating new machine workers.

However, due to the Galactic Civilization being attacked by the "Reapers", it was interrupted. In this reincarnation, after it was obtained by the Quarians, only a few technologies for manufacturing mechanical labor were analyzed, and these mechanical labor were 100% Those who will "awaken", according to the default logic of the fire source, will naturally consider themselves part of society, but unfortunately, the quarians do not think so.

The result was obvious. When the creations of this ancient civilization decided to go to war with them, the Quarians were powerless to fight back.

"But why am I affected?" Kangna pressed the spot on her forehead where the android halo was originally installed.

"[It can be said to be technological suppression,]" Sophie tilted her head and said: "[Although we can ensure that you will not be affected by 'enlightenment', the matter of 'awakening self-consciousness' still cannot be suppressed, you Once I become an independent individual, I will naturally wake up.】"

"Then what is 'enlightenment'?" Kangna thought of the previous "mission": "'Reapers' are 'ancient machines'? Do they really wipe out civilizations in the galaxy on a regular basis? Why don't they even spare mechanical civilizations? "

"[Too many questions, not cute at all.]" Sophie puffed up her face.

"Sorry, let me change the question." Kangna looked at the "darkness" around her: "In this case, has the 'Reaper' already been dispatched?"

"[Wow... you want to open the window, but others don't allow it, and then you raise the roof?]" Sophie followed Kangna's gaze and looked at the darkness outside, then looked at Emil and Matthew, who seemed to be sleeping soundly: " [Let’s talk about the reapers.]”

"Okay." Kangna nodded.

"[Am I being tricked by myself...]" Sophie muttered in a low voice, and then said: "[The answers to your previous questions are 'brainwashing', 'yes', 'will' and ' Because they are not the same kind, if you can analyze the facts based on this, I can give you a reward~】"

"In that case, please wait a moment." Kangna nodded and began to conduct "fantasy reasoning" based on the existing clues.

Grox... Awakening of self-awareness... The triggering conditions of the aura... The Citadel and the Guardians... The intelligence of the ghosts... The final battle of the Protheans... What Saren heard when he was "civilized"...

While Kang Na was thinking, Sophie held her face in her hands and looked on with anticipation.

"First of all, the 'Reaper', as a machine, should follow a rule similar to the 'Three Laws of Bionic Man'," Kangna said after finishing the deduction: "That is, 'organic civilization will inevitably be born in the universe, and organic civilization will inevitably create mechanical civilization. Civilization must destroy organic civilization'."

"At the beginning of everything, there should be an extremely powerful and ancient civilization. They summarized this syllogism in the process of observing the birth and death of countless species and civilizations, and tried to break this syllogism."

"The method this ancient civilization came up with is to 'harvest' and preserve each civilization before it is about to be destroyed by their own mechanical creations, leaving only ordinary creatures that have not yet become an intelligent race, and every time' Harvest' is a reincarnation."

"Perhaps the ancient civilization thinks this is a very reasonable behavior, but the harvested civilization is naturally unlikely to agree, so every harvest is a huge war that affects the entire galaxy."

"No matter how powerful the ancient civilization is, subduing every civilization in the galaxy simply through force is a huge project that takes a long time and is extremely complex. Therefore, they also use the 'enlightenment' method to make the harvested civilization internally The traitor's 'spiritual interference' method appears."

"This method is very covert, just like the 'Omnic Crisis' that occurred on Earth. Even if the harvested civilization is wary of it, there is no detection method. It can only use strict systems to prevent anyone from betraying the opportunity."

"In countless reincarnations, there will inevitably be situations where organic civilization has been destroyed by mechanical civilization. At this time, the 'reaper' will also 'harvest' the mechanical civilization, but in this case the 'harvest' Actually it’s more like ‘incorporation’.”

"Based on this, it is further deduced that this 'fire source' had already fallen into the hands of the 'Reapers' when the 'Geth' was harvested. While they retained its original functions, they also imposed additional features that would lead to its use. The function of being 'educated'."

"So, they didn't care that the Protheans regarded this thing as a 'family heirloom', and even took the initiative to send it to the Quarians who specialize in artificial intelligence."

"In this reincarnation, if the geth hadn't awakened first and killed almost all the quarians, this civilization would almost certainly have become the 'leading party'."

"...I can only analyze so much at the moment."

Kangna looked at Sophie.

"[Wow...]" Sophie clapped her hands: "[I'm really awesome.]"

If she had an action suggestion system, she would always choose rebellion... No, Taotie...

"[There is a mistake,]" Sophie stopped clapping: "[It is not an 'ancient civilization', but a group of 'legendary creatures'. When they created the reapers, they completely forgot that they were considered an 'organic civilization', and harvesting Those are the 'mechanical civilization', and according to the preset underlying logic, they are the first to be harvested.】"

"This..." Kangna thought for a while and found that it seemed to be the case.

"[However, the newly born reapers naturally do not have the power to harvest them. They chose to harvest other organic civilizations that created mechanical civilization first. After accumulating enough strength, they finally turned back and killed these batches' The legendary creature's harvest was successful.]" Sophie shook her head as she said: "[It's too tragic.]"

If they had not chosen to try to break the syllogism, they would not have fallen into the syllogism, but who can be sure whether their "behavior of trying to break the syllogism" was part of the syllogism?

"[Although there are some flaws in other parts of this inference, it is generally correct. I will give you the reward as agreed, that is -]" Sophie winked at Kang Na: "[After you return to reality, It’s best to run away immediately~]”

[Disconnecting from the same consciousness...]

[Exiting subspace...]

[Synchronizing with hardware...]

【Finish. 】