The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Did you find anything?" Sylvia stopped exerting her strength, let the hundreds of gravels neatly suspended in the air fall to the ground, and asked Leo who opened the door and walked in.

"There are some discoveries." Leo did not briefly explain the process of his exploration of the space capsule. Although the process of the narration was very simple, the key content was still explained carefully and clearly, so that Sylvie could understand as much as possible. Ya can understand.

"Dense fog? Is it dense fog again?" Sylvia quickly grasped the key point and said, "So, what Pris colony should have fallen into the influence of the World Tree? "

"Maybe!" Leo did not give a definite answer, and said: "Is the dense fog and the World Tree one, or the World Tree is also shrouded in thick fog? There is no evidence to prove the relationship between the two. Which one does it belong to?"

Sylvia nodded slightly in agreement, and then guessed: "Now our world is the Pris colony?"

Leo thought about it seriously, and said, "Judging from the evidence we have now, it should be."

Sylvia asked again: "Apart from these, have you found anything else? For example, useful tools and weapons?"

Leo took out the set of magnetic tools and said: "I found some tools, but I didn't find any weapons. They should have been taken away."

Sylvia picked up the set of tools under Leo's guidance. After using it a few times, she put it back into the box rather bored, and asked, "You seem to want to check the energy source of this place just now. Core, what's the result of the inspection?"

"The result?" Leo was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly turned extremely ugly, because at this time he was reminded by Sylvia and found something wrong.

As Leo told Sylvia before, he planned to go directly to the engine area and the core energy area connected to it from the normal passage after investigating the laboratory for cargo hold transformation, but his memory did not The last memory of the investigations in these two areas was only the moment he left from the cargo hold on the bottom floor, then returned to his room from the safe passage, and then came to Sylvia's room.

According to the normal situation, this kind of memory fragment without any cohesive content should make Leo find the problem easily, but in fact, it was only after Sylvia reminded him that he realized that his memory had appeared. The question is, how can this not make his face change drastically.

Because this situation only shows one thing, that is, part of his memory was erased by external force, and the external force of erasing memory also affected his thinking and emotions, making him unconsciously think that his memory is complete Yes, it is reasonable to turn a blind eye to the memory gap that arises.

Leo did not hide his current analysis and speculation to Sylvia, and Sylvia's expression became serious after hearing this.

Although Sylvia's strength is almost equivalent to that of an eighth-level psyker in terms of power level alone, she is far from being able to compare with Leo in terms of power control, and Leo still has There are many powerful methods and strengths, so Sylvia is not confident that she can win against Leo in a head-to-head confrontation,

But now, even Leo was attacked unknowingly, and it seemed that there was no way to fight back. If she encountered it, the result would be predictable.

"How could there be such a powerful unknown force here?" Sylvia couldn't believe it, and guessed: "Is it the number zero relic?"

"Probably not." Leo shook his head, remained silent for a moment, and made a decision, saying, "I'm going there again to see what happened."

"I'll go with you." Sylvia also stood up and said.

"I suggest that you better not do this." Just as Leo and Sylvia were about to go to the bottom warehouse of the space capsule through the safe passage again, and when Leo memorized the location of the last fault, a mechanized female voice came from the loudspeaker in the room. The device is transmitted.

"Who?" Sylvia immediately became alert and looked around.

"It should be the artificial intelligence system of this space capsule. We have seen it in the No. 0 relic before." Leo quickly recognized who was speaking from the familiar mechanical voice, and said in confusion: "Why? Are you going to suggest that to us?"

Facing Leo's inquiry, the intelligent system of the space capsule did not answer.

At this time, Leo suddenly thought of something, and said, "How should I address you, should I directly report your intelligent system number, or call you the No. 1 relic?"

"Relic No. 1?" Sylvia was stunned, pointed to the space capsule under her feet, and said, "Is it?"

Leo nodded and said: "Actually, when Langenus said that the space capsule is the No. 1 relic, I felt very strange, because if compared with the No. 0 relic, just one space capsule may not be enough. The title of Relic No. 1, after all, Langenus should have seen a spaceship bigger than this space capsule when he was in Velen before. Since it is called a relic, it must mean that this space capsule has extraordinary power If you think about it carefully, if an artificial intelligence similar to human beings is controlling this space capsule, then it is not incomprehensible to call the space capsule the No. 1 relic.” He paused and said: “If If my guess is correct, you should provide the high-tech items used by the Otter Federation, right?"

After Leo's voice fell, after a while, his voice suddenly came out from the loudspeaker again. Although the content of what he said was similar to what he said just now, the language he used was the language of the Earth Federation, not this world. language, and there are differences in the use of words and sentences.

After Leo's voice disappeared from the loudspeaker, the artificial intelligence's voice sounded again, saying: "Just now you said the same thing, it's in the engine room."

Leo froze for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Have we talked before?"

The artificial intelligence said: "Yes, when you found the engine room and planned to hack into the engine system, I appeared to stop you, and then we had a long conversation and said a lot of things."

"Why don't I remember?" Leo asked with a gloomy face.

"Because you asked me to erase your memory when you left." The artificial intelligence continued to explain: "You think the content I revealed when I talked to you is too heavy, and it will have a bad influence on you in the future, so That’s why I want to erase that memory.”

Leo immediately denied: "Impossible, it is absolutely impossible for me to let others start with my memory."

"You also guessed that you would have doubts, so you gave me a string of codes, saying that as long as I report the codes, you will believe it." After the artificial intelligence explained, it said a string of codes in the language of the Earth Federation .

After hearing the code, Leo's expression of doubts was greatly reduced, and he began to believe the words of artificial intelligence.

The reason why they reacted like this after hearing the code is because the string of codes is called the trust code, which is a string of codes left by the biochemical warriors for the people they trust the most, and will only tell the truly trustworthy people, Once the other party reports this code, it means that what the person says and does is completely trustworthy.

When the Earth Federation was on a mission, Leo told three people this string of trust codes, and none of these three people failed his trust in the end.

Now hearing the artificial intelligence report this string of codes, his only thought is that it is trustworthy.

Sylvia, who was on the side, didn't know what Leo and the artificial intelligence were talking about in the Earth Federation language just now, but she was very sensitive to the emotional changes in Leo.

"What happened?" Sylvia asked Leo.

Leo did not conceal the conversation between him and the artificial intelligence just now, and explained it in detail.

After hearing this, Sylvia thought about it thoughtfully, and said, "I think what the artificial intelligence said should be true."

"Why?" Leo asked puzzled.

"Because according to common sense, even if it is a god, it is impossible for you to modify your memory without knowing it. You will at least resist, and there will definitely be traces of resistance on your body, but you don't have these traces. " Sylvia analyzed: "And your memory erasure is too simple and too obvious. If it is really malicious erasure, at least the erased memory will not look so obvious. For example, adding some fictitious memories to connect and erase the two ends of the memory, etc., but according to your description, your memory is completely faulted, so this erasure seems very random, as if it was created for the purpose of erasing. Erase. If you want to find the reason, think about it carefully, it seems that the only explanation is that you actively cooperated with others to erase your memory."

Hearing this, Leo was silent for a while, and he couldn't help but wondered and said to himself curiously: "What do I know that I use rough methods like erasing memory to deal with this knowledge?" He said, like It is asking the artificial intelligence, saying: "Is this matter related to myself?"

The artificial intelligence didn't answer right away, but after a while, it said, "It's kind of related."

Sylvia also asked at this time: "Will it hurt us?"

"No harm." The answer was quick this time.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, and then Leo asked again: "Is this related to the Supreme Council of the Universe?"

The artificial intelligence was silent again. After a long time, when Leo and Sylvia thought that the other party would not answer, they suddenly said: "It's related."

Hearing the artificial intelligence's answer, Leo couldn't help being silent for a long time, and couldn't help but plan to ask again, but the artificial intelligence seemed to foresee what Leo was going to ask, and said first: "If you want to know the whole content, I can tell you directly , you can also come to the engine room to see by yourself, these are things you already know. However, if you erase your memory afterwards, the same thing may happen again, and repeatedly erase your memory in a short period of time, it will Causes irreversible damage to the brain, I'm sure you know that too."

Hearing the narration of artificial intelligence with a hint of human impatience, Leo felt a little weird.

Because life-like artificial intelligence is a taboo research project in the universe, the civilization that researches this technology without authorization, even if it cannot be called the enemy of the universe, it is not too far behind.

The Earth Federation also studies artificial intelligence, but like other cosmic civilizations, they study non-life-assisted artificial intelligence. No matter how realistic the imitation is, that kind of artificial intelligence can never imitate the emotional changes that humans should have. This is the same as The factory-made cyborgs are very similar.

However, now, when this completely inhuman-sounding mechanical voice artificial intelligence answers questions, it shows emotions that humans should have. This makes Leo can't help but wonder if this artificial intelligence will have human beings like him. just have feelings.

So, he tentatively asked: "How many levels has your artificial intelligence level reached?"

"You have asked this question before." The artificial intelligence replied: "The answer I gave you exceeded your expectations."

Leo asked again: "So you are now a living body?"

The artificial intelligence was silent for a moment, and said: "That depends on how you define a living body, soul, body, psychic power, or reproductive ability?" After speaking, it seemed impatient again, and said: "If you want to know, I will Let me tell you all, there is no need to ask such questions one after another. In addition, when you are erasing your memory, let me tell you now, go to the Old Continent."

After finishing speaking, the artificial intelligence didn't seem to intend to respond any more. Sylvia asked a few questions she cared about, but didn't get an answer.

"What do you think?" Leo was at a loss and asked Sylvia for help.

Sylvia also thought about it seriously, and said, "Go to the Old Continent? Did you discover some secrets of the Old Continent in your erased memory? Or something else?"

"I don't know, but..." Leo shook his head and said, "But I don't think there is anything to investigate here. According to the normal situation, we should leave, right? This doesn't seem to change Our original intention."

"Aren't you curious about the secrets in the erased memory?" Sylvia asked with some doubts.

"Curiosity." Leo replied quickly, but changed the topic, and said: "But if you will pay a high price for this, then erase that memory!"

Leo was thinking in his heart that if he was still single, or the biochemical person without human emotions, he might try to retrieve that erased memory regardless of the consequences, but now he is no longer alone, and some Things need to think about gains and losses, rather than follow the whim.

Although Leo didn't look at Sylvia when he said this, and didn't say it directly, Sylvia could imagine what the price Leo said was, although she was not very satisfied that Leo seemed to put His own strength was underestimated, but he was also inexplicably moved, so he didn't say anything, but let Leo stay in this isolation room, so he didn't have to go back to his own isolation room.