Chapter 295 Intelligent Brain Grace

Chapter 295 Intelligent Brain Grace

Chapter 295 Intelligent Brain-Grace

Zero Element Center, Central Monitoring Room.

The air seemed to be filled with a strange atmosphere. When the beautiful mechanical head called out Lin Xian's name, not only Lin Xian, but also Ning Jing and others felt their hair stand on end.

Woo~
Lin Xian's two drones circled the entire circular central monitoring room in a very short time. After optical scanning, no living people were found except for the seven members of Lin Xian's team.

There was no one in the monitoring hall and all terminal devices were operating automatically.

"Lin Xian, how did she recognize you?" Kiki asked immediately.

"Not sure..." Lin Xian frowned, staring at the mechanical head high up, his heart full of doubts. Out of caution, he subconsciously prepared to use mechanical abilities to investigate.

"I suggest you not to attack me physically or with supernatural powers. If the intelligent brain fails, I will not be able to operate the Zero Element Center, and I will not be able to communicate with you in a friendly manner."

Grace focused her eyes on Lin Xian. Her words made Lin Xian's face change slightly. He immediately stopped the mechanical covering action and spoke instead.

"Then please answer me, who are you and where is this place?"

"I am the offline version of Crimson No. 3 Intelligent Computer in the Ijin Zero Element Center. You can call me Grace. I am responsible for protecting all 1623 Crimson members of the Zero Element Center. All the defensive weapons in the current system are offline, and my fourth basic agreement has been triggered. That is, in order to protect all Crimson members, I formally initiate negotiations with you." At this time, the intelligent computer spoke.

"Negotiation?" Lin Xian looked at the robot brain that was almost identical to the woman named Chu Yan in his dream, and forced himself to suppress the doubts in his heart, and asked directly: "What do you want to discuss with us?"

"According to the agreement, I can provide you with the following: (1) survival supplies for members in the Zero Element Center's permanent warehouse; (2) 1000 sets of interstellar level III individual weapon sets in the weapons and equipment warehouse; and (3) safe evacuation routes."

"At the same time, I need to inform you that this Zero Element Center does not have any other content that is strongly related to the survivors. Destroying the Zero Element Hive Cave or killing the Crimson members will not bring you any benefits."

"It looks like this is a robot butler." Ding Junyi said at this time: "I sensed a large amount of human body heat in the curtain wall behind it."

"Oh, really, Lin Xian, look!"

Kiki immediately flew into the air, looked towards the bottom of the curtain wall, and said with surprise.

Lin Xian took a look at the intelligent computer high up, and then walked towards the transparent spherical screen. When he got closer, he found that under the screen, there was actually a huge deep hole pointing vertically downwards!

Countless oval-shaped survival capsules are neatly arranged on the edge of this deep hole and embedded in a hexagonal honeycomb grid. It looks like a large underground storage pit. But upon closer inspection, there is actually a person lying in each survival capsule!

All the survival capsules had flashing blue lights. Looking around, there were actually thousands of survival capsules in this huge pit. That is to say, there were thousands of people lying in this vertical honeycomb pit. At the same time, there were countless flying robots and a large suspended crane working in an orderly manner, like some kind of medical management robot, constantly checking the status of each survival capsule and providing care.

"This...what is this? A hibernation chamber?" The team members also came forward, and Luo Yang said in surprise.

This amazing and sci-fi underground facility made everyone change color.

"Are all the members of this organization lying here?" Ning Jing also frowned.

"Maybe he wants to escape the suffering." Lu Xingchen rarely spoke up, "Sleeping for a hundred years is not a bad option."

"A hundred years?" Kiki crossed her arms and looked at the bottomless honeycomb pit below. "In this polar night, darkness invades everywhere. It's a question whether I can survive for a year. How can I sleep for a hundred years?"

"Yes." Ning Jing said at this time: "Could it be that this organization has already found a way to block the invasion of darkness?"

"Maybe you all guessed wrong."

At this time, Ding Junyi's Black Hawk armor's observation and aiming system automatically zoomed in and scanned those oval-shaped high-tech survival capsules, and found some clues. She pointed to the nearest survival capsule below and said.

"Look, besides the sensors, there are also some white mycelium on the heads of those people."

"Mycelium? Are these people dead?"

"In the biological definition, the Crimson members here are not dead." The voice of 'Intelligent Brain' Grace came from behind everyone.

chi~
At this time, the head high up slowly descended, and what seemed to be some kind of power cabin rose up below. A silver-black robot body with perfect female body curves was supported by a bracket. Then the head and body were connected, and several tubes behind the brain began to detach. 'She' stood on her toes like an elegant ballerina.

pat, pat.

Grace walked up to the group with a smooth pace comparable to that of a human. The holographic face said without any emotion:

"They are in a perpetual living state. This is a survival continuation plan secretly developed by the Crimson World based on the characteristics of mycelium."

"This mycelium that lives in the polar night tides was named Star Abyss Fungus by the Crimson World. Through human experiments, it was found that this mycelium would erode the human body and cause vegetative fibrosis of human tissue, but it would not erode the brain. Instead, it would release a special substance that transmits and connects human consciousness through the mycelium network, forming a brain network."

"Brain area network?" Kiki frowned and asked, "What does that mean?"

"The brain network can be simply understood as uploading human consciousness to the Internet. The only difference is that this transmission method is through the mycelium network." Grace replied in a mechanical voice.

"So what? What's the point of doing this?" Ning Jing asked.

"It sounds like a different way of living." Lin Xian said solemnly: "So, do you think this is a kind of eternal life?"

"I cannot comprehend the concept of immortality."

Grace looked at him. "Take Grace as an example. My consciousness exists in the storage medium and quantum processing unit. As an industrial product, the processor does not have the concept of 'immortality', but compared to the lifespan of humans, Grace can 'live' longer. The brain network exists in the fungal organism called Xingyuan Mycelium. At present, Crimson has not conducted a definite study on the lifespan of this dark creature. It is just that compared to the rapid death in the polar night, this may be a way of 'immortality'."

"In addition, through research, it is found that after accessing the mycelium network, the dopamine secretion of the human brain can be maintained at more than 5000 for a long time. This is the main factor that can make people feel happy. The highest pleasure experience that humans can get is a high-quality sex, which can temporarily obtain 400 to 500 dopamine factors. This means that after accessing the mycelium network, humans can maintain 10 times the pleasure of sex for a long time. This is also one of the reasons why Crimson members are willing to avoid natural disasters in this way."

In this miserable doomsday, Grace survived in the mycelium network with a consciousness 10 times happier. The more she listened to Grace's words, the more frightened Lin Xian and others became. Kiki reacted at this time and exclaimed
"So those human fungi outside and the human heads on the ground are all... living people?!"

Ning Jing: "That would be like turning yourself into a plant."

"It's inhumane!" Lu Xingchen said angrily.

Ding Junyi said at this time: "After being parasitized by hyphae, the body has become irreversibly fibrotic. How did you manage to keep all these people alive?"

“By cooling it down.”

Grace responded quickly: "After being invaded by hyphae, there are two stages. The first stage is to connect to the hyphae network, and the second stage is to complete the upload of consciousness and enter the hyphae network forever. Before completing the second stage, the brain will enter a state of high heat load. The Zero Element Center monitors this characteristic information and cuts off the hyphae connection within a safe period of time and maintains the body's normal metabolism. Therefore, the Crimson members are not sleeping in hibernation cabins but in survival cabins with metabolic capabilities."

Lin Xian heard this and said, "I understand. Once the consciousness is uploaded, the body is useless, which is equivalent to being completely dead."

"I have a slightly different view on death. The consciousness of humans and the consciousness of the intelligent brain are essentially the same. The only difference is the carrier. Just like Grace's Crimson Online version has been iterating, the carrier of Crimson members has been changed to the Xingyuan Mycelium Network. This is also living, isn't it?"

"How can they be the same?!" Kiki wanted to say something, but found that she didn't seem to know how to refute.

Lin Xian looked back at the densely packed survival pods in the deep pit hive and asked Grace, "These Crimson members shouldn't be your researchers, right?"

"Crimson members are people from all over the world who highly recognize Crimson World's strategy and have significant financial resources. They have been strictly screened by Crimson World, and they participate in the Zero Element Project only with a clear intention."

“Oh, I see.” Lin Xian thought of the luxurious carriage and couldn’t help but sneer: “So it turns out that a group of rich people who want to pursue eternal life use this place as a sanatorium.”

"Not only that." Ding Junyi also understood at this time: "They want to sleep here underground until the polar night disappears. I guess this center must have set up some kind of protocol. If they can't wait until dawn or encounter a major accident, these robots will stop 'cooling' and let these people give up their bodies and upload them forever into the mycelium network to become immortal consciousness."

"Wow, that's awesome." Luo Yang was stunned: "This time I really learned something new."

Ding Junyi looked at Grace and immediately said to Lin Xian, "If their consciousness is connected to the mycelium network, they will not be attacked by the dark invasion force, so they will not be alienated. This should be the reason." Lin Xian took a breath and said with a burning gaze, "Mycelium has grown in the brain, what is the difference between this and alienation?"

After saying that, he walked straight forward and spoke to Grace.

"The last question, actually the first question, how do you know my name?"

Grace turned her head mechanically and looked at Lin Xian: "From your tone, I judge that your question should have a deeper meaning. It seems that you think I shouldn't know you or know your name, so you want a more traceable answer. But I'm very sorry, as an offline version, I can't retrieve the answer you want. Your facial features and personal information are stored in my known personnel information database, and you have P3 level permissions. The above research information on Xingyuan Mycelium is also open to P3 level personnel."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes turned to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian didn't know when he became involved with this Crimson World. Hearing this, his face suddenly darkened: "Since I have such authority, can you tell me what kind of organization the Crimson World is, and where did all the people here go?"

Grace replied: "I'm sorry, I don't have this kind of information in my database. My basic protocols are all written based on the management of the Zero Element Center, so I can't answer your question."

"It should be for the sake of confidentiality. No information about the organization Crimson World has been programmed into this intelligent computer." Ding Junyi said at this time: "From the design of the passage just now, it can be seen that this place has been prepared to prevent any living person from entering."

"Then how come there are survival supplies and weapons bays?" Lin Xian said directly.

"That's right." Kiki crossed her arms and said, "Preparing these things shows that these powerful people are not all ready to turn themselves into vegetables. They still hope that one day the darkness will recede and they can wake up again, so they have made preparations for both scenarios."

After these words were spoken, the others nodded.

"Your analysis is completely reasonable." Grace said at this time: "Not only that, but also based on other security considerations, this part of the supplies will be exchanged with the invaders as a negotiation condition."

After hearing what the intelligent computer said, Lin Xian understood the current situation of several people. It seemed that the members of the Crimson World Organization who had exchanged fire with the Night Front convoy had either been wiped out by the mycelium or had completely evacuated. The Zero Element Center was defended by intelligent robots. As for the passage just now, if it were not for his mechanical ability, no one could have broken in casually.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian said to the intelligent brain
"Why should I accept your negotiation? I can take away all the supplies and weapons here." Lin Xian pointed at Grace: "Including you."

Lin Xian has always wanted to find a quantum intelligent computer that can manage such a large underground base and be responsible for the management of the train. Grace in front of him is indeed a good choice, but he did not expect that an intelligent computer would appear in this form. Judging from Grace's movements, she has extremely high coordination and athletic ability, and must be able to achieve a certain combat capability. So from the beginning to now, his mechanical heart has been conducting a comprehensive scan of Grace and discovered the extremely sophisticated mechanical component structure inside. His scanning progress is extremely slow.

Even so, he could directly forcefully drive Grace's joints and drive units. If the robot made any movement, it would be difficult to escape his control.

Kiki on the side smiled slyly upon hearing this: "Yeah, there is nothing to negotiate about. You don't have any means of defense, and if your organization hadn't destroyed the track, we wouldn't be trapped here. You also captured the survivors for human experiments. You are simply a group of traitors. Why should we let you go?"

Kiki's words touched Abai, who was standing next to Ning Jing, so deeply that he couldn't help but clench his fists.

Lu Xingchen looked at the bottom of the Zero Element Honeycomb Cave and clicked his tongue, "This place is similar to the oven for baking naan. Once it's lit, it will definitely burn for a long time."

When Grace heard Lin Xian's words, the holographic projection's face did not change, and she said in a flat tone
"The Eternal Warehouse is not in the Zero Element Center. You may be able to find it, but you cannot take it away."

"We came in here too, so why can't we take it away?" Lin Xian asked.

"Because you don't have the time to destroy the Zero Element Center, search the Permanent Warehouse, and complete the safe transfer at the same time."

Lin Xian's heart skipped a beat, and he said seriously, "Time? What do you mean?"

Grace said, "The Ijin City area where the Zero Element Center is located is currently covered by polar night. According to observations from the Crimson Ijin Observatory, the Xingyuan Fungus Network will enter an active state every other day due to the dark tide and last for 9 hours. After the active state ends, the Sky Mushroom Tower will release a large amount of unknown energy hyphae, attracting a large range of strange entities into Ijin City. We identify this phenomenon as a kind of 'eating' behavior of dark creatures, and the hyphae network has been active for 6 hours and 15 minutes. In other words, you only have 2 hours and 45 minutes left."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's face changed.

"what?!"

"A strange entity entered Yijin City on a large scale?"

Lin Xian frowned and said, "So your negotiation conditions just now said there is a safe evacuation plan. Is this what you mean?"

"Yes, but the feasibility of this plan is decreasing." Grace said, and her eyes projected a large holographic screen, which contained the content and data observed by the Crimson Observatory. It did show that after a period of time, the fluctuation of the soul value in Yijin City had reached a terrifying level, and it seemed like a strange siege!

Lin Xian stared: "Are you putting pressure on us?"

"From Grace's perspective, you don't have a better choice, and Grace's request will not affect any of your interests. The destruction of the Zero Center and the Crimson members has no meaning other than letting you vent your emotions. If you want to take action, I suggest you quickly return to the ground through the backup passage outside the platform." Grace said
"Captain Lin." Ning Jing looked at Lin Xian with questioning eyes.

Lin Xian nodded slightly. From the current point of view, Grace's conditions were completely for him to reap the benefits for free. The life and death of those people in the survival capsule had nothing to do with him. However, the more this was the case, the more cautious Lin Xian became.

"I accept your conditions, but how can I ensure that you are not lying to me, or that the permanent warehouse is not a trap?" Lin Xian said at this time.

Woo~
At this time, a drone flew from a distance and stopped in front of Lin Xian and others. The hatch opened, and a device similar to a code generator rose from inside.

"Here are the guidance directions and joint keys of the permanent warehouse, as well as the safe evacuation plan. You can transfer through this special route."

Kiki grabbed it with telekinesis and connected it to the mobile terminal. At this time, a holographic blueprint of Yijin City was projected, showing an extensive underground rail system underground in Yijin City. One of the secret lines was the one that led from the Crimson Pharmaceutical Group to the Zero Element Center.

Along this line, there is a secret underground entrance leading to a loading and unloading workshop of a freight station outside the city!
"I thought that if this kind of underground project was used to transport large instruments, it would definitely not take the subway line. It turns out that there is indeed a separate entrance route hidden in the freight station!"

Ning Jing's expression changed immediately when she saw it. She looked at the location and said anxiously, "If we reverse and go underground from the freight station, we can leave Yijin City directly without building any tracks!"

"That's right!" Kiki's eyes lit up, and suddenly she thought of something, and looked at Grace with a suspicious look on her face.

"No, how do you know we are a train group?"

Grace said, "In my database, Lin Xian, the captain of the Infinity Train Team, and the underground network of the Crimson Observatory have also learned your information."

"I see. Does that mean there are still people from your Crimson World in Yijin City?"

"After the Zero Element Center entered the hibernation plan, all field staff and researchers have been evacuated." Grace said.

Luo Yang looked at Grace and couldn't help but whispered to Lin Xian: "Captain Lin, could this be a trick? She handed over the chips so easily. Isn't she afraid that we will go back on our word?"

"I also find it a little strange." Lu Xingchen said.

"It's not simple yet."

Lin Xian took the code device from Kiki, walked over and patted Lu Xingchen on the shoulder, then whispered something in his ear.

Lu Xingchen was confused at first when he heard this, but then his eyes lit up.

"Understood." He responded, then stepped forward and prepared to shoot a flaming fist directly at the glass curtain wall!
rub!
The next moment, a silver-black figure flashed by, leaped out swiftly, grabbed Lu Xingchen's wrist and pulled him back.

boom!
In an instant, a huge fire broke out in the monitoring hall.

Lu Xingchen looked up and saw that the intelligent brain Grace rushed to him at an extremely fast speed. After removing his fire fist, she immediately raised her mechanical arm, and the wrist mechanism raised a plasma beam pulse gun similar to that of a plasma beam pulse gun, which quickly began to gather energy!
"Agreement 2: Any creature is prohibited from destroying the hive or harming Crimson members. Your actions have already posed a threat, and I will..."

Click, before she finished her words, the joints of Grace's whole body were suddenly controlled, and the plasma beam pulse gun in her hand was directly shut down.

Mechanical control!

boom!
Just when Grace was puzzled as to why her mechanical components suddenly "rebelled", Ning Jing had already rushed out and punched Grace in the face. The huge force directly brought about a dull explosion, and the punch sent Grace flying like a cannonball, directly smashing through a large instrument, sparks flying in an instant.

(End of this chapter)