MTL - Become The Guard AI Of The Lost Civilization After Transmigration-Chapter 257 Dying
Chapter 257 Life and Death Dying
Located in the center of this suspected "artificial intelligence control terminal" facility is a biological brain that has not yet died.
It was kept in a damaged nutrition cabin, relying on almost useless life cycle equipment to maintain the remaining life.
The surrounding lighting equipment emits faint light due to the reactivation of this brain. It is hard to imagine how it still maintains its vitality in this vacuum environment.
Li Wenyuan did not expect to find life here. Not only that, but this brain still seems to be able to perceive the external situation to a certain extent, and it can actually find that outsiders have come here under such circumstances.
But when the "Ascended" civilization built this place, they definitely didn't think that other people would come here, or they didn't study "artificial intelligence" technology that deeply, and there was no means of communication with this brain here.
"...Is this a 'brain in a vat' in some sense? It's actually in this kind of place..."
Seeing this preserved brain, Li Wenyuan immediately had this idea.
"Brain in a vat" is a hypothetical theoretical experiment. Its original meaning is "will a brain soaked in a vat, receiving artificial directional stimulation and instilling false memories realize that it is in a vat?"
It discusses the philosophical question of "what is real", which has been widely conjectured in the galaxy.
Many crazy scientists tried to perform the "brain in a vat" experiment in the real universe, and the former "observer" lost empire experimented with a large number of indigenous civilizations.
But the "brain in a vat" currently in front of Li Wenyuan is not a "brain in a vat" in this sense, because it obviously knows what its state is like.
It's really just a literal "brain in a vat".
Undoubtedly, this must be left by the "Ascended" civilization. Combined with the appearance of the "artificial intelligence control terminal" here, a certain answer is ready to come out in Li Wenyuan's heart:
“…really straight ‘artificial intelligence’…what artificial intelligence could be smarter than humans themselves?”
Weak psychic signals wandered in this space, as if they wanted to talk to Li Wenyuan.
It's hard to imagine a "life" with only a brain still able to borrow psionic energy, but it does.
It's a pity that maybe the consciousness in this brain is already at the moment of death, and the spiritual energy signal it sends out is already weak enough to read the content.
And Li Wenyuan is also convinced that the brain in this tank is extremely fragile, and it is even impossible to refill it with protective fluid. A slight physical stimulation may directly lead to the death of the brain.
But seeing the state where it can still resonate with spiritual energy, Li Wenyuan slowly released the spiritual energy extracted in this universe along the way to this space, gradually increasing the concentration of spiritual energy here.
The effect of doing this is very extraordinary, I can see that the psionic signal generated by the brain in the vat has increased visibly with the naked eye, and soon formed a wave that is clear enough to distinguish.
After reading it, the first sentence is a string of huge numbers:
【280361925153782】
At first, Li Wenyuan thought it was a key, but when he saw that the number at the end changed to 3, and then quickly changed to 4, 5..., he immediately understood that it was counting.
According to the frequency, the number is roughly maintained at the level of one change per second. If converted in units of time, this series of numbers is almost equivalent to nine million years.
The loneliness of the soul rushed from the brain in an instant. This number has changed from zero to the current nearly 300 trillion. The time span in between can even make people feel suffocated.
Li Wenyuan knows that this is probably the method used by the midbrain in this vat to stabilize the "consciousness". Through the memory of a fixed frequency, it will not get lost in the long loneliness.
However, to maintain a consciousness of nine million years in a world without any entertainment, no stimulation, no rest, and even a little movement is impossible, just thinking about it feels a sense of horror.
It doesn't take a week to drive a person insane by confining him in a space with nothing, let alone such a long time?
Even a psychic who focuses on exercising the spiritual world is no different from ordinary people on a scale of nearly tens of millions of years.
Li Wenyuan has even doubted whether the brain in this vat can still maintain the most basic communication ability?
The psychic energy fluctuations may be just its remaining spontaneous behavior. The current brain in the vat has been driven crazy for a long time, and it has been reduced to a machine that can only count.
However, after thinking for a while, he also began to try to induce psionic energy fluctuations, trying to communicate with the brain in the vat with the same vibration frequency.
In order to wake up the stagnant consciousness in this brain again, Li Wenyuan began to use words related to "ascension" as stimulation, and after repeatedly mentioning "ascension", finally a slight change occurred in the brain in the tank.
The number that was still changing suddenly stopped, as if the consciousness in it began to gradually recover.
After that, there was a long silence.
After countless days and nights, the brain in a vat finally broke away from the long silence, and the psionic signal was no longer a series of big numbers, but words with meaning:
【…Hello? 】
【Hello. 】
It seems that it has not talked with other beings for a long time. After Li Wenyuan responded with the psionic signal, it took a long time for the brain in the vat to organize the next language.
【...can you... increase... the concentration of psionic energy here? 】
Li Wenyuan didn't hesitate about the request of the brain in the vat, and let more spiritual energy fill this space.
Bathed in the psionic environment, the brain in the vat seemed to be a little more energetic, and the fluctuations of psionic signals were no longer so intermittent.
【...It failed. 】
The brain in the cylinder seems to be both doubtful and affirmative, as if it has already realized what happened in this galaxy. But I heard him go on to say:
【...my name, my history has long been forgotten under the scouring of time, and now the only thing I remember is my duty】
【I am the initiator of the last program of this "Ascension Engine", and I am the "left behind" who is responsible for pressing the "Ascension" switch]
【This plan to soar the entire galaxy cannot tolerate any mistakes, there must be a trusted "psychic master" to carry out the last step】
【And I have already made up my mind, so I have even embarked on this road that hovers on the edge of taboo—I will use my brain to completely control this "Ascension Engine"】
【Now... can you tell me, how is the outside world? 】
In the psionic fluctuations of the brain in the cylinder, he could not feel any emotional fluctuations at all. This long time had already made him forget what emotions were like.
And Li Wenyuan also discovered that the brain in the vat is shrinking, and it seems that he intends to use the time of this return to pass on their stories.
He can try to copy the thinking mode of the brain in the vat, allowing it to continue to live with a "digital" consciousness.
But will it really be a good thing for such a "left behind" who has endured a long period of loneliness but still insists on staying here to witness the end of their civilization?
(end of this chapter)
