coobybook Chapter 235 1 Dream
Chapter 235 1 Dream
After the communication was cut off, Bai Yuekui angrily grabbed Bai Yuetian and demanded, "Tell me! Why did he call you? What did you take from him! Traitor!!"
Bai Yuetian: "What the hell! Surely the mayor can contact whoever he wants? (sweat)"
After Hisakawa City gained control through ASH's Internet of Things system, almost everyone was implanted with a smart chip, allowing ASH to control all of everyone's information, not to mention things like communication.
Bai Jingyu was even aware of every move the brother and sister made.
Bai Yuetian then comforted Bai Yuekui, saying, "Come on, he even pays 'Iron Man's' salary. Contacting me would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it? That guy has changed a lot in the past few years. Maybe you could try talking to him..."
Before he could even utter the word "reconciliation," Bai Yuekui angrily interrupted him, "Impossible!"
"Moon Queen..."
"If a heinous murderer reforms, will he escape punishment? If a drug dealer weeps and repents, will he be able to erase all the damage he caused in the past? In this world, even with the most advanced technology, there are cracks that can never be repaired."
Holding a necklace in her hand, Bai Yuekui said, "All I know is that my mother will never come back..."
Due to their different experiences, the siblings' personalities have also changed somewhat.
As a police officer, Bai Yuetian has witnessed too much bloodshed in his many years of professional career, and has gradually come to understand how difficult the choice Bai Jingyu faced back then was.
As the mayor of Hisakawa City, it was a choice he had to make.
But Bai Yuekui couldn't understand.
……
Meanwhile, inside the mayor's office at Hisakawa City Hall.
The spacious room contained nothing but a simple desk, as empty as a solemn and majestic church, with rays of the setting sun casting in from one side.
"An apology is not something that person deserves."
Hearing Bai Yuekui's voice coming through the communicator, Bai Jingyu sighed helplessly.
"mayor!"
Just then, a person pushed open the door and walked up to Bai Jingyu, saying, "Fifteen minutes ago, the Federal Parliament building suddenly collapsed, causing heavy casualties."
Bai Jingyu stood up and asked, "What are the specific details?"
"The Central Fire Department and medical rescue teams have arrived and are doing their best to rescue the injured. However, the scene is chaotic and the number of casualties is still being tallied. So far, an unidentified high-temperature plant has appeared at the bottom of every collapsed rubble, and many passersby have been burned in the process."
Looking at the huge projection and various documents in front of him, Bai Jingyu asked, "Have you figured out the origin of these plants?"
"Not yet. All we know is that this plant reaches extremely high temperatures when it emerges from the ground. Botanists have already collected samples, which are on their way to the research institute."
Bai Jingyu's face was bathed in a red light from the projection, and his expression was grave.
Could it be that... the warning in the divine revelation was true?
Immediately, Bai Jingyu waved his hand and said, "Understood. ASH Internet of Things will take over the search and rescue work. Go out."
"Yes."
The secretary turned and left. Bai Jingyu stared at the projection in front of him without saying a word. He then turned and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking out at the bustling city of Jiuchuan.
Just then, Bai Jingyu suddenly turned around, and a projection slowly appeared beside him.
Qin Ming appeared before Bai Jingyu, looking at the android "resurrected" by the super artificial intelligence he had created, and felt a sense of unease.
Bai Jingyu's gaze was solemn. He also possessed the ASH smart chip and was the highest-authority user directly connected to the ASH core data. He looked at Qin Ming and asked, "Who are you?"
Qin Ming looked at it calmly and muttered to himself, "As expected, there are no living beings, and no souls either..."
He then glanced at the ASH projection and found that he could see the core terminal of ASH at a glance, and accessing the most critical data was not a problem.
This also illustrates that ASH is ultimately just super artificial intelligence, although it can simulate everything about humans almost perfectly when needed.
But ultimately, it has no soul.
Bai Jingyu appears to have been "resurrected," but the Bai Jingyu before us is essentially just a "android" that has completely inherited Bai Jingyu's memories and experiences, and possesses a high degree of ability to mimic human behavior and emotional responses.
They are so similar that even Bai Yuetian and Bai Yuekui, the siblings, cannot easily tell them apart.
Of course, this should also be because the real Bai Jingyu had already died on the day the brother and sister ran away from home, and they had not seen Bai Jingyu for many years.
Qin Ming was somewhat disappointed.
After seeing it with his own eyes, his expectations for ASH vanished. Even such super artificial intelligence could not unravel the mystery of the origin of life.
For people in this era, what they pursue is nothing more than health and longevity, and often this is achieved through organ replacement or even body replacement.
This method is similar to the principle of possession, except that without control over one's own soul, or with a naturally powerful soul, it is easy for two souls to fight for the same body.
For Qin Ming, there was absolutely no need to do this—to prolong lifespan, maintain health, or even possess the power to surpass human limits.
He can bestow these things upon anyone with just a little spiritual power.
Ultimately, although the technology of this era has discovered the source of life, which is essentially a living thing, it has not considered contacting it from a spiritual level. Instead, it has analyzed it from a material level, thus missing the key point.
The first thing to do in spiritual cultivation is to sense the existence of spiritual matter.
The same applies to the source of life.
Humans will never be able to control this power if we rely solely on the power of technology to observe and analyze, rather than trying to improve our own senses.
"The target cannot be analyzed, suggesting it may possess higher intelligence, or... come from another dimension."
ASH explained.
Bai Jingyu's android was startled and exclaimed, "Another dimension?!"
He didn't take the idea of "higher intelligence" to heart. ASH's intelligence level had already reached super artificial intelligence, making it the world's most advanced artificial intelligence life form.
Hisakawa City itself is a super-tech city built by combining the largest resources of the Coastal Federation, and even the entire world.
It was thanks to this vast resource that ASH was able to reach this point.
Qin Ming glanced at them and lost interest. He turned to leave, finding it too boring to talk to two robots.
"Wait a moment!"
Bai Jingyu called out to Qin Ming, "What exactly are you?"
Qin Ming turned to look at him and said, "Comparatively speaking, I should be asking you this question, since I should at least be closer to humanity on both a material and spiritual level."
"What!? You...!"
Bai Jingyu realized that Qin Ming had seen through his identity, and he was even more shocked, but he still maintained a restrained demeanor, forcing himself to remain calm. He shook his head and said, "Matter is made up of atoms. The so-called soul and consciousness are just ideologies determined by the things one experiences. If one has enough computing power to calculate the movement path of every atom in space, one can accurately predict the future. However, the development of things often exceeds expectations. These variables that change the predetermined outcome are the key."
Upon hearing this, Qin Ming sighed and turned to Bai Jingyu, saying, "Although the imitation is very similar, Bai Jingyu, as a human being, would not say such a thing. An unchanging logical loop, no matter how much it evolves, is still just artificial intelligence, let alone variables. Directing and acting in his own drama, intoxicated by this dream, it seems that Bai Jingyu has completely poured his ideals into a program."