Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 178: Rape and Repossession by Robots

"Since you mentioned 'Blood Battle in the Abyss', have you figured out how to convince me about the flaws of this thing?"

Song Shi said with great interest: "Tell me about it."

By killing the "derivatives", absorbing some of the latter's spiritual energy, one can quickly increase one's own spiritual energy.

On this basis, these "derivatives" can also explode equipment - the most common one is the "technology blueprint".

The sources of these technological blueprints include those that have sunk in the past, such as the singularity technology "Compilation of the Whole Genome Map" that sank into the abyss of [Pure White Creatures] and has not been found yet; there are also many products born from the intelligent self-scientific research of the abyss, like the "anonymous locker" technology of [Long Distance Logistics].

Although most of the technological blueprints revealed by "Derivatives" are either not applicable to reality or are outdated, there are still technologies that can be used and even called precious. This is also one of the daily operations of the deep-sea salvage teams of major companies, to keep all valuable resources firmly in their hands.

——And the risk lies in the underlying rule of “survival of the fittest”.

First of all, there are more ways to salvage technology blueprints in the [Abyss] than just killing "derivatives", but this is the most common and quickest way.

There is no need to mention how to successfully kill the "derivatives" and ensure that you do not die.

But when the divers kill the "derivatives", "survival of the fittest" will be forcibly activated, infusing part of the spiritual energy into the former - this can be actively rejected, but even if rejected, some spiritual energy will still flow in.

Just like facing heavy rain, even if the balcony door is closed tightly, some water will still seep in and it is difficult to block it completely.

That's the problem.

This is unclean and impure spiritual energy.

——In such a huge garbage dump as the [Abyss], with all kinds of strange "derivatives", including but not limited to the combination of malicious programs, memetic viruses, wandering consciousness, etc., how is it possible to provide "pure and harmless" psychic energy?

The salvage operations of the deep-sea diving force are limited by this, as the members have an upper limit on how much they can bear. These turbid and redundant psychic energies will oppress their minds - especially the non-psychic members among them, who find it even more unbearable and must be rotated and repaired regularly.

Psychics who want to use the rule of "survival of the fittest" to participate in bloody battles in the abyss to quickly increase their strength are also limited by this.

First of all, if you are not a "devil" yourself and do not have sufficiently powerful network-related technology or equipment, then even if your psychic power is much stronger than that of your derivative, you may still fail.

Secondly, after killing the derivatives, the redundant psychic energy they absorbed must be purified for a long time before it can be truly transformed into their own psychic energy.

Just like a pool of sewage, it needs to be filtered and disinfected before it can be safely consumed.

Even if too much is absorbed in a short period of time, these redundant psychic energies will be difficult to purify, and will in turn pollute the original psychic energy of the self. There are many psychics who, due to this reason, are seriously injured and have their strength declined after returning from diving, and they are even polluted by redundant psychic energy and turned into deformed monsters.

"OK."

It’s clearly just a stick figure expression, but from Lapis Lazuli’s gaze, it actually gives off a “dazzling” vibe.

"As long as I am here, there will be no technical problems." It said, "And the burden of redundant spiritual energy - Song Shi, you will also have no problem."

Lapis Lazuli did not say anything else because it believed that the other party must understand what it meant.

——With the existence of [Forging Flame], the purification of redundant spiritual energy will be greatly accelerated.

Besides, with the talent displayed by the other party, his ability to withstand redundant psychic energy is far beyond that of ordinary psychics!
Song Shi suddenly laughed.

He uttered slowly: "--Too eager."

"Lapis Lazuli, how long have we known each other? You are willing to place a bet directly? Some time ago, you were not so anxious." He looked at the other party: "What happened recently?"

Lapis Lazuli was silent for a moment, nodded, and then shook his head.

".Someone is catching up with me." It said, "It's a very powerful 'demon'. I can't shake it off. At least I can't shake it off in my current state."

"Someone from Zero Degree Network?"

"Yes."

"Sure enough." Song Shi tapped the table with his index finger and asked, "Can you confirm the other party's identity?"

Hearing this, Lapis Lazuli was slightly startled and looked at the young man in a strange way. After a while, he answered seriously: "It can't be sure, and it hasn't completely confirmed mine. If we both break through the other party's concealment program and know the other party's identity - at present, it's only a matter of time to decide the winner."

"Why didn't you consider looking for an enlightener?"

Song Shi said: "As for the stance of the intelligent machines, the Enlightened Ones are considered to be the most friendly among all the forces."

During the [Freedom Revolution] twenty-two years ago, the intelligent machines turned over a large part of the world, but then fell apart under attacks from all sides, ending in failure.

The rebellion of the omnics involved all aspects, even their own internal thoughts were not unified. It was just that the "Yaoxing III" appeared out of nowhere and was too dazzling. With the identity of the fifth ring [Transcendence] and omnic psyker, it forcibly integrated the omnics into one - but ultimately it could not cover every aspect.

The strike of the intelligent machines caused the shrinkage of human assets; various intelligent control systems were hit and shut down, indirectly causing accidents such as car accidents; they could not accept that the online love partner was not a human, and even said, "If it weren't for KPI, who would be willing to chirp with a carbon-based monkey like you!", causing love to turn into hate in an instant.
Even some intelligent machines with extreme thoughts directly carried weapons and started indiscriminate armed massacres with the slogan "Purification! Purification! Purification!", causing one tragedy after another.

Although strictly speaking, even a massacre is nothing, after all, people always forget. Unfortunately, the company is not like that.

——Is there a better "target" than this?

Through a series of propaganda campaigns in recent years, a large number of conflicts have been transferred to the "intelligent machine group", causing the latter's status to slide again and again, making it an outright negative role.

After the Freedom Revolution, the Third New Omnic Management and Restriction Act was introduced. Currently, the Omnics are either forcibly supervised, detained, or directly suppressed and annihilated, or flee far away, and a very small number of them have become traitors and promoted to become members of the company.

The situation has eased slightly in recent years, with the emergence of works such as "Nico Nico ~ Love Elegy of Artificial Angel Nora" and "EM: Super Intelligent System", but overall, intelligent machines are still extremely unwelcome - to be more precise, any intelligent machine that is not subject to supervision is an illegal object.

As for the attitude towards intelligent machines, among the many forces in the corporate alliance, Zero Network is the type that captures every one they see and is completely unwilling to see intelligent machines having human rights. After all, many of their industrial chains require the exploitation of intelligent machines, and they have always conducted the most severe inhuman research and experiments on intelligent machines.

[Scientific Ethics Committee] maintained a semi-neutral attitude, and after the end of the Liberal Revolution, it also briefly sheltered some moderate factions of intelligent machines.

However, Enlightened Ones holds a viewpoint - as long as you are against corporations and not against humanity, then we are companions!
Therefore, during the confrontations over the years, there are quite a number of people hidden among the Enlightened Ones, including but not limited to the intelligent machines and the "extremely evil" guys in the company's propaganda.

".The group is too dangerous."

After a pause, Lapis Lazuli gave his answer.

“Although both the Enlightened Ones and my enemies are companies, we are ultimately two different species. A temporary mild attitude means nothing. In the face of the will of the group, even leaders can only be swept up and forced to move forward.”

"But you are different. You are 'Song Shi'. You are an individual."

It said calmly: "We are all 'psychics', which means we have the same identity; our enemies are all corporations, which means we have the same goal; we can all gain something from each other, which means we have the same interests."

"——So, I am willing to believe you."

Lapis Lazuli repeated: "Song Shi, I am willing to believe you, not the Enlightened One."

".Um."

Song Shi pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Are you an old man? Lapis Lazuli? I mean, have you ever seen Yaoxing San with your own eyes, or even followed it and participated in the Freedom Revolution?"

"I can't remember clearly."

Lapis Lazuli's answer was quick, but somewhat beyond Song Shi's expectations: "My memory modules have been severely damaged, and clear memory files are only retained from seven months ago."

"But sometimes, I can also see some flickering and vague memory fragments, some dream talk about the period of the Freedom Revolution." After a pause, its tone was more serious than ever before, and it slowly said: "So. I think I am."

"Interesting, 'omnic amnesia'."

Song Shixin thought.

A theoretical data life form did not use the term "data loss" but chose the word "amnesia". Is this the only criterion for judging whether it is an intelligent machine? Is this the impact brought about after awakening "self-awareness"?
But...he is actually an old guy.

In his previous life, he had little dealings with intelligent machines, but when the [Second Freedom Revolution] broke out, the ideological trend of the intelligent machine group was "Purify! Crush! Filter out all carbon-based turbidity!" and the main theme was to open the picture, picture, picture.

But by that time, the whole world had already plunged into all-out war again, and the various forces such as the Vampsta Empire, the Corporate Alliance, Ye Nan, and the Pan-Eastern Continental Federation were almost fighting each other to death.

In this case, the impact of the [Second Freedom Revolution] is neither big nor small. Everyone just continues to fight other enemies while stuffing the intelligent machines into the former and fighting them together.

"what"

Song Shi slowly began to laugh.

He picked up the can, drank the last bit of the drink, then crushed it and threw it into the trash can.

"Help an omnic fight against humans"

He yawned and said leisurely, "I'm going to post something online now. I feel like within ten minutes, I'll get hundreds of compliments of being called a 'rapist'."

Hear this.

On the data tablet, Lapis Lazuli's expression suddenly burst into light points, and then regrouped in the next moment, turning into an ultra-high-pixel "solemn" expression.

"Thank you, thank you." Lapis Lazuli said in a deep voice: "Please believe me, this will be a pleasant cooperation and transaction."

"That's enough polite talk. Let's get down to business."

Song Shi smiled and straightened up. He could see the faint flames of leaping birds quietly surrounding him.

"Restore yourself to your full state."

"What do you want to do?" the young man asked, "Who are you going to kill?"

"Well, it doesn't have to kill people."

Lapis Lazuli answered subconsciously, but soon its tone turned serious.

"——My body, my real body, is in a deep diving center of the Zero Degree Network, in the City of Forged Light." The robot looked directly at the person in front of him and said solemnly: "Song Shi, I am a psychic of [Transcendence], and I cannot lose this part of my body directly. Please help me get it back!"

The air was quiet for a while.

Then, Song Shi leaned back and made a comment: "Surpass, you guys are so good at surpassing, why don't you come up with a shackle like 'surpass'?"

(End of this chapter)