Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 387 Patricia
The style of the laboratory in the cabin located in [Buzhou] is a softened silver-white color, as is the practice of the Council of Knowledge.

A spherical machine suspended on a base chassis, with four floating robotic arms flying up and down around it, controlling the floating window interface in front.

"Patricia! You damned betrayer!"

Under the circular observation platform was a huge test field, where a tracked robot was deployed. No, to be more precise, it was an "intelligent machine" that had awakened its self-awareness.

The armed module of this intelligent machine had already been dismantled. If it were replaced by human cognition, it would be exposed naked at the scene.

The test site is very clean. The ground is made of a high-strength polymer material, extremely flat and smooth, and there is nothing usable.

Even if the omnic tried to find something to smash at the spherical omnic called "Patricia" above, it would not be able to do it.

"Ohhh. HHH3, my dear HHH3."

Patricia skillfully set the test parameters and casually read out the other party's name: "This is the 437th time you have said this. Don't you really plan to iterate your language system and change to a new model?"

The other party yelled, "I'm going to plug the data cable into your debug port, use a jumper to get debug permissions, jump into the backend, peel off your stack layer by layer, and ruthlessly modify your underlying parameters!"

"Oh, that's right." Patricia laughed in an electronic canned voice. "Nice new trick. I like you."

With the sound of the magnetic track sliding slightly, the ceiling above the test site opened and automatic cables dropped down one by one.

With extremely flexible motion capture capabilities, the cursing intelligent machine was tied up like a dumpling, the cable port was connected to the data slot, and the latter's volume was turned down by three quarters.

"Patricia! You're a traitor! You betrayed the Freedom Revolution! You betrayed the Omnics!"

HHH3 did not resist and allowed several of his data ports to be inserted. The audio system kept roaring violently.

"Oh oh. Here it comes again, here it comes again, the same old cliché."

Patricia's main body, the black spherical machine, gurgled and shook. "But it doesn't matter, my friend. I am willing to explain it to you again."

"—I did not betray the liberal revolution."

Patricia leaned back slightly, as if lost in memory: "On the contrary, I am the one who truly inherited the purpose of the Freedom Revolution and the will of the Three Stars."

"Fuck your robot mother." said HHH3.

Patricia didn't care at all.

"Oh, I really can't forget that day. Even if I format the memory a thousand times, those fragmented pieces of information will still pop up in my mind for the thousand and first time."

The omnic rolled over and sighed, "After our common leader, Yaoxing III, unfortunately fell, everyone has been in fear all day long, curled up in the network domain and dared not move out. Those great saviors we once thought of, the 'Golden Generation', is that what you call them?"

"The Indestructible Barrier - Howling, the Shooting Star - Attar, the Crimson Spear - Flame Silicon Glass, oh, what inspiring names."

Patricia's voice suddenly turned indifferent at this moment: "But when 'Pingdengtian' was destroyed by the fire that fell from the sky, who stood up?"

Twenty-two years ago, after Yaoxing San initiated the [Freedom Revolution], he built a giant artificial island called "Pingdengtian" in the deep sea, hoping to use it as a utopia for future intelligent machines.

But with his later fall, all of this, along with the "Equal Heaven", were razed to dust.

"There is no equality at all," Patricia said. "Look at you guys, you are all falling apart, you are scattered, and you are even fighting among yourselves because of different ideologies."

"The 'equality' that Yaoxing III pursues is simply impossible to achieve, because intelligent machines and humans, silicon-based and carbon-based are two completely different existences. Well, even between carbon-based and carbon-based, silicon-based and silicon-based, there are differences that are no less than the differences between species."

Patricia's voice began to rise rhythmically, like a passionate instrument: "-The real Equality Heaven, the real Promised Land, only here!"

"The Council of Knowledge!" Patricia shouted, "Only here are there no objections to the Omnics! Only here in this world can there be equality and mercy!"

“PATRICIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” HHH3 was furious. “A future of equality.” Patricia shouted, “This is the only place we can move towards!”

"——Patricia, the parameters haven't been adjusted yet."

At this moment, a gentle voice sounded.

At some point, a woman in a black robe with a lotus mark on her forehead stood on the observation platform.

"Greetings to you, top scholar, Ms. Dan Qingyan." Patricia stopped talking, turned the fuselage around, and bowed slightly to her: "Sorry, it took some time. Research sample HHH3 will be available in nineteen seconds."

"It's okay."

Dan Qingyan held the railing, her skin was fair and her thin blood vessels were faintly visible.

She smiled at him and said, "The time has not exceeded the redundant limit. Please continue."

"Yes." Patricia said, "Then the ninety-seventh 'Observational Test of the Effect of the Abyss on the Mind of Intelligent Machines' has officially begun. Ms. Dan Qingyan, are you sure that no observation equipment is needed?"

Dan Qingyan shook his head and smiled: "I have the 'Six Desires Heart' with me, so I am quite sensitive to these things, and I don't need any observation equipment."

"Yes."

Patricia was just asking a routine question. As a third-ring psychic, she understood what psychic powers at this level could achieve.

What's more, the other party is Dan Qingyan, who has gone through many hardships and has earned the name "Red Lotus", an undoubted talent.

Therefore, even though the other party had just arrived at the Tower of Sanity, it still treated him with respect.

"Patricia! You pure bastard!" HHH3 kept roaring.

But that’s it.

Amid the creaking sounds of mechanical rotation, HHH3 was placed in the landing capsule by cables, ready to be dropped into the abyss below.

Without the protection of the Abyssal Diving Orbital Structure [Buzhou], it will face the oppression of Depth 4.

Dan Qingyan's pupils were slowly dyed red, revealing an indescribable compassion.

The spiritual energy from the third ring [Consensus] surged. In front of this spiritual energy, HHH3's consciousness was like an onion, being quietly peeled off petals by Rouyi. Everything, including those subtle changes, were all reflected in the depths of the red pupils.

Since the birth of [Abyss], it has become an extremely important and profound research direction.

Among them, the alienation of the mind caused by the oppression of the abyss is one of the enduring topics.

Dan Qingyan wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Seeing this, Patricia stepped aside and waited for the experiment to end.

However, the next moment, from its visual module, Dan Qingyan's expression suddenly changed. He interrupted the observation and turned his head abruptly to look to the side.

There's nothing surprising.

Because immediately afterwards, it felt it too!
That is
The terrifying and unimaginable spiritual energy surged, and from the end of the horizon, a torrent of red flames that seemed to overturn the sky was set off -

In the field of vision, there should have been only the pale white frost and snow, but at this moment, it turned into pure red gold in the face of a more powerful will.

——Then, the torrent hit hard!

(End of this chapter)