Lighting up super-god technology in the Three-Body World

Chapter 174 Zhuang Yan and Luo Yinxi
Suppressing all her indescribable emotions, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked Tomoko a question.
"Tomoko, between you and Miss Xiling, who is stronger?"

Tomoko shook her head.

"There's no comparison. Miss Xiling is backed by the entire Blue Star Network, while I'm just a computer engraved from a proton's higher-dimensional expansion,"

"Under certain circumstances, such as when the Blue Star network is paralyzed, Miss Xiling will fall into a deep sleep, or in areas where the Blue Star network is not deployed, Miss Xiling will be unable to go."

“I don’t have that limitation, because I am a complete computer myself.”

Chen Zhou frowned slightly.

"Can you say something more original? For example, why don't you look as human as Miss Xiling? Why don't you show any emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness?"

"You and Miss Xiling are both manifestations of super artificial intelligence, but why do you give me the feeling of being a machine, while Miss Xiling is like a human?"

Sophon's thought process began to operate at high speed, but it was clear that this problem could not be solved by logical reasoning alone. Her final output was:
"This involves the underlying algorithmic logic of artificial intelligence. I don't know the source code that constitutes Miss Xiling, so I can't answer your question."

Chen Zhou looked at Zhi Zi with an "I knew it" expression.

"Look at you now, you're just a standard logic machine, you don't resemble a human at all."

After venting her frustrations, she waved her hand.
"Forget it, you might as well ask Miss Xiling. I'm sure she knows more than you do."

Zhizi nodded.
"You can give it a try. Miss Xiling might have a different answer that can help you."

Chen Zhou leaped over Zhi Zi and walked towards the sofa, saying as he took off his clothes.
"You don't even show any anger; you just follow orders without making me want to communicate with you."

"Let's leave it at that from now on. I won't ask you anything unless you ask me directly. Just stay quietly by my side and don't do anything else, okay?"

Tomoko followed behind her, more loyal than even the most devoted maid.
"Yes, Commander!"

Shen Zhou lay on the sofa wearing only underwear, looking at Zhi Zi and said...
"From now on, you can only perceive the world using human organs. Without my permission, you cannot use any other superhuman ways of perception. Do you understand?"

Tomoko nodded.

"Yes, Commander!"

She immediately withdrew her external probing mode, relying solely on her sensory organs such as eyes, ears, and skin to obtain information from the outside world.

Shen Zhou patched up his actions to prevent the head of state from seeing them.

"If you perceive the world in this way, is it possible for a personality like Miss Xiling to emerge?"

This also touches upon Zhizi's area of ​​knowledge, so she could only reply,

"I hope it will be as you wish, Commander."

The Oort Cloud, located 0.5 light-years from Earth,
On the Far Expedition,

Luo Ji awoke from his hibernation chamber.

With the Second World and Xiling, humanity can awaken from hibernation without external intervention as in the original story.

The temporary captain in charge of this round was Zhao Baolin. Upon seeing Luo Ji, she asked in surprise,
"Chief, why are you awake? According to the plan, you still need to hibernate for more than 30 years."

Luo Ji lived entirely according to the rules of physics in the Second World, so he felt no discomfort upon leaving the hibernation pod.

"Xiaolin, slow down, we need to stop here!"

Luo Yinxi's little follower opened his eyes wide in confusion and asked,

"Huh? Why? Are we going to turn back?"

Luo Ji shook his head.

"No, Xiling will tell you the details later. You go to the control room and start the deceleration engine first. I need to wake everyone up."

Zhao Baolin nodded somewhat blankly, "Okay."

He then jogged towards the control room, asking Xiling as he did so.

"Sister Xiling, what's going on right now?"

blue star,

At Luo Ji's home, Zhuang Yan also awoke from her hibernation chamber. Luo Yinxi waited outside. The mother and daughter hadn't truly seen each other for over thirty years, and at this moment, they were somewhat speechless as they looked at each other.
Zhuang Yan spoke up first.
"Yinyin, are you alright?"

Luo Yinxi nodded slowly.
"Mom, I'm fine. How about you?"

Zhuang Yan felt a chasm separating her from her daughter, and a wave of sorrow washed over her, her voice trembling slightly.

"Yinyin, Mommy is so sorry, Mommy misses your daddy so much."

Luo Yinxi was a little confused, and immediately stepped forward to hug Zhuang Yan.

"Mom Yan, don't cry. I'm really fine. You can ask Sister Xiling if you don't believe me."

Zhuang Yan reached out and touched her daughter's face. Although the family of three was often together in the Second World, women are naturally more emotional. Listening to her daughter's words...

"Yinyin must be almost sixty by now, right? My daughter is almost older than her mother."

Luo Yinxi's lips curled into a wry smile.

She suddenly remembered what her godfather had told her.

'Humanity's entry into interstellar society will inevitably lead to the construction of a new moral system.'

"The other side of universal love and compassion for all beings corresponds to indifference towards personal feelings."

'My dear daughter, it's foreseeable that the further human civilization develops, the more it will manifest itself in a state of individual transcendence,'

'This is very similar to the Taoist concept of "transformation into the Tao," where a person becomes part of civilization and thus loses their individuality.'

'This phenomenon is neither good nor bad,'

"Because, for individuals, some people, especially the younger generation, are comparable to sages of the past and present in their handling of emotions and desires!"

'The Xilings have given humanity a life of unparalleled convenience, where everything is done for them without lifting a finger!'

'In this situation, interactions between people, such as emotional and material ones, have plummeted to a freezing point!'

'Without interaction, feelings cannot develop; among the younger generation, there are already instances where people don't even know who their parents are.'

For these people, Xiling, or rather human civilization, is their emotional anchor, leading to a state of indifference.

'This is a good thing for civilization, but everything has two sides; emotional indifference ultimately leads to nothingness.'

"Daughter, even your godfather couldn't predict the outcome of this change. All I can do is tell you this so you can choose your own future."

If you still yearn for love, then while you're young, find your emotional anchor, like your father and mother did.

"If you no longer yearn for romance, your godfather's advice is to carefully consider your emotional anchor to avoid uncertainty about the future."

She shook her head slightly and said to Zhuang Yan,

“Aunt Yan, although we do not yet have eternal life, according to the theory of lifespan extension and civilization development, we can already be considered immortal.”

Is age a problem for immortals?

"If you hibernate for a thousand years while I don't, when you come out, won't your daughter be a thousand years older than her mother?"

(End of this chapter)