The lobby of the command center was almost filled with corpses.
Xi Xiaofan fell in a pool of blood.
He died. Zeus's blow penetrated his heart. Xi Xiaofan, who had hardly experienced any strengthening, was fatally struck by one blow.
Before he died, his eyes were still looking at the ceiling above his head, and he just murmured two words blankly: "Dad...Mom..."
Shen Yi gently closed Xi Xiaofan's eyes and sighed.
After all, he failed to protect Xi Xiaofan.
The shortcut to success is indeed full of dangers and rugged difficulties - it is doomed to pay the price of life.
A light cough awoke Shen Yi from his melancholy and returned to the real world.
"Hey, Shen Yi."
Shen Yi slowly turned back.
He looked at Zeus lying on the ground: "Are you Marcus now?"
"No." The other party shook his head: "I am still Zeus. To be precise... I am Zeus who has Marcus's thoughts and feelings."
"Is it?"
Zeus chuckled twice.
Its armor value was reduced to zero by Shen Yi, leaving only a little human life to support itself. It also lost control of the Skynet base and could no longer use any ability to fight against Shen Yi. It could be said that it had been completely defeated.
At this moment, it calmed down, just like the performance of people fighting until the end, extremely calm and collected.
It was a sign of helplessness and acceptance of cold reality.
It said: "I think I am beginning to understand what human beings are. As we know, human beings are creatures that cannot be calculated. You may be weak on the surface, but sometimes you can burst out with powerful power. But the important thing is ,I finally understand what mistake I made."
"Oh? Tell me?"
"I fell into your trap, Shen Yi. I shouldn't have just wanted to kill that boy. In fact, he was no threat to me at all. One minute and fourteen seconds, if I concentrate on dealing with you during this period, I can easily Kill you. Even if that boy takes control of the base, I can easily kill him with my current strength, and then wrest control back..."
Xi Xiaofan is actually just a target to divert Zeus's attention. He distracts Zeus's attacks and no longer concentrates his attention. Without Shen Yi, even if Xi Xiaofan is given ten Skynets to control, he will not be able to use them against Zeus. Any threat arises. As long as Zeus kills Shen Yi earlier, he can deal with Xi Xiaofan calmly and regain control of Skynet.
Looking only at the present and pursuing the end at the expense of the fundamental is a common mistake humans make. Logically speaking, Zeus, who is good at calculation and analysis, would never make such a mistake.
But he happened to do it.
The reason is simple, it is influenced by human thinking.
Possessing human emotions can certainly allow Zeus to experience more emotional processes and improve his wisdom, but it also limits his computing power. He may never understand why human wisdom is so closely related to their hearts. So much so that since possessing human emotions, Zeus has actually lost one of the most important abilities of a wise brain - calmness.
From this point of view, Zeus is actually more human-like than Shen Yi. At least the former still has emotions that govern his thinking, but the latter is completely unaffected by emotions. Even in the most difficult moments, he must make the most calm analysis to defeat A powerful enemy.
"Actually..." Shen Yi thought for a while and finally said: "Machines are machines, and there is no need to follow the development path of humans. Whether machines or life, they all have their own development history. Your real mistake is not If you make wrong judgments during combat, you will go astray in the direction of evolution from the beginning. I have discussed with my friends before what kind of wisdom they will develop if machines have minds. What I learned The conclusion is: different soils breed completely different ways of life, and therefore have different ways of thinking. But unfortunately, it seems that you have no intention of going on this road, but want to learn from humans. This may be evolution It is a branch on the road, but I personally think it is not suitable for you. This is the most important reason why you will fail. You tried to have something that does not belong to you, so you failed."
"You are right, the machine...should have its own way of survival. When I tried to take shortcuts, I was already embarking on a process of self-destruction. You just accelerated the process...but you You know? I don’t regret it at all.”
"oh?"
A smile appeared on Zeus's face.
He whispered: "It's really nice to be able to become a human and feel all kinds of wonderful emotions. Although emotions like anger, fear, and despair make me very uncomfortable, I still prefer to have these emotions. Shen Yi, you are Human beings, but I find that your thinking is closer to that of a machine. I advise you not to give up some of the qualities that humans have. Too much rational thinking will make you lose your emotions and make you no longer a human being."
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, and Zeus continued: "Machines cannot expect human emotions, and humans should not expect too much high-speed computing from machines. Otherwise, you will embark on the completely opposite path like me."
Shen Yi thought for a while and finally nodded: "Thank you, I understand."
"It's a pity that I can't understand what happiness and joy are, and what sorrow and sadness are. What I can feel now is Marcus's final mood - atonement."
It looked at Shen Yi: "Kill me. After doing this last thing, you will defeat me. The program is in the core component of my brain. I guess you must really want to get this. Then maybe you can let me use another A way to survive and learn the answers about you..."
Saying this, it closed its eyes.
After thinking for a while, Shen Yi pointed the gun at Zeus's chest.
Gunshot.
Zeus's body bounced on the ground a few times and finally stopped moving.
I don't know why, but after eliminating this terrible boss, Shen Yi didn't feel the slightest bit proud or happy in his heart.
The completion of this mission was really too difficult and full of unexpected factors.
Shen Yi didn't like this.
In fact, no strong man likes surprises.
Accidents can sometimes be surprises, and sometimes they can be troubles.
For the strong, they would rather not have surprises than trouble. After all, accidents are uncontrollable factors, and the truly strong are more willing to obtain controllable results through their own efforts rather than waiting for pie to fall from the sky. Surprises may bring temporary happiness, but troubles may bring the end of life.
The latter problem is obviously bigger.
However, among all these accidents, there is one accident that Shen Yi wants to know very much. If possible, it may become a controllable factor for him.
That's...the girl in white.
Thinking of this, Shen Yi closed his eyes.
He activated the three-dimensional image memory again.
He expected to see the little girl in white again in this way, but unfortunately, except for the previous conversation between himself and Zeus, he could not see anyone in the entire command center.
A cold reminder came from the bloody emblem: "You have completed the hidden mission. This mission ends early and you will return immediately."
Shen Yi was stunned, and he quickly grabbed Marcus's body.
He hasn't gotten the Skynet main program yet.
However, a ray of white light suddenly rolled up at this moment, sweeping him towards that layer of misty space.
"No!" Shen Yi roared unwillingly.
This bastard of Bloody City didn't even give him a chance to collect the loot!
Coming to that bizarre space again, this time Shen Yi was no longer alone.
Also standing beside him were Wen Wenwen, Hong Lang, King Kong and Luo Hao.
When they saw Shen Yi, they cheered at the same time.
Wen Wenwen rushed over and hugged Shen Yi. Her red lips were already on Shen Yi's mouth. This sweet kiss calmed Shen Yi's angry heart somewhat.
"I'm so glad to see you again." She said softly.
Hong Lang also rushed over: "Ha, do you know how dangerous it was just now? The fat man said that it would be less dangerous if we left. Actually, I don't think it would be much less dangerous at all. It's just that the terrain is more open, allowing us to maneuver around. The space is just larger. Just now, there were even four Reapers firing at me at the same time. Four! I almost died, and then I heard a whoosh, and I ended up here. Ha, really nothing To think that this time we can actually accept the mission reward together."
"This should be the reason for establishing a formal team." King Kong interjected.
It was indeed very dangerous just now. If Shen Yi hadn't completed the task in time, one of them might have been missing here.
The fat man said cowardly: "Captain, your hands..."
Only then did everyone notice that Shen Yi's right arm was missing.
"It's okay." Shen Yi replied: "If you want to do big things, you always have to pay some price."
"It seems like you had a hard time completing this mission?" King Kong frowned. He was not worried about losing an arm. It could always be repaired when he returned to the city. The problem was that Shen Yi's expression looked very unkind.
In fact, since he met Shen Yi, he had never seen Shen Yi with such an expression. That face was full of anger, sadness and luck after escaping from death.
Once upon a time, Shen Yi's face had such rich expressions?
He didn't know that it was actually a reminder from Zeus: As a human being, there is no need to deliberately suppress one's emotions. Calmness is certainly an excellent quality, but being too calm actually makes oneself more and more machine-like.
That's not a direction worth strengthening, just as machines don't have to be like people.
Perhaps it was because of Zeus's advice that Shen Yi no longer concealed his emotions at this moment.
He said: "Xi Xiaofan died...he didn't have to die."
This statement surprised everyone.
"How did it get to this point?" Wen Wenwen asked in surprise.
"Then you have to ask this damn bloody city." Shen Yi said coldly.
He suddenly shouted loudly: "Don't you think you should give me an explanation? City! You used Xi Xiaofan's hand to force us to accept the task. You blocked my memory and allowed Skynet to enter Marcus's body to create a high-level weapon." The difficult boss even took away the loot that should belong to me! This is not the way you should do things!"
When Shen Yi shouted these words, he didn't expect any kind of response.
But at this moment, a vicissitudes of life male voice suddenly sounded in the space: "Of course, e5371, I am also planning to have a good chat with you."