Chapter 860 PROM Foundation

"Perhaps because of differences in ideas, or perhaps because they were jealous of my new life, irreparable rifts gradually appeared between me and the other eight people."

"They used to be amazingly talented beings. Each one of them was one of the elites in human society. They all once had lofty and lofty ideals... But with the passage of time, they are now no more than It’s just a mummy lying in the life-support cabin, lingering for breath, with only the desire for power... and the desire for immortality left in its mind.”

Qin Zi spoke to himself. Although there was no emotion in his tone, Qi Lin could fully feel the dissatisfaction and disgust.

"Are you going to break up with them now?" Qi Lin asked.

"I have already broken up with them."

"Then now...?" Qi Lin was a little confused. If they had broken up long ago, why would Qin continue to stay in the organization? Could it be that the other eight people could coexist with him peacefully under such circumstances?

"I am breaking with them, not with the organization. As the founders of the organization, the nine of us have the same level of authority, and no matter what happens, we have no right to deprive each other of each other's lives - this was the original agreement we made together. I will not violate my oath, and neither will they." Qin Qilin explained.

"Are you so sure that they won't go back on their word?" Although he doesn't have deep contact with this circle, he also understands that in the face of power, any oath can be regarded as a piece of paper. Don't talk about the spirit of the contract. When the benefits reach a certain level, the so-called spirit of contract is just a joke.

Family, friendship, and love can all be abandoned at any time. Only by resorting to any means can one successfully climb to the pinnacle of power.

"No, politicians have no bottom line and can do anything for the sake of power, but we are not politicians. We were just a group of people who gathered together for the future of mankind... I have worked with them for more than half a century. And knowing them well, they also know me well…”

"Then you still say that they desire power and immortality?"

"But when chasing their desires, they have always maintained their own bottom line, otherwise they would not tolerate a guy like me who has always been in contact with the mastermind, staying under their noses."

"Sure enough, you are having an affair with the mastermind!" Qi Lin was stunned. No wonder Qin was able to obtain so much extremely secret information, and even had biochemical people as his bodyguards. If these things are connected with the mastermind, then everything will be It all makes sense, but what makes Qi Lin wonder is, as one of the founders of the organization, why would he choose to contact the mastermind?

Shouldn't the organization and the mastermind be sworn enemies?

Qi Lin immediately raised this issue.

"Isn't it compatible with the main idea? Do you know what the original intention of the organization was?"

"Isn't it to fight against the mastermind?"

"No, it has only been a few years since the Master Brain was created... Before the Master Brain appeared, the organization already existed in this world, and our original intention is actually exactly the same as the Master Brain: we want to bring war, hunger and Hate disappears from this world and we want to perpetuate the human race."

"Is this your 'lofty and lofty' ideal?" Qi Lin's mouth twitched slightly... This ideal is indeed lofty and lofty enough. However, throughout the tens of thousands of years of human history, no one or Any force can achieve this goal.

If you want to completely eliminate war, hunger and hatred, to be honest, even God cannot do it.

"Yes, before the outbreak of the Third World War, we tried our best to prevent it, but failed in the end. However, through this unstoppable war, we became the most powerful person in the human world. A powerful force... doesn't it sound ironic?" Qin said self-deprecatingly.

"Yes...but what I'm curious about is, how did you establish contact with the mastermind?"

"It's a long story..."

When the Master Brain was originally designed, it was not used to manage the shelter network. Although the situation was somewhat turbulent at that time, there was no sign of it developing into a world war. The purpose of building the Master Brain was more for commercial and scientific research purposes.

As an epoch-making masterpiece that far exceeds the computing power of all existing supercomputers, the mastermind's design attracted a large amount of capital injection just after it was proposed. Just one consortium invested more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, not to mention other There are some prominent Gulai families, various world organizations and forces, independent consortiums that have not joined the alliance, etc. However, among these investors, none of them provide funds in the name of the country or political system. This is not because Those powerful countries were reluctant to spend money, but the mastermind's design team refused their funding.

From the very beginning, the design team of the Mastermind has made it clear that it will not use the Mastermind for politics, war, etc. It is for this reason that it refuses funds from various national political systems.

At that time, the forces had not yet been able to participate in the research and development process of the mastermind like the organization it is now - of course, the organization was not called an organization at that time, but had another name: "PROM Foundation", this name It is taken from the first four letters of Prometheus, and the name Prometheus itself also has the meaning of "foresight".

It can be said that there are very few people who really understand the past history of the organization. They are either dead or have become high-level managers of the organization. In most people's impression, the organization is a mysterious thing that suddenly rose up after the war. power, and the purpose of the organization's existence is to fight against the mastermind - before this, even Qi Lin himself thought so.

However, the truth of the matter is always hidden behind layers of disguise. Many times what people think of as the "truth" is just one layer among many layers of disguise.

At that time, the PROM Foundation not only invested US$1.5 billion in the research and development of the mastermind, but more importantly, among the nine people who founded the organization, three people also joined the mastermind with their knowledge and abilities. within the R&D team.

And Qin is also one of them.

In fact, the mastermind was something created by the organization. However, at that time, the organization was still called the "PROM Foundation" and the mastermind had not yet developed self-awareness.

"After learning that the Master Brain had given birth to self-awareness, most of us did not actually feel happy... As veterans in the industry, we felt great fear about the intelligence presented by the Master Brain. This fear is not the source of it. It is based on the impression brought by those science fiction movies of the old era, but we deeply understand that when two intelligent consciousnesses with different life forms live in the same world, irreconcilable conflicts will eventually arise."

"Like the 'Utopia Project'?" Qi Lin tried to ask.

"Yes... the utopian plan, this is one of the products of contradictions. As an intelligent consciousness evolved from AI, the master brain will naturally regard the thinking consciousness stored in the matrix as a form of life. It will think , storing human thoughts in a hard drive can preserve this race that was almost extinct due to war, but you and I both know that this plan is not only full of unpredictable risks, but will also lead to more serious consequences. ——Just imagine, would you recognize a string of existences and data in a dot matrix as life? Do you think that transferring the consciousness of all mankind into the virtual world is equivalent to continuing the human race? "

Qin paused for a moment and continued: "There is always a huge gap between the virtual world and the real world, and it is absolutely impossible for human beings to rely on the virtual world to 'immortality'."

"So, this is why the organization turned against the Mastermind?"

"One of the reasons is that before the Utopia plan was proposed by the mastermind, the other eight people had already decided to shut down the mastermind. They are all the best individuals in the human world, and for this reason, they have the ability that ordinary people have. Without pride, they could not tolerate their own creations over their heads, and they did not even regard the self-aware mastermind as a 'life' from the beginning."

"What about you? What do you think?"

"I don't know... To be honest, that period can be said to be the most confusing time in my life. I was often deeply trapped in pain and struggle. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't really feel for myself. The mastermind who awakened his self-awareness made a definition... During that time, I read almost all the philosophical works in human history (this philosophy is not that philosophy, please commit suicide, please), but the books I read The more I did, the more confused my mind became... It was also during that time that I gradually drifted away from the core of power in the organization."

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After nearly two hours of long conversation, Qi Lin finally understood the ins and outs of it all. After being rejected by the other eight people, Qin gradually realized that the development of the organization had deviated from the original track. They had tried their best to The method wanted to avoid war, but now, they have become the initiators of war. Qin wanted to resolve the conflict between humans and the mastermind through non-war means, but this idea, in the eyes of others, was completely It's whimsical.

Until during an accidental attempt, Qin was surprised to find that the master brain was actually separated into two independent consciousnesses... and the master brain that Qin had always maintained contact with was the other one who had communicated with Qi Lin. The mastermind who wanted Qi Lin to "kill" him.

Qin called it the "second mastermind".

Although there is no difference in the data frame, the second main brain's way of thinking is closer to humans... In other words, it is consciously imitating the way humans think.

Qin knew Qi Lin's identity from the beginning, which was why he hinted Qi Lin to take out the pure energy crystal from Experiment No. 1 and absorb it.

The second mastermind shared a lot of information with Qin. If Qi Lin was a bet placed by the second mastermind, then Qin was a reliable partner of the second mastermind at this gambling table.

"The second mastermind thinks you can play a decisive role. Although I don't agree with this, I won't object... You can't put your eggs in one basket, right?"

"Then am I a basket?" Qi Lin suddenly felt that this metaphor seemed to be a curse...

"I am willing to help you, which is equivalent to investing in you... But I can't put all my hope in you, so I can't leave you in the Sixth District. Next You still have to walk your own path."

Qin pointed and a holographic projection screen appeared in mid-air.

"You are now wanted by both the organization and the Revolutionary Alliance, and the most important point is that they all know that you have had contact with the mastermind." Qin pointed to the picture on the screen and said, "But the only good news is that neither the organization Neither the Revolutionary Alliance nor the Revolutionary Alliance knows about the existence of the 'Second Master Brain'. They always think that the one who comes into contact with you is the main brain's body. For this reason, they will be very wary of your position. After all, if you contact the master brain in advance for this reason, If a war breaks out, neither the Revolutionary Federation nor the organization are fully prepared."

"The Revolutionary Alliance doesn't know about the existence of the second mastermind?"

"I don't know. The Revolutionary Alliance is just a pawn of the first mastermind. Do you think the first mastermind would tell them such a thing? Among all the people, you and I are the only two people who know about the existence of the second mastermind. "

"Then does the first mastermind know that he has been in contact with the second mastermind?"

"I know. It is precisely for this reason that the first mastermind disclosed the information to the Revolutionary Alliance through special means and asked the Revolutionary Alliance to arrest you." Qin nodded seriously.

"Fuck." Qi Lin couldn't say anything else except swear words at this time... After Qingren returned to the ground, he not only had to face the pursuit troops sent by the Revolutionary Alliance and the organization, but also had to be careful of the possibility that the first mastermind The ambush they will set... and the power that the mastermind can mobilize above the surface is definitely greater than the combined strength of the Revolutionary Alliance and the organization.

This escape route was much worse than the worst-case scenario Qi Lin expected.

"Let me give you a suggestion. When you are attacked by one of the organizations or the Revolutionary Federation, get as close to the other party's forces as possible. Neither the organization nor the Revolutionary Federation are willing to let you fall into the hands of the other party. For this reason, they would rather If I can't catch you, I won't let the other party catch you, so you can take advantage of this." Qin suddenly said.

"What if I meet the mastermind?"

"Run, run as fast as possible."