amaotonovel Chapter 4185 is about the Supreme Sorcerer (25)
Chapter 4185 is about the Supreme Sorcerer (25)
Chapter 4185 is about the Supreme Mage (25)
The Supreme Intelligence felt as if it had seen a ghost.
But when he had this thought, he couldn't help but start adjusting his thoughts, because ghosts are something unique to Earth, and he was even using English words, so he must have been corrupted.
But if he had to find an adjective to describe the current situation, then this was indeed the only way he could describe it; and while describing it this way, he even put a suit on his mechanical shell: a lightweight decorative fabric with a plaid tie, making him look like a playboy going on vacation to Italy.
Wait, what is Italy?
The Supreme Intelligence, having reached its limit, shut down its monitoring of the council chat group, which was now filled only with emojis and mind-numbing messages. Keeping it running would serve no purpose other than polluting its knowledge base.
Some people might think that since interstellar internet has been developing for so many years, shouldn't it be much more advanced than the human internet? Shouldn't it have plenty of memes and abstract jokes?
In reality, two of the three great empires are mechanical civilizations, and one is even a purely artificial intelligence group. This has led to a general trend in the universe that is serious and focused on efficiency, rather than associative or divergent thinking.
Robots hate abstraction; their logic can only describe the real world. Although some robots have developed abilities similar to association, these are actually fake, a result of a bunch of programming errors. They cannot actively utilize this ability, so they can't create any decent jokes, let alone play with abstract concepts.
And because they have a lot of say, those emotional beings don't dare to challenge them. They can only do whatever they say. The various rules of the interstellar internet are all set by robots. How lively can it be?
Although they also used images to express their feelings, similar to emojis, these were very primitive, somewhat like when the yellow face first appeared on the internet, not to mention the later emoji wars and the era of abstraction.
Although the Shi'ar Empire is an emotional life form, it is, after all, the last of the three great empires and does not have a strong voice. In order to maintain its position, it had to compromise with the mechanical life forms. The Shi'ar Empire's ban on art, which lasted for thousands of years, was actually a product of this compromise.
Although the ban was eased after Charles and Queen Shia's marriage, how long had that been? At most, the nobility developed some art and culture, far from being popular across the stars.
Simply put, when it comes to the development of popular culture and abstract culture, humanity is undoubtedly number one in the universe.
After all, they were a rare wild civilization, located in a remote area with no one to govern them. Although they had a lord named Asgard above them, he mostly ignored them. Since no one was watching, they just grew as they pleased, and that's how they grew into the abstract form they are today.
It turns out that emotional life is very abstract, especially when God creates people, they are all based on a template: the physical structure of these people in the Interstellar Council is about 70% similar to humans on average; don't be fooled by their horns and tails, those are minor details, the brain similarity is even as high as 90%.
This means that they can completely and seamlessly understand these internet civilizations created by humans. And because such things were rarely done on the interstellar internet before, they found this abstract concept quite interesting when they first encountered it. Some people even lost interest in their work and spent their days studying how to connect to the Earth's internet.
It's fortunate that Strange had the foresight to give Earth's magic defense network the ability to filter data, and that Jarvis, the great god, was there to keep things under control. Otherwise, these aliens would have been too happy to leave.
To be fair, while the abstract internet age is shocking, it is also quite interesting, especially its short, fast-paced presentation, which is the best way to stimulate dopamine. As long as you have empathy, surfing the internet is fun.
Unfortunately, there are indeed many electronic life forms in the universe that lack the capacity for empathy; they have no idea what emotional life forms are doing.
Admittedly, mechanical civilizations and electronic life forms have conducted very in-depth research on the Internet. Whether it's building, maintaining, or spreading it, they possess extremely powerful technologies. Otherwise, this interstellar Internet wouldn't be possible. It doesn't just span a light-year or two; it crosses the territories of three major empires and covers the entire universe.
However, they have a purpose in going online. The existence of interstellar networks is mainly for the purpose of war and social order: only by achieving zero-latency information response throughout the universe can their orders be better conveyed; otherwise, if someone sees something somewhere, it may take tens of thousands of years for the message to reach the other side of the universe, by which time it will be too late. Mechanical civilizations have invested a lot of manpower and resources in this area to research, which is why we have today's advanced interstellar interconnection network.
So they just couldn't understand: what are these carbon-based beings doing with their internet? We've worked so hard to create zero-latency response and massive bandwidth, and you're just using it to send each other meaningless junk information?
You can send it yourself, but you have to go through my brain first. The Supreme Intelligence is starting to suspect that they've conspired to pollute his mind database. Those spinning laser cat emojis are being copied wildly in every thread of his mind, practically becoming a new generation of internet virus.
The Supreme Intelligence did consider cutting off the internet, but this is the headquarters of the Interstellar Council. If you cut off the internet here, the Interstellar Council will really stop working.
Right now, the three great empires need the Interstellar Council, and nothing that could affect its work can be done; moreover, after the internet is cut off, it will be difficult for him, as an electronic life form, to move around, and if he is tricked by that hidden mastermind again, then he will be completely finished.
Therefore, even if there is spiritual pollution, the supreme wisdom can only endure it.
But as the saying goes, even when you can't bear it anymore, you can still endure it. When the Supreme Intelligence arrived at the office, it discovered that the government work reports it had requested to be submitted at yesterday's executive meeting had not been submitted at all. In fact, not a single one had been submitted. This involved seven departments in total. Among the executive secretaries of these seven departments, only one was a carbon-based life form, the young man from Spartacus, while the rest were all electronic life forms. Yet, not a single one of them had submitted their reports.
If only one or two people hadn't submitted their documents, the Supreme Intelligence would be angry, but with so many people failing to submit theirs, he could only quickly convene a meeting to find out what had happened.
The Supreme Intelligence hurriedly entered the conference room, saw the row of robots in suits, and subconsciously sighed inwardly. Then it realized that it didn't know how to sigh at all; there must be another error in the program.
"Everyone, sit down," the Supreme Intelligence asked directly. "Why hasn't anyone submitted the government work report that was requested yesterday? Is there a problem?"
The crowd exchanged glances—this was the reaction of more advanced electronic lifeforms, of course; while those more straightforward ones had already spoken directly:
“I apologize, Secretary General. I have finished writing the government report, but when I asked the minister for his signature, there was a problem with the behavior and language analysis module. I was unable to understand the reason why the minister refused to sign; I suspect there may have been some procedural error, and I need some time to adjust it. I hope you understand.”
The Supreme Intelligence waved its hand to signal him to stop talking, while another, more advanced robot spoke up: "He's right. In fact, our report is all written, but the minister won't sign it."
Why won't you sign?
"Well, maybe... they just don't want to sign."
There has to be a reason, right?
"They have their reasons, but I can't understand their reasons."
The Supreme Wisdom was even more puzzled. He said, "What do you mean you can't understand? What is it that those idiots can't understand? If they can't give a decent reason, just ask them to sign it. Can't they even do that?"
“The problem is, we don’t know if that’s a valid reason,” the robot said somewhat awkwardly. “We didn’t even understand what he was saying.”
The Supreme Intelligence was utterly speechless. He said, "Then just show me the video."
The robot pressed a few times on its arm and sent the video from this morning to the Supreme Intelligence; it also saw what happened in the Resources Department office this morning in the video.
"Knock, knock, knock," the door was knocked on; the secretary of the Ministry of Resources walked to the table with the government work report and handed the paper to the Minister of Resources, who was playing on his mobile phone; the Minister of Resources put his phone aside, picked up the report, glanced at it, and clicked his tongue.
"This is the government work report that needs your signature."
What does 'need' mean?
The secretary of the Resources Department was visibly taken aback, but being a highly advanced electronic life form, he didn't answer in a rigid way. Instead, he said, "We need to provide routine work reports every now and then to explain our recent work."
"But this doesn't list our recent work schedule."
“Because we haven’t done anything recently,” the resource department secretary replied.
“That won’t do,” the minister waved his hand and said, “Other departments are pushing forward with environmental protection work in full swing, how can our department fall behind? Do you want me to offend the Speaker?”
“But we really haven’t done any environmental work,” the Secretary of the Department of Resources said. “The Department of Resources did not play a significant role in the initial environmental work.”
"Then you have to take on some responsibility, right?"
“We did not play any role.”
"What I mean is, regardless of whether we actually played a role or not, the work report should show that we played some role."
"The work report shows our work; but we haven't done any environmental protection work."
“But that would make me look incompetent!” the Minister of Resources said. “I don’t care, just embellish it, write something that makes me think you’re somewhat useful; or even just go to the Ministry of Environmental Protection for a chat.”
“I’m afraid I can’t do that,” the resource department secretary said. “The work report is a log of the work; everything on it has already been recorded based on the actual work, and it cannot be modified.”
"Then I still can't sign!"
"But the procedure requires your signature."
"I said I won't sign!"
"There must be a legitimate reason for not signing."
"I am not satisfied with this report."
What are you dissatisfied with?
“I’ve already said, this doesn’t demonstrate my abilities,” the Minister of Resources said, staring at his secretary. “Don’t you want the Ministry of Resources to have more power? As long as we make an appearance before the Sorcerer Supreme, we’ll both benefit. Why can’t you understand that?”
"I'm sorry, but we need to complete our work step by step and be loyal to our duties, not falsify anything. If you want me to add work that you didn't complete to the work report, that would be against interstellar law, and I can't do that. Please sign here."
“Not for now,” the Minister of Resources seemed utterly exasperated. He placed his hands on the table and said in English, “Given that certain structural suggestions regarding adjustments to power and responsibility have not been properly placed within their proper scope of adoption and importance, I cannot unilaterally affirm their authenticity and accuracy. If the government cannot include certain speculative work, which exists only in a virtual sphere and for propaganda purposes, in the work report, and if department heads cannot earnestly offer constructive suggestions for improvement that are entirely for the benefit of their departments, then those heads will also be unable to fulfill the important responsibility of affirming past achievements and taking responsibility for recording such statements. Do you understand?”