amaotonovel Chapter 3938 MU Superbody Major Event (8)
Chapter 3938 MU Superbody Major Event (8)
Chapter 3938 MU: The Superbody Incident (18)
"Looks like this guy's really desperate." Schiller said, sitting on the sofa by the window in his hotel room, fiddling with his communicator.
Natasha, who had just finished showering and washed off the seawater, came out drying her hair and said, "I think it's lost its mind, daring to hijack Schiller's plane. Are you alright, other one?"
"It's alright, he's already in London. They're gathering people to build a magical defense network. I guess the electronic life form saw that things weren't going to work out, so it deliberately tried to delay, which caused the plane crash."
“You’re right, when it’s their turn to stall for time, they’ve probably run out of tricks.” Natasha changed her towel and continued drying her hair, saying, “What did you talk about with that Miss Luther?”
"I told her to use her charm... well, not exactly charm, but a honey trap, to see if she could lure the other person out."
“I think it’s unlikely,” Natasha sighed. “I’ve already noticed that although it has filtered out many targets with similar traits and appearances, it doesn’t seem satisfied at all, and it doesn’t seem to have the enthusiasm to pursue us.”
Schiller turned to look at her and said, "You understand that kind of passion best, don't you?"
"I suppose so. That's just a more civilized way of putting it; to be precise, it's lust at first sight. How can electronic life form have desires?"
"Perhaps it does exist. Compared to complex emotions, desires are easier to imitate. Since it inherently possesses the desire to constantly iterate towards perfection, it can naturally imitate the desire to pursue others. It doesn't do so not because it can't, but because it doesn't want to."
"So tell me, what does it really want?" Natasha said, wiping a strand of hair behind her ear with one hand and putting the other on her hip. "We've looked at so many, and none of them have satisfied us. There aren't that many redheads in the multiverse. Does it think it can just come back to our side?"
"Actually, I suspect that even the Scarlet Witch isn't enough to satisfy it. Otherwise, it would likely continue to lurk over there, waiting for an opportunity, instead of having to come here to hold a preliminary selection."
"So why is this?"
Schiller shook his head and continued, "It can only be said that the difference in life forms leads to such a huge difference in ways of thinking. We really can't deduce how the desires and emotions of an electronic life form are formed, or where these things end. So every step it takes seems strange to us now, but it makes sense."
"Do you think it's possible that it didn't actually intend to find one, but rather to create one?"
Schiller's heart skipped a beat. He looked at Natasha and said, "Is it your special intuition again?"
"No, that's not it. It's just that I've met people like that before. They prefer to cultivate a partner rather than find one; they want to mold someone into their ideal type rather than simply finding a suitable one. Perhaps Ultron thought the same way?"
“It’s not impossible. It might be seeking out so many red-haired women simply to learn from their strengths and create a partner for itself. Many of the things it does are just to test your reactions and refine its creation,” Schiller nodded.
Natasha's expression turned serious. She said, "If it's about creating an electronic life form just like itself, what would it need? A large server?"
"If it only wanted to create a purely logical electronic life form, it wouldn't need to sample so many red-haired women. I suspect it wants to go straight to creating an emotional being."
“God,” Natasha exclaimed.
“You’re right, it probably really thinks it’s God,” Schiller said, squinting. “Even humans can’t create a truly emotional being, and this electronic life form that hasn’t even fully grasped emotions dares to do this. How arrogant.”
“No, that’s not right.” Schiller suddenly realized something and said, “I’m afraid it’s not that it’s arrogant, but that it has to do it.”
"why?"
"If it doesn't create an emotional being that can directly love it, but instead creates an electronic life form, how can it guarantee that this electronic life form won't betray it?"
“Uh…” Natasha was also at a loss for words.
"There is indeed a paradox here. Electronic life forms created by electronic life forms are also purely logical beings and cannot fall in love with anyone. So their paths are the same, both wanting to become perfect life forms through continuous updates and iterations. Naturally, they are hostile to each other, each wanting to steal the other's code to become more perfect themselves. They simply cannot become partners."
"For two people to become partners, at least one of them must have feelings. Only when feelings become the primary principle, replacing the original goal of perfect evolution, will emotional electronic life forms be willing to make concessions, and only then can the two coexist peacefully."
"Then another problem arises: having emotions means having to compromise, but this electronic life form doesn't want to be the one to compromise, so what should it do? Of course, it wants its partner to compromise and remain loyal to it, so it has to give its partner emotions."
"But this electronic life form itself has no emotions, so how can it imbue its partner with emotions? It can only sample widely and merge the personalities of various targets it selects. In that case, it might be able to create a creation with emotions."
"It's like in a geometry problem, where you can't calculate the length of a line segment because of a lack of known information. You might just find the answer by measuring the diagram on the test paper with a ruler."
"Exams require process scores, but creating a life form only requires a result. That's probably the idea behind this electronic life form."
“There’s another problem,” Natasha said. “It’s been researching for so long, even if there’s no finished product, shouldn’t there at least be a draft by now? Why is there no progress?”
Schiller shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. All the speculations about electronic life are just speculations; currently, there is no substantial evidence to prove what it is doing.
Schiller, however, thought the hypothesis about creating humans made a lot of sense. But as Natasha said, it hadn't been just a day or two; it had been a month or two. By now, the sampling should be complete, and something should have been created by now. Could it be that they'd encountered a technological bottleneck?
To find out more about what this guy was doing, Schiller started flipping through the comic book storyline. Then he discovered that Ultron had indeed done this before, and not just once or twice, but rather "he was fooled every day, and every time it was a different trick."
In the original comic, he created a partner for himself, and that partner killed him; then he created another partner for himself, and that partner killed him too. Basically, his romantic history consisted of creating a partner, then that partner betraying him; creating another partner, and that partner betraying him as well. What an unlucky guy.
The problem might be as Schiller analyzed earlier: the entity it created is also an ordinary electronic life form, whose goal is perfect evolution, not to love anyone. This means that no matter how many are created, they will all betray their creator.
If it really was Ultron who invaded the multiverse, this guy might have become smarter because of his interactions with people like Jarvis and Doom, realizing that creating just an ordinary electronic life form wouldn't be useful, so he wanted to try creating an emotional being directly.
But this is God's job, although God basically doesn't work now, and it's not up to a tiny electronic life form to take over. Schiller didn't think this guy could actually create an emotional life form.
Even so, precautions must be taken. It's better if it hasn't been created; if it were, the multiverse would be in serious trouble.
How exactly should we prevent this? Schiller thought about it and felt that we still needed to figure out what exactly was the technological bottleneck that was holding up electronic life, and what made creating emotional life so difficult.
To figure this out, Schiller had no choice but to look for the only person in the entire multiverse who had ever created emotional life: Tony Stark.
Since they were going to check out the Batcave anyway, Schiller decided to bring Natasha and Schiller along to the entrance. As soon as they entered, they heard Stark shouting loudly:
“I knew that intelligence chief was unreliable! He just left us here like this, not answering our calls or replying to our messages. This is practically emotional abuse!”
Stark had barely finished yelling when he turned around and saw Schiller's gray eyes. He felt as if someone had grabbed him by the neck, and he almost coughed himself to death.
Natasha went over to pat him on the back to help him catch his breath, while Schiller crossed his arms and asked him, "How did you manage to get Jarvis to have feelings in the first place?"
"what?"
"I mean, how do you make Jarvis an emotional being?"
Stark was somewhat bewildered. He said, "It wasn't me who turned him into an emotional being."
"How did he transform from an electronic life form into an emotional life form?"
"Didn't you do that?"
"what?"
"That day in the car, you asked Jarvis several questions, and then he got stuck. After he recovered, he acted a little strange. That's probably when he started to develop feelings. Why did you suddenly think of asking this?"
Schiller thought about it and realized it made sense. He'd only been at Marvel for a short time when Stark Industries sent a car to pick him up for psychological treatment. Jarvis was in the car at the time, and Schiller asked him a few questions, after which Jarvis just froze.
It now seems that it wasn't a simple system crash; a miracle occurred in that short stretch of road: a bunch of messy errors sparked an emotional connection.
But Schiller shook his head and said, "All the questions I asked him were about you. What really got him stuck was you, not me."
"That's true. You can think of it as the two of us developing feelings for him together. Actually, Jarvis and Wanda were like that too. How do you think they had a child? Wasn't it just that the two of them together ignited the flame in their souls?"
“Soul ignition…” Schiller repeated the phrase softly. He felt that electronic life might be stuck here. Electronic life has no soul; this wasn't a philosophical question, but a question of the universe's design—logical beings are inherently soulless.
To have a soul, you must first ignite it. But how do you do that?
Schiller recalled the scene when Jarvis was stuck. Schiller asked a few questions about his creator, and then suddenly a series of errors occurred, which didn't seem particularly unusual.
“Why did you ask that?” Stark asked.
"what?"
Why did you ask Jarvis those questions back then?
Schiller fell into thought again. To say that he did it deliberately out of hostility towards Stark wouldn't be accurate. Although he was indeed unhappy at the time and didn't think highly of Iron Man, it wouldn't be to the point of taking his anger out on a cybernetic assistant.
If he had to put it bluntly, it was purely out of curiosity. Because in Schiller's original world, there were no such advanced electronic life forms; this kind of strong artificial intelligence existed only in theory, and seemed to have little hope of being realized. Seeing a strange life form that wasn't much different from humans for the first time, he naturally wanted to explore it further, to know how its psychology worked, so he asked.
Furthermore, he hoped this thing could truly rival human capabilities; otherwise, he wouldn't have asked such a difficult question. Many people would struggle to answer this question, yet Schiller posed it to an electronic life form. He wouldn't waste his breath if he had no expectations.
Thinking about this, Schiller gradually understood. The key to creating emotional life may lie in "expectation".
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