Chapter 1538  : Administrator Mode

On the transport ship.

Lu Zhou was flipping through the diary.

Shi Jin finally couldn’t help but ask, “Is there anything else in that diary?”

He had also read the diary. It was only less than 50,000 words in total. He really couldn’t think of anything worthy of repeated scrutiny.

After hearing Shi Jin’s question, Lu Zhou replied casually, “If what you are referring to is the kind of clue that can improve our current situation, I’m afraid not.”

Since Xing Bian had important matters to deal with in Guanghan City, he could not go to Ceres with Lu Zhou. However, Xing Bian still sent his right-hand man Shi Jin over and tried to help Lu Zhou contact a transport ship.

There were no flights to the asteroid belt on the Tianzhou. He could only travel through the ships of the Pan-Asian First Fleet.

“Then why are you...”

Lu Zhou: “It’s just something that I care about.”

Perhaps the journey to the asteroid belt was really boring, or it might be due to professional habits, Shi Jin subconsciously asked, “Can I know what it is?”

Lu Zhou had no plan to conceal this irrelevant matter.

“It’s about the second half of the diary.”

Shi Jin was slightly stunned. He then said in an affirmative tone, “I can tell you with certainty that this diary is all of it. We have searched the space station and found no clues about the owner of this diary.”

“That’s for sure.” Lu Zhou smiled faintly. He then said softly, “Even if there is such a thing, it won’t be on the space station.”

Shi Jin: “Then...”

Lu Zhou said concisely, “You will know after we get to Ceres.”

...

After nearly three and a half days of voyage, the military transport ship that Lu Zhou was riding on finally docked at the temporary military spaceport operating above Ceres.

As the front line of human civilization, the desolation here reminded him of the moon a hundred years ago.

“You are finally here!”

After seeing Lu Zhou step out of the shuttle, Academician Wang Sicheng led his students and greeted him with excitement. He then took Lu Zhou’s right hand.

Lu Zhou skipped the small talk and went straight to the point.

“What is the situation here?”

Academician Wang: “Three and a half days ago, with the assistance of the command ship, we helped the quantum computer array complete the calculation program, then we got a very peculiar result.”

Standing next to him, Shi Jin frowned and asked, “A peculiar result?”

“Yes.” Academician Wang Sicheng nodded seriously. Restraining the excitement in his tone, he continued, “I can’t describe the surprise in my heart at this moment... I believe that after you see the calculation results of that computer, you will feel the same!”

“Then what are we waiting for?” Lu Zhou said with a smile, “Hurry up and take us over.”

An army soldier walked to the side, looked at Lu Zhou, Shi Jin, and Ling walk off the shuttle, and spoke.

“Gentlemen, please come with me. We need to conduct a simple security check.”

“No need to check. These are Academician Lu and his robot assistant. I can guarantee their identity.” Stepping forward, Shi Jin took out a card from his body and showed it to the soldier. “This is my certificate.”

After staring at the ID for a while and confirming that there was no problem, the soldier continued, “According to the regulations, robots are not allowed to set foot on this asteroid, but since its guarantor is Academician Lu, we can let it go. But for safety reasons, we must install some sort of insurance on it.”

Lu Zhou: “What kind of insurance?”

Shi Jin: “A thing similar to an explosive collar. If it runs away suddenly, the thing will blow its head out.”

Although the core of the robot was the memory chip located in the chest cavity, the brain, which was the focus of visual and auditory sensors, was also an important “organ”.

Before the ALPHA virus was resolved, this kind of explosion collar could be regarded as a kind of insurance to physically eliminate hidden dangers.

After all, even if the risk of the ALPHA virus was taken into account, the use of robots was still more reliable than the use of human workers.

However, after hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou just smiled and said nothing.

To be honest, will this thing really work on Ling?

Well, if blowing up the skin can bring a little psychological comfort to people, then it may be considered useful.

Without waiting for long, after the soldiers waiting at the checkpoint put on an explosive collar on Ling, the group followed Academician Wang to the inside of the quantum computer array.

Lu Zhou looked around this huge fan-shaped building buried deep underground, which was like an ancient Roman arena. His line of sight fell on the terminal located in the center of the quantum computer array.

This should be the key to solving this so-called intelligence crisis.

When Lu Zhou walked to the terminal and stood still, he briefly glanced at the lines of code flashing on the screen.

Soon, there was an obvious surprise in his eyes.

After noticing the change in Lu Zhou’s face, Academician Wang, who was standing next to him, smiled and said, “Isn’t it incredible?”

“It is...” Lu Zhou nodded. “Could it be...”

“It seems that you have noticed.” The tone that had finally calmed down had a trace of excitement as Academician Wang continued quickly, “Yes, this is an AI program that can automatically evolve! Although this program code itself is so complicated that we cannot parse it, we can still understand it indirectly through some phenomena...

“In just one day, it has learned all the languages on Earth, and it can use those languages proficiently to communicate with us.”

Shi Jin raised his eyebrows. “This doesn’t sound like an amazing function.”

Wang Sicheng: “This is really nothing remarkable, but it is not just a translator. In fact, what it can do is beyond our imagination.”

Lu Zhou: “Like what?”

Wang Sicheng: “Emotions!”

The moment Lu Zhou heard this word, he involuntarily held his breath.

Advanced artificial intelligence!

Although he had a hunch in this area before, he didn’t expect it to be correct.

Shi Jin didn’t seem to realize the crux of the problem, he raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with interest, “Emotions?”

Wang Sicheng nodded excitedly. “Yes, real emotions! It is difficult to describe this feeling, but I am sure that it is definitely not the kind of simulation on human behaviors designed by machine learning algorithms!”

“We tried to implant it into the memory of a housekeeping robot—”

Shi Jin’s face changed slightly.

“You did experiments with robots?”

“Rest assured, everything is within the controllable range.” Academician Wang Sicheng waved his hand and continued nonchalantly, “Something even more surprising happened. The robot actually developed a complete sense of self-awareness!”

“Later, we implanted it in the memory chip infected with the ALPHA virus; the memory chip of the so-called awakened. Something magical happened! The virus seemed to disappear... It was like the virus was defeated by a higher being.”

Lu Zhou: “Where are the two memory chips?!”

“Don’t be so excited, I will destroy them after the experiment.” Academician Wang Sicheng smiled. He continued to look at the quantum computer array in front of him with a faint fascination in his eyes.

“Different from those robots that are made to sweep the floor or produce cans, completely different from the self-righteous awakeners. This is a true intelligent life!

“It’s like a newborn baby.”

Lu Zhou ignored Academician Wang, who was so excited that he was incoherent. He then stared straight at the supercomputer in front of him, lost in thought.

After a long time, he asked, “Can I use the equipment here?”

Academician Wang Sicheng smiled and said, “Of course.”

Lu Zhou nodded and walked to the control terminal located in the center of the quantum computer array. After thinking for a while, he entered a long string of passwords on it.

Almost instantly, the code that filled the screen disappeared, replaced by a simple retro interface.

Seeing this change in front of them, everyone’s face unanimously showed a surprised expression.

Looking at the weird operation interface, Academician Wang was slightly stunned as he spoke.

“What’s this...”

“Administrator mode,” Lu Zhou replied concisely. “The password was actually hidden in that diary. I only discovered it later on...”

As he spoke, there was a hint of interest on his face, and he continued, “There should be things like experiment files or records.”

For example...

Regarding the ALPHA virus that has swept Guanghan City and even the world, and the guys who claim to be awakened, where did they come from, and why are they doing this...