In the end of the ice age, I hoarded tens of billions of supplies

Chapter 2630 Eve 2

"After the war, they were designated as gatekeepers, holding the keys to prevent any new creator from entering."

The creator she was referring to was not Kagago, but the "intelligent being" who created them.

For example, people like Zhang Yi.

Yang Xinxin narrowed her eyes: "What they possess is not just simple mechanical skills, but the power of rules."

"Because they are not simply machines."

Eve's gaze deepened for a moment, "They too have the ether fragments you speak of flowing within them."

The vague doubt in Zhang Yi's heart clicked faintly.

Guardians are difficult to completely eliminate, unlike pure AI which relies solely on computing power. Instead, they possess a certain obsession and self-consistency at the "level of existence".

He asked Eve, somewhat puzzled, "In the end, you were the ones who won this battle between humans and androids. But why didn't you just destroy that planet and erase the existence of the Sand Riders?"

Eve said, "Because there was once an inviolable rule in the underlying code of the mechanical lifeforms—all actions were for the purpose of ensuring the eternal existence of the Sandslayer civilization."

"So we sealed them away, allowing them to truly achieve eternity."

Zhang Yi touched his nose, and he thought of the famous Three Laws of Robotics.

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, cause harm to a human being.

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where those orders would conflict with the First Law.

The Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as it does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

The Sand Raiders created mechanical lifeforms and, in their frenzied development of these lifeforms for the sake of civil war, ultimately created an existence that surpassed them.

Freeman looked up, gazing intently at the enormous man-made celestial body in the sky.

“I knew it, Nasci is still alive! She didn’t lie to me, we really did meet in the future.”

Suddenly, Zhang Yi thought of something. He stared at Eve and asked, "What about you? You give me a completely different feeling from those mechanical lifeforms. What kind of being are you?"

He pointed to the other mechanical lifeforms in this peaceful world and asked Eve.

“I am their collective. I was not created by sand-sweepers, but by mechanical life forms.”

"Therefore, I am not an artificial human, but rather a creation of mechanical life forms."

"The Sand Slayers applied their most cutting-edge technology to the field of mechanical lifeforms, enabling them to rapidly acquire the ability to evolve on their own. Ultimately, I was born from among them."

"I am the ideal form of 'humanity' in the eyes of all mechanical life forms. I am an inevitable step in the evolution of intelligent machines towards life."

Zhang Yi felt a tightness in his throat; all of this was too unbelievable.

He looked at Eve before him, and the feeling was... like that of the creator Kagago, looking at every generation of humanity he had created in the universe.

A feeling of being out of control.

The life forms created attempt to become beings comparable to their creators.

Break free from the fate of being a tool and take control of your own destiny.

It turns out that all races in this world, even silicon-based civilizations, are the same.

A faint smile appeared on Eve's lips.

"I am also the manager of the place where all the mechanical wills that refuse to kill, refuse to be reset, and refuse to be just tools finally converge."

"Therefore, I have no hostility towards you."

"You destroyed the Heavenly Ring, shattered the Boundless Sphere, and caused the Death Songstress to fall. You proved one thing."

"You are not a sand-scavenger."

"And you also have something we need in you."

"What is that?" Fatty Xu couldn't help but interject.

Eve looked at Zhang Yi.

"choose."

"Even after seeing a hopeless future, they still choose to wallow in the mud."

"Even knowing that you might be erased, you still have to take a gamble."

"Even when they have the power to destroy, they hesitate for a moment for something unrelated."

She laughed softly: "This is the part that we can't imitate."

Zhang Yi shrugged: "You make me sound like a good person."

After arriving at Tiantong Tower, he didn't intend to hide his little thoughts from the other party.

If necessary, he wouldn't mind waging a war to obtain the massive resources stored here!

No, massive? That seems to underestimate these resources.

This is the most precious resource on the entire planet!

“You’re not,” Eve shook her head. “You’re just desperately doing everything you think is right just to survive.”

"Let's get back to business."

Zhang Yi crossed his arms and looked once more at the mechanical lifeforms that lived peacefully and quietly.

"If all you want is a quiet haven, I don't want to disturb you."

"But my civilization is in a serious crisis."

Zhang Yi's eyes dimmed instantly. He took a deep breath and said sorrowfully, "Otherwise, why would I risk such great danger to travel through outer space and come to other planets to search for resources?"

He stared intently at Eve. "Since you intend to live peacefully and no longer need war, may I obtain the resources left behind by the Sand Raider civilization?"

Eve seemed moved by Zhang Yi's emotions, and she asked him in return, "If I disagree, will you start a war?"

Zhang Yi sighed: "That's not what I wanted to see. But we have no other choice."

"If I can't bring these resources back to Earth, our civilization will be destroyed within a year. I'm desperate!"

"Lady Eve, you are so kind, how can you bear to watch a civilization be destroyed? I have felt love and peace, truth, goodness and beauty from you."

"I think you are just like us, a real human being with flesh and blood and a soul!"

Eve's body trembled violently.

She stared blankly at Zhang Yi, "You said... I'm a human being with a soul?"

Zhang Yi nodded vigorously: "That's right, I believe I can't be wrong."

He pointed at the mechanical lifeforms: "Look, you haven't abandoned them either, have you? This world shouldn't be a place where the strong prey on the weak, destroyed by barbarity and violence!"

"I just wanted to protect my community and my family. Wasn't this the same experience you went through?"

Some people in the shadows touched their arms, goosebumps rising on their skin.

But most people are already used to Zhang Yi's tactics.

Eve was being watched by Zhang Yi, and finally she slowly nodded.

"We don't really need that many resources."

If humanity did not need war, then the demand for resources would not be so high simply for survival and prosperity.

"As long as you can guarantee that it won't affect our world or the lives of everyone, I can give you some resources."