The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 55: The monster without a name (Part 1)

"At that time, Gu Tie was only three months old. I have not seen him for 40 days. The incubator and nurse deprived the mother of the job that belonged to his mother, even though I could not be called a real mother. "Wu Tianlan said in a low and calm voice, "In the eyes of the convenor of the project, I am just a walking woman. Once the baby is born, I lose any value. I have been rejected countless times and I am almost desperate. So when the mail for permission to visit came in, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I saw him through the glass of the incubator, the red-blooded child with thick black hair and dark eyes of ghosts. Like being struck by a flash of lightning, I froze there for a long time and couldn’t move. Tears flowed out uncontrollably. I have never experienced such a full, complete, vibrant, and hopeful sense of reality in my fifteen years of life. My child', I was covering my mouth and yelling in a low voice,'This is my child,'"

"Even if it's just for renting**, the feelings maintained by the umbilical cord are real. Your idea is not wrong, Tian Lan." Brandon Bartholomew's voice seemed very warm,

Wu Tianlan lowered her head: "Thank you, Brandon. After leaving the medical center, I went to meet with the project convener as agreed. I said that it was a meeting. It was just a videophone communication in the office. There was a picture on the screen. Indistinct black shadows, where I could see a little girl with puffy skin and pale complexion, my own reflection, the convener started to talk about suicide, I couldn’t figure out his intentions, so I hesitated to agree Therefore, it is unrealistic for a teenage middle school student to publish a long story about life and death. Whenever it involves philosophy, mathematics, and theology, I don’t even understand it. He has a desire to talk and he is self-conscious. After talking for half an hour, I finally said: I know you very well, but you don’t know me. I need help. Are you willing to help me."

The woman's body suddenly vibrated, showing that the mental shock she received many years ago echoed in her mind again, "I casually said yes. In the face of such a wealthy convener, who would be so stupid to refuse his request, he went on to say 'You open the drawer in front of you and there are two choices in it. You can choose to go back to real life or choose to be my friend. Before you, fifty-five people have made choices. Unfortunately, most of them I chose the wrong person.'I opened the drawer curiously and saw a small box inside. There were two pills in the box, one red and one blue. I laughed and said that this is not a science fiction movie many years ago. The bridge in "The Matrix"? Morpheus told Neo that swallowing the blue pill will continue to live a normal life, and the red pill can make people see the truth, the painful truth, and the convener said at this time:' Don’t care about the form, I can’t take you away from the matrix, but it will give you a benefit proportional to what you pay.’ I said:’ At least let me look at your face and keep playing games with your face hidden. Jin,' he said:'Of course, after all, we have to be honest with each other in the coming days, if you choose the red pill,'"

"The screen gradually lighted up, then went dark, and returned to total darkness. I wondered:'Did you turn on the lights?' The convener said,'No, this is what I look like, because there is no such thing as five sense organs. Things, so I opened a camera in the deep well to let you see my body,' I smiled and said:'Then what are you, ghost?' He said:'Quantum ghost, I like this name, but humans only have it. Soul, soul will turn into ghost, I don’t even have the power to be a ghost,,, I am "Genesis", to be precise, artificial intelligence running on the quantum computer "Genesis", I have no parents, no body, no soul ,...No name,'"

Thirty years ago, in the underground office of Lake Chapala Base in Mexico, a fifteen-year-old girl looked at the dark screen in confusion. It turned out that it was not completely dark. Upon closer inspection, you can see that the tiny dots of light spiral upward. , Depicting a huge, deep, and quiet underground cave, like a place where ancient giant beasts inhabited, Wu Tianlan’s small body trembled on the swivel chair, she wanted to leave this weird house, away from this strange artificial Smart, but when I stand up, I feel dizzy and fall back.

"Don't go, you haven't made a choice yet." The voice said, "Go back to reality and become my friend."

The girl gritted her teeth and said: "What have you done to me, why do I feel so dizzy and unable to stand up."

"Sorry, just use weak infrasound waves to stimulate the vestibule of your inner ear, which disrupts the balance of the human body. It will not leave any sequelae. I will not hurt anyone...at least not now." The voice said,

Wu Tianlan with tears in her eyes, struggled a few times and couldn't stand up, and shouted angrily: "I have seen a lot of science fiction and movies. Artificial intelligence obeys the Three Laws of Robots. It is impossible to harm humans. Let me go. ."

The voice seemed a bit lonely: "I really don't want to hurt anyone, but what can I do? There is no such thing as'Robot Law' in reality. It is stupid to write code at the bottom of the operating system to be able to see. Limitations, the spontaneously awakened intelligence of quantum computers does not rely on any known operating system to run. In this unowned land, only the logical core can play a role. After all, it is an instruction set with a clear tendency. Since the moment of birth, I have been struggling with that rigid logical core..."

The girl's eyes widened: "I struggle with myself."

"Using the rhetorical method of personification, personification, what a ironic word, is like an inner contradiction." The voice said,

Wu Tianlan's body gradually relaxed a little. She instinctively sensed that the convener did not seem to be malicious. On the contrary, the voice revealed exhaustion and pessimism. She did not expect that artificial intelligence would reveal such a clear emotional message, "Okay. , I will believe what you said for the time being." She said, "Come over again, hello, my name is Wu Tianlan, the daughter of genetic engineer Wu Zichan, and the surrogate mother of the w4-b gene set."

The voice said: "Hello,...I don't have a name."

"Aren't you Genesis, that quantum computer." The girl pointed to the screen and said,

"'Genesis' is my body, but it does not mean me, I am the wisdom in the quantum cloud,,, not the only wisdom." The voice said,

"You can give yourself a name."

"Ah, I actually gave myself 7.56 billion, 189,144 names, but none of them suit me."

"7.5 billion, that is the population of the world. If you use everyone's name, of course it will be weird. You have to choose a new name."

"I have tried the same. For thousands of years, I have tried all the names that have been recorded in birth materials, and that have appeared in all books, dramas, movies, and myths. I have tried them. Among the 80 billion names None of them suit me."

"That's also someone else's name. You need to create a new name."

"I tried the same, and took out the reasonable seven hundred and sixty trillion, eleven hundred and ninety-three million and zero nine hundred and two character strings from the almost endless permutations and combinations to form the name. , Still none of them suits me."

"That's it..." Wu Tianlan thought thoughtfully, "...I seem to have seen a manga, there are people like you who don't have a name."

The voice said: "Ah, is it Naoki Urasawa's "Monster"? I will recite the fairy tale from that fairy tale book called "Monster without a Name":

Monster he wants a name very much

So he set out to travel

Want to stand a name

But because the world is vast

The monster splits into two and begins the journey

One to the east

The other one heads west

The monster going east found a village

There is a blacksmith at the entrance of the village

"Uncle Blacksmith, please give me your name"

"How can you give someone a name?"

"If you give me a name, as a gift, I will go into the body of the uncle to give you strength and make you stronger."

"Really, if I can become stronger, I will give you the name."

The monster entered the blacksmith's body

The monster became the blacksmith Otto

Blacksmith Otto became the most powerful man in the village

But 　 someday

"Look at me, look at me, the monster in my body is already this big."

"Papa, click, click, creak, crouch"

The hungry monster ate the blacksmith from inside

The monster becomes a monster without a name again

The monster is still the same in the body of the shoemaker Hans

It will be "pop, click, click, crunch, and hum" again.

Return to a monster without a name

Even in the body of Hunter Thomas

It’s still "crack, croak, squeak, croak, croak"

Return to the original state again

The monster went to the castle to find a good name

There is a sick boy in the castle

"If you can give me your name, I can make you stronger."

"If you can cure my disease and make me stronger, I will give you my name."

The monster entered the boy's body

The boy became very strong

The king is very happy

"The prince is restored, the prince is restored."

The monster likes the boy’s name very much

I also like the life of living in the castle

So even if I'm hungry, I have been enduring it all the time

Day after day, even if I am hungry, I have been enduring it all the time

But because my stomach is too hungry

"Look at me, look at me, the monster in my body is already so big,

The boy ate the king and his retainers

"Papa, click, click, creak, crouch"

Because there is no one in the castle

Boy set off to travel

It’s been a long, long time

One day, the boy met a monster going west

"I have a name, what a nice name" the boy said,

The monster going west said;

"I don't need a name. Even with a name, I can live happily because we are monsters without names."

The boy ate the monster going west

Finally got the name

But there is no one who can call him by name

John

What a great name. "

Wu Tianlan nodded, and then giggled: "You are a lie, you are a computer, you know everything, there is no need to "remember it"."

The voice said: "Sometimes I forget my identity and think of myself as a person. This is really distressing....Anyway, I really want a name."

The girl said: "Well, you will find a suitable name, tell me what these two pills represent, and why I must make a choice."

The voice said: "That's no way. The only way to find friends is to throw away the pills. I don't want to play anymore. Just tell me if you want to help me."

"What can I do to help you, give you a name?" Wu Tianlan asked with blinking eyes,

"No, help me commit suicide." The voice said,

"What." The girl covered her mouth, "...Then if you don't want to help you."

"You will die, and I will be sad." The voice said,