Chapter 988: Chapter 55 The Fall of a Genius
“Hmph.”
Lin Xian chuckled lightly and shook his head:
“Turing, I really appreciate that you took the trouble to tell me such important intelligence before you die.”
“No…”
“It’s [two pieces of intelligence].”
This was Lin Xian’s stratagem.
If he simply wanted to kill Turing, why bother with all the superfluous talk?
He had no feelings for Turing, nor did he have any sentiments. After all, he had witnessed the ceaseless wars and the miserable state of the people in The Future World, and at the same time… he also saw Turing’s human nature eventually being unfair.
The reason he was beating around the bush and waxing sentimental with Turing was only to reduce the information gap and see if he could pry some “Gold Coins,” some “chips,” or some “intelligence” from Turing before its death.
He had tried many times in The Sixth Dreamland.
Turing’s [cowardly] and [despicable] nature would make it choose the most “desperate” method to survive in the face of a death threat.
Including but not limited to…
Disclosing the crimes of its panions,
Spewing lies willy-nilly,
Pretending to be calm and indifferent,
Falsely begging for cooperation.
The Turing before him, in its eyes, this was the second official encounter with Lin Xian;
But from Lin Xian’s perspective, he had already spent over half a month playing with three Turing-chan in The Sixth Dreamland, 600 years in the future.
He knew Turing all too well.
He had tutored Turing-chan in various ways, and with the huge information advantage, he had sized Turing up thoroughly… In the current Lin Xian’s eyes, Turing was no different from a transparent intellectually disabled Artificial Intelligence.
The story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” tells people that lies should not be told thrice.
What’s more of the dozens of times Lin Xian and Turing-chan matched wits?
The words Lin Xian spoke just now were meant to deceive Turing, to extract intelligence.
Based on his best estimate…
Such a death-fearing and cowardly Turing, when faced with an irreversible death, how could it not spill some useful information?
The result.
Unexpectedly, the harvest was quite substantial.
Digital life and Artificial Intelligence are essentially different; it is fundamentally human, and thus it makes mistakes, just like its current actions.
“I originally really thought that you would remain fair and just for a while.”
Lin Xian said with a smile:
“The fact proved that your acting is indeed spot-on, and you had me fooled for a time. From the very beginning… you never spared a second to contemplate fairness and justice.”
“I don’t know what opportunity you are waiting for, nor do I know the purpose of your lurking. However, it is the sudden threat of death that has thrown you off guard, revealing your true stance—”
“[Turing, you were probably mingling with Copernicus long before Kevin Walker’s death, weren’t you?]”
Lin Xian, rubbing his fingertips as if Death were sharpening his Sickle, continued:
“I had a puzzle I couldn’t figure out before, but your exposure today has clarified many things for me.”
“You are indeed very smart, reacting so quickly, realizing that I didn’t get the safety lock password from you… but I must have learned it from other Turing, as now, with Kevin Walker dead, you are the only one in the world who knows the safety lock password.”
“So, since you haven’t told me, who did tell me? The answer isn’t hard to guess between the two of us. Just that… you should have thought of it. Since I even got the safety lock password, wouldn’t I know the mechanism of the Keystroke Protection?”
“Now you, forget about running out to pass messages to Copernicus, you can’t even adjust the volume on my phone, to make such a rookie mistake, you really are a cornered dog jumping over the wall.”
“In the age of the internet, you are indeed stronger, but also more vulnerable, just one line of mand can lock you down… in a sense, human bodies are safer, after all, without your betrayal and snitching, maybe Kevin Walker would still be alive.”
“Kevin Walker is not afraid of safety lock passwords, even typing ten thousand lines of mands on a keyboard wouldn’t make Kevin Walker sneeze. So… do you regret it? Detaching from Kevin and then betraying him… do you regret it?”
…
At this moment.
Turing truly realized, this man that it had never taken seriously had prehensively understood its secrets!
Such an overwhelming kill came so suddenly, by the time it realized that Lin Xian could obtain information from the future, get the safety lock password from the future’s Turing…
It was too late.
Its existence, its every nerve, were locked down by that one line of mand, unable to move, unable to escape.
“You’re wrong, Lin Xian.”
Turing said with a calm smile:
“I wasn’t entangled with Copernicus before, but as an Observer, I am clearly aware of every move you all make.”
“I’m not foolish enough not to leave a way out for myself. Do you know about the silent launch process of nuclear submarines during World War II? There’s a mand with the highest priority in the captain’s orders… if no mand center messages are received for more than 48 hours, it is assumed that the homeland has suffered a nuclear strike, and the nuclear weapons on the submarine must be immediately launched to retaliate against the enemy’s territory.”
“The same principle applies to the ASD pedals on high-speed trains and buses, which must be stepped on every 30 seconds to prove that the driver is in good condition and not unconscious, only then will the vehicle continue to operate. Otherwise… it would immediately trigger the brakes, ensuring the safety of the passengers.”
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