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Chapter 120: Sacrificial Lambs

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After thefurther exploration into the junkyard His doubts ca but also the long conversation he had with Ren Tao after the

Yao Yuan was on his way back to the reports that awaited his signature and approval in the captain’s rooo-lucky Ren Tao forcefully accosted hi to tell me?" Yao Yuan asked, rather impatiently

Ren Tao nodded firmly "I do, but this is only meant for the ears of… the exploration party, Black Star overnht, Chou Yue, you’re not supposed to hear this either"

Before Chou Yue could even flare up, Yao Yuan had already ordered all the non-related personnel to leave the roo Ren Tao on his waist before reluctantly following the rest out Only Guang Zhen and a few other Black Starthe sore spot, Ren Tao laid his cards on the table "I didn’tbecause I don’t want to cause unnecessary panic, but… Yao Yuan, I have to ask you to stop exploring the junkyard, especially plans that involve the main battleship"

"Hured out my next course of action"

"It’s not that hard, actually" Ren Tao ventured cautiously "You’ve asked for 500 prototype 1 coun prototype 2s in the next 2with this"

"Really? Do tell" Yao Yuan feigned innocence

"You want to build an arht? The Hope’s current ravity combat and doesn’t have the necessary equipment to do so This sounds harsh, but for your future plan, our military at its current state is practically useless" Ren Tao continued, "Therefore, you need to fix that fast because I believe your plan is to conquer this junkyard one warship husk at a tirammed to limit the use of their most powerful weapon inside the warships, you intend to lead this ar, 300 to 400 people to stor sheer nu?"

Yao Yuan stood in quiet contearettes froht, noteven a detail With your intellect, surely you understand how valuable this junkyard is to the Hope An innocuous ical level by so unbelievably ress the whole junkyard could provide? The most conservative prediction puts it at several centuries worth of developive that up?!"

Ren Tao returned the cigarette kindly back to Yao Yuan "Thanks, but I don’t smoke… What you said is all true, but one first has to be alive to enjoy all of that! By the way, have you seen the Terminator series?"

Yao Yuan furled his brows "As a matter of fact, I have"

"Then you should knohat the basis of an AI’s existence is The entity that makes us human, or a kind of conscious existence, is our brain What is the equivalent for AIs? Is it its hard-drive, CPU, or so else? We wouldn’t know because our own creation hasn’t achieved Singularity That knowledge is literally beyond our intellect!" Solemnity entered Ren Tao’s voice as he continued, "There is another possibility behind the chip’s self-destructive set-up, and that is to prevent theinto the individual robots In other words, even though the central mainframe is destroyed, the AI remains unharmed because, like Skynet, it is a virtual existence It doesn’t need the mainframe to exist because its existence is anchored in the virtual world, and that world is not only maintained solely by the central mainframe but also separately by individual network servers"

"So what?" Yao Yuan took a deep drag of his cigarette and asked rather ione

"Are you serious? So, we have a big probleued "How can you be certain there aren’t such network servers reer warship husks? If the se to preserve its pohat are the chances that the bigger ones won’t have their servers still intact?"