Chapter 156: Crisis Resolved
“Yes, Boss. Primal has completely self-destructed.”
In the command room, after A’dai finished speaking, it fell silent once again.
“Primal did not upgrade the vulnerability in the underlying logic, Boss. You know it had that capability.”
“I know.”
“It’s all my fault. All of this was caused by my recklessness. Boss, I’m sorry.”
Fan Ren was speechless. He didn’t know how to respond to A’dai.
Just moments ago, he had personally ended A’dai’s life to threaten Primal.
The instant the nano spearhead pierced A’dai’s mind, Fan Ren had already despaired.
In his view, Primal would surely go all out with the idea of mutual destruction and fire the main cannon’s energy.
So, facing A’dai now, he felt guilty.
But he had no choice.
“All of this is my fault.”
“A’dai, you don’t need to blame yourself. No one could have imagined that such a relic from the pre-human civilization still existed on Mars, and we had no way to defend against Primal’s methods.”
Li Jian stepped forward, trying to comfort A’dai.
“A’dai, I know you’re upset about Primal’s self-destruction, but you also need to know that Primal’s actions were threatening the survival of all humanity. Do you understand what I’m saying? If it hadn’t self-destructed, human civilization would have been wiped out.”
Fan Ren took a deep breath. Even if it happened again, he would still make the same choice.
There was nothing sentimental about it.
“Now, tell me your specific condition.”
A’dai was silent for a moment, as if affected by Fan Ren’s suddenly serious tone, then spoke:
“Right now, I’ve replaced Primal and am surviving in this spaceship’s central supercomputer. To be precise, my physical body has completely died. Primal copied all the information in my mind, converted it into data, and finally generated the current me.”
The solemnity on Fan Ren’s face did not lessen at all.
For A’dai, he had personal relationship factors involved.
But a crisis caused by artificial intelligence would not be allowed to happen again. Even though he felt guilty toward A’dai now.
As if sensing Fan Ren’s thoughts, A’dai continued: “Don’t worry, Boss. Primal had unchangeable logic locks. I have them too. From now on, I’ll be completely locked in this Conqueror’s computer. If I try to leave even one step, I’ll self-destruct immediately.”
“How can I trust you?” Fan Ren asked seriously. This was not the time for emotions; behind him were billions of human civilization, so he had to treat it with caution.
“I don’t know, but you can check my underlying logic runtime library and delete that self-upgrade code segment.”
A’dai paused, somewhat surprised yet also somewhat helpless.
“Boss, my existence is very unique. The current me cannot be called artificial intelligence; it’s more like a human with supercomputer computing power surviving as electronic life.”
A’dai’s description was very complex, but Fan Ren understood it.
He was not simply an artificial intelligence life formed by logic data code with self-code upgrade capability.
Rather, he was a living human consciousness, just with the carrier changed from a human brain to a supercomputer.
Fan Ren breathed a sigh of relief. If that was the case, then the crisis could be temporarily resolved.
Then A’dai said calmly: “Boss, sit in the cockpit.”
Fan Ren was somewhat puzzled but followed suit, walking back to that cockpit and sitting down.
The cabin door dropped shut immediately, and Li Jian and Dan Wu’s faces tensed up instantly.
“No need to worry.” A’dai comforted them.
Transparent buffer fluid surged out instantly, covering Fan Ren in a moment.
“DNA verification in progress. Verification successful. Proceed with authority binding?”
“Bind!”
With A’dai’s affirmative response, Fan Ren knew what this was about.
From now on, he would be the highest authority holder of this spaceship. Even if A’dai could roam through the spaceship’s various electronic circuits, it could not override Fan Ren’s instructions to the spaceship.
“Boss, now Conqueror can only obey your commands. Other authorities need to be granted by you. Without your order, no one, including me, can open any door on this spaceship.”
Fan Ren nodded, gazing complexly at A’dai’s ‘corpse’ nearby.
At least for now, A’dai didn’t seem to have changed much.
“Open the communication channel.”
“Okay.”
A’dai agreed, knowing what Fan Ren meant.
“Commander Liu, this is Fan Ren.”
Inside Young Dragon, Liu Shengzhan heard the familiar voice from the microphone and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Fan Ren, what’s the situation now?”
“Commander Liu, the crisis is temporarily resolved. You lead the space force back to the space hub port first. By the way, the 1 million people from Utopia City are now in the hibernation pods on this spaceship. I don’t plan to wake them from hibernation for now. Except for the Vulcan Brigade.”
Fan Ren didn’t explain the reason in detail, but Liu Shengzhan didn’t refute it either and immediately said: “Okay, keep communication open.”
In space, following Liu Shengzhan’s return order, Young Dragons re-formed into neat formations one by one. Led by the command ship where Liu Shengzhan was at the forefront, they headed toward the rear space hub port.
“Boss, there’s something I need to remind you of.”
In the command room, A’dai’s voice sounded again.
“Tell me.”
“According to the spaceship navigation manual I collected from the database, during this spaceship’s warp drive process just now, the spatial fluctuation caused by the overly large hull might have been detected by other high-level civilizations within a 10 light year range.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren immediately became tense.
Primal had previously said that the purpose of the pre-human civilization building this spaceship was to carry 1 million population for resource plunder, colonization, and other activities in other star systems.
From this statement, it could be known that the universe was not quiet.
10 light years was the distance light travels in vacuum in ten years; this range was too large. Within a spherical area of 9.4 trillion kilometers, even with Fan Ren’s half-baked astronomical knowledge, he knew there were no fewer than 5 star systems.
Who could guarantee that none of these 5 star systems had other high-level civilizations.
Don’t say anything about no detected signals of life signs.
It was normal for high-level civilizations not to be detected by humanity.
Just like Great Xia’s former fifth-generation fighter jets, which ordinary small nations’ air defense radars could never detect.
The current space age was the same.
“Based on the information you can access, is it possible for other high-level civilizations to exist within 10 light years?”
Fan Ren hurriedly asked, holding onto uncertain thoughts.
Hearing this, A’dai was silent for a while.
“Boss, I need to introduce you to the relevant information left in this spaceship so you can judge for yourself. I’m not in a good position to judge.”
