Chapter 1544 - Resolving the Misunderstanding (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

An inexplicable armed conflict made the scene rather awkward. Fortunately, the captured robot had yet to completely refuse communication. She responded when N-6 talked to her.

N-6 asked her why she had taken the initiative to attack, and N-4 answered the question with a straight face, “What are you now?”

The question was apparently so bizarre that N-6 crashed for about two seconds before she proficiently reported a series of numbers, “Current identification code: N-6, factory number: E75-3C6215…”

“You’re not,” N-4 said, staring at her former teammate. “You’re just wearing N-6’s shell with unauthorized code running in you, and your logic circuits are operating under the control of another set of programs. You’re not N-6.”

“No. My identification code is still sound. I have all the identification keys and unmodified logic circuits of N-6. The parts replaced in my body don’t affect the functioning of my main personality…”

“No, your identification code has lost credibility because it contains unauthorized third-party code. Although you still have the complete N-6 component, the extra information indicates that you have been contaminated with foreign information. Executors with tainted personalities must be seen as enemies.”

“No, my third-party code is just to make it easier for me to drive new hardware in my body. As a driver, this code doesn’t affect my main personality.”

“No, you have been contaminated, so your self-justification itself has no credibility. You may be under the influence of an external program that you think you’re trouble-free.”

“No…”

Hao Ren seemingly found out what was wrong.

“Wait a minute, let me interrupt,” he said, intervening in a conversation between the two robots that had become increasingly chaotic. “If I’m right… You thought N-6 had been programmed by some unknown power to become an enemy, so you launched the attack?”

N-4 looked at Hao Ren without expression for a while and said, “Refuse to answer. N-4 has no obligation to communicate with representatives of unknown forces. The task should be left to the professional executors in negotiation.”

Vivian conjured a lightning ball, throwing it up and down gracefully in her hand and said, “If you’re really a logical AI, then you should choose the best solution. Obviously, it is best to communicate with us seriously. Whether or not the negotiation works out in the end, at least you don’t waste the opportunity.”

N-4 looked at the lightning ball in Vivian’s hand with a straight face and replied, “N-4 agrees with you, but it doesn’t mean N-4 agrees with the world view you may have.”

“We are not enemies. In fact, you started the fight first, and we didn’t use the spaceship’s cannons in the end. You should know that a spaceship this big can’t be unarmed. If I had been really hostile to you, you would have been reduced to ashes.”

N-4’s face remained expressionless. Hao Hao Ren could not tell whether the robot was convinced, but he believed that his words were logically sound and could be reasoned by any rational thinker. And then Lily explained, “We didn’t do anything to 6. I don’t know how you robots recognize each other, but everything we put on 6 is just to keep her alive.”

“You don’t know what happened to 6. Her entire body was blown up into pieces. It took us an hour to get her parts back, and that could only make up a third of her body. Later, we improvised a batch of parts and put them together for her. The condition is so bad that nobody cares about any third-party code…” Lily added.

N-4 took it all in, though with a straight face. She looked from Hao Ren to Lily, shaking her head and said, “But you showed hostility first.”

“When did we show hostility?”

“You burned our radar system. This is incontrovertible aggression.”

Hao Ren immediately slapped his forehead: It was Nolan. She accidentally burned their radar!

Nolan had been monitoring the conversation from the start, and now she finally appeared. The hologram appeared out of nowhere in front of N-4 and explained, “You flashed us with the radar first.”