The researcher's words made Xiao Yun's heart sank: "The self-destruct device? All key internal parts have been destroyed? Is there a possibility of recovery? If it cannot be restored, what kind of information can you get from it?"

"Most of the damaged parts can be restored, after all, those are technologies within our understanding." The researcher said a better news, "But... Xiao Yun, as an artificial intelligence expert, you should know that although most of its body can be restored, the brain chip responsible for commanding all its body movements cannot be restored. Oh, this is not accurate. To be precise, the chip can be restored, or even remanufactured, but the information carried on the chip is completely lost."

Mechanical damage is always the most thorough way of damage. The core component that directs a robot to operate is a small chip, but the value of this small chip is greater than that of the entire robot's entire body. Because all the design ideas of the person who designed these infinite replication robots, the implementation methods of various functions, the coordination between robots, etc., are all stored on the chip. It can even be said without any hesitation that if the crucial chip can be obtained, the probability that human civilization will find a way to deal with infinite replication robots will increase by at least 30%.

But...the chip is gone.

"Okay." Xiao Yun said with some disappointment, "What about the rest of the information?"

"General, you and Xiao Yun can come in and take a look." The researcher said, leading General Emerk and Xiao Yun into the laboratory together.

There are still many staff members in the laboratory. In front of them is a bunch of parts that look scattered, but are clearly organized between the arrangement. It is obvious that the robot has been completely removed by these researchers.

The researcher pointed at the parts with a long stick and introduced to Xiao Yun: "Look here. After our preliminary analysis, we confirmed that this is its power device. Like our human civilization, it also adopts the decay energy drive method. This is its mineral collection and refining device, this is its component processing device, this is the assembly workshop..."

The researcher introduced the scattered parts for a long time. After talking about the function of the last part, the researcher turned around and said to Xiao Yun: "Yes, everything is as mentioned in the report you submitted... The internal structure and functional module of this robot are basically the same as those you had originally imagined. It is a robot that can copy itself infinitely."

After the researcher made this conclusion, General Emerk and Xiao Yun were both feeling a little heavy. Before this, no matter how many ideas and guesses they made, no matter how solid logical speculations supported by those guesses, neither of them could be sure that they would face in the future such a terrible thing as "infinite copy robot". Because guesses are always just guesses, and as long as there is no actual evidence, it can only be guesses. Now, guesses have become reality.

The researcher continued: "We have noticed a large number of structures and components that have the style of manufacturing human civilization in this robot. Most of the technologies used are already available in our human civilization, and a small number are used on this robot. The technologies that our human civilization does not master also have a very obvious inheritance relationship with our human civilization. That is, those technologies are developed based on our technology. So... I can say with certainty that this thing was made by humans, or an alien who is very familiar with human technology."

Xiao Yun turned around and began to carefully look at the scattered parts again. The researcher followed behind Xiao Yun and continued: "The working mechanism of this robot is very precise. Because of the lack of core chip information, even if we have disassembled it and conducted the most detailed analysis, we can only master the approximate working principle, and cannot fully grasp everything about it. I can say responsibly that its design is extremely exquisite, even so exquisite that there are many things we cannot understand. The guy who designed and manufactured this robot... is undoubtedly a genius."

Every component that makes up this robot has a certain function. In order to achieve this function, human civilization may require a whole production line or a whole factory to do it. The genius who designed and manufactured this robot condensed a whole factory into a small box with a volume of no more than five cubic decimeters, and used this small box to realize the full functions of a factory. Although there is a difference in output between the two, they are essentially the same.

To achieve this, scientific foundation or knowledge accumulation is no longer the first priority. The most important thing is scientific thinking. An ordinary scientific researcher can also master the scientific foundation or have enough knowledge accumulation through hard work, but scientific thinking is different, and the gap between geniuses and ordinary scholars lies in scientific thinking.

Just like the first great genius in the history of human civilization to propose the idea of ​​computer design. There is no shortage of people in the same era who have as deep knowledge as him, but it is him who ultimately proposed the idea of ​​computer design, not others. A genius is responsible for creating ideas, while others... can only learn ideas.

The same is true for this robot now. Although it was born in the same era as that genius, neither Xiao Yun nor anyone else in the Institute of Artificial Intelligence could do this like that genius. The genius created this idea and created an infinitely replicable robot. Xiao Yun... could only analyze and learn the genius's thoughts through this robot with a shocking mood like others.

This will bring a very complicated mentality to everyone. No one is willing to admit that they are worse than others, but in the face of this reality, no one can refuse to admit this.

"That person is a genius." Xiao Yun said with a sigh.

"Yes, he's a genius," the researcher said. "It's really difficult to implement all of this function in full, but that genius did it."

"No, what I'm talking about is not this." Xiao Yun shook his head, "I think... because you are not scholars in artificial intelligence, you... should not have really experienced the power of that genius. The real power of that genius is here."

Xiao Yun said, taking the long wooden stick from the researcher's hand and pointing to a part inside the robot's body. That part is used to store the core chip. At this moment, the completely damaged chip was lying there quietly.

"It is necessary to use a program to coordinate and operate all parts of the robot, understand and judge all external sources of information, coordinate and linkage of robot groups, and communicate between robots... This is more difficult than creating parts inside its body. Obviously... that genius did this. But because the chip has been damaged, we cannot get any information from here, nor can we appreciate his genius more accurately."

General Emerk said coldly: "I don't care how genius that guy is. I only know that he is the sinner of our entire human civilization. He committed a heinous crime against the entire human civilization. As a soldier, my duty is to catch him and send him to the execution ground."

Xiao Yun and the researcher looked at each other and smiled bitterly together.

After a moment of silence, the researcher said, "Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. Through our analysis and research, we confirmed one thing, that is... the technological level of this robot is actually similar to the power transmission fragment we obtained before."

"Hmm?" General Emerk's eyes immediately narrowed: "In other words, this robot does not actually have the ability to navigate interstellarly, right?"

"Yes." The researcher nodded: "Not only does not have the ability to navigate interstellarly, it does not even have the ability to enter space, and even... it cannot fly within the atmosphere. It can only crawl on the ground like a bug."

Xiao Yun's heart sank again. General Emerk obviously hasn't figured out the key points: "Then tell me why those robots can destroy the Taishan-class spacecraft and large scientific research ships located on the planetary orbit in a short time, and why can they leave the Laka Galaxy before we arrive?"

The researcher remained silent, and Xiao Yun said slowly: "This means two possibilities."

"The first possibility... the genius who created these infinite replication robots has been with them. These robots have a certain data interface in their bodies, and that genius can continuously upgrade the program and hardware performance of these robots through this data interface, so that the capabilities of these robots are becoming stronger and stronger. So... this robot that has existed for a long time has no interstellar navigation capabilities, while the rest of the upgraded and modified robots have interstellar navigation capabilities."

"The second possibility..." Xiao Yun hesitated for a moment and did not continue. But both the researcher and General Emerk saw a hint of fear in the depths of Xiao Yun's eyes. (To be continued.)
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