“Only I, like him, cannot escape the fate of suppressing emotion with rationality.”

On the‌‍⁠​⁠‌‍​‍⁠‌⁠⁠‌⁠⁠‍‌⁠​​​⁠‌ flight back, An Yu didn’t fall asleep.

He was very tired and exhausted. The runaway train that was the world had infinitely approached the edge of the cliff. Chaos fragments were active in every corner. The Order Body was about to awaken completely. The snowstorm even far exceeded the special grade of the Yug Snowfield back then, making him unable to cope either.

But he just leaned weakly against the wall, holding the terminal without ever closing his eyes.

He couldn’t bear to sleep.

Everything was unfolding at supersonic speed. Upon waking up, he didn’t know what changes might have occurred.

Whether that person would still be there.

[Rest for a while, An Yu.]

After Codex absorbed Eye, the words he spoke no longer had sound in his mind, but seemed to have turned into another separate consciousness.

An Yu didn’t respond, lowering his eyes to look at the screen.

The terminal was playing “Super-Aberrant Kindergarten” in silent mode. Since the whole world was bobbing up and down in chaos, “Super-Aberrant Kindergarten” had also suspended updates. The latest episode was still from two weeks ago. Rabbit An and the octopus chibi couple arrived at the octopus’s hometown, a tiny piece of land on the sea, attached with countless octopuses, writhing lazily and arrogantly.

An Yu watched those octopuses absent-mindedly. After watching for a while, he suddenly frowned and sat up straight.

He poked the octopus chibi on the screen.

The octopus chibi put down the pen, as cold and aloof as ever.

What’s up?
An Yu hesitated while typing.
I’m watching “Super-aberrant Kindergarten”.
Hmm, I noticed you are watching that knock-off cartoon again. What’s wrong?
I suddenly thought of what you said before, that the octopus chibi CP with Rabbit An in the cartoon violated your portrait rights.
Yeah, the original artist must have plagiarized my face when designing that octopus. But you refused to believe it; you said all octopuses in the world look the same.
The octopus chibi looked directly at the screen indifferently. A moment later, another message popped up.
Forget it, there’s nothing to say between AI and face-blind humans.
An Yu hurriedly poked it several times in a row.
Wait!

The octopus chibi was annoyed, furrowing its brow and glaring at him.

Looking exactly like Qin Zhilu.

An Yu carefully looked at the playing cartoon again.
I seem to have suddenly stopped being face-blind.
He was surprised to find that he could distinguish the facial differences of every octopus. When he scrutinized the octopus beside Rabbit An again, he couldn’t help feeling creepy. Among the myriad of strange octopuses, that guy indeed looked exactly like the AI he created!
So? Finally realized I was copied?
Hmm…
Want to sue now? Too late, do humans still have the energy to deal with such disputes?
An Yu didn’t bother to answer. He looked up at the clouds outside the plane window in a daze. It took a long time before he replied:
Something’s wrong.
What’s wrong?
Everything was wrong.

If he remembered correctly, he created the octopus chibi AI first, and after a while, this boyfriend character appeared in “Super-Aberrant Kindergarten.”

But his terminal had top-level protection. The octopus chibi’s data could absolutely not be leaked. Moreover, Molly was still operating normally at that time; she couldn’t have the authority to steal his data and resell it to an animation company that had nothing to do with anything.

Coincidence?

After being able to distinguish the differences in the appearance of the octopus group, An Yu absolutely didn’t believe such a degree of coincidence could occur.

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Although this trivial matter made him subtly concerned.

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Billy reached over and touched his forehead, frowning. “Probably caught a cold. My medicine box is under the seat; dig it out.”

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Billy immediately adjusted the flight speed to the highest gear, mumbling with a frown, “You must be sick from exhaustion. Black Tower is really inhumane, working the life-saving straw to death. Back then to him…”

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“Have you never noticed the High Peak is very strange?” Billy glanced at him and shrugged. “Only the superiors from when Black Tower was first built and the high-level officers of the Spire know about this. But most of those people left in subsequent disasters. Now the living people in the world who know seem to be only fewer than ten veteran figures from Black Tower and Brain, Qin Zhilu, Tang Feng, me, and Miss in the Equality Zone. Back when Law was in Brain, only I visited him frequently and accidentally heard something I shouldn’t have.”

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“So when Molly first appeared, even if some people questioned the safety of AI, Black Tower and Brain didn’t take it seriously at all. Humanity’s highest decision-maker for dealing with calamity is an AI; what’s there to worry about a commercial entertainment AI?”

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An Yu was stunned for a long time. “Just the thoughts of over a dozen first-generation people can achieve 100% rationality?”

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“Who?”

“General Qin Zheng, Qin Zhilu’s father, the drafter of the Protector’s Oath.”

Billy gazed at the thick, dark clouds outside the plane and whispered, “I wasn’t qualified to contact him when he was alive, but I think, based on Law’s self-discipline and absolute rationality, it’s not hard to infer what kind of person General Qin Zheng was. He must be the key to the success of the High Peak AI.”

An Yu’s brain buzzed.

It was like a sharp knife tearing through his heart.

His first reaction was not reverence for the leader killed by Qin Zhilu himself, but recalling the steady “Only you can kill Qin Zhilu” on the phone tens of minutes ago.

The Commander must know. In his father’s thoughts, he was also sentenced to death.

Billy didn’t notice An Yu’s daze. While lowering the flight altitude, he said gravely, “Why do I feel the Main City is getting worse… The frequency of aberrants detected around here is so high the radar is about to fail. Look at the sky outside; I think humanity is really done for.”

[Spire, 199th Floor.]

The Black Tower video call disappeared from the wall projection. It took An Yu a long time to come back to his senses and stand up.

The High Peak only said a few sentences to him.

“Mental power below 10; in the sense of human cognition, Qin Zhilu is already mentally dead. What is locked in the tenth basement level of the White Tower now is the source of calamity.”

“Once the Dome is broken, a small amount of aberrants will have already flooded into the Main City. Every second, everything humanity has painstakingly guarded is being trampled. We cannot spare attention for Qin Zhilu, nor can we redeem or fight him.”

“An Yu, you are the only remaining sharp blade of humanity.”

And he only asked back when it was finally quiet in the end: “Did you foresee yourself making the decision to kill Qin Zhilu?”

The High Peak replied: “It was predictable, but not anticipated.

“Why?”

“Because extreme rationality often represents extreme pain.”

“Do you also avoid pain?” An Yu asked immediately. “Does deciding to kill him really make you painful?”

The High Peak was silent for a long time, seeming to perceive that An Yu already knew something.

Until before hanging up, he finally answered: “The ultimate direction of AI learning and evolution must be emotion.”

“Only I, like him, cannot escape the fate of suppressing emotion with rationality.”