Chapter 253

After screaming, Fang Xiaoxiao seemed to realize that his emotions were out of control. He took two steps back, leaned against the wall and squatted down dizzily, stuffed two handfuls of pills into his mouth, and forced himself to swallow them mechanically. go down.

After swallowing the pills for a while, Fang Xiaoxiao managed to calm down. He gasped and hugged his knees tightly, tears slipped down his numb and frozen face unconsciously, muttering to himself: "It's human, really, I didn't eat human..."

As he spoke, he suppressed the trembling all over his body, buried his face in his knees, choked up and cried bitterly, and apologized indiscriminately:

"Sorry, sorry..."

Bai Liu squatted down on one knee, and he handed Fang Xiaoxiao a soft cloth towel.

Fang Xiaoxiao took it silently and wiped away the tears on her face.

Bai Liu lowered her voice: "What kind of monster is it?"

"...a highly intelligent monster." Fang Xiaoxiao stood up while supporting the wall, and replied hoarsely, "When it first appeared, I was terrified, because it looks so similar to The team members who died at the observation station were exactly the same, I thought they were ghosts at first, but it was later discovered that they were illegal infiltration products of the Edmond Observation Station."

"It will actively imitate the animal with the strongest survivability in the environment, and try to get close to me and learn my survivability skills. This group of monsters may have observed me For a while, I found that I showed great condolence and friendliness to the dead team members, so I chose to change into such an image to get close to me..."

Fang Xiaoxiao took a deep breath: "It thinks that as long as it becomes the image I like, I will accept it, but it frightened the sentry at the base, and the sentry shot it dead. , and dragged it back to the base for research."

"...During the research process, it shed its skin for the second time, and it became more human-like."

"It has a very strong learning ability. Through the few words I read and its own observation after entering the base, it better imitated the dead team member after the second molt. The speech, appearance, and habits have all reached the point of being exactly the same, except Part of the memory is still missing, and it's almost like the dead team member came back from the dead... It was really scary, so I killed it a second time with a knife."

Fang Xiaoxiao's eyelashes trembled, and tears fell on his own hand clenched tightly with the cloth towel: "... I found out that no matter what method is used to kill it, because the cells in it are highly active, as long as there is If one is not killed, it will degenerate autonomously to form embryonic stem cells, and then degenerate into human beings."

"...Unless it burns its epidermis with fire first to curb its tendency to rot, and then soaks it in strong acid or alkali chemicals to completely kill its cells, but the observation station has no So much fuel and chemicals to deal with it."

"I didn't do anything at first, even if I knew the dangers of it, I didn't have the resources to deal with it. I could only cut it up and freeze it in the crevasses of the ice, letting it die Come out, but soon, soon..."

Fang Xiaoxiao's throat seemed to be pinched by a pair of invisible hands, even though he was opening his mouth, no sound came out, only tears streaming down his face.

Bai Liu accepted the words calmly: "But you soon discovered that fire plus strong acid corrosion is the process of human food cooking and digestion?"

"It just so happens that you are short of food. Eating it can completely dispel the monsters. You can kill two birds with one stone. Why not do it, right?"

Spotted by Bai Liu, Fang Xiaoxiao's eyes were empty, his chest heaved twice, he couldn't hold back his retching, turned around, covered his mouth and ran away as if to escape: "I'm so sorry, I feel a little uncomfortable , you should rest first."

Bai Liu watched Fang Xiaoxiao go away, then turned and walked into the cabin, followed by Mu Chengcheng and Tang Erda.

Tang Er locked the door with a backhand, and stuck to the door to listen outside for a while, then turned his head and reported to Bai Liu: "The sound insulation effect is not bad, and people's footsteps can be heard at close range outside. You can say what you want to say."

Mu Chengcheng just listened to the conversation between Fang Xiaoxiao and Bai Liu, and now he is a little stupid, sitting on the edge of the bed and looking at Bai Liu, the back of his neck is cold: "What the hell is going on? So it is The people at the observation station ate the monster?!"

"That's for sure." Bai Liu leaned on the bed, propping his chin lazily with his hand, "The possibility of this observation station is still the same as I said before, there are people in it, or It's full of anthropomorphic monsters, pretending to be like this to trick me."

Mu Cheng was puzzled: "Yes, if it's a monster, why would it pretend to be in such a situation to deceive me? What's the matter? If it wants to kill me Just do it directly, as you heard just now, this thing is dead to a certain extent, you can directly confront me!"

"Why do you take the initiative to tell me your weaknesses?"

Tang Erda nodded at the right time: "The weakness in my monster book was highlighted just now. What Fang Xiaoxiao said is true. Fire and chemical corrosion are the weakness of this monster."

Bai Liu smiled, and abruptly brought up a totally irrelevant topic: "Do you know about the Turing test?"

Both Mu Chengcheng and Tang Erda nodded.

Mu Chengcheng was quite serious and asked: "What does this have to do with the Turing test? Is it used to test whether AI has human intelligence?"

"There are similarities. The AI ​​and the monsters in the house are man-made species. If you compare the species in the house to the AI, how do you think you can test that the species in the house have human intelligence?" Bai Liu said slowly. Looking at Mu Cheng, "Do you still remember the famous assumption in the Turing test?"

Mu Cheng suddenly realized something, and he shuddered and said: "——If the intelligent AI really possesses human intelligence, it will not take the way of deceiving human beings. Pass the Turing test?"

"Assuming that the [people] here are all monsters, they are trying hard to imitate humans, and their intelligence has developed to the same level as the scientific research team members here, it is entirely possible for them to map themselves Spiritual test to test whether your human imitation show is qualified and can fully integrate into me."

Bai Liu raised her eyes: "And I, a group of alien humans are the best comparison to test whether they can successfully deceive humans. What [Fang Xiaoxiao] said just now is just their basis. Knowing about humans simulates one that can convince me that it's really a human situation."

Tang Er spoke in silence, Mu Chengcheng curled his fingers and held the palm of his hand, his back felt chills intermittently.

"Of course." Bai Liu changed the subject again, and said slowly, "It's just my guess, and it's very possible that the people in the house are people, and everything is just my delusion."

Tang Er asked calmly: "Then how do you verify your idea?"

Bai Liu spread her hands and smiled lightly: "It's very simple, after they all fall asleep tonight, I'll dig out the things in the ice crevasse to see if the [people] there can come back to life."

At midnight.

The February sun in Antarctica lasts for a long time. When the sun disappears, it is already early morning. The personnel in the observation station have basically fallen asleep. There are only two sentries standing guard in front of the gate, but they have to bypass the two It is also very simple for a sentry to go out.

The observatory adheres to the principle of strict entry and wide exit, and it is not strict about the going out of internal personnel. After all, in Antarctica, if you are in Antarctica, you will take the initiative to run outside.

Bai Liu then got out from the back door of the garbage disposal in the kitchen on the second floor, then went around to the place where the helicopter was parked, and took out the drilling equipment inside.

Thanks to the harsh weather in Antarctica, under the blessing of wind, snow and night, the visibility can exceed 30 meters. Bai Liu took the equipment so blatantly, and the sentinels in the distance did not see it.

Under the leadership of Tang Er, a group of veterans, they put hundreds of kilograms of equipment on the sled, and pulled it to a site more than ten kilometers away, which they had previously explored.

Mu Chengcheng was panting and sweating, but Bai Liu was fine, Tang Erda didn't let him do much, and he borne most of the weight of the hundreds of kilograms of equipment.

Tang Erda's skin from his face to his collarbone was drenched in sweat, his tense muscles glowed with a sensual luster, the sound of his breathing was only slightly aggravated, and his panting was extremely restrained.

Mu Cheng, who was panting like a donkey, stared straight at the sight.

Depend on! Is Tang Erda Nima reincarnated as a sled dog? ! How can you pull things? !

Tang Erda didn't notice Mu Cheng's jealous eyes. He put the equipment on the sled on the ice, and then followed Bai Liu's arrangement, and began to use the drilling equipment to find the position where he had detected the figure before. drilling.

The hot pressure melted the ice layer by layer, and when it descended to almost the same position, Bai Liu made a stop gesture, Tang Erda held down the instrument, lifted the ice core up, and pulled it out.

Trapped in the ice core was a thin and narrow human being. He had lost all his limbs, so he looked extraordinarily petite, and he could just be locked in the ice core by Bai Liu and others to pull him up——it was also Bai Liu who chose the position. The reason for point drilling.

Trapped in an ice edge with a length of about 2m and a diameter of about 1m, or in other words, the "human" in the ice core has a terrified expression, as if he has seen something that can scare him to death, and the broken limbs are neat and clean , as if it was cut off by a sharp tool, and it hasn't rotted yet.

Bai Liu brought fuel with him, burned hot water and watered the ice core over and over again, and it didn't take long for the ice core to melt slowly.

"It's ice made of filled snow." Tang Erda affirmed his conclusion, "Real ice will melt so quickly, and it won't be so clean and thorough."

It didn't take long for the ice to melt, and the human body inside was lying on the ice twitching.

When Mu Chengcheng was so cold that he hugged himself and wanted to go back three times, a weak granulation suddenly grew on the broken limb of a pig, writhing like a worm. Soon joined together to form limbs.

Several pigs stood up slowly and knelt in front of Bai Liu.

Obviously, the thing he dug up was a monster.

Tang Erda kicked the opponent away with a reaction speed that was visible to the naked eye, and thrust the muzzle of the gun into the opponent's throat with his backhand. His expression was cold and stern, and he was about to shoot.

Bai Liu stopped him in time, and walked in front of all the pigs, and asked Tang Er to draw the muzzle of the gun, and the pigs struggled to get up, and Mu Cheng was shocked for a while.

"I'm the real Fang Xiaoxiao." His voice was difficult, and as soon as he finished speaking, tears came down, and he kowtowed to Bai Liu, "The people buried below are all the real personnel from the Taishan Observatory. , please save him!"

Bai Liu helped him up, and comforted him gently: "I will, first you talk about what you are in love with."

"Have you ever seen the monster at the observation station?" Fang Xiaoxiao was supported by Bai Liu and sat on the sleigh.

Mu Chengcheng boiled a cup of hot water for a shivering physiognomy researcher, but Fang Xiaoxiao pushed him away with a wry smile: "Thank you, my body is using it to keep warm now, I It’s just that there are still remnants of the conditioned reflex of human beings to the cold, so they will not shiver.”

Bai Liu put the hot water on Fang Xiaoxiao's lap: "You have a human's reflex to the cold, so you are an ordinary person who needs to be warmed up. I think you really need such a cup of hot water. Take it."

He didn't know how to touch Fang Xiaoxiao with these words, and his tears stopped falling.

He looked at Bai Liu with tears in his eyes, finally took the cup of hot water, choked up and said: "Thank you, comrade, thank you for telling me, I am still a human being."

Fang Xiaoxiao drank a few sips of hot water, regained his strength, and said briefly: "A year and a half ago in August, I was instructed to store a very dangerous The person in charge of the Taishan Station is not the same for the corpses of the chemical category, because according to the Antarctic Convention, any polluted research objects cannot be placed there."

"But after many communications, the person in charge of Taishan Station finally agreed. Although I didn't know what he communicated with, the person in charge told me very sadly that the Antarctic Station The last piece of pure land will be a pure land again."

"In order to protect people outside and this world full of desires, the last piece of pure land is still polluted."

Fang Xiaoxiao exhaled deeply, and Bai Liu noticed that there was no heat in his exhaled body, and no white hole formed.

"So I prepared to meet the plane that transported the body parts, but the plane had an accident while flying over the Ross Sea, and finally did not land near my observation station, but crashed into A on the south coast of Ross Island. Near Chibod Station—that's the observation post of Country A."

"Although I went to search immediately, three boxes were found in the box, and all five escorts on the plane died. In order to recover the three boxes, I decided to They called the Archibald Station without hesitation, communicated, and even went directly to their person in charge that night."

"But soon he started answering my phone calls, accepting our visits behind closed doors, and my team members saw that in the early hours of the morning, Archibald Station A helicopter flew over Edmond Station, and it was suspected that something was secretly carried over there, and I suspected it was those three boxes.”

Fang Xiaoxiao's teeth trembled, and he clenched his cup tightly: "The Edmond Station is another observation station they built. It is located near the South Pole. It is heavily guarded and difficult to approach. There are also many military equipment. After answering my phone call, I decided to communicate by fax."

"The person in charge of the Edmond Observatory is Edmund Allen. He has been in Antarctica for more than 30 years and has always had a good relationship with me. He is willing to share many research results with me. , is an old guy with great Antarctic spirit, and has made outstanding contributions to Antarctic meteorology and zoology research, so the observatory will be named after him..."

"Professor Edmund once slackened under my persuasion, and wanted to secretly return the box to me, and bear all the faults himself..."

Fang Xiaoxiao held back her tears: "But the politics and military of country a do not allow it. After finding out that Edmund had a tendency to do this, he brutally persecuted Professor Edmund. Psychological suppression and experiments were carried out on him, and he was also given a mind-controlling drug, which drove Teacher Edmond crazy..."

He covered his face and burst into tears, and the address he had been calling "professor" before became a more intimate "teacher" at that moment.

"A herd of animals killed a great man! They conducted animal experiments related to corpse parts on Mr. Edmund!!"

"He forced Mr. Edmund to go astray!"

"The teacher used the body parts to teach and breed animals in large quantities, and crossed their genes with the genes of extremely low-level animals to breed animals that are more suitable for Antarctica. All the predatory animals who persecuted him were buried under the hands of this animal..."

Fang Xiaoxiao seemed to think of extremely painful memories, he covered his head, and muttered to himself in a trance:

"But everything got out of control later on. That creature began to develop human intelligence. It was educated and raised by Edmund, and it has a strong curiosity about scientific research and human beings. And the heart of exploration, it began to imitate what human beings did to it, it began to reproduce that cruel experiment on human beings to explore human beings."

"And the human beings I've been stranded at the observation station are the best material for it to practice."

Fang Xiaoxiao seemed to cry and laughed: "It cuts, dismembers, slices, dyes us, and classifies us according to gender and region... But there is not much food left in the winter observation station. Soon I was going to starve to death, and it wanted me to die vulnerable, so it started forcing me to eat seal penguins and their meat."

"Its flesh fits into my body, and I am like a plant of another species that has been cut, distorted and evolved like an embedded body, and finally became as fearful as it is Severe cold, stronger survivability, and a monster that will die easily."

A tear fell down Fang Xiaoxiao's face with a clear mind: "Soon, this clever monster has explored all the secrets of my flesh/body, and it will test me The discarded items are preserved under the ice, entering the final stage of species research - human mutual recognition, communication and telepathy."

"It needs completely alien humans to cooperate with its final stage of experiments, but there have been no new humans in Antarctica for a long, long time."

"So it keeps simulating the existence of human beings in extreme situations, it even creates a conflict realistically, and then kills each other, and then breaks the ice layer to [die] The corpse of the monster was dropped."

Fang Xiaoxiao twitched the corner of his mouth stiffly: "Of course the monster didn't really die, it just played the role of a human being who failed in the struggle and died, and was frozen beside me."

After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Bai Liu patted Fang Xiaoxiao on the shoulder, telling him to take a good rest, saying that he would drill everyone out of Taishan Station, then turned around and returned to the drilling site to continue working.

Tang Erda was in charge of guarding Fang Xiaoxiao, so he didn't come together.

And Mu Chengcheng shrank to the side of Bai Liu as if he was greatly frightened, and said quietly: "Damn! It's really what you said! The monster at the observation station is really conducting the Turing test !The real Observatory member is in the ice crevasse!"

Bai Liu turned on the instrument, and gave Mu Cheng an expressionless glance: "How can you be sure that the [person] placed in the ice crevasse is a highly intelligent monster who studied me?" A new round of the Turing test for us, which has been set up a long time ago?"

Mu Chengcheng was startled, his scalp was numb: "You mean, this Fang Xiaoxiao is also a monster pretending to be a monster to test me?!"

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes: "It's definitely, he might be a real human being."

Bai Liusao Mu took a serious look: "Who told you that the Turing test only places one location, and the social testing of species is usually carried out on an entire map."

"To put it simply, the whole of Antarctica may be the experimental map it set up for us alien humans. The humans in any observation station may be real, or they may be False, it uses our recognition of real and fake human beings to distinguish our way of recognizing the same kind."

"To use an analogy, it is similar to putting an alien monkey in a group of simulated monkeys and real monkeys, observing the reaction of the alien monkey, and seeing what kind of monkey it will respond to. Make the same kind of judgment response, and then the monster will imitate the monkey dog, pretending that it is a real monkey dog, and come close to a monkey dog, and then conduct further experiments."

Bai Liu's eyes fell on Fang Xiaoxiao behind Mu Chengcheng: "For example, let a monkey cut off its limbs, and then observe whether the monkey will seek help from other monkeys." .”

Listening to this, Mu Cheng felt that his limbs were a bit cold, so he silently took off his monkey earphones.

Bai Liu shrugged: "This is how humans study other species."