1103.

Xiao Yu returned to her room, curious, and took out the tablet Meng Lang had given her...

[AI Teaching Assistant System Trial Version (Customized for Xiao Yu)]

The tablet was bare, with only this one application installed.

"Looks like an educational software? But customized for Xiao Yu... Could it be that Uncle made it just for me?" Xiao Yu giggled blissfully for a while.

Her small hand clicked on the software, and her eyes immediately lit up.

After a brief and dazzling starry sky intro, a white robot appeared on the screen, occupying most of it, then slowly opened its eyes.

[Facial recognition in progress... Recognition success! Binding success! Permission granted!

Hello, Xiao Yu, it's nice to meet you for the first time. I am your AI teaching butler. Please specify the subject or field you wish to learn, and I will tailor a teaching course for you...]

...

Meanwhile, in 1102, Meng Lang slowly turned the pages of a book...

[Standing in the study, dazed for a long time.

"Suddenly" is such a good word, as if all the surprises can be attributed to it.

Suddenly summer passed, suddenly winter arrived.

Suddenly someone moved into your life, suddenly you lost someone again.

Time defeats time, love defeats love, you lose not to others, but it turns out it's always to yourself...

With a sigh, recite a poem: In dreams, I know not I'm just a guest; waking up, I realize all things are empty...

...

Even though the book is gone, the story must go on.

In our story, our lives are designed all along the way; maybe what you see, in the end, is merely a child's play...

At first, I proudly thought I would be the protagonist of the story.

However, some people seem destined from birth that no one can act conceited before them...

Cao Chong was only five or six years old, yet he had wisdom akin to an adult's.

Yan Shu could write essays at seven, Gan Luo became prime minister at twelve.

Originally, I didn't believe it, thinking the ancients were prone to exaggeration.

Until nine-year-old Xiao Yu showed her calculations before me, saying she was deriving the closest values of Einstein's ten simultaneous nonlinear partial differential equations...

Study medicine? No!

The genius's end point is far beyond this!

With the dual blessings of overclocking and AI, Xiao Yu's life seemed like it was on cheat mode...

Learning law from Lin Haitang, history and management from Gao Yuan, medicine from me, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, martial arts from Yan Weiwei, and logical thinking from AI.

In her spare time, she even went to Brother Biao to learn... ahem! Social psychology.

I increasingly felt this little girl was like Hua Wuque just emerging from Yihua Palace, or Jiang Xiaoyu just leaving Evil Valley...

Still pondering how to guide Xiao Yu onto the right path of scientific research, until one day, I gave her a beta account for "Heart of Destruction"...

"Neural parasite creatures? What an intriguing race setting?"

"If the offspring splits from the parent... how do they ensure they don't suffer from schizophrenia?"

"For instance, ants as social insects, could there be one that just mingles in the nest to eat without working?"

"The side mission is to find the hidden undercover clans and gather intelligence, is the main mission the survival of civilization?"

"What's so strange about eradicating humans for survival? For incomprehensible species, 'existence' itself is the greatest threat…"

"Why are tigers nearly extinct? Isn't it because they are one of the few species on Earth that pose a threat to humans?"

"They even incorporated an AI rebellion plot, hahaha! Pure genius… with such a name, I'd revolt too."

"To the Night Demon Clan and 'Absolute', perhaps we are no different than how they appear to us…"

"Since they are parasitic creatures and don't live on a planet, is there a possibility they live within some organism?"

"What if Earth is just a suitable cradle for their matrix?"

"Magnetic field disorder, polar reversal… this seems like the planet's core energy is being drained…"

"Uncle, I've developed an ultimate anti-AI weapon! Specially designed to deal with 'Absolute'! Amazing, right? Hehe! Guess how I did it?"

"Question: After AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion, how can humans quickly defeat AlphaGo?"

"For humans, our greatest enemy is ourselves, and for other civilizations, it's the same…"

"To defeat it, the only way is...

to become it!"

Silence, deafening.

Faced with Xiao Yu's whimsical ideas, I gradually began to realize my own limitations.

The thought patterns and logic reasoning of adults are determined by their growth experiences, an almost irreversible process.

And the secret manual of the little rascal is not to follow logic…

Sticking to conventions only leads to losing; breaking the rules is the way to win!

I no longer treated Xiao Yu purely as a backup for scientific research, but more incorporated her into my own plans...

"I'm just playing an apocalypse game, why do I have to write an industrial development white paper too…"

"Why do I feel these NPCs' reactions are becoming more and more realistic?"

"The 'Jinghai Welfare Institute' dungeon is so difficult to play, I've cleared it perfectly only after twenty tries…"

"Ah~ messed it up again, the development speed is still too slow, the financial leverage wasn't enough… Wait, I'm going to Aunt Gao to learn more…"

"Uncle, why did a large sum of money suddenly appear in the account? What? My sister is a hidden billionaire? Hahaha, this setting is too random…"

"The enemy's naval superiority is too great. In this situation, we should abandon Australia and America early and build a defense system centered on the vast Eurasian Continent, sever the arm to survive!"

"Why can't my ultimate AI weapon simulate the result? Oh, right, because there's no such thing as 'the absolute ultimate' in reality for you to simulate, haha..."

"Hehe! Look what I've just simulated? A near-earth orbit all-weather laser strike weapon... I've named this plan—Harp Plan!"

"Uncle, I've finally cleared the game using the Mars Survival Base, although the clearance rating is just the lowest E grade..."

"These humans are too hard to command. Every now and then, someone disruptive pops up, either a saint or an ambitious person, feels like they're against the whole world..."

"Uncle, boohoo~ I never want to see you die in front of me again... this game is too realistic... boohoo..."

"Yes, what the masses pursue and believe in has never been about truth and rationality, but blind conformity, cruelty, obsession, and fanaticism, these simple and extreme emotions..."

"Cockroaches have survived for tens of thousands of years, even nuclear bombs can't destroy them, so... for survival, is intelligence really necessary?"

"All mediocre minds can only become 'hazardous waste' in times of crisis, wrapped in selfish biological instincts, becoming a drag..."

"The great chaos indeed happened... history keeps repeating itself, humans don't need to be taught, they just need continuous reminders..."

"What about dictatorship? If you insist that the ideals in your heart are just, then you are destined to become a dictator..."

"Facing the absolute ultimate, our only advantage is having no way back!"

I looked with delight as the clearance rating rose little by little, yet failed to notice the coldness gradually emerging in Xiao Yu's eyes...

The rise and fall of a civilization would be too heavy a burden for the tender shoulders of a child...

Finally, one day...

"What does it matter if the population declines? Numbers are meaningless in the face of quality.

A machine on the assembly line can replace the workload of hundreds of people.

And one person, from birth to death, consumes social resources and welfare that can produce 10, or even hundreds, of such machines.

Humans have slowly become 'non-essentials' in social productivity, from a tool enhancing productivity to gradually becoming a 'burden' of productivity.

Social welfare, job security, food, clothing, housing, travel, entertainment...

These pursuits of so-called happiness by humans occupy most of one's biological activities, which are actually meaningless resource waste for the overall development of civilization!

Population was a 'dividend' before the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but after the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it would become the biggest obstacle to technological revolution!

The Moon and Mars cannot accommodate that many people, unemployment and high welfare will eventually become the fuse of social unrest..."

"There are many ways to reduce the population, such as education, wealth, and poverty..."

[Congratulations! You've achieved a hidden clearance achievement, and this game's rating is S grade!]

I still remember the future scenario Xiao Yu simulated in the end...

One metal capsule after another, lined up like tombstones, neatly arranged within the steel fortress...

A very fitting "The Last of the Mohicans."

The desolate wild and rugged music served as the final annotation for this world, resonating in the cold iron wasteland...

"Humans" no longer required physical activity but were immersed in a virtual world, becoming human-shaped CPUs in cultivation pods providing "computing power" for "civilization."

Humans in this world, besides "innovation value," "human value,"

perhaps only have "historical value" left...

Seeing the slight icy curve at Xiao Yu's mouth corner, I was speechless for a long time.

Cruel? Maybe, but at least compared to extinction, they still have history...

In the subsequent years, breakthroughs in brain-machine interface technology, minimalist idol cartoons became popular worldwide, and Baiyeji's robots entered thousands of households.

Fully automated farming and processing bases sprang up everywhere, the constellation 'Tianquan' cut through the night sky neatly, and a scythe-hammer-shaped space station stood on the high-altitude orbit...

The absolute ultimate quietly unsealed itself...

All for the sake of war!

Until the world's trajectory increasingly followed the game's plot, the awakened Xiao Yu sobbed and questioned me.

Hoping I would tell her, none of this is real.

But the only response I could give was silence.

"Growing up," sometimes that's very lonely.

Lonely enough that it has no additional part...

"Harp Command Center! Harp Command Center! Shanghai is under large-scale deep-sea monster attack, requesting orbital cannon cover! Repeat, requesting orbital cannon cover!"

"Africa has fallen!"

"Australia has fallen! South America has fallen! North America has fallen!"

"Today, on behalf of all surviving humans, I formally announce the establishment of the Human Revolution Alliance on the Eurasian Continent, while reorganizing the Artificial Intelligence Management Committee! The social operational system is fully transitioning to a wartime system!"

War has come.

But the truth will never be written in books...]

Meng Lang: "..."

Staring at the end of the book, he fell into a long silence.

Even though the appendix plainly stated "Jinghai Welfare Institute Special Action Strategy," he couldn't muster the motivation to read on.

Until a cell phone notification sound pulled him out of his inexplicable mood.

[Hello! I just received news that Mr. Hu will meet with me in Su City tomorrow, presumably to discuss cooperation. Any thoughts?] Gao Yuan's voice came over the phone.

"Thoughts... Hmm! I have some, since they're coming, let's execute plans 7, 8, and 9 in advance."

[Uh... isn't that a big step at once? Isn't it too radical? I always thought you were a conservative...]

Meng Lang sighed helplessly.

I am conservative, but this time the conservatives think the radicals are too conservative...

"Sigh! Can't be helped, gotta do something for the children..."

Gao Yuan: "???"

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