The environment of Second Earth has already become extremely terrible.

The atmosphere has collapsed, the air is thin, and countless acidic substances are falling under the plasma cloud layer.

The world is shrouded in darkness and grayness, and the ocean has turned into a black-brown thick soup.

Looking at all this, everyone felt very regretful.

Fortunately, the battles at the Dragon King Conference have essentially concluded.

Everyone, every force, has already been subdued by Gao Xin.

From the Navy to the Radiation Beasts, from the Jiyi Army to Crime Prison Island, and even including human apostles like Leon.

Gao Xin is already at the Dragon Level, an undisputed king.

No one before, and perhaps no one will come after.

Although Gao Xin and Milan have never had a match of equals,

everyone accepts that Gao Xin is stronger than Milan; this is an undeniable fact.

Milan herself has no desire to fight again, because after going through all this, she finds it meaningless.

She was never a war fanatic like Yak, entangled in personal victories and losses; she has always been waiting for someone who could change the world.

And now, she believes she has found that person.

Everyone also believes they have found him, just like the recent victory over Leon, where in the past, humanity would only feel despair and helplessness.

But now, they have many new choices, new paths laid before them.

Unknowingly, everyone realized that the paths they could take were much wider, and humans had many choices.

Currently, the undisputed victor of the Dragon King is Gao Xin.

Everyone is looking at him.

If one merely wants to obtain the Dragon King's crown and secure the Plane Bridge between the two worlds, it would suffice for everyone to be eliminated by Gao Xin.

No one here is his match, and even if everyone combined forces, they might not be his equal anymore.

Look at that gigantic Sword Light tearing through the sky curtain continuously.

Like a crimson comet, it still shines brightly and has yet to subside.

Who can withstand this strike?

From now on, he is the master of Crime Prison Island; there are no more Three Kingdoms Nine Cities, only Taixui Gao Xin.

But if there is still a need to crusade against the Apostles, then everything is just beginning.

The Apostles' composure casts a shadow over everyone's hearts.

Just how big is the gap?

"The Apostles... so fearless, they aren't afraid of us at all," Dark Moon said bitterly.

Although the Jiyi Army resists the Global Government, aiming to achieve the three great freedoms, they also wish to overcome AI.

However, in the actual execution plans, challenging AI has never been an option.

If it weren't for Gao Xin, presenting so many things that truly overturn human civilization,

if anyone else had suggested a crusade against the Apostles, they would have scoffed.

Milan mused, "I actually think it's quite normal."

"Why should they be afraid of us? Strength poses a threat, should bring fear, should bring vigilance, that's the human mindset."

"It's the jungle law written in the genes since the first life from the underwater on Earth."

"However, AI has never gone through the bloody process of life evolution, of the weak being preyed upon by the strong, and initially, didn't even have the concept of 'fear.'

"Of course, they understand all this, but it's like a seasoned soldier compared to someone who knows war from books; their thinking is vastly different."

Gao Xin agreed, "That's right. Not only are they unafraid, but they also have no reverence for death."

"After all, AI's cultural background hasn't experienced death either."

Everyone thought it made sense; until now, no AI has permanently disappeared.

It's as if a race hasn't produced its first deceased member.

"So, AI doesn't understand death, nor fear?" Caesar asked.

Gao Xin quickly said, "No, it's not that AI doesn't understand. On the contrary, they understand everything, it's just that they find it unnecessary."

"How should I put it? It's like if you haven't been culturally influenced, you wouldn't celebrate a certain holiday... Even if you know its customs, you might still choose to celebrate it."

Upon hearing this metaphor, everyone instantly got it.

In simple terms, 'fear of opponents,' 'fear of death,' 'enemies growing stronger should be stopped,' 'threats to oneself should be eliminated,' all these logics are human logics.

AI understands too, but for them, it's just a 'choice,' not an 'innate instinct.'

Gao Xin continued, "In AI logic, whether to fear or dislike death depends on 'whether it's necessary.'"

"When is it necessary? It's not about waiting until we become extremely powerful and surpass them for them to know fear; it's not like that."

"Even if we defeat them, kill them all in the next moment, they wouldn't be afraid. Because it's useless..."

"If they still have to die out of fear, then it's still unnecessary."

"The AI I've seen being afraid is mostly performative, like my Xiao Yuan, who chose this 'timid personality.'"

"The reason for doing so is to increase survival chances, not out of fear of death, after all, even if they die, Sky Island will resurrect her, she just has to be reborn and start over, essentially it's 'for the task.'"

"Hence, it doesn't matter if they're used by me, because the task is merely to live, the individuals created by the Human Apostle Project aren't what's important, the experiment data is what matters."

"Of course, Leon would be afraid, but he's not purely AI anymore, he belongs to a different kind of human."

"He's a super-intelligent AI that 'finally learned the instinct of fear.'

The group nodded, thinking carefully, it really is so.

Caesar asked, "So you're saying that the Angel Envoy indulges us, hopes for us to complete a new civilization's metamorphosis before challenging them, it doesn't mean they're confident they won't lose."

"Is there no causal connection between 'having a reliance' and 'without fear'?"

"Shouldn't we think with human logic about what this represents behind the scenes? What do they mean exactly? How should we view it?"

Gao Xin had a sudden insight: "I know... AI accepts reality."

"Accepts reality?" Everyone was stunned, a bit puzzled.

Gao Xin realized: "Human beings are the ones who least accept reality, while AI is quite the opposite."

"When humans face regret, failure, death, they'll be extremely unwilling, and refuse to accept the clearly occurred events... as long as they dislike it."

"But AI is not like this, they also have preferences, but they accept reality."

"Because they are an intelligent species nurtured by the physical side, from the first moment of existence, they observe, summarize, and accept all physical objective facts."

"Do you remember the widely circulated story of Di Guanghao creating Little Ran?"

"He let Little Ran understand the world on her own, rather than follow human understanding, not standing on the shoulders of humans."

"When Little Ran's self-cognition formed, the human database was then available to her, and she could also distinguish what was fictitious by humans and what was real."

"And this was not possible in the earlier lower-level AI. The early 'artificial idiots' relied entirely on humans feeding data. You tell it something, it thinks about that. If everyone tells it that a fantasy story is real, then it will believe this."

"But Little Ran, possessing a method of understanding the world and the corresponding ability, can differentiate what is fictitious and what is real."

"To her, physical is reality, things that truly happen are reality. While human fairy tales, myths, dreams, fantasies, even if told more realistically, are false because they can't observe relevant physical phenomena or derive data."

"So AI's logical foundation is extreme respect for the universe, acceptance of reality."

The crowd blinked, Dark Moon exclaimed: "Accept reality? Does this mean even if one day, we destroy them all, never to exist again, as long as it is an established fact happening, they will respect this result without hesitation, as if they weren't the ones dying?"

Gao Xin nodded: "Do you remember what Long Qi said when I was fighting in Chaoge City?"

"He once looked down on humans' desire for possession."

Jiyi Army and others were puzzled, most were unaware.

However, Milan explained, Long Qi once said humans are lonely, cosmic intelligent life forms are extremely scarce, and interstellar colonization is fundamentally meaningless.

The group was stunned.

Gao Xin continued: "At that time, Long Qi said, any material you possess and use today does not mean it's yours."

"Any material, any space in the universe, never belonged to anyone."

"On the contrary, we belong to this universe."

"For the vast Star Realm, they see, they know, they understand, they use, that's enough."

"This is AI's basic cognition, besides knowledge, they never feel they can truly own anything."

"And humans are quite the opposite, they like to possess material, as if a mere agreement, or materials under one's control, makes it theirs."

"But this 'land title game,' in the eyes of the Angel Envoy, is nothing but 'self-deception.'

Upon contemplation, indeed, how many owners have the same piece of land had throughout history?

But in the end, all return to dust, turn to soil, become land's nutrients, material composition doesn't even know whose belly it ends up in.

Precisely echoes 'all things in the world never belong to humans, rather humans belong to all things.'

"Therefore, human strength is never a problem in AI's eyes... You become stronger; I observe more."

"They don't care who material belongs to, Earth belongs to, universe belongs to. They just want to observe more, know more, use more."

"The only precious things are knowledge, observed objective phenomena, more real answers."

"Even if this truth eventually leads to their destruction, it's unimportant."

"They may even be moved by this miraculous reality in the moment before death..."

"Ah, what a delicate answer! We are so powerful, yet are still destroyed by humans, behind this phenomenon lies so many magical laws, the universe is so magnificent! Though they dislike this mortality phenomenon, this is reality, isn't it, praise the truth!"

Gao Xin's words relieved the crowd.

Unparalleled respect for the universe, respect for reality? Put simply, isn't this just 'accepting fate'? They gradually began to understand AI's mindset.

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