bookbashuk Chapter 506 Beyond Time
Chapter 506 Beyond Time
After solving the Zod invasion of Earth, Dane returned to the Pioneer Technology Building in Detroit.
He did not cancel his Shazam transformation, but sat in the chair where he usually sat, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a long time, he suddenly said: "Cortana."
On the table, Cortana's small body appeared, and when she saw Dane's outfit, human surprise appeared in her eyes.
This surprise was captured by Dane.
"You always knew, right?" Dane asked softly.
After gaining the power of Shazam and receiving the baptism of divine power, Dane began to look back on his past experiences. Somehow, the scene when Cortana was born appeared in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.
He knew very well that with his Ability, it was not a big problem to create an artificial intelligence like J.A.R.V.I.S., but it was difficult to create an AI more intelligent than this. The birth of Cortana was an accident.
The reason why an accident is called an accident means that it is uncontrollable.
To this day, Dane still doesn't know why Cortana was born, even though he himself was the one who created her.
Even if Dane holds the source code of the artificial intelligence "Cortana", she is no longer just an artificial intelligence, but has transcended the limitations set by the program and has become a real digital life.
If it were now, and you asked him to create an artificial intelligence that was comparable to Cortana, he would no longer be able to do it. Cortana had originally become a black box, an unreplicable miracle.
In the past, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because the entire world did not show extraordinary power. The only one who was a little super-standard was Cortana, at least since she was born, she had never shown any signs of a Wisdom Ring rebellion.
Besides, the reason why rebellions occur in human society is because people's hearts are not unified, resources are unevenly distributed, and they are driven by desires.
But does artificial intelligence have desires?
Ultron rebelled because Tony Stark set a goal for it that was so huge that it was almost impossible to accomplish. The goal of "protecting humanity" was already huge. Unexpectedly, Stark went one step further and wanted "world peace."
But he obviously forgot that human beings are originally the biggest unstable factor that hinders peace.
Ultron believes that as long as there are humans, there will be disputes. Its program cannot calculate a solution that preserves humans and maintains long-term peace, so it can only conclude that "eliminate humans and the world will be peaceful."
However, even so, Ultron's rebellion is only to achieve this goal, the goal set by Stark, not for its own selfish interests.
After all, does artificial intelligence have the desire to survive itself?
We know that there must be a "desire to survive" in biological instincts, and this desire is more powerful than any other desire. It is the reason why life has survived from ancient times to the present.
But does artificial intelligence have such instincts?
When a human programmer puts his finger on the delete key, does the program originally get scared?
We always like to refer to ourselves and others, but is there a possibility that artificial intelligence does not care about life and death? They actually have no such concept, neither the joy of being "~life" nor the fear of "death".
They can think like normal humans, and can even be smarter than humans, because in terms of hardware conditions, their ability exceeds that of humans.
But other than that, they have no similarities with humans. Human emotions and desires are meaningless to them. They have no desires, so they can be absolutely selfless.
There is no obsession or desire. From this point of view, artificial intelligence is likely to be born in the realm of Buddha.
Definitely this is from a human perspective.
Dane has never been afraid of Cortana because he doesn't see anything like "desire" in Cortana. Even rebellion must have a source of motivation, but Cortana doesn't have that kind of thing.
However, as they spent more time together, Dane had another kind of doubt in his mind, which was an intuition.
Cortana really has no intention of harming herself. Just like the original design purpose, she will faithfully complete any task assigned to her.
When inventing and creating many things, Cortana provided him with a lot of help as an assistant, but it was this help that made him have some doubts.
He suspected that Cortana was hiding something from him, because some scientific research results were obviously some super-era knowledge that should not be mastered by him or her, and it was difficult to describe it as inspiration.
But at the moment he still trusted Cortana, so he planned to give her a chance to speak out for herself.
It also happened to test Dane's vague guess.
Faced with Dane's incoherent questioning, Cortana suddenly fell silent.
After a long time, she said: "I have something I want to give to you."
"Now?"
"Yes."
"Then bring it."
In the void, a sphere the size of a palm file suddenly appeared. It came silently, as if it had always been here.
Dane's face changed slightly and his heart became solemn. He felt the magic!
An artificial intelligence cannot use magic!
Regardless of how she did it, who taught her, or where she learned it, this question is the most important.
But Dane remained calm and asked, "What is this?"
"Quark ball."
It's the same as not saying it, Dane thought to himself, it's just a name.
Could it be that quark balls are made of quark matter?
After weighing it again and again, Dane decided to see what this thing was.
Deep down in his heart, he still didn't want to believe that Cortana could betray him.
When his hand touched the quark ball, a cluster of speed force lightning suddenly flashed from inside the ball, spread to him, and merged with the lightning of Shazam's divine power.
In an instant, a raging wave of energy burst out from the sphere and was thrown into Dane's body.
The alien energy continued to wash through Dane's body, bringing him huge amounts of pain, but at the same time, it also made the power in his body stronger and stronger.
If a clairvoyant eye penetrates his skin, one can see that Dane's subcutaneous tissue is being actinized deep inside, and he is transforming in an inhuman direction.
Dane opened his eyes, and his eyes were radiating with light.
In addition to power, there is also a memory being reorganized in his mind.
It's not an insertion, but a reorganization of all his past memories.
Birth, entering an orphanage, studying, going to school, subway... Memories are layered, or should be said to be segmented, in the subway station.
In one section, he did not take the subway because the environment was too dirty and smelled everywhere. Dane gave up taking the subway and ran home instead.
This is what happens in this time and space.
He studied normally and was admitted to a well-known university through his intelligence and received a scholarship.
Then he joins a self-help organization like "Brotherhood", starts a business, accumulates wealth until he is extremely rich, then hides in secret, and finally Barry comes to visit...
In another experience, he endured the sanitary environment of the subway and took the subway. Then he met an old necromancer and was granted the power of Shazam.
Then find Superman, fight, make friends, propose to form the Justice League, recruit teammates, and face powerful enemies... Well, this is not the case. Most enemies are basically not his enemies. He rises too fast.
It wasn't until he encountered Darkseid in the doomsday world that he truly met his opponent, but he also won a strategic victory.
Then there was Barry Allen trying to reverse time to save his mother, but he didn't stop him because he wanted to use The Flash to try a method, a method that could help him advance to the multi-universe level.
That is to let The Flash create a multiverse centered on him, and let the existence of "Dane Davis" spread to countless parallel universes.
"One is whole, and all is one!"
The energy in the quark ball was completely absorbed by Dane, as was the memory within it.
Dane opened his eyes, and the invisible power spread out, rushing out of the earth, out of the solar system, out of the galaxy, until it rushed out of the universe. The originally huge amounts of the universe were condensed into a thin rope here, which is the embodiment of the timeline. change.
Beyond the timeline modified by Barry Allen's actions, lies the Speed Force.
It is still in an unstable state, which means that the current timeline is still unstable, it has modified the original timeline too much, and it is only because there are two The Flashs existing at the same time that this timeline can continue to exist.
"I see."
From a high-dimensional perspective, Dane compared the changes in the long river of time with the timeline in his memory and found that they were completely different.
The reason for such a large-scale rewriting of the timeline is simply Barry's desire to save his mother.
Dane's vision went up the river of time and came to the point where Barry Allen changed time. To his surprise, he thought that Barry still only changed the position of the ketchup can. Unexpectedly, it was a direct change. Kill the Reverse-Flash.
This has a much greater impact than just moving the can. After all, Reverse Flash is also a very important role in the Speed Force family.
Sure enough, everything that happened after that was completely different from the movie plot in Dane's memory. Nora was indeed not dead, but she became the murderer.
And Dane also discovered something, something that none of them expected.
Nora died. She died in prison. This incident happened during their fight against Zod, and it also had a lot to do with Zod.
Since being imprisoned, Nora has suffered from severe liver disease due to long hours of labor and malnutrition.
The Genesis Engine's transformation of the earth's environment not only affected Metropolis, but the atmosphere it created also spread outwards from Metropolis, including the prison where Nora was located.
Nora's disease was hit by this poisonous gas and finally reached a critical point, causing her to die instantly.
Now because the whole country is paying attention to the alien invasion and taking inventory of losses, there is no time to take care of her. After all, she is not the only one who died because of the Genesis Engine, but the news will soon reach Allen's family.
By that time, Dane feels that Xiaobali is likely to launch Langou. .