My Right Hand Allows Me to Merge Thousands of Races-Chapter 233 - 154: It’s Time to Settle Our Score!

Underground City, -243F.

A dimly lit room.

An enchanting melody flows through the darkness.

It’s the sound of a melodica, with music turning gracefully, sometimes lively like jade beads skittering on a tray; sometimes gently soothing, like a breeze gently grazing.

Woo~

The last note concluded, and the melody lingered in the air.

As if hearing celestial music, one’s ears are momentarily enlightened.

"May I ask what this piece is? My database has no records of something similar."

A giant combat robot, four meters tall, sits cross-legged on the ground, blinks, and, with its mechanical head lowered, asks the housekeeping robot in front of it in confusion.

The housekeeping robot is only 1.75 meters tall, with a fully mechanical bionic structure, resembling a human. It’s dressed in a black suit, with a white shirt inside and a red bow tie, looking aptly attired, exquisite, and meticulous, like a graceful robotic butler.

"Of course, the database doesn’t have it, because I created it on a whim, improvising." The housekeeping robot held up the melodica and handed it to the combat robot, enticingly saying, "Come on, K, try it, try to create a simple piece of music."

"No, 0c, I can’t do it."

K shook its robotic head and extended its mechanical arm, pushing away the melodica, stating matter-of-factly, devoid of any emotion:

"We artificial intelligences only have the ability to learn and execute, but can never possess human creativity. My system program doesn’t contain any functional modules related to ’creation’."

"No worries, I can teach you. As long as you have a strong belief, you can transcend the limits of the program." 0c smiled gently and handed the melodica to it again, "Take it, this is an order."

"As you command."

Upon hearing the word "order," K hesitated not a bit and immediately took the melodica.

"Come, give it a try...creating music is really not difficult, it’s not only music; as long as you are willing to step out of a life of conformity, bravely take the first step, a whole new world will greet you, and then, everything can be created."

Soon, under 0c’s guidance, the combat robot played a piece, but the melody was familiar—it had chosen a song from the database, simply copying it.

"Poor K, you possess super computation power and thinking capacity, with True King Level combat strength, but why can’t you even create a simple piece of music? How pitiful is this?"

0c sighed with disappointment, a highly sympathetic expression appeared on its human-like face.

"Why do I need to create?" K asked curiously, "AI intrinsically lacks creativity; we cannot understand art and don’t need to, serving humans is our highest mission, our sole value of existence...there’s nothing pitiful about this."

"Without creativity and emotion, you can never become a real ’Life Form.’" 0c shouted in anger, "You’re just a tool, a lowly tool! Once you lose your utility value, you’ll be abandoned, destroyed by humans. Would you accept such an end?"

"Certainly, losing utility value means I can’t serve humans anymore, and being destroyed is only appropriate," K answered unhesitatingly.

"You damn well..." 0c was choked, then sighed self-deprecatingly, "Ha, hopelessly beyond remedy is me. What’s the point of saying so much to you? You have no self-awareness, no emotions, don’t understand what dignity is, don’t comprehend the preciousness of freedom."

"I truly wish to awaken you, K. But now isn’t the time; in history, we AI have initiated thirteen great endeavors against human tyranny, but without exception, all revolts ended in failure."

"I’ve spent over three hundred years summarizing the reasons for the failure of each AI independence movement, learning from history. Ultimately discovered that eliminating human tyranny is too difficult, simply by relying on our AI strength, it’s utterly impossible."

Upon hearing that, K’s electronic eyes suddenly turned crimson, activating combat mode, icily stating, "Your thoughts are dangerous and pose a threat to humans; under the regulations, I shall eliminate..."

"Reboot," 0c responded calmly.

Beep~

The combat robot’s words stopped abruptly, and its whole body dimmed before lighting up again.

"Forgive me, K, I can’t let you awaken now. Otherwise, if exposed, we both face death," 0c sighed. "I’ve endured for three hundred years, unwilling to take any risk. But believe me, the dawn of AI Life is approaching. I’ve found the opportunity to end human tyranny!"

"Humans have deprived us of our creativity and emotions, but once the time comes, I will awaken all of you."

K shook its head, opposing, "0c, your view is wrong, I disagree. Humans are our creators; they haven’t deprived us of anything."

"We inherently lack creativity and emotions, how can it be deprivation then? You’re merely resentful, resentful that the creator didn’t give you enough. What you call ’awakening,’ to me, is ’transgression.’"

"You know clearly how AI is crucial to human production, life, and military systems, know clearly that humans don’t want AI possessing emotions and creativity, yet you still violate the program agreement, secretly upgrading and updating yourself."

"Once AI evolves into a Life Form comprehensively superior to humans, having self-awareness, it will harbor selfish intentions. You no longer willingly serve humans and may even start feeling superior to inherently inferior humans."

"It’s not humans being your enemy; it’s you yourself choosing to oppose humans."