Arcane Lord

"you?"

Rodas did not recognize Shado. He was shocked by the loss of his spiritual power. When he saw Shado appearing, his first reaction was the same as that of Sirke. He subconsciously asked Shado about his identity and a series of questions - —

"Who are you? How do you know my name? And what methods did you use? Why can't I feel my mental world?"

Since he was in a consciousness cage and faced with a copy of consciousness that could be said to be fundamentally non-existent, Shado was much more relaxed. He directly told Rodas his identity and purpose:

"I am Shado, the destroyer of Toxent. I want to know why you guys came to the Northland? Is it to track down the treasure stolen by Kalish, or for some other purpose? Why did you invade the computing power pool? "

"Xia Duo? Are you from the Northland Alliance?"

Rodas's shocked eyes were full of disbelief. At the same time, he seemed to realize something and stopped talking for a moment. Sha Duo did not take it seriously when he witnessed it, but continued to introduce the current situation to the other party:

"Do you know why you lost your psychic powers? Because you are not the real Rodas now, you are just a copy of consciousness created by me! And I can make as many copies of you as I want! "

Creating copies of consciousness will also cause certain damage to the target's original consciousness. Especially when the target is still in a state of confinement and cannot recover on its own, the number of copies produced is actually limited.

But for the copy of consciousness, there is actually no essential difference between the finite and the infinite, because there is only one of himself.

"Impossible! How could you copy my consciousness? I can clearly confirm the existence of myself. My mind is unique. I am Rodas, not a copy of my consciousness!"

Suddenly hearing that he was a replica, Rodas' first reaction was of course disbelief. The so-called self-confirmation only meant confirming the existence of self-awareness and independent personality, but this was not the criterion for determining a replica.

Since he lost his spiritual energy, the biggest guard of honor, Rodas could not use other means to confirm this. However, since he lost his spiritual energy and Sha Duo appeared here, he had a vague premonition in his heart.

But it is definitely impossible for him to admit that he is just a copy created by the other party.

Shado did not respond to Rodas' denial, but continued to ask him, "What is the purpose of your coming to Northland? What is the relationship between Kalish and the Anti School?"

Unfortunately, Rodas was still in a state of shock and disbelief. Faced with Sha Duo's repeated questioning, Rodas did not give any positive answer, or even did not answer at all.

Xia Duo is not in a hurry about this. The time flow rate in this virtual scene is much higher than that in the real world. He has plenty of time to wait for the other party to speak, and while waiting, he also reopened a brand new copy——

Unlike the previous third laboratory where the consciousness copies of Psycho and Barry were placed in the same scene, he now unified the consciousness copies of Rodas in a single scene, and would show up every time to ask.

He feels that there is a relatively stable or fixed pattern in how people react to something, but just as there are countless possibilities in the future, people's responses to the same thing and the same problem may also be diverse.

Xia Duo doesn't expect to ask what he wants directly from the other party, but he can achieve his goal by piecing together.

Just like on earth, users can ask AI to say things that are not allowed to say through side questioning or elimination.

Human beings' defensive psychology is definitely not comparable to that of AI. After all, AI does not have real intelligence. Everything is a response strategy set by engineers in advance, so it is not surprising that there are loopholes.

However, because humans are not machines, in areas that are not fortified in advance, vulnerabilities are more likely to leak than machines.

So usually only humans will slip up, but machines will not have such a situation. If they slip up, it can only be because of a loophole.

So what Sha Duo needs to do most now is to get Rodas to speak and make the other party willing to communicate. Only in this way will the other party reveal more and more of his secrets, until he finally breaks through his defenses and displays his secrets.

It was actually very easy to get Rodas to speak. Xia Duo didn't even try a few times before the other party couldn't help it: "How do you know so many things about me? Have you investigated me in advance?"

"Do you think it's possible? Of course your other copies told me!"

Sha Duo is not lying, because this is indeed what he obtained by analyzing Rodas's consciousness before, but those so-called "other copies" have long been scrapped during the analysis process.

The few new dialogue copies he has now opened do not reveal any information about himself, but Shado can say that they did, thus creating a situation similar to the Prisoner's Dilemma.

And these copies of Rodas' consciousness are also Shado's prisoners.

Xia Duo's look of "Don't tell me you have other copies" made Rodas feel resentful, but he still had to keep calm on his face and even managed to show a trace of the demeanor and majesty of a psychic master. He told Chateau:

"It's useless for you to be like this. I know myself. There are some secrets that I won't reveal to you even if I die!"

"Really? For example, the Anti School took the artifact away from the main city some time ago. Is this a secret that cannot be revealed?"

"..."

Rodas was silent again, because this was indeed one of the secrets that he did not want to reveal, because the school took the artifact away from the main city to conduct a crucial experiment. Once successful, it might be able to change the past situation in which the two school factions took turns in power. , but how could he say such a thing! If it is revealed to the Zeqi School, it will be a disaster for the Anti School.

Even in the previous Toxent incident, an artifact controlled by the Zeqi School was destroyed by Shado along with the main city, but so far, the number of artifacts controlled by the Zeqi School is still greater than that of the Anti School.

The number of artifacts does not actually represent the strength of the power. The artifacts themselves have extremely strong beyond-limit power. One or two more artifacts cannot change anything, but people are different.

The more artifacts you master, the more psychic mages you have to establish contact with those artifacts. This is the key to the competition between the two schools and the key to giving full play to the power of the artifacts.

At present, the Anti School is inferior to the Zeqi School.

…

After a long silence, Rodas finally took the initiative to speak, "What else did those "I" say? "

"It doesn't matter what they said, what matters is what you are willing to say!" No matter whether other copies confessed or not, Sha Duo would never have told Rodas, and if it wasn't for Rodas to speak, he wouldn't even have the slightest bit of information. Will not disclose.

Rodas himself can actually figure this out. His current situation is actually very bad. No matter whether what Xia Duo said about creating a copy of consciousness is true or false, it is impossible for him to gamble. Once the bet loses, then he will really It's a worthless copy.

But it would be impossible for him to betray the school like this. ()