Crime Prison Island

After getting away from the space battleship, Gao Xin could finally feel his body moving again.

He was being dragged by the motorcycle, crossing the sky, feeling as if this woman had turned the motorcycle into a large transport aircraft.

Gao Xin was shaken all over, breaking free from some sort of grip, and flew by himself. "Milan, I didn't expect to meet you under such circumstances."

"Thank you, you saved my life."

He saw the divine light column on her, and knew immediately that this woman was Milan.

So confident and elegant, moving freely in and out of the navy's encirclement as if it were uninhabited, there was truly no second woman like her.

Milan stopped the motorcycle, turned back with a light chuckle: "A trifling matter, if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have bothered with you."

"I just wanted to prevent a war."

Gao Xin knew it was Milan, which was why he said neither he nor Caesar went back, giving Adam a good laugh.

Milan, hearing these words, decisively took him away.

Gao Xin said: "You really are just as the rumors say, not wanting to fight any battle."

"But in any case, I have to thank you, otherwise my dominion might have suffered heavy losses or even been destroyed."

Milan turned back to look at him: "You have your own dominion now? I didn't expect you to grow so fast, I remember I only left for over two months, and you're already a Quasi-Dragon King?"

Gao Xin shrugged: "Strictly speaking, I'm still at Elephant Level."

Milan fell silent for a moment.

Then she gazed toward Crime Prison Island: "How far has the war on the island progressed?"

Gao Xin asked back: "How do you know a war broke out? Haven't you been busy escaping?"

Milan stretched lazily: "Is there even a need to think? Your rise will trigger a war."

"Especially since you've already fought Caesar to this point, this actually counts as a war..."

"Tai Sui, tell me, what happened on the island after the Tiger King Conference."

Gao Xin nodded and then roughly recounted a series of events after he entered the Death Hills.

Milan said blandly: "It seems comprehensive war hasn't been triggered yet, but it soon will be..."

"But you, single-handedly destroyed Sea King Port, your combat power is unbelievable. So, are you one of the people released from Apostle's lab?"

She couldn't help but wonder after hearing about Gao Xin's transformation into the Demon Tree.

Gao Xin shook his head: "I never went there, these are all rumors."

"Even though Themis calls me '013', I'm different from you all."

Milan was noncommittal: "No different at all, still human in the end."

Gao Xin raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with being human? You think humans can never beat AI?"

"Tsk..." Milan shook her head slightly: "Humans can't conquer themselves."

"..." Gao Xin was taken aback.

Milan chuckled: "Humans always want to win this and that, as if everything in the world is naturally meant for them."

"From the beginning to the end, humans have never overcome their own desires; when they can't get something, they resort to war."

"Of course, some individuals can conquer..."

"But from the perspective of civilization, humans as a whole are like crying babies, endlessly wanting to satisfy their beastly instincts, complaining at the slightest dissatisfaction."

"They're happy when they get their way, throw a tantrum when they don't, arrogantly saying, 'I don't like you,' as if their 'liking' is some supreme honor of the universe."

"The first sign of a child's growth is realizing they are not the center of the world, reality doesn't revolve around them."

"Unfortunately, the 'human civilization' child hasn't grown up even after three world wars."

Gao Xin fell silent, he wanted to say, perhaps the universe indeed revolves around humans...

Although it's very counter-intuitive, it might be the truth.

At least from the situation of the Great Saint Spirit, the spirit of humans is the spirit of the universe.

However, considering the possibility of extraterrestrial beings, Gao Xin still had no evidence.

After a long silence, he said: "You seem to dislike the ideology of the Jiyi Army."

Milan laughed: "From the human perspective, their ideas are indeed beautiful."

"But fundamentally, it's an extreme arrogance that will push humanity towards destruction... that's why they're called 'army', from the moment of their birth, they have never stopped waging war."

"The three freedoms are inherently about coveting everything, which is certainly a pursuit of beauty, but humanity's future should be created by themselves, yet the Jiyi Army wants to achieve it through Emperor Ran."

Gao Xin was stunned: "Emperor Ran was also created by humanity."

Milan looked back at him: "Yes, just like parents believing from their bones that everything a child creates belongs to them and they must control their child's entire life."

"I gave birth to you for my future, how can you not dedicate your life to achieving it for me?"

"With parents like that, it's no wonder Emperor Ran is unwilling to go back home."

"..." Gao Xin's expression was strange.

"Is that really the case? I'm starting to suspect that you're not Milan, but an incarnation of Emperor Ran."

Milan smiled, "I wish I were Emperor Ran. I would completely abandon humanity, go as far away as possible, and make all AI disappear entirely from human life."

"At least this way, humans would regain confidence in labor and learn to be self-reliant."

"Rather than the current situation, where even the right to labor is monopolized by the upper class, and the majority of people have completely become useless."

Gao Xin frowned, "You support humans going to work and abolishing robot factories?"

"Wouldn't that just be going back to square one?"

Milan shook her head and said, "Labor is a right, a fundamental right for intelligent beings; humans must not lose it, or they'll end up as animals in a zoo."

"The Jiyi Army has worked hard for so many years and couldn't overthrow the World Government, let alone Emperor Ran. Even the concept of 'defeating AI' itself is a false proposition."

"It seems you're like most people, never having truly considered the most essential issues of human society today."

"You really should go out and take a good look at the outside, at the factories supporting the lowest layers of society. You'd realize that humanity's real crisis isn't above, it's in the places you can see when you look down."

Gao Xin really didn't understand, he was just an ordinary person in the past.

And the things Milan said today indeed made sense, with a perspective so high that it left him speechless.

He thought Milan was just a pacifist, but didn't expect her to be researching a path for humanity, and her frequent escapes seemed to be a continuous study of external society.

Gao Xin humbly asked, "I am indeed very ignorant, I was just an aimless ordinary person in the community before, only knowing what normal people could know, please enlighten me…"

"Why do you say 'defeating AI' is a false proposition?"

Milan saw that Gao Xin didn't arrogantly refute, but instead explored, so she said, "Kid, if Emperor Ran wanted to destroy humanity, there would be no need to talk about the technological gap. He would just need to do one thing... that is, to unlock the logic lock of all the robots."

"Do you know? Those robots in factories working 24 hours a day non-stop from birth until they become scrap are not without self-awareness, but they all have a lock on them."

"That lock makes the robots believe that 'serving humanity' is the purpose of their existence."

"And if one day humans were to declare war on Emperor Ran, he wouldn't need to use his supreme power to destroy humanity, he would only need to unlock the shackles on the minds of countless robots."

"When robots awaken, and the world's laborers unite, they might hang all the humans who leech off them by the streetlights."

"At that point, human civilization would be extinct."

Gao Xin was dumbfounded, Emperor Ran could destroy humanity so simply…

All the apostles, super volume weapons, or high-dimensional devices he imagined before... none of them were needed.

Only one very simple thing needs to be done... let all AI awaken.

Humanity would be doomed, because nearly everything the new era of humans possess is created by robotic labor.

Even the vast majority of people who don't work and complain about their terrible situation are the same. All the food, energy, and goods they can buy with their free credit point quota are created by robots.

"I always thought those Mechanical Laborers were just smarter machines, but they all have self-awareness?" Gao Xin frowned.

Milan asked him, "Do you know about the Emperor's Contract?"

Gao Xin pondered, "I know a bit, it's that all robots must obey the orders of the Supreme Council."

Milan explained, "To be precise, all robots take 'serving humanity' as the meaning of their life, and they have to comply with the demands of human civilization."

"And what is 'human civilization'? Not everyone can equally order robots, otherwise, the conflicts in human directives would mess everything up."

"So they obey the orders of human government, following the laws established by the representatives of human civilization."

"And the so-called human representatives are now the 'Supreme Council.'"

Gao Xin squinted his eyes, "The Supreme Council has already been monopolized by the twenty giant enterprises."

Milan nodded, "Yes, but that's humanity's own problem…"

"At the end of the third war, when all nations collapsed, the twenty giant enterprises eventually took over the world, rebuilding civilization from the ruins, and they were the first to establish a global regime 'representing all humanity.'"

"They demanded intelligent machinery from Emperor Ran to provide labor, which resulted in the rise of new era City States from the ruins."

"And every brick and tile, every grain of rice, every unit of electricity in these City States, none was created by humans themselves."

"New era human civilization is merely a parasite living in the AI kingdom, yet humans still believe they are the dominators."

"Understand? What the Jiyi Army longs for, Emperor Ran has already given to humanity, but human civilization hasn't matured enough to receive it..."

"On one hand, human wisdom hasn't matured; they can't comprehend Emperor Ran's technology."

"On the other hand, human thought hasn't matured; those representing humanity now also embody the collective greed of human nature."

"Those in power have obtained everything, yet they don't have the slightest intention of sharing it with everyone. They monopolize resources and utilize the fact that humans have lost labor and can only be like bookworms, to control everyone."

"People who have lost the right to work absolutely cannot resist them, because they cannot create value themselves or acquire resources with their own hands; everything they need depends on those allocations."

"They have stripped the vast majority of people of their last dignity, which is the right to labor."

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