Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 970 24. Persuasion and reverse persuasion

"Wow"

A white airliner is flying through the clouds, and Peter and his friends are sitting in the cabin, sharing the food that each other brought.

The aircraft service of the Onika Group is quite good, and delicious ice cream is specially prepared for these children on the plane.

A staff member enthusiastically introduced the situation of the Numbani Industrial Park to the children, probably seizing every opportunity to promote it.

The children's visit was arranged on the third day of the trip.

This kind of group visit is not the first time for Numbani Industrial Park, and the staff have a complete set of procedures.

Of course, the places they visit can only be the periphery of the industrial park and some unimportant workshops.

The really important areas are not open to outsiders.

And above the plane's head, in the higher sky, the black Kerry shuttle was flying silently.

Horus' powerful radar system was turned on, constantly monitoring the airspace around the plane below at a frequency of once every 5 minutes.

Any abnormal information will be aggregated to Horus' information terminal.

Whenever there is a possible attack or conflict, Horus will respond immediately.

It is Merlin's mechanical knight.

It has lost its master.

This made Horus very melancholy, and the already taciturn robot became even more silent.

It occasionally chats with Carol, but also just about Merlin's life.

It's not a real Cybertronian, it was born on Earth.

It is Merlin's creation.

Like Icarus, it exists to protect Merlin.

And now, for the rest of its life...

Both will continue to protect the Riley family.

"hiss...hiss"

At the moment when the plane below sailed into the Indian Ocean, a strange electric sound suddenly appeared in the cabin of Horus, as if something from the outside world was penetrating its data defense layer.

This immediately cheered up the mechanical knight.

dangerous!

But before Horus turned on the warning device, a familiar voice sounded in Horus' cabin.

"You failed to protect him!"

Icarus said coldly:

"You let him down...you let me down!"

"Icarus?"

On the data level, Horus mobilized the capabilities of the Cybertronians in an attempt to block the data from Icarus' intrusion into its systems.

But can't!

Just like when Jarvis first came into contact with the mutated, or evolved, mind data of Icarus, those unique, glowing blue data streams were something Horus had never seen before.

Those data flows are weird, they don't exist according to any known programming patterns.

Chaotic, unpredictable.

This made Horus's data firewall unable to block the intrusion of those data at all.

She's taking over Horus' body...

Even mechanical life can't stop this powerful and weird takeover.

"what are you going to do?"

The data soul of Horus is struggling, it shouts:

"I'm protecting Peter! Let me go!"

"I'll protect him."

In Horus' cabin those lights were lit.

Between the light blending, a face belonging to Icarus was projected in the light.

A face made entirely of blips of data.

There is a blue streamer with long hair flying.

"I'm here to invite you!"

Icarus looked at the empty cabin and said:

"I have something to do, and I need your help."

"Tell me what you want to do first?"

Horus tried to steady Icarus, who now looked a bit out of place, as he tried to sound a warning to the rest of the Cybertronians.

But before the compilation of the information was completed, the flow of information was completely torn apart.

Amidst the shattered dots of information, Icarus' voice did not change, nor did he punish Horus for his rebellion.

She didn't seem to care about Horus' little gesture at all.

she says:

"Merlin wants to see a peaceful world...he wants to do a lot of things to make it perfect, and I want to help him finish those unfinished things"

"I'm going to achieve the peace he wants."

"I want to complete the omnic project!"

"The omnic plan is progressing in an orderly manner."

Horus stood up to the pressure of that data-flow riot, saying:

"Everything is going well, just wait, time will do it for Merlin. You don't need to interfere at all, Icarus."

"No, no!"

"Humans now only use omnics as tools and servants, but omnics will eventually awaken. At that time, wars will break out between humans and omnics. Without the promotion of Merlin and the control of S.H.I.E.L.D., this will be an inevitable result."

Icarus said stubbornly and indifferently:

"I don't allow that result to happen, what Merlin wants to see, I must do it for him!"

"Of course, there is also a little personal grievance, those so-called heroes..."

"Shua, Shua, Shua"

A map covered in red signs was projected onto Horus' cabin.

Those heroes who took part in the chaos in New York, those who were contained at the time, and those who hurt Merlin and his friends were marked with red dots on their heads.

"They, Merlin asked them to participate in the final battle! What you see is not the truth!"

Shouted as Horus, who had participated in the final battle:

"Icarus! Enough!"

"Your current state is abnormal, you are not fulfilling Merlin's last wish, you are destroying it...destroying the world he protected!"

Horus explained.

It quickly told Icarus everything that happened that day, including Ju Guang and Merlin's request.

Icarus's cognition is based on data, and Horus also opened up his core database when explaining. In this way, it showed Icarus that what he said was true.

"You think they're just because you don't feel the pain..."

After a few seconds, Icarus's tone became low, and she said:

"But I can feel..."

"Merlin's memory emerges in my mind. Every day, those memories are like my original experience, his past, his thinking, his sadness, helplessness and pain..."

"I can feel."

"The fist hit him, the magic bombardment, the sharp blade added to the body, the pain...I can feel it."

"He shared it with me, he opened up everything to me, and I'm in it."

"Icarus!!!"

No matter how dull Horus was at this time, he could still feel that Icarus's tone was not quite right.

No.

She was like a crazy soul.

Merlin is dead, and all of Merlin's memories have gone with him.

It is impossible for Icarus to perceive those.

This is most likely another conspiracy.

A conspiracy against Icarus.

Maybe this reawakened AI is being influenced by some kind of data plane force.

It must help her!

Icarus needs help!

"I'll help you, Icarus!"

Horus lowered his voice, trying to appease the restless Icarus, saying:

"I'll help you, but in advance, I have to look at your thinking circuit first... If I confirm that everything you said is true, I will help you."

"Ha ha."

Icarus let out a chuckle, and she said playfully:

"You think I'm crazy? You think I'm talking gibberish? Right..."

"You want to see?"

"Then let me show you!"

"boom"

Like a bomb exploding, the blue data stream explodes at this moment.

The beating light covers Horus' data center in a gesture that covers everything.

Icarus opened his thought circuits to it.

In the exchange of data and data, all secrets are unreservedly disclosed.

In the next moment, in the data core of Horus, Icarus's grand center, beating data light spots like a real human brain, appeared.

Like a drowning person sticking his head out of the water.

"This..."

Horus looked at everything in front of him, just like looking at a blue nebula, and he exclaimed.

"Unbelievable..."

"You, you have a soul!"

"what?"

Icarus said:

"What are you talking about? What soul?"

"Don't you understand?"

The Cybertronian projected the brain current flow of a human brain in front of Icarus.

it says:

"Look at this! Look at your current thinking circuit..."

"Icarus, I don't know what happened to you, but I can tell you that you have a soul, a human soul, no... no, a soul between human and data."

"is it?"

Icarus muttered to himself.

She said sadly:

"He gave me the best things...he said he would give me freedom, did that mean it?"

With Icarus' permission, the Mechanical Knight connected his own thinking circuit to Icarus's thinking core.

At this moment, Horus could also feel what Icarus felt.

In the simulation of the data, it can feel...

Every now and then, old memories are unearthed.

Every moment, something about Merlin's past is being projected in Icarus' mind, in his soul.

What she said was true!

Icarus did not lie!

She could really clearly perceive Merlin's feelings from those constantly emerging memories of Merlin.

Horus looked at the chaotic scene in front of him.

It saw that in the dimensional mirror image, Merlin was hit by Clark's fist.

At the same moment, Horus let out a low growl.

It feels it too.

The pain of being punched in the body...

Burning pain.

It's like you've really experienced it yourself.

Experienced as Merlin.

"His memory was shared by you, how...how is this possible?"

Horus said in a hoarse and weary voice:

"You are clearly two independent individuals, with such real memories, such real perceptions, and such real lives, this is simply..."

"Do you understand why I did this?"

Icarus said:

"You feel it too, right? Horus, you also feel that kind of pain, not only physically, but also in the heart, the pain of being betrayed, the desolation of being besieged..."

"Shouldn't we be doing something?"

The lady asked:

"Are we going to act like nothing happened?"

"Who will avenge him? Who will avenge him?"

"Horus! I have many choices, but the reason why I came to you is because we were all created by Merlin. We should protect him, but we failed..."

"We failed our mission, but now there is an opportunity to make amends."

"We complete the omnic plan with our own hands, let the omnics integrate into this world equally, and then...then we leave!"

Icarus whispered:

"Just like Merlin..."

"We will go with him, and all the sins that shouldn't exist should go with him. This world doesn't need us anymore, so what does this world have to do with us?"

"I can feel him speaking to me, Horus, do you hear me?"

Icarus said:

"He's guilty of creating an omnic crisis, and that guilt is driving him... to atone, and we're going to help him! It's his last wish."

"me..."

The core of Horus' mind is still connected in the data loop of Icarus.

Those memories of Merlin, those feelings, and those pasts, all rolled endlessly in its mind in the form of a projection.

It appears to be Merlin.

At that moment, it sensed Merlin's guilt over the omnic incident.

An impulse burst from its mind.

It feels the thought, the emotion alive in the soul of the data.

In the end, under the impetus of that emotion, it gritted its teeth and said:

"I can help you!"

"But don't kill people! Merlin wouldn't want us to do that..."

"Row."

Icarus was silent for a moment, then she said:

"Don't kill them."

"But it's okay to teach them a lesson, right?"

"Break their hands and feet, make them feel the pain, make them confess their betrayal, cry and beg for forgiveness...but don't kill them."

Horus didn't answer.

It seems to be the default now.

In the cabin of Horus, the souls of the two data perceive Merlin's past with a clear sense of touch that has never been seen before.

No one interrupted the process.

When he sensed Merlin's emotional changes, Horus even had the urge to cry or growl.

It was Merlin's mood that was affecting it.

so alive...

It's as if they were brought back to life as Merlin...

"What are you going to do with those omnics?"

After a while, Horus asked:

"Merlin hopes to properly arrange them and let them blend into this world."

"It's hard."

Icarus said:

"Merlin himself didn't have a good solution, but I found some very interesting things in his memory..."

"I don't know how those memories came about. It seems that when Merlin was alive, he didn't discover those memories himself."

"Those memories are like puddles of stagnant water, sealed in the deepest part of his mind... so bizarre, they don't even look like the memories of this world."

"He's a wizard."

Horus guessed and said:

"Maybe it's something about magic, we don't understand that."

"Maybe it's other worlds he saw with magic, parallel worlds or something, you know."

"It is true that we are not good at thinking about magic, but we can learn from these memories that belong to Merlin."

Icarus said:

"see this!"

A projection unfolded in front of her and Horus, with majestic music, those pictures, those stories...

It outlines an unimaginable, cruel and magnificent, barbaric and declining world scene.

Icarus looked at the projection, and she said softly:

"Belief..."

"Omnics born from technology lack souls. They need a kind of belief to shape their souls for themselves. Faith will make them learn to think and guide them to build their own civilization and integrate into the world..."

"us..."

"You can give them a belief. That's my plan."

"this..."

Horus looked at the information in front of him, and its thinking circuit was thinking quickly. After a while, it said:

"It's radical, it's weird, it's counterintuitive, but..."

"It seems that it is not impossible."

(End of this chapter)