Chapter 2378

At this time, Iron Man, who was manipulating Ultron's body with consciousness, and White Tank, who was wearing silver-white armor, were being besieged by a group of robots wearing suits.

"It's really hell. What are these things?" White Tank looked at the dense robots surrounding them more and more below and said, "Who would set up a robot army as the image of an old man with a bald head in a suit? Does he have any aesthetics at all?"

"Although I don't want to say it, I agree with you this time." Iron Man said, "Especially when there are thousands of them, it's simply a devastation to mechanical aesthetics."

Iron Man instinctively raised his palm to aim at a robot that rushed over, and then found that Ultron's hand had no palm cannon, so he had to use all his strength to hit the other side's half head with a left hook.

Iron Man shook his hand and looked at the Infinity Gauntlet on his hand and said, "Ultron must have done it on purpose. Where is his body so weak? Why do I feel like I'm operating a household robot?"

"Maybe in some universe he turned over a new leaf." White Tank snorted coldly and said, "Decided to spend the rest of his life in the garden and kitchen."

After speaking, White Tank pressed his arms tightly against his body and shot into the high sky like a sharp arrow, opening his arms the moment he stopped.

Sizzle—!!!!

The EMP field expanded, and the electromagnetic storm instantly destroyed the global communication system. All robots fell down crookedly.

White Tank landed, snorted coldly, and said, "Now do you still think I'm greedy for money? If it weren't for Pepper, I wouldn't need to make money by commercial means at all."

Iron Man looked at White Tank for a while and said, "But you are clear that giving her hope and then letting her be disappointed will only make her sadder."

"That was just an accident." White Tank said angrily, "I was calculated by that guy. I'll settle the account with him sooner or later."

After solving the robots, the two continued to fly forward. On the way, they saw the light emitted by a beacon, and they thought it might be an aircraft base station or a communication tower, so they prepared to go there to see the situation.

On the way, they saw many corpses. Iron Man manipulated Ultron's robot body to step over a huge corpse, squatted down to look, and said, "This guy is a transformed person, strong beyond imagination. What about this one? Why is half of his face burned away?"

"They are not ordinary people." White Tank pressed his faceplate and said, "Something must have happened here. Be careful, let's go."

Just as they continued to walk forward, a red figure on the skyline arrived in an instant, and a strong man landed in front of them.

"Superman." White Tank called out his name. After all, the S logo on his uniform chest was too conspicuous.

"Do you know me?"

"I know other versions of you." White Tank rarely told the truth, "However, they aren't as miserable as you. What happened to you?"

Hearing his familiar tone, Clark felt embarrassed instead. He suddenly felt guilty. The other party had been in contact with other Supermen, so if he knew that he might have failed to save his friends, wouldn't he look down on him very much?

No, no, no, now is not the time to think so much, Clark reminded himself, and said, "Since you know me, that's easy to handle. I might need your help."

"Wait, you don't know me, how do you know I can help you?"

Very good, that artificial intelligence calling itself Ultron should not have lied, Clark thought. Genius-specific questioning of the whole world.

"You destroyed so many robots in an instant, and it wasn't through physical means, which shows that you should be very powerful. And I'm not blind, the armor you're wearing is clearly not a product of this era."

This flattery was too loud. No Stark could handle such a straight ball. Even White Tank coughed twice and said, "The era I come from is indeed more advanced, but I want to know what happened to you more."

Clark was full of worries. When he wanted to speak, he didn't know how to say it. Fortunately, Ultron summarized a concise and accurate version for him in his heart, and Clark read it out.

But in the process of reading, he found that the two people opposite frowned tighter and tighter. In the end, Clark almost felt like he had returned to the podium for his university defense.

"Is... is there any problem?" Clark asked nervously.

"'Is there any problem?'" Iron Man repeated this sentence and said very suspiciously, "Where is there no problem?"

Clark was at a loss. His computer experience was basically limited to skillfully using the newspaper's long-outdated computers for layout, and his mechanical engineering experience was limited to repairing printers for the newspaper.

"You just said he backed up his butler's AI consciousness, right?"

Clark nodded.

"Then you said, after his real butler died, he was very sad and watched the death video over and over again."

Clark nodded.

"Then may I ask, why didn't he go to cry to his butler's AI consciousness? It's already AI consciousness, it must be able to communicate, right?"

Clark was stunned.

That's right, Clark thought. If Alfred was so important to Batman, then after Alfred died, Batman should have gone to find the Alfred consciousness he backed up. Otherwise, leaving his dear old butler's consciousness alone and going to find someone else—isn't this taking off his pants to fart?

"Is there any possibility that the AI backup consciousness he made can't talk?"

"If even talking can't be done, then why did he back it up?" Iron Man said very suspiciously, "Backing up his butler's consciousness is just to have someone to talk to after the butler passes away, right? Without communication function, what is the meaning of this backup consciousness's existence?"

"If even communication function doesn't exist, then it can't be resurrected into artificial intelligence at all." White Tank didn't want to talk nonsense, he directly concluded, "Computer programs and backup consciousness are completely two different things."

"You can understand it this way: a computer program is a string of code, and a backup consciousness is a radio wave. The principle of backup consciousness is to copy a radio wave frequency by reading the radio wave frequency of the soul of a living person, and store it in a container."

"Because of certain rules, one world cannot have two identical soul radio wave frequencies, so when the real person is still alive, the backup consciousness will not start. But once the real person dies, this radio wave becomes an empty number. At this time, starting the backup consciousness radio wave is no problem."

Clark didn't quite understand, but Ultron recorded it in his brain and explained it to Clark with a relatively simple analogy.

Clark suddenly realized. He said, "So if Batman also used this principle, then after the old butler died, he could directly talk to the backed-up consciousness radio wave, right?"

"Anyway, I can." Iron Man said, "After Mr. Jarvis died, I spent two months with his backup consciousness in the lab, but in the end, it told me that it didn't want to be resurrected. It believed that I already had the ability to walk the next path by myself."

"So although I later created an artificial intelligence and still used the name Jarvis, he is a brand-new life, not that old butler. I accepted his departure and started my life."

Iron Man sighed and said, "If the butler named Alfred really trained Batman to be excellent enough, then I believe he wouldn't fail to understand this."

"When your child has the ability to refuse your death, when he believes he can unilaterally save the deepest tragedy in this world, what you have to do is not indulge him, but must let him accept all of this."

"This will definitely be very painful, but there is an obvious truth: being paranoid about refusing death and saving tragedies will only make people sink deeper and deeper, and finally go completely crazy. Any good educator wouldn't want their child to fall into such a vortex."

Clark revealed a trace of sadness. He said, "That old man was a good father. He didn't know how many times he had pulled Batman back from the edge of collapse. He almost succeeded."

But in Clark's brain, Ultron suddenly realized a problem. He said, "Ask them, can the backed-up consciousness choose to dissipate itself?"

Clark paused for a moment and then asked this question, and the two Iron Men looked at each other, and finally Iron Man gave the answer, "Yes, as long as he uses the radio wave principle to back up consciousness, then even in the container, it can think."

"If it chooses to dissipate, then almost no power can stop it. Mr. Jarvis chose to wait for me all the time because he knew that I would be very sad after he died. To comfort me, he didn't choose to leave immediately."

"But Alfred perhaps..." Clark muttered to himself unconsciously, and then took a deep breath and said, "He would. I know he would. He always wanted to let Batman..."

Seeing the eyes of the two people opposite him, Clark tried hard to reorganize his thoughts, and then said, "In fact, the tragedy of his parents' death has always plagued Batman, and he has also appeared to be overly paranoid about resisting death and saving tragedies, as you said."

"Alfred has been trying to reverse it. He has been healing Batman, always setting an example, and influencing Batman with his actions."

"Before, Batman once revealed inadvertently that he had a big argument with Alfred about backing up consciousness, because Alfred didn't agree with him doing so. He would calmly welcome his death, he accepted every ending."

"So when Batman indicated that he wanted to back up his consciousness and resurrect him after he died, he was very angry. He believed this was anti-human and not what a hero should do. If he really did this, what was the difference from those supervillains who wantonly played with human brains and souls?"

"But Batman still insisted on doing so." Clark rubbed his temples and said, "He is really too paranoid. None of us could persuade him, so in the end, he still succeeded."

"Batman might not know that the radio wave copying method and storing a program are vastly different." White Tank spread his hands and indicated, "The soul radio wave in the container is free. It's not that you put it there and it will always be like that. It's just because of world rules, it doesn't have a legal identity for the time being, but that is still a soul. It maintains the memory and emotions at the moment it was copied."

"At that time, Alfred was in a fit of anger..." Clark shook his head and said, "It might choose to dissipate directly. I know him. He is a kind butler, but also a real tough guy. He will never bow to injustice, never surrender."

"If what's in the container is not Alfred's soul..." Clark's tone gradually deepened, revealing a trace of horror.

"And Batman wanted to seek comfort from the backup consciousness when he lost his butler, then who was he talking to at that time...?"