V2/Chapter 38: You also have three laws, right?
Fire Moth Atla Branch, Third Science Department, Seventh Laboratory.
This is a rather messy laboratory, with a large amount of discarded materials and parts placed randomly, and countless crumpled waste papers and documents scattered on the ground, making people wonder what kind of sloppy person the owner of this laboratory must be.
In fact, the owner of this laboratory is indeed a bit... unkempt.
"Hmm... Is this the 137th or 138th experiment?"
In front of the laboratory table, a woman repeatedly checked the program on the computer, trying to find some room for improvement.
She looked to be in her twenties, but her face was haggard, with a head of messy hair with a few strands of red highlights, and she was wearing a wrinkled and dirty white coat. She didn't look like a genius scholar from the Third Science Department at all, but rather like a mad scientist from some entertainment work.
Opposite her was probably the only clean and tidy place in the entire laboratory—it was a large equipment platform, on top of which was a humanoid robot that looked only eighty centimeters tall and was designed to imitate humans.
She has long golden hair and a pair of triangular devices like ears on her head. Her torso and limbs are covered with armor and she looks like she was designed for combat.
However, her diminutive height and head that seemed almost as big as her torso made her look like an exquisite toy doll, more suitable to be held in the arms of a child than to go to the battlefield.
This is the "Armed Doll," an autonomous war weapon used to assist humans in fighting the Honkai and thus reduce human casualties.
As the person in charge of the "Armed Doll" project, even when her assistant went to attend the much-anticipated science and technology exchange meeting, she still stayed at her post and carried out the project's experiments.
Today's armed dolls are almost successful, but there are still some problems with the self-regulatory logic of AI. Before this problem is solved, Einstein has no intention of paying attention to any scientific and technological exchange meetings.
Although, although she heard that even the legendary Dr. Ai Yue will attend this exchange meeting... 'Damn, I still really want to go!'
Einstein pushed up her red-framed glasses, a trace of struggle in her eyes.
(TL: Huh? Einstein not Tesla?)
Dr. Ai Yue is a super genius who suddenly appeared more than half a year ago and then streaked across the night sky like a meteor, shocking everyone.
As an internal member of the Fire Moth, although Einstein was tens of thousands of miles away from the Fire Moth headquarters, the news about Dr. Ai Yue still reached her ears through the internal network.
It is said that the opponent not only invented the Honkai Energy Adsorption Device but also optimized the Fusion Warrior Formula, greatly increasing the success rate. He even solved the problem of artificial synthesis of Honkai Disease Serum. The most outrageous thing is that it is said that the Eighth Herrscher was solved by the opponent himself. Even Kevin and other Fusion Warriors were just supporting roles in this war.
Of course, even without the news, Einstein could understand how powerful Dr. Ai Yue was. After all, the prototype armed doll in front of her could truly achieve the effect they wanted, relying on the first generation of Soulium invented by the other party.
'If I could see such a brilliant person in person and have a conversation with him... no, even if I could only say a few words to him, I would probably benefit a lot, right?'
But in the end, this slight hesitation turned into determination.
The armed doll plan has reached the most critical moment, so she naturally has to hurry up to complete it as soon as possible and put it into mass production. After all, the confrontation between humans and Honkai is becoming more and more intense, and Honkai disasters are occurring every day. The earlier the armed dolls can be put into the battlefield, the less human sacrifices can be made.
After Einstein checked the program and pressed the start button, the armed doll that received the command finally slowly opened its eyes: [Armed doll system activated, initializing——]
Soon, the eyes of the armed doll lit up, and then slowly aimed at Einstein, who was standing not far away: "The target has been locked, and the identity has been confirmed to be... a human, a friendly unit."
Under Einstein's nervous gaze, the doll slowly floated up and flew in front of her: "Human, what do you need?"
Einstein glanced at the computer screen and then said, "Armed doll, please state your 'rule of behavior.'"
The law of behavior is the basic logic that must be followed by the AI that controls the armed dolls and is also the restriction and requirement that Einstein places on the armed dolls.
"First, be the enemy of Honkai. Second, do not harm humans." The armed dolls repeated mechanically. "Third, survive."
The success rate... at least for now.
"Very good, next..." Einstein tapped the keyboard, "Link to the data space and conduct a simulated battle."
The data space is a special local area network designed by Einstein for combat simulations. It stores a large amount of data on Honkai beasts, as well as humans' previous experience in fighting Honkai beasts. It is a place to test whether the performance of armed dolls is competent for battlefield duties.
The armed doll quickly returned to the device platform and connected its own AI to the data space via wired transmission. Soon, the figure of the armed doll appeared on Einstein's display screen.
The next second, a team consisting of five tank-level Honkai beasts and ten assault-level Honkai beasts appeared opposite the armed dolls.
"The target has been locked, and its identity has been confirmed to be... a Honkai beast, a hostile unit." The voice of the armed doll came, "Equipment has been activated, ready to engage the enemy."
Einstein nervously watched everything that happened in the data space—the Honkai beast that the armed doll was facing was just slightly stronger than her in overall strength and was an enemy that the armed doll could not defeat using conventional tactics.
To defeat them, you either have to sacrifice yourself or use targeted tactics.
In the experiments before this, each time the armed doll rushed forward head-on, and after running out of ammunition and food, it would die together with the remaining Honkai beasts by self-destructing its core. This method of fighting is obviously not suitable for actual combat. After all, the armed doll is not a disposable prop and cannot be consumed at will.
That's why Einstein added the "survival" behavioral rules to the armed doll in the end, in an attempt to allow her to fight while keeping her life.
And this time, the armed doll finally did not let her down. After comparing the combat power gap between the two sides, the armed doll first searched for a while, and then decisively widened the distance, allowing the agile and fast-moving Chariot-class Honkai Beast to be disconnected from the Templar-class Honkai Beast. Then, using its own advantage of being more flexible and maneuverable, it eliminated all the Chariot-class Honkai Beasts in close combat when the Templar-class Honkai Beasts could not interfere, saving a lot of unnecessary ammunition.
In this way, without the cover of the Knight-class Honkai Beast, the bulky weakness of the Templar-class Honkai Beast was exposed, and it was destroyed by the armed doll's firepower. Until the end, the Templar-class Honkai Beast did not even touch the corner of the armed doll's clothes.
'Success!'
Seeing the armed doll using a tactic that had never been used before, Einstein immediately covered her mouth in excitement—she had tried to use pre-input tactics to avoid the armed doll from choosing to self-destruct, but the pre-input method was not flexible enough after all and could not completely simulate the chaos of the battlefield. Once the situation exceeded the response range of the pre-input tactics, the armed doll would still use self-destruction to end the battle.
This time, without using pre-input to interfere with the armed doll's decision-making, she was able to actively choose to use tactics based on the contents of the database, which means that the opponent's autonomous combat logic has been optimized due to the "survival" law.
In this way, all that remains is some detailed debugging!
"Not bad, what's the name of this little guy?"
Just as Einstein was about to start debugging, a strange voice came from the side.
"Her name is Elf." Einstein answered subconsciously, and then suddenly realized, "Who are you?"
How could he enter her laboratory quietly?
She turned around and saw a familiar green-haired figure and a strange man standing behind her.
"Hello, nice to meet you." The man extended his hand with a friendly smile on his face. "My name is Ai Yue."
'Ai, Ai Yue?'