#726 - Chapter 726 Self-protection mechanism
Dongfang Chen nodded.
He understood as soon as Mongka said it.
This was a task with limitations.
If it was beneficial to completing the task, he would do it.
If it wasn't, he wouldn't.
In other words, completing the task was above all else.
No matter how much authority she had, the focus of her service was the task.
Coupled with the Mars base's central system, it could even lead to mid-course changes in the task's objective.
In a situation completely devoid of human involvement, the Dragon Country's Mars base could smoothly transform the Blue Star Transformation Plan into a Human Cultivation Plan, and this was one of the reasons.
But Nata was different.
He was currently more like a person who hadn't yet established life goals.
His criteria for judging things relied more on the strategies provided by the Method Brain.
What restricted him from doing some things and not doing others were only the neural strategies in the Method Brain.
These neural strategies were constantly being revised and improved, and were not immutable.
For example, psychologists once conducted a famous experiment.
When a rat confined in a closed room triggered a lever, food would fall down.
Then, triggering the lever to obtain food became a strategy in the rat's brain.
If it was changed to two levers, triggering one lever would produce food, while triggering the other would not. Then it would abandon triggering the lever that didn't produce food.
This was a choice based on strategy.
Strategy drove the intelligent entity to act in a specific way.
So, the key to training Nata was to help him establish a set of strategies that were both efficient and wouldn't threaten humanity.
Looking at human history, no one had ever done this before.
There was no use rushing this, it could only be done step by step.
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Inside the Golden City's underground base.
Nata and Mongka were sprinting through the passage, with a large group of people chasing them frantically.
These people were expressionless, acted in unison, and were decisive in their actions.
They looked even more like robots than the two of them.
"Nata, more and more people are gathering, you need to think of a solution!" Nata was unwilling to kill, which led to more and more people following them.
Because of Dongfang Chen's instructions, Mongka couldn't interfere with his choices either. So she couldn't take action and could only follow along stupidly.
"I'll hold them back, you go press the elevator!" Nata shouted.
"Okay!" As the two of them approached a vertical elevator, Nata stopped and stood in the middle of the road.
Mongka quickly stepped forward to press the button.
"Crap, the elevator must be locked down, it can't be used!" Mongka shouted loudly after discovering the button wasn't working.
Nata frowned.
The situation now forced him into a corner.
It had reached the point where he had to make a choice.
"Whoosh ~"
The person running at the front threw a punch.
They were just ordinary people, and their punches didn't have much strength.
Nata directly grabbed his fist and pulled it back.
The person who attacked him was thrown flying.
"Thump ~"
The person who was thrown flying flew 5 meters away and fell heavily to the ground.
"Whoosh whoosh ~"
Two more people came up.
Nata had no choice but to throw them away one after another.
However, he didn't aim for a fatal blow.
More and more people surrounded him, and Nata was trapped in the middle, rushing left and right.
Some of the Mony people on the periphery turned their heads and rushed towards Mongka next to the elevator.
"Have you figured it out yet? They're coming over!" Mongka asked anxiously.
"Smash the elevator and go down through the shaft!" Nata shouted.
"Alright!" Mongka reluctantly complied.
She grabbed two people and threw them directly at the elevator.
"Thud ~"
The elevator door was smashed into a deep pit, but it didn't break open.
"Bang ~"
Mongka added another punch, and the door finally couldn't hold on and fell directly into the shaft.
"It's open!" Mongka shouted.
While dodging, she took a quick step and jumped down.
The Mony people behind her didn't follow and jump down, but turned to attack Nata.
After hearing Mongka's shout, Nata parried these Mony people while approaching the elevator entrance.
Soon, he leaped and jumped down as well.
Fortunately, those Mony people weren't zombies, and didn't stupidly follow and jump down.
The two grabbed the elevator track and slid down continuously, arriving at the entrance on the next level.
"Go out?" Mongka asked.
Nata was also in a dilemma at this time.
What would they do if they went out? Maybe there was another group of Mony people waiting for them inside.
"Why don't we just stay here?" Nata suggested.
"What? Stay in this hellish place for 10 days? What are you thinking?" Mongka asked irritably.
Dongfang Chen frowned when he heard Nata say this.
This was a kind of evasive thinking.
This showed that the Method Brain had made a strategy of inaction after weighing the pros and cons.
Nata evaded choice through inaction, the purpose of which was to balance existing cognitions.
This was like a child who was scolded by his parents as soon as he opened his mouth, who would naturally choose to remain silent in order to cope with the parents' verbal attacks.
The idea was: since the consequences of speaking are severe, then I choose to shut up.
This was actually a kind of self-preservation mechanism of the brain.
