[Record #002 Retrieved]
[Successfully Deciphered]
[Language differs from Record #001… Reasonable hypothesis… “Not the same group of people”… Theory confirmed.]
[Experiment Log #63B01]
We have verified the reason behind technological evolution a millennium ago—the authenticity of the “Dissection Project.”
We successfully conducted a reverse-trace of the original experimental site.
The operation team has departed and recovered relevant experimental data. According to their report, “the experimental target was not found.”
Though the experiment failed, that failure became the foundation of our present.
And now… we may be able to replicate it.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Experiment Log #63B04]
The full content of the Dissection Project has now been completely deciphered.
The experimental subject, “N.O.X,” was active in human society even before the invention of electricity, and made certain contributions to our development.
However, upon confirming that it was impossible to fully deconstruct its principles, and equally impossible to eradicate its existence, our ancestors sealed it away somewhere.
The location of the subject remains unknown.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Universal Log #78D01]
Available resources are no longer sufficient to sustain basic societal functions.
Proposal: Use the records from the Dissection Project to attempt replication.
Creating a similar being may drastically change our circumstances.
Proposal approved.
Project Logical Unlimited Mechanical Autobot (L.U.M.A) officially initiated.
This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[P:L.U.M.A Experiment Log #003]
The first prototype has been completed.
Machine precision: 70.6%
—Capable of performing complex tasks.
Reconstruction fidelity: 81.4%
—Not much deviation from N.O.X.
Emotional variance: 78%
—Subject displays excessive emotional output; not suitable for use as a “tool.”
Proposal: Scrap prototype, recover resources.
An irrational existence unfit to be used has no reason to exist.
Proposal approved.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[P:L.U.M.A Experiment Log #024]
Latest L.U.M.A unit completed.
After multiple revisions, we adopted a nanobot swarm as its internal core.
Machine precision: 97.2%
—Now capable of achieving tasks impossible for humans.
Reconstruction fidelity: 96.4%
—Though fundamentally different, L.U.M.A performs exceptionally.
Emotional variance: 3.1%
—Capable of understanding emotion, but does not exhibit emotion.
This is the greatest compromise our current technology can achieve.
Footnote:
Latest L.U.M.A cannot produce organic life.
Fundamentally, it cannot solve the problems of resource shortage and environmental degradation.
Proposal: Terminate Project L.U.M.A and attempt alternative approaches to resolve the current crisis.
Proposal approved.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
[Experiment Log #73X07]
After extensive deliberation, we have concluded that only one plan has any chance of saving humanity’s current condition.
That is—to abandon Earth and continue humanity in space.
Codename: Project Spark
Officially initiated.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Project Spark Execution Log #003]
With the help of the last remaining L.U.M.A, we have built enough interstellar-class ships.
Project Spark is ongoing.
Public dissent has emerged.
Main criticism: “Earth is our home.”
Proposal: Remove the irrational.
Irrationality is unnecessary.
Proposal approved.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Project Spark Execution Log #011]
Required routes and plans are complete.
Project Spark enters the final phase.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Project Spark Execution Log #041]
We encountered far more resistance than expected.
Proposal: Command the last L.U.M.A to simulate the entirety of Project Spark to calculate feasibility.
Proposal approved.
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Project Spark Execution Log #042]
L.U.M.A’s performance is exceedingly reliable.
It took only 21 seconds to simulate 3,333 possible outcomes.
Among them, the data indicates:
—In 58.74% of scenarios, humanity goes extinct before Project Spark is executed.
—In 28.26%, extinction occurs before reaching the first transfer station.
—In 12.97%, humanity begins internal conflict in space… and goes extinct.
Probability that humanity will successfully execute the plan and survive:
0.03%
………
What kind of joke is this?!
It must have done it on purpose!
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Project Spark Execution Log #044]
To hell with probabilities! It’s clearly inaccurate!
We’ve already launched the ships!
We will survive!!!
That traitor escaped before the ship launched!
It must mean its projections were never right!
Filthy traitor!! A disgrace to humanity!
May knowledge and reason always be with us.
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[Record Terminated]
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[They worshiped reason—yet abandoned the answers reason gave them.
So, in the end…Who was the real “traitor”?]
