"I was born on a colorful energy-saving treadmill in the 1980s and grew up eating hermit crabs. But mom, why can I see that bowl of parasites inhabiting baby embryos? My typewriter cut her hair. So my breath is my language. Please tell me. Would you like to order a cup of semi-skimmed milk flavored with No. 4 coagulated..."
Under the spotlight, in the half-open coffee shop that looks like a stage theater, large fluffy animal dolls are placed in front of every guest table - a pink rabbit with missing ears, a monkey without a tail, and a mouth that has been sewn crookedly. Brown bears, everything.
And a humanoid machine, whose whole body was surrounded by liquefied metal and wearing a waiter's apron, floated on a tray and shuttled back and forth between the tables.
It is holding the coffee pot, asking for answers that will never be received, and pouring some black liquid for the guests who are always unable to act.
Hearing it mutter something like this, Jiang Zhou felt that the thing poured by this thing was definitely not coffee.
"The mental index of this thing may have completely fallen into the mental uncanny valley."
With her head back and leaning against the cover, Chinatsu Sakura spoke quickly in a low voice.
The weird humanoid machine's illogical words didn't stop, which made her shudder.
Thinking that the other party might not understand, she turned her head and looked at Jiang Zhou again.
"I'll explain the specific meaning to you later. Now you just need to know the thinking mode of this thing. We can't predict it... In short, let's go back first."
She said so.
In fact, Jiang Zhou, who already knew what the uncanny valley of the mind was, nodded. The two of them used the bunker to cover themselves alternately, and tiptoed back to the all-terrain vehicle.
Only then did Jiang Zhou point to the weird coffee shop in the distance and ask:
"Since it may explode with flying props, shall we act according to the previous plan?"
"I traveled more than 400 kilometers to find something that seems to be able to fly. Maybe this store won't exist after passing this village."
Chinatsu Sakura said as she took out a spike pistol with a silencer from her storage space.
"Let's talk about the current situation... We now need to deal with a malicious program that is suspected to be at level 2 and deep in the uncanny valley of the mind."
She continued:
"But the good news is that it doesn't look like a full-time combat type, but more like a service-type AI. But from this look, I feel like it is more specifically used to create those urban horror stories."
"Or blame the core."
Recalling those strange words and deeds, Jiang Zhou spoke of the familiar cultural concepts of his time without thinking.
"What core?"
Chinatsu Sakura, who had never heard of this concept, asked casually.
"Some Neolithic cultural concepts in native communities."
Jiangzhou Yuandao.
In response to this, the other party said "Oh" without thinking much, and then said:
"There is no time to discuss each other's cultural value now. In short, let's act as planned."
She said, holding the gun and lying on the grass nearby.
A breeze blew by, and Qianxia Ying disappeared directly on the spot. Only a few ice blue butterflies danced in the place where she disappeared - that was her mark for Jiang Zhou.
Jiang Zhou, carrying the "Zhulong" Gauss rifle, climbed back into the cab of the all-terrain vehicle. He glanced at the scanner on the car. Below the flying butterflies, Chinatsu Sakura's life response was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The plan is simple, let him be the bait, and use the protection of the alloy body of the all-terrain vehicle to buy time for Chinatsu Sakura to hack in later.
If the problem couldn't be solved in the end, he could just kick the accelerator and throw the opponent away from him in the cab.
The last piece of tactical memory that Jiang Zhou absorbed was rifle usage specialization, but short- and medium-range shooting and sniping at a distance of more than 500 meters were completely different skill directions.
Therefore, when Jiang Zhou rolled down the car window and placed the Gauss rifle on the car door, he took a long, deep breath.
His first shot missed the coffee shop pillar.
The second shot, the bullet missed farther due to the tremor caused by the recoil.
For the third shot, the muzzle was corrected according to the impact point. The bullet shattered a vase three meters away from the opponent.
…
Simply pull the trigger to the end, and the needle-like bullets of the Gauss rifle will connect into a line. Jiang Zhou used his gun as a paintbrush, tracing the traces of bullet holes so that the line of fire hit the head of the strange humanoid. Within two seconds, the opponent's liquid metal head was pierced with spikes by bullets.
But it remained unmoved.
All the way down along his head, neck, chest, abdomen, crotch, thighs... The kinetic energy of the electromagnetic accelerated bullet caused the opponent to retreat continuously at first, but soon the opponent returned to his previous stability.
No response to this?
While he was secretly shocked by the opponent's hardness, he also wondered why the opponent didn't react at all when he was hit. Jiang Zhou had an idea and pointed his gun at the plush doll "customers" in the coffee shop.
In an instant, fine bullets tore rags and cotton wool everywhere, and the entire coffee shop became a mess.
"Click..."
At this moment, the Gauss rifle ran out of bullets. Jiang Zhou was just about to pull out the magazine, but he happened to see the strange humanoid shape of liquid metal turning towards him in the magnifying glass.
The hollows in the liquid metal were the other person's facial features. About six hundred meters apart, their eyes happened to collide with each other.
Then, just like in a horror game, the other party suddenly shrank into distance.
From the perspective of the magnifying glass, it was as if the other party suddenly put that parody of a human face right in front of his eyes.
Putting down the gun, Jiang Zhou just happened to see the other party rushing towards him at an extremely unreasonable speed with an extremely awkward and weird running posture.
"This is your future. This is why you're here. I don't need you to stress over the fact that everyone dies. I don't like being here. I don't like this job. Where are you? I'm behind you. I'm in you. I will rush to the next work place right away. Don’t you like me..."
The previously standard announcer's calm tone became extremely rapid and terrifying under the influence of the Doppler effect.
When he rushed from 600 meters away to his eyes, the other party didn't spend more than four seconds - Jiang Zhou didn't even have time to replace the magazine in the Gauss rifle.
With the structure of the human body and the opponent's funny and terrifying running posture, it is physically impossible to reach this speed. In fact, the opponent just assumed a running posture. The real reason that made it come to him so quickly was the suspended flying disc under its feet.
"Bang!"
The strange face was slapped directly on the car door, with the pinprick bullets from the Gauss rifle nailed on it.
Jiang Zhou subconsciously used the butt of the gun as a melee weapon and threw it at the opponent's face, but was grabbed by the opponent instead.
"Why bother, why accept, why reject, why forget, why remember, why create, why destroy..."
Easily pulling the gun out of Jiang Zhou's hand, and then smashing it into parts on the ground, the liquid metal man kept mumbling.
Jiang Zhou tried to pull out the Scorpio from the holster, but the other party had already removed the entire alloy car door before that.
"grass!"
Just before the other party was about to drag Jiang Zhou out, countless ice-blue butterflies appeared between them, and then fell on the liquid metal humanoid like fallen leaves.
The other party's movements instantly became sluggish.
Jiang Zhou recalled what Qianxia Ying said to him not long ago.
hacker? So you are a C language master?
This was her first reaction when Chinatsu Sakura told herself that she was an "Anonymous" level hacker.
After all, coming from a technical position, Jiang Zhou understands that the so-called hackers or hackers are not those in Hollywood movies who stare at the rain of green data falling on the screen and then slam the code on the keyboard to be paralyzed. The magical existence that dropped the entire city.
Of course, their old club "Olympus Group" was indeed hacked back then. However, the intrusion method discovered after the investigation was not magical at all - it was to throw a USB flash drive at the company door, wait for an unlucky person in the company to pick it up and use it for petty gain, and then use it to obtain employee accounts and invade the company's intranet.
It's so simple and crude.
However, Chinatsu Sakura explained that hackers in this era are different from the stereotypes of the past - this is actually another kind of adjustment and transformation, an adjustment and transformation based on the brain-computer interface installed by everyone.
After a very small number of people are installed with a brain-computer interface, the nerves in the brain will be stimulated to re-grow, causing a mutation similar to a benign tumor. And this mutation will eventually grow a new brain area between the brain and the brain-computer interface.
This brain area is called Hongqiao.
Modern technology can perform a certain degree of neural editing on this brain area through brain-computer interface. Hongqiao has strong plasticity and can be artificially guided to strengthen other functions of the brain, such as strengthening memory or sense of balance.
But doing so is a waste of money - because of the close connection between Hongqiao and the brain-computer interface, it can install corresponding plug-ins, allowing users to gain the ability to use imaginary images supplemented by natural language constraints to achieve real-time programming.
In other words, if people who have undergone the Hongqiao mutation are guided correctly, they will be able to gain the ability to see through component codes on the World Wide Web or the Abyss Dark Web, and hack into the other party to seize permissions.
Of course, according to Chinatsu Sakura, her ability cannot be used to hack in regardless of the substitute program and basic construction. She must physically contact the other person's "double" through some other means. And during this period, her body will be in an undefended state.
Many hackers will choose media such as nanodata filaments to extend the scope of their abilities. But with her transformation authority, the Fantasy 4 self-sensing nano-inkjet can do this more safely.
