Jiang Zhou's words suddenly stunned Christie.
She opened her mouth slightly and closed it again. After hesitating for a while, she confirmed and asked with some uneasiness:
"You mean, that old guy paid a lot of money to get me out of trouble?"
Controlling his emotions and showing a heavy expression, Jiang Zhou answered vaguely:
"How should I put it? I did pay something..."
Well... if you say that, you're not completely lying, right?
Jiang Zhou thought.
As for whether "Charon" would be exposed, he wasn't too worried.
Obviously, Charon must have known that he was special, so he allowed him to enter the Narcissus Plain.
Otherwise, how could He De, a Depth 2 adjuster, help Christie escape from an adjuster with the limit of human intelligence?
On the other hand, in the past, Charon abandoned Christie and returned to the Abyss Dark Web at a critical moment in a certain battle. Jiang Zhou originally estimated that even if he helped rescue her, she would most likely not be willing to go out with him like this - anyone who had experienced such a thing would be resentful.
But now, since he has the opportunity to help change his impression, there is no way that Charon will waste this step in vain.
Of course, even if the AI doesn't understand those "human things" and just blows the mind, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Charon's mission for him was just to bring this "horse" out of Narcissus Plains.
His purpose is to take her out. As for persuading her to go out or tricking her out, it actually doesn't make much difference to him.
In fact, under the premise that you have already drawn a target, the so-called "persuasion" is not sincere - it is just deceiving yourself before deceiving others.
"Then what exactly is he..."
On the other side, Christie was obviously hesitant.
"No matter what..."
Before the other party could continue to ask further questions, Jiang Zhou immediately changed the subject:
"As for the grudge between you and Charon, as an outsider, I naturally have no position to continue to judge... My task is just to take you out of the Narcissus Plain. But if you let me tell you, you are acting like this A wanderer who keeps wandering around the Narcissus Plain will definitely not be able to solve any problems.
"So, no matter what doubts you have or what grievances you have, I think it can only be solved by communicating with Mr. Charon face to face after leaving here."
Regarding these words, Christie frowned and thought for a long time, and finally nodded reluctantly.
"All right……"
She said, looking around.
At this moment, the surroundings have generally returned to the environment of the previous Colosseum, except...
Modeling overlap, texture errors, physics engine failure, screen lag and frame loss... Including this magnificent Colosseum, the entire city is heading towards its own collapse at an extremely slow speed.
In addition to these infrastructures, every "survivor" within their sight has fallen into extremely crazy madness.
Some people are banging their heads against the wall, and they see red every time; some people are scratching their skin, tearing their bodies to pieces; and some people are kneeling on the ground with a dull expression and looking up at the sky, with tears streaming down their faces. flowing...
"you're right."
Seeing this scene, Christie nodded.
As he spoke, with her as the center, about half of the buildings in the city shattered like glass.
"At the very least, there's really nothing to miss about this garbage dump."
As Christie spoke, the fragments of half of the city gathered above their heads and rotated, turning into a dark green vortex.
She closed her eyes and raised her head, opening her arms toward the vortex. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of shining data strips extended from the vortex. Like luminous cilia, they all converged on Christie's body.
She is taking back her computing resources.
During this period, in Yu Jiangzhou's perception, many functions in the "City of Sages" that he had previously obtained permission to use were quickly being offline one by one. It was not until about 30% of the data was emptied that the momentum gradually slowed down.
It is estimated that more than 40% of the data will be completely deleted in the end, and more than 80% of the programs will not be able to run normally - those were the programs that were previously run by Christie's computing power.
However, he didn't feel any pity about this.
After all, this is originally someone else’s thing.
What's more, in the past, the entire system of the City of Sages was based on the logic of "human evolution" of the "Dionysian Bureau". If you don't plan to learn to do this, then there is no use keeping this set of things.
"Speaking of which, the digital personalities here..."
After recovering all the computing resources, Christie opened his eyes again and turned to look at Jiang Zhou.
"Um?"
She made a confused sound.
And for a moment, the size of the other party's data made Jiang Zhou's Hongqiao brain area hallucinate a phantom as huge as a blue whale, appearing behind the other party.
Even though he now has the "City of Sages" as computing power support, Jiang Zhou still feels a sense of awe from the bottom of his heart.
Unlike the Bacchus, the city is not itself. The resources it can provide are far from allowing him to confront the adjuster in front of him who has reached the "limit of human intelligence".
For a moment, Jiang Zhou felt guilty and frightened because he had deceived her so much before.
However, he quickly adjusted his mentality.
Firstly, in basic reality, there is a high probability that there will be no interaction between him and an adjuster who has reached the limit of human intelligence; secondly, he is currently using the identity of "Liao Qi" to show off to others, no matter how much he checks, It will not be found on your own body.
After suppressing the instinctive emotion of awe after seeing the "huge thing", Jiang Zhou asked:
"What's wrong?"
"I just scanned it and it showed that the original version of the digital personality here - that is, the residents of the former City of Sages, are all still here. But for some reason, they all seem to be crazy..."
Christie looked at the crazy people around him with confusion and said this in confusion.
Jiang Zhou knew what happened.
That was the order that the previous being who was suspected of being "Janus" modified before leaving - he synchronized all the memories between everyone and all their copies.
In other words, every "citizen" has completely experienced what his clone has experienced.
Then they all went crazy.
Jiang Zhou didn't know why he did this.
At this moment, he has the power of life and death in this city. Of the 1,030 remaining digital personalities, he only needs one command to delete them all.
Oh...there are only 983 left.
At this moment, there was a person in front of Jiang Zhou. He couldn't bear the experiences his clone had suffered, so he broke his own neck and committed suicide.
Then let them be...
Jiang Zhou thought.
He did not have the mental model source code of the originally uploaded version in his hand. Even if he had the authority to resurrect them, it would still be the current version. Without much intervention, they will still choose to commit suicide - just like the joke about the salty taste of Meng Po soup.
Therefore, he will not stop someone who wants to die.
However, if after experiencing everything that his clone has experienced, he will not delete those who have not fallen into the mental uncanny valley and are still willing to live.
After all, a city without people means nothing.
but……
The current number of remaining citizens has dropped to 888.
Looking at the rapid drop in currency prices like a mining disaster, Jiang Zhou thought to himself:
Is there really such a person?
"What happened to them?"
Christie looked at the people who kept committing suicide in front of them and couldn't help but ask.
Regarding her doubts, Jiang Zhou said:
"This is... the trial left for them by 'Paradox'."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Christie and continued:
"Only those who have experienced all of this and can understand that the replica is a complete individual like themselves are qualified to continue living in this city."
After speaking, he lightly snapped his fingers.
And the next second, they appeared at the door of the "City of Sages".
For Jiang Zhou, who has authority over this city, similar operations are just a matter of his instructions.
"Let's go."
Jiang Zhou said.
Unlike when he arrived, as confused as a headless fly, Hecate's blessing could help him navigate when he returned.
The mist fills the air, and black dogs emerge like ghosts. It jumped up and showed them the way back.
"Let's get out of here together."
…………
Nord Settlement Area, Theseus Warehouse, and Hive Area.
After inputting the print command, the multi-purpose printer instantly disintegrated into countless black cubes the size of dice, sweeping into an endless black storm in the storage room.
Although their movements did not make the slightest sound during the whole process, this situation still made Booker feel as if he heard a "buzzing" sound.
When Universal Printing prints large-scale facilities that cannot be completed in-house due to volume reasons, it will turn into countless small working modules, which look like traditional 3D printing and complete the task bit by bit.
At this moment, on the seventh floor of the resettlement area, at the site of the demolished geothermal power plant, all the printing materials are ready due to their previous overtime efforts - they only need energy to start, and they can start their work. .
According to calculations, one gram of antimatter is completely enough for the energy required to start construction - there is even a lot of redundancy.
Reactivating the Hyena Armor and disappearing, Booker dived into the thin air again.
He had already entered the coordinates for the multi-purpose printer, and then they would automatically go to the negative seventh floor to start the printing job.
From the perspective of Theseus Freight, this multi-purpose printer is equivalent to automatically starting up.
This is stated in the contract. All materials stored in the company's warehouse will be destroyed or damaged due to their own reasons, or the goods will break through the containment and leave on their own - similar things will really happen to some autonomous machines - Theseus Freight No responsibility is assumed.
On the other hand, Theseus Freight Company is a company completely run by AI, and they will only act in accordance with the contract literally. It will not be emotional, or relate some things back and forth, and then seek revenge and accountability afterwards.
Therefore, as long as Booker doesn't get caught doing this, it's basically a done deal.
This also bypasses the energy supply of the "Fusion Bureau" and puts the ownership of the geothermal power station more firmly in the hands of Icarus.
I have to say, this is indeed a good plan.
Watching those dice-sized universal printer modules leave, Booker floated in the air, passing by the drones that kept coming to try to prevent the printers from leaving amid the sirens sounding all around.
The drones formed an array to try to stop it, but it was in vain. Those "dice" were like ghosts or shadows, passing through them easily.
Holding back a sneer, Booker followed the multi-purpose printer.
Soon, the task will be completed...
Then, something appeared that attracted his attention.
It was a structure composed of five concentric blue crystal rings, like a celestial sphere.
It was slowly but surely floating out from the side.
If Jiang Zhou were here, he would definitely be able to recognize this thing.
This was the gatekeeper they saw at the door of Theseus' warehouse when they dived into the mirror city of the Nord settlement area.
The guard program was barely destroyed by the full firepower of Wutou-23.
Then, several messages were received in Booker's data channel.
[Ascended person who detected Perseus' path, non-accessible object, threat level 4, non-accessible object]
[Warning, it has been detected that you have activated Coffin, please stop Coffin running immediately and hand over the startup permission]
[Otherwise, the defense system will be activated and the clearance authority will be obtained]
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(End of chapter)
