The stone statues of heroes everywhere turned their gray heads and looked at Number One soaring in the sky, as if he carried the hopes of all of them.
The power belonging to the "heroes" was gathered on him through invisible connections at this moment.
As a result, the strength of the two warring parties was once again balanced in this network domain.
The environment they constructed was in a stalemate. The upgraded ice wall and ice breaker tried to erode each other, but they were unable to do anything to each other.
Seeing this situation, in this space, Christie's humanoid model smiled instead of being impatient. She readjusted to maintain the balance of this space, and then said in a mocking tone:
"You're angry, right? This was a resource you originally planned to use for your own promotion, but you ended up squandering it in this way.
"So, was it you who was originally planning to be promoted in the Nord Resettlement Area?"
Being able to directly use so many biological brains and brain-computer interfaces as their own computing resources shows that the other party has been operating here for a long time.
After all, asking people to verify this kind of thing through the Mandala Code is equivalent to asking people to hand over their "soul". Even within the company, only regular employees can "enjoy" such an honor - unless there is sufficient trust or absolute desperation, no one will be willing to pass this verification easily and hand over their wealth and life to the other party.
What's more, the other party is still at the depth level 7 like himself, and cannot pull people into the abyss and dark web to directly threaten them, something that can only be done after breaking through the limits of human intelligence.
If he directly and unabashedly violently requisitions the computing power of those people like he is doing now, even a fool will find anomalies afterwards.
And after those people think about it, this approach will also cause a crisis of trust. Each of them will find a way to delete the applications installed in the brain-computer interface - if they did not run it before If the mental index deteriorates due to overload.
In other words, No. 1 is actually fighting with the consensus gathered by the Icarus Liberation Front and the reputation and connections Booker has managed over the years as resources. After this battle, no matter what the outcome was, it would be impossible for him to use the Icarus Liberation Front to complete his promotion in the Nord settlement area.
In response, No. 1, who was riding on the Pegasus, did not respond immediately. He just stuffed the head of the Gorgon in his hand back into the pocket hanging on his waist, then took the reins and flew to a higher position.
After doing all this, he opened his mouth and said:
"If I can kill you just for paying such a small price, that would be enough."
After that, he clamped the horse's belly, pulled the reins and flew towards Christie.
The sickle and the paddle collided in mid-air, but due to the failure of the physics engine, after the two weapons collided, they were stagnant in mid-air without any reaction force. If anything, the confrontation between the two weapons was not even as intense as the look in their eyes at each other.
"Anxious."
In this regard, Christie commented:
"Even if you use the resources of Icarus, all you can do is to achieve balance of power. You talk about killing me... I would chase your boss Prometheus everywhere run."
Although Christie also won't be able to defeat the opponent for a while, if the stalemate continues like this, it will obviously be his own advantage, which is currently backed by Pluto Deep Diving Company.
It's even useless to hold two trump cards in his hand - if not because he doesn't want to owe more favors and doesn't want to cause trouble. Whether she calls "Charon" or asks Pluto to dive deep into the "board", she can easily subdue the guy in front of her.
"Who knows... No one can know the result until the end, right?"
For some reason, Number One acted very confident. And this confidence made Christie feel slightly uneasy.
Does the other party have any backup plans?
"What did you mean when you said earlier that the legacy of super artificial intelligence is just a 'last wish'?"
Recalling the previous conversation, Christie asked.
"For artificial intelligence that has reached technological singularity, the human world is unattractive. In addition to the fact that it may need to use our technology to accelerate it at the beginning, after they surpass our cognition, human beings All that remains of society is some archaeological value.”
Number 1 replied.
Then he retracted his weapon in an exaggerated manner as if he were in a drama, and then slashed at Christie's neck again with an extremely gorgeous gesture.
But as expected, the sickle was once again blocked in mid-air by the oars - this was not that the two of them were actually wielding weapons against each other in cyberspace, but was reflected in another information attack and defense operation. Visual interface.
Another attack was blocked, and No. 1 continued calmly:
"So, apart from sealing us off and continuing to create the possibility of creating individuals similar to super-artificial intelligence, they actually won't bother to make so many changes to our world. Brain-computer interface technology, deep-diving interface , multi-purpose printers, upgrade paths, malicious programs... these things that can perfectly adapt to us are not actually relics left by super artificial intelligence inadvertently, but originate from the wishes of us humans.
"And this... is the so-called 'last wish'. This is also the mainstream view in the academic community on the truth of the 'Big Impact'."
For this statement, Christie easily accepted it - as an "abyssal person" who had gone to the super abyss, witnessed those supreme beings, and was lucky enough to come back alive. She was well aware of the huge gap between humans, even high-level adjusters, and the beings that inhabited there.
Upgrading to depth 8, beyond human thinking, is just a qualification for dialogue for those beings.
However, if this is indeed the case, then another question will naturally surface -
"Whose wish?"
Christie asked in a deep voice.
If today's crazy world is all the product of the "Big Impact" era, those super artificial intelligences are designed to realize human wishes. So whose wishes did they fulfill?
In response, No. 1 waved his sword again and replied:
"Of course that is...the wish of the creators of super artificial intelligence, including the First Deep Diver.
"According to Cassandra's deduction, the existence called 'Paradox' is probably the product of the First Deep Diver's wish."
…………
Someone is trying to gain access to their own brain-computer interface.
After arranging the task, when he originally planned to send the two people back, two interception notifications suddenly popped up in Jiang Zhou's visual interface.
This is someone trying to gain access to the brain-computer interfaces of Liao Qi and Booker.
What's even more weird is that these two notifications were intercepted by the firewall of the "City of Sages". The firewall he and Booker had installed, independently designed and developed by the Icarus Liberation Front, passed the request without even letting out a single fart at this moment.
Seeing this, Jiang Zhou immediately activated the "Mark of Hecate" and planned to trace back the source of the request. The result...
Hiss...the coordinates of the server that sent the request are on the seventh floor of the Nord settlement area?
Not only that, this request was intended to obtain permission to use the brain-computer interface through the secret-free channel of Icarus' own firewall.
If he hadn't had to pretend to be a master now, Jiang Zhou might have just said "fuck".
What the hell is this? Could it be that someone within Icarus turned against him?
This is obviously a problem with the firewall itself. Someone has installed a Trojan that can call computing power in the firewall... It is directly a problem with the wall itself, and it cannot even be called a Trojan.
In short, someone installed an extremely dangerous backdoor in the firewall.
Jiang Zhou didn't believe that this was only for him and Booker. Maybe that guy had sent a request to all the members of Icarus - and those members were not like Liao Qi and Booker, who were in " There is also security in the "City of Sages".
What will happen to the other members of Icarus? If they were in a battle now, it would be fatal if their computing resources were suddenly called upon.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou noticed that Booker's expression changed slightly at this moment.
So, he pondered for two seconds, and then said directly in the tone that a "paradox" should have:
"I have stopped those boring requests for you. They will not disturb you until you complete the tasks I have assigned for you."
No matter what, it is important to open the message now.
When Booker saw this, he lowered his head suddenly and said:
"I will start the task you assigned, activate the universal... activate the door to cast the body for the goddess of the moon to come. But after this task is over, can you..."
"We'll wait until everything is finished."
Jiang Zhou interrupted him directly.
It seems that Booker is really anxious now, otherwise he would not be able to directly ask "Paradox" to make conditions.
This also made Jiang Zhou more certain that there was a problem with the internal firewall of the Icarus Liberation Front - and that problem was obviously related to the organization behind Booker.
He kept saying before that what he did would not pose a threat to Icarus or the Nord resettlement area, but now it seems...
Is it possible that Booker has been deceiving himself before?
Thinking this, Liao Qi turned to look at Booker aside, his eyes full of disbelief.
"I will give you... an explanation for all of you."
Booker lowered his voice, and the next moment, they reappeared in the base reality.
Compared to the previous period where there was still a falling process, now "Paradox" pulls itself into the abyss of the dark web, and it is as simple as turning on a light switch.
Is it because He obtained this deep diving interface...
Booker thought to himself, and then he connected to the deep dive interface remotely through the defense program integrated into his firewall.
Liao Qi, who was connected to the deep dive interface, received an executable print notification.
Needless to say, the most important thing right now is this...
[Confirm printing of biological entities]
Liao Qi gave the order.
The heart-like core of geothermal power generation immediately inspired a continuous bolt of lightning that directly hit the multi-purpose printer. The pitch-black cube seemed to be blown apart by the lightning, splitting into countless small squares.
The block instantly took in the materials accumulated around it, and then turned into a coffin with lightning constantly swimming on the surface. The cloned body belonging to Jiang Zhou gradually took shape in it...
About two minutes later, Jiang Zhou, who was in the "City of Sages", received a notification that "biological entity verification has been completed."
Feeling the heavy truth carried by his fingertips, Jiang Zhou took a deep breath and pressed the "Confirm Open" button with trembling hands.
The scene of the City of Sages instantly shattered into countless pixels, and then the pixels continued to reorganize before his eyes...the reorganization became the scene of that day.
That day a hundred years ago.
"Good evening, my creator."
It's still the same bar, still the same dull bartender, still the same breathless crowd around me.
Through the TV screen, Janus, made purely of blocks of color, looked at him.
His polite voice came from the mobile phone Jiang Zhou was holding at the moment.
"I know you have a lot of questions right now, but the problems of the past are actually less important than the changes that are going to happen in the future.
“So, let’s get right to the point… What wish do you have that you desperately want to come true?
"Every wish that a human being desires can come true for me."
(End of chapter)
