When he was kicked out of the food court, RT6 was in the supermarket choosing today's iced drink.
The Coalition's AI is just too rude.
"You mean, you were kicked out by artificial intelligence?"
Because the reason was too science fiction, Song Lan had to confirm with the other party again. According to RT6, it was the artificial intelligence of military technology that drove her out of the street.
According to Song Lan's understanding, RT6's status among artificial intelligences should be equal to that of a "king", and the only person above her is what they call "mother".
Calculated, the current situation is like Lu Xiang being driven away by an intern who had just joined the law enforcement department when he was out shopping in the 17th District.
"You can laugh if you want."
RT6 crossed his arms over his chest and looked away.
Asking Franken to kill those rude "wild" artificial intelligences was naturally just an angry word, and she complained in her heart. For unknown reasons, "Mother" prohibited them from intervening in the internal affairs of the coalition government. , especially when military technology is involved.
"This is nothing funny. I'm just curious. Didn't you ask them to be more accommodating in your network?"
"These AIs are not linked into our network."
RT6 secretly raised his eyes and glanced at Song Lan, and couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that the latter really didn't mean to laugh at him.
The other party's character seemed to be better than she imagined.
"They are customized models of military technology. Their presence here means that they feel threatened here. Only if there is enough threat will they show up."
"...Vadim?"
Song Lan is becoming more and more worried about his fellow countryman. You must not fall before the villain Boss of the show dies!
The program staff has already started editing the video footage recorded last night. If Mr. Vadim had an unfortunate accident, where would they find a long-prepared villain?
Could it be that he had to call Gustav and ask his reliable friend to guest star as the villain this season?
"Vadim? Impossible."
RT6 shook his head and said, "They will only be dispatched if they are identified by military technology as a threat that will bring disaster to the coalition government."
This is why she only complained verbally and did not actually want to get involved in the dispute.
The emergence of "wild" artificial intelligence showed the seriousness of the situation. She couldn't think of what kind of uninvited guest would make military technology so aggressive.
RT6 suddenly thought of something and asked, "Does this matter have anything to do with you? What kind of trick did you make again?"
"First of all, your 'again' is very framed."
Song Lan carefully recalled what he did after arriving in District 4. Although he collapsed the Kolo Films building, indirectly killed the founder of Kolo Films, and also captured the "Sea of Souls" permission to use...
"I'm really just here for breakfast today."
Song Lan's face stiffened and her voice became a little weaker.
Well, he admits that what happened in the past few days makes it hard to believe that he is a law-abiding ordinary citizen.
"Whatever, you came just in time. If a battle breaks out here to destroy the entire city, you can just stop it."
District 4 was the first city RT6 visited, and she quite liked it.
In addition to its high degree of entertainment, this is also a city with a long history. Occasionally, when she passes by a street and alley, she suddenly feels the weight of history.
There seems to have been a protracted negotiation within the food court.
When the spectators had almost left, the "wild" artificial intelligences finally came out.
It was already noon. They opened the isolation tape and restored the street to its former order.
Before they left, they escorted a suspect who looked like Vadim with a black sack on his head into the car and drove away.
As for the disaster that RT6 was worried about that would destroy the entire fourth district, it did not come. There was not even a trace of a fight in the food court.
In the car driving away, the agent closest to Vadim took off the black sack covering his head.
For a long time, he played the role of a bystander.
The negotiation did not escalate into violence in the end, and the man of unknown origin left District 4 under the "persuasion" of "Blue Eyes".
He did not go out through the main entrance, but disappeared right in front of their eyes after finishing the last skewer of meat.
Weird abilities, ways of disappearing, plus a few words during negotiations...
Vadim speculated that the middle-aged man came from the "outside world" and that he vaguely knew the contents of the agreement from the confrontation between the two sides, although it sounded no different from negotiating with gangsters to divide the territory.
The territory of the coalition government is the "turf" of military technology. In exchange, military technology will not interfere with any affairs of men in the "outside world".
Similar means of division, but what is divided becomes the entire world.
Judging from the area occupied, the middle-aged man "masters" a larger sphere of influence than military technology. This reminds Vadim of the leader of the resistance. After all, he was once a member of the 17th District. The "outside world" is no stranger to powerful criminals, but no matter how much he thinks, he can't match the middle-aged man with the leader of any resistance army.
After a while, the car stopped.
This is a remote area. After Blue Eyes and the artificial intelligence stopped the car, they opened the automatic door.
No one in the car spoke, and these artificial intelligences motioned him to get out of the car with their eyes.
Vadim wanted to ask something else, but when he met the eyes of "Blue Eyes", he wisely followed the other person's instructions.
"Blue Eyes" cannot and does not have the need to explain these complex relationships to the company's "guinea pigs". This is what the company has always done. His current mission is to survive in this city for as long as possible.
As soon as I got off the bus, the door of the carriage was closed.
The vehicle bearing the Bureau of Investigation logo sped away, leaving him alone on the street.
Until, someone tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey, aren't you their most wanted criminal? Are they just letting you go?"
This was a familiar voice. When he turned around, he saw a familiar figure. Vadim blurted out, "You're not——"
"Yes, you read that right, I have left this city."
"and you……"
"I took a middle ground."
Compared to the cold and inhumane "Blue Eyes", Vadim felt that this middle-aged man who didn't know the details was much more approachable.
The middle-aged man seemed to have guessed what Vadim was thinking, and continued, "I just said that you are not going to die soon. It won't be long before the thing they installed in your head will kill you. You have no future in following them." .”
"They put a tracking system on me."
Although Vadim felt that what the man said made sense, he had to remind the other party, "Our current conversation is being monitored by them. It won't be long before the company will come back... Your plan has failed."
"You don't look very smart, that's all. Let me explain to you again. I'm no longer here. This is a communication between consciousness. Their three-legged cat technology cannot reach this field. "
"……consciousness?"
"To be honest, I think you have amazing bones and are very talented. What do you think? Do you want to follow me?"
"You just said I'm not very smart."
"You are indeed not very smart. To say you have wonderful bones and are talented is just a lie. Don't take it seriously."
The middle-aged man frankly admitted what he was thinking, "Don't worry, you are not the chosen one. There is no such thing anymore. I just couldn't find another suitable person for a while, so I chose you." you."
Choose between Vadim and the owner of the barbecue restaurant.
In the end, Vadim narrowly defeated the unknown barbecue restaurant owner in his mind.
Of course, this is also the result of weighing the fact that the boss has a shop to look after, unlike Vadim who is an unemployed vagrant who can wander around.
It turns out that sincerity isn’t always a surefire way to win.
Sometimes excessive sincerity can make people's blood boil, and that's the case with Vadim now.
If it were him a few days ago, he would have picked up the thermal cutting blade and chopped it up with a single blow, but the experience in the past few days has made him grow a lot, especially when he realized that his true level in the fourth area is probably T4 or T5. Level 1, which means that he may not be able to defeat any named passerby he meets on the street.
The so-called "evolution" ultimately just bullies those minor characters in the movie who have no names in the end.
"What if I refuse?"
"Are you asking about the consequences?"
The middle-aged man said, "There are no consequences. After all, I am not a devil. I will not tear you into pieces just because of such a trivial matter. But in this way, you will miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Not just anyone." If you have the opportunity to follow me, young man, I can see that you have many doubts in your heart, don’t you want to know their answers?”
"...falling to the ground to protect, what's going on?"
Vadim suddenly asked.
It’s not his first day out, so he can’t just be honest with someone he’s only met twice. This problem has been bothering him for the past few days, and the Blue Eyes company guy didn’t explain it. It seems that even military technology is very accepting of this change in "rules".
"Psychic energy."
The middle-aged man's explanation was too concise and concise, leaving Vadim even more confused.
"Psychic power?"
"As long as you can hone one of the psychic powers to the extreme, you can change the world. The destructive psychic powers correspond to destruction, the disruptive psychic powers correspond to domination, and the supportive psychic powers... I'm telling you this. For what? It's not your concern, you'll never come into contact with them in your life, all you have to do is try to adapt to the rules when they are changed."
"How do I know if what you said is true?"
"Well, so be it."
Vadim saw the middle-aged man's raised hand pointing to the other side of the street, "You try running to the other side of the street now."
Despite all the doubts in his mind, Vadim did it anyway.
A minute later he was back.
A familiar feeling came to my mind, first there was a brief blankness of consciousness, and then——
"The area across the street looks unremarkable, there is no need to explore there now"
"From now on, you can't reach the other side of the street no matter what."
The middle-aged man crossed his chest with his hands and watched with interest as Vadim tried his best to reach the other side of the street, although he himself could no longer remember how many outrageous attempts he had made.
Vadim woke up from his trance and stared blankly across the street.
Everything he experienced was so unbelievable that he, the dignified underground emperor of District 4 and a prosthetic implanter who had completed his "evolution", could not even cross the street at this moment.
At this moment, Vadim finally understood the reason why military technology was so vulnerable.
A simple thought from the man in front of him could turn the entire city upside down.
At that time, he was in a world of "hallucination", and he had the same feeling when standing in front of the strange statue in the church. At this moment, he, and even the entire city, seemed to be held by an invisible giant hand.
The middle-aged man seemed to see through his mind and said, "You want to ask me why I found you? Well, this is related to my personal interests. I like a game called 'Cricket Fighting Contest' very much. It has become the game many times. I have passed the top three in this event, but this event has been abolished for a long time, and I haven’t had the feeling of meeting an opponent for a long time.”
Cricket fighting contest?
There were some terms with unclear meanings, but Vadim knew that the "cricket" the other party was talking about was probably not an insect or some kind of mutated creature, because the middle-aged man was looking him up and down when he spoke.
The middle-aged man came to the conclusion, "Although you are in tatters, you can still be used after a little cleaning. Young man, it's time to make a decision. Fuck with me, or continue to be a guinea pig for those machines. You can Choose one."
"I……"
Vadim suddenly sat up from the bed, and the sky outside the window had dimmed.
The last second he was conscious of was still in the morning, when he was standing on the street talking to a middle-aged man he had met twice. He was faced with an important decision.
Immediately afterwards, Vadim discovered something was wrong with him.
The "Overload" system was offline, and all prosthetics were down.
This feeling is like falling into the trap of a fraud gang and waking up to find that you have been sent to a black clinic to lose your money.
The only difference is that he does not feel cold or painful now. Instead, after all the prosthetic bodies malfunctioned, he actually felt refreshed and refreshed for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, Vadim felt a little dry.
When his eyes moved to the bedside table, something unexpected happened - before he made any move, the water glass on the bedside table seemed to understand his thoughts and was lifted up by some invisible force. Then, Vadim felt connected to an invisible force.
"Very good, you have now mastered the introductory skills of disruptive psychic energy."
A voice came to mind.
"It's time to sign up for the 37th Cricket Fighting Competition, Cricket No. 1."
Small theater its two hundred and thirty-four:
Thursday, a certain day, a certain year, a certain month, in the evening
"What's going on with these crabs?"
The first time Lu Xiang came home, Song Lan showed her the photos on Yelu's phone.
If he remembered correctly, this type of creature was called the Death Crab by the locals and was one of the most feared creatures in the "outside world". Even mercenaries and arms dealers were afraid of their existence.
"This is Ye Lu's friend. They have always maintained correspondence with each other."
"Can crabs still write letters?"
"In a sense, Night Heron is the same as them. She can turn into a sand dweller or a sea creature if she wants."
Rather than socializing on the Internet, Night Heron prefers to interact with friends who are mutant creatures.
"She taught the Death Crabs a lot, and it was you who gave them the idea of visiting human society."
"Me? What did I do?"
"When you went to the 'outside world' last time, you called them friends one by one. Now their parents take it seriously and plan to send their children to human society for some experience."
Lu Xiang said happily.
This stupid bird has so many buddies that he may not even be able to remember them all. It is foreseeable that there will be many more such visits in the future.
"I submitted my application to the council today and they approved the Death Crab visit plan."
Lu Xiang deliberately paused for a while and said, "They decided that you will be the image ambassador of the coalition government."
(End of chapter)
