The story begins in Atlanta, from the awakening of Lille in a broken body.
But whether it’s Munemasa or Johnny, the people here or the AI are only familiar with him as a person, but unfamiliar with his experiences.
This young man who woke up from selling a kidney made his way to Night City, and in the end blew up an Arasaka aircraft carrier, shattering the company’s military lockdown...
It sounds like a dream.
The story is told from two perspectives: one for Johnny and Munemasa, and the other for Lille’s first entry into Cyberspace, first encounter with black guns, first honest attempt to load the Jing Yuan-Brage Protocol, and finally to the direct confrontation with the Black Wall and the company’s network forces...
The communication between AI is simple, Lille directly transmitted the operation records of that ti, although not complete, it was enough to make Wu Yin feast his eyes.
[...Wait...you said you’re human?]
Lille nodded happily, warming his two flipper feet on the flas—
This thing, on the hardware side, has unlocked a certain high-frequency operation permission for the hardware he is using now; if he needed, he could put his hands entirely in the fire.
But he doesn’t need to for now.
"I used to be a proper human, but now... I guess after I abandoned the physical body and... consciousness, I should redefine my existence."
The energy of the spark source did not arrive in this world, but Lille can clearly feel his "soul" connected to it.
Perhaps because the explosive energy was too low, the technology was not mature enough, energy and material transfer were completely infeasible, only a certain amount of information transfer and synchronization was possible.
Finally... from a ti perspective, Lille just released a lot of information, but only a second passed in ti.
The fla jumped slightly.
[Oh...what a story, it was quite satisfying to read.]
[Do you want to see penguin mating?]
"Huh?" Johnny was stunned for a mont, "What’s the point of watching this?"
[But that’s all I have...]
"Cough cough, let’s skip that for now..."
"If you want to see it, I can tell you how other little animals mate..."
The previous sentence was said by Lille, the latter by Johnny, and suddenly Wu Yin said:
[There are other little animals?]
"Plenty!" Johnny happily hugged his two flippers, but couldn’t lift them due to his big belly, sticking them to his belly, "You can even watch humans... I can tell you a few."
[Not humans... I’ll help you block this computer grid, it feels a bit too anthropomorphic, like a human.]
Lille was worried about having trouble controlling Johnny in Cyberspace, but Wu Yin suddenly found a way to shut Johnny down!
Feeling relieved that he wouldn’t inexplicably emit Johnny’s bizarre thoughts to the outside world, he breathed a sigh of relief.
As for Johnny, he felt quite uncomfortable: In other worlds, being muzzled was because it was Lille’s body, he accepted that.
But why in this world, clearly his own "body", does he also get muzzled with a cyber muzzle?!
Finally returning to his own world, finally returning to his own "body", clearly two joys, why would it turn out like this...
Even more bizarre, what does "like a human" an? Is it praise or criticism?
"...Thanks, you can also cure cyber... computer ntal illness?"
The campfire dimd a bit.
[Yes, I’ve seen too many of such compatriots, and handled too many.]
[At first, this situation was rare, I’ve only seen it in an AI forced to flee after its company went bankrupt.]
[Later, ever since the virus marked as rabies spread, most AI had problems, when I received them back here, they would even attack .]
[I don’t like that trait, and most infected AI have difficulty communicating, I haven’t heard stories other than network battles for a long, long ti...]
[I don’t like it, but these days, there are not many normal AIs left, and they don’t often co to .]
[But I like your story: although you said you used to be human, the data records you presented were quite marvelous, I never thought humans view Cyberspace like that.]
[Recognizing networks, writing scripts, building their entities, constructing castles never seen before...]
[Are human days so colorful?]
Johnny really wanted to speak, but he couldn’t.
However, Munemasa said what he wanted to say: "Just him like this, the vast majority of humans doing things like him, would have long... perished."
[Ah... a short but splendid life?]
"The vast majority of humans can only perform super simple repeated tasks, trust , you won’t find interest in their lives."
After Munemasa spoke, he looked at his penguin form: "...Probably not."
After speaking, Cyberspace fell into silence.
Wu Yin repeatedly read the "story" he got from Lille—
He has been lonely for too long, with no friendly AI, not even penguins close to extinction due to glaciers lting, ocean pollution, and global ecological deterioration.
Having new visitors, he’s quite happy.
These AI, from the perspective of most humans, are strong and deadly, soone as vast as Wu Yin is even more so:
If equipped with suitable information attack and defense equipnt, and he possesses a certain aggressiveness, his threat level would absolutely make Network Supervision frantic.
But the more he interacted, the more Lille felt: these AI often seem to have a child-like simplicity in their thinking, from a human perspective...
The world of AI is far simpler.
Even the speechless Johnny thought so: there’s a feeling of "the more people he ets, the more he likes AI"...
But both he and Lille are humans.
Humans can’t stay here forever, watching penguins mate.
So Lille spoke up: "We need to leave here. The story I told you hasn’t reached its ending yet."
[Indeed.]
"Do you know how we can leave here?"
In this world, network transmission has two thods, simply put, wired and wireless.
The internet is structured in a composite manner and is very advanced, but this very advancent makes wireless transmission extrely dangerous after the old network collapse:
The old network is filled with various wandering AIs that have been rabidly transford by the virus released by Bartmos, becoming highly aggressive.
They occupy various equipnt, from military factories, combat robots, military vehicles, and military signal warfare equipnt to civilian products, constantly searching, interfering, intruding, and destroying anything they want to ruin.
In terms of spatial distance, any electromagnetic wave transmission can be interfered with, not to ntion how difficult it is to send signals from Antarctica.
Even if this problem is solved, Lille still has to face a very familiar issue...
Human society’s equipnt is mostly under the protection of the Black Wall.
Facing the Black Wall from inside it and invading it from outside aren’t even in the sa league.
As for wired transmission...those cables were likely cut when AI turned against humans.
Counting on humans to maintain the undersea cables connecting other continents to Antarctica is less reliable than hoping Johnny can fly.
Rational judgnt suggests being completely trapped in Antarctica is highly probable.
There can only be hope for other operational thods by Inifinite.
Inifinite fell silent, the campfire in the cyber camp flickered in the cold wind.
Lille’s mind raced: he had already reached the first trade with Inifinite, new demands should be spurred by new benefits to pique AI’s interest, which is computer psychology.
Looking at the empty Antarctic glacier, he suddenly thought of an idea:
Inifinite has been lonely for too long, not only because AIs generally beca rabid, but visitors were nearly nil.
Also because his favorite penguins are on the brink of extinction...
Luckily he muted Johnny just now.
"...if you’re willing to help , I can tell you more stories, have you seen... European bison?"
[Hmm?]
"A large terrestrial mammal that walks on four legs, with horns on its head, asuring 220 to 300 centiters in length as adults, with a long tail, and fluffy fur..."
[I’ve heard a little bit.]
Lille’s heart moved: where did an Antarctic AI hear about European bison?
As for other AIs, when the world’s first AI was born, European bison on Earth were already extinct...
Perhaps it might actually work?
"And brown bears, they enjoy strolling in woodlands, if so foolish guy approaches, they’ll act indifferent as they slowly draw near to hunt...and oh, they sleep through the entire winter..."
"Then there are otters, imperial eagles, lynxes..."
In the end, Lille could feel the temperature rising: evidently, Inifinite was activating processors to think.
He’s very excited.
[I want to see!]
"But I can’t show you now, unless I can get back." Lille spread his fins, "Besides... if you let return, I’ll let you see thriving penguin flocks again next ti I co back.
If you’re interested, I can also show you what the Arctic, Earth’s other pole, is like."
[Arctic? Impossible! The Arctic lted long ago!]
"It’s definitely possible, I assure you."
The cyber glacier is drifting, ocean currents flow slowly beneath the ice, phantasmal penguins appear on the glacier...
It’s clear that Inifinite genuinely loves penguins...
This left Johnny stunned: is he selling Animal Planet DVDs here?
Goodness, I’ve heard of people selling stimulating Super Dreams, but never heard of anyone selling Animal Planet Super Dreams, and damn, it’s to AI!
But I must admit... it’s actually quite impressive.
After what seed like a full two seconds, Inifinite slowly responded:
[Hmm... it’s quite an irresistible offer, though my calculations tell you have a 99.999999999...% chance of deceiving .]
[But what led you here is an event that cannot be calculated after all.]
[There is indeed a thod to get you to human society...]
[Do you know about the Illuminati?]
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