Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 152 NO.0097: At Your Own Consequences (Part 2)

The building modules suspended in mid-air are constantly deformed and combined like Lego blocks, and a female model is gradually formed in it.

It was a woman with deathly pale skin and heavy smoky makeup. Half of her hair was shaved to outline the rounded shape of the skull, and several electronic wires of ever-changing colors were embedded in it; while the other half of her head had long, soft hair hanging down to her left shoulder.

She wore a black leather jacket full of rivets on her upper body, and ragged denim shorts that barely covered her thighs on her lower body. And on her compass-like slender legs, she wore a pair of knee-high boots that seemed to make walking very uncomfortable.

After the modeling of this rebellious image was completed, the person fell directly from mid-air, making a "crash" sound, which was the sound of metal ornaments colliding with each other—she looked like an inverse cross, a goat's head, Metal ornaments such as skulls add up to enough to make a stainless steel frying pan...

In short, this look of hers can directly become the focus of the crowd at a goth metal concert, as long as she hugs an electric guitar.

Jiang Zhou, who was about to say something, was instantly overwhelmed by the opponent's appearance.

He originally thought that this ruthless person who had reached the limit of human intelligence with the title of "The Abyss" should choose a more solemn and solemn look.

did not expect……

"It's good to be in cyberspace, and you can change back to your youthful appearance at any time."

On the other side, after landing on the ground, Christie took out a pack of slender women's cigarettes from her pocket. She rubbed the cigarette butt with her fingertips and lit it, then looked sideways at Jiang Zhou who was standing still and said so.

Then, seeing that the other party was still in a daze, she couldn't help raising her tone:

"Why are you stunned? Don't you know that I was the bass player of the gallows band back then?"

The latter just woke up like a dream at this time.

"Then what... I was entrusted by Charon this time..."

Recalling the purpose of his trip, Jiang Zhou said immediately.

"I know."

The other party waved impatiently, and the eye not covered by the long bangs looked directly at the scroll-shaped data pad in Jiang Zhou's hand.

"That old man finally knows how troublesome it is to find a horse that suits him?"

Regarding this, Jiang Zhou asked curiously:

"Will it be troublesome?"

Christie flicked the cigarette ash and looked at Jiang Zhou with a strange expression.

"You have already come to a place like Narcissus Plain, and you don't even know this bit of common sense? Didn't that old thing tell you?"

Jiang Zhou shook his head, feeling like a game player who skipped all the cutscenes at the moment.

In this regard, Christie sighed, and seemed a little helpless:

"Okay...Let me simply say that the initial codes of all malicious programs are all from those super artificial intelligences during the 'big shock' period. And those guys whose names are best not to be mentioned, they The source of the digital personalities is the first few digital personalities. Comparing the evolution of the earth's creatures, the first few guys including the first deep diver, they are the ancestor creatures that appeared in the cyber world. And through their From the raw data, those AIs were able to develop several different phylogenetic trees."

Christie dropped the half-smoked cigarette on the ground, then stomped it out with her boots. Then, she continued:

"You know that some newborns have atavism, right? The sudden expression of some ancient gene, such as lush body hair, webbed palms, or scales on the skin, and all kinds of other things. Genetic disease like this...replacing genes with constantly iterative programming code, then this is the same for those AIs. Occasionally, their programming code will be similar to the characteristics of some people's mental models. And these people, That is the man best suited to be their steed.

"Because of the Styx firewall, those malicious programs must pass through the medium of 'steeds' to enter basement reality. Thus, the closer the mental models of selected steeds are to their ancestors, the more they will be able to channel their power to infiltrate base reality."

Having said that, Christie stopped, and then looked at Jiang Zhou again.

"It seems that the old thing has not found a new horse suitable for it for so many years, and now he wants to come back to me for help? Hehehe, there are people who really think that the mental model is similar to that of the first deep diver. Is it easy to find?"

She said so with a somewhat gloating smile on her face.

Jiang Zhou didn't speak for a while, but was thoughtful.

At this moment, he didn't pay attention to the possible conflict between her and Charon at all - he seemed to have drawn a very extraordinary conclusion from the other party's previous speech...

If, including myself, the first batch of uploaded digital personalities is the starting point for the evolution of all malicious programs in the Abyss Darknet today... Then, isn't myself at least the most suitable for all "Janus" series AIs? Candidates for the "Horse"?

That is the so-called "prototype"?

"Hey! Boy, what did Charon tell you?"

Christie raised the tone of her speech, pulling Jiang Zhou back from thinking to reality in an instant.

"Ah... this..."

Unfolding the scroll in a panic, Jiang Zhou dug out what Charon had left for Christie.

"A year's time."

He said:

"Charon's condition is that it only needs you to be its steed for another year. During this period, no matter what it does with your body, you can't interfere. Even if it doesn't control your body, you still need to obey it arrangement... As long as you swear in the name of the goddess Styx and agree to its condition. Then after the contract expires, it will allow you to surpass the limit of human intelligence and upgrade to depth 8. Not only that, it will even It will directly help you complete the upgrade."

Having said that, Jiang Zhou raised his head and asked a little puzzled:

"Didn't it allow you to upgrade to depth 8 before?"

Shouldn't it be that the higher the degree of transformation, the more things a horse can do?

"For one year, it is allowed to upgrade to depth 8..."

Christie fell into deep thought about the conditions offered by Charon.

After a long time, she looked at Jiang Zhou again and said:

"I didn't expect this old thing to let go of this condition."

Then, without waiting for Jiang Zhou to ask, she took the initiative to explain:

"The reason why the limit of human intelligence is called the limit of human intelligence is because after crossing this line, the adjuster is not only the body, but even the mental model will no longer be a person. At that time, I will not be able to continue to be a 'horse' 'For those AI to ride.

"Even, when the time comes to roam the abyss, if one is not careful, it will be recognized as a malicious program by the firewall, and will be trapped in the abyss forever by the river Styx..."

In other words, this is the transformation of humans into AI...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

But right now, the limit of human intelligence is too far away from me.

He put the question down for the time being, and then asked with some expectation in his tone:

"In other words, are you willing to agree to Mr. Charon's conditions?"

As for this, Christie laughed directly and mockingly.

"What's the point of agreeing? Do I still count on someone like you..."

As she spoke, she lifted her bangs with burgundy highlights, revealing the blood-red mechanical eyes underneath.

"I count on you, a depth 2 adjuster of the Icarus path, to be able to get me out of this...what is this garbage dump called? Oh, the city of sages..."

Christie took a deep breath and said with a smile:

"Do I have to rely on you to bring me out of the city of sages?"

There was a hint of bitterness in her laughter.

And Jiang Zhou immediately asked:

"What do you mean, are you forced to be trapped here?"

"It's the same reason you're locked up here."

The other party answered with a somewhat uncomfortable expression.

Jiang Zhou couldn't believe it.

"But... aren't you a depth 7 adjuster who has reached the limit of human intelligence?"

In this regard, Christie showed a smile full of "sell horse" emotions on his face, as if he would scold at any time, and said:

"But the problem is, that son of a bitch over there, that Stitch monster with a brain full of Holy Trinity, is also depth 7."

"Stitches? Do you mean Dionysus Bureau?"

Jiang Zhou asked quickly.

"It's that stupid thing, or is it the depth 7 of Theseus' path, which absorbs thousands of digital personalities and stitches them into your own consciousness. Otherwise, you think I'm providing computing power to this city because I'm doing Public welfare? It's not because I can't beat that bastard."

"ah?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhou was stunned again.

"So, just relying on your three-legged cat's ability, it's better to save me if you want to take me out... If you want me to say, you should obediently upload your personality data into the database. Anyway, for individuals The quality of life here is not too bad…”

Christie was still complaining non-stop, but Jiang Zhou suddenly understood why Charon found himself to complete this task.

It turns out that the database body of the Dionysus Bureau is a Theseus path adjuster with a depth of 7.

If that's the case... isn't the other party eager for him to upload his digital personality?

So what would happen if I used the sixteen-digit verification password a hundred years ago to verify and guide the other party to try to absorb the digital personality I uploaded a hundred years ago?

"Then it can only be said...you will bear the consequences."