Cyberpunk: 2075

"It's been really busy tonight. I didn't expect that we originally wanted to watch Jack work leisurely and drink slowly by ourselves, but in the end we were caught helping together."

Complaining and feeling exhausted, Oliver collapsed on the sofa as soon as he returned home from the Wolf Bar.

"I didn't expect it to be so busy today. You guys came just in time."

Jack smiled: "Thank you for moving the wine from two warehouses. I was too busy up front and couldn't get away."

"Moving the wine is a trivial matter."

With the help of his arms, Karl didn't actually feel that he had expended much effort. After working all afternoon, he could still leisurely drink sweet tea when he got home. He glanced at the person who had been exhausted from the chip training and did it again in the afternoon. After an afternoon of carrying goods, Oliver, who was almost exhausted, said to Jack:

"But there were more Valentino gang members in the bar this afternoon. Did something happen?"

"Carl, did you see it?"

"Although I was moving wine and ingredients to the warehouse with Oliver and V, when I was busy in the back alley, I still saw a lot of people with the Valentino Gang logo tattooed walking into the bar."

After Carl finished speaking, the paralyzed Oliver also said: "I also saw it, which gang is going to go to war with, have you discussed the fight in advance?"

"It's not that kind of thing."

Jack said, but then he paused and then said: "This is actually a strange thing. When Valentino helped rob the company's goods recently, he robbed a company dog ​​and planned to control him and ask for the location of the goods. The next moment, the company dog ​​suddenly exploded, as if there was a bomb inside his body, causing many people in the gang to die. Gustavo, who was in charge of that operation, suspected that there was something fishy, ​​so he called in people to think about it. To investigate."

Gustavo is a senior member of the Valentino Gang and has a good relationship with Jack. He often visits the Wolf Bar with his Valentino Gang members. Although Carl and the others are not very impressed with him, I didn’t even say hello or get to know him, but I still knew him.

Gustavo's men robbed the company dog, and the company dog ​​blew himself up. Why does this sound so familiar?

V, who was next to him, thought of similar things almost immediately: "When we were on the road before, and when we went to the Wild Wolf Bar today, plus what Jack said about Valentino helping people rob the company dog, This is the third time that a company dog ​​has been kidnapped and then blew himself up.”

"three times?"

In Jack's confusion, Carl told Jack what happened when they came over.

"Mann and the others also encountered this incident when they kidnapped Arasaka's company dog...:

Jack felt that there seemed to be some connection, but something was wrong: "The company dog ​​that Gustavo and the others robbed was from Contao Company.

And Mann and the others are from Arasaka Company. The ones we met before should be from KENDACHI Company. There should be three companies. Are all the employees of those big companies so loyal? They will self-destruct whenever something happens. "

"If they are not all loyal, there can only be another reason..."

Karl thought of one thing: "That is, they were all controlled to self-destruct. Do you remember the first time we got the military technology exoskeleton, and the time we sold the exoskeleton to Rogge?" What happened in Big Bird's Turning Bar, the military technology driver I faced was controlled by military technology and his head was blown. Isn't this a bit similar?"

"There's a difference between blowing up the head and blowing up the whole body, affecting the surrounding area."

Jack said: "The power of the things we have seen is equivalent to the explosion range of an RPG. If you put this thing into a normal person,

Even employees of the company must be more or less responsive and pay attention. This is not a small number that is easy to detect if it is tampered with. "

"Maybe the procedures are similar, but the control methods are different."

Karl said, but he was thinking carefully.

Although it is not a particularly outrageous thing for the company to insert this kind of control program into employees and detonate employees when something happens to prevent the company's secrets from being leaked, after all, after entering the company, the lives of employees are basically bound to the terms. , the legal operation in this area is simple and easy, it will not be an obstacle at all, and every company may be happy to see this kind of thing, but this is not in the interest of the other party.

The self-destruction equipment and procedures that prevent employees from noticing or even being unable to remove them without interfering with his work as 007 are not that simple. The connections between the relevant nerves and organs involved require professional prostheses. The doctor spent a lot of effort on the operation,

He could barely manage to prevent him from suddenly falling down while working overtime, causing a chain of explosions among his colleagues in the office and destroying the entire company.

To be honest, the energy and resources spent, plus the risks that need to be taken, are secrets that only low-level employees can know, and the value of his life may not be comparable. This is very important to the company. Not very affordable.

Are there any factors behind this...?

"I feel that this is a bit like the work of AI. The controller loses value and actively destroys it."

While several people were discussing, the door of a room on the second floor opened, and T-BUG walked out. As soon as he walked out, he said something that surprised several people on the first floor.

"AI, you mean AI?"

Oliver looked up in surprise and looked at the T-BUG with his hands on the edge of the guardrail on the second floor indoors, looking down at them: "Can AI control such a thing?"

"Not only can it control this kind of thing, maybe some AI can also control humans in some way and act like humans.

T-BUG's words actually taught Karl some new knowledge.

According to the information Karl learned from listening to T-BUG in the past, there was a data collapse in this world that affected the whole world. In that storm, the world's network was paralyzed, and it also contributed to a bunch of self-awareness. Network AI was born. They roamed the network and constantly attacked everyone who tried to enter the network after the collapse, causing the network to be extremely insecure;

In this case, in order to protect the existing network, some companies have joined forces to build a firewall called a "black wall" on the network to block those AIs from intruding into today's network. , but the black wall does not always stop AI. There are often those who accidentally pass through the black wall, or are born in today’s network, and flow uncontrollably into AI and the network, resulting in a series of extreme incidents in company reports. Serious damage.

Karl used to think that this kind of AI only caused damage on the Internet, but now T-BUG said that it can also control people. This is indeed a great insight.

"AI controls people. Isn't this a hypothesis? T-BUG, where do you get the basis for this?"

Oliver was still a little unbelievable, but T-BUG did not explain this. She just said:

"I've been a hacker for a long time, and I've seen a lot of ghosts on the road."

Afterwards, she dropped a chip and was caught by Karl.

"Don't think so much. It's best not to worry about it if it doesn't involve us. Whether it's being caught by network monitors or them coming to your door, it won't be a good thing. This is a series of possibilities for our mission goals that I have sorted out. You can take a look at the information about the location now and go check out the location early tomorrow.”

After saying this, T-BUG yawned and returned to the room again. It seemed that she was ready to rest.

Holding the chip, Karl looked at the closed door of T-BUG's room, thought for a moment, and shook his head.

T-BUG is right about this.

Insert the chip.

Compared to things you haven’t encountered yet, it’s better to consider completing the things you are doing now.