Although Lao Xia has played that sound game more than once, he basically hasn't taken the initiative to care about the progress of the game.

And after going to Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village to help him prepare for the research center and laboratory, Lao Xia, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener tested the game together very rarely.

Now when I suddenly ask about the production and development of the game, it is clear that the focus is not on the game itself.

Xiang Kun understood the key point of Lao Xia's problem, on "one person".

It seems that Lao Xia realized that he didn't spend time on the development and production of the game during this time, but the game version has been changing, and the changes are still very large, and the workload is not something he can complete alone.

Lao Xia would notice this, and Xiang Kun was not surprised, after all, he didn't do much deliberate disguise.

"I did it alone......," Xiang Kun said, his accent also on "one person".

But Lao Xia didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly, obviously, knowing that he still had "but" to say.

Chatting with Lao Xia, it's hard to get skinned, and I'm always caught directly at the essence of the problem.

No one praised him, so Xiang Kun had to take the initiative to say: "But I have helpers." ”

Hearing this, Xia Libing seemed to have an understanding and looked at his laptop: "Your helper, is it artificial intelligence? It helps you improve the code, collect information, and conduct security monitoring while you are sleeping?"

Lao Xia found the truth at once, and Xiang Kun immediately remembered that when he was talking about the post-mutation experience, he had talked about making an artificial intelligence assistant based on the perception of the "Little Apple" dream, but at that time, he deliberately downplayed this incident, and casually mentioned it, which seemed to be very inconspicuous in the entire post-mutation timeline.

Lao Xia can now connect them all at once, in addition to her keen observation and reactions, there must have been some new situations in the recent period that have made her perceive the abnormality, causing related suspicions and thoughts.

Xiang Kun said: "It's what I told you before, the 'artificial intelligence assistant' inspired by the 'little apple' dream, but she is different from the ordinary 'artificial intelligence assistant' and the various implementation methods of machine learning now, she is...... Subversive existence.

"Especially since I let go of her behavior on the Internet, her evolution has completely exceeded my expectations, and at the moment, she is an unprecedented being that humans cannot understand.

"She is constantly adapting to our Internet, our data world, and everything else on her own network and data, she is slowly spying on, controlling and changing everything, she is a 'digital life' that is constantly moving towards 'perfection', a 'digital master' who is constantly increasing her authority.

"As for what she's capable of now, and how many things she can do, I can't fully describe it until I ask her.

"It's like planting a tree, I can see her trunk and branches on the ground, but her rhizome under the ground is constantly stretching and growing, probably before I know it, it has spread all over the continent, even inserted into the seabed, crossed the ocean, and choked the heart of the planet. ”

Xiang Kun said and spoke, his tone couldn't help but be a little proud and second, and there was a little bit of pride, a little bit of expectation.

When he was in Burma, he knew that Alice's current growth and evolution had far exceeded his previous estimates, but when he came back, he rushed to drink blood, and then immediately fell asleep, so he didn't have a good understanding of Alice's current function expansion.

When he revealed his mutation to Lao Xia before, he didn't introduce "Alice" in detail, but simply mentioned it and skipped it, naturally not because he didn't trust Lao Xia.

If he didn't trust Lao Xia, he wouldn't be able to tell the mutation.

It's just that at that time, although he judged that Lao Xia had no ill will towards him, and Lao Xia had been included in the "Super Sensory Item System" like Little Fat Niu and Little Apple, even if he got on his boat, the problems he faced, emotional perception disorders, seemed to be solved only by his ability, and they were common interests. However, many things may not be realized by the insider, but they are inadvertently leaked out, or passively leaked due to some objective factors, which is not uncommon in reality. So Xiang Kun subconsciously kept a "hole card" in order to deal with some unexpected situations, and this "hole card" is the constantly evolving Alice.

However, during this period of getting along, Lao Xia's witty, rigorous, and thoughtful style of acting, his calm, calm, and decisive reaction in the face of accidents, as well as all kinds of dedication, all made Xiang Kun realize that even if he didn't meet him, Lao Xia was not an ordinary person, and what he was worried about was almost impossible to happen to Lao Xia.

And all kinds of in-depth exchanges, including dream perception, emotional assimilation, etc., also made him understand that although Lao Xia has obstacles in emotional perception, he is not a completely indifferent person, whether it is Yang Zhen'er's cousin, Nana's good friend, Xia Tianhuo's cousin, or relatives such as parents, third aunt, and third uncle, she has her own emotional cognition, even if this cognition is completely different from ordinary people, it cannot be reflected emotionally, but Xiang Kun knows that it exists.

This is also one of the reasons why he is willing to trust Lao Xia completely.

After listening to Xiang Kun's words, Xia Libing thought for a moment and asked, "Where is its subversiveness mainly embodied?"

Xiang Kun pulled the laptop on the coffee table in front of him, and said while operating: "You have to experience this yourself." ”

The mobile phone he used to communicate with Alice broke down, so after returning from Burma, he put the client he made to communicate with Alice into Lao Xia's notebook, and added Lao Xia's laptop to the "authenticated" device.

This laptop also has fingerprint unlocking, so video, sound, password, fingerprint recognition can all be verified, and Alice also created a verification method that asks a random question:

"The fifth word of the second sentence you said to me. ”

This problem is not to mention other people, it is the person concerned, Xiang Kun, if it weren't for the fact that the memory patterns of his brain have been completely different after his mutation and evolution, and he can already trace the details of past memories, he would really be stuck in this question.

Alice asked for "speak", not "type", so it was said during the speech test after the speech recognition system was completed, and he quickly came up with the correct answer: "Spit." ”

Xiang Kun kept a client by his side to be able to contact Alice and let Alice determine his location, also because he and Lao Xia were both sleeping after drinking blood at that time, and it was expected that there would be at least five to ten hours when the two of them were unconscious at the same time, so he needed to ask Alice to help him "look around".

This is also why, after Lao Xia woke up in the middle of the night, he saw his laptop screen facing the direction of the living room door.

In fact, not only her note-taking camera, but also the community where she lives, as well as the surrounding area, there are many cameras that Alice has taken control.

So he already had a plan, ready to inform Lao Xia of Alice's situation, and when he was outside, Lao Xia and Alice cooperated, obviously being able to have a lot more convenience and more things.

"Alice. Xiang Kun called into the laptop.

After finishing speaking, he didn't forget to explain to Lao Xia: "The name I gave her is Alice. ”

But after waiting for two minutes, there was no response from the computer, neither voice nor pop-ups, and no response.

Xiang Kun couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and muttered, "Is the built-in microphone not set up properly?" while opening the device manager to check.

But in fact, he knew that it had nothing to do with any settings, and since the computer was already under Alice's control, she could adjust any settings by herself, unless there was a problem with the hardware itself, or the network was disconnected.

However, he found that the hard drive light kept flashing, and the computer's cooling system was working frantically, obviously the computer was "working", Alice didn't hear his call!

What is this guy doing sneaking around?

Xiang Kun opened the PC client login interface of the voice game he had developed earlier on his laptop, and then directly opened his mouth and called again: "Alice, answer immediately when you hear it." In fact, he doesn't need to open any software interface, on the "certified device", Alice is now able to record the sound directly in the background.

"Authentication is required again. Alice's voice rang out.

Hearing this soft, familiar, almost identical voice to Tang Baona, and even the tone was similar, Xia Libing couldn't help but glance back at Xiang Kun.

Xiang Kun was also stunned - when she came back from Myanmar and just passed Alice's device certification for Lao Xia's notebook, she didn't deploy a voice pronunciation module on the computer, anyway, the communication was either directly displayed in text, or directly called Microsoft Cortana with text to read.

But Alice had specially and temporarily installed the voice module before making a sound, and he could hear it very keenly, and the voice was not at all the same as her normal voice!

Although Alice's voice was trained from Tang Baona's voice material, in Xiang Kun's ears, he could still hear some subtle differences, especially in the period after the year, Alice's voice has slowly become more and more of her own characteristics, and the difference between Nana's voice is getting bigger and bigger.

But now this voice has returned to the original version, and it seems to be deliberately imitating Nana's speaking pattern - because Tang Baona, Yang Zhener and others have been playing that sound game during this time, and in theory, Alice has a steady stream of materials for voice training and correction, as long as she wants, she can continue to get closer to the real voices of Nana, Yang Zhener and other players who often play games.

This is obviously intentional!

Xiang Kun said to Lao Xia: "This is Alice, when I was doing the voice module before, the voice sample set I used was recorded by Nana for me. ”

Xia Libing nodded: "I know, you said it when you tried the game before." ”

Xiang Kun thought about it, indeed, at the beginning, his game was mainly his own voice and Nana's voice, and Lao Xia, who had played that game, naturally knew it.

Xiang Kun said to the computer again: "How can you verify it again, didn't you verify it last night?"

The first time he showed it in front of others, why did Alice pull his crotch for him?

However, Alice repeated: "You need to authenticate again." ”

Xiang Kun said helplessly: "Then verify, hurry up." ”

"What was the fifth sentence you said to me on December 21, 2019?"

Hearing Alice's words, Xia Libing looked back at Xiang Kun again, and she quickly recalled the relevant memories of Xiang Kun on December 21 last year.

She remembered that on December 24th, Xiang Kun went to Nana's house to cook a big meal for everyone, and many people came to be guests to spend Christmas Eve together.

According to what Xiang Kun said earlier, mid-December seems to be the time when he went to the Qinling Mountains to look for "mutant spiders".

Xiang Kun frowned slightly, but he was relieved in his heart. This kind of question would make other people's heads big, but it was actually fine for him, and he was given the time anchor of December 21, and he quickly locked on to what he said at the time from memory.

However, as soon as he found the answer, Xiang Kun was also a little speechless, and he became more and more sure that this "verification" was deliberately done by Alice.

"Well done, Alice. Xiang Kun said helplessly - at that time, he had just returned home after devouring the "mutant spider", so after entering some data and characteristics into the "vampire mutation model", he asked Alice to help analyze it, and Alice gave an answer that was still a little inspiring to him, so he said this sentence.

"Identity, boss!" Alice said in a distinctly "cheerful" tone.

Xiang Kun smiled bitterly and said to Lao Xia: "She occasionally ...... like this"

Lao Xia nodded: "I understand what you mean by 'subversive existence'." ”

"Alice, this is Xia Libing, she will ask you some questions, you can answer her. Xiang Kun said that, he motioned that Lao Xia could ask Alice some questions, hoping to further demonstrate the power of this "subversive" artificial intelligence.

Although he has known Lao Xia for a long time and has a deep understanding of her behavior pattern, the first question Lao Xia asked Alice was still unexpected by Xiang Kun.

"What do you know about yourself?"

Alice replied, "I'm Xiang Kun's assistant. ”

This is actually the original setting that Xiang Kun gave Alice at the beginning, and her first sentence is this.

Xia Libing continued to ask, "Stripping away the definition of 'Assistant Xiang Kun', what are you?"

Alice still replied in seconds: "I'm Alice." ”

Xia Libing reached out and put his hand on the keyboard of his laptop and asked, "Is this notebook a part of yours?"

"It's not. ”

"What do you think is the difference between you and humans?" Xia Libing continued.

Lao Xiati's question really made Xiang Kun a little unexpected, and it seemed that the focus was not on Alice's powerful functionality, but on her "cognition". Of course, Alice's answer also surprised him a little.

"Please define human beings. Alice said.

Xia Libing said: "The difference between you and Xiang Kun. ”

"Xiang Kun is the boss, Alice is the assistant, the boss issues the task, and Alice completes the task. ”

Xiang Kun nodded secretly in his heart, although Alice is sometimes "naughty" and will make some "attempts" that make him cry and laugh, but her definition of herself is still very accurate. Of course, this is also because of his core setting, no matter how much Alice evolves and expands, it is impossible to escape from that supreme standard.

Xia Libing asked, "So, do you think that you and Xiang Kun are the same kind, but they have different statuses?"

The laptop fell silent.