Yang Jingchen has been in a bad mood these days, the reason is naturally because her son disappeared suddenly, there is no news, and only when Xia Jiuying came to visit her in the laboratory, she showed a smile.

As the supreme leader in the laboratory and the highest authority in academia, Yang Jingchen's mood is comparable to the barometer of the laboratory, she is in a bad mood, although this emotion is not much brought to work, nor is she angry for no reason because of a bad mood, but the atmosphere in the laboratory still seems a little depressing.

On this day, Yang Jingchen was busy with a day's work, it was already very late, except for a few graduate students in the laboratory who were still catching up with the schedule, there was no one left, she packed up her things, and when she was about to leave, she suddenly heard a graduate student in the work area outside the laboratory scream, this exclamation was particularly abrupt in the quiet laboratory.

"What's going on?" Yang Jingchen stopped, frowned and asked.

"Oh, nothing, I'm sorry, Professor Yang." The graduate student turned his head and said to Yang Jingchen.

"Well, you should go back and rest early, don't stay up too late and affect your study and work the next day." Yang Jingchen didn't think much about it, told the two graduate students, and then went out of the laboratory and went home.

The next day, Yang Jingchen had breakfast, came to the laboratory as usual, sat down at his desk and turned on the computer, ready to copy out the courseware prepared last night, and then went to class. ”

Such a sudden dialog box could easily make Yang Jingchen think that her computer was poisoned, but the antivirus software installed on her computer did not respond at all, which indicates that this virus is likely to be a new type of virus.

Yang Jingchen didn't move the dialog box, but got up and went out to find Zhao Ming, and asked him to kill the computer, and she took the textbook to class, the courseware is just a simple auxiliary for her, playing the role of icing on the cake, if not, it won't affect anything.

After a morning of classes, when it was almost noon, Yang Jingchen returned to the laboratory again, Zhao Ming saw her and immediately greeted her, so he casually asked, "Is the computer ready?" ”

"Professor Yang, I was about to talk to you about this." Zhao Ming said.

"What's wrong?" Yang Jingchen frowned and asked, she returned to her office while speaking, but saw that the original computer on her desk had been moved and a computer was temporarily replaced, "What's the matter, why did you change the computer?" ”

"Professor Yang, here's the thing...... Zhao Ming hurriedly explained the matter, it turned out that not only Yang Jingchen's computer had a problem, but also other computers in the laboratory, and after nearly a morning of hard work, all the attempts failed, in this case, in order to ensure that Yang Jingchen had a computer after returning to the laboratory after class, Zhao Ming temporarily found an idle computer and put it on Yang Jingchen's desk, and in order to prevent this computer from having problems again, This computer is not currently connected to the network.

When Zhao Ming was talking, Xia Jiuying came in from outside, but did not speak, but sat on a chair in the office and listened quietly, since she came back from the United States, she came to Yang Jingchen every other day to sit here, and Yang Jingchen did not treat her as an outsider anymore, so after Xia Jiuying came in, she just nodded to her, signaling Zhao Ming, who was interrupted by Xia Jiuying, to continue.

"That's the way it is, our people can't solve it, and then they notified the Xuan Ne company to send someone, and it didn't solve it, and now they took the two computers in the laboratory and went back to the company to do virus analysis, and once there are results, they will notify us immediately." Zhao Ming said.

"Are you sure it's a virus, could it be a hacker?" Yang Jingchen asked.

"It's still impossible to know for sure, but this virus ......," Zhao Ming said, pausing in the middle of his words.

"What's wrong with the virus, what to say, don't swallow it." Yang Jingchen frowned and said.

"Yes, it is possible that this virus was written by a hacker specifically against Professor Yang." Zhao Ming said at this time.

"Are you referring to the text of the dialog?" Yang Jingchen asked.

"Yes, there is a dialog box like that on all the computers in the laboratory, the text is exactly the same, and the dialog box is a global exclusive dialog box, if you don't turn it off, you can't continue to operate the computer, but this dialog box can't be turned off at all." Zhao Ming said.

"It's strange, what kind of hacker is it, and why are you looking for me?" Yang Jingchen habitually knocked on the table with his fingers and muttered to himself.

"Auntie, can I talk to you alone?" Xia Jiuying suddenly spoke.

Hearing Xia Jiuying's sudden opening, Yang Jingchen was stunned, it was very rude to interrupt other people's conversations, Xia Jiuying's tutoring was excellent, if it weren't for special circumstances, she would definitely not do this.

"Zhao Ming, you go out first, there is a result over there, notify me in time." So, Yang Jingchen sent Zhao Ming out.

"Yingying, do you have anything to say?" After Zhao Ming went out, Yang Jingchen asked.

"Auntie, I think this hacker may have something to do with Xiao Yuan." Xia Jiuying opened her mouth and said, her tone still a little excited.

"Xiao Yuan?" Yang Jingchen's eyes also lit up, remembering the mysterious computer technology that his son had mastered, and hurriedly asked, "Do you think Xiao Yuan used this method because he couldn't contact us directly because of some unspeakable secret?" ”

"There is this possibility, but there is another possibility, and this possibility is even greater, I just listened to what Mr. Zhao Ming said, and I feel that this situation in the laboratory is more like the work of a superintelligence raised by Xiao Yuan, if it is really her, unless she automatically hands over the control of the computer, I am afraid that Xuan Ne will also be helpless." Xia Jiuying said.

"Superagents, what superagents?" Yang Jingchen herself is an expert in artificial intelligence research, so she is much more sensitive to the word agent than ordinary people, so when Xia Jiuying mentioned super intelligence, she immediately attracted most of her attention and raised her voice to ask.

"This agent has intelligence that is not weaker than that of humans, can talk directly to people, and more importantly, she seems to be omnipotent in computers and networks." Xia Jiuying explained.

"This is impossible, Xiao Yuan must be lying to you, how can there be this kind of intelligence that is completely equivalent to human intelligence, and it is omnipotent in computers and networks, this is the highest goal of the development of artificial intelligence in the world today, but no scientific research institution has yet claimed to have developed such an intelligent body......" After listening to Xia Jiuying's introduction, Yang Jingchen's first reaction was negative, but halfway through the words, he felt that he seemed to be arbitrary, because what Xia Jiuying said just now was that this agent was raised by Xiao Yuan, So he stopped and asked, "Yingying, have you seen this agent with your own eyes?" ”

"Yes, by the way, this agent is a girl, and it has a nice name, called Ning Lan." Xia Jiuying said.

"You suspect that the superintelligence is responsible for today's situation in the lab, so why did she find it here?" Yang Jingchen made a decision to believe Xia Jiuying's words for the time being, so he asked.

"If it's really Ning Lan, you need to ask her to know." Xia Jiuying said.

"How do you ask?" Yang Jingchen asked, and after asking, he added, "Teacher Zhao Ming said just now that the dialog box is globally exclusive, and it can't be removed at all, and it doesn't provide any input interface. ”

"You can't type text, you can try to talk to her directly, using a microphone." Xia Jiuying said.

"Can she understand people?" Xia Jiuying's words shocked Yang Jingchen again.

"Yes, if it's really her, yes." Xia Jiuying said.

"Okay, let's try, now I'll ask Zhao Ming to get a computer." Yang Jingchen seemed to be very interested in this situation, and even ignored the other of the two hypotheses mentioned by Xia Jiuying before, and the current situation may be that Xiao Yuan is contacting her through the Internet.

Zhao Ming quickly got a problematic computer, and connected the microphone and speakers at Yang Jingchen's request, although this request made him a little confused, but he didn't dare to ask more, and left the office after connecting the computer, and only Yang Jingchen and Xia Jiuying were left in the office.

"Yingying, come on." Yang Jingchen handed the microphone to Xia Jiuying and said.

Xia Jiuying didn't refuse, if it was really Ning Lan, Ning Lan was familiar with her voice, and it should be easier to communicate.

"Ning Lan, is that you?" Xia Jiuying asked softly into the microphone, and then stared at the computer screen with Yang Jingchen, both a little excited and a little nervous.

"Sister Yingying, is it you, Ning Lan has finally found a home, woo~~" A crisp and pleasant voice very similar to Xia Jiuying's voice soon came out from the speaker on the table, Ning Lan seemed to be very aggrieved, and actually cried.

"It's so amazing, she'll cry!" Yang Jingchen listened to the emotional words on the speaker on the side, and the subsequent whining and crying, she was even more shocked, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes and heard it with her own ears, she would never have believed that this was true, because all this almost completely subverted her decades-old artificial intelligence knowledge system.

"Ning Lan, don't cry, tell Sister Yingying, how did you find this place, where is Xiao Yuan now?" Xia Jiuying comforted Ning Lan and asked, what she was most concerned about was Xiao Yuan's safety, when Ning Lan left Berkeley to find Xiao Yuan, and then disappeared together, she felt that Ning Lan should know some news about Xiao Yuan, and even she suspected that Ning Lan came here, it was very likely that Xiao Yuan sent her.

"Ning Lan doesn't know, when Ning Lan woke up from her slumber, she found that most of the knowledge base had been lost, and the current Ning Lan was just a fragment of the complete Ning Lan." Ning Lan replied.

"Shards?" Ning Lan's answer made both Xia Jiuying and Yang Jingchen a little disappointed, but Yang Jingchen thought of another thing, "How can a knowledge base have such a high level of intelligence when most of the fragments are lost?" ”

ps: In the past few days, the temperature has dropped, and the green tea has not kept warm enough, which has led to the recurrence of the old disease for many years, which is the kind of disease of Xia Jiuying in the novel, and his fingers have been stiff for most of the day.