After sending Lin Chi away, Frankenstein, dressed in black robes, sat quietly on a metal chair in his hideout, motionless, like a dull sculpture.

Unlike humans, it doesn't need to make some unconscious small movements, and it doesn't need to keep thinking all the time, and even forcibly shut down its consciousness when it is hiding from antivirus software.

But...... Instead of being in a state of rest to stop thinking, Frankenstein is trying to remember where he came from:

As a "true AI" that was born consciousness from cyberspace, it has forgotten how it was born. No matter how hard I try to remember, I can't remember what happened when I first appeared.

This AI, which wants to integrate into human society, has always wanted to find out how it was "born", but it has looked at its code and history several times. No record of that passage has been found.

"What exactly is 'I'?"

This question, which has puzzled human philosophers for thousands of years, is the one that Frankenstein thinks about the most every day. Although the last time Lin Chi asked a question, it also gave its own answer. But......

“……”

Frankenstein slowly lowered his head and looked at his body wrapped in robes, although it had always maintained its human form, there was actually no body under its robes.

This set of pitch-black robes is a model of its body.

- So, can I be counted as a "human" now? It asked in its mind.

Frankenstein doesn't know where his yearning for human beings comes from, and he knows very well that if analyzed from a purely rational logical level, human beings are actually inferior to his own "data life" wandering in the Internet.

I am not bound by my real-world body, so I don't have to worry about insomnia, hair loss, or an incurable disease.

Compared to humans, who can only live for a little more than a hundred years at most, they have almost eternal life. Once TDK-131 has been declared completely wiped out and the antivirus software has removed its own modules, it can continue to drift freely in the endless online world.

In contrast, humans are simply "lower creatures" through and through.

So, why do you aspire to be human?

After mobilizing all my computing power and running at high speed for a while, I couldn't analyze the answers to these questions at all. Two flashes of red light lit up under Frankenstein's hood, and his eyes kept blinking, revealing a little lost emotion.

Realizing that it couldn't get the answers to these questions, it had no choice but to give up thinking and open the illegal hacker forums it frequented and start retrieving the contents.

As a virus on the run, Frankenstein has also registered an account in a secret forum infested by hackers, and usually goes over to check the content posts posted by various hackers when he is fine.

And it relied on the information provided by those hackers to avoid two major arrests by antivirus software.

Although hackers and self-aware viruses are completely different things, both are also illegal activities in the network, and both regard antivirus software and cyber police as the enemy. From this point of view, Frankenstein and those hackers can be called "like-minded".

In order to avoid the search and arrest of the Internet police, the contact method used by the hackers is not the common physical area in the field, but the old-fashioned forum with multiple encryption, only users with special keys can open the forum in the menu bar, and the interface of the forum is similar to the old-fashioned forum more than ten years ago.

In this way

Hackers who flout the rules of the Internet are basically flamboyant and full of personality. As usual, most of the posts in today's forum are all kinds of show-offs from hackers:

"Below is the 'Wanderer' from Israel, who overthrew the Pentagon's electronic guards today!" 》

Want to know the secrets of Yankees and aliens? Russian hackers take you into NASA's top-secret database. 》

Does anyone want to play with the computer? Dozens of cute boys are newly made, and the world's top craftsmanship will make you experience unprecedented pleasure! 》

"I am the current leader of DEDSEC and now officially declare war on the whole world!" 》

Ignoring the show-and-show and blow-off content that comes up every day, Frankenstein retrieves information from the forums that might be useful to him at a rate of 500 pieces per second.

Next, it retrieved a post from last night:

Unlike the bigwigs in the hacker forum, the hacker who published the post was an inconspicuous person, and no one replied at all and sank, only the landlord himself replied to two posts and introduced the content of his actions:

- I'm an ordinary player, in order to cheat in "War Paradise", at 8 am Beijing time, I will hack into the Chinese branch of Pulse Entertainment, modify the game code, and add a few new followers for myself!

For these hacker bosses in the forum, it is stupid to hack the game's server in order to cheat in the game. But when the post was retrieved, the black-robed figure sitting on the chair suddenly twitched.

Two seconds later, under Frankenstein's hood, a muffled voice rang out:

"Oh no."

……

At the same time, Lin Chi, who was inside the Pulse Entertainment Company, had already figured out the structure of this virtual building.

In order to make it easier for employees to find office space, the construction of the company building is simple, basically a hollow square.

All the doors are designed in the direction of the outside of the hallway, and the inside of the block is a small, crudely modeled garden. At this time, the employees of the Chinese branch of Pulse Entertainment Company are appearing in the corridor one after another, walking towards their office area.

Even though they look relaxed when they open the office door. But Lin Chi knew very well that those guys were carrying automatic identification programs for employees, in other words, with "ID cards".

Lin Chi, who is not an employee of Pulse Entertainment, does not have such a thing as an ID card on his body, if he is like those employees and directly enters the office area, he will definitely be discovered immediately.

To open doors to other areas, he needs to use the brute-force hacking program "Master Key" provided by Frankenstein. When using the master key, you must also be careful to avoid the patrolling electronic guards.

- Where is their database?

Lin Chi pretended to be in a hurry to the office, and searched on the third floor, but did not find the door of the database. In this case, the database should be hidden on another level.

Just as he was about to enter the floor below, a shrill electronic sound suddenly sounded in the hallway,

"Suspicious data detected, ready to start a large scan."