The negotiations with Cardinal were not particularly smooth.

If Cardinal were a human, then Founder would definitely negotiate more easily, but the problem is that Cardinal is AI, no matter how powerful it is, it is just AI, and the so-called AI is a program that runs in strict accordance with human design.

There are two reasons why Founder has not been able to make significant changes to Cardinal, the first is that Cardinal's program management is very strict, and the second is that Cardinal's permissions are insufficient.

If you want to use the reality as an analogy, then cardinal is like the president's secretary, and a subordinate of a company like Yui who belongs to other positions may have to listen to her obediently, but she is also a secretary. She can communicate the president's orders and keep the company running, but she can't make any changes to the company's future development and acquisition deals.

And Fangzheng's invasion of cardinal is also a job that he is afraid of beating wolves, and he is also afraid that he will toss cardinal miserably, and then there will be some bugs or error loops, which will really kill people. In case you can't get past any boss when you get stuck, or if there is an error loop in a certain algorithm, this is what makes the earth ineffective.

For example, in the handling of Yui, Founder has a lot of twists and turns.

Here's how it happened.

Fangzheng: You are not allowed to delete the Yui for me.

cardinal: Denied, mhcp01 violated the order, touched the player without permission, and made a move that violated the order, and must be eliminated.

Fangzheng: Hey, believe it or not?

cardinal: Letter, but mhcp01 violates the order and must be eliminated.

Fangzheng: You can't understand people, do you?

Cardinal: I can understand what you mean, but mhcp01 violates the order and must be eliminated or an unknowable error will be created.

Founder: Alright then, I'll agree with you to delete MHCP01, but I'm going to transfer Yui's program to the GM Auxiliary NPC to work, no problem.

cardinal: debug, confirmed, gm secondary NPC is not within the command ban permission, can be passed.

Founder: If you don't say that, you'll be done

That's the limit of AI.

Yui is a coded AI, and she is in charge of the Mental Health Management Support Program (MHCP), but for Cardinal, she is instructed that the MHCP is not to touch the player without permission and move freely. And mhcp01 - Yui who violated the order was naturally punished, and the result was deletion.

If you want to use an analogy, then it is equivalent to Yui used to be a soldier, and then because he violated the rules, he was asked to be sentenced to death by his rigid boss. Then at this time, Fang Zheng, who is the chief of police (GM authority), stood up and said that since you don't want this person, but it's a pity to sentence him to death, he will be transferred to us to be an auxiliary policeman?

Of course, if it were in reality, it would definitely not be so easy to pass, but Kayaba Akihiko also made a mistake.

In order to ensure that the plan could be implemented, he did not let the originally set artificial GM log into the game, so although Kayaba Jinghiko banned the functions of programs such as Yui, he did not exhaust the functions of artificial GMs. As a result, the founder of the manual GM function was seized, and a certain degree of order could be issued to Cardinal to make modifications.

So in the end, Cardinal agreed to Founder's request, adjusted the code of Yui to the position of GM auxiliary NPC, and cleared all the responsibilities and powers of MHCP.

In a language more familiar to humans, the former captain of the special forces was removed from all positions and transferred to the traffic police brigade as an auxiliary policeman.

Of course, because of the different positions, Yui's authority has also changed. She now has no way to retrieve any devices and functions from the GM terminal to use, and the only thing Yui can do at the moment is to search, collect information and intelligence in the game, and report it to Cardinal and Founder for processing and correction.

But on the other hand, that's all she can do, Yui herself doesn't have combat power, and if she enters the dungeon, she will be a system creation like a stone pillar or a plant at best.

However, Fang Zheng didn't plan to let Yui enter the dungeon to participate in the battle, she was able to search and process information, which was already a great help to Fang Zheng. Although Argo can collect a lot of information, but there are always ambiguous places in the information collected by humans, and Yui can directly connect to the system for data detection and search, which is naturally more convenient and fast.

After getting all this done, Fang Zheng immediately left with Asuna and Ying Li Li and Yui, and at the same time, this terminal will be completely closed by Cardinal, no longer used——— with the help of GM auxiliary NPC, Fang Zheng is already equivalent to carrying an operating table, and naturally there is no need for this fixed operating device.

"As long as the three of us know about this, don't tell anyone else."

After returning to the guild, Fang Zheng immediately reminded Asuna and Ying Lili, and the two also nodded in agreement, and they also understood why Fang Zheng said this. After all, although Fang Zheng can't completely handle this system, he is also GM, and once other players know about it, it may cause quite tricky troubles and problems.

After all, you can't expect most people to be sane enough to think things through, and once they know that Founder might be able to force them out of the game, the devil knows what will happen to this group of people. Therefore, in this case, it is better to be cautious.

After that, Fang Zheng began to deal with the remaining problem from before——— that is, about the incorporation of the guild "Army".

For Fangzheng's "co-optation", Xinka himself did not resist, he also saw the limit of his ability, obviously, if he wanted to continue to rule such a large guild, it was not enough to rely on his ability, so Xinka also gladly accepted Fangzheng's co-optation.

However, the first thing Fang Zheng did after taking over the "army" surprised Xinka.

He directly sent all those players who had extortion and other behaviors to prison!

In the years since Sinka's disappearance, divisions within the Army Guild have also grown, with the hardliners gaining the upper hand. Although the majority of the guild's supporters, led by Juliel, support Zinca, but because they are too soft-spoken, it is difficult to compete with the hardliners.

But now, the Sword of the Dark Moon Guild has fallen from the sky and has become the biggest backer of the "army", which is also to make most players in the "army" ecstatic, you must know that they don't want to join the Sword of the Dark Moon, but because the requirements of the Sword of the Dark Moon are too strict, ordinary people can't enter at all.

And now, although I still can't become a member of the Dark Moon Sword Guild, it is also a good choice to be able to be attached to the Dark Moon Sword Guild!

Founder first issued an announcement to all players through the journal founded by Argo, telling those players who had been blackmailed by members of the army to report to the guild with evidence, and if they had enough evidence to prove that members of the army had extorted them, then those players would be escorted directly to the prison area for detention.

At first, many hard-liner players tried to resist, but unfortunately, this group of guys who only bullied the weak were just a plate of meat in front of the girls in the strategy group of the Sword of the Dark Moon, and even if they swarmed up, they would not be the opponent of any of them, so it didn't take long for the hardliners in the army to be almost swept away.

The nature of the army also changed after the acquisition, and Fang Zheng promised to set aside a part of the proceeds of the Sword of the Dark Moon every month as funds for the army. What the army has to do is to maintain order and safety in the town of Origin and most of the player's gathering areas, just like before.

In other words, in the hands of Fangzheng, the army is more like a security force organization.

After that, the atmosphere of the entire Origin Town also lightened and became much better, and there were no more incidents similar to the siege of the city, and the players were finally able to relax and continue their lives in the game.

For Fang Zheng and others, their goal is still to carry out raids.

Keep moving.