Chapter 8 Lights of Ten Thousand Homes
"Hello?" Despite my impatience, I pressed the answer button and said in a voice the size of a mosquito, for fear of disturbing Chen Xiaolin, who was sleeping soundly in bed.
"Easy!" Bron, on the other end of the phone, looked very anxious, and even his voice trembled violently, as if his house was on fire.
"What's the matter? It's still the middle of the night here. I asked him in English. I can still use basic English expressions.
"Uh, oh sorry, I forgot you were in Huaxia...... So, can you come to the United States? ”
"What are you doing in the United States? Ticket you out? I asked, yawning, my eyelids fighting, and I could get together at any moment.
"Of course. There's a big thing going on our side, and I might need you. He seemed embarrassed to hear me yawning, "We're looking for ...... from the best Minecraft players in the world."
"Oh......" I was already very confused. He spoke in English, and he spoke so fast that he had to pass through my muddy brain and translate it into Chinese after it entered my ears, and I couldn't hold it at all in my current state.
Seeing that I didn't respond, he had to hang up the phone, and before hanging up, he said a lot of sorry to me, as if I saw him holding the phone and nodding his head.
"Hah......" I yawned again, my whole body trembled, and I rolled over and went back to sleep. I'll call him back when I wake up, and I just so happen to ask him about artificial intelligence.
Outside the window, the wind was still howling like the night, and it howled like a female ghost crying at night. Occasionally, the window will be blown by the wind and "clatter" softly, sounding like someone is lying outside your window and banging on the glass.
Sometimes there is the sound of marbles falling on the roof, and it sounds like children playing with marbles upstairs - even though there are no people living upstairs.
This may be due to the relatively low rent of my rental house, and I am afraid that such a strange night is not something that ordinary people can afford.
But just as I was turning over, I suddenly came across something soft!
"it!"
At that moment, I was so frightened that I fell asleep, my hand retracted like lightning, and at the same time my eyes opened suddenly, and in the darkness where I couldn't see my fingers, I could faintly distinguish something creepy and frightened!
Next to my pillow, there's a face!
I ran away as soon as I lifted the quilt, and I didn't know what I had mixed in the dark, and I fell to the ground with a "plop", and my back hit a sharp object, and I bared my teeth in pain. Still, I endured the pain, fumbling with my hands, desperately trying to turn on the light.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Chen Xiaolin was woken up by me and hurriedly asked.
"There's a ghost!" I shouted loudly, touched the switch with my left hand, as if I had touched a life-saving straw, and "snapped" and slapped it hard.
The light turned on, and the dazzling glare suddenly pierced into my wide open pupils, burning my retina with a tingling pain, and I quickly closed my eyes.
"Ahh Chen Xiaolin was also stabbed in the eye by the light.
I gasped for air, my hands soothing my poor little thumping heart. Jumping so hard that it could explode at any moment, just like ignited TNT.
I finally got used to the light, and when I opened my eyes, I found Chen Xiaolin lying on my floor and rubbing my eyes!
This......
She was obviously sleeping in my bed, how could she suddenly shift, and I didn't know it!
I suddenly came up with a news I saw in the newspaper when I was a child: there is a ghost building somewhere in China, the head of the household sleeps in the house at night, and when he wakes up the next day, he finds himself lying somewhere else, or in the kitchen, or in the toilet, or even in the corridor!
No way? Did I have a paranormal event?
"You, you, you, you...... How do you lay on my floor! I was so frightened that I clenched my hands to my chest involuntarily.
"Huh? I ......" Chen Xiaolin's face suddenly turned extremely red, like a ripe persimmon, and her legs tightly clamped my quilt.
That's when I reacted. Okay, dare to love that face I just saw next to the pillow is hers! Almost broke my mind!
"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to......" she quickly explained, "the wind here at night is super scary, and there are some strange sounds, I'm alone...... I don't dare to sleep. ”
"So you're going to run down and sleep with me?" My head was full of black lines, and I couldn't be embarrassed anymore.
"Uh......" she also looked embarrassed.
Both of us looked at each other in a daze, and the atmosphere was suddenly awkward. You said that this lonely man and widow are in the same room, and they still sleep together, where is my chastity?
Just when the man and woman were at a loss, the computer behind me spoke inexplicably:
"Humans, we have something to say!"
"I'll you!" This sudden sound frightened me so much that I ran back to the bunk, and I didn't care if I was a man or a woman, and Chen Xiaolin and Chen Xiaolin shrank together and stared at the computer screen and shivered.
Sooner or later, I'll be scared out of my heart attack. What the hell is going on tonight? Don't you want people to have a good rest? Whether I've hit an evil or a ghost, I'll have to find a fortune teller tomorrow.
Also, my computer is turned off, how can I turn it on by itself?
The computer screen was actually showing the pattern of the wither riding on the ender dragon, and the two letters "AI" were very eye-catching.
"Three million years ago, the Creator created man; Three million years later, man made us. ”
O man who made your sister! If you create artificial people all day long, can you not be so dirty and think about creating people? As soon as I heard it, I was angry, and even my fear was reduced by three points,
As the saying goes, it's not to blame itself for self-defeat, but now I have some immunity to these strange and strange things, and I don't scream in fear like I did just now.
I cautiously crawled to the computer, reached out and unplugged the power, and suddenly the screen went black and the world was quiet again.
"Whew, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence......" I looked at my computer and immediately understood why the higher-ups had such a big reaction.
The monsters in Minecraft: Real Mode are so capable that even the computers of us ordinary people can control them?
It's just going against the sky!
"Isn't that the video from the afternoon? How can it be on your computer? Chen Xiaolin was puzzled and looked at me nervously.
"Bloom just called, and it looks like I'm going to have to check with him." I sighed.
It's too sudden, too weird, too quiet, unguarded, is this the rhythm of the coming storm?
I walked to the window, opened the curtains, and looked at the luxurious residential buildings in the distance, and saw that almost all the houses were brightly lit, and there were figures walking around their homes from time to time.
I glanced back at the clock on the wall, and it was 2 o'clock in the middle of the night. Normally, everyone is asleep at this time, and it can't be a scene of thousands of lights.
Picking up the phone on the ground, I opened WeChat and glanced at the circle of friends.
Sure enough, it was swiped by "artificial intelligence".
"Damn! Three watches in the middle of the night, why did my computer light up by itself, and still put these ghost things! "One of my classmates cried in the circle of friends and posted a set of pictures.
"All of a sudden, the computer turned on on its own." My colleague posted a small video.
"I was woken up in the middle of the night by a computer that I started, and I thought I was dreaming."
"I'm still playing lol, and the computer suddenly puts this on me! I can't get it back! Rebooting is useless! Ask for help from the computer gods, online, etc.! ”
I put my phone away, and I looked solemn. Even China, which is far away on the other side of the world, is like this, and the United States on the other side of the ocean has long been suffering?
No wonder Bloom just called me in a tone like there was a fire in the house. Microsoft bore the brunt of this matter, and he can't escape it as CEO.
"Boss, why don't you speak?" Chen Xiaolin saw that I didn't pay attention to her, so she hurriedly asked me.
I looked at her, and I lost my mind for a while, and I was still thinking about what it is like for artificial intelligence to get rid of human control, and I have experienced it myself.
In the afternoon, artificial intelligence took control of Microsoft's UHC race-specific server; At night, artificial intelligence takes control of every computer in the world. What about the future? Will it control every mobile phone, every satellite, every weapon control system? And then what? A complete nuclear cleansing of the entire planet, the elimination of humanity, and the making of artificial intelligence the master of the world?
If that day comes, humanity will be powerless.
"Boss...... "She saw that I didn't react and panicked.
"I'm fine, I may have just touched the computer switch. Go to bed, you'll have to wake up early to go back to school tomorrow. I came back to my senses and said to her with a wry smile.
"So it was, it scared me to death just now." She straightened up the quilt and went back to bed to sleep.
I walked over to the switch, turned off the light, and by the way, pulled off the electric switch and removed the phone battery.
I lay down on the ground blankly, and I had forgotten all about sleeping with Chen Xiaolin just now. The end of the world is coming, who cares? It's good to be able to sleep.
I closed my eyes.