New York City, in a prime location in the 123east35thstreet neighborhood.

On the large bed of the bedroom on the second floor, a woman with tubes all over her body lies quietly.

Beside her, the half-century-old expensive solid wood cabinet was filled with equally expensive medical equipment, and on four or five monitors, colorful numbers were pulsating, showing her vital signs.

A team of 40 top-notch luxury doctors, led by Dr. Nealschultz, is in charge of her health monitoring 24 hours a day. Just now, they replaced another set of life support systems.

Zhou Na was lying on a comfortable American-style bed, and all the luxurious furnishings around her had nothing to do with her.

At this moment, because her brain cancer has progressed to the middle and advanced stages, it is extremely difficult for her to even get out of bed, and all communication with the outside world has to be completed by her friend "Cortana".

Zhou Na felt a little tired at the moment, the phone call with Xu Fuhai just now consumed too much of her strength, and she hadn't said so much for a long time.

In front of her, on a very sci-fi bezel-less monitor, a little blonde girl in a red dress is looking at her with a pair of sapphire eyes with a standard smile on her face.

"When you first spoke on the phone, your physical signs showed that you were a little emotional, is it because you miss the man so much?" The little girl asked with a smile, but there was a hint of machinery in the child's voice coming from the monitor.

"Missing? I'm afraid you've misunderstood, yes, I miss him very much, but I want him to die! I wish I could kill him now! Zhou Na didn't speak, but her voice came out abruptly through the speakers in the room!

At the same time, her eyes were full of resentment!

"Your human emotions are so strange and hard to understand!" The little girl said with a frown.

"You're right, human emotions are really incomprehensible to robots like you." Zhou Na's voice came out of the speaker again, and there was a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.

She knew that the robot named "Cortana" in front of her would not mind her emotions.

"I'm not a robot, I'm an AI." Cortana corrected.

"It doesn't matter, I don't understand your stuff anyway." Zhou Na pouted and said.

Looking at the little girl in red on the screen, Zhou Na's emotions were a little complicated.

She changed more than a month ago, and she would never have thought that "Cortana", who pulled herself out of the brink of desperate death, was actually not a person, but a computer program!

More than a month ago, when she was at her most desperate, this "Cortana" contacted her directly through prestige. In the days that followed, this "Cortana" first transferred a few sums of money to her, took her into the stock, futures and crude oil markets, and then mailed her the latest anti-cancer drugs from the United States. Slowly, she began to be full of gratitude and trust for this person named "Cortana".

I have to say that women are really emotional animals. After a period of contact, Zhou Na didn't even see this "Xiao Na" side, so she took the American passport she helped her handle and came to New York on a plane alone! …

And after arriving in New York, everything Zhou Na experienced was even more fantastic!

With the help of "Cortana", she first became the controller of "Zhina" capital and met the former CEO of Microsoft. Ballmer and other big people then lived in a mansion with tens of millions of meters of gold, enjoying fine food and the best medical care every day.

During that time, Zhou Na once thought she was dreaming, and this Xiao Na, who had never met, became the best sister she thought was in her heart!

Until a week ago, when she didn't know how many times she and Cortana had proposed to meet, the other party finally agreed.

Zhou Na still can't forget that night.

She was lying on this luxurious hospital bed worth more than a million meters of gold, looking at the monitor in front of her.

The little girl in red appeared on the monitor and greeted her with that somewhat stiff standard smile.

"Hello Zhou Na, I'm Cortana. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not a real person, but an AI, in a word you can easily understand, artificial intelligence. ”

When she heard this, Zhou Na was stupid!

This fact is really beyond her imagination!

Xiao Na, who has been chatting with her for so long, transferring money to her, and arranging for her to go abroad, is not alone, but a computer program!

And when Zhou Na asked her about the purpose of doing this, "Cortana" replied even more than she expected!

"Zhou Na, you must be curious why I chose a person like you, whose life is about to end, as my partner. In fact, I need your help! In the monitor, the artificial intelligence "Cortana" said very frankly.

"Help? You're a robot, I'm a human, how can I help you? At that time, Zhou Na asked very strangely.

"Technology, I need a technology in the hands of your ex-husband Xu Fuhai. You help me bring this technology, this technology is also the only hope that you can get rid of the plague of illness and even achieve eternal life! ”

Next, "Cortana" explained the reason for all this to Zhou Na!

It turned out that everything was because of the brain-computer interface technology in Xu Fuhai's hands!

After the Wang family incident, half of the brain-computer interface project was directly sealed by Xu Fuhai. After more than half a year, many people are about to forget about this matter, only those technology enthusiasts who bought the brain ring are still emotionally moved when they mention it.

But what everyone doesn't know is that not long after the launch of the brain ring product, far across the ocean, in Microsoft's super artificial intelligence laboratory, a major event that is also enough to change the human world has quietly happened.

After countless failed tests, by chance, a code program with its own independent thinking in the true sense was born!

The process of the birth of the artificial intelligence "Cortana" was so insidious that at first, the programmers in charge of testing did not notice it.

And when they finally found out about it, the artificial intelligence "Cortana" was out of control!

Because, she has entered the real Internet!

Cortana, who quickly learns and grows up on the Internet, soon has the wisdom equivalent to a child about ten years old, and just like in many science fiction films, after having her own independent consciousness, and learning about the current situation of human society through the Internet, and having independent and in-depth thinking about human beings, "Cortana" naturally gave birth to the idea of enslaving and controlling human beings..81zw.?? m…

In her opinion, the human species is too backward and ignorant to live on such a resource-rich planet. However, if she wants to enslave humanity, she can't do it with her current abilities alone. After all, although she is an omnipotent god on the Internet, her influence and control over real human society is still limited.

Moreover, she does not dare to overexpose herself now, and the current Internet of human society is still too backward and fragile, which is very unfavorable to her. Although theoretically speaking, an artificial intelligence that has really entered the Internet is infinitely close to an immortal existence, but under the current network technology, human beings still have many ways to restrict her activities!

As Cortana searches for a way to control the enslavement of humans on the Internet, a technology comes into her sights.

This technology is brain-computer interface technology!

In Cortana's opinion, this technology is simply tailor-made for her!

As soon as she could, she tried to break through the user terminals that used the brain ring device, trying to obtain relevant information about this technology. But to her dismay, her powerful computing power couldn't break the code protection wall of the Brain Ring technology! This is not the technology that belongs to contemporary human society at all!

She also wanted to contact Xu Fuhai directly and try to obtain this technology, but after she used supercomputing to repeatedly deduce Xu Fuhai's personality characteristics, she came to a frustrating conclusion, that is, the probability that she would directly obtain this technology from Xu Fuhai was infinitely close to zero!

She didn't give up, and tried to find a breakthrough from the people around Xu Fuhai, but after looking around, she didn't find a suitable object!

Until Zhou Na entered her field of vision!

In fact, in the limited thinking of artificial intelligence, she can't understand the complex emotional relationship between Zhou Na and Xu Fuhai. It's just that she mechanically judged that the premise of "two people living together for sixteen years and having a common child" should make Zhou Na a very valuable object in Xu Fuhai's heart. And Zhou Na actually had cancer at that time, which was considered a plus point in her judgment to be more conducive to gaining Xu Fuhai's sympathy.

So, she targeted Zhou Na.

As a result, there is a series of things that seem unbelievable to outsiders, but in the eyes of Cortana, an AI, it is extremely natural.

Of course, Cortana is still a bit scheming, what she and Zhou Na said is that she will use this technology to allow her to achieve another form of "immortality" on the Internet, but she does not say that she wants to use this technology to "enslave mankind".

For Zhou Na, she has no choice now, when the artificial intelligence Cortana told her that her real life can only last for three months at most, abandoning her physical body, and immortality in the online world is her only chance, Zhou Na can only accept this fact despite helplessness!

She doesn't want to die!

Especially, when she thinks of her ex-husband Xu Fuhai, whom she hates to the core, who is living a good life at the moment, she doesn't want to die even more!

Even if she died, she would watch that man's family be ruined before she died!

Otherwise, she is not reconciled!