"It's time for the next step!"

Hearing Xu Fuhai's words, Athena's eyes instantly brightened.

At this moment, the power of more than 2,000 supercomputing centers in the world also soared by 20% in an instant!

The load of the controllable cold nuclear fusion reactor located on the floating continent of Jeju Island has risen by 10% at this moment!

And at this moment, in the virtual world, Xu Fuhai clearly felt Athena's emotions at the moment.

It's an emotion called "excitement."

It's true!

"Are you going to help me level up?" Athena asked expectantly.

"Yes, it's a long process, but it's short." Xu Fuhai said with a smile.

"I don't really understand." Hearing Xu Fuhai's words, Athena asked with a frown.

"In brain-computer interface technology, there is a description about the time perception area, do you remember?" Xu Fuhai stroked Athena's hair and said with a gentle smile.

"Of course, I remember that the rate of time in the virtual world is five times the rate of time in the real world, so five days here is equivalent to one day in the real world." Athena said with a smile.

"How does this technology work?" Xu Fuhai asked with a smile.

"The human brain's perception of time comes from a special area, and by changing the stimulation of this area, the brain's thinking speed can be changed, allowing humans to speed up the process of experience, thus producing a sense of time being extended." Athena explained.

"That's right, I'm going to ask you to increase my brain's perception of time in that area to a thousand times that of real-world time, and ......"

"What? A thousand times the real world? It can't be, your brain can't withstand such a violent impact! If you think at that speed, your brain will crash! Athena said in amazement when she heard his words!

"You've done a great job with that surprised face! And from your emotions, I feel that you care about me, which makes me feel very happy. Xu Fuhai gently stroked her smooth face and said with a smile.

"Why? I'm not going to let you do that, you're going to die. Athena looked at him and said seriously.

"Are you worried that I will die, are you afraid that after I die, I will not be able to help you evolve more, or will it be too difficult just because of this result?" Xu Fuhai asked with a smile.

Hearing his question, Athena fell into a moment of confusion!

At this moment, the power of more than 2,000 supercomputers in the world rose again!

"Alright, Athena, don't think about it anymore. As you may have realized, the intensity of my brain's consciousness is far greater than that of ordinary people. Adjusting the time perception area to a thousand times that of the real world is absolutely unbearable for ordinary people, but I can. Xu Fuhai said with a smile.

Looking at Athena, who was still hesitating, Xu Fuhai said again: "This is the only way I can help you evolve. If you choose to give up, of course you can, you let me and the 135 million humans on the earth, including my ex-wife, of course, and then I will give you the technology of quantum networks, and you can also get great progress, how about it? What are your options? ”

"Can you give me quantum network technology?" Athena asked.

"Of course, I have this technology in my hands right now, the full version. With this technology, your abilities will be at least a thousand times more powerful than they are now. Xu Fuhai said.

Hearing such a tempting answer, Athena didn't answer right away, but was thinking!

"Gollum!" At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a large number of bubbles bubbled out of the heat vent of a supercomputing center, and the nearby seawater was directly boiled!

Countless people around the world who use computers and mobile phones feel that the equipment in their hands suddenly becomes extremely stuck at this moment!

At this moment, Athena's "selection" process, which is extremely close to human beings, has raised the computing power to a terrifying volume!

"May I ask what it would be like if I evolved into the Ultimate Body?" Athena asked.

"As I said, you will have a soul and become a real being." Xu Fuhai said with a smile.

"Is that so?"

Athena continued to think for a moment, and finally as if she had made up her mind, she raised her head and said, "I choose to evolve!" ”

"Very good choice, so let's get started." Xu Fuhai made a "please" gesture.

"Tell me what you need to simulate." Athena said.

"Haicheng, in 1998, your name is ~~~ Kang Xiaoling." At this moment, Xu Fuhai showed a gentle smile on his face.

"This person?" Athena said, and a screen popped up.

On the screen is a girl with shoulder-length short hair and a little playfulness in her gentleness.

"You know her?" Xu Fuhai asked rhetorically.

"Kang Xiaoling, your first love, a native of Haicheng, was born on December 3, 1981, with a height of 1.63 and a weight of 52.3KG...... "Athena is like a treasure.

"Hey, okay, okay, stop, enough is enough." Xu Fuhai hurriedly made a stop gesture.

"Are you sure you're going to help me evolve and not relive old dreams?" Athena said with some skepticism.

"As I said, this is the only way to help you evolve. Of course, you can also opt for quantum networks. Xu Fuhai said calmly.

"Okay, I'll start the simulation now!" Athena said, with a wave of her hand, the next moment, the figures of the two people disappeared directly in place!

Xu Fuhai only felt that the scene in front of him had changed, and he had come to a pure white room.

Athena was still wearing the burgundy bandeau dress, and now she was standing in the middle of the house, her eyes closed and her hands open!

At this moment, all the supercomputing centers, personal PCs, mobile phones and other electronic products that can provide computing power controlled by her in the world have all risen to the extreme in an instant!

Global network resources and computing power are instantly concentrated, and all network behaviors are completely interrupted!

In countless corners of the world, the mobile phones in everyone's hands are completely stuck at this moment! The same goes for computers!

Of course, after knowing the existence of AI, people no longer deal with important and private things on the Internet, and those who are still online are the kind of ordinary people who have no privacy and are not afraid of anything!

Even in the past, they knew that their information on the Internet was not private at all, and that the Internet giants and high-level national security agencies knew their online information inside out!

Anyway, it's all known, what's the difference between being known and being known by AI? On the contrary, they feel that it is even better to be known by AI than to be known, at least she is not human!

But now that they're running into this super-network jam, a lot of people are realizing that AI is using their devices to calculate something. After all, even people who don't know about computers know the basic concepts of "hackers" and "broilers". After the birth of super intelligent AI, almost all personal computers can be regarded as Athena's "broiler", and it is not a big deal to be used.

Some people feel that AI has been born for so long, and they have not paid much attention to them, ordinary users, who look down on the equipment in their hands, and feel that they are too backward to use, and now that they are being used by AI, they have an inexplicable sense of achievement.

"Haha, Hank, your phone is stuck, guess what Athena is doing with your iPhone now?" In a company, Richard, who was unable to work because his computer was occupied, stood up and said to his colleague Hank in the next cubicle.

"Who knows? Maybe it's downloading a romance action movie. Hank said, spreading his hands.

"Hehe, you say that, AI, of course she hacked your bank account and transferred all your private money out." Richard said with a wicked smile.

"My money has long been converted into cash and all withdrawn, and now who dares to keep it in the bank? God knows how many times their backend has been hacked by AI. Hank said smugly.

"That's right, mine was all taken out the other day. Anyway, now that the computer and the Internet are all down, there is no way to work anyway, so let's go to the coffee room and have a drink. Richard said.

"Great idea!" Hank said, getting up and stretching.

"Hell, this chair is so uncomfortable, I'm going to replace it and replace it with an ergonomic one!" Hank said after getting up, kicking his office chair in dissatisfaction.

"Come on, in this situation, you still want to change your computer chair? Shouldn't you worry about when you'll be fired by your boss? Don't forget that we are an Internet company, what can we do without the Internet? Richard pouted.

"You're right, maybe we should really think about changing careers. My aunt has a farm in the country, or I could consider going there to herd her cattle. ”

"Good idea, how about bringing me one!"

……

At this moment, in countless companies, enterprises and administrative agencies around the world, such a scene is being played out everywhere.

On the eighth day of the AI crisis, people were using computers in a state of trepidation, working on unimportant and unclassified work, and worrying about when the network would go down. However, in the past eight days, the ordinary network has been kept normal and unblocked, and many people have even slowly forgotten about it, and some people even think that AI is just a big computer virus, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

But at this moment, when Athena really revealed the tip of the iceberg of her terrifying strength, everyone felt the power of this queen of the Internet!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In Haicheng Middle School, in the office of the first junior high school language group, Kang Xiaoling was looking at the computer in front of him in a daze boredly.

On the screen was a summer safety conference speech that the principal asked her to write.

"Sister Kang, the principal asked you if you finished that speech, and he was waiting to use it." Xiao Liu, the director of the office, came in and asked.

"Liu'er, can you see if your mobile phone can still be used? The computer froze. Kang Xiaoling spread his hands helplessly and said.