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In the age of cyberpunk, the value of information is beyond imagination.

As a leading company in network information technology, cyber surveillance has always maintained a mysterious image in front of the public, and at most advertised itself as the last barrier between humans and AI.

In this case, they were essentially the initiators of the original commission, but they maintained their usual low-key style throughout the event-

Of course, this is actually thanks to Lille's arrangement, which essentially shows the professionalism of the squad.

And finally. When it comes to soul killers, they also seem ruthless and focused.

First of all, Bryce really didn't lie to Lille, considering the ability that Lille showed, the probability of getting out of sixty percent is indeed not made up.

But everything is based on the fact that he is human.

As a result of this operation, you intercepted part of the code of the Soul Slayer and then referenced some kind of cyberspace weapon against the AI.

This weapon identifies the source code of the Soul Slayer, but when the Soul Slayer reaches a certain level, that weapon will also attack me-

Are you going to kill me with you? ”

Brystein admitted: "That's what I call risk, and you accept it -- as for the other scenario.

Take a look at this as part of the transaction, it's valuable information. ”

He handed over a chip.

The contents of the chip are top secret for 99% of the world's people.

It's about the Black Wall.

The black wall in cyberspace is represented by a black-and-red digital wall, with no top or bottom in sight.

It monitors all data flows in various subnets, and the sense of isolation is felt in cyberspace, and it is more logical to say that .

It directly sanitizes AI that conforms to data characteristics.

Bryce continued:

"You may wonder if the human world treats all AI as a flood beast after the collapse of the old network?

Why do I still use a program that is considered AI in cyberspace, and why do large enterprises still use AI to assist production and various activities?

Black Wall - Blocking all AI, why not destroy these AIs? ”

And what is AI? To put it simply, it is something that can replace human thinking and action to a certain extent, so the black wall can be regarded as a kind of AI.

AI needs to be trained, just like humans, and like humans, there are differences.

As a super-large AI, Black Wall does not iterate on itself quickly, which is equivalent to a lack of self-awareness and a lack of motivation to learn and evolve.

One of the tasks of network monitoring is to help the black wall keep up with the iteration speed of the AI flowing out of the black wall, and prevent the day when those highly aggressive AIs find a way to invade the new network.

For example, in cyberspace, human consciousness and AI are both data streams, and there is not much difference in nature.

But Black Wall doesn't actively attack humans, and there's definitely a recognition mechanism at work.

So what if an AI resembles a human?

Will the Black Wall still attack it?

That's the concern of cyber surveillance about soul killers.

They would love to know the answer to this matter, but Arasaka would certainly not cooperate with the research and hand over his secret weapon.

Second, even if Arasaka agreed, with their style of conduct, the cyber watchdog wouldn't believe that they would honestly hand over the source code of the Soul Slayer.

Even. Theoretically, Soul Slayer was deleted by Buttermoss long before the old web collapsed, but the truth is that Arasaka recreated it later.

They claimed to have redeveloped it themselves, but the cyber supervisor had enough reason to think that Arasaka had snuck over the black wall to get into the old net and dig it out of the old net.

Lille put down the chip.

"So it's the Black Wall that attacked me."

Bryce nodded: "Let's put it this way, since the collapse of the old network, almost 90% of the world's online activities are under our control.

Only a handful of mega-corporations commit wrongdoing in their own covert networks.

And we're just focusing on AI and not going to crush human society, and there's a lot more that we don't care about --

The hacker who wreaked havoc in Atlanta, the guy who hired you, also showed the ability to act stealthily.

100% is an AI, and it's a dangerous AI. ”

Hearing this, V, who was gnawing on the apple, paused, and Jack also scratched his head, and these reactions were all seen by Bryce.

Of course, he was also seen by Lille, who said: "No wonder he is always mysterious."

So your plan is to lock me up as a honeypot with the Soul Slayer and intercept the Soul Slayer's code when Arasaka attacks.

And use this experimental technique to carry out the attack.

If I were human and hadn't been recorded too many traits by the Soul Slayer, I would have survived.

But if I'm an AI, or if it's too similar to the AI transformed by Soul Slayer—"

"You're going to die, and the black wall will burn all the equipment associated with you in an instant, or more accurately, it will blow up."

Well. Lille bowed.

It's smart to do that, if he's a network monitor, he'll also use this method to verify that the suspect target is AI.

The style of cyber supervisors is vividly reflected: they really don't mean to target you, but when it comes to cybersecurity, they can pay any price and don't care too much about collateral damage.

But Lille added: "I still have questions, how do you know that Arasaka will attack me?" And, in addition to the Soul Slayer."

"To answer your second question first, yes, that's what we're focusing on in our activities inside the walls, some kind of AI that is very human-like.

The good news is that the black wall has crushing power over almost all the wandering AIs, and the recognition ability is also very strong, and almost no wandering AIs can escape the black wall-

Unless they are willing to imitate a human from the bottom to live in society.

And if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck, and the same goes for the AI.

The damage to the cyber environment is limited, but we still need to be vigilant at all times, and they may cause harm to the world from another dimension.

Like your previous employer, and the son of a bitch's voodoo gang!

I suspect their head is such an AI! ”

It could be seen that Bryce had a strong opinion of the Voodoo Gang, and when he said this, his momentum rose, as if he wanted to swallow them alive.

Lille waved his hand: "Prepare the money, I can consider helping you settle them." ”

"Well, I'll have to take some time to prepare.

Then let's go back to the first thing, about Arasaka. ”

Bryce's expression became solemn: "This is thanks to what you did in the company square, EMP interrupted most of the company's secret equipment.

We've caught traces of Arasaka using soul killers in Night City - but weirdly, we haven't observed any unnatural deaths of cyber hackers in Night City.

Remember, I said that the soul killer is a bug in the black wall, a dark cloud entrenched in the black wall"

Lille immediately understood what Bryce meant.

The soul killer kills a person, but also gains a person's digital consciousness.

If Arasaka quietly replaces a person, the black wall doesn't know, the network supervisor doesn't know, and the world won't know.

And Arasaka can quietly replace a person

It can quietly replace a lot of people.

Bryce continued: "Of the three commissions I gave you, two of them will involve Arasaka, you are professional mercenaries, and there is no mission failure.

I'm pretty sure that Arasaka will take a ferocious countermeasure when you get to the heart of the matter.

Of course, it doesn't have to be a soul killer, but in this world, there can never be one thing that goes 100% according to plan. ”

Lille nodded, indeed.

So the ability to be flexible is invaluable, and there's no such thing as having things go 100% the way you want them to.

Plans can change, unexpected things can happen at any time, and they may even fail, and they will experience painful failures -

These are the norms of survival, and this is the norm of top-level special workers like them.

As for those that go exactly as expected, either the matter is not big enough, or the layout time is not long enough, and the impact is too small.

If H8 Skyscraper can't catch Arasaka, then continue to trace other clues to put pressure on Arasaka, so Bryce will say that these tasks can only be done by the Burger King team.

Because there are only three of them, they can use limited resources to force Arasaka to this point and make a realistic enough honeypot.

Bryce shifted back to Soul Slayer: "Further, we don't know if Arasaka can make adjustments to the digital souls to make these digital personalities what they want them to be.

But just thinking about it, it's all an extremely horrible thing, and we need the truth.

Well done this time, the engineers at HQ are decoding and analyzing the intercepted data stream, and we are approaching that truth-

Something is going on in Night City, and we'll figure out what Arasaka wants to do with AI. ”

What Bryce said was truly terrifying.

Quietly replace a person.,Become a person who can't even notice it.,Born to think that he likes Arasaka.,Acknowledging Arasaka's style and philosophy.。

As long as such actions are carried out slowly, the whole society will unconsciously become a quagmire of identification with Arasaka.

Lille banged on the table, thinking about the possibility of this--

However, there is not much related to this in the game, and what impresses him a little bit is about AI, either Ultra or about the brainwashing case of mayoral candidate Pellares.

Lille also needed to gather more information for re-analysis, and making judgments too early would interfere with later thinking.

But Lille looked at Bryce: "Is it you, or is it you?" ”

"I" Breston paused, "is there any difference?" It's the task of network monitoring, and that's what I want to do. ”

"Not now, but you're acting like a street kid."

Bryce stopped talking and poured himself a glass of real water.

I'm British, I've seen something similar, I think it's similar.

People, led by the people they want to overthrow, overthrow something that they thought should be overthrown.

If the Soul Slayer could do it to this extent, history would repeat itself in an even more brutal form.

The room here is really nice, and the real water tastes good, but it tastes bad. ”

Putting down the cup, Lille could see the light on the back of Bryce's neck flashing red—

This box can block out the signal and is one of the few places where the company's employees have a valid reason to voluntarily turn off the connected prosthetics.

It seems that this is still a company dog with a story.

Lille nodded: "Then let's move on to the matter of remuneration, and also, that glass of water is 1000 euros." ”

Bryce: "."

Only an additional explanation of the original party can be ignored by book lovers who don't mind.

As for whether Soul Slayer has such an effect, it is really not explicitly mentioned in the game.

But I'll give you two examples here to show that there's a lot of content to dig into: one is that you can see the records left by the Moon agent in the Badlands, which shows that he knows the deep reason for Holt's cooperation with Arasaka, but the Moon doesn't care and just deals with him

The other is Nam Cheong-hoon, a hacker from Wakako, who received a message from his friend who was trapped in a soul killer and sent him a message for help, and this hacker was involved in the election competition.

There's really no mention of what it is in the game, but I think if you want to expand on the existing clues, the most potential is the soul killer.

As for whether the Internet Supervisor will investigate Arasaka, there are quite a lot of clues that prove that the Internet Supervisor is really staring at Arasaka very hard, so I won't talk about it here, mainly to show that although the author will make up a lot of content, it is indeed not pure nonsense

There will be a lot of expansion based on the clues of the original version of the plot in the follow-up, but in short, I think it is reasonable, and the idea is based on a core premise inherited from the cyberpunk series: Saburo Arasaka is the biggest threat to the whole world

(End of chapter)