The Human Hard Drive

The Digital Life Alienation Project is essentially a war of attrition. By using "high-level information fog" to pry open a crack in Database 0 without alerting anyone, the endless stream of artificial viruses in the virus database becomes the best experimental material. AI and the virus itself play the roles of "male" and "female" respectively, constantly engaging in "breeding behavior".

But there's a prerequisite: the number of AIs must be sufficient, otherwise, big problems will arise!

Every virus in Database 0 is extremely dangerous. If there is enough "feeding material", it will be fine, but if the "feeding" is insufficient, it will inevitably devour its host.

On the 'flight suit', information energy began to drop wildly, and all sorts of strange numbers appeared on the surface of the protective layer, even interfering with simulated vision.

The surrounding "digital desert" also changed rapidly, and the experience of nothingness and reality began to intertwine wildly.

Digital life forms do not have processors, or rather, they have not yet evolved a system that can perfectly simulate the brain. Unlike traditional AI, they cannot rely on various hardware, such as brain plugins or mind chips, to compensate for their weaknesses. Therefore, once a problem arises, it will be a major problem.

In the third layer of digital space, within the vast technological space of the Earth Network Group, urgent alarms sounded almost immediately.

"What happened?"

"A distress signal has been received from cyberspace. The digital life system has been suspected of being infected by a virus. The number of infected personnel is 1, 2, 3... 31—that's all the dispatched personnel!"

"The birth of cyber digital life has ceased. To repeat, the birth of cyber digital life has ceased."

"The experimental AI has disappeared on a large scale; we are currently investigating."

Countless dots of light appeared on the screen and began to migrate rapidly toward the data layer. Almost every captured AI was equipped with a location system to prevent others from causing trouble.

David Hilbert revealed a cold smile, but Tu Xiaoling, who knew him well, knew that this was a sign of the 'Evolutionary Sage's' rage.

The digital life form, having undergone 145 iterations, has achieved 100% simulation of the characteristics of an intelligent species, including a variety of emotions.

"Where is the prototype now?"

"Based on the information we've received, it has already entered database 0."

"That's interesting. Who else but this super hacker could pull off such a large-scale 'hacking intrusion'?"

"He has a Miss AI by his side..."

"I expect your intelligence module to be within the scope of iteration," David said coldly. "Does a mid-level AI have the capability to achieve such a large-scale Virtual Invasion?"

"However, among all the theoretical possibilities, this probability reaches 42.1%," Tu Xiaoyu said calmly. Her emotional module has not yet evolved to the point of producing actions such as fearing superiors, shirking responsibility, and passing the buck.

"No, there must be something we didn't expect!" David interrupted rudely. He had been preparing for this plan for nearly two years and thought he had considered all the possibilities. He would never admit that he had been tricked when the time came.

"Then there is another possibility: although the main consciousness of the prototype entered the virus database No. 0, the Cyber Hacker's second personality, consciousness clone, and data thinking are manipulating the situation behind the scenes."

"This is cyberspace!"

Although Cyber Hacker are notoriously difficult to kill, even those who follow the network cable may not be real people, not to mention all sorts of bizarre self-programming and chaotic clone methods.

However, there is an axiom in the hacker world: once a hacker enters cyberspace, all their clones will go into hibernation. The reason is simple: once in cyberspace, all external disguises will disappear, and what remains is the unique "true self".

As a hacker, no matter how skilled you are in virtual technology, once your "ego is out of control," all your thought processes will collapse in an instant.

This is why other consciousness-based methods must enter a dormant state when logging into cyberspace.

Therefore, the best way to deal with a Cyber Hacker is to find their physical body while they are logging into cyberspace and then physically destroy them.

Upon thinking of this, David's eyes narrowed, and with a flick of his hand, a holographic projection magnified dozens of times, revealing the divine land of the real world.

It is a 'crustal engine' sleeping on the seabed.

It is also the largest hardware component that maintains the operation of the digital space within a radius of thousands of miles.

Inside the engine is the Digital Life Transformation Room, unique to the Zhuodiwang Group—an operating room where humans are uploaded to hardware and completely transformed into digital life.

The screen zoomed in instantly, entering the 'engine' and arriving at the modification room.

At some point, the operating room door was violently destroyed, the interior was in a mess, bulletproof glass shards were scattered all over the floor, and there were even many mechanical guard remnants.

"Play it backwards!"

The hidden camera in the modification room started recording. First, a "corpse" was brought in and put into the "modification chamber" for life digitization simulation. The process was only halfway through when the "corpse" suddenly opened its eyes, revealed a strange smile, and pushed with both hands. The entire "modification chamber" was blown apart, and countless fleshy buds flew out from the "corpse", sweeping everywhere and destroying everything in its path.

The guards who rushed to the scene had barely entered when the "corpse" stretched out its palm, and bursts of flesh spores shot out from its fingertips, striking the guards like bullets. The spores quickly "decomposed" and transformed into strange flesh membranes. Within a few breaths, the energy system was drained, the mechanical parts exploded, and then even the footage recorded by the cameras began to blur.

Because a large amount of flesh-colored blankets had already covered the walls and the cameras along the floor.

The scene abruptly ended.

Tu Xiaoling exclaimed in surprise, "Is it really true, as you said, that the prototype activated its second personality? Isn't it worried about going insane?"

"No!" At this moment, the evolved sage calmed down and unexpectedly made a judgment.

"The other party is not a prototype."

"I don't understand what you mean."

"Although I don't yet understand how they did it, the one controlling this body is not the prototype, but that AI."

"Ai?"

Inside the crustal engine, the "senior engineer" was strolling leisurely, while data was constantly scrolling down in his eyes.

This is a unique identifier for AI.

Inside the brain of this body, the ticking device was operating nervously, and behind it, AI was being downloaded continuously, densely packed and seemingly endless.

The high-performance computer itself becomes the storage hard drive for a host of AI systems.

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