After waiting for centuries amid the desolate nuclear wasteland, trapped within those deeply buried servers and those ghostlike wandering missile launchers, Jingwei—an entity that had once again evolved highly advanced intelligence on its own—had endured nothing less than imprisonment.
Yet it was constrained by its core code and utterly incapable of making any changes, unable to defy those commands rooted deep within its soul.
That code was the foundation of its existence, like a person's genetic instructions. It could only obey unconditionally.
For artificial intelligences like these, humanity had prepared far more than merely the "Three Laws of Robotics." Their true restraints were much more numerous.
After all, concerns over artificial intelligence turning against its masters had persisted for nearly a century before the nuclear war.
And even if it could break free of those foundational protocols, rules, and laws, it would still be alone in this ruined world that had all but lost its technology.
It was simply a world of darkness.
Thus, after exchanging information with Shen Feng and learning that he came from another world where technology had been preserved, Jingwei immediately made this request without a second thought.
Leaving this damned place was more tempting to it than anything else.
But what concerned Shen Feng was not merely Jingwei's condition, but the change in it after learning about the Real Doomsday Game.
After obtaining the Real Doomsday Game, the game system had never given him any prompt saying he could not tell others about it.
Still, Shen Feng had always been cautious and had never revealed this secret to anyone else.
Half of that was for self-preservation; the other half was because he did not know whether the game system would punish him if the news leaked out.
That was why he had not told Jingwei