Gwen covered her mouth in surprise. This little girl called the Red Queen looked almost real, exquisite and beautiful like a doll. She could not resist reaching out to touch her, but a ripple of light passed through the image, and her fingertips went straight through the lifelike projection.
"Miss Gwen Stacy, please show me some respect..." The little girl actually displayed a remarkably humanlike expression of displeasure, her tiny mouth pouting slightly. She did not seem like a cold machine at all.
The red princess dress rippled like water. With a faint flicker, the Red Queen's lifelike image abruptly scattered apart like feathers of light, only reforming several seconds later.
"I'm sorry." Realizing her lapse in manners, Gwen quickly pulled back her finger, though her large eyes still kept stealing glances at the Red Queen.
She still found it hard to believe that the exquisite little girl before her, like a porcelain doll, was actually the virtual image of an artificial intelligence.
Connors, standing nearby, was thrilled inside, though he appeared relatively composed and did not show it as clearly as Gwen. Compared to the enormous, cumbersome supercomputers built at vast expense by government agencies or private laboratories in other countries, the Red Queen was undoubtedly superior. Not only did she possess a higher level of intelligence and a simulated personality nearly akin to life itself, she did not merely follow commands mechanically. She could make simple predictions and judgments on her own.
Whether in computing speed or data projection, she far surpassed large-scale computers. This was especially true when it came to constructing real environments, which required immense computational power. Simulating a convincing real world required precise data for extrapolation and prediction. Even the world's most advanced supercomputers could only simulate simple changes in events and predict a