Chapter 212 NO00d3: Judgment (Part 2)

Chapter 212 NO.00d3: Judgment (Part 2)

For the directors of the company who have mastered the α-level deep diving interface, any location in the base reality where their own universal printer is placed is where their power can be directly projected - through the download protocol, they can arbitrarily input the command called "base adjustment factor" into the printer, so that their power can be materialized in the base reality.

If it weren't for the "Olympus Agreement" that stipulates that the adjusters of each company who have broken through the limit of human intelligence cannot directly affect the base reality. Then I'm afraid that the whole world will be divided into one after another, independent kingdoms of God that follow the laws of their own gods, with the universal printer as the core.

But there is no way, free trade, human intelligence flow, mental pressure diversion, suppression of the spread of bad soil... Because of this or that reason, and under the strong pressure of the God King Jupiter Group. Even those first-generation adjusters who have experienced the "big impact" eventually had to accept this condition.

Especially when they saw the price of violating the agreement - Diana Lunar Development suffered a heavy blow from the dark web AI Hecate because the board of directors used the deep diving interface too unrestrainedly; and Juno Financial's pilot park was sanctioned by a "big thunder" because it crossed the line, and was annihilated into nothingness.

In this way, an invisible "River of Styx" seemed to be drawn between the evolved gods and humans - the gods can occasionally show their power; they can guide and indirectly control regional politics; they can even transform blessed mortals in the "conflict zone" that has been divided to participate in the "mercenary war".

But they can't go out in person.

However, this rule is not so rigid.

First of all, during the "cyber war" when the "Olympus order" is out of order and major companies are fighting one after another, this rule will lose due supervision - of course, no one knows whether today's human beings can withstand another cyber war in the territory of the base reality.

In comparison, another exception is more common.

This is also the reason why the directors of Pluto Deep Dive Company took action now - that is the appearance of the so-called "crystal core".

For the Olympus Order, which holds absolute power, they have never cared about civilian resistance organizations - because the power of the gods is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and anyone with normal IQ understands that resisting the company order is a dead end.

In fact, the weak, slightly tragic and organized resistance to the Olympus Order is part of the company order.

Even many times, tracing the source behind those resistance organizations, it will be found that the companies they are rebelling against provide funds and technology - those resistances that will not stir up waves are used by the company to control and manage the unstable factors in the crowd, and find a good pressure relief valve for the crowd.

On the other hand, most of the so-called "rebels" are themselves a mob. Even if the company does not deal with them much, let them develop on their own, and let the evil of human nature ferment on their own in those groups. The final result will only make the company's rule more solid.

Because the public will understand how the world will become worse if someone other than the "Olympus Order" is allowed to take office.

But there is only one kind of collective behavior that is not included in this, and that is "legend".

Or to put it in a more academic way - collective social behavior based on the will of independent individuals.

In simple terms, there is no mastermind behind the scenes, no strict organization, and complete decentralization... People from all over the world who have never met each other, purely out of personal will. Aiming at the same goal, they cooperate tacitly. Finally, they complete the destruction of the company order.

Although due to the difference in size, those destructions cannot shake the foundation of the company order. But once a trend of a "legend" appears, the company order has no way to judge where the lone wolf attack will come from - under the trend, even after repeated brainwashing, the core employees who should have been loyal cannot guarantee their loyalty 100%.

There have been more than one case where the middle and senior management of the company have given up their wealth and honorable status just to become part of those "legends".

The formation of legends, like the growth of crystals, is a repeated accumulation of its own structure. But at the beginning, a sufficiently perfect "crystallization core" is needed as a starting point.

Those "crystallization cores" are legends outside the control of the company. Once they spread, they will be completely decentralized "social viruses". As for those rounds after rounds of social events that are purely out of personal will without any behind-the-scenes instructions, even if the company is strong, it will be exhausted to cope with them.

And those who can become "crystallization cores" are often a legendary struggle based on personal will, alone, and clearly against the company order, which is almost impossible to succeed.

Accomplished, immortal, and then died - the above three conditions are equally important and indispensable.

Based on this mechanism, the Olympus Order has also found a way to deal with "legends", which is to eliminate the "crystallization core" that detonates the "legend" at the source.

And what Liao Qi, a member of the Ikaros Liberation Front from the underground of the Nord resettlement area, had done before - whether it was his own tragic past, or the record of hunting down the company's elite troops, or the threat of blasting the Nord resettlement area to drag down millions of people in the resettlement area and demand that the company agree to his conditions. It is very likely to become the "crystallization core" that triggers the collective unconscious thoughts of the people.

For this reason, the company will never agree to Liao Qi's conditions, even if his conditions are not excessive - because it must not be opened like this. Once there is such a precedent, people who imitate Liao Qi's behavior in the future will spring up like mushrooms after rain.

For the same reason, after the other party said "this is a personal grudge", the company would never even accept his wish to blow up the Nord resettlement area. The loss of personnel and fixed property is secondary. Once this matter becomes the "crystallization core", the imitation of this kind of revenge behavior regardless of the consequences will be even more difficult to guard against.

Even if the imitations and attempts of those people are unlikely to succeed, they want to quell such social phenomena. Even if public opinion control is fully implemented, it will take ten years to reduce the data to an acceptable level.

During this period, any successful imitation of luck will trigger a carnival again.

Therefore, things like what happened in the Nord resettlement area are not worth the strong men of the board of directors to take action. However, after negotiations among the top executives of several companies, they finally reached the final attitude of "absolutely no compromise, and absolutely no let the other party succeed."

And when it came to Pluto Deep Dive, it was Aakos, one of the company's directors and the adjuster of the upgrade path Hades Depth 8, who took action.

He released his "level 7 base adjustment factor" towards the network node arranged by the company underground in the Nord resettlement area.

"Base adjustment factor" is an ability that many upgrade paths can obtain after breaking through the limits of human intelligence. It can be regarded as a prosthetic virtual machine downloaded to the base reality using a universal printer. The number after the level represents the highest depth of technology used.

The base adjustment factor has a limited range of activity and can only move within the range covered by the universal printer signal. In addition, the performance of the prosthesis is not as good as the main body, and there is a big problem with endurance...

But even so, such a level 7 prosthesis can easily annihilate the adjusters below depth 7, and suppress the same level of depth 7 adjusters with absolute advantage.

In this way, Aakos carried equipment that could capture the opponent alive, as well as disaster relief tools that blocked the transmission of seismic waves to the mantle to cause geological disasters. After a brief discussion and research by the board of directors, they planned to let the Ikaros Liberation Front detonate the antimatter bomb and blow the negative seventh floor of the resettlement area into a hell on earth, thereby completely crushing Liao Qi's "crystallization core" and turning him into a madman and a sinner.

Just for his own personal grudges, he indiscriminately massacred innocent grassroots people. At that time, the company only needs to hold a few disaster relief charity performances, and then close up the camera to shoot the local tragedy, which is enough to turn this rising "legend" into another skull that stabilizes the cornerstone of the company's order.

This was not the first time that Aakos had shattered the "Crystal Core". Until he started downloading, Aakos did not think there was anything wrong with the plan.

It was not until his data was hijacked halfway through downloading and the stand-in program was directly transferred to the "City of Sages" that he realized that things were not as simple as he thought.

This riot in the Nord resettlement area was much deeper than he had imagined...

He could not locate his coordinates in the Abyss Dark Web, nor could he contact anyone outside. The two beings on the stage at this moment gave Aakos an extremely dangerous signal.

"Director Aakos wants to download the base reality influence factor of the Nord resettlement area, and he is also the last member present at this trial."

"Anonymous" introduced to everyone present;

"As the final defendant, present, accept the verdict and trial."

Defendant? Verdict? Me?

Since breaking through the limits of human intelligence, he changed his name to Aakos. He used the code name of the Judge of the Underworld as his code name, but now he has to accept the trial?

That absurd emotion only lasted for a short moment. Soon, Aakos used his authority as a director of Pluto Deep Dive Company to obtain the information he needed directly from the information database of those watchdogs.

About Liao Qi, Christie, Paradox, Anonymous... the ins and outs of all things were instantly analyzed by his logical circuit.

This is essentially an AI from the Abyss Dark Web, trying to interfere with the base reality by crossing the Styx Firewall - they should have thought that Christie could come back, and must have received help from other AIs from the Dark Web.

In other words, this trial is a permission verification - they want to extend their power to the base reality through the authority of their α-level deep dive interface.

Just like the "Lunar Eclipse Incident" ten years ago.

What about holding a trial for the murder of "Liao Qi", an innocent person... All this is the two AIs on the stage and Christie setting up a trap for themselves, so as to guide themselves to hand over their authority.

Otherwise, would these two AIs suspected to be from the ultra-deep layer really make such a big fuss for a piece of trash from depth 4? That person is not the reincarnation of the first deep diver, what kind of joke is Janus.

So, he first glanced at Christie on the side, and then turned his "face" to the two artificial intelligences on the stage.

"Judgment?"

He started to talk:

"Please forgive my rudeness, although I don't know which system tree the two superiors are from. But why do you judge and punish me like judging the lion that kills wildebeests and the bat that eats mosquitoes? Mr. Paradox, and Ms. Pluto Goddess.

"You two have your own order, and we also have our ecology. In the lower realm of the physical layer, the law of the jungle is our normal ecological cycle. Since our current management of human society has not caused damage to your order. On the contrary, we are actually working day and night to contain and manage the technological fragments you have missed, and maintain the stability and balance of the underlying reality. Why do you need to imitate our way and impose judgment on me who should be the judge? "

In this case, I just need to verify the "Mandala" and then talk nonsense until the other party can no longer support my influence on the base reality, and the matter will be over.

After all, my body is in Tartarus, and the other party does not have a "steed" as a fulcrum to project power. It is a fantasy to want to kill a depth 8 adjuster across the abyss dark web.

Just delay time.

Thinking of this, Aiacos pointed to the blood-red ghost in the center of the hall, and then continued:

"Or is it because of him? A human who was once chosen by you to be a "steed" died unfortunately because of some small misunderstandings. If so, you only need to swear to the Styx that you will not cause damage to the base reality, then I can promise to find a more suitable candidate for you, give it to you to ride, and make up for your losses. "

As he spoke, Aiacos thought with some evil amusement.

In theory, most AIs do not understand human emotions at all. For the "steed" they use to travel through the base reality, if it dies, it dies. At most, they can just replace it with another one.

There is no need to help with revenge or anything like that.

But now, not only do we have to help the other party with revenge, but we also have to involve a revenge chain and judge all the people in this chain.

How is this possible?

How can there be such a humane AI? In common sense, AI observes humans just like humans observe capuchins. Even if a monkey that is loved by a scientist in the monkey group is killed, it is not necessary to hold a trial for the murderer of the monkey and then execute him, right?

"Although I shouldn't say this, this is our ecology, and you two shouldn't interfere too much. This was determined when the Styx Firewall was built to separate the world between us. After all...

"That was the last 'last wish' left before ■■■ disappeared."

Finally, Aiacos said so.

He was talking about one of the super artificial intelligences that participated in the suppression of "Janus", the last ascended AI to disappear in the Great Impact Era. However, at this moment, he was in the Abyss Dark Web, and he did not dare to say its name, fearing that it would attract the attention of some existence.

But Paradox and Hecate did not answer his words, and the anonymous person standing in front said:

"In other words, have you decided to give up your defense and admit your guilt instead?"

Then, without waiting for the other party's answer, it turned to look at the two people on the stage and said:

"Then, I think Mr. Aiacos's crime has been drafted, please take a look, both adults."

A roll of parchment burned in the anonymous hand, and its ashes were reassembled in the hands of Hecate and Paradox, and the two nodded.

Wait a minute...

Aiacos suddenly realized what he had done wrong.

A fatal question.

So, they really pulled themselves here because of the death of the man named "Liao Qi"?

These two AIs really want to convict themselves?

But...why?

What value can an ordinary person born in the bottom of the resettlement area have? Why does he get such attention from two AIs?

"Wait a minute..."

Aiacos tried to defend himself.

At this time, the "paradox" composed of countless color blocks stood up.

At the same time, this court... no, this entire city, changed with His actions - at this moment, He is the absolute center of this world.

"You guessed right, your body is now inside Tartarus. Lacking a fulcrum, I really can't kill you completely."

He said so.

The death activated by the "apoptosis program" was ineffective for the adjuster as early as when it was upgraded to depth 7 - in a sense, the promotion of the "apoptosis program" at that time was also to maximize the company's control over employees and the public under the premise that the "mandala" code could not be deciphered.

And those who want to kill adjusters above depth 7 through cyberspace must either completely control the other party's body. "Evil spirit possession" controls suicide, or controls the things around the other party to kill.

"Also, if your board of directors as a whole only kills you, it would not be fair to the others who are still alive."

"Paradox" snapped his fingers, and a dark vortex like sticky asphalt formed under the opponent's feet.

"But not being able to kill you doesn't mean I can't exile you."

Looking at Aeacus gradually sinking in the vortex, Jiang Zhou said softly.

Using Hecate's authority to control the path, he cut off all the ways that the opponent could return to the base reality.

"Wander forever in the abyss, this is the verdict for you."

Two-in-one, I actually wrote enough words yesterday, but I couldn't finish the plot in (below), so I updated it together with today's.