"Replay the complex scene of the mutated nerve bundles." Wu Chen said again.

"Yes." Zhi Nao Ai immediately reproduced the scene previously taken by the three overhead hunters in the front window of ae86. Only bundles of mutated nerves were seen, breaking free from the shackles of the remains of the prosthetic body, and first fighting with the broken ones.

The companion continued, like an electric eel, slithering towards the Hanhua skyscraper. There was even a horrifying scene of mutated nerves that could not break free, standing tall like a cobra, crushing the prosthetic head with force, causing brain matter to splatter.

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Seeing many details, Zhinao Ai couldn't help but feel horrified: "The prosthetic body is just a breeding ground for mutations. The mutant A.I's bred are continuously converging towards the Hanhua skyscraper through neural complexation. Is this what the master is talking about?"

"

"Maybe not entirely." Wu Chen thought thoughtfully.

"Why not use the Internet?" This is something that the digital life forms born in New Hong Kong cannot understand.

"This is related to the technological background of this plot fragment." Wu Chen expressed his understanding: "Just like 'upload' and 'download', these are similar epoch-making new technologies that were born before the wide-area Internet. Just like many years ago

Internet cafes are not called Internet cafes, but are called computer game rooms. I remember at that time, I did something that seems very funny now, which was to use dozens of 1.44m floppy disks to copy the original "Monopoly" game. Ghost in the Shell

The background of the creation of Mobile Team is roughly the same. Even almost all cyberpunk plot worlds fail to show the wide-area Internet based on 5g wireless transmission technology and the broader Internet of Everything based on 6g technology. So'

Implanting a storage hard drive in the brain and going to a specific terminal to download or upload data has become the conventional world view of cyberpunk. Of course, it is also due to the limitations of the times. In fact, in our opinion, mutant nerve bundles do not need to be physically modified at all.

Internet. As long as they can be connected to each other through wireless networks, they may become more advanced A.I. intelligence under the rules of ann, or even digital life."

"So, this is actually the rule of the world of Ghost in the Shell." Zhi Nao understood why the mutant nerve bundles were rushing to climb towards the Hanhua Skyscraper.

"Yes." Wu Chen nodded lightly: "In other words, it is the innate origin of mutant a.i."

"Just like the insertion of human flesh, it is also the most primitive connection." Zhi Nao Ai suddenly understood: "This is what (intelligent) life looked like at the beginning."

"Usually it can be understood this way." Wu Chen nodded lightly.

The Hanhua Skyscraper has a saucer-shaped central computer room built around a bottomless matrix of prosthetic server columns.

The dense lines of fire chased the escaping mutant nerve bundles, blasting everything along the way into pieces. Passing through the flames blooming in the sky, the major broke through the blockade and flew to the ground.

The reason why the doctor and the major had to get to the computer room was because it was the only place in the entire Hanhua Skyscraper where they could operate the prosthetic server. If they wanted to shut down the server and make all mutant prosthetics go offline collectively, they could only go through the central computer room.

brain-computer interface. And there are only a handful of people who have the authority to operate it.

At the same time, the facade of the Hanhua Skyscraper has been densely wrapped with mutant nerve bundles that are constantly climbing up to the waistline. At a glance, the skyscraper is wrapped around and around from the waistline down.

, wrapped in layer after layer, a cluster of mutant nerve bundles that are constantly squirming, twisting, rolling, entangled, and sizzlingly discharged. It feels like a group of snakes scrambling to climb, and like countless snakes smelling blood.

A smelly leech. Or a school of salmon swimming bravely to their spawning grounds.

It is also similar to the salmon that migrate thousands of kilometers to the upper reaches of the river to spawn and continue the population. The mutant nerve bundles that are scrambling to climb up have only one purpose. To upload the mutant a.i they carry to the update.

Advanced nodes. Continuously improve more advanced group intelligence. Even become a "righteous person".

"Master, look quickly." Zhinao immediately switched the screen back to the central computer room.

"Ah, long time no see. Major Mira." A familiar greeting came from inside the giant jellyfish's shell.

"Dad, it's really you." With the help of armored radar imaging, the major saw that the special outline of the electronic superbrain of Laboratory No. 3 was revealed in the umbrella-shaped crown of the giant jellyfish's shining electric light. So this is "

The trinity of "100% whole body prosthetic", "experimental advanced attack shell" and "electronic super brain". It is also the successfully launched "Foundation Project 2573".

"It's my fault for not telling everyone in advance." Daisuke Aramaki said in a calm and patient tone.

"Why?" Major couldn't understand at all.

"Major, do you know what is the most terrifying thing about the plague?" Daisuke Aramaki asked.

"Highly fatal, easily contagious, and difficult to cure." Major blurted out. This was her personal experience.

"No." Daisuke Aramaki said in an unchanging tone, saying it was nothing to do with himself: "I think the unpredictable fear is the most terrifying thing about the plague."

"Unpredictable fear." the major repeated softly.

"Yes. When electronic sclerosis breaks out, everyone in the city is in danger. Even if it turns out that some people can indeed be cured, the unpredictable fear still makes people avoid it. I want to use the metaphor of 'rabies' here

.Many people know that not every wild dog carries deadly germs. Science has long proven that the incidence rate is less than 1%. However, for people who are unfortunate enough to be bitten by wild dogs, even if there is a 1% chance, they will do

100% expected. So from this point of view, the fear of rabies is not 1%, but 100%."

"Even if you know there is only 1% threat, you must defend 100%." ​​This is the major's understanding: "Society should be like this."

"So in the end, is electronic sclerosis a plague?" Daisuke Aramaki has been secretly guiding the major's thinking: "Take the same subway with the infected, go to the same pub, even if you happen to pass by someone in the crowd.

People. Fear is 1% or 100%.”

"100%." ​​Major gave the answer given by most people.

"As the Major said, even a 1% chance of infection will bring 100% absolute fear. And this is the plague." Daisuke Aramaki said in his usual calm tone: "So, as humans, we can never

cure."

"Since fear (plague) cannot be cured, what should we do?" the major asked.

"By becoming a more advanced species, you will be 'naturally immune' to the plague that infects lower species." Daisuke Aramaki gave the solution.

"Is he the 'righteous man' that Michiko Hanaka calls him?" Major was not convinced at all.

"No, Major. We are new humans." As he said that, the jellyfish's long tentacles suddenly reached down and uprooted a mutant nerve bundle that had climbed nearby. It was like an electronic beast with its mouth wide open, the jellyfish tentacles.

Forcibly linked to the mutant nerve bundle, accompanied by lasing electric light, it swallowed up the mutant A.I.

It was like a body whose soul had been swallowed. The body, with its mutated nerve bundles twisted, first drooped limply, and then was discarded upright by the tentacles. Before it could reach the ground, it was turned into ashes in mid-air.

"You swallowed the mutant a.i. it carried."

"For higher wisdom." Daisuke Aramaki finished the second half of the sentence that the major omitted.

"Then what?" Major steadied his breathing.

"Then, together." Michiko Hanaka's voice suddenly sounded from behind the jellyfish shell. I saw a huge human face woven by countless mutant nerve bundles, and Michiko Hanaka's "facial muscles" were also weird along with the laughter.

of squirming.

"Where is the doctor?" the major asked through gritted teeth.

"I told you, let's be together." Dr. Olette, who has a human face and a big mouth, and is covered in mutant nerves, is being imprisoned in Michiko Hana's mouth!
Chapter completed!