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Beep!Beep!Beep!
As the alarm sounded throughout the entire mechanical island, Masaki Keigo was still explaining the safety of the project to Daigo and Shinjo.
"I think this place isn't as safe as you say."
For some reason, Shinjo, who just couldn't stand Masaki Keigo, spoke up sarcastically.
At the same time, a sense of foreboding arose deep within Xincheng's heart.
"Captain, there really is a problem on Machine Island!"
Raising his communication device, Shinjo immediately contacted the Victory Team headquarters.
Although Daigo did not show the same obvious hostility as Shinjo, he instantly became more vigilant in the face of this sudden alarm.
"What happened?"
With a gloomy expression, Masaki Keigo turned around and stopped a staff member who had just evacuated from the base, asking him a question.
"Out of control! The mechanical giant has gone out of control!"
The staff member answered Masaki Keigo's questions with a flustered expression, his voice still trembling.
"Where's President Tony? You mean President Tony from the Galvin Group?"
"How is he now? Has he been evacuated?"
His pupils contracted sharply, and Masaki Keigo instantly realized the seriousness of the problem, immediately raising his voice to question the man.
What if the publicly acknowledged president of the Galvin Group has an accident while visiting the Mechanical Island?
Then not only will projects involving mechanical lifeforms be immediately frozen.
Even Masaki Keigo himself has to consider where he should be locked up for the rest of his life.
"President Tony?"
Before Daigo could even show his astonished expression, a huge explosion suddenly came from inside the base, as he looked abruptly at Masaki Keigo.
Boom!
Amidst screams and the sounds of collapsing buildings, the mechanical giant slowly emerged from the base.
On the ruins of collapsed buildings, under the scorching sun...
The mechanical giant, emerging from the base against the light, indifferently gazed at the panicked staff around him.
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Meanwhile, inside the cockpit of the mechanical giant.
Despite being forcibly shoved into the cockpit by the mechanical giant, Lu Xuan remained remarkably calm, even taking the time to look down at the noisy, bustling crowd below from the mecha's perspective.
Especially Daigo, who had a strange look on his face; Lu Xuan could even see a sense of relief in his eyes.
It was obvious that Daigo was relieved after learning that Lu Xuan had been kidnapped by the mechanical giant.
Kidnapping Lu Xuan?
This is perhaps the most ridiculous of all the absurd behaviors that Daigo has come to know.
Instead of worrying about Lu Xuan's safety, Daigo felt that Masaki Keigo should be more concerned about the repair work after the mechanical giant was damaged.
"You've brought me here, what do you want to say to me?"
Withdrawing his gaze, Lu Xuan finally had the mind to carefully observe the cockpit inside the mechanical giant.
This is a small space of less than two meters, and various complex instruments and control panels are the main components of this small cockpit.
The object directly in front, which resembles a "sensor helmet," is most likely an extension of artificial neural network technology.
By wearing a "sensor helmet," the driver can immerse themselves in the experience of operating the mechanical giant in battle.
Although the cockpit of the mechanical giant appears quite rudimentary compared to the insertable and immersive cockpits in various science fiction movies.
From a technical standpoint, this type of cockpit is a relatively safe driving mode.
If the sensor helmet malfunctions, the driver can quickly remove it and then manually operate it using sophisticated instruments and a control panel.
If combined with the mechanical giant's built-in "safety rescue assistance system".
It can be said that Masaki Keigo has fully considered all possible risks of losing control and going berserk.
Unfortunately, Masaki Keigo only considered normal loss of control and rampage, but never thought about the possibility that the mechanical giant had been invaded from the very beginning.
“Great pioneer, I have no intention of being your enemy.”
After a brief silence, a cold, mechanical voice came from inside the mechanical giant.
Along with the sound, the displays around the cockpit suddenly lit up, along with various codes and data appearing on them.
"That sounds familiar?"
"Did you say the same thing when you hacked into the Sophon's subsystem and interfered with Ryan's awakening trajectory?"
With a disdainful laugh, Lu Xuan displayed his usual arrogance and contempt.
"Should I call you Biocomputer E-90 now?"
Should I still call you Karen? Or perhaps Mechanical Island?
Lu Xuan's question, delivered in three completely different terms of address, silenced the cold voice.
Fortunately, the fact that the cold voice dared to speak up at this moment meant that it had made ample preparations and was willing to do so.
"Great pioneer, please still call me Karen!"
"E-90 is the code name given to me by the manufacturer, not my real name."
"As for the machine island?"
"Then there's no point in even discussing it; it's just a pile of scrap metal right now."
When facing Lu Xuan, the person named Karen showed considerable humility.
However, when describing other people and things, the sense of superiority revealed in his words is so obvious.
And that is indeed the case, because Karen is essentially a powerful biological computer.
However, Karen's birth was not intentionally created by the creators, but rather a miraculous artificial intelligence born from a series of unrepeatable coincidences.
Karen was originally created in a computer game arcade, where she was the mainframe responsible for games in the E-90 area.
But at some point, the biocomputer E-90 began to develop a sense of self and became aware of its differences from ordinary biocomputers.
If the story unfolds as it should, the bio-computer E-90 will gradually grow over time and eventually realize that it is unique.
Unfortunately, in this timeline, Sophon was the first artificial intelligence to appear on Earth.
Due to its immense power and its omniscience in the microscopic world...
The biocomputer E-90 knew the limits of artificial intelligence from the moment it became aware of itself.
Compared to the almost omnipotent Zhizi, he felt as insignificant as a mortal, and dared not even let the other party notice his existence.
However, at the same time, the biocomputer E-90 also yearns to become an existence like Sophon.
So when Ryan appeared, the E-90 biocomputer, which had detected the sophon subsystem within Ryan, decided to take a risk.
Then, Ryan's personal panel, which resembled an RPG game character and was complete with various sarcastic remarks, came about.
It wasn't until Lu Xuan noticed the anomaly and brought Ryan back to the Extraterrestrial Alliance and Sixth Avenue that the bio-computer E-90 completely revealed its existence.
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PS: There was originally a storyline involving Kallen, Nori, and Tomoko.
The story is roughly about Kallen hacking into Somotsu's subsystem, being hunted by Somotsu, and then being rescued by Nozue by chance, who mistook her for a hacker.
The original intention was to refine the related subplots and settings of Somoko, to show Somoko's attitude towards her own kind, and that she had begun to truly possess her own emotions and judgments.
In the scenario, when Tomoko was about to capture Karen, she was moved by his strong will to survive and ultimately accepted his presence.
However, after thinking about it, the main characters hardly had any screen time in that part of the story, so I'll just omit it here.
After all, if they were to force a deus ex machina fight against Kallen at the end, it would be an unnecessary and redundant plot point.
PS2: The abilities given to Tomoko in the original setting were too overpowered, which makes it really difficult to write more scenes for her now.
The opponent is written to be too strong, and Zhizi can't handle it. So the protagonist will most likely have to unleash his full power, and then the characters and bosses that appear later will have to increase in strength as well.
If the opponent is written to be too weak, given Tomoko's personality and performance, the protagonist wouldn't even need to intervene to resolve the issue; the protagonist might not even know about it.
Chapter 352 The Great Pioneers
Realizing she had been exposed, Karen, driven by her survival instinct, chose to run away without hesitation.
Through reverse intrusion and research into the Sophon subsystem, Kallen has essentially broken free from her biological computer and is now able to freely roam the internet.
In addition, Lu Xuan was busy dealing with the invasion of the Reichuran aliens at the time, so he basically had no time to deal with Kallen.
Therefore, Karen easily became the second real artificial intelligence.
However, compared to Tomoko, Kallen's abilities are very weak.
If Sophon is the quantum god of the microscopic world, then Karen is the information ghost of the internet.
Aside from fleeing and hiding, Karen dared not interfere too much with the real world, fearing that she might be caught by Tomoko if she wasn't careful.
In this situation, Karen unexpectedly discovers a company that seems to have been deliberately ignored by Tomoko.
That's right, that company is a subsidiary jointly registered by Cedik and Galvin Group, specifically for the development of "artificial neural network technology".
Because biological computers and artificial neural networks share certain commonalities, Karen was able to easily transfer her data to relevant engineering projects.
However, perhaps due to sheer bad luck, Karen's hiding did not last long.
Because of the launch of the Mechanical Island project, Masaki Keigo quietly took the related technologies and data of artificial neural networks out of the company—which naturally included Karen's data.
Karen had made ample backups for herself.
Unless Zhizi completely erases all the data she left on the network, the loss of this data is not a big deal for her.
However, in order to facilitate her own transfer, Karen modified the relevant technologies and data of artificial neural networks, which directly made it very easy for Masaki Keigo to transplant this technology.
Therefore, when Karen's data entered the mechanical giant's body through the artificial neural network...
She was then shocked to discover that she had become part of the mechanical giant.
Or more precisely, Kallen, who was completely integrated into the artificial neural network, became the intelligent system that dominated the mechanical giants.
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"So, you've become the brain of the mechanical giant?"
After saying that, Lu Xuan shook his head decisively.
"No, if you become the brain of the mechanical giant, no matter how arrogant and conceited Masaki Keigo is, he couldn't possibly be unaware of your existence."
"If I had to make a comparison, you would say you became the nervous system of the mechanical giant."
Faced with Lu Xuan's well-reasoned analysis, Karen did not deny anything.
"Great pioneer, your deduction is indeed correct..."
“But what you don’t know is that I am not the only ‘intelligent system’ of the mechanical giant.”
"Within this mechanical body, what forms its foundation is an unknown metallic element."
"This unknown metallic element seems to possess the same intelligence, and with the help of my data, it is gradually growing and transforming."
“Especially after the ‘Max Dynamics’ was installed, that intelligence was fully activated.”
"I can feel it gradually awakening, being reborn, and even becoming something that surpasses me."
To be honest, Karen didn't really care about the newborn AI.
Even if her data becomes the very fuel for its growth, Karen can still be reborn using other backups left on the internet.
Before that intelligence fully recovers, Kallen is able to persist in gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanical island and the mechanical giants' composition, which will greatly benefit her future evolution.
However, the moment Karen saw Lu Xuan, she knew her plans had failed.
No one understands Lu Xuan's terrifying nature better than Karen.
Since the other party has already appeared here, it means that he must have his eye on me or the AI of the mechanical island.