Chapter 504 Ethernet Grid System (Part 1)

[Ryan: Ten years ago, Night City was a free city, and all companies were basically the same. Moreover, there were no five giants like you can see today. 】

[Lian: If I have to say it, Ye's Group is considered a local snake, but there is no industry on the land, so how much is the land worth? 】

[Lane: In 2069, military technology launched the Unification War. In just one year, the metal torrent completely broke through the defense lines of the Free State Federation and reached Night City. 】

[Ryan: So, I approached Arasaka again. Some people called me Arasaka’s lackey because of this, but this actually doesn’t hold water. 】

[Ryan: Because, I also brought in military technology. In order to check and balance military technology, I also brought in Zeta Technology and Pezo Chemical; in order to check and balance Arasaka, I also brought in Kang Tao and Adachi Kendachi. 】

[Ryan: As a city, Night City is very small. If you want to be independent, you have to eat more like a bitch. 】

[Ryan: If you eat one, you are a slave. If you can't do it to death, you will do it to death. You may die one day; if you eat several, they should start fighting while doing it. 】

[Ryan: Then you saw today’s Night City—an international metropolis! 】

[Ryan: If you have been to other cities, you will understand what I am saying: if a place is free, it must be poor; if it looks rich, it must not be born like you. 】

In Night City, the company's struggles are fierce yet restrained, complex yet direct.

It's so intense that employees' lives are threatened every minute, and it's so restrained that before Burger King breaks out, the heaviest unit here is just a lone wolf carrying a heavy machine gun.

Complexity refers to the fact that there is AI, there are laws, and there are "democratic elections" that really make sense. After all, in places like Atlanta, there are no elections at all.

Choosing from ten companies is more democratic than always choosing from one company.

The company shed some scraps from its hands during the struggle. It was just these scraps that turned Night City into an international metropolis.

Give mercenaries and street boys a real chance to become "big brothers".

[Ryan: I don’t know if you can understand me, but]

[Ryan: Help! 】

"Tsk, this sounds like it's all thanks to him that we are where we are today. But why does he speak so down-to-earth, so different from what he says on TV?"

This passage aroused strong dissatisfaction from V.

In a place like Night City, which is like a shit basin, Ryan actually dared to claim credit.

As soon as he received the alarm, Bryce immediately left the afterlife——

Lille still had many questions to ask him, but now was clearly not the time.

This recording seems to have been prepared long ago, and Ryan's tone is also very different from that on the TV show. It is not known whether he specifically spoke in a down-to-earth tone.

This kind of "political technology" is no stranger to little people. Little people will feel familiar with the familiar tone. Sometimes people are very emotional.

But Ryan did do such "little people".

"I heard that he was from Heywood before. I always thought this was false, but now it sounds a bit like that."

In front of the bar, Jack was holding a burger in one hand and a high-energy drink in the other. Both were synthetic high-quality foods with 90% additives.

Food is broken down by stomach acid, and nutrients and energy are delivered to every cell.

These cells soaked in lizard serum begin to divide rapidly, and the body temperature rises extremely. The waste fluid excreted by the sweat glands will evaporate, and the body surface will be covered with a layer of white mist.

V changed out of his tattered clothes, and the worn parts that were consumable parts in the prosthetic body were also replaced——

Paired with a good prosthetic doctor and technical experts, the advantages of high-intensity prosthetic transformation are undoubtedly obvious. But at a glance, she and Jack are both in pretty good condition. It is impossible to tell that they have been engaged in high-intensity fighting all night. look like.

V shrugged: So now we have to save this fat man, and I’m a little unhappy. "

Lear frowned and stared at the huge electronic control system hardware in front of him: "It's normal to be unhappy."

In the entertainment room, this space was originally used for the pool table, but now it is occupied by a small octopus.

The three robotic arms were briefly repaired. Although the scratches and blackening on the surface caused by explosions, high pressure, and collisions could not be repaired, the overall functions were still normal.

The most troublesome thing is barley.

As a vehicle AI, its body has been completely retracted into a black host box with a side length of no more than one meter, including the processor, running memory, external storage, input device and mechanical output arm.

But it was originally supposed to be equipped with an entire powerful electronic control panel and a complete electronic control system.

Mackinac's power is based on fine control at the AI level, but now that control board has been completely burned out.

The three arms of the little octopus dragged the damaged circuit board, which made Lear frown a little——

Ryan's current location is unknown, and Bryce is still investigating, but it is definitely not a place suitable for an underground gang like them to come and go openly.

Just to catch Muramasa, an AI with some underground resources and mercenaries on hand, you have to use all your strength.

What we have to face now is the AI that controls the Ye Group, a serious giant enterprise!

Rushing forward in the current state is tantamount to courting death.

But the origin of this circuit board is quite complicated. It uses technology that meets the military standards, and it is not just an ordinary military standard. It is a control platform designed by Tingwei Company and Nether Dog engineers for the next generation of military armored vehicles, taking into account both reliability and functionality.

Without this system, many functions of Barley cannot be used at all, and the legendary Mackinaw is just an iron box with ridiculous horsepower and abnormally hard armor.

Killing through the company's defense forces with only a few bodies can only happen in the game, and it is still the entertainment part of the game.

Lille rubbed his eyebrows-

What to do? Complete repair is almost impossible. The production of military-grade and customized multi-dimensional stacked circuit boards is produced in days at the fastest.

Barley's black server is placed aside to maintain operation.

In cyberspace, its image is an armored vehicle, which is completely molded one-to-one according to its real image.

I have to say that it really likes to make a car.

In Lille's sight, this armored vehicle composed of data streams lies quietly above the black server, quietly waiting for Lille to drive it away.

As an AI separated from the body of the little octopus, Lille can understand part of its framework, so its overall shape is blue.

However, the battle still makes the data in the server blend into the parts that he cannot understand little by little with the changes of the original model, those red data structures that are anti-human logic.

Human data seems so logical in this space, but AI data seems very. Natural.

Naturally connected to the data structure of barley.

Looking at these connection points, Lille suddenly thought of one thing:

Muramasa appeared here, but there is a technology that is naturally suitable for his huge amount of data as support.

The electric current runs in order in the processor and circuit board, transmits information, and controls electrical appliances. It is the logic designed by humans, but in essence.

If the signal can be transmitted directly in the air

For AI, this is liberation.

In cyberspace, Lille woke up Muramasa.

[Lille: There is a commission, do it now, I want to transfer the car's AI to the transmitter. ]

Lille said it quite vaguely. If a serious engineer heard it, I guess he couldn't turn his head around, and even cursed him in his heart for not understanding technology.

Because this kind of technology does not exist in reality.

But Muramasa understood immediately.

[Muramasa: I need a complete server to do the calculations, and.]

[Lille: The reward is, I can set you free, of course, there are conditions.]

Muramasa is an AI, and money is not as important to him as it is to humans.

But he does need money, the materials, equipment, and servers that money can bring

A condition that allows him to create freely.

The first priority of AI is survival; when the first priority is met, it begins to pursue meaning.

The first step in pursuing meaning is freedom, which is a concept that AI will definitely be tempted by.

But something unexpected happened to Lille:

[Muramasa: I don’t need this, I just need to have a second competition with you.]

[Muramasa: I will help you design it, provided that you will have another competition with me in the future.]