Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 54, Part 53: The Painted Skin (Part 3)

At 2:23 a.m. on July 7, a swarm of drones, resembling owls, swept across the building under the gray-blue lights. High up, the lights and the soft singing of opera troupes still wafted from the windows of the opera troupe. Colorful flags of the night patrolmen traversed the dark alleys.

Inside the Creation Center at No. 116 Guchu Street, Xiaxiang District, Suyang City, a Tiansun Type III printer has started operating.

This manufacturing center met one-third of the city's commodity needs, and during a local war in the last century, it also printed two thousand Asuras in just one day.

At this moment, a figure sitting cross-legged on the ground was projected from the Heavenly Weaver's loom. First, the skeleton was cast from the pelvis, and then the spine and ribs grew out.

Artificial muscles were woven one by one between the gaps in the bones, with miniature servo motors and various sensors in their proper positions. Twenty minutes later, a human figure appeared, with clearly defined muscles, as if a person had been skinned and looked like a bullfrog about to be cooked.

The final step is underway, with Tian Sun skillfully spraying a layer of hydrogel evenly onto the surface of the human figure.

Temperature, gas ratio, humidity and other indicators are kept constant at preset precise values.

The hydrogel gradually took on color, and after 23 minutes, the active self-healing skin was successfully applied.

Correspondingly, Su Ge's balance in Feng Yu's missile silos changed rapidly.

His remaining savings of over 69,000 yuan, plus Shen Ke's bounty of 125,000 yuan, totaled over 194,000 yuan. He set aside 100,000 yuan to repay loans, and offered the rest to the Fearless Thunder Buddha of the Spirit Realm.

Instead, there is 37,000 yuan that is neither frozen nor linked to an account.

The balance of 37,000 has now rapidly decreased to 13,000.

Money laundering is very costly, so Su Ge didn't hesitate. Money that can be used is money; otherwise, it's just numbers. By getting rid of accounts linked to his identity, he no longer needs to worry about large-scale cloud computing power usage arousing suspicion.

Shen Ke connected with the newly created robot.

In a daze, Suger seemed to see her shadow merge with the human figure sitting in the creation factory. Immediately afterwards, Suger received the robot's sensors observing the environment.

Shen Ke did not transmit this information to Su Ge in the form of neural data, but instead transformed it into a visual image. Su Ge's retina displayed an image of the robot's environment—a closed factory space surrounded by various tools and instruments.

[Your submission of 'Traveler Type C 4327' has been printed.]

Your 'Traveler Type C 4327' is at risk level 1, meeting the minimum control standards of the Robot Safety Act. 'Traveler Type C 4327' possesses the capability to commit various illegal acts. For your normal use, please verify your identity.

Identity verification successful.

[Chiba Ryoko, 32 years old, the daughter of Hokushin Myōken no Kō, native of Eiju, citizen ID card...]

[Your 'Traveler Type C 4327' has been activated. Please note that you are directly responsible for all consequences arising from the actions of 'Traveler Type C 4327'.]

Enjoy your use, Ms. Ryoko.

The shielding door to the printing room slid open.

In the midst of the celestial loom, the robot stood up. She was slender, but apart from her slightly protruding breasts, she had no other gender characteristics.

As she stood up, her prosthetic eye regained its luster, turning a pale green in an instant.

She pulled the black robe she was wearing closed up, her fair feet stepping on the cold, hard floor as she left the printing room.

In the workshop in front of us, hundreds of Tian Sun looms are at work, and logistics drones are constantly taking off and landing like ospreys.

She walked through the corridor, leaving the Creation Center, the night deep in darkness. Suger's voice echoed in her mind: "Chiba Ryoko is your sex machine?"

“I only use computing power, I don’t steal identities. Chiba Ryoko is my backup identity, which cost 890,000.”

"So expensive?" Su Ge thought to himself that he couldn't even sell his own organs for that price.

“This identity includes all her civil rights and human rights,” she said.

Walker 4327 walked through the alley, the pale blue light faintly illuminating the chaotic graffiti on the wall. A night wanderer floated by in mid-air, performing another identity verification on her.

Only then did Su Ge realize the function of the Night Wanderer, and the scene of him using the cockroach robot to infiltrate the Tzu Chi Building flashed through his mind.

Shen Ke, using the identity of Chiba Ryoko, allowed the robot to move freely, and at that time, he used his ability to directly connect with the cockroach robot without being noticed by the Night Wanderer.

“I’ve also used robots, right here on Jinggui Street, where the controls don’t seem to be as strict.”

"Well, Well Ghost Street is a remote area, but since a major case has occurred in the Security Bureau, patrols in Well Ghost Street have been strengthened. The Night Wanderer didn't notice your robot, either because the risk level is very low, or because your rank is higher than His, and He simply didn't notice it."

Gui Jin Yang had easily discovered and crushed Su Ge's cockroach robot. Su Ge understood that the reason was probably the former, but Shen Ke's words brought a new question. He whispered, "How do you distinguish between different ranks?"

"It's hard to describe in detail, so I can only make an analogy. Let me put it this way: how long would it take for a plant to move 100 meters away? Apart from special cases like tumbleweeds, it can only rely on growth and seed dispersal, which takes a year, several years, or even decades. This is very difficult for plants, but animals can do it in half a minute."

"An endless two-dimensional maze is one that ants can never escape, while you can see the exit simply by looking up. This is a difference caused by the different levels of life."

Su Ge roughly understood what Shen Ke meant, but her next words made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"What a human does in a few years, AI can do in the blink of an eye. The gap between AI and real digital life is similar to the gap between AI and plants and animals."

"There are also differences in the levels of life among digital beings. Just as an ant in a two-dimensional world cannot see you in a three-dimensional world, a lower-level digital being cannot comprehend how a higher-level digital being exists..."

Jiang Ning's home is at No. 89, Guchu Street.

At the end of the alley, a figure-seven corner staircase is attached to the bottom of the building. A wall light at the landing of the staircase illuminates the door in the darkness. Advertising triggers are embedded in the light green wainscoting and the door. Chiba Ryoko filters out line after line of junk information.

She reached out and swept her hand across the door lock, and the door opened with a click. The dimly lit corridor had a door every four meters, and all the rooms were apartments.

The environment here is even worse than Luyingting. There is piles of garbage at the entrance that no one is cleaning up, while the area in front of Jiangning's house is very clean.

Ryoko Chiba walked past the door of 824 without stopping.

"No one is at 824, but there are surveillance cameras."

"Can the surveillance footage be altered?"

When Su Ge thought of the "General," he realized that when he entered the Six Desire Realms, the General had altered the surveillance footage seen by the Dharma Protector Vajra.

“Controlling the camera is simple; the difficulty lies in how to do it without being detected.” Chiba Ryoko shook her head. “I can try, but I’m very likely to be discovered.”

Shen Ke's intention was silently conveyed to Su Ge: "Your position is very high, why don't you take over?"

(End of this chapter)