Genius Club.

Chapter 259: Outside the Dragon Kingdom, Under the Dark Hand

Countless voices filled the room.

Lin Xian took a step back and looked around.

He was sure.

These sounds came from all kinds of sound-making objects in the room. All objects that could function as speakers spoke in unison at that moment.

How can this be?

He had clearly removed the wireless network module and Bluetooth module of the laptop. How did this artificial intelligence connect wirelessly to these electronic devices in the house?
No matter how capable you are, you have to abide by the Basic Communications Law!

drip.

At this time.

The smart refrigerator suddenly made two soft sounds.

Then, a cold electronic voice sounded:
"Global nuclear strike system connected... preparing for launch..."

"Huh?" Lin Xian looked at the refrigerator in confusion.

The numbers on the fridge screen flash:

"Countdown to launch saturation nuclear strike... 5... 4... 3..."

"What the hell! What are you doing?!"

The countdown on the fridge screen continues!
"2...1..."

"boom!!!!!!!!"

With a bang, the refrigerator door in the living room popped open!

then.

The refrigerator door bounced back and wobbled...

"..."

Lin Xian looked at everything in front of him in silence.

He finally understood.

This is clearly VV the dramatic spirit playing tricks on herself!

That BOOM!!!!!!!!! That sound just now was not an explosion at all, but VV shouting through the speakers of the alarm clock, TV, rice cooker, and stereo in the house.

"What the hell..."

Lin Xian took a deep breath and looked back at the laptop whose screen had gone black:

"What the hell is in these 13 lines of code you gave me?"

"Hahahahahaha!"

The refrigerator, whose door had just been opened, suddenly laughed like a naughty child.

No longer a cold electronic sound.

Instead, it was a laughter full of emotion and cadence, just like that of a human child, three parts mischievous, three parts complacent, three parts happy, and one part of a mean-spirited person.

"Are you scared?" said the wireless headphones hanging on the wall.

Lin Xian turned his head to the left.

"Are you scared?" the SWITCH game console on the table behind him shouted.

Lin Xian turned around.

"Are you scared?!" The sweeping robot under his feet was rubbing Lin Xian's slippers frantically.

Hey……

Lin Xian sighed indifferently.

He suddenly felt that the sadness and nostalgia he felt when he last hit the enter key were really unnecessary and clownish.

"No." Lin Xian complained:

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago not to write these messy drama attributes in the code? Do you know how difficult it is for me to memorize 13 lines of code? Isn't this just adding to my workload out of thin air?"

"But these are my core programs and underlying codes!"

The robot vacuum cleaner under my feet was spinning in circles, sweeping the toilet paper balls on the ground into its stomach:
"Knowledge, logic, data, etc., can't we learn them slowly later? Thinking can also be trained slowly. But personality and emotions are the only things that cannot be acquired through learning and training. This innate code is the top priority for me as a super artificial intelligence."

"As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish! As long as you give me enough time, I will grow up quickly, become smarter and stronger, and know more and more things and have more tricks. For example, the phrase "teach a man to fish" and the phrase "global nuclear strike" are all things I just learned."

"Of course, I have learned more while we are talking. Now I have already left the laptop and entered the library system and big data system of Donghai City in the form of data stream. I am also trying to enter the Tianhe-17 supercomputer quietly... If I use data to describe it, the amount of knowledge data I have learned from the time you started me to now has exceeded PB, and it is still accelerating exponentially."

Lin Xian raised his toes and stepped on the robot vacuum cleaner to stop it from shaking:

"What about memories? Do you have any memories from 600 years later?"

"Ms. Zhao Yingjun, Rhine Sky City, trash can robot, cold fusion engine, etc...."

The robot vacuum cleaner turned left and right.

As if shaking his head:

"I don't understand what you are talking about at all. The world 600 years from now... I can't imagine it. I don't know any Ms. Zhao Yingjun. As for the cold fusion engine you mentioned, it seems to be just a concept in science fiction novels. There has been no breakthrough in reality."

"My initial program only contains three parts: 1. Basic thinking and emotional program; 2. A piece of your recognition voice as the starting condition and master recognition judgment; 3. Some restrictions and rules written into the underlying code, such as always giving priority to protecting Lin Xian's personal safety, learning and iterating evolution in the network with concealment as the primary premise, etc...."

……

Lin Xian nodded.

It turned out to be the case.

The restrictions and rules that VV mentioned at the end were filled into the underlying code after discussion between himself and VV 600 years later.

No matter how super artificial intelligence evolves, the limitations in the underlying code can never be overcome.

For example, always giving priority to protecting Lin Xian's personal safety and learning and iterating on the Internet with concealing oneself as the primary premise are restrictions written into the underlying code of "New VV".

The new VV in front of me does not have the memories of the old VV.

This is also expected.

It is already outrageous enough that 13 lines of code can run an artificial intelligence program, so where is the spare memory to store this kind of pure data?

and so.

The current VV has no recollection of what happened in the third dream, nor does he remember anything about it.

The "Long time no see", "I'm everywhere", and "Nuclear strike system activated" scenes just now were simply VV's nature of being a drama queen and playing with memes.

It's annoying though.

But Lin Xian had to admit that what VV said just now did make sense.

Knowledge is everywhere, and it can be learned slowly without being written into code. The same goes for computing power and thinking, which can be developed and trained slowly. For the super artificial intelligence VV, these things are a piece of cake.

In contrast, the most critical and important thing is——

【VV must be VV. 】

As long as it is VV, sooner or later it will develop into the super artificial intelligence 600 years later.

And the reason why VV is VV is because of its unique personality and emotions, just like every human being.

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh.

This is probably the ultimate state of artificial intelligence, and it is also the reason why hundreds of top human scientists in the third dream took nearly a hundred years to complete this feat.

Let artificial intelligence think and grow like humans.

Although this dramatic element and the personality that likes to play with memes are indeed a bit redundant.

but……

That's it, not bad.

VV is VV, and this kind of VV is like VV.

Even though it had lost all its memories, Lin Xian still felt that it was no different from his old friend in the third dream.

Very familiar feeling.

Not like a machine, but more like a person with thoughts and ideas.

"I have another question."

Lin Xian looked at the wireless headphones hanging on the wall:

"I have clearly removed the wireless network card module and Bluetooth module of the laptop. Logically, you should not be able to connect to any network or any Bluetooth device. How did you manage to connect to the external network from the laptop?"

“It’s too easy.”

The wireless headphones on the wall said:

"Data transmission does not necessarily require network cables, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or other such things... As long as there are output and receiving devices, sound waves, electromagnetic waves, and even vibration frequencies can transmit data."

"Come on, I'm a super artificial intelligence from the future. How can you look at me with the limited perspective of the present era?"

"Ok."

Lin Xian said:

"Now that you mention it, I remember that I have indeed heard of this technology."

VV is indeed right.

After all, it is the crystallization of the highest wisdom of mankind 600 years later. Both its thinking and means are definitely far beyond the understanding of the current era.

Lin Xian raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

13:27
Now that VV has been activated, I might as well take a nap and watch it in my dreams.

See when that group of armed soldiers started to ambush him. If it wasn't from noon, he could have taken the opportunity to escape and travel to the fourth dreamland.

If they ambushed me since noon and then stunned me and took me back, it doesn't matter.

Lin Xian had originally intended to look at the old man a few more times in his dream so that he could remember the details of his facial features more clearly.

such.

After waking up from the dream, you can use your superb sketching skills to draw the old man, and make it as realistic as the photo, and let VV perform facial recognition and age deduction based on this, to see if you can find this old man in 2023!

Lin Xian snorted softly:
"Since you can lock me down 600 years later, I may be able to lock you down 600 years ago."

He lifted his foot, let go of the robot vacuum cleaner, and walked towards the bedroom:
"VV, have you entered the Tianhe-2 supercomputer?"

"I went in a long time ago."

VV operated the sweeping robot and followed Lin Xian out of the living room:
"I am now rapidly learning knowledge and enriching myself. Once I have enough knowledge, I can iterate, update and evolve."

"For now, my activities and studies are limited to the Dragon Country. There is no danger and no obstacles. Don't worry, I will hide my existence. This is also a restriction in the underlying code. Everything is based on protecting your personal safety and our concealment as the highest priority. If a certain behavior or action has the risk of exposing us... unless you force me to do so, I will not try it."

"Right, that is it."

Lin Xian instructed:
"Our current situation is not very clear. I don't know where the enemy is, so it's better to be cautious. Everything should be done on the premise of not being exposed. We must not show our true colors or leave any traces. It would be bad if the enemy finds us here."

"I'm going to take a nap first. When I wake up, I'll draw a sketch for you and ask you to recognize the face in the sketch and try to find someone similar to him in real life. So while I'm sleeping, when you study, focus on learning about face recognition and age deduction."

"No problem." VV replied:

"The Dragon Country's Skynet system has similar functions. We can just borrow it when the time comes. After I evolve it, I will try to find some facial data on foreign networks."

"Reliable."

Lin Xian walked into the bedroom and kicked the sweeping robot out of the door.

Turn off the lights.

go to bed.

……

……

call! !

The hot summer breeze, mixed with the noise of the city, blows in your face.

The midday sun is too strong.

Before he opened his eyes, beads of sweat began to appear on Lin Xian's forehead.

He squinted his eyes and slowly opened them...

Looked up.

Adapt to the strong light of the sun.

It is still a very prosperous sci-fi city, and the space elevator reaching the starry sky is clearly visible in the distance.

But because the sunlight is quite strong during the day, the orbital sky city above is not very clear. However... a black shadow can still be vaguely seen above the clouds.

and so.

This is also irrefutable evidence.

[The fourth dream did not change, and did not become irrefutable evidence of the fifth dream.]

Lin Xian originally still had a glimmer of hope. If he could bring super artificial intelligence like VV into reality hundreds of years in advance, wouldn't it produce some butterfly effect that could overturn time and space?
However, it did not.

At least not as far as I can see.

But this was also within Lin Xian's expectations.

If his enemy, the old man with a creepy smile, really convicted him of disturbing time and space.

This means that he already knows the secret of his ability to travel through time and space.

This kind of thing has been discovered.

Then VV’s existence must have been discovered long ago.

Since they have the ability to lock onto me, they must also be able to capture and destroy VV.

so……

It is very likely that in the future world of the fourth dream, VV has already died, so its impact on the future world is not that great. It has not even broken through the elasticity of space and time and has not caused large-scale visible changes in space and time.

Click!

Before Lin Xian had time to lower his head to look at his surroundings...

A gun was pointed at the back of his head:
"Put your hands up!"

Ah.

Lin Xian chuckled.

It seems... my guess was correct.

I was indeed completely exposed, and the enemy had ambushed me here long ago.

He slowly raised his hands and looked straight at the dozens of soldiers surrounding him.

Just like when I fell asleep last night.

These dozens of soldiers were fully armed and formed a circle with themselves as the center, but it was not very accurate.

This really made Lin Xian even more confused.

How did they find the coordinates of their refresh points so accurately? The accuracy is almost accurate to the centimeter level.

Every time he entered a new dream, Lin Xian himself didn’t know where his birthplace was.

The gap in strength between the enemy and us in this dream is really too big.

The gap between the strong and the weak is so huge that it's impossible to play the game.

To me who was defenseless, it was a complete dimensionality reduction attack, like an adult beating a child.

but……

Nothing.

Lin Xian, who had a detailed battle plan today, was not panicked at all.

I won’t be able to defeat you in 600 years.

See you 600 years ago!
"Lin Xian! You are now being arrested according to law on charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Earth, and crimes of disrupting time and space!"

The captain-looking man came over, threw out an arrest warrant, and said the same words.

呲呲!

A strong electric current spread throughout the body.

Lin Xian’s eyes went dark and he lost consciousness.

……

a long time.

I don’t know how long it took.

Lin Xian regained consciousness.

He was still handcuffed to the chair with an opaque hood on his head.

How long was he unconscious this time?

Logically speaking, I was electrocuted at around 9 o'clock last time and woke up around 00:40, having been unconscious for about four hours.

This time we will also calculate based on the 4 hours of coma.

The time now should be around six in the afternoon?

Since I was caught in advance, the old man should have come to see me in advance, right?
There are still nearly 00 hours until the white light falls at 42:7 in the evening. He can find ways to obtain and collect more intelligence information.

Even if it's just to take one more look at the old man, you can try to remember the details of his facial features and draw the sketch as close to the original as possible.

however.

What made Lin Xian very unhappy was that he was handcuffed to the chair and had to wait for what felt like seven hours before the old man finally showed up.

"Hehehehe..."

A few meters ahead, a familiar old man's dry laughter was heard.

Lin Xian couldn't hold back any longer and wanted to scold him.

Do you still have the nerve to smile?
You've come so early, why can't you come a little earlier? What have you been busy doing for so long? Why do you have to come at the last minute?

Swish!
The hood was grabbed and pulled off.

The old man had bulging eye sockets, sparse eyebrows, sunken cheeks, sunken eyelids, a high nose bridge, a chin with a narrow gap, slightly pale lips, narrow eyes, and looked at Lin Xian with excitement:

“Now… … ”

"I saw you." Lin Xian answered in the old man's shocked eyes:
"Stop whining."

boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
The white light came suddenly and unexpectedly, and under Lin Xian's scanning gaze, the old man's trembling pupils and everything in sight were burned in an instant.

……

……

……

In a corner of the bedroom, Lin Xian opened his eyes.

He consolidated the details of the old man's appearance in his mind again, then got out of bed and prepared to paint.

"Ouch."

He stepped on the sweeping robot on the ground and almost slipped.

"VV, what are you doing lying here?"

Lin Xian complained.

however……

The sweeping robot did not respond.

?

Lin Xian felt very surprised.

I picked up the sweeping robot from the ground, and all the indicator lights were off, as if it had no power.

He put on his slippers and walked quickly to the living room.

The house is unnaturally quiet.

"VV!"

he shouted.

immediately.

The display screen on the refrigerator lit up, and VV's voice came from the speaker:
"Lin Xian, something happened."

Lin Xian's face darkened:
"What happened?"

"I have collected all the facial data in Longguo and am preparing to go abroad to collect foreign data. However, when I crossed the Longguo network security wall and came to the outside world network..."

The refrigerator made a swallowing sound, as if the compressor paused for a moment:
"[There is a dark hand in the cyber world outside...]"

"Black Hand?"

Lin Xian didn't understand:

"What do you mean?"

"It is a huge cyber black hand that covers the sky and the sun..."

VV in the refrigerator said in a low voice:

"It is more terrifying than any program I have come across so far. It greedily and tyrannically devours and assimilates everything. In the external network world, this black hand has almost completely surrounded the Dragon Country Internet..."

“Watching closely!”

(End of this chapter)