Chapter 170: AI Face-Swap

Perilous Cliff Lone Pine: Everyone, the Evil God and their followers are still eyeing us hungrily; our world still needs her protection, yet here you are doubting whether a savior who saved the world has antisocial personality disorder? Isn't that too absurd?

Yi Sect Great Dharma Protector: Exactly! If the Evil God's followers open another interdimensional channel or offer sacrifices to their deity, only Goddess Yi can protect us! She will even protect you pieces of shit who keep slandering her as someone who might destroy the world!

Yi Sect Right Envoy: I reasonably suspect these people are foreign agents and spies; ever since the insignia bestowal ceremony, such individuals have been especially numerous online! They simply cannot bear to see our Xia Nation possess Goddess Yi, such a supreme weapon, and are merely trying to drive a wedge between us and Goddess Yi. I have already reported them to the website administrators!

Little Four Is So Big: What, so even reasonable discussion is forbidden now? Are all dissenting voices to be slandered as agent-spies? Are you starting a dictatorial rule, beginning with control over speech?

Liu Shijiu: Regardless, leaving such power unrestricted will cause severe consequences. Humanity must devise methods to counter her; we cannot place all our hopes solely on her moral standards and self-control! If she truly is a saint-like figure, she herself should proactively disclose her weaknesses to an organization responsible for supervision, ensuring that should she lose control, humanity will possess means to counteract her.

Yang Yi, reading this, took a deep breath; the air in the internet cafe suddenly seemed to become foul and stifling. The smell of smoke, the scent of beverages, the odor of takeout food, and even the sour stench of human bodies unwashed for many days—all these smells mixed together and rushed toward her. She found it slightly difficult to breathe.

All Alien Creatures Must Die: Who is supposed to be responsible for supervision? Who can guarantee that every single person in the organization tasked with supervising Yang Yi is upright, devoted solely to humanity, and free of selfish desires? Who can guarantee that no agent-spies will infiltrate this organization? Who can guarantee that even under severe torture, secrets won't be leaked? Who can guarantee their minds are locked tight, impervious to invasion by mental ability users? Just spouting nonsense, are we?

Yi Sect Right Envoy: Speak up, which country sent you as a spy? Your Card Daddy? Little Japan? Or is it your British Daddy wanting to repay kindness with enmity? Or perhaps some shit-stirrer from some obscure corner of Europe?

Below, over a dozen pages of towering threads were built, roughly divided into three factions: one faction supported Yang Yi, believing Yang Yi belonged to Xia Nation, and that anything unfavorable toward Yang Yi stemmed from attempts to sever the relationship between Yang Yi and Xia Nation, as well as between Yang Yi and the Xia populace—their hearts were punishable;

the second faction consisted of so-called neutrals, who believed Yang Yi's power was indeed terrifyingly vast and certainly required some restriction, but since the world currently still needed Yang Yi for protection, such restrictions would do more harm than good. They argued for adopting a conciliatory policy toward Yang Yi, deepening her sense of identification with the people and the nation, supporting and praising her "no-killing" principle, using her only against alien creatures and Evil God followers, and preferably keeping her out of politics and other aspects;

the third faction believed Yang Yi herself was a ticking time bomb, in a certain sense even more terrifying than Evil God followers and alien creatures, and should be restricted immediately, just as one puts a bridle on a horse or a ring in an ox's nose, so that humanity might feel secure, not having to worry constantly about her suddenly losing control.

Overall, all three factions agreed that humanity's current crisis could not be faced without Yang Yi. Their differences lay in what attitude should be adopted toward Yang Yi: the third faction felt alarmed by her terrifying power, feared suffering backlash, and deemed it necessary to impose restrictions upon her. Yang Yi's supporters, however, believed these people were merely bewitched by other nations because Yang Yi had clearly revealed her political leanings during the insignia bestowal ceremony.

Yang Yi silently scrolled the mouse wheel; the page kept sliding downward. Suddenly, an account with a garbled ID posted a link in the reply section. Before the link was a 【lewd grin】 emoticon, followed by a meaningful sentence: "You know what this is, just discovered something good." The sending time was a few minutes ago.

In this thread, such information appeared somewhat incongruous.

Yang Yi narrowed her eyes slightly and clicked the link.

The browser jumped to a new page; an S-site popped up. The title in the very center read: "YY's Latest AI Face-Swap, Ultra-Realistic!" In the corner of the screen stood a naked man, while in the center, a nude, slender female porn star made a seductive expression toward the screen, and that face was unmistakably Yang Yi's!

Blood rushed through her veins straight to her brain; she heard the blood vessels in her head pounding violently, as if even her brain matter were about to explode.

After quite a while, she regained her composure, took out her phone, photographed the URL, and sent it to Feng Liancheng, appending four characters: "I am furious."

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In Feng Liancheng's communication priority list, Yang Yi ranked first, Director Zhou ranked second, and his girlfriend only third; thus, upon receiving Yang Yi's message, he immediately opened the URL. The instant he saw the image, cold sweat broke out all over his forehead, and with swift eyes and quick hands, he shut down the webpage.

Then he immediately went online and hacked the website's server.

"I am furious." Looking at Yang Yi's four-character declarative sentence, he couldn't help but feel a toothache coming on. He truly could not understand whether those creatures ruled by lust had any idea what Yang Yi's existence meant? They were simply incurable to an absurd degree.

Yet perhaps it was precisely because they understood what Yang Yi meant to humanity that they did this. Some people, in order to seek stimulation and satisfy their dark, perverted desires, are capable of committing the most foolish acts in the world.

Feng Liancheng hurriedly ran to Director Zhou's office to report the matter.

"Contact the Cyberspace Administration immediately! How have they been doing their jobs?" Director Zhou flew into a rage.

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Nine minutes later.

Director Li of the Xia Nation Cyberspace Administration had already gotten off work and returned home, eating dinner with his family.

Upon receiving the phone call, he turned pale with shock, disregarded changing his shoes, and dashed straight out the door, sprinting toward the garage.

Simultaneously, he immediately called the Technical Department and issued several orders.

Half an hour later, Cyberspace Administration staff across the entire nation had all returned to their posts; this marked the swiftest action in history, with the largest manpower deployment ever, as a major overnight online cleanup operation commenced.

The Technical Department urgently shut down all S-sites domestically and abroad, along with certain soft-SQ videos and borderline explicit images, and even certain novel websites faced severe bans.

The Cyberspace Administration's objective this time was: better to kill by mistake than to let one escape.

That night, all staff members of the Xia Nation Cyberspace Administration remained awake throughout the entire night.

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After sending the URL to Feng Liancheng, Yang Yi casually tossed her phone aside and continued reading the forum posts.

She trusted that with Feng Liancheng's technical skills, blocking such websites would be effortless.

About an hour later, Feng Liancheng sent over a link. Yang Yi clicked the URL; the webpage redirected to the official website of the National Cyberspace Administration. Hanging prominently in the center of the site was a notice titled "Announcement of the National Cyberspace Administration Regarding the Investigation of Illegal Online Information," with the announcement timestamped one minute ago.

? — A huge question mark arose in her mind.

She clicked open the announcement and read it; finally, from the text filled with official clichés and technical jargon, she understood something.

She thought for a moment, then hastily opened a certain Flower H-text site hidden deep within her bookmarks:

Warning! The website you are browsing contains illegal information and has now been banned.