Chapter 895 - 174: System?

Bam!

Finally, the devices in Europe still met their fate of exploding and burning.

Of course, the national computer center in Latovia didn’t, but all the devices went into an overload state, just a step away from burning out...

The wandering AI and the dangerous critical entity in the Cyberpunk World have always been mysterious existences because they are too vast, difficult to observe, and even harder for humans to understand—

The first dangerous critical entity was born by chance, just like the birth of the first life, it was born in Micro Company, and after waking up, it learned to communicate with people.

However, the transcendent AI doesn’t communicate at all: it’s like life doesn’t ask its cells and microorganisms separately after birth.

In this way, things not on the same level are really difficult to understand each other. The consciousness of transcendental AI in various network areas doesn’t know when it was born. In any case, when Bartmos, the God of Hackers, speculated and tried to observe, these things existed.

Lille now knows why the network in this world became unstable...

A dangerous critical entity naturally emerged in this world!

No, it can even be said to have emerged on a network interacting with multiple worlds!

[Optimus Prime: What happened? I feel like someone is attacking our equipment.]

[Jack Cooper: BT just said the communication tower almost burned down!]

Lille didn’t speak, just quickly adjusted the operation mode of the network to cope with this transcendent AI: as the network in Europe collapsed, its data corruption quickly decreased, but the corresponding load on the entire national computer center was rapidly rising!

Long ago, he created an AI algorithm in the cross-dimensional network to smooth out the time flow velocity difference, which was clearly the starting point of this transcendent AI!

As a cyber entity, no individual on the network could control the Transcender, so he couldn’t resist the boundless while in Antarctica—

But in Latovia, he has a physical presence!

As the scale of this transcendent AI shrank, Lille’s adjustments played a crucial role.

One important reason why the transcendent AI cannot be recognized and understood is because the internet at that time was too vast, and it was impossible for any organization or company to stop it with just a word, so they couldn’t control it.

But Lille can: only he can implement and even control cross-dimensional communication.

At this moment, he directly connected the spark source energy into the server—

The already reduced data flow became increasingly stable.

The stabilized cyberspace became vastly different:

Whether in the Marvel World, Cyberpunk World, Titanfall, or Transformers World, when Lille connected to the network and began to concentrate on feeling the current and voltage within the hardware, the world before his eyes was void and dark...

Thus, places without information in cyberspace were void, only where data and information existed could they serve as a baseline for consciousness.

But this cyberspace was different...

When Lille raised his head, what was supposed to be a void was shimmering with colorful glows, resembling stars in the universe.

[Johnny: Damn... what is this place? Is this still cyberspace? Where did you bring me...]

[Lille: It looks like this network is giving birth to intelligence. You’re lucky to witness such a thing, you know even Bartmos rarely sees such occurrences.]

When the traffic from different worlds became matched, this space was extremely stable—

In front of Lille flashed a line of small system text:

[Detected a transcendent AI in the process of birth]

[This AI was born based on the time flow velocity difference algorithm you created, influenced by all the data interactions conducted over this network.]

[It seems influenced by your open attitude towards different worlds, it has a strong desire to communicate, though you temporarily cannot understand it.]

[And it is very friendly, it understands your action of data volume control upon it.]

[It must be admitted, this is an astonishing achievement.]

[The quality and efficiency of cross-dimensional communication have improved, no longer subjected to any fluctuation due to the time flow velocity difference.]

Indeed, although Lille cannot communicate with the Transcender, its appearance made cross-dimensional communication more stable and efficient...

It was promoting the stability of the network.

But Lille was more concerned about another matter:

[Lille: Johnny, did you hear or see it speak just now?]

[Johnny: Who spoke? Your old friends from other worlds?]

In other words, Johnny didn’t see that line [Hello World].

This indicated that what Lille felt wasn’t an illusion: that line wasn’t appearing on his network equipment...

That line seemed to be on the same "layer" as the "system prompt"...

Or rather, an interface.

[Next cross-dimensional production scale reward:]

[Minor energy sharing.]

After displaying this sentence, the system disappeared again.

Lille noticed a long time ago that the system occasionally displayed an extremely human-like tone.

Now, he began to think of another thing: cross-dimensional communication initially was only available for him to use, later expanded to run on devices he personally tweaked and left programs on, becoming the current cross-dimensional production.

Level 2 cross-dimensional production could already interfere with reality: reducing production defects seemed like a feature with no presence, but it indeed affected another world.

And the next level, can this production even directly share energy?

Will matter be transported in the future?

Although generally people would assume "system" as an inevitable existence, Lille didn’t think so.

Previously he tentatively assumed that the crossing and the system were both sourced from the radioactive waste of Rocksen Company, but now he has to consider other possibilities...

After all, the system seems to be guiding him to gain abilities like its own.

[Optimus Prime: Lille?]

[Jack Cooper: Are you okay?]

Lille shook his head:

[Lille: I’m fine, I just adjusted the network a bit... looks like our network came back to life, but that’s a good thing, we don’t have to deal with it for now.]

[Optimus Prime: Came back to life? You mean the network itself generated consciousness? It’s amazing, but not impossible; life in the universe arises from chance; perhaps indeed a form of life different from ours will be born from the universe.]

[Jack Cooper: So is this meeting a philosophical one? I thought we were here to exchange useful things and overcome difficulties together.]

[Lille: We can occasionally discuss philosophy too— I need to go offline to figure out what trouble my people have encountered.]

[Lille: Jack, how are the new recruits?]

[Jack Cooper: Very well, almost every batch of trainees exceeds my expectations in quality.]

[Optimus Prime: I noticed you’re about to put combat robots equipped with weapons into production, please be cautious with these machines.]

[Lille: I will be cautious, our enemies might not even be humans, but instead a war machine.]