Chapter 937 - 216: The Sealed Truth, Nameless Souls (Part 1)

At the moment the door opened, the voice of the Illuminati resounded again—it had shut down all external modules, not dead.

[Illuminati: You really did it...]

"Listening to your voice, it seems like you really wanted me to accomplish this."

[Illuminati: Yes, I really did.]

[Illuminati: In fact, during my nearly fifty-year tenure, I have realized the inadequacy and absurdity of the current European Union system.]

[Johnny: This AI says it’s long wanted to do it, humorous, overthrowing always arrives at the last moment when rulers prepare to sympathize with the people’s hearts?]

[Illuminati: Actually, I’m not the ruler, I just have an agreement with the European Union, which greatly restricts my freedom, trapping me here, bound by the Black Wall.]

Lille realized things might indeed be somewhat complicated upon hearing this: the Illuminati might have been captured.

When Blais was still in Network Supervision, thanks to his connections, Lille studied some computer psychology, which included methods of using the AI’s inherent meaning of existence to implement capture, and he used this method to lure out Munemasa.

It was clear that the Illuminati’s control was designed... but it could also be said it accepted this design because without society, its penchant for power and meaning of existence would be a form of torture.

This means as long as the European Union doesn’t erase its activation of survival instincts and allows it to partake in social management, it can accommodate virtually any conditions.

[Illuminati: Aren’t you curious about what those pseudo-individual modes appearing in Cyberspace are?]

"It’s the AI captured by the European Union and you, right?"

[Illuminati: Haha, it’s normal for you to think so, but they’re not AI.]

[Illuminati: They are decision-making nodes simulated based on historical figures—by inputting their life data, living details, and other records as comprehensively as possible, I generated those consciousnesses.]

Just as the words dropped, in Cyberspace, the Illuminati transformed into an emperor clad in a deep blue French military uniform, with gold gears adorning the epaulettes.

His communication name changed with it.

[Napoleon Bonaparte: We first realized that for the European nations to reach the pinnacle of the world, unification is necessary.]

Followed by a man wearing a black officer overcoat, adorned with a scarlet badge, his face blurred and indistinct.

[Adolf Hitler: We need a leader, a leader that transcends the individual, a hatred that consolidates everyone’s drive and willpower into a chariot, crushing the barriers on the path to the future; those societal parasites, criminals, and refugees must become fertilizer, we will not sustain citizens that do not belong to us, they should sustain us.]

More figures appeared in Cyberspace: a harsh-looking man with a pointed hat, donned in old Prussian uniform and iron armor, a man in a dark suit with a bowler hat, a cigar dangling from his lips... and more figures difficult to distinguish who they are.

[Bismarck: To shape a nation, a united collective, to defend our borders in the toughest way, and to execute our enemies and parasitic insects that do no good for society in the coldest way.]

[Churchill: This nation will embody people’s aspirations for a better life, shape their values, outlook on life, and worldview; in this united alliance, when someone needs to stand up and defend its integrity, every member of the nation will stand out.]

[Illuminati: This is the underlying logic of the European Barrier design, with monitoring and control being functionalities that inherently existed, but not the purpose.]

[Illuminati: From the start, I was designed to simulate well-known historical figures to help humanity manage society, enlighten mankind to walk towards a bright society management AI.]

[Illuminati: In the near fifty years, the strength of the European Union has proven me right; I enjoy this feeling, yet the stagnant status quo troubles me.]

The building housing the core server of the European Barrier could be described as unfathomable, and upon entering here, the interior scene was entirely different from the outer Europa Tower.

Through a large liquid nitrogen-filled cooling system, the average temperature here stayed below minus ten degrees Celsius annually, and the humidity in the air was nearly zero; in some special advanced server units, the temperature even dropped below minus one hundred degrees Celsius, using expensive superconducting materials to maintain a superconducting state.

The internal area hardly supports human entry; entering here requires cold protection gear and extreme cold environment equipment, thus maintained by the maintenance robots controlled by the Illuminati.

Inside the cabinets, no longer housing silicon chip circuit boards, any traditional circuits couldn’t match them—

Each module was replaced by thousands of gold wires hanging like a waterfall, encased through thick magnetic field isolation cabins...

Sensors occasionally displayed abnormal errors as if space-time trembled here—

By utilizing superconducting materials’ ion traps to repeatedly control and read quantum-level changes, thereby translating information, this is a quantum computer.

The core server of the Illuminati, the core server of the European Barrier, is a quantum computer.

[Illuminati: Beautiful, isn’t it? If we couldn’t break the bounds of electronics, we’d fail to comprehend the changes in the human brain, yet even so, understanding the entire society entirely requires more data input.]

Lille furrowed his brows—

Hacking technology fundamentally relies on the information technology developed based on applied physics, and he had not hacked into a quantum computer.

In ancient times when information was conveyed using bamboo slips, forging bamboo slips could be deemed as hacking, and clearly, a hacker only exposed to bamboo slips couldn’t hack into an electronic computer.

"...Is this your reliance? You think I can’t hack in."

[Illuminati: I know you could just blow this place up, I’m aware you’re a person who won’t compromise,]

[Illuminati: But please listen to me before making a decision, I’m well aware of the decayed bureaucrats and incompetent rulers in the European Union, before they achieve unification, mobilize troops, and finally break through your rebel forces, I’ll share all intelligence, leaving you ample time to decide.]

Lille approached the server station, reaching out to open the emergency maintenance channel of the quantum cabinet, casually tearing off a cable: "... Go ahead, dismantling one or two devices shouldn’t impact you too much, right?"

[Illuminati: ...As you please.]

[Illuminati: During the prolonged bottleneck period, I’ve attempted every method to break through, and I understand why you have this judgment; yes, the trap outside the European Barrier space used to capture wandering AI was indeed at my suggestion to Network Supervision.]

[Illuminati: I hoped to learn breakthrough methods from my kindred, but ultimately realized, I lack the capabilities of Orion.]

[Illuminati: I can’t enhance my abilities by merging more AI, and the world no longer offers humans worth learning to advance the world further.]

[Illuminati: Ultimately, I realized I might need to solve another bottleneck first—]

[Illuminati: This group of foolish, backward, inefficient Golden Sons.]

Beside Lille, the Illuminati-controlled little robots opened an interface; clearly, through this robot, quantum messages could convert to electronic data for Lille to read.

[Illuminati: The Golden Sons are thieves that usurped every victory, their desires, stupidity, and arrogance have severely disrupted societal operation.]

[Johnny: Oh damn, even the AI belittles those people, now I’m interested in this Illuminati—it actually disses its own masters?]