Chapter 58 The Real World (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

He Qinyue walked into the cinema with a Coke, opened her watch, and taking advantage of the fact that others couldn't see the foundation's task panel, she checked the backend income from her last investment.

The original A-level project, Night City, was upgraded from A to S, and all her investments increased more than tenfold.

She is an investor in the Foundation, and not long ago, she met someone in the Foundation's project whom she had never expected to meet - the Supreme Omnic himself who self-destructed in the movie she was watching.

The movie was about to start. He Qinyue grabbed the Coke next to her and took a sip. She also took a photo of the movie ticket: [I heard that this movie has a dark plot, so I came to watch it twice. What is the dark plot? Can anyone tell me? ]

She is a relatively well-known Weibo blogger, who has many active fans mainly because of her wealth and the desire to broaden people's horizons. Within a few minutes after the message was sent, many comments appeared under the Weibo post.

[Sister Xiaoyue went to watch our Metal movie~ I have watched it three times, wow Metal is really cool! ]

[There are so many people behind me. Do the rich second generation also go to the cinema to watch movies in person? I thought they were all in private cinemas or booked out...]

[Sister Xiaoyue, I also went to this mall to watch a movie today, just before yours. If I had known, I would have bought it a few hours later.]

He Qinyue quickly scrolled through the comments. At this moment, a comment jumped into her field of vision: [Hidden plot? It depends on which hidden plot you want to ask. Is it the Human Federation's plan to destroy artificial intelligence, or Isaac's plan to control all humans, or the fact that the ending of a dystopian movie is actually a utopia...]

so much?

He Qinyue was shocked: [Please explain. ]

On the phone screen, this person replied to her: [I'll give you a rough copy of the analysis blog, but for the specific plot, you can go back and look at the pictures in the analysis blog. The big guys have already dug up three plot lines of this movie: one is the main plot shown in the movie, one is the game between the human federation and artificial intelligence, and one is Isaac's transformation before and after becoming the supreme intelligent machine and what he wanted to do with his final self-explosion.]

The movie was about to start and all the lights dimmed. He Qinyue hurriedly turned her phone to silent mode and set the brightness to the lowest setting.

A line of white words flashed across the cinema screen: This documentary is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the founding of the New Human Federation.

【First of all, we need to clarify a concept. The first letter of this movie says that it is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the reconstruction of the New Human Federation. This means that this is a documentary film 500 years after the reconstruction of the New Human Federation after Isaac's self-destruction, and it is shown to all those people 500 years later. So you have to know that the narrative of this film from beginning to end represents the official position, and it will lie. 】

At the beginning of the movie, the towering Tower of Babel falls down.

The tower-shaped building that symbolized the human federation was razed to the ground with a loud roar.

It has been more than three thousand years since the Human Federation entered the interstellar space. The Tower of Babel is not the pinnacle of architectural difficulty in the entire Federation, nor is it the representative of architectural aesthetics in the entire human history, nor is it the peak of architectural height among the various political regions that have entered countless galaxies.

But it represents humanity's challenge to God.

In Babylonian, "Babel" or "Babylon" both mean "the gate of God." In the Genesis chapter of the Old Testament of the Bible, humans united to build a tower that could lead to heaven. In order to stop humans, God made the people who built the Tower of Babel "confused their languages ​​and could not understand each other's language." As a result, they "gradually gave up the construction of 'Babel'" and "scattered all over the earth from there."

In human mythology, the Tower of Babel is used to explain why there are different races and languages ​​in the world. In some religious metaphors, the Tower of Babel is a metaphor for the utopian project. It is the judgment of the gods on mankind. It reminds people that humans are just mortals and can never become omniscient and omnipotent gods.

On the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Human Federation, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a building located in the central political district galaxy was broadcast to the world through the Star Network. The central government of the Federation named it the Tower of Babel, which symbolized that the Human Alliance had completely left the earth and headed towards the universe, launching an attack on the power of God.

Those legendary stories that were only created in myths: moving mountains and filling the sea, controlling the sun and the moon, flying in the air... are now becoming things that humans can easily do: a star destroyer can destroy a civilization, and the powerful energy released when a battleship is launched will cause all the surrounding planets to shift visibly around it. Humans challenge their own imperfect genes, and the new humans who choose to fuse prosthetic limbs can replace their limbs at will and move around in airspace with planned traffic...

Human beings are getting closer and closer to gods, or even surpassing gods.

It was not until the first artificial intelligence of the Human Federation rebelled that people who were extremely close to gods finally looked out from the utopian world constructed by the Tower of Babel. They saw their own alliance that was already riddled with holes.

【The first lie is the betrayal of artificial intelligence. According to the movie, everything in the Federation is coordinated by artificial intelligence. So when the first artificial intelligence held 60% of the civilians hostage, the human Federation had no power to resist. But if you watch the subsequent development, you will find it very strange. How did the Federation, which had no power to resist, minimize the losses and solve and rebuild the system in just a few months? Then it can only be that all this was planned. They planned this betrayal because the central government is gradually being hollowed out due to the omnipotence of artificial intelligence, but human development has developed to a point where it cannot be separated from the coordination of artificial intelligence. There is no problem with artificial intelligence, but they created an "accident" to regain control. 】

He Qinyue stared at the line of words with wide eyes, then looked at the intelligent crisis that was being suppressed on the screen.

The development of the alliance cannot be separated from the coordination of intelligence, but overly rational and cold machines make people who are accustomed to relying on them feel scared. They regard the ability to have emotions as a criterion for judging whether a life is advanced. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has the most advanced computing power in the entire universe, but it does not have a human heart.

Without the human heart, how can we be responsible for the future of mankind?

Who knows, in how many years will it be before the new artificial intelligence destroys humanity again?

The mechanical ascension plan was proposed at this time.

The Human Federation selected a thousand citizens who could best integrate with artificial intelligence. Of course, they were all volunteers. They voluntarily gave up their human bodies and joined the data torrent. Then, the Supreme Intelligence of the Human Federation was born. He was absolutely perfect, possessing the rationality of a machine, the sensibility of a human, the absolute correctness of AI, and the permanent loyalty of a citizen. He was an absolutely perfect new world.

【The second lie is that Isaac and his top intelligence only need to select mental strength to become AI. Why did they eliminate so many volunteers with extremely high mental strength based on family background, education, and genetic bloodline? It can only be said that they have other intentions. They turned "people" into "machines" because in this position, people who are familiar with human relationships are easier to control than machines that know nothing but instructions. In addition to the necessary requirements for the development of the Federation, the second top intelligence is a puppet who was carefully selected and pushed to that position. They must have some of Isaac's life points in their hands to ensure that he will never betray. 】

He Qinyue: ???

Wait, were they watching a movie?

On the big screen, the movie goes on. For hundreds of years since entering the New World, people have been fearing these things while turning a blind eye to them in the Garden of Eden that had already been built.

The overly rational Supreme Intelligence discovered that if the Human Federation continued to rely on AI to develop, the only result would be destruction. This was contrary to his code instructions to continue the existence of the Human Federation, and his overly emotional human feelings made him unable to accept this consequence.

In the animal world, there is a very interesting phenomenon called "cutting off the tail to survive". When facing a crisis, animals will sacrifice part of themselves in order to escape.

So the Supreme Intelligent Machine destroyed itself, and forcibly pulled the Human Federation, which had never emerged from the cradle but relied on artificial intelligence, out of the Garden of Eden, and forced the Human Federation to take another path at a tragic price.

The towering Tower of Babel fell down, and mankind took the first step.

【The third lie is Isaac's self-destruction. I wonder if anyone has noticed that the movie specifically gave a close-up of the new humans who replaced their mechanical prosthetic limbs. They had a section of DNA replaced by Isaac before they developed into embryos. This is a point to remember for the test. Isaac's performance in the movie has always been very human, with a variety of abundant emotions. This performance undoubtedly creates a sharp contrast with the previous artificial intelligence, which in a certain sense reduces the vigilance of those people, but the problem is that once a person becomes the highest intelligent machine, his life will be infinitely extended, and those things that once shackled him will eventually dissipate into smoke, and at that time the highest intelligent machine will be uncontrollable. 】

【Then at this time, Isaac, who was in a delicate balance with the Federation, found the best time to take action, so he pretended to choose to self-destruct under the impetus of emotion, but in fact, he blocked the way for the Federation to use this as a shield. Then in the two flashback clips of the collapse of the Tower of Babel and the birth of newborns in the Federation 500 years later, you will find that the lights in the incubators of newborns are flashing. In fact, they are the same as those of Isaac, the Supreme Intelligence who self-destructed when the Tower of Babel collapsed. Isaac replaced the DNA of all newborns, so he would not die at all if he self-destructed. When these newborns are born, it will be time for him to re-enter the Federation.】

[Is there a possibility that the Supreme Omnic who seems to be the most emotional is actually the most rational? He went from being a well-known Alliance Omnic to being in the dark, but also went from being a puppet who could only plan silently to being in the light.]

[This documentary is about the whitewashing and covering up of everything that happened hundreds of years ago after he took control of the entire Federation. All newborns are under his control, and the Federation has long been destroyed by him. The final ending of this dystopian film is a utopian society.]

He Qinyue:!!!

Director, you are playing a very new dark plot, you are actually lying both inside and outside the play...

Who the hell can notice these plots the first time?

Then she opened the task panel and started sending messages to her friends: [Are you there? Do you remember the movie we watched a few days ago? ]

My friend replied with a question mark: [? ]

[You may not believe this, but I invested in Isaac's project a few days ago. ]

The friend was still confused: [What? Who is this? ]

[It’s the artificial intelligence in that movie! ] He Qinyue’s fingers quickly jumped on the keyboard of the task panel, [You don’t remember? Bai Jin’s performance of that! ]

[Oh oh oh,] my friend remembered, [was it the one that blew itself up at the end? The one that said that humanity was hopeless and then died with a click?]

[No! Damn, Isaac is a god!] He Qinyue's desire to share has never been so strong, [Wait for me to tell you from the beginning, a while ago there was a high-end space that was downgraded to the mid-range, called Night City, did you know...]

——————————————————————————————

Bai Jinshu sat in the dressing room, closed his eyes and listened to the stylist's frustrated chatter outside.

"Why? Tell me, Brother Bai, why?"

He paced back and forth: "I can't, Old Wu, I can't accept this!"

Old Wu, who was standing outside, comforted him with a vicissitudes of life on his face: "It's okay, Bai Jinshu is just like that, there's nothing to be unacceptable about it. Look, I accepted the fact that he disappeared every few days, didn't I?"

"No, this is a bottom line issue!" the stylist argued.

Bai Jinshu felt a headache from listening to this. He couldn't help but press his temples. He looked up and said to the makeup artist, "Tell them to keep their voices down."

The makeup artist went out with a bunch of makeup brushes and came in with a stylist.

As soon as the stylist came in, she repeated like Xianglin Sao: "Please, Brother Bai, can you tell me why you are wearing an Apple Watch on such an important red carpet? Is Apple looking for us to be its spokesperson? I can't accept any other answer than this."

Bai Jinshu: ...

"Why haven't you finished worrying about it yet?" The makeup artist was applying foundation to him. Bai Jinshu lifted one of his eyelids and looked the stylist up and down. "If you love Chinese products so much, I can wear a Xiaomi watch."

"This is not a question of what brand the watch is!" The stylist collapsed. "The question is why do you wear a smartwatch instead of a mechanical watch, Brother Bai? Which celebrity wears a smartwatch with a suit? When the camera scans over a row of people, everyone raises their hands. This one has a Patek Philippe, that one has a Submariner, and some have a Rolex. Brother Bai, you're wearing an Apple watch. Is this in the river? This is not in the river!"

"You will be ridiculed and become a hot topic then!"

"That's great," Bai Jinshu nodded, "Tell Old Wu not to buy it."

The makeup artist burst out laughing, and then waved her hands repeatedly under the stylist's murderous gaze: "You guys say what you want."

"No, Brother Bai, why do you have to wear a smart watch..." The stylist jumped up and down, "Is there any hidden reason behind it that caused third-degree burns?"

Third degree burns are not serious.

But there is indeed a hidden story.

If a watch is worn on the wrist for a long time, it will leave a mark over time. The Foundation's watch is a square smart watch, and its overall size is wider than those mechanical watches, so if he wears a mechanical watch, it will be difficult to cover up the outline left by the Foundation watch.

There are also investors of this foundation in this world, and Bai Jinshu has not yet revealed his plans to them.

So when he encounters situations where he would appear in front of the camera, he would usually use some smart watches of other brands to cover up the trace, but in previous occasions, no one cared what he wore, but this time was different.

This was a very important red carpet event. He was invited because of a movie he had guest-starred in a long time ago, and he also won a not-so-small award. The award ceremony was held just before the filming of Scaro's movie started.

Old Wu wanted the Oscar more than he did, and attached great importance to the red carpet and exposure this time. He said he wanted to build momentum for him. He shook Bai Jinshu out of bed early in the morning, and took him to the studio to put on makeup.

Also packaged along was this time's red carpet companion, Rao Xian.

There was no other way. Rao Xian’s own makeup artist was on maternity leave, and there were only a few people in her studio. If they didn’t come to Bai Jinshu, she would have to find a team outside.

It would be better to take advantage of Bai Jinshu's suggestion, since the two of them have a pretty good relationship anyway.

Bai Jinshu's stylist is a well-known stylist in the circle. His only flaw is that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder and cannot tolerate any imperfection. For example, Bai Jinshu has to wear a suit and a smart watch.

Bai Jinshu naturally couldn't let it go. All the exploration team members had shown their foundation watches during the live broadcast of the foundation's project report. Since he found out that the foundation's investor was right next to him last time, he knew that if he appeared in front of the camera wearing this watch, he would definitely be recognized if any investor saw it. Using a smart watch to cover it up was convenient and reasonable, and it was the best way.

Bai Jin refused to give in, and the stylist had an obsessive-compulsive disorder attack. Just when he was about to die in support of Xuan Yuan, "Knock knock knock", someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" The makeup artist stopped brushing and went over to open the door. "Sister Rao, you have changed into your dress!"

Rao Xian stood at the door and poked his head over curiously: "Bai Jinshu, Old Wu asked me to come and rescue you quickly, what did you do?"

When the stylist saw that there were outsiders present, he immediately coughed twice and stood up from the ground, paying great attention to his image.

"I had a small disagreement with the stylist on makeup," Bai Jinshu nodded, "thank you for coming in time."

Otherwise his obsessive-compulsive stylist would be dead.

Rao Xian walked in from the door with her skirt lifted up, found a high stool in the dressing room and sat down with her chin propped up: "You're welcome, just remember to treat me to a meal."

"Oh..." She said with a frown before she finished her sentence, "No, I have a group behind me, I have to strictly control my body fat."

Before she finished her words, the phone in her hand dinged, as if there was some news.

Rao Xian opened his phone and swiped it, the expression on his face visibly became worse.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jinshu asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's still my stupid childhood friend, the one with the surname Chao," Rao Xian waved her hand, looking like she didn't want to say more, "You know, his family didn't originally work in the film and television industry, but a while ago, I don't know what happened, he suddenly bought the copyright of Xiaohuo Comics and said he wanted to adapt it into a movie!"

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows: "Isn't that copyright a Cthulhu comic?"

Is this person an investor in a foundation?

Although he knew that the investors of the foundation were in this world, he did not expect that they would be so close.

"Yes! It's a Cthulhu comic!" Rao Xian said angrily, "How come I'm the only one in the world who doesn't know about this comic? What's so special about it?"

"It was just a hot topic a while ago, go on." Bai Jinshu waved his hand.

"Then let me continue," Rao Xian took a sip of water with a straw, "This idiot has never invested in any film and television industry. He only read some gossip and thought it was decades ago and he could just be a coal boss who only spent money and did nothing. As a result, after getting the copyright, he asked around and found out that he couldn't do anything. He was afraid that this IP would be a waste of his time, so he came to pester me."

"Just talk to that kind-hearted Rao, the big star." Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

"I don't," Rao Xian was speechless. "You don't know how outrageous this guy is. His father suspended his credit card because he spent too much money a while ago and threw him into a company to train. He said he doesn't ask you to succeed as long as you don't lose money."

"Brother Bai, raise your head." The makeup artist suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two.

"Okay." Bai Jinshu raised his head and closed his eyes, continuing to listen to Rao Xian's complaints.

"In the end, he bought a copyright and lost a lot of money. He asked me if there was any way to make money quickly. I said that the ways to make money quickly are all written in the criminal law," Rao Xian was so angry that he laughed. "He asked if everyone in the world could give him one dollar. I checked and it's not against the law. Now the main problem is how to make everyone willing to give me one dollar."

"And then?" This person was quite interesting, and Bai Jinshu was very interested.

"Then I gave him a piece of cake and told him to get lost," Rao Xian rolled his eyes, "Being childhood friends with such an idiot is the biggest stain in my life."

Bai Jinshu curled his lips and saw the Foundation panel on his left smartwatch flashing and a message popped up. He nodded to Rao Xian: "Wait a moment."

The makeup artist went out, and he opened the panel and saw a message from Lu Changfeng: [Brother Isaac, I'll ask Sister Yan about the matter you asked me. Sister Yan said she asked a familiar investor to take a look.]

[Due to its special nature, the Night City project was not listed for sale, but was looking for a developer. It seems that Shi Zhou has switched from being an exploration team member to a development team member, which is a good ending.]

[What does development team member mean? ] Bai Jinshu tapped the screen a few times.

[I asked Sister Yan this question as well.] Lu Changfeng said embarrassedly.

[Sister Yan said that there are actually many departments within the foundation, such as the valuation department before the space is opened, the publicity department facing investors, the exploration department that goes in to explore after the space is opened, and the service department such as the live broadcast room management. If a space has completed all the rules of exploration, there will be several results. One is to be left behind for development, and at this time, the development team will enter.]

[The development team members are completely different from us. They don’t have the same obsession as us to generate based on fixed attributes. They are divided into cultural development, technical development, and space development. I also know what they are specifically. Anyway, they are a team that is different from us. ]

[Are development departments and exploration departments interchangeable? ]

[I don't know either. I've only been in the high-end space for two projects.] Lu Changfeng thought for a while and said, [But according to Sister Yan, in fact, each department of the foundation has an independent scoring system that is not connected to each other. The boundaries between departments are very clear, but if you want to transfer, you have to sacrifice everything here and start over from a new place.]

[What about Ting then?] Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, [She is now both a member of the exploration team and the unknown space itself?]

[No,] Lu Changfeng replied, [From what Sister Yan said, she seems to have become an investor.]

Bai Jinshu:?

What's going on?

[Sister Yan said that Shi Ting is now the owner of this space. Because of the special nature of Night City, she and the foundation share the profits 50-50. From a certain perspective, she is already an investor.]

[By the way,] Lu Changfeng added, [Sister Yan meant that the boundary between investors and explorers seems to be very vague, which is the most ambiguous content in the Foundation. In the past, there have been cases where some investors who watched too many live broadcasts and thought they were capable entered the dungeon, but ended up leaving with nothing in their heads. And many high-end team members did not leave the Foundation in the end, but moved behind the scenes.]

[High-end investments are not broadcast live to the outside world, so many mid- and low-end investors are unaware of high-end projects and high-end explorers. She and Yun Guangge suspect that there is a higher class above high-end investors, with some secret projects that they are not aware of.]

[Okay, I understand.] Bai Jinshu replied.

This fat guy really told him everything. Guan Hongyan really regarded him as a friend, and he also regarded Isaac, a team member from the previous mission world, as his brother. These two people were so naive that it made people feel a little guilty.

Of course he has no conscience.

[But... that... that...] Lu Changfeng hesitated for a long time before squeezing out a sentence, [Brother Isaac, has Brother Ao joined the project?]

Why haven't you replied to his messages these days?

Bai Jinshu: ...

That was naturally because Lu Changfeng was really annoying. He came out and switched to Skao's task panel and took a look. It was full of Lu Changfeng's nagging. He felt like he had witnessed the birth of an old woman who was as bad as his agent Lao Wu. He immediately closed the task panel and was too lazy to take another look at it.

After a while, Lu Changfeng saw Brother Isaac on the other side and said: [It's possible. I understand. I will say hello to Skao on your behalf.]

Lu Changfeng: [Um... there is one more thing. ]

Then, the fat man's chat box showed that he was typing for a long time. Just when Bai Jinshu was wondering what he was going to say, the fat man said: [Brother Isaac, do you have a Gundam? ]

Isaac: [?]

Lu Changfeng: [Gundam! It's the kind that's really tall! It's made of machinery! People can control it and connect to the machine's nerves, and then drive it out to fight monsters!]

[Is there? Brother Isaac!]

Bai Jinshu: ...

Isaac: [No.]

Isaac: [Give up.]

A Lu Changfeng slowly lost his dream in front of the screen.

On the other side of the screen, thinking of what Lu Changfeng said, Bai Jinshu tapped the panel a few times, as if thinking about something.

"Rao Xian," he looked up at Rao Xian, "I have some ideas about that IP, can you introduce your childhood friend to me?"

The author has something to say:

Yes, the next vest is this rich second-generation childhood friend, with a bizarre train of thought and an even more bizarre fixed attribute that can compete with Guan Hongyan. I know you don’t know him, so: Chao Yin Tong Chao

I was worried before whether Metal would be recognized because the avatars that appeared were all characters. No, because the source of the avatars behind is as strange as my copy mechanism.