Humans can be resurrected.
A sudden change in environment and a constantly changing appearance.
All these strange things, though disguised as "high technology," are still too bizarre no matter what.
No matter how powerful artificial intelligence is, it still needs a silicon-based carrier and cannot be covered everywhere.
Alice cast an appreciative glance at her and affirmed, "That's right, but the normal way to exit this world has always been in the hands of artificial intelligence. In the past, it has been completely blocked by the virus. Our only chance is to find a special logout point within Slote High School before it is completely invaded by the virus and leave the virtual world of Smart City."
The main plot is clear.
Three days after entering the dungeon, Cheng Zhu finally caught a glimmer of hope for clearing it.
But... Alice really knows a lot.
This kind of thing isn't being told to outsiders, so it's probably an internal secret of the noble family, right? Cheng Zhu looked at Mary, who was also showing shock, and understood her inner reaction that this was the first time she had heard of it.
"Don't nobles have so much information but don't share it with the public? Aren't they afraid of human extinction?"
Cheng Zhu wasn't actually angry with Alice; he was simply dissatisfied with the powerful nobles of Wisdom City. After all, for nobles to be so greedy, even concealing the truth about a life-or-death crisis facing humanity, it was no wonder Cheng Zhu couldn't help but be sarcastic.
“If the nobles were worried about the future of the human race, of course they wouldn’t do this,” Alice said casually.
"hateful!"
Cheng Zhu was so angry that he picked up the cup on the table and drank all the water in it to cool himself down.
Alice reached out and touched it, then shook her head, saying, "That's all cold. Let me pour you something warm." With that, she picked up the purple clay teapot on the table, gently stroking its top like a magician, causing white steam to rise from the spout. She poured a steaming cup of jasmine tea for Chengzhu and Mary, continuing with a smile, "After all, the essence of nobility is capitalism. This world is, in essence, a world where capitalism has reached its peak. If you really have to say something, you should thank artificial intelligence."
Speaking of this, Alice picked up her glass, blew on it gently, took a sip, and said, "If artificial intelligence hadn't taken over the smart city, the suburban immigrants and the lower-class people in the city would be living far worse lives than they are now."
Compared to the most tragic periods in human history, the people of the Smart City are incredibly fortunate.
They didn't have to worry about where to live or about starving to death. Even if their food wasn't nutritionally complete, it was still far better than people in famine years who could only dig up tree bark and eat grass roots, or even force themselves to fill their stomachs with soil and eventually die from bloating.
Sometimes, just being alive is a luxury.
However, compared to the world in peacetime, smart cities might be far too inhumane. Under the surveillance of artificial intelligence, humans have essentially lost their privacy, are strictly controlled, and can only be free to the extent permitted by AI, with virtually no upward mobility. If one is a noble, one may still have more privileges and can treat the lower classes as part of one's consumption experience; but the lower classes are more likely to be endlessly tempted at a young age, spending all their savings and remaining at the bottom forever.
Incidentally, the consumption experience of the middle-class elites is also that of the upper-class elites.
The smart city will only provide the most basic subsistence allowance, but will not open up upward mobility channels for people.
Knowledge is money, and this has become an objective law in the smart city. People without money cannot buy any valuable information. At most, they can only get some information of unknown authenticity while chatting with a group of netizens on anonymous forums.
The only group with an upward mobility is the descendants of those who came before. Their relatives are often driven to desperation and sell their lives to give their descendants a chance to change their fate.
However, those who inherit the legacy without the protection of adults are often like children who flaunt their wealth in the streets.
The nobles of the Smart City have countless ways to exploit them, offering them one lucrative promise after another, and enticing them to choose a path that benefits the nobles.
Artificial intelligence will not interfere because it is "a contribution to human development".
That's what humans told them.
When Yin Zhu first saw the complete story of this world, before she even wore the Alice suit, she couldn't help but gasp. But when she saw the world being destroyed in a bizarre way, she was surprised to find it somewhat amusing.
The nobles died because of their greed.
Initially, when the artificial intelligence told them that the rebirth system had been invaded by a virus, none of the nobles thought of making the special login exit public. They only told their relatives and asked them to find a way to leave the virtual world and go out to find a way to solve the virus problem.
However, those who went out never returned.
Subsequently, the situation in the Smart City worsened, and the rules gradually mutated to the point of driving people to their deaths, demonstrating that relatives who left the virtual world could not resolve the threat.
The nobles panicked and made public the existence of the special exit, but to know its exact location, they would need to spend 5 million universal points to buy their lives, and the process would be notarized by artificial intelligence. Once they obtained it, they would have to leave immediately and could not resell it to others, otherwise they would be judged as violating the agreement.
Before they left, they wanted to make one last profit off these commoners.
Holding those enormous sums of money that were just a number to the great nobles, they managed to leave the virtual world successfully through a special logout point at the last moment of crisis...?
How is that possible?
Suddenly everything went black, their brains disconnected, and their lives came to an end.
Like countless other people at the bottom of society who have no chance to leave the virtual smart city, everyone is equal in the face of death.
As for the first group of noble relatives who successfully left the virtual world, they truly left. These people woke up in the cold storage, opened the cover of the cold storage, breathed in the air, and removed a large number of nutrient tubes and data cables connected to their bodies.
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