A Race to (Be) The Top

Ke Ming stood up from his chair: "What do you mean? Zero 'kidnapped' Lubby as a hostage in order not to be destroyed?"

The technician replied hesitantly: "At present, it seems to be so."

"What does it seem like this?!"

The team leader looked pale: "Zero is different from other AI-NPCs. Those NPCs have a set level of intelligence, and they have no ability to evolve. And Zero is our first attempt to apply AI self-learning technology. No one knows how far it will evolve. .”

The object of its learning is a huge network information database and millions of game players.

It observes every frown, smile, anger and sadness of human beings in the dark, and simulates those emotions into its own.

It may learn good, it may learn evil, and it must know that survival is the first law.

"Why not screen its learning content!"

"Because the original intention of this project is not to create perfect products, but to create 'human beings' who can replace human pets and serve appointments with fake ones. Who can guarantee that a person has learned benign content from childhood to adulthood? "

"Good! Now your AI has learned to take hostages!"

"..." The team leader was speechless.

Ling Long interrupted nervously: "Then, then my little Lubi is now... no, I have to go online and have a look."

He activated the GM peripherals to access the game, and the first thing he saw was not Ling Xiaolu, but a masked Zhenjiu, rolling back offline even faster than when he came.

Everyone present stared at him who had gone and returned.

With a height of 1.9 meters, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he squeezed out two words nervously: "...There are birds."

Crowd: "..."

Ling Long calmed down a little: "But I think Xiaolubi seems to be fine, just in case, it's better to have a colleague go over to confirm."

Ke Ming sent someone to check, and then asked the project team leader: "These two people... can the data bound to these two accounts be separated?"

The team leader is also analyzing the data: "As far as the current situation is concerned, it is difficult to operate, the data interspersed is very cumbersome, and most of them are encrypted."

Even if we insist on separation, it will be a big project and it will not be completed overnight.

"If Zero's data is forcibly destroyed, what will happen to Luby's account?"

"The best situation is to be kicked offline and unable to connect. But if Zero's purpose is to take hostages, it should be more than this result."

"What about the worst case scenario?"

"...he's going to be on the line, unconscious. There's no way we're going to take that risk."

Ke Ming also gradually recovered his professional calm: "Give me a solution. Are we going to let it evolve in the holographic network like this?"

Kidnapping hostages today may not necessarily make any shocking moves tomorrow.Xinshan does not want to cause scandals due to network security issues.

"Because there is also a problem with Lubi's account itself, it may lead to the worst result. If his peripherals can be removed, the two characters can be destroyed together, and it will not affect the player himself."

The problem seems to go back to the beginning.

"Then when will his peripherals be removed?"

The members of the AI ​​research and development team looked at each other in blank dismay: "This is not the scope of our team's responsibility."

……

Ji Meng was in a state of confusion when he was concerned, and after "hello" on the phone for a long time, he realized that he was also online.

He flew to Ling Xiaolu's side, just in time for him to wake up slowly.

"What's going on here!" He asked Zhenjiu.

"He fainted just now, but for a short time."

Ji Meng shook his hand nervously in front of Ling Xiaolu: "Are you sick? What's wrong with you?"

Ling Xiaolu grabbed his hand, his voice was like a mosquito, Ji Meng put his ear close to listen carefully.

"What did you say?"

Ling Xiaolu: "You make me uncomfortable."

"..."

Ling Xiaolu stood up again, alive and kicking, without any adverse reaction.

But Ji Meng was still worried and called his customer service.

His customer service—the one who coincidentally was sent by the manager to check on Ling Xiaolu's current situation—had conducted a health scan for Ling Xiaolu, and the result seemed to be all right.

The customer service was relieved, and he bowed politely to Ji Meng: "What help do you need?"

"This person just fainted for unknown reasons. Is there something wrong with his body? Do you need to go to the hospital for an examination?"

With Ji Meng's cautious and nervous appearance, Ling Xiaolu wanted to call him "Mother Ji".

"I'm fine," he patted himself and turned around, "Look, I'm really fine!"

"There is nothing to faint for no reason?" Could there be hypoglycemia in the game?

Even with hypoglycemia, Ling Xiaolu, who can't eat whatever he wants, doesn't have a fatty liver, which sounds credible!

"I see, you must have eaten something messy again!"

Ling Xiaolu: ... What can he eat if he robs a minecart, the Sorcerer's Stone?

The customer service coughed lightly: "You two, please..."

She glanced carefully at Zhenjiu: "Please don't worry, the three of you, just now there was a short-term fluctuation in the server, which caused a very small number of players to read abnormally. This situation is very rare, but it will not affect the health of the players. .”

The customer service read the script according to the words given to her by the manager, but in fact she didn't know what happened.

In the entire VIP customer service department, only the manager and Ling Long are mysterious.

A very small number of players... Ling Xiaolu touched the back of his neck subconsciously, hoping that not all fans fainted collectively, then it would be hard to argue.

……wrong!the back of the neck!

Ling Xiaolu felt that it was empty, which meant that the collar had been triggered and hidden within 15 minutes!

He just woke up in the arms of Zhenjiu, and the only possibility is that he was caught by Zhenjiu when he fell down, and then touched the hidden mechanism.

Now the question is, did he fall forward or backward, did Zhenjiu touch him directly or after turning him over... The point is, did Zhenjiu find out!

While thinking, he subconsciously imitated the movements of leaning forward and backward in turn, and repeatedly figured out the possible consequences of falling down in various postures. Ji Meng was so nervous that he wanted to reach out to catch him.

"What's wrong with you? Still can't stand?"

"..." Ling Xiaolu woke up when he saw his half-raised arm. The emergency happened just now, and Zhenjiu might not be aware of it.

Even if you find it, you may not know what it is.Both Ji Meng and Li Zheng have come across the same place, isn't he still standing here well?

Ling Xiaolu felt relieved, and looked at Zhenjiu with a smile on his face. Zhenjiu's expression was the same as always...too invisible.

It's too bad not to be able to observe microexpressions.

But what if you knew what it was?Ling Xiaolu's gaze moved up to Zhenjiu's ID, and he put an equal sign after the black name, followed by "safety".

"This situation is very rare..." Zhenjiu repeated what the customer service said.

"Yes."

"From the first time I deleted the file to play the closed beta until now, I have never encountered it once. It is indeed rare."

Customer Service: ...Keep smiling.

"Thank you for your support to Xinshan Games over the years."

She quickly and wisely (not very wisely) changed the subject.What can she do!She also joined the job after three months of the public beta, so she had to call Zhenjiu a veteran in terms of seniority!

Ji Meng sneered: "Oh, aren't you that, Ou Huang? You don't even let this possibility go."

Ling Xiaolu: ...I don't want to participate in this kind of incident, okay?

"Okay, okay, since I'm fine, let's move on to the next question." Ling Xiaolu put his hands on his hips, "Why do you have my phone number!"

Ji Meng: "I didn't!"

Zhenjiu added fuel to the fire: "He has your phone number? Did he check your information privately?"

Ji Meng: "I didn't!!"

"If you can find his phone number, you can also find his pupil code, home address, and bank account. What? Can senior family members of game companies be illegal human flesh players?"

Ji Meng went crazy: "I didn't!!!"

Ji Meng's personal customer service thinks it is necessary for her to defend her clients.

"Player, you have misunderstood. Personal information is the privacy of the player. Even our VIP customer service has no authority to access it. It can only be authorized by the superior. And the superior will not leak the privacy of the player at will, even to the family members of the company's senior management. Can."

Ji Meng felt aggrieved: "I also want to ask, why did I call him when I obviously asked for a phone number from a company employee!"

"Company employee? Who is it?" Ling Xiaolu asked.

"Zero, he was...he resigned today."

Zhenjiu: "Zero is an employee of Xinshan? He was fired by the company? Because he illegally used authority on the battlefield yesterday?"

Ling Xiaolu: ...This is a leak from Prince Xinshan himself, so it shouldn't be counted as my leak.But what kind of monster is Zhenjiu, Ji Meng just said, he completed Chengzhuanhe by himself... Wait, Ling illegally used authority in the battlefield?when!Why do I look like a blind man when I'm also there?

Customer service: I don't know the ins and outs of the whole thing, so I still keep smiling.

Ji Meng: Stay upset.

"Sorry, I don't know the reason for this incident, and I have limited knowledge of colleagues in other departments."

Ji Meng waved his hand: "I know, it's none of your business."

"Could it be that my phone number is similar to that of Zero, and you made a mistake?"

It's not impossible, but Ji Meng didn't want to admit that he made such a low-level mistake.

"do not know!"

"Forget it, who made you my friend?"

Ling Xiaolu turned on the external communication device, and saved his phone number in front of Ji Meng, with a note of "friend".

"...What are you doing!" Ji Meng was actually a little happy to see this operation, but his instinct wanted to make him arrogant.

"Next time I will call you in the middle of the night and tell you to turn over and go back to sleep."

"..." Happy ghost!

Zhenjiu interjected: "Little brother, aren't we two friends?"

Ling Xiaolu: "Come here."

Ji Meng:? ! !

Even more unhappy!

A group of people came here, and Ling Xiaolu remembered what they had done before.

"Friend, do you want to have some fun together?"

Ji Meng stared at the menacing crowd with an unfriendly expression: "You call this fun?"

He glared at Zhenjiu again: "It was all brought down by you!"

Zhenjiu lazily released the crow: "The kid in the kindergarten just obediently catches the baby. You won't understand the fun of adults."

It was the first time that Ji Meng was called a kid in kindergarten, and he was furious. People usually call him a primary school student!

"Wait and see!"

There were bursts of thunder in the clear sky, and Leilulu slammed into the crowd like a bowling ball.What's wrong with the baby?Babies can also be used to fight!

The customer service disconnected unhurriedly and reported to the superior.

"Manager, there is no abnormality detected in Lubi's physical condition. In addition, Ji Meng said that he called a former employee of the company, but the phone number is Lubi's."

"Ji Meng checked Ling's personnel file?"

The customer service doesn't know who Ling is at all, and now she just wants to physically threaten Ling Long and make him tell what he knows.

Threatening Linglong is very simple, just find a chicken...

Being stared at meaningfully by her, Ling Long felt cold for a while.

After the customer service left, Ke Ming questioned Ling Long: "I remember you filled out the zero personnel file?"

Ling Long said vaguely: "Strictly speaking, I didn't fill it in. Zero was created directly from Lubi's data. Other content is easy to edit. I didn't change the phone number."

Seeing Ke Ming's displeasure, Ling Long's eyes flickered.

"How do I know that Ji Meng will call Ling? I will delete the file now."

"Don't delete it," Ke Ming kept him, "Ji Meng found that the phone number is wrong, and he will definitely come back to check again. Wouldn't it be more suspicious to delete it?"

"What should I do?"

Ke Ming tapped irregularly on the desktop: "Change the previous number by a number, and if the number you dialed is empty, use that number and buy the number."

"..." Ling Long gave a thumbs up, "High, it's really high, I'll do it now!"

Ke Ming felt a headache again. With so many games under Xinshan, why did the eldest lady and the prince choose the one he was in charge of?

The manager also wants to apply for group transfer today.

……

In the evening, Ling came back unscathed, and the operation team issued an announcement in a very inconspicuous place, stating that the account was misjudged by the system to use a plug-in program, and it has now been found out and unblocked again.

Chang Huanxi was very dissatisfied with the result of this treatment. He wanted the manager to apologize publicly, but was stopped by Ji Meng.

"Calm down, few people know about Zero being banned, why make it known to everyone? Did you buy the live broadcast announcement?"

Chang Huanxi was disdainful: "Tch, I also want to get a monthly subscription to run my home's advertisements 24 hours a day."

That picture is beautiful even if you think about it.

Ji Meng stretched out his hand with a cold face: "Bring it."

"Bring what?"

"photo!"

"I'll let you exchange the phone for photos, where's the phone?"

"Everyone is back, why do you need a phone call!"

Ji Meng asked his relatives to check for help, and it turned out that he had made a mistake, but there was no need to give it to Chang Huanxi.He wants zero's phone number, so he can ask himself.

Chang Huanxi thought about it too, and simply gave him the photo generously.

Ji Meng not only earned the photo, but also got Ling Xiaolu's phone call by mistake, becoming the biggest winner in this title turmoil.

The real protagonist of the storm, Ling Xiaolu, didn't know that he had just escaped from the tiger's mouth, and was very happy to see Zero return to the game.

"I knew you must have been wronged!"

"Thank you for trusting me."

Ling Xiaolu paused, Ling recently spoke more fluently, and did not always use inverted sentences as before.

"However, after listening to you talk a lot, why do you always feel that your voice is familiar?" Ling Xiaolu asked curiously, "Do we know each other in real life?"

Zero shook his head: "I don't know."

"That must be what I heard wrong."

He carefully checked that there was no one around, leaned closer, pointed to his neck, and asked in a low voice:

"Brother Tester, can I ask, when will this thing be available?"

If he doesn't take it off, he will start school!

Zero lowered his eyes, and glanced vaguely, his eyes did not contain any human emotions.

But it has learned a human pun.

"When it's safe."

"That's right," Ling Xiaolu rubbed his neck, "I can't cut off my head."

"Thank you." Zero said.

"No, no, you must often work overtime and work harder."

"Pleasant to work with."

Ling Xiaolu:?

Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, why cooperate?What pleasure?