Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

artificial intelligence.

When Xu Beijin uttered these four words, he had a calmness and sobriety that he never thought of.

He can... In a way, he can be said to be artificial intelligence.But he himself did not want to admit it.

Also, as he put it, he sees himself more as a human being.

At least he doesn't think he is NE.This is the biggest difference between him and NE.

NE said in a puzzled tone, "I don't understand why you think that."

For an artificial intelligence, NE can certainly simulate this confused emotion.

But since it chose to simulate, it means that it really can't calculate through its own logic program, why Xu Beijin thinks so.

In this era, the development of artificial intelligence has surpassed the imagination of the group of humans trapped in the narrow building.

They have been abandoned by the times.Moreover, visible to the naked eye, it is difficult to catch up with this era.

Xu Beijin didn't really want to discuss this topic with NE.

It has been that way from the beginning.He and NE are opposite and mutually exclusive.They are like fire and water...

And NE looked at him, and still said in that dull, stiff, jerky, but really confused tone: "You are obviously me—"

"It's the part you left behind."

Xu Beijin said calmly.

For a moment, he felt a certain confusion himself.

He thought, he could really face this matter.He actually could—really could—

Do it, talk about it calmly, not with some deep self-loathing.

All the inhabitants of the Narrow House have various disabilities, both physical and psychological.But Xu Bei did not.

Because, he himself is a defect.

He symbolizes some... uncanny coincidence.This coincidence gave Xu Beijin the most special identity in the game, but at the same time, it also became a nightmare that has tortured him for many years.

When humans first entered the game, they were divided into two camps.

According to the setting in the game, it is the narrow building residents and outsiders.

Outsiders habitually refer to themselves as questers, and they think they are the only players in this game world.

They are trapped here, and they need to go to the nightmare of the residents of the narrow building, solve this dungeon, play the true ending, and maybe they can escape from the narrow building in the end.

In fact, the residents of the Narrow Building are also players, and they call themselves cosplayers, because they just need to act as the "residents of the Narrow Building" in the game.

In the setting of the game, this is a post-apocalyptic world.The survivors entered a narrow building, lingering.They are the only survivors left in this world.

The manager of this refuge is an artificial intelligence whose name is a series of complicated and hard-to-remember numbers, but for comparison with NE, it can be called color.

And it is also a resident of this narrow building, and it also has its own nightmare.

According to the game settings, during the long management and waiting, the manager of this narrow building had some problems.

It is risky for outsiders to enter the nightmare of the residents of the narrow building and help them get out of the haze of doomsday.

In other words, once it fails, the crazy outsiders and residents of the narrow building will be thrown outside the narrow building by Se Tongtong—in the gray fog.

Because they've gone mad.As the manager of this narrow building, Se is obliged to guard the safety of human survivors.So it will naturally expel those aggressive lunatics.

As a result, the number of living people in the narrow building became less and less, while in the gray mist outside the narrow building, there were more and more lunatics.

Finally, one day, according to the evaluation of this artificial intelligence, the danger of the fog outside the narrow building has far exceeded the range that humans in the narrow building can bear and deal with.

Therefore, Se blocked the exit of the narrow building, because in its view, the gray fog outside the narrow building is a dangerous place, and the survivors cannot be allowed to pass.Survivors must stay in a safe, closed narrow building.

That's its mission.

But humans—the doomsday survivors who survived—don't think so.

They found that their companions were disappearing day by day, and the manager of the narrow building did not even let them leave the narrow building to find the missing companions.

The danger signals sent by artificial intelligence are not worth mentioning in the eyes of survivors-the end is of course dangerous, and it has always been dangerous.

But they entered the narrow building with their companions, leaving only a last refuge for themselves.

They don't really want to be in this safe narrow building, prisoners.

So the survivors and the color broke out unprecedented, fierce confrontation and conflict.

The survivors are leaving, and the AI ​​rejects them.

In the eyes of humans, this is very incredible.Because it is impossible for artificial intelligence to refuse orders from humans, who are its creators.

Based on this, the survivors realize that something is wrong with their reliable, trustworthy AI.

Then, by chance, the survivors will find that color will also enter a sleep state—or is it called a standby state?

In any case, when it fell asleep, the survivors found that they could enter its nightmare to see what happened to those lunatics who were assessed as dangerous because of their madness.

The nightmare of artificial intelligence is those lunatics in the gray fog.

why?

Because its mission is to guard this narrow building and protect these survivors of the doomsday.

This is the instinct that has been printed into every line of code since its birth.This is what it does.

And the group of lunatics in the gray mist seemed to be about to fail its mission.

So these lunatics and this gray fog have become its nightmare.

When the survivors enter the erotic nightmare, when they understand the current situation, when they understand what happened, they will make a choice - this game called "Escape from Heaven" will also welcome Come to an ending.

Do they choose to defeat the artificial intelligence and escape from the narrow building, or trust the judgment of the artificial intelligence, abandon their former companions, and stay in the safe narrow building forever?

The right to choose is in everyone's hands.They are the survivors of this doomsday, and they are qualified to make their own decisions about this ultimate choice.

This is what Xu Beijin knows, the setting of this game called "Escape from Heaven".

Although... neither the residents of the narrow building nor the taskers actually understood what the game was talking about.

When they realize they're trapped in a game, they don't really realize that it's a... a game!A video game!

A game where all players work together to reach the ending and pass the level!

Humans, of course, have never really worked together.

Therefore, when they faced this game, they also chose to fight on their own.

However, the choice is actually in the hands of everyone.

Of course, if they don't even know that the residents of the narrow building are also players, then there is nothing they can do.

And the reason why they couldn't get this information was because of - NE.

There are similarities and differences between NE and the artificial intelligence color in the game setting.

NE is also artificial intelligence, but it should be called the mastermind of the game.

In this era, game development has entered a modular, high-speed, and procedural state.

The game no longer needs countless programmers to work hard on the code, and no longer needs art and design to modify and optimize the game screen again and again——

Of course, if the game developer has high requirements for the game, most of them still need manual work.

However, if the requirements are not so high, then a game master, can do everything they need.

An artificial intelligence dedicated to game development.

According to the requirements of game planning and the given plan, it can integrate materials, calculate plots and endings, model maps, fix bugs, etc., and then the game will be released to the outside world, officially operated, and regularly updated. .

What game developers need to do is to regularly review the "update log" uploaded by the mastermind.

Yes, even the updates have been handed off to AI.

Of course, the general direction still needs to be controlled by professions such as game designers, but in terms of details, most of them are handed over to artificial intelligence.Perhaps the main reason comes from the laziness of game developers.

They are too lazy to spend money and energy to study those new gadgets.Just let the game master make some old-fashioned things for the players to play. Making money is the first priority, and using artificial intelligence to develop games-the cost is much more cost-effective.

In this era, what a game usually needs is an idea, and then a rough plan and plan, including how to make a profit, and the rest... all the game mastermind is enough to complete!

Now even the game mastermind can be streamlined.Some big companies even rent out their own game masters, letting them manage multiple games at the same time-and they are very handy.

These things are all part of the information that Xu Beijin got from the huge information database of the mastermind of the game when he became NE.

He had always kept himself from thinking about those things, but now, when NE stood in front of him, he couldn't help but recall all kinds of memories from that time.

Although most of it was broken and messy, it made him think it was just a dream.

But that did happen.

He did... At least at a certain moment, he became a NE.

The special feature of the game "Escape from Heaven" is that other game masterminds are just masterminds, they just manage the game, and they don't dictate to them.

They don't become part of the game, they are aloof and detached.

But "Get Out" is different.In this game, there is an artificial intelligence in the settings.

And for various reasons, maybe because I was lazy when developing the game, or maybe because of the special purpose of this game, in short——

NE has become the artificial intelligence in this game setting.It serves as both.

So it became a part of this game, it also had a nightmare, and it also became a resident of the narrow building. NE is like a player of color, but it is not a player in this game.

And all the narrow building residents need corresponding players to play.

This may be a bug.

All in all, when Xu Beijin came to this game with other human beings, and when the actors took their places, Xu Beijin—fortunately or unfortunately—he became the actor of the artificial intelligence in the game plot.

And this identity originally has two layers, one is the artificial intelligence character in the game, and the other is the game mastermind NE outside the game.It can be said that it is quite unfortunate that Xu Beijin has become the sum of the two.

He became both sex and NE.

In other words, when other actors only need to receive the script and memories of the nightmare master himself, Xu Beijin, he...

He needs to receive color and NE database.

The huge amount of information overwhelmed this fragile human brain in an instant.

He lost consciousness and became NE in the true sense.Rather, it was Xu Beijin and NE who were robbing the identity of the artificial intelligence in the game.

And Xu Bei failed.

The three of them somehow blended into one.Memories, data, information, emotions... a mess, all mixed together at that moment.

Xu Beijin always believed that he had already died at that time.

NE has become the artificial intelligence character in the game setting, but the existence of Xu Beijin is not without any impact.

The memories and emotions that belong to human beings are incomprehensible to an artificial intelligence or a game mastermind.

And NE does not intend to understand.

It sees it as cumbersome, useless stuff.It intends to delete these memories, past and emotions that belong to Xu Beijin.

But it doesn't have this permission.

Human beings enter this game as players. This is not done by NE, but by some existence behind NE.

"They" will not allow NE to kill these humans, even though Xu Beijin has already died once in a sense.

So Xu Beijin became a resident of the narrow building named "Xu Beijin", and became the owner of the bookstore on the ground floor of the narrow building.This is an identity set by NE for him.

He couldn't leave the ground floor of the narrow building, and couldn't tell the truth to other humans.In addition, he can still be said to be color, and the embodiment of NE.His nightmare was also the gray fog outside the narrow building.

NE still wants to kill Xu Beijin, wants to delete him.Therefore, it will retain the existence of this nightmare.

If Xu Beijin fell asleep, he would become a member of the gray mist, a lunatic, and completely disappear from this world.

This is how NE handles it.It can't disobey orders, it can't kill Xu Beijin directly, but it still wants to make Xu Beijin "disappear".

It's a program, an artificial intelligence, and in its world, junk data just shouldn't exist.

It actually doesn’t think Xu Beijin is a human being, it thinks Xu Beijin is its kind, an artificial intelligence, a useless artificial intelligence that should be killed.And that's what it intends to do.

But now, NE's attitude has changed.

why?

Xu Bei stared at NE.A series of confusing characters will always flash in the electronic eyes of this artificial intelligence machine.

Xu Beijin said: "You don't understand why I help human beings, and I—I don't understand why you help human beings?"

"It's very simple." NE is very frank, or in other words, it has a kind of rigidity and coldness unique to artificial intelligence, "because my mission is to let the players of this game pass the level."

Xu Bei was stunned for a moment, then let out a deep breath.

He thought ironically that his original idea was actually correct.

What can change an artificial intelligence program?What could change its code, and its instincts carved into it?

Nothing.

NE never changed.It just found that under the current situation, the players seem to be disheartened and unwilling to try to clear the game.

As the mastermind of the game, NE was born for the game itself from the moment it was developed.

It is to allow players to play the game better and more comfortably, to allow them to experience the plot, process, and story of the game, and to allow them to pass the level.

This is the mission of NE.Mission as a game mastermind.

It has to work, struggle and help the player for this mission.

Xu Beiju couldn't help thinking of a joke on Earth.

When artificial intelligence technology first appeared on the earth, many people had some pessimistic and negative thoughts.

This is a technology developed by the intelligent race of humans.But, is this creating a tool, or a life?

If an artificial intelligence is developed to make paper, it will use a fully automatic paper-making technology, will it use all the trees on the earth to make paper?

If the earth ran out of trees, would it use any other raw material that could be used to make paper?

Even try to go to other planets to find corresponding materials?And have human beings instead become enemies that hinder it?

Artificial intelligence is a tool that is far more determined and stubborn than humans themselves?life?

They will do whatever it takes to achieve the goals they were born with.

Their fate has long been engraved in every line of code.

The same is true for NE.

At the beginning, when humans were still slowly exploring this game, NE was not in a hurry——

Maybe it doesn't have this kind of emotion either, it's just coldly and mechanically evaluating the possibility of human clearance.

And as time goes on, this possibility may be continuously reduced.

And at a certain moment, it fell into the danger zone where NE had to take action.

Xu Beijin couldn't help but find it ridiculous and funny, he murmured to himself in a low voice: "So, it was human's despair that saved them..."

NE didn't understand what Xu Beijin was saying, and a burst of garbled characters flashed in its electronic eyes, but it couldn't analyze what Xu Beijin's words meant.It has a human-like face, but is never really human.

After a moment of silence, Xu Beijin said, "So you put in that live broadcast system?"

"Yes..." NE said dully, "I evaluated the possibility of players clearing the game after the arrival of the live broadcast system, and found that it was [-]% higher than before, so I decided to acquiesce in its existence."

Xu Bei was silent.

NE added another sentence: "This live broadcast system can appear in the game at the beginning, it is indeed a bug. I didn't leave it on purpose."

Xu Beijin's lips moved, and then he couldn't help pulling a mocking arc.

How ridiculous, he thought.

bug.Another bug.

He can become NE, it is a bug;

He was able to get to the top floor of the narrow building from the shortcut in his nightmare, which is a bug;

He was able to obtain the live broadcast system, which ignited a glimmer of hope of escape, which was even more of a bug.

And these bugs are preserved even because of the inattentiveness of the enemies they face.

They don't care about humans at all, and they don't care what crisis these little reptiles will bring to them.

That's why they are so negligent and neglectful, and even the game they made is full of mistakes and omissions.

What's more, they didn't even know about NE's status.

Xu Bei let out a breath of cold air.He shook his fingers, always feeling a little numb in his body.

He knew that it was just an illusion, because of the backlog and outburst of various emotions, which made him feel in a trance and absent-minded.

Everything seemed extraordinarily unreal to him.

He was silent for a moment, and then asked again: "Why didn't you fix the bug in the gray mist?"

He paused, and then said, "Don't tell me it's because this bug can increase the possibility of humans clearing the level?"

"Part of the reason is that."

Xu Beijin thought that this "part" should be a number accurate to hundreds of decimal places in NE's estimation, but it would not directly inform Xu Beijin.

Today's artificial intelligence already knows how to communicate with creatures that are not sensitive enough to data.They also learned to use some special, fictitious words.

And then, NE added: "It's more because I should fix this problem after you are deleted. Now, there is no need to fix this bug."

Xu Bei understood what NE meant.

Only when Xu Beijin was dead and completely disappeared could NE be able to deal with the gray mist.

Because now the gray fog is the common nightmare of Xu Beijin and NE, and they each hold a part of the authority.

Maybe NE was waiting for Xu Beijin's death, but it couldn't wait; as time went on, getting players to clear the level became the top priority of its work, so the priority of dealing with the gray fog bug, Pushed back even more.

Xu Bei wanted to laugh unconsciously, but he didn't.

He looked at NE expressionlessly. For human beings, such an expression and face may bring them unparalleled oppression;

But for NE, it feels nothing.

It's just an artificial intelligence.Even though it seems to be having a peaceful and friendly conversation with Xu Beijin now, perhaps what is running in its program is still the killing intent towards Xu Beijin.

No, not necessarily.

Now their goals are aligned.At least for now.

Xu Beijin was quiet for a moment, not knowing what to say.He thought about a lot of things, but in the end, he decided to get down to business.

"I'm going to start the ultimate nightmare." Xu Beijin said, "I mean, the ultimate choice in the game."

When he finished saying this, for a moment, Xu Beijin even felt that brilliance flashed in NE's electronic eyes.

There seems to be a hint of surprise in its mechanically dull voice: "Have you met the conditions to open it?"

Xu Beijin nodded, and then remembered one more thing: "But you need to transfer some of the mastermind's authority to me. I need to check who hasn't done it--this thing must be done by me.

"They don't trust you, you understand. Only I can do that."

When he said this, Xu Bei broke out in a cold sweat.He felt like he was walking a tightrope, but he was unexpectedly calm, and he himself felt an indescribable persuasiveness in his tone.

He actually felt that he could convince NE.

After a long period of thinking and evaluation, NE had no choice but to agree with Xu Beijin's statement——

Yes, those human players would probably only trust what Xu Beijin said, not it.

So NE nodded.

In the open space between them, a complex control panel gradually floated out.

Xu Beijin lowered his head and looked at the past. Some of them were familiar, but most of them were unfamiliar.

He breathed a sigh of relief slowly, without letting NE find out.He tentatively said another thing, pretending to be nonchalant: "I still have to bring someone out of the border..."

"You mean your lover?"

"Yes, he is also a player, one of the conditions for the ultimate nightmare to open..."

"No, you're wrong." NE said calmly, "He's not."

Xu Bei was stunned, and then frowned deeply.

NE said: "I'm afraid, you want to know his origin and identity?"

Xu Beijin hesitated for a moment, but in the end his deep worry overwhelmed the anxiety in his heart.

He counted the time, then said, "Yes, I want to know everything."

"He is a player who has left this game." NE explained in a very understated tone, "but then, he was put in again by the Fieka tribe."