"My lord!"
An old man in a white lab coat, who was thin and looked as sleazy as a mouse, strode forward.
Above the old man's brow bone, a metal ring was embedded from front to back. More than ten ports of connection were evenly distributed on the metal ring. Most of the ports were equipped with some bizarre magical equipment that was either flashing weirdly or humming. Countless streams of information were surging out of his head like chaotic swirls.
He was Luo Tiansheng, the manager of the Manjusaka Laboratory of Cutting-Edge Magical Equipment and Techniques. He was a top scholar who was adept at everything from flying swords to Crystal Suits to biochemical modification.
"Dr. Luo."
Staring at the rampaging 'Great Iron City' on the light beam, Wuying Lan said, "You said that A Boxing Champion is out of control? But didn't we know that something was wrong with his' Great Iron City '? The scenes that he modified 'Great Iron City' through all the trouble are all under our close surveillance. What other tricks can he possibly play? "
"There is nothing wrong with 'Great Iron City'. What is wrong is the way to control 'Great Iron City', or rather, 'A Boxing Champion' himself," Luo Tiansheng said.
"Please take a look at the combat parameters that 'A Boxing Champion' has presented right now, my lord."
"Shua!"
A light beam where 'A Boxing Champion' was on a massacre was enlarged nonstop. A detailed analysis was performed on his every attack. From the speed to the angle to the strength, every subtle change was presented in the form of a numerical value. The thousands of data were calculated by complicated formulas, and the comprehensive combat ability was finally obtained.
"How interesting."
Wuying Lan narrowed his eyes. The skin around his eyes was still frozen in frost, but he put on a smile of great interest. "He should've been rather clumsy to control 'Great Iron City' that is almost a hundred meters tall. But his speed and agility are more than twice as high as what we anticipated and close to the speed of a Colossus. What kind of secret arts has his remaining soul practiced to allow him to manipulate such an enormous iron fortress as if it were his own arm?"
"You're right, my lord. The Fist King's comprehensive combat ability is 275% higher than our estimation. The number is still soaring. Judging from all the techniques that he has practiced, it's absolutely impossible."
Luo Tiansheng said dryly, "So, we went back to study all the past information of 'A Boxing Champion', overturned countless preconceived assumptions, and finally came to a shocking conclusion!"
"Oh?"
Wuying Lan watched "A Boxing Champion" Lei Zonglie clench an Immortal Cultivator player on the light beam.
The player struggled with all his might and shouted at the top of his lungs, as if saying, "I don't want to play anymore, I don't want to play anymore, save me, let me out!"
But it was useless. In the next second, "A Boxing Champion" crushed the player into a cloud of sparks and blood.
Wuying Lan's cold smile was even more intense. "What's the conclusion?"
"No spectral Cultivator can achieve what 'A Boxing Champion' did right now. Hacking Xiahou Wuxin's automatic, intensive attack system of flying swords, replacing four spiritual puppets in a row within a short moment, and finally controlling a super-enormous spiritual puppet almost a hundred meters tall to such a precise and agile level. Absolutely not!"
Luo Tiansheng said affirmatively. "Therefore, 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie is not a spectral Cultivator. The entire panel can guarantee that!"
"Not a spectral Cultivator?"
Weird brilliance beamed out of Wuying Lan's eyes. "What is he then?"
"Artificial intelligence," Luo Tiansheng said.
Luo Tiansheng said, "Or, you may consider him — or rather, a very special spiritual puppet, my lord."
"Interesting."
On the light beam, 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie, who was almost a hundred meters tall, was enduring the barrage of thousands of cannons from Liberty City. The colorful fireballs seemed to have put on a suit of fire for him. He was roaring in metal and machinery at Liberty City, the towers above Liberty City, the Heavenly Rails above the towers, and the City in the Sky at the center of the Heavenly Rails in the middle of the furious fire.
Wuying Lan seemed to be looking at the most delicate toy. "Explain it to me."
"All this time, we have been fooled by 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie," Luo Tiansheng said. "He appeared to be bold and unrestrained, and he did not even disguise his ambition to unite the entire Land of Sins at all. We mistook him for a simple-minded warrior with more brawn than brains.
Luo Tiansheng said, "From what we can see now, the appalling ambition that he proposed was only to cover a greater secret. He pretended to be a living human being, a remaining soul that had lost its fleshly body, and a spectral Cultivator who crawled into an artificial body.
"It was not until today that we finally saw the tip of the iceberg of the truth when he unleashed all his firepower. He is not a human being but a spiritual puppet with the ability to learn and upgrade on its own. He is a super artificial intelligence that can simulate the feelings and behaviors of human beings vividly."
"I know," Wuying Lan said casually, "a 'super artificial intelligence craze' was raised in the Imperium about three hundred years ago. Many specialists and scholars believed that the spiritual puppets with the ability to learn and upgrade on their own could replace soldiers to the greatest extent, or at least the bottom-level soldiers, the cannon fodder.
"If they had succeeded, perhaps we would not have needed to feed so many filthy hominoids.
"At that time, the specialists and scholars seemed to have run a lot of experiments on this planet, right?"
"Yes," Luo Tiansheng said.
Luo Tiansheng said, "Two hundred years ago, we projected forty-seven spiritual puppets of different models that could learn and upgrade on their own to the Land of Sins. Their logic circuits and upgrade methods were different from each other. At that time, our idea was to 'raise venomous insects'. We hoped that the forty-seven spiritual puppets could fight, swallow, and meld each other like forty-seven different venomous insects. In the end, the 'king of venomous insects', the last one, was left. Its logic circuits, mental database, and upgrade form were most valuable for research and mass production.
"Therefore, when we projected the spiritual puppets to the Land of Sins, we did not set any precise, unimportant targets for them. We merely inputted a very fuzzy instruction into the depths of their mental database."
"What kind of instruction?" Wuying Lan asked.
"Upgrade to the strongest at any cost and by any means possible!" Luo Tiansheng said.
"What happened later?" Wuying Lan asked calmly.
"Later, the project came to an end."
Luo Tiansheng sighed and said, "It was supposed to be the largest research project that the laboratories on the Land of Sins had invested in two hundred years ago. However, everybody underestimated the difficulty of the birth of real artificial intelligence. The so-called 'learning and upgrade on their own' was an unrealistic fantasy. In the end, the spiritual puppets could only carry out mechanical, rigid, and deterministic tasks. They could not understand the fuzzy, chaotic, and ever-changing targets.
"The spiritual puppets could destroy everything in a fixed coordinate, but they could not understand what 'upgrade to the strongest' meant.
"What was the strongest? Was it the strongest in the Land of Sins, the Martial Meritocrats Sector, the Imperium of True Human Beings, or … the strongest in the entire universe, to the point where they could blow up the entire three-dimensional, four-dimensional, five-dimensional, and eleven-dimensional universes?
"At that time, the specialists and scholars did not consider the question at all. They simply and violently inputted such absurd instructions to the artificial intelligence.
"Together with the fragility and instability of the new crystal processors, the malfunction rate of the spiritual puppets was very high. Even if they were not malfunctioning, 99% of them would still be mired in hilarious logic traps.
"If the regular spiritual puppets were lifeless slaughter machines, the spiritual puppets that could learn on their own were like three-year-old children. They were unpredictable, uncontrollable, and uncontrollable.
"The project of the spiritual puppets turned into a bottomless pit that swallowed countless resources. The major sects, families, and consortiums that were involved in the project suffered heavy losses. It even led to the decline of the laboratories on the Land of Sins to the point that they were on the verge of death, until you came here and revived them."
Wuying Lan nodded his head. "Then, what happened to the spiritual puppets that boasted the abilities of learning and upgrading on their own?"
"Most of them were destroyed in the war. They were dismantled into the most fundamental components in the endless battles in the Land of Sins or buried in the deepest part of the city ruins," Luo Tiansheng said.
"Only a few of them fell into the hands of the sinners in the Land of Sins. However, their performance in battles was too unstable, and a lot of people were killed. Later, most of them were used for civilian purposes, such as' mechanical servants', 'waiters', and 'porters'.
"As you know, our surveillance resources are very limited, and we are seriously short of manpower and crystal processors. Therefore, after dozens of successful projects were launched after your arrival, most of the resources were allocated to other places, and we gradually lost the tracking and monitoring of the remaining spiritual puppets that could learn on their own."
Wuying Lan smiled. "It seems that the 'gu king' that the specialists and scholars looked forward to two hundred years ago has been born by accident."
"Yes," Luo Tiansheng said.
Luo Tiansheng said, "When we were studying the super artificial intelligence years ago, the specialists and scholars resorted to the most extreme approaches, including copying the super-tiny chips from the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan excavated from the primeval relics and embedding them into our crystal processors. It must be noted that countless complicated rune arrays and circuits were stored inside the super-tiny chips. We did not even know the mechanism of their operation at all. We only knew the input conditions and the output results. They were essentially 'black boxes'.
"Embedding the super-tiny chips in the state of 'black boxes' into the crystal processors that boast the abilities of learning and upgrading, and projecting them to the ever-changing, chaotic battlefields, what kind of unbelievable changes will happen in two hundred years? I can only say that anything is possible! "
"Therefore, it is a pleasant surprise, isn't it?"
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