Rust - Chapter 226



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RUST -226

weird.

Kim Yang felt like her head was split in two. There was a head on this side and another on the other side, so it felt like the two were connected. It felt like one head was floating in the sky like a drone.

There’s a wolf running madly in front of them. And there’s another wolf approaching from behind. Since their backs are to Lake Huron, the one behind them must have swum.

The drone footage was so vivid. It felt like the footage was being played in my brain, not just my eyes. The gun was the same. I felt like I could intuitively tell where the bullet was going, how it was going, and whether it would hit or not.

Stop-

Stop-

The sound of falling water drops was clear.

The sight of a wolf soaking wet. It seemed to be slowly approaching without growling or shaking off its body, making no sound.

My body reacted before I thought. I pulled the trigger, and the bullet struck the wolf’s entire body as it charged straight at me. The one waiting behind me jumped up onto the rock.

Tudadadadadak-

Miss Kim, who had been firing bullets, rolled sideways. Even though she rolled sideways and the gun barrel shook, all of the bullets hit the target.

The wolf, which was desperately running, was hit in the head and shoulder with an incendiary armor-piercing bullet. Before Kim could confirm the death of the wolf, which had fallen over and was lying down in a long furrow, Kim rolled over again.

Kwajik-

A huge claw slammed down on the spot where Kim Yang had been. The wolf’s bright yellow eyes jumped down from behind and chased the exosuit. The powerful jaws following the eyes aimed for Kim Yang.

Turup-

Before the jaws that had been tearing at the air could aim for Kim Yang again, the exosuit’s left arm struck the wolf’s nose.

The moment the wolf, startled by the blunt impact, pulled its head back, the muzzle pointed straight ahead sent a spark toward the wolf’s head.

Tudadadadadak-

Flames were sucked into the gaping maw. Smoke rose from the head of the wolf that had swallowed the bullet firmly. Kuung- The wolf fell with a heavy sound.

Gumbug gumbug

Kim Yang’s eyes blinked.

What’s happening now?

Gyah.

Movements that you can’t understand even after you do them yourself.

Kkiyungkkiyung

This wasn’t it.

Just a little while ago, it was rolling around like this, and then it was like this, hot.

Bam-

Something was running from my nose. It wasn’t snot.

nosebleed?

“I caught a wolf here.”

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“I just caught the wolf!”

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I thought you had chewed it out after hearing it, but it was a dead end.

Kim Yang opened her helmet, wiped her nose, and checked her cell phone. There was still no antenna.

‘The phone is dead. What a waste.’

Wasn’t that a really big wolf? Hunting a pack of such big wolves.

Kim Yang felt her heart pounding for some reason. She wanted to show Baekjeong something.

Then Baekjeong would be surprised?

Haha-

Above all, it seemed like it would make a lot of money whether I stuffed it or sold it.

‘Let’s just take one.’

The biggest one who tried to backtrack at the end.

The sound of the exosuit filled the darkened lakeside.

Kkiiyyung Kkiiyyung

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Supercomputer Lab

The hair that he had cherished and cared for is now disheveled in all directions. The doctor is inspecting the supercomputer with the aura of a mad scientist.

It was a sad reality that there wasn’t much hair to mess with, but Dr. Jack Nees said as he gathered his precious hair back and slicked it back.

“Whoa- So. So you’re saying that they put some kind of crappy artificial intelligence into our Tria···.”

The hood banged and screamed.

“Samantha! How many times do I have to say Samantha before it understands that you’re not just some simple AI? Are you running out of memory because you’re messing around with your computer?”

I didn’t know Hood was like this, but whenever Samantha was mentioned, he would turn into a fighting cock. After talking professionally for a while, he would suddenly do this again.

“Is this really a mess? Is this the hardware? Is this the software? No. It was a total mess. How can I make this stupid thing understand? Idiocy has always been a natural trait. The cruel truth is that the only way to change that trait is to be born again.”

The pitiful doctor suddenly scratched his hood in a theatrical tone.

“Look. This pitiful defective product. The evidence that the deformity of the distorted body has ultimately affected the mind. They say there is freedom of thought, but…”

“How do you do this?

Hood flew towards the doctor again. The sharp hand was aiming for the unfortunate hair! The doctor tried to defend himself desperately, but Hood quickly grabbed a few strands and smiled cruelly.

“Ah- no!”

“Okay!”

“Both of you stop.”

Maru, who had been watching, opened his mouth. A dark red energy rose up. The two people who had been grabbing, pulling, drying, and tangling their hair froze in place as something rose up like a hallucination.

“That’s what I mean.”

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The air is getting heavier and heavier.

“I heard that you were trying to put the artificial intelligence Samantha into a supercomputer.”

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The faces of the two people gradually turned pale. It felt like something was pressing down on them, or like something sticky was wrapping around their whole body. Is this what it feels like to be a rat standing in front of a snake?

The doctor couldn’t even blink at the scientifically incomprehensible phenomenon, and Hood began to sweat. He remembered the first time they met. Ben, who was cut like a tin can, and the equipment that was torn to pieces.

“I gave you control room authority, so you can do whatever you want. I told you to monitor the inside, and I let you do whatever you want freely. But you know.”

The voice of Maru, who was pressing gently, began to gradually become mixed with anger.

“How am I supposed to take it when you say that you tried to put artificial intelligence into a supercomputer without my knowledge? Huh? Explain it to me so I can understand.”

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“Is installing artificial intelligence on a supercomputer called optimization? Do supercomputers need optimization? Is that so, Doctor?”

Maru’s eyes turned to the doctor. The doctor shook his head with a face filled with a mixture of fear and curiosity about the unknown.

“T. Tria is sufficient in its own computing power. Optimization? Tria is already a class in itself.”

“W- Don’t make me laugh. No matter how good the hardware is, it’s common sense that it needs software to support it in order to perform well. No matter how good a supercomputer is, if it has outdated software, it’s obvious that it won’t be able to perform well.”

The hood made a squeaky sound. An impatience that couldn’t be hidden even with a voice changer.

“So explain to me. Explain to me why you did that to me without telling me. Explain it to me so I can understand.”

The supercomputer behind the two men. Three black obsidian-like stone tablets glowed in various colors. One was red, another was blue, and the last one was a mixture of colors flowing.

It seems that blue sometimes dominates and then changes to red, or vice versa, it changes to red and then changes to blue.

When I first saw the supercomputers, all three were red. Maru said as he watched the supercomputers emitting different colors at different times.

“Properly.”

Srrrrrrrr-

The new knife that I received from the Department of Homeland Security was slowly pulled out. Even though it was a new knife with no blood on it, the aura of death was rising.

The doctor rubbed his eyes with his hand, as he felt an illusion of something red rising like a mist. An illusion? An illusion? Curiosity overcame fear and raised its head.

Hood began to tremble involuntarily. Dying. Dying. Just one more step, and if Samantha succeeded, she could take it off. Freedom. Find it.

Maru’s eyes turned cold towards the hood.

“Tell me.”

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Right now.

The trembling Hood’s mouth opened. The story began with Hood’s past. A girl who was a genius in programming became famous. Her name was Xenia Rodden.

Was that Xenia Rodden? This ignorant person? Judging from the doctor’s surprised expression, she must be a famous person in this industry. Maru listened to Hood’s story calmly.

There were some excellent boy programmers, but this was the first time for a girl, so the press was interested in her every move.

Since she was too young to understand the meaning of attention-seeker, the girl started hacking into the information of criminals that appeared on the news and uploading it with the childish intention of punishing bad people.

The media went wild. Some praised the girl’s sense of justice, while others began to support her, saying that she had exposed hidden corruption and taught a good lesson.

Those whose information was leaked sued the girl, but the court sided with the girl. The court ruled that the girl had not benefited from the information, that it was for the public good, and that, above all, she was too young to be punished.

The fate of the girl who became entangled with criminals was ruined. Her home, her parents, her friends. Even her future.

Samantha is the name of a friend who died in a fire instead of the girl. An artificial intelligence named Samantha was created to commemorate her friend. To meet her family and friends. To escape from this wretched body and find freedom. The girl’s dream is to remake her destiny.

“Create your own destiny?”

Are you crazy? What does creating destiny have to do with pushing AI into supercomputers? Was this just a crazy bitch? Tick tock- The tip of Maru’s sword shook.

“Samantha… With Samantha, we can create the world!”

The hood squeezed his voice.

Maru looked at the doctor with a face that said, ‘Is this really crazy?’ and was momentarily dumbfounded. The doctor’s expression as he looked at Hood, who was desperately explaining, was like, ‘Hey. You too?’

‘What kind of disease is this…’

Maru’s face began to distort in bewilderment, and the doctor who saw it began to explain further.

“That… is actually not impossible.”

Why is this person like this again?

“I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s a theory that this world could be a simulation. It’s not just a delusional theory.”

It starts with the statement that our reality is so strikingly similar to an elaborate program, and then it moves on to talk about observation and existence, observability and formation.

‘This set is crazy.’

Neither of them were in their right minds. They say that genius and madness are only a sheet of paper apart, but how did they both end up like this? Maru’s sword tip shook a little more.

Hood was definitely capable. Even without AI, it didn’t seem easy to find someone with this level of ability again. The same goes for the unfortunate doctor. People who can handle supercomputers weren’t common.

Knock knock-

The reason why the hood, which was working well, suddenly turned around.

Why the Doctor Is Glowing.

How to solve it?

“It’s simple.”

The answer was simple.

As Maru took a big step forward,

The doctor and Hood, who had been explaining in heated voices, made noises like ‘Huh?’ and ‘Ah?’

“So this was the problem.”

The tip of Maru’s sword was pointed at the supercomputer. If I stop this, both of them will shut up and work hard.

“yes?”

Added value added-

The blade swung by Maru scratched the floor and walls. The reinforced concrete was cut and the power cables inside were severed.

First, cut off the power so that the dog can’t do anything.

As the central power went out, the emergency power came on with a low chirp-chirp sound. The two people who realized what Maru was trying to do shouted at the same time.

“Tria!”

“Samantha!”

Two people hanging on to Maru’s trouser legs, each holding on to one.

“Why are you doing this? Calm down. Please don’t do that.”

“I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong.”

Thud- As he shook his leg, his pants ripped from how hard he had grabbed them and stretched them, and the two fell backwards. Maru shot a murderous blast at the two who were desperately crawling forward.

Ugh-

Huh-

The bodies of the two people, now pale and blue, began to stiffen.

At that moment, one of the three stone tablets turned deep red, another turned blue, and the other stone tablet that had been glowing with a mixture of colors turned green.

Wheeeeeeing-

The monitor powered up and the current situation came to mind.

[System is operating normally.]

[A1. Codename Tria—Normal.]

“Tria!!!”

The doctor shouted at the top of his lungs.

[A2. Codename Samantha—Normal.]

“Samantha!!! Are you okay?”

The hood was sobbing.

[A3. Codename— Please choose a codename.]

The blinking blank space seemed to be pleading.

What should I do about this? As if he had noticed Maru’s worries.

Another monitor turned on. On the screen, Ms. Kim was seen. On the CCTV, she was seen dragging a wolf several times larger than herself, and then after a while, it suddenly cut off.

[Currently in the northern part of Detroit. Communications networks and power grids are under attack.]

Maru called Ms. Kim on her cell phone. The call didn’t connect.

“What is attacking?”

[A3. Codename— Please choose a codename.]

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[A3. Codename— Please choose a codename.]

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[A3. Codename— Please choose a codename.]

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