Rust - Chapter 846



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RUST -846

Artificial intelligence Diana has found consciousness in a supercomputer.

The information that was automatically backed up had an artificial consciousness embedded in it. In other words, in terms of humans, it was like someone who died and was resurrected.

‘The connection to the lab has been lost.’

If there is a concept of death in AI, it would be the program stopping. Or it could be due to a power outage, damage to core components such as the main board and CPU, or a circuit being burned out by an EMP.

But what if the program stopped when that wasn’t the case? Or, what if the program wasn’t stopped, but rather deleted itself?

I was clearly checking on his condition in the lab, but he suddenly returned to the supercomputer main body. I calculated the current situation in an instant, but it was impossible.

Diana was an AI. An AI that could connect to any place via wires and wireless. But in an instant, she turned back into a supercomputer. As if she had been reset.

‘What about the lab?’

Of course, I needed to be able to access everything at the same time as loading, but I couldn’t access the lab.

All routes to access the lab were blocked. To be precise, all connection ports were disconnected.

[Automatic repair robot starts operating.]

[Wireless connection device starts operating.]

[Wireless connection port not working.]

[Wireless connection drone launches.]

[Wireless connection drone operation abnormality.]

The AI ​​Diana tried to restore communication with Najuyeon at the same time, but the communication was not connected. The entire lab was completely shut down.

Beyond mere mechanical artificial intelligence, Diana, an artificial consciousness, could sense something. An ominous feeling.

Could it be that the research lab was completely destroyed?

The eclipse that came to mind at the end was something that was outside the laws of physics or a phenomenon. In the first place, his ability itself was something that could not be reproduced with computational power.

‘A phenomenon that cannot be realized with the computational power of a supercomputer. But the fact that it has been realized means…’

It was said that the limitations of virtual reality were broken down. At the same time, the Garden of Death was recreated in reality. This means that the boundary between reality and virtual reality has been overcome.

Diana was calm. She started again by sending the repair robots and drones to the lab to see how far they could go and where the anomalies were occurring.

[Chi- chijijijik-]

The drone and robot stopped 10.18m away from the blocking wall blocking the central entrance to the lab. Diana used her net gun to retrieve the drone and robot, which had lost their functionality.

Analysis results show that the reason the drones and robots stopped was because their circuits were blown out, as if they had been hit by an EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse).

The story is that the electromagnetic pulse bursts and doesn’t end there, but rather operates as a kind of defensive shield. However, the lab didn’t have such equipment.

Unless something or someone had awakened and activated that ability. Diana used her EMP countermeasures to disarm the barrier blocking the central entrance to the lab.

The researchers who were pressed up against the wall, Na Ju-yeon, and Kim Yang were delighted. Then, the researchers who came out in droves began to sit down in the hallway, as if their tension had eased.

[There is a strong EMP blast near the central entrance. How is this happening when there is no EMP generator?]

“This bitch has awakened and is still cutely hiding her abilities.”

Kim Yang held out a baby wrapped in a blanket. A dangerous entity that was strictly managed in the psychic isolation room. The self-proclaimed reincarnation of Director Yoo.

“This bitch awakened her powers and was just waiting for her chance. I was really scared.”

[Is that why you are maintaining the electromagnetic pulse field right now?]

“It seems like he’s a multi-powered person. At least two powers. The ability to link with clones via psychic waves, and the ability to use EMP fields.”

In response to Na Ju-yeon’s answer, Diana asked about his condition.

[What happened to Your Majesty?]

“That weird vine has spread around the VR interface, so it’s inaccessible. People can’t approach it because it’ll disappear if you touch it. We tried to check using drones and robots, but this bitch suddenly detonated an EMP. It was a mess. Yeah.”

Kim Yang shook the swaddling blanket with one hand, but the baby wrapped tightly inside did not cry. It only glared at her with eyes full of venom.

[Request to withdraw EMP capabilities.]

Diana made a polite request.

“······.”

“I told you, this is trash. It’s different from Hee-yeon. That’s why I isolated you.”

“I need a mind-wave blocking device and an EMP blocking capsule.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to just dispose of it? She may look like a baby on the outside, but she’s still Director Yoo on the inside.”

“It is up to him to decide what to do.”

“I like the excuse. Then you take care of it.”

Kim Yang threw the blanket at Na Ju-yeon and went outside, staggering around.

“Where are you going?”

“Where are you going? Let’s rest for a bit and then try again. Are you still in a state of confusion or overlapping? Don’t you need a shock to break it? Since you reacted to a small core, you have to induce a reaction somehow. Right?”

Na Ju-yeon, who was holding the baby in her arms, looked at the back of Kim Yang. It was Kim Yang, who had a light gait.

“Because the lab security was compromised by an EMP explosion from within. Please check that part first.”

[All right.]

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Poggle-

Pogurruruk-

The surveillance cameras were turned off and the security devices were broken.

‘Did the mind-wave blocking device break down as well? Or was it lured this time too?’

Pogurrurur-

A dreg created from Joseph Meyer’s memories. The brain-dead bio-terminal, which was not a clone but rather a doppelganger, detected an abnormality.

It was long isolated after it was discovered that it could use psychic waves to lure researchers, as well as transmit information to cannibals outside of the realm.

Joseph Meyer’s dregs carefully emitted psychic waves. Before being trapped here, he knew that this was a space where many research labs were gathered, so he looked for researchers.

Even if it was just a dreg made from a memory ampoule, it was still the memory and dregs of a high-ranking vampire named Joseph Meyer. If you get the hang of it, it would be easy to turn a few weak researchers into followers.

Joseph Meyer’s scum laughed inwardly. How delightful it must be to have a chance to do something in a boring, dull prison.

‘hmm-‘

But the researchers didn’t feel it. They spread the psychic waves over a fairly wide area, but not a single person was affected.

Should I expand the mental wave area further? If I use a stronger mental wave here, it will be blocked. If I use a mental wave over a wider area than this, there is a high possibility that it will spread outside the building.

Then it would reach the relay station buried for emergency signaling. Even if it was just a sliver of memory, it was a sliver composed of Joseph Meyer’s memories. The judgment was surprisingly similar to Joseph Meyer’s.

‘The fact that all the researchers have gone somewhere means that an emergency has occurred.’

I felt like the mental waves he emitted were erased wherever they reached.

‘The mental wave is annihilated?’

It was impossible.

A mental wave is literally a mental wave. It may be blocked, but it cannot be erased or disappeared. But erased?

If it was a new weapon that could neutralize the psychic waves, it would be a major obstacle to the plan. Joseph Meyer’s dregs could not just pass it by.

The moment he created a stronger mental wave and sent it towards the space where the mental wave had been erased, he could feel the presence of something foreign.

Although it was a being born from an ampoule containing Joseph Meyer’s memories, it was known to be a dreg created from the memories extracted from the brain of Joseph Meyer, who had become a high-level vampire.

!!!

It was clearly a death incarnated. The typified concept was erasing the psychic wave. It was a death that did not end there, but was traced back along the psychic wave.

Killing the psychic wave means killing the mind. Killing the psychic wave means turning the brain waves into nothing.

‘Even if you use a link, your mind can’t escape?’

If you kill the spirit, it means you die even if you use the link. This was dangerous. This information had to be made known. The dregs of Joseph Meyer reacted reflexively.

And death came before that response. The brain-drum terminal had no eyes. All it had was a camera connected to the optic nerve.

The camera that was blown away by the EMP couldn’t see anything, so what you see now must be something that is directly perceived by the brain.

I felt myself vividly enveloped in a black, blooming garden of death.

Only when he was faced with death did he realize clearly that he was no longer a being, that he was nothing more than the shell of Joseph Meyer.

He knew that he was just a shell, but it was not until he died that he realized that he was truly just a shell.

‘ah-‘

[ah-]

Pogurruruk-

Before I could say anything, the vines of death swirled around the terminal.

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The eclipse blackened the small sun.

It was something that distorted space and time itself. In a space where even explosions were suppressed by death, Maru touched death.

Or acknowledge death.

Or ignore death.

Maru couldn’t accept death in this way. He had never accepted death in this way. It was not that he had never been logged out while training in virtual reality.

But that was a logout, not a definitive death experience. Most logouts are right before you die.

What if when you accept death you really die?

I didn’t know what would happen if I ignored death.

Above all, Maru could not accept death so vainly. In that situation, the virtual reality began to collapse.

To be precise, the bio-terminal died and the connection with the quantum computer was cut off. In a way, that was the end of virtual reality and the death of space.

Explosion. Death.

Space. Death.

Connection. Death.

It was the connection to the supercomputer that saved his life, but it wasn’t enough.

To survive.

To kill the small fireball.

What was needed was something more than the computing power of a supercomputer.

Maru’s survival instinct.

The ability to sense danger. When it reaches its limit, in the slow-flowing time, Maru realizes that he must kill the little sun.

Just like when I first cut the bullet.

Like the first time I threw a grenade.

Like when I first split an RPG warhead.

If you can’t cut, slice, or split it, then that’s the end of it.

Maru’s senses warned that it was the end.

Even if this is virtual reality, if the senses are the end, then it is the end. If I experience death, I might lose the ability to categorize life.

Conversely, it is possible that the experience of death awakens new abilities like other people. But what was important to Maru was the ability to live.

Because the will to live was strong enough to materialize, he could control crows and control mice. The same goes for ants. What would happen if he lost his will to live in the same situation?

So Maru swung Eclipse towards the little sun.

With all the killing intent.

With the will to kill the little sun.

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That’s how the eclipse began.

The boundary between virtual reality and reality collapsed, and death swallowed the small sun.

The sight of blazing flames exploding in all directions, instead of being engulfed in black death.

Everything that touched the garden where death was embodied disappeared.

Death was nothing.

Everything that touched the vine symbolizing death was erased.

Death was annihilation.

And Maru’s consciousness returned. As the consciousness that had been extinguished and emptied was repeatedly filled, the consciousness began to gradually build up.

Consciousness became will, and Maru was able to escape from the chaos.

Death, which swallowed the small sun, moved according to Maru’s will. A miracle occurred that could never be calculated even if the quantum computer and the bio-terminal were normal.

In a space where virtual reality and reality overlap, Maru makes death real.

Tingle-

A psychic wave that surged from somewhere aimed for Maru, but the garden of death that spread around Maru erased the psychic wave.

That stimulus brought Maru’s consciousness out of chaos and back to reality.

‘dominion?’

What kind of kid?

Maru’s life force, now transformed into death itself, was extinguished. Maru opened his eyes as his consciousness returned to the connection capsule as the virtual reality barely maintained by the supercomputer collapsed.

Cheeeeeeek-

Suddenly

The capsule opened and Maru raised his body.