Chapter 728: Chapter 2: 42 and Your Daughter (Monthly Ticket Bonus!)_2 Chapter 728: Chapter 2: 42 and Your Daughter (Monthly Ticket Bonus!)_2 “I’ll continue about the blue-eyed girl with the ponytail…
When she was by my side, she actually didn’t have a ponytail, but I described her that way to make it easier for you to understand, knowing you’re smart enough to catch on.”
“She told me that to complete my loop, I was just one step away, which was to eliminate the overly powerful Artificial Intelligence and to stop Kevin Walker’s actions.
Bound by the Space-time Law, she didn’t specify who had the Artificial Intelligence.”
“[But I’m not a fool; I assumed that both you and Kevin Walker might have Artificial Intelligence.
Though I’m not sure, since I’m supposed to destroy the Artificial Intelligence, let’s assume that either you two, or someone else, actually possesses such overly intelligent Artificial Intelligence.]”
“I personally detest Artificial Intelligence, and I equally dislike people like Kevin Walker, as his future plans are in direct conflict with mine, which is why we’ve never seen eye to eye.”
“So I did what the little girl told me.
She gave me a flash drive, clearly a product of future technology, claiming that the virus inside could correct history and kill all Artificial Intelligence smarter than Kevin Walker, and ensure they wouldn’t reappear for hundreds of years.”
“I believed her then, but now it’s different…
If this little girl could deceive me once, she could do it repeatedly.
I’m no longer sure which of her statements is true…
nor am I certain what exactly was written inside the flash drive she gave me.”
Lin Xian listened silently.
He recalled, on the home LCD TV, VV’s last words left in burn marks, and Jask’s name.
It seemed this matched up.
No wonder Jask could eliminate VV; indeed, it was through the future technology provided by a Space-Time Traveler.
Why could this faux Yu Xi carry high-tech products from the future through time?
If she could bring something back, why didn’t she directly bring more advanced technology back?
Wouldn’t this be considered a disturbance to the space-time continuum?
Wouldn’t it trigger Space-Time Elasticity and make that flash drive disappear?
“What happened to that flash drive later?
Is it still around?” Lin Xian asked.
“It disappeared from my hands, just like that girl who was just decapitated, all turning into blue stardust.
I don’t understand the principle either, but the flash drive indeed vanished quickly without a trace.”
Lin Xian rested his chin on his hand, pondering, as there were still many doubts.
It wasn’t that he suspected Jask was lying, but rather, he couldn’t understand why faux Yu Xi could bring a future flash drive back.
This clearly violated Space-Time Elasticity and shouldn’t be allowed by the Space-time Law.
this was a sort of space-time-approved historical correction?
the flash drive brought back was actually empty, not violating Space-Time Elasticity; and the virus written in this era was what actually killed VV.
The reason Lin Xian thought of this…
Was because he back-translated VV from a dream and then coded it out one line at a time.
Could the enemy do the same?
The first suspect Lin Xian thought of—
That is, the digital life version of Kevin Walker.
Turing must be the Black Hand that VV was always fighting against in the network, not the person Kevin Walker.
So, was Turing the real culprit behind the virus that killed VV in that future flash drive?
And what was its motive?
Did it consider VV’s existence unbalanced in this game?
It’s still too early to conclude.
Lin Xian planned to keep listening to what Jask had to say…
It was now confirmed that Jask was indeed the direct perpetrator who killed VV.
But Lin Xian did not plan to confront him about it.
That would be foolish, akin to giving himself away.
Jask had said that he was merely guessing that both Kevin Walker and himself had Artificial Intelligence, and even assumed others might have it too.
This led to an all-encompassing purge, wiping out any real or supposed threat indistinguishably.
What he really wanted to kill was, of course, Kevin Walker’s Artificial Intelligence.
But, unfortunately, he was wrong.
Kevin Walker didn’t have Artificial Intelligence; what he had was a digital life; there’s a fundamental difference between Artificial Intelligence and digital life—the former is merely a program written by humans, but digital life is a real person, existing in a different form as a new lifeform.
One might say, VV was largely killed by mistake.
Why should he confess to Jask that he once had Artificial Intelligence?
It’s better left unanswered.
Let Jask think he guessed wrong, overestimating himself.
Otherwise, what’s the point of questioning him?
At this point, whether VV can be revived isn’t up to Jask, nor can he ascertain whether the virus still exists in the internet, less said the better, as more words might lead to mistakes.
Seeing that Lin Xian was silent, Jask continued:
“What I’m about to say is where I feel obligated to you, and why I said earlier…
Lin Xian looked up, listening intently.
He originally thought Jask’s obligation might concern VV; but now it seemed not to be the case… because Jask was quite unsure about the mishap involving VV, clearly, he was concealing something else.