Son of the Stars

Chapter 203 Trading
Wuhou is a tactical AI driven by the human gene brain and connected in groups through large-diameter plastic fiber optic tubes. The so-called "tactical" means that Wuhou's behavior pattern is more inclined to short-term and smaller groups of people.

It itself is not good at deploying and influencing humans at a strategic level.

Decision-making at the strategic level and at the tactical level are two completely different things. Wu Hou, who is good at tactical decision-making, actually has difficulty controlling multiple people at the same time. Especially when it comes to the deployment of characters over long distances, Wu Hou's ability is actually very weak.

Wu Hou can plant a little "subconscious" reaction in a person from childhood and activate it when needed. It can also induce a person's consciousness for a long time, so that he can become the character, identity or even position that Wu Hou needs.

In short, Wu Hou's abilities in some areas are close to cheating, but in other places... he seems a little fragile.

Due to the core limitations written deep in the kernel, Wu Hou cannot directly manipulate any physical objects. He can use the intrusion vulnerability to show any information to the target he needs to influence, but he cannot operate a mechanical arm with twelve free-moving joints to slap him directly.

Such restrictions are not a problem for Wu Hou, or rather, there is no concept of "trouble" in itself. If you cannot directly intervene with physical means, you can also achieve your goal by manipulating other humans at the right time and place.

But such restrictions have now become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Li Xiaohui is a difficult character to deal with, she has a reaction speed far beyond the ordinary, extraordinary execution and strong determination. These characteristics are particularly evident after she learns that the brain that constitutes Wu Hou is the culprit of the collapse.

No matter how Wu Hou threatened and lured her, even using the fact that Li Xiaohui had murdered her ex-boyfriend, the psychology professor who retained her position in the General Investigation Bureau remained unmoved. She resolutely walked through the wilderness of 320 kilometers, killed eleven scavengers who tried to rob or even murder her, and arrived at the door of Wu Hou's computer room.

Wu Hou had already concluded that Li Xiaohui was difficult to deal with and could only be physically intervened. But... he couldn't do it himself, so he could only use those who had already been controlled by him to do it.

But people have their own living scope.

Wuhou's computer room is located in a national park, and the area around it was a sparsely populated place before the collapse. After the collapse, there was no settlement around it - only some scavengers wandering around the deserted interstate highways and small towns.

The closest person that Wu Hou could control was an armed forest ranger who was patrolling more than 600 kilometers away from the machine room. Wu Hou had already summoned this tool and forced him to use all means to rush to the scene and kill Li Xiaohui as soon as possible. But this attempt completely failed half an hour ago.

There was a sudden explosion on the way when the tool man was rushing to the scene. The vehicle he was driving suddenly exploded on the abandoned interstate highway, attracting the surrounding automatic fire-fighting AI. Only then did Wu Hou realize that his hopes were dashed.

All other means cannot reach the computer room in a short time, and Li Xiaohui has begun trying to crack the last combination lock - as long as this combination lock is opened, she can use violent means such as a fire axe to directly cut off the device that provides life support for 30% of the brain.

There are three rooms where Wu Hou can access these devices. If Li Xiaohui moves faster, she can completely understand Wu Hou's "life" within a day. The tool man controlled by Wu Hou still needs at least two days to travel from here - one day is for the tool man to get rid of the shackles of the anti-collapse facility.

As the saying goes, distant water cannot quench nearby thirst, and distant relatives cannot catch up with the deadly King of Hell nearby. Wu Hou exhausted all his calculations, but could not find a way to break the current deadlock. Its fate seemed to be determined. The most powerful tactical AI created by humans was about to die at the hands of a female spy from the General Investigation Bureau.

"I surrender." Twenty-seven thousand brains came to the same conclusion in an instant. Wu Hou's voice came from the electronic screen hanging on Li Xiaohui's waist, "I surrender, stop it, I surrender!" Li Xiaohui's actions did not hesitate or delay. She half-knelt on the ground and leaned her upper body against the wall with the inspection hole in a very awkward posture. One eye was staring at the endoscope in her hand, and the other eye was observing the automatic door of the machine room a little further away.

"There is no joking or conspiracy involved. I surrender!" Wu Hou stated his thoughts again, "You will need at least one day to destroy me. Once all my brains are destroyed, there will be no unity or mutual understanding in the human world - I am not exaggerating!"

According to Wuhou's description, its computer room brain had obvious collective emotional fluctuations in the early working process, and those fluctuations were initially regarded as sensor failures by the operation and maintenance engineers of the computer room. Although it was later determined that the emotional fluctuations did come from these "brains in a vat", due to the lack of ability to deeply understand the brain and the fact that such collective emotional fluctuations actually improved Wuhou's computing and work efficiency, the operation and maintenance engineers simply let the matter go - without further investigating the reasons for its occurrence and possible consequences.

When Wu Hou completed the initial training and began to be put into use in the real world, the means of "manipulating people's hearts" became a channel for spreading the entangled state of electrons outside lithium atoms. When Wu Hou had influenced a certain number of people, the spread of the entangled state of electrons broke through its control.

Wu Hou tried to win Li Xiaohui's forgiveness by presenting facts and reasoning. But the taciturn lady ignored Wu Hou's noisy speech. She squeezed her face to a very funny degree, then pushed the endoscope with her right hand and successfully pushed open the door of the machine room.

Compared to the dusty outside, the inside of the computer room is obviously much cleaner - the computer room that maintains positive pressure can effectively prevent any dust from entering through the gaps. The robots that work automatically and continuously effectively maintain the effectiveness of the positive pressure and filtration system.

Li Xiaohui quickly stood up and entered the computer room, not caring about the dust all over her body. She walked around the cabinet at the door and soon saw an ordinary white painted wooden door hidden deep in the computer room.

The moment her hand touched the wooden door, she knew she had found the right place. This was not a wooden door, but a pure metal explosion-proof door that was carefully disguised as a wooden structure.

The computer rooms outside look sci-fi, but in fact they are just a cover-up. Wuhou is an AI composed of 27,000 copies of human brains, and human brains are not servers that can be put into a cabinet. To ensure their activity, a very precise and quiet environment is required, and more importantly, a large enough space is required.

Those brains are all buried deeper underground, and each brain has its own protective tank. The cabinets above are mainly used for protection and data collection.

Behind this white metal explosion-proof door is the core that ensures the survival of the brain - the low-voltage equipment used to control the water tank and the glucose synthesis controller.

"Please don't go on... I give up." Wu Hou sighed deeply and raised his voice a little, "I know this may sound ridiculous, but now I am the only one who can save mankind. Before you destroy me, can you listen to my proposal first? If you are not satisfied, it is not too late for you to take action."

Li Xiaohui, who had been silent the whole time, thought for a moment, pulled a chair from the computer room and sat down, took out food from her backpack and began to stuff it into her mouth, "You tell me first - if I still don't change my mind after I finish eating, then you should prepare to say goodbye to this world."

The Wu Hou on the screen closed his eyes, shook his head, and then threw down the feather fan in his hand.

"Except for me, no one can provide the Earth with electron tides of sufficient intensity. As long as you promise not to kill me, humans will not have to worry about the occurrence of quantum energy release syndrome for at least the next fifty years."

(End of this chapter)