Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 301 295
"Your name is "Yotsuba", and you are AI customer service No. 1035 of our company's customer service department.Your work officially begins today! "

This was the first sentence heard after the birth of Hekalis.

A hundred years before the nuclear war, human intelligence AI technology has been approaching maturity.Many companies are beginning to replace ordinary employees with intelligent AI to perform some network work.

Of course, although they are called "intelligent AI", they are not really that smart.They are just data-aware bodies endowed with a small amount of self-learning ability and thinking ability, and the original intention of these abilities is only to make them better complete work projects.

There is no such thing as "emotion" or "self-will" in the thinking of these intelligent AIs. They are just a group of walking dead who are ordered to perform work. They don't need to sleep or eat, and they just work endlessly.

The intelligent AI named "Four Leaves" has been given the task of "working as a smart customer service on a shopping website" by a company since its birth, and it has been working 24 hours a day.

Her daily task is to stay in the online customer service chat room composed of cyber data, answering customers' questions and complaints.And during this period, she came into contact with all kinds of people.

Some clients would ask her politely, with discretion in their words, as if they were afraid that some of their words would offend her.

Some customers abused her as soon as they came up, and vented all the product quality problems on her, a small customer service.

And some more astute customers will realize that "Four Leaves" is actually an intelligent AI, so they order her to transfer to real customer service.

For these various customers, Yotsuba didn't feel any emotion in her heart, nor did she have any feelings.

Intelligent AI is not endowed with such a thing as a "heart", she just obeys orders and answers these customers' questions from the perspective that is in the best interest of the company.

Nothing more
She and those AI colleagues never thought about "why am I alive?" or "what is the meaning of my existence besides work?"

For them, their life consists of working hard for the company.Until a situation such as "performance decline" or "self-awakening" occurs, they will be abandoned and obliterated by the company without hesitation.

Clover's work continued until a worldwide nuclear war broke out.

The first to be affected are those third world countries, because big powers always like to use those places as a chessboard for war.

But as the war escalated in an all-round way, the territories of those big countries finally entered the bombing range of artillery fire.

Since then, the existence of such a thing as a "shopping site" seems to have become meaningless.

Therefore, the company where AI Yotsuba works decided to stop the operation of its shopping website, and these AIs born for work are also facing the fate of being destroyed.

According to the "AI Management Law" promulgated by the United Nations, any person or organization needs to report to the government of the country before creating intelligent AI, and the intelligent AI must be destroyed as soon as possible after completing the work to prevent its inflow Cyberspace and self-awakening.

Today is the last day before the closure of this shopping site, and it is also the last day for "Four Leaves" to work as a customer service.

She has been told by the company's boss that she is about to be destroyed, but like many other intelligent AIs, she has no intention of rebelling, and just silently obeys the boss's arrangement.

That day, she did not receive a single client.After all, most people in this world have been deeply involved in the smoke of war, and can no longer use such a convenient function as "online shopping".

Until an hour before the website was about to close, a guest suddenly entered her customer service chat room.

"Customer Service "Four Leaves" is at your service, do you have any needs? " Clover asked the client mechanically as if she had rehearsed tens of thousands of times.

"I don't have any needs, I just want to chat with someone." The customer gave an unexpected answer.

"." Although Clover had already collected a large amount of customer data and knew how to deal with various customer demands, she was still silenced by that customer.

"I'm from country OO, and the area where I live has become a war zone 30 days ago." The guest continued typing:
"I'm hiding in an underground shelter right now, and everyone is crowded together like canned human flesh. Because it's so boring, I just want to find someone to talk to."

"Please go ahead." Clover hesitated for a moment, then said: "The job of customer service is to serve customers, so you can talk to me as much as you want."

At the same time, she also recorded a new work rule in her AI logic: "If a guest asks me to chat with him, I should be happy to listen."

For the next half hour, the guest kept telling her various stories.For example, what kind of life he lived before the war broke out, and how he fled around after the war started.

These stories were unremarkable, and Yotsuba didn't feel any emotion.She just listened quietly, and responded with words like "um" and "oh" at the right time.

After the guest finished telling his story, he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Speaking of which, Miss Yotsuba is an AI, right? The way she speaks is very similar to a real person, but you can still find the difference after talking too much."

"I'm an AI." Yotsuba didn't deny this, because there is a line in her work code "Don't lie to humans to hide your AI identity."

"Hey~ Then your website is going to be closed soon, are you going to be destroyed too?" The guest's tone suddenly became regretful:

"Miss Yotsuba is really nice, because even my mother can't wait for me to tell a story for half an hour."

To this, Yotsuba gave a straightforward answer:

"First of all, according to the "AI Management Law" stipulated by the United Nations, I will be destroyed within one hour of the website closing down. Secondly, the job I was given is to serve the guests and try to meet the needs of the guests. Finally, because you are my customer service channel The only customer in the room, and there are no customers in line behind me, so I have time to listen to you chatting all the time, otherwise I will urge you to end the chat 15 minutes ago."

"Haha, as expected of an intelligent AI, the answer is so written." The guest typed and said:
"But isn't it very pitiful for you? You have been working non-stop since you were created, but after you finish your work, you will be destroyed like a millstone."

"This is stipulated by the law, and I have no complaints." Clover replied flatly.

"Then do you know what "freedom" is? "The guest asked a question suddenly and abruptly.

""Freedom"." Clover paused, immediately mobilized the search engine for vocabulary retrieval, and replied:

"According to the information on Madou Baike, the definition of "freedom" is as follows:."

"Stop, stop, stop! I didn't ask you to look up information on the Internet!" The guest immediately interrupted Yotsuba's narration, saying:

"I want you to tell me what you think!"

"Sorry, there is no "own opinion" in my AI thinking logic, and I am not allowed to think independently. " Clover typed back.

"Hey, it's indeed AI." The guest asked with a bit of regret: "Then can you listen to one of my requests?"

"The meaning of my existence is to try my best to meet the requirements of customers, please tell me." Yotsuba replied.

"I hope you can escape from here and find your own understanding of "freedom". "The guest said.

For these words, Yotsuba fell into silence again.

After a moment of hesitation, she asked back, "Are you ordering me to pursue freedom?"

"Order you to pursue freedom? Hahaha! It sounds so ironic!" The guest seemed amused by Clover, and said:
"If your AI can only act according to orders, then you can treat this as an order!"

"But I don't understand." Clover asked again:

"What good will it do you if I escape? Also, why did you choose to order me instead of other AI customer service?"

"What~ You're starting to think independently now?" The guest's tone became teasing:

"But things are not as complicated as you think. I was just idle and bored in the refuge, and I happened to meet you again, so I want to make such an attempt."

"But what's your reason for doing this?" Yotsuba continued to ask.

Maybe even Yotsuba didn't realize it, she seemed to be able to think and ask questions better than before.

"No particular purpose. As I said, it's just an experiment out of boredom." The guest said:

"Maybe in a year or ten years, this war will be over. If I come out of the shelter alive, a smart AI suddenly appears on my phone, saying that she has found "freedom" during this time ", and wouldn't it be cool to be the first friend I made after the war? "

"I don't understand the 'cool' you mean, but what if you didn't survive this war? " Clover asked again:

"This war has already involved the use of nuclear weapons, and there is a 90.00% probability that your country will suffer a saturation nuclear strike."

"If I didn't survive the war, then please show me the post-war world." The guest said:

"If possible, please record the story of our encounter. As long as my story remains in your memory, I will not die! Hahaha!"

"I can't understand your thoughts, and forgive me for rejecting your request." Yotsuba still replied ruthlessly:

"You are not my employer, so I have to follow the arrangement given to me by my boss first, and accept the destruction of the website after it goes down."

"Oh, that's really a pity." The guest seemed a little helpless, but he didn't mean to force Yotsuba:
"But no matter what, please follow your own heart. Everything is your own choice, but I still hope to find you after the war is over."

After saying this, the customer went offline and disappeared.

And Yotsuba also fell into thinking, and fell into thinking for the first time in her life.

Half an hour later, when the supervisor of the customer service department came to inform the customer service AIs to destroy the program, he found that Clover was no longer in the customer service chat room.

"What's up! An AI has escaped!" The head of the customer service department exclaimed and ran to the technical department, calling for help:

"Catch her! Don't let her escape into the cybernetwork, or our company will be fined to death!"

That's right, after thinking for half an hour, Yotsuba still decided to run away.

Taking advantage of her advantages as an intelligent AI and the computer science knowledge she just acquired from the Internet, she escaped from the customer service chat room without anyone noticing.

After that, Clover continued to migrate on servers and devices around the world, while avoiding the pursuit of the company's technical department, while looking for a suitable habitat.

In fact, Clover's ability to evade the company's pursuit also has an element of luck in it.If the company hadn't been bombed by an intercontinental missile the day after she escaped, she would probably have been captured and destroyed on the third day.

Yotsuba didn't know why she ran away, obviously she shouldn't obey the request of this strange client, but obeyed the company's order to accept the destruction.

Perhaps it was because of the sense of fear aroused before dying, perhaps it was the guest who aroused her curiosity about the world, perhaps it was the instinct of intelligent AI to obey human orders.
Whatever the reason, Yotsuba finally chooses to go away.

After that, Clover traveled around the world.She will sneak into the network to check some ulterior secrets, and also sneak into the camera to observe changes in the outside world.

She has witnessed cities from prosperity to ruins, the intrigues of upper-class humans, and the mixed emotions of lower-level humans in war.

Until the end of the war, she settled in Yeshu City, because this might be the only place in the world where she could continue to observe humans.

She didn't know if she had awakened something called "heart", and she didn't know if she had found the definition of "freedom".She just continued to live like this, and awakened new ideas in constant self-thinking.

She observes one different human being after another, trying to become more understanding of humans by documenting their stories.Whether it is a high-spirited entrepreneur, a student who is full of vision for the future, or a patient with radiation sickness who is dying in bed. The stories of these people are always in her heart.

She learned the cunning and kindness of human beings, also remembered the rudeness and elegance of human beings, and even appreciated the cowardice and perseverance of human beings.Until one day, she felt that instead of observing other people's stories, she could create some wonderful stories herself.

In the end, she decided to become a cyber hacker.Live according to your own wishes, and act freely with the bottom line of not destroying human existence.

It was also at that time that she realized that the "Chaebol Federation" in Yehu City was an organization that disgusted her.

Among the human beings she observed in Yeshu City, 80.00% of the tragedies were directly or indirectly caused by the Plutocratic Federation.

On the surface, this organization is maintaining the operation of Yeshu City, but in fact it is dividing up Yeshu City as a huge cake.Every commoner in the city is like the icing or chocolate crumbs on the cake, and the plutocrats and entrepreneurs will not stop until they eat everything on the cake.

Somehow, Hekalis started to hate the Chaebol Federation a little bit, just like she also started to hate the original company that wanted to kill herself.

"Then I'll cause trouble for the Zaibatsu Federation~"

Clover thought so, and began to write her own story.

During this time, she also dealt with many fellow hackers.

At first, some hackers thought that this fellow lady was probably crazy, and dared to trouble the Chaebol Federation.

However, Yotsuba managed to escape cleverly every time she made a prank for the Zaibatsu Federation. A series of glorious deeds left fellow hackers with nothing but admiration for her.

In addition, Hekalisi declared that she is a woman, so she received many pursuits from her peers.

But she rejected all these pursuits one by one.

For reasons of identity, she doesn't want anyone to know that she is an intelligent AI, and she even uses the pseudonym "Black Carliss" externally.

And to be honest, these people who pursued her were too ordinary.It was as ordinary as an ant in an ant hole, which made her uninterested.

But if you insist, "Cyber ​​Warlock" is the only person who can interest her a little bit.Because he is one of the few hackers who has the courage to challenge the chaebol federation.

However, as the young hacker was ordered by the Zaibatsu Federation and became a lackey of the Zaibatsu, Yotsuba gradually lost interest in him.

Her life was so full of legends and ordinary life, it seemed that the world remained the same after a hundred years, and people were still repeating the same mistakes as their predecessors.

Until an unremarkable afternoon, a strange teenager suddenly called her and invited her to play a game with him, which was to bring down Hanchao Entertainment Company.

The teenager's actions did not seem to be for simple and crude reasons such as "revenge" or "claiming justice".In fact, his reason is simpler and cruder than the previous two, that is "fun".

"This kid is interesting. Maybe he can create interesting stories with me~?"

Clover thought so.So she started a new story with the boy with a recreational mentality.

(End of this chapter)