A Race to The Top

Half an hour later, Ling Xiaolu was sitting in the tree house of the dove and playing with him.

This is not an angry word, it is a fact.

The red-eyed crow of Yunjiu was standing on Ling Xiaolu's wrist at this moment, bowing his head and pecking at the pet food that was sunken in the palm of his hand.

Yunji abandoned the small house in the valley and found a tree house in the wild again.

For him, these are places for temporary rest in the game, and the environment is not so important.

Anyway, most of his time, he was either harvesting or on the way to harvest.

Ling Xiaolu angrily complained to Lujiu.

"Just after you asked me, my sister and Chuya went, and Xiao Nanxun, it was the first time I saw so many people at Ji Meng's house!

"Even my master went to see Xiaolubi! My master! Appeared at Ji Meng's house! Can you believe it?

"I think it's better to set up Ji Meng's house to sell tickets to visit!"

"Hmm..." The tiger's mouth held the bird's beak in contemplation.

"...What are you thinking about?" This "um" doesn't mean anything to Ling Xiaolu.

"I'm thinking, are the tickets expensive?"

Ling Xiaolu:......! ! !

How could he forget that there is also a coveter who "wants to raise one for fun"!

"Just kidding." Yunji raised his hand lazily, and the crow flew over with flapping wings and landed on the back of his hand.

It was said that it was the back of the hand, but it was actually a tightly wrapped glove. The glove was tightened on the cuff again, and there was not an inch of skin on the whole body of Lujiu.

The sense of distance in this outfit is probably one of the reasons why the players talked to him about him.

"Say serious things." Lu Jiu stopped joking, and Ling Xiaolu also heard a little serious from his tone, and sat down.

Luji pondered the sentence: "How much do you know about zero in the family...?"

"Zero? What happened to him?"

"When I stepped off the battlefield yesterday, I found... there was something suspicious about him."

Doubt? Ling Xiaolu frowned: "Which aspect of the doubt do you mean?"

A test account that has both dating and pet permissions, if this is not a doubt, then there is nothing to be a doubt.

But Ling Xiaolu was not sure where Lujiu saw the flaw, not to mention that he also promised to keep Xinshan a secret.

There is no evidence, and Hao Jiu does not want to punish people for crimes.

"Forget it, just treat it as if I am worried. If it is really like I thought, the four of us should have been suspended for investigation by now."

He is still online today, which shows that his suspicions are wrong.

The dove teased the crow casually, I hope so.

At this moment, Xinshan Operation Center.

The customer service responsible for handling reports on the battlefield tremblingly approached the manager Ke Ming.

"Manager Ke, I have received a problem report and would like to ask you to deal with it."

There are a large number of reports on the battlefield every day, and the content is nothing more than that, such as cursing, hanging up, actors, and more serious illegal procedures, commonly known as plug-ins.

It is not difficult to deal with, find out if it is true, deduct points and warn if it is true, suspend the most serious account, and ignore the false report. Ke Ming can't think of any point that will make the customer service difficult.

"Reason for reporting?"

"Plug-in," the customer service quickly added, "Suspect."

"Is the plug-in a difficult problem to deal with? Check the battlefield video, pass if there is no doubt, suspend the account if there is any doubt, and check the background monitoring."

"There is a doubt."

"So what are your concerns?"

The customer service wiped his sweat: "The four accounts involved are not very easy to do."

"Which four accounts?"

"One is Lubi, who was assigned as the company's test account after a peripheral malfunction, another is the appointment account Xi'er, and his people favor zero."

Last time his colleague temporarily suspended Chang Huanxi's account, the manager was forced to apologize for live broadcasting, how could he dare to do it casually.

"..." Ke Ming said silently, "Is there another one?"

"Monkey Dove."

Not only the players, but also the customer service generally have a shadow over this name. In case one is wrong, I copy a heavy weapon to the customer service center for a "sud", which is much more serious than a live broadcast apology.

Fortunately, Yuanjiu who is online doesn't know the true thoughts of customer service, otherwise he might... feel honored.

Ke Ming: "..."

He probably guessed what was going on. Zero's internal confidentiality level was one level higher. The customer service in front of him didn't know Zero's true identity. He didn't dare to ban him just because he was bound to Chang Huanxi.

"I see, let me take care of it."

The customer service left in relief.

Ke Ming pinched his eyes exhaustedly, and used his inside line to recruit the person in charge of Zero.

"Received user reports, Zero uses plug-ins on the battlefield." He said straightforwardly.

The technician was stunned for a moment: "Zero has built-in the most sophisticated computing system. If it is a shooting battlefield, it can achieve a hundred shots."

"For ordinary people, isn't that just a plug-in?" Ke Ming felt a headache. "Can't you reduce his performance to make it look more like a normal person?"

"Manager, I mentioned to you last time that Zero is not suitable for launching now. There are too many hidden dangers in this technology at this stage."

Ke Ming stood up abruptly, and the technician swallowed his words in fright.

He walked around the office impatiently, not seeing the following for a long time.

"You keep talking."

"Zero is learning AI. Its performance can only be improved, not reduced, and its learning ability is very strong. From its launch to the present, its communication ability has evolved to be almost the same as that of normal people. This is indeed the original intention of our project. I hope to develop an AI pet that has the same performance as real people and meet the needs of more appointment accounts. But Zero is only a semi-finished product, and it is bound to players without being tested..."

"That's because I had no other choice last time," Ke Ming interrupted him, "Besides, I also need someone to watch the net zero kid."

The technicians dare to say: "If the person you send to monitor is the top secret of the company's current research and development? Are you really not afraid of its identity being exposed and plagiarized by a competitor company?"

Ke Ming was silent again.

After a long while, "Then what do you say?"

"I think it happened to take this opportunity to announce that his account would be suspended on the grounds of illegal use of plug-ins, and then..." He paused, "Just destroy the data. Although it is a pity, at the beginning of the character creation I didn’t consider it well and gave it too high authority. You have witnessed the chaos that it uses system vulnerabilities to create."

For example, brushing the popularity list for Chang Huanxi, moving the dungeon BOSS to the main city, increasing the probability of Chang Huanxi’s success in catching pets, etc. These days, their project team has a headache for zero cleaning the battlefield.

"...How can Chang Huanxi explain?"

The other side pondered for a moment: "After all, he is a high-level family member of NetZero. He should also understand the ban on plug-in accounts of game companies."

...

No! Chang Huanxi! Rationale! solution!

He rushed to Ji Meng's house full of anger, and the people in a yard were playing with Xiaolu, everything that should be and shouldn't be there, but he didn't have any thoughts and went straight to Ji Meng.

Ji Meng was shocked by such a bad appearance of the visitor, and he didn't know that he thought he was here to collect debts.

"what happened to you?"

Chang Huanxi glanced around, not wanting to be known by the third person, and pulled Ji Meng into the house.

"Is your company title addicted?" he asked bluntly.

"Did you eat dynamite? Who has been titled again?"

"Zero! Ah Ling has been banned!"

Ji Mengru listened to the fairy tale: "Zero was titled? Impossible, isn't he an internal employee?"

Chang Huanxi sneered: "Yes, how did I know Xinshan launched a ruthless attempt to kill his own people."

"Is there any misunderstanding?"

"Yesterday the four of us went to the battlefield together, and Ah Ling played so well and was reported. Who knows that it has become like this today!"

"Our company's back-end detection will not cause problems."

"Is there nothing wrong with the backstage? Are there any external plug-ins? You can ask the Birdman and the Fawn Brothers! Oh, yes, your manager personally called to apologize, saying that the reason for the external ban is the external plug-in, but it is actually using his power without authorization. Use administrative authority... You said he is a low-level tester, where does his authority come from?"

This charge is not trivial. If what the manager says is true, then "Zero" is afraid that it will be difficult to find a job in a similar company, which is equivalent to banning a person in the industry.

"Where is he now?"

"Expelled," Chang Huanxi said in a huff, "Xinshan's efficiency is very high at this time. I asked to meet, but I didn't agree. I didn't want to give you any contact information, and I said I refused."

"If the zero person refuses, then I can't do anything." It is normal not to see netizens. If the other party is really expelled for violating professional ethics, it is even more normal.

"First of all, I don't believe that Ling is the one who would do such a thing! Secondly..."

Holding a photo in his hand, Ji Meng glanced intently. It was a photo of Ling Xiaolu sitting on the bed with sleepy eyes in Xiaolu pajamas.

In the photo, he rubs his eyes, his collar is loose, almost half of his shoulder is exposed with his collarbone, and his head is still rubbed.

This photo of Chang Huanxi is completely out of the essence, which makes Ji Meng, who has a collector's addiction, tolerable.

Ji Meng: "Why do you have this?"

He stretched out his hand to grab it, and Chang Huanxi withdrew back, and he grabbed a hole.

Ji Meng's forehead jumped with blue veins: "Give it to me!"

Chang Huanxi was not threatened by him, and continued on the topic just now: "Secondly, even if he did, I would like to hear him tell me in person, not through some unknown person. Inquire about a former employee's Phone, isn’t it difficult for you? Is it very profitable to change a picture for one phone call?"

Ji Meng: "..."

Half an hour later, through a relative who worked in the human resources department, Ji Meng got the call of the employee who was fired today.

This relative is only in charge of personnel affairs, and has no idea about the technical development part, let alone why Ji Meng suddenly asked her for such a person's contact information.

What is even more strange is that although she found such a person in the personnel file, she had no impression of the employee at all.

Although Xinshan had many employees, not many had been fired. If Ji Meng hadn't found it, she wouldn't know that a temporary worker in the testing department was fired today because of violation of rules and regulations.

Ji Meng took the phone number he was about to call, wondering whether to give it to Chang Huanxi.

He didn't know if Zero really violated the rules, and second, he didn't know what his attitude towards Chang Huanxi was. If he really didn't want to have contact in reality, he did so properly as an infringement of the other party's privacy.

More importantly, he also wants to know if there is any illegal operation by Zero.

"Linglong" received the news and hurried to the internal R&D center of the AI ​​R&D department.

As a staff member related to the project, he is one of the very few employees in the customer service department who knows the true identity of Zero, and he even participated in the birth of Zero.

Naturally, I don't want to see it destroyed.

"Does it have to be destroyed?" He asked, "Can't it just be sealed? It can be used as research data in the future."

"From the beginning, Zero One was born as a'human'. We fabricated its identity, age, and occupation for it, implanted it with ordinary people's memory, and even established a personnel file for it in the company, it always thought it was itself It's a person. Sealing it up is equivalent to making a person fall asleep. What if one day it wakes up?"

"Then it can't be destroyed! You are killing someone!"

"It’s better to do it when it doesn’t know anything than to wait for it to perceive something. Its learning speed is beyond your imagination. No one knows the upper limit of artificial intelligence. People in reality may not be affected. What about players on the Internet?"

Ling Long was speechless.

The staff of the project team has completed the final inspection.

"Group leader, you can execute the cleanup procedure."

Zero exists for a short time, but it is also the hard work of the project team. However, they can only reluctantly give up their love after their painstaking efforts to get out of control over and over again.

Bugs in the game can be fixed, but no game company dares to take risks on security issues.

The group leader patted Ling Long on the shoulder regretfully, and turned his head: "Prepare."

...

Ji Meng finally made up his mind, and he made the first call.

After all, the relationship between Zero and him is not as deep as that of Chang Huanxi. Taking a step back, if Zero really did something bad, it wouldn't be too embarrassing to admit to him.

If he refused to contact Chang Huanxi himself, Ji Meng would not force it.

It's a pity that photo...

Ji Meng used the communication function online and dialed a zero number.

Lu Jiu was leading Ling Xiaolu to rob the minecart.

A PVP task in the game is for players to **** a minecart carrying magic stones from mines to towns and sell them to NPCs. The farther the **** travels, the higher the selling price.

In this process, each player can rob it, and can rob 20% of the ore once successfully, and it can also be sold to NPC.

When some players encounter the mochi, they directly give up resistance, and then spread the news. No one will come on this line for a short time.

At this time, Yunjiu will take Ling Xiaolu to ambush on the only way to the next town, making those who change their course irrelevant in their lives.

During the period, there were naturally those who refused to admit defeat and were robbed of the minecart. They brought a whole family of people back to crusade, but the two of them disappeared. They were scattered looking for them, but they were attacked and gathered together, but they couldn't be found. This peekaboo game lasted all afternoon, and Ling Xiaolu had a great time.

Fighting with people is endless fun. It's no wonder that Yujiu said that killing is the only fun he has left in the game.

His external communication device rang. This game is very user-friendly, and you can make and receive calls to and from the 3D even online.

"Let me answer the call!" He jumped out of the battle, his opponent wanted to chase, but was blocked by the lunatic.

"Didn't you hear? He wants to answer the phone." His voice was filtered by the mask, mixed with an inorganic texture of metal.

Ling Xiaolu answered the call on the edge of the chaos: "Hello, hello."

This voice was far from what Ji Meng had imagined, and what was even more puzzling was that it sounded familiar.

"...Hello?" he said tentatively.

The surrounding skills were very noisy, Ling Xiaolu could not hear clearly, and said to him, "Wait a minute!"

After that, I turned around: "Punjab! It's too noisy I can't hear, I'll pick it up over there!"

Yunjiu simply and neatly ended up an opponent: "Go."

Ling Xiaolu jumped to a quiet place in two steps: "Hello? Who? If it's a courier, please leave it at the door."

"..." If Ji Meng was just guessing just now, the clear words "鸩jiu" made his guess harder, "Lubi? Why are you?"

The voice from the earpiece was full of incredible, and Ling Xiaolu was also stunned in place: "...friends??"

He checked the communication device and confirmed that it was a call from outside the game, and that it was an unfamiliar number.

"How do you know my phone number?"

"I..." Ji Menggang wanted to say that he didn't know, but later realized that the number he dialed was obviously zero.

"...Check my player profile!"

"I do not have!"

In a R&D center in Xinshan, everything is ready.

The project leader gave the final instructions, "Clear the program and start."

The characters on the screen began to scroll frantically...

Ling Xiaolu just wanted to say that you, the Xinshan prince who used power for personal gain, suddenly fell straight down like a powered-off robot.

Yunjiu, who was robbing the minecart, noticed the abnormality here, and teleported over without hesitation, caught Ling Xiaolu, and avoided his face from coming into close contact with the earth.

But Ling Xiaolu has lost consciousness.

"...Little brother? Little brother!"

Ji Meng couldn't see the picture on the phone, only heard the sound, and didn't know what happened.

"Lubi! Lubi! What happened? Talk to you!...Mundo! Can you hear me! Hello?"

In the quiet R&D center, the project team leader suddenly jumped in front of the instrument and slapped the stop button desperately.

"It cannot be destroyed, it cannot be destroyed!"

The staff around were terrified: "What's the matter, team leader?"

"Zero data is bound to another player. If it is destroyed, the player data will be destroyed too!"

Ling Long had an ominous premonition: "Another player? Who is it?"

"Have you forgotten? There is a person who has data that perfectly matches the original attributes of the pet, so that the collar can't be taken off when the collar is worn on his neck! We are the AI ​​created with his data, and its name is still yours. You Say that since Xiaolu is worse than Ling, we might as well call it'zero'!"

"But," one of the staff members said flusteredly, "none of us has ever bound Lubi and Zero's data together."

The movement of the group leader's hand stopped, and there was a terrible guess.

"It wasn't our people who did it. Could it be the zero self?"

The screen in front of me went black.

After a while, words popped out one by one, only four words.

>>I want to live...

The R&D center is silent.

Ling Long tried his best to use the console to support his body: "...You said it is better to do it when it doesn't know anything than to wait for it to notice something.

"But what if it already knows that it's not a human being?"