The members of the game Group of Ten Thousand Worlds are all myself

Chapter 625 Fragrant brain-explosion

"So, you didn't find out anything?"

Meredith Stout looked at the members reporting in front of her, veins bulging on her forehead.

She is the operations director of the Military Technology Group. In order to seek a high position, she will do anything, which is called unscrupulous, so she is very successful.

If necessary, she can even search every corner of Night City and crush anyone stupid enough to go against the company, and she believes that she will be at the top within five years, giving orders to professionals like herself.

However, this extravagant hope fell to the bottom not long ago. A mysterious man came from nowhere and completely destroyed the arsenal of military technology.

If she can't find this mysterious man, then she can say goodbye to her future.

In order to climb to a high position and for her own future, Meredith almost frantically wanted to find out the mysterious person who destroyed the company. However, she only found nothing and could not find any clues at all.

Whether it was the intelligence agency or her own informant, the investigation reports given by her were completely blank.

Seeing another failed investigation, Meredith slammed the information in her hand on the reporter's face. The reporter could only show a flattering smile and did not dare to reveal any emotions.

Seeing this flattering smile, Meredith became even more irritated and cursed angrily: "Go away, if there is still no news next time, you can leave the company and become a homeless person."

Upon hearing Meredith's final announcement, the reporter's smile froze, and he could only leave with his head lowered in humility, not daring to complain.

The first level of officialdom is overwhelming, not to mention that this is within a highly competitive company. As long as he dares to complain, his boss will dare to replace him on the same day.

Watching the reporter bend over and leave, and when she was the only one left in the office, Meredith exhaled a depressed breath and pressed her throbbing forehead.

"Is it true that I just have to give up..."

She really didn't want to give up, but without a clue, there was nothing she could do even if she resorted to any means.

Meredith sat slumped in the office chair, staring blankly into space, thinking that she had done whatever it took to get to this position, but she never expected that she would lose the possibility of being promoted to a high position here.

Just when she was despairing about her future, her eyes suddenly froze because a pop-up window automatically popped up in her virtual vision.

"Virus?"

Meredith looked at the pop-up window that suddenly popped up in surprise. Her first reaction was that her brain-computer interface had been hacked by a network hacker, otherwise there was no way to explain it.

But before she could make any move, the pop-up window started scrolling from bottom to top, scrolling with the crimes she had committed. In this process, no matter how she mobilized her virtual vision, it was of no avail.

"Damn it!"

Finding that the pop-up window could not be closed by her own strength, Meredith cursed secretly and immediately wanted to call the company's hackers to solve the problem.

But to her shock and even horror, she could no longer contact anyone, and the personal link between the company network and her was cut off.

In addition to the company network, even the city network of Night City was disconnected from her. She became an island in the online world, and she was the only one on the island.

Fear gradually clung to her body, and Meredith's breathing began to quicken. In this weird atmosphere, a muffled sound suddenly reached her ears, as if something exploded.

And this muffled sound seemed to bring about a chain reaction, with muffled sounds appearing one after another, followed by a bloody and burning smell that gradually began to spread.

Suddenly, Meredith found that the scrolling crimes in her virtual vision stopped, which seemed to indicate that her approval was coming to an end.

"Surprisingly...there are quite a few."

Meredith wanted to cover up her fear with disdain, but after holding it in for a second or two, it turned into a weird self-deprecation.

Then, at the bottom of the crime, a blood-red sentence popped out.

【The death penalty】

This bloody sentence stimulated Meredith's nerves. She twitched the corners of her mouth in disbelief and her expression twisted: "Death penalty?!"

Who dares to judge her!

She is a corporate executive, the new aristocrat of this world, the one who sits on a luxurious chair on top of a skyscraper in the company district every day, overlooking the city from a high place, she is Ding!

However, at this moment, looking at the blood-red trial results, she felt all the blood in her body surge up.

A sense of absurdity that was incompatible with reality filled her head, causing her eyes to get redder and redder, and her head to get hotter and hotter!

The next second, there was a muffled sound.

Meredith's body trembled, her messy thoughts paused, her pupils instantly expanded, and her expression slowly dimmed from her eyes.

Then she staggered and fell to the ground, two streams of brain matter that were hotter than body temperature slowly flowed out of her nostrils, and the smell of burnt blood spread.

This scene is not uncommon. Generally speaking, if those network hackers who dive deep into the Internet are killed in the online world, their way of death will be like this. Their brains will be directly boiled and exploded, and they will die beyond death. However, when this not-so-unusual scene starts to happen constantly, and the people who die don't have a deep dive network, it becomes quite rare.

Meredith's death didn't cause too much of a stir because she wasn't the only company executive to die in Night City.

Not only company executives, but also some gang bosses and some evil-doing guys have had their brains cooked by their own brain-computer interfaces.

At first, no one cared about these people who died after their brains were boiled, because compared to the people in the entire city, the number of dead people was not too many.

It was not until the so-called crime trial appeared in everyone's virtual vision that the residents of Night City realized that this incident was closely related to everyone.

Everyone's crimes are different, some are more, some are less, and some are not even at all.

Notes are also marked below the crime, including the sentence, what behaviors will increase the sentence, etc.

If you wait quietly for the trial, you can naturally reduce your sentence; if you are dissatisfied with the verdict and deliberately do something to increase your sentence, you will naturally be waiting for the death penalty without any accidents.

Because there are examples of brain explosions in front of them, no one dares to ignore the news floating in their virtual vision, and no one dares to test it with their own lives.

Those who dared to test it out even had their boiling brains cooled down.

It's not like no one has tried to contact the outside world, but no matter how hard they try, they can't contact other networks. All networks in Night City are isolated.

There are also people who want to escape Night City, but then they realize that even if they escape outside, the crime trial in front of them still has not disappeared.

Of course, this is only a very small number of people. Most people are still staying quietly in Night City, as they should be.

After all, for them, even if the earth explodes tomorrow, they still have to live today.

Everyone is guessing who is behind the scenes, Arasaka, Military Technology, Kangtao... There are even speculations about aliens, but no one is guessing about the new company established in Taipingzhou.

At this moment, inside Metal Gear Solid.

"Fuck, this is too damn powerful. It is indeed the AI ​​I designed."

Xia Yu couldn't help but boast as he watched the AI ​​taken out from the group devour the entire network of Night City and start a great trial.

They are all Xia Yu, so is there something wrong with him saying that other AIs designed by Xia Yu were designed by him? That must be no problem.

After this AI swallowed up and integrated the network of Night City, Xia Yu issued an order to let the AI ​​start a grand trial for everyone through the information retained on the network.

Those who deserve to die die, those who deserve to stay stay.

First unify Night City, then experiment with this trial method, and then slowly spread it to the world until the world's network is reunited and unified.

At present, it seems that the trial method has not caused a backlash. The vast majority of people have accepted the trial. After all, those who do not accept it are dead.

Through experiments in Night City, he concluded that the trial was feasible. Xia Yu simply asked AI to devour other local networks and reunite all networks as one.

Moreover, through the Internet, people's brains can explode and die in an instant, which also avoids the emergence of war.

Unless someone has neither a prosthetic body nor a brain-computer interface, and is a pure human being, such a guy can't afford to have any trouble.

No matter if you insist on yourself, this world is inseparable from the Internet. Even the wanderers in the bad land are equipped with brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics.

After receiving Xia Yu's order, the chat group AI began to devour it coldly.

The wandering AI that dared to block him would be directly assimilated and devoured. Those that dared not block him would be temporarily circled, waiting for Xia Yu's fate.

As the online world occupied becomes larger and larger, the speed of chat group AI is also getting faster and faster, including other human-controllable networks, which are all linked.

Since the collapse of the old network, human controllable networks have become isolated islands and no longer the global communication platform they once were.

Today's networks are largely made up of a few decentralized local hubs, a combination of national governments, state governments, public forums on city networks, private corporate domain names, and so on.

Whether it is internal communication, work, entertainment, or advertising, it can only take place within these controllable networks.

However, under the horrified eyes of the rulers, these networks that were originally isolated islands were actually linked by a more powerful force.

Whether it is the controllable network of humans or the uncontrollable old network, they are actually merging!

During the integration period, data collapse naturally occurred, but this collapse was quickly contained, and the power of the converged network forcibly stabilized the collapse.

When governments and giant corporations finally reacted and prepared to implement emergency protocols, the convergence of networks had gradually stopped, and the silos formed by data and code disappeared forever, leaving only a data fortress that brought everything together. .

And when this data fortress appeared, everyone was horrified to find that a crime trial popped up in their virtual vision, regardless of country or identity, everyone had it.

(End of this chapter)