From ship girl to machine god

This would not be unusual in the era of Morgan Blackhand, because most of the prosthetics at that time were still in their original versions, with uncomplicated structures and relatively simple functions. For some mercenaries with strong hands-on skills and technical skills, , making a prosthetic body with your own hands is not a big deal.

For example, Morgan Blackhand made his famous black arm himself and became famous for it.

But now it's 2075, and prosthetic manufacturing can no longer be done by just setting up a small workshop in a garage.

Although some prosthetists can indeed make you a usable prosthetic body from various junk parts, this is also based on the premise that you can obtain regularly produced parts.

No matter how talented these prosthetists are, they can't just rub an arm out of a piece of iron for you, or use a hammer to make a mantis knife for you.

However, for Qingniao, this is a built-in function of her industrial module. In addition to the drawings stored in the database, it is very simple to adapt a set of combat prosthetics for Alpha as long as she calculates them based on her physical condition. of.

"This is not difficult. As long as you can make a prosthetic body, the rest is not difficult." Blue Bird said, and then asked Alpha: "Do you have any other requirements for this set of prosthetic bodies? There are some You can take a look at the optional options and make adjustments according to your personal habits.

Although I have seen all the prosthetics and implants on your body when I examined you before, you still need to control some details yourself. "Blue Bird explained to Alpha this way, and at the same time, he showed more details of the content displayed on the data board in front of Alpha.

While browsing, Qingniao suddenly asked: "By the way, I have removed your Mantis Knife from the new prosthetic body. This thing has more obvious features. If you continue to use it to fight, you will easily be targeted by military technology again." , so I plan to change your weapon. What cold weapon are you more familiar with?"

"In this case... I have studied Japanese Kendo for a while. Can you help me make a pair of long and short swords?" Alpha answered to Blue Bird.

She has calmed down at this moment. She already owed a huge favor to Qingniao. Now with this set of prosthetics, she is already in a state of unresolved. All that is left is to give her life to Blue Bird, to repay her kindness.

Blue Bird noticed the change in Alpha's mood, but didn't take it seriously. He just wrote down her request and nodded, saying there was no problem.

After solving Alpha's problem, Jade Bird looked at Lucy, and then asked her: "What are your plans next? Are you going to be a solo gang yourself, or are you coming to work with me? If you follow me, I can do it too I will help you customize a set of prosthetics and replace all the third-rate stuff on your body.

I think you also hope that you can exert your full combat effectiveness without relying on various peripherals, right?As a hacker, it is not a pleasant thing to have your brain burned at every turn. Don’t you want to install a quantum computer as a plug-in so that you don’t have to prepare a refrigerator to lie in it at any time? "

Hearing what Bluebird said, Lucy hesitated for a moment, but soon she nodded and said: "Then please...boss."

Very good, Arasaka is on the run and the white graphics girl is on the loose.

Qingniao smiled slightly, very satisfied with Lucy's joining.

Although she had no intention of letting her go from the beginning.

Chapter 83 Quantum Operations

As a hacker trained by Arasaka in order to salvage old network data beyond the black wall, Lucy's prosthetic body is undoubtedly extremely advanced and powerful.

Otherwise, no matter how talented she is, she will not be able to fight against the terrifying wandering AIs outside the black wall.

However, after she escaped from Arasaka, these prosthetic bodies were resold by her.

On the one hand, this is in exchange for living expenses. After all, she needs to constantly move after escaping Arasaka to avoid being pursued by Arasaka agents. On the other hand, it is also in order to solve the locators on the prosthetics.

When it comes to protecting company property, both Arasaka and Military Technology are the same.

Alpha is a test subject for a new generation of biological modification technology and combat enhancers cultivated by military technology. Almost all prosthetics on his body are equipped with locators. Lucy, as a top hacker trained by Arasaka, is no exception.

Over the years, no matter which country she escaped to, she would always be chased by Arasaka's agents. In addition to Arasaka's power being spread all over the world, the main reason was that the locators in her prosthetics would always reveal her location. To Arasaka.

So after discovering this, Lucy continued to sell her prosthetic body in exchange for funds for herself to continue escaping. At the same time, she also changed herself into a prosthetic body that was far inferior in performance but would not be positioned by Arasaka. second-hand third-rate prosthetics.

Therefore, for Lucy, she can be regarded as having eaten and seen.

But when Jade Bird placed a list of her customized prosthetics in front of her, Lucy showed a look of surprise mixed with an old man's subway phone.

It's not that what Blue Bird showed Lucy was something outrageous, but that on the list of prosthetics that Blue Bird took out, there were many things that she didn't recognize or could understand what they were, but she wasn't sure if they were real. It's a prosthetic body.

For example, the first line at the top is "Quantum auxiliary computing unit - external type".

The auxiliary computing unit is easy to understand. The hacker chair, one of the important auxiliary equipment for hackers, has part of this function, not to mention the servers that every hacker will prepare to provide himself with computing power assistance.

The external type is also easy to understand. After all, the size of such a thing that has sufficient computing power is usually not small. This kind of thing cannot be made into a small prosthetic body and put into the body.

But the word quantum is an exaggeration.

Although Lucy doesn't understand what quantum entanglement is, and there seems to be no concept of quantum computers in this era, she still understands to some extent what the concept of quantum is.

The prosthetic body that Jade Bird gave her seemed to use "quantum" technology as its core, which undoubtedly made her confused.

"The quantum auxiliary computing unit is a physical device that performs high-speed mathematical and logical operations, stores and processes quantum information based on the laws of quantum mechanics." Jade Bird had to explain to Lucy what a quantum computer was, even though she herself was not very familiar with it. Understand: "It uses quantum states as memory units and information storage forms, and uses quantum dynamics evolution as quantum communication and quantum computing based on information transmission and processing.

In a quantum computer, the size of various hardware components reaches the level of atoms or molecules, so the quantum computer can be made very small, as small as this size. "

As he spoke, Qingniao took out a palm-sized box from his pocket and showed it to Lucy: "Of course, even if it is so big, implanting it into the human body is still a bit exaggerated, especially when this thing is used to interact with The brain is connected, so it's made into an external plug-in.

After all, it is not necessary to connect to a quantum computer all the time. When the human brain is connected to a quantum computer for a long time and obtains high-intensity computing power, it will also accumulate a lot of fatigue, so it is best not to use it for a long time. "

After hearing this, Lucy finally understood roughly that this is a small external computing device that can be made, and it cannot be used for a long time.

So she instinctively asked out of curiosity: "Then what's the use of it? It can't be used for a long time. Things like Si'an Westan don't seem to be very necessary for hackers."

In Lucy's view, although hackers do not need huge computing power support all the time when they are online, when she calls on computing power, she cannot add an additional action of unplugging or activating a prosthetic body.

Because in hacker confrontations, collisions are likely to be calculated in milliseconds, and computing power can only be prepared but not used, and cannot be plug-and-play.

So she was not optimistic about this so-called quantum auxiliary computing unit. After all, it was only the size of a palm. In Lucy's opinion, even if the technology it used was very advanced, it would be difficult for it to reach the computing level of a large server.

"Its computing speed is very fast, beyond your imagination." Qingniao didn't pay attention to Lucy's contempt. He just swiped at the data pad and called up the data of the quantum auxiliary computing unit: "A The computing power of a 30-qubit quantum computer is equivalent to that of a classical computer capable of teraflops of floating-point operations per second. The computing power of the large servers you can buy in Night City is about tens of millions of operations per second. of.

The quantum auxiliary computing unit I am providing you has 120 qubits.

If you don’t have an intuitive feeling, let me give you the simplest example. When I attacked you at the Sunset Hotel, I only used about 5% of my computing power. But if you install this, you can probably withstand 15% of my computing power. % computing power attack. "

"Four times the computing power of one trillion times per second, is it only equivalent to 15% of your computing power? What kind of monster are you..." Lucy was completely stunned. The number that Jade Bird said was beyond her imagination. .

However, Qingniao smiled and said to her: "You are wrong. For computers using quantum technology, the more complex the data, the faster the computing speed. The increase in qubits will make the quantum computer faster." The computing speed increases exponentially instead of linearly like traditional computers.

A 76-qubit quantum computer is 56 billion times faster than a 100-qubit quantum computer, so although the computing power I use seems to be only 10% more, my computing power has increased exponentially. , can compete with 15% of my computing power, you can already challenge the flowing AI outside the black wall. "

When Lucy heard what Jade Bird said, she knew how terrifying the flowing AI was. She couldn't think about it anymore, because she really couldn't imagine how terrifying it would be when Jade Bird fully activated its computing power.

Maybe she could solve all the problems of the old network with just one thought?Lucy couldn't help thinking this, and couldn't help asking this question.

"Resolve the old network? Why should I waste that effort? If the old network can no longer be used, it will be completely destroyed. How about building a new network? Why do you insist on clinging to the old network?" Qingniao instead showed confusion. expression.

Chapter 84 Old Network and Fleeing AI

In the setting of the cyberpunk world, the black wall is not a physical wall, or even a thing with a clear form.

It is actually a network firewall established by network surveillance to block those circulating AI after the old network collapsed. It separates the old network full of circulating AI from the network that can still be used, thereby ensuring that the new network can be used safely. a line of defense.

In ordinary people's perception, the black wall is a solid line of defense that firmly protects network security. All the circulating AIs are blocked by this indestructible line of defense.

But in fact, for network surveillance and hackers, everyone actually knows that the black wall is made of paper. Although it does block the circulating AI and other messy things outside the black wall, there are still circulating AI outside the black wall. There is a way to break through the defense of the black wall, and there are also people inside the black wall who have a way to get outside the black wall.

So this is what Jade Bird didn't understand when he was playing the game. Since the old network has been destroyed by the network crash virus, and now it's all running AI, it's not easy to just destroy the entire network and rebuild a new one. That’s it?

However, things are obviously not that simple.

Although when the old network collapsed, it had a huge impact on the entire world, and major companies suffered heavy losses.

However, after the collapse of the old network, major companies quickly established their own independent corporate networks, turning the original public network into a private network. This can hardly be said to be a bad thing for them.

This is just like everyone used the Internet in the past, but one day the entire Internet collapsed, and some people built their own LAN. You can't say that this LAN is not as good as the original Internet.

Because if the local area network can already meet the needs of Internet access, then the network itself will be relatively safer and more stable without the ghosts and ghosts and messy things on the Internet.

This is actually easy to understand, because the country before Jade Bird traveled through was in such a state. Through artificially established gateways and walls, the country's internal network was separated from the external large network, forming a model known as the "Great Celestial Dynasty LAN" .

In this mode, various information from the external network can still be transmitted to the internal network, and there are still people on the internal network who are tirelessly trying to climb the ladder to get over the wall.

How different is this from the new network and the old network on both sides of the current black wall?It's just that the Internet technology can be more advanced, allowing hackers to project their consciousness onto the Internet. Beyond the black wall is not another prosperous Internet world, but a world filled with all kinds of out-of-control artificial intelligence and super AI. The dark realm of terror.

Therefore, in Jade Bird's view, when the network collapsed, it should have directly unplugged the network cables around the world, then completely abandoned the old network and established a new one.

You must know that the network is not a thing that can exist alone. It is a virtual existence that must rely on actual existing related facilities such as servers and network transmission equipment to exist. Once the support of real facilities is lost, the online world will be just a dream. That’s all.

"This may be difficult to do, because the rogue AIs of the old network control some cities that were abandoned during the corporate war, and they transformed those cities into their base camps, such as Busan in South Korea, where the tidal generators are unmanned The city continues to provide electricity, and the wandering AIs are also maintaining and building after taking over the city, transforming everything to be more suitable for their survival..." Lucy explained to Jade Bird that this information is for ordinary people and even company executives in this era. The truth about the world that is difficult for people like Guan to understand can only be known by hackers like her who have gone deep beyond the black wall.

After listening to Lucy's explanation, Blue Bird's Sanwuface couldn't help but collapse a little. Isn't this the Omnic Crisis?Who is bored enough to develop perceptual AI and give AI the ability to think independently?

"Where are the governments? Where are the major companies? Are they just watching? Internet surveillance doesn't want to solve these unmanned cities?" Jade Bird really can't imagine what the people in this world do to condone the existence of these unmanned cities. , if you let yourself travel to the previous world, I'm afraid it would have been physically killed by 4000°C high temperature.

But after asking this question, Qingniao suddenly realized that he really couldn't do this.

The collapsed old network is the corpse left behind by the network that once connected the entire world. Although it is full of dangerous existences such as circulating AI, it also contains a large amount of precious data that existed before the old network collapsed.

For example, there used to be data fortresses for various companies.

You must know that before the old network collapsed, the networks of various companies were connected together. In order to protect their own data, each company built its own database into an indestructible data fortress to protect its precious core data.

This is not because these companies do not know the importance of network security, and important data must be saved offline.

But because there is a huge difference between the cyberpunk world and the world before Blue Bird traveled through it, that is, it was the United States that collapsed in the Cold War, not the giant red bear, so the development of the network took a completely different path.

People are more dependent on the Internet, but at the same time they have insufficient awareness of the dangers of the Internet, or they are overconfident in the technology they possess.

Therefore, for those precious legacies left in the old network, there are always people who try to explore the black realm beyond the black wall, thinking that they are lucky or powerful enough to find the treasure under the eyes of the flowing AI.

As a result, those unmanned cities controlled by rogue AI have remained, and large companies like Arasaka have begun to train hackers like Lucy to fish for French fries beyond the black wall.

However, fishing for French fries on the pier is also risky. There is no doubt that Lucy's dead companions were the victims of failed fishing for French fries.

"It seems that we really need to consider the issue of the old network. Otherwise, it wouldn't be funny if the company was brought down here and the omnic crisis happened over there." Qingniao touched his chin and turned to look at He took out the data pad in his hand, and the prosthetic plan designed for Lucy seemed to need some adjustments.

And not only Lucy, but also Alpha and the entire Cyberpunk team seem to need to make some adjustments to their prosthetics.

Perhaps this is unfounded worry, but in Jade Bird's view, if there is an omnic crisis in the future and AI comes out to cause trouble, at least his own people can be prepared.

What's more, even if the black wall blocks the wandering AI, there is still a blue-eyed gentleman in Night City who is ready to cause trouble at any time. In order to deal with him, Blue Bird must make some preparations.

Chapter 85 Production Planning

Now that he already has an idea, Qade Bird naturally won't waste time.

She already had the physical data of Mann and others in her hand. She had not made a prosthetic plan for them before because the performance of the amphibious landing craft's shipboard computer was not good enough, and her modules had not been upgraded, so it was delayed. .

But now the performance of the shipboard quantum computer upgraded to the destroyer level has reached an exaggerated level. It is very simple to use a little more computing power to calculate the configuration plan of the cyberpunk team.

Basically, it can be said that after Jade Bird got up from a nap, the quantum computer running its own process had completed the design and planning of version 28 and packaged it into a compressed file.

Qade Bird was too lazy to click on them one by one, and just sent the names sorted by the quantum computer directly to everyone's personal terminal.

Replies were quickly sent to Jade Bird's data pad, but she didn't click on it immediately because someone called her directly.

"Boss! Is this true? Is that really prepared for me?" Rebecca's excited voice came over the phone, and Pila could be heard advising her sister to keep her voice down.

But it was obvious that the excited Rebecca could not care about anything else and was very excited to express her feelings at the moment to Qingniao.

Qingniao had to comfort her: "Yes, that is for you. I remember that I sent you three plans. Pick one from them and wait patiently for me to build it. Then it can belong to you. .”