Chapter 368 Commission: The sweet dream continues
The next step involves Bryce’s official business.
The jammer stopped functioning and everything returned to normal.
“I don’t have any authentic information in my library, and the identities of several of these mercenaries are also very suspicious.”
When the time was up, Bryce entered smoothly. He was in working mode, and even the puff of cigarette he took was spit out before it even passed his lungs.
In this way, the biomonitoring prosthesis will not detect too obvious changes in nicotine content. A small change can also be interpreted as a gang area where everyone is smoking, all caused by second-hand smoke.
Lille is also very cooperative: "What kind of suspicious law?"
"Internet surveillance has its own intelligence network. Some people should not pass through the EC border. This is not normal."
Putting aside the identity of killing the Golden Son, this sniper is still an internationally wanted criminal, and a wanted criminal with a very high internal wanted level.
On the surface, Bryce can still reveal some basic information: this person cannot be released by the European Community.
Most of these batches of mercenaries were sent by companies outside Night City to serve as vanguards, but why would they choose to let such a person come over?
Not a European company, not an ordinary criminal or a mercenary, who else has the ability to smuggle a criminal across state lines?
So this involves formal commission.
“Network monitoring anomaly event code name AIA-1 level: Suspected unexpected data anomaly, may involve circulating AI activities, more resources need to be invested to carry out it.
I think this incident It is very likely that AI is involved. In view of your previous experience in helping Network Supervision deal with the AI weapon 'Soul Killer', we hope to formally hire you to assist the Network Supervision branch in Night City to investigate this matter."
Unexpected activity - some mercenaries are documented and some are not.
The fact that these people who shouldn't have sneaked over here means that someone's control over the surveillance network has weakened, so it is unexpected and abnormal.
It can be seen that Blasey's spirit has improved a lot when it comes to AI.
There are not so many things to think about. Anyway, AI is an external contradiction and the enemy of mankind. Just work hard.
Liel touched his chin: "Remuneration?"
"According to the market price, you will receive a bonus of 1 million euros if you successfully hunt the rogue AI. In addition, you will also gain some knowledge on how to deal with AI."
Bryce said and took it out of his pocket. A soft screen that can be folded or rolled like paper, but the content on it is in electronic form.
Liel looked over and discovered something that Bryce did not say clearly:
The hiring agency is the Network Supervision Branch in Night City, and the direct person in charge is Bryce. There is a guarantor
Lucius Lane?
Does this need to be written?
Of course not. Judging from what Bryce said earlier, this commission is not so much a commission from the Internet Supervision, but rather a commission from the Network Supervision Night City Branch under Ryan's recommendation and instruction. Decided to let a mercenary help handle it.
Although they are only temporary workers, this employment is much more formal than before——
Has Burger King become a regular army?
Do you want to accept this commission?
In general, after obtaining this information, it is not unexpected to need to deal with AI.
The problem is that this is obviously not in the plot.
Even in the original plot of the game, Night City actually did not have any awesome mercenaries participating in the plot, and their presence was sparse.
My butterfly has set off a storm, blowing the original plot to pieces.
In that case
Lear shook his head slightly: "... I can take the job, but I don't want to sign the contract. It feels like signing a contract with the devil."
The reason why he chose to accept the commission was not simply because of money, but Dealing with AI can gain more knowledge of network technology and enrich his arsenal.
If you don’t understand technology, you will always be a pawn played by others in such a world.
“Whatever.” Bryce shrugged and put away the soft screen, “Anyway, this is actually a bounty business that has existed since the old network era.
Let’s talk now Talk about where you plan to start and I will provide the necessary help based on your plan.”
Bounties for circulating AI are a business that has existed since the beginning of the 21st century. At that time, hacker activities were far more frequent than today, and the number of AIs on the Internet was orders of magnitude higher than the AIs in these networks today.
The top jobs of mercenaries are to blow up another company under the instruction of the company, or to affect the entire war. Hackers have one more top job, hunting these extremely harmful rogue AIs.
According to the booklet "On the Harmfulness and Development History of Rogue AI" that Bryce gave before, the reward for hunting a Rogue AI at that time started at 500,000 euros .
It can only be said that inflation has indeed been severe in recent years - and network surveillance now pays even more attention to AI than in the past.
The help provided is related to rewards other than cash. Typical company-style rewards, the only things you can get are things that are helpful in completing the task.
"I guess I have to prove first that this matter has something to do with AI, or that it has nothing to do with it, but the last clue I have at the moment is this."
Lear took out the punch from the stamping machine The last bullet fired from the sniper rifle is also the last bullet not fired by the sniper.
As mentioned earlier, the ramjet bullet itself is actually a ramjet engine. The high speed of the bullet will suck high-temperature and high-pressure wind into the bullet, thereby igniting the fuel inside.
Achieving this structure on a 20mm caliber bullet is very difficult to process. What is more important is the structural design and gunpowder formula of the bullet itself.
Of course, Lille would choose to take it apart and scan it carefully, and take out the backup for later study.
After taking it apart, I saw some interesting things.
The disassembled bullets were already in bulk. Lear pointed to the shell structure: "Look."
Bryce's prosthetic eye itself is equipped with a large number of information components. In essence, It is a scanner with good performance and compatibility.
Although it is not like some extreme telephoto performance prosthetic eyes that can magnify images dozens of times, it has AI enhancement and prompt functions for some special details.
He immediately saw a line of small words engraved on the inner wall of the shell.
"Muramasa".
"Another Japanese name" Bryce squinted at the small words.
"How about it, do you have any idea about this name?"
"Maybe if this is a name left by an AI, it will be a very important clue, the AI's The way of thinking is very strange.”
"Then there is a lot more probability that this village is an AI. The place where he carved his name is very subtle.
According to the normal process, after the bullet is fired, the prepared fuel will continue to burn, and the high temperature and pressure will be completely obscured The fonts on the inner wall cannot leave any clues."
This way there is no meaning of the name.
Carving a meaningless message on a bullet is indeed a wonderful way of thinking, just like an obsessive-compulsive disorder who must carve a name, but considering his own safety, he does not want to leave any clues. .
Bryce uploaded the name to the Internet Monitoring database and soon received suggestions for next steps.
His expression was slightly startled, and then he looked at Lear: "The anomaly level has been raised to AIA-2, and it has been basically determined that it is an AI."
Lear shrugged: "Then what else do you guys have? Any constructive suggestions or help? Speaking of which, why would the Black Wall let AI come over? "
Two Japanese names, superb weapon manufacturing capabilities, and weird behavior? manner, as well as controlled weapons and other parts of unknown origin.
These are all the clues.
"Yes, I do have suggestions. As for your subsequent questions" Bryce left the table, his prosthetic eyes flashed slightly.
"I called a Draman, let's talk in the car.
While waiting for the car, you can decide what to do with these mercenaries - by the way, I remember you still have a prisoner? ”
Network surveillance chatting in AI’s taxi?
Lil had a subtle expression and opened the door first and walked out.
(End of this chapter)