Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 108 Primordial Consciousness (Thanks to Xuanyuan Wuhe)
rainy night.

Old Victoria Prosthetic Clinic.

Sasha obediently stood behind Tang Yu and looked around the entire prosthetic clinic. The scale of the clinic is not too large, but all surgical instruments are available.

What made her most curious was that there were many boxing trophies and certificates on the closet.

It seems that the prosthetic doctor in front of him, the uncle Lao Wei with a magnetic voice, used to be a boxing expert.

Judging from the tone of conversation between Mr. Tang and Lao Wei, the relationship between the two should also be very good.

But Sasha is not sure, after all, she knows that there are only three people Tang Yu chats with.

The high-ranking and powerful Xiao Michiko is Tang Yu's immediate boss.

Misty, a gentle and sweet fortune teller, is the fiancée of Tang Yu's good brother.

Lao Wei, the uncle with a magnetic voice, is a good friend who takes care of Tang Yu.

Sasha, who gradually understood everything, began to wonder why he came to see the prosthetic doctor. Isn't Mr. Tang the original body?

Soon, Tang Yu answered her doubts.

"Old Wei, Sasha is my assistant, bring her to you for a full set of checkups."

Tang Yu directly explained the purpose of coming, even if Sasha was by his side, he didn't care about it.

Bringing Sasha to Lao Wei's place is to thoroughly confirm her background.

If Xiao Michiko really made a move, he could prepare for it in advance.

Based on his hacking experience in his previous life and Lao Wei's superb prosthetic body technology, I believe there is no problem that can be concealed.

In fact, no matter whether Sasha has any problems, Tang Yu will not do anything to her. After all, Sasha was just a poor girl, and she became what she is now after all kinds of encounters.

The fault is Arasaka, it is the company, and has nothing to do with her.

Lao Wei immediately understood the intention after listening, knowing that Sasha is the assistant sent by Arasaka to Tang Yu, and there may be some tricks.

He stood up from the sliding stool and led the two towards the operating area.

When Sasha heard that Tang Yu wanted to make himself do a full set of inspections, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, why should he do the inspections.

Although she was puzzled, but out of complete obedience to Tang Yu, she didn't have any thoughts of resistance, but followed Lao Wei obediently to the operating chair.

Seeing that Sasha seemed a little nervous, Tang Yu touched her cat's head casually, and said, "Don't be afraid, just do an inspection, and you'll be fine after a while."

Sasha nodded seriously, and then lay down on the operating chair.

She took the two nerve data cables handed over by Lao Wei, one was connected to the wrist, and the other was connected to the back of the head and neck.

Lao Wei sat in front of the screen of the testing instrument and began to operate it.

"This in-depth inspection involves your vision, circulation, immunity, nerves and other major systems, and you need to grant the highest authority."

Hearing Lao Wei's words, Sasha's eyes once again sought Tang Yu's opinion. Whether to open the highest authority requires Tang Yu's approval.

Tang Yu said directly: "Sasha, open the highest user authority."

Sasha's prosthetic eye turned the blue aperture and confirmed again.

"Mr. Tang, Sasha asks for confirmation to open the highest user authority, please input by voice."

"Tang Yu, confirm to open."

"Sasha has confirmed that the highest user authority is enabled. When in this authority mode, you have the right to access, set, and edit the underlying database."

After Sasha finished speaking, she seemed to be in a shutdown state, slowly closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep. Only the breathing from the tip of her nose showed that she was still alive.

Lao Wei also began to click on the screen to access and retrieve information from Sasha's underlying database.

【Authorization confirmed/Visiting.】

Although the results of the interview have not yet come out, Lao Wei has already seen the clues. Seeing that Sasha has entered a dormant state, he asked.

"What's the matter with this child?"

Tang Yu looked at Sasha, who looked like a sleeping beauty. He used to be really alive and kicking, but now he is neither human nor bionic. It is embarrassing to be in between.

"Old Wei, you can also see the strangeness."

Lao Wei replied in a muffled voice: "This child's background is not simple."

Tang Yu introduced: "Her name is Sasha Yakovleva, and the company's senior management appointed me as an assistant."

"I'm not too sure about her origin. The company didn't give any information, only a name, and her."

"It should be the black technology of Arasaka Company, a big living person, and I don't know how to make it like this."

"God knows what she's suffering from, but I haven't figured it out yet, so I'm bringing you here for an examination."

Sasha's underlying database is still being accessed, and the data pool is very large. In addition, she needs to read the data structure of her consciousness to diagnose the situation of intelligent AI, so it will take a while.

But the data of biological signs, as well as the data of whole-body prosthetic implants, have been fully presented in front of them.

Tang Yu stood next to Lao Wei, and the two checked the situation together.

Lao Wei sighed softly: "This child has a lot of secrets."

"The whole body is not only equipped with high-end combat implants such as lynx, but also equipped with a large number of hacking function modules, implanted with network access compartments, RAM managers, boosters, brain cortex support, etc."

"The version of the implant is complicated, and it's not a new version after an update, but the compatibility and coordination are obviously good. Generally speaking, the hacking function is the main function, and the combat system is supplemented."

Tang Yu stared at the screen and quickly judged the situation: "Lao Wei, there is no trace of secondary implantation of Sasha's prosthetic body. Could it be that it has been cyber-transformed before entering Arasaka?"

Lao Wei agrees with Tang Yu's speculation: "Her prosthetic body has basically maintained its original appearance. This possibility cannot be ruled out, but most of her original internal organs have been replaced, and they are basically artificially synthesized organs that maintain the functioning of the biological body."

Tang Yu also found this strange place, why the internal organs were replaced instead of the implants on the body, there is indeed doubt here.

Most of the internal organs were replaced because the original organs were damaged or failed, which indicated that she was likely to have suffered severe injuries and had to replace internal organs in order to save her life.

Tang Yu guessed: "Perhaps she was seriously injured before entering Arasaka and had to undergo a synthetic organ transplant. After ensuring her survival, she was forced to be transformed into cyber by Arasaka."

Lao Wei pointed to the screen where Sasha's brain area was displayed, and said seriously: "Now, the whole body of this child is alive, except that something is wrong with the brain."

Tang Yu looked at the screen and found that Sasha's brain was still supplying blood, oxygen, and releasing bioelectric energy. Although it was very weak, it proved that the brain was indeed original and still alive.

"Brain Pseudo-Death?"

Lao Wei didn't understand why the original brain should be kept since it has been transformed into a cybernetic system.

"Yes, although this brain is still alive, it is obviously 'sleeping'. The child's body may be controlled by an implanted intelligent AI. We need to wait until we access the underlying database to confirm."

Tang Yu fell into contemplation. What is the inevitable relationship between Sasha's original brain and Arasaka black technology? Even if this brain is removed and artificial intelligence AI is injected, it will not affect Sasha's functions and actions.

It's like a data AI that manipulates cyber-human corpses, which Arasaka is fully capable of.

To preserve the brain and implant electronic consciousness data, Tang Yu can only think of relic.

On the basis of the Soul Killer program, Arasaka has already played many tricks, coupled with years of painstaking research, I am afraid that the technology of injecting data consciousness into the native human brain has already been conquered.

Having experienced Johnny's electronic ghost thing, he is no stranger to any electronic ghost possession.

At present, these are Tang Yu's guesses, which cannot be confirmed yet, and naturally he will not tell Lao Wei.

Lao Wei explained: "The child's original consciousness is like a vegetable, lying there motionless, and you don't know if she is still awake."

Tang Yu asked: "Then can she still feel everything around her?"

Lao Wei thought for a moment and replied: "Theoretically, it is possible, after all, her original brain is still connected to the whole body neural network."

"But her brain has fallen into a false death, and she may have already fallen asleep, unable to detect anything happening outside."

But Tang Yu remembered what he said to Sasha this morning, and felt that she seemed to be touched, and there was something different hidden in her eyes.

Just now, Misty also asked Sasha to draw a tarot card for divination.

The Hanged Man bound.

Does it mean that the consciousness of the original Sasha is trapped in the pseudo-death brain and cannot break free.

Physical isolation of consciousness, in biomedical theory, is completely plausible.

in fact.

Tang Yu would rather pseudo-death Sasha in his brain, who has already fallen into a deep sleep of endless darkness, waiting for the brain to shrink and die, and everything will naturally end.

If the original Sasha consciousness still exists, I'm afraid it will be more aggrieved than Johnny's situation.

The whole person is like being locked in a transparent cage. Watching a movie is obviously your own story, but it can only be decided by others.

"Old Wei, is it possible to cure the pseudo-death of the brain? Maybe this can awaken the original consciousness of the brain."

Lao Wei shook his head helplessly and explained.

"This possibility is very small. People's cognitive exploration of the brain is far from reaching the point of resurrection. Hundreds of billions of synapses and hundreds of millions of neurons are too large and too complicated."

"In short, I would rather believe that the brain will awaken automatically one day, and don't try to actively wake up a sleeping brain. Even if you cut it open, you can't find out where the original consciousness is hidden."

Tang Yu also agrees with what Lao Wei said, that there is little hope of awakening the original consciousness.

The key point is that Sasha is his special assistant. If the original consciousness really wakes up, how can Tang Yu guarantee whether he is an enemy or a friend.

No matter how you look at it, the current Sasha is the best and best meets his requirements.

This matter is like a pimple, it doesn't affect you, but it just grows there, it doesn't bother you, it makes you even more upset.

Tang Yu suddenly remembered that Sasha had taken a white pill on the street just now.

He took out a transparent medicine bag from Sasha's waist pocket, which contained five white pills.

Tang Yu took out a tablet and handed it to Lao Wei.

"Look up the ingredients of this tablet, she took one today."

Lao Wei picked up the pills and walked to the workbench, began to do drug testing, tested the ingredients through the instrument, and found out the results in a short time.

"Cranial nerve drugs are mainly used to inhibit brain activity and at the same time promote the recovery of damaged nerves to a certain extent. The specific ingredients are relatively complicated. I have seen similar products produced by biotechnology."

Tang Yu understood why Sasha took the white pill, and the purpose of inhibiting activity was to slow down the rate of brain death.

It is equivalent to keeping the brain in a deep sleep while protecting its survival.

"Old Wei, the drug has been stopped, I am afraid that Sasha's original consciousness will hardly be awakened."

Lao Wei went back to the operating table and sat down, and said, "That's right, the original brain body has been damaged, waking up will only aggravate the symptoms, and inhibiting the activity can prolong the life of the brain body."

"Of course, there is another possibility. After the brain automatically completes the damage repair, it will wake up again under some kind of chance stimulation. This can only depend on God's will."

That's all.

It's not easy for Tang Yu to see Sasha as a bionic person anymore. No matter how you look at it, Sasha is a living big girl.

He stuffed the remaining white pills back into Sasha's pocket. There was nothing wrong with these pills, and they could be purchased through normal channels.

Xiao Michiko might as well send a bionic person, Tang Yu is not used to it, so just turn it off and throw it in the utility room.

But it happened to be Sasha, who couldn't throw it, and couldn't move it. How could this not embarrass Tang Yu.

soon.

displayed on the electronic screen.

Sasha's underlying data access is successful, and all data has been read.

The underlying data algorithm structure is the root of the system's operation. If Sasha really has any problems, he will never be able to hide it from Tang Yu.

Although it hasn't been long since Sasha left the factory, with her hard work, the database has been continuously expanded, and the algorithm structure has been continuously optimized, and it has become more and more human-like.

But what surprised them even more is that this artificial intelligence program seems to be actively adapting to this body, and the adjustment of various system parameters has been in line with the body's action preferences.

It has to be said that Arasaka's research on digital awareness has reached the cutting-edge level.

According to this situation, this set of data AI will get closer and closer to the original subject consciousness, and even 'replicate' a Sasha.

Lao Wei began to search and scan the database to see if there were loopholes, heretical programs, hidden viruses, and so on.

These hidden points will fundamentally maliciously tamper with Sasha's underlying data algorithm, thereby posing a potential threat to Tang Yu.

Lao Wei began to search and scan the data one by one, and the continuous string of numbers and symbols scrolled on the screen.

a long time.

Whether it is language, emotion, personality and other aspects of retrieval and scanning, the underlying database is very clean.

Lao Wei looked at the screen and said: "It is basically confirmed that there is no problem. Her database constitutes the core of the algorithm, and it is indeed set up to obey humans as the highest user authority."

"Now you have been identified and confirmed by her as the only user with the highest authority, and there will be no accidental tampering. This is the basic logic of her operation. Without this, the data flow will be chaotic and will not work properly."

Tang Yu also saw that Michiko did not lie to him, and Sasha was clean.

In other words, the moment Sasha left the factory was a gift prepared by Michiko for Tang Yu.

This is the only meaning of special assistant Sasha's existence in this world, and all her learning and growth are centered on this.

Tang Yu only felt that this 'gift' was too heavy.

Even if the girl was sent to Arasaka before she died, and then transformed into this way by cyber, it was not what she really wanted.

He Tang Yu can't stop the injustice in the world.

Lao Wei stared at the electronic screen and continued to analyze: "It is worth noting that the underlying database has a code, code name company code."

Company code?

Tang Yu also looked at the code symbols on the electronic screen, and carefully interpreted the operation logic of the algorithm.

I found that this company code is somewhat familiar, just like the algorithm of Arasaka Tower's unspoken rules, emphasizing the importance of respect.

As Tang Yu's special assistant, Sasha must abide by the company's rules to ensure that when assisting Tang Yu in his work, he will not commit the following acts, which is to some extent his protection.

Tang Yu carefully confirmed again that the basis of this company code is still to follow Tang Yu as the center, and there should be no serious problems.

After checking for a long time, he and Lao Wei did not find any bugs.

all in all.

Sasha is clean, as Tang Yu's special assistant, there is no problem.

This made Tang Yu in trouble. If he found some loopholes in Sasha, he would feel relieved.

But even he and Lao Wei couldn't see the problem, which was somewhat problematic.

Is Michiko really just giving 'gifts'?

It's not that Tang Yu is suspicious, but that he can't trust the members of the Arasaka family.

at this point.

Tang Yu can only keep Sasha first, and there is no better way than that.

A bionic person whose mind is full of Tang Yu, if Tang Yu is not accepted, her fate will only be worse.

At this moment, Lao Wei suddenly discovered a strange problem.

"Tang, although we have checked all the databases, we haven't found the core of her electronic subject consciousness, which is really strange."

Tang Yu also discovered this problem. This is equivalent to a big living person. All aspects are normal. There is no problem with eating, going to school, chatting, and sleeping, but he finds that he can't find the root cause of all these behaviors.

Tang Yu suddenly thought of Sasha's biological signs. Her native brain still maintains basic blood supply, oxygen supply and bioelectric energy release.

Could it be that.

It is not AI that controls Sasha, but a digital consciousness imprint, which uses Sasha's original brain as a carrier to control the entire body.

The reason why Sasha is so pure and simple is that everything is centered on Tang Yu and he always behaves ignorantly.

It is entirely because this imprint of the digital consciousness body has been edited and processed on a large scale, and it can function normally only with the extremely weak biological functions of the original brain.

And all the algorithms of the artificial intelligence onboard are serving this conscious body, reducing the load on the original brain.

It also means that Sasha will learn and know more and more, but her character will never grow up.

Just like a simple and ignorant girl driving a giant mech, no matter how powerful it looks, the girl is still in control of the mech.

Arasaka's research in the field of biological brain and consciousness digitalization can be called heaven-defying.

Tang Yu judged that Sasha's secret is already very important, involving the core secrets of Arasaka, which is closely related to the research and development of Arasaka's relic project.

The matter of Sasha can only stop here for the time being.

If it is discovered by Xiao Michiko, Tang Yu can recognize the secret hidden behind Sasha's original consciousness.

Not only him and Sasha, but also Lao Wei will be in an extremely dangerous situation.

Sasha should be only a semi-finished product of the experiment, and has no effect on the research and development of the experiment, so he was selected by Xiao Michiko and sent to Tang Yu.

Tang Yu couldn't predict the intention of Xiao Michiko's move, but it should have nothing to do with the Arasaka family.

If he really showed any clues, it might not be Sasha who sent him, but an army of countless Arasaka ninjas clamoring to do slice research for him.

Tang Yu hastily stopped Lao Wei from continuing his research. If this continues, I am afraid that the storm and vortex will only become more and more involved.

He really needs time to prepare.

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