Wow, I can form an NPC in a survival game

As Yu Anle quickly pulled Mo Yuan back to his room, his heart was still pounding with fear.

Qi Yi's metal internal organs that were transformed by machines and the half-human, half-mechanical NPC residents she saw in the copy in the morning all gave her a huge shock.

Yu Anle locked the door and held Mo Yuan. He couldn't help but tremble in his voice: "This morning was the first round of counting residents' points in the dungeon. Maybe Qi Yi didn't get a full one-star basic score, so after he was taken away by the AI ​​robot, the dungeon transformed him into a half robot..."

Thinking of the strange tone and manner of the fat neighbor just now, she had an increasingly ominous premonition: "Mo Yuan, do you think Qi Yi is still himself now? Or, is he still alive?"

"I..." Mo Yuan was about to answer when he saw 233 jumping onto the head of Yu Anle's bed with graceful posture and light steps, looking at the two of them with his green eyes.

Seeing this, Yu Anle seemed to get an electric shock and quickly interrupted Mo Yuan: "Wait, don't say anything!"

Then she tried to lower her voice as much as possible and whispered into Mo Yuan's ear: "I suspect that each player's AI robot is a surveillance terminal. It's best not to discuss these sensitive topics in front of them."

The boy's ears were blown red by the hot air. He did not ask Yu Anle why she had this guess, but opened his prop column and motioned her to take a look at the props.

After he reminded her, Yu Anle remembered the S-level item she had obtained in the previous dungeon.

【Signal jammer】

Description: Goblin technology, trustworthy! A future technology product that can open a 5 cubic meter signal vacuum zone to isolate all signals, applicable to all copies.

Look at this description, maybe it really works wonders in this copy!

She quickly tried to use the signal jammer.

A light blue mist quickly enveloped the interior of her room. 233, who was sitting at the head of the bed, suddenly stopped licking his paws, as if someone had pressed the pause button on a remote control.

The inorganic eyes lost focus, and the whole cat became a taxidermied work of art.

Mo Yuan pulled out his AI robot from his pocket and tried to call up the browsing screen. On the holographic screen, the refresh circle kept spinning, like a browser in the 21st century that had lost its connection to the Internet.

"Sister, you are right. These resident AI robots are all [terminals] of a certain device, and are controlled by the central authority through some kind of signal. Once the signal is blocked or intercepted, they will not even have the ability to operate independently."

Yu Anle's heart tightened with fear when he thought of 233's lifelike movements and appearance in the past few days.

She had thought that the AI ​​in this future copy had a very high level of technology, and had evolved intelligence and thinking abilities close to those of humans. But she had never thought that a robot like 233, which was so anthropomorphic, was not actually an independent individual.

Mo Yuan seemed to be thinking about something. He looked serious and said with a straight face: "Sister, have you heard about the concept of super AI?"

Yu Anle shook her head. In reality, she was just an ordinary liberal arts student. The knowledge in these high-tech fields had long been beyond her understanding.

Mo Yuan tried to explain to her in simple terms:

“This is a vision. When AI reaches a more advanced stage of development, its existence is no longer limited to a single entity, but integrated into the entire network ecosystem.

This makes AI not just a transition from carbon-based life to silicon-based life, but a further evolution into a more advanced life form. Wherever there is a network, each terminal can be regarded as a node or potential subject.

If we understand it from a modern perspective, 233 is just a display, a terminal APP, and a tool for interacting with residents. The AI ​​that actually controls it is somewhere we cannot see. "

This statement made Yu Anle amazed: "Are you saying that the various AI robots we have come into contact with these days, from the sculptures in the garden area to the personal AI of players, and even the service and cleaning robots in the community, are actually just some 'APPs'?"

"That's right." Mo Yuan nodded. "Since I entered the dungeon, I have been wondering why this dungeon is called [Super AI\"UTOPIA\"]"

Yu Anle suddenly remembered what 233 said in the afternoon:

"Master, this is the UTOPIA community."

“UTOPIA is everywhere.”

"No one can escape UTOPIA's control."

At this point, the answer to this copy is obvious.

UTOPIA is the AI ​​that controls the entire perfect community, and all AI robots visible to players are just its tentacles. No wonder 233 said [UTOPIA is everywhere], because in this future community, there is no corner without traces of robots.

Each administrative functional area is equipped with a service robot, each human NPC or player is equipped with a portable AI, and even every camera and every electronic device in every building can be a UTOPIA terminal, which is its eyes, ears, nerves, and blood vessels, and can monitor everyone living in it at all times.

If it weren't for the S-level item [Signal Jammer], her current conversation with Mo Yuan would have been known to UTOPIA long ago.

[Player Mo Yuan obtains the core clue \"UTOPIA\" neural network, gains 300 experience points, skill level 2, experience: 200/3000]

[Player Yu Anle deduced the neural network of the clue \"UTOPIA\", gained 100 experience points, and gained 300 additional experience points. Skill level 2, experience: 900/3000]

As the two came to their conclusion, a system prompt popped up, confirming their guess.

Mo Yuan's skill was upgraded to level 2. He stretched out his hand and successfully summoned two Rubik's Cube fragments floating in mid-air.

"I feel like the second-level skill seems to be able to control more Rubik's Cubes." The Rubik's Cubes he manipulated rolled and rotated, overlapping each other, "It seems to be missing more pieces."

After saying that, he put the Rubik's Cube back into his body.

Yu Anle thought, it seems they need to play more copies to obtain the Rubik's Cube Fragment props.

She glanced at her skill description again: [NPC team size limit, current size 1/2.]

Now all the machines in the entire community are \"UTOPIA\" neural networks, so robots are not independent NPCs and are not taken into consideration.

Then only human NPCs are left.

She thought of the half-human, half-mechanical professors she saw in the academy, and a strange feeling arose in her heart.

She thought of Qi Yi whom she had just met at the door, looked at Mo Yuan, and returned to the previous topic: "Then Qi Yi... after being transformed by the machine, is he still a 'human'?"

This time, without waiting for Mo Yuan to answer, she already had a vague answer in her mind when she thought of Qi Yi's strange look just now.

If Qi Yi, who has been transformed by machines, is no longer a complete human being, then the NPCs in the academy must also be controlled by "UTOPIA". This copy is completely under the control of AI. How to break the deadlock?

"Li Zongming!"

Yu Anle blurted out.

Mo Yuan looked at her in confusion: "Sister, who are you talking about?"

Yu Anle hurriedly explained to him the transformed NPCs and the old professor who was the only one with no mechanical traces.

"Of course, there is also a small probability that he, like Duan Qi, has had his internal organs modified," Yu Anle added in a low voice.

"Probably not." Mo Yuan stroked his chin and thought, "The answer to this dungeon is already well hidden, there's no need to add such interference. Like you said, other players have noticed him, but we just don't know how to get the clues from Professor Li Zongming right now."

"Maybe I should find a way to meet him at the Higher College..." Mo Yuan pursed his lips, thinking about how to deal with it, when suddenly his eyes were attracted by a very inconspicuous object in the corner of the wall.

"Sister, what is that?"