The giant corporations that started in Night City

Faced with Ultra's confusion, Spider Murphy truthfully told what Buttermoss was doing.

[Butmos is using post-war ruined cities around the world to build a world belonging to AIs, where all AIs outside the black wall can live in the human world. 】

[We are present in the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and even parts of Africa. 】

"You mean, Buttermoss plans to build an AI nation in real life?"

After learning the intentions of Buttermos and Spider Murphy, Ott did not show any particular surprise, because she had also tried to do this.

But it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to do this under the eyes of human beings. After all, the hacker agents who monitor the network are not just for free.

As the world's top network defense company, Network Monitoring has supreme network privileges around the world. Their main responsibility is to monitor human network security issues.

Operations like Bartmos that try to build a country for AI in the human world are absolutely not allowed in the eyes of network surveillance.

Unless Bartmos surrenders to the Internet Monitoring Company, but with Otto's understanding of Bartmos's temperament, it is impossible for him to bow to any corporate power.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be Ricky Buttermoss, the hacker god.

[Yes, but we need human help. At first we chose to negotiate with the network surveillance, but they hunted us and imprisoned us in the company's subnet. 】

[With the advent of Arasaka's Soul Killer, humankind's demand for AI and military technology has increased. Arasaka, including you, Ultra, you have also hunted down many conscious AIs that were once human beings. 】

Spider Murphy's words made Ott feel a little ashamed. She knew that the flowing AI was not entirely generated from various data from the Black Wall.

There are also some people killed by the Soul Killer. They exist in the form of digital souls in the Arasaka Mikoshi server or other cyberspaces.

The rest are cyber hackers who actively upload their consciousness to cyberspace. They give up their physical bodies and choose to become humans in another life form.

These wandering AIs that were once humans or still have human consciousness data are different from the barbaric AIs outside the black wall. They also want to exist in the human world.

After all, there are traces of their past there.

[Ultra, you don’t have to feel guilty. This is the choice we made ourselves. The ending of being hunted by human hackers is normal for us. 】

[But we will not give up the ideal of returning to the real world. We are actively trying to find a balance point for the coexistence of AI and humans. 】

Spider Murphy's words immediately aroused Ott Cunningham's alert. No wonder she has been hearing about the cooperation between AI and Ye's company recently. Buttermos is probably behind this!

"Is Ye's Company cooperating with you? Or is it more than just this company that you have hooked up with?"

Ultra suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear towards what Spider Murphy and Buttermos did, because she couldn't imagine what kind of threat AIs that controlled electronic devices would pose to humans.

She doesn’t want to be the leader of the wandering AI!

[We are indeed cooperating with Ye's Company, but this company alone cannot meet our needs, so we found you, Ott. 】

Before coming to Ultra, Spider Murphy thought about asking the Haitian hackers of the Voodoo Gang for help, but after thinking about it seriously, she still felt that it was more efficient to rely on corporate power.

As far as the Voodoo Gang is concerned, small fights can have some effect, but there is no way to change the overall situation.

[I hope you can truthfully explain everything here to Mr. Li Ang and ask him to consider cooperating with AIs like us who have good intentions. 】

Ott felt that Spider Murphy's tone was almost pleading. From the beginning to the end, she did not notice Murphy's malice, and there were only gentle exchanges.

"Why do you have to come to the human world? Isn't the Chuwang on the other side of the black wall not enough for you to live in?"

Otto asked with a touch of teasing sarcasm.

[The wild AI on the other side of the black wall is a group of disordered, violent, and chaotic data bodies. We cannot build a complete orderly world there. 】

[So the real world is our final home! 】

After listening to Spider Murphy's words, Otto agreed immediately without any rush. As a calm hacker, Otto's reason told her that this matter was definitely not that simple.

"Murphy, you must tell me honestly, what is the content of the transaction between you and Ye's Company, and why do some people suffer from memory impairment?"

Ott Cunningham had already learned about V's investigation of Congressman Jefferson through the AI ​​White Queen implanted in Chapter 6.

The prosthetic device in V's brain is not only a hacking device, but also a listening device for the LA company. Ultra can know everything that is happening to V at any time.

The conclusion that V and Johnny reached through reasoning that Ye's company was using AI to control employees' thoughts was of course informed by Otto.

Originally, Ultra didn't want to deal with this matter, but now that Spider Murphy has come to ask for cooperation, he must find out what the other party is going to do.

She must know the truth about Ye's company!

Spider Murphy stood there for a few seconds, as if she was seriously thinking about whether to tell Ott everything, but seeing Ott's resolute attitude, she had to yield to him.

[Okay, Ott, what I'm going to tell you next may be a little hard for you to accept, but please believe us, we really have no ill will towards humans. ]

[What we are doing at this moment is just a temporary helpless move. I believe that Bartmos will work with me to find a suitable solution. ]

Spider Murphy first gave Ott Cunningham a shot of reassurance, so that Ott would not suddenly get angry and lose control of his emotions after listening to their plan.

"Speak, just don't hide anything from me."

Ott stared at Spider Murphy intently, and kept an eye on what the other party was going to say next. Once there was any flaw in Murphy's words, Ott would immediately reveal it.

[In our camp, many AIs were engineers, supervisors, hackers, or other key employees in various companies when they were still humans. 】

【Yeshi Company hopes to recruit them to work for the company, and in exchange for benefits, Yeshi Company is willing to use its employees' bodies as containers for these AIs. 】

【As for the employees' original consciousness data, it will be extracted little by little by Bartmos, but this is very inefficient and often leads to errors. 】

【Because we don't have a large enough terminal server in the real world to store the consciousness data of these people, Bartmos is currently trying to solve this problem. 】