People are in Night City, start to add points

It doesn't look like a high-end model, and it is not equipped with a weapon interface. It is obviously a robot in the civilian field.

But why did it appear at my door?

Something to do with former tenant Mike Garlick?

One question after another appeared in David's mind, but he couldn't think of the answer for a while.

At this moment, an even more surprising scene appeared.

The robot seemed to have seen enough, lowered its head slightly, and then reached out to touch the 'back of its head'.

It was a very human action, and if there was hair on its tiny metal skull, it would have been ruffled by now.

And not only that, after scratching its head, the robot put its hand on its waist, where a small piece of iron slowly lifted up, revealing a hole that seemed to be used for storage.

The robot reached into the hole and took out an unsealed pack of soft packs of cigarettes and a lighter.He put his fingers on the cigarette cover very skillfully, tapped it twice, and immediately a few sticks popped up with his movements.

It pulled out one, lit it with a lighter, and placed it near its 'mouth'.Of course, there was no mouth, nor any gaps that could be opened, just round holes for making sounds, and a cigarette was inserted into one of the holes.

Bursts of gray smoke drifted out, blurring the monitoring screen.

And David, who was watching here from the other end of the network, opened his mouth unconsciously and was shocked by the picture in front of him.

It was obviously just a robot without facial features, but David clearly felt a kind of 'melancholy' mood, like a middle-aged social animal smoking alone in the car before returning home from get off work.

The robot didn't stay for too long. After about five or six seconds, it 'dangling' a cigarette, slowly turned its direction, and left the door of room 1242.

David quickly switched to other cameras in the corridor of the apartment and continued to watch its movements.

However, the robot did not make any special movements. It walked down the stairs and left the apartment through the back door in the northeast.

This is beyond the range of cameras that David can control.Unlike Santo Domingo, the monitoring systems on the streets of the North Industrial Zone are all connected to the NPCD, and cannot be invaded unscrupulously like before. The monitoring range that David can freely control in this area is limited to the interior of the apartment in the North District.

He quickly switched to the camera outside the wall of the apartment on the first floor, watching the robot walk in the direction of Luther Street, farther and farther, until it disappeared from David's sight.

"what is happening?"

David sighed softly, and scratched his head like a robot, his doubts getting stronger and stronger.

"By the way, scratching one's head is one of the actions that humans instinctively make when they are in doubt. Could it be that the robot also feels doubts?"

This idea suddenly appeared, David's eyes lit up, and he stopped what he was doing.

Judging from the behavior of smoking in the back, this robot is deliberately imitating human behavior, even though it has no lungs at all and cannot feel the joy and pain of tobacco.

This is definitely not an instruction entered into the program during production. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for a company to make its products smoke.

Could it be that he learned it by himself by analyzing human movements?

Thinking of this, a word popped out of David's head, scurrying ai!

After the death of Batemos, the god of hackers, the supercomputer virus began to be released, causing the old network to collapse, and a bunch of out-of-control AIs were born.

People can't do anything about it, so the network supervisor built a 'black wall' to isolate the connection between the old network and the new network.And those out-of-control AIs are constantly evolving and upgrading themselves in the old network. No one knows how far they have evolved decades later.

And when the old network collapsed, many hackers who were too late to go offline, their consciousness remained in the old network forever, and were 'eaten' by the out-of-control AI.

These AIs that have acquired human consciousness data are the so-called wandering AIs. They may exist in an abandoned computer, or in a server in an abandoned base in the wasteland or deep sea. They——no, maybe they should Call them that, they developed a high degree of self-awareness and began to infiltrate human society in an organized way.

Thinking of this, David felt cold sweat all over his back.

In the 2077 game, the upper limit of the character's intelligence attribute is 20, but the growth of AI is definitely more than that.

In other words, what I saw just now is likely to be a monster with unknown intelligence?

He tapped on the computer desktop lightly, his expression becoming more serious, recalling all the known clues in his mind.

Ordinary hacker Mike Garek, a Night City senator who possesses some black material, a robot suspected of running around AI...

Can these things be connected?

What is the meaning of the robot acting suspiciously in front of Room 1242?

It is wondering why this house has changed owners?

Is it for Mike Garlick?

I just randomly found a rental house, how could I encounter such a thing...

Just when David was feeling a headache, a reminder came out of his brain that 'Armstrong' had replied to the message.

"If you really want to do this, I can share with you some of my own experience."

"Thank you so much!"

Seeing this sentence, David raised his eyebrows, and his face suddenly showed joy. He turned off the computer on the table, and trotted away from the academy.

He had a hunch that he was very close to constructing a destructive puppet, and with Armstrong's help, this progress could be accelerated a lot.

Of course, this requires the use of professional equipment in Room 1242 of the North District Apartment. As for the remaining lessons today, it seems that we can only continue to ask for leave.

Volume 35: Chapter 35 Chapter [-]: A guilty conscience

North Side Apartment, Room 1242.

The original dark red light has been converted into an ordinary fluorescent lamp at this time, and all kinds of strange furnishings in the house have also been cleaned up, making it look more like an ordinary rental house.

This is the feeling David wants. Although life is destined to be extraordinary now, he still wants his house to be more normal.

Of course, there are also reasons why some aesthetics in 2075 cannot be accepted.

Sitting on the computer chair, David rubbed his temples, trying to relieve the soreness in his brain.

After an afternoon of hard work, the original puppet has begun to take shape, and only the final adjustments are left.

But after using his brain intensively, his current state can no longer support him, so he can only put this work until tomorrow.

"I'm so tired..."

David stretched, stood up from his chair, and at the same time sent a message to Gloria in his brain.

"What time will you be back today? I'm going to prepare dinner."

Soon, my mother sent a reply.

"It's still too late, you can solve it yourself."

Caring like this every day seems a little too fake...

David sighed helplessly. Gloria, who wanted her son to live a stable life, would definitely object to what he was doing now. David didn't want conflicts between mother and son, so he had to hide it.

Fortunately, David had discussed with Gloria before that he would handle the daily budget, which made the current concern seem less obtrusive.

Stretching his arms and turning his stiff waist, he came to the door and moved a large cardboard box to the weapon room at the back of the apartment.

After having a sufficient budget, he doesn't need to take some junk to make smart weapon synergy plug-ins as originally planned.

According to the drawings provided by Regina before, David spent more than 2500 yuan to order a relatively complete pair of collaborative plug-ins, tools and small parts for transformation, and some bullets from her.

Hanging the tools on the wall one by one, David picked up the Four Seasons Treasure and various parts, and began to repair the synergy plug-in.

For him now, this work is not difficult, at least it is much easier than making a puppet from scratch.

After more than 40 minutes, a black and blue leather glove appeared on the workbench.

This is the most common kind of work glove, but David implanted the repaired smart weapon synergy plug-in under the cortex, and connected the wireless port with the brain computer.

"Finally finished!"

David breathed a sigh of relief, put on the gloves happily, and pulled the soft leather twice to make the soft leather fit his palm better, then took out the Four Seasons Treasure, and opened its system.

After the short and sharp startup beep, a somewhat funny voice sounded in David's brain.

【A new fingerprint has been detected】

【Volume increased by 33%!A new fingerprint has been detected! 】

Then, a cartoon image of a bullet appeared in the brain. It had eyes, a mouth, and arms. It even wore a pair of sunglasses and was grinning with its teeth bared.

This is the intelligent AI system that comes with Sijibao.

"Talk about your former master and the place where you were made?" David tried to ask.

He was very interested in what happened to Bill during his lifetime, such as how he escaped from military technology with the help of Kang Tao, which even Regina didn't know.

【Check memory...】

The bullet man blinked and shook his body with his hands on his hips.

[Available resources - 100%, all files have been manually deleted]

"Are you initialized?"

[Possible problem detected: user has poor hearing, volume increased by 66%, repeat, all files have been manually--]

"Stop!" David said quickly, "My ears are fine."

[Understood, the user has normal hearing.Possible problems: IQ is too low.Speech speed reduced by 33%: all, there, documents, files, all...]

Pa, David turned off the intelligent AI system of Sijibao blankly.

The corners of his mouth twitched twice, this gun is exactly the same as the one he remembered...

Just seeing the grinning face of the Bullet Man makes one feel the urge to punch him.

Forget it, it can be used normally...

David sighed, and hung the Four Seasons Treasure back into the weapon slot on the wall.

At this moment, a Didi notification sounded suddenly in the brain, and a series of messages were received.

When I opened it, it turned out to be from Gloria.

"Why aren't you home?"

"Where did you run to?"

Hey!

David's expression became stiff all of a sudden, he immediately put down the things in his hands, and almost ran away from the apartment in the North District, rushing to the subway station on the street.

Didn't you say that you will come back very late today?

How come you go home so early!

David felt that he was being tricked, and he replied to Gloria with a bitter face.

"I was eating out with my friends and I'll be right back."

"Now, immediately, go back!"

It can only be said that there are some things that can't be solved by improving the intelligence attribute. For example, the mother who was supposed to work overtime until late at night came home early, but I happened to be wandering outside and was caught.

Sitting on the city rail express line on the return journey, David felt extremely tormented.Gloria would send a urging message every ten minutes, and in the end David didn't know what to reply to her, so he could only keep saying yes yes yes yes.

An hour and a half later, David finally stood outside the apartment door, out of breath.

He took a few deep breaths, tried to make his expression look more normal, and then pushed the door open with complicated emotions.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Gloria sitting on the sofa, looking at him with a sullen face.

"Mom..." David swallowed, with a forced smile on his face.

Even if he is a social animal in his 20s at heart, he still can't stand his mother's scrutiny.

The main thing is that I did something wrong...

Gloria looked at her son, stood up from the sofa, folded her hands on her chest, and walked to David.

She twitched her nose slightly, but she didn't smell anything special, and then circled around David again.

There were no wounds, and the clothes showed no signs of a fight.

"Tell me, where have you been?"

Gloria's voice was still cold, but there was some doubt in it.

"I just went out to eat with my friends..."

"What friend?" Gloria asked back, then fell silent suddenly, looking at David thoughtfully.

After a while, she suddenly asked in a somewhat strange tone.

"Have a girlfriend?"

"what?"