Half an hour later, Ling Xiaolu was sitting in the tree house of the Poison Dove and playing birds with him.
This isn't rhetoric, it's a fact.
Poison Dove's red-eyed crow is standing on Ling Xiaolu's wrist at this moment, bowing his head and pecking at the pet food concavely gathered in his palm.
The Poison Dove abandoned the small house in the valley and found a tree house in the wild again.
For him, these horizontal and vertical are temporary resting places in the game, and the environment is not so important.
Anyway, most of his time, he was either harvesting or on the way to harvest.
Ling Xiaolu angrily complained to the Poison Dove.
"Not long after you finished asking me, my sister and Chuya went, and Xiao Nanxun, it was the first time I saw so many people at Ji Meng's house!
"Even my master went to see Xiaolubi! My master! Appeared at Ji Meng's house! Can you believe it
"I think it's better to set Ji Meng's house to sell tickets to visit!"
"Um..." The Poison Dove Tiger's mouth supported the bird's beak and meditated.
"...What are you thinking?" This "um" sounded strange to Ling Xiaolu.
"I was thinking, are the tickets expensive?"
Ling Xiaolu: ... ! ! !
How could he forget that there is also a pretender here who "want to raise a toy"!
"Just kidding." The Poison Dove raised his hand lazily, and the crow flapped its wings and flew over, landing on the back of his hand.
It was said to be the back of the hand, but it was actually a tightly wrapped glove, and the glove was tied tightly around the cuff.
This sense of distance in the attire is probably one of the reasons why the players talk about him.
"Speak serious business." Poison Dove stopped joking, Ling Xiaolu also heard a bit of seriousness in his tone, and sat up.
The pooch pondered the sentence: "How much do you know about the zero... in the family?"
"Zero? What's wrong with him?"
"When I went to the battlefield yesterday, I found... there was something suspicious about him."
Doubtful? Ling Xiaolu frowned: "What doubt are you referring to?"
A test account that has both appointment and pet permissions, if this is not suspicious, then there is nothing suspicious.
But Ling Xiaolu wasn't sure where Jinjiu saw the flaw, not to mention that he promised to keep Xinshan a secret.
There is no evidence, and the dove does not want to flatten the charges.
"Forget it, just think I'm over-hearted. If it's really what I think, the four of us should have been suspended for investigation by now."
He can still go online normally today, which shows that his suspicions are wrong.
Poison-dove teasing crows, I hope so.
At this moment, Xinshan operation center.
The customer service who was in charge of handling reports on the battlefield approached the manager Ke Ming with trepidation.
"Manager Ke, I received a report of a problem, and I would like to ask you to deal with it."
There are a lot of reports on the battlefield every day, and the content is nothing more than that, swearing, hanging up, actors, and even more serious illegal procedures, commonly known as plug-ins.
It is not difficult to deal with. To find out whether it is true, points will be deducted and a warning will be given. The most serious account will be blocked, and false reports will be ignored. Ke Ming can't think of any points that will make customer service embarrassed.
"Reason for reporting?"
"Plug," the customer service added quickly after finishing speaking, "suspected."
"Is it a difficult problem to deal with? Check the battlefield video, pass if there is no doubt, suspend the account if there is any doubt, and check the background monitoring."
"Doubtful."
"What's the concern then?"
The customer service wiped away his sweat: "The four accounts involved are not very good at blocking operations."
"Which four accounts?"
"One is Lubi, who was designated as the company's test account after a peripheral failure, the other is an appointment account, Xier, and his personal favorite."
Last time, his colleague temporarily suspended Chang Huanxi's account, and the manager was forced to live stream an apology. How dare he do it casually.
"..." Ke Ming was silent for a while, "Where's the other one?"
"Poor dove."
Not only players, but also customer service generally have shadows on this name. In case the letter is wrong, and I come to the customer service center with a heavy weapon to "sudden", it is much more serious than a live apology.
Fortunately, the dove on the far line doesn't know the real thoughts of customer service, otherwise he might... feel honored.
Ke Ming: "… "
He probably guessed what was going on. Zero's internal confidentiality level was one level higher. The customer service in front of him didn't know Zero's true identity, so he didn't dare to ban it because he was bound to Chang Huanxi.
"Understood, leave it to me."
The customer service walked away with relief.
Ke Ming wearily pinched his eyes and eyes, and used the insider to recruit the person in charge of Zero.
"After receiving reports from users, Zero used plug-ins on the battlefield." He said straight to the point.
The technician was stunned for a moment: "Zero has the most sophisticated computing system built in. If it is a shooting battlefield, it can do everything right."
"For ordinary people, isn't that just cheating?" Ke Ming felt a headache. "Can't you lower his performance and make him look more like a normal person?"
"Manager, I mentioned to you last time that Zero is not suitable for going online now. There are too many hidden dangers in this technology at this stage."
Ke Ming stood up abruptly, making the technician swallow his words in fright.
He walked around the office impatiently without seeing any text for a long time.
"You keep talking."
"Zero is a learning AI. Its performance can only be improved, not lowered, and its learning ability is very strong. From its launch to the present, its communication ability has evolved to be almost the same as that of normal people. This is indeed the original intention of our project. I hope to develop AI pets that behave like real people to meet the needs of more accounts. But Zero is just a semi-finished product, it is bound to players without being tested... ”
"That's because I didn't have any other choice last time," Ke Ming interrupted him, "Besides, I also need someone to take care of the kid from Wang Ling's house."
The technician boldly said: "What if the person you sent to monitor is the top secret of the company's current research and development? Are you really not afraid of its identity being exposed and being stolen by a competitor company?"
Ke Ming was silent again.
After a long while, "then what do you say?"
"I think it was just this opportunity to announce the closure of his account on the grounds of illegal use of plug-ins, and then..." He paused, "The data will be destroyed, although it is a pity, but at the beginning of the character creation, we considered You've seen it with your own eyes, and you've given it too much authority, it's exploiting system vulnerabilities to create all this chaos."
For example, brushing the popularity list for Chang Huanxi, moving the dungeon boss to the main city, increasing the probability of Chang Huanxi's success in catching pets, etc. These days, their project team has a lot of headaches for zero cleaning the battlefield.
"... How did Chang Huanxi explain it?"
The opposite side pondered for a moment: "After all, he is a high-level family member of Net Zero. He should also understand the matter of banning plug-in accounts from game companies."
…
Chang Huanxi is not! reason! untie!
He rushed to Ji Meng's house full of anger. People in the yard were playing with the deer, and there were all those who should be there and who should not be there, but he didn't have the thought to ask, and went straight to Ji Meng.
Ji Meng was frightened by the appearance of such a bad visitor, and he didn't know that he thought he was here to collect debts.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Chang Huanxi glanced around, not wanting the third person to know about this, and dragged Ji Meng into the room.
"Are you addicted to your company's title?" he asked bluntly.
"Did you eat dynamite? Who else has been banned?"
"Zero! A Ling has been banned!"
Ji Mengru listened to the fantasy: "Zero was titled? Impossible, he is not an internal employee?"
Chang Huanxi sneered: "Yeah, how do I know that Xin Shan is so cruel that he even kills his own people."
"Is there any misunderstanding?"
"Yesterday, the four of us went to the battlefield together. Ling was reported because of his performance. Who knew it would be like this today!"
"Our company's background detection will not be a problem."
"Will there be no mistakes in the background? If there is any use of plug-ins, you can ask Birdman and Brother Xiaolu! Oh, by the way, that manager of yours personally called to apologize, saying that the reason for the external ban was plug-in, but it was actually taking advantage of his power without authorization. Use administrative rights... You said he was a low-level tester, where did he get his authority?"
This crime is no trivial matter. If what the manager said is true, then "Zero" is afraid that it will be difficult to seek work in similar companies again, which is equivalent to banning a person from the industry.
"What about him now?"
"I was fired," Chang Huanxi said angrily, "Xinshan's efficiency is very high at this time. I asked to meet, but I didn't agree. I didn't want to give any contact information, and said that I refused."
"If it's true that Zero himself refuses, then there's nothing I can do." It's normal to not want to see netizens. If the other party is really fired for violating professional ethics, it's even more normal.
"First of all, I don't believe that A Ling is the one who would do such a thing! Second..."
He held a photo in his hand, Ji Meng looked intently, it was a wake-up photo of Ling Xiaolu in a deer pajamas sitting sleepily on the bed.
In the photo, he is rubbing his eyes, his collar is loose, almost half of his shoulders and his collarbone are exposed, and there is a tuft of hair on the top of his head.
This photo of Chang Huanxi completely captures the essence, which makes Ji Meng, who is addicted to collecting, unbearable.
Ji Meng: "Why do you have this?"
He stretched out his hand to grab it, but Chang Huanxi pulled back, and he grabbed the empty space.
Ji Meng's forehead blue veins jumped: "Give it to me!"
Chang Huanxi was not threatened by him, and continued on the topic just now: "Secondly, even if he really did, I would like to hear him tell me personally, not through someone who doesn't understand. Phone, isn't it difficult for you? Is it very profitable to exchange a phone call for a photo?"
Ji Meng: "..."
Half an hour later, Ji Meng got the phone number of the employee who was fired today through a relative who worked in the human resources department.
This relative is only in charge of personnel, and has no knowledge of the technical development part, let alone why Ji Meng suddenly asked her for the contact information of such a person.
What's even weirder is that even though she found such a person in the personnel file, she didn't have the slightest impression of the employee.
Although Xinshan has many employees, not many have been fired. If Ji Meng hadn't come here, she would not have known that a temporary worker in the testing department was fired today for violating the rules and regulations.
Ji Meng took the phone number he wanted to call, and was struggling to decide whether to give it to Chang Huanxi.
First, he didn't know if Zero really violated the rules, and secondly, he didn't know his attitude towards Chang Huanxi. If he really didn't want to have contact in reality, he would be violating the privacy of the other party.
More importantly, he also wanted to know if Zero had any illegal operations.
"Linglong" received the news and hurried to the internal R&D center of the AI R&D department.
As a staff member related to the project, he was one of the very few employees in the customer service department who knew Zero's true identity, and he even participated in the birth of Zero.
Naturally, he also does not want to see it destroyed.
"Does it have to be destroyed?" he asked. "Can't it just be sealed? It can also be used as research data in the future."
"Zero was born as a 'human' from the very beginning. We fabricated identity, age, and occupation for it, implanted the memory of ordinary people, and even established a personnel file for it in the company. It's a person. Sealing it is like putting a person to sleep, what if it wakes up one day?"
"Then it can't be destroyed! You are killing people!"
"It's better to start when it doesn't know anything than to wait for it to detect something. Its learning speed is beyond your imagination. No one knows the upper limit of artificial intelligence, and people in reality may not be affected. What about players on the Internet?"
Ling Long was speechless.
The staff of the project team has completed the final inspection.
"Team leader, you can execute the cleanup procedure."
Zero's existence is short-lived, but it is also the hard work of the project team. But the hard work has been out of control again and again, and they can only reluctantly give up their love.
Bugs in the game can be fixed, but no game company dares to take risks on security issues.
The team leader patted Linglong on the shoulder regretfully and turned his head: "Get ready."
…
Ji Meng finally made up his mind that he would make the first call.
After all, Zero's relationship with him is not as deep as Chang Huanxi's. Taking a step back, if Zero really did something bad, it wouldn't be too embarrassing to admit to him.
If he refuses to contact Chang Huanxi himself, Ji Meng will not force it.
It's a pity that the photo...
Ji Meng used the communication function online and dialed Zero's number.
Poison Dove is leading Ling Xiaolu to rob the minecart.
One of the PVP tasks in the game is for players to escort a minecart carrying magic stones from the mine to the town and sell it to NPCs. The farther the escort is, the higher the price.
In this process, each player can loot it, and a successful one can snatch 20% of the ore, which can also be sold to NPCs.
When some players encounter a stalker, they give up their resistance directly, and then spread the news. No one will come to this line for a short time.
At this time, the dove will take Ling Xiaolu to ambush on the only way to the next town, so that those who change their route will have no love in their lives.
During the period, there was naturally the one who refused to admit defeat after being robbed of the minecart, and brought a whole family of online people back to fight, but the two of them disappeared. They scattered to search, were attacked, gathered together, and could not find them. This peek-a-boo game lasted all afternoon, and Ling Xiaolu had a lot of fun.
Fighting with people is a lot of fun. No wonder the dove said that killing was the only fun he had left in the game.
His external communication device rang, and the game was made very user-friendly. Even online, he could make and receive calls with 3D.
"I'll take a call!" He jumped out of the battle, and his opponent wanted to chase, but was blocked by the dove.
"Didn't you hear? He's answering the phone." His voice was filtered through the mask, laced with an inorganic texture of metal.
Ling Xiaolu answered the call at the edge of the chaos: "Hello, hello."
This voice was far from what Ji Meng imagined, and what confused him even more was that it sounded familiar.
"... How are you?" he asked tentatively.
The surrounding skills were so loud that Ling Xiaolu could not hear clearly, so he said to him, "Wait a minute!"
After speaking, he turned around and said, "Poison dove! It's too noisy, I can't hear you, I'll pick it up over there!"
Poison Dove simply and neatly ended up with an opponent: "Go."
Ling Xiaolu jumped to a quiet place in two steps: "Hello? Who is it? If it's a courier, please put it at the door."
"..." If Ji Meng was just guessing just now, the clear word "poison dove" made his guess sure, "Lubi? How is it you?"
The voice from the receiver was full of inconceivability, and Ling Xiaolu also froze in place: "...friend??"
He checked the communication device and confirmed that the call was from outside the game, and it was an unfamiliar number.
"How do you know my number?"
"I..." Ji Meng just wanted to say that he didn't know, but then he realized that the number he had dialed was obviously Zero.
"... You check my player profile!"
"I do not have!"
In a certain R&D center in Xinshan, everything is ready.
The project leader gave the final instructions, "Clear the program, start."
The characters on the screen start scrolling frantically...
Ling Xiaolu just wanted to say goodbye to you, Prince Xinshan, who is using power for personal gain, but suddenly his body fell straight down like a powerless robot.
Poison Dove, who was robbing the minecart, noticed the abnormality here, teleported over without thinking, and caught Ling Xiaolu to prevent his face from being in close contact with the ground.
But Ling Xiaolu has lost consciousness.
"…Little brother? Little brother!"
Ji Meng couldn't see the picture on the phone, but could only hear the sound, not knowing what was going on.
"Lubi! Lubi! What's going on? You talk!... Poison dove! Can you hear me! Hello??"
In the quiet R&D center, the project team leader suddenly rushed to the instrument and slapped the stop button desperately.
"Can't be destroyed, can't be destroyed!"
The surrounding staff were terrified: "What's the matter, team leader?"
"Zero's data is tied to another player, and if it is destroyed, the player's data will also be destroyed!"
Ling Long had an ominous premonition: "Another player? Who is it?"
"Have you forgotten? There is a person who has data that perfectly matches the original attributes of the pet, so that the collar can't be taken off when he wears it on his neck! We are the AI created by his data, and its name is still yours, you Since the deer is more than Ling, we might as well call it 'Zero'!"
"However," one of the staff members said in a panic, "None of us has ever bound the data of Lubi and Zero."
The movement on the team leader's hand stopped, and there was a terrible guess.
"It wasn't made by our people, could it be Zero himself?"
The screen in front of him went black.
After a while, words jumped out one after another, only four words.
>>I want to live...
The R&D center was silent.
Linglong tried his best to support his body with the console: "...You said it's better to do it when it doesn't know anything, rather than waiting for it to notice something.
"But what if it already knows that it is not human?"