Chapter 3884 Virtual Maze

The ninth lesson came to Hokkaido, but found that Soros's factory was not built on land, but floating on the sea.

"How is the electricity at sea solved? Is it a nuclear-powered cargo ship?" Duran asked how the factory at sea can solve the electricity problem?

Artificial intelligence needs electricity, and neural chips also need electricity.

Although neural chips can grow on their own, they also conform to the law of conservation of energy and need electricity as nutrition to continue to expand. Without electricity, neural chips will stop growing.

Then there is a question, where does the electricity come from?

Hydropower, thermal power, nuclear power, solar energy, tidal energy... In short, the more high-tech, the more it cannot do without electricity. But electricity is not released by lightning, but produced by power plants. There are as many power plants as there are. The increase in industry is closely related to the number of power plants. One more robot requires more electricity. The factory produces robots in a row. If the amount of electricity produced does not increase, where does the electricity come from?

From the hands of the poor. The rich buy more robots and consume more electricity, and the poor use less electricity.

This is just like in ancient times, when rich people eat more and poor people eat less, which is called "rich people have wine and meat, while people on the road freeze to death". The same is true for electricity. With more and more robots, more electricity is needed. If the power generation is not increased, there will inevitably be competition.

Just like the drought in ancient times, if it does not rain, two villages will fight for water sources and grab water, all for survival.

The same is true for robots. If the power does not increase, they will grab power to survive. Therefore, robots that use electricity are very high-tech, while humans without electricity live in the primitive world.

But if you want to build a power plant, it involves land acquisition, transportation, raw materials, etc. Land acquisition alone is very expensive, even more expensive than building a power plant.

The landowners also have something to say. The wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter. Why should their land be used to build a power plant for the benefit of everyone?

In short, after the asset value of the island country has increased, land acquisition has become very difficult and more and more expensive. It is no longer realistic to build more power plants, so some companies look to the sea, which can also generate electricity. Tidal energy relies on the ebb and flow of seawater to generate electricity.

Building power plants on land is a thankless task and difficult to achieve. Then build them on the sea, after all, the island country is surrounded by the sea.

However, just like ancient Greece, tidal power plants on the sea affect the interests of traditional power plants, so naturally there is a need for struggle.

The residents of ancient Greece lived in different places, and three factions, the coastal faction, the plain faction, and the mountain faction, were born, fighting and robbing each other.

After the birth of tidal power plants, the ocean faction and the island faction naturally emerged.

Soros belongs to the ocean faction. Their factory is built on a huge ship and uses submarine cables to receive electricity from tidal power generation, so there is no need to rob electricity on the island.

Buying electricity on the island is very dangerous. Once it gets stuck, it's over. Without electricity, Soros's factory will have to stop production, which will result in huge losses.

But it's okay to generate electricity at sea? As long as Soros's company is not a white lotus, we can always find evidence of their illegal crimes and carry out reasonable and legal destruction.

Soros is certainly not a white lotus. In order to further reduce costs, it is not enough to use tidal power generation at sea. They also used the soul of a girl to pretend to be artificial intelligence to produce low-priced but first-class robots, which were well received. But the human soul is not a set tool after all, and it will resist, so there have been many attacks, leading to the intervention of Section 9.

The Honshima faction also knew that this was an opportunity and kept an eye on Soros' company. After Section 9 captured him, they would send people to detonate the factory and blow up the tidal power plant to solve the competitor once and for all.

To keep yourself in an advantageous position forever, the best way is to monopolize, monopolize assets, monopolize water, electricity, mines and other resources, and always allocate them by yourself.

Electricity is also one of the monopoly projects. If you monopolize electricity, you can block the factory and the robot, perfect.

No matter how powerful artificial intelligence is, just pull out the wires.

Section 9 didn't know that someone was watching them, but as the prime minister's action force, they were naturally in the center of the vortex. Section 9 is not about creating vortices, but they go wherever there are vortices.

We cannot assume that the Prime Minister really established Section 9 for the sake of the country and the people, and really to protect the people from the threat of criminals. The Prime Minister is not so great. He established Section 9 just like the Emperor promoted samurai, all for himself.

So the cases that the Prime Minister asked Section 9 to handle must have a back-up plan.

Whether it is the party struggle between the refugee faction and the anti-refugee faction, or the party struggle between the island faction and the ocean faction, these are all the choices that the Prime Minister needs to make. He needs Section 9 to protect his allies and fight against his political opponents. Section 9 is the one who takes the blame.

For example, this time, if the investigation of Soros Company affects the tidal power plant, it is the responsibility of Section 9 for the unfavorable investigation, not the fault of the island faction, let alone the Prime Minister.

Section 9 is wrong to think that it is a simple law enforcer. After all, even their budget funds are not determined by the regular budget process, but are intercepted from the charity budget.

In order to leave no trace, Section 9 will be betrayed when needed, and no evidence will be left. The budget does not exist and can be interrupted at any time, denying the authenticity of Section 9.

Although Section 9 is passionate about fighting criminals, it is actually a tool for party struggles.

"Ship factory, tidal power generation, really high-tech." Duran said: "Now what we have to do is to sneak in and rescue the girl, just like the last time at Hanhua Company. Is that right, Captain?"

"That's right, the use of soul stripping technology is not allowed." Su Zi said.

Duran said: "I think if all major companies use soul stripping technology, the law will be amended."

"That's a matter for the future. It's illegal now." Su Zi is a supporter of social freedom and takes the law as the highest standard.

What is illegal under the law now is illegal, and the amendment of the law is a matter after the amendment.

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"Begin the action."

Just as everyone was preparing to act, suddenly everyone was motionless. Their electronic brains were hacked.

Obviously, Soros Company did not want to surrender, but took the initiative to capture the consciousness of all the people in the Nine Lessons into the virtual maze, so that their consciousness would always wander in the virtual world.

In the maze, they could not tell the difference between humans and robots. They might be humans in the previous second, and the skin of their bodies would pop open and become robots in the next second. The same is true for the people around them. They don't know whether they are humans or robots.

In the virtual maze, reality and illusion cannot be distinguished, and everything they experience is like a dream.

The ultimate logic of the maze is: What is a human?

Are people still human after transformation? Artificial intelligence has become so real that it can be mistaken for real. How to distinguish humans?

All other team members were caught, except Kusanagi Motoko because Project 2501 can clearly distinguish what is the virtual world and what is the real world.

Duran did not distinguish, but just said: "Real and fake are not important, people and robots are not important, what is important is pleasure, can you bring me pleasure?" He said that whether the virtual maze can bring pleasure is the most important.

The super hacker who invaded Section 9 is named 'Jin', a very powerful electronic warfare expert. Even Section 9's defense wall is no match for him and he easily broke through it.

He watched Section 9 struggle in the maze, repeating the investigation process again and again, tangled and painful. Only Duran seemed to not care about the truth or falsehood, just wanted pleasure, and was a crazy pleasure offender.

"Humans are nothing but the material for weaving the dream called life." Jin said, "Dreams, perceptions, and even the soul are the same."

"Your theory is not new at all, just talk about Alaya consciousness. Everything is a projection of Alaya consciousness, and human senses and feelings are all false. Just like the most important concept of Buddhism, 'form is emptiness, emptiness is form', everything is false. But so what? I like pleasure."

"Pleasure is false, and your liking is also false." Jin is obviously a nihilist.

Buddhism says that everything is false, and in the end, one must pursue a liberation from the sea of ​​suffering. But Jin does not ask for anything, and simply and resolutely denies everything.