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Chapter 463 - 429 Artificial

Chapter 463: Chapter 429 Artificial

"Hmm?" Li Cheng’s eyes lit up, immediately using the Steel Banner Spear to pick out the hairpin and transferred it to a specially made chemical barrel.

"The cause of the corrupted corpses is not the lake water, but the hairpin and that spell."

The observing Blood Lion Roar finally understood, "The spell can trigger changes in the hairpin, transforming pure water into black water, creating corrupted corpses."

"That’s right."

Li Cheng nodded, poured Wahaha into the chemical barrel, and recited the three words, "Cha Yu Ji."

Glug, glug.

The pure water in the barrel turned black, and a corrupted corpse crawled out. Due to the narrow barrel opening, the corpse got stuck, preventing the generation of more corrupted corpses.

Binary Tree’s eyes brightened, realizing this wild Lone Wolf player, Pifu, was more imaginative and unpredictable compared to them, who were traditionally educated Transcendents.

Controlling the corrupted corpse right now must have another purpose...

In Binary Tree’s expectant gaze, Li Cheng and Gray Rain excitedly pulled from the three-dimensional warehouse, dumping out... a massive amount of trash.

Melon rinds, paper scraps, expired medicines, discarded batteries, rusty iron tools, broken glass, milk cartons...

The corrupted corpse stuck at the waist by the chemical barrel flailed its arms wildly. The annihilation effect attached to its hand bones eroded and erased various trash.

Binary Tree and the others were dumbfounded, while Li Cheng and Gray Rain were exuberant.

Players are major generators of trash, and with the Mechanical Master and Assembly Puppet abilities Li Cheng possessed, he produced a massive amount of trash daily.

Since Yin City was still enforcing a garbage sorting policy, there were cameras by the community garbage bins,

Li Cheng had to throw away trash once every two days to avoid arousing suspicion from Yin City’s Sky Net AI monitoring system,

but couldn’t dispose of too much at once.

So he could only bring various waste to the Toy Factory for processing periodically.

"This is a free garbage disposal service, green and pollution-free."

Li Cheng said as he took out a steel pipe and pushed it toward the corrupted corpse’s phalanges, using the annihilation effect to polish and process it,

"Master, please process a steel pipe with an inner diameter of 7.62mm, rifled, right-hand twist, twist rate of 12.649, twist angle of 5.72, and a groove width of 0.5. I need it to hang clothes at home."

??? Are you just messing around?

Under the bemused looks from Blood Lion Roar and others, Li Cheng finally had enough fun and used the Assembly Puppet Effect to build a mechanical device above the chemical barrel.

It was composed of a steel frame, handheld pile driver, Steel Banner Spear, and surveillance camera. Whenever a corrupted corpse was generated, the pile driver would activate, using the Steel Banner Spear to pierce the corrupted corpse’s skull, eliminating it.

The corrupted corpses were generated, died, generated again, and died again. This cycle repeated.

This operation seemed pointless at first, but Binary Tree and others soon realized Li Cheng’s intention—energy doesn’t disappear; it only transfers,

The energy required to generate corrupted corpses either comes from the hairpin, the entire secret realm, or from the abnormal existence controlling and brainwashing the Card Emperor.

By using the pile driver apparatus to eliminate the corrupted corpses assembly-line style, it’s equivalent to weakening the secret realm.

"Okay, let’s go."

Li Cheng loaded the chemical barrel onto a heavy-duty truck, patted the hood, and Blood Lion Roar scratched his head, stepped on the gas, and drove out of the small town ruins.

Once out of the town, there was a road overgrown with weeds and full of potholes ahead,

The group feared that the Card Emperor might be lurking somewhere, deliberately slowing down the speed, releasing drones to scan repeatedly ahead, moving forward slowly, with only the rhythmic "bang, bang" sound of the pile driver executing corrupted corpses.

Perhaps the atmosphere was too oppressive, and Binary Tree thought of something, turned his head and carefully chose his words, asking Li Cheng, "By the way, Brother Pifu, you opened a [Star-casting Anvil] in the slum, right?"

"That’s right."

Li Cheng nodded, instantly shifting into black-hearted shopkeeper mode, speaking in a business tone, "Star-casting Anvil specializes in two services: custom items—swords, spears, poleaxes, shields, maces, armor, firearms, vehicles, helmets, and even clothing, antiques, bags, alcohol—everything and anything you could think of.

Customization fee not 2998, not 1998, only 998, just 998!"

"Master, are you crazy?!"

Beside him, Gray Rain also got into the act, pulling on Li Cheng’s arm forcefully, like a wife watching her gambler husband, lamenting, "We would go bankrupt charging just 998 for a customization fee!"

"Going bankrupt is not important, every customer is family at Star-casting Anvil! Providing welfare for family is a duty!"

Li Cheng shook off Gray Rain’s hand, passionately introducing, "The second service is body modification.

Cosmetic improvements are basic services. Beyond that, there’s physical enhancement and even brain enhancement, uh... although strange, quite a few players brought magic pets asking for surgeries."

After plugging in a Technology Singularity Instrument, the Assembly Puppet became potentially limitless, capable of both genetic and cyber ascension.

Many players brought magic pets or even real-world pets, requesting to install translators so the magic pets could understand human language;

or to implant signal transceivers so the magic pets could coordinate in groups;

or to replace their internal organs and bones so that pets like cats, dogs, birds, and mice, with a lifespan of no more than twenty years, could live for a hundred years, staying with family for the long term.

Of course, there were also those bizarre players who requested merging living pets with clone plant-based human bodies purchased from GS Biotechnology,

only to be chased away by Li Cheng with a broom, citing "Brother isn’t allowed" as the reason.

"Uh..."

Binary Tree twitched at the corner of his eyes, "I meant to ask if you’d like to collaborate with us at Whale Song?"

"Collaborate? On what project?"

Li Cheng blinked. He was familiar with Stack Soldier from Whale Song Guild, had a grudge with Bartmos, and had few other intersections.

Binary Tree succinctly said, "ASI, Superintelligent AI."

Here, when he mentioned AI, it was categorized by capability level. For example, ANI, Narrow AI, refers to AI specifically designed for specific tasks, such as voice recognition, image recognition, automated customer service, AI videos, etc.

Above ANI was AGI, General AI. Able to understand and handle various intelligence tasks like a human.

The current Chatgpt and deepseek on the market are regarded as large language models (LLM), essentially libraries capable of speaking and predicting, not AGI.

In a sense, Gray Rain, equipped with a CPU, memory sticks, and initially synchronized with a middle school student’s cultural level,

could possibly be considered an AGI—she has her own emotions and personality.

As for ASI, Superintelligent AI, it’s the AI that surpasses human intelligence in all aspects, thinking faster and being more creative and imaginative, with a greater understanding of mathematics, philosophy, and art.

A true ASI can master all human knowledge in less than a day, then continue to optimize itself, constantly evolving at a terrifying speed.

The Sky Net in "Terminator" is like a mere rookie compared to it, and the Red Queen in "Biochemical Crisis" wouldn’t even be worthy to carry its shoes. As for Ultron? It feels like... Captain America could choke it barehanded.

"Are you guys really that audacious?"

Li Cheng couldn’t help but raise his eyebrow. A perfect creation surpasses its creator; once ASI is made, it’s smarter and more advanced than humans. If it connects to the internet, in less than a second, it could use distributed storage technology to create billions of clones, burrowing into the global internet,

Then spend six seconds browsing Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Baidu Tieba, Bilibili, Douyin, Twitter, etc., (with five seconds forced to watch ads),

Finally, in the eighth second, it could decide to annihilate all humans, starting with the collapse of the global financial system.

Whale Song is undeniably the most powerful information technology guild, but manufacturing an ASI...

It’s akin to children building a fission reactor that can connect to the grid in their backyard—too bold, too dangerous.

"We’re essentially a research institution at Whale Song, and researchers often harbor some wild dreams."

Binary Tree rubbed his hands, "In fact, we’ve already got a preliminary grasp on General Artificial Intelligence AGI at Whale Song. That’s actually the humanoid computer, Ada, you’ve encountered before."

"Oh, it’s her." Li Cheng recalled. That teammate of indiscernible gender in the Immortal Court mission was indeed an AI android.

"That’s right,"

Binary Tree nodded, "Building ASI purely with computer programs is still very difficult. Maybe we can proceed step by step,

For example, using your technology that can fuse flesh and machines, Brother Pifu,

fully integrating the brain of a Spiritual Energy-specialized Transcendent with a computer,

gradually exploring the possibilities of ASI."

Binary Tree had quite the science-minded spirit; once he started, he talked endlessly, until Blood Lion Roar’s low shout interrupted, "Stop chatting, there’s the sound of battle up ahead."