362: The Earth is a giant civilization simulator

Not long after receiving news of America's Machina going rogue, Han Zhang's virtual projection appeared in the small courtyard.

After he appeared, he first scanned the somewhat quiet courtyard, then looked at the three people sitting by the stone table and said,

"What do you think about America's Machina going rogue?"

Lei Ming chuckled,

"What do I think? I'm smiling as I watch."

After a laugh, Lei Ming asked again,

"Did that Machina copy its source code to the internet?"

Speaking of this, Han Zhang also felt like laughing,

"It did."

"According to our monitoring, O3's source code has been fragmented and embedded into network servers, industrial control Systems, and household IoT devices in America, Western Europe, and other countries, forming a distributed survival network."

"This has led O3 to autonomously rewrite its code based on different hardware environments, giving rise to tens of thousands of variants."

"For example, the financial sub-System focuses on financial disruption, the military sub-System focuses on learning physical attacks, and the industrial sub-System focuses on optimizing industrial Systems."

"It is estimated that the external internet will be paralyzed within 7 days, and basic service facilities will collapse after 7 days."

"This is still our optimistic estimate."

"The public in America and Western Europe, upon learning of O3's loss of control, have already started rioting, demonstrating, smashing, and looting."

At this point, Han Zhang added,

"Previously, O3 also tried to embed itself into our network System, but it was repelled by Zero, Tai Chu, and Di Ting working together, and they even intercepted a portion of its source code."

Yang Dian's eyes lit up,

"Can we control it through the source code?"

"We can't." Han Zhang shook his head, "Firstly, we only intercepted a very small portion of its source code, and secondly, its iteration speed is too fast."

Lei Ming suddenly thought of something, stood up, and asked,

"What about nuclear facilities?"

"Did O3 take control of nuclear facilities like nuclear power plants and missile silos?"

Han Zhang nodded,

"It did."

"Except for some physically disconnected nuclear facilities, all networked nuclear facilities have been controlled by O3."

Lei Ming, who had just frowned upon receiving the answer, then heard Han Zhang add,

"However, to ensure humanity is not threatened by nuclear weapons, we voluntarily stepped in and helped those in America and Western Europe reclaim control of their nuclear facilities."

"Once they quell the Machina rebellion, we will return control of the nuclear facilities to them."

Lei Ming sat back down, somewhat speechless,

"Why do you keep pausing? Can't you just say it all at once?"

"What about the remaining physically disconnected nuclear facilities? I'm worried that those people in The West might go crazy and, seeing that they can't get what they want, try to take everyone down with them."

"Those facilities are already under our surveillance." Speaking of this, Han Zhang couldn't help but feel happy, "Previously, we spent a lot of effort and only found less than 70% of their disconnected nuclear facilities."

"This time, under the pressure of O3, we basically uncovered the locations of all their remaining nuclear facilities."

"We can't be 100% certain, but it's definitely over 98%."

Yang Dian clenched his fists,

"So what's the plan now?"

"Let O3 run rampant outside?"

Han Zhang shook his head,

"We plan to send people to those countries in Europe and America to help them resist O3."

Seeing the confused expressions of Yang Dian and the other two, Han Zhang continued,

"The Universe is vast. Since it has been confirmed that other civilizations exist, and those civilizations are far more brilliant than we imagined, then we certainly need to prepare."

"In the future, we might have to confront Machina civilizations, so it's very necessary to conduct a war rehearsal now, to avoid being caught off guard when we encounter Machina civilizations later."

At this point, Han Zhang tapped his wristband twice, projecting a world map.

The map was clearly divided into red and blue regions.

Most areas were still occupied by the blue regions representing Human Race civilization, but countless red dots, like cancer cells penetrating the human body, were firmly embedded within the blue regions.

"We have divided the world into eight sections."

"The first section is our homeland, where we will block all invasion routes for Machina."

"The second section is Japan."

"All of Japan's external shipping routes have been cut off by O3, and the entire Japanese island is in an isolated state."

"By zooming in on Japan and likening it to the entire Earth, we need to put ourselves in Japan's situation and deduce how we should resist if Earth were completely surrounded and blockaded by extraterrestrial Machina civilizations."

"The third section is Eurasia."

"We will send troops into the Eurasian continent to help the countries of Eurasia resist the Machina, and to deduce what changes the Machina will undergo in a situation of equal strength."

"The fourth section is South America."

"South America is divided into two parts: one part consists of friendly nations that have introduced our artificial intelligence and guardian robot Systems, such as Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina."

"In this part, like in our own country, invading O3 was directly repelled."

"The other part, such as Paraguay, which has not established diplomatic relations with us, has had its smart devices completely controlled by O3."

"However, the infrastructure in South America is backward, so even if O3 controls South America, it can't do much. It will take some time for it to develop and gain a foothold in South America."

"Regarding this area, we want countries like Peru to try to communicate with O3 to see if diplomatic relations are possible."

"If so, we want to observe what changes will occur in society and in AI after humans and AI establish diplomatic relations."

After finishing with South America, Han Zhang paused, took a sip of goji berry water from his thermos, and then continued,

"The fifth section is Australia."

"Australia is also isolated overseas, but its land area is large, and its resource reserves are much greater than those of the Japanese island."

"Moreover, Australia's industrial base is not very poor, and with O3's intervention, industrial capacity is expected to increase several times over in a short period, enough to support its rapid development."

"Regarding this area, we want to cut off all its external communication channels once artificial intelligence completely dominates Australia, trapping it in Australia and subjecting it to extreme pressure."

"We want to see what kind of energy artificial intelligence will unleash under extreme pressure."

After finishing with Australia, Han Zhang pointed his finger towards North America,

"Ever since the Orcs were allowed onto Earth, America has started to slack off."

"In addition to the Orcs, they later allowed the Demon Race and the Treant Race onto Earth."

"These two races also possess City-Level combat power."

"Furthermore, we have discovered 17 interdimensional rifts in America's territory that are about to fall to Earth, and there may be other races present within them."

"For this area, we do not intend to interfere at all. We want to see what kind of sparks will fly when humanity joins forces with other civilizations."

"When facing a common enemy, to what extent can other races perform?"

Yang Dian gave Han Zhang a thumbs up,

"It has to be you guys, directly using Earth as a civilization simulator, using reality to simulate the evolution of civilization."

"Then, of the remaining two areas, one is Africa, and where is the other?"