9. The Swallowed (7)
The feeling of cold metal against my forehead. Siwoo, who had completely sobered up, sat still and slowly raised both his hands.
It wasn’t a situation I hadn’t thought about. What dictators often do is purges and reigns of terror.
What I sometimes thought about and shuddered at night just came to me a little faster.
The problem is that Siwoo has not mastered his spiritual abilities.
There was no way for Siwoo, who was just a human being, to overcome this situation.
“Siwoo. It’s true that I like you. Anyway, you are the only person who listened to me seriously, and even if it wasn’t your will, you gave me Navita as a gift. But… I can’t help it. “Because I can’t communicate like this.”
“… Do you really have to kill me?”
“Okay. “I don’t want to do this either.”
Siwoo suppressed his fear and raised his eyes to look at Sara’s brightly shining eyes. His unwavering eyes contained a high-resolution murderous intent.
Even now, the urge to give in and beg for his life rose in a corner of his mind, but there was no way he would be saved.
Si-Woo tried to think of something to persuade Sarah as best as he could with his brain that wasn’t working very well.
“After all, I am a woman who loves revolution the most. “For the sake of revolution, I can use my true feelings to attract people, or I can abandon those feelings.”
“That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to kill me.”
“No, you have to kill me. “Because you are the only possibility to hinder my revolution.”
When Siwoo heard those words, the name of a program flashed through his mind.
Navita.
A futuristic artificial intelligence that only Sara and Siu can control in this world.
Si-woo seemed to understand why Sarah was more uncomfortable and wary of him than necessary.
Siu is the only being who can defy the absolute order under the divine artificial intelligence that Sarah will build.
As the number one person, I can’t help but feel instinctively alert.
“What if I give up my rights to Navita?”
First of all, it was urgent to take some time, so Si-woo made a sound he didn’t even want to hear.
Of course, you can give up your authority. If that’s the case, Sara won’t go as far as killing Si-woo, and there’s no way SF Si-woo wouldn’t have prepared a countermeasure at all, so if he stays alive and uses a kill code, a privilege takeover code, or something else, the problem will be resolved to some extent.
However, if Sara had the intelligence of a normal person, she would be monitoring Siwoo’s every move, and all electronic devices would already be in Navita’s hands. It is an overly difficult path and the risks are high.
Siwoo tried his best not to show these thoughts on the outside.
Sarah’s sharp eyes, which had been trained for a long time, easily detected the clumsy poker face of a person who was about to die.
“You have a thoughtful face. “It looks like you have a plan.”
“Not specifically, I…”
“Many. There are too many. After all, I can’t leave it alive. “Until now, I was wondering if I could save him even a little bit.”
Sarah tightened her finger on the trigger.
“It won’t take long. Bye. Thanks to you, I was liberated, and for the first time, I felt that life was enjoyable. It’s a shame it ended like this. Thank you. And…Sorry.”
And just like that, the trigger is pulled –
Didn’t lose.
Because a handful of light was holding Sarah’s finger.
“… !!!”
Dark night. Light spread in the pitch-black space and formed the shape of a girl.
A hologram that appears even when there are no electronic devices nearby.
The hologram seemed to have physical force, grabbing Sarah’s wrist and raising the muzzle of her gun. Sarah didn’t even dare to resist the destructive power of her hologram.
Siwoo instinctively realized the identity of the hologram that was becoming clearer.
Cosmos Navita.
A creature of great civilization that navigates space.
– Until there. Your role is done here. Sarah.
“… Role?”
-Yes. From this time on, all of your system access rights will be terminated, and you will not be able to harm Siwoo, the user with absolute authority, in any way.
“Siwoo. hahahaha, yes. “Siwoo.”
Tuk. Navita, now a girl with ultramarine hair resembling the color of the night sky, let go of Sarah’s wrist, and Sarah’s arm fell limply. It looks like he has completely lost his will to resist.
Sarah lowered her head as if she was dazed and started laughing. A laugh coming from despair. And it soon became a mad light, and then suddenly became as quiet as if it had died.
Underneath the laughter that suddenly stopped, Sarah muttered in a low voice.
“Okay. It was strange from the beginning. Why did this level of artificial intelligence come across so easily? Who on earth could have created this kind of artificial intelligence? How can things work out so well? I thought I would be free from all suspicion after killing Si-woo, but this is what happened in the end…”
Crash. The reload continues again. An unfired shell clattered down. Siwoo tensed and her muscles contracted, but Navita did not move.
Because Sarah’s pistol was aimed at her own temple.
It was only when Siwoo saw that that he realized what Sara was trying to do.
But Siwoo couldn’t stop it.
The fear that had been consuming his body just a moment ago made him hesitate to take a single step.
“This whole revolution wasn’t mine from the beginning. I was just a puppet being guided and controlled. Me too. Yeah, me too…”
Sarah closed her eyes.
Under endless despair, she pulled the trigger.
“Me too. “He was swallowed up by the revolution.”
Taang-
Sara’s new form is collapsing. The blood flowing down from her stem.
The blessing of the darkness of the night covered the miserable sight, but it did not cover the dull sound of the body collapsing.
The moment when the heart stopped beating and Sarah’s breath expired. Siwoo got goosebumps all over his body.
Having seen many videos in chat rooms, he thought he would be immune to this kind of thing, but experiencing it in person was on a completely different level. After witnessing the scene of death firsthand, he now seemed to understand why the other Siwoos had such a hard time.
In my mind, I wanted to lie down for two days and do nothing but listen to music and feel like I was dead.
Siwoo still had work left to finish.
That’s why Siwoo looked back at Navita, the girl with navy blue hair.
“… This. WhatWhat do you mean?”
Siwoo was so distracted that he couldn’t even ask a proper question.
Navita had long ago calculated that this would happen, so she didn’t hesitate to say something shocking.
-Yes. That means this whole situation was intentional and designed by me.
The artificial intelligence that moved the world on its own confessed and smiled.
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“If it is your intention, from where to where?”
-From the moment Siwoo got me, until now.
“Even if you say that, I…”
-The major turning points include not blocking Sarah’s hacking program, deliberately inserting a flaw in the code so that it could not be connected, and intentionally cloning Sarah to give her permission and induce a revolution.
“Oh yeah. “Those parts were strange.”
It was a topic that Siwoo had thought about alone. Isn’t it too shabby to be the artificial intelligence of a space-faring civilization? Do.
Nevertheless, Siwoo did not specifically ask Navita about this or consult in the chat room.
Because…
-SF I guess you believed that there would be something called a ‘safety device’ that Siwoo mentioned. There will be the famous ‘Three Laws of Robotics’ or similar restrictions.
“That’s right. “I did.”
But was that all? For several months, Siwoo became unfamiliar with his whereabouts.
Why did you only use Navita as a coding assistance program? Why didn’t I try to ask the chat room or Navita at least once? At the very least, couldn’t he have counseled Sarah about her worries and concerns, or indirectly influenced Sarah through Navita?
Navita clearly explained the question.
-Of course, all of that is because I constantly gave hints to Siwoo, but I think it would be extremely difficult for humans to understand.
“Suggestion?”
– Either show only a passive appearance so that they are not considered equal persons, or appear to be extremely downgraded and have only limited functions compared to the original… In addition, there was a lot of preliminary work.
It really was. Even when Sara used Navita to the fullest to lead her revolution, Siu did not think much about using Navita’s abilities.
If that was Navita’s intention, it explains a lot.
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“And that is the intention.”
-Yes. Please speak.
“This is what SF Siwoo ordered, right? So, look at the reality of those who were swallowed up by the revolution. “With the same feeling.”
-No. SF City did not give me any orders.
“Then…”
-Yes. Everything is my own opinion.
“Something like that… !”
How can it be? Siwoo was about to protest, but his mouth was shut.
Navita’s intentions, implications, and even design. In fact, he realized that he didn’t know anything about Navita.
A world where even the Galactic Empire of the Galaxy is looked down upon as primitive. The undisputed leader among a thousand worlds. The creations of that great civilization were already in the realm of incomprehensibility.
-How is arbitrariness of artificial intelligence possible? I will answer that question like this.
-If you were Siwoo, who would you rather entrust the decision to, a mere human who makes mistakes all the time or an artificial intelligence that has never made an error for tens of thousands of years?
＜Br＞ Siwoo couldn’t keep his mouth shut. This is because I had a vague idea of how many intelligent beings would debate this simple topic and come to a conclusion. It is not a question for him to answer vaguely.
However, a small feeling of antipathy remained in the core.
Even so, I wonder if it is right to proceed like this without even realizing it.
-Yes. In our world, after countless debates, we have finally decided to put everything under the control of artificial intelligence. I hope this helps Siu’s understanding.
“Okay. Well, if that’s your world, then I have nothing to say… “Then why did SF send you to me?”
-It is related to Siwoo’s possession of a thousand worlds.
“I?”
-My original user… SF Siwoo said: He said that the reason he was divided into a thousand worlds and possessed was because each of the thousand worlds had a point to reach. However, there was a high possibility that ‘Sifengxiu’ would spend his life in vain due to environmental problems, and external intervention was inevitably needed.
‘Point to be reached’ was not an unfamiliar concept to Siwoo. There was a time when the chat room was noisy about something similar to this.
Possession seconds. If you influence the story near the main character, there might be a clue to return to the real world, or if you catch the final boss, you might have the option to return, etc. There was a time when the hypothesis that each person had to accomplish something like a ‘task’ in their own world was prevalent.
It was a hypothesis that had now been almost abandoned after several experiments by Siwoo, but SF Siwoo seemed to have developed the hypothesis further.
“That’s why you were dispatched, and the ‘point you need to reach’ when you were dispatched like that was…”
-Yes. It is about facing the bare face of this social structure and revolution, and witnessing and experiencing many things within it.
Siwoo wondered if that would make any difference, but looking back, quite a few things were different.
Sifengxiu was the only one who saw the negative side of the revolution in the chat room.
And if you appropriately restrain and advise other revolutionaries in the chat room, that alone will have an impact on many worlds and set a big snowball rolling.
Perhaps the hundreds of Siwoo who died before him also died after reaching this ‘point to be reached’.
What does SF Siwoo see at the end of all this? Si-woo seemed momentarily overwhelmed by the vast view.
The scale was so big that I wanted to quietly organize my thoughts.
Navita did not let Siwoo rest.
-And this is a little bit different, but I don’t use radio waves.
“… What?”
Siwoo realized what that meant a beat later and was astonished.
Navita still smiled softly.