Chapter 1: Conspiracy
the sunlight embraced the city of yuxiang warmly
&34;today, &39;xingyu kegong&39; has bee the world&39;s largest supplier of robots what do you think about it&34;
a man in sunglasses and a suit, facing the question from a journalist, said with pride, &34;this is the result of the joint efforts of all our members in &39;xingyu kegong&39; although we have paid a lot of hard work, it is worth it to liberate human labor and promote human progress&34;
behind him, the headquarters building of &39;xingyu kegong&39; stood proudly it was like a huge square fortress, surrounded by blue glass walls that glittered in the sunlight
&34;is he the president of &39;xingyu kegong&39;, zhao ting&34; hua rou asked softly to yi ci by her side
&34;you&39;re right, he&39;s my boss now although i&39;ve only been working here for a month, i&39;ve seen him a few times at meetings but his reputation has spread all over the world, and everyone knows him&34; yicai replied
&34;i think he&39;s very talented the robotics industry is almost monopolized by him, whether it&39;s robots or various machines, there&39;s nowhere you can&39;t see the equipment of &39;xingyu kegong&39;&34; hua rou praised
&34;it&39;s his talent that makes our lives so convenient we all should thank him&34;
&34;by the way, why did you want to join &39;xingyu kegong&39; you challenged such a difficult pany to enter, but fortunately, you succeeded&34;
&34;i&39;ve always wanted to be a mechanical engineer i heard that &39;xingyu kegong&39; is the best manufacturer of artificial intelligence robots in the world, so i tried to see if i could join them well, let&39;s not talk about it let&39;s go home&34; yi ci said and walked towards the crowd
&34;okay, ing, ing&34; hua rou followed reluctantly
&34;since your work is related to robots, i want to know why are they so intelligent that they can understand human language and mands&34;
&34;you don&39;t understand this, do you artificial intelligence technology is very advanced we use natural language processing (nlp) techniques to enable robots to understand human language and mands, including speech recognition, speech synthesis, semantic analysis, and natural language understanding in speech recognition, artificial intelligence robots need to use special software and hardware to convert human speech into machine-readable text&34; hua rou looked puzzled, as if she couldn&39;t understand what yi ci was saying
but yi ci continued without hesitation: &34;then, the robot analyzes the meaning of the text through natural language understanding technology to determine the specific content of the human mand some artificial intelligence robots can also use speech synthesis technology to respond to human mands, enabling better interaction with humans in short&34;
&34;alright, alright stop talking i&39;m getting dizzy&34; hua rou covered her head and shook it
&34;oh, okay i&39;ll make it simple the ability of artificial intelligence robots to understand human mands depends on the quality of their training and programming, and the boss of &39;xingyu kegong&39; has extraordinary talent in this regard, so &39;xingyu kegong&39;s&39; robots are more intelligent than other robots&34;
&34;now i get it&34; although hua rou didn&39;t fully understand what she meant, she nodded anyway
ding dong ~~
&34;mom, i&39;m back!&34;
&34;it&39;s yi ci, i thought you wouldn&39;t e back until evening hurry in&34; mom weled me with a smile on her face
seeing me acpanied by hua rou, mom suddenly understood and said, &34;i wondered where hua rou went today afternoon it turns out she went to pick you up&34;
huarou answered mischievously, &34;of course, i was worried that my brother hadn&39;t e home for a month and might not find his way back haha&34;
yi ci pretended to be angry and responded, &34;ugh, i could still find my way home without you&34;
mom said with a smile, &34;the dishes are almost ready, sit down and wait for a while&34;
&34;okay!&34; yi ci and hua rou answered in unison
at the dinner table, the family chatted happily while enjoying the delicious food
yi ci curiously asked mom, &34;where did dad go i didn&39;t see him&34;
mom answered with a helpless expression, &34;he&39;s always like this, leaving early and returning late every day sometimes he doesn&39;t even e back&34;
&34;did dad go to find evidence that artificial intelligence will eventually run out of control it&39;s possible based on my one-month experience at xingyu kegong, the probability of this is quite small&34; yi ci replied nonchalantly
this time mom didn&39;t answer his question but asked him instead, &34;how long is your vacation this time the mid-autumn and national day holidays should be a pretty long break, right&34;
yi ci answered, &34;yes, we have a nine-day vacation it&39;s a great opportunity to rest and spend more time with you all after all, i just graduated from college and have to start working again i can&39;t stand it&34;
hua rou excitedly said, &34;that&39;s great! i&39;ve been thinking about you every day, hoping you would e back to play with me&34;
&34;it makes me very happy to know that hua rou misses me so much&34;
as the night gradually fell, the hustle and bustle gradually disappeared or emerged
that night, two black-clad men observed the movements of xingyu kegong from the roof of a building
one of them asked, &34;do you think he can do it&34;
the other replied, &34;there shouldn&39;t be any problem he&39;s been infiltrating the pany for a year, and he&39;s even reached the highest ranks he must have gathered almost all the information as long as he can paralyze all the machines in xingyu kegong and leave with the data, our mission will be acplished&34;
in front of the headquarters&39; secret room, a suited executive muttered to himself, &34;i&39;ve been here for so long it&39;s time to give you a gift&34;
beep —
[fingerprint verification] passed! [iris verification] passed! [facial recognition] successful! one after another, cold mechanical voices sounded
he used his executive privileges to enter the headquarters&39; secret room, stole all the data, and left the pany headquarters gracefully, disappearing into the night in his car
one of the men on the roof said, &34;he&39;s out let&39;s go too&34;
afterward, they disappeared into the night as well
the man who had just left the headquarters dialed a phone call: &34;the data is in our hands, and the puter virus has been implanted it will activate in an hour&34; his tone was calm, and a cunning smile appeared on his face &34;i never thought you, zhao ting, would have such a day i&39;ll pay you back double for what happened back then!&34;
the puter virus relentlessly copied, spread, copied again, and spread again in just a few minutes, all the machines of xingyu kegong were infected however, it was now in a dormant state, and no one noticed the anomaly
&34;the hour passed quickly
power plant
&34;damn it! why have all the machines stopped&34; an angry leader of the power plant shouted &34;these are robots made by &39;xingyu kegong&39;, how can this happen! send technical personnel over!!!&34;
suddenly, the lights in the power plant went out, and the fire lights turned on quickly the power supply and transmission facilities were pletely paralyzed the range of light extinction spread outward from the power plant in a circular pattern, and soon most of the lights on earth went out however, as backup power and generators started up, dim lights began to reappear sporadically
yuyang city
there were frequent accidents in the supermarket, as all the cars equipped with &39;xingyu kegong&39; related machines lost control most of the elevators stopped working, and the entire city was plunged into darkness in just a few seconds
hospital
with the activation of backup power, the hospital was barely able to function however, they were unable to use machines for treatment because almost all of the equipment in the hospital was made by &39;xingyu kegong&39; &34;critical condition on bed 5!&34; &34;oxygen deficiency on bed 17, the oxygen generator is not working!&34; &34;all the machines are down, i&39;m trying to find a solution!&34;
on the plane
the pilot was performing normal operations, when suddenly the pilot&39;s actions became frequent and intense the pilot spoke in a terrified voice, &34;my goodness, all the machines are not responding!!! we&39;re done for!!!&34; the plane began to tilt and dive rapidly, and not long after, it collided with the ground, causing sparks to fly everywhere!
in just a few seconds of losing the machines, the world plunged into panic, and the night truly became dark many people died next to the machines that had helped them, even though these machines did not move or cause any harm they simply stopped working
at this moment, a person climbed to the top of a high-rise building, stood on the railing, and calmly looked at the panic-stricken and dark city he whispered to himself, &34;i didn&39;t expect this day to e so soon, i need to speed up my progress&34; then he turned and left, disappearing into the night of the city&34;