Chapter 1 – 01. A Strange World
01. A strange world.
“Welcome. Coming to the ‘Test Square’.”
Neat jet black short hair.
One covers the ears and the other is neatly tucked behind the ears.
The dangling earrings suit her very well.
Is it a gem?
Something blue about half the length of your little finger flickers.
The reason why I expressed it as something is that it is a waste to call it a jewel.
I felt something to the extent that expensive jewels felt ‘something like that’.
I don’t know what it is. It just felt….
A woman with charisma and dignity looked around at the audience.
Among them, there are me and Bari.
When our eyes met for a moment, she brightened slightly and changed the shape of her lips. Are you surprised or teased?
But that’s for a while.
Catch your eye soon
There are countless ‘people’ around you.
Among them, there were those like us who were perplexed and at a loss of what to do, and there were others who watched the situation leisurely as if they knew where this place was.
“A large number of negative emotions such as tension, fear, and murderous intent were detected.”
Bari took a step closer to me.
She is a home android based on a super-intelligent interface,
She said It’s an object as a robot, and it’s like a home AI terminal that I own.
New sights and first-time ‘people’.
Bari and I have to survive here.
“Under….”
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-A few hours ago-
Jiing.
Vision has changed.
Up until just a few seconds ago, I was facing blazing walls and huge dragons, but they disappeared with my boredom.
A solid line was drawn on the round screen, which had been smooth without the slightest crack, and opened to the left and right to illuminate the ceiling.
And before long, a woman’s face sticks out.
“You are finished.”
“Yes.”
A slim jawline with long black hair that fell slightly past her shoulders.
Her features of her, which seemed to be a mixture of all my ideal types, were neat and beautiful.
“It’s okay.”
She was holding a silver tray with both hands, and it seems she caught my vital signs just in time to get hungry.
What is laid out is my favorite hamburger set.
“Huh.”
He gets up while relaxing his stiff body her and passes her by.
She follows without a word.
“How was it?”
“Well… It was fun, but what to say… I guess I’m getting tired of it now.”
“It was made according to Sihwan-nim’s needs….”
“You know me too. Maybe I’m tired of the game itself.”
“In that case, would you like to make it into a movie?”
Shortly thereafter, she offers me a piece of french fries as I sit on the couch.
I took it quietly.
“Um.”
Also, the fries should be freshly fried and eaten hot.
Salt liver is natural.
“You’ve seen too many movies.”
“Then what shall I make you? If you just say anything….”
“Shall we go see a friend?”
“You don’t have any friends.”
“… It’s a joke, son of a bitch.”
He licked his lips at her factual violence her.
In fact, not having friends is not a bad thing in the world.
In the first place, almost all human beings live alone with AI.
“Let’s take a little walk.”
I grabbed a hamburger from the tray and got up.
It’s been a while since I came out of the capsule, so I should go for a walk.
“Shall we activate the teleporter?”
“No. I will walk out.”
When I moved my feet without hesitation, she also caught up behind me.
After leaving the room that was hundreds of square meters, the seemingly endless hallway continued.
“….”
It’s a strong idea,
Frankly, it’s too broad.
I guess I made it without thinking too much.
I was tempted to use the teleporter just like she said, but there are still people. Can you pick up the words once spoken so easily?
I walked away calmly.
.
.
After walking for about 10 minutes, I finally reached the hall on the first floor of my mansion.
If you use teleportation, it’s really an instant, but it took so long. In fact, I think we can end our walk with this.
Whoops.
As I was looking down at the spacious hall, which felt grand because it was not huge, a round underground door suddenly opened in the center of the hall and something began to rise.
Something gigantic that slowly rises while spinning round and round like a figure for display.
I am myself without fail in my appearance or face.
“… Didn’t I tell you to turn it off?”
“Do you really want to drag it? You like me from the bottom of my heart.”
“It’s embarrassing at the same time, so let’s turn it off.”
“Yes.”
With her answer her, my statue, which had risen tall, collapsed like clay and disappeared.
Even the round basement door disappeared.
The clean marble floor itself.
“… There was no need to destroy it!”
“….”
She stared at me blankly.
It sounds like you’re saying ‘what if?’, But you’re not thinking such an impure thought, are you?
Feeling embarrassed for nothing, I strode out.
Also, as if with some strange effect, the red carpet, which you would see at an awards ceremony anywhere, was laid out at every corner I went.
Well…
What…
Okay. Let’s leave this alone.
Gugung.
When I arrived in front of a large gate suitable for the size of the hall, it recognized me and opened automatically.
The pouring outside world.
A great light came in.
“Ugh. Dazzling.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve actually been exposed to sunlight, but even then, it’s quite intense.
Did you turn it on for power generation?
“I need to turn down the light a bit.”
“Are you just getting used to it?”
“No. It’s not a matter of adaptation. It stings my skin.”
“Then I’ll cut it down.”
Bari’s answer and the amount of light drastically decreased.
My eyes and skin feel comfortable.
And my vision, which was obscured by the light, returned properly.
“It’s better.”
There is a well-kept garden in the front.
Of course, it’s not me who takes care of it, but the androids including Bari.
I’m not interested in things like plants. I just left it for decoration.
As I reached the end of the garden, I saw the fence that had been set up for safety and the expansive view beyond.
“Whoa. This sight is always cool to see.”
Planet Ryu Si-hwan.
On a planet named after me, on top of a giant mountain range named after me.
There is a mansion there.
No, strictly speaking, it would be more correct to call this mountain range itself a building, in other words, my house. Because all facilities are available. I just haven’t been there…
If you look around, you will see a forest of buildings densely filling the entire site.
It extends beyond the horizon, truly spectacular.
“Is there anything different?”
“During the 109 hours Sihwan-nim played the game, 109,394,324 residents increased, and a total of 254 cities in 13 regions were established. The economic indicators were—”
“That’s enough.”
It has grown a lot.
To avoid misunderstanding, the ‘residents’ mentioned there are not people. He is similar to the guy next to me now.
Android. It is a robot in human form. If it is equipped with AI, it can think and move like a real person. They are doing economic activities, doing research, and pioneering the planet while doing this and that. And at great speed.
Actually, you don’t have to go through this process. In a way, making human-shaped androids and making them active is the height of inefficiency. However, because I am a ‘human’, I go through this process. I guess it’s kind of caring.
“Isn’t there something groundbreakingly fun? Are you going to start a war?”
An era where everyone has an artificial intelligence assistant and a planet,
The era of commanding billions and tens of billions of robot armies.
Each and every one of them is living like a god.
On the other hand, there are quite a few people who have fallen into boredom because they can do anything they want. They say that they kiss each other and make a content called ‘war’…
I’ve never done it.
No matter how much it is a created object that is not a real life, it is too much to kill it in vain like that when it is working for me.
“How about pioneering other planets? The planet’s urbanization rate is still around 63%, but it will be completed within 1-2 months. Then, you can apply to the central government and get permission to pioneer a new planet.”
“What else bothers you…”
“You only need to press one thumb.”
“In the first place, pioneering wasn’t something I was doing. What were you doing right now? What else should I do while doing that…”
“Well…”
She tilted her head slightly and entered into thought.
The figure was very cute, but if you think about the reality, fear will come over you instead of cuteness.
Countless buildings in front of my eyes right now. Those buildings also serve as a residence for androids, but they are basically the ‘brains’ of the AI system. If you say CPU, it might be easier to understand.
Unlike humans, machines can grow their size as much as they like. It’s safe to say that developing a planet is about raising the performance of AI.
I named her ‘Bari’, but she is on a different level than me in terms of circuit speed.
Compared to human biological circuits (circuits through which thoughts and commands are transmitted, that is, the speed of thoughts), which have not been developed in any way, the speed of the quantum circuit that Bari has is a whopping 2.6 billion times.
In simple comparison, it means that in one second you can think of as much as an average person thinks in 82 years.
There, the level of intelligence itself is also stark.
Already, the intelligence of a single household AI is vastly superior to the sum of the intelligence of all known life forms, including humans.
Humans cannot understand even 0.1% of their thoughts and techniques.
Of course Barry is the same.
Being a far superior being, she doesn’t worry at least on a level that humans can detect.
If there are traces of it externally, it is postponed to the end. It is to ‘considerate’ for the ‘inferior’ person in front of you. So as not to feel bad.
It’s the same with asking me something and receiving orders.
At the bari level, you can catch the very minute brainwaves and read my thoughts as if you are breathing. Of course, it means that I know everything about what I want to do now, what I will say, and what actions I will take in the future. Maybe even a prediction is possible.
Even so, what I dare to ask is to take the form of ‘conversation’ and be considerate so that ‘humans’ do not feel uncomfortable.
Even now, she made a gesture as if pondering for a moment. For taking care of me
“Sihwan-nim seems to want a new world that he hasn’t felt before. Never get tired of it.”
“That’s right. I wish I could feel it with my real skin.”
“Can I give you some drugs?”
“No.”
“I can put any number of electrodes on my brain. You can laugh forever. Dopamine will be secreted indefinitely, so you won’t get tired of it.”
“Don’t say that…It’s scary.”
“It’s a joke.”
“Isn’t there such a thing as a real adventure?
She reached out to me.
As she cast her gaze, a transparent spear floated above her palm.
“There is a large medium-mass black hole 128 light-years from our planet.”
“By the way?”
“Would you like to come in?”
“How’s it going?”
“I do not know.”
“No…What if you don’t know.”
“I know in theory, but I don’t know everything about black holes yet. There’s also the problem of probability.”
“Can I die?”
“It could be, but it’s safe if you scan Shihwan-nim’s brain and upload his consciousness to the server before that. You can create any number of bodies. How about upgrading at this point? It’s a free upgrade.”
“It’s so unsettling. Just because I upload and download my consciousness, you don’t know if it’s the real me or not.”
At the moment, Bari seems to have sighed a little, but is it because of her mood?
“You’re good at teleportation… That argument has already been refuted a long time ago. The phenomenon of quantum entanglement—”
“Ah. Stop. I can’t understand such difficult words.”
“…”
What is quantum entanglement… I don’t care about that…
I looked at the panoramic view of the city for a while and thought.
Black holes…Surely interesting. Who would have thought to jump into a black hole. It’s dangerous too
“You… You said you knew in theory, right?”
“Yes.”
“What happens? With the highest probability.”
“I die.”
“…”
I had the urge to hit him for a moment.
“You do SM play in bed.”
“Are you sure?”
“SM play is—”
“Don’t play around.”
“Yes.”
He slowly changed his posture.
I leaned my back against the railing.
“What are you going to do by taking me to a place where you die when you go?”
“Usually they die, but with a very small chance, they can go to a world where the laws of physics are completely different.”
“Yes?”
What is this again?
“Do you know simulation theory?”
“…What is that?”
“The theory is that this world is actually a simulation.”
“It sounds like bullshit.”
“It’s no wonder you feel that way, but there are some that are true. And the simulation world itself exists.”
“Difficult.”
“For example, the game Si-hwan-nim played just a moment ago is also a kind of simulation world. In the case of a black hole, all the material information it has absorbed so far is on its surface—”
“None of those theoretical things, just tell me one thing.”
“Yes.”
He paused for a while and said.
“It’s…Safe, right?”
It’s thrilling, it’s nabal, and it’s a joke if safety isn’t guaranteed.
“If we focus on Si-hwan-nim’s current body, it will almost certainly disappear, but considering Si-hwan-nim’s existence itself, it is safe. The moment the body disappears, Si-hwan-nim’s consciousness will be uploaded to the server. Is literally a ‘terminal’. You can recreate it and download it.”
“Well…”
There are many people who live like that. The perfect eternal life system… But there are people who don’t like it.
I’m in the middle
I’m not in a position to unconditionally reject them like fanatics, but I’m not too happy about it.
However….
