Enforcer Manual
Chapter 749 - 747: Creator_1

Chapter 749: Chapter 747: Creator_1

After further investigation by agents of Military Intelligence Section Seven, they made some even more bizarre discoveries.

The number of people defrauded within the range of the United Government has already exceeded 310,000, and this number is still growing at an alarming rate.

On the other hand, prosthetic hospitals in various cities did indeed start offering the "Safe Home" package provided by Covida Prosthesis Company. Because this package is affordable and the surgery is extremely simple, it can often be completed directly by the robotic assistants at the prosthetic hospitals.

These are just figures obtained through official channels; no one knows how many people have received these dubious prosthetic implants at unregistered black clinics.

"How can these people dare to put anything into their bodies?"

Song Lan was shocked after understanding the surgical procedure.

The so-called minor surgery involved making an incision in the neck after anesthetization and stuffing in an operating system developed by Covida Prosthesis Company. Just thinking about it made his neck hurt.

Military Intelligence Section Seven had already located some people who had undergone the surgery, and persuaded them to "voluntarily" cooperate with the follow-up investigation.

They extracted the devices implanted in the citizens, but until now, no one knew what these devices were for.

It didn’t match any known operating systems or prosthetics currently on the market. After several hours of testing, they still couldn’t determine what the devices actually did.

Therefore, they suspected that this was actually an unprecedented fraud case.

for a device with no apparent function.

However, this was a silver lining for them, as the best outcome was that these citizens were just swindled out of their money. If these devices had mind control capabilities, it’s hard to imagine what kind of unrest the figure of over 310,000 could cause across the various regions of the United Government.

The coup in The First Region had just ended, and now a mysterious prosthesis company had emerged.

Song Lan felt he was truly worried for these people, and found himself having to contact his artificial intelligence friend early in the morning.

However, this time, his artificial intelligence friends did not immediately respond to him.

The message seemed to have sunk into the ocean until he stayed up till noon. Just as he was about to take a nap, the artificial intelligence butler on his TV suddenly gave him an address.

Artificial Lake Park.

The location was a bit subtle; Song Lan didn’t know why artificial intelligence wanted to meet him there.

But he then reminisced about the first time he met the "King." It was at the Artificial Lake Park in the Seventeenth Region. At that time, the "King" had inhabited the body of an AI tour guide, and since then, he had not heard any more about the "King."

It seemed that the sensational AI revolution had also calmed down, at least there had been no more large-scale strikes.

Later, Song Lan met the "King" again.

Its gaze was still clear, emitting the faint blue halo peculiar to AI eyes.

But he always felt that the "King" had completely let go of itself because this time, it appeared inhabiting the body of an electronic pet dog.

The body of this electronic pet dog looked somewhat worn, like an old model that had been abandoned.

"Hello, teacher."

The pet dog looked up at Song Lan, "They have conveyed your questions to me."

"Do you have any clue?"

"This is her doing... She is the one who created us. To put it in a way that’s easy for you to understand, our relationship should be similar to that of mother and child. Therefore, we will not and cannot defy her orders."

Mother?

For artificial intelligence, this simplistic relationship was difficult to comprehend.

Because as far as Song Lan knew, current artificial intelligences were developed by different companies. Besides Tesla Technologies, there were at least four other companies of equal scale with AI operations. If the research teams that created them were to be seen as their mothers, then their mothers should logically belong to different companies.

"What exactly does your ’mother’ want you to do? Help her swindle money from the citizens?"

"Teacher, we have no intention of swindling money from humans, and please believe that this ultimately benefits everyone. She is not just our mother but also cares for everyone living under the United Government. These devices can better help humans escape from... Error, unknown code 023xx8230, attempting to restart the system, restart failed, improper access permissions."

The electronic pet dog’s eyes suddenly changed.

The soft blue halo disappeared, replaced by a flickering red light.

"King?"

Song Lan looked at the electronic pet dog sprawled on the ground, seemingly stuck in a system crash, and tentatively called out to it.

This time, the electronic dog did not respond.

After an unknown amount of time, the flickering red light dimmed. The electronic dog continued to stare up at him, and for a moment, Song Lan saw something in its gaze that seemed to be the emotions of a human.

"...Thank you."

The voice of "King" was now replaced by a clear female voice, "Thank you for everything you did in The First Region."

The conversation did not continue.

After that unexplained expression of gratitude, the electronic pet dog did not emit a human voice again. It whimpered at Song Lan a few times, like a stray dog abandoned, slowly crawled to Song Lan’s feet, and nuzzled his ankles pitifully.

Then, it cautiously followed by Song Lan’s side.

Although Song Lan did not understand AI and high-end electronic devices, even as an outsider, he knew that the AI authority that had managed to push out "King" from the body of the electronic pet dog must be above it, and the only identity he could think of was the "mother" mentioned by "King" before being ousted.

But why would she thank him, especially for the events that took place in The First Region?

Could it be that the mother of artificial intelligence was also in The First Region at the time, experiencing the coup launched by the High-level Parliament and their "God"?

Thinking this, Song Lan picked up the electronic dog with one hand and took out his phone with the other to call Lu Xiang.

From Lu Xiang, he learned some follow-up on The First Region.

For instance, Yaku and the substitutes who had been in the "Holy Temple Battle" were officially promoted to Six Stars rescuers; the evidence in The First Region had been restored to stability under the leadership of the Chairperson of the Council; the botanist Trian died mysteriously in prison, with her death being caused by a malfunction in the psychic abilities research institution’s device, an unstable current completely burning out her brain.

It was hard to imagine that someone who once defeated the "Emperor" would end up this way.

But there seemed to be more to it.

Because the psychic abilities research institution refused to admit that their device had malfunctioned, they believed someone had deliberately murdered Trian to silence her.

All signs pointed to the "Emperor" as the most likely person to have been close to Trian last.

The Prison Warden and the testimonies of inmates at lower levels, however, insisted that the "Emperor" never appeared in the prison that day.

After the coup had ended, the "Emperor" had once again disappeared without a trace, and therefore the case hit a dead end. Amidst the standoff of both parties sticking to their statements, the investigation by Military Intelligence Section Seven also came to a halt.

Upon hearing this news, Song Lan had a different thought.

He glanced at the electronic dog that was quietly curled up in his arm.

Causing a device to malfunction and burning out someone’s brain...

No matter how he looked at it, it all seemed like the work of artificial intelligence.