Chapter 826: Humans are really good at creating imaginary opponents for themselves!

“Report, a super electronic virus is spreading rapidly. Currently, all mainstream network platforms have been destroyed. According to the code decryption results, this should be a data-destroying virus generated by the mutation of the original antivirus software!”

The alarms of the Internet monitoring department kept sounding, professionals were running back and forth, and the sounds of keyboard tapping were heard one after another, but they could not stop the invasion of the electronic virus.

The intelligence was quickly reported to higher authorities, and with continued analysis, all professionals finally agreed that this was definitely not a regular electronic virus!
……

“So, this matter is related to the advent of the dimension?”

In the office of the Countermeasures Team for the Advent of Another Dimension, the staff of each department sat in the room according to their age group from the oldest to the youngest, reading the documents in front of them at their fastest speed, while the correspondent explained on the side:

“That’s right. The virus has a strong ability to corrode the network. Currently, there is no firewall or anti-virus software that can block its erosion. Only devices that are completely physically disconnected from the network and local area networks that do not interact with the Internet can be used normally. According to the deciphering of professionals from relevant departments, the virus itself is not complicated. The amount of single data is only at the kb-mb level, and the encoding mode is also very primitive. You can even find the shadow of anti-virus software in the early days of information technology…”

“Well, just like Agent Smith in The Matrix, the antivirus software turned into a virus?” A young man raised his hand. The communicator was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands and said:
“That’s right! That’s it! That’s the feeling!”

Having said that, he almost immediately took out a dedicated device to report the information. His communication equipment was an internal dedicated network, completely unconnected to the outside world, and without any access ports. Only such equipment could be used at the moment.

After sending a few words, he regrouped and said:

“As the staff officer said, this virus behaves a lot like Agent Smith in The Matrix. It should be a very old antivirus software. For unknown reasons, it has become active and will contaminate all data it touches and replicate itself.”

“Active?” An older staff officer frowned and tried to ask, “You mean… AI?”

“No, at least based on the code of this virus, it does not and cannot accommodate any AI algorithm, but it seems to have the characteristics of being alive. Professionals in related fields have tried more than a dozen independent killing programs, but they were all avoided by it.” The correspondent seemed to hesitate for a moment before choosing the word “avoid”, which made everyone realize the seriousness of the problem.

“In other words, the real body of this code is very likely a person from another world? Or even Smith from The Matrix?”

After these words were spoken, although everyone felt this way, they still felt a strong pressure.

It’s a completely different feeling than Godzilla.

If a Godzilla really came, it would be impossible to defeat him no matter how hard you try. After all, he is an enemy that can be seen and touched.

But if it is a piece of code, or a piece of code that replicates itself everywhere on the Internet, how can we defeat it?

“Anyway, let’s study the possibilities first.” The leader, who was the backbone of the team, clapped his hands, interrupting the solemn atmosphere in the office:

“Everyone, think about it first. Besides Agent Smith, who else could be the enemy?”

“Eva’s apostle? The Terror Angel should have this ability, but that thing is a living being. I wonder if it can disguise itself as data after analysis.” An older staff officer said so, but then he felt several extremely stressful gazes.

Obviously, this opening is the worst possible outcome.

However, it was precisely because this first guess was scary enough that the others were able to completely let go of their thoughts. After all, even the apostles had guessed it, so it wouldn’t be a big deal if they came up with something a little more outrageous, right?
“Could it be a Skynet subroutine? After all, according to the settings, the complete Skynet has only about half the computing power of a 40-series graphics card, so it’s normal for the subroutine to be smaller.” “What about Red Queen from Resident Evil? That one is already a very high-end artificial intelligence, and the entire system is even highly integrated…”

“Forget about Red Queen. That thing doesn’t have the ability to self-replicate. I think it’s more like Viki from I, Robot.”

“Since Viki is OK, why not mention the scientist who uploaded human consciousness in “Super Hacker”?”

“In that case, Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man should also count?”

“Don’t forget the avalanche virus!”

“Since we’re talking about this, is it possible that there is an artificial soul Yaoguang in Sword Art Online?”

“Where’s the puppeteer from Ghost in the Shell?”

……

Various names keep being mentioned. There is no way around it. Ever since the emergence of information technology and artificial intelligence, humans have imagined countless times that they would stand on opposite sides, so that there are too many well-known and unknown AI-type villains of all kinds accumulated in the past few decades.

But at this moment, a staff officer who looked like a programmer suddenly raised his hand and turned over his laptop, which was noisy as if it was about to boil water.

“Well, I just asked deepseek, and he said it might be this…”

“Zhao! Who told you to connect to the Internet?” The correspondent couldn’t help but swore, but the programmer pushed his glasses and said:
“I’m not connected to the internet, the device is physically disconnected. The deepseek program is open source. If you ask him how to localize it, he will tell you that the one on my computer is just a stand-alone version. I connected it to the database where I store the data, and asked him to analyze it based on the data in it, and finally gave this answer.”

“So what is this thing? A sandbag with eyes?”

After the leader found out that there was no internet connection, he brought the topic back to the topic. However, the picture given by the artificial intelligence was too cartoony and simple. It was a cute little girl with eyes. It didn’t look like a virus that could cause a commotion of this scale.

But after all, someone knew this guy, and with a lot of exclamations, someone finally explained before the leader got impatient:

“Boss, this is a villain from Digimon. In the plot, it once caused huge damage on the Internet, sneaked into the military network of the Bald Eagle, and launched an intercontinental missile equipped with a nuclear warhead at Neon… And according to the setting of Digimon, all virus species theoretically have the ability to cause this incident.”

“Intercontinental missile? And it’s launched through the Internet? How dare you think that!” The leader who had relevant knowledge only found this plot funny, but considering that we are currently in the era of the advent of the dimension, no matter how outrageous the thing is, we have to think deeply about it. He frowned and asked:

“So, assuming this is the case…how should we solve it? Or, how did the original novel solve it?”

After saying this, everyone was silent for a moment. The person who asked the AI ​​earlier said awkwardly:
“There’s nothing I can do. In real life, I can still use stun guns, but in the online world, I can only look for Digimon!”

(End of this chapter)