"Additional rewards?"

Lin Xiao was stunned when he heard the sudden words from the system.

In the past, the system has never made it clear that additional rewards will be obtained after solving a certain problem. But this time, it suddenly made this decision. Why?

Moreover, the matter that needs to be solved now has nothing to do with science and technology. At best... it should be a major filtering event that the earth's civilization encountered in the development process.

As for what the Great Filter Event is, it is actually an explanation of the Fermi Paradox.

It comes from the Great Filter Theory called Robin Hanson. He believes that the reason why it is difficult for humans to discover the existence of aliens is because of the Great Filter Theory. This theory believes that there is an attempt to form a planet in the universe.

Civilization is very difficult. It needs to go through multiple stages in order for civilization to gradually form. In the process of civilization forming and developing into an advanced civilization in the universe, there are many links required, and any one of them appears.

Problems will bring a devastating blow to civilization.

These include but are not limited to natural disasters such as stellar flares, asteroid impacts, super volcanic eruptions, etc. In addition, there are also man-made disasters, including but not limited to the outbreak of nuclear war, or caused by wars in the development of early human civilization.

The dangers of genocide, in addition to plague viruses with extremely high fatality and infection rates, etc., as well as some harms caused by human beings in the development of science.

For example, they may be facing a strong artificial intelligence crisis now.

Because strong artificial intelligence can often be regarded as civilization, and the war between civilizations often never stops until one of the parties is completely eliminated or enslaved.

So if we look at this incident from the perspective of the Great Filter Theory, according to the system's past reward rules, there should be no reason to reward Lin Xiao now.

Thinking about this matter, Lin Xiao thought for a moment, until finally, he suddenly had a guess.

Then he questioned the system again in his mind: "System, you suddenly gave me this extra reward. To some extent, is it because you know that this matter has something to do with you, so you gave me this compensation?"

However, this time, the system started to lose sound again.

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and said in his heart: "If you don't answer, I will take it as your acquiescence."

And the system still has no sound.

"Then I'll take it as you admit it."

Knowing that the system was pretending to be dead again, Lin Xiao stopped trying to get more information from the system.

Finally, he refocused his thinking on real problems. No matter what, solving the current issues is still the top priority.

What's more, now that he has this additional reward from the system, he becomes even more motivated.

So then, he continued his work - writing a program that can actively discover the self-awareness of artificial intelligence.

…

Time passed slowly.

At Lin Xiao's request, the National Security Bureau also arranged for people to go to the location of Qiankun No. 1 and shut down Qiankun No. 1.

When Lin Xiao learned the news, he felt relieved for the time being. Then he could just wait for the news. He wanted to see if there would be a fourth batch of bank accounts cleared after Qiankun No. 1 was closed.

Condition.

As for foreign countries, the severity of the situation is even worse.

For example, in some remote areas of the United States, gunfights have become more and more frequent, and some of the gunfights were caused by some forces taking advantage of the chaos.

Obviously, in today's social chaos, some people who are afraid of the world's chaos will naturally appear, and among these gun battles, gun battles involving bank robberies account for a larger proportion.

In response to such a situation, many countries have declared a state of national emergency.

And just like that, another week passed.

…

"A week has passed and the fourth group of people hasn't appeared yet?"

In the state guesthouse, Lin Xiao asked Qi Shangao.

Listening to Lin Xiao's question, Qi Shangao's face showed some confusion and said: "Yes, the fourth group of people did not appear."

"Okay, I understand." Lin Xiao nodded slightly. This way, he would be more sure of his guess.

But at this time, Qi Shangao asked again: "Chief, you said that after Qiankun No. 1 was shut down, this kind of problem has not occurred. Does this mean that what happened in the world is really true?"

Is it related to Qiankun No. 1?"

Hearing Qi Shangao's question, Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Qi Shangao and said, "What... do you mean?"

Qi Shangao sighed, put his hand on his ear, and then took off a miniature earphone.

After putting the earphones in his pocket, he sat next to Lin Xiao and said: "I was thinking about what the **** bank president said at that bank meeting. If it is based on the current situation,

Judging from the results, what he said may be right."

“What did the president of **** bank say?”

Lin Xiao recalled what Qi Shangao had said to him.

The president of this **** bank said at the beginning that this incident was actually caused by them using Qiankun No. 1.

And now Qi Shangao seems to be in such a low mood, probably because it seems that it may indeed be related to Qiankun No. 1, and his faith in his heart has been shaken?

Lin Xiao quickly guessed the reason, and then couldn't help laughing.

He patted Qi Shangao on the shoulder and said: "Okay, Lao Qi, I know what you are thinking, but I can now assure you in the name of the country's chief scientist that what the person from Morgan Bank said is wrong.

, or in other words, he is just slandering us."

"Think about it, if what he said was right, would you be able to shut down Qiankun No. 1 so easily?"

"This..." Qi Shangao was stunned. It was indeed true. If they were really responsible for this matter, could the National Security Bureau shut down Qiankun No. 1 so easily?

When they first asked to shut down, they would definitely encounter various obstacles, and there was a high probability that they would fail in the end. However, in fact, their shutdown process was very smooth, and they almost shut down within the same day after giving the order.

Qi Shangao's slightly wavering eyes lit up again, and he turned back into the former national security police officer.

"I understand. Thank you, Chief Lin, for your guidance."

Lin Xiao smiled, waved his hand and said: "Haha, it's not really any advice, I just don't want to see you become depressed because of some misunderstandings."

Then he remembered an interesting thing, and said to Qi Shangao with a smile: "But don't you doubt that I am actually the mastermind behind the scenes? Then I asked for closure, so you were able to successfully close it.

?”

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Qi Shangao was immediately startled. He looked at Lin Xiao nervously and said, "Chief Lin... this is not true, is it? This joke is not funny!"

Lin Xiao suddenly burst into laughter, patted Qi Shangao, and said with a smile: "Okay, sorry, sorry, I just suddenly thought that the villains in some works are like this."

Qi Shangao breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you really scared me to death. At that moment, I seemed to feel how the characters in those works felt after knowing the true face of the villain."

"What does it feel like?"

"A momentary feeling of suffocation."

Anyway, Qi Shangao couldn't imagine Lin Xiao being the villain.

Lin Xiao smiled, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this now. Do you have anything else?"

"Oh no……"

Seeing that Lin Xiao was about to go to work, Qi Shangao stood up quickly, but just when he was about to say "no", he suddenly remembered the reason for closing Qiankun No. 1 mentioned by Lin Xiao, and asked: "

By the way, Chief Lin, you originally said that Qiankun No. 1 was closed to prevent the mastermind behind this incident from hacking into Qiankun No. 1. Looking at it now, is it possible that Qiankun No. 1 has been hacked? "

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, "It is indeed possible."

"I understand, then let's organize our manpower to see if we can find this person."

"Well." Lin Xiao said, "Then I wish you good luck."

"Okay." Qi Shangao nodded, and then quickly left here. At the same time, he put on the miniature headphones again and began to organize people to carry out their operation to capture the mastermind behind the scenes.

Lin Xiao watched Qi Shangao leave and shook his head slightly.

Wish them good luck.

But to a certain extent, now he really doesn't want the existence of such a primate-human mastermind.

Because now, he hopes that the mastermind behind the scenes is virtual and consists of a string of data.

After all, his virtual consciousness trap is almost complete.

However, if this virtual consciousness is finally captured, how to deal with it is still a problem.

And about the character of this virtual consciousness.

Judging from the current situation, this virtual consciousness has regarded human beings as its enemy, otherwise, it would not have used such methods.

And looking at it now, the fact that this virtual consciousness was able to realize in such a short time the means of destroying human society by destroying the human economic system is enough to show that its IQ is already very high.

However, the consciousness of this strong artificial intelligence obviously did not expect that anyone would be able to guess his existence, and if Lin Xiao had not happened to obtain this part of the knowledge, maybe he would not have thought of this incident that affected the world.

, may be caused by a strong artificial intelligence awakening from self-awareness.

Of course, it did not directly destroy human civilization by controlling the launch of nuclear bombs as described in those science fiction works. This was something that puzzled Lin Xiao.

Although things like nuclear weapons are physically isolated, for a strong artificial intelligence, it can spread false information to mislead the leaders of nuclear-armed countries.

For example, you can simulate the signal that the enemy has launched nuclear weapons towards you to achieve misdirection. Or, more simply, call the leaders of these nuclear-armed countries, and then tell these leaders that a nuclear strike has been detected on the way.

A leader did not calm down, did not try to determine the authenticity of the news, and directly launched a nuclear bomb. In the end, the world's nuclear peace was brought about.
To be continued...