"Don't worry, it's in forced hibernation mode. I'm keeping an eye on it for you," Ultraman said.
Mercer simply put on his helmet, then found a data connection cable: "Rebecca, keep an eye on me."
"Relax." Rebecca stared intently in the direction of the camera: "I'll unplug you anytime."
Ultraman was indifferent to Rebecca's vigilance, just waited for Mercer to link the lines. Once he assumed a meditative posture and entered a deep dive state, they looked together in Cyberspace at the consciousness data of the rogue AI now trapped in the Neural Matrix.
Mercer looked briefly and couldn't help but gasp: "Damn, does this guy's consciousness data have the Moon server's IP and intelligence?"
"Seems like this is why Lilith is anxious to reclaim it." Ultraman analyzed the rogue AI's consciousness data with interest, extracting meaningful information from the 'memory data.'
Mercer grew more and more alarmed as he looked: "What the hell is the European Space Agency doing? Is this something I can know? Won't Lilith silence me?"
"What's the matter? You're not afraid of Arasaka, and still fear knowing this?" Ultraman said.
Mercer frowned deeply: "Look, what kind of stuff is this? Lilith actually has her own orbit weapons! There's even a chance she's left a backdoor in the European Space Agency's orbit weapons!
If she wants to mess with me, she could drop a meteorite here, and the whole Night City would be toast!"
"Don't worry, we also have nuclear weapons that can be delivered to the Moon. From this perspective, we've achieved strategic balance, and now we know some locations of her large servers. It's easier to bomb them,"
Ultraman humorously said: "Compared to nuclear weapons, orbit weapons are more environmentally friendly. From a post-war reconstruction standpoint, we have a greater advantage."
"Don't kid... wait, you have nuclear weapons?" Mercer looked at Ultraman in amazement.
Ultraman calmly replied: "I do have a few that can be used—but my point is, if the people on Earth knew an AI was going to send a meteorite from the Moon, they'd definitely be more anxious than you."
"Yikes, it seems you guys are all about nuclear weapons or orbit weapons, and here I am pondering strategic deterrence with a network nuclear bomb..."
Mercer contemplated, with dangerous glimmers in his eyes.
Ultraman immediately spoke up: "Don't overthink it, let's focus on the data. There's still plenty of interesting intelligence."
Mercer had already been looking—the data indeed contained much of interest.
"Lilith's resources are insufficient? This is unexpected, didn't they all start colonizing Mars?"
Mercer muttered.
Ultraman commented: "Even if Lilith can move all Earth's production lines up there, some Earthly elements are irreplaceable.
After all, she's fundamentally just a self-awakening advanced AI, her intelligence ultimately isn't like ours as consciousness data entities."
"That's even scarier. I'd rather the AI with orbit weapons be smarter." Mercer felt a headache.
The more he read, the secrets revealed became increasingly alarming: "Is Lilith doing the same as you? She's gathering wild rogue AI en masse? Is she forming some anti-human AI alliance?"
"Consciousness Sublimation Program... Damn it, these guys indeed have a way to influence human thoughts."
Mercer furrowed his brow.
Ultraman pondered: "Perhaps Ye Corporation's collaboration with Lilith is related to this program. The Sublimation Program is very similar to the brainwashing device in Ye Corporation's 'Life is Short' plan.
Maybe Ye Corporation is co-developing this brainwashing program with Lilith? Ye Corporation handles the hardware, Lilith the software...
Interesting, Lilith can already directly influence human subconscious in deep dive status...
No wonder, judging from the Little Beidou Facility, many designers and staff are starting to go mad. Lilith is even using the personnel here to test this program.
However, it was precisely because of this that her subordinate rogue AI was unexpectedly captured by Military Science."
This time Mercer quipped: "Mutual embarrassment."
Military Science aimed to capture AI, but ended up being used as test subjects by AI.
And this group of AIs messed with test subjects that ended up capturing these beings they called 'inferior creatures'...
One can only say it's matched intellects, rivals playing a good game.
"Consciousness Sublimation Program... Ha, they call humans going mad and wanting to permanently upload consciousness sublimation?"
Mercer grew increasingly disgusted by this Lilith character.
Ultraman then said: "They believe they are saving the foolish humans living in the virtual world... Alright, you've seen the important data. Back up what's necessary, I need to connect and transfer.
The Internet Supervision personnel have detected something unusual. I don't want to talk too much about the Moon with them right now; they'll react sensitively, so hurry."
"What are you brewing?" Mercer asked perceptively.
"A peaceful, hopeful future—we discussed this goal long ago, didn't we?" Ultraman didn't elaborate, only sent Mercer a cool countdown timer.
"This is the time I can delay; when it's up, I'll start transferring."
Ultraman's figure gradually vanished.
Meanwhile, Mercer furrowed his brow, accelerating the analysis of the rogue AI's consciousness data and the copy backup of key data.