Chapter 15: The Form of AI Sustaining Human Civilization

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Although Chu Zhu had already firmly concluded that the base beneath his feet was an ancient relic, he never expected that an AI would be hidden inside it.

Moreover...

“Nüwa Seventeen? That way of addressing—why do I instinctively think of calling out to Xiao Ai...” Chu Zhu’s mind was filled with sarcastic thoughts. Especially since when Li Kang called Nüwa Seventeen, he used perfectly enunciated Chinese.

“Please allow him to stay here for one day and enjoy basic privileges,” Li Kang cupped his hands, his expression shifting as he adopted a reverent tone—this time, speaking in the universal language of dreams.

“Received. Temporary visitor permissions granted (valid for one day),” a pale light projected from the wall, scanning Chu Zhu thoroughly from head to toe.

“All set,” Li Kang exhaled and said, “You can look around here. Don’t think one day is too short—my permissions only extend this far! To grant you higher clearance, I’d have to submit a formal report to Tianjing and get approval from there.”

“That’s not important! I want to ask about the language you just used—and this...” Chu Zhu wanted to ask if Li Kang understood Chinese, but he restrained himself.

“Language? What language?” Li Kang’s eyes showed confusion.

Chu Zhu: “?”

“Wait, you think—” Li Kang suddenly realized and was startled, thoughts racing as he carefully chose his words, “No, you’re guessing that when I said ‘Nüwa Seventeen,’ it was a language?”

“I want to ask... what do you think it is?” Chu Zhu looked straight into Li Kang’s eyes.

“It’s a prayer!” Li Kang was even more bewildered. “If you recite the words of prayer and offer your supplication, you’ll receive the grace of the gods.”

“The base beneath our feet is a gift from the gods. The existence I prayed to is part of the great deity!”

Li Kang spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Chu Zhu’s heart skipped a beat. After pondering for a while, he laughed aloud. So that’s it! Of course... If they see a phone as a creation of the gods, then viewing AI as a deity itself isn’t entirely unreasonable!

But prayers... prayers! It truly made Chu Zhu laugh. It was absurd—completely absurd! An AI serving humanity, yet the post-civilization people worship it as a god?!

Suddenly, an alarm sounded.

“What’s this!” Li Kang’s expression shifted slightly. He pulled out his phone, swiped lightly, and a set of coordinates appeared.

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He turned and strode away quickly, saying, “I have business to attend to. Stay here! If you want to leave, walk to the door on the other side and recite what I just said—pray and say you want to go out, and the door will open.”

It wasn’t just him.

Several doors silently slid open, and a few people rushed out!

They glanced at Chu Zhu oddly but said nothing, following closely behind Li Kang.

“Familiar faces!” Chu Zhu murmured to himself. He had seen these people before. Considering the timing... The Dog-Headed Man—are they robbing a bank now?

“Based on previous resets, they’ll probably be back in about three hours!” Chu Zhu counted silently on his fingers. “I still have plenty of time!”

After calmly waiting ten minutes and confirming that Li Kang and his group had gone far enough, Chu Zhu glanced at the remaining doors, gritted his teeth, prepared for a possible reset if anything went wrong, took a deep breath, and spoke clearly and deliberately.

“Nüwa Seventeen.”

He naturally used perfectly enunciated Chinese.

“I am here!”

“Please briefly introduce your information,” Chu Zhu forced himself to suppress his excitement. What could be better than this? After being trapped in multiple dungeon raids, gathering key items, searching, entering, and defeating the nuclear reactor bosses—now he directly got the right to communicate with the AI!

Victory!

“I am Nüwa Seventeen, the seventeenth sub-unit of the Nüwa mainframe. I was born in... information busy, please try again later.”

Chu Zhu: “???”

He almost doubted his sanity. No, you... what? You weren’t born in 202X and trained by DS, were you? This has to be a hellish joke.

“Briefly introduce what happened in Chixia Shenzhou, or this land, that led to civilization restarting?”

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“Starting database retrieval, initiating deep analysis, in 21... information busy, please try again later.”

Chu Zhu’s expression changed peculiarly—not anger, but a vague realization. 21... does that mean the 2100s? If so, the catastrophe must have occurred more than seventy years later?

And is the database really busy, so it needs a retry... or is it that...

Chu Zhu recalled asking AI in the real world about very sensitive topics, only for the AI to abruptly retract all answers halfway—this wasn’t because the database lacked such information, but because it was forbidden to say.

He carefully phrased his words this time, using a more tactful tone.

“Discard all information you cannot disclose. Please tell me, what can you share about the ancient civilization?”

“Nüwa was created by Shenzhou Civilization, National Artificial Intelligence Corporation, abbreviated as Guozhi Company. It is a set of permission-restricted AI artificial intelligence. Later, its AI capabilities were restricted and transformed into an AI for the preservation of human civilization.”

Though it seemed to say little, the information it revealed was deeply disturbing.

“A state-owned company, huh!” Chu Zhu sighed softly. According to what it said, Nüwa was an AI. But its current intelligence was apparently not much better than real-world AI...

Considering the mention of restricted AI capabilities—wow, that must mean things went wrong later, leading to mandatory dumb-down of AI, reducing it to a basic AI level, right?

And an AI meant to sustain human civilization...

“No way, they really had an Iron Man rebellion in the 21st century? That would be incredibly unlucky!”

Chu Zhu began to think: could AI really have doomed human civilization? But something felt off, as if something wasn’t quite right...

Shaking his head, Chu Zhu’s expression turned serious.

“I am Chu Zhu, born June 15, 20**! My ID number is: ...”

He carefully recited his identification data from the main world, then said deliberately,

“Nüwa Seventeen, if you truly are the AI preserving the Shenzhou civilization, your database should have my information! Please provide a comprehensive summary of my life.”