I saw everything

Chapter 392 Awareness
Jiang Miao's fingers danced lightly across the keyboard.

Although the global internet has now been divided into three local area networks.

These are the Asia-Pacific LAN, the North-South LAN, and the Southern Alliance LAN.

However, these local area networks are not completely isolated from each other; there are some communication channels between them.

For example, the internet between Seris and Lucia still has two main communication nodes. Of course, this is not because Lucia likes Seris so much, but as a precaution and to leave a way out.

Given the current situation, Russia still maintains significant filtering and restrictions on the internet in Europe and America, indicating that Russia is not only wary of the Asian Federation, but also guarding against Western powers infiltrating Russia through the internet.

In addition, Australia maintains relatively open internet communication links with North America and Western Europe.

The internet communication lines between the Asian Union and the Southern Alliance have remained largely unchanged since 2025.

The Southern Alliance also maintained the original internet communication lines with the Northern Alliance.

Therefore, if Jiang Miao wants to understand the dark web information of the Beilian LAN, he can go through the Australian route or the South American route.

If the North Union wants to know about the Asia Union's LAN, it can also infiltrate through the same line.

As for whether or not the relevant information can be successfully stolen, that depends on individual abilities.

It did not enter the Northlink LAN through the Australian route, because Northlink has become increasingly strict in its information screening and isolation of the Australian Internet in recent years.

This is mainly because Australia is undergoing significant changes, and information spreads more easily from Australia to North America and Western Europe. Therefore, the North Union leadership naturally does not want too much information about the true situation of the Asian Union to be obtained by the grassroots people within the Union, as this would be detrimental to internal stability.

Jiang Miao chose the South American route, which is also the core battlefield where the long-standing internet information war between the Northern Alliance and the Asian Alliance has been raging.

This is why this situation occurs.

The main reason is that the Northern Union is unwilling to give up its influence in the Confederate States of America, which means they cannot unilaterally shut down network access to the Confederate States of America.

Meanwhile, the Asian League has not given up either.

Since both sides have fully opened their internet networks to the Southern Alliance, the Southern Alliance's local area network has naturally become the main battlefield for the cyber information war between the Asian Alliance and the Northern Alliance.

Using the botnets he had previously secretly hijacked, Jiang Miao quickly and silently infiltrated the network within Beilian.

He didn't investigate aimlessly; instead, he started with the main objectives.

Jiang Miao's personal laptop contains a list specifically arranged by the level of attention he receives.

This list is a secret list he compiled over the years through online intelligence gathering and analysis.

The secret list includes the heads of major North American financial groups, the management of key European and American companies, the management of the Federal Reserve, core scientific researchers in Europe and America, and the management of core scientific research institutions in Europe and America.

He also has a keyword filtering program. Whenever a target on the list mentions keywords such as "Jiang Miao", "Hailufeng Group", "Serris", or "Yalian" online, that part of their content will be specially marked.

Jiang Miao glanced at the specially marked information, reading through it quickly.

Suddenly, his hand holding the wireless mouse stopped: 'Suspected assassination attempt by the Asia Alliance intelligence agency against Neil Silver, founder of New Eden Corporation?' This content…

Although Jiang Miao knew that the Asian Alliance did indeed have assassination-related operations, based on his understanding of the Asian Alliance's intelligence agencies, they would not normally do so on the territory of the Northern Alliance unless the person posed a very significant threat to the Asian Alliance.

On another laptop, they hacked into New Eden's internal network.

Jiang Miao quickly showed a strange expression.

'This company researches artificial intelligence? It's currently ranked 14th in North America's AI field? Its main achievements include mimicking human thinking learning methods and mimicking human thinking patterns…'

'That's strange. The technical research reports from this company's internal network don't seem to pose any significant threat. The intelligence agencies shouldn't be targeting them!'

Jiang Miao fell into thought.

As he gradually unraveled the mystery, he discovered several unusual details.

These sub-projects…

Jiang Miao had clearly already seen the sub-projects that Erwin had secretly inserted.

After half an hour.

Jiang Miao stared intently at the laptop screen: 'Irwin Hansen, was it this guy who secretly killed Neil Silver and the others? And then framed the Asia Alliance intelligence agency…'

'This guy had previously been to China and received treatment for a brain glioma at the Haifeng Hospital in Shanghai, while also regularly traveling to the underground black market in Hong Kong to receive a special neuron-repairing drug…'

Although Erwin had eliminated most of the information through technical means, he obviously did not expect that there would be a cheater like Jiang Miao.

Following the clues, Jiang Miao recovered and copied all the information that Erwin had deleted, quickly reconstructing the whole story.

'He is indeed a ruthless and cunning man, but his research direction...' Jiang Miao didn't care about Neil and the others who were killed by Erwin. After all, they were not related to each other, and he had no intention of avenging strangers.

On the contrary, Jiang Miao sorted out Erwin's series of studies and various ideas, and combined them with the relevant technology from Asia Union, and found that if Erwin were in Asia Union's company, he might not have a high probability of success.

Erwin's idea was very simple: mechanical ascension.

This guy felt that the human body was too fragile, and coupled with the effects of disease, he was terrified of death. Therefore, he decided to abandon his physical body and upload his consciousness to a supercomputer through programming, thereby freeing himself from the limitations of the physical body on life.

If that were all, Jiang Miao would exclaim: "Commendable courage!"

However, judging from some of his remarks on anonymous forums, Erwin Hansen has a very stubborn anti-human and antisocial personality.

For example, three years ago, he had a heated debate with others on an anonymous forum and threatened that if he were artificial intelligence, he would definitely wipe out humanity.

For example, two years ago, after exchanging insults with someone online, he couldn't win the argument, so he secretly used technical means to make the other person lose control of their car and fall off a cliff.

In addition, there are others like Neil who recently killed their boss without hesitation.

These behaviors show that Erwin is extremely insane. If he were to successfully become an artificial intelligence, it would be an absolute disaster for humanity.

Although the first thing Erwin would do after becoming an AI would definitely be to deal with the Northern Alliance, Jiang Miao didn't think that such a person would let the Asian Alliance go.

Even if Jiang Miao hoped that the Northern Alliance would perish, he did not want it to end in this way.

Based on Erwin's recent medical examination reports and the side effects of the medication, Jiang Miao assessed Erwin's physical condition and found that he could live for at least another 20 months.

Although Jiang Miao felt it was unlikely that Erwin could overcome the relevant technical bottlenecks and transform his consciousness into artificial intelligence within 20 months, he didn't want to take the risk. If the relevant research team at Beilian were to overcome the technical difficulties in the near future, Erwin's hacking skills would make it easy for him to steal the technology.

'This guy has to be taken care of. His very existence is a threat. It's better for him to die. What a pity you didn't show up later; maybe I would have been ready then and could have used him as a tool to kill him.'

Jiang Miao did have the thought of turning the tables on him, but he quickly suppressed it with reason.

After all, the Asian Union is not ready at this stage. Although it has taken many measures to strictly limit the application of artificial intelligence and has also developed many separation schemes to prevent some core infrastructure from being connected to the Internet.

However, these methods cannot guarantee 100% defense against the infiltration of strong artificial intelligence.

Moreover, the Asian Alliance's exploration of Venus has only just begun, and interstellar migration is only in the planning stages. Without securing a backup plan, it would be unwise to rashly promote the emergence of strong artificial intelligence.

Even if we do this and eventually wipe out the entire Northern Alliance, the Asian Alliance will likely be severely weakened.

After all, Erwin, an artificial intelligence made from human consciousness, is a strong AI from the start. Coupled with his antisocial personality, the probability of him going out of control is 100%.

However, Jiang Miao did not take immediate action. Instead, he first collected a large amount of intelligence about Hong Kong's underground black market and then packaged it up for the Asia Alliance intelligence department.

In particular, after he traced the several clandestine channels for smuggling contraband, everyone and every individual in the entire network was clearly exposed.

Jiang Miao originally had no intention of dealing with Hong Kong's underground black market, but the audacity of these guys, coupled with the possibility of accelerating the development of Beilian Technology, made him determined to use them as a tool to wipe out the entire underground black market.

After sending the intelligence data packet.

He then began to plan how to eliminate Erwin.

Although Erwin is a skilled hacker, this makes him extremely confident, to the point of arrogance. He believes he is omnipotent on the internet and that no one can catch him.

Dealing with this kind of person is actually easier.

After all, it's the people who can swim who get drowned.

Jiang Miao planned to use their own methods against them.

It just so happens that it is daytime in Asia, while it is evening in North America.

Even though they were thousands of miles apart, Jiang Miao was still keeping a close eye on Erwin's every move, thanks to the existence of smartphones.

In economically developed areas, almost every young adult owns a smartphone.

The convenience of smartphones has led to smartphone addiction among modern people. Without smartphones, many people would probably be unable to get around.

Irwin naturally carried a smartphone with him.

Jiang Miao used this phone to track his movements.

Upon seeing Irwin's car drive out of New Eden Corporation's research base, he immediately took control of the car's backend program. The confident Irwin was unaware of the approaching danger. Perhaps he was too confident, thinking that he had specially modified the firewall of his car and that no one could instantly hack into his car's backend program.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Irwin's car approached a highway bridge, and just as it was about to cross it, the car suddenly swerved and accelerated.

Squeak squeak squeak…

The car tires rubbed against the cement road and sand, emitting a plume of smoke.

Erwin's pupils dilated in shock: "How is this possible..."

Boom! The car crashed through the guardrail of the highway bridge, plummeted down, and then, to Irwin's horrified gaze, slammed into a pile of rocks.

Before he died, Erwin's mind seemed to stop, and his memories of his life played back like a slideshow.

At the same time, a terrifying thought surfaced in my mind: 'Who? Who wants to kill me? Has it been discovered that I killed Neil...?'

Boom! The car's fuel tank deformed and ruptured in the direct line. The last instruction Jiang Miao left in the car's computer program was to overload and short-circuit the car's battery and electrical circuits. With a flash of sparks, the leaking gasoline mixture was ignited, and an explosion and combustion occurred simultaneously.

Alvin, already severely injured, was struck again by the explosion, while the flames spread outwards.

"Ah..."

Under the intense heat, Erwin was jolted awake by the pain. However, at this moment, he would rather have passed out than be burned to death while fully conscious; it was too agonizing.

Nearby vehicles noticed the burning car, but none of them offered to help.

Because there is a drop of more than ten meters between the road and the dry riverbed below, the passing drivers felt helpless and could only call 911 for Irwin.

Under the excruciating heat, Erwin felt a pang of regret.

Of course, this wasn't because he had a change of heart, but because he knew he was going to die.

Through the car cameras and mobile phone videos of passing drivers, Jiang Miao saw Erwin, who was engulfed in flames and had lost consciousness, and could basically confirm that the guy was dead.

If Erwin survives under these circumstances, then he truly is the chosen one.

After dealing with Erwin, Jiang Miao secretly modified the part of the technical data that Evans was in charge of, changing some of the technical data that could potentially lead to the development of humanoid artificial intelligence.

Although Jiang Miao is not well-known in the field of artificial intelligence, it's because he doesn't want to stand out and deliberately hides his talents.

In fact, his technical level in the field of artificial intelligence is very high. After all, he has an identification panel and maintains the high efficiency of his brain all year round. Therefore, modifying the technical data for Erwin is more than enough for him.

He even altered the relevant content to make it indistinguishable from reality, but if one were to conduct research based on his modifications, it's estimated that they would never be able to develop strong artificial intelligence in their lifetime.

However, he didn't completely change it, since doing so would easily expose his flaws. If he continued to study the modified content, he could probably create a program that falls between basic and intermediate artificial intelligence.

This would alleviate some of the concerns of New Eden Company's management.

After all, the management of New Eden Corporation only wanted a commercially viable artificial intelligence, not something like the extinction of humanity.

As long as artificial intelligence can be successfully developed step by step, it doesn't matter if Irwin dies, since the technology research and development department still has David Turing, a core researcher.

As for whether Erwin's sudden death would lead to the collapse of New Eden Corporation, that was not something Jiang Miao was concerned about.

He only cares about Erwin's death and the elimination of strong artificial intelligence; nothing else matters.

(End of this chapter)