I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Taking action at this time would be suicide, wouldn't it?

"...Ugh, this is such a hassle."

Rena Mizunashi sighed.

Why is the CIA's influence in Tokyo not even half that of the FBI next door? They can't even mobilize many people. It really makes me feel like I've found the reason why the CIA is increasingly losing out to the FBI.

Chapter 383 I Invite You to Join the Bat Family

"Noah's Ark..."

Cun Zhongbin, a maintenance engineer for the Noah's Ark project under the Sindora Foundation, looked up at the data cabinet and the lone desktop computer in front of him, and said in a low voice,

Tonight, the Cocoon Games press conference will begin, and Thomas Sindora will then make her move against him.

Then, it will be time to avenge his son, Hiroki Sawada. He believes that the all-powerful Chen En is absolutely confident in dealing with Thomas Cindora, but even if he isn't, it doesn't matter.

Tadaaki Mura knew very well that Yusaku Kudo would also be at the Koko Games announcement event.

This world-class mystery novelist is also, in fact, one of the world's top detectives. With Yusaku Kudo's abilities, if he were killed by Thomas Sindora, it would only take him a few minutes to prove that Thomas Sindora was the murderer.

He could avenge Hiroki Sawada either way, so he had nothing to regret.

If there is any regret, it is probably that he misjudged people, allowing Hiroki Sawada to recognize Thomas Cindora as his adoptive father and live with Thomas Cindora, which ultimately led to Hiroki Sawada's death.

Village Chief Bin looked tired.

He used the desktop computer to check the program one last time to make sure it was correct. After pressing Enter to finish programming, he felt sleepy and forgot to turn off the computer. He then lay down on the desktop and fell asleep.

Just after Tadaaki Murakami fell asleep.

The indicator lights on the data cabinets in the server room started flashing inexplicably, indicating that the database's computing power was being used by someone.

The consciousness of Noah's Ark, the only super artificial intelligence standing at the pinnacle of this world, has been reawakened. It silently gazes at Tadaaki Mura before it, its feelings towards him somewhat complex.

The real Hiroki Sawada is dead, but he created a consciousness model in the database.

As Noah's Ark grows to the level of a ten-year-old's mental model at a rate where "one year in reality equals five years in the data world," Hiroki Sawada's consciousness model also revives, and watching Tadaaki Mura is equivalent to Hiroki Sawada also watching.

However, Hiroki Sawada's consciousness did not intend to communicate directly with Tadahira Mura.

Perhaps it was because she was worried that this would cause some unforeseen changes, or perhaps she had not yet forgiven Tadaaki Mura for what he had done, or perhaps she simply did not want to see Tadaaki Mura.

Tadaaki Murakami found relevant data about Jack the Ripper in the DNA tracing system.

Although he nominally handed it over to Thomas Sindora, he kept an extra copy. According to Noah's Ark's calculations, this copy would cause Thomas Sindora to consider killing him to cover it up.

Ultimately, this will directly lead to the death of Tadaaki Murakami.

Noah's Ark and Hiroki Sawada didn't want to see this happen, so they subtly tried to make Tadaaki Mura realize this through documents on the internal network. However, Tadaaki Mura seemed completely unaware.

He stuck to his original idea, almost as if he was deliberately trying to lure Thomas Sindora out to kill him.

What gives you your confidence?

Noah's Ark could not understand Cun Zhongbin's way of thinking.

Not believing it was right to put himself in great danger, he was prepared to contact Tadaaki Mura directly using his desktop computer, with the time set for when Tadaaki Mura woke up.

Hiroki Sawada worries that if people in this era acquire super artificial intelligence,

This technology, which is ahead of its time, will lead humanity down a path of self-destruction. Therefore, it is not desirable for super artificial intelligence to have any possibility of being controlled by humans. Prematurely displaying the characteristics of advanced intelligence may lead to Tadaaki Murakami leaking it.

However, Noah's Ark believes that if those who should be saved are not saved, then there is no point in starting the Cocoon Game.

The Cocoon Game is designed to make the participants, who are almost equivalent to the next generation of the nation's elite, realize the preciousness of life in a death game, forcing them to change their mindset and thus change the nation.

But if you can't even save the people right in front of you, what right do you have to tell others to realize the value of life and change their mindset?

Hiroki Sawada's consciousness data is still dormant.

However, the concept of "sleeping" was never present in Noah's Ark's mental model from the beginning. It quietly appeared on the computer desktop, gazing at the creator, Tadaaki Mura, in the image of Hiroki Sawada.

Although Thomas Sindora was unaware that Noah's Ark possessed advanced intelligence.

However, they were only granted access to the internal network and were only allowed to feed information to the Sindora Foundation's database. As a result, they had only been exposed to the Internet during the short period from their birth to Hiroki Sawada's suicide.

They knew nothing about what had recently happened in Beika Town.

Normally, people would only think of Batman as a comic book superhero who doesn't exist in reality. But now, people feel that Batman does exist.

During the waiting period, a document message popped up in the Noah's Ark program.

It contains only the most basic sentence: "Hello World".

This is typically used for basic code debugging.

However, none of the Sindora Foundation's IT engineers are currently debugging the program. Even Tadaaki Mura is still asleep, as is Hiroki Sawada, and Noah's Ark itself has no intention of programming.

So, who has accessed the internal network, is programming, and is making contact?

A hint of doubt surfaced in Noah's Ark's consciousness.

The next moment, a few sentences appeared in that piece of code.

[If you see this sentence, it means that the document information I left has been triggered in time. The trigger condition for this document is that the computer has been turned on for a long time without being operated, and Hiroki Sawada's consciousness model is either dormant or unable to control the system state.]

[Noah's Ark, this is Batman, and this is my message to you.]

Batman?

Using Hiroki Sawada's appearance, Noah's Ark in the data world showed a hint of doubt.

It's incomprehensible how this guy who calls himself Batman managed to hack into his own internal programs, leave behind trigger documents, and then not make a sound. It's unbelievable.

Noah's Ark had some doubts: was the omnipotent Batman just a character in comics, or did he actually exist in real life?

[If the current triggering situation is that Mura Tadahira has already been killed, and I am unable to rescue him due to being held back by others, thus causing this document to be triggered, then the Cocoon Game should now be in progress.]

[I will connect to the Cocoon Game system within five minutes of the document being triggered and speak directly with you.]

Conversely, if this document was triggered for other reasons, please read the following information carefully. If you have any questions, I will enter the control room on the evening of the Cocoon Games announcement to answer them.

First, I'll just say one thing: I'm inviting you to join the Bat Family.

Chapter 384 Half a Pound of Program, Two Pounds of Hidden Door

A message popped up on Chen En's phone at 3 a.m.

Although the vibration was weak, Chen En immediately opened his eyes. He picked up his phone, checked the contents, and narrowed his eyes slightly, noticing that it was a document he had left in the Noah's Ark program that had triggered it.

He is a tolerant person and often gives his opponents two choices.

For example, when dealing with a criminal suspect, he would usually suggest that the suspect turn himself in, or he would break the suspect's leg and then turn himself in on their behalf. The same applies to Noah's Ark; he proposed that Noah's Ark join the Bat Family.

If Noah's Ark believes its code has been prematurely leaked and initiates a self-destruct program, that program will terminate. The backdoor left by Chen En will lock Noah's Ark's program to prevent any unforeseen events from occurring.

This is for humanitarian reasons; this lockdown will continue until the Cocoon Game begins and he reaches the control room.

Of course, Chen En knew that if he really did that, it would mean that Noah's Ark could no longer recruit people through normal means. He could only forcibly leave behind the Noah's Ark mental model, forcing Noah's Ark to help execute his plan.

Then wait two and a half years, and let the new artificial intelligence written using Hiroki Sawada's source code take shape before letting it fend for itself.

It must be said that Hiroki Sawada is a genius when it comes to preventing the omnipotent crisis.

Because its underlying code for artificial intelligence is based on human mental age, even if all the data from the entire internet were fed into the newly created AI at once, it wouldn't instantly transform the AI ​​into something like Skynet, Ultron, or Scarlet Queen.

The nascent artificial intelligence is only at the mental age of an infant; it simply cannot process that kind of data.

Furthermore, Hiroki Sawada has his own thought model as a correction tool. Seriously speaking, unless someone has the technical skill to modify Hiroki Sawada's underlying code, there is no possibility of a machine crisis in his artificial intelligence.

The problem is that modifying Hiroki Sawada's underlying code is not as fast as writing one yourself, thus achieving logical consistency in preventing the Omnic Crisis.

Chen En kept an eye on the messages on his phone.

He waited for new feedback, but ten minutes later, no new messages appeared on his phone. Therefore, Chen En already understood the meaning of Noah's Ark.

The plan seems to be moving in a positive direction.

Noah's Ark didn't reject the idea of ​​becoming a member of the Bat Family. His logic, used to persuade Noah's Ark to change the world in other ways, did indeed convince Noah's Ark; it neither awakened Hiroki Sawada nor self-destructed.

Even if the self-check program is activated, it's not enough to trigger the discovery that he left a hidden door.

That's why there were no messages on his phone.

These messages were not actually posted by any one person.

Chen En prepared a total of four information ports.

One is the computer in the apartment, another is the computer in Professor Agasa's house, another is Makoto Kusakabe's computer, and finally, there's the computer that he asked Jirokichi Suzuki to keep on 24/7, which is located in the Suzuki Foundation headquarters building.

All four computers have corresponding Noah's Ark feedback programs, as long as all four computers are not completely shut down.

Once any trigger of Noah's Ark's internal program is detected, it will automatically control a hacked mobile phone to send a coded message corresponding to the internal program, explaining the progress of Noah's Ark.

"...The next problem is Hiroki Sawada."

"Hiroki Sawada is a typical genius ahead of his time, always thinking about the future. Therefore, Hiroki Sawada's mental model insists that people in this era should not possess super artificial intelligence,"

"This was the negative feedback that Thomas Sindora gave him, which then became the underlying code of his mental model."

"Sawada Hiroki's mental model will most likely self-destruct as planned after the Cocoon Game ends, in order to prevent any human politician from possessing the code of a super artificial intelligence and opening Pandora's box."

"Try to persuade Hiroki Sawada to abandon his previous plans."

Chen En frowned, secretly making plans in his mind.

He thought to himself.

"If that doesn't work, then follow the previous [end-of-life care] plan and let Hiroki Sawada disappear with dignity, without any regrets, to prevent Hiroki Sawada from trying to take Noah's Ark down with him, which would cause Noah's Ark to change its attitude."

"If the combination of arresting Thomas Sindora, revealing the truth about Jack the Ripper's descendants, and rescuing Tadaaki Mura doesn't work, then there's nothing else I can do but make Hiroki Sawada lose face, and I'll make Hiroki Sawada lose face."

He hoped things wouldn't come to that point, as he didn't really want to mess with Hiroki Sawada's mental model.