In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

That's roughly the idea.

In fact, Chen Yi didn't know either, because he saw it from the drone footage.

"So here's the question," Hiratsuka Shizuka asked suddenly after a moment's thought.

"Since there are clearly fake human figures causing havoc in the zoo, what about the zoo management? What about the person in charge?"

"..."

"What is their current status?"

This is something the participants overlooked at the time.

The entire zoo exuded an eerie atmosphere, from the blood bottles disguised as ordinary drinks to the zoo staff that Hiratsuka Shizuka had just mentioned.

"In the best-case scenario, the park staff may still be alive, but they will be like ordinary tourists, or they may suffer cognitive harm to a much greater degree than ordinary tourists."

"As for the worst-case scenario... that might be a highly intelligent pseudo-human taking control of the situation in a zoo."

Highly intelligent pseudo-humans... are not impossible. As far as Chen Yi knows, most pseudo-humans that can completely disguise themselves as humans are highly intelligent.

"This is difficult..."

"Forget about that for now. Didn't you already hand the scene over to the authorities?" Hiratsuka Shizuka comforted her.

Being prepared for a rainy day...

Although Chen Yi had already faced off against a high-IQ fake person once, luck clearly played a major role back then.

Playing against a fake player with a long-term plan? Chen Yi was pessimistic.

......

"Hello? Test test."

Hiratsuka Shizuka specifically invited students from the Service Club to test the quality of the online class live stream.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, your microphone is crackling."

A comment from Yotsuya Miko scrolled across the screen.

"Really? Let me adjust it... It shouldn't be a microphone problem, right?"

"Please trust the quality of this microphone; it's not some cheap roadside product." Chen Yi stood to the side, helping to adjust the camera angle so that it could see the entire whiteboard clearly.

"Are online classes really useful? Students who don't want to listen can always find a way to skip them..."

The barrage of comments drifted slowly across the snow-covered landscape.

Even sitting in front of a screen doesn't necessarily mean you'll listen.

Chen Yi mentally complained.

"Can you read these characters clearly?" Hiratsuka Shizuka drew two lines on the whiteboard with an oil-based pen and then wrote a few Chinese characters.

"Yes, I understand quite well, Hiratsuka-sensei."

Yukinoshita answered.

"The livestreaming issue is resolved; next comes the students' problem..."

Hiratsuka Shizuka turned off the live stream, then rummaged through the drawer of the coffee table and found a roster.

"Xiao Chen, do you have the LINE contact information of your classmates who are working overtime?"

"No," Chen Yi replied.

"I really can't count on him..." Hiratsuka Shizuka rubbed her temples, feeling a bit of a headache.

"Can't you find enough people?"

"Well, I originally assigned this task to the class monitor, but the class monitor just sent a message saying that it seems we don't have everyone's contact information... We're still missing a few people."

"...Hiratsuka-sensei, asking me is useless. I haven't even joined their class group chat."

Just kidding, Chen Yi didn't even know that class groups existed.

"Yeah, you're probably one of the people the class monitor mentioned who has absolutely no way to contact you," Hiratsuka Shizuka said with a laugh and a scolding tone.

"I think Kato should be one too."

"why?"

"intuition."

I was just kidding. I was actually very confident that Kato wouldn't attract attention.

Revisiting Izu: Chapter 229 The First Step in Red Alert

Chapter 229

"You came back very quickly."

Hearing the commotion, Mai Sakurajima came out of her study to greet Chen Yi, who had returned home.

"Well, I didn't waste much time."

All I did was tidy up the living room and set up the live streaming equipment.

Chen Yi explained, while changing his shoes at the door.

"Rio and Kawasaki are downstairs, right?" Chen Yi asked after putting his things down.

"Hmm, why don't we rest for a while?"

Mai Sakurajima asked.

"I had an idea while I was on the road."

Chen Yi answered, and then went downstairs to the studio area without stopping.

......

"Commander, you're planning to research... mechs?"

On the tram back, after hearing Chen Yi's whimsical idea, Kroos asked him again, uncertainly.

"But we only have a Level II military production license."

Kluka was helpless.

Moreover, this so-called Level II military production license was "legally" approved only after she forged a large number of documents.

Fortunately, the UN's Anti-Pseudo-Personnel Agency doesn't have paper copies of its backup files on international military companies, otherwise it would have been really difficult to handle.

"Level 2 Military Production License?"

The company is managed by Kelukai, a concept Chen Yi had never heard of.

"A Level 2 military production license is for the production of police or low-intensity tactical equipment, but as for mechs, well, I should say humanoid military vehicles..."

...At least level three is required.

Klukka answered.

She knew Chen Yi's motivation for this sudden idea. When she was learning about Ironblood, she had accidentally seen that Dongda University usually dealt with attacks by fake humans using mecha counter-insurgency tactics, which were flexible and less destructive. She guessed that he had become interested in this aspect.

"That's a pity..."

"However, lightly armed exoskeletons are worth studying."

Klukka changed the subject.

“Lightly armed exoskeletons also fall under the scope of Level II military production licenses, and we already have the support of ‘humanoid’ technology. It’s not difficult to reverse engineer the Yinglong exoskeleton and launch our own product.”

After listening, Chen Yi thought about it again and realized that it made sense.

......

“Exoskeleton…” Futaba turned off one of the headbands and placed it on the table.

"The 'humanoid' is still undergoing upgrade testing. Are you sure? There are only two of us right now, so it's basically impossible to start multiple projects at the same time."

“Sometimes I really suspect you’re a scientific madman…” Futaba returned the headband to Chen Yi, stood up and stretched.

"Non-invasive brain-computer interface, AI kernel architecture development, power system and servo control, mechanical structure design, system integration... If you were a fake human, I think humanity would have been doomed long ago." Half-jokingly, Futaba took a can of oolong tea from the small refrigerator next to the office.

"How about expanding production?" Chen Yi asked after a moment's thought.

"Expanding production... So you've already started considering this?" Futaba paused in her tea-drinking motion.

"Because we've already come under the authorities' scrutiny, it would be troublesome if we were targeted by malicious individuals and didn't have any substantial resources."

Chen Yi gave a brief account of what happened at the zoo that morning.

"...I think I understand now, and this is definitely not the first time you've appeared in front of the authorities," Rio Futaba said after thinking for a while.

"Hiss... If that's the case, when I was helping Kawasaki a few weeks ago, I missed a mechanical mouse at the scene."

Furthermore, during the statement-taking process, the official sources revealed the guitarist's identity and his connection to 16LAB, so it's likely he had some recollection of that.

Although the consulate is currently backing them up... what if they encounter someone reckless, like a criminal organization...?

"Then it's your decision, if you want to expand production."

“Buying more apartments is probably not worthwhile. Why don’t we just find a real estate developer to build one?” Chen Yi suggested.

Fortress companies are commonplace in Japan because there is no powerful official body to provide production security for businesses, and the government is happy to let them pay for their own protection.

Clearly, after World War II, the old government had been almost completely dismantled, and the new government was practically a puppet, even condoning such ruthless activities as private armies.

"Build one? You're really rich." Shuangye gave a thumbs up.

She thought Chen Yi would at most rent a few floors of office space in a well-secured area in the city center, but he actually built an entire building. She underestimated the depth of Chen Yi's assets.

"Um, Chen, Futaba..." Kawasaki Saki's weak voice rang out from the corner.

"The hunting dogs seem to be malfunctioning..."

"What bug is it?" After stopping the discussion, Chen Yi and Rio Futaba came to Kawasaki together.

Chen Yi stared at the 'hunting dog' carefully but couldn't see any hardware problems.

That must be a software problem, Chen Yi said, opening the log file.

The process has terminated for unknown reasons.

"Can you reproduce what you just did?" Chen Yi was very curious about how this bug was triggered.

“Well…” Kawasaki thought for a moment, then made up a new set of instructions.

The 'Hound' was executed as scheduled without any bugs.

"?"

Futaba was puzzled.

"Heisenberg bug?"

"I don't know." Chen Yi thought of a possibility: the AI ​​fixed itself.

After all, the machine spirit is capable of doing something like this.

Kawasaki repeated the process several times, but still did not trigger the bug.

"Let's record it as CNR for now," Chen Yi said, just to be on the safe side.

......

"Yi Jun, what are you playing?"

When she came down to deliver the snacks, Mai Sakurajima saw a virtual room and a small red robot on Chen Yi's screen.

"Training the AI," Chen Yi replied.

"I know this is reinforcement learning... but... this virtual room looks completely empty? What are they learning?"

You'll see in a little while.

Chen Yi kept everyone in suspense.

After giving the snacks to Saki Kawasaki and Rio Futaba, Mai Sakurajima returned to Chen Yi's side and sat down, watching curiously.

The little red robot on the screen sat on a stool, occasionally yawning, stretching, standing up, and moving its joints.

"...?"