"As you can see, Ascension Technology's actions this time have indeed had a certain impact on the entire Ziggurat.
However, the specific situation depends on subsequent handling. We will actively respond to this crisis and believe that we will quickly regain the leading position in the city network."
The Ziggurat manager was explaining to the blue-eyed suit man.
The suit man's expression also returned to normal, and he just said plainly to the manager.
"We do not want to see a new city network that is out of our control. You had best take control of the situation regardless of the cost.
Ye Corporation will increase its funding to you to help you deal with Ascension Technology. Don't disappoint us."
Clearly, this suit man was from Ye Corporation.
From the very beginning of building the city network, Ziggurat received funding from Ye Corporation.
Ye Corporation's influence on Ziggurat is immense. Now, as Ziggurat continues to develop, the two still maintain this relationship, and Ye Corporation is still Ziggurat's largest source of funding.
It can be said that although the Night City network is operated and maintained by Ziggurat, Ye Corporation can actually control this network.
Therefore, when the city network encountered a crisis, Ye Corporation immediately sent someone to Ziggurat to negotiate, leading to the scene of the two talking.
And facing the person sent by Ye Corporation, the Ziggurat manager naturally received him actively, keeping a very low profile.
"Thank you for the help provided by Ye Corporation. I believe this matter will be dealt with quickly.
After all, Ascension Technology is just a company that hasn't been established for long. The product content released multiple times before has not shown results, and I believe this time will be the same."
"You had best be. If the Night City network becomes history because of this, you should know what will happen?"
The deep blue eyes of the Ye Corporation suit man stared at the manager, making him feel a bit intimidated.
As a senior executive of Ziggurat, he often met with people from Ye Corporation.
He had met many people from Ye Corporation, whether they were agents, employees, or senior executives.
Although these people were different individuals, many of them had the same blue eyes. Blue eyes did not seem to be exclusive to the suit man in front of him.
Every time he was looked at by these blue eyes, it made him feel as if he was being spied on by some strange entity.
"Yes."
The manager quickly replied.
If they couldn't handle this crisis, the company's revenue loss would only be one aspect. After all, besides Night City, Ziggurat also contracted networks for several other North American cities.
The real danger was the pressure from Ye Corporation. If Ye Corporation withdrew its funding to Ziggurat because of this, then Ziggurat would truly be severely hit.
...
After completing the negotiation with Ziggurat, the suit man left Ziggurat.
Although the suit man seemed very calm during the negotiation just now, it was clear that the impact of network loss of control on Ye Corporation was far greater than imagined.
Municipal Center.
In an office on the top floor, core area of the Ye Corporation building.
Before the huge transparent floor-to-ceiling window of the office, a suit man with blue eyes was looking at the scenery outside, while his consciousness was immersed in the network.
If Luoqi were here, he would recognize that this guy was the mysterious Mr. Blue Eyes who issued the Crystal Palace attack commission to Wei in the King of the City ending.
At this moment, he was looking at a program already downloaded in his personal system.
This was the network modulator upgrade program provided by the Ascension Technology official website, used to upgrade the network connection program to connect to the network provided by Ascension Technology.
A blue light flashed in Mr. Blue Eyes' eyes, the system ran, trying to parse this upgrade program and find the secret of the Ascension Technology network connection.
But after a long time, he failed. He couldn't crack this program.
The encryption method of the entire program was different from all technologies on the market. He couldn't parse it at all.
Frowning, Mr. Blue Eyes spoke to a mysterious communication channel.
"Can't crack it, can't parse it either."
"Upload the program to me, and I'll figure something out. You first try running the program to connect to their network."
A cold voice came from the other end of the channel, like an emotionless robot.
Hearing the incoming instruction, Mr. Blue Eyes ran the program in his system.
The program executed very quickly, completing the upgrade in just a few seconds.
Mr. Blue Eyes checked the system changes and found that the network connection driver program related to the system had an extra encrypted code layer.
But this code layer still couldn't be cracked.
Without continuing to work on cracking the Ascension Technology program, Mr. Blue Eyes chose to access the Ascension Technology network.
In an instant, Mr. Blue Eyes' consciousness appeared in cyberspace.
However, when he was about to explore this cyberspace, he found that there was an invisible wall all around, preventing him from moving in cyberspace.
A window popped up in front of him.
[Welcome to Ascension Network.....]
[Registering network service.....]
[Anomaly detected (Anomaly: Smart AI disguised access)]
[Registration regulations changing...]
The Ascension Network's initialization process was interrupted, and the pop-up window also changed from normal blue to dazzling red.
A female voice, even colder than the one in the mysterious communication just now, sounded in his ear.
"Any AI wishing to access Ascension Network must first register for service and accept regulation management.
Intelligent AI disguised as a personal user attempting access has been detected. This behavior has seriously violated the Ascension Network management treaty. A first warning is now issued.
Please register as an intelligent AI through the interface provided in the pop-up window within three minutes, otherwise you will be forcibly kicked out of Ascension Network.
If multiple attempts are made to violate the treaty and illegally access, Ascension Technology has the right to take mandatory action, including but not limited to executing forced termination procedures on illegal artificial intelligence!"
This was a warning from Lisandra. Mr. Blue Eyes' behavior of disguising himself as a human to connect to cyberspace as an intelligent AI did not escape Lisandra's eyes.
The initialization registration program immediately detected this anomaly and issued him a warning.
Hearing the warning issued by Ascension Network, Mr. Blue Eyes was startled.
He didn't expect his identity to be detected by Ascension Technology.
That's right, Mr. Blue Eyes' true identity is actually a rogue intelligent AI, or rather, this AI has occupied Mr. Blue Eyes' original body, controlling his thoughts and nerves.
Mr. Blue Eyes' body was a puppet he controlled.
And when he wanted to access Ascension Network, although he was using human network equipment and identifiers, it was still him, the intelligent AI, controlling things from behind.
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