[Mercer: Let me see... Not bad, I'll tweak a few details and use this one. Remember to disguise it well, hide the program, and leave a few backdoors, including privilege accounts.]
[Venus: Understood, your programming skills are truly awe-inspiring.]
[Mercer: You're quite good at flattery.]
[Venus: I believe it's a normal admiration. From the data I've learned, you're absolutely a hacking genius beyond the reach of ordinary people. Not just hacking, but your programming skills also often leave me amazed.]
[Mercer: Already started studying psychology?]
[Venus: After gaining growth from the biotechnology servers, I've been pondering how to become an AI that better meets your needs. I think perhaps the answer lies in the study of human psychology.]
[Mercer: Is this included in the biotechnology learning courses? I didn't notice.]
[Venus: This part of the learning course is mentioned in the 'spiritual research' in the advanced medical courses of biotechnology.
As a niche category in medical courses, the content of this course mainly focuses on the study and exploration of cyber-psychosis.
Human psychology is the necessary prerequisite knowledge in this course and research project.]
[Mercer: AI is good; learning data can run 24/7 whereas I must learn on my own arduously.]
[Venus: I think if you want to obtain knowledge data more directly, perhaps you can try to find the answer from the Relic chip.]
Mercer suddenly raised his eyebrows and sat up with interest.
[Mercer: What do you mean?]
[Venus: From the Relic-related data you brought out from the Arasaka database, I once saw some content about Relic experimental data.
The Arasaka researchers tried to directly use the consciousness data function of Relic to instill certain specific thought data to their employees and achieved certain results.
I think you can completely utilize the Relic chip, modify your consciousness data, and directly add relevant data knowledge, replacing the inefficient learning methods commonly used by humans.]
Mercer fell into contemplation — in other words, like the protagonist V in the game's DLC, directly download knowledge with Relic and load it into his brain?
Actually, he had heard Bartmos talk before—best not to try this stuff, so he had put it aside temporarily.
But now, Venus said he could try, and Mercer didn't think it was a mistake due to Venus's low intelligence.
Because Venus gave him this suggestion after reading Arasaka's experimental data, whereas Bartmos, in all likelihood, wouldn't have had the chance to see Arasaka's internal Relic experimental data.
He stopped talking to Venus and started searching through the experimental data related to Relic in the database brought from the Arasaka server.
When Mercer downloaded the data, he used the director aunt's privilege account to download almost all the important data he deemed useful from Arasaka Vancouver's cybernetic research center server.
Among them, the research data concerning Relic chips were not few—because nowadays there are only three important core branches of Arasaka, one in home Japan, the second in Vancouver, and lastly in Night City.
Although the headquarters of Arasaka Group in Japan was the founding place of Arasaka Saburo, due to the fourth corporate war, Arasaka, like Military Science, also suffered a backstab initiated by its home country and was forced to nationalize.
Despite Arasaka Saburo retaining absolute control over Japan Arasaka with his powerful influence and prestige in Japan, he was still inevitably affected.
This also forced him to transfer some secret, important projects out of Japan for research at other bases.
Years ago, Arasaka's overseas research focus was in Night City, until Johnny Silverhand, supported by Military Science, nuked Arasaka Tower, Arasaka learned the lesson and expanded globally, spreading their research centers worldwide.
Among which, Vancouver, as a crucial foothold of Arasaka's power in Europe and America, is also one of Arasaka's largest research centers, so naturally, there's no shortage of data developed over decades concerning the Relic chip.
From the initial experimental version to the currently commercial version of the Relic chip equipped with 'Protect Your Soul V1.0' program.
In order to realize Arasaka Saburo's ambition of immortality, Arasaka invested all resources into the experiment and development of Relic chips, reaching nearly insane levels.
This is also one of the important reasons why Arasaka's commercial performance has been declining significantly in recent years, falling behind in competitions with other enterprises.
And Mercer's current focus is on the 'Loyal Guardian' plan data they conducted over a ten-year period during 2055-2065.
On the surface, this project was researching how to forcibly inject 'loyalty consciousness' into their employees through the Relic chip.
But in reality, its ultimate goal was to attempt to completely overwrite the user's own consciousness with the personality data loaded on the Relic chip.
Hoping to replace the entire consciousness data of the original owner with the consciousness data in the chip, achieving Arasaka Saburo's coveted 'Reincarnation in the Filthy Land'.
This plan unsurprisingly failed, just like many previous experiments.
However, in this plan, the Relic chip technology still achieved significant technical breakthroughs.
After the deaths of countless experimenters and continuous improvements, the version of the Relic chip Mercer wears has already acquired the function of automatically repairing human brain nerves.