area51novel Chapter 167 Anime Movies Related to the Omnic Crisis
Chapter 167 Anime Movies Related to the Omnic Crisis
Huo Yuhao is currently in a stalemate. As long as the soul power reserves in the milk bottle are not completely depleted, it will be difficult for Huo Yuhao to lose.
This assessment may seem to treat everyone equally, but in reality, students from different grades face opponents of varying strengths. Some are more powerful, others more difficult to deal with, but generally, they all need to rely on overwhelming numbers to defeat the Shrek Academy students being assessed.
However, where there are general cases, there are exceptions, and the situation He Caitou faced was an exception. This large, dark-skinned man encountered a rather unlucky opponent: a 6,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
This is, after all, an online exam in the Panlong Realm, so many students will face opponents from magical beasts and non-human races within the Panlong Realm, with only a very small number facing soul beasts from the Douluo Continent.
I don’t know if it’s to prevent students from taking advantage of their familiarity with the characteristics of spirit beasts during the assessment (even if they do take advantage of their own abilities), but every student who encounters a spirit beast always encounters one with overwhelming strength, like the dark gold dinosaur bear that He Caitou encountered.
Shrek Academy is full of geniuses. Under normal circumstances, a Soul Master student from Shrek Academy should be able to easily defeat a 6,000-year-old Soul Beast, if not with ease.
However, there are geniuses among humans who can fight across levels, and there are also spirit beasts with exceptionally high racial stats who can fight across age limits.
If we were to rank the racial stats of the spirit beasts in Douluo Continent, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear would definitely be at the top.
Take the 6,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear that He Caitou encountered, for example. Even if this big shot were to face a soul beast that was over 50,000 years old, he would not be without a chance of winning.
He Caitou is indeed a genius student at Shrek Academy, but he's only a level 44 Soul Master at the moment. How could a Soul Master possibly fight against a Soul Beast with at least the strength of a Soul Douluo?
He Caitou's survival test turned into a real game of hide-and-seek. He could be spotted by the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but he absolutely could not let the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear catch him or enter its attack range.
In that forest, He Caitou tried to take to the air, but once airborne, his survival test mode would revert to normal. This meant that at that time, He Caitou would face a variety of attacks from hordes of flying magical beasts.
That concludes our introduction to the hide-and-seek story; let's return our focus to Longyou.
The sky in the assessment space began to darken without anyone noticing. Long You, who still couldn't find a suitable location for a shelter in the Gobi Desert, built his shelter fortress at the junction of the stone pillar forest and the Gobi Desert.
Long You, who had just breathed a sigh of relief while hiding in the shelter, couldn't help but curse under his breath as he looked at the images transmitted back by the large stealth soul-guided unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in front of him.
The Stone Pillar Forest is about to get lively. However, this liveliness isn't caused by attackers, but rather by the sharp-headed monsters living in the Stone Pillar Forest starting their hunt.
Just now, a large stealth soul-guided unmanned reconnaissance aircraft detected that, on the vast Gobi Desert, countless large ants, each about one meter long, suddenly surged out like a flood.
Although these ants were all covered in sturdy carapaces and had large, menacing-looking mandibles that made Long You's scalp tingle, he was also convinced that these giant ant monsters were definitely food for the pointed-head monsters in the Stone Pillar Forest.
The reason for this judgment was simply because Long You discovered that pointed-headed magical beasts had begun to fly towards this area from the stone pillar forest.
The appearance and movement of the giant ant monsters were all relatively quiet and not enough to provoke the pointed-head monsters. According to Long You's observation, these giant ant monsters also showed no intention of attacking the stone pillar forest.
It's not a territorial war, and there's no provocation involved. What other reason could the spiky monster, hiding in the stone pillar like an otaku, have for suddenly appearing at this time, besides hunting?
However, Long You was no longer afraid at this point. Now that he knew the reason why the pointed-headed monsters had been dispatched, Long You could use some means to blend in and continue to stay safely in this small sanctuary.
Upon detecting that a pointed monster was about to emerge from the stone pillar beside him using his soul-guided device, Long You immediately used a simulation soul-guided device to visually transform his shelter into a tall stone pillar.
Although no pointed magical beasts are currently emerging from this stone pillar, which is merely a light and shadow effect, pointed magical beasts observe the outside world with their eyes. They won't notice from a distance that the stone pillar is just a light and shadow effect, nor will they rush towards it just because no pointed magical beasts are emerging. In short, Longyou is safe.
Lying in his shelter, having witnessed a predatory feast, Long You was just about to shift his position to continue hiding when suddenly, jet-black text appeared before his eyes:
{Student Long You, fifth grade, survived for four hours, meeting the passing standard. The student may choose to leave the assessment space.}
The surprise came too suddenly. Knowing that he had obtained a passing score, Long You didn't change his posture and immediately chose to quit.
Survival assessments, besides testing the trainees' abilities, also severely test their mental fortitude. Unfortunately, Long You, who has had a smooth life in both his past and present lives, doesn't really have much to boast about in terms of mental fortitude.
If he had been weighed down by his exam results, Long You could still give himself an excuse to persevere. But now that he had passed the exam, Long You suddenly lost all motivation to keep going.
Even if this choice is one of whether to persist or not, Long You doesn't care that he's already stepped into the trap set by the academy; he's genuinely impatient.
The view before him returned to the cubicles of the Panlong Classroom. Long You peeked out and figured the option presented by the dark black text earlier wasn't a trap. At most, it was just a small assessment item, something to be scored.
In four hours, many people had already been eliminated, and it seemed that none of the lower grades had been spared. There were still some survivors among the upper grades, but their numbers were dwindling.
He greeted Lin Zhengze, Huo Yuhao, and Song He, who were gathered together, and then took off his Panlong suit and walked over.
"Everyone came out early! How did it go? Did you receive the notification from Panlong Intelligence that you passed the assessment?"
"Hey! Xiao You, why are you bringing up something I don't want to talk about? Look at my face, do I look like someone who received that kind of notification?"
"This is outrageous! Upperclassmen have no rights! Not all of us are geniuses, so why do they think we upperclassmen can last longer than lowerclassmen?"
"Ahem, ahem, Senior Brother Lin! We've all been admitted to Shrek Academy. Logically speaking, we're all geniuses, and senior students should be able to last longer than junior students."
"Hey! You're here to rub salt in my wounds, aren't you!"
Having passed the test, Long You was clearly very depressed, never wanting to go through such a survival test again. To relieve this depression, Long You decided to transfer other people's smiles onto his own face.
Hearing Lin Zhengze's furious roar, Long You knew he had succeeded. All he had to do next was dodge Lin Zhengze's Diamond Star Fist, or some other attack.
In short, as long as he doesn't get caught and beaten up right now, Long You think he'll feel much better.
As it turned out, with his worries about failing the assessment weighing on his mind, Lin Zhengze really didn't have the energy to cause any trouble with Long You. After giving Long You a few simple punches, he slunk back down, and the chubby Song He also looked dejected.
Lin Zhengze managed to hold out for three hours and fifty minutes in the assessment space, while Song He was eliminated in less than twenty minutes. Even though this was the chubby boy's first year experiencing the academy's opening assessment, he had no doubt that this assessment would make his semester exceptionally miserable.
Amidst sighs and lamentations, the last of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Soul Guidance Department (there are actually five Four Heavenly Kings, that's common knowledge, so there's no need to emphasize it further) – He Caitou – also stepped out of his cubicle.
In a confined space, facing a 6,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, He Caitou actually lasted for almost four and a half hours, which is truly amazing.
Above the Panlong Classroom was a huge soul-guided display screen, clearly showing which cubicles were still in use. When He Caitou came out, of the hundred students from the Soul Guidance Department who participated in the assessment, no more than five were still working hard.
"Alright, everyone's here. Tell me what kind of assessment you encountered. I have a feeling that I was definitely targeted in this assessment. Panlong AI is still retaliating against me for what happened when I first logged in."
"Huh? That can't be right. Even if Panlong AI has a high level of intelligence, it's still just an AI. It shouldn't do something like this, deliberately seeking revenge!"
This kind of deliberate revenge feels almost like it's driven by human emotion.
"It's hard to say whether this Panlong AI has developed human emotions yet, but if you haven't experienced the situation during the assessment where there was absolutely no preparation time and the assessment venue was already selected the moment you logged in, I think it's necessary for me to request the academy to inspect the Panlong AI's operating procedures."
Whether it's artificial intelligence or smart home assistants, the presence of emotions isn't scary; what's frightening is their desire to use their thinking to dominate human lives, and to manipulate humans into following a pre-programmed narrative.
"Is it really that scary?"
"Not now, because our network is not developed enough, and the areas that artificial intelligence can influence are limited."
However, if we fail to pay attention to this trend and continue to build up the network while neglecting it, we may well face a mechanical crisis led by artificial intelligence soul guides in the future.
However, I have to thank Panlong Intelligence for causing this trouble. If it hadn't shown this tendency, I probably would have overlooked the problem.
It seems we need a completely new version of the smart butler soul tool.
"Then, does that mean the Panlong Realm will have to be closed? Our floating fortress project hasn't even succeeded yet!"
As natives of the Douluo World, He Caitou and his companions had never seen a movie like "Minecraft Crisis," and they didn't have a clear understanding of it. Therefore, their current focus was on the regret that the Panlong Realm might be closing.
Narrowing his eyes slightly, Long You realized he had overlooked another problem. While the current leadership of the Soul Guidance Department was willing to listen to his advice, if they, like He Caitou and others, lacked a deep enough understanding of the AI crisis, then even if the Panlong AI crisis could be resolved this time, it would leave the seeds of another AI crisis on the Douluo Continent.
The opening assessment is now officially over. All students who did not see a black message indicating they passed the assessment will need to undergo another assessment. If they fail the second assessment, they will be expelled.
Leaving the Panlong classroom, Long You, preoccupied with his own thoughts, didn't go to the cafeteria for a meal but instead asked Huo Yuhao to bring him some food back.
Now, Long You needs to work hard to create an outline of some classic Omnic Crisis movies he watched in his previous life. Once he has this outline, Long You can quickly produce an Omnic Crisis-themed anime with the help of Bourne.
Although what is depicted in the anime is not yet reality, Long You believes that after watching the anime, the higher-ups of the Academy's Soul Guidance Department will definitely be more vigilant about the level of intelligence of artificial intelligence.
Regarding artificial intelligence, Long You believes it can improve operational speed and comprehensiveness, but there is absolutely no need to develop an AI emotional system. A world of only 0s and 1s, though cold, is reliable enough.
While Huo Yuhao brought back lunch, Long You selected the movies he would be referencing and compiled a written outline.
By the time they reached fifth grade, the Soul Guidance Department no longer had any fixed courses. Long You planned to spend three days creating a rough version of the animated film he envisioned, titled "Intelligent Crisis," and ask Xiao Yan to come up with a plan to improve the AI Soul Guidance Device, aiming to solve the Panlong AI problem as quickly as possible.
At noon, Huo Yuhao brought a fragrant braised pork knuckle into Long You's private soul-guided laboratory. While munching on the tender and flavorful braised pork knuckle, Long You sighed all the while.
During the holidays, I was grinding for the War God Palace design blueprints and the floating fortresses in the Panlong Realm online game. Now that school has started, I even have to grind for anime movies. The art style is getting weirder and weirder. It was a perfectly good fantasy style, but they're forcing it into the sci-fi direction.
On the first weekend after the start of the semester, Long You, who had overestimated his hand speed, was fast asleep in his dormitory. Meanwhile, Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and other teachers and deans of the Soul Guidance Department in the teaching building were all watching the anime movie playing on the big screen with serious expressions.