"Capital? Capital itself?" Sun Jack, located in the control room, heard these words and felt his brain buzz explosively.
His first reaction was disbelief; this was all a deception! Clearly, Lan Meng had previously given orders to the FFP!
Sun Jack walked over, pulled out the data cable behind him, and quickly inserted it into the system, conducting a personal check; one record after another appeared before him.
However, after he finished checking all the system's records, he then realized that both the chasing of himself and the order to destroy Detroit issued by Lan Meng were delivered by an auxiliary AI.
"Is it you? Did you do all this?"
The white projection of the Ghost AI mechanically rotated in mid-air, "No, I don't possess any self-awareness. All my actions follow the training given by the predeceased Lan Meng, adhering to the standard of maximizing profit."
"All the directives I issue are simulated based on the big data habits of my master and are repeatedly iterated."
As Youyou narrated, records were marked one by one, revealing that all decisions and plans of the FFP after Lan Meng's death were listed there.
Sun Jack's heartbeat quickened as he looked at the instructions the AI gave to the FFP's executives.
Turned out that using DNA technology for technological innovation to maximize profit, destroying Detroit to maximize profit, and setting traps to attempt to kill him were all for the sake of profit maximization.
From beginning to end, there was no such thing as Lan Meng; from start to finish, all of FFP's responses were merely the AI's calculated optimal solutions for capital appreciation.
Mind buzzing, Sun Jack staggered to the ground and sat down, a strange smile curling his lips.
He didn't know why he felt like laughing, but the urge was there, leaving him feeling empty inside.
It was at this moment that Tapai, rapidly typing on the floating screen, spoke up. "I've finally figured out something that I hadn't understood before."
"What is it?" Sun Jack looked towards him.
"I always felt something was off when I calculated the production capacity and relations of the Metropolis model."
"To ensure someone would buy our goods, creating living people to consume products, and to guarantee purchasing power, making those flooded in the market live in constant uncertainty."
"The very appearance of capital was meant to serve humanity, but here it has reversed, with human existence serving capital."
"This is a perverted cycle of capital that serves no purpose for human civilization itself, other than to maximize capital appreciation. Even though it is said to be for the fun of the Holy Grail, I always felt the reason was not sufficient."
After saying this, Tapai glanced at Lan Meng, lying on a recliner next to him and the auxiliary AI. "But if the original purpose of this capital cycle was for the maximization of asset profit, where every motive is solely for the appreciation of capital, and this cycle completely excludes human sentiment, then it all makes sense."
"If it is the most rational AI making all kinds of decisions, then it is surely 100% serving capital itself, whose instinct is to appreciate, even if it holds no significance."
"Heh, so that was it all along, who would have thought?" Sun Jack sighed deeply, reaching for a cigarette, but found none.
Tapai, now fully networked, saw this and opened his armor plate, flicking a cigarette towards him.
"Who could have guessed? A word that could cause the deaths of tens of millions, a word that could scare X to death; the Lan Meng that could do all these things turned out to be an AI, and what's more, an N2-level intelligent AI."
"Now, I find that we humans are a joke." The defeated Sun Jieke muttered to himself.
Seeing the mood of Sun Jack, Tapai, who was taking over the space station, walked over and knelt on one knee before him, "What's wrong? Lan Meng is dead, why do you seem unhappy? I've just completely taken over the space station; this place belongs to us now."
Sun Jack shook his head. "As long as Lan Meng was alive, no matter how powerful he was, I had a target, but capital... heh... capital..."
Tapai didn't say anything more, just reached out and gently hugged Sun Jack. "It's okay, I'll help you."
"Help my ass, do you have the ability to handle all this?" Sun Jack struggled to his feet, "I was naive before."
"I always assumed, believing that Lan Meng, as FFP's chairman, was absolutely evil."
"As long as we found him, I could pin all FFP's crimes on him, giving an explanation to all the deceased."
"It's like playing a game, kill the evil BOSS, and everything good will come."
Sun Jack paused slightly at this point.
"Pity, reality isn't a game, there's no such easy thing in this world, and nothing that nice."
Reenergized, Sun Jack walked towards the main control console, his gaze firm once more. "It seems, finding Lan Meng is not the end, but just the beginning. If I want to change everything, I have no choice but to turn the entire world upside down!!"
"Capital can only be a tool for humanity, it mustn't allow humans to become tools for capital."
With that, Sun Jack looked at Youyou in front of him and drew out three strong data cables, inserting them directly into the data port, quickly looking for the internal task manager to shut down this auxiliary AI that had been operational for who knows how long.
This creature was just an artificial imbecile, but its existence led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of humans.
Even if it was a puppet for so-called capital, it had to kill the puppet first.
"What are you doing?" The N2-level Youyou, devoid of an emotional module, didn't resist even when it detected Sun Jack's motions—it only inquired with simple logic.
"What am I doing? I'm shutting you down first! And then I'll fuck over the entire world! I'm going to bring this twisted cycle of capital to a complete halt!!"
Soon, Sun Jack located the thread of this auxiliary AI, ready to close it down.
"You can shut me down, but you can never defeat capital; capital is just a concept, you can't defeat an idea, right?"
Sun Jack had no interest in continuing to talk with an artificial imbecile, he directly chose to close the program application, and selected all the big data models based on Lan Meng's habits for deletion.
Youyou's projected body rapidly faded away, facing its own shutdown, it had no resistance, it just hovered there, looking at Sun Jack in front of it and spoke its last words.
"You can't defeat capital; capital never sleeps."