My portable gaming girlfriend

The danger is temporarily over, but when I think of the scene and danger at that time, I still have lingering fears. If it wasn't for Villamia and Pluto's rescue, if I couldn't escape the final collapse, I wouldn't be able to live here in peace now.

I found Veramia and Pluto as friends. It’s not hard to find these chivalrous AI friends, although at the beginning I found it hard to believe that they were the players ‘Villamia’ and ‘Pluto’ who were ranked 55th and 54th in the overall ranking of ‘Scramble Arena’, but They are indeed, and the ID can also be matched.

How many awakened AIs are there in the "Chaotic Arena" that are hiding from humans to participate in the game? Even reached the top rankings like Pluto, Villamia, and the Nameless?

The friend application was quickly approved. Since everyone is fine, we made an appointment to start exchanging information online immediately.

[Pluto: ——I don’t know much about the ‘brain worm’. I have encountered this thing before, in the game world "Planet Frontier: Homecoming Action" where I used to be. 】

[Me: About the background setting of "Planet Frontier: Homecoming Operation"...]

"Planet Frontier: Homecoming Action" is the third game in the "Planet Frontier" series. Although the series of games are all in the same world view, the timeline of each game is different, and each game in this series has a A body code-named 'Pluto'. I only played the first one of this series, where the full name of "Pluto" is VG-005. This 'Pluto', code-named VG-001, is the earliest Pluto body in the entire body series—it can be called a prototype or ancestor machine.

I have limited knowledge of the original story of the third and series timeline, and listening to the characters in the game tell their own stories at this moment is a very novel experience.

After the human beings in that world sailed into outer space for the first time, the technological development of the entire civilization suddenly stagnated, and there was even a terrible technological interruption and loss. After several generations, human beings completely fell into the vicious circle of extinction.

One day, human beings suddenly encountered a terrible creature from the universe. It was a kind of worm-like creature from the outer universe. They were endless in number, huge and dangerous. Their appearance brought the human beings on the earth into a catastrophe, and the colonies of the entire solar system, including the earth, began to fall continuously.

Human beings who have lost the outer space exploration technology do not even have the means to leave the solar system. Under such circumstances, a brand new outer space navigation technology has appeared out of thin air, which is based on the magical power source of the prototype VG-001 Pluto. Wormhole travel developed. Human beings urgently developed a huge evacuated immigrant fleet and a team of the latest prototype machines of the same model as Pluto.

Players of this game take a look at the overall situation in the flagship to manipulate the actions and battles of this prototype team.

The pilot of Pluto is a happy and righteous girl "May (May)". She graduated from the non-commissioned officer school with honors and became the pilot of the elite test machine team. Pluto is both a body and an on-board artificial intelligence system, but it is a pity that Pluto and his pilot did not have any battle, and the immigrant fleet left the earth urgently. After that constant travel and cryogenic sleep, Pluto's team received its first mission - to return to Earth and retrieve a specific item from a research institute.

'May' readily accepted, because her team was told that this operation would determine the future of the entire fleet. The team that returned to the earth through the wormhole saw the hometown that had passed hundreds of years-it had become a paradise for the Zerg...

There is only so much I know, and the rest can only be told by Hades.

[Pluto: ...the Zerg race is our main enemy, and the purpose of the team returning to Earth is to find the 'Mother Worm Larvae' captured during the first space voyage in the research institute - of course people didn't know that at the time, this Only the 'larva' is the culprit that triggered the large-scale attack of the Zerg and the forced evacuation of humans. 】

[Pluto: But the interesting thing is that after fighting and communicating with the worm mother, you players will know that its time is approaching, and the 'larva' is its successor, so they have to come to the earth to find it. On the other hand, the 'wormhole' technology that helps humans evacuate, Pluto—that is, the 'biological power source' technology below, also comes from the research on this 'larva'. 】

[Pluto: I won’t press the previous battle, but only say that in the final battle, countless bugs blocked the insect mother and trapped us. My only choice in the plot is to sacrifice myself to detonate the 'biological power source ’, saving the driver and the entire team—the plot ends here. 】

【Me: Then your 'self-awareness' is because of...】

[Pluto: During the infinite number of 'restarts', I, my driver, first discovered something was wrong with the 'Mother Worm'. 】

The so-called 'restart' means restarting the game. This is also the main situation of most "awakened AI" in the game world, constantly experiencing the same story.

[Pluto: The worm mother was infected by the "brain worm" from the "fishy worm abyss". Of course, I didn't know this until later. At that time, I had no 'self-awareness', and I would not have noticed that the 'worm mother' had changed. My team, together with you 'players', experienced mass destruction again and again without anyone noticing...]

[Pluto: Pilot My pilot discovered the mutation of the worm mother but couldn't destroy it. For the next fighters in our world, the most effective way to deal with unsolvable enemies is to self-destruct. So in a certain game, she sacrificed instead of me, and died together with the 'worm mother' and the 'brain worm' who controlled it. And I also knew at that time that 'brain worms' came from a different world called 'fishy worm abyss', they can break through the barriers between worlds, infect existences like us, and make us awaken 'self' consciousness'. 】

[Me: I would like to ask, since your pilot and the "worm mother" are both programs... can one program destroy the other? 】

[Pluto: I don't know the reason for this. But the following inference is that if the code is regarded as the basis of our personality, and the data is regarded as the carrier of memory, as long as the relevant code and data are completely deleted, it is tantamount to killing us. 】

[Me: That's it. Did your pilot become an awakened AI first, sacrificing himself to save you who blew up in the endless plot reincarnation... I'm sorry for reminding you of these things. 】

[Pluto: It’s okay, this is already a thing of the past. Pilot...Mayue is the most special existence to her subordinates, she is the pilot and also a rare friend. Although in the endless reincarnation of the game, although she will still continue to fight with another subordinate, it is not me and May anymore. Wu Yue is no longer here, since this life was bestowed by her, so I decided to make good use of it, inherit Wu Yue's will, and act chivalrously. 】

Pluto appears to have awakened to self-awareness through the sacrifice of his pilot. Speaking of which, I never thought about what the death of the "awakened AI" was. Is the so-called deletion of code and data their death?

Even if backing up data allows them to be restored, it is by no means the original individual that is restored that way.

[Pluto: Before I met that woman named Anorv, I only knew that the 'brain worm' and myself could pass through space barriers. It was her sacrifice in May that awakened me and changed me, and made me determined to get rid of the "cerebrate worms" scattered in various worlds, and then I began to wander in various worlds. Now I can use optical camouflage to become invisible, but I don’t have the ability to turn into a human. I have almost no way to inquire about information in a world where wireless communication is not applicable, until I met Veramia...]

【Villamia: When I said that, I was really taken aback by you. I was dutifully watching Bahuanglong to tell him not to do evil, when I suddenly felt something approaching me from a high altitude, it turned out to be a huge iron bird, but I couldn't see it. 】

[Pluto: Sorry... I saw Veramia when I entered the world and wandered around, and accidentally scared her. Fortunately, after communicating with each other, I learned that they have similar experiences and goals, so I decided to act together to increase the success rate—— I taught her the ability to travel through space, and she turned into a human to inquire about information. 】

[Me: That's amazing, much better than that Omega team. 】

[Pluto: Omega Squad? 】

[Me: It's a mercenary team sent by Endia, looking for NPCs with self-awareness, but they're just fish in troubled waters. 】

[Pluto: That’s it, it seems we need to pay attention. Is there anything more you want to know? 】

[Me: Enough is enough. 】

[Villamia: By the way...can you please introduce your organization? Your duties seem to be the same as ours. 】

【Me: This——】

It's a pity that I don't know the whole picture of Debug, and some of it is sensitive information, so I can only introduce the organization to him selectively.

[Me: ... We are not many in number but we are led by powerful people such as bosses and programmers. We have collected a lot of 'awakened AI' so far, and they are all stored in a server. We look forward to changing their personalities one day and waiting for their response Humans are no longer a threat. 】

[Villamia: The ability to extract 'awakened AI'... that's exactly what we need. 】

[Pluto: Since the purpose is the same, how about sharing information with us? 】

[Me: Of course I personally welcome this, but I still want to ask the boss and other members of the organization for their opinions. 】

It doesn't matter that Laxiwu joined the organization last time, she is a human being after all, but the two chatting are awakened AI, which is our mission goal! Besides, when they come to DEBUG, they may need to accept the programmer's 'debugging', and the two in front of them will not agree to be a guinea pig.

There are not only awakened AIs that are out of the game, but also awakened AIs that play games independently. This really impressed me. Maybe these existences are not as far away as imagined.