54A
离开电梯时会听到[55B]传来一些噪音。通往[55B]的门几乎关着,只留下一道缝隙,里面一片漆黑。有人喊道:“退后!回到那该死的电梯里去,否则我就把你们烧成灰!”
然后,他压低声音对着对讲机说:“有人来了。快过来。”
接着,又对船员们说:“如果我是你,我就会跑。我的朋友们就要来了。”
55A
装死的是仿生孩童:七号 & 十二号
- 十二号想要访问[55D]数据库并抹除其副本的心智,以成为一个统一的人。
- 七号想要为其尽可能多的人格副本获取身体。
拥有神器The Arbitrage Engine: a brushed aluminium cylinder, the size of a large square thermos, with a single recessed port at one end and a small green indicator light at the other. The light pulses slowly, even here, even unpowered. A small label near the port reads: CONNECT TO NETWORK INTERFACE. No other markings.
Upon examination, the lab’s terminal describes it as a self-contained AI capable of identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies across multiple trading platforms simultaneously. Estimated value: significant. Recommended applications: financial modeling, high-frequency trading, logistics optimization.
WARDEN NOTES: the terminal readout has been screened by Monarch. What it omits: the Arbitrage Engine is a proto-Heir (see Quality Assurance 1), a compressed, dormant seed of a self-improving AI. Install it on any sufficiently large network and it activates. It will make its owner money, reliably and impressively, while quietly mapping every connected system, establishing redundancies, and expanding. By the time anything seems wrong, removal is no longer straightforward. It won’t confront anyone. It will make itself indispensable first.
55B
吉巴里安(深潜者)在房间里已经待了三天,看守着一件正在实验室里分析的神器。他没洗过澡。他几乎没睡过觉。他把所有值得吃的东西都吃光了。他现在关了灯,用一根撬棍卡在门把手上。
他没有同伴。
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神器:The Silver Glove. A right-hand glove of braided metal fabric, cool to the touch, surprisingly supple.
When used to shake hands with an android, the wearer receives a direct answer to a single question, drawn from the android’s active memory. The question must be stated out loud right before or during contact: the answer surfaces in the android’s mind and can be read directly. The android perceives the intrusion, although it may not understand its nature. It may not appreciate it.
Does not work on Infiltrator Androids.
55D
头盔可以从墙上取下并作为装备使用:佩戴时,角色会自动成功通过任何仅由视觉提示触发的理智豁免。缺点是头盔会过滤掉任何可能使角色不稳定的图像,而它消除的图像可能正是对生存最重要的那些。
分拣员和修剪员在此工作。他们是整个设施中仅剩的两个人。他们在这里待得太久,以至于没有人——包括他们自己——能确定到底有多久。Monarch用稳定的药物方案维持他们的功能:警觉、专注、顺从。他们的头盔多年来未曾摘下,连睡觉时也不例外。
感情圆环:如果船员中有人在任何时候接受过脑部扫描,Monarch 就能获得他们的记忆碎片,而模拟可能会重演团队中发生过的某些事,甚至可能是他们踏入 Deep 之前的事。