Shattered Lands 3 Demon Wars: A LitRPG Series by Pillsbury Darren

Author:Pillsbury, Darren [Pillsbury, Darren]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy
Published: 2017-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

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Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca sat at the computer in her condo. The heat map of distortion had stopped directly over Alshurat. Whatever the army was doing now, there was a fair chance that Eric was there with them.

She tried accessing video feeds of the army, but the closest she could get was a quarter mile away from the action. The AI must have been blocking anything closer, the same way it had sealed off Blackstone from her interference when Daniel had gone to talk to Eric.

She squinted at the screen. From what she could see, tens of thousands of soldiers were massed on the mountain… but were dropping into a crevice, like water rushing into a sinkhole.

Strange.

But Eric was there – she was sure of it.

She had to get to him. Had to try to persuade him to leave the AI. Betray it. Something.

But because of the AI’s cloaking abilities, there was no way to nail down exactly where he was… except by sight.

If she had a VR headset, she could have entered the game and tracked him down visually – but she didn’t have a VR headset.

Think, THINK.

Even if I went into the game, the AI could block any communication with him.

No, that wasn’t quite right. The AI had been able to block outside communication before – but only communication occurring between players inside the game and administrators at Varidian.

It was arguable that the neural link between players in the game and their physical bodies was another type of communication. The AI had never been able to stop that from happening.

But I have no VR headset, so it doesn’t matter!

She couldn’t enter the game, not directly…

…but maybe she could send something in her place.

She quickly scanned the NPC database and selected a suitable figure. But instead of going with one of the game’s pre-assigned personality templates, she downloaded a simple artificial intelligence program into it directly from her computer.

It was the ‘seek and identify’ program she’d used to gather information about Eric’s army’s disturbances to the environment, which was how she’d been able to track their movements.

Except this time she gave the program a different set of parameters to look for.

She quickly did a search and downloaded every available photograph of Eric from the internet. Since the news sites had been running stories on him since the Varidian hacking, there were quite a few pictures, mostly taken from his social media profiles.

She downloaded the photographs into the NPC’s program. Now the NPC was a digital ‘heat-seeking missile’ that would track Eric down by visually comparing the photographs with every game character it came across. It would keep moving and comparing, over and over, until it found him.

But what should it do when it found him?

She paused… thought for a moment…

Then activated a teleconferencing program on her computer and began to speak into the camera.

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