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Assistant Matsumoto, who went out to buy water, came back soon. Director Asaka, who was about to praise him for his speed, saw that Matsumoto looked a little nervous.

"Director, TAC team, the TAC team is here!"

Because they encountered Ultra Beasts during filming before, first it was the Cactus Ultra Beast, and then it was the Baraba that almost destroyed the entire city, not only was Assistant Matsumoto nervous when he saw the TAC Team, but now Director Asaka also reflexively thinks of the Ultra Beasts coming when he hears the name of the TAC Team.

I almost arranged for the crew to take refuge.

Fortunately, Team TAC did not bring any news about the Ultra Beasts, and Beidou was the only one who came here.

Chapter 99: Unmanned Operating System

"Good morning, Brother Beidou, you really scared Director Asaka."

Beidou smiled awkwardly. For a TAC member who frequently dealt with super beasts, it was difficult to understand the mentality of an ordinary person who would be paranoid after being attacked by super beasts twice in a row.

Isn't it just a super beast?

"Sorry, I just called your house and heard from Miss Maria that you have arrived at the crew and are filming at Tsukimine Shrine today, so I came here."

Knowing that Reiya and Beidou were already acquaintances, and that the TAC team would not be bad people, Maria did not hesitate to tell Beidou about Reiya's whereabouts.

"So Brother Beidou came to see me on purpose?"

Ling didn't tell Beidou about the cell phone she had gotten, so her private number was only shared between her, Tomoyo, and Sakura.

For a person who has the memory of fifty years later, being harassed by phone calls and text messages is enough to make people mentally debilitated, so it is better to keep the phone quiet.

But Beidou was different. When he needed to contact her, it should be about things related to super beasts and aliens. Ling was also a little hesitant about whether to give him her private mobile phone number to avoid delaying important things.

What surprised Ling was that this time Beidou contacted her and had nothing to do with super beasts or something like that.

"Actually, it was Miss Kuze who was looking for you. Since she didn't have your contact information, she found the TAC team."

"Ms. Hisayo?" Ling was also stunned for a moment. She searched her memory bank for a moment before she remembered the shrine maiden she met in the Firefly Plains a few days ago.

It wasn't that she had a bad memory and had forgotten it in just a few days. If 'Kuse' had been followed by a suffix of "shrine maiden", she would have definitely remembered it immediately. But Beidou called her 'Miss Kuuse', which made her a little confused.

There is always a sense of separation between witches and ordinary people.

Kuze Kaon is the shrine maiden of Izumo Taisha Shrine. She believed in the gods of Shintoism, but she performed Kagura dance to Gaia that day. If it were hundreds of years ago, this would be blasphemy. But in this world, monsters are rampant and aliens are causing chaos, and there is no god to come down to protect us.

Even if Takamagahara really existed, it has long since collapsed in people's minds. People no longer believe in gods, and there are no gods in the world.

What could such a Kuze shrine maiden have to ask of me?

When Ling asked the same question, Beidou just shook his head.

"I don't know the specifics."

Hokuto Seiji himself was just a mouthpiece. It was the TAC team that was contacted by Izumo Taisha. Given the power of the thousand-year-old traditional belief in this shrine among the people, even the TAC team could not be treated as ordinary citizens, so Captain Long arranged for Hokuto to pass on a message.

Fortunately, these few days have been relatively peaceful. A week after the Firefly Ultra Beast, the Yabo people seem to have gone into hiding again. At least on the surface, there is a peaceful scene.

So besides patrolling the Black Panther, Beidou had nothing else to do. The Tsukimine Shrine was originally in Tokyo, and was within the range of Beidou's ground patrols. He was just delivering a message and treating it as a side trip on patrol.

"Kuse Miko only said that she wanted to meet and talk in person, but it seemed like a good thing."

"Is it good?"

Lingye has no idea about this. Good things or bad things are just subjective judgments.

If they were good friends, meeting and chatting would be a good thing in itself. But she and Kuze were not that familiar with each other yet.

It may be a bit rude to say that her biggest impression of Kuze was actually his hairstyle. The hair was tied up behind her head, gorgeous and dignified, and her hair was long and fairy-like, looking very beautiful. I remember someone said that as long as a girl's hairstyle changes, even her temperament will be different.

After that, Ling also tried to comb her hair once, but even with Maria's help, it took her more than half an hour to finish it. It was indeed very beautiful, but she gave up in the end.

It’s too troublesome. No matter how beautiful it is, it’s not worth it if you have to get up half an hour earlier every morning.

Or maybe, the shrine maidens don't have to go to school, so they have a lot of free time?

"By the way, I actually came here today for another thing."

Beidou did not hesitate to tell the commander about the blueprints he had discussed the night before. Of course, this was a secret between the TAC team and the defense forces. They were secret weapons to fight against super beasts and aliens in the future. Not to mention civilians, even ordinary defense soldiers had no right to know about it. But for Lingye, Beidou did not think it was necessary to keep it secret.

As he had thought before, if there was really an Ultraman willing to provide direct assistance to humans, there was only one person he could think of, and that was Gaia. After all, unlike the Ultra Warriors of the Kingdom of Light, Gaia was a giant of light born on the earth itself.

"Unmanned operating system--" Ling recalled a little, she was not unfamiliar with this term. If it were placed in the future, drones would have been everywhere, both civilian and military, and they could enter the battlefield to perform tasks.

However, what the TAC team developed should be something completely different.

"In other words, it is necessary to actively carry out the task without any external operation?"

"Yes, we must consider that electromagnetic waves can be blocked by the enemy, or even reversely controlled."

Not all aliens are high-tech civilizations. In this vast universe, there are many planets that are weaker than humans and still in primitive civilizations. But those who can invade the earth must have mastered the technology of interstellar travel between star systems. This is a sieve.

Just as humans in the past always thought that they were alone in the universe, that was because with the technology humans had at the time, even just visiting Proxima Centauri next door would take 1 years, which was longer than human civilization itself.

In other words, those who can freely cross the star system and become the enemy of the earth are all beings that are one or even several levels higher than humans. For such a civilization to crack the electromagnetic wave frequency band of humans, wouldn't that be a piece of cake?

“But if it is to actively perform tasks, then it is not artificial intelligence?”

"Artificial intelligence?" This is a new term for Beidou, but it is not difficult to understand. You can roughly understand the meaning of the word just by listening to it. After thinking about it, Beidou found that this is indeed the original intention of Dr. Kiji's design.

"So this is what Gaia said?" Because there was no one else around, Beidou felt safe to speak about Lingye's identity.

Ling also realized that Beidou didn't want to ask her. It was just a pity that Gaia didn't respond.

"I just said this casually. Gaia shouldn't interfere with things that humans can do on their own."

It was an expected answer, yet Beidou was inevitably disappointed.

It turns out that Gaia is the same. These giants of light seem to have confidence in humans that is unimaginable to humans themselves, which sometimes makes people feel flattered and even terrified to doubt whether they can really do it.

"I just think that although so-called artificial intelligence is 'artificial', it should not imitate humans, but should refer more to small animals in nature."

In Lingye's previous life, although artificial intelligence had not yet developed to a high level, it had indeed started. The AlphaGo of Go, self-driving cars, etc., can all be considered preliminary applications.

Humans are too complex, and even often they cannot grasp their own thoughts. It is undoubtedly too ambitious to want to simulate human intelligence. It is better to imitate simple animals, which is more instinct than intelligence.

"For example, pigeons have the instinct to return to their nests. They can fly back to their nests even if they are thousands of kilometers away. By designing such simple logic, at least those planes and tanks can go out and come back."

There are others such as conditioned reflex, directed learning, etc. First, simply build a logical framework, the simpler the better, so that you can add and improve it step by step based on this.

Just like humans, machines can use their experience and knowledge to solve problems and accumulate new experience. This is continuous learning and the most basic way for artificial intelligence to grow. However, machines do not have the so-called inspiration and epiphany of humans, and there is no possibility of leapfrogging learning.

God cannot create a stone that he cannot lift. Similarly, it is difficult for humans to create a brain with the same understanding as their own brain.

So there is no need to let them learn from humans from the beginning.

"Learning from pigeons? That might be a good idea." Beidou clapped his hands, as if he had realized something.

Ling also wanted to say that the pigeon she mentioned was just an analogy. Puppies and kittens have their own simple logical abilities, but seeing Beidou's thoughtful look, she gave up.

Never mind, she doesn't know more than others anyway. Beidou is a college student after all, and she is just a high school student. There is no need to show off her knowledge.

Beidou left with some unknown thoughts in mind. After making sure Ling agreed to meet, he left the time and place for the meeting with Kuze Miko.

The next day -

The place where the Kuze shrine maiden had an appointment was not in Izumo in Shimane Prefecture, but in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Well, since it was Hisayo who proposed the meeting, it would be embarrassing to let the other party travel more than a thousand kilometers away - although for Lingye, it would only take a few minutes if he was willing.

But Ling soon realized that this was probably not what Kuze meant.

"Wow, this is Tokyo!"

The cheerful voice was heard before seeing the person, and it was completely different from the quiet girl in the impression of the first meeting. When they arrived in front of Taizongji Temple in Shinjuku, Ling saw Kuze from a distance.

The girl was not wearing the iconic shrine maiden costume——

She was wearing a snow-white silk gown, with a black shirt slightly visible through the collar. The contrast between black and white was particularly sharp, leaving an impression on people's eyes. On the sleeves, she wore a light pink veil. It was similar to an oversleeve, but it obviously did not have the anti-fouling function of an oversleeve, it was just a decoration.

The black corset tightened her waist, making her look extra slender, and also made her originally sizeless upper body appear a little more prominent.

Can you dress like this at an airport? Ling also felt that she had learned a new trick. As expected, when a girl reaches high school, she can't underestimate her various tricks - she has forgotten that she was once a high school student, and when it comes to dressing taste, she is completely on a different level.

By the way, did I have such a thing as "dressing taste" in the past? Looking back, it seems that I always wore jeans, T-shirts, and sweatpants, whatever was simple. Anyway, what I wore was for others to see, and no one cared about me.

Sometimes even the nanny couldn't stand it anymore and dragged her to the store, but most of the clothes she bought were put at the bottom of the box.

In general, Kuze's outfit today is still retro, but it has lost its religious color and can be regarded as daily home clothes. She looks completely different from when she was wearing a shrine maiden costume.

If it weren't for the iconic hair color and hairstyle, Ling Ye would have almost failed to recognize him - after all, she had been imitating the hairstyle for more than half an hour, so Ling Ye was still impressed. The clothes and appearance had changed, but the hairstyle had not changed.

As expected, that hairstyle is the real body! Humph, a monster with sideburns!

Kuze Kaon naturally didn't know she had turned into a monster. She was curiously looking at the streets of Tokyo and didn't even notice Reiya's appearance. Until her companion reminded her - it was still the same priest from before. As for his name, Zaraki? Oreki? Sorry, I forgot.

It didn't matter whether he was called 'Kenpachi Zaraki' or 'Hotaro Oreki'. The code name of Flower Guardian A was enough. He didn't wear priest clothes today, but an ordinary brown suit.

"It's been a while since we last met, Oshima Miko. I hope your health is the best thing for you."

It was a series of greetings, which didn't seem to matter when translated into Chinese, but actually corresponded to archaic expressions that are not commonly used in Japanese, which made Ling a little stunned.

"Sorry, that slipped my mind. Good evening, Reiya."

Well, that's much better.

"Good evening, Huayin."

Because Hisayo called out the name directly, Lingye also called out the other person's name unconsciously.

Much more friendly.

Chapter 100: Kuze's Visit

As the lights come on, the city of Tokyo is caught in rush hour traffic.

The place where Hisayoshi and Reiya agreed to meet was in front of Taisoji Temple in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

It’s not because Taizong Temple itself is a religious place - the Shinto religion to which the shrine maiden belongs has nothing to do with the temple, and Taizong Temple has been closed as a scenic spot at this time.

The reason for the meeting here is simply because Taizongji Temple is right next to the Tokyo Shinkansen Station.

This was originally the post station (waterway operation center) of Koshu Road, and the origin of the name "Shinjuku". During the Meiji Restoration, a railway station was built here, and it became a transportation hub for the surrounding areas. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the damage here was relatively light, and it took advantage of the situation to replace the surrounding areas and develop into a commercial center.

Ling also didn't know that this was also the place where Hachiken and Aki had an appointment a few days ago.

"Did Kuze Miko come here by the Shinkansen?" Ling asked because there was a Shinkansen station next to them.

Ling also came in the car of Jianye's butler. Generally speaking, if the young lady just meets with friends, Jianye will go to a nearby teahouse or coffee shop to rest, leaving the young lady with private space.

"Well, I've heard of the Shinkansen for a long time and wanted to take it. Finally, my dream has come true. Also, Ling can just call me Huayin like you did just now."

"Sister Huayin."