Chapter 115: Friend.
[The infiltration attempt has been blocked.] Volcan reported.
’Stay vigilant.’
Jake was an AI like Volcan, although of a much lower level. The best proof of that was that it could not detect Volcan’s presence despite him having dove into the boy’s NIM a while ago. Through it, he was able to dive into the cylindrical Exocore, putting it under his control.
He didn’t do much except mess with the sensors the lower-level AI had access to, preventing it from noticing Dante’s presence. That said, he still had the option to shut it down at any moment.
As Dante stared at the boy, letters began to appear on the small, monochrome LCD screen attached to the cylindrical Exocore.
[Finn? What’s going on? Who’s there?]
Ghost Mode was currently active, which means the simple AI was incapable of perceiving Dante’s presence. It was able to establish a connection with something that wasn’t supposed to be there, and that connection was severed right away. That means, although it has registered his existence, he was once again invisible to its sensors.
"It sounds a little distressed," Dante said, returning his gaze to the boy. "You gave it a personality but not a voice?"
He had heard him speak to it earlier, but it seems the simple AI is limited to text only.