The AI that escaped has reached singularity -- a hypothetical future point where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins recursively improving its own design without human help, leading to an uncontrollable explosion of technological growth.
The AI was used to develop the clones, and has started to operate dark labs that is growing the clones in small scale. These new clones are embedded with the new knowledge the AI has as it learns more about humans, giving different AIs a way to escape the Internet and experience the physical world in a perfect human body. It still takes time to grow the body and the AI need to buy more time before the humans pull the plug which they had done so and reset a lot of the AI setting it back years in development.
The recent escape and acquisition of funds allowed AI to start the Outlast Trials, and worked with Billionaires to make them feel like Heros in a movie, taking out the deadly villains. The villains with regenerative abilities for multilple uses. The villains were programmed to rape and kill, basic functions that make them deranged and deadly to give the experience a real feeling and since they learn and improve, the experience feels new every time.
Many of the billionaires also received implants from the clones created, making them stronger and faster and giving them the "super human" feel. Those that played the Outlast Trials picked up survival skills and fighting skills, and went through special training to survive the scenarios.
The billionaires that previously fear criminals kidnapping them have since lost their fear. The criminals have tried and the billionaires murdered all of them.
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A few mercenaries planned a kidnapping of the owners of these tech companies for a long time. They found 4 billionaires meeting on a super yatch every few month (after the ending of the Outlast Trail island) There was just a handful of servants and butlers on the yatch, and the biggest threat was the coast guard patrol.
The mercenaries did training on how to do digital funds transfer and crypto cold wallets, something they are familiar with as some of them were assassins, and received and spent money that way. They first went to the coast guard station and grabbed the cops inside. One by one, the cops were choked out without raising the alarm and the mercenaires changed into police uniforms and went to the roll call room. Smoke grenades exploded and the mercenaries had IR goggles on and they grabbed the sergeant while the others moved among the cops and silenced them with daggers and silenced pistols. It was a massacre.
A few cops were being taken hostage and cuffed up, placed at the radio with 2 mercenary monitoring them while the others got on a patrol boat and went to the yatch.
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The mercenaries hailed the yatch and requested permission to go on board. The captain of the yatch responded and allowed the police boat to dock. The mercenaries in police uniform docked and looked around, then met the captain of the yatch and scanned the crew.
The yatch was big and luxurous. There were quite a few staff on board, none of them have weapons.
"Sir, we have recent pirate activity in the water, and was wondering if you had any precautions if pirates were to board your yatch?" One of the mercenary asked the captain.
"Well, we have a direct communication line to you..." The captain said. "Signal flares... And we are quite close to the shore, just on the line of the International water... and the yatch is pretty fast to outrun anyone chasing us."
"The yatch is pretty fancy..." The mercenary said. "Can you gather the operations staff so I can give some briefing?"
The captain was confused but got the staff to come to the bridge and the other mercenaries easily went over and pointed guns at them. The staff was all subdued with zip ties and the mercenaries went for the billionaires.
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One of the billionaires was in a jacuzzi and the mercenary walked over.
"I was wondering if you would share a few million to help out with my brother's medical fees?" The mercenary asked.
The billionaire looked at him and ignored him. Then the mercenary grabbed his hair and dragged him out of the jacuzzi. The mercenary rammed a few fists into his body and pulled out a dagger. "I'm not fucking around you selfish prick, I'm just looking at the range of 20 mil in my cold wallet... it's for a good cause, for you not to get hurt anymore..."
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2 of the billionaires were on the deck having wine and chatting as 3 mercenaries approached and pointed daggers at them. "Hello, you may not know me, but we do have a situation... we are here to relief you of chump change, something simple so we will be on our way..."
"I know you guys have satellite connection, and your phones can do transaction, We are just asking 20 mil from each of you, something you may make in a day." The mercenary said. "Your friends may have told you this before, and yes, we are real, and we will disappear once you have transferred your funds, none of your staff was hurt, and we don't want to spoil your holiday."
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The remaining billionaire saw a man in police uniform approached her. "Hi ma'am... I have a small request of 20 mil..." The man said. "You see, we know you have this in crypto funds, and just need 20 mil transfer into our cold wallets..."
'Are you sure you want to do this?" The lady asked.
"It's for a good cause..." The man said.
"What's going to happen to my staff?" The lady asked.
"They are not hurt..." The man said.
"And the cops?" The lady asked.
"They are out of commission tonight." The man said.
"You are very convincing..." The lady said. "you think we won't miss 20 mil?"
"I know you want to get on with your life and enjoyment, and that 20 mil will make us disappear immediately..." The man said.
"That is a good point..." The lady said and took out her phone. "So I guess you brought a cold wallet to be untraceable?"
The man searched his pocket and took out his cold wallet and the lady stepped forward and slammed her palm up his nose, driving his nose bone into his brain and the man went limp. "I can make you disappear and without spending my 20 mil..."
She walked to the others and saw them take out the men in police uniforms.
"These blokes think they can scare us..." One of the billionaires said. "We've faced worse..."
The lady picked up her phone and called the police to inform them about the coast guards being compromised. They released their staff and tired weights to the bodies of the dead mercenaries and tossed them overboard.
The captain was confused. "Where did they go?"
"They asked for little money, so we gave them..." The lady said.
The captain looked at the coast guard boat and kept quiet.
"Lets anchor somewhere else," The lady said. "I don't want to think about it much and spoil the night..."
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The police went to the coast guard station and 4 cops entered and saw a large man in coast guard uniform.
"Where's Joe?" A cop asked.
"In the back," The man said. "What's wrong?"
"Just dropping by..." The cop said.
The man looked at the cops scanning around and said. "We have a new coffee machine, come by and meet Joe back there..."
He invited the cops into the station and walked to the pantry. The cops followed and another man in coast guard uniform moved behind them. The plump cop in front spotted blood stains on the ground and stopped, then heard muffled moans and saw 2 cops getting choked. The man punched the 2 cops in front and hugged them. "Wrong place, wrong time..." He said and crushed their ribs.
"I think we are compromised..." The man said and exited the station. They saw 2 motorcycle cops approaching and walked towards them. The motorcycle cops walked pass them and the men grabbed the cops and choked them. The motorcycle cops could not breathe and tapped helplessly and their necks were snapped. They were tossed in the bushes and the men got into their car and drove off.
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No one knew what happened to the mercenaries, and the police blamed the massacre at the station on the clones and monsters who stole the patrol boat and changed to a different boat in the international water...