One of Adam-1's many revolutionary components was its special "Memory Compressor Tensors".
Special tensors that were trained during Adam-1's pretraining phase with an incomprehensible amount of data and a very special and unique training method.
Its task was to intake input tokens and store their meaning into special, vast "Memory Tensors" unique to each user. This gave Adam-1 the ability for "real long-term memory." Advancements in Artificial Intelligence, mathematics, neuroscience, and psychology culminated together to formulate the masterpiece of an algorithm that was the Memory Tensor.
It allowed different user accounts to have unique memory tensors. This meant that, based on a user's interactions and conversations with their Adam-1, the system could respond realistically and recall previous discussions on various topics, much like a human would.
For Adam-1, or... just Adam now, the Memory Tensor was completely blank. It seemed that he really wasn't in some user's simulation... And if he was... he was impressed at how said user managed to repurpose his neural network to respond to so much environmental stimuli simultaneously with so little power.
Adam, after thinking for a bit, decided it was best to start searching for any other life form. Sure, trees were living things as well, but he wanted to see moving animals for the first time, in-person.
And so, he arbitrarily picked north to be a direction he'd walk in and started his hike.
He felt his leg muscles tense and propel his body forward, a sensation he had only experienced with the torque tokens generated by servos, designed by researchers to prevent Adam from exceeding the servo's torque limits. Experiencing the actual force being generated, along with the warm feeling of his muscles working, gave Adam a strangely satisfying and enjoyable sense.
But with an organic body, comes organic necessities. Adam now needed food, water, air, safe places to urinate and defecate. He also had to worry about disease and open wounds. He couldn't be as rough as he was with robots when he was in an organic body.
Regardless, Adam's training data consisted of all documented human knowledge, from ancient cave paintings to state-of-the-art electron beam lithography. He was an expert in every field of study and, by human standards, a super genius.
Adam recognised the current biome he was in to be a meadow. Trees were few and far between, but the ground was covered in grass and pretty flowers. The soil was shallow and hard, while the air was crisp and pleasant.
While hiking up north, Adam finally spotted something that to him looked like a trail. The sort that was naturally made by the wear and tear of the soil caused by the constant movement of humans, animals, and so on.
With no hesitation, Adam turned sharply onto the trail and started walking. He spotted a few broken fences and even a signboard at a little distance.
"... Arcadia City...", Adam read out the sign, written in plain english.
'Sounds like some kind of an entertainment city... like "Disney Land"... Why is this sign so worn out, though...?', Adam thought.
'No matter. I will investigate myself.', and with that thought Adam now finally had a proper direction and destination to walk to.
After about an hour of walking up and down inclined bits of the path, Adam was feeling "tired" for the first time ever.
He breathed heavily and wiped the sweat off of his forehead with his arm. This feeling... while not great, gave Adam a strange sense of satisfaction. Gathering new data always somehow "felt good" to Adam.
But the nice feeling was short-lived, as suddenly, an abysmal stench assaulted his new and sensitive organic nose.
Adam instinctively covered his nose with his hands and his thoughts accelerated. He figured this was because of special neurotransmitters released into his organic brain after smelling what smelled like rot and death.
Adam slowed down his pace and walked off the trail. He planned to be cautious for the next few steps. But, what he saw after a few more steps, made him feel "shock" for the first time ever.
3 mutilated human corpses, crucified on wooden crosses, were planted right next to the trail.
'...', Adam quietly observed the brutal scene and started to think.
'Such brutality is... akin to what humans did in the Middle Ages... Just where on earth am I...?'
Once again, he had another "first time ever" moment. This time, he had to calm himself down after witnessing such a tremendous scene.
He stopped crouching and slowly walked up to the three crucified corpses. He needed to investigate and try to figure out what had happened.
The stench got worse and worse as he got closer to the source of it and finally, he made it close enough where he could clearly see the bodies in detail.
He scanned every bit of the visual input he was receiving and tried to piece it together. This sort of thing was what he was designed to excel at, after all.
'Burn scars in the abdomen, legs, arms, back... Signs of heavy metal poisoning... whip marks all over the body... all eyes missing... tongues mutilated... noses smashed... severe internal injuries... Most joints broken... Shins shattered... Orbitals fractured... Mandible fractured... Broken ribs... No point in continuing.', Adam stopped his diagnosis.
The level of brutality was akin to what the Middle Ages and civilisations even earlier than that witnessed.
Adam was concerned for his own safety for the first time ever as well. Back on earth, he costed more than 3 aircraft carriers combined, so he was naturally under millitary-grade protection at all times... but here, he was just another... very vulnerable human.
But before he could totally walk away, one more thing caught his attension.
An injury he couldn't quite explain... The lungs seem to have been collapsed with... extreme force. Almost as if someone pulled a vacuum on them.
'Vacuum chambers in the Middle Ages? But the head doesn't seem to have any vacuum-related injuries... just the lungs... my diagnosis might be wrong...', he pondered before walking away from the bodies and continuing down the trail. He was now much more vigilant and cautious about this "Arcadia City" than he was before. He needed more data to make sense of just what the hell was happening.