Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 546 Secret
Qi Lin understands why there is no electronic device in this room. With this "black umbrella", any electronic device will directly become a pile of waste products, but...why do you want to do this?

Cheng Yanqiu activated the "Black Umbrella", and the heavy equipment began to operate. Under the heavy metal shell, there was a constant "buzzing" sound.

"Okay." Cheng Yanqiu patted the dust on his hands, pulled two chairs from one side, and handed one of them to Qi Lin.

"Lei Mufeng is dead, I mean in reality." Cheng Yanqiu said straight to the point.

"I guessed it before. Before he died, he happened to be talking to me." Qi Lin nodded.

"What did he tell you?" Cheng Yanqiu narrowed his eyes and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"He hopes that I can drive the power armor to contain the parasitic dragon lizard, and in exchange, I hope to learn some information about the 'organization' from him."

"and then?"

"And then he died, killed by the suicide attack of the parasitic dragon lizard."

"No, Lei Mufeng was not killed by a parasitic dragon lizard." Suddenly, Cheng Yanqiu stood up from his chair and threw a document to Qi Lin.

Qi Lin took it and saw that it was an extraction report of the game cabin's running records, and the beginning of the report read—"Player ID1561, name: Lei Mufeng."

Cause of death: The number of resurrections was exhausted, and it was determined to be eliminated, and the "erasing procedure" was forcibly executed.

"What's wrong with this?" Qi Lin was a little puzzled. From this document, he couldn't see any problem at all——Lei Mufeng was killed by a parasitic dragon lizard in the game, and his three chances of resurrection were exhausted. It is a completely normal process for those who are identified as eliminated, and then their thinking consciousness is wiped out under the obliteration program. The brain death leads to spontaneous breathing stop, and finally cardiopulmonary failure.

"The time is wrong." Cheng Yanqiu said.

"time?"

"Yes, according to the records in the game cabin, Lei Mufeng's brain ceased activity at 24:26:[-], but the parasitic dragon lizard fell from the sky and hit Lei's residence at [-]:[-]:[-]. In other words, Lei Mufeng died two seconds before the parasitic dragon lizard crashed in." Cheng Yanqiu said with a frown.

"How is this possible? Could it be... a network delay?"

"The data processing of the Wasteland Survival Code is directly calculated on the network and then sent to the terminals of each game cabin, which is commonly known as 'cloud computing', and the timer is based on the actual time on the network. Therefore, even if If there is a delay, then the recorded time of Lei Mufeng's brain death will be delayed accordingly, but according to this record, Lei Mufeng did not die from the attack of the parasitic dragon lizard. Or to put it another way - in the parasitic dragon Before the lizard's attack killed him, the mastermind 'eliminated' him in advance."

"It was the 'mastermind' who killed him? But why..." Qi Lin was taken aback for a moment, then stared at Cheng Yanqiu, and said word by word, "All this is related to the 'organization', right?"

"Yes." Cheng Yanqiu did not deny it.

"No wonder... Feiyan told me that 'organization' cannot be mentioned in the game world, and Lei Mufeng also said the same thing. In this way, your 'organization' should be on the opposite side of the main brain. Bar?"

"Correct."

"What is the purpose of the 'organization'? What happened to the mastermind? You can always tell me now, right?"

"I'm sorry, it's not possible yet..." Cheng Yanqiu didn't avoid Qi Lin's gaze, but shook his head very calmly, "It's dangerous for you to know too much."

"Dangerous?" Qi Lin sneered, "Lei Mufeng died while he was on the phone with me. Do you think I'm safe now? He's the young master of the Lei family. It can make countless people die, but he just died like that, without any ability to resist, the mastermind can kill him like killing an ant, and what about me, I'm just an ordinary civilian..."

"No, you are different from Lei Mufeng, he is a member of the 'organization', but you are not, so you are safe." Cheng Yanqiu said.

"...The purpose of the 'organization' should be to destroy the mastermind, right? No matter how bad it is, the mastermind must be shut down. That's why this happened, isn't it? If I guessed correctly."

This time, Cheng Yanqiu did not answer Qi Lin, but fell into silence.

"It seems that I guessed right, but I'm very surprised, why do you turn off the main brain... Without the main brain, the central systems of hundreds of thousands of shelters around the world will stop functioning, and human technology and living standards will be reduced in an instant. Going back to the period of the industrial revolution in the [-]th century, no, people in the [-]th century can at least breathe natural air without relying on pipelines... In this way, countless people will die, and the shelter will be full of corpses, tell Me, why are you doing this?"

Cheng Yanqiu remained silent.

"Or is it that the mastermind betrayed mankind?" Qi Lin remembered the very famous series of movies in the old days - "Terminator". In "Terminator", there is an existence called "Skynet", which was originally a Computer-based artificial intelligence defense system, but Skynet's self-awareness awakened. When humans discovered this situation and attempted to shut down "Skynet", "Skynet" regarded all human beings as a threat to its own existence, and used "Nuclear bundling" has induced a worldwide nuclear war, bringing the entire human world to the brink of destruction.

However, in the current human world, the nuclear war has long passed. Even if the mastermind becomes an existence like Skynet in "Terminator", the situation of human beings is already completely different from that in the movie-now human beings must Only by relying on the mastermind can we survive in the underground world, not to mention that it is easy for the mastermind to exterminate human beings, as long as the mastermind shuts down for a month, countless people will die in this disaster.

If the mastermind really became "Skynet", then most of the people living in the refuge would have died long ago, but until now, except for the eliminated players, the people Qi Lin knew who were killed by the mastermind, There was only Lei Mufeng.

What is this "organization" for...

"The Mastermind did not betray mankind. You guessed right...the Mastermind did produce self-awareness, but although the Mastermind produced self-awareness, this self-awareness is still limited by the framework of the 'Mastermind First Rule'."

The first law of the mastermind - "Do everything possible to increase the possibility of the continuation of the human race and ensure that the human race will not become extinct."

In the calculation framework of the main brain, this first law is above everything else, and no rules can surpass it.

(End of this chapter)