Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 610 Leshan Giant Buddha
Project U, this is the European branch's name for the Greenland operation, while on the Chinese side, it is called the Beta plan.

Unlike Project Alpha, which was forcibly terminated half a year ago, Project Beta was the organization's first official action against the Mastermind. However, this time...it failed.

As the price of failure, millions of people were suffocated to death in the tombs turned into shelters, and the members of the European branch were torn to pieces by countless mutated creatures that suddenly poured into the ground.

This is a warning from the mastermind.

According to the logic of the Master Brain, these people's attempt to stop their own plan is tantamount to cutting off the "future of mankind". Therefore, these people must be eliminated.

For the continuation of the human race, it is not a big deal to die more than 100 million people... After all, in the third world war alone, the death toll is already calculated in hundreds of millions.

There was once a well-known problem in philosophy, that is, a train traveling at high speed suddenly found five children playing on the track in front of it. At this time, it was too late to brake, and the only way was to choose to change lanes. On the other fork, there is a maintenance worker who is maintaining the track. If the lane is changed, the maintenance worker will undoubtedly die.

Whether to change the lane and kill the five children, or change the lane and let bad luck befall this innocent repairman? For this question, people in the old era have been arguing for countless years, but they still haven't come to a decision that makes everyone happy. convincing conclusion.

But if the main brain is allowed to make decisions, then the main brain will choose to change lanes without hesitation. From the perspective of the computer's logical thinking, this is the optimal solution.

Five people and one person, in the eyes of the mastermind, the only meaning of life is numbers.

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But the current situation is different from this philosophical question. If it is true that a small number of people are sacrificed in order to save the majority, then those in power among human beings will choose to "change lanes" without hesitation. At the moment of life and death, morality is too pale and powerless.

However, the mastermind did this not to save the majority of people, but to turn the majority of people into "human batteries", imprisoning their consciousness in the virtual world and living like puppets .

In the eyes of the mastermind, human beings will achieve "peace" in the true sense, but in the eyes of human beings, if that day really comes, human beings will actually exist in name only, and those consciousnesses wandering in the virtual world are just a group of lost Just a ghost in a shell.

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The real world, Huaxia, Sichuan Province, Leshan Giant Buddha.

This is a very famous scenic spot in the old days. The Leshan Giant Buddha started construction in the first year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty and was completed in the 19th year of Zhenyuan. After 90 years, this magnificent 71-meter-high Buddha statue was built by people with their hands and simple tools. .

The Leshan Giant Buddha is located on the east bank of the Minjiang River, close to the confluence of the Minjiang River, the Qingyi River and the Dadu River. It is said that the Leshan Giant Buddha was built to suppress the dangerous water situation at the confluence of the three rivers. However, today, the three surging rivers have dried up. , leaving only this heavily weathered colossus still standing there.

A "replica" of the main brain located in the Huaxia region was buried at the foot of the Leshan Giant Buddha.

Due to geographical location, this area has not been bombed by nuclear bombs, so the Leshan Giant Buddha is relatively well preserved, but due to changes in the environment, the once green mountains and forests have all withered, leaving only bare rocks, which appear to be Somewhat bleak.

"Is this the first time you have returned to the ground in these years?" Ghost Face took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it with a lighter.

"Yes..." The person who answered him was Cheng Yanqiu. He is no longer the heir of the Cheng family consortium, but the commander of an elite team named "Thunder Falcon", and the ghost face has become his deputy.

"I came to this place once before the war. At that time, it was the National Day Golden Week, and the plank road of Lingyun Temple was almost full of people... Maybe I will never see such a scene again?"

"Maybe the mastermind will build such a Buddha statue in the virtual world, anyway, it's just a set of data." Cheng Yanqiu held a telescope in his hand, observing the huge Buddha statue across the dried up Minjiang River.

"Will I have to charge tickets at that time? I heard that locals can have a discount, as long as 90 yuan per ticket, but foreigners have to charge [-] yuan..."

"Even if there is, then people like us won't be able to see it. A pawn must have the awareness of being a pawn. I never thought I could live until the end of the war." Cheng Yanqiu put down the binoculars and took out A piece of candy used to replenish energy was thrown into his mouth casually.

"It's true, but this kind of thing... No matter how I look at it, I feel that it is more shocking in reality. Things in the virtual world, even a lifelike dragon, I don't feel much realism."

"That's your habitual thinking at work. After the master brain cleans everyone's memory, how can you be sure whether the world you live in is a real world or a virtual world?" Cheng Yanqiu pulled out a piece of paper and a With a pencil, he quickly traced the general structure of a Buddha statue.

"Maybe, the world we live in now is a virtual one. In fact, our real body is lying in an iron can filled with solution." Ghost Face said half-jokingly.

"Have you read "The Matrix" too much? Well, it's time to work." Cheng Yanqiu put away the drawing paper and stood up from the ground.

The mission of the Lei Falcon team back to the ground this time is to investigate the specific situation of the master brain replica at the foot of the Leshan Giant Buddha. What changed, but no one can know.

Human beings' understanding of the wasteland comes from the main brain, but in the virtual world built by the main brain for human beings, its body and replicas do not exist.

"The next operation is going to attack this guy, right? I heard that the operation by the European branch failed, and more than 100 million people died, and the members of the European branch also suffered heavy losses." Ghost Face skillfully landed on a flat stone. A laser rangefinder was set up on the ground, and the lens was aimed at the base of the Buddha statue.

"Yeah, that's why the higher-ups are so cautious...We can't afford a second failure."

(End of this chapter)