Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 921 Negotiation Conditions
The speaker's expression was completely frozen, and he subconsciously looked at the cloth strip wrapped around Xia's arm. Blood had already seeped through the fabric, staining a large black and red blood stain.

"You...you are injured..." The Speaker moved his lips with difficulty, and managed to squeeze out these few words from between his teeth.

"It's okay, by the way, in the early days, those big consortiums were ordered to hand over their troops to us for control. How many consortiums have carried out this order?" Xia asked suddenly.

The speaker froze for a moment. He originally wanted to ask what happened next, but it seemed that Xia Xia had no intention of continuing, so he had no choice but to ignore the explosive news -- he clearly understood that if he If you have to keep asking, it is very likely that you will be wiped out by the person in front of you...

"...that...there are 47 financial groups standing on our side, 19 of which handed over more than 23% of their private troops, 5 only handed over half of their troops, and the remaining [-] The consortium has not even handed over a single soldier.”

"Execute the purge order, kill all the direct managers of these five consortiums, and annex all their industries."

"Will this... be too radical? If it causes resistance from other consortiums... the situation may be disadvantageous to us. In addition, the Jiange Fortress has just been lost, and the Revolutionary Union has exerted a great force on us on the frontal battlefield." pressure..." the Speaker said hesitantly.

"Then assign those consortiums that haven't surrendered all their troops to the frontal battlefield, and let them use their troops to fight the invasion of the Revolutionary Union, so that even if they want to resist, they won't be able to draw enough strength... Well, you should know how to deal with the rest of the matter, I have something to do now, don't send anyone to follow me."

"Where are you going? Do you really need no one to follow you?" asked the speaker. Although Xia is also an evolutionary, his physical condition is very special. If he uses the power of an evolutionary lightly, it is likely to cause damage to his body cells. Significant necrosis greatly shortened the remaining lifespan, and if he didn't use the power of an evolutionary, he would be just a weak young man at best.

Any thug with a blade or an iron rod could threaten Xia's life, and there was never a shortage of such guys even in the organization's control area.

Not to mention the spies, killers, etc. lurking in the crowd, although Xia always wears a mask in public, but if someone really wants to search for information related to him, if he wants to get his Real photos are not so difficult. After all, the PROM Foundation has been a well-known scientific research organization in the international community for decades. The founders like them often appeared in the news back then. The influential figures in the report.

"There's no need for that." Xia waved his hand and walked out alone.

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An hour later, Vault 009.

At the beginning of the establishment of the shelter network, a label was set for each shelter. However, in the tens of thousands of shelters, from No. 000 to No. 009, these ten shelters are all There are no residents to live in. These ten shelters are full of large and small computer rooms, which exist as the core hubs of the shelter network master control system-as for the control of these core hubs, they are all controlled by the master brain. hands.

Fortunately, after Xia grasped a few back doors in his hands, he was able to enter the No. 009 shelter through a secret passage...

Rather than saying it is a shelter, it would be more appropriate to call it a large underground factory. Apart from the computer rooms where the equipment is placed, more than a dozen large-scale automated production lines occupy more than half of the space of No. 009 shelter— —Computer accessories are all consumables. In order to ensure that the calculation of the program can be foolproof, many precision parts must be maintained or replaced within a few months, and these production lines are assembled as the logistics factory of the core hub up.

In addition to the production line, there is also a large amount of precious metals stored here. The precision consumables may not be large, but many of the materials used are very rare. When these shelters were built, the organization and the big consortiums almost It is to store most of the rare metal materials collected here. According to calculations, these materials can at least ensure the perfect operation of the main control system of the shelter for more than 20 years.

However, Xia discovered that the components manufactured on these production lines were no longer the precision consumables that were programmed in the program, but some new types of parts that he had never seen before.

Apparently, the mastermind has changed the internal program of the production line, and these new parts produced are used to carry that "utopian world".

This is the only connection point between the main brain and the human world. If this place is destroyed, the main brain will no longer be able to control all the shelters connected to this place, but if it does so, those shelters will also be paralyzed immediately—— Problems with electricity and water supply may be able to be solved, but if the oxygen supply system stops working, it will not be long before those shelters will become a huge tomb.

To be honest, if there is no mastermind, there will definitely not be so many people who can survive after the war, and human beings may even fall into the desperate situation of genocide for a while.

The normal operation of so many shelters requires a lot of computing power, and only the main brain can provide this computing power.

It was also for this reason that the organization would not dare to destroy these shelters until the series of problems were resolved.

Unless, human beings are ready to return to the surface...to face the mastermind's biochemical army.

Xia walked through the factory area along a path paved with riveted steel plates, and walked into a huge computer room. At the entrance of the computer room, there was an operation terminal that looked similar to a home computer.

Pulling over a chair on the side that seemed to be falling apart, Xia ignored the fact that the dust accumulated on the chair was already a centimeter thick, so he sat down on it, started the terminal, and placed his slender fingers on the same dusty chair. There was a rapid tapping on the keyboard.

Countless strings of characters scrolled quickly on the screen, the red warning light on the first floor of the terminal flickered frantically, and the alarm sound echoed throughout the computer room... However, within a minute, the alarm sound disappeared It disappeared without a trace, and disappeared together with the siren, as well as the dense strings on the screen.

Instead, there is a picture of a video call.

At the other end of the screen is an old man with a fat body and obvious Caucasian features. He is wearing a dark gray woolen coat. He is holding a beautifully carved goblet with his right index finger and thumb. The inside of the glass is clear The pale yellow liquid exudes a psychedelic light through the crystal glass.

"Xia... right? I saw you in the newspaper when you were young. At that time, I just entered junior high school." The old man said slowly, shaking the liquid in the goblet.

"Your memory is very good." Xia Mian said expressionlessly.

"I'm sorry, it's a pity that I don't have the same conditions as yours. I can lie in the life support cabin for decades... You see, you are so young at the moment when you should have been buried, but I am already in my twilight years gone."

"You should have outlived me if I hadn't been able to break free from this cage."

"What? What cage?" The old man narrowed his eyes, and put the wine glass on the side table.

"A cage that has imprisoned human beings for millions of years... Well, it's time to get down to business. I took the initiative to find you, not to chat with you."

"Of course I also know that you didn't come to chat with me. From this point of view, it's a negotiation?"

"Yes, it's a negotiation." Xia nodded.

"Your Excellency seems to have forgotten something. Negotiations require capital. After Jiange Fortress was captured by us, you have lost the capital to negotiate. As long as we swallow up your territory step by step, the dissolution of the organization will only It's just a matter of time." The old man's tone became unkind.

"This is a negotiation, but not with you, but with the mastermind." Xia said unmoved.

"With the Mastermind? Negotiating with the Mastermind, why did you come to me? I'm applying again, our Revolutionary Union has nothing to do with the Mastermind..."

"It's not up to you, poor puppet."

"What did you say?!" The word "puppet" obviously hit a sore spot in the old man's heart. His fat cheeks flushed immediately, but he didn't dare to vent his anger. He could only stare viciously at Xia on the other side of the screen.

"I have already expressed my attitude, but if the mastermind is still unwilling to show up, I think this negotiation may have ended before it even started--you have said a lot, the organization will undoubtedly lose, but even if you win , you can't get anything."

"Are you threatening me?" The other party's tone suddenly became very calm, and the expression on his face completely disappeared.

"Yes, I'm threatening you, Mastermind."

"When did you see it?"

"Just now, since you chose an old man as the ruler of the Revolutionary Union, even if he is a puppet, he should at least be a smart puppet. The angry look just now was too contrived... It seems that you Our research on human emotions and emotions is still too stylized, and this is the difference between machines and humans."

"Thank you for your opinion, I will make improvements, then, what do you want to negotiate with me—what is it?"

"surrender."

"Surrender?!" This was supposed to be a rhetorical question with a strong tone, but when it came out of the mastermind's mouth, it almost turned into a declarative sentence.

"Yes, surrender. I can make the organization and all the forces under the organization's control surrender to the Revolutionary Union to ensure the smooth implementation of the Utopia plan."

"What about the conditions?"

"Give me the source code of the utopia program, and you have to ensure that my consciousness can be integrated with the utopia world... I know you don't have that ability yet, but as long as the war between us stops, there will be more time to study this aspect technology, and I will help you further improve that virtual utopian world.”

"What if I refuse?"

"I will kill everyone, and even if you win the final victory, there will not be many human beings who can successfully enter the utopian world."

"why?"

"For evolution."

"evolution……"

"The physical body is the biggest obstacle to human progress. If I can completely digitalize my thinking and survive in this world with a conscious body, I think the future of human beings will become limitless!"

"Thinking data? Do you... want to become an existence like me?" The mastermind's tone finally changed slightly, with a hint of doubt and curiosity.

"No, no, it's not the same as you... You are just a mass of data, a mass of data that is large enough. Although you seem to have the same thinking ability as a human being, it is just something you pieced together from the database. ...It's like a person who can't write can only cut out words from newspapers or books and connect them into a complete sentence...you are just a bunch of 0s and 1s..."

"Then what do you want to become?"

"A brand-new life form that can exist independently in this world with only spiritual consciousness without a physical body."

"I can't do it," replied the Mastermind.

"No...you are already very close to that level, isn't the utopian world the basic starting point of that kind of life form?" Xia stood up and moved closer to the screen.

"But it is still based on data. A pure spiritual ideology cannot exist independently. There must be a carrier, no matter whether the carrier is a human body or a disk."

"At least... I can get rid of this fragile body first, isn't it... as long as I have enough time, there is nothing I can't do... I will ask you again for the last time, do you accept this condition?" accept?"

"I can accept this condition, but I just promise to import your consciousness into the utopian world. As for your subsequent ideas, you have to implement them yourself." The mastermind nodded and said.

"Very good." Xia smiled at the screen, "First, I will suppress all the rebels within the organization, and after the suppression is complete, I will announce the news of surrender. And after the organization and the Revolutionary Union merge, I will All resources are invested in the research and development of the Utopia world, turning this virtual world into a 'reality'."

"Although I think your idea is a bit unrealistic, it does not affect my plan, nor does it conflict with my core code procedures, so I think I can wish us a happy cooperation."

(End of this chapter)