Ant colony

On the way back to the Vulnerability Management Bureau by airship, the system has already briefly explained the situation to me.

The thing is actually very simple.The notorious (h) terrorist group (h) organization SFH infiltrated the personnel inside the fertility center, trying to blow up the No. [-] sperm (l) bank of the fertility center.But even though they tried their best to deceive the system, they were still detected by the system. At this moment, the two terrorist (h) terrorists (h) had been captured by the security robot.

Nowadays, it is not so easy to commit crimes.Surveillance is everywhere.Tables, chairs, walls, floors, and even a trash can are the eyes and ears of the system, not to mention that there are various miniature detectors floating in the air, which can detect even smells at any time.

Best of all, the system not only sends information to the smart contact lenses we wear, but also receives images from them.The same goes for smart headphones.In other words, the system can see everything we see through everyone's perspective; through everyone's ears, hear the conversations near her. The 501 million citizens of City 1000 are the 1000 million mobile eyes and ears of the system.

However, the way is one foot high and the devil is one foot high. No matter how technology develops, crime will keep pace with the times and will never be eradicated.There are always people who try to attack the system, deceive the system, or use various means to evade monitoring.These people are called the loopholes of society, colloquially known as "worms".

The so-called Vulnerability Management Bureau is to catch these "worms".

I'm the captain of Team 38769.14 of the Vulnerability Authority.The social value score is 7 – quite a high score, ranking in the top 25% of its peers and in the top [-]% of all citizens.I'm not willing to have children, I don't like to socialize, and I rarely consume. I can make such a big contribution to society, all thanks to my efforts to "catch bugs".

In the eight years since I entered the Vulnerability Management Bureau, I have captured a total of 142 "worms" that removed smart contact lenses and invisible earphones in violation of regulations; inspected 5 dens for illegal calculations; International criminal gangs trying to hack into the system.

Of course, my most famous deed is to remotely control the mechanical department (h) team to clean up a colony of "worms" illegally established in no man's land.This group of "worms" got rid of all smart devices and fled the city, willing to be barbarians in heavily polluted areas.Although this action does not harm the city itself, it will have a bad effect on the citizens.Just imagine, if many people follow their example to evade their responsibilities and become useless people who are useless to society and civilization, how will society function?Therefore, I have no mercy for them.

The recent emergence of SFH is also a bit tricky.The full name of this organization is "SheForHe". They claim that modern society is the enslavement of men, and they want to return men to "freedom".Although the system has blocked all their accounts on the whole network, they are good at hiding themselves, and it is always difficult to get rid of them.

Last year they had blown up two sperm (l) banks in City 502 and City 404.Fortunately, our city took precautions, raised the security level in advance, and strengthened the effectiveness of monitoring.This time, the two (h) terrorists (h) were arrested as soon as they walked out of the gate of the university laboratory with homemade bombs (h).

A voice message from β-Qiu came in his ear: "δ-Rou, my physical examination is over, where are you?"

"I have a temporary task, you can go home by yourself." I replied, "Say sorry to Auntie, I can't go to dinner today."

After saying this, I feel guilty inside. β-Qiu's mother, my adoptive mother γ-Li, has asked me to go to her house for dinner several times, but I have no time to go.I thought I could finally visit her today, but I didn't expect to break the contract again.Auntie must be very disappointed.

I thought, after clearing SFH, I should apply to the system for a long vacation and go to Australia with my aunt.

"You have to work hard again." As soon as I walked into the office, the third team leader μ-Luo stuffed a stack of paper booklets into my hand. "Recently, SFH is quite rampant."

The system divides the vulnerabilities of society into nine levels according to the degree of danger, and our first brigade is responsible for the most dangerous A+ level.Such cases are often about ideas, because holes in ideas are the hardest to fill.

Installing bombs (h) in the fine (l) sub-base, and even killing a few citizens, these can only be regarded as B-level vulnerabilities.What is dangerous is not SFH's actions itself, but their extreme thinking.

The system can monitor every move of a person at any time, and can even detect some simple thoughts of a person by scanning brain activity-for example, people with suicidal tendencies will experience increased frontal lobe activity when the word "death" is mentioned ; Certain mental images [Mental images: mental images, that is, images that reappear in our minds when we retrieve stored visual information from memory. ], can also be decoded by algorithm.However, extracting neural information needs to rely on a virtual reality hat, and no one will wear a hat all the time, so neural information cannot be collected anytime and anywhere like visual or auditory information.Moreover, this level of interpretation is still far from the real "mind reading".

Not to mention that the real "mind reading technique" has not yet appeared, even if there is such a day, there is still a problem that is still difficult to solve.

What causes people to have various thoughts?

In other words, why does a person who wants to commit suicide have thoughts of suicide?Is it because of a physical disease, such as suffering from depression; or because of a setback in life, such as the death of a loved one; or because of reading a certain book or listening to a certain piece of music; or just seeing a fallen leaf blowing in the wind. Suddenly feel loveless?

Of course, most people's thinking can find a reasonable explanation.Beginning with Freud, psychologists have made no less attempts of this kind.However, if you really deal with "worms", you will find that it is difficult to find a clear source of many abnormal thoughts.

The human brain is still a "black box". Even if we know all the input and output, it is difficult to understand what process happened between the two.

And no harmful thought can be prevented if its source cannot be found.

The best example of this is the crude and failed methods of mind control in history.The ancient (h) rulers could only rely on one-sided experience to list certain books as banned (h) books, but they often found that people who had never read these books, or even illiterate people who could not read large characters, also produced Rebel (h) the idea of ​​rebellion.Even some people's brains always input the information that the government (h) government determined to be "correct", but in the end it "becomes bad" inexplicably.

The reasons for the failure of the ancient (h) rulers were that the analysis of the data input into the human brain was not comprehensive enough, and the second was that the process of thought formation was too simple.Even with today's level of technology capable of recording the vast majority of data a person receives, we are often unable to decipher the source of a person's thoughts.

In order to manage the human mind, it is far from simply prohibiting something.

I flipped through the booklet in my hand. It was a rare paper product, and it was still handwritten.On the first page there are several large characters: "Gender Equality, Men Freedom".

"Who found this?" I asked.

"The experimenter who committed suicide." μ-Luo said, commanding the system to display several photos on the wall beside us.

Twelve-inch-sized pictures floated on the white wall, like eye-catching blood stains—this is an image of the scene taken from multiple angles. It can be seen that the corridor is bloody and bloody, which is horrible.

"Are you sure it was suicide?"

"Well, a small homemade explosive (h) bomb was detonated." μ-Luo said, poking the corpse in the photo, "This guy, σ-2688638-Feng, is the third sperm (l) son of the Fertility Center An experimenter in Ku, with a social value score of 16478.42. The family is happy, the work is smooth, and the relationship with colleagues is also good. Her family and friends do not know when she hooked up with SFH, and she plans to send explosives (h) Bring it into the fine (l) subbank."

She swiped her finger on the wall and called up another photo: "Here, this is her lover (h). Anionic salts make high-energy-density explosives (h). Found a lot of SFH brochures in her home. This child is also very strange. Her mother is the only child of hers, and she is loved like a baby; , the future is limitless. I don’t know which muscle is wrong, but I went to join an extremist organization..."

I interrupted her emotion: "Why is she all right?"

"σ-Feng ran as far as he could before committing suicide, apparently he didn't want to bomb(h) her to death."

I quickly glanced at the on-site instructions projected by the system on the wall, imagining the perspective of σ-wind: If I were her, how would I feel?

I will see that in an instant, the doors of all the rooms in the corridor are closed in unison, isolating us from other unrelated people; Even a small window at the end of the corridor was closed in case we committed suicide by jumping off the building.

And hundreds of microcomputers poured in from the vents.They carry a highly effective anesthetic that takes 0.01mg to work within 1-3 minutes.Under the command of the system, these small gnat-like things rushed towards us at high speed, and could drown us in an instant...

This is a battle without suspense.We are like insects in the bottom of a pitcher plant bottle with no chance of escape.What kind of despair should it be like to be in it?

In my imagination, my eyes were on the suitcase, which contained the bomb(h) bombs in preparation for blowing up the sperm(l) subbank.As long as it is detonated, everyone on this floor will have to be buried with me.I have plenty of time to detonate the (h) bomb, because even if I've already been stung by the damn anesthesia micro-machine, it takes at least a minute for the anesthesia to take effect.

I wouldn't be so stupid as to use the entire floor as hostages to bargain with the system.Because I know that once it is included in the hunting list, I am destined to be unable to escape.But I can use the lives of these people to retaliate against it—bombing up a sperm bank and killing dozens of people in a university laboratory building. Obviously, the latter has a worse impact and is more harmful to society.Also, my death would do more harm than good, because the system would lose important clues.

I can use this to prove that the system's calculations are wrong. Isn't this the biggest challenge for it?

But I didn't do that.I just ran to the end of the hallway before the anesthetic kicked in and ended my life with a spare, button-sized "bomb(h)bomb".Its explosion (h) was so weak that it didn't even leave a scratch on the wall after it exploded my body.

why?Why make such an irrational decision?Is it because seeing the terrified eyes of the child next to me made me unable to be cruel?Is it because you don't want your youthful body to be blown into scorched pieces?

It turned out that the calculations of the system were really perfect.It had already analyzed my emotions, my consistent tendencies in making decisions.It knew that I would not choose that extreme method, so it safely surrounded me with this plan.

How can I have a chance of winning against an enemy who knows me better than myself?This is really hopeless...

But it is not omniscient after all.It doesn't know that I have prepared a way, a way that only destroys myself and does not harm my companions.In this way, I can at least make it lose many leads.

"Do you want to see the data center's interpretation of system decisions?" μ-Luo asked me cautiously.

When I came back to my senses, I realized that my face was probably too gloomy.So he forced a smile and said, "No need."

Seeing her puzzled expression, I changed the subject: "Did you confirm the arrest plan?"

"No, it's ε-Cherry from your first team. We're only responsible for the aftermath."

"Okay, thank you." I erased the photos displayed on the wall, "I'll take a good look at your report."

She looked at me, seeming to hesitate to speak.But in the end he left without saying anything.

I took a deep breath, fell back on my chair, and told the system to call my assistant ε-15209216-Cherry over.

The young man arrived in a hurry, with panic and anxiety written all over his face.

As soon as she opened her mouth, she seemed a little trembling: "Captain... I really didn't expect that she would have a way to commit suicide."

"It's not your fault," I said. "It's an oversight in the system. It failed to detect that they were preparing suicide (h) bombs. It seems that SFH does have technical experts."

Seeing that I didn't blame her, she seemed relieved.But I turned my tone more emphatically.

"Let me ask you, do you know the reason why the system made this round-up plan?"

"Reason? I know." She nodded, "It wants to catch the 'worm' unscathed and try not to disturb other people, so it suggests to isolate the two people first, and then use the anesthesia microcomputer to round them up." .”

"Then have you ever imagined that they are still carrying a (h) bomb? If they find that the exit is blocked and detonate (h) explode (h) bomb (h) in the corridor in desperation, what will happen? What consequences?"

She was startled, and murmured: "This, this shouldn't be possible..."

I hate their ignorance the most, and I couldn't help being a little angry: "Why not, you never thought of it! You can decide whatever the system suggests, right? Then what's the use of you, why not let the system make the decision alright!"

She lowered her head in fright, not daring to look directly at me.

I softened my tone and tried to appear patient: "A wise man is always careful, and he will make mistakes. The system rarely makes mistakes, but it doesn't mean it is always right. The scope of its monitoring is limited. Right now, there are people under our noses Deceive it, if you don't use your brain and make rash decisions, and in the end it goes wrong, you are responsible! You don't want to go to the northern hemisphere, do you? Think more!"

"Yes……"

"Also, always remember to learn more about those 'worms', and think from their perspective. As humans, our understanding of them is different from the system's understanding of them. Just like scientists can study the entire ant nest It's clear, but human beings' understanding of an ant is definitely not as good as another ant's understanding of it. You can't understand it now, but you will gradually understand it in the future."

She nodded again and again, not sure if she understood or not.

I also lost interest in continuing to teach her a lesson. "Forget it, fortunately there is no major problem with the system's suggestion this time, it is much more thoughtful than you - go back and read the data center's explanation report carefully to find out what the system is based on to make a judgment!"

As if she had been pardoned, she quickly slipped away.I sighed and glanced at the report that μ-Luo sent me.Then pick up the stack of SFH brochures, get up and go to room 1001.

1001 is a six-sided white cubic room.At this moment, the "worm" who had recovered from the tranquilizer was sitting on a chair in the middle of the room.I sat down outside the transparent wall, like a tourist watching a trapped animal through a cage.

The prisoner in the middle of the room looked younger than in the data, still childish, almost a child.Her cheeks are small, so her eyes are particularly large, and those eyes are full of emotions that I am all too familiar with: hatred, anger, contempt.

I looked at her for a few seconds and said, "Don't worry, we won't do anything to you. Because we know you don't know anything—if you knew too much, you wouldn't have come here alive."

She was silent, and her eyes seemed to spew flames to burn me.

I calmly continued: "You need to be clearer, it is not us, not the system, that killed your friend, but the people behind you. We hope she is still alive more than anyone else, and those people heard the news of her death, But he probably breathed a sigh of relief and is raising a glass to celebrate."

Trembling with anger, she shouted, "What do you know!"

Just talk.Once the silence is broken, its gaps grow wider and wider until the secrets contained within are revealed.

I smiled: "At least I know more than you. For example, I know where your plan went wrong before it was discovered by the system. Do you want to know?"

She snorted contemptuously.

I raised the brochure in my hand: "I have to say, your methods of evading surveillance are very clever. The system did not discover these things, nor did it record any contacts between σ-feng and any suspicious persons. All her data are It couldn't be more normal, it seems that she is a person who is good at hiding herself. It's a pity that your performance in this aspect is too bad."

Her eyes widened and she looked startled and angry.

"It's not your fault, it's her fault. According to the original plan, she should have kept you in the dark. She should only approach you, cheat your trust, get the materials you need from your laboratory, and then Go to the fertility center alone, and die in the sea of ​​fire with the sperm bank."

"However, I have been hiding my true thoughts for so many years, pretending to be a normal person in every word and deed until death. Isn't this kind of life too lonely? Finally, at the end of her life, she met you. She Feeling that you are someone who can really understand her, a confidant - what a temptation it is for her. Temptation overcomes reason, and she can't help exporting those extreme thoughts of SFH to you. And you really don't Let her down, and you totally identify with those things and are willing to fight with her."

"She taught you how to disguise yourself. Avoid sensitive words in language that may attract the system's attention, follow the previous rules of life and interpersonal communication, and prevent the system from discovering that you have changed through anomaly detection. However, there is a very Difficult, you can't control your emotions. Every time you walk into the lab, you can't help but have a stress reaction, sweat, heart rate, muscle tension. And every time you think that she will die soon, die of You're making something, and you want to cry. If these physiological reactions are recorded, the system will flag abnormalities very quickly, and it will think that you are sick, thereby increasing your risk factor. Then it will think , it is best for a mentally abnormal person to stay away from this laboratory full of explosive substances temporarily, and will notify your instructor to let you go home and rest."

"What should I do? Since you can't deceive yourself, σ-wind can only help you deceive the system. She replaces some items that can record physiological data, such as your clothes, glasses, and earphones, and some discards them. , and some input adversarial samples or false data. However, it is precisely because she deceived too successfully that it led to the suspicion of the system."

"Didn't you notice? By your side, there is always someone watching you secretly."

She stared at me in horror.

I had the system display a picture on the glass wall she was facing.

"It's her!" she screamed.

"This person, κ-36874987-Kang from the laboratory next door, is familiar to you?" I said, "But you don't know, she has been secretly in love with you, so she pays special attention to you. Her smart contact lens upload system Data, 6% of it is about you every day. That is to say, whenever you appear in a place where she can see, she will try to sneak a look at you."

"At 2137:10:23 on October 16, 26:32:10 on October 24, and 20:53:21 on October 10, 25, κ-Kang's glasses clearly recorded that your eye sockets were red three times in the corridor , as if you just cried. The system judged that you might be sick or emotionally unstable, so it retrieved your data for analysis. As a result, it found that your smart device recorded at the same time as the κ-Kang’s glasses The data is completely different. So, it infers that some data must be false."

"So, from 10:25 on October 13th, the system raised your monitoring level and reprocessed your recent data. It soon discovered that there may be a hidden kind of information in your conversation with σ-wind. The new code was quickly deciphered. Your plan was completely exposed like this. At 00:26:10 on the 35th, you blocked all monitoring in the laboratory and took the police out of the gate. At this moment, your risk factor finally broke through Threshold, there is no turning back."

Tears welled up in her beautiful eyes, and she trembled all over.I sighed lightly.

"σ-2688638-Feng couldn't bear to just use you, but the result was worse than using you. If you were just used by her, the crime might be less serious. But now that you are actively participating in the crime, the situation is much more serious. "

"Stop talking! I killed her!" She suddenly yelled, "Kill me, I only regret that I didn't die with her!"

"There is no death penalty these days, so she left you to us with peace of mind."

"No, she doesn't know!" She shouted excitedly, "I'd rather die than accept your so-called 'correction', let alone go to the northern hemisphere—"

I interrupted her coldly: "Children, don't talk about the word 'death' so lightly."

A three-dimensional stereoscopic image appears in a field of light in the center of the room.

"Impossible! You lied to me! How could my daughter do such a thing!"

A middle-aged man waved his arms in despair, trying desperately to break away from the person who was holding her, with tears streaming down his face and choking with sobs.

"My Mao Mao has always been a good child... She is so good, how could something happen?" She looked up, as if she was questioning an invisible god.

I asked the system to turn off the image, and looked at the child with pity: "Is this your mother? She is your only child, do you have the heart to abandon her to die?"

She finally couldn't help it, and cried with her headache in her arms.