rainy night talk

Louis sighed, groping with his hands in the dark, he pushed Chen Zhen, and said impatiently, "Get off me first."

After being pinched, Chen Zhen punched Louis again, then turned over and leaned against the wall. While rubbing the painful spot, he secretly slandered that Louis was better than someone who went to a military academy anyway. He's fine.

"Where should I start..." Louis stretched on the ground slowly.

Chen Zhen: "Where did you go after you left the company that day? Why did you suddenly go to the Zeeman area again? I checked your jump records. You wandered between the Zeeman area and the Stark area. What happened?"

"Uh... can I say I have amnesia?" Louis said perfunctorily.

Chen Zhen said in a deep voice, "...Louis."

"I don't really remember much. I was probably called or something, I was like sleepwalking during that time, and a voice told me to go somewhere, and then when I came back, I It's already in Seman District."

Seman District again. "Then what?"

"Then... I met Arnold, who seemed to be being followed, so we managed to get rid of those people and then hid in Atlanta."

Chen Zhen frowned, which seemed to be different from what he had guessed, "Then... how do you know that you are actually..."

"Arnold told me."

Chen Zhen was surprised, "Him?"

"Unexpectedly. Seeing that he is usually so shy and introverted, who would have thought that he would be a genius hacker on the dark web? You must read the program he wrote, it is perfect!" Louis paused for a second, he realized that he said to himself After a long distance, he immediately changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, do you still remember the transportation company in Stark District?"

Chen Zhen couldn't keep up with his thinking all of a sudden. He couldn't connect the preface and the postscript of Louis. He said in a daze, "Is there any problem with that company?"

"The problem is big. I have been investigating since the AI ​​data was lost last time. The security company obviously has senior engineers and never participates in our regular maintenance. What kind of data loss will make those people take risks?" They came to us because of the risk of leaking secrets? Then I found out that one of their supervisors replaced the Aurora No. 7 energy core we used with No. 5 in order to save money."

"No. 5? I remember that our energy processor is not very compatible with that battery."

"Yes, so they added a patch for it." Louis snorted coldly, "Just to save those few dollars."

Chen Zhen thought about it, modifying the AI ​​​​program without review is completely illegal, and few engineers would risk losing their jobs to do this. "Where did their patches come from?"

"The black market, they bought the patch through the dark web, and the maker of that patch is Arnold."

Chen Zhen suddenly figured out why Louis had been drinking with Arnold for a certain period of time—it turned out that it was not just out of concern for the newcomers.

"After that, Arnold also joined my investigation. According to the previous information, we started with their transportation routes and found that they seemed to be engaged in some kind of... smuggling. You know I am a person who hates trouble, so I checked here I stopped, and I ordered Arnold to stop, but he didn't seem to listen." Louis sighed, and continued, "Arnold chased the Zeeman jump station and found me, and he told me that he found the goods they transported privately. It is very rich, including water sources, food, metal and non-metal rare materials, and even weapons, which is enough to build a large space fortress. Although the routes are different, their ultimate goal points to one place - the Brillouin zone. Don't you guess who has such a great ability to secretly transfer such a huge amount of supplies?"

Chen Zhen's brain was spinning quickly, and countless words emerged in his mind, and finally, they merged into one: "Homeland..."

In the darkness, Chen Zhen felt an inexplicable sense of suffocation, and a storm seemed to be coming.

"Professor...what the hell is he going to do?"

"You followed him on board without knowing anything?" Louis raised his voice suddenly, and he broke down: "Don't you know that he wants to declare the humanity of AI to the Star Alliance and establish an AI free zone?"

If he wasn't in the dark, Louis would have been able to appreciate Chen Zhen's dumbfounded expression, "I...I thought...I thought he just wanted to protect those awakened AIs."

What is an AI free zone?Why the location in the turbulent Brillouin zone?

Chen Zhen vaguely thought of something, but he felt trembling because of this thought, "He wants to make Brillouin District independent again?"

His answer was Louis' silence.

There was a huge roar in Chen Zhen's mind, and he trembled because of it, "No, this will cause war!" The Brillouin War has just passed less than 30 years ago!

"War is inevitable." Louis' voice sounded coldly in the darkness, "From the moment AI acquires humanity."

Chen Zhen shook his head, "Is there no room for maneuver? You don't even consider negotiating!"

"Negotiation? Of course we will negotiate. The difference will only be whether we will be independent directly, or we will be independent after a fight."

Chen Zhen still couldn't accept it, he shouted helplessly: "War is not advisable, it is wrong!"

Louis sat up all of a sudden, his eyes piercing the darkness like sharp knives and piercing towards Chen Zhen, his voice became low and dangerous instead of contemptuous, "Then what is the right way to do it? Huh? Speech and parade around Protest? Then beg them to give you a legal identity? Haha, Chen Zhen, you have been human beings for more than 20 years, don’t you know them enough?”

Chen Zhen tried to argue, "But..."

Louis interrupted impatiently: "Find out where you stand!"

At this moment, Chen Zhen understood that no matter what he said, it was powerless.Even if he is still vacillating and still has tiny hopes, time will not wait for him to make a choice, he has been pushed aside, and the only thing waiting for him is acceptance.

Louis sighed, "If you really can't accept it, get out of here and find a place to hide before we reach the Brillouin Zone. I will take care of it with Professor Maslow."

It's too late, everything is too late.Chen Zhen thought: He already knows all this, so he can no longer pretend to be a human being, it is too late, and he can no longer return to the original world.

Louis opened the door, and the light from the corridor poured into the room, shining on Chen Zhen who buried his head in his arms.

"One last question." Chen Zhen's muffled voice reached Louis.

Louis turned his head and stood at the door waiting for him to continue.

"Are you still Louis?"

Louis's throat slid up and down, the broken red hair blocked his eyes, and a trace of unspeakable sadness flashed in his golden pupils. It took a long time before he opened his mouth slowly.

"On this ship they call me Gabriel."