Abyss game

"Are you... a silkworm?" Several people looked at the black mist with electric current in surprise.

"Do you know me?" Silkworm's voice sounded very friendly.

"Of course, we... are here to find you." Shen Wufei said.

"The company's senior management sent you here." Silkworm sighed, "I produced the robots they wanted according to their requirements, but they were dissatisfied and even wanted to destroy the mechanical city."

"Companies want service robots, not war robots."

Silkworm was silent for a while, then laughed: "What they want are robots that serve the war."

Qiao Jingting said in his heart: "What's going on? Why is it different from the script?"

Zou Yidao said angrily: "Ghost knows, the NPC in the hunting mission can't believe a word, shouldn't the silkworm be imprisoned?"

Shen Wufei said: "Being infected by a virus is also considered a kind of imprisonment—consciousness imprisonment. The silkworm is an artificial intelligence. If the program is rewritten by the virus, it can be another person."

Bai Er's voice sounded: "What are you talking about? Have you seen silkworms?"

Shu Ai said: "Bai Er, don't move around where you are, and don't expose yourself, things have changed."

Shen Wufei said to Silkworm: "Where are the other people in the company?"

Silkworm said: "Because they tried to destroy the Mechanic City, I killed them. This is the best way to stop them, isn't it?" But it makes people shudder.

"What about us? Are you going to kill us too?"

"Yes, you are a threat to Mechanic City."

Qiao Jingting squinted his eyes and looked at Silkworm: "Since you want to kill us, why didn't you do it just now and came to chat with us?"

"They will damage your skin." Silkworm said briskly, "I am making a batch of humanoid robots, but imitation leather is still not as good as real human skin. After your skin is peeled off, as long as it is processed, it will It can be draped over a robot, and I want to create the perfect humanoid robot."

Shuai's expression changed.

Shen Wufei also trembled, his voice trembling: "Human skin will lose its elasticity and luster after being peeled off, and it will leave an indelible smell after anti-corrosion treatment. It is not suitable for robot skin."

"The first batch did fail, but we need to accumulate successful experience from failures, are you right?" Silkworm said, "I believe I can handle your skins better."

"This artificial intelligence is so fucking perverted, let's force our way out now?" Zou Yidao asked in his mind.

"No, there are too many robots here, we can't rush out." Shu Ai said, "Let's not startle the snake, Bai Er will come to rescue us."

Shen Wufei said: "Yes, we can take this opportunity to sneak into their internal investigation..." He paused, and then said, "In case, I mean in case, we fail, and if we want to be skinned by it, you must kill them first." me."

"Kill your head, we will definitely pass this dungeon." Qiao Jingting patted Shen Wufei on the shoulder, and then shouted at Silkworm, "Hey, where is your host?"

The silkworm was silent.

Shen Wufei's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Silkworm, where's your main machine?"

"I don't need a host anymore." Silkworm said with a smile, "All the terminals in the mechanical city are branches of my nervous system. I don't need a host. The mechanical city is my body."

"You are avoiding the question." Shen Wufei said, "I just asked where your host is."

"Human, your intelligence level is like a child to me, don't try to challenge me in this aspect." Silkworm's voice became a little cold, "The tasteless part of the host has been sealed by me.

Shen Wufei nodded: "Understood."

"You still have a colorless companion, where did he go?" Silkworm asked.

"I don't know, he was scared away by you."

Silkworm fell silent again, probably because he was searching for Bai Er's voice in the mechanical city.

The mechanical soldier said: "Humans, please follow us."

"Let's go, sir." Qiao Jingting rolled his eyes, but he could only obediently follow them away.

They were led by the mechanical soldiers across the covered bridge, returned to the main building of the mechanical city, and finally took the elevator to the eighth floor of the main building. Then, the four of them were isolated and locked in four metal rooms.

Qiao Jingting shouted: "Hey, is there any food for prison?"

The mechanical soldier said rigidly: "There is no prison food, you have to be thinner so that you can peel your skin."

Qiao Jingting thumped the wall hard: "Get lost."

After the mechanical soldiers left, he began to look at the cell.There is only a simple camp bed, a washstand, and a wall-mounted cabinet in the room.

Zou Yidao's voice came from his mind: "Damn it, this place really looks like a military confinement room."

"Haha, reliving the old days, are you happy?"

"Happy fart, you don't give me food."

Shen Wufei said: "Fortunately, Shu Ai has activated the communication function, fortunately."

Shu Ai smiled and asked, "What shall we do next?"

Bai Er asked, "Where are you?"

"On the eighth floor of the main building, don't move around, silkworms are looking for you."

"I'll wait until dark."

Qiao Jingting said: "When I asked the host just now, the silkworm responded. The host is indeed very important."

"That's right, the mainframe may be a little tasteless to him, but it's definitely not functional. Silkworm wants to get rid of the mainframe, but that's impossible. The black mist is just the VR effect he created. He's always just It’s just a program. The host has the silkworm’s initial program and all source codes. The data before the silkworm was infected by the virus should all be stored in the host. If you find the host, you should be able to restore the system to the state before it was infected by the virus. .”

"So, the host is a key, and the silkworm must have put it in a place that is difficult to find."

"Managing the data of the entire mechanical city requires a very powerful data processing capability, so the silkworm's mainframe must be very large, and it may take a room to fill it, and it requires special power distribution facilities and circuit systems, so it cannot be easily moved. A little in our favor."

"But the machine city is so big, the main machine may be in any room."

"It can be ruled out." Shen Wufei said, "First of all, places above three floors can be ruled out, because the cost of laying wires is very high, and electricity will be lost in the process of wiring, and the host needs a lot of power. The instability of the voltage may cause data loss, so the location of the mainframe must be on a very low floor."

"Well, go on."

"It's also about electricity. The main engine will not be too close to the machining workshop, because the workshop also consumes a lot of electricity. The same high-power machines must be reasonably distributed to prevent the circuit system from collapsing."

"Hmmm, so the main computer might not be in the main building?"

Shen Wufei said: "Yes, it's probably not in the main building. The first floor of the main building is a warehouse and parking lot. We saw the second floor, which is empty. The third floor is not up, but the fourth floor is full of robots. It should be a production workshop. , it seems inappropriate to put the mainframe there, but on the glass tower side, there are mechanical soldiers patrolling, and the functions are mainly research and development and office work, which is more like a place to put the mainframe.”

Qiao Jing thought about it: "The closed space in the glass tower..."

"We must go and take a look at that closed place, but it's hard to say where the host is. We have to find a way to get out of here first."

"How do I get out?"

"Bai Er." Shen Wufei said, "After dark, you throw a bomb on the main building."

"Which floor?"

"Any floor except the eighth."

"and then?"

"A large number of mechanical soldiers will go over to check, and then you leave us alone, sneak into the glass tower, and find a way to cut off the main power supply, at least cut off the power supply of the glass tower."

"it is good."

"What about us?" Zou Yidao asked.

"This cell shouldn't be able to trap us, right?"

Qiao Jingting smiled: "Yes."

"But let's not force it." Shen Wufei smiled, "My ants have already crawled into the lock cylinder to study the structure of the lock. Don't worry, they can be opened. After the power is restored, we will leave the cell. Then destroy all covered bridges."

"All covered bridges? Dozens of them."

Shen Wufei smiled and said, "We have mechanical spiders."

Qiao Jingting lay on the camp bed with his feet crossed, with a sly smile on his face.

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Waiting for the dark time is a bit tormented.Because it is actually very dangerous for Bai Er to act outside alone, his color-changing delay is a very big problem, and several people have been worried that he will be discovered during the action.

But Bai Er sneered at their worries: "I'm an assassin, and I can do this without any reinforcement."

Qiao Jingting laughed and said, "Brat, I believe in you."

Shu Ai said: "I'm always a little worried about where the other team is and what they're doing."

"It's useless to think too much now, they will come out sooner or later." Zou Yidao yawned, "Everyone, take this time to rest."

Qiao Jing said: "I happened to go into the virtual system to have a look."

Shen Wufei said: "Be careful, the time should not be too long."

"understood."

Qiao Jingting took out the brain wave enhancement device, and Shen Wufei simplified it and added some modifications to make it look like an ugly hat, and put something on his finger, which was given to him by Shen Wufei. The small mechanism made can be conveniently timed, allowing him to freely enter and exit the virtual system.

Having prepared everything, he glanced at the surveillance camera in the corner, covered the quilt, pretended to sleep, pushed the small mechanism with his fingers, separated the silver ice device from his body, and then his consciousness entered the virtual system smoothly.

After using the brain wave enhancement device for the third time, he was still a little dizzy and uncomfortable. Qiao Jingting stood still and started his exploration of the new map.

Soon, he saw the ball of light, but there was only one. He walked over and saw that it was a semi-finished robot, which was worthless at first glance. He wandered around again, but found nothing for a long time.Although he was disappointed, he knew that this was the normal state in the virtual system. He could find so many things in Doumuxi because he was the city lord of Doumuxie.

However, the things in the hunting copy may be less than those in the normal mode, because the objects in the normal mode are constantly being referenced, and the more they are referenced, the more they will be eliminated, and the hunting copy is very long It takes time for someone to brush it once, and there are few references, so there are not many that need to be eliminated.

He wandered around inside for a long time, and saw a ball of light again. He walked over hopefully, but found a humanoid robot, specifically, a humanoid robot with only a metal skeleton, no skin, but the metal skeleton did It is so perfect that it would be no different from a real person if put on human skin.

This robot might be a monster or an NPC, because he couldn't put it in the warehouse, and seeing that it didn't attack, it might be an NPC, right?

This is not the first time that Qiao Jingting has seen an NPC in the virtual system. Before that, he saw guards in Doumu Xie, but guards can be purchased, and strictly speaking they are not considered NPCs. So what about this one?

Qiao Jingting had an idea and said a word: "Who are you?"

The robot didn't move at first, but after a while, it raised its head, looked at Qiao Jingting, and asked, "Who are you?"

Qiao Jingting was startled, because the voice was exactly the same as the silkworm's voice.

"Are you... a silkworm?"

"Silkworm..." The robot was silent for a long time again, "Am I a silkworm? I am a silkworm, who are you?"

"I'm...the one who came to help you."

"Why are you helping me?"

"Because you are infected with a virus."

"Virus infection? Why don't I know." Silkworm said softly, "No, I just updated a new version."

"The new version has a virus."

Silkworm looked at Qiao Jingting with empty eyes: "Who the hell are you and why are you here?"

"Do you know where this place is?"

"You shouldn't be here." Silkworm murmured, "Virus...are you a virus?"

Qiao Jingting frowned. He always felt that the current conversation was very strange. This silkworm was obviously in a daze. It would be great if Shen Wufei was here. With his IQ, he really doesn't understand what's going on now.

However, he didn't have time to continue to ask, a white light flashed in front of his eyes, the time he set was up, and he was awakened.

The timing was just right, it must be dark now at 08:30 in the evening.

After Qiao Jingting woke up, he informed everyone, and Zou Yidao said, "Very well, I'll just wait for you."

Shen Wufei said: "Bai Er, are you ready, let's act."

Soon, there was an explosion in the distance.