The wingman who was tripped and flew out ran back with long legs and stopped in front of the Dolphin.
Zhuang Yu saw Zhan Chen modifying this mecha.
The day before the exercise started, Zhuang Yu couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he went to take care of Shi Ji's wingman, and chatted with Zhan Chen on the tarmac.
He was still not quite used to a mecha having self-awareness, so he collected himself, pulled down the microphone and tried to negotiate: "...this is my team member."
Zhuang Yu said: "I need to take him back to check his body and have a good rest."
The silver mecha was parked opposite him, stubbornly unmoved.
Zhuang Yu had a headache.
The mecha operator and the observer are the closest partners. If the observer is injured or sick, because he is tired and in a bad state, it is only natural for the mecha operator to take care of him.
...But it is not so logical for mecha to take care of it.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, and when it was called, Ji had already been unsealed and officially transferred to the electronic military status of the Special Forces, copied a copy, and sent it to the opposite mecha.
Dolphin carefully flipped through every page, and kept it in the deepest part of her archives.
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu sent another order to fully rebuild the "Sharp Knife" team, and Shi Ji was specially approved to be the deputy observer.
The dark blue light under the Dolphin's visor flickered.
It seemed to have searched for a certain keyword, raised its head, and carefully scanned the area where the wingman was being manipulated.
On Zhuang Yu's operation screen, he suddenly received some messages that looked like garbled characters.
Looking at the garbled characters returned by the Dolphin, Zhuang Yu couldn't help but frown. He was about to contact Zhan Chen to report an error, and then glanced at the pile of garbled characters casually, but his expression suddenly froze.
……
His breathing suddenly became rapid.
Among the gibberish codes that looked like a prank or a card program, there was a very inconspicuous piece of code hidden.
It's very short, if you don't pay attention, you will skip it with a scan.
[S7, 191519. ]
In the alphabet, the 19th digit is S, the 15th digit is O, and 191519 is one of the standard abbreviations of Morse code, which translates to "SOS".
Interstellar universal Morse code emergency signal.
Emergency call for help.
Zhuang Yu rushed to the lookout, staring at the mech.
His hands trembled a little, he pulled down the communicator, and was about to apply for a call, when the voice on the other side rang out in a burst of noisy electric current: "Captain Zhuang?"
Zhuang Yu was not surprised by the voice on the other side, his chest heaved several times, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Zhan Chen? I want to ask you, I received a piece of code, it was sent by your mecha..."
"I know." Zhan Chen said, "I saw it."
Probably Yu Tang used the small red light on the mecha panel to flash him the Morse code, and Zhuang Yu happened to mention the sharp knife team. These two key pieces of information activated some historical traces inside the intelligent AI carried by the Dolphin.
Zhan Chen was taking care of Yu Tang who was so exhausted that he fell asleep, and accidentally, the Dolphin bypassed his control and sent out this garbled message.
Zhuang Yu silently waited for his explanation.
Zhan Chen was silent for a moment on the other side: "Is it convenient tonight?"
Zhuang Yu frowned: "What?"
"Captain Zhuang, the exercise has just ended, and you still have to place trainees who have passed the assessment and give them proper battlefield education."
Zhan Chen: "Some accidents happened in your headquarters. Although it has been roughly dealt with, you still need to take people back to deal with the aftermath."
Zhan Chen said: "I also want to deal with... my side."
Zhuang Yu was silent for a few seconds, didn't ask any more questions, and simply agreed: "Okay."
Zhuang Yu asked: "Did what happened just now cause you any trouble?"
"It's a little troublesome." Zhan Chen smiled, "Fortunately."
Fortunately, Xiao Guangtuan was too tired to fall asleep, and Shi Ji, who was in the sea of consciousness, was also affected by his body. He obediently put down his notes and was persuaded by him to go back and rest.
Fortunately, this time everything is still in time.
"I'll take them back first."
Zhan Chen said, "See you tonight."
Zhuang Yu had already guessed that he was in a hurry, so he didn't say any more, and only tapped the microphone twice.
The silver mecha quietly sank into the depths of the factory.
Outside the abandoned factory, Zhuang Yu, dressed in a refined pure black training uniform, jumped off his wingman and walked in front of the trainees who were gathering one after another.
……
Zhan Chen gently put down Yu Tang who was sleeping soundly.
He has pulled out his own body data, wiped off the thin sweat from Yu Tang's forehead, lowered the air conditioner in the dormant cabin by two degrees, and pulled the blanket to cover Yu Tang carefully.
The Dolphin seemed to know that she was in trouble, the taillights flashed, and the blades drooped motionless.
Zhan Chen tapped the control panel twice: "It's okay, it's not your fault."
The name "S7" is one of the key targets to be monitored at any time in this world.
The emergency distress signal sent by the Dolphin to Zhuang Yu was actually concealed enough that even his pre-set protection system failed to detect it in time.
However, the S7 mentioned in the SOS still aroused the vigilance of Chuanshuju.
Zhan Chen asked the Dolphin: "Are you ready?"
The blue light under the Dolphin's visor flickered.
Zhan Chen nodded, he took off his uniform jacket, unbuttoned the cuff buttons of his shirt, and rolled the sleeves neatly over his elbows.
The silver-gray parts were condensed into reality by data. In his hands, a tactical intervention sniper rifle was quickly assembled at an invisible speed.
Fast and sharp, but light and nimble as if silent.
Zhan Chen slapped the clip, pulled the safety, raised the gun and fired.
Hundreds of meters away, a mechanical bug that had just been half-disabled by Zhuang Yu's men rushed halfway, and the energy tank was precisely destroyed, and it fell suddenly.
The remains of the mechanical bugs didn't hit the ground.
Half of these wreckages were exchanged for experience points, which silently turned into massive data streams.
Zhan Chen aimed the gun.
The Dolphin bypassed his shield and mentioned S7 in the distress signal, which obviously aroused the vigilance of some people.
Crossing the bookstore cannot surpass the logic of the world itself, and can only use the existing plot for further development.
Under the current scenario, the most convenient way to obliterate the Dolphin is to let these mechanical bugs that have been given the chance to "die and struggle" again.
Zhan Chen looked calm and aimed at the baseline to lock on to the next target.
The gun in his hand was so stable that it didn't vibrate at all, he pulled the trigger, and the other end of the mechanical bug fell down, quietly turning into a stream of data.
The dilapidated mechanical bugs rushed up one after another, only to be shot down one after another.
The field of view of the scope is limited, behind Zhan Chen, a mechanical bug that sneaked around suddenly exploded.
The sharp and cold chest corners could not be pierced, and the compound eyes glowing red had been completely extinguished under the gunpoint.
Zhan Chen rolled on the spot with the momentum, the gun in his hand slid neatly to his side against his forearm, pushed a new magazine with his left hand, and pulled the trigger one after another. There was almost no gap between the two bullets, and they sank into the energy chamber of the mechanical bug.
...The plot shift in this world finally made the terminal realize the crisis belatedly.
Zhan Chen raised his gun, aimed while changing positions, and shot down the remains of the two mechanical bugs.
Compared to the immediate life-and-death crisis, the data formed from the remains of these mechanical bugs put even greater pressure on him.
Zhan Chen opened several spare warehouses in the mall at the same time, and they were still full. He was about to open another one, when he suddenly heard a startled mechanical voice: "Host!"
In the sea of consciousness, the system carrying a small burden finally crashed in: "Sorry, I am late, the data flow in this world has changed a lot, I have been looking for a long time... the host?"
When the system saw Yu Tang in the dormant cabin, it was so frightened that it immediately took out a complete life monitoring system: "Su—"
Zhan Chen smiled and interrupted it: "Your host is resting."
The system that had just come back from vacation had its red light flashing, and it floated up in shock.
Zhan Chen: "Exactly, do me a favor."
The system used this time to go back to study. It has been upgraded to two levels and can process more data at one time. It immediately patted the screen and agreed: "Yes!"
The system is gearing up: "The host rests! I will cooperate with Mr. Zhan to fight! Put it on me—"
Its voice has not yet fallen, and the boundless data flow pours down from the interface of the sea of consciousness at one time.
system:"……"
Zhan Chen no longer suppressed his speed, raised his gun and shot down three more mechanical bugs: "A little more."
The system was submerged in the boundless sea of data, and after a few hard times, he bought himself an oxygen cylinder dedicated to the system.
The fight went unnoticed by anyone.
Zhan Chen got rid of all the wreckages of the dying mechanical bugs, entrusted the work of moving the data to the system, and quietly returned to the Military Academy with the Dolphin.
As the maker of the mecha, the "Senior Zhan" who stayed in the military academy also declined the awards from several deans and senior officials of the academy, and waited alone on the tarmac in advance.
The Dolphin was moored in front of the landing pad.
Yu Tang only woke up for a while when he was carried out of the dormant cabin.
He was indeed exhausted this time, and he heard gunshots vaguely while he was asleep, and tried to wake up several times, but failed.
The arm that carried him out slightly retracted, and Zhan Chen's gentle voice as always: "It's okay, nothing happened."
Being hugged by him, Yu Tang squinted his eyes as if being pierced by the suddenly bright light, and buried his face into Chen's shoulder socket.
Zhan Chen's body smelled of fresh gunpowder, and a faint sweet smell of blood that was not obvious.
Zhan Chen seemed to know what he was thinking: "It's okay, it's just a scratch."
Zhan Chen said: "It's fortunate that you destroyed all the mechanical bugs in advance."
Before that, he was still thinking about the reason why Yu Tang insisted on delaying the time, even if he could successfully complete the exercise just by resisting the attack of the insect swarm, and he did not hesitate to take risks to consume the estate.
——Only when Zhuang Yu brings people over, all the mechanical bugs will be completely destroyed.
If the plot was secretly modified this time, the one who counterattacked and attacked the Dolphin was not the destroyed wreckage, but the mechanical bug that was temporarily repelled but still had full combat power, and what was waiting for him might not be just this scratch.
By the time of the third book, Yu Tang had figured out the complete rules of the game, and he had long been used to staying within the rules, destroying all possible threats in advance with every step he took.
Zhan Chen lowered his head and looked at Yu Tang who was tightly wrapped in a small blanket.
He can easily tell who is in this body when. When Yu Tang is in charge of the body, there will be a little warm light that other people can't see, and it's not obvious.
Zhan Chen lightly stroked Yu Tang's messy sleeping hair.
The little light ball who wanted to learn how to dry blankets by himself would accidentally blow up the dryer, but when he had no time to participate and interfere, he became more reliable than anyone else.
Yu Tang was still very sleepy, he struggled out of the deep sleepiness, touched Zhan Chen's body, trying to find the wound.
"..." Zhan Chen held his hand that was fumbling around, and raised the corner of his mouth helplessly: "It has been repaired."
Zhan Chen said slowly: "Have you forgotten? I am a data now, and I can be repaired soon after being injured."
Yu Tang asked: "Can't we not do data?"
Zhan Chen patted his back: "Not yet."
Yu Tang tightened his arms, and his voice was a little vague: "Then I will also do data."
Zhan Chen's footsteps stopped.
This time he didn't answer, but lightly rubbed Yu Tang's hair again, quickened his pace, and carried him back to the dormitory from the tarmac.
Zhuang Yu came at night.
Yu Tang was still sleeping on the sofa, with a little yellow duck on his head, curled up in the pillows, holding a corner of Zhan Chen's clothes.
Zhan Chen sat down beside the sofa.
His coat was on Yu Tang's body, and he put on a shirt casually, and was treating his wound by the light of the desk lamp.
Zhuang Yu couldn't help frowning: "Are you injured?"
"It can only be hurt a little." Zhan Chen nodded, "It doesn't matter."
Zhuang Yu noticed the sleeping person on the sofa, closed the door, and walked lightly.
Zhan Chen knew what he was worried about, so he didn't go around the bush: "Both of them are very tired, one is sleeping in the sea of consciousness, and the other is outside... Captain Zhuang, I'm in charge of the outside."
Zhuang Yu's hand that was about to cover the quilt for his subordinates stopped in the air: "..."
Zhan Chen nodded politely, stretched out his hand, and straightened the blanket that had slipped down for Yu Tang.
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu took a deep breath, didn't care about him, and simply sat down on the ground: "What's the matter with your injury, what do you mean you can only suffer a little injury?"
Zhan Chen's waist was scratched by the remains of the mechanical bug that exploded, and the wound was freshly opened. Even with a new bandage, blood was still slowly oozing out.
Zhan Chen didn't answer immediately.
After treating the wound, he set up a barrier outside the bandage, and buttoned back the buttons of his shirt one by one.
"In your world, some people are chosen."
Zhan Chen said, "Do you still remember the current section chief of the Special Investigation Section of the Ministry of Security?"
"Pu Ying?" Of course Zhuang Yu remembered, "He even brought a team here this time. The alliance headquarters was furious and asked the Ministry of Security to take the lead in thoroughly investigating those conservatives. We just met."
Zhan Chen nodded.
He was treated as data, recycled into the terminal in the bookstore, and when he was about to reprogram, he had seen a very long list.
This list includes many worlds, the world they are in, Luo Ran, Pu Ying and S7 are all on the list.
The people on the list are the selected "data to be recovered".
He hadn't figured out what this meant.
It wasn't until Yu Tang conducted experiments with mechanical bugs and raised that question that he suddenly realized this most likely explanation.
After one exchange, the mechanical bug will become an "empty shell" that completely annihilates its voluntary will but still retains the ability to act under the processing of Chuanshuju Mall.
The same is true for humans.
These seemingly outrageous and absurd fates are to obliterate the autonomous consciousness of these target characters and turn them into "empty shells".
……
Zhuang Yu frowned: "You mean, as long as the people on this list are the prey of your place?"
Zhan Chen nodded.
Zhuang Yu asked, "Am I?"
"You are not." Zhan Chen said, "You are too old."
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu: "?"
"You have survived for too long, and your thinking has matured, so it is not so easy to wipe it out."
Zhan Chen put it another way: "But if you are still young and have enough potential, you will become a selected target."
Once anyone or AI wants to prevent these selected targets from becoming "data to be recovered", they will be quietly strangled by the will of the world under the intervention of Chuanshuju.
The Dolphin sent a forbidden distress signal, and should have been strangled into broken data.
Zhuang Yu's heart sank heavily: "That mech—"
"It's okay." Zhan Chen said, "I did a little trick."
Interfering with the will of the world through the bookstore, the remains of the mechanical bugs sent, what they want to bring back is a pile of strangled and broken data.
Zhan Chen deliberately pretended not to avoid it, and was injured during a mechanical bug attack, and part of his own data was shattered, simulating it as the broken pieces of the Dolphin.
The strangling program that runs automatically was really tricked.
Zhuang Yu frowned, and glanced at Zhan Chen's wound.
The wound was abnormal, and it was still bleeding slowly, with no sign of improvement.
"Do you want it?" Zhuang Yu said, "If it doesn't work, I'll take you to the hospital, at least to stop the bleeding."
Zhan Chen shook his head: "No need."
From the outside world, the wounds on the human body he simulated were bleeding all the time, but in fact, the data of the wounds were constantly disintegrating into pieces.
This is a kind of virus that is specifically aimed at data that will be carried in the strangling attack through the bookstore.
It's not that Zhan Chen's own data can't dispel the virus, but it will take time. Before it is processed, the data near the wound will continue to disintegrate like this.
"Don't worry, I will protect myself."
Zhan Chen said, "Captain Zhuang, let's solve your problem first."
Zhuang Yu looked away and silently clenched his fists.
Zhuang Yu: "...OK."
"I received a distress signal from the Dolphin."
Zhuang Yu said: "It's replacing——"
"You can rest assured." Zhan Chen had already blocked the terminal in advance, and took over Zhuang Yu's words, "It is asking for help for S7."
Zhuang Yu fell silent.
...When he saw the string of distress calls, he almost thought that he had made a mistake, that S7 hadn't been rescued, and was still waiting somewhere to pick him up.
The possibility drove him almost mad.
If it wasn't for not wanting to disturb Zhan Chen, he wouldn't have held back until night before asking Zhan Chen this question.
"Please rest assured, S7 is Shi Ji now, he is resting in the sea of consciousness."
Zhan Chen: "You will receive this distress signal because the AI of the Dolphin is not new."
"It has been sending this distress signal for a long time, and what happened today accidentally activated its historical data."
Zhuang Yu raised his head.
His voice was a little hoarse: "What was it originally?"
Zhan Chen: "It was originally a very basic set of artificial intelligence."
The most rudimentary one, far inferior to the present one, would only obey orders, and was widely installed in old-fashioned wingmen and mechas, and cooperated with observers and operators to drive.
Zhan Chen asked: "Have you seen Shi Ji's original ending?"
Zhuang Yu closed his eyes.
He nodded.
... He once asked Yu Tang to show him.
He watched as his best subordinate, the most gifted observer in the whole, chose to merge with the wingman's AI, becoming an emotionless, unconscious intelligent program.
The wingman's control panel flickered red, trying his best to resist the observer's instructions, but he was still powerless to disobey.
The wingman trembled in the swarm of insects, and the wind chime whimpered.
……
"I have experienced this ending before." Zhan Chen said.
Shi Ji's wingman was equipped with the most basic intelligence program, which can't even be called a real AI, but a little bit of chaotic self-awareness.
It's like a small ball of light that has just come out of an electronic storm and is curiously looking at the outside world.
Zhan Chen: "The new artificial intelligence came to me and chose to exchange it for something."
Zhuang Yu asked in a low voice: "...what?"
"It itself." Zhan Chen said, "It doesn't need self-awareness anymore."
Unable to forgive itself, it devours its watcher.
It watched the young man's gentle and happy consciousness dissipate into its own sea of data, frantically searching every corner of the database, but could not find any trace.
"It's used against the experience points and I bought all the violin pieces in this world."
Zhan Chen said: "It asked me to fix the wingman of S7, and import all these violin songs into it before the military takes back the fused intelligent AI."
Those violin pieces were played on loop all night.
In the violin music, the newly born artificial intelligence slowly disintegrates, and no longer gives any response outside the combat procedure.
……
Zhuang Yu was silent for a long time in this story.
He breathed out, raised his head and asked, "You didn't kill that AI's self-awareness?"
"No." Zhan Chen said, "I've done a lot of this kind of deception, and I'm quite proficient."
Zhan Chen: "I kept it temporarily, because the world needed to be re-corrected... until one day, a slave ship capsized."
"..." Zhuang Yu: "?"
"The boat capsized, and the people on it sank in the sea. The plot needs some new changes, and some new characters need to be generated."
Zhan Chen smiled: "I found it and asked."
Zhan Chen: "It said that it would like to be a kind dolphin."
Zhuang Yu saw Zhan Chen modifying this mecha.
The day before the exercise started, Zhuang Yu couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he went to take care of Shi Ji's wingman, and chatted with Zhan Chen on the tarmac.
He was still not quite used to a mecha having self-awareness, so he collected himself, pulled down the microphone and tried to negotiate: "...this is my team member."
Zhuang Yu said: "I need to take him back to check his body and have a good rest."
The silver mecha was parked opposite him, stubbornly unmoved.
Zhuang Yu had a headache.
The mecha operator and the observer are the closest partners. If the observer is injured or sick, because he is tired and in a bad state, it is only natural for the mecha operator to take care of him.
...But it is not so logical for mecha to take care of it.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, and when it was called, Ji had already been unsealed and officially transferred to the electronic military status of the Special Forces, copied a copy, and sent it to the opposite mecha.
Dolphin carefully flipped through every page, and kept it in the deepest part of her archives.
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu sent another order to fully rebuild the "Sharp Knife" team, and Shi Ji was specially approved to be the deputy observer.
The dark blue light under the Dolphin's visor flickered.
It seemed to have searched for a certain keyword, raised its head, and carefully scanned the area where the wingman was being manipulated.
On Zhuang Yu's operation screen, he suddenly received some messages that looked like garbled characters.
Looking at the garbled characters returned by the Dolphin, Zhuang Yu couldn't help but frown. He was about to contact Zhan Chen to report an error, and then glanced at the pile of garbled characters casually, but his expression suddenly froze.
……
His breathing suddenly became rapid.
Among the gibberish codes that looked like a prank or a card program, there was a very inconspicuous piece of code hidden.
It's very short, if you don't pay attention, you will skip it with a scan.
[S7, 191519. ]
In the alphabet, the 19th digit is S, the 15th digit is O, and 191519 is one of the standard abbreviations of Morse code, which translates to "SOS".
Interstellar universal Morse code emergency signal.
Emergency call for help.
Zhuang Yu rushed to the lookout, staring at the mech.
His hands trembled a little, he pulled down the communicator, and was about to apply for a call, when the voice on the other side rang out in a burst of noisy electric current: "Captain Zhuang?"
Zhuang Yu was not surprised by the voice on the other side, his chest heaved several times, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Zhan Chen? I want to ask you, I received a piece of code, it was sent by your mecha..."
"I know." Zhan Chen said, "I saw it."
Probably Yu Tang used the small red light on the mecha panel to flash him the Morse code, and Zhuang Yu happened to mention the sharp knife team. These two key pieces of information activated some historical traces inside the intelligent AI carried by the Dolphin.
Zhan Chen was taking care of Yu Tang who was so exhausted that he fell asleep, and accidentally, the Dolphin bypassed his control and sent out this garbled message.
Zhuang Yu silently waited for his explanation.
Zhan Chen was silent for a moment on the other side: "Is it convenient tonight?"
Zhuang Yu frowned: "What?"
"Captain Zhuang, the exercise has just ended, and you still have to place trainees who have passed the assessment and give them proper battlefield education."
Zhan Chen: "Some accidents happened in your headquarters. Although it has been roughly dealt with, you still need to take people back to deal with the aftermath."
Zhan Chen said: "I also want to deal with... my side."
Zhuang Yu was silent for a few seconds, didn't ask any more questions, and simply agreed: "Okay."
Zhuang Yu asked: "Did what happened just now cause you any trouble?"
"It's a little troublesome." Zhan Chen smiled, "Fortunately."
Fortunately, Xiao Guangtuan was too tired to fall asleep, and Shi Ji, who was in the sea of consciousness, was also affected by his body. He obediently put down his notes and was persuaded by him to go back and rest.
Fortunately, this time everything is still in time.
"I'll take them back first."
Zhan Chen said, "See you tonight."
Zhuang Yu had already guessed that he was in a hurry, so he didn't say any more, and only tapped the microphone twice.
The silver mecha quietly sank into the depths of the factory.
Outside the abandoned factory, Zhuang Yu, dressed in a refined pure black training uniform, jumped off his wingman and walked in front of the trainees who were gathering one after another.
……
Zhan Chen gently put down Yu Tang who was sleeping soundly.
He has pulled out his own body data, wiped off the thin sweat from Yu Tang's forehead, lowered the air conditioner in the dormant cabin by two degrees, and pulled the blanket to cover Yu Tang carefully.
The Dolphin seemed to know that she was in trouble, the taillights flashed, and the blades drooped motionless.
Zhan Chen tapped the control panel twice: "It's okay, it's not your fault."
The name "S7" is one of the key targets to be monitored at any time in this world.
The emergency distress signal sent by the Dolphin to Zhuang Yu was actually concealed enough that even his pre-set protection system failed to detect it in time.
However, the S7 mentioned in the SOS still aroused the vigilance of Chuanshuju.
Zhan Chen asked the Dolphin: "Are you ready?"
The blue light under the Dolphin's visor flickered.
Zhan Chen nodded, he took off his uniform jacket, unbuttoned the cuff buttons of his shirt, and rolled the sleeves neatly over his elbows.
The silver-gray parts were condensed into reality by data. In his hands, a tactical intervention sniper rifle was quickly assembled at an invisible speed.
Fast and sharp, but light and nimble as if silent.
Zhan Chen slapped the clip, pulled the safety, raised the gun and fired.
Hundreds of meters away, a mechanical bug that had just been half-disabled by Zhuang Yu's men rushed halfway, and the energy tank was precisely destroyed, and it fell suddenly.
The remains of the mechanical bugs didn't hit the ground.
Half of these wreckages were exchanged for experience points, which silently turned into massive data streams.
Zhan Chen aimed the gun.
The Dolphin bypassed his shield and mentioned S7 in the distress signal, which obviously aroused the vigilance of some people.
Crossing the bookstore cannot surpass the logic of the world itself, and can only use the existing plot for further development.
Under the current scenario, the most convenient way to obliterate the Dolphin is to let these mechanical bugs that have been given the chance to "die and struggle" again.
Zhan Chen looked calm and aimed at the baseline to lock on to the next target.
The gun in his hand was so stable that it didn't vibrate at all, he pulled the trigger, and the other end of the mechanical bug fell down, quietly turning into a stream of data.
The dilapidated mechanical bugs rushed up one after another, only to be shot down one after another.
The field of view of the scope is limited, behind Zhan Chen, a mechanical bug that sneaked around suddenly exploded.
The sharp and cold chest corners could not be pierced, and the compound eyes glowing red had been completely extinguished under the gunpoint.
Zhan Chen rolled on the spot with the momentum, the gun in his hand slid neatly to his side against his forearm, pushed a new magazine with his left hand, and pulled the trigger one after another. There was almost no gap between the two bullets, and they sank into the energy chamber of the mechanical bug.
...The plot shift in this world finally made the terminal realize the crisis belatedly.
Zhan Chen raised his gun, aimed while changing positions, and shot down the remains of the two mechanical bugs.
Compared to the immediate life-and-death crisis, the data formed from the remains of these mechanical bugs put even greater pressure on him.
Zhan Chen opened several spare warehouses in the mall at the same time, and they were still full. He was about to open another one, when he suddenly heard a startled mechanical voice: "Host!"
In the sea of consciousness, the system carrying a small burden finally crashed in: "Sorry, I am late, the data flow in this world has changed a lot, I have been looking for a long time... the host?"
When the system saw Yu Tang in the dormant cabin, it was so frightened that it immediately took out a complete life monitoring system: "Su—"
Zhan Chen smiled and interrupted it: "Your host is resting."
The system that had just come back from vacation had its red light flashing, and it floated up in shock.
Zhan Chen: "Exactly, do me a favor."
The system used this time to go back to study. It has been upgraded to two levels and can process more data at one time. It immediately patted the screen and agreed: "Yes!"
The system is gearing up: "The host rests! I will cooperate with Mr. Zhan to fight! Put it on me—"
Its voice has not yet fallen, and the boundless data flow pours down from the interface of the sea of consciousness at one time.
system:"……"
Zhan Chen no longer suppressed his speed, raised his gun and shot down three more mechanical bugs: "A little more."
The system was submerged in the boundless sea of data, and after a few hard times, he bought himself an oxygen cylinder dedicated to the system.
The fight went unnoticed by anyone.
Zhan Chen got rid of all the wreckages of the dying mechanical bugs, entrusted the work of moving the data to the system, and quietly returned to the Military Academy with the Dolphin.
As the maker of the mecha, the "Senior Zhan" who stayed in the military academy also declined the awards from several deans and senior officials of the academy, and waited alone on the tarmac in advance.
The Dolphin was moored in front of the landing pad.
Yu Tang only woke up for a while when he was carried out of the dormant cabin.
He was indeed exhausted this time, and he heard gunshots vaguely while he was asleep, and tried to wake up several times, but failed.
The arm that carried him out slightly retracted, and Zhan Chen's gentle voice as always: "It's okay, nothing happened."
Being hugged by him, Yu Tang squinted his eyes as if being pierced by the suddenly bright light, and buried his face into Chen's shoulder socket.
Zhan Chen's body smelled of fresh gunpowder, and a faint sweet smell of blood that was not obvious.
Zhan Chen seemed to know what he was thinking: "It's okay, it's just a scratch."
Zhan Chen said: "It's fortunate that you destroyed all the mechanical bugs in advance."
Before that, he was still thinking about the reason why Yu Tang insisted on delaying the time, even if he could successfully complete the exercise just by resisting the attack of the insect swarm, and he did not hesitate to take risks to consume the estate.
——Only when Zhuang Yu brings people over, all the mechanical bugs will be completely destroyed.
If the plot was secretly modified this time, the one who counterattacked and attacked the Dolphin was not the destroyed wreckage, but the mechanical bug that was temporarily repelled but still had full combat power, and what was waiting for him might not be just this scratch.
By the time of the third book, Yu Tang had figured out the complete rules of the game, and he had long been used to staying within the rules, destroying all possible threats in advance with every step he took.
Zhan Chen lowered his head and looked at Yu Tang who was tightly wrapped in a small blanket.
He can easily tell who is in this body when. When Yu Tang is in charge of the body, there will be a little warm light that other people can't see, and it's not obvious.
Zhan Chen lightly stroked Yu Tang's messy sleeping hair.
The little light ball who wanted to learn how to dry blankets by himself would accidentally blow up the dryer, but when he had no time to participate and interfere, he became more reliable than anyone else.
Yu Tang was still very sleepy, he struggled out of the deep sleepiness, touched Zhan Chen's body, trying to find the wound.
"..." Zhan Chen held his hand that was fumbling around, and raised the corner of his mouth helplessly: "It has been repaired."
Zhan Chen said slowly: "Have you forgotten? I am a data now, and I can be repaired soon after being injured."
Yu Tang asked: "Can't we not do data?"
Zhan Chen patted his back: "Not yet."
Yu Tang tightened his arms, and his voice was a little vague: "Then I will also do data."
Zhan Chen's footsteps stopped.
This time he didn't answer, but lightly rubbed Yu Tang's hair again, quickened his pace, and carried him back to the dormitory from the tarmac.
Zhuang Yu came at night.
Yu Tang was still sleeping on the sofa, with a little yellow duck on his head, curled up in the pillows, holding a corner of Zhan Chen's clothes.
Zhan Chen sat down beside the sofa.
His coat was on Yu Tang's body, and he put on a shirt casually, and was treating his wound by the light of the desk lamp.
Zhuang Yu couldn't help frowning: "Are you injured?"
"It can only be hurt a little." Zhan Chen nodded, "It doesn't matter."
Zhuang Yu noticed the sleeping person on the sofa, closed the door, and walked lightly.
Zhan Chen knew what he was worried about, so he didn't go around the bush: "Both of them are very tired, one is sleeping in the sea of consciousness, and the other is outside... Captain Zhuang, I'm in charge of the outside."
Zhuang Yu's hand that was about to cover the quilt for his subordinates stopped in the air: "..."
Zhan Chen nodded politely, stretched out his hand, and straightened the blanket that had slipped down for Yu Tang.
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu took a deep breath, didn't care about him, and simply sat down on the ground: "What's the matter with your injury, what do you mean you can only suffer a little injury?"
Zhan Chen's waist was scratched by the remains of the mechanical bug that exploded, and the wound was freshly opened. Even with a new bandage, blood was still slowly oozing out.
Zhan Chen didn't answer immediately.
After treating the wound, he set up a barrier outside the bandage, and buttoned back the buttons of his shirt one by one.
"In your world, some people are chosen."
Zhan Chen said, "Do you still remember the current section chief of the Special Investigation Section of the Ministry of Security?"
"Pu Ying?" Of course Zhuang Yu remembered, "He even brought a team here this time. The alliance headquarters was furious and asked the Ministry of Security to take the lead in thoroughly investigating those conservatives. We just met."
Zhan Chen nodded.
He was treated as data, recycled into the terminal in the bookstore, and when he was about to reprogram, he had seen a very long list.
This list includes many worlds, the world they are in, Luo Ran, Pu Ying and S7 are all on the list.
The people on the list are the selected "data to be recovered".
He hadn't figured out what this meant.
It wasn't until Yu Tang conducted experiments with mechanical bugs and raised that question that he suddenly realized this most likely explanation.
After one exchange, the mechanical bug will become an "empty shell" that completely annihilates its voluntary will but still retains the ability to act under the processing of Chuanshuju Mall.
The same is true for humans.
These seemingly outrageous and absurd fates are to obliterate the autonomous consciousness of these target characters and turn them into "empty shells".
……
Zhuang Yu frowned: "You mean, as long as the people on this list are the prey of your place?"
Zhan Chen nodded.
Zhuang Yu asked, "Am I?"
"You are not." Zhan Chen said, "You are too old."
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Zhuang Yu: "?"
"You have survived for too long, and your thinking has matured, so it is not so easy to wipe it out."
Zhan Chen put it another way: "But if you are still young and have enough potential, you will become a selected target."
Once anyone or AI wants to prevent these selected targets from becoming "data to be recovered", they will be quietly strangled by the will of the world under the intervention of Chuanshuju.
The Dolphin sent a forbidden distress signal, and should have been strangled into broken data.
Zhuang Yu's heart sank heavily: "That mech—"
"It's okay." Zhan Chen said, "I did a little trick."
Interfering with the will of the world through the bookstore, the remains of the mechanical bugs sent, what they want to bring back is a pile of strangled and broken data.
Zhan Chen deliberately pretended not to avoid it, and was injured during a mechanical bug attack, and part of his own data was shattered, simulating it as the broken pieces of the Dolphin.
The strangling program that runs automatically was really tricked.
Zhuang Yu frowned, and glanced at Zhan Chen's wound.
The wound was abnormal, and it was still bleeding slowly, with no sign of improvement.
"Do you want it?" Zhuang Yu said, "If it doesn't work, I'll take you to the hospital, at least to stop the bleeding."
Zhan Chen shook his head: "No need."
From the outside world, the wounds on the human body he simulated were bleeding all the time, but in fact, the data of the wounds were constantly disintegrating into pieces.
This is a kind of virus that is specifically aimed at data that will be carried in the strangling attack through the bookstore.
It's not that Zhan Chen's own data can't dispel the virus, but it will take time. Before it is processed, the data near the wound will continue to disintegrate like this.
"Don't worry, I will protect myself."
Zhan Chen said, "Captain Zhuang, let's solve your problem first."
Zhuang Yu looked away and silently clenched his fists.
Zhuang Yu: "...OK."
"I received a distress signal from the Dolphin."
Zhuang Yu said: "It's replacing——"
"You can rest assured." Zhan Chen had already blocked the terminal in advance, and took over Zhuang Yu's words, "It is asking for help for S7."
Zhuang Yu fell silent.
...When he saw the string of distress calls, he almost thought that he had made a mistake, that S7 hadn't been rescued, and was still waiting somewhere to pick him up.
The possibility drove him almost mad.
If it wasn't for not wanting to disturb Zhan Chen, he wouldn't have held back until night before asking Zhan Chen this question.
"Please rest assured, S7 is Shi Ji now, he is resting in the sea of consciousness."
Zhan Chen: "You will receive this distress signal because the AI of the Dolphin is not new."
"It has been sending this distress signal for a long time, and what happened today accidentally activated its historical data."
Zhuang Yu raised his head.
His voice was a little hoarse: "What was it originally?"
Zhan Chen: "It was originally a very basic set of artificial intelligence."
The most rudimentary one, far inferior to the present one, would only obey orders, and was widely installed in old-fashioned wingmen and mechas, and cooperated with observers and operators to drive.
Zhan Chen asked: "Have you seen Shi Ji's original ending?"
Zhuang Yu closed his eyes.
He nodded.
... He once asked Yu Tang to show him.
He watched as his best subordinate, the most gifted observer in the whole, chose to merge with the wingman's AI, becoming an emotionless, unconscious intelligent program.
The wingman's control panel flickered red, trying his best to resist the observer's instructions, but he was still powerless to disobey.
The wingman trembled in the swarm of insects, and the wind chime whimpered.
……
"I have experienced this ending before." Zhan Chen said.
Shi Ji's wingman was equipped with the most basic intelligence program, which can't even be called a real AI, but a little bit of chaotic self-awareness.
It's like a small ball of light that has just come out of an electronic storm and is curiously looking at the outside world.
Zhan Chen: "The new artificial intelligence came to me and chose to exchange it for something."
Zhuang Yu asked in a low voice: "...what?"
"It itself." Zhan Chen said, "It doesn't need self-awareness anymore."
Unable to forgive itself, it devours its watcher.
It watched the young man's gentle and happy consciousness dissipate into its own sea of data, frantically searching every corner of the database, but could not find any trace.
"It's used against the experience points and I bought all the violin pieces in this world."
Zhan Chen said: "It asked me to fix the wingman of S7, and import all these violin songs into it before the military takes back the fused intelligent AI."
Those violin pieces were played on loop all night.
In the violin music, the newly born artificial intelligence slowly disintegrates, and no longer gives any response outside the combat procedure.
……
Zhuang Yu was silent for a long time in this story.
He breathed out, raised his head and asked, "You didn't kill that AI's self-awareness?"
"No." Zhan Chen said, "I've done a lot of this kind of deception, and I'm quite proficient."
Zhan Chen: "I kept it temporarily, because the world needed to be re-corrected... until one day, a slave ship capsized."
"..." Zhuang Yu: "?"
"The boat capsized, and the people on it sank in the sea. The plot needs some new changes, and some new characters need to be generated."
Zhan Chen smiled: "I found it and asked."
Zhan Chen: "It said that it would like to be a kind dolphin."
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