32 days

While Yi Alan and Zhou Yanan were sleeping, people were running on the ground on the other hemisphere carrying sunlight.

The city is becoming less and less suitable for living. The black smoke from burning cars on the road has been reduced a lot after so many days, but the wires are overloaded and short-circuited one after another. What used to be a little spark gradually turned into a big fire, and the buildings burned window by window. .This situation has long been expected. The more developed a large city is, the faster it will burn. After all, the electrified infrastructure is densely covered like a spider's web, and the crowded and dense high-rise buildings add endless fuel to the fire.

People in the city have discussed it for a long time in the 32nd community, and everyone agrees that unless you can bear to live without electricity - then you can just find a sparsely populated country house, otherwise the vicinity of the power plant will be is the best place to live.Among them, people still don't believe how long nuclear power plants can operate safely without professional supervision, thermal power plants need a steady stream of fuel, and hydropower plants that are environmentally friendly, safe and worry-free have become places that everyone is optimistic about.

In fact, some important national bases located in the remote wilderness or mountains have self-contained power generation and living facilities, which is a more comfortable choice, but they all know that such places will never be open to the public.

Therefore, people in this hemisphere gradually gathered with abundant supplies to the nearest hydropower plants. Compared with the scattered human beings in the night hemisphere, this place has already shown a scene of settlements.

The earliest people who arrive at the power plant can directly live in the staff dormitory with complete living facilities. Later, they can live in the office without damaging the equipment. If they are later, they can only pitch tents or build wooden houses in open places. You have to walk for a few minutes to go indoors. Apart from being able to swipe your phone before going to bed, the quality of life is far worse than going to the suburbs or villages.

Fortunately, there were not many people on the 32nd, and everyone didn’t regard the days here as a serious life—maybe they enjoyed wild campfires and tents for the night, and if the weather was hot during the day, they would go to the air-conditioned conference room to get together Chatting, playing games, without the slightest pressure to survive, and wasting the extra time that would have fallen from the sky. Occasionally, if you see the right person, you can find a place where there is no one. The atmosphere is very happy, so there is no big conflict. .

More importantly, Joker began to show a tangible presence and influence in these settlements.When people entered the power plant one after another, Joker arranged for many robots to hitch a ride together.These robots are different, and some are in factories, with multifunctional robotic arms, which can perform simple maintenance on equipment in power plants after modifying programs and algorithms.Some are very simple service guide robots in bank stores. They are not very intelligent. After being slightly modified by Joker, they will only guard near an important facility in the power plant and remind others to "don't touch it".There are also some underwater robots that regularly clean up the barnacles and aquatic plants attached to the facilities built in the water of the hydropower plant, so as not to affect the operation of the water turbine.Some large hydropower plants have such underwater robots themselves, but small hydropower plants cannot afford them, so they have to be replaced manually.

"Do you think this is scary?" Roger pointed to the underwater robot crawling out of the water in the distance, and said to the smokers who came to the river to smoke together.

The smoker exhaled a puff of chic smoke rings indifferently: "Isn't this very good? Otherwise, we have to go into the water ourselves."

Roger thought for a moment and said, "I mean, it seems like we're all dependent on these robots here."

"What's the point? It's everywhere in real life. When you stay in a hotel, there are robots that deliver water and towels, and in restaurants, robots deliver food, and they even sing to you."

"That's the problem. Hotels and restaurants are all about making money from customers. These robots, it should mean what Joker, the leader behind them, wants from us?"

The smoker froze for a moment, and said, "That big brother is kind. After all, the 32 days are quite boring."

Roger shook his head: "Did you see a new post in the community? The one whose ID is Captain?"

"Look. What's the matter? You also want to go to the Eastern Hemisphere?"

The captain who posted the post claimed that he was indeed a real captain, and had already recruited four crew members. He had found a new high-tech cruise ship equipped with an intelligent system in the shipyard, and planned to sail across the ocean to the Eastern Hemisphere. I feel that I can live more happily in the eastern hemisphere with well-preserved infrastructure, at least the air will be better, and other people are welcome to board the ship, but the ticket is charged, real money in reality.

Roger said: "I mean, anyone with a bit of technology can actually find a way to make money in 32 days. Joker is so powerful that he can change the robot program. Is it really boring?"

"Whatever." The smoker took the last puff and threw the butt of the cigarette into the river. "To be serious, it's not what he wants from me, but what I have. If Joker charges a fee another day, it's still fucking bad Outrageous, I definitely won’t give it to you. At worst, carry a bundle of compressed biscuits, drill into the woods, eat fruits and dig wild vegetables, and still be able to live. It’s nothing if you can’t use electricity. It’s only one day in a month. What should you do in real life? Live or whatever."

The smoker turned around and left, Roger sighed on the spot.He is actually a government employee, but he can do nothing. He can’t fly, his marksmanship is inaccurate, and his skills are rubbish. Their collective mood changes, monitoring group behavior.

This time, the upper-level leaders asked him to collect Joker's influence among the people and people's views on Joker. He provoked the topic several times, but everyone obviously didn't care much about the existence of Joker. The person is so powerful and enthusiastic, basically he can't hear the deeper views, he hasn't collected useful clues, and he hasn't met anyone who is "preferentially treated" by Joker like Yi Alan.

And everyone is not worried about the purpose of Joker at all. I am afraid that for ordinary people like them, the 32nd is more like a fantasy, a kind of fun, but it is far from real life after all.

But Roger knew it wasn't that simple. The influence of the 32nd has touched important areas of real life.Politically, various countries have strictly guarded against the espionage operations centered on the 32nd, and internal power struggles and trust crises are common occurrences.In the economic field, there are also tangible data showing that since the 32nd, financial market volatility has increased, especially in the stock market.However, the source of the turmoil is hard to trace. It may be that a stockholder sneaked into the internal database of a certain company on the 32nd, and then spread the good and the bad, which cannot be verified. A small butterfly effect is gradually brewing. storm.

And those tiny individuals, some died in vain on the 32nd, some were imprisoned, enslaved and blackmailed, and some were reborn on the 32nd and their lives were turned upside down... After all, most of the people who can gather at the hydropower plant are extremely Ordinary, but enough to be called lucky.

At this time, there was a man who was not lucky, but was startled back by the red dot on the front sight of the sniper rifle.

He is also performing Joker-related tasks, but far more dangerous than Roger. He is going to investigate several supercomputer bases given to him by his boss, and is responsible for finding Joker's whereabouts or destroying the computers that Joker relies on.He is now arriving at the gate of the computer research institute of a famous university in country A.

"I mean no harm!" He immediately raised his hands and yelled, and drove back to the open ground so that the snipers could see him more clearly.

"You have a weapon on you." What responded to him was an emotionless mechanical voice, which came from multiple speakers in the corridor, and it was impossible to distinguish the specific location of the speaker.

"I'm just defending myself!" the man said, and at the same time he thought to himself, is the person speaking Joker, why did he cover up his real voice, is it afraid that he will recognize him based on his voice, and then identify him in reality?This at least shows that Joker is not unknown, he is seriously analyzing in his heart.

The cold voice said, "But you just blew up a military supercomputer server site."

The man quickly said: "I am from the military, and those supercomputers are actually the property of our military. I was just ordered to destroy them so that they would not be used by the enemy."

"So I didn't stop you. So what are you doing here?"

The person answered irrelevantly: "Are you Joker? You are also from country A, right? I actually came to find you..."

"Don't test me." The mechanical voice interrupted him, "I'm not interested in your purpose, I just want you to say something."

"What words? To whom?"

"Bring it to the so-called people who can make decisions. What I want to say is that within 32 days, supercomputers and quantum computers for military, civilian, and research purposes will all belong to me. As compensation, I will also maintain their safety. Someone will use them to make trouble. And I promise, I will not get involved in any of your countries' internal affairs and fighting each other, I have no interest in these things."

The man wondered: "But..."

The voice interrupted him again: "I just want a one-time notification in place. What you need to know is that I am not incapable of protecting what I want, but I just don't want to be too troublesome."

The man heard a rustling sound, and then saw a scene that made his scalp tingle.

Hundreds of black and gray metal robot dogs walked out from the gate of the research institute, the grass behind them, and the forest road.They were all ordinary demining robot dogs. He had seen this kind of special demining robot clearing mines on the battlefield more than 20 years ago, and the metal parts were blown up. At that time, he felt that the flexible and painless demining robot dogs avoided many The unnecessary sacrifice of the soldiers, even when seeing the robot dog with a broken leg struggling to climb to the next set demining area, there was no emotion at all, it was just a tool.

However, when he saw that the painless robot dogs were all surrounded by him, he could no longer regard these things as mine clearance tools only.

He told himself in his heart that those dark dog eyeballs were just visual modules composed of optical instruments and software programs, and there was nothing to be afraid of.But his legs still couldn't help trembling. This is just a mine-clearing robot dog. Even though the controversy is not shallow, many countries have continued research on "autonomy of lethal weapons" for many years, and his status cannot be touched. Higher-level information, but progress is to be expected.He wouldn't be too surprised even if a humanoid self-propelled weapon with machine guns on both arms and bullets in its belly came out the next second.

And even the demining robot dogs in front of us are far from what the stupid metal tools of 20 years ago can match.

The robot dog stopped in an airtight back circle, and a cold mechanical voice sounded: "You stay here today, as long as you don't want to escape, I won't let the puppy hurt you. Wait until the 32nd this time passes , Take back everything you have seen and heard, next time I want to hear a satisfactory reply."

The man could only nod his head with difficulty, realizing sadly in his heart that in an era when lethal weapons have gained enough intelligence, the power of many people will become a thing of the past, and the world can be controlled by a few people.

Only the line of dawn and dusk rotates fairly from east to west, and the place carrying the light will fall into darkness, and when the night is extremely dense, it will also usher in a thin light.

The wilderness in the early morning is clear and clean, and the air has not been touched by people, as if you can smell the deliciousness of oxygen.

Yi Alan and Zhou Yanan climbed out of the tent, uncuffed their handcuffs, and washed their faces casually in a small puddle.

Yi Alan could only see Zhou Yan'an clearly, and couldn't help but bring joy in his eyes: "Where are we going today?"

"There is no task arranged this time. Last time, there was only one base left that hadn't been cleared yet."

"Are we going to clean up last time?"

"Strictly speaking, I can't take you to keep in touch with the secrets if you haven't returned there to get a clear acquittal."

Yi Alan nodded: "In other words, the whole day today is our private time?"

Zhou Yan'an smiled: "That's what it means."

Yi Alan also laughed: "That's great."

"Want to do something?"

Yi Alan thought about it for a while, and gradually a broken light appeared in his eyes: "A date?"

Zhou Yan'an laughed: "Okay, I haven't dated yet."

"Me neither."

They looked at each other and said in unison: "Learn from each other and make progress together."

Then they all laughed again.

The Swift 10 started to slide on the expressway. Through the porthole, Yi Alan saw a rollover truck on the side of the road, and apples rolled down from the cargo bed.Those already shriveled apples, soaked in the rain all night, reflected the illusion of plumpness and brilliance in the faint morning light.

Yi Alan looked at the eastern sky again, asking for the sunrise.

Yi Alan suddenly said: "I have been using 'fish-belly white' to describe the sunrise since elementary school composition. After so many years, this adjective has become rigid, like a knee-jerk reaction, it has become an instinct for the sunrise, no longer It has a sense of beauty. But when I just saw the white belly of the sky, a scene suddenly popped up in my mind. A fish died on the bottom of the sea, was repelled by the sea, and slowly floated up. It was belly up, so it was also the most First, the white belly floated out of the dark sea, first little by little, and then gradually, the fish belly became bigger and bigger... But the fish suddenly came back to life, and with a sudden leap, it threw the fish covered with red scales The back is exposed. The sunrise is the resurrection of this dead fish."

Zhou Yanan's laughter came from the in-flight communication system: "It's very romantic."

"Where is the romance? Dead fish?"

"resurrection."

There is nothing more romantic than coming back from the dead.

Swift 10 rushed to the sky.

Yi Alan agreed with a smile.He felt himself being resurrected.