Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

Regarding the training plan for the crown prince, the cabinet has a complete system. This system has not been approved by the crown prince, but directly confirmed by His Majesty the emperor himself.

After starting today, Zhou Qin's most important job is to visit major government agencies to lay the foundation for future participation in government affairs.Cabinet Minister and Minister of Information Technology Ji Deming received Zhou Qin's visit at the Central Information Processing Office.

"Good day, Your Highness."

"Good day, Minister Ji." Zhou Qin replied.

"The place we're going to visit next can be called the most mysterious and core information processing center in the empire." Ji Deming led Zhou Qin along the information processing center, and the information processing center on the circular roof seemed to be small in size The large, gray transparent glass cover also looks very unremarkable.

But Zhou Qin knew that this was indeed the most mysterious and core place of the empire.

Because this is the only entrance to connect with the brain of the quantum main body of the central master brain.

In the centermost room of the information processing office, there is a huge tunnel dug toward the center of the earth, with a diameter of more than 100 meters. In the middle is a supersonic elevator, which can descend more than 800 meters per second.Elevators are connected to the various entrances of this huge room by five bridges in an even radial pattern.

Ji Deming led Zhou Qin across the bridge.

"The quantum core of the central mastermind has to process 200 trillion pieces of various information per second. Its external output terminals, which we commonly call tentacles, have been continuously expanded and spread all over the empire. For all walks of life Professional services." In the empty hall there was only the regular and quiet sound of ventilation fans, and Ji Deming's voice caused many echoes in the hall.Looking down from the bridge, Zhou Qin saw that the entire tunnel looked like a black hole, beyond the farthest boundary that light could reach, it was pitch black.

"But this is not what I want to tell you today." Ji Deming pressed the elevator, and said to Zhou Qin while waiting, "The empire is very restrained in using the central mastermind. The quantum core of the central mastermind has never been fully effective. It has worked. In the modules of the main brain, in order to prevent the main brain from being too intelligent, its emotional and cognitive modules have been removed many years ago. It can be said that compared to AI, the main brain is just an oversized calculator.”

"I understand this." Zhou Qindao, "If the mastermind is really AI and we rely too much on it, then once the AI ​​finds a way to surpass the three laws of robotics, it will be a disaster for the empire."

"Yes." Ji Deming nodded, "It's like an anti-matter cannon. If we install a brain in the anti-matter cannon, one day this brain can't think of firing a cannon towards our sun, then the entire Emperor Star, no, the entire galaxy will be regarded as an anti-matter cannon. Ruined."

The two were chatting about this topic in a supersonic elevator.

Zhou Qin felt a slight sense of weightlessness in his body, but the design of this elevator well controlled this feeling of weightlessness within a reasonable and acceptable range.

When they reached the bottom floor and walked out of the elevator, Zhou Qin was shocked by all the scenery in front of him.

It was as if he had just taken an interstellar journey and came to another steel planet.On the endless horizon, there are all finished products made of circuit boards and steel.

The giant star quantum core of the central master envelops the entire earth's core, and all kinds of violent fusion and fission produced by the earth's core continuously provide energy for the core.

They took the maglev from the elevator exit and flew for a long time before they landed on a relatively smooth surface on the surface of the quantum core.

There was a desk, a monitor, an old mechanical keyboard, and a chair.

At this time, Ji Deming said seriously: "What you are facing now is the core of the empire, the top secret of the empire that no one knows except the emperor, the cabinet, and key figures of the royal family."

Zhou Qin sat in front of the monitor.

The monitor suddenly turned on automatically, and a very old input interface popped up.

"We stripped off the emotional and cognitive modules of the main brain, and even blocked its self-learning consciousness. It still automatically formed a program in the past hundred years. And finally condensed into an AI that even His Majesty the Emperor has no right to delete, although It's only in its rudimentary form right now, but it's really an AI."

A uniformly beating cursor appeared in the input interface.

As if understanding Ji Deming's words, it began to move right quickly, and then a sentence of text appeared on the input interface.

"Hello, my name is Chen Cang. Chen Cang, who is secretly in charge of Chen Cang."

Looking at this passage, Zhou Qin suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right eye. The pain made him unable to suppress it. He stood up covering his eyes, tripped the chair to the ground, and took a step back in a stumble. He opened his eyes. Eyes, found that from the right eye, the world is blood red.

Ji Deming stared at all this in a daze. When Zhou Qin let go of his hand, he saw a large amount of blood pouring out of Zhou Qin's right eye, and half of his face was covered with blood so that he couldn't see the color. It took him several minutes to react in fright. come over.

He hurriedly rang the siren on the table: "Guards! Guards, come quickly! Call the doctor! Yes, call the doctor!!"

"Send me... up..." Zhou Qin's head seemed to be drilled by an electric drill, and it took him a long time to organize his words. He intuitively believed that his abnormality was related to the AI ​​called Chen Cang, and said to Ji Deming with difficulty. "Get out of here right now!"

Zhou Qin couldn't bear the pain, he was supported by Ji Deming, and he walked towards the elevator, and soon a group of guards poured out of the elevator.This was the last memory he had before he fell into a coma.

When I opened my eyes again, the light had already dimmed, and there was an unturned ceiling lamp above my head.

Zhou Qin didn't know where he was for a long time, until he found that his right eye was covered with gauze, leaving only his left eye visible, and he realized that he had gone to the information processing department... He saw a strange AI.

"Your Highness, are you awake?" An orange light was lit a little farther away in the room, and the soft light prevented his eyes from being stimulated again.

He let out a "hmm", and the hospital bed was immediately raised slightly, and then the figure of Elias fell into Zhou Qin's eyes.Elis dressed up as if he came in a bit of a hurry. He only wore a long knitted coat over his home clothes. His pale golden hair was casually tied behind his head, and a few strands of hair drooped on his shoulders. He seemed to be I didn't notice it, I just came up to check Zhou Qin's physical condition.

"Your Highness, do you need some water?" Elis picked up a water glass from the table and handed it over, and Zhou Qin took a sip.

The temperature is perfect and seems to be prepared all the time.

Zhou Qin became more conscious again, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Elise glanced at him and smiled: "Minister Ji called Steward Wu directly, saying that because you went deep into the center of the earth for the first time, the intracranial pressure was too high, which caused capillary hemorrhage in the eyes. I was rushed to the nearest emergency hospital in Xiting District. As your wife, I must have arrived as soon as possible. The scene was chaotic, and everyone was terrified. After all, you are the crown prince, and it is very difficult for such a thing to happen. It is difficult to explain to His Majesty and the cabinet."

With a few simple descriptions from him, Zhou Qin could already hear how uncontrollable the situation was at that time.

"You bothered." Zhou Qin said.He was a little unaccustomed to the gauze, so he touched it again.

Elise seemed to have noticed his small movements: "Don't worry, the hospital has already done emergency treatment and repaired most of the blood vessels. Now there is only congestion in the eyes, and it will return to normal after a while."

He paused and asked again: "Excuse me. What happened to you when you visited the information processing office... Minister Ji kept this secret."

Zhou Zhou thought for a while and asked, "Elise, do you think an AI has mental power? Is it possible for an AI to use mental power to attack humans?"

Elise was stunned: "This is impossible, Your Highness. I have never heard that AI can use mental power to attack humans. To be precise, I don't think AI has mental power."

Zhou Qin rubbed his eyebrows.

He does get a little too ridiculous.

Perhaps it was what the doctor said, due to maladjustment to the rapidly changing atmospheric pressure, causing intracranial hypertension to compress the eye and bleed.But why is it such a coincidence that I have never felt uncomfortable, but instead appeared when the AI ​​named Chen Cang in the central mastermind typed out a line?

Is this really just a coincidence?

He hasn't fully recovered yet, and when he thinks about this problem, his brain has an abnormal headache, and even his complexion becomes very bad.

Seeing him like this, Elis called out: "Your Highness, please don't think any more. Your current state is not suitable for deep thinking. It is best to rest earlier. When you get better, go to It's not too late to find the answer."

Zhou Qin knew what he said was right: "What about you?"

"I'll stay with you on the next bed." Elis stepped aside a bit, allowing Zhou Qin to see the place where the light was on, and there was a family bed over there. "You can call me for anything."

Zhou Qin suffered from insomnia again.

He looked at the roof, and his brain hurt sharply. He knew that he had exhausted a lot of energy today, but he just couldn't sleep.The faint scent of camellia wafted over from Elis' body, which was better than the incense he had been burning every night for the past few days.However, intermittently, it seduced him from falling asleep.

"Iles, are you asleep?" Zhou Qin finally decided to give up fighting his instincts - he really needed a good night's sleep.

"Your Highness, I'm here." Elis had already walked to his side, knelt down and asked him, "What's your order?"

"Come up..." Zhou Qin moved in, lifted the quilt and said to Elis.

The bed in the VIP ward is not too wide, two people can barely lie down together.

Elise was quiet for a while, and then asked him: "Your Highness, this is in the hospital, and your body is relatively weak, are you sure..."

"I'm sure. Come up." Zhou Qin said, he urgently needed to take a good rest.

Elis didn't say anything else, he took off the knitted coat and home clothes on his upper body, and got into Zhou Qin's bed obediently.The two of them stuck together face to face.

Elise's body temperature was just right, not too hot and not too cold, and her skin felt smooth but not greasy.Zhou Qin couldn't help but touched his lower back, and then hugged his back.His hair and the tip of his nose touched Zhou Qin's face, carrying a faint fragrance of camellia.He has that faint fragrance all over his body.

Zhou Qin, who lost the sight of his right eye, has a sharper sense of smell than before.

He felt that the smell of pheromones on Elias was softer and richer than the plate of incense by his bedside, and it smelled more peaceful... and a little bit exciting.

Zhou Qin forgot how he started, but his mind was really blank at that moment, and the captivating camellia scent of Elis made his instinct prevail.He put his arms around Elis' waist, lowered his head and kissed her.