People's Federation will live forever

The two were silent, and Dr. Ensger's voice came from the quantum communicator, without the slightest consolation. The chief scientist wrestled his hands to settle the score: "For you two, the leader personally called me to send the latest Special ships. Your salvage, treatment, and experimental treatments used to save your crew are all valuable resources of the Ministry of Industry and Research."

Bud hehe: "Need money? No, I've already lost money, and I'll file for bankruptcy when I go back."

Ensig: "Money? Hehe... As a scientist, you should know what an equivalent exchange is. My promise is valid. You can complete your revenge and obtain the protection of the Ministry of Industry and Research at the same time."

Bud: "Just if I help you find the fucking rock that caused all this disaster? Under fire from an entire fleet?"

Ensig said meaningfully: "The shuttle I prepared for you is a fully integrated version of Tacitus' stealth technology 'Lazarus Shield', which shields all optical observations and absorbs electromagnetic waves. Its heat storage unit It can maintain 10 hours of infrared shielding. It was originally an experimental equipment provided to special forces, so the military has no effective detection methods for it—the highest technology of the People’s Federation, I’m not joking.”

Chapter No.17 Li Zhi's Little Secret

"Commander Olivia ordered to attack all illegal ships in the blockade area, which naturally includes the special cruise ships of the Ministry of Industry and Research."

The black and white Li Wei clasped his fists, put his chin on his chin and said in a calm tone, while on the opposite side, the colorful Li Wei was soaking in the data flow, as if he was meditating under a waterfall of information, or sitting on an electric chair. Thousands of billions of volts pass through his body every minute—

All of this is just the imitation of information rather than reality, and it is just a scene that everyone can see clearly to describe the scene in the quantum matrix.The leader of the People's Federation, the savior of Sira, the savior of the earth... an immortal quantum life form?Call him what you want, but our leader doesn't look easy in his own right.

While bearing the impact of countless data torrents, the colorful Li Wei was able to spare some energy to answer the watcher: "It's not surprising that Olivia's desire to control does such a thing, but she just put on a tough stance." It’s all for warning Ensger, otherwise she won’t use the public channel to shout out. This is the game of the brave, and the commander-in-chief has set his bottom line.”

The watchman continued to report: "Chief Ensig sent a special cruise ship. He reached an agreement with Bud to save his crew and promised him revenge in exchange for Bud Cole to contact Redstone again. He is determined to win and believes that Redstone brings knowledge and progress."

Li Wei: "This is a difference in philosophy. Olivia sees herself as a human being, so she decides to cut through the mess quickly to prevent more people from being harmed by Redstone. But Ensig believes that progress has its price, and the People's Federation can't pay the loss in vain Nothing."

The military commander wants to stop the loss, and the Industrial Research Department is eager for knowledge and wants to play a big game, but the real key is-"What do you think? Why didn't the leader of the People's Federation come forward to prevent the infighting from being finalized?"

The watchman asked Li Wei this question, but he flickered his body in black and white and answered the question: "Because the leader of the People's Federation supports the Ministry of Industry and Research, and supports paying some losses in order to seek more benefits."

After a brief silence, Li Wei glanced at the watcher: "Redstone has already caused hundreds of deaths, and the infection has spread to the Storm Harbor space station. This is an established objective fact. Based on the objective fact, I have made a deal to maximize the benefits—— Why, ask me for responsibility?"

Anyway, if something happened, it must be someone else's fault, not your own incomprehension, right?

"The Seagull is missing! The Ministry of Emergency Situations did not report it to the Fleet Administration but took care of it on its own. It is understandable, after all, no one has the ability to predict."

"After discovering that the Seagull was infected, I personally arrived at the scene and issued an order to the Fleet Administration, asking Admiral Milan to warn of the crisis in Harbor Storm, but Admiral Milan was not at his post but inspecting the ship. His adjutant followed the procedure and went around to ask the Admiral I just issued the warning, how long was the delay in the middle?"

"The warning message was sent to the Storm Harbor Emergency Situation Department. Instead of executing it immediately, they turned back and asked the Fleet Administration. Admiral Milan asked Olivia for instructions before reiterating the order. How long was the delay?"

"The Ministry of Emergency Situations ordered the cruise ships under its command not to approach the Seagull, which was delayed for 10 minutes, but the balance of justice did not obey the order but continued to approach, resulting in being controlled. Was it because I didn't warn? Or was it my fault that my tone was not strict enough? "

"All of this still has quantum communication, and I issued orders with the authority of the high council, but the People's Federation has a system, and it is people who implement it, and people who go wrong are also people. They are doing what they should do in every link None of them were at fault, but it happened anyway... so, whose fault is it?"

Who are we to blame?The cruise ship of the Ministry of Emergency Situations has killed 90.00 brave soldiers in order to protect Storm Harbor. [-]% of the five people in Storm Harbor were successfully evacuated before the impact. In order to prevent the damage from expanding, Olivia even used political and military officers to Rescue work is strictly prohibited, which is like forcing people to do the trolley problem.

May I ask what is not in place?

Li Wei is not angry. For an existence like him, emotions are a matter of another dimension. Unfortunately, the objective reality is that tragedies happen when no one makes mistakes.Blaming is easy, but it's still up to the person you're blaming to pick up the pieces and take responsibility.

"We have lost so much objectively, so we have two choices next. The first is to stop the loss immediately and destroy the redstone. In the end, we lost hundreds of people and lost a space station and two cruisers. The biggest gain It eliminates the source of infection."

"The second is to control the red stone. The People's Federation has no shortage of means to shield its hazards. We will definitely gain something from this stone, but there are indeed uncontrollable risks."

Li Wei raised his head, he wanted to break free from the data flow, but stopped trying again.

"I stand on Ensig, and the People's Federation must understand its enemies. Is this red stone the only or even the biggest threat to sinking the universe? Of course not. If we want to gain a foothold in this universe, the People's Federation must keep forging ahead. There are more New knowledge is needed to deal with risk.”

"But Olivia's worries are unreasonable. Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, but arrogance is—is our behavior of wanting to crack the redstone a kind of arrogance? Will it bring us greater disasters? ?”

"So, I'm hedging my bets. I gave Bud and Cole to Ensig, and I gave that army to Olivia. I'll monitor the situation and wait for the opportunity."

The watchman spread his hands, and slowly they both said the same thing in the same voice: "This is the logically optimal solution."

As for those friends who are afraid of the civil war of the People's Federation because of disagreements between the head of the Ministry of Industry and Research and the commander-in-chief of the army, there is really no need for it. There is a famous saying-the feudal emperor's thinking is not allowed to reproduce and exist outside his own feudal group. Any other political group; if it is said that gangs do not arise and exist within political groups, it would be strange.

Even if the two veterans quarreled, would the military go to annihilate the Ministry of Industry and Research that provided them with armaments?Or is it that the Ministry of Industry and Research will stop providing equipment to the army?The disagreement between the two elders is disloyalty to the leader and preparation for rebellion?The world is not black and white, and it is not a child. Why do we still emphasize this sentence now.

Compared with this incident, the watchman looked at Li Wei who was bound by the information flow: "As long as things are handled by people, there will always be too many uncertainties... But if you manage everything by yourself, the result is squatting." Can't get up on the toilet. You've taken too much responsibility on yourself, are you really willing to accept this result?"

The result that the watchman said was Li Li in front of him. In the core of the quantum matrix, his consciousness was tightly wrapped by the huge torrent of data, and he couldn't get out of that chair at all.This torrent is a concrete representation of digital code, if even a small piece of it is taken out and decoded and compiled, it is——

There is an error in the No. XX product unit of the XX production workshop, and the faulty unit is replaced by the module, and the No. XX drone is called to correct the production line.

The Ministry of People's Federation of Government Affairs applied for filing another batch of documents, transcribed the electronic files and distributed them to the XX department, and Li Wei distributed the keys.

The Ministry of Justice of the Earth used the monitoring system to retrieve criminal information from the urban population of 300 million and lock the location. Li Wei sorted out detailed information for the operators.

The protective wall of the XXX power station was attacked by hackers, but it was a brat to locate the hacker, so Li Wei notified their parents instead of the legal department.

...

It's all trivial matters, but this trivial matter multiplied by 20 billion people, spanning two planets is an unparalleled data flood.There are countless things that need to be dealt with every minute and every second. Although these are all things that can be done by allocating part of the computing power to Li Wei, how much computing power is occupied by so many tasks?

Renlian's Internet of Things is established with Li Wei's "body", he is the operating system of the Renlian society, and other fields are just running programs - otherwise?Otherwise, a civilization with a million people is also worthy of heaven?Because 90.00% of the work is done by Li Wei, he must do these things wholeheartedly, otherwise this civilization will stop immediately.

And this job cannot be handed over to others, and it is impossible. Renlian Science has not yet produced AI that can be made for itself.In the past, he was able to handle a million people with ease, but now he has access to 20 billion people on earth...

"Look at you, you didn't need anyone to rebel, you sat on the toilet ahead of time. The leader of the People's Federation has never walked in the world, and as time goes by, the high council has gradually become an arena of power. Relying on your crooked body, you are alone Supporting a huge civilization, and the network connected to your body is full of filthy junk information for you to deal with. The people are addicted to teat music, civilization begins to degenerate, and the council of corpses is praising you while domineering.. What's the difference between this and the next door?"

Li Wei, who was bound by the torrent of data, stretched out a hand, grabbed the watchman and pushed him into the torrent of data. Once the two exchanged, Li Wei got out of his body and regained his freedom——

"The difference is that I still have your backup system, and I'm not disabled, I just don't have enough memory. Even the trash guys in Tuba know that memory can be done with a lot of effort and an external connection (erased). In the final analysis, you didn't Do a good job, the preparations for the dark side have so far failed.”

The moon, the satellite that had been riddled with holes by beta, showed an unexpectedly prosperous appearance. As the current fusion energy production center of the People's Federation, half of the bright side facing Sira was shining with bright lights.After the war, not many people cared about the dark side that would never turn to Sira. The huge pit dug by the beta was artificially closed, and the People's Federation forgot about it. It seemed that there was only worthless sand there.

The engineers of the People's Federation will not know where the 60.00% of the power of the lunar fusion power station goes. After all, there will always be a lot of energy that will escape in the vacuum if microwaves are used to transmit power to Sira?

PS: Start trying double updates.

Chapter 18 Cyber ​​Legion

A large part of the reason why people feel that they are themselves comes from memory. Memory is our anchor point. We remember the family we were born in, the environment we grew up in, and our learning experience.The first time you get hurt, the first time you succeed, the first time you fall in love with someone, the first time you are so sad that you can’t be yourself?These are our lives, for better or for worse, are our treasures, and they shape our character.It is these that determine who we become and sustain us in the sea of ​​people, our identity with life.

We are not worried that we are not ourselves, the reason is that there is no method of memory implantation and tampering, so no one can deny that I am me-and therefore we can judge that the weapon or enemy that can affect people's memory should be How abominable!

From another perspective, if there is an objective technology that affects memory, then we are going to study it...Of course we need to study it. Compared with letting possible enemies master this dangerous technology, it is better to hold it in our own hands, whether it will harm others or not Say at least I won't harm myself with it!In fact, human beings have never lacked research on memory, but compared to the CIA's low-level means of psychological suggestion brainwashing, the People's Federation is better at MRI brain scans of cortical synapses, and then copying and burning them on a simulated brain neural circuit these memories.

At first it was for intelligence, such as obtaining information from enemy corpses.Then it was transferred to confidential criminal investigation, and then the ban was lifted in a small range to use in the medical field to treat PTSD and other mental illnesses, but in the end this technology returned to its original point-we want to burn people's memory and transfer it to the electronic field, so as to realize human eternal life.

Of course, there is no good news about this plan so far.The People's Federation is still unable to figure out whether the human consciousness is a soul or a stream of bioelectricity, but the experiment of mimicking neural network that transfers memory and activates it first denies the latter.We tried our best to burn a person's complete memory to the artificial brain device, and after starting it——

It's like there is no system installed in the hard disk, even if you have tens of thousands of G in storage, it will not move at all.The mystery of life cannot be deciphered yet, but another plan has emerged—if we use VI programs to drive the memories of soldiers who died in battle, what will happen if we use these memories to give VI combat experience and discipline?

Among the formations of the War Pendulum Fleet, there is a spaceship with a straight and wide deck, which looks more like a transport ship than a battleship.

This spaceship is one-third larger than the Dusk-class, longer and taller.Unlike the Twilight class, which has a smooth appearance and even the turret can be placed below the deck, this ship is more like the hard-core steel style of the traditional navy.It has a thick belly and multiple openings—those openings are orbital accelerators for electromagnetic ejection. As soon as the fleet jumped over, the spaceship opened all its launching ports, ejecting dozens of shuttles from it.The speed of the ship itself and the electromagnetic ejection endowed these shuttles with extremely fast initial speeds. Thousands of kilometers are fleeting, and the decelerating engines are connected together like a cosmic lantern.

More than half of these shuttles are headed towards the civilian spaceships stranded here, carrying soldiers and military doctors from the Space Marine Corps. They came to "disinfect" the civilian ships and conduct a psychological test. According to the warning of the Ministry of Industry and Research, Redstone will indoctrinate victims with electromagnetic co-frequency knowledge, and this is not without detection methods——

First of all, medical personnel need to quickly scan the synapses in the cerebral cortex generated by everyone who may have recently been exposed to redstone, that is, to check the memory block.Don't be intimidated by the means of God Seal, science is our weapon.Ensig's examination of the survivors found that the brainwashing of people by God's seal will trigger the rejection mechanism of the human brain, manifested as light intracranial hemorrhage, damage to the memory hippocampus and other obvious conditions, and severe cases will have brain damage similar to schizophrenia. The sulcus shadow area is enhanced, showing similar lesions to bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, etc., abnormally increased amygdala and low serotonin secretion (don't ask me how to understand these).

Relevant standards were quickly passed on to the army, and the means of investigation were available, followed by defense.Redstone's brain wave synchronization is not metaphysics, and the Ministry of Industry and Research has put forward some ideas-but the military does not intend to send its own elite marines to take risks.

"It's a good way to use a robot to land in Stormport, but... isn't there strong electromagnetic interference on Stormport, so Dibi robots can't work?"

In the hangar on the Typhoon-class aircraft cruiser, the pilot waved the signal baton, and the gantry crane slowly lowered the "black coffins" that were lying flat. the goods that arrived.These coffins were erected, and scientists from the Ministry of Industry and Research in protective clothing were busy around these coffins. The cables were connected to the boxes and were being debugged. The dispatcher could hear the discussions among the scientists.

"According to intelligence... What is needed for living corpses is the incineration of high-energy weapons... Introduce a level of heavy weapon experience, and a level of close combat combat."

If memories can be selectively retrieved, they can also be selectively combined.According to the needs, we can implant the required skills into the neural network of the artificial brain, making this VI a sniper, a fighting master, or a Sichuan chef?The combat experience is loaded into the brain, and the driver software of the body must be updated, so that the metal body can also have a muscle memory that has been tempered! (The only regret is that we can't do all this in the human body yet)

start up

The black box was lit with a ring of LED lights and turned on from the side, and the white mist of refrigerant evaporated, filling the hangar with a strange smell.Two dark green lights came on, a silver metal hand stretched out, followed by metal legs, the silver metal surface began to oxidize and turn black the moment it touched the light?No, it is the nano-coating that energizes the surface to carbonize and strengthen the hardness, and the blackening is both armor and a layer of defense.

Scientist: "The surface coating is energized to form a Faraday electromagnetic cage on the shell of the body, immune to electromagnetic pulses on the storm harbor."

The robots stood up. They looked like people wearing a black protective suit. There were two light spots simulating human eyes behind the helmet-shaped face. They did not behave like ordinary robots after they came out. Some stood upright. , some crossed their hips, and a robot suddenly turned around and shouted to the dispatcher. The electronic sound of the machine had a metallic tremolo.

"Hey buddy, do you have a cigarette?"

The dispatcher was shocked, and the scientist muttered: "There is an error in the memory loading, and other fragments have been added... Found it, and the correction is complete."

Then, the scientist shouted: "Stand at attention!"

He pretended: "I am the commander of this operation. Now I will start the briefing and read my own information. If you have any questions, please ask!"

Machine: "I don't know you."

Scientist (annoyed): "Try it again."

Immediately, the robot troops stood at attention uniformly, and the information flow was transmitted between them: "The target is determined, the source of pollution is removed, and the survivors are rescued."

Suddenly, a robot popped out a sentence: "A new species of beta? Interesting!"

The scientists discussed it and believed that the error was within an acceptable range.There was an electronic noise among the robots talking to themselves, and the final consensus was that there was no problem.

"Repeat, once you're in range, you're all on your own. Get your gear, board the plane, and the action will begin!"

Robot: "Yes, sir!"

The technology isn't mature enough to be a dumb thing to do when it's just unveiled.Their memories actually come from military donors, but they are still highly intelligent VIs that act according to program commands. The neural network of the artificial brain allows these special robots to have processing capabilities that ordinary machines cannot match. Sometimes you really feel that they are human beings. That is, those soldiers who originally ended their lives before a certain battle are living in another way, at least, some of them are still alive here.

This is indeed one of the core purposes of the program.The dead wake up?We have done such things, there used to be an army of the dead... They have rested, but now this army has inherited the inheritance of that army invisibly, erasing those ugly darkness and reborn in the shadows - Sai Borg Legion?

"Although it is not life and has no self-awareness, the humanoid intelligence of these organisms can truly fight independently like humans, which is different from remote-controlled robots. High intelligence, high combat effectiveness, and replicability, this is a real cyber army !"

Watching the shuttle rush into the sea of ​​stars, the scientists muttered to themselves: "Wait until we find the place of consciousness... One day, none of us will die because of the war."

After a few minutes-

On the outer wall of the Storm Harbor space station, a shuttle slowed down and approached the outer layer of the space station.The magnetic support frame popped up from the bottom of the square shuttle of the People's Union and was close to the outer layer. The hatch opened and the cyber army robot jumped onto the outer wall of the space station with a weapon in hand. The eyes of the leading robot flashed when it fell:

"Strong electromagnetic interference, switch to optical signal communication."

The colorful lights on the back of the robot light up and fall on the omnidirectional cameras of other robots to translate Morse code by themselves.These robots are very skillful at finding the weak points of the structure, laying explosives to blow up the passage, blowing out the air from the big drum to complete the decompression, and then launching the jetpacks to file in through the hole.

This scene fell into the eyes of the other two people, less than 300 meters away—in a vacuum of nothingness, nothing could be seen outside, but the inside could be clearly seen.The special cruise ship is indeed a masterpiece of engineering as Ensig said. The Lazarus Shield stealth force field technology is integrated on the armor plate of this small spaceship to complete the full coverage. Inside the armor plate is a The interlayer, in which expensive liquid metal lithium ions flow, can dissipate heat efficiently at ordinary times, and can store the heat inside the ship during concealed work so that the background radiation can reach a negligible level.

The disadvantage is that it is a bit small, and the internal space can accommodate at most one fire team... Well, it can probably hold the next redstone.

Looking at the scene outside, Cole grinned for some reason and said, "Bud, I know that tactical move. It was from the former Special Tactics Command, at least the second echelon."

"Understood, we have to bypass them." Bud was lying on the console of the stealth ship, analyzing the Storm Harbor map from the hologram. "The goal of the cyber army is to save people. Their tactic is to evacuate all the living people and blow up the space station together with the redstone, so our goal is to remove the stone before they evacuate."

"Really want to move?" Cole frowned, "Bud, I don't like this plan, this stone should be destroyed, we have a blood debt on it! We just stay here and don't care about anything. Waiting for the fleet to blow it up..."

"I just went to settle accounts, but not all of them."

Bud rubbed his sore temples and said with a gloomy face.

"I saw from the illusion... the source of this stone. I saw a man I don't know talking to another red stone. There are many of these things in the original universe, but not many of them can sink. ,Do you get me?"

Maybe there are such things all over the original universe of Redstone, but the sinking is not the fusion of two universes, it is a water leak instead of opening the gate, so there must be a range of sinking, and the number is absolutely limited.

"I have no interest in the research of the Ministry of Industry and Research. Ensig is not a good person and I never believe him. But we must find out where it originated and sink, and then wipe them clean."

PS: The progress of the double update is not too slow, well, I think it is OK.

Chapter 19. Clearing Operations

The golden neon signs are still flashing brightly, and electric vehicles dedicated to the internal operations of Storm Harbor are parked on both sides of the wide human-shaped road. Scrape all over the place.

"The Blue Cello Tavern, we guarantee you a home away from home, and a happy return—"

The waiter in the holographic image advertisement shouted to the empty street with a smile on his face, but the bar behind it had its doors and windows open, the metal gate was smashed into scrap iron by a truck, and the ground was covered with solidified and dried black blood.The bar is full of broken glass bottles, alcohol and blood are mixed together, and the scattered tables and chairs are full of bullet holes-there was a fierce battle here, which happened a few hours ago, but the winner is unknown. who.

Hmm... There is no winner in the cannibalism, leaving only a walking corpse, beating manically on the solid metal door on the underground wine cellar of the tavern.The rubbing sound of bones and sharp claws pulling the door is maddening. These living corpses can no longer see their original appearance. The mutated bones and the flesh and blood that have been turned out of the skin are disgusting. It reminds me that they were all upright citizens of the People's Federation a few hours ago. . . which is enough to make a man of basic morals rage.

But at this time, a burst of dense but orderly footsteps came from outside the tavern, and the living corpse, which was extremely sensitive to sound, immediately raised its body and looked out the door, and saw a dozen figures rushing towards the tavern with flashlights.They... are not human, but they look like soldiers in shell armor, and their movements have the air of an elite unit being trained and orderly.Bypassing the wreckage all over the ground and overcoming the obstacles of the roadblocks, the helmets of this troop continuously lighted up with flashes of different colors, and they seemed to rely on this to maintain communication.

A soldier squatted down to check the malfunctioning Dibi police robot on the ground, and uttered a metallic electronic voice: "I said that these iron cans are unreliable, and they are useless when they are subjected to electromagnetic suppression! War depends on people after all. "

"Infrared detection has found."

In front of the team advancing in a defensive formation, the captain in armor?Stretching out a hand, the slender fingers of the robotic arm gestured extremely quickly——

"Building, side front, enemy, quantity, twenty!"

"No hostages, attacking posture, heavy weapons, step forward! Sniper, cover!"

This gesture is so fast that even the most elite human soldiers can't see it. Although we are also surprised that there is air here and the enemy is a monster without intelligence, why not directly speak, but it seems that the paranoid VI must enforce battlefield discipline.

Finally, the leader machine half-kneeled on the ground, and the last deployment issued: "Attack!"