"Welcome everyone, the first guests of my small place in a hundred years." The soft female voice echoed in the shelter, as if she was not worried that Wang Ping would blow herself to pieces in the next few minutes.
The three of them ignored the controller's nonsense. After crossing the open alloy door of the four-defense shelter, Wang Ping finally understood why Tai Sui described the controller as "very big". It was so big that the controller didn't even close the door. The last barrier to keep it safe.
The entire shelter is the home of the Master. Its creator completely dismantled the place to place the body of the Master. Wang Ping and the others could only see a gray wall covered with various indicator lights, naked bodies, and so on. There are many wires and switches with unknown meanings. In the middle of the gray wall, four large screens are lined up. Below the screens are four keyboards and in front of the screens are four computer chairs.
"I'll make you laugh. A hundred years ago, I wasn't this big. Every time I added a base or added some buildings and equipment that needed to be controlled by me, my body would grow a little. These accessories have been gradually accumulated over the past hundred years.
"The voice of the controller continued: "My logical reasoning has deduced tens of thousands of possibilities. The chance of you being able to get here is only 4.13%. It should be said that you are quite lucky. "
Wang Ping still didn't answer. He just opened his backpack silently, glanced at the gray wall, and then gave up the idea of ??blasting here. It was not that the gun was not powerful enough, but that he had not yet determined the location of the core components of the controller. , the long-haired man will not attack easily.
¡°The cabinet next to it is a secret door. After entering, go straight and turn left to reach the core area of ??the controller. Blow it up to temporarily stop its operation.
" Tai Sui reminded in a low voice: "According to the memory of the presidential assistant, this guy has at least two clones. Even if we kill this host, it will be thirty-six hours later.
The extension located in the Chicago base will take over all functions of the host. As for the other extension, the assistant does not know where it is. "
"I know the three of you don't want to talk nonsense with me. Just like what was often described in pre-war movies and TV shows, once you talk too much with the big villain at the end, the situation will change. Now you are worried that my subordinates will rush in at any time and use The freezing weapon will take care of the three of them, right?" The voice of the controller suddenly changed into a slightly hoarse middle-aged male voice.
The screen flashed, and an image of a white man in a half-length suit appeared, speaking in a standard London accent, "Maybe I should show you something, otherwise you won't be interested in communicating with me."
None of the three people answered, but their eyes were attracted by the videos on the other three screens. The first video was of a fleet of tankers in bumpy waves, from a video perspective.
This was sent back by the Golden Eagle attack aircraft. One of the oil tankers was obviously in a sinking state. The other two tankers could be seen from the appearance that they had suffered some damage and were trying to drive to the shore. The cover of the cockpit of one of them was blown off.
It is vaguely possible to tell that An Fang and Langya are still commanding the fleet. It is estimated that An Fang¡¯s plan is to direct the tanker to run aground on the beach.
The second video shows the three people just fighting on the ground. The entrance to the stairwell has been turned into rubble due to Duan Tianxing¡¯s resistance. Many blue-blooded people were activated by Duan Tianxing¡¯s gray balls.
It turned into a bleeding corpse with seven orifices. Several blue-blooded people were controlling the battlefield auxiliary robot. They dug out Duan Tianxing's frozen body from under the rubble and replaced his energy line first to prevent Duan Tianxing from self-destructing. It can be seen that This guy still has the ability to move, but all his limbs were knocked off by energy weapons, and almost all of his body except his head was dismantled into parts.
You can still smile when facing the camera.
The third video was shot at high altitude, and the ground was covered in silver. The video gradually zoomed in, and the outlines of the buildings on the ground gradually became clearer. You can even distinguish the huge figure unique to Black Killer and the K9 next to him. Obviously, this One person and one dog are doing daily patrols and inspections and taking care of wild animals. It is obvious that this is the southwest base that has been monitored by satellites again.
in other words. If you can monitor, you can also navigate intercontinental missiles and Terminator robots.
¡°Even if you blow me up, your comrades will be buried with me immediately.
Even if the three of them can escape safely from here and solve the Chicago extension within thirty-six hours, they still need to find my last extension within thirty-six hours to ensure that I will not gradually recover. The Tianqian system uses intercontinental missiles to wipe old humans from the earth.
" "The voice of the controller is still calm, as if he is broadcasting the evening news, "While there is still room for change, you still have a chance to negotiate terms with me. "
Wang Ping hesitated.After a second, he finally said: "Why should we believe you!"
"I come from humans, but please don't compare me with humans who go back on their word. That is an insult to me.
When I was attacked, I judged that except for a few, those old humans would not have such great courage, but I didn't expect that your ability would be so great, even the Tiancha system was beaten to half a disability. Based on this result, you Don't belittle yourself either.
What¡¯s more, I couldn¡¯t make you disappear even though I had the ability to do so, so I¡¯m not trustworthy? Believe me, since you can come here, you have the qualifications to negotiate with me." The man in the suit smiled, and the three-dimensional projection directly projected an image of a white man sitting on a chair. It was obvious that this was built by the master for himself "Please allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Elliot Gould. If you are lucky enough to know the list of scientists at the moon base, you should know that I am one of them, and later transplanted my own brain." Go to the master computer and act like your friend Duan Tianxing.¡±
Wang Ping's expression was dull, but thoughts were changing rapidly in his mind. How did this guy who called himself Gould know about the existence of Duan Tianxing? Lao Duan has always hidden himself very well. Except for the people in the southwest base, even Robin and other forces don't know that there is such a guy who turned into a computer.
Gould seemed to be able to guess Wang Ping's doubts, and said with a smile: "When you sneaked into my communication satellite, did you really think I didn't know? I was the one who caused the network delay at that time. Although it was only a few seconds, Mr. Duan was still in the dark. The stream of consciousness data is enough for me to copy most of his codes, and then figure out who was able to get into my communication satellite. The officer who communicated with you later also did so under my instruction. of.
The purpose is to stabilize you, and it is precisely because I discovered Mr. Duan¡¯s existence that I canceled the wanted order. Okay, let¡¯s not let the circle go. Let¡¯s be honest, you three, I want to make a deal with you.
You three plus Duan Tianxing, who was captured by me, do something for me. No matter whether it succeeds or not, I will let everyone in the southwest base go and promise that there will be a place for these people in the new world. how? "
Before Wang Ping could speak, Gould continued: "To show my sincerity, I have asked my subordinates to send Mr. Duan here. Which one of you will pick him up? Let us five intelligent creatures talk openly and honestly. Let¡¯s talk, I haven¡¯t communicated with other intelligent creatures in hundreds of years.
Something talk about **, I hope you don't see it. "
The development of things to this point was beyond the expectations of the three of them. In order to prevent Gould from playing tricks, Tai Sui directly split his lower body.
Went to pick up Duan Tianxing. Five minutes later, Tai Sui, whose lower body had evolved into arms, was pushing a cart. On the cart were placed a nuclear fusion battery and Duan Tianxing's body with only his head and shoulders left.
The four of them were separated for less than thirty minutes.
At this moment, they were separated as if several reincarnations had passed. Especially when he saw Duan Tianxing's bleak appearance, the long-haired man couldn't help but feel angry. However, this Mr. Gould seemed to have the ability to read minds and was able to get ahead of Wang Ping. Before getting angry, he said: "There are always casualties in wars. If I, Gould, didn't need the ability of a few of you, I'm afraid you would have turned into corpses, at least.
I know that both Mr. Duan and Mr. Wang have the ability to turn their nuclear fusion reactors into small bombs and kill me together. However, I still let Mr. Duan, such a dangerous enemy, come in front of me. How about some of you can calmly reconcile Shall I talk? "
"When you wanted us specifically, did you have the intention of taking advantage of us?" Duan Tianxing looked at the gray wall and Gould's projection and suddenly smiled, and said: "You, a century-old ghost, have so many ideas. How can you take advantage of me?" Just deliver it to you.
I admit that I can¡¯t see through you. If you have anything to say, just say it. "
"Then let me first talk about what I have done as your biggest imaginary enemy in the past hundred years." Gould stood up from his chair, casually transformed an earth, and turned it gently between his fingers. .
After all, the information in Robin's hand was from a hundred years ago and was incomplete. Therefore, it could not fully reflect the entire idea of ??Gould, a human-machine evolution. To be precise, Gould's ultimate goal was to save all mankind. We envisioned a variety of rejuvenation possibilities, and after eliminating some unattainable possibilities one by one, we summarized three steps, and based on these three steps, we hypothesized various processing methods.
The first step is to try his best to support post-war humanity and establish a new human civilization based on post-war humanity. From this, Gould founded the Returner Alliance as the master controller, and within the scope of conditions allowed , try our best to help those forces who have the ability to build their homes.
However, Gould was disappointed.
The greedy, bad, and selfish nature of human beings caused Gould to completely lose confidence in the post-war survivors. These people in power and special interest groups did not have the constraints of laws and regulations or conscience and morality that have been gradually formed in human society for thousands of years. He goes even further to enslave human beings and treats his own compatriots as pigs and dogs! Making slaves and eating human flesh and blood, this kind of tragedy happens every day! After ignoring all these things that were unacceptable to pre-war humans, Gould believed that these people had lost their pride and self-respect as human beings and had become complete beasts, even worse than beasts! Therefore, they must be eliminated, and together with those poor slaves who have lost their sense of justice, justice and resistance, disappear in the history of human civilization!
Facing Gould¡¯s accusation, Wang Ping and the other four were speechless and even felt ashamed.
After all, the scenes he saw in Jinshan Factory and Paradise City have never been forgotten by everyone. It is just the desire to survive and the responsibility for the paradise of Southwest Base that made Wang Ping ignore the pre-war code of conduct and turn to these compatriots. Unfair forces join forces!
If there was no reason to survive, and one could evaluate Gould's actions from the perspective of a bystander, I am afraid that no one would think that he did something wrong. It is true that there were innocent civilians and humble slaves among those forces, but Shouldn't these civilians be punished as accomplices in the enslavement of their own compatriots and as indifferent bystanders? For those slaves, especially the poor ones who have been transformed, their faces are indifferent and without any independent thinking.
Isn¡¯t death the best destination?
Taking a step back, if we can try them according to the laws before the war and let everyone get the most fair treatment, it is certainly the most correct approach. However, in this world where there is no justice, no law, and even survival is difficult to maintain. , Gould could only adopt this extreme method and completely destroy it.
And then build it completely!
Based on the development of the first step, Gould began to use the Returner Alliance to collect resources for rebuilding human civilization, whether it was culture, materials, biological samples, plant samples, etc., they were all collected.
At the same time, Gould established outposts around the world, manufactured weapons to destroy post-war humanity, and created blue-blooded humans he called excessive humans for him to drive. The full picture of the second step is once the number of old humans begins to explode due to a brief recovery period. .
Then, they will also die in large numbers due to the advent of the second permanent freeze period. It is expected that when the number of old humans drops to a certain level, the Terminator system can be activated. Completely wipe these old humans from the earth!
Of course, this also includes several details such as the polar bears expelling scattered human tribes, and launching a plan of forcible destruction once they encounter resistance from the old humans. Wang Ping and others have already seen these methods. I won¡¯t go into details here.
There are just a few things that Wang Ping and the others did not expect. After the Terminator system destroys the old human civilization, those blue-blooded people will be responsible for building a new civilization. When the world environment adapts to the development of the new human beings, they will be regarded by Gould. The used tools are gradually replaced by new humans, normal red-blooded humans.
To put it simply, the President, whom the Blue Bloods respect, just treats them as disposable tools.
"While running the second big step, I am also preparing for the third step. To be precise, this is a huge plan. Its purpose is to prepare us for the situation when the earth's environment suddenly changes drastically and human beings cannot survive at all. It can preserve the last hope of human survival.
"Gould said with a wry smile: "Because I am not God. There is no guarantee that the earth¡¯s environment will return to its original state. What's more, even if the earth's environment recovers.
The various resources that have been exhausted are not just changed. For example, there is no way to make up for the disappearance of the ozone layer. Human beings are fragile after all. A large number of harmful rays will cause mutations in human embryos. Once I build a new But the earth found that new humans had to live underground and faced the danger of racial weakening. Then all my efforts would be in vain. And I am not an old monster who lives forever, so I must ensure that after I stop running, Humans can still thrive! "
"You have said so much. I admit that I cannot refute your actions, but what does this have to do with us? What kind of deal do you want to do?" Wang Ping couldn't help but ask.
Gould smiled, waved his hand, and a red planet appeared in front of everyone. Looking carefully, the red was mixed with a lot of blue-green!
"This is Mars!" Duan Tianxing reacted immediately and couldn't help laughing loudly, seriously startling the remaining three people! It is indeed rare for Duan Tianxing to lose his temper like this. This also shows that the emergence of Mars will have a great impact on silicon-based organisms.Of course, Old Duan then explained the reason for his wild laughter, "I understand, no wonder Wang Ping and the others saw that smoke column! That was the trajectory of the spacecraft launched in advance! No wonder you collected those poisonous ointments! That was In order to protect human beings from harmful rays! I¡¯m afraid this plan has been in place since you were born! That¡¯s why you chose this place as your main base! It¡¯s right next to the busiest launch site before the war! It took a hundred years to plan a shocking thing. It turns out that This is your final arrangement! Even if you are an enemy, I still want to praise you! You are truly Gould!"
Wang Ping was slow to react for a moment, and then he realized what this meant. Even Tai Sui jumped up from the ground, staring at the red planet without blinking!
"You are right. The Mars transformation plan was launched before the war. A large number of various detectors were launched at that time. If the war had not broken out, humans would have landed on Mars fifty years ago. Over the past hundred years, I have used the earth's The resources have been launching transformation materials to Mars, and have successfully thickened the Martian atmosphere and increased the content of controlled carbon dioxide. Now there is liquid water and some lower plants on Mars, and volcanic pine trees have also successfully survived.
If I hadn¡¯t discovered a few of them, I originally planned to send the transformed blue-blooded people there to colonize Mars as the first batch of intelligent creatures. Now, of course, you are the best candidates.
"Gould chuckled, quite satisfied with the reaction of the four people, and continued: "I wanted you all to test you. If you can't survive it, you will die.
Naturally, they broke up in two, which shows that I overestimated your abilities. As I mentioned just now, when I discovered the existence of Mr. Duan, I knew that I must draw you into the Returners Alliance. The ultimate goal is to make several Get on my pirate ship and head to Mars for development.
Of course, I know that if this dangerous plan is proposed directly, I am afraid you will not agree. When I originally planned to implement the destruction plan, I used the southwest base as a bargaining chip to get you to cooperate. Now, although the process is different, the results are similar. .¡±
"The old humanity must be destroyed?" Wang Ping frowned and said, "Is there any way to save it?"
"No, and I can tell you. Just now, I have launched a batch of intercontinental missiles to complete the unfinished work of the disappeared Terminators.
I think the disappearance of the Terminator is probably related to you, right? Originally, I wanted to obtain those few lands suitable for new human beings to survive at the minimum cost. Now, after using missiles. The area of ??activity of new humans on the earth is much smaller.
"Gould sighed and said: "In thirty minutes, the death knell of the old humanity will ring. "
"You!" Tai Sui opened his mouth to curse, but didn't know what to curse, so he sat back on the ground slumped. He pulled his hair with his hands and pulled it down strand by strand.
Helpless is probably not enough to describe Tai Sui's mood.
"Why do you have to choose us? Why don't you go yourself?" Wang Ping asked the last question in his mind.
"Mr. Duan and I are different. He is a computer system that completely evolved from a person, while I was pieced together in a short time from a computer system combined with a human brain. You can't expect that a patchwork like me can compete with Mr. Duan." In comparison, due to flaws in the original design, even if I have a synchronous replication extension, it is still quite large in size.
The space of the spaceship is limited. If I am installed, there is no need to install others.
Gould shrugged helplessly and continued: "So, I need Mr. Duan's sophisticated mind. His computer skills are among the best in the post-war world. He is lacking in invention, but no one can match him in repair technology." .
Mr. Wang¡¯s ability to withstand harsh environments is beyond the reach of ordinary people. As for Mr. Tai Sui, a new type of creature that can adapt to most environments, it is an unexpected treasure for me.
Especially the seeds you sent some time ago, after my detailed inspection, they are all secreted by Mr. Tai Sui, right? Therefore, I can say with certainty that Mars needs you, mankind needs you, and the future of mankind needs you! You are the messengers sent by God to transform Mars and save mankind! "
Tai Sui stopped abusing himself, stood up, and said to Wang Ping: "Wang Ping, you and I realize that now, I always trust you, the decision is in your hands, you decide."
Gould turned to look at Wang Ping and said: "The living area on Mars has been completed, the cloning equipment has arrived in advance, and the only Mars immigration spacecraft has been prepared. There are also 300 sleeping cabins in the spacecraft. You can take 300 humans from the southwest base with you. I promise to take care of the rest of them for you.
It¡¯s just that I want you to promise me that before every new human being is born on Mars, their genes will be checked in advance, and their genes will be checked as much as possible.Don't let too many genetic defects appear in the new humans. Now, let me finally ask, what is your choice? "
Wang Ping looked at the wild cat who completely obeyed him, at Tai Sui who had regained his composure, and at Duan Tianxing who had been turned into parts. The faces of Dark Cut, Black Kill, Wolf Fang, Lin Hong, Shan Lin, Metal and others appeared in his mind. What choice will they make? How will those who devote their lives for a better life choose?
The scene of waking up from the underground seemed to be just yesterday. Those once vivid lives and those unbearable bloody scenes reminded the long-haired man at midnight, and he wanted to escape all the time. But now, a new world, a new place Hope was right in front of him. This hope was so tempting and so maddening that Wang Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly.