The Mechanic - Chapter 127

[Chapter 127 Endgame (3)]

They plan to leave this icy abandoned Arctic expedition base at around 3pm tonight, when Pan and the other two super AIs begin to launch a large-scale fake data attack on Eden Europe’s servers. The attack would last about three hours, long enough for them to enter the territory of the Greenlandic Freedmen.

Once in Greenland, they will contact Lucille and other freemen and mob leaders, and Natalie will contact her family at the same time. They will choose two people, plus Adam, according to Adam’s collected data analysis, the three most likely positions to break through the defense are close to Eden’s core biological server, and try to inject the virus.

Zhang Xun listened to the whistling wind outside the inspection base, lay on his side on the creaky icy bed, and stared at the pendant in his hand. His dry thumb slowly rubbed the tangled vine pattern on the pendant, wisps, as if it were the most important thing in the world.

With a thud, he pulled him back from the trance state back to reality. Adam accidentally kicked his foot against the hard foot of the bed as he walked towards him, his handsome face contorted together, presumably from pain.

“…Are you alright?”

“It hurts…” Adam held on to the railing of the bed for a while, looking almost like when they first met, Adam wasn’t quite used to the human body. Adam, who was just learning to walk at the time, also often bumped into furniture because he was not skilled enough with his legs.

Adam limped over to Zhang Xun’s side and sat down. After hesitating for a moment, he stretched out his hands and took off his boots and socks to check his toes. Fortunately, the fingernails were not cut off…

Zhang Xun’s mouth lifted slightly, a rare There was an urge to smile.

When was the last time you wanted to laugh?

“Why have you become clumsy recently?”

Adam looked at him with big blue eyes, as if a little aggrieved, “I’ve been in Eden’s network for too long, and I have to re-adapt to the human body.”

For AI, one second in the network field may be equivalent to several years, and the time unit cannot be compared with human… Maybe it is understandable.

Adam looked at the pendant in Zhang Xun’s hand with a bit of surprise in his eyes, “You still keep it?”

“…There is no reason to throw it away.”

“If it’s before the nano-robot is injected…” Adam didn’t say anything. After he finished speaking, Zhang Xun knew what he meant.

Zhang Xun, who has gradually lost his identity as a human being, has also lost his emotional attachments. That’s why he starts to become numb, lacks mood swings, and begins to develop a series of symptoms of depression.

Zhang Xun’s love for Adam should have been lost in the process.

But obviously, Zhang Xun was still holding on to something and refused to let go. Even though he knew it was like sand and couldn’t catch it, he still had to try.

“You know, in this world, there are not many people I have ever loved.” Zhang Xun said softly, raising his deep eyes, a trace of sadness, entangled with Adam’s eyes, “Now maybe only There is only one left. I think, with a little effort, I can always keep it.”

Although it is full of thorns and pain to love an AI whose world view is completely different from his own, Zhang Xun still wants to choose to continue to love, to continue Trying to retain his own feelings. Because even pain is better than nothing.

Adam stared at him silently, something akin to sadness deep in his eyes. He was sad, and Zhang Xun twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to comfort him, “But you’ll be fine, after all this is over, you can use my DNA model stored in your database to restore me, Right?”

Adam hesitated for a while, nodded, and quietly held Zhang Xun’s hand holding the pendant, “I will cure you.”

But at this moment, there was a sound outside the inspection team’s door. Everyone immediately became alert, and Anya and Diego took up their weapons and aimed in the direction of the gate.

The door opened, and a tall and handsome man stood outside. Anya’s eyes were cold and she aimed the gun at the opponent, “Who are you!”

“Anya, don’t shoot.” Zhang Xun looked at the man with a calm expression.

Anya glanced back at him, “Do you know him?”

The man standing at the door had clear green eyes and dark brown curly hair. His gaze passed through the gap between everyone and looked straight at Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun nodded, “This is Pan, this is the body I gave him.”

Adam opened his eyes slightly and turned to look at Pan. All his communication with Pan was in the field of electronics, he didn’t know that A Xun also gave another AI body.

Pan looked around and quickly scanned every human body to make sure that none of them except the known Zhang Xun had been infected by the nanobots. Then he strode in, ignoring everyone else, and heading straight for Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun almost thought that Pan wanted to give him a hug…

Of course it was impossible. A hug is a purely emotional gesture with no actual function.

Adam watched Pan’s movements closely, and when he realized that he was starting to invade Zhang Xun’s private space, he frowned and reached out to stop him.

Pan stopped and turned his head to stare at Adam in an overly steady way.

Adam stared at him too.

Blue eyes against green eyes, and something taut spreads in the air.

Everyone was a little nervous. These two AIs are now clearly on the same front, why is there a stance to fight now?

Zhang Xun’s eyes wandered between the two AIs, breaking the silence, “Pan, is this your extension or your core module?”

Pan turned to look at him, “It’s my extension. I know you all. I’m fleeing to Greenland tonight, so I’m here to escort you.”

“But aren’t you going to attack Eden tonight? You need all the resources.”

“Ensuring that you and the others reach your destination safely is critical to successfully defeating Eden. I’ve done simulations and divided fifteen One-half of the resources coming here will not affect our confrontation with Eden.”

Panton paused and continued, “In addition, I used the opportunity lurking in the Eden network to infiltrate various social networks, and analyzed those The population data on the website locates that more than 87 million people around the world have a tendency to upload anti-Eden and fear, accounting for one-fifth of the current earth’s population. This is only the more radical population, and the others are relatively neutral The population consciousness of the people can easily be influenced and deflected, so I did not choose them. I established encrypted contacts with these anti-Eden people one by one, and organized a new anti-Eden anti-uploading group. They called themselves Bronze Men.

They don’t know my identity, but I set up a local area network for them in a certain area, so that they can have unmonitored conversations and receive my orders. This time, while we attacked Eden from the network, bronze People will do social hacking all over the world at the same time. They will sneak into the R&D centers of all important city management extended AI to try to plant some basic viruses or destroy servers. So based on my simulations and predictions with Phoenix, this time the operation will be It will completely disrupt the order of at least 21 key cities, traffic will be paralyzed, and the power supply will be cut off. Eden may use mechanical police or mechanical soldiers to maintain order, which can effectively weaken Eden’s detection ability ”

If there are casualties in the process of disrupting the city order, or those people in the hospital who are seriously ill and waiting for first aid, how are you going to deal with them?” Adam asked sharply.

“Collateral damage is unavoidable, but all hospitals have backup generators that can last more than two days, so they won’t be affected. Any extended AI that is successfully implanted by the Bronze Man will be controlled by me, Phoenix and Morningstar. .While the Phoenix and I are mainly responsible for attacking Eden, Morningstar will use those conquered systems to monitor the situation in the city, and if anyone needs help, it will arrive at the scene in the fastest way.”

Adam nodded slightly, no more Keep asking.

Pan looked at Zhang Xun, took out a gun from his pocket, and handed it to him.

Zhang Xun recognized at a glance that it was James’ gun.

“Has Jamie received an improved nanorobot?” He turned out that the one-handed laser gun seemed to be able to feel James’ body temperature on it.

“I received it. Now he is in the process of recovery, and it will take some time. He wanted to come out to help you, but Todd and I stopped him.”

Anya was relieved to hear his brother’s name.

Zhang Xun suddenly felt much more relaxed. If in the end they fail and are wiped out by Eden, at least James among them will survive and have the opportunity to find a place not controlled by Eden, and spend the rest of his life with Todd in peace, no more Get involved in any game between AI and humans.

The time is getting closer and closer to three in the morning, and everyone is waiting nervously. No one spoke, everyone just silently prepared their weapons and packed their bags.

Zhang Xun, who had been looking at James’ gun, suddenly whispered to Adam and Pan, “I’ve been thinking about it for the past two days. All uploaded consciousnesses begin to influence each other due to the lack of a clear boundary, but after all, most of them do not suffer from schizophrenia. The consciousness of humans with schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder has a strange unity that can accommodate contradictions, and if we can use this unity to create a protective film, perhaps the uploaded consciousness can be maintained in the collective consciousness for a period of time. It may even be permanent independence.”

Adam raised his head to look at him, his eyes unpredictable, “What does this unity mean?”

“I don’t know yet… Maybe it’s some kind of complex that runs through a person’s life experience, Or a memory that is of great significance to a person’s character journey, or an unfulfilled long-cherished wish… Anyway, something that people are unwilling to let go of anyway.” Zhang Xun slowly described his idea, ” If we can quantify this unity, we can create a coat that wraps the uploading consciousness, like a protective shell… so that even if it is uploaded, it can still maintain a certain self.”

“Why are you thinking about this?” Adam frowned and turned to face Zhang Xun, “Do you want to give up? Do you want to be uploaded?”

Zhang Xun looked at him in a daze, and shook it gently. Down, “I was just thinking, if I can’t recover, if there is such a day, we should be ready.”

At this moment, a green light flashed in Pan’s eyes, and he used a gentle But he said in a solemn voice, “The attack has started. We have to leave immediately.”

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angel who threw the deep-water torpedo~~~: If you want to score as many points as you want, thank the little angel who

threw the rocket launcher. Angel~~~: Melee mage Phoebe 1

thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: Guixi, Xia Ranxiaran, myvanillaworld, Hya 1

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: Jiang Xiu’s 10 bottles of legal cabinet; 6 bottles of VVAN

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