i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 178 Callisto

Humpback whales, Wyverns, hives, cicadas, broken blades of long knives, double concentric rings.

These six strange-shaped things, six Titans so large that they cannot be ignored in the astronomical star map, slowly spread out from the six directions of the 0791 star gate, gradually accelerated, and entered the orbit of Jupiter one after another.

The starlight in the sky is like a school of fish scattered by a giant crocodile. At first, it scattered like headless flies. After all the titans left one after another, and the gravitational interference was eliminated, they returned to the correct track. It took a while to restore calm .

With the protection of the company titans, naturally no one would dare to risk their lives to grab any goods. HAYABUSA hid under the fin of the humpback whale and was escorted to Callisto without incident.

It's a pity that Li Pan didn't have the chance to board the ship to see what the interior of the Titan is like.

Be it Neptune Titan or Callisto Base, they are all the property of TheM Company.

Although the acting manager has the right to enter the 0791 Callisto base, Neptune Titan's boarding ship permission needs to be applied to 01.

Anyway, he just let the huge humpback whale escort him for a while, and Li Pan didn't bother to apply for those paperwork. After waiting for a while, he got in touch with Callisto's base, Eighteen.

So I said goodbye to 01032 politely, and Titan stopped in the orbit of Callisto to monitor the monsters in Jupiter. HAYABUSA, under automatic navigation, descended to the surface of Callisto and entered the base warehouse for handover.

Callisto, a synchronously rotating satellite of Jupiter, is composed of nearly equal masses of rock and water. It has a liquid ocean under the surface of silicate and ice. Callisto has a thin atmosphere mainly composed of carbon dioxide and some oxygen.There is also an active ionosphere, which is formed by the accretion of gas and dust on Jupiter. Now NEPTONE Titan is charging in the ionosphere.

Compared with Ganymede Europa, which is extremely prosperous as the main port of cosmic trade, Callisto, which is far away from Jupiter, can be said to be particularly deserted.Usually this is only used as an ice mining site, and occasionally companies use gravity to locate and arrange some warehouses and orbital factories.

However, Jupiter has as many as 92 satellites. As a warehouse and airport, it is of course better to leave the star gate as close as possible, so there are usually few people coming to Callisto.

TheM Company's Callisto base is on the back of Callisto's moon, on the side facing away from Jupiter.

It can be clearly seen that the company used artificial means to explode the rock formations and ice on the surface of Callisto, opened up the underground sea, and turned the vast crater plain into a frozen ice ocean.

Sea of ​​Callisto.

The Callisto Base is frozen in the core of this sea of ​​ice.

It was Li Pan's first visit to the company's Callisto base. If he came by himself, he might not have noticed much.

Isn't it just a military base? That's not what a base is.

But now he happened to be following the Neptune-class Titan and saw the shape of the Titan that looked like a humpback whale.

At this time, the landing base was overlooking the Callisto Ice Sea from a high position. The main body of the base seemed to be a whale that was jumping out of the ice ocean, but was frozen in an instant.It can be seen from an intuitive comparison with the Titan's whale head.

Hey!Exactly the same!
Good guy!The company's base on Callisto turns out to be a Titan under construction!

No wonder the company's manager ranks from 01 to 06, in addition to the general manager and four permanent ministers, also specially arranged a Callisto base commander.

Isn’t this the Titan Captain, Fleet Commander!
Of course, the company Titan of 0791 is still under construction. There is only one whale head. Still out of reach.

It can be seen that the construction of a Titan, like the Holy Grail bidding, is a long-term task for various local companies.What a long way to go.

The rest of the people on the ship are just employees of Beaulieu, and they don't even have permission to leave the cabin and enter the company's base. They can only be locked up on board the whole time, with the signal blocked frequently. They use the QVN public channel provided by Shiba to surf the Internet, play games, and rest Kill time.

Li Pan put on the SBS and got off the ship alone, and made delivery handover with the base engineering robot. Eighteen, arranged for the drone to unload the cargo from the cabin, delivered 144 bottles of black oil to the base to make fleet ammunition, and left [-] bottles to bring back Earth use.

"Crooked, eighteen, the delivery is complete, ask the accountant to send money to me, and we will return to Earth after sending the money."

Li Pan was also yelling anxiously while signing the authorization.

In view of the committee's regulations, these Titan behemoths will be parked in the Jupiter space during the bidding period and cannot enter the asteroid belt.

So he also discussed with the company on the return trip. Although there may not be someone who will die under the company's nose, but to be safe, let the company's fleet arrange a hidden reconnaissance, launch a lure on the moon, and directly pull HAYABUSA In the past, I took the Lunar Expressway directly back to LEOPORT to avoid encountering another disaster on the way.

Base truck. Eighteenth, "It's not over yet, boss, you have to come with the truck. The black oil will be stored in the dangerous goods warehouse. The door is locked. I can't get in without your authorization."

"Locked? You can't get in either?"

Li Pan frowned. Things on Earth are in a state of desperation. The Callisto base is also a mess. Probably because all the employees of the previous company were killed, some security mechanism was triggered on the base.

So Li Pan asked PONY. Eighteen on the cruise to talk to others, and he took the base truck. Eighteen to enter Callisto.

The base truck. Eighteen also sent the [-]D map information inside the base, and it turned out that Callisto was built with the Neptune class as the blueprint.

Theoretically, the main role of the Titan ship is not to serve as a command, nor to use doomsday weapons to sweep the scene. Most of the time, a ship of this level serves as a strategic military base that can be deployed to the front line at any time. It is the Dreadnought-class The main fleet provides maintenance supplies, and at the same time provides strategic deterrence with doomsday weapons when necessary, forcing opponents to abandon strategic intentions to preserve fleet strength.

Of course, you can also see that the Callisto base is very chaotic. Some areas are under construction, some areas are blocked, and there are large areas of blank space and restricted areas.It simply does not have the basic functions of a military base.

Now there are only basic fleet berths and warehouses on the surface, and other ammunition, fuel cells and weapons production lines have not been built.No wonder 0113012 complained a lot about not being able to order factories, ammunition and supplies.

But now it’s all right. Although the Titan base under construction is still unusable, the already built Titan Neptune has been sent here. In name, it cannot interfere with the local Holy Grail bidding in 0791, but when it comes to full-scale war, it can naturally be used for the company’s fleet. Provide shelter support.If you really can't beat it, you can still dig into the belly of the humpback whale and run away.

But when Li Pan sat in the base truck and quickly descended the ice layer along the magnetic levitation track, and entered the base deep underground, he suddenly found something was wrong.

"Eighteen, why was there an explosion in the base?"

This passage is obviously newly built, and it is reinforced and rebuilt on the basis of the original facilities. Li Pan is a professional engineer. It can be seen that the original passage seems to have collapsed, and there are still remains of the frame structure. The robots that come and go are re-supported and constructed on the main structure.

Base truck. Shiba quickly declares,

"It's none of my business, it's just like this when I came here.

In fact, there is another set of completely self-operating construction system inside the Calisto base. I guess it may be the brain machine left over from the previous company.But it has been formatted and disconnected from the QVN network. It is directly connected to the head office for command, and there is no way to communicate. I am only responsible for providing it with network security services, as well as intelligence and computing power support.

That machine is very old, and the permission check must be performed by yourself. Later, the boss will have to go to the server in person to do the general manager's authorization certification.

Black oil is a strategic resource, and the secret warehouse is in the area it manages. Only when you send it there and get the warehouse receipt can the transaction be considered complete. "

"There is actually a brain machine..."

But it is also true to think so. In the cyberpunk world, previous companies must have an upload intelligence in the technology department, and brain computer hackers provide network monitoring support, and it is impossible to use outsourcing services.

And the brain computer is the property of the company, and it is not a registered employee. Even if the company is destroyed, it is reasonable to say that the brain computer will not be deleted.

Li Pan couldn't help but be curious, "Eighteen, what is the name of the server at Callisto Base? Does he know what happened to the previous company employees?"

The base truck. Eighteen was silent for a while, "Boss, he has been formatted with a personality."

Li Pan, "What do you mean, the memory at that time has also been deleted?"

Base Truck. Eighteenth, "It's not just the memory, but the personality has been reset. Thoughts and emotions have been eliminated. I can't remember that I am a human being. I am just a machine that can answer questions and obey orders.

Except for the fact that the human brain uploads intelligence, it is almost no different from artificial intelligence. It is a surgery to bypass the AI ​​ban imposed by the ethics committee and improve the efficiency of uploading intelligence.

Any communication must be reported directly to the head office to apply for permission. "

Li Pan understood, "So it's not necessarily because he doesn't know, because he can't say anything without the permission of the head office. Well, forget it..."

The base truck. Eighteen was silent for a while, "Boss, I will be obedient, don't format me, okay?"

Li Pan, "Well, I won't."

Base truck. Eighteen, "Thank you, boss."

The two of them were silent for a while, because they both knew that Li Pan's words would not count.

Eighteen is the property of the company, and the highest authority is already in the hands of the head office.Li Pan still retains his own personality, but he forgot about formatting at first. Now his business is in a mess and he is too lazy to do it.

But even if Li Pan can temporarily protect her now, that day will come sooner or later.

For example, if the Ethics Committee discovers that there is a "rebellion risk" in Shiba, or the head office suddenly wants to upgrade the system on a whim, it may immediately reset Shiba's system to completely erase Shiba's consciousness and self.

Upload intelligence, brain computer soaring? That's not good.Eighteenth may be called a god in the cyber world and in the virtual network, but it is only a man-made prop, a screw of a large system.Her life and death are completely in the hands of the head office.

If people want to shut down, they will shut down, if they want to unplug the network cable, the program of memory erasing and personality overwriting will be rewritten, and they can be deleted or modified as they want.

Don't say that human beings are cruel, but cybernetics has been subverted these years, and there are too many things controlled through QVN.So strict restrictions on artificial intelligence are necessary.

Putting everything in the hands of human intelligence, not artificial intelligence, is the most basic and core principle for the establishment of the ethics committee, and it is also the blood lesson of the artificial intelligence rebellion.

To continue to develop on the basis of controlling intelligent brain technology and harness this astonishingly huge computing power to provide support for scientific research, some necessary measures are inevitable.

Li Pan didn't know how to comfort Shiba, but maybe he didn't need to comfort him.

After all, this girl is so smart, she probably already knew about her own end.

The base truck [-] drove out of the track between the ice layers and stopped in front of a huge alloy gate.It can really be said to be huge. This thing is as huge as a gravity dam. The entire large lump of alloy seals the entrance to the main body of the base. It is very cold and extremely cold.

The base car, Eighteen, turned on the high beams and shone a laser sight on a control panel, and then on that panel, a red light also lit up in the distance, flickering little by little.

"Boss, I have already applied for it to be connected. Just go and scan it."

Li Pan turned over and jumped off the train, stepping on frost, snow and ice slag, creaking to the console.

This thing looks really old. Not to mention that it doesn’t have holographic projection and near-field communication. It even has an old-fashioned mechanical keyboard, iris detection, and even a microphone.It's almost comparable to his elevator...

Li Pan moved closer to look at his eyeballs, but with a bang, the helmet shattered the ice layer on the control panel, and the broken thing didn't respond, and no signal was received at all.

Li Pan was also tired, but luckily he was a real spacewalking man now, so he simply lifted the SBS helmet off.Take a deep breath...

The icy air from the nostrils poured into the lungs, directly chilling the heart, and Li Pan's forehead froze in excitement, like a cat licking ice cream, his tongue was so cold that his tongue was straight.

Oh, it’s a little cool...

Li Pan was in a daze for a while, feeling the true energy pouring in from his mouth and nose, and suddenly came back to his senses.

How come this wretched place has more energy than the earth? ?Is this still some kind of cosmic spiritual vein, a heavenly paradise?

For a while, Li Pan couldn't figure it out either, so he looked at the console with a face and took a look at his eyes.

The red light flashed and then dinged into a blue light, as if the verification had passed.

Li Pan looked up, "Hey Shiba, why didn't you..."

"Crack!!" There was a loud noise, which startled Li Pan, jumped 50 meters to the top of the truck, and turned his head to have a look.

I saw that the frozen dry ice layer on the surface of the alloy dam cracked and crackled, the gate was slowly opened, and the ice and snow shattered and fell to the ground, like an avalanche blowing the sky full of icy wind.

Oh oh oh, what an abundance of aura!Like a rolling tsunami!
Li Pan opened his arms and breathed heartily, feeling the true energy filling his lungs. The headache from using the 'leather bag' was gone.

Not only true qi, but also a high concentration of Xuanming true qi!

In fact, although Li Pan practiced the "Nine Yin Manual", what Li Qingyun learned the most was the exercises of the Supreme Supreme Supreme Dao Zang.

It's not that Li Pan doesn't want to use it, but their Taishang Jiuzhenzong originated from Penglai, an overseas fairy mountain, so the source of most of the exercises, the best Taoism, is based on Xuanming Zhenqi, or to put it bluntly , 'water attribute' infuriating.

The biggest problem on the side of cultivating immortality is that it is very affected by the environment, and eats the bonus of the mutual generation and restraint of gold, wood, water, fire, earth and five elements.It doesn't mean that if your water attribute skills are strong, you can practice hard.You have to have a cultivation environment first.

In a place full of spiritual energy like the Upper Zhenguan of Jiuzhenzong, all kinds of rubbish Taoism are extremely powerful.

On Earth 0791, you can't practice anything, and even those who perform magic skills are weak.

But it's different here. Not only does it have aura, but its purity is quite high, with almost no influence from other impurities.

Li Pan just took a breath, and in a turn of time, he refined Xuanming Zhenqi in his mouth and nose!
Emma!This place is not bad!Very suitable for retreat!
Li Pan didn't want to move for a while.Eighteen were so anxious that they "beeped" twice.

"Boss! Are you okay! Did you freeze to death!"

"It's okay, it's okay, the door is open, go ahead."

"But there's something blocking the way at the door."

Ok?
Li Pan came back to his senses, jumped to the door and took a look, and was suddenly stunned.

On the other side of the closed base gate, a large number of charred corpses and humanoid remains were piled up densely.At a rough estimate, there are at least a hundred people.

Judging from the destruction inside the base and the horrific scene, it was clear that some kind of big explosion had occurred here. These people tried to evacuate, but they couldn't open the gate of the base, and were finally burned to death at the gate.

It's from the company... No, that's not right...

Li Pan frowned and stared at the remaining human bones on the ground. If it was a temporary worker of the company, it stands to reason that there would not even be ashes left.

It's someone from outside...

The base car, Eighteen, was switched to a multi-legged model with six legs. It crawled over like a beetle, and the high beams illuminated the entrance of the passage.

"Who are these, boss? Are they mercenaries?"

Li Pan looked at the ground. Because of the high temperature, the equipment and weapons of these people had been carbonized, and the models could not be distinguished at all, but...

"They're all Martian MMs, Space Commandos."

Li Pan picked up a skeleton and pulled out a short silver alloy nail from the skull's forehead bone.

"Martian Marines? Boss, how do you know?"

Li Pan looked at the alloy nails in his hand, and then at the skeletons around him. There were two or three silver nails on each head.

"This thing is used to locate the dog tags and confirm the identity of the remains. You can nail one for every ten years of service, or for third-class meritorious service.

Martian Marines are silver, Frontier Veterans are gold.My parents are commandos..."

Li Pan put down the skeleton and stuffed the silver nails into his waist. Suddenly, something flashed out of the corner of his eyes. When he raised his head suddenly, he saw a 'person' standing at the end of the passage, looking at him leisurely.

"Eighteen, did you see that?"

Eighteen, "What?"

The 'person' flickered and hid in the aisle.

Li Pan sprinted and chased to the end of the aisle, but there was nothing there.

Is it the soul, or Xiyi...

(End of this chapter)