The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

[Monte Cal was taken away, we don't know what was done to him, Northon has been restless.I saw little lightning flashes on his forehead - no one knew he was a new human before, not even himself.He said he could hear Montecal screaming, said... said he was yelling some shit...we didn't answer, nobody dared to answer. 】

The place he was in was not a 'prison cell' as commonly understood, but a very small metal box like a stuffy can.Several people were thrown inside together, and were pressed against the wall by the mechanical arm.It is not the method of binding patients in a mental hospital, but just one piece on the waist and one piece on the leg-in short, they are tied up randomly, as long as they cannot move.

This rough treatment is as if this is not a living person, but a cargo.

Obviously, for Suzheng, this is the cargo.

The angle of view of the picture is moving around restlessly, and you can see the ashen-faced federal soldiers beside you.

[There is no clock here, our watches... and clothes have all been taken away, locked here like livestock.I don't know how to calculate the time. I tried to count the seconds according to my heartbeat, but I forgot after counting. It was completely useless. 】

[I don’t know when, it may be the second day, or it may be the third day, I started to hear some strange sounds.I wanted to ask James if he heard it, but when I was about to speak, my hand was touched by a small lightning that jumped out of my forehead... It hurt like a needle prick.It's not funny at all!Now I, like that kid Northon, have to listen to those screams every day. 】

[I can't sleep at all, as soon as I close my eyes, those voices are in my head. 】

From here on, there's no sense of prologue at all.He was gradually sinking into despair, the babbling and cursing in his subconscious were mixed with the sound recording, combined with the dark and cramped environment, even just looking at it made it difficult to breathe.

"Will new humans... be born suddenly?"

"It's very common. Humans in this world have more or less what you call 'spiritual energy', and many people can notice it from the very beginning. The long-term accumulation after entering the universe is due to an unexpected stimulus. It suddenly blossoms and bears fruit, and its ability is greatly strengthened. Many new humans are awakened in this way. But overall, the number is very rare." Xiaomeiyan paused, and added, "Mr. Amuro is also like this."

After wearing the RX-78 mobile armor under the guidance of Chubby, Amuro awakened into a psychic known as a "new human".From the end of the battle to now, it seems that he hasn't been able to complete the psychological transformation.Amuro Ray put on the mobile armor and joined the battle. In fact, he did not think clearly about the choice he made under the impulse of his head. When the impulse calmed down, he had to face the rationality and bleak reality that came back. The young man naturally fell into hesitation and wavering.

But now Amuro can sit down and have a good chat with his father who usually has a cold relationship but is so important at critical moments. This may be able to alleviate the adverse effects of the sudden change in the world in his eyes on young people to a certain extent. , and give him a chance—a chance to repent.

'If you don't want to continue to fight, you can do development with my dad or come to be a test pilot. Didn't you always want to go back to Earth?Subsequent development activities may move to the Turrington base in Australia. ' or something, but Amuro is still thinking about it.Then there were Precia, Shana Aznable, Chubby, and... Anarak who lined up to interview him.

The cosmic beings, the superpowers, the aliens, and the chat group that seems to be half of the SOS group riding on the face will obviously mess up the mind of this 16-year-old (or 15-year-old) boy for a while.But it is much gentler to be forced to keep moving forward by the situation and death than being thrown directly into the battlefield.

At least not again--

'You hit me!My dad never hit me! '

'What's wrong with me hitting you!How could there be someone who became an adult without being beaten! '

This kind of enemy came and lay still on the bed, and was kicked out by the captain twice.

"yes……"

Under such circumstances, it is not a blessing that psychic powers will blossom and bear fruit (an exception is the case of Alpha-level psykers standing on the ground), and semi-strong but not weak psychic powers cannot help these captives get out of trouble, let alone get them out of pursuit , back to the Federation through the distant universe.However, the psyker's telepathy still works, and they can hear the voices of their companions.

You can only hear intense pain and howling, and you can't turn it off.

[I'm dying, just like everyone else... I hear their voices, their consciousness, spirit trapped in the brain, but... but... the brain is no longer their organ.I don't know what was done to them, but it must have been terrible...anyone...anyone, come and kill me, I don't want to go on, who will kill me! 】

Since it is only a holographic projection and not a neural link, only visual and audio signals can be projected.But from these alone, you can feel the pain like a tight scalp - being fixed on the platform, the mechanical arm is constantly busy above the field of vision, because it is beyond Judak's field of view, the picture is not recorded, but the scream But the big scythe of war must turn down the sound to ease the degree of ear discomfort.

But the psychological discomfort will not disappear because of the volume drop.

In the following period of time, the recorded curve fluctuated violently, but Judak himself left very little content, only slight cursing, begging for death, and prayers to various gods he knew.But it wasn't the group Oregana was familiar with, and his prayers were destined not to be answered.

At this moment, Judak fell into a contradictory existence. His consciousness was almost extinguished, but his brain was always working at a high workload.He wanted to die right there, but he hoped to leave something behind, and the thoughts of not being willing to die so tragically kept him from disappearing.It looked like he was going to die.Until that moment comes—

[I don't know how many times I lost consciousness, my memory is intermittent, and there are a lot of messy things in my mind.I seem to have heard the voice of General Rebir... Is it an illusion?No...he was addressing the world...we have no retreat, no surrender, no truce, only victory or death.Yes... That's right, if I lose more people will become like me now, I must win...]

[Great, he still wants to win, as long as he wants to win, as long as he doesn't give up, the Federation will definitely win!The earth will not be destroyed!I have to go on and document everything I feel!The Federation will eventually attack here, and then this information will come in handy!You must not die before that! 】

"That was General Rebil's speech to the whole world after the Battle of Loum..." Seeing this, even Akatsuki Homura, who had been calm and indifferent, couldn't help but tremble, "From then until now, it has been so long Time...it's too cruel."

Since then, Judak's consciousness has never been extinguished.He endured all the pain calmly, suppressing the erosion of despair with hope and reason.Happiness is when despair turns to hope.And these little happiness supported him to persevere in this hell.When a person no longer thinks about his own life and death, he can exert extremely powerful power.

The so-called sacrifice is not only the heroic success of a soldier who has died without taking a step back in the face of the enemy, but also the loss of everything except the spirit, even the body is no longer his own prisoner of war lingering in the enemy camp.

But why does Zhudak, who doesn't even know where he is, believe that the Federation will attack here one day?In that situation, why did he feel that the Federation could still win? This was his hypnosis for himself?Or do you really believe so?Or is it unwilling to lose to the machine like this, and have the backbone of a human in the end?In any case, he did so, and this information ended up in the hands of Oregana, who will be handed over to the Federation Army in the near future.

His hard work and persistence were not in vain.This information is not just the screams of the tortured, but has more important content in it——

"The following memory is very muddy, mixed with a lot of data that shouldn't appear in the human brain." War Scythe adjusted his breath, and the tough psychology took effect a little slower than usual. "The thinking itself is quite weak, but it There's an enormous amount of thinking data. This data pattern will only show up in one situation."

Oregana already understood, but Akami Homura, who usually doesn't involve in this matter, didn't. She asked suspiciously:

"what's the situation?"

And the answer I got was only four words:

"Wetware host."

"The wetware host...you mean, the kind of high-performance computer in cyberpunk that uses the brain to perform calculations?"

"It can be understood that the technology of wetware hosts is widely used on our side - please note that we are not taking brains from living people, but using bioengineered 'computing-specific brains', pure computing tools, There is no consciousness in it, absolutely not violating any human rights and ethics. They are used to coordinate the operation of ships and space stations.” Oregana explained, and made some explanations in order not to be misunderstood. “The data generated during operation The pattern is very similar to this."

That's what really matters.

Judak was made into a wetware host, which is the real cause of his pain and the reason he described [his body including his brain was taken away].He was, or in other words, once incorporated into the computing network of the Suzheng Protocol. Perhaps it was just a test. The Suzheng Protocol once used his brain to calculate something.

And this calculation was recorded by Judak.

Oregana rubbed her chin, thinking carefully—the tenacity psychology helped her to still think after reading these things instead of losing control of her emotions.It's not that she has no blood and no tears, it's just that...it's not yet time to shed tears.

There are still some doubts here...

Why does the Suzheng Agreement arrest captives to manufacture wetware hosts?Do they require additional computing power?

The wetware host is not as easy to use as imagined. This is not a mechanical keyboard or a game controller, and it can be used as soon as it is connected.If you want to use the brain of an intelligent creature as a computing component, you first need to deal with the problem of computing adaptation. In layman's terms, you need to write an operating system to make it fit the original computing component.

It's cool enough to use your brain as a calculator, but it's not practical enough.After eliminating problems such as heavy ports, you still have to face a lot of messy troubles such as specifications, adaptation, speed, etc. If you have time to do this, it is better to make a standard part yourself.Just like Tartarus’s wetware hosts, they are all standard products made in a standard environment according to a complete set of standard procedures. This kind of talent can be used...

However, when the technology of wetware mainframes was just launched, the first batch of machines were indeed made by people, and the consciousness of volunteers (or victims) would even continue to exist in the calculation, which led to extremely serious ethical issues. question.This made Gallente even stop the research on wetware hosts for a period of time, but the Amarr Empire did not-because the raw materials were produced in Minmatar, there was no human rights ethics issue.

It wasn't until biotechnology caught up that the development of wetware mainframes passed this hurdle and began to standardize.

The Suzheng Protocol is trying to develop a wetware host, so it uses captives on a large scale to conduct experiments...

In other words, what he blew up was really the computer room?Although... not the main one, but the computer room mainly used for experiments.

Judging from the computer room, they used a large number of races for experiments, but judging from the results of the tests that are still going on up to now, it is clear that the Suzheng Protocol has not yet touched the door.

To be honest, if you are a wetware host, you have cybernetic-related technologies, a stable environment, and enough cloning technology, then you can do it. There is no need to try one after another like a card draw. Use it.Judging from the way they send spies to the Federation, isn't cybernetics and cloning technology a good thing?A stable environment only needs to have a suitable space station to change.

I still can't do it like this, and continue to move forward on the wrong path... Is there something wrong with this guy's thinking program? (cover face)

Oregana has always believed in the idea of ​​[When an enemy makes a move that you can't understand, never treat the enemy as a fool, think about why it did it], but now she really can't figure out why so.This made her fall into a strange circle of logic, and she couldn't get out of it for a long time.

"Zudak... and those young people, have they all been made into this kind of computer?" Xiao Meiyan didn't think too deeply at all, her thoughts were already filled with various intense emotions, "What... blasphemy !"

In interstellar wars, it is not uncommon for losers to be treated as experimental animals or livestock, and Homura thought she had understood this before.But when this living example was in front of her, she realized that her previous imagination was not scary enough...

Judak entrusted everything to the Skullmaker, and then destroyed his own brain and committed suicide, probably because he had reached his limit.

"However, the brain has been used to do this. Why can he still maintain his sanity and even record all of this? Consciousness must be placed on matter to exist. His consciousness is placed on..."

"Let me explain that."

A fat Kewpie climbed up from the side. It looked like a good match with the orange color, and it seemed to weigh at least sixteen or seventeen catties.It crawled onto Xiao Meiyan's shoulders and raised its front paws to draw everyone's attention. Xiao Meiyan's expression was a little uglier than before, probably because of the sudden increase in weight on her shoulders.

But what matters now is not Kewbi's size, but what Kewbi said:

"I read some of the recorded data. For some unknown reason, his telekinetic core is transforming into a soul gem. Of course it is much worse than that of a magical girl, but it can still be used as a temporary consciousness-carrying The 'components' exist. This is an evolutionary trend of some races, but it is by no means human..." As a Kewpie, the expression on this guy's face is very rich, and it managed to keep the w-shaped mouth unchanged. He expressed his doubts with his eyebrows, "It's unbelievable for a new human being who has just awakened to rely on those tiny psionic abilities to do such a thing."

"...It's a miracle."

"Miracle doesn't come for free...he has paid enough."

Oregana stood up and said:

"Contact Rebill, at least behind his back, Judak deserves a fair treatment. He should be recorded in history as a hero rather than a 'spy under the control of the law'."

"Of course." The Scythe of War nodded. "We need to call some people over to analyze what Suzheng has done with his brain. Maybe there will be unexpected things."

Chapter 848 Chapter 763: Turning Offensive

This time, the battle known as 'Long Surge' (Note ①) started with a large-scale attack across the board, and the stalemate of the battle lasted for several hours.From the very beginning, the Suzheng agreement that launched the attack had the upper hand. They successfully suppressed the various nodes under the jurisdiction of the Space-Time Administration, and continued to wear down the defender's strength in repeated attacks.

(Long swell: a collection of small waves in different directions. When they encounter reefs or shore walls, they will suddenly hit violently and roll up fierce waves. It often shows that the weather is good, the sea is calm and windless, and suddenly a swell appears on the shore. Big waves crashing on the shore; or fierce and strong waves constantly crashing on the shore. Commonly known as 'mad dog waves')

What changed this situation may be a tentative raid launched by Tartarus.Twenty stealth bombers launched a surprise attack on a fleet hub. While increasing the spatial chaos of the hub galaxy with relatively small losses, they successfully dropped the Skullmaker into the fortress, and finally made an antimatter bomb in the fortress. Explosion in the fortress.This made the Serious Fleet, which was at a disadvantage in the wrestling with the Harlowin Department and the Kruzer Squadron stationed at the Outer 97 World Node, immediately turn around and return.

The battle to manage the defense nodes of the Outer 97 World came to an end three hours later.Afterwards, Kruzer's two Flying Dragon-class battleship aircraft carriers and Harlowin's third and fourth fleets went to the emergency fourth management world 'Karna Rog' to provide support, easily breaking the balance on the battlefield, giving He dealt a heavy blow to the Suzheng fleet and almost wiped it out.

The defeat of the two theaters means that two node worlds have freed up their hands. It is conceivable that the situation of Karnarog will continue to repeat itself in the future.The Suzheng Agreement's fleet began to retreat from each node world one after another to avoid greater losses - of course this is just speculation, some people also think that the Suzheng Agreement has already got what they want, so they retreated so simply The possibility is also quite high. After all, no one knows the reason for the Suzheng Agreement's sudden attack on all fronts.

But no matter how you say it, forcing the menacing Suzheng fleet to retreat on the frontal battlefield and smashing the opponent's attack within a total of fifteen hours, this is also a rare victory so far in the war.Six hours after the battle, the pseudo-beacon formed by world resonance disappeared from the sensor. Ligelu, who was temporarily used as a detector, was convinced that the Dimensional Sea World had once again entered an undetectable state, and the insect swarms entering the bridgehead world began to appear chaotic. The situation, and because the mothership class as the leader was blown away by the instrument of aurora, it lost its organization, and they all planned to flee the battlefield.

Because the integration department has repeatedly used the 'Rainbow Sword' graviton ray to sweep the battlefield and the transition interference system installed, the space readings are chaotic and it is difficult to transition out of trouble.Most of the invading dark worms were wiped out on the battlefield, only four heavy aircraft carriers and two aircraft carriers escaped from the battlefield, but the whaling team has already set off, rushing ahead and waiting for the galaxy where they will land.

As for the origin of this swarm, Nuonuo sent back an email saying that it is still investigating, because the front line encountered an unexpected rebound when closing the defense line, and it is estimated that one was rushed in at that time.The leakage of penetration is currently being repaired, so don’t be careless, and don’t continue to turn on the lights to make trouble later—that’s about it, there is a burning feeling between the lines.

It seems that it is not easy for everyone. (cover face)

The impact of this battle is not only the simple victory or defeat, but no matter what the internal factions think, the Space-Time Administration has to face the Consolidation Department, which plays a key role as a "breakthrough player" in this battle—and I regret not engaging in technical cooperation before.Almost everyone who read the battlefield report, from the commander to the member of the Armed Forces Bureau, all had the same reaction——

Can this weapon that shoots green lightning give us a whole one?

The double-piercing arc is too strong to provoke. (far eye)

As a result, the faction that issued the 'don't cooperate with the Ministry of Integration' at that time is now being suppressed and marginalized, and Lindy Harlowin, who realized that the situation was not right, chose to make some 'agreement' with the Ministry of Integration in the form of a memorandum The admiral was neither punished nor rewarded.Admiral Lindy herself doesn't care about this - it is true that the credit is very great, and it also shows enough foresight, but it is also very dangerous to make an "agreement" with other forces before making a report. Evaluations of itself within the Authority can be quite polarized.

However, no matter how polarized it is, it is impossible for anyone to choose to move themselves at this time, because this may cause dissatisfaction in the Ministry of Integration...

Even sitting in the admiral's room drinking matcha, you can feel the undercurrent of the General Administration several worlds away. (far eye)

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The intelligence sent by Tartarus caused an uproar in the top ranks of the Federation Army.In the next few hours, the consumption of high-end cigarettes, tea and other indulgences in Luna 2 and Gabro base suddenly increased a lot—almost everyone subconsciously My only reaction is to take out a cigarette and use nicotine to relieve my sudden intense emotions.

Soon, the name Judak will become a household name on Earth.

In the next few days, a colonel of the active space army, the person in charge of the local conscription station, and officials from the propaganda department will personally send the death notice to the family members, and send pensions, return relics, and A letter of condolence from Lieutenant General Ireland, Judak's former boss—everyone knows that material compensation cannot fill the vacancy in the soul, but that's all that can be done now.

This incident dealt a great blow to Lieutenant General Ireland. Long before the war started, Judak had already been his trusted subordinate and friend, and his relationship was very good even in normal times.During the espionage incident, Ireland seemed to have been slapped in the face, but now that he finally walked out of the shadows, he was hit a second time.Someone noticed that one night he sat dryly in the officer's bar in the third area of ​​Luna 2. When he left, he left two wine glasses on the table, one empty and one full.

Rebil's mental state was very poor. He stayed up all night after learning about this incident. During the routine meeting the next morning, Xiaomei Tamura noticed the exhaustion and dark circles on the general's face:

"General." She walked into the general and reminded in a low voice, "You must pay attention to your physical condition. If you fall down at this critical moment, there will be big problems."

"My body is still strong." The general tried to put on a smile - but soon realized that it had little effect, the corners of the raised mouth were completely blocked by the beard, and others could not see it at all.

The dead have passed away, and the living will still forge ahead.Everyone understands this, but the mood swings still take dozens of hours—and honestly, that's fast enough.

"Tamura, is there any news from the commander of the Oregana Army?" Lieutenant General Garp asked. To what extent?"

The hero brings back intelligence, and it is the job of the generals to win battles based on that intelligence.He couldn't wait to fulfill his duties.

Aomi Tamura replied: