Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

While talking, Hong adjusted her body position, crossed her slender legs in white silk and crossed them with peace of mind.

You see, how can it be called strange to dress up your own body? You know, there is an article on the earth that says it well. The migration of the public aesthetic history presented by silk stockings reflects that people are different in historical development. An exploratory spirit trapped by limitations.

What a noble spirit to explore the void and discover the unknown!

Well, suck the cubs by the way.

"It's really great."

It feels like the whole omnic is refreshed.

As for Xier, who was reading a book and staring at it, and was suddenly pressed and sucked by Hong, she looked very plain and familiar.

Although I don't know why Hong started to go crazy again, but who made her the person I like... what about the omnic?

Moreover, after all, she is an omnic capable of perfect multi-threading, a strategist with superior intelligence and good at foresight, every seemingly simple move, maybe there are many layers behind it?

No matter how you look at it, this is just a joke, who knows where she was stimulated—but she doesn't hate it at all.

"Well......"

Seeing Hong hanging up the phone contentedly after smoking, she showed a helpless expression.

It's been so many years, and I haven't seen any further actions from this red. Every day, she only teases and teases her, and slips away as soon as the interest is aroused, like a scumbag.

"Snapped!"

When she thought of this, she put down the book in her hand a little annoyed—she is 78 years old, and she will be an adult in another 100 years.

100 years, just over [-] days, time is very tight!

Although under the influence of the sequelae of the dormant operation, she will not develop much when she becomes an adult, but Xier, who knows this omnic's preferences, is still a little worried-now she has no progress when poking her XP the most. After 200 years, wouldn't it just be cool?

She didn't know that the taste of red had gradually begun to expand, and it was expanding to the normal range, so she was still a little anxious about it.

Of course, just a little bit, not the "billion little bits" that people on Earth like to trick, but a real little bit.

After all, even though Hong has no program restrictions, the Catus, as creators, inherently have an advantage over all subsequent ones.

What's more, as the longest companion of Hong, she has been cultivating the relationship since the other party's awakening, and is currently the only one who has been formally appointed to the relationship. Her advantage is unparalleled-how can she lose?

Thinking of this, her mood suddenly calmed down.

"red."

"Ok?"

Seeing Hong's wandering look, Xi'er first looked around, then quietly stretched her tail over, drew a circle on Hong's thigh, and showed a somewhat sly smile.

"I like you the most."

Volume II War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] The War Agreement Initiated

Intelligence work is a job that can be called "the art of war".

As a powerful assistant in escorting the war, the most intelligent minds and computers on these planets are collecting and analyzing information and data from the enemy's star field day and night.

As large as fleet mobilization, as small as daily supplies, or even going out of the cabin to replace damaged external modules, all will be recorded by humans and Hong’s observation equipment, and will be shared with each other completely and in real time, so as to avoid the occurrence of both parties being in the same place. Duplicated arrangement of multiple sets of equipment, wasteful situation.

Of course, avoiding waste is just a side task, and it doesn’t matter if you can do your best or not—in the final analysis, the primary purpose of spending a lot of effort to deploy a deep space monitoring network is to provide intelligence teams of various countries with as much information as possible. Including some details that others seem to be out of touch with the target.

After all, sometimes, these clues that the enemy didn't notice, or could not cover up, can reveal a lot of things - no matter what race they are, as long as they look at their history, they can find countless obvious "hard power" An example of outperforming an opponent and ultimately losing to intelligence and detail.

If you want to win a war, you don't necessarily have to go to battle to kill the enemy. Sitting in the office and passing data and intelligence can also determine the outcome of the war.

For example, the sentence "AF lacks fresh water".

Intelligence work is like this, maybe she can't directly and accurately know what the enemy will do next, but through some clues, she can still get some information she wants.

Imagine if someone was having a wedding, she didn't get an invitation directly, but she heard from the caterer that there would be an event one day, the florist bought all the roses on the island, the best band Reservations received - that's what intelligence can bring.

clue.

It's just that in the ancient "limited local wars", there were many ways to obtain information, but in the interstellar age, the only way to find clues between two absolutely opposing space civilizations was to rely on these various methods. Various monitoring equipment.

But just having clues is not enough, someone needs to connect them, combine them, and assemble these scattered clues into a judgment-obviously, in this respect, the reds who use computers are much better than the organic races that use brains Too much.

She only observed a few unusual small-scale mobilizations, a few warships that were overhauled earlier than the original schedule, and a few space factories whose infrared signals were slowly increasing, and she concluded that the Iron Heart Exterminator would launch an attack on humans in the near future, and in the At the same time, the intelligence department on the human side didn't realize that there was anything wrong with these data, and some people even felt that Hong was a little too fussy.

This is not a derogatory term, but a simple description. After all, as we all know, artificial intelligence is a kind of thing that is easy to make a fuss. When encountering any abnormalities, they will only make judgments strictly based on data.

To give a simple example, from the perspective of artificial intelligence, drinking water is definitely a risky thing-it is undeniable that no matter how careful people are, they may be choked or even choked to death when drinking water , Therefore, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the artificial intelligence's judgment that "drinking water is dangerous".

Can you say it is wrong, the answer is definitely not.

Then you want it to remind or even stop you every time you drink water?The answer is definitely not.

It's as if you know that the enemy has a particularly powerful warship in the home port. If the first attack does not appear, you may be very worried. If the second attack does not appear, you may think that it is hiding there for a sneak attack. The third The first, fourth, or even dozens of times, you can keep enough vigilance against it.

But if you turn the situation around and when the fleet is about to sail to the opponent's homeland, if the warship is still parked in the home port, no one will care too much about it—maybe they will jokingly call it a hotel What.

Therefore, when Hong issued a warning, apart from mobilizing the defense platform symbolically and making a perfunctory response of "hmmm, I understand", there was no real intention to strengthen the defense at all. trace.

After all, from their point of view, after the ten-year period of turmoil when they first entered the Tiexin mother galaxy, the opponent has only been passively defending in the past 30 years, and has never actively attacked a human fortress—this is thirty Year of the Earth!Human beings have maintained an offensive for 30 years, how could it be that she said no in just a few words?

At the beginning, Hong tried to patiently explain the basis of her judgment as she did with the Alliance people before, but after several failed attempts, she finally gave up on this idea.

"Humanity is a very confident civilization."

When faced with the alliance's question of "what's the reaction from the human side", Hong still had a little high EQ, and didn't express her true feelings.

Anyway, she wasn't very disappointed—or rather, she never had hope.

"So, we are your most solid and reliable friends." The Alliance Commissioner said relatively straightforwardly, "Those human beings are still wary of you openly and secretly, and only regard you as a tool person involved in the extermination unit. The look of a common front.”

"This kind of thing doesn't matter." She propped her chin with her hands and sighed. "I don't care if people are tool people or not. As long as they can win the war and ensure our safety, I have nothing to do with what they think."

"Anyway, if they don't believe it, they will be the ones who will suffer at that time. We just need to fulfill our responsibilities and prepare our fleet."

"Ah."

Miss Commissioner nodded—although she has a bad impression of human beings, and she is especially displeased with their behavior of "beware of Red", but as Hong said, winning the war is the primary goal.

Moreover, in all fairness, human beings are not too wary of Hong. After all, the two civilizations are really unfamiliar, and the two sides have no trust at all except for the little contact with the diplomatic corps.

What's more, unlike the alliance's situation of "first encountering the mild red, and then encountering the extinct omnic", humans first fought with the extinct omnic for more than 100 years, and then encountered red. In this case, there is no generalization It is already considered very sincere to carry out normal diplomacy instead of hostility against human beings—at least for the xenophobic civilization of human beings.

It is not easy for a civilization that quotes the human proverb "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different" when promoting alien civilizations, it is not easy to achieve this level-but, the contradiction appears precisely here That's all.

In the eyes of humans, they are already very restrained, and they have made a lot of concessions. The sincerity of their alliance is almost full, but in the eyes of Hong and the alliance, they are just using Hong at all, and they have no real feelings to advance and retreat together. look.

"I just feel a little...displeased. You are obviously thinking of them and want to reduce their casualties, but they don't take it seriously."

"It's nothing, I don't care about these things, besides, this is actually the normal state of diplomacy between different civilizations." Hong smiled lightly, "People like us are heretics—besides, I just came into contact with you When it comes to time, your level of vigilance is no different from theirs."

"Hey hey."

Facing such a topic, Miss Commissioner, who didn't know how to answer, had no choice but to shake her main ear covered with fluff, and showed a silly smile, trying to get away with it.

If this kind of topic was put on when the two civilizations first established diplomatic relations, Hong would not take the initiative to bring it up, even if it was a relatively private chat like now, but now that they are already familiar with each other, there is no need to worry at all. It is impossible for the solid and reliable ally relationship between the two parties to be affected by this kind of topic even in the slightest.

Not to mention the influence, making jokes from time to time can actually help to strengthen the relationship - this is thanks to the cubs, in order to figure out their mood and preferences, Hong is still very clear about this aspect of research.

However, it's one thing for her to know clearly in her heart, and it's another thing to show it to others. For example, Xier's hint to her is neither easy to refuse nor easy to accept, so naturally she can only Play confused.

"Sometimes when you think about it, this universe is really dark enough." Hong changed the subject and suddenly became deep, "Even the scene of such harmony between our two civilizations today is based on the fact that we almost launched an all-out war. of history."

"If any step was wrong at that time, it would be impossible for you and me to sit here and chat harmoniously."

Hong straightened his body, and lightly brushed the desktop with his right hand, turning on the screen that had just shut off.

"What about other races? Even highly similar civilizations like ours are almost hostile. What about other races with greater differences? Could they form a united alliance like us?"

"If it weren't for the common enemy of the Extinction Omnics, it would be impossible for human beings to establish diplomatic relations with us so quickly - their xenophobia is innate and engraved in the culture, and the elimination of them by the Extinction Omnics is just A trigger, not a cause."

"They are already so similar to us, only a little bigger than the difference between the Catus and the Jeffreys - such similar civilizations can't be united, what should we do if the difference is even greater?"

"Oh, there are also these extinct omnics who hate organic creatures for unknown reasons...Perhaps, in this universe, peace is the most scarce thing?"

"No matter what, I will always follow you."

Miss Commissioner immediately said seriously.

"Ah."

Hong hesitated for a moment, but finally resisted her hand touching her head - after all, she still had some experience with her ability to attract bees and butterflies.

This ability has indeed brought many benefits to Hong, especially in the early days of establishing diplomatic relations with the Jeffreys. Her character and appearance provided huge and almost irreplaceable help for the warming up of the relationship between the two civilizations, but everything is beneficial There are disadvantages, which also brought her a little inconvenience.

Of course, this inconvenience doesn't affect the overall situation, and it doesn't even have any harm, it just makes her a little bit dumbfounded-after all, when she knows that part of the reason why the Alliance doesn't like humans is because of...jealousy, , still a little embarrassing.

"It's getting late, you should go back to sleep soon." Hong looked at the time and reminded.

"Well, then, Your Excellency Red, good night."

"Good night."

Looking at her leaving figure, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but outline an imperceptible arc.

Very cute race.

Even if she knows that labeling a race with tens of billions of people "cute" is outrageous, there are many individuals among the Jeffreys that she doesn't like or even hate, and as time goes by, they themselves will gradually The changes may no longer be cute one day in the distant future, but these little details are harmless.

She only knows one thing.

They should live in a peaceful and beautiful world, not disappear under the purge of extinct civilization.

Whether it is these cute Jeffreys or those humans who are not cute at all, as long as they do not violate their ultimate bottom line, they should have the right to live under this starry sky.

They should not die.

Eight days after Hong issued the warning, with the signal of the enemy fleet's engine igniting, the short "peace" that lasted only a few months finally came to an end.

The war has begun.

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] Combined Fleet

"Now, an urgent news, just now, the United Nations received an emergency notification from the Gibraltar Fortress in the orbit of the G2-139-db satellite. They have detected signs of abnormal activity of the Iron Heart Exterminator. Assembling on its transfer orbit, the small fleets on other planets have entered the hyperbolic transfer orbit, and are moving rapidly towards the main fleet, and the expected arrival time is two months and three days."

"In addition, we have also received reports from member states of the 'United Front against Extinction' that a fleet of 2 ships is heading for the G139-4-db-L5 wormhole under the leadership of the enemy's flagship. Arrived in [-] days."

"After verification, the United Nations confirmed that the news is true, and has officially launched the war emergency plan No. 6. All countries have responded and announced that they have entered a state of second-level combat readiness...The latest news is that the Mars government has announced that it has entered a state of first-level combat readiness , Repeat, Mars has entered a state of first-level combat readiness, the following are the details..."

Although human beings have not listened to Hong's warning before, and because they have not entered a state of combat readiness for decades, they seem to be in a hurry at this moment, but in the final analysis, this is a man who has been fighting with Iron Heart for hundreds of years. , Successfully turned the big disadvantage in the early stage into today's balanced civilization.

It is definitely impossible to say that they do not have any plans for this—although this No. 6 plan has not been updated for a long time due to some reasons. The Anti-Extinction United Front' exists, but at least it is not a problem to use it for emergency.

It has to be said that decades of "peace" have made the human civilization in the back a lot more relaxed. At least, the emergency plan has not been updated for several years. , I dare not even think about it.

"Sir, according to the report from the allies, the flagship of the extermination unit took away two-thirds of their warships, and also took away all the warships belonging to the Iron Heart Exterminator. The total number is about four hundred, and the estimated tonnage is about four About six million tons."

The adjutant who hurried into the office saluted and reported.

"What is the state of our fleet?"

"The third and fourth fleets have left the port and entered orbit, ready to fight at any time. Engineers are urgently replenishing the rest of the warships. It is expected that all preparations will be completed within 18 hours."

"Where are the wolves?"

"According to your order, we are already evacuating. The nearest fleet will reach the assembly orbit in 38 hours, and the farthest fourth squadron will take four to five days."

"Four to five days?! How long does it take?"

Obviously, this time made Mr. Commander-in-Chief very dissatisfied, very dissatisfied.

On the surface, the farthest fleet will return five days later, and the extermination unit will also arrive five days later, which seems to be just right.

However, this is just the regular voyage time they estimated based on the performance of ordinary warships of extinct units. In fact, everyone knows that it will not take five days at all-there is the flagship that they do not know from which garbage dump. , those [-] battleships will come to ride their faces at any time, maybe even the next second!

"The fourth team reported that since Iron Heart's fleet is moving to a high orbit, in order to avoid hitting the opponent's spreading defense network, they think that climbing to orbit around the sun first, and then returning from there by detour can take into account safety and speed."

The adjutant hesitated for a moment, then added.

"If you want, you can also order them to go to the regular return orbit, so the return time can be shortened to two and a half days, but the price is that there may be a certain degree of interception."

"...Then don't need it, let them hurry up." He thought for a moment, then pressed his right hand, indicating that there is no need to do so, "Before the reinforcements from the allies arrive, the first element is to preserve the vitality."

"clear."

"Go."

Hearing the footsteps of the adjutant leaving, he sighed, leaned forward, put his hands on his forehead, his face was full of sorrow.

At present, the battlefield is overwhelmingly unfavorable to human beings—according to the investigation of the telescope, the Iron Heart Exterminator has dispatched all 510 warships on their home planet, and the 400 warships led by the flagship of the extermination unit are the slowest five days, the fastest It appeared on their faces in the next second.