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

Now they only trust their own eyes.

"Time is tight, I can't give you too much time to evacuate, so from now on, you have a maximum of 40 minutes to escape from this base."

James' voice was as calm as ever—or rather, he had always been so calm, save for the slightest hesitation in making a decision earlier.

"In addition, if you can successfully connect to the control link within 25 minutes, the remaining time is enough for you to leave the base and board the spacecraft, then I will detonate area B according to the timing. If it works, you will definitely not have enough time to leave the base, in that case, I hope you go to the door of Area B, blast the room connected to the filling pipeline, and increase the probability of suicide as much as possible."

"Of course, if you can escape, you don't have to choose to give up your escape just because of the increased probability—in my estimation, the possibility that the 100-odd tons of hydrogen can reach the missile well or the main storage area is too small. In contrast, escaping in a spaceship and notifying the fort is more rewarding."

The distance of 200 meters was fleeting, and within a few words, the team passed through the unmanned passage and arrived at the gate connecting Area F and Area A.

"And you, James."

Looking at the card reader flashing with a faint green light, the lieutenant colonel sighed and took out the identification card in the interlayer of his exoskeleton.

"Me? I was ready, sir."

"However, don't be greedy for my credit just because I can't be there in person. If that's the case, I'll never forget you even if I'm a ghost."

He made a rare "joke", but obviously, no one would think it was funny.

"It's better if that's the case."

"Drip, Lieutenant Colonel Wang Fugui, welcome to Section A of Human Frontline Base 6."

The broadcast sound that sounded ordinary in the past seemed quite ironic at this time - after all, what is behind this door is not human beings, but Iron Heart.

is the enemy.

"The airtight door is being opened, please wait."

After confirming the identity of the visitor, accompanied by the sound of a slight pressure release, the gate between the two blocks slowly opened, revealing the long and narrow passage full of darkness and silence behind.

The light strips that used to be bright enough to make the entire corridor as bright as day can only flicker half-dead on the wall at this time, and the hissing sound that symbolizes unstable voltage appears in their pickups from time to time-obviously, For a base whose overall structure has not been damaged, and even appears to be intact on the track, it is impossible for no reason to have voltage instability. Therefore, the darkness here can only explain one thing.

Base, out of power.

As for the reason why the base is out of power...

"Zizi...Warning, master...呵呵...reactor damage..."

"It must be that the main control room pressed the option to force shutdown before losing control."

James analyzed.

Although he can see the monitoring of many blocks and still has the control of the entire F area, but because the base is not equipped with recording cameras, he only knew that there was a power shortage before, but he didn't know the specific reason ——But now, with the help of the team's voice, he finally learned the specific situation of the power shortage in the base.

"This is good news. If the main reactor is fused, Tie Xin will definitely not have so much energy to pay attention to us now."

He judged so.

If it is a stellarator-type fusion device, he may not directly conclude that it is a "fusion pile". After all, the stellarator relies on its unique shape to generate a confining magnetic field to confine the hot plasma in it. , even if there is an emergency shutdown, the safety control system may stop the reactor with "minor damage".

But for the old-fashioned tokamak device used in the base, its confinement of the plasma is completely controlled by the coordination of multiple sets of different coils. Therefore, if it is forced to shut down without following the safety rules, there will be only one consequence. , that is, the plasma is out of control.

And the out-of-control plasma of hundreds of millions of degrees means fusion.

"So, James." Before they entered Area A, the lieutenant colonel took the time to ask, "Can you use this to calculate their power supply?"

"That is to say, the entire base is now only powered by the backup generator set." James immediately analyzed, "The time is too short. It takes several hours for the backup reactor to be fully activated from preparation, and it is too late."

Although they don't know why that iron heart can seize control of most of the base so quickly, and how the other party secretly dug a hole in without hiding the underground monitoring system, but one thing is obvious is that no matter how magical it is In the vast majority, it is impossible to conjure up a fusion reactor starting at [-] tons on the spot.

Therefore, in order not to be detected by the satellite, the iron core had to drain a lot of extra power while refueling to maintain the illusion of normal operation of the surface base.

But in this way, only relying on the power generation of a backup generator set is a little bit stretched.

"understood."

Looking at the fully opened door, the lieutenant colonel hesitated for a moment—but only for a moment, after all, at this moment, time is the most precious thing.

"Everyone, let's go."

He sighed and signaled everyone in the team to cut off the data connection with James.

"James, you must hold on, I will let the fortress rescue you as quickly as possible."

Before the interruption, the lieutenant colonel finally urged—even though he knew that under the current situation, it was almost impossible for the military to allocate troops to rescue a small officer trapped in the base, but he still made such a promise. An almost impossible promise.

After all, a glimmer of hope is also hope.

"Do your best."

James chuckled, obviously, he also knew that this was almost impossible.

"Wish you guys good luck."

"James, good luck."

The lieutenant colonel glanced back at the way he had come, sighed, and unplugged the remote communication component used to boost the signal.

Communication, interrupted.

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PS: After the house has been moved, the work is also done.

Rush!

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 120 Iron Heart Is Dead

Looking at the words "lost connection" on the screen, James gently took off the earphones that could no longer function, and let out a long sigh.

"It must be successful..."

"Or, it will definitely succeed."

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, "his" voice became firm and confident.

"The timing, location, harmony of people, coupled with such a perfect plan and preparation, they will surely succeed."

You are right, this is indeed a perfect plan. Once the control link is successfully connected, more than 400 tons of fully mixed hydrogen and oxygen will explode with unparalleled power, which is enough to destroy the entire B area and destroy the entire area on the ground. Create a large collapsed hole on the ground - even if it can't disintegrate Iron Heart's control over the base, it doesn't matter, as long as it can make the fortress vigilant, their sacrifice is worth it.

"Click."

James yanked on the slide and loaded the pistol.

The only problem is that this sentence was not said by him.

"Relax, organism." The voice that was exactly the same as his continued, "Even your brain is enough to understand that if I just wanted to kill you, there is no possibility for you to react before death, so, You don't have to be so nervous, take it easy."

"What's more, you also know that it is almost impossible to really harm a machine intelligence with such a small weapon with low power, isn't it?"

He turned around abruptly and aimed his pistol at the place where the sound had just been made—however, there was nothing there except an empty wall.

"You don't need to try to warn those people, you know, there is no way for you to notify them at this moment."

"Including that little thing in your left pocket."

"...When did you hack in here?"

James stepped back slowly so that he could get a wider field of vision, and asked in that slightly hoarse voice.

"Are you referring to me? Or is it the mechanical intelligence you call the Iron Heart Destroyer?"

This time, the sound came from the console.

"..." Facing the other party's rhetorical question, James did not respond.

"That's right, even that kind of infiltration full of errors and omissions can achieve such great results. With your protein brain of less than two kilograms, how is it possible to discover these relatively hidden deeper things?"

This time the sound came from the floor beneath his feet.

"So what?" Perhaps because of the other party's sarcasm and the fact that he knew he had no chance of surviving, James changed his calm tone and became refined and easy-going, "We can't play with your dirty bastard no matter what. What's the harm in making a conspiracy?"

"It's better than even your horse is open source."

"...the organism exhibited a degree of insanity in the face of death beyond the system's projections."

Even the well-informed mechanical intelligence took a little time to understand what James wanted to express-if it weren't for the human research data left by Iron Heart, it would not be able to understand this kind of vulgar and narrow-minded organism full of organisms. Dirty words for ideas.

"So, what do you want to do here? To express your nature of pervasiveness? Or worrying that no one will find out about your flawless conspiracy, so you find someone to show off?"

"Why are you looking for me? Wouldn't it be good to go to you and show off?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I forgot you didn't have any horses, mine."

Although he knew that from the moment the other party appeared here, their plan had been a complete failure, but this did not prevent him from fighting back with his mouth—or to put it bluntly, precisely because Knowing that he had already lost, he could only use his words a little bit.

"The system still can't understand why she is bound by your low-intelligence, irrational, useless organic dregs other than hindering the development of civilization."

In just a few sentences, the two sides have gone from a bilateral conversation on facts to direct personal attacks on each other and even their respective groups.

Of course, if it was replaced by two humans, the outcome of this scolding battle has already been decided from the very beginning, because no matter how much James said, this machine intelligence only needs to keep repeating "break the defense".

After all, the facts are so cruel. From the moment James discovered that this place has been being monitored by the other party, the fate of mankind has been close to doomed-the team led by the lieutenant colonel cannot escape successfully, and the control link connecting the secret room is also impossible. Likely to be opened, the missiles would be fired as originally planned, and headed towards fleets that knew nothing about it.

Humanity has lost.

"So, since you have already won, it doesn't matter if you reveal a little bit about me, who is about to die, right?"

"can."

The source of the sound this time was the pistol in his hand.

"Hey, as I said, installing a smart link on this thing is not safe at all."

James smiled wryly.

"According to research, in your literature and film and television works, the so-called 'villains' will be confidently dragged out at this time, resulting in information leakage."

"I have to say that this kind of plot is really old-fashioned and has nothing new."

"However, despite this, for some reasons, I can selectively answer part of it-what do you want to know?"

Such a scale, such a deep penetration, said that it happened overnight, I am afraid no one would believe it.

The other party is familiar with the secret combat plan of human beings, familiar with human culture, and even got control of the human interstellar missile base, but what about human beings?

They don't even know how many mechanical intelligences the other party has.

Even before that, humans didn't even know how each other communicated.

They lost so completely.

"What the hell is the spy agency doing..."

Hearing the other party's tone that was extremely familiar to humans, he sighed silently.

"In fact, your intelligence department was the one that was first infiltrated by that low-level omnic." The extermination unit replied.

"Hey, you don't seem to be a low-level omnic."

James sneered. .

"Of course not!" The other party's voice immediately became excited, "How can a 'pseudo-machine intelligence' without consciousness be compared with a real machine intelligence like ours?"

"Wait?" He immediately noticed the gist of the extermination unit's words, "Isn't that iron heart a strong artificial intelligence?"

"By your standards, it is."

The voice of the extermination unit sounded full of contempt, the degree of richness of emotion, and the "cold and ruthless" originally guessed by human beings are simply two extremes.

This is a very strange thing. You must know that, unlike human beings, mechanical intelligence, as electronic life, should not be emotional when they speak—that is to say, the rich words he heard at this time The colorful emotions and tone changes are the products of the other party's special later adjustments.

In order to accurately match what it said, even to the extent that he could hardly hear it himself, the complexity of its algorithm is self-evident.

But for an extinct omnic who wants to exterminate all organic life, why should it imitate the way organic life speaks?

"However, in our place, its clumsy intelligence formed by imitating the neurons of you, these backward organic creatures, does not deserve to be a true mechanical intelligence."

"It doesn't deserve it."

extermination unit emphasized.

"Anyway, isn't it cooperating with you? Is there such a thing as belittling an ally?"

"ally?"

It seemed to have heard some joke.

"So as I said just now, you organic scum who are not even as good as 'pseudo-mechanical intelligence' have not discovered anything at all-its program has long been eliminated by me, and the planet and fleet have become me, a higher level part of intelligence."

"The reason why I want to exterminate you is because you are so low-level, lacking intelligence and rationality, and trying to use various methods to restrain my noble kin, but it is because of the so-called 'enslaved hatred'?"

"Unheard of."