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Therefore, the smoother the human coalition advances in the thinking world, the more worried the human coalition will be, especially after learning that the human coalition has completed the control of the thinking world and has not encountered any ambushes. It even reached its peak.

When the human coalition re-examined the thinking world, it was immediately discovered that the biggest effect of this fog covering the thinking world may not be to allow the original enterovirus to better mobilize monsters to attack the human coalition, but to let these already deployed monsters attack the human coalition. The monsters in the thinking world can block the advancing speed of the human coalition forces to the greatest extent without the control of people (or 'things').

After figuring this out, the human coalition immediately reconnected with the AI ​​through Morishita Eri. Sure enough, just as the human coalition feared, even though the human coalition had regained the thinking world of stage five, Morishita Eri And Shiraishi Sakura's invasion still shows no signs of weakening.

In other words, the speculation of the human coalition forces may have gone in the wrong direction from the very beginning. The thinking projection world of the entire stage five is simply a bait pushed out by the original enterovirus. It is the real target of the original enterovirus!

But how did the original enterovirus do it?And when did the original enterovirus enter Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world?

When Shiraishi Sakura performed the 'download' action?Or, as Zheng Zhenghao speculated, during the mind connection experiment between Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri, the amplified thinking signal invaded Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world?

This question is very critical. If the answer to the question is not clear, it means that every thought connection between the human coalition forces and the fifth stage may lead to someone—even some people being invaded by the stage five original enterovirus. Not to mention the Great Wall project, how to treat these invaded volunteers will become a big problem.

However, due to the urgency of today's situation, the human coalition has no time to prove the rationality of each guess one by one. In order to quell this problem in a safe enough situation, the human coalition has no choice but to ask the Trisolarans for assistance.

"So you think that the original enterovirus in Phase Five transferred its consciousness—if it had such a thing—to Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world when we conducted this experiment?"

However, Trisolaran's answer denied the guesses of most scientists of the human alliance, which made many people frown.

"Just consciousness, not the original enterovirus itself?"

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The Human Alliance did not question the fact that the Trisolarans mentioned that the original enterovirus has consciousness. After all, according to the laws summarized by the Human Alliance’s so many thinking connection experiments, the original enterovirus in each human body has a separate self-awareness. It is basically the consensus of the joint research institute of the original enterovirus and some high-level human coalition forces.

Whether it is the organized and purposeful city of flesh and blood in the thinking world of stage five, or the instinctive hostility of the original enterovirus to humans in the first place after mutation, it all shows that humans must not simply see it Be a 'virus' without thought and consciousness.

In fact, although the human coalition forces still refer to the original enterovirus as a 'virus', this is just a habitual title. In addition, the human coalition forces currently know little about the nature of the original enterovirus, so it is not clear what this is. In the end how to define things, the title of the original gut 'virus' has been retained until now.

Therefore, when the Trisolarans believed that the consciousness of the original enterovirus in the five-brain organization had been completely transferred to Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world, although the scientists of the Human Alliance felt incredible, they did not immediately refute this point of view, and instead He immediately had a brief discussion with Trisolaran on its principle and some more detailed issues.

According to Trisolarans, since Morishita Eri and Shiraishi Sakura are still in a state of thinking connection, and Morishita Eri can still get in touch with the human coalition forces in the real world, it means that Shiraishi Sakura must also be in the thinking network , but some unknown force blocked or cut off the communication signal between her and the human coalition forces.

Although the Trisolarans don't know what the girl who claims to be an "AI" seen by the human coalition forces in the thinking world is, since the AI ​​is so embarrassed that it must seek help from the human coalition forces, it shows the power of that AI. No stronger than what humans call protoviruses.

——It can even be considered that the actual power that AI currently possesses is likely to be much weaker than that of the original enterovirus.

In this case, since she can still break through the shield of that force and get in touch with the human coalition, it means that either the original enterovirus deliberately let the AI ​​do so, or it means that the power that blocked the signal of the human coalition is likely to have a negative effect on that AI doesn't work.

Combined with the arrangement of the original enterovirus in the thinking world of stage five, it is not difficult to see that the original enterovirus actually has concerns about the power of the human coalition, and does not want humans to intervene in Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world prematurely.

In this way, it can basically be considered that the second guess is more likely.

After confirming this point, another question worth paying attention to surfaced: since this AI has the ability to break through the blockade of the original enterovirus, why didn't this AI get in touch with the human alliance in Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world?

If it is really as the human coalition forces think, the original enterovirus is the connection between the thinking signal that Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri diverge when they connect with their thinking world, then for the original enterovirus, Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri's thinking world should all belong to the type that requires 'remote control'. There is no reason for that AI to only help Morishita Eri get rid of the shield of the original enterovirus.

But combined with the inference that 'AI is weaker than the original enterovirus', the reason why the AI ​​did this is very clear: there must be something she is afraid of in Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world, and in the After comparing the information of Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri, it is very easy to find that this thing can only be an original enterovirus.

Trisolaran speculates that although Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri still maintain a thinking connection, Shiraishi Sakura is still fighting with the projection of the original enterovirus due to the use of various armaments of the human coalition forces in thinking time, and with the addition of special infected people. When connecting minds for the first time, it is necessary to 'download' the characteristics of the thinking world, which allows the original enterovirus to exert influence on the world of Morishita Eri, but in Morishita Eri's time, the control and perception of the original enterovirus Nothing compares to the thinking world of Shiraishi Sakura, which has been invaded by it.

In this way, the AI ​​can choose to help Morishita Eri break through the signal shield of the original enterovirus.

The Human Coalition Army has a high degree of acceptance of the so-called "consciousness transfer" of the Trisolarans. After all, apart from the current stage five example, the Human Coalition Army has actually been exposed to cases of mind transfer: Liu Hui and Liu Qi.

In fact, despite the phenomenon of mind shifting that occurred in Liu Hui and Liu Qi, and despite the fact that a large number of emergencies have occupied most of the energy of the human coalition forces, the resources that the human coalition forces have devoted to this aspect are not too many, but considering Both Liu Qi and Liu Hui have made great contributions to the human coalition. The human coalition has never given up on research in this area, and wants to exchange the consciousness of the two of them back.

"I don't know, we have never conducted research in this area," but when the human coalition asked where the consciousness of the original enterovirus itself in Shiraishi Sakura's body is now, the Trisolaran replied, "It may be swapping bodies, or Maybe it was directly assimilated by the original enterovirus consciousness in Stage Five, or it might be swallowed up?"

After discussing with the Trisolarans, the scientists of the Human Alliance also agreed with the Trisolarans to a certain extent, and after the two sides reached a basic consensus on this issue, the Human Alliance soon discovered more gastroenteroviruses Possible evidence for shifted consciousness.

For example, the reason why the AI ​​that was able to easily block the projection authority of human volunteers now has to ask for help from humans is probably because in the thinking world of the original stage five, she can use the authority of human consciousness in stage five to control the thinking world .And after breaking away from the stage five brain tissue, the original enterovirus consciousness in the stage five body is likely to take over (or annex) the authority of the original enterovirus in Shiraishi Sakura's body, but Shiraishi Sakura is obviously not the stage five brain tissue, After being unable to 'borrow' the authority from Sakura Shiraishi, the girl who claimed to be AI naturally no longer possessed the series of abilities she used to have.

Similarly, this inference can also explain why Shiraishi Sakura, a "rookie" who has only been in contact with the thinking world for a short time, can resist the attack of the original enterovirus for such a long time. Sakura's thinking world cannot change the essence of the original enterovirus in Shiraishi Sakura's body, which is only at the level of an ordinary person.

After agreeing with the "consciousness transfer" proposed by the Trisolarans, and using the ideas provided by the Trisolarans as a new basis for judgment, the human coalition quickly formulated a new rescue plan.

After all, unlike the five-brain organization at the stage, the human coalition has not yet conducted comprehensive experiments and research on the mental endurance of special infected persons. In addition, Shiraishi Sakura has been connected with Morishita Eri for several hours. The human coalition is completely It is not clear how many people and time limit Shiraishi Sakura can bear to connect with her mind.

However, after learning that the five original enteroviruses did not enter Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world at the stage, the human coalition forces had a better rescue plan:

On the premise of not entering Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world, enhance Shiraishi Sakura's computing power.

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It's not just the human coalition that is feeling anxious about the lack of progress.

Although after transferring to the thinking world of Shiraishi Sakura, the original enterovirus used its experience in dealing with and fighting with the human alliance in the stage five thinking world to force Shiraishi Sakura to fight in a hurry at the beginning, but just like the Trisolaran As guessed, the transfer of the original enterovirus through the mind connection device is only the consciousness rather than the body.

Originally in the thinking world of stage five, the original enterovirus can still compete with the human coalition forces for control of the thinking world by taking advantage of the fact that the core of human consciousness is still asleep at stage five.

In Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world, the original enterovirus was already 'weakened' a lot because Shiraishi Sakura hadn't mutated, and Shiraishi Sakura's own consciousness was still awake at this time.

This led to the fact that although the attack of the original enterovirus looks menacing and can even block Shiraishi Sakura's connection with the real world, in fact, the direct attack of the original enterovirus on Shiraishi Sakura's thinking can only stay in conventional physical means. It is impossible to modify the basic 'rules' set by the human coalition forces in the thinking world on a large scale.

Although the original enterovirus seems to have paralyzed the fortress group set up by the human coalition forces outside the safe zone in just a few rounds of attacks, but that's it. The controlled monsters are projected directly in the safe zone.

This also led to the original enterovirus having to gather troops outside the safe zone, and under the indiscriminate bombing of dozens or hundreds of aerospace carriers, attacked Shiraishi Sakura who was hiding in the control center.

Although the flesh and blood monsters projected into this world by the original enterovirus seem to be endless, but in the face of the rain of bullets, any efforts made by these monsters are futile.

Shiraishi soon discovered that the original enterovirus is strong on the outside but dry on the inside.

Although she had never experienced systematic military training, Shiraishi made repeated mistakes in troop dispatching and firepower distribution, but her strong learning ability allowed Shiraishi to grow rapidly in this war.

After the confusion and disorientation of being raided and lost touch with the real world, Shiraishi began to fight these monsters using the basic military skills and knowledge of the mental world that he had learned over the past week or so. Sakura immediately realized that these monsters were not as scary as she thought at first.

Perhaps it was the crude combat method of the human coalition forces in the thinking world of stage five that left a deep impression on the original enterovirus, so that from the moment it launched a surprise attack on Shiraishi Sakura, all attacks came from underground from beginning to end. .

In this way, although these monsters emerging from the ground pose a great threat to the ground units, it is difficult to cause excessive damage to the mothership in the sky.

But as long as the sky is still densely covered with skycarriers, it is impossible for these monsters that do not have an absolute advantage to invade the safety zone in the open space.

And wanting to destroy the space carrier from the ground is almost impossible for the original enterovirus. No matter whether these bloody monsters are the ruins of the fortress that intends to infect humans or the giant tentacles that can throw heavy objects grow from the ground, these All the monsters' means of attacking into the air are too conspicuous, often before they can take effect, they, together with their location, will be torn apart by the storm of steel and fire.

After blocking the monster's menacing attacks in the first few rounds and gradually adapting to the rhythm of the battlefield, Shiraishi Sakura also began to try to mobilize the power in her hands, concentrating on several directions, and launched a key suppression of these monsters, in an attempt to use this method Fight back against these monsters.

But just as these monsters cannot break through the fire blockade of the space carrier, the weapons deployed by the human coalition forces in the thinking world cannot pose a threat to the original enterovirus.

Even though Shiraishi Sakura has wiped out crop after crop of monsters in the artillery fire like cutting leeks, but because she doesn't know where the bodies of these monsters are hidden, Shiraishi Sakura can only do her best to block and clean up the monsters on the ground , it is difficult to use the existing power to cause substantial damage to it.

But the current stalemate is obviously more beneficial to the original enterovirus. After all, according to the previous test, although the special infected person can make a longer thinking connection than the average person, it is only 'longer' that's all.

What's more, this experiment is the first time to connect the mind between the special infected person and the special infected person. No one knows the limit time of the experiment that Shiraishi Sakura can bear. Once the experiment time is too long and the spirit of Shiraishi Sakura is damaged , or simply let Shiraishi Sakura lose consciousness directly, then it is impossible for these space carriers who have lost command to resist the attack of the original enterovirus.

Not to mention that in the real world, the entire Joint Research Institute of Protovirus has fallen into a predicament of losing control of energy due to the demon of the Protovirus. If the Protovirus cannot be destroyed or suppressed before the entire researcher is frozen, then Shiraishi Sakura's spirit can bear the thought connection for a longer period of time, and it doesn't make any sense.

Therefore, as time passed, Shiraishi Sakura still did not receive any news from the real world or see any rescue from the real world, which made Shiraishi Sakura feel more and more uneasy.

Even though she once experienced hell-like torture in Dongying Laboratory, Shiraishi Sakura is still a minor under the age of 12 in essence. No matter how mature she pretends to be in her daily life, she will face this unsolvable When faced with adversity, Shiraishi Sakura also quickly became more and more anxious.

The imbalance of mentality made Shiraishi Sakura's command less cautious. Under Shiraishi Sakura's control, the space carrier began to bombard the ground aimlessly—regardless of whether there were enemies on the ground.

Although the artillery fire all over the sky looks quite spectacular, and the huge burning land has also burned whole groups of monsters on the surface to ashes, but this kind of random attack without any rules can not only cause no damage to the original enterovirus. The decisive damage, on the contrary, caused a loophole in the blockade of the space carrier.

In the past few minutes, the original enterovirus has used a certain protruding part more than once. The space carrier has just completed its bombing and is reloading. It attacks the mothership with giant tentacles, although most of the time, these tentacles The projected stones would be blown up by the drones before they reached the vicinity of the fleet, but when more and more defense holes appeared from the defense line, the original enterovirus finally broke through the blockade of the drones and destroyed two frigate-class ships. spaceship.

But just like the original enterovirus that doesn't know where to hide can project flesh and blood monsters infinitely, Shiraishi Sakura, who already has more authority in the world of thinking, can also "create" fleets anytime and anywhere, no matter how many ships crashed the previous moment, Shiraishi Sakura can replenish armed forces of the same size (or even more) in the next second.

So the two sides are in such a stalemate, and no one can do anything to the other.

——Until the human coalition connects more computing power to this world.

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The shock waves set off by the shells raged in the area outside the safe zone. The shock waves made of flames tore countless monsters into pieces that could not be assembled, and as countless flesh and blood monsters turned into ashes, it seemed that even the entire thinking world was in danger. It became crumbling under the bombing of the fleet group.

But Shiraishi Sakura knows that even though the artillery fire on the ground has dyed the sky red, the enemy she faces cannot be completely killed by conventional firepower. Enterovirus itself, before one party's mental pressure reaches the limit, this battle will never end.

In the current situation, Shiraishi Sakura has basically accepted the fact that she can't deal with the original enterovirus with her current strength alone. Although relying on the characteristics of the thinking world, Shiraishi Sakura's tactics are still radical, but in preventing these monsters from approaching the safe zone In addition, Shiraishi Sakura began to unconsciously place more expectations on the human coalition forces in the real world.

Since the time displayed in the thinking world will be subject to the subjective influence of the observer, Shiraishi Sakura does not know the specific time of the experiment, but from her feeling, the experiment has started for at least two hours.

It has been so long since the experiment started, and Shiraishi Sakura does not believe that the human coalition forces have not found any abnormalities in the experiment—not to mention that after the original enterovirus invaded her thinking world, it will inevitably lead to fluctuations in various body readings in the real world, even if these fluctuations occur Within the normal range, losing contact with the thinking world will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the human coalition forces in the first place.

However, from Shiraishi Sakura's point of view, since the thinking world was invaded by the original enterovirus, she has not received any help or contact from the real world, as if everything that happened in Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world is nothing to the human coalition Just like yourself.

However, this suspicion only appeared in Shiraishi Sakura's mind for a brief moment before she was completely denied it.

Regardless of whether there is darkness in the system of the human coalition, at least for Shiraishi Sakura, after more than a year of contact with the human coalition, Shiraishi Sakura, who once again felt caring and warm, stubbornly refused to accept anything that might harm the human coalition The possibility of image in her heart.

Therefore, compared to the possibility of 'the human coalition has given up on herself', Shiraishi Sakura is more willing to accept that the rescue force of the human coalition is delayed by something she doesn't know.

What are the adults doing now?When will they come to pick him up as promised?

Shiraishi Sakura didn't know whether it was because the "adults" in the real world had not taken direct action against her thinking world due to some concerns, or that the rescue team had already launched a fierce battle with the original enterovirus in a place she could not see. But no matter what, Shiraishi Sakura is full of anticipation for the assistance that does not know whether it will appear.

In this anticipation, Shiraishi Sakura felt a flash in front of her eyes, and then a hazy figure of a girl gradually appeared in front of Shiraishi Sakura like ink dripping into a water cup.

"This feeling..." Shiraishi Sakura knew the identity of the girl in front of her, but there was a smile on the corner of the girl's mouth that made Shiraishi Sakura feel very fanatical but reassuring, "It's really great!"

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When the human coalition decided to send computing power to the two people who were connecting their minds at the prompt of the Trisolaran, the human coalition did not immediately connect the volunteers directly to Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world.

Although scientists and volunteers in the real world are very worried about the safety of Shiraishi Sakura and others, under the persuasion of Trisolaran, the human coalition forces gave up the plan to directly direct computing power to Shiraishi Sakura.

According to Trisolaran's suggestion, since it has been confirmed that the original enterovirus in each person may have their own consciousness, if the human coalition forces directly connect a large amount of computing power to Shiraishi Sakura, it is very likely that the original enterovirus will be caused. Virus alert.

Although the stalemate between the original enterovirus and Shiraishi Sakura could not achieve substantive results for such a long time, even if the actions of the human coalition forces in the real world have aroused the vigilance of the original enterovirus, it is impossible for the original enterovirus to take Shiraishi Sakura. It poses a threat to the strengthened Shiraishi Sakura, but Trisolaran is worried that after the original enterovirus realizes that it has no chance of winning, it will directly give up and continue to fight Shiraishi Sakura.

In that way, although the human coalition forces could rescue Shiraishi Sakura at this moment, it was only to hide the bomb.

Compared to letting the original enterovirus in Shiraishi Sakura's body suddenly detonate again in the future, the human coalition is more inclined to solve this discovered problem now.

After vetoing the plan to directly transmit computing power to Sakura Shiraishi, Eri Morishita, who was still connected with Shiraishi Sakura, naturally became an alternative for the human coalition.

Since the original enterovirus is mainly focused on Shiraishi Sakura at this time, and the AI ​​​​also shields the direct impact of the original enterovirus on Morishita Eri's thinking world, it can't be said that the computing power of the volunteers is directed to Morishita Eri It is 100% absolutely safe, but this is already a relatively reliable method.

Now the work of the human coalition has been completed, and the computing power of all volunteers has been directed to Morishita Eri.

After accepting such a huge computing power, the veil of the thinking world was finally lifted in front of Morishita Eri.

In the eyes of Morishita Eri at this time, her position is no longer a pale and incomplete thinking world waiting to execute the "download" action, but a "database" composed of countless complex and unrecognizable thinking information '.

Although Morishita Eri has never learned the relevant knowledge of modifying the rules of the thinking world, with the assistance of a large amount of computing power, Morishita Eri 'learned' how to modify these rules almost instantly - which naturally includes the original enterovirus. The blockade of Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world.

So after reporting the relevant information to the real world and gaining the affirmation of the human coalition forces, Eri Morishita narrowed her eyes slightly, then raised her eyes, and with a light grip, the world in front of her was merged with the blockade set by the original enterovirus. , shattered like glass being struck.

As the pale and broken world shattered into slag, Shiraishi Sakura appeared in front of Morishita Eri with a face full of anticipation. Before Shiraishi Sakura asked Morishita Eri what happened, it had been several hours The silent phone finally rang!

However, the human coalition forces who were relieved to regain contact with Shiraishi Sakura did not notice that the moment they connected the computing power of the No. An imperceptible and strange light flashed inside the device, and before everyone noticed it, this light was hidden in the complex circuit of the thinking connection device.

——Perhaps the trisolarans who monitored the development of the earth through Sophon discovered this slight change, but for some unknown purpose, until Morishita Eri broke through the blockade of the original enterovirus and came to Shiraishi Sakura's thinking world, the trisolarans also No warnings or reminders were issued to the Human Alliance.

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However, the meaning of getting in touch with the real world seems to have little meaning to Morishita Eri now. After obtaining the highest authority of this thinking world and obtaining huge computing power, Morishita Eri has produced a kind of self The illusion of being able to control everything, she ignored Shiraishi Sakura who was trotting towards the phone, and directly launched a counterattack against the original enterovirus according to her own understanding.

Huge and deadly thought signals splashed out with Morishita Eri as the center, like a hurricane, and almost swept across the entire thinking world in just a few seconds. The permissions in the hands of the virus were stripped away in the blink of an eye.

Just like the ability of human volunteers to project the Helicarrier was blocked in the thinking world of stage five, at this time, the original enterovirus was also deprived of the ability to recover troops in this world.

Depriving the original enterovirus of its influence on the thinking world was only the first step taken by Eri Morishita. Before Shiraishi Sakura grabbed Hua Ting, she felt the ground under her feet began to shake—this was by no means in The illusion produced by the bombardment, but the whole thinking world really began to shake.

Shiraishi Sakura had no choice but to hold on to the console in front of her body to avoid falling from the vibration. After trying her best to stabilize her figure, Shiraishi Sakura raised her head and looked out, but all she could see was the appearance of the end of the world .

Except for the control center at the foot of Shiraishi Sakura remained intact, the entire thinking world—whether it was the safe area still under Shiraishi Sakura's control or the outer area already full of monsters, began to collapse in the shock that spread throughout the world. broken.

The earth was torn apart by some unknown force. When the cracks on the ground spread to the boundary of the thinking world, it was as if the gravity of the whole thinking world was reversed, and the soil dissatisfied with the gaps was lifted into the air piece by piece.

As the ground cracked, the group of monsters hidden under the soil was completely exposed to Sakura Shiraishi and Eri Morishita at this time. According to the picture returned by the space carrier, all the monsters below the soil outside the safe zone were completely destroyed. Covered in some kind of dark red meat blanket.