Dimensional Alliance

As the meat blanket continues to shrink and jump, countless monsters grow from these meat blankets, but due to the gravity of the outside world has been reversed by Morishita Eri, whenever these monsters detach from the meat blanket, they will immediately float into the air, and in the tight The ensuing artillery strike was quickly wiped out.

After seeing this disgusting scene under the soil again, Shiraishi Sakura immediately controlled the space carrier and launched firepower coverage on this meat blanket.

After losing the protection of the soil, these underground flesh and blood barriers can't resist human attacks at all, no matter what kind of power they create or gather, it is meaningless under the continuous bombardment of humans.

However, this thinking world is still too big. Even if the original enterovirus seems to have lost its ability to resist, the recovery ability of these meat blankets is still a headache. Even if the fleet in the sky bombards the ground non-stop, if you want to It will take ten minutes at the fastest to clean up the entire thinking world.

But Eri Morishita was obviously not a patient conductor. After realizing that the battle could not be resolved in a short period of time through existing forces, a crazy idea appeared in Shiraishi Sakura's mind.

Since Morishita Eri has not received much professional training, it is obvious that he can't control his thoughts well after hastily mastering such a huge computing power, so this crazy idea just appeared, and it was transformed under the impetus of huge computing power. For reality.

The originally clear sky outside the main control room instantly turned dark, and Shiraishi Sakura, who had been paying attention to the changes outside, couldn't help opening her mouth slightly after seeing what happened.

A full moon suddenly appeared in the sky higher than the space mothership. However, unlike the moon in conventional human cognition, this moon is completely composed of metal and machinery.

Countless ships entered and exited this artificial moon, and on the gray-black metal shell of the moon stood countless gun barrels that were bigger than destroyers.

—and these barrels are pointing at the ground.

However, this round of steel moon obviously not only shocked Shiraishi Sakura, but even Morishita Eri, who projected it into the thinking world, was surprised by this moon, which made her even forget to order the meat blanket to be opened immediately. attack.

However, the powerful calculation also greatly improved Morishita Eri's reaction speed. After a few tenths of a second of shock, Morishita Eri quickly recovered.

However, just when Eri Morishita raised her right hand excitedly and was about to send commands to the battle fortress in the sky, a group of pixels that seemed to be generated by electromagnetic interference suddenly appeared inside the control center, and this sudden situation It also made Morishita Eri subconsciously stop the original movement.

Under the gaze of Eri Morishita and Sakura Shiraishi, the group of pixels that suddenly appeared expanded and solidified rapidly, and turned into a naked girl in a few seconds.

Both Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri have no impression of this girl. Obviously, she is definitely not a volunteer who will participate in this thought connection experiment in the Human Alliance Project. After ruling out the possibility of the girl being a human, her The sudden appearance immediately made Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri tense up.

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In the real world, the Joint Research Institute of Protovirus, No. [-] Computing Center.

After readjusting the computing power supply target, the room fell into silence again. Although Aiden Pierce and Liang Yu explained the current progress of the experiment and the reasons for changing the target of thinking connection from different angles, this still cannot be achieved. Completely dispel the uneasiness of the volunteers.

Especially for volunteers like Takayuki Aihara, who had voluntarily stayed because of some undeniable reasons, after realizing that there was an uncontrollable change in the rescue operation with an unknown probability of success, most of them would There was no mood to continue the conversation.

At the corner of No. [-] Computing Center, Takayuki Aihara was pressing his hands on his face at this moment. His cheeks, which were originally pretty delicate, had been completely squeezed out of shape, but Takayuki Aihara didn't pay any attention to this. Most of the attention is on the big screen in the computing center.

Aiden Pierce was beside Takayuki Aihara with his face still as watery, fiddling with his mobile phone every few minutes, as if waiting for someone to send him some important news.

However, suddenly, Aiden Pierce noticed that Takayuki Aihara's face froze suddenly, and immediately covered his mouth with both hands. Aiden Pierce had just guessed that something might have happened to Takayuki Aihara, but before he could ask Takayuki Aihara already bent down and retched.

Aiden Pierce's expression became serious in an instant. He glanced at the phone subconsciously, then lightly patted Takayuki Aihara on the back, and quickly asked, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"I don't know..." Takayuki Lanyuan raised his head reluctantly. Although he didn't vomit anything, just a few seconds of vomiting has already made his cheeks swell red, and even a little bloodshot can be seen faintly in his eyes , "Just now, for some reason, I felt like motion sickness, and suddenly felt very nauseous, um..."

Takayuki Aihara said, and suddenly covered his mouth and lay down again, but Aiden Pierce's face suddenly turned livid, and he immediately stood up and looked around the computing center.

Sure enough, just as Aiden guessed, many people in the computing center had the same situation as Takayuki Aihara. It is roughly estimated that there are at least 25 volunteers who made vomiting movements.

This is never normal.

Although it cannot be completely ruled out that many of the volunteers who participated in the experiment were connected for the first time and may not be well adapted, the human coalition has already conducted an adaptability check on all volunteers before carrying out the rescue operation. The mind connection is not as expected by the human coalition forces for an almost unlimited time, and it is absolutely impossible for a large group of people to experience the same symptom at the same time.

Although Aiden Pierce, who is only a 'network' engineer, has noticed something is wrong, he is not sure which link has the problem, but if combined with the original enterovirus, it can directly affect the energy supply of the real world in the thinking world From this point of view, Aiden believes that something unexpected by the human coalition forces may have happened in the thinking world.

But before Aiden Pierce reported the abnormality to the control center, a strong sense of vomiting began to stimulate his brain, although Aiden Pierce activated the fuse on the wristband as soon as this feeling surfaced, cutting The connection of the thinking network has been lost, but the feeling of vomiting has only been relieved a little, and it has not completely dissipated.

This made Aiden couldn't help but began to retch his mouth. After retching for more than ten seconds, Aiden Pierce straightened up again, ready to send an alarm to the control center, but when he turned his eyes to himself Aiden froze behind the hand that closed his mouth.

Although Aiden Pierce felt that his palm was not touching anything, he clearly saw a translucent red lump of flesh somehow appear on his palm where there should not be anything, and under his gaze, the red flesh The block is rapidly fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, and completely disappears within a few seconds.

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"Unfortunately, Commander," the girl said in a mechanical tone, and Morishita Eri immediately found that the girl's voice was exactly the same as the woman who called herself 'AI' on the phone, "Mission failed."

And following the description without any fluctuations, the large blood-colored blanket that could only linger under the fleet's artillery fire suddenly completely disappeared under the eyes of Morishita Eri.

Volume 461 Entering the Star Sea: Chapter 0454 Chapter [-] Realistic Line of Defense

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Although Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri didn't know exactly what the AI ​​girl wanted to express, this did not prevent their expressions from becoming solemn in an instant.

"Mission failed, we have been unable to prevent the enemy from breaking through the blockade," the girl's tone seemed unchanged, as if it was a routine report, "This world is hopeless."

Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri looked at each other, both of them saw a trace of uneasiness in each other's eyes, but in the next moment, their expressions became firm.

Although Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri are still young girls who have not developed much in appearance, but don't forget that before the human coalition forces broke through the Patriotic Association's laboratory, these were under heavy surveillance and surrounded by Patriotic Association scientists and security personnel. The girls have already wiped out all the members of the Patriotic Association in the laboratory by themselves.

Although after the human coalition forces rescued these girls from that hellish laboratory, they have arranged these girls in the most peaceful and safe area as much as possible, but this time is not enough for Shiraishi Sakura and the others to completely forget how to fight.

Therefore, Shiraishi Sakura and the others were not intimidated by the girl, they took a step forward in unison, and at the same time, a samurai sword that was close to their height appeared in the hands of the two girls out of thin air.

"Commander, I'm not your enemy, your vigilance is meaningless." The girl watched the girls' movements, sighed softly, and said in the usual flat voice.

But Shiraishi Sakura noticed that the short electronically synthesized voice made by the girl had become a little hoarse at some point, it sounded like it was coming from an old stereo that had been used for 20 years.

Eri Morishita, who had relatively more contact with the girl, noticed another thing. In her impression, the intelligence level of this AI girl should not be very high, and she would only report or answer questions according to the established "procedures" , but at this time the girl in front of her not only responded to their actions, but even made a 'sigh', an action that should not have been made by an 'AI'.

However, this level of surprise is not enough to make the girl let go of her hostility and guard against the girl. As if she has cooperated countless times, Morishita Eri first took a big step towards the girl, bowed her body slightly, and used an attacking posture Standing in front of the girl.

At the same time, Shiraishi Sakura took this opportunity to bypass the two people in the confrontation, and quickly rushed to a phone behind the girl.

The naked girl watched the two girls' movements calmly, without making any counterattack or blocking movements.

Under the indulgence of the girl, Shiraishi Sakura rushed to the phone effortlessly. After glancing at the AI ​​girl who was staring at her, Shiraishi Sakura hesitated for a few milliseconds before grabbing the receiver. His face immediately changed when he heard it.

"The communication with the real world has been cut off again!" Shiraishi Sakura turned her head to look at Morishita Eri, and said eagerly.

"It wasn't cut off," the girl who had been silently watching the two girls' movements said again at this time, the girl's voice sounded extremely hoarse, as if her vocal system had been completely corroded, "the line is busy .”

"It has filled all your connections with the real world."

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Although humans and Trisolarans have achieved certain results in different directions in the field of thinking, the human coalition and Trisolarans, who are accustomed to thinking about problems with the logic of the material world, have subconsciously ignored a very serious problem:

The process of connecting minds is mutual.

Just like when a Trisolaran perceives the thoughts of another Trisolaran, it means that his thoughts will also be understood by the other Trisolaran. According to the experimental records of the Human Alliance and the technical data provided by the Trisolaran, no matter what No matter whether the thought signal has been transformed into other signals such as electrical signals before one person receives the thought signal of another person, the transmission of the thought signal should be reversible.

Even if the human coalition uses the thinking connection device to gather multiple thinking signals in the thinking world of a certain person, in the process, the parties involved in the thinking connection will still be more or less influenced by other people, only However, because there are too many conditions that affect human thinking patterns, this effect is not obvious to human individuals participating in the thinking connection experiment.

However, before conducting the mind linking experiment, some scientists still raised opinions on the experimental process because they were worried that the original enterovirus could also take advantage of the characteristics of this kind of thinking interaction. It can be ignored, and within a few minutes after the mind connection is ended, these possible potential effects will be naturally eliminated, and this kind of worried voice will naturally not become the mainstream of the joint research institute.

In addition, in the past more than a month of experiments, the human coalition has conducted various scales of thinking connection experiments on the brain tissue of stage five more than once, and there are many of them that only allow one or two volunteers to individually access stage five and four dimensions. The situation in the world, but there has never been a situation where the original enterovirus was transferred to the minds of these volunteers.

Therefore, even in today's experiment, the human coalition has discovered that the original enterovirus can be transferred to other people's thinking world through the thinking connection device, and through the abnormality in the energy system of the laboratory during this process, the human coalition has also confirmed that the thinking world It can affect the real world more or less, but most scientists still believe that this effect should also be controllable, and they will only happen to specially infected people.

——In other words, unless the human coalition intends to abandon Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri, scientists can only choose to believe that this risk is controllable.

But the objective laws of the world will not be changed because of the wishful thinking of the human coalition forces. Shortly after the human coalition forces vigorously suppressed the thinking world of the stage five-brain organization and directed most of the computing power to Morishita Eri, the real world began one after another. Exceptions continue to occur.

First, the voltage in the thinking connection hall began to become a little unstable again. At the beginning, the human coalition forces regarded this unstable voltage situation as a follow-up effect caused by the rescue operation, but it didn't take long for this unstable voltage situation. The phenomenon started with the thinking connection hall as the center, and gradually spread to the surrounding area in an irregular ellipsoid at a speed of five to ten meters per minute.

Shortly after this area began to spread, the human coalition forces were alerted. The human coalition forces immediately organized personnel to conduct a comprehensive investigation of all systems. When the human coalition forces checked all systems one by one, the human coalition forces quickly It is found that some unobtrusive peripheral programs have been invaded and tampered without knowing when.

However, almost at the same time that the human coalition forces discovered that their system had been invaded, the intruder became aware of this, and before the human coalition forces could make a countermeasure, the intruder immediately bared his fangs and attacked the research institute's system. A full-scale attack was launched.

At this time, the human coalition forces discovered in a panic that this laboratory, which has gathered many human elites and extremely high-tech achievements, was completely helpless in the face of this kind of attack, and all firewalls and anti-virus programs could not detect itself at all. It was invaded, and even the senior engineers were a little helpless.

In the real world, the main control room of the joint research institute of the original enterovirus.

"No! It's useless! These codes are not in any language we know now! They are not even composed of 0 and 1!" A network engineer looked at the constantly refreshing code in front of him, panting heavily with a flushed face , exclaimed incoherently, "Look here! Even the code of the underlying system has been tampered with! These strange symbols that are not even words!"

"I don't have time to deal with these technical issues right now, you just need to tell me if you can solve this."

"I'm sorry, chief, this is beyond my ability," the engineer wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said nervously, facing the gaze of Lieutenant General and Shi Mian, "I don't know these codes at all, I don't know What do they mean!"

"These codes seem to be alive." Another engineer also stood up from the unknown at this time, "I just randomly intercepted a small piece of code, but I copied this line of code to another computer that was physically disconnected. After logging into the system, the intercepted code actually began to replicate itself."

"After that, I repeated the action just now a few times, and I found that no matter which piece of code I intercepted, or how many codes I intercepted at a time, these codes showed the characteristics of self-replication." Speaking of this, the engineer couldn't help swallowing He spit, "I know it sounds strange, but the program composed of these codes feels like a living creature, and each code is a cell of this creature..."

The engineer's discovery made the control room fall into silence for a while. The silence didn't last long, and Liang Yu said to himself, "Is the original enterovirus really a thinking virus?"

But without waiting for others to think about this issue, Liang Yu walked up to Lieutenant General and Shi Mian: "Although I have no evidence, I think that the thing that is invading our system is probably a protovirus."

"This is crazy! A virus from a person has invaded the computer?" An engineer from the European branch couldn't help but exclaimed.

"To make a long story short," although Shi Mian also felt that Liang Yu's speculation was too far-fetched, both the timing of all the anomalies and the location where the anomalies first appeared proved that these anomalies were inseparably related to the original enterovirus, so Shi Mian He didn't pay too much attention to the unreasonableness of Liang Yu's guess, he thought for a while, and said directly: "You just need to tell me what to do now."

"Delete all infected and suspected infected programs! If it doesn't work, delete all systems in the entire laboratory!" Liang Yu replied without hesitation, "Although I will not wait until the original enterovirus takes pains to invade What exactly is our system, which has been physically disconnected from the outside world, going to do, but no matter what it wants to do, we must not let it accomplish its goals."

"Can we delete these infected programs?" Shi Mian looked at the engineer beside him, "You said earlier that the code of these programs is completely different from the language used by our system, so we can still use the operating system to infect the infected programs." Infected programs removed?"

"Maybe, but I'm not sure," the engineer who was asked thought for a while and replied, "I tried to cut and paste them before, but as I said just now, even if these programs are left A line of code can also replicate itself, and I can't guarantee that they can be deleted."

Hearing the engineer's answer, Shi Mian couldn't help but frowned, but before he could reply, Zheng Zhenghao, who had been not far from Shi Mian, couldn't help but walked over, grabbed the mainframe that the engineer used for testing, He fell hard to the ground.

With Zheng Zhenghao's physique twice as many as normal, this host was easily smashed to pieces. Only then did Zheng Zhenghao turn his head and look down at the engineer: "Is this considered to be deleted?"

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"You can't completely wipe it out." Looking at the girls who surrounded her one after another, the girl's face was as calm as ever, "It has already sent a part of itself out of this world, which already guarantees that it is completely complete. You are all invincible, and you have already lost."

"I don't understand what you want to say?" Shiraishi Sakura, who put down the phone, held the scabbard with one hand and pressed the handle of the knife with the other, and asked as she approached the girl on her feet, "If it wasn't for you just now It suddenly appeared, we were about to win just now, we have discovered the original enterovirus itself, and we only need one salvo to destroy it."

"What you destroy is its body in this world, it's meaningless." As if the human coalition forces were determined to fail, facing Shiraishi Sakura's rebuttal, the girl did not hide anything at this time, and openly told Shiraishi Sakura and the others explained, "Its main part has been transferred to another world, no matter how many times you destroy its shell in this world, or even crush it directly from the molecular level, as long as you can't kill it in another world Kill it, and as long as the passage between these two worlds is still there, it will definitely reappear in this world."

"But we also have companions in another world! Even if the original enterovirus escapes to the real world, they will definitely be killed by them!" Eri Morishita said unwillingly.

"Unless you can destroy it in both worlds at the same time, the part of it left in one world will support its rebirth in the other world," I don't know if it is an illusion, Shiraishi Sakura and Morishita Eri feel that this AI girl There seemed to be some... pity in the increasingly dry tone? , "Do you think... after being unable to get in touch with another world, do you have the ability to do this?"

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After Shi Mian approved to 'delete' all the infected files, all the members of the Human Alliance who were still stranded in the joint research institute got busy.

In addition to a thorough cleaning of all the systems of the Joint Research Institute, the human coalition also needs to physically cut off the network connection between those devices that have not been infected and the Joint Research Institute, and clean up the severely infected devices. Hosts are physically destroyed to prevent 'viruses' in these hosts from continuing to grow along the network.

Theoretically speaking, when a virus that cannot be intercepted by the existing firewall has entered the network and can spontaneously invade and infect each device connected to the network, the only thing that can limit the speed of the virus's spread should be the device's The data transfer speed is just right.

And judging from the speed of the joint research institute's local area network, even if it is the most optimistic estimate, when the human coalition forces take action, this unknown virus should have infected all systems in the joint research institute.

However, according to the actual confirmation of various engineers, although the "virus" that invaded the human coalition system can indeed infect more devices along the network connection, the infection speed of this virus is not as exaggerated as the human coalition imagined. In the words of an engineer To put it bluntly: Compared with an electronic virus, this thing is more like a "creature" that "swimming" in the network, and can only spread outward at its own speed.

And although the spread speed of this intruder in the human network is not slow, it obviously did not reach the level of instantly infecting the entire network, until the human coalition forces began to take action, the infected area 'only' had the thinking link hall as the center An egg-shaped ellipsoid, its scope accounts for about 70% of the total volume of the entire Joint Research Institute.

Although this feature makes the original enterovirus more confusing, but from the current point of view, at least it gives the human coalition a chance to reduce losses.

"Today is a terrible day, look at the equipment, it's almost brand new!" A New Britain worker showed off a server host judged to be 'fully infected' by roughly ripping it off the line In front of his companions, he couldn't help complaining, "Damn it! It's too bad that we have to destroy them in less than two months after we built them."

"On the bright side, fortunately, before the rescue operation, we have transferred most of the key personnel and important materials, and cut off all ties between the Joint Research Institute and other institutions by physical means." Another Prussian worker The personnel obviously didn't want to listen to his nagging. He grabbed the host computer from his companion, broke it in two on his knees, and threw it into the recycling bin, "At least this way, the only thing we need to dismantle is this research institute. , not the whole world."

"Hey, Hans, what do you think the original enterovirus wants to do? Why did it come to the real world? In the thinking world, we can only use the Great Wall Project to block them passively because we don't want to harm their hosts. way, but if they run into the real world," said the staff member, picked up the dropped mainframe from the recycling bin, tapped some jagged cracks, and continued, "Like this, we It is very easy to destroy these devices that store them, and doesn't this completely destroy them?"

"I don't know, maybe it wants to make a body for myself? Just like those aliens." Hans replied while repeating the action just now on the other host, "Or it didn't expect to unite The research institute’s network is just a local area network. Originally, they wanted to upload their own consciousness to our network? Just like the Skynet mentioned in a movie in this world, if the original enterovirus really infected this The whole world's network, then the world may be pushed back to the twentieth century."

"But it doesn't make sense," the staff member walked across to Hans and looked at Hans through the gap that was removed from the main frame. "If the original enteroviruses really have this plan, why are they directly Do you want to do this? I heard that when Da Ming conducted the first thought connection experiment, he did not physically disconnect from the network."

"I said, I don't know." Although Hans didn't seem to want to answer these questions, he didn't directly tell his companion to shut up. After all, compared to this noise, the nervousness that appeared from the first time the experiment lost control The feeling made him even more upset, and communicating with his companions is obviously the best way to relieve his inner tension, "No matter what the original enterovirus wants to do, even if it really wants to use this as an opportunity to directly descend into the real world, Once things are really out of our control, we can still detonate the two hydrogen bombs under our feet, and control the damage within the scope of the Joint Research Institute..."

The two staff members were performing the 'delete' task like this, while chatting awkwardly, but on the ceiling behind them, a vague translucent tissue was gradually disappearing from a position that could not be reached by sight. grow.

It looks like countless tentacles and other grotesque twisted limbs made of cancerous flesh and blood. These tentacles and limbs are constantly wriggling on the ceiling and walls, and some incomplete limbs even fall from time to time. On the ground, there was no sound, and it disappeared completely soon.

Other tissues and limbs with relatively complete growth will continue to wriggle on the ceiling, and will be 'assembled' into deformed monsters in the process. All monsters will stay in place after landing, and quickly become It is transparent until it disappears completely, but a small number of monsters will open their mouths and roar at the humans in the room before they disappear completely, but they also cannot make any sound.

The staff in this room also looked at the location of these disgusting organizations several times during their missions, but these monsters were like air to them, and they found nothing until they exited the room .

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"There are monsters in the corridor!"

"Comrade Shi Mian! You must evacuate immediately! It is enough for me to be in command, and it is useless for you to stay here! You are just... What did you just say?"

Just when the lieutenant general was excitedly persuading Shi Mian to evacuate with the last batch of scientists, Zheng Zhenghao suddenly interrupted their conversation.

"What monster?" Although the lieutenant general and Shi Mian did not reach any agreement on the evacuation issue, when Zheng Zhenghao rushed over, the two stopped their quarrel very tacitly, "Where is it now?"

"Just now I saw something standing in the corridor... something, more than one meter wide, two meters high, translucent, with four limbs on the ground, and a bone spur growing on its back! But just as I was about to chase it, this monster came Suddenly disappeared!" Zheng Zhenghao thought for a while, and said in a positive tone, "It feels like a thinking projection of something to me, but it is definitely not a human thinking projection. Logically speaking, a human thinking projection is impossible. What kind of distortion appears, and the projection of human thinking cannot be too far away from the body."

Lieutenant General and Shi Mian immediately walked to the door and looked along the corridor, but as Zheng Zhenghao said, they could not see any living things in the empty corridor, nor could they see anything on the walls or in the corridor. to see traces of any monsters passing by.

However, Lieutenant General Yi knew that Zheng Zhenghao was definitely not a person who could entertain himself with jokes at such a time, so he did not jump to any conclusions in a hurry. He turned around and instructed a staff member: "Tune the surveillance from 3 minutes ago come out,"

However, when the monitoring was called out, both Lieutenant General and Shi Mian couldn't help frowning.