Copy 5 15
The room fell into silence.
As an outsider, Qin Rong didn't even dare to breathe. After all, if the AI that greeted her every day when she went to work suddenly said "help me", anyone would be shocked and the computer would crash on the spot.
After watching the time displayed on the computer for two or three minutes, Liu Ying slowly looked at Su Wanxing, "Why is it not talking?"
"Maybe the signal is down again?" Su Wanxing had never really participated in the research and development of artificial intelligence, so he didn't know. "There's no other way except for it to come to us."
"See, AI without electricity and signals is just a pile of scrap metal." Liu Ying said helplessly.
Su Wanxing shook his head, "But their digital lives can last for a very long time."
While the master and the disciple were arguing about artificial intelligence, Qin Rong's breathing became rapid.
Su Wanxing looked up when she heard the voice and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Your face is all red."
"I feel..." Qin Rong breathed with difficulty, "I can't breathe."
Su Wanxing immediately realized the problem. "In order to prevent insects from coming in, all the doors and windows in the house are closed, and there is not much oxygen left."
"Damn, I forgot to consider the oxygen problem." Liu Ying slapped her thigh.
Su Wanxing was not in a hurry. He took out three oxygen masks, which were the ones that the skyscraper had stockpiled at that time. "Put them on. Although they look like ordinary masks, they can provide oxygen. One mask can provide oxygen for about a day."
The moment Qin Rong put on the mask, she could breathe smoothly. It was amazing. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Xiao Zhou, do you have super powers?"
Liu Ying was amused and quickly put on a mask to cover it up.
Su Wanxing nodded and shook his head, "Alas, we are just ordinary people who have been fooled by time."
"Anyway, we won't hurt you." Liu Ying asked again, "By the way, do you want to let your family know that you are safe?"
Qin Rong waved her hands, "I am a baby born in an artificial womb. I don't know who my parents are."
Because Su Wanxing had Zhou Xi's memories, she did know something about artificial wombs. In this world, not only couples can use artificial wombs, but fertility scientists also collect high-quality eggs and sperm for artificial insemination in order to allow human reproduction, and finally use artificial wombs to cultivate a new generation of natural humans.
In other words, Qin Rong's experience is perfectly normal in this world.
Now Qin Rong was a little nervous. "Really... Is the world going to end so soon? Although sometimes I am very disgusted with the world, I hate my job and annoy my boss and colleagues, and I always say that if the world ends, I will just lie down, but... Alas, when I really experience it myself, I start to miss the beauty of the world. I don't want to die yet... I'm only in my twenties, what should I do?"
Liu Ying patted Qin Rong's shoulder very considerately and said, "When faced with this situation, there is only one way."
"What method?" Qin Rong blinked her big eyes.
Su Wanxing understood and said, "Let's have a big meal first."
"Hmm?" Qin Rong didn't react for a moment, "Are you going to be a glutton?"
Liu Ying still felt happy. "Relax, isn't it the end of the world? As an ordinary person with no money or power, let's just let nature take its course. Anyway, it's either life or death. A 50% chance is pretty high."
Qin Rong smiled bitterly, "You have a really good attitude, it's worth learning from."
At this time, Su Wanxing had already brought out the fragrant chicken pot and provided everyone with bowls, chopsticks and rice.
"Don't listen to my Master's wife's nonsense. A good attitude can improve a person's luck to a certain extent. We shouldn't be too pessimistic. Sometimes I also think, is death really the end?"
After all, he has been through so many copies. Su Wanxing has always been willing to lie down and never give up. Even if he faces a huge obstacle, he must first ensure his own safety. He will always think of a suitable way. If he really can't solve it, he will leave it to time.
The rich aroma of the sauce first penetrated the tip of the nose, the taste buds were instantly stimulated, and everyone couldn't help swallowing.
The red and green peppers are eye-catching, the chicken pieces are covered with soup, the shiitake mushrooms cut in a cross shape are sticky with sesame seeds, the meatballs of various shapes are steaming, as if waving to the diners, and the golden instant noodles lie quietly in the center of the pot, exuding an enticing aroma.
"Wow! So delicious!" Qin Rong had eaten in the cafeteria of Tianshen Technology before, but the food in the cafeteria was completely different from the food that Su Wanxing created with his superpowers.
How to describe it? Su Wanxing has the most say. As a foodie who never wrongs his stomach, the nutrient solution in this world that becomes tasteless after eating too much is simply incomparable. Even the cafeteria meals of Tianshen Technology, which look delicious, are full of technology, like synthetic food that loses the unique freshness of fresh ingredients.
The three of them ate heartily and were full. After cleaning up the mess, they put on their oxygen masks again.
Especially Qin Rong, she ate so much that she was full. This was the first time in her life that she felt the pleasure of being full. Unlike before, although she could eat her fill, she felt very bloated and not satisfied at all.
She burped and said shyly, "I understand. No matter how hard or difficult it is, I have to eat and drink well. I am not anxious now."
Su Wanxing and Liu Ying smiled at the same time.
After a while, Liu Ying suddenly said, "Luo Ci really passed the level! Her scoreboard has been updated!"
Su Wanxing was stunned for a moment and muttered to herself, "Why is her mission to open the barrier?"
"Who knows, but if my mission is also to open the barrier, I will press the switch without hesitation just like her." Liu Ying said bluntly.
Su Wanxing thought about it seriously. Indeed, if it was true as Liu Ying said, no one would refuse such a smooth task.
Staying alive is probably the obsession of every player.
They waited until night fell, but Lingyi still didn't show up.
A troublesome thing happened: there was a power outage.
Su Wanxing put away the entertainment cards and turned on the solar light. Liu Ying had already contacted Jiang Keming upstairs. They had had a few arguments, but everything else was normal. They could find some food and water.
Not long after the lights came on, the windows were immediately attracted by dense swarms of small flying insects, and Liu Ying had to walk over and draw the curtains.
Su Wanxing took out a crystal and powered up the floating computer to avoid missing the news of Zero One. If nothing unexpected happened, the power source of the entire Tianshen Technology building would be the crystal, but Su Wanxing alone could not supply the power of the entire building.
Afterwards, Su Wanxing took out the tent, and Liu Ying and Qin Rong helped to set it up.
It's late at night, and there seems to be nothing to do except sleeping.
Qin Rong already had a single bed in the staff lounge, so Su Wanxing and Liu Ying decided to sleep in the tent. Fortunately, there was a toilet in the lounge, otherwise they would not have been able to solve the hygiene problem in time.
"There are more insects at night." Qin Rong said while lying on the bed.
Su Wanxing turned off the solar light and went into the tent, "Because the environment at night is more suitable for breeding than during the day."
"Ah?" Qin Rong hurriedly put her feet into the bed. "When I think of them gathering in groups near the window to lay eggs, I feel sick."
"Don't worry, I have sealed the windows tightly. Even if some ignorant insects break in through the door or window, the device set up by Wanxing will wake us up immediately." Liu Ying leaned out her head and comforted her.
Qin Rong took a few deep breaths and said, "Okay, good night."
After saying good night to each other, the quiet night was completely occupied by the loud chirping of insects. But there was nothing we could do but treat it as white noise, even though the sounds were louder than usual.
The next day, Liu Ying opened the curtains and stood there in a daze.
The windows were covered with flesh-colored eggs, some as big as a fist, and the embryos inside could be clearly seen wriggling. She just wanted to see what was going on outside, but she didn't expect to be hit so hard in the morning.
Fortunately, through a few gaps, I can still vaguely see the situation on the street.
Liu Ying reported promptly: "Corpses were everywhere, and there was scrap iron and steel."
In just one night, the war between humans and machines had just begun, but was destroyed by the swarm of insects.
The sky was filled with warm sunshine and abundant light. After the three of them finished their seafood breakfast, Su Wanxing began to find ways to contact Lingyi.
Given that the swarm is currently in a dominant position, Su Wanxing doesn't dare to act rashly. They don't even dare to open the door.
It is very likely that Zero-One is unable to transmit information because the circuit has been cut by insects, but it is even more unrealistic to go to its core database to obtain contact at this time.
Su Wanxing tried hard to search for Zero-One in the ocean of data, and tried his best to build a bridge of human-computer interaction for it.
The most effective way at present is to close the barrier. Although there is a main switch in the Tianshen Technology Building, only Luo Ci and Lingyi know where it is.
Luo Ci had already slipped away, so now we can only try to contact Lingyi.
Suddenly, a dripping sound came from the window and outside the door, a bit like the sound of bubbles popping.
Only Liu Ying dared to open the curtains.
"Swish——" the curtains opened.
The three of them were shocked.
What…thing…
Those flesh-colored insect eggs just now actually gave birth to life very quickly.
The fist-sized egg in particular has a more stunning visual impact. The naked eye can clearly see the strange shape of the insect inside, which is constantly wriggling, even squeezing the round egg out of shape, just like piercing the epidermis with an embroidery needle, revealing a sharp protrusion.
After a while, due to the interaction of forces, a small hole was punctured in the flesh-colored round insect egg, and a lobster-like claw emerged from it.
What's even more strange is that the pair of pliers are made of steel, because under the sunlight, the steel pliers reflect light.
Afterwards, a strange-shaped insect crawled out of the eggs. It was very strange that its shell was made entirely of steel, and its body seemed to be wrapped in armor-like steel armor. It looked not only weird but also particularly creepy because it also had a human-like, beating small heart.
"Ugh..." Qin Rong quickly ran to the bathroom and vomited out the acid rising in her stomach.
Liu Ying took a breath and said, "What is this?"
"Do you remember what the fluttering moth said yesterday? They are good at assimilating and parasitizing humans. I guess that on the basis of assimilating and parasitizing humans, they also assimilated and parasitized robots, so they gave birth to a new kind of insect. Let's call it the armored beetle for now." Su Wanxing guessed.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Unlike the sound of moths using their antennae to knock on the window yesterday, this time, armored beetles of different sizes used their steel pincers to knock on the window violently, but the frequency was more gradual.
"If we keep knocking like this, once the window breaks, we'll be finished sooner or later." Liu Ying sighed.
It was at this moment that Su Wanxing realized that although the native insect swarm on Planet D was isolated from the outside by humans with reinforced glass, it had already fully upgraded its biotechnology.
In other words, the insects continue to reproduce and evolve, possessing unique intelligence, and can even use genetic chains to produce biological weapons.
They are the real masters of the world.
Cracked!
The windows were cracked with snowflake-like cracks.
Su Wanxing ran to the floating computer and sat down almost instantly. She could no longer wait for Lingyi's request. Human beings could no longer sit and wait for death!
Although Liu Ying didn't understand what Su Wanxing was going to do, her trust in her made her believe that there must be a reason for Su Wanxing's actions.
"Take it." Liu Ying didn't ask any more questions, but threw a bottle of insecticide to Qin Rong. This was bought in the game mall after discussing with Su Wanxing yesterday. It was not expensive, at a discounted price of 18Q.
Qin Rong didn't catch it, and immediately bent down to pick it up, always ready for battle. Anyway, the two new friends are very reliable. Following them will not only give you meat to eat but also keep you alive. Just trust them and you'll be fine!
As expected, things did not go in a good direction. The glass shattered. With the armored beetle's final fierce attack, the glass broke in half, allowing the densely packed small armored beetles to enter just enough space.
"Bugs, I'm going to fight you!" Qin Rong shouted, encouraged herself, and then pressed the insecticide.
A foul-smelling white smoke gushed out and mercilessly pounced on the insects.
The only armored beetle, which was the size of a fist, seemed to smell a strange smell and became dizzy, so it raised its pincers but missed. It shook its head in a very human way, revealing its wings under the steel armor, and flew away desperately.
The tiny armored beetles were hit by the thick pesticide and froze up, then fell to the ground one by one with a "bang".
Seeing this, Liu Ying took out a piece of cloth and temporarily sealed the broken window. If any insect tried to get in again, she would just give it a deadly spray of insecticide.
Su Wanxing left his back to his teammates and took the opportunity to find the weather controller program he had noticed before. Although he was not very familiar with it, it was easy to use.
Soon, she reset the area where the natural disaster occurred, from the garbage dump area of Zone D to the world outside the barrier.
In addition to the visible area, the map also marked several insect nests. Su Wanxing set the disaster area between the two insect nests in order not to kill them all, but to create a reverse threat. Moreover, although the D area was invaded by insects, there were still humans and robots left, so the disaster area could not be set in the D area.
Endless killing will only cause loss of life. Moreover, Su Wanxing, who was born in a peaceful era, has no desire to start a war.
No matter which side you stand on, everyone has their own difficulties.
From the perspective of the Zerg, they are actually the most innocent race. They were invaded by alien species for no reason, and they wantonly destroyed the originally balanced ecological environment on the planet. They even delusionally want to compete with them for the right to use the planet.
As humans, they can only invade other planets without authorization in order to survive, but they unexpectedly bring disaster upon themselves. Even if they can successfully reproduce their species, they are always trembling with fear, on the one hand they are fighting against insects, and on the other hand they are facing the depletion of resources again.
Robots are a sad group born under human civilization. They are treated as accessories by selfish humans. They use their bodies to enter the Zerg territory to explore, and are continuously created and abandoned. The self-aware artificial intelligence finally can't stand it anymore and decides to use humans to feed the Zerg, thereby defending the mechanical civilization.
Su Wanxing took a deep breath and clicked to run the program.
…
The forest wrapped in blue-purple mist welcomes strong beams of light, and the water vapor is evaporated, producing a more beautiful Tyndall effect.
The various insects that had wrapped around the tree trunk suddenly raised their long tentacles, feeling the sudden change in temperature.
Not good! The high-level insects, that is, the intelligent insects, realized that the situation was not good, and immediately used the special smell that insects have to transmit information.
The reason why sound, resonance and other methods were not chosen is because the situation is urgent, smell can be blown far away by the wind, but sound can only be communicated one-on-one between insect swarms.
In just a few seconds, all the insects in the area realized that the temperature was rising, and they needed to return to their nests as soon as possible, or secrete their own unique mucus to protect themselves.
Soon, the news that the temperature had risen in a specific area spread throughout the race. The insect mother, who was laying eggs continuously, slowly opened her eyes and walked out from among countless tentacles.
It holds an insect egg with countless thin tentacles, and a long thin tube extends from its mouth, which can be understood as its tongue.
The long, soft tongue stretched into the egg, and the embryo inside actually lit up fluorescent green.
Not long after, the mother insect gently placed the eggs.
A colorful butterfly emerged from the egg, but its wings were each equipped with a pair of black eyes similar to those of the mother insect.
Without any verbal communication, the butterfly's magical biological genes gave it the thinking and vision of an insect mother since birth. It flapped its wings and headed towards the direction of the human invasion.
…
Su Wanxing watched the weather controller operate normally, and then fixed the bug that caused the controller to be unable to control the duration of the disaster.
Five minutes later, Su Wanxing, who had fixed the bug, finally looked up. Seeing this, Liu Ying and Qin Rong were about to step forward to ask about the situation, but they heard a polite knocking sound outside the window, which was completely different from the impatient intrusion sound just now.
Su Wanxing seemed to have a premonition of something and hurriedly stood up, but because of the strange patterns on the insect's body, he did not dare to move forward.
When Liu Ying saw Su Wanxing's reaction, she gave Qin Rong a look. Qin Rong immediately raised the insecticide, and Liu Ying slowly lifted the cloth that had just been sealed.
The broken part of the glass was sealed, so when the cloth was lifted, the three people could only see a creepy black eye.
But when they found that the eye seemed to be flat, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The eyes on the butterfly's wings were extremely black, and seemed to be able to actually see the people in the house, so the butterfly outside moved down in order to better show its eyes, and finally landed on the lower left windowsill, revealing a pair of black pupils on its wings.
"Is it the fluttering moth from yesterday?" Liu Ying felt that they all looked similar.
Qin Rong also felt like she was face-blind. "Does it have something to say?"
Su Wanxing stepped forward and stopped Butterfly from speaking. "Unless you stop harming humans and robots, the temperature in that area will continue to rise over time."
"You know I'm not here to negotiate with you?" said the butterfly.
A blind victor never admits defeat. The purpose of sending Butterfly here was naturally not to negotiate, but to warn.
Su Wanxing changed from passive to active, "Do you have anything else to say?"
"If you don't get out of our planet, we will assimilate all of you!"
"Okay, since it has come to this," Su Wanxing did not expect the insects to be polite, "if you invade on a large scale again, I will destroy your insect nests one by one."
The dark eyeballs on the butterfly's wings turned red in an instant under the sunlight. The three were surprised, but remained calm. After all, a good team would not lose its composure.
Su Wanxing narrowed his eyes, waiting for Butterfly to speak. It was probably going to be a tough psychological battle.
"Damn, dirty, despicable human being." The butterfly cursed.
To be honest, Su Wanxing was helpless. As Lingyi said, she could not make decisions on behalf of all mankind.
Moreover, this is a three-party position, and there is no help from diplomats. Apart from peaceful coexistence, she really can't think of a good way, but she can't put forward this principle from the standpoint of human beings.
After all, it is humans who are the instigators.
"...Zizila...Zizila,Zizila..." There was a sound of electric current coming from the floating computer. Qin Rong immediately went over and took the computer.
A black window suddenly popped up at the bottom left of the floating screen, revealing a red dog head.
The dog head first narrowed its large pixel eyes, as if it saw a butterfly, and then Zero One's voice appeared, "Mother Worm, you destroyed a lot of machines, I'm very angry."
"I should be the one angry, stupid brain."
"I can't communicate normally with you bugs, but at least humans can understand human language."
"How can you be so reasonable? Your robots are all just pieces of junk with stupid brains!"
"An unreasonable, brainless monster."
…
Su Wanxing found it a little ridiculous and paused for a long time. This insect queen, who looked like a butterfly but might be the leader of an insect swarm, and the robot boss were actually arguing non-stop.
The world is indeed a huge makeshift team, regardless of race.
But they quarrel in a very civilized manner.
Su Wanxing thought, "How about...we sign a treaty of peaceful coexistence?"
Butterfly and Zero One said in unison: "Shut up!"
Su Wanxing was completely in a mess, and when he saw that the mission progress had suddenly reached 99%, he said, "Listen to me, are you two done yet?"
While the bugs and AI were stunned, Su Wanxing said in an orderly manner: "How about this, let's not pretend anymore. Since we can't leave and can't win the fight, let's sign a balance of power agreement."
The so-called checks and balances agreement is very simple. The three parties cannot attack at will. If there is a really unavoidable reason, the situation will be like it is now, no one will submit to anyone else, and then the three parties will have no peace.
As for the rest, Su Wanxing is just an engineering guy, so let’s leave it to someone capable to think about it.
In short, since we need to check and balance each other, the transparent barrier must be removed in the future. No one should try to do anything secretly. We all live on the same planet, and any small move will be exposed clearly.
Humans need to overcome their fear of insects visiting their homes at any time; insects need to restrain their urge to enter homes and reproduce; and AI needs to put an end to the bad habit of insulting insects.
At the same time, the three parties are equal and no one party can dominate.
Su Wanxing watched the task progress bar jump to 100% with exhaustion, and chose to quit without hesitation!
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