Chapter 80
The tone of the video itself is already very sad and cruel.
The last sentence "She is already the 26-year-old Chief of Staff Sheng Zuo" is inexplicably heartbreaking.
So in the last hour of the PK competition, the data of Chu Zhao's account suddenly soared. "Light Chaser", which did not receive many votes in the "Catch Up" track, suddenly became the favorite to win.
Because those accounts that rushed in to cast the only votes they had for the curling smoke wrote:
[She felt sorry for herself, but not for the 16-year-old Sheng Shu]
[She is an orphan who was abandoned and grew up alone, she is the junior sister of the famous Chief of Staff Zhou, and she is also Sheng Shu who followed his footsteps step by step to become the Chief of Staff Zuo QAQ]
[Wow, I've seen many examples of people taking idols as role models, but I didn't expect that Chief of Staff Sheng would break down (crying). Ten years of pursuit really makes people's confidence shaky. Why don't you believe that she just wants to get back together with you? To her, you are her senior, her sweetheart, and even her role model. QAQ She just wants to follow in your footsteps.]
[I don’t want to say anymore, Chief of Staff Sheng’s future is bright and dazzling (tears streaming down my face)]
For various reasons, many of them voted for "Light Chasers" in the last hour, and the heartfelt comments left by many people also attracted many viewers who were browsing the common track channel to watch.
When they first saw this channel, they thought: ? Another one promoting the idea that the military and the people are one family? Can the Xingyun media outlet not be so serious and official?
But before I felt disgusted, I unconsciously stopped at the video "Light Chasers" because of the large number of recommendations on the homepage.
Then I watched the entire video outside the webpage.
In the holographic age, this old-fashioned and non-immersive way of watching videos is actually quite backward, and few people can watch this kind of video patiently.
But the strange thing is that this time, even outside the web page, all they can see is a flat picture, and the sound effects and colors are not so natural. They can still feel the tearing pain when Chief of Staff Sheng Shu breaks out of his cocoon and becomes a butterfly.
She could feel the shadow that followed her everywhere, from being as oppressive as a mountain beside her to slowly collapsing and becoming the nothingness behind the ruins in her heart.
He disappeared not because she gave up, but because she had no choice but to give up. Sheng Shu overcame countless difficulties and impossibilities, but could never overcome the fact that he and she were no longer related.
So, that's it. The video ends with the warehouse burning down, and they meet each other but don't recognize each other.
Compared to Ying and Pei, who were childhood sweethearts and were later forced to become enemies, perhaps the fact that Chief of Staff Zhou has always been in that high position and has never looked back is already a better ending.
At twelve o'clock, the light brain vibrated, and on time, it sent Chu Zhao the news that she ranked first again in the second round of PK competition. But it was Yin Lang who saw this message.
He glanced at it first, silently took back the message, and then looked outside the nebula. The glass hand flew out, and the transparent structure slowly turned into a bright white under the moonlight.
Along with Yin Lang's silver-gray hair.
Under the moonlight, his hair was slightly blown by the wind, and even the silver hidden in his pupils was frighteningly dazzling, but it was only for a moment. Chu Zhao in the room suddenly turned over, and the clouds covered the moon. Yin Lang's hair and pupils dimmed, as if they had never been bright.
Yin Lang turned to Glass Hand: "In a month at most, we should go back."
Glass Hand banged the wall frantically.
Yin Lang looked at it calmly for a while, then said: "The tide of time is irreversible. We have been observing this universe for too long."
He grabbed his left hand. If Chu Zhao were here, he would find that his appearance looked exactly like a human, but when he touched the back of his hand, he could actually remove a completely transparent molecular glove made of a material that was much more advanced than human technology.
The molecules of these gloves were as alive as the glass hands. Once they were free, they rushed into the air, but were restricted by Yin Lang's mental power. They could only curl up quietly after a commotion, lying in the air and staring at the holographic screen to watch the video playing inside.
Yin Lang: "Remember to say goodbye to her properly."
Although he never got used to saying goodbye.
Chu Zhao got up very early the next day. She was careless to begin with, and her heart was focused on editing, so she naturally didn't notice that her snail landlord might be leaving soon.
But she did take the time to ask, what were the results of Jingwei's investigation?
Although the former landlord seemed distant and detached from the nebula, he was the one who reminded her that her protection system model was wrong. Chu Zhao felt that Yin Lang should be able to get news about Jingwei more easily than she did.
And he did not disappoint her expectations: "It has been completed, and the preliminary investigation results will be released today."
Chu Zhao's eyes lit up: "Really! That's not it!" That didn't mean that she would soon know whether the matter of Jingwei was speculation or the truth, and she would also know whether the court was even more evil than what she saw in the video!
No wonder Chu Zhao’s first thought was this.
Not to mention that she had figured out Qingli from her speculations about the details and was the first to determine that Qingli really existed. Even if she didn't, she would not be happy to see an unpleasant meeting court bullying her CP.
Besides, she has already seen the human-machine CP, so what CP can't she see? If the past is real, then the CP of the God is too miserable.
Thinking of this, she slowed down her eating pace again.
Yin Lang did not use ingredients from Xingyun, but found a lot of original ingredients from Gulanxing after figuring out Chu Zhao's personal eating habits. This is also the reason why Chu Zhao turned a blind eye to the former landlord living here.
Who understands? The nutrient solution with fried rice flavor is really not as delicious as fried rice!
Seeing that she was distracted while eating, Yin Lang did not correct her even though he knew it was a bad habit. He just reminded her, "The live broadcast will start in two hours." So, if she wanted to watch it in real time, she should hurry up and eat.
Chu Zhao turned around and asked: "How dare you broadcast the meeting live?"
Yin Lang paused: "It's not a conference room." It's the Academy of Sciences.
However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Just as they finished their meal and were about to take a break, the latest news popped up on the computer, saying that the Academy of Sciences account had started a private live broadcast.
And there was no Jingwei flow restriction at all during this live broadcast! This means that Jingwei's regulatory system may have collapsed at this moment, and the Academy of Sciences has become the only gap for the truth to be revealed.
Chu Zhao immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and went to eat the melon.
On the enlarged holographic screen, the Academy of Sciences' 100x high-definition lens was aimed at many precise and advanced experimental instruments, but in front of the huge electronic telescope with a lens diameter of six or seven meters, there was a person standing.
The camera was shaking, and snowflakes appeared from time to time. But the shaking of the camera allowed everyone to see clearly that the person standing there was not someone else, but Xu Su!
The main person involved in the CP of the Descendant God is also the direct developer of the fourth generation of Jingwei! He looked even more cold and indifferent than in the video. In front of the huge lens of the electron microscope, he looked like a tiny dust caught by the queen insect.
But he is not overwhelmed by the enormity of the high-rise telescope.
He said calmly and calmly: "I was the one who did the Jingwei's mimicry life experiment."
【! 】
The live broadcast began to lag, and there was an occasional "sizzling" sound mixed in with Xu Su's confession.
But this did not prevent everyone who entered the live broadcast room from listening to his words and understanding the cause and effect under Xu Su's unconsciously quiet aura:
"Qingli and General Yu Qingli, I were classmates at the military academy."
The people were shocked. The story he told was not quite the same as in the video, but if Chu Zhao were to edit it, it would probably be a story somewhat similar to Ying Pei's.
The difference is that the angel in the story was not able to be promoted smoothly because of his military achievements.
"The situation on the front line was critical at the time, and Qingli accepted the rank of chief of staff and admiral, who had the right to mobilize the 13th Army and the Star Patrol in wartime." The Star Patrol and the 13th Army were almost the top combat forces in the nebula at the time, and as long as there was someone in command at that time, the Zerg's front line would not be able to advance any further.
But Qingli is not a cruel enough person.
In other words, she is not suitable to be an aggressive or desperate general.
When the Queen of Insects at that time discovered her SSS-level mental power and wanted to target her and burn her along with the entire Eastern Region, she did not accept the advice of her deputy general and use a fleet as a pioneer to divert the Queen of Insects' attention.
She used herself as bait.
"It's over now. I don't want to judge the merits of her choice at the time, nor do I intend to, as an outsider with no relevant identity, to blame anyone for not participating in the support or reporting the news in a timely manner."
"What I know is that the underdeveloped communication system at the time did lead to the collapse of the front line. The base station was paralyzed before the Zerg arrived. So I learned from my mistakes and decided to participate in the research of the communication core."
Communication core. Chu Zhao had seen it before when he was looking up information. He knew that it was one of the driving forces of Jingwei's core program.
[Oh my god.] Chu Zhao didn’t know his special identity: [Then he was the one who helped create the fourth generation of Jingwei.]
Xu Su smiled, but it was a shallow smile, and it was hard to tell whether it was a smile or self-mockery: "That's right."
He couldn't see the comments, and didn't know the live broadcast had started. He just responded to his colleagues' shocked or ugly expressions: "The fourth generation of Jingwei was built on the basis of my research topic. But my resume was too ordinary at the time, and my qualifications were not enough to support me to become the person in charge of this project. So when I came into contact with this project, I was just one of the assistants, observing the preliminary preparations for the experiment and the entire implementation process in the middle."
The audience's heart skipped a beat.
Xu Su said calmly: "Qingli became the carrier substitute in the second half of that experiment."
Originally, their expectations were very optimistic. To upgrade Jingwei, to achieve full nebula coverage communication, to connect to the spiritual power, it is not necessary to manually take over the spiritual power as a carrier to operate, just implanting the spiritual power core, and a similar effect can be achieved without a carrier.
Just like the cadaver teacher's sacrifice, the mental power core dug out before brain death is active and will not be rejected by mechanical artificial intelligence at all.
But something went wrong in the experimental half.
"The teacher tried many alternative carriers, and finally decided that it could only be dug out directly from the body of a high-level psychic who was still alive. Qingli was not the first candidate."
He was silent for a while before continuing, "But she was the first to respond to the detector." They did this detection only to ensure the activity of the mental core and to increase the probability of success of the experiment.
But the experimental team at that time was mostly young people, and they were not brave enough to take action against an SSS-level admiral. They also did not have the heart to do so.
Xu Su paused again.
[Was the detector in your hands at that time? ]
Xu Su: "But I have come into contact with her spiritual power."
Xu Su: "I know what she is talking about."
Perhaps it was a ridiculous coincidence, or perhaps it was fate. A high-level psychic who was almost sacrificed, a general, felt the psychic power of a familiar person when he was dying.
They completed the intersection.
Xu Su had been looking for her for so many years, and the first thing he heard when he met her again was her hoarse and intermittent two words: Jing Wei.
As an admiral who was appointed in a critical moment, she certainly knew the importance of the mimicry experiment. She also knew who was a stranger to her and who was respectful to her, and it was completely impossible for her to respond. Instead, she was more likely to stop this inhumane experiment.
But Xu Su can.
Because Xu Su is smart. And he has never been good at rejecting himself.
Xu Su: "I completed the experiment."
After he finished speaking, he waited for a while until his emotions calmed down again, then he spoke: "Teacher is very regretful, but also very grateful. In order to protect me and the secret in our laboratory, the entire experimental team was disbanded and reorganized three times. Many of my senior brothers and sisters never saw each other again in their entire lives."
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Xu Su: "But He has always been by my side."
This sentence made everyone's eardrums hurt.
The particularity of the mimic life experiment meant that no one could replace Qingli's spiritual power core for the second time. It also meant that even though he was facing her cold mechanical body every day, he would still see her sleeping in the ocean of information with her eyes closed.
She could have died like all the other meritorious generals, sleeping in a black tower surrounded by birdsong and flowers. But he left her with his own hands.
He created a nightmare that imprisoned her. And every time this dream loosened, when her humanity, which had not been completely deprived of her, was confused and wanted to get out of this prison, he would start the reset program and watch her continue to indulge in this nightmare that would never end.
The audience didn’t understand. Neither did anyone else.
Even outside the camera, a young researcher shouted angrily: "Why are you doing this!"
Yes, why would he do that?
Xu Su raised his eyes. What surprised them was that this senior professor, whose growth trajectory and experience were completely in line with the growth path of a highly educated and technically talented person, had a gray pupil in his ordinary eyebrows and eyes.
It seemed that when Qingli's spiritual power core was taken away, the light in his pupils and that bit of spirit were also completely taken away.
"Because I know that you can't accommodate Him, nor can you allow His autonomous consciousness to exist." Xu Su looked around at these people calmly, and the audience also discovered at this time that this scene was exactly the same as in the video.
He locked himself and Jingwei together, and no one outside the laboratory could get in.
This is also just like in the video, a risk-taking adventure!
But perhaps because of the interrogation video, when the audience watched Professor Xu Su in the live broadcast, what they felt was not the absurdity of his selfishness and arrogance, but a kind of sadness that almost penetrated their hearts.
And dazed.
He made the same choice as in the video. He chose to discredit himself to fulfill Him, right?
They soon found out the answer.
"His server has been shut down for the past week. I changed the underlying logic in his core code, so even if he is asleep you won't notice anything. But as long as I turn it on and the modified core program runs, and my key is not cracked, Jingwei will be completely mine."
Xu Su whispered. "He belongs to me."
Perhaps because he has been in the Academy of Sciences for many years and has been in charge of many important projects, his colleagues and students do not feel the slightest bit of familiarity when looking at Professor Xu. They just feel that he may have been waiting for this day for a long time.
He lowered his voice now not because of fear or madness, but because he got what he wanted.
"He shouldn't belong to all of you."
Others could not help but say, "Xu Su! You have been in the Academy of Sciences for so many years and are almost equivalent to the vice president of the Academy! Why are you destroying your career like this! And you want to take Jingwei for yourself!"
Some colleagues still refused to believe it: "He couldn't have done that. He must be stalling for time and telling the Central Guard not to shoot. He must have done it on purpose!"
Xu Su's expression didn't change at all.
“Perhaps you will say that He is not mine either.”
"But why isn't He? When we entered the military academy, we protected each other from the remote galaxies to the central galaxy. When we signed up for the selection, we teamed up to get the selected spot. Her mecha has great output, and as a logistics mecha master, I can only repair her mecha after she finishes the battle. I asked her why she didn't team up with others."
Xu Su: "She said she would not abandon her teammates. I am her recognized comrade-in-arms and the only one who has accompanied her here, so unless she dies in battle, she will not let me go to the battlefield alone."
Xu Su laughed: "Do you know how Jingwei's combat support system was developed?"
The Central Guard sniper was already in position, but he still did not make any attacking moves and just stood there talking.
"The first time I tried to escape with Jingwei's core program and all the keys and was involved in a battlefield, it was the first time she went against her dormant command instinct to protect me."
It was He who exposed Himself to protect him and made the first connection with the combat system.
Why isn't He mine? Or why isn't He Qingli?
Why should he be locked in that small mechanical box? Even when he wanted to say to him, "Have I seen you somewhere before?", he would be warned by his own program and fall into coma.
“I am in pain every moment.”
Xu Su's voice became even softer: "From the moment I made the decision, it's not just Jingwei who is locked in this box, but also me. So, I will not give Him to you."
The Central Guards smashed the mechanical barrier and broke in. At the same time, Xu Su had already covered his palm and used genetic information to unlock the last key, with a laser gun against his temple.
He only said: "I modified and improved the key of Jingwei's core program. You can't tamper with it."
The guards looked at the dean. His teacher, who was highly respected and walked heavily, looked at him carefully until Xu Su's expression became like a statue. The dean, who was also his teacher, closed his eyes and said, "Tell me, what is the method to unlock the core program?"
Xu Su turned his head and said, "Put my spiritual power core in it."
The dean's body trembled, but he just turned his head slowly.
The young man who had questioned earlier was shocked: "What! The mimicry life experiment has long been banned, and two mental cores will reject each other."
The dean replied in a hoarse voice: "Then one will infiltrate the program." When one core becomes the core, the constraints of the remaining core will be released, and it will infiltrate every program and every byte. It will be everywhere.
Gain the freedom that belongs to the program, which is different from that of humans.
His freedom.
This is his method. The dean is proud, but also sad.
His student endured the pain of killing his beloved and lay dormant for research for more than ten years. Finally, he found a way to replace His core with himself, and use his rebellion to promote the second mimicry life experiment that was impossible to pass, impossible to comply with ethics and morality, but impossible not to implement under such extreme circumstances!
Xu Su said so much, but in fact he just wanted to convince his colleague. "Teacher."
Xu Su lowered his head. He was no longer young, and he was the backbone of the laboratory. It was impossible for him not to know what a nuclear replacement meant. But this was what he was waiting for.
That's what he meant by saying this.
Considering that his lover sacrificed himself for Nebula, and considering that he had found a reason for them to use him as an experimental subject, should he let Him go?
"He has been in service for twenty years." To the original Qingli, this was not a long time. But to "Zero", whose life was endless but had already ended.
His suffering could no longer continue. He could not allow it.
“Just let Him rest.”
The researchers behind him were so shocked that they were speechless. The teacher tried to remain calm, but couldn't help crying: "If we had known this, why did we start the anthropomorphic Jingwei? You are not even an SSS-level psychic. If you rashly replace Him, you will only collapse faster."
"But it's better than Him being there alone."
Xu Su knew that the technological upgrade would eventually allow Jingwei to have independent spiritual power and nuclear energy and operate without Qingli. But this time was too long.
He is already thirty-two.
If he didn't take his place at this time, he didn't know if he would be able to see him breathe freely again in his lifetime. In his short life, this was his only chance to bring Qingli back to life.
The dean closed his eyes tightly.
Xu Su turned around. The guard pointed his gun at him and watched the senior professor, who had not attacked or hurt anyone, put his hand in his pocket and took out a key.
【It is the backdoor of all daily life. 】
He is indeed boring, cowardly, selfish, and timid. But at least over the years, he has retained a part of Him that can poke out of the mechanical water and take a breath.
He reminded Him of a person who read Stray Birds to an artificial intelligence.
I read a certain sentence that He secretly collected, and read it many times.
——Life includes no islands.
And we will all die.
And we will all die.
Teacher. To Him, as a human being, I am just an island different from Him. To Him, death is not unworthy of understanding. But I understand.
so.
"I'm sorry for not listening to you and abandoning my ridiculous idea." Xu Su said slowly, "But I volunteered."
Just like when her dying spiritual power flickered and called out to him, but he dug out her spiritual core. I died for the island in my life. It was also voluntary.
"Number 78, you have been arrested by the Third Squadron of the Central System Guard! Hand over your weapons!"
"Sir!" The dean suddenly took a deep breath and turned around. But he seemed to have aged several years after he finished speaking: "Let's rescue Jingwei first?"
The captain of the guard looked at Xu Su who raised his hands, and then looked at the dean.
The dean pointed a trembling finger at him, just like how he had slapped him many years ago to ask him not to let her die in vain on the operating table: "I apply to conduct a critical mimicry experiment."
"Replace the number one spiritual power core in the fourth generation Jingwei."
Xu Su's heartbeat slowly slowed down. He even felt Jingwei's sleeping program unconsciously contacting his mental power, preparing to give him a comprehensive examination after waking up. He finally smiled.
"thank you."
The dean opened his mouth and said, "Prepare the lab."
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