Chapter 156: The Disappearance of Mail 001
Nan Qi and Bai were both startled by the flashing light of the Star Brain.
Since the anti-bandit operation began, in order to prevent the news from leaking out, all soldiers' star brains have been handed in. Only Bai and representatives from eleven other countries still have their star brains in their hands because they have to deal with some domestic affairs. They are also equipped with signal recognition IDs.
In this way, even if the news leaks out, it is still possible to find out which Star Brain sent the message through the ID.
But even so, Bai and his team have no way to contact the outside world at any time. There is a signal shielding system on each warship, and a signal shielding system will also be installed in the temporary place where they stay.
The signal blocking system will only be shut down at a specific time every day, and the shutdown time is also fixed, which is 15 minutes, which is enough time for representatives from various countries to receive and send documents.
Today's signal shielding system shutdown time has passed. Logically, the Star Brain should not receive any messages, but the white Star Brain started flashing, indicating that it was receiving new emails.
Bai and Nan Qi looked at each other, then slowly stood up and took the Xingnao in their hands. Nan Qi also stood up, turned on the bedside lamp, and came over to take a look together.
When Nan Qi saw that the email was received not from Bai's work email address but from Bai's private email address, and that the sender was from an unfamiliar account, he was surprised.
"Has your email address ever been leaked?"
Bai shook his head. "Probably not. This is my most private email address. The identity information attached to it isn't mine, but that of a female insect who's lost her mind and is now in a nursing home. I applied for it only for emergency use. Since applying for it, I haven't actually used this email address. But the problem now isn't the email address, but..."
Rather, the question was why he received the email.
Looking at the only email in the mailbox, he pursed his lips tightly, his expression more serious than ever before.
Bai was surprised to receive the email on his private mailbox, but that was all he was surprised about. Since he had applied for an email address, there was a possibility of it being leaked. What worried him was why he could receive the email even though the signal had been blocked.
Is there something wrong with the signal shielding system, or is there a bug that has shut down the shielding system without permission, or... is there a more powerful force that has invaded the signal shielding system?
The more Bai thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He was about to get up to check, but was grabbed by Nan Qi.
"Don't worry, let's see what the email is first." Nan Qi pulled Bai to sit down again, his voice steady and soothing. "Even if some bug had activated the jammer, it would have escaped by now. Besides, the warship is full of surveillance, and the room where the jammer is placed is even more heavily monitored. Disabling the jammer requires a dynamic key, so it shouldn't be that easy to do passively."
Bai: "You mean..."
Nan Qi said in a deep voice: "It may be related to the main brain."
"Impossible." Bai denied it immediately, and the uneasiness in his heart rose again. Could it be that Nan Qi already knew that the main brain system that he had been trying hard to conceal had developed independent consciousness?
He then denied this conjecture, calmed himself down, and made himself appear normal before saying, "Our military system is a subsystem specifically separated from the main brain. As you know, even if the main system is hacked, it will not affect the subsystem."
Nan Qi: "I know."
Bai once told him that the military system was a subsystem specially separated from the main brain in order to prevent it from being easily invaded by other countries.
After the subsystem becomes a military system, it runs independently. No operation requires authorization from the main brain, and the temporary keys generated by important operations will not be obtained by the main brain system.
At the time, he thought it was quite advanced and that the military system was quite safe, but now he has a different opinion.
If a backdoor was left in the subsystem when the main brain system was divided into subsystems to allow "it" to enter and exit, would what happened today be possible?
Nan Qi: "I just think it's not the main system that's been hacked, but the subsystem that's been hacked by the main system. Bai, do you remember that there's a device in the Insect Emperor's bedroom that's similar to the mainframe console? What do you think the Insect Emperor uses it for?"
"You mean that the Insect King controlled the main system and invaded the subsystem to obtain our every move?" Bai was shocked by Nan Qi's words.
"It's unlikely that they could obtain every single one of our movements." Nan Qi said, "If they had obtained every single one of our movements, our bandit suppression operations over the past two weeks wouldn't have been so smooth. The Insect King probably doesn't have that much power."
"So what you mean is..." Bai was confused by Nan Qi. Sometimes he hinted that the Insect King controlled the main system to invade the subsystem, and sometimes he said that the Insect King did not have the ability to control the main system.
Nan Qi: "What I mean is that there's something wrong with the main brain and main system."
Bai's pupils trembled uncontrollably, and he immediately lowered his eyelids to hide his fear. He whispered, "What could possibly be wrong with the main brain and main system? It's been the same for 20,000 years since we acquired it. We would have noticed any changes long ago."
"Are you still trying to hide this from me?" Nan Qi placed his fingers on Bai's unconsciously furrowed brows and gently rubbed them open. "I know everything."
"What could I possibly be hiding from you?" Bai didn't dare look at Nan Qi, his fingers twisting the bed sheets unconsciously.
Nan Qi sighed, pulled out the bed sheet that Bai had abused, spread it out, held Bai's hand, and said slowly:
"Bai, I'm not a child anymore. You told me everything about Jody's first confession. We both knew from experience that the teacher would continue questioning based on the doubts in the confession, but the teacher's next message only asked what to do with Jody..."
Nan Qi didn't say the rest of the words, but Bai understood.
The decision to punish Qiao Di proved that he could no longer extract any useful information from him. His initial confession regarding the Mastermind was riddled with doubts, and even if Qiao Di could no longer extract anything, the teacher's reply would have made that clear. He hadn't spoken to Nan Qi about this matter out of guilt.
It turned out that Nan Qi had already had his suspicions at that time. It was because he had been too evasive about the issue that Nan Qi had found out.
Bai regretted that he was too careless.
In fact, it was not because he was careless. He cared too much about Nan Qi and did not want Nan Qi to notice anything from his lies, so he left such a loophole.
This was a very small flaw that other insects might not even notice, but Nan Qi was very careful and naturally discovered the problem.
"I'm sorry." After a long silence, Bai apologized. "I didn't mean to hide it from you. The news isn't accurate yet, it's just a guess. I didn't want you to worry."
Nan Qi: "So there's something wrong with the main brain system, right?"
Bai nodded: "Yeah."
"You suspect that the main brain system has developed independent consciousness, right?"
"Um."
"You still have doubts, or rather, you suspect that the main brain and main system developed independent consciousness because of me, right?"
Bai was silent for a moment, then nodded again: "Lily. Lily said that it was able to develop its own consciousness because of your brain waves, so I..."
Nan Qi kissed Bai's forehead: "I understand, you've worked hard."
"It wasn't hard... but you don't have to worry." Bai's heart melted when Nan Qi kissed him. Not wanting Nan Qi to worry, he immediately comforted him, "It probably has nothing to do with you. Qiao Di said that the first time he saw something wrong with the main brain system was ten years ago. At that time, you hadn't even come into contact with the main brain yet."
"Yeah, I understand. Don't worry, I won't think too much." Nan Qi kissed Bai again and took the initiative to open the email. "So, let's take a look at the email first. Maybe the main brain deliberately turned off the shielding system so that this email could be sent to your private mailbox. Let's take a look at what's written in it."
"Yeah." Bai didn't dwell on it anymore. If it was really done by the main brain, everything could be explained. He leaned on Nan Qi's solid chest and began to read the email.
The more he read, the darker Bai's face grew. After finishing the email, he took a deep breath and pretended to be joking: "This mastermind is quite on our side. This tells us everything."
Seeing Bai forcing a smile, Nan Qi felt very distressed. He hugged Bai in his arms and patted his back soothingly: "If you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh. Besides, the authenticity of this email is still uncertain."
"I know." Bai buried his face in the crook of Nan Qi's neck and said in a muffled voice, "It's just a little sad. The country we tried so hard to protect, but there are bugs who are destroying our common home for their own selfish reasons."
The email detailed how the Insect King cultivated the Star Pirates bit by bit, and how he used the Star Pirates to obtain experimental supplies and establish secret projects at the Imperial Research Institute.
The Insect King in the email was not Hoover Walker, but Hoover Walker's great-grandfather three generations ago, Adal Walker.
In other words, the royal family has been experimenting with intelligent creatures since more than three hundred years ago.
In addition, it also wrote that starting from Hoover Walker, in addition to evolutionary experiments, there were also gene editing experiments, and the female father of the second and third princes and the second queen of insects, Gila Cecil, died from genetic collapse after gene editing.
What's even more terrifying is that before giving birth to the second and third princes, these two insect servants had already undergone genetic editing.
In other words, the Second Prince and the Third Prince are the products of genetic editing, and their genes may suddenly collapse one day, and bugs like the Second Prince and the Third Prince account for one-fifth of the empire's citizens.
During his 100-year reign, Hoover Walker used his power to unscrupulously harm the citizens of the empire for the sake of so-called secret weapons, leaving huge hidden dangers for the empire.
However, this was just the tip of the iceberg. The email also mentioned that not only the Empire was conducting such experiments, but other countries also had them, and would regularly exchange technology with the Empire.
Many countries would purchase mature experimental subjects and promote02 potions from the Empire, including the Star Beast Kingdom.
The Star Beast Kingdom, their mortal enemy, was the race that almost devoured them 20,000 years ago.
At that time, the Zerg fought desperately and only relied on their tenacious will and the help of the main brain to avoid being wiped out.
Today, the head of state has forgotten the old hatred and is "cooperating" with the Star Beast Kingdom, even if this cooperation is only the sale of experimental subjects and Promote02 potions.
Compared to these, the order at the end of the email, in which Hoover Walker ordered Occam to contact the pirates to eliminate Jody, and the fact that the Crown Prince might be the bug hidden behind the Harberson Psychological Institute, seemed less important.
"Well, we have to get rid of this pest even without these. Now that we have this information, it will be easier for us to investigate, right?" Nan Qi touched the back of Bai's head and swiped the virtual screen with his other hand, "Let me see what the attachments are. Wow!"
Nan Qi exclaimed in surprise when he saw the materials about gene editing and the account book about promote02 that he had always wanted to steal from the Imperial Research Institute.
Bai immediately looked up, his eyes fixed on the rows of data on the virtual screen.
After seeing the summary of the data of 1534 experimental subjects, including Experimental Subject 001, Bai gasped: "No way..."
Nan Qi calmly selected the information of Experimental Subjects 061, 062, and 322. After glancing at them, he raised his lip and said, "It should be true. The one who sent us the email seems to really trust us."
Nan Qi wasn't sure if the email was from the main brain system they'd guessed, or if it was really the well-informed Lei Feng. Unable to find a suitable adjective, he used "Him" instead:
"Don't worry about what he wants to do. Now that he's here, we should make the best of it. He will eventually reveal his purpose. With this information, we can get twice the result with half the effort. Let's try to follow the clues first."
"Well, you can give it to the teacher first." Bai replied while continuing to check the information. After a moment, he exclaimed, "Why is there no 001? It is marked as 001 in the general outline."
"No?" Nan Qi looked over and found that the information marked 001 only had two pitiful sentences - the head of the experimental subject, the father of the experimental subject.
Apart from this, there is no information about 001's abilities or what experiments have been conducted on it.
Nan Qi pondered and said, "Maybe it was lost. Ten years ago, something happened at the Imperial Research Institute. Eight experimental subjects, including 001, disappeared, and a lot of data was destroyed. Maybe the main brain didn't have independent consciousness at that time, so it didn't retain these data."
"Yeah, that makes sense." Bai said with some regret, "With 001's information, we might be able to research a way to truly liberate the experimental subject."
"That's a bit greedy." Nan Qi smiled and rubbed Bai's nose.
"That's right. As a bug, you can't be too greedy. These alone are enough to keep us busy." Bai was satisfied.
"Then rest. You still have a meeting tomorrow, so you need to rest well." Nan Qi pulled Bai to lie down, covered her with the quilt, turned off the bedside lamp, and held Bai's warm body in his arms. "Go to sleep, I'm here."
"Yeah." Bai responded softly, closed his eyes, smelled the warm scent on Nan Qi's body, and gradually fell asleep. Naturally, he didn't notice that Nan Qi opened his eyes after he fell asleep.
"Ten years ago..."
At the same time, there were many people in the bandit-suppression joint army who couldn't sleep like Nan Qi.
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