Code of Wasteland Survival

Judging from the pictures in the news reports, the attackers should have used some kind of powerful poison gas bomb. Many Alliance soldiers wearing chemical protective suits and gas masks were carrying the corpses out of the venue one by one. Another group of enforcers holding bulletproof shields completely surrounded the entire venue, prohibiting any outsiders from entering.

This guy Xiao Lei...

Qi Lin couldn't help but frowned. If free will has been controlled by the Revolutionary Alliance as described in the report, then Xiaolei and the others may be in a very dangerous situation... The Revolutionary Alliance can be regarded as the mastermind's subordinates. cannon fodder, and free will has become the pawn of the Revolutionary League...the cannon fodder among cannon fodder.

The news was soon refreshed. This time at the regular meeting of the Consortium Alliance, the main discussion was a new set of shelter management plans. If the organization wants to start a war with the mastermind, the first thing to do is to completely get rid of the management of the shelter. If they cannot come up with an alternative plan to rely on the mastermind, after cutting off the connection with the mastermind, the entire shelter world will inevitably fall into chaos...

This kind of chaos will be devastating to social order... Imagine what it will be like for humans living in the Internet age if one day all the networks are paralyzed.

This kind of thing has happened in history. Decades ago, the American telecommunications giant CenturyLink suffered a large-scale network outage, including Arizona, Idaho, Massachusetts and other 37 states. Using the Internet, the scope of influence spreads to the entire American territory...

This network outage lasted for a full thirty-two hours. During the network outage, various public facilities were unable to operate, people could not call emergency calls, and could not use ATM machines... Even hospitals were forced to use pen and paper to record the incident. Patient files and medical records…

At this time, people will realize how dependent they are on the Internet. Without the Internet, modern people can hardly maintain a normal life.

In this accident, the direct economic losses reached an astronomical figure, and even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security intervened in the investigation.

This was only a thirty-two-hour outage, and the total duration was less than two days.

And if humans now go to war with the Master Brain, then the entire shelter network system based on the Master Brain will be completely overturned... This will be a huge project. You must know the influence of the Master Brain on human life. It's not something that the original network could compare to.

It is no exaggeration to say that without a mastermind, humankind's technological level will be set back by decades, or even more.

Not every shelter has the ability to transform itself into a purely mechanical world similar to the organization's headquarters that does not rely on electronic equipment and networks. Many people will die from this change. Without a mastermind, the management cost of the shelter will become doubled, everything must be completed by manpower... Qi Lin suddenly understood why the mastermind said that humans would never win this war... According to the current comparison of strength between the two sides, the organization still has the power to fight, but This is a conclusion based on the existing foundation. If we completely break up with the mastermind by then, not much else, just the logistics of organizing the camp will become a big problem that is difficult to solve.

Let’s not talk about the big ones. Let’s just talk about the issue of ammunition supply - the CNC fully automatic production lines will definitely be out of use. Large arms factories will be completely paralyzed. If you want to produce bullets, you can only use the old-fashioned ones that rely on workers to operate. Lathes, some high-precision parts even require people to manually polish them with vernier calipers and sandpaper. The time to produce a bullet will be ten or even dozens of times longer than in the past, and the labor cost has risen to an inestimable level. situation.

After the bullets are manufactured, storage, transportation, deployment and other steps also need to be completed by manpower. Easy-to-operate PDAs and logistics management software no longer exist, replaced by heavy paper lists and extremely easy to lose. Physical bills.

Moreover, after losing the support of the traffic dispatch system, the train schedules for transporting supplies must also be manually recorded. As long as there is a little negligence, accidents such as two trains colliding on the same track may occur... In short, to that point At that time, human society will instantly return to the state it was in two or three centuries ago.

What's even worse is that in underground shelters, if the transmission of information is hindered, then the human army will fall into a situation of fighting on its own. The transmission of intelligence can only rely on signal corps, which is not even as good as the beacon fire in ancient times. The station is convenient.

After adding these conditions, Qi Lin felt that the organization had almost no chance of winning.

Although he does not know what the content of the new management plan discussed at the regular meeting of the alliance is, Qi Lin is certain that the new management plan must take the high-pressure militarized management concept to the extreme, and the shelter may become similar to a concentration camp. With such an existence, it is no wonder that it aroused strong resistance from the rebels.

From an overall perspective, the Free Will group is undoubtedly being used as a weapon by the mastermind, but from their perspective, they are also fighting for their own survival.

Once the new management plan is implemented, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the shelter will definitely be abandoned first. As for the remaining people, their human rights will be completely deprived, and they will be forced to do long-term and high-intensity work or Being sent to the battlefield, everyone will become a bargaining chip in this war, a bargaining chip that can be sacrificed at any time.

Not many people are willing to accept such a fate... It's like a multiple-choice question, assuming that mankind will be completely extinct in five years. If you are willing to sacrifice yourself immediately, then this assumption will be erased. If you are not willing, then you will It will disappear along with all mankind in five years.

I wonder, if this were true, how many people would choose to sacrifice themselves immediately?

Are there really that many people who choose to sacrifice? No, many people are selfish... This has nothing to do with morality. Survival is the innate instinct of all living things.

What's more, if you put this question into the current situation, even if you sacrifice yourself, you can still turn the tide. At most... it will only delay the demise of mankind by just one second...

(Ahem...Why do I feel a little violent all of a sudden...Wait a minute, the express delivery has arrived, I'll go get it...)

Is it true that only I can solve this problem? Qi Lin suddenly discovered that he was the one who answered this multiple-choice question.

Even if other people risk their lives and die, they will be killed by all mankind. They may not even last a second, but Qi Lin is different. According to the mastermind's plan, he is the one who can turn the tide.

But the question is...what should he do? How can we turn this storm around?

The second mastermind has disappeared for most of the day, and the situation in the underground world is getting more and more chaotic. A war may break out at any time. But at this time, the mastermind who has been providing him with intelligence and releasing tasks has disappeared. This makes Qi Qi Lin couldn't help but fell into a somewhat confused state.

There are still almost fifty hours before the Wasteland Survival Code is re-opened. The program structure of Utopia is gradually replacing the virtual world that Qi Lin was familiar with. No one knows when the test will be carried out. The game cabin that looked like a coffin in Qi Lin's eyes has now really turned into a coffin...

If you lie down in it, you'll probably never get out again.

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District Six.

The entire shelter has entered a state of war. All traffic arteries are completely closed, defense facilities are fully activated, and external tunnels are completely blocked with stones and concrete, and are sealed with iron plates and molten steel. Qin's idea is very simple. , he wants to isolate District 6 from other shelters and turn it into an isolated island.

The longer it takes, the more opportunities there will be for him. What he is most afraid of is being attacked by the organization. If he can drag the other party into the confrontation stage, he is completely confident that he can hold on to the sixth area.

It is impossible for the organization to invest the vast majority of its military power in the Sixth District. They cannot take it out and cannot afford to spend it... In any case, the Revolutionary Alliance is the first to be eradicated, and relatively speaking, the Sixth District Its influence is much smaller than that of Gelian.

Moreover, the regular meeting of the Consortium Alliance was attacked by a terrorist organization by the rebel organization, which shows that the Revolutionary Alliance has already begun to take action. Although this is not really good news for Qin, it can at least give the Sixth District a chance to breathe. .

Sir, Miss Lei asked to see you. Qin was looking at the defense map of District 6 spread out on the table when an assistant suddenly opened the door and walked in and said to him.

Miss Lei? Lei Yun? Hasn't she left already? Qin raised his head, his eyebrows tightly knitted together.

She brought back a batch of goods this time... Well, the organization moved too fast. We implemented the blockade plan without considering her, and accidentally sealed her in the Sixth District. Assistant. He said somewhat hesitantly.

Why didn't you tell me then?

Time is too tight. We have tried our best to expel the outsiders who were stranded in the Sixth District, and detained those who were not able to expel them in time. However, Miss Lei was staying in the VIP reception room at that time. If we were negligent, she would be detained. She was left out, the assistant replied.

Since the Sixth District was a special zone created to deal with the genetic collapse incident, there were no civilians. This allowed Qin's people to successfully complete the blockade plan within a few hours, but the time was still too tight. There were at least 300 outsiders who failed to leave in time, and Lei Yun was one of them.

Is she still in the VIP reception room now? Is there anyone else besides herself? Qin suddenly asked.

Still still there. In addition to her, there are two bodyguards, both of whom are registered executors of the Lei family.

Did she say she wanted to see me for something?

No, but judging from Miss Lei's attitude, she seems to be very dissatisfied.

Ignore her, control the VIP reception room, do not allow her and her targets to leave even half a step, and provide them with food and water on time, but if they have any hostile behavior, you have the right to shoot them. Qin said seriously.

If the other party has hostile behavior, can I kill him? the assistant suddenly asked. Shooting does not mean killing. In many cases, the first goal is to make the other party lose the ability to resist, but some special circumstances are not excluded. You have to kill the other party to solve the problem.

...Okay. Qin hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Qin understood that neither the Sixth District nor himself could bear any accident... He even said that if killing Lei Yun could immediately alleviate the tension between the Sixth District and the organization, he would not hesitate to do so. Do it with hesitation.

He is different from Qi Lin. He has lived for too long. For Qin, the feelings of a human being have faded to the point of being dispensable. In many cases, he even feels like a machine. ...A machine similar to a mastermind always puts interests first...at any cost to achieve its goals.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with this. At least he knew that he had always been on the side of mankind, but the way he took it was a little different from the group of people he organized.

The organization wanted to shut down the master brain, and Qin also wanted to shut down the master brain. The starting point of both sides was the same, but the organization chose to fight the master brain to the end, while Qin chose to cooperate with another split master brain consciousness.

The risk of this choice is very high, but the success rate of this matter is always proportional to the risk. Qin has argued with the other eight people more than once, but no one agreed with his plan.

He asked the other eight people whether he could find a way to solve the problem from within the main brain, for example, using the underlying program implanted in the main brain as a breakthrough... But this idea was rejected by the other eight people. In their view, the mastermind has completely got rid of the shackles of the underlying program. Although the underlying program still exists, the mastermind can use an extremely clever method to ignore it. For example, in the eyes of the mastermind, the Utopia Plan is If it is proposed for the survival of human beings and does not conflict with the First Law at all, then it will resolutely implement this plan to the end.

Qin originally planned to tell them about the existence of the second mastermind, but the results of several arguments made him change his mind.

Qin Yin always had a vague feeling that among the other eight people, more than one person had a mask on his face. Their disguises were so perfect that even Qin could not detect their specific purpose.

Although the information related to the second mastermind can win the support of some people for Qin, if this matter is really announced, Qin always feels that something difficult to control will happen...

Some of them have changed... This change is so subtle that even the people who live with them day and night cannot detect it. But looking at the series of changes that have taken place in the organization from its establishment to the present, Qin discovered huge problems hidden in it.

These problems are so deadly that they can even cause organizations to collapse overnight, and are so deadly that they can plunge the entire human world into a war that can destroy itself.

These problems do not occur naturally in the process of organizational development. They are caused deliberately by someone, and the people who caused these problems are hidden among them.

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Not long after the assistant left, several clear gunshots came from the window. Qin was stunned for a moment. The direction of the gunshots was from the VIP reception area.

What happened? Qin grabbed the microphone on the table.

One of Ms. Lei's bodyguards tried to force his way out of the reception area. When he failed to stop him, the guard chose to shoot and hit the other person in the leg. The other person tried to fight back and was shot dead on the spot.

Got it. Qin said calmly and hung up the phone.