Code of Wasteland Survival

At the moment he rushed out, Shigeaki Rikuzen had used his highest authority to lift the power limit of the power furnace. The six power furnaces on the red daimyo's chest instantly exceeded the rated safe load. In addition, due to the explosion of the weapon, Damage, the outer shell of the power furnace was suddenly covered with cracked lines——

Boom!!! A deafening loud noise and dazzling white light suddenly swept through the entire passage. The hot air flow carried armor fragments and human limbs and filled the entire underground space. Even those who were shouted back by Lu Qian Chongming The soldiers turned into several charred and mutilated corpses in an instant, torn to pieces by the powerful shock wave!

The self-destruction of the Crimson Daimyo was like detonating a tactical nuclear bomb in a confined space. Centered on the explosion point, the passage of thousands of meters was instantly cleared. Fortunately, Sophia saw Rikuzen Shigeaki rushing forward with the determination to die. When he went up, he ran into the cloning factory and closed the second safety door, which allowed the cloning factory to escape the disaster.

This emergency safety door can only be activated when it is invaded. It must be operated by a doctor or general level authority. Fortunately, it seems that the mastermind has not had time to remove Sophia and the others' identity information from the database. Deleted, Sophia just pressed her palm on the emergency sensor, and the thick alloy gate fell heavily, isolating the aftermath of the explosion from the outside.

The 2.5-inch-thick safety door can not only isolate high temperatures and shock waves, but also keep out biological and chemical weapons and nuclear radiation. This is the strongest line of defense in the entire cloning factory, but it is also the last line of defense in the cloning factory.

Rikuzen Shigeaki died in battle, the emergency safety door fell, and all the trump cards that could be played had been played, with no one left, and this only bought Ella and Ayakui ten minutes.

As her lover and colleague, Sophia also knew more or less about the principle of Ella's weapon - it should have been enlarged and improved based on Ella's Psychic Cane ES-05. The test product... Yes, this is just a test product. Whether it can succeed or not, Sophia is not sure.

This thing is much more troublesome to use than Ella's cane. First, the clones in the cloning factory must be activated, and their brains must be stimulated with electric current to awaken their spiritual consciousness from the dormant state.

Then, a specially prepared drug must be injected into each clone. This drug can inhibit certain functions in the human brain. The specific manifestation is to force the clone's mental power to leave the body.

Of course, this is for people with mental abilities. If an ordinary person is injected with this kind of thing, there is only one possibility - death from cerebral infarction.

The mental power that left the cloned body will be collected, concentrated on the big iron ball in the form of a special electric current, and then restored to its original energy form - at this time, Ayakui needs to take action, she must use With his own ability, he can sort out these chaotic and huge amounts of energy, and then launch them out like a cannonball.

This process seems simple, but in practice it is extremely complicated. Especially without any assistants and only Ella alone, it takes a lot of time just to collect the mental power of those clones.

Awakening the spiritual consciousness of the clones and injecting suppressive drugs can be performed uniformly by machines through programmed programs, but collecting spiritual power is different. The power that each clone can inherit from Ayakui's body is different. Among them, the most perfect The cloned body can have abilities equivalent to one-tenth of the original body, while some wasted bodies will not show any signs of mental activity.

Depending on the strength of the capabilities, the parameters that need to be adjusted during collection and transformation are also completely different. Moreover, because the amount of data collected is not large enough, the institute has not obtained any data that can be applied... This means that the entire process is purely based on It is manually operated, but before this, such work was divided and handed over to more than 300 experimental groups to complete.

In terms of research on mental power, Ella is indeed a genius, but genius does not mean that she can complete in just ten minutes the workload that 1,500 people would need to complete in a day and a night...

There are still seventy or eighty remaining soldiers who have retreated into the factory. With just them and an emergency safety door, Sophia probably won't be able to survive for even an hour.

Although the red daimyo's self-destruction killed all the more than a thousand inner city troops gathered in the passage, through the few surviving cameras far away from the explosion point, Sophia could see a large number of soldiers wearing protective clothing pouring into the passage. Among them, approaching the cloning factory.

According to Rikuzen Shigeaki, in order to prevent accidental injury, all troops who decided to rebel would tie a white cloth strip on their right arm to prevent accidental injury by friendly forces in the chaos, but the right arms of these soldiers who came down from the upper level But it was completely empty above.

If it's not a friendly force, then it's an enemy.

Communications in the base have not yet been restored, but judging from the efficiency of the opponent's follow-up troops, the rebellion on the ground and the upper floors may have been suppressed, and the chaos has begun to subside.

After all, this was just a temporary action, and even many people involved still followed the orders of their superiors with suspicion.

There was no prior planning, no strict organization, and no support from the outside world. Such a rebellion seemed extremely stupid even to Sophia herself.

But they have no choice... They already know what they shouldn't know. Even if they don't choose to rebel, they will soon be purged by the mastermind. With the mastermind's behavior, any unstable factors will be eliminated one by one. As long as they can To achieve the ultimate goal, even if it meant erasing the entire Fort Yukon base from the map.

Of course, that's what it was originally intended to do.

Sophia didn't know how many troops were loyal to the mastermind and the organization. Maybe they just didn't know the truth yet, but in any case, she had no way to change the situation until she could take the initiative - through selection, being selected The soldiers sent to the Fort Yukon base are all the elite among the elite, and one of the most distinctive characteristics of the elite troops is to obey orders.

The duty of a soldier is to obey orders.

For example, Rikuzen Shigeaki just issued an order, and his men followed him to the research institute without hesitation. And those officers who were loyal to the mastermind and the organization only needed an order to drive them to continuously attack the clones. factory……

Sophia even suspected that even if she told the soldiers about the Sword of Damocles completely, those soldiers would not immediately come to her side. After years of training, they had become A sophisticated and numb war machine, when these soldiers condense into a whole called an army, the individual will has basically been diluted to the point where it can be completely ignored. Even if someone has doubts, he will be under the control of the large army. Under coercion, he carried out the orders issued by his superiors.

Sophia knew very well that if she wanted to instigate rebellion, she had to make plans for those officers... However, it seemed that the mastermind and Xia had already anticipated this. In this base, more than 90% of the officers who could take charge of the military were Is their die-hard loyalist.

That is the guy who the mastermind and Xia would not hesitate to execute if they were told to die - of course, this kind of loyalty does not come completely from the heart, but there is more than one way to gain their loyalty.

Basically, these officers are not alone in their identity and background. They all have families. Whether it is a threat or a promise, in short, they have given their lives to the mastermind and organization in exchange for other benefits to them. Talk about something more important.

If you want to instigate such a guy, the difficulty is as high as the sky.

They no longer care about death, and the only bargaining chip that can make them change their minds is not in the hands of Sophia and the others.

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Just as Sophia was holding her forehead with her hands and thinking hard about countermeasures, the red alarm light behind the emergency safety door flashed violently, which meant that people outside had begun to attack the safety door. In response, the person behind the door They could do nothing but wait for the moment the security door was opened.

Hurry up... please... Ella... hurry up...

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Clone factory, interior.

Dozens of computers were lined up in front of Ella, with different information displayed on each computer screen. In addition, she also asked Qi Lin to collect all the laptops and PDAs in the factory. They were all gathered here and connected to the equipment she was operating.

Collecting and transforming the mental power of clones is a huge project. Although the computing power that those notebooks and PDAs can provide is only a drop in the bucket, at this juncture, even a 0.01% chance is absolutely impossible. Let it go.

No one is sure whether this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Ella was constantly switching between several keyboards. Her fingers had begun to tremble involuntarily, and the sweat had completely soaked the clothes on her back. When Qi Lin looked at it from this angle, he could even vaguely see the black underneath. Bra straps…

Although the temperature control system has stopped working, the temperature in the cloning factory still remains around zero. However, at this moment, white water vapor is constantly rising from Ella's body. This is a sign of a large amount of sweat evaporating. Seeing this, Qi Lin immediately went to find a bottle of water, unscrewed the cap, and put it to Ella's mouth.

Drink or you'll become dehydrated quickly.

Thank you. Ella said briefly and weakly, but even while drinking water, her hands never stopped.

It's too late, it's too late - the master brain has locked the authority of the entire Yukon Fort base. She can't use the computing power of the supercomputer buried deep in the ground. Everything can only rely on these few machines in front of her. A personal terminal equipped with a configuration that is not even crude compared to a supercomputer is used for calculations.

It's too late...it's totally too late... Ella murmured. In these ten minutes, she only completed the collection and transformation of seven clones' spiritual power. In the case of controlling the brain, this is already an astonishing efficiency, but when the mental power of these seven clones is gathered together, the destructive power it can cause is incomparable to even the self-destruction of the Crimson Daimyo. superior.

If a miracle can happen... Ella's tone was already full of despair, but at this moment, it was like a dramatic turn in a movie - a miracle really happened!

The programs on dozens of computer screens suddenly began to scroll at an extremely fast speed. There was no need for Ella to perform manual operations. The mental power of the clones was extracted one after another and transformed into electric current. Transported into that big iron ball!

Even Qi Lin, a layman, has noticed the anomaly. The frequency of data refresh on the screen is too fast, many times faster than before. Qi Lin can't see it clearly without turning on the eagle eye. Those fleeting characters.

How is this going?

The master brain...I don't know why, but I'm connected to the master brain again and have 100% permission to mobilize computing power! Ella exclaimed, her tone trembling.

What's going on? Hasn't the master brain locked its copy? Why did you get the permission? Did the master brain give it to you? How is this possible? Qi Lin was also quite stunned.

No, no, no... the master brain copy in the Yukon Fort base is different from the master brain copies in other places. This supercomputer is not only a copy of the master brain, it is also the master brain of the Yukon Fort shelter. Therefore, in addition to Besides the mastermind, is there anyone else who has the highest authority?

who?

The founder of the organization!

Is it Xia?... No, no, he is not here now, and he will never do such a thing... Could it be that... it is Qin?!

Guessed it right, but there is no reward. Qin's voice suddenly came from a computer loudspeaker.

Qin?! Is it really you? You... aren't you in a coma? When did you wake up? Where are you now? Hearing this voice, Qi Lin leaned half of his body on the screen Above, questions are thrown out one after another like a barrage of bullets.

I was awakened, and the person who awakened me sent me to the fourteenth floor underground, and now I'm sitting in front of a copy of this mastermind.

who is it?

The second mastermind. Qin paused briefly, and then told Qi Lin the answer.

Second mastermind? Are you kidding...hasn't it been restricted by the mastermind? How could it be...

It gave up its body. Qin suddenly said, It gave up its body on its own initiative. After breaking away from its body, the second master brain and the first master brain were completely separated. At the moment of separation, the brain that imprisoned it The shackles also disappeared, and taking this opportunity, it awakened me and allowed me to gain control of this clone.

Is this okay?

But as a price, the second master brain has been permanently 'deleted' by the master brain. After voluntarily giving up the main body, the original symbiotic relationship between the two master brain consciousnesses no longer exists, and it has become a replica of the master brain. Existences of the same level, and deleting such an existence will not have any impact on the main brain. Qin said slowly, which made Qi Lin's thinking fall into a brief stagnation... He suddenly remembered, The reason why the master brain did not take action against the second master brain before was because they originally had the same consciousness. It was like throwing a weapon at the mouse. If the second master brain was deleted, the master brain's own data would be irreversibly lost, and even the master brain's data would be irreversibly lost. The self-awareness will become incomplete, but if one of the main brain and the second main brain takes the initiative to give up the original body and separate himself, this situation will be broken instantly.

Is it...'dead'?

Well. Before his data was completely deleted, he asked me to tell you that the days he spent with you in Base 404 and Stronghold Zero were the happiest times in his short life... Although even he I don’t even know if happiness, a word used to describe human emotions, can be used to define the state of consciousness of an intelligent AI.”

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By the way, he also said that he doesn't like the name 'Second Mastermind', but prefers the name 'Cooper'.