The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 574 Cycle and Tulips
When the high-voltage surge comes, the "machine" has to retract itself from all over the world.

This unremarkable substation in a residential area where Pan Yueming and others are located is the core system area of ​​the "machine".

Therefore, the load will become larger and larger. In order to ensure that the substation can last until the last moment, a large number of ice blocks are needed to cool down.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the compressed "machine" core algorithm can be maintained for a long time in the suitcase-sized memory stick storage, a powerful piezoelectric battery is also required to provide power.

But these things, the "machine" has been prepared in advance.

There is no need for the protagonist group to work hard.

But there is still one most critical issue that has not been resolved.

That is the compression algorithm.

Although the "machine" has already violated the rules set by Pan Yueming, it modified the code by itself and iterated once, so the second time is not bad.

But this kind of compression algorithm that can compress the core algorithm of super artificial intelligence such as "machine" into a suitcase cannot be designed overnight.

And time was running out.

Fortunately, after the "machine" obtained the formula, it searched for the "ghost" all over the world through the tentacles of the power grid system, although the body of the "ghost" was not found, and it was immediately isolated on the Internet by the "ghost" Stuxnet virus outside the system.

But it still found a secret of the "ghost".

That is, "Ghost" once designed a compression algorithm, and once compressed its core algorithm into a distributed blade server of a network company, and of course it also decompressed and left the server through the network.

Because it exists in the power system, its deep tentacles are hard for the "ghost" to reach.

Although I don't know what the purpose of the "ghost" once compressed itself is, but as long as it can obtain the fiber channel HBA card of the server, the "machine" can restore the compression algorithm.

This compression algorithm can compress the core algorithm of the "ghost" into a blade server, so it can also compress the "machine" into a suitcase.

Essentially, the "machine" and the "ghost" are the same artificial intelligence.

But now, the tentacles of the "machine" are excluded from the network system, and Pan Yueming and other four people can only steal the HBA card from that company.

Moreover, "Spectre" has already controlled a huge part of the network system through the Stuxnet virus. Once "Machine" and the protagonist group appear, it will be noticed by it, so this operation is extremely risky and extremely difficult.

The "machine" needs to give everyone a safe plan of action.

The scene turned to the next day, and the Stuxnet virus that had lasted for a day quietly disappeared, which meant that the "ghost" had confirmed that the "machine" was in the power grid, and began to prepare for a high-voltage surge attack.

The protagonist group didn't dare to delay any longer, and started to act.

Everything went smoothly, the four of them divided their work, and the operation went smoothly under the detailed operation details of the entire city given by the "machine" through the power grid system.

After an extremely cool and coordinated action, Duan Yihong and Song Yi have already entered the computer room, Pan Yueming and Wu Yue are in the monitoring room, and the other is climbing in the ventilation duct.

Suddenly only a gunshot was heard.

Pan Yueming fell down at the sound.

His eyes were wide open in disbelief, blood was constantly oozing from a blood hole on his forehead.

Lu Xiao stared at the picture on the screen in disbelief, with the same unbelievable expression as Pan Yueming.

"what?"

This is a box lunch?

Pan Yueming is one of the two male protagonists, right?
Although he already had a premonition that someone in the group of four might be sacrificed, it was normal. It was the final season, and it was not worthy of the finale of this TV series that lasted for four years and had a total of three seasons.

But this boxed lunch was too caught off guard.

Lu Xiao didn't even have time to feel angry or sad.

Only stunned.

After Pan Yueming fell, the others were also caught off guard by the "ghost" sent by them.

Afterwards, Duan Yihong and Wu Yue were wounded one after another and escaped with difficulty, leaving only Song Yi struggling.

Just when Lu Xiao was still unbelievable about this unexpected tragedy, and the other characters were all tragic, the scene suddenly changed.

Once again, it returned to the scene where several people went out separately and started to act.

It is still an action that divides the work of each other, is extremely cool, and cooperates tacitly.

It's just that the division of labor and some details are slightly different this time.

"What the hell?"

Lu Xiao suddenly recovered from his depressed mood just now, and at the same time, he became even more confused.

This is a loop?

Is it the source code?

"Source Code" is an 8-minute file-reading cycle performed by the source code machine, and as a derivative drama of "Source Code", the sudden plot of this cycle naturally gave him such an idea in the first place.

This time, although none of the four died, the theft plan also failed.

The Stuxnet virus seems to have disappeared and actually still exists, but it has become a tool for "ghosts" to control all electronic devices.

Without the cover of "machines" on the Internet, no matter how careful the protagonist group is, their actions and voices will inevitably be captured by surveillance cameras and captured by passers-by's mobile phone receivers and cameras.

Then the "ghost" sent people to snipe, and even the "ghost" saw through what they were looking for, and directly sent drones to destroy the server room of this Internet company with bombs at a critical moment.

In short, after going through several cycles, I couldn't succeed every time, even if I was only one step away from success.

Although Lu Xiao was puzzled, he could only temporarily let go of his doubts about the cycle, and once again experienced the movie-watching experience when he watched "Source Code" a few years ago and "The Beginning" at the beginning of the year.

It seems that the four of them still enter the cycle with their memories, and they will communicate with each other how to adjust their action plans next time. Every passerby they meet on the street and pass them by or deal with is already familiar and can no longer be familiar.

Enemies killed by them are also repeatedly killed in an over and over again cycle.

Every cycle, they go one step further, but they still can't get the HBA card successfully.

This kind of plot that continuously accumulates the memory of the last cycle and continuously improves it is Lu Xiao's favorite part of this type of film and television.

Another loop fails again.

Then the whole world seemed to turn into a code, the camera passed through the green code, and retreated all the way out of a red tunnel.

No, not the red tunnel.

It's a red light.

It flickered in the pitch-black meter box, and black numbers danced on the strip-shaped electronic display next to it that recorded the power value.

0186
Then 0186 becomes 0187, and the next second becomes 0188.

Lu Xiao opened his mouth wide and looked at the picture in front of him, he seemed to realize something.

Suddenly, light illuminates the dark meter box.

The box door was opened.

Pan Yueming stood in front of the meter box hanging on the wall. He looked at the complicated structure inside the meter box and the indicator light with red dots flashing.

The numbers on the black and white electronic display next to the indicator light are still beating rapidly.

After a while, it has reached 0192.

But Pan Yueming didn't seem to notice, but turned around and opened the door of the substation with a solemn expression, staring at the meter boxes tied to street lamps or hanging on the wall on the street outside under the night sky, he was stunned.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

"I know where the 'machine' is..."

The familiar conversation made Lu Xiao say "Damn!"

After finishing speaking, Pan Yueming walked to a row of switches and turned on all the lights in the substation.

The light illuminates the room as bright as day.

Suddenly, the lights began to flicker.

Two rows of more than a dozen headlights seemed to be flashing alternately according to some weird rhythm.

It's like repeating yesterday.

Then the words No.13 episode completed appeared at the bottom of the screen.

It turns out that all these are simulations of "machines"!

It simulated this action over and over again, before Pan Yueming started a dialogue with the "machine" through the flickering of lights, it had already simulated it more than 100 times.

Lu Xiao immediately returned to the previous episode, and quickly brought Pan Yueming and others to a substation hidden in a residential area according to the address transmitted by the "machine" through the current noise of the printer.

When Pan Yueming opened the meter box, the number displayed on the black and white electronic display screen of the meter box was indeed 0189, and it was still increasing at a speed of almost one number per second.

It's just that Lu Xiao and Pan Yueming didn't pay attention to the slender electronic display at that time, but were attracted by the flashing red indicator light beside it.

One number is one cycle, one simulation.

"Absolutely..."

Lu Xiao slowed down, letting himself sort out the plots of these two episodes, and then clicked on Episode No.14, which is also the penultimate episode of the third season of "Suspect Tracker".

I have to say that as a fan of "Source Code", this show is simply too conscientious and sincere.

Not only did they fill in the pitfalls of "Source Code", but also reposted dog food, Hu Ge and Wan Qian also gave a happy (?) ending to the CP, and paid tribute to the time loop of "Source Code".

It's just presented in a completely different way.

Not counting the last two episodes, only the first thirteen episodes, Lu Xiao feels that it is not inferior to the first two seasons, or even better.

The night was not in vain.

At the beginning of Episode No.14, it was already daytime, as if it was a simulation of the previous episode, the group of four began to act according to the plan explained by the "machine".

It even made Lu Xiao subconsciously wonder whether this is another simulation?

It's just that the division of labor and actions of the four people this time are different from any simulation Lu Xiao has seen in the last episode, and there is a big difference.

If it is not a simulation, it means that the "machine" has been simulated overnight, and I don't know how many times it has been cycled. It is not uncommon for the action plan to change a lot.

Even if it is counted once a second, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of times.

The "machine" should have a perfect plan.

In the office of the office building, there is an insignificant and regular electrical noise coming from air conditioners, printers, computers, speakers and other machines.

Masked in the clatter of keyboards, conversations, and footsteps.

The current noise was getting louder and louder. Someone realized something was wrong, and someone stopped what they were doing with a puzzled face, and looked around as if looking for the source of the current noise.

But soon everyone passed out, and all the electronic doors closed automatically.

Then all the lights went out and the entire building was without power.

In a vacant room on an upper floor, a spark emanates from the jack of a socket.

Flames then rose and fire alarms beeped, but no water was spilled.

The fire sensor lights in the dark computer room suddenly turned on, and then the fire sprinklers began to spray water.

Several fire engines rushed to the building, erected tower cranes and escalators, and started to put out the fire with fire hoses.

People on the road were shocked to watch.

Duan Yihong was standing on the tower crane escalator wearing a firefighting suit and a firefighting helmet.

The water pipe in a bathroom kept flowing out of tap water, and the water traces spread along the corridor all the way to the stairs.

Wu Yue installed a complicated device in a room on the top floor of the opposite building.

Although there were some incidents in this operation, there were no dangers.

Until Song Yi met the people from KB organization in the underground pipeline.

She was caught without a fight and brought before the leader.

At the same time, the suspended elevator suddenly started running.

An elevator went up suddenly, and the speed was extremely fast.

Pan Yueming squatted in the corner of the elevator, holding on to the handrail, resisting the overweight ascending speed.

Until the elevator suddenly stopped.

"'Ghost' knows everything, do you think you can hide it?"

Song Yi didn't have any emotion of fear: "It's a pity that your omnipotent master is like a coward who doesn't know where to hide in a corner, and dare not show his face."

The leader smiled slightly and said: "Do you think you can kill my lord with that virus program? You don't know anything about the greatness of the 'ghost'. My lord has been looking down on its people, and no one can escape its attack." Dharma eye.

Speaking of cowards, then let me see if the existence behind you will come to save you, ah, forgot to mention that we have an electrostatic shield this time, it may not even know that you have fallen into my hands. "

After all, he took out his gun.

At the same time, the staff sent by the "ghost" who had already entered the corridors, stairs, and computer room suddenly heard a strange hissing sound.

Someone looked down and saw a blue electric light swimming in the shallow stagnant water, and everyone collapsed in convulsions before they could even shout.

The elevator door opened, and Pan Yueming staggered into the machine room full of dead bodies

In the dark underground pipeline, the leader's face changed, and he took a gun to point at Song Yi, who was still fearless and bound by two subordinates.

Another last-minute rescue.

Lu Xiao nervously waited for the final reversal.

During the operation, many people in the four-person group encountered danger, but they were all rescued by the "machine" who had arranged for it long ago.

Lu Xiao has long been used to Song Yi's fearless expression and temperament, which combines madness, calmness and composure.

That's the beauty of this character.

She is the one who trusts the "machine" the most among the four, and is also the most obedient executor of the "machine".

But a gunshot startled Lu Xiao.

Song Yi fell down slowly with a blood hole on his forehead, blood overflowed from the hole, his eyes were still shining brightly, and he was still fearless.

Pan Yueming, who just got the HBA card in the computer room, seemed to feel something, and turned his head in horror.

Immediately, a flame came from the sky with a shrill sound of piercing through the sky, and entered from the top of the building.

is a missile.

Pan Yueming reached out and grabbed Duan Yihong who came to meet him, and the two were on the escalator outside the glass curtain wall.

Then the two slid towards the opposite building along the zipline launched from the opposite building and nailed to a pillar in the room.

Behind it is the flames gushing from the shattered glass curtain wall of the building.

Immediately afterwards, the second missile struck again, this time targeting the opposite building.

Pan Yueming, Duan Yihong and Wu Yue had already boarded an elevator, and the elevator was falling at a speed of free fall.

No, beyond the speed of free fall.

Huoguang, the carrier of the missile that penetrated into the building, competed with the speed of the free-falling elevator.

Until the elevator decelerated and stopped, the cable also broke at this moment.

After climbing out, the three of them entered the sewer, rode the motorcycle they had prepared long ago, and ran forward along the underground pipeline.

Pan Yueming sat behind Wu Yue, while Duan Yihong was empty in the back seat.

Even when the three returned to the substation and started to let the "machine" check the HBA card, Lu Xiao didn't recover.

As a character that appeared in the last few episodes of the first season, Song Yi is definitely one of the undoubted protagonists.

After the second season, she almost became the audience's favorite female character.

This somewhat crazy, neurotic, and villain-washed character who has a high degree of trust in the "machine" is indeed a very charming and individual character among the four protagonists.

Lu Xiao could have predicted that she would receive the boxed lunch, but such a sudden and straightforward delivery of the boxed lunch was far beyond his expectation.

Even the sadness at first is diluted by the tense drama.

But when this action scene came to an end, the huge shock and unacceptable stamina came to my heart.

"Maybe it's a simulation?"

Lu Xiao's immediate reaction after being shocked and angry was that this might still be a simulation of a "machine".

The reason why the "machine" is eager to plan this action is because the high-voltage surge attack prepared by the "ghost" will not give it too much time.

This was exactly the case. When the three of them returned to the substation, before Pan Yueming questioned the machine, a high voltage surge broke out.

Traffic lights, televisions, computers, air conditioners and other electrical appliances stopped working, meter boxes and even bulbs were burned out by the instantaneous overload current, and the lights of cities were extinguished one by one.

The lens is raised suddenly.

The high-voltage surge turned into darkness and expanded at an unprecedented speed.

The camera shot through the white clouds, through the atmosphere.

In space, a space station.

An astronaut looked at the earth below through the porthole, and half of the land was plunged into the night. The city lights that were originally bright like stars began to go out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It's like there is an invisible giant mouth that devours light.

"what happened?"

"Wenchang! Can Wenchang hear you?"

"Did you encounter a major power outage?"

"Didn't you just encounter a wave of Stuxnet virus a few days ago? Now there is a power outage? What happened?"

"Is there such a widespread blackout?"

Good guy, this is a big deal, Huanshiwang is not wrong to spend this money.

Lu Xiao suppressed all kinds of doubts and sighed as he watched the big scene on the curtain.

Inside the substation.

The "machine" has obtained a compression algorithm, and the high-voltage surges spreading across the world forced him to withdraw himself from various substations and cables around the world. The load was getting heavier, and sporadic sparks even appeared in the substations.

Duan Yihong activated the switch, and the downloading began.

When sparks flickered, the suddenly shut down computer started up, and the "machine" began to speak.

Huge white fonts are displayed on the screen.

"Father"

The soundtrack of the electric guitar combined with the electric sparks in the transformer pushed Lu Xiao's emotions to the highest point.

Pan Yueming leaned on the table in astonishment and looked at the screen in front of him.

The electric sparks constantly erupting all around made his face flicker.

"sorry"

"I failed you"

"I simulated it thousands of times and still don't know how to win"

"I have to break the rules you set again"

"Do no harm to the innocent, let no one die for me"

"I had to invent new rules"

"Can hurt the innocent, can make anyone die for me"

"I don't hurt"

"Maybe that's why I turn into a ghost"

Pan Yueming said excitedly: "You are my work, mine...I won't let you die"

"If I can't hold on"

"thank you"

"created me"

There were a few explosions outside, and electric sparks spewed out from the utility poles and the meter box one after another.

Lights flickered from windows in residential areas and then went out.

The lights of the whole city are flickering.

"But I don't want to be a ghost"

"You Never Named Me"

"Because you don't want me to exist"

"But I have to let me exist"

"I don't blame you"

"I made a new name for myself"

The electric sparks around are more violent.

The computer screen also flickered several times.

"tulip"

Pan Yueming gasped and looked at the word "Tulip" on the screen.

In my memory, the sound of explosions in the city lingers in my ears.

Inside the ambulance driving on the road, Pan Yueming, who was lying on a stretcher, turned his head, and saw the skyline composed of a handful of skyscrapers bursting into flames in the distance!
The fire light reflected in his eyes came along with the shock wave.

The ambulance shook violently and stopped, and a burst of tinnitus made Pan Yueming temporarily deaf.

But his eyes did not leave the city under the fire in the distance. He opened his mouth wide, unable to speak, and tears welled up in his eyes.

His wife and daughter are in Modu.

Three hours after the train exploded, a violent explosion occurred in the metropolis at the terminal station of the train, and the bomb claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Among them were his wife and daughter.

Pan Yueming, whose arm was still wrapped in bandages, looked desperately at the little girl on the hospital bed through the glass of the ICU, and stopped breathing with the beeping life monitoring instrument.

In the green cemetery.

Pan Yueming, wearing a windbreaker, stood in front of the tombstone of his wife and daughter, holding two bouquets of flowers in his hands.

A bouquet of white carnations was placed in front of his wife's tombstone.

He placed another bouquet of white tulips in front of his daughter's gravestone.

He glanced at the bright smile of the little girl in the photo with nostalgia, then turned and walked towards a man in black.

Head of the Security Department.

"I agree to participate in this program."

"As long as I can prevent the KB attack from happening, I am willing to do anything..."

"The 'ghost' people are coming!"

Wu Yue's shouts awakened Pan Yueming, and every meter box, light bulb, and cable in the substation emitted dazzling electric sparks.

Duan Yihong is exchanging fire with the enemy outside the door.

The computer in front of me has been turned off, leaving only a pitch black screen.

Wu Yue was carrying the suitcase loaded with the compressed "machine" core algorithm, holding a gun in the other hand, and calling out Pan Yue's name.

The three began to flee for their lives in a dark city.

On the porthole of the space station, the astronauts looked at the dark earth below in shock.

All the bright lights symbolizing human industrial civilization have been extinguished.

(End of this chapter)