Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 39 The Meaning of Genius (Part )
Two days later, it was raining heavily.

Yuanze looked at the inscription and photo on the tombstone with mixed emotions. He had only met this middle-aged man a few times, but he had left such an indelible impression on him.

"His wife once sacrificed her life to protect their daughter from the beast tide, and now he has followed her." Rick, wearing a black suit and holding a black umbrella, slowly approached Yuanze.

"Alas, a hemp rope always breaks at the thinnest part, and misfortune always finds the unfortunate. This is how ordinary people in this era are. Chris is considered lucky." Yuanze sighed and continued the conversation.

"But who would want this? Both of her parents sacrificed themselves to protect her. How much pressure must Diane have to bear?"

"However, her father is considered a hero, so her future won't be too bad."

"Who wants that?"

"What was the last thing Chris said to you?"

Rick sighed heavily and told the last few words with Chris.

"You don't have to sacrifice yourself, just let others do it. You are very important to this nuclear power plant and brain-computer interface programming."

"As you said, I am the leader of this group. No one knows it better than me. You don't have to persuade me. I have made up my mind."

"At worst, we can take the emergency escape spacecraft provided by our family and take your entire research team with us."

"Impossible. B03 still has tens of millions of residents."

I saw Chris smile bitterly, then he took out a photo from his arms and stroked it with his hands: "This is my wife. She sacrificed herself in the Source Beast Tide to protect our daughter. Now I am going to follow her."

"If I need help, please take good care of my girl." Chris took out another photo and handed it to Rick. "Her name is Diane Paul. She lives in Room 03 of the Second Family Building in B305."

"Tell her that Daddy will always love her."

"This is not only for you, but also for my loved ones, and everyone in B03."

Yuanze looked at Rick sighing continuously, and his thoughts went back to that time.

Less than a minute after the brain-computer interface was connected, the security system gradually stabilized, and everyone cheered as it recovered bit by bit.

"Yeah, Yuanze, look, the system is gradually recovering."

Rick hugged Yuanze and was very excited. The picture on the screen went from 99% to the stubborn twists and turns now. This was completely the work of the genius Chris. This was completely his stage.

But when the invasion rate dropped to 20%, Chris, who was sitting in the damping stability chair, suddenly trembled violently, the electrocardiogram on the instrument next to him gradually became disordered, and then he kept coughing up blood.

No one dared to disturb him, and there were even tiny sobs from the crowd.

Yuanze saw that Chris was gritting his teeth, his face was completely distorted, he was trying to stabilize his body and hold on, he was now the hope of the entire B03.

The red bar of the invasion rate began to be pulled repeatedly at this time, but was still continuously pushed down to 0%.

"Di-"

The long sound pierced everyone's heart, and Chris's heart stopped beating.

"Hurry, send him to the emergency room, it's on the first floor, someone come and carry him." Rick anxiously directed everyone present, lifted Chris up, and ran towards the emergency room together.

Rick no longer paid attention to Yuanze, and even had no time to care about the final successful clearing on the screen. They just wanted to save Chris.

Yuanze stayed alone in the central control room.

"What happened?" Astra suddenly restored contact with Yuanze, "Why are you so serious..."

Astra also received the disconnection message and fell silent.

"Do me a favor."

"Ok."

Astra saw the invasion rate starting to slowly increase again and understood what Yuanze meant. He wanted to carry on Chris's legacy and finish what Chris hadn't done in the end.

Yuanze put on the brain-computer interface helmet, and Astra's voice sounded in his mind.

"New function, programming mode activated; automatic mode activated, gene chip enables brain-computer interface."

In a short while, Astra cleared all the viruses from the control system of the nuclear power plant, strengthened the original firewall, optimized the code of brain-computer interface programming technology, and finally found the source of the virus.

When the others came back one after another, Yuanze had already taken off his helmet. Yuanze was not worthy of this honor.

Everyone else was busy with the aftermath, without any sense of joy from success. Only Rick was looking at the computer, and then secretly glancing at Yuanze.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so willful. If I had been there just now, there would have been no problem. If he was also a source warrior, even if he was an apprentice level, he wouldn't have been injured so badly. But if it's this serious now, he should..."

Yuanze remembered that in the end, Astra kept apologizing to him, and he shouldn't have taken out all his anger on an AI.

The cool feeling dripped onto his head, wetting his hair and awakening his thoughts back to reality.

At this time, Rick was comforting Diane.

Yuan Ze recalled what his master had said: "I originally wanted to use genetic programming technology to develop a C virus to simulate the evolutionary mechanism of the 'mutation source', so that humans can collectively unlock the genetic lock, so that ordinary people can also fight against the source beasts."

If Chris could also become a Source Warrior, then Diane wouldn't have to lose his father, the research team wouldn't have lost their leader, and B03 wouldn't have lost their hero.

Yuan Ze couldn't understand why, why there were still people trying to stop the era of everyone becoming a Yuanwu warrior?

Rick sent Diane to the car, returned to Yuanze who was squatting in front of the tombstone, stood there quietly, without saying a word, and held an umbrella for him.

"What do you want?" Yuanze asked.

"I'm sorry, my family suppressed this matter, and Chris didn't even get the final honor."

"I only fought for Diane's living conditions. My parents adopted her and changed her name to Diane Sanchez. She will live with the Sanchez family from now on."

"I know that. You don't have to apologize. You did good enough."

"I should thank you. It's you who saved B03 and restored the reputation of our family."

"you know?"

"How come I don't know? You forgot to delete the log modification record. You may say you are incompetent, but you have helped us improve brain-computer technology and firewalls, so you are not incompetent."

"I don't want others to know." Yuanze also stood up and spoke to him face to face.

"I have deleted the record."

"That's good."

"But someone must have known."

"Who is it?" Yuanze asked back vigilantly.

"B03 City Lord."

"How would he know?"

"Because he has a special gene lock ability. By the way, I saw your record in the log. You should know who transplanted the virus."

Yuanze didn't say anything, but took out a micro mobile storage device from his pocket and handed it to Rick.

Rick looked at the chip carefully, his face suddenly changed, and the umbrella fell from his hand.

"This is Chris's memory?! Is it him?!"

"Yes."

The two men turned around and faced Chris's tombstone. The rain was still falling on them and the wind was still blowing their clothes. They stood there motionless.

A complex emotion surged in their hearts: sadness, reluctance, anger, helplessness...all kinds of feelings were tearing at them, trying to tear their hearts apart.

"how do you want to do it?"

"Get to the bottom of it!"

In order to atone for his sins, lonely Chris not only saved his last dignity and took all the secrets with him, but also bought his daughter's last chance of life.

After the rain stopped and the sky cleared, the two had already left. Only the black umbrella was still propped up on the tombstone, protecting him from the wind and rain. The sun shone through the gaps on the tombstone, which was engraved with:

"Protect the ones you love."

(End of this chapter)