Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 368 Enter
Sixteen hours later, in the mountain city.

With the current technology of the Chinese military, it is actually impossible to implant a brain-computer interface into Ji Xing.

But coincidentally, there was one person who was very familiar with invasive brain-computer interfaces.

He is so familiar with it that he can implant a brain-computer interface into himself, access it, and immerse himself in the virtual world created by the brain-computer interface.

And this person is Xu He.

After the Battle of Huadu, he almost disappeared from the sight of the Huaxia Army.

But in reality, Chen Jian never gave up paying attention to him.

After deciding to use Ji Xing to achieve his goal of invading Shancheng, he immediately arranged for people to go to the capital to find Xu He and quickly bring him to Shancheng.

The latter had an almost obsessive longing for the "virtual city" described by Chen Jian, and even wanted to replace Ji Xing to enter that city for negotiations.

But Chen Jian knew his intentions all too well.

He didn't want to negotiate at all; he wanted to use this opportunity to completely enter the mountain city and stay there forever.

Chen Jian didn't give him that chance; he only managed to extract information about the operation of the brain-computer interface from him through a combination of enticement and coercion.

After conducting a simple but relatively complete experiment, Chen Jian personally operated the spinal cord-connected brain-computer interface, which was a generation behind the previous generation, to complete the connection for Ji Xing.

The test was successfully completed. Following this, under Fuxi's guidance, Chen Jian connected and communicated with the previous generation brain-computer interface and the brain-computer interface from the mountain city. He then implanted an additional communication module into the brain-computer interface system.

This clone module is completely independent of the brain-computer interface and will undertake the most important information transmission task.

After all the tests were completed, Chen Jian extended a negotiation invitation to Lingxi.

The invitation was quickly approved.
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In fact, Lingxi acted much more proactively than Chen Jian had expected.

Its purpose is to protect the mountain city and that so-called virtual city.

Therefore, it hoped to showcase the city to the Chinese army in order to persuade them to abandon their offensive against the mountain city.

Preparations for the negotiations are progressing quite smoothly.

As Ji Xing sat down in the chair that had been prepared in advance with a little nervousness, Chen Jian was already ready to activate the brain-computer interface and conduct "zero-distance communication" with Shancheng.

He looked at Ji Xing and asked:
"Are you ready?"

Ji Xing took a deep breath and slowly nodded, saying:

"Ready."

As she spoke, she closed her eyes.

She knew that there was a risk involved in her access this time.

It's possible that once I enter the mountain city, I'll be imprisoned there forever, just like Lin Yu.

However, she didn't glance at the real world even once.

Because she knew that hesitating would be useless.

Everyone around her is taking a risk.

She is not the only one facing challenges.

In the darkness, she felt Chen Jian's hand on her shoulder.

The slightly rough texture made her body shudder involuntarily.

Immediately afterwards, she heard Chen Jian's voice.

"Connection countdown".

"3, 2, 1"

"Connect".

In an instant, an electric current surged up my spine.

Ji Xing suddenly opened his eyes, but at that moment, the visual signals from his retina were completely overwhelmed and blocked by the signals from his brain-computer interface.

Everything went dark before her eyes.

And the next second.

The lights suddenly turned on.

Ji Xing opened his eyes.

She saw Lin Yu's face.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

she spoke.

Looking around, I found myself in a rather small room, but it had a spacious balcony.

Looking out from the balcony, the bustling city lights shone brightly, and beneath those lights, a faint glimmer of light was revealed.
A deathly silence.

Before Lin Yu could speak, she continued, "This city is empty."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Yu, who was sitting opposite her, was slightly taken aback.

Then, he sighed softly and said:
"Yes."

"The whole city is empty."

"Only in the very center of the building is there a so-called 'aggregate of human consciousness'."

"I must say, you are much more perceptive than I am."

"It was only much later, after I had been here, that I gradually came to realize this."

Hearing his words, Ji Xing shrugged and said:
"That's because you haven't had enough contact with the Chinese army."

"If you can learn their way of thinking, you can actually see through many things at a glance."

“Take this virtual city for example—I don’t know what it looks like to you, but to me, it has absolutely no sense of reality.”

"The foreground and background are completely out of sync, just like the images in a certain film or television work."

"Film and television works?"

Lin Yu was stunned for a moment.

"what is that?"

"If you have the chance in the future, go and visit the 011 base, which is also known as Jinling New City, and you'll understand."

"I might not have a chance."

A genuine look of melancholy crossed Lin Yu's face. Ji Xing looked at him and asked curiously:
"You seem dissatisfied with life here?"

As soon as he said this, Lin Yu suddenly stood up.

He asked back with a mixture of helplessness, anger, and even a barely suppressed laugh:
Who would be satisfied with life here?

"I'm just imprisoned here; I'm not willingly being used as a messenger by that so-called artificial intelligence."

"If I could, I'd rather just die, okay?"

Seeing Lin Yu's intense reaction, Ji Xing realized that he had said something inappropriate.

She raised her hand and said:

"calm down."

"I was just asking casually. Anyway, the two of us are currently in a situation where we're not being monitored at all, right?"

"Then tell me, is it possible for us to completely destroy this world right here?"

"it's useless."

Lin Yu shook his head and replied:

“This area is actually completely isolated from the main computing module, and it only accounts for a small part of the entire mountain city’s ‘computing power’.”

"Even if we completely destroy this place, it won't cause any substantial damage to the mountain town."

"There's absolutely no point in doing this."

"understood."

Ji Xing nodded thoughtfully, then asked:
"How does it control the negotiation process? Isn't it worried that you might leak something to us?"

Do I look like I have something to reveal?

Lin Yu sat down again with a sigh, and then said:

“In fact, our conversations are being recorded, and even your every move here is being recorded.”

"It's just that the information won't be transmitted to Lin Xi until our conversation ends."

"In short, stop thinking about unrealistic things."

"Let's finish the negotiations as soon as possible."

"Whether it succeeds or not, at least give me a result."

"clear."

Ji Xing nodded upon hearing this.

Then, she sat up slightly and began to speak:
"Let's start by talking about the most basic things."

"Now, answer my question."

"If the Huaxia Army is willing to give up the mountain city."

"So, what can Lingxi give us?"

(End of this chapter)