txolops Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
"What did that sentence mean?"
"You heard it wrong, it doesn't matter," Annie said with a very ugly face, "Time is running out."
Eric thought he heard it clearly, and when he was about to ask again, Galen stopped him.
"She's the officer!" Galen said to Eric in a rare serious tone.
"Yes!" Eric rarely saw him angry, so he had to give up.
"Okay! Adjust the posture of the mech and prepare to connect to the ferry ladder."
The entrance to the underground headquarters has been opened, and the passageway that has been dusty for many years is full of Gatling bugs, and the ferry track rises from the "worm pile" to connect with their mechs.This place has been abandoned for decades. For these young soldiers, everything in front of them is strange.
"The prototype machine is separated from other combat modules. There are five layers of defense system here. The number of Gatling bugs will start to decrease from the third layer, so we start to deploy defenses from the third layer. Cartlett is responsible for the outermost perimeter. Douglas Guarding the Central with Bradley, Eric and Solimons and I accompanied the vice president in." Galen had been here before, but he was only a staff sergeant at that time, and he knew that what he had seen was nothing more than an iceberg corner.
For example, this kind of strange Gatling bug - now one is lying on his mecha shell and looking at him with round mechanical eyes, and its eight spider-like legs are helping him clean up the shell Sticky corpses.It seems to be its instinct to kill the Gripper, and when it faces humans, it shows a cute and gentle side.
The track was descending rapidly. After entering the third floor, the soldiers began to take their positions according to the instructions. When the door to the core room was closed, Eric and Solimons guarded behind the door of the last defensive wall. Anne and Galen continued to move forward and came to a spherical room, which was the core cabin of the old military headquarters where the prototype machine was placed.
Behind this defensive wall, the gravity has been reset to the standard value, and Anne can finally step out of the mech, and this sense of freedom makes her breathe a sigh of relief.
"Eric, keep an eye on the outside, don't relax." Galen ordered again before leaving the mecha.
"Don't worry," Annie disconnected the communication of the mecha and used her own chip to connect to Galen. "Where there are Gatling bugs is safe, don't worry."
Anne entered the key, and the outer wall of the spherical room became transparent.
"Come in." Annie said to Galen, "What's the matter?"
Galen didn't hide his surprise: "I didn't expect the prototype machine to be a person."
"It's not a person, it's a half-mechanical, half-biological chip, because the technology at that time can only be half-biological, so if you don't create a complete body, you can't maintain the life of the chip."
From the appearance, this is indeed a complete 'person', but compared with ordinary people, he has more nerve connections on his body. These cable groups are like ropes that restrain his movements, 'tying' him to the life support system superior.
"I can think of this, but why did you make it look like this?" Galen looked at the face of the man tied to the life support device, "Why does it look exactly like the Alvin Herman you mentioned?"
"Because whether it is the earliest theoretical biochip or the Owen-civil system you are using now, all the biological foundations come from him. The same genes will have the same traits, so they will grow exactly the same."
"Oh..." Galen made a disgusted expression, "You mean the biological gene of the chip in my body belongs to Alvin Hellman?"
"Understanding is very correct." Anne did not delay the progress because of the various problems of the captain, she quickly took out her various tools and was ready to start working.
"Is that understandable?" Galen paused, "This Alvin Herman is fully capable of entering any terminal or the human brain to directly control our thoughts and decisions? So the military system is because of him The invasion failed?"
"No," Annie looked back at him. "They are completely different, but the biological basis is the same. The reason why the chip is made into a living thing is because it is the instinct of life to resist invasion. You were born with a chip implanted. , but you never think of it as part of your life or soul, just like twins are not two parts of the same person. You don't have to worry about this at all, Erwin Herman can't control your thinking , no one can control your thinking."
"What are you going to do with the gloves on?" Galen saw that she had put on sterile gloves and a mask.
"The last 6% that the military cannot repair is probably because the semi-mechanical part of the prototype machine has been hacked, and now I want to cut off some of the functions of the prototype machine."
"What do you mean?"
Annie turned on the life support, and the prototype machine clearly appeared in front of their eyes: "What I mean is, I need to perform a frontal lobotomy on it."
"..."
"what happened?"
"He glanced at you when you said that." Galin rolled his black eyes when he saw the so-called 'prototype machine'.
"Normal, it responds to language."
"He knows the meaning of frontal lobotomy? He knows you're going to cut off half of his brain?"
Annie thought for a moment: "You should know."
She looked at this face that was the same as Alvin Hellman, and took a deep breath—two hours before the time limit required by the military department—she had no time to feel emotional, although facing this face She also had a little bit of misgiving, but she still told herself clearly that this is a prototype machine, not the real Alvin Hellman, not to mention that she has done similar things to the real Alvin Hellman. thing.
She breathed steadily, injected it with anesthesia, and raised the scalpel to cut the skin outside its skull.
Just like the human body, the prefrontal lobe of the prototype machine is in charge of its emotional system, completely removing it can minimize its interference with the active second-generation machine.
"You are so cruel, why don't you just kill him directly."
When Annie fully opened the skull, Galen couldn't help asking.
"Because life is continuous, from the prototype machine to the first-generation machine to the current second-generation machine, they are complete lives. I can't kill a life's childhood and only let his youth live, so that he will not be able to make a complete life. decision-making, and that's the difference between living things and machines."
"Now you're going to remove his frontal lobe?"
"Yes."
Galen has been standing in front of the 'prototype machine', he can clearly see the subtle expressions on his face.From the moment they entered the room, he was paying attention to Annie. When her voice sounded, his expression was very gentle. When Annie mentioned the prefrontal lobotomy, he seemed a little surprised but calmed down quickly, still He watched her every move with a smile.
He made that photo come alive.
Galen looked at him as if he was looking at Alvin Herman himself.
He had known Annie for a long time, but he had never heard her mention her teacher, Alvin Herman.
He didn't know what kind of relationship would be between them.
Suddenly, the smile on the prototype machine's face disappeared, and the dullness replaced the light in his eyes.Annie straightened up and lifted a small object from the operating table - the frontal lobe of the prototype machine - and now he was a living dead.
Galen has been on the battlefield for a long time, but now he has mixed feelings.
Annie temporarily put aside the operation, and she turned on the data terminal that came with her.Sure enough, after the excision operation was completed, the second-generation machine began to quickly repair the last 6% of the damage. Before the main ship reached the big black hole, all the loopholes should be repaired successfully.
Annie breathed a sigh of relief.
"Prepare……"
Before the words of evacuation could be uttered, a huge explosion sound suddenly came from overhead, and the ground they were on began to vibrate violently. Galen strode over to protect Annie: "What's wrong?"
Annie was also a little overwhelmed, she just instinctively looked at the life support device of the prototype machine, and then she opened her mouth wide in horror:
"Its heartbeat stopped...he's dead!"
"what!!"
Schlieffen, who was in a daze in the small room, was startled by the shouts outside!He dropped the postcard in his hand, pulled out his gun and rushed out.But he didn't see the enemy, he only saw Erwin Herman lying on his wheelchair, panting with a distorted expression.
"What's wrong with you?" Schlieffen closed his gun and ran over.
Alvin Herman didn't answer, his breathing was short and his face was pale.
Schlieffen, who had participated in basic medical studies, pressed the control button of his self-propelled wheelchair to put him flat.
"Hi! Look at me! Look at me! Keep breathing!" Schlieffen patted his face, "Hold on, I'll give you a sedative."
The antique robot provided the sedative, and Schlieffen checked the meter and quickly inserted the needle into the opponent's arm.The method was effective, and Erwin's expression gradually relaxed, and his breathing rate returned to normal.However, Omega's physique is indeed weak, and the cold sweat from his body drenched the prison clothes.
"I...what happened just now?" Alvin regained consciousness from a faint, and he glanced at the prison guard in front of him in confusion.
"You had a sudden convulsion just now and almost stopped breathing."
Alvin felt that he just fell asleep for a while, and he really didn't know why he was like this suddenly. The fainting and convulsions made him feel sick, but he couldn't move.
"You are not a paralyzed patient, have you undergone disabling surgery?" Schlieffen said as he stood up, he seemed to hesitate for a moment, but he still released the handcuffs he had put on before.
"Maybe." Irwin didn't experience the trial, but he could guess his situation. Before he fell into a deep sleep, he felt that his actions should be restricted to the greatest extent. If the decision-making was made by the Owen system, it would definitely be Such a result.
"Can I get you out of the wheelchair?" Schlieffen still politely asked for his opinion.
Alvin also seemed to hesitate for a moment: "Yes."
Actually it wasn't 'fucking', Schlieffen picked him up from the wheelchair, maybe because he was unconscious, Alvin shrank into his arms naturally.Schlieffen has never hugged anyone like this before, but he feels that omega and alpha may really be completely different. Although their characterizations are both male, this person feels like a cat to him.
From an Asian American point of view, his complexion is too white.
"Would you mind lying on the ground?"
"I don't mind...but," Elvin paused, "there is a bed in the next room."
Schlieffen had already put him on the ground, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.
"Whatever, whatever." Alvin gave up on himself.
"If you don't massage the paralyzed patients, there will be problems with the unconscious body. I guess you just held a position for too long, which caused the spasm." Schlieffen began to massage from his hands.
Perhaps it was so, since he woke up and now has been dozens of hours, he has maintained this position.He considered many possibilities, but he only ignored the pain he might suffer physically.
The prison guard's hand stroked his arm, but he didn't feel it, and he couldn't even feel the temperature of the other party. He just looked at the muscles on his arm—there was no sign of muscle atrophy. It seemed that he had been carefully treated for 50 years. take care of.
The person in front of him was an alpha, and the pacifier he had injected himself had long since expired, and that aggressive smell wafted towards him one after another.In fact, for most omega, this taste is attractive.But Erwin didn't like it. The academy era created by Planck was an era of pure reason, and Erwin was his student, so he may have unconsciously equated sexual desire and filth.
"In a while, please carry me back to the wheelchair." Alvin asked anxiously, he still hoped that he could continue to inject inhibitors.
But he admits that being hugged by the prison guards is more comfortable than having Ivan (the antique robot) put him back in his wheelchair.
"Okay, but you have to tell me who you are."
The tone of the other party made him not very happy, but he still reluctantly introduced himself: "70 years ago, the human genetic modification technology was completely innovated, and the life expectancy was close to infinite from [-] years old. I am the main person in charge of this project."
"Oh?" Schlieffen's reaction was very cold.
"I thought that even if the government deleted all my information, everyone would still know about it." Alvin wondered if the prison guard didn't study hard when he was receiving elementary education.
"I know, but it has nothing to do with us," Schlieffen pressed one hand, stood up and changed positions, "This matter is only related to you, the vast majority of alphas will not live to be 50 years old, and the alphas on the front line of the army may not be able to survive." We can’t live beyond the age of 30, genetic modification has nothing to do with us, and an infinite lifespan has nothing to do with us. Professor Erwin Herman once, many years ago, has nothing to do with us.”
Once, many years ago.
Annie and Galen meet for the first time.
Anne's first meeting was unpleasant because of the naivety of Galen and his soldiers, which made a deep impression on her.
Many years later, Galen's subordinates are still a group of mentally handicapped—for example, the alcoholic lieutenant Eric, for example, these so-and-so who are sitting in the mecha now.
What this group of alphas in the military care about is different from what most normal people care about.
Their world is only wine and bragging.
Galen seems to be different, but there is no difference in essence.
As long as you talk to him for more than three sentences, it will make people feel headache.
When not talking, the cynical smile on his face is also a headache.
They had worked together many years ago as a stupid security mission, and she thought it would be the same this time, but it really seemed different this time.
The explosion and vibration continued. Galen was no stranger to the old military headquarters. He instinctively felt a trace of fear: "All personnel are sure about the situation. Please answer if you hear it."
The display screen was turned on, and there seemed to be no abnormality, but no one answered.
Outside the aftermath of the explosion and vibration, an extremely strange voice came from a distance, very strange and familiar.
The near space detector is blank, but the uneasy atmosphere is getting closer.
Annie, who was huddled in the corner, suddenly understood something. She stood up, pulled out her own biochip interface and connected it to the neural embolus of the prototype machine: "His mechanical part was invaded by a virus! Gatling bug! He controlled the Gatling bug!" Tring bugs!"
"Hold the line of defense!!"
Almost at the same time, Galen roared in the channel.
late.
The Gatling worms in the outer wall of the first layer of defense had already flooded into the third layer, occupying the entire area in an instant.
"Catlett? Catlett?" Lieutenant Eric yelled too, but Catlett's communication was cut off. "Hold the orbital entrance! Douglas! Bradley! Open the communication screen!"
The scene of the Gatling worm killing the Gripper is still vivid in my memory, and no one thought that they would become its enemies just an hour later.
"They are demolishing the track door at the entrance!" Douglas manipulated the armor to firmly press the air pressure valve that controlled the track door, but there were already cut cracks on the air pressure door.
Bradley tried to clear the bugs that had squeezed in through the cracks, but the bugs became more and more, and they began to burrow into the gaps in the mecha.
Douglas, who was holding down the air pressure plug, was powerless to resist. Without releasing the holographic mode, every cut by the Gatling bug was as uncomfortable as cutting on himself.
"Hurry up and save us!" Douglas's scream came from the channel, "And! And! Catlett!"
"Don't open the gate!" Galen stopped Solimons, "Eric, Solimons, hold on here and call the headquarters for help, I will manually cut off the link gates of each area, Anne, we can last two more 10 minutes, the rest is up to you."
The screams are still coming, and the communication screen has become extremely bloody.
There are nearly [-] Gatling bugs in the entire independent area. They are just machines, not creatures, and they have no emotions. They just obey the instructions and destroy everything.
Galen had already rushed out of the room and ran to the control room next door. All he did was delay the time. If the command required, the Gatling worm would rush here at all costs.
Why?why?Alvin did it?No, it's impossible. As soon as she entered the base, she cut off the external communication connection of the prototype machine. How did he do it?
Annie's head was buzzing, Central has been captured, and the corpses in the communication screen have been cut into shapes. In the chaos, Annie tried to sort out her thoughts: "Lieutenant Eric, prepare electromagnetic pulse bombs!"
Electromagnetic pulse bombs don't have explosive effects, but the electromagnetic waves they emit at the moment of explosion can paralyze all electronic and mechanical equipment within three kilometers.The area where the prototype machine is located is relatively isolated, but because it is the core equipment, there are at least [-] Gatling bugs distributed in the circular underground defense line. If the bare bones are exposed to these Gatling bugs, they will be killed instantly Gnaw into corpses.Now it seems that the only thing that can stop them is nuclear magnetic pulse bombing.
"Annie! If the nuclear magnetic pulse bomb is detonated, all the mechs will be paralyzed at the same time! Are you sure there is no other way?" Galin has already entered the control room, and he is hacking the emergency control valve with a fire ax. With his efforts, The emergency passages between the various areas began to close, "The gravity adjustment equipment will also be paralyzed at the same time! Annie! You will have to bear the gravity of 4 units immediately."
"Can you bear it? Scientist." Eric's tone was full of sarcasm.
"..." Anne's mind is full of Alvin Herman at the moment, "Contact the headquarters first, I will activate the defense system in the core area to ensure that the prototype machine will not be disturbed by the explosion, I will leave it to you later, Eli Lieutenant K."
The explosion caused by the Gatling bug is getting closer.
Eric looked back at Solimons: "The soldier must survive before he is eligible to cry. You are responsible for completing the contact, and I will deploy the electromagnetic pulse bomb."
"Yes."
"If someone dies, turn off his communicator."
"Yes." Solimons wiped his face secretly.
"Anne Schubert," Eric turned off Douglas and Bradley's communication screen, "They are both under 25 years old, I hope you made the right decision."