Chapter 72

Chapter 72

In reality.

The mecha that ambushed Shi Ji had been severely damaged by the unexpected and violent collision with the giant tree, and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Shi Ji dragged the unconscious operator out, placed him in a safe area, and pressed the help button for him.

He still had to go on his way, picking out useful parts from the wreckage, and quickly walked deeper into the jungle.

…

Half a minute later, the emergency rescue team arrived at the scene.

Because the aftermath of the violent secondary explosion was detected, members of the nearby special operations team were notified and rushed over together.

The scene unfolding before their eyes was tragic.

The ground was full of messy fallen leaves, and there were many broken and thick branches.Most of the huge mecha has been destroyed, half of the mechanical arm is stuck in the branches, the shell of the mecha is badly damaged, and the exposed wires are still crackling and flashing with sparks.

The operator was unconscious in an open space not far away, with a search and rescue button that had been activated beside him.

"They are students who came in after the battlefield was opened."

The search and rescue personnel carried the people onto the rescue boat and looked at the scene in front of them, a little shocked: "Did they be attacked by a group of mechanical bugs?"

The members of the special operations team shook their heads: "There are no mechanical bugs in this area."

The search and rescue worker was stunned: "What's going on?"

According to the records, the original trainees had not yet passed through the jungle and successfully rendezvoused with their mechas. Everyone was still trudging through the jungle alone.

These new mechas entering the battlefield are without exception the eliminated ones who failed to pass the selection and want to take advantage of this opportunity.

This kind of behavior is indeed opportunistic, and even so bad that it is a bit shameful, but in the final analysis, it cannot be regarded as a violation of the rules.

"Did he encounter other mechas?" the search and rescuer whispered, "or he made a mistake in his operation and failed to adapt to the jungle environment..."

The members of the special force looked at each other and continued to clean up the messy battlefield in front of them without saying a word.

...They all saw the full surveillance of this battle.

Although the trainees don't know it, surveillance has been deployed throughout the war zone. The members of the special forces will not only ambush them as blue troops, but also protect them in secret, trying their best to avoid any serious and irreversible consequences.

Especially these few mechas who had the mentality of picking up the slack and wanted to fish in troubled waters, sneaking in when all the trainees were at their weakest.

At the same time that the mecha and the trainees encountered each other head-on, they received an alert and were on standby nearby at any time.

The trainees have not yet reached the mecha's release point. Facing a fully armed mecha in an old-fashioned war is almost equivalent to asking a bare-handed person to fight a tank hand-to-hand.

Not to mention that there was only one trainee this time.

Being able to stand alone in front of a mecha for more than 15 minutes actually exceeds the selection criteria for a special forces team.If the trainee cannot handle it, a member of the Blue Army's special operations team will "happen" to launch an ambush to contain the mecha, allowing the trainee to take the opportunity to escape.

But the trainees who had just left made full use of every geographical environment, picked out the opponent's weak points of inflexibility and poor maneuverability, and scrapped a powerful combat mecha.

"Is it that Shi Ji?" A special operations team member whispered, "The one who was snatched back by Team Zhuang and whose military status has been locked..."

The other person nodded: "Only his signal has appeared here."

"The operator is an ordinary military cadet. He has only played in the ring and has very poor adaptability."

The special operations team member on the side said: "This complex jungle landscape will limit the performance of the mecha to the greatest extent..."

Someone asked him: "If it were us, if we were in this situation alone, would we be able to fight like this?"

The special operations team member who spoke before was speechless.

…

They are all newly recruited members of the special forces team in the past ten years after Zhuang Yu left.

Zhuang Yu is well-known in the entire alliance military region. No one will have any objections when he comes back to take charge of the special operations team.But it doesn't mean that the people brought back by Zhuangyu can be recognized by everyone willingly.

Not to mention still a student at a military academy.

They had also heard about the various military regions competing for an observer, and knew that Shi Ji had finally been locked up in the military by Zhuang Yu.

These members who have gone through untold hardships and shed layers of skin in inhuman assessment and training before joining the special forces team, even if they don't say it with their mouths, they are somewhat unconvinced in their hearts.

But now, seeing the situation in front of me, all thoughts have completely disappeared.

"I heard from the veteran team members that this was a strength that only the 'Knife' team of the special operations team had ten years ago."

A special operations team member said: "With Team Zhuang gone, the level of the special operations team is also declining...otherwise we wouldn't be able to select him at all."

The team member smiled bitterly: "I was still very unconvinced after hearing this."

The people on the side whispered: "If Captain Zhuang hadn't come back, with our current combat power, if a large-scale invasion of insects really breaks out, can we successfully drive them out?"

This time no one spoke.

Several special operations team members cleaned up the battlefield, returned to the airship, and signed their names in Zhuangyu's extreme special training plan.

In the sea of consciousness, Yu Tang was also asking the substitute system the same question.

"The ending of this book is only ten years later."

Yu Tang put away his fishing rod, picked off the round puffer fish, and opened the plot line of the original novel: "In the past ten years, the partnership of Sheng Yi and Ye Hanfeng has repelled many Zerg attacks, and there have been many practical opportunities for them to practice.and growth, they also achieved countless feats in battle after battle.”

Yu Tang has been thinking about this question for a long time: "Ten years later, won't the war with the Zerg be over?"

Not long after the mecha came back from reality, he brought back a diamond drill bit for Yu Tang and placed it in a small warehouse: "It didn't end."

The mecha returned to Yu Tang and sat on the pile of pillows with him.

"The Zerg are not migrating this time."

The mecha said: "They have taken a fancy to this galaxy and want to use it as a new 'worm lair'."

Zerg do not have the intelligence level of humans. They reproduce because of instinct, migrate because of instinct, and follow instinct to find new nests in the universe.

"In interstellar history, there have been locust plagues in the records of some planets, and the behavior of the Zerg is essentially similar to them. It's just that the food of the locusts is crops and plants, while the food of the Zerg is energy and people."

"This war is protracted and no one can end it."

Mecha: "It will last until one side is completely destroyed."

Yu Tang nodded.

Mecha said: "In this book, the reason why Ye Hanfeng is promoted as 'the number one observer whose strength exceeds that of synthetic AI' is also because of this."

In the long war, people desperately need hope, so they need to introduce people who can gather hope-at this time, the facts no longer matter.

Of course, Ye Hanfeng's strength cannot surpass Shi Ji.

But human hope cannot be condensed into a pile of data or a synthetic AI without human thinking and emotions.

So whether Ye Hanfeng is willing or not, he must accept this statement and become the "hero" who is pushed out.

Yu Tang lowered his hook again. He looked down, confirmed that the hook was empty, and pressed the speed-return button: "Is this the same for Pu Ying?"

The mecha was slightly startled: "...what?"

"I have deduced Pu Ying's ending. He did not choose to resist and lived with Wen Er for ten years."

Yu Tang said: "If it hadn't been for the final accident, he would have become the first electronic storm survivor in the league to be completely cured."

Because the Alliance needs a survivor who has been successfully cured.

Yu Tang put down the fishing rod and flipped the light curtain casually, adding a layer of shielding that could not be penetrated by any eavesdropping device.

"I've always been surprised," Yu Tang said, "Pu Ying's personality has been wiped out a lot in the storm, but neither he nor Luo Ran will accept it."

"If what I received was the whole story, Pu Ying would not have made this choice. He would have left this home. He would rather drive his car and sleep on the road."

"The same goes for Shi Ji. He always remembers his team leader and even memorized the topographic map of my home."

"Even if one day, Shi Ji is really wiped out of Captain Zhuang's memory, he will still remember that his comrades are missing in a strange place. He is the only investigator. Only he can deliver the map.go out."

…

"There must be some reason that changed their choice."

"According to the plot I received, their characters would not have chosen to accept that ending."

Yu Tang said: "I have made many inferences and added many factors, but no matter how I adjust, I can only deduce one possibility."

Yu Tang: "What I received is not the whole plot at all."

The mecha didn't speak and looked at him quietly.

"These four books share the same world view, but in the other books, all traces of the war have been erased."

Yu Tang asked: "Why?"

Before the mecha could answer, Yu Tang had already continued: "I speculate that it is so as not to interfere with the plot of this book."

If he didn't know this in advance and was pushed to the point where he had to make a choice in an already irreversible situation, he would have to make a choice.

It's like Pu Ying has to choose whether to disobey his family's orders and leave, or become the "hope of being cured" and live like a zombie.

Just like Shi Ji driving his wingman, dragging his half-dead body, he knew very well that he would never be able to return to his original peak state.

"I have been in this world for five years, and I know better than anyone else that there are real parts of this world and there are people I want to protect."

"If the choice I face is to either integrate with the program and become an intelligent AI, or to quit and watch the people I want to protect disintegrate and disappear along with the world."

Yu Tang asked: "Which one should I choose?"

The mecha raised its mechanical arm and gently pressed it on his knee: "Mr. Yu."

"In the memory that I have recovered so far, there is a human being that I like very much."

Yu Tang said: "In the end, he chose to completely integrate it with AI and turned it into a set of data... I have always wondered why."

Yu Tang: "He promised me a lot of things, but he hasn't done them yet."

The mecha interrupted him softly: "Mr. Yu."

"I know that you are now a member of the supervision department." Yu Tang said, "OOC can be punished at will."

He just wanted to say something.

When he was still a ball of light, he had a lot to say, but he had no chance.

"He told me that he had turned into a big two-story robot and that he might not be able to bake cookies for the time being. He told me to knock on it when I missed him."

"In the beginning, when I would knock on it, he would flash the red light for me."

Yu Tang said: "I was very happy to see it. I didn't know what the difference was between mechas and humans. I thought it was his new look."

Yu Tang: "I will go every day and sleep in his arms."

"The mecha is a little cold and very hard. It's not as comfortable as a pillow, but it's okay."

"He sometimes goes to fight and disappears for a long time every time. When he is not around, I play games and wait for him."

"One time, he disappeared for too long."

Yu Tang said: "I went looking for him and found him in an open space, so I knocked on him according to the code we agreed on."

Yu Tang: “But he didn’t flash the red light again.”

"I knock once a day for eight hours each time," Yu Tang said. "I don't remember how long I've been knocking... I accidentally broke the mecha."

There was no one inside.

He rummaged through every broken piece, but couldn't find the human he'd lost.

…

The mecha stopped talking. It braced itself and stood up from the pile of pillows.

Yu Tang looked at the timer on the light screen.

Seventy-five seconds.

The supervision department and the mall are connected, and the response time should be the same. This is the time limit for him to take the initiative to OOC.

Yu Tang nodded: "Okay."

He just wanted to tell that person.

If the system is on vacation, the system will not be punished at the same time.

Yu Tang had readjusted his emotions. He read the regulations of the Supervision Department, stretched himself and stood up: "I know."

"The Ministry of Supervision has regulations. If employees who violate regulations are not punished, the staff will hand out leaflets."

Yu Tang dragged the other party into the water. He was already prepared and actively cooperated: "Don't worry, I am willing to accept any punishment..."

The mecha nodded: "Okay."

The mecha moved its mechanical arm twice: "Please restore to the original data state."

Yu Tang: "Can't you just punish me like this?"

“With the shell I’m currently commandeering, it’s hard to do that.”

The mecha said, "I can only jump up and hit you on the knee."

Yu Tang: "..."

The reasons given by the other party are very strong and cannot be refuted.

Yu Tang decided to cooperate and restored the original data, turning it back into a small warm-toned light group.

The mecha walked over.

It took a soft blanket on the side, wrapped the whole ball of light, stretched out its mechanical arm, and held Yu Tang in its arms.

Yu Tang was startled.

Mecha: "Struggle."

Yu Tang: "?"

The mechanical arm exerted a little force and took him into his arms. The cold metal embrace became soft again with a small blanket on it.

"Resistant behavior by employee detected."

Mecha: "Activate the power of self-disposal, temporarily take over the role, and cut off the projection of the sea of consciousness."

Yu Tang flashed in his arms: "Wait a minute... I have taken motion sickness medicine."

By cutting off the projection of the sea of consciousness, no matter what changes occur in the outside world, they will not affect the interior of the sea of consciousness.

Even if Shi Ji was outside swinging a mechanical insect in circles or driving a wingman around a windmill, he would not be affected at all during the time when the projection was temporarily cut off.

Yu Tang spent a huge amount of money to buy the supreme version of motion sickness medicine, but it only came in handy for half an hour. He couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

"I'll reimburse you." Mecha said, "I have internal benefits for staff."

Yu Tang: "..."

The mecha adjusted its posture so that he could lean more comfortably, and separated a line of data to take over real-time monitoring of the outside world.

"The punishment this time is a good night's sleep."

The mecha hugged him and said warmly: "When you wake up, I will remember to flash the red light."