翻译：kk
校对：emu，罂粟，nina，kk
"What"s wrong?" B4 turned off the hot water, "Zhanlu, report the malfunction."
"Zhanlu"s mech was severely damaged … 30 … 60% … 80 … warning, damage continuing…"
B4 grasped his cold wrist. Suddenly, Zhanlu opened his green eyes: "Sir, I lost the connection with my mech."
For a moment, B4"s pupils shrank intensely, however, soon he hid it with his eyelash down, got the hot water from Zhanlu. Pouring some water out and throwing a teabag in, he sat behind the table.
A peaceful fragrance rose, while the sky of Beijing-ß was extremely blue.
"Accident." B4 wiped the dropping water and entwisted his fingers. He was still calm, spoke in a speed which was even slower than usual, "No need to be panic. Let"s guess what happened first -- your body was in the bas.e.m.e.nt of the Silver Fortress. Theoretically, they would not display it."
"My mech"s defense system is the superlative degree of the IU. It can withstand all the frontal attack from any ma.s.sive weapon. According to the damage speed, it is presumed to be under continuous attack from ma.s.sive weapons … It is possible that there was more than one super-s.p.a.ce ma.s.sive mech." Zhanlu tried to connect the mech far away at the Silver Fortress which shares the same name as his, whereas failed for several times. He stretched himself in discomfort like he was rusted, rolled every joint of his body. "Sorry, Sir. I feel weird, like my important organ was cut off."
"…" B4 kept the silence for a weird second, "Zhanlu, don"t talk to others in this way."
"Everything you say, Sir." Zhanlu said, "Therefore, my mech in the bas.e.m.e.nt of the Silver Fortress are seriously attacked."
And the Silver Fortress must be attacked to death as well.
B4 leaned back. "The location of the Silver Fortress is very subtle, where was at the junction of the First and the Second Galaxy, not only have a lot of connections with both two galaxies, but also surrounded by eight galaxy lane and three military fortresses. No one could break in when it raises its defense up, not even a fly. Straight breaking in and large-scale ma.s.sive mechs" transfer were both impossible."
Zhanlu"s palm up, showing a stereo galaxy lane map floating above the table. The eight lanes out of the Silver Fortress confused people, while seventy-six customs pa.s.ses were in the network everywhere. Besides, there were — Berlain, Tiny Hummingbird and Changbai Mountains — three military fortresses surrounded the Silver Fortress like three satellites.
"The First Squadron was left on the merchant airship on the lane. They should have sent message to us if there was anything wrong." His grey eyes reflected the whole galaxy map which was exactly like the virtual one. He said, "The defense system and armament were arranged by myself personally, including six standby energy system, and the armed armaments can blast the whole First Galaxy like a meteor shower. They can never lose like this, even if they appoint a donkey to be the Commodore of the Silver Fortress."
Zhanlu added. "The one who took over your place is Ares Lee."
B4 - Lin - Jingheng Lin who took off his military uniform and never mentioned his real name paused for a second. "It was no big difference from appointing a donkey."
Zhanlu said, "You mean the chief executive, the Commodore Lee, betrayed and turned off the defensive system of the Silver Fortress on purpose?"
"Probably him, it can also be the ones have higher rank." He played with the teacup in hand, smiling coldly, "They started civil war all by their own before I do anything to them - Zhanlu, try to connect with the First Squadron, tell them to play it by ear, use the civilian lane and go over the Hummingbird Fortress while retreating..."
Zhanlu always execute first and doubt it later in treating his orders. Sending message quickly, Zhanlu then said plainly, "Commodore Ylev in the Hummingbird Fortress is your friend. Sir, do you suspect that he already betrayed the IU?"
"First of all, it takes at least thousands of mechs to blast the Silver Fortress into ruins. Ma.s.sive mechs of that number can"t fly in the sky altogether like some kind of party, or everyone on the near planet can notice them with their naked eyes. Therefore they can"t drive all the mechs into the First Galaxy at once, no matter they are from outer s.p.a.ce or the Heart of Rose. The process of delivering weapons has to be a long period with departed groups and highly confidential, so they had to have a place where not far from the Silver Fortress to contain all the ma.s.sive mechs. The Hummingbird Fortress has a perfect position and revolution orbit." Jingheng paused, "Secondly, Ylev is not my friend. Do I take everyone as my friend? Ylev is Xin Lu"s former subordinate, which lots of people didn"t know because he hid the truth well, so that he got the time to strengthen himself. He kept his nose clean all these years because that I forced him with my power and that he didn"t want to fall out with me wholly for my tutor"s sake. He"s a wolf I chained beside my bed, hating me but didn"t bite me for former affect."
Hearing the subtle relationships between humans, Zhanlu who broke down just now feeling his CPU is over-heating. He asked after a long while, "Sir, why would you chain a wolf beside your bed?"
Jingheng didn"t answer as usual, just simply gave orders. "Keep spying. Call the Ninth Squadron back from outer s.p.a.ce and see me at the edge of the Eighth Galaxy."
Zhanlu stood at attention, while Penny called in.
Jingheng raised his eyebrow, suggesting Zhanlu to answer it.
Zhanlu got on the phone immediately, imitating Jingheng"s voice vividly. "What"s up?"
"B4," Penny lowed her voice, "Someone intends to see you, saying that they come from outer s.p.a.ce. They think you are very interested in a biological chip … What chip? Do you know anything about this?"
Zhanlu shared an eye contact with B4 --
After the chip in the Spider"s body was taken out, the man behind him must do something, but … why now?
Starry Sea Academy still didn"t hire any teacher after two and half a month term time，whereas the lab was ready and the teaching part worked smoothly. They even had a mech for tearing and playing. Everything was almost perfect.
Bixing dismissed the students, walking back to his own lab as usual.
It was a little different today because the lab was connected to Zhanlu who would usually wave at him through computer. The magical AI can use the experimental equipment in the lab as his body to a.s.sistance president Lu and update the data to his master from time to time.
f.u.c.k yeah. The AI was too d.a.m.n intelligent, ensuring he can communicate to his sponsor without going out. Bixing hasn"t seen Lin for three months.
The mysterious Lin, and his scientific products advanced the Eighth Galaxy at least a hundred years, both attracted Bixing the geek like a magnet. It was not like "missing you like being apart for three months when it was actually one day", but just want to talk to him whether he needed to or not. Though Lin was always indifference and never respond evidently, which you have to observe carefully by microscope. But Bixing still think Lin can understand everything he say.
It was not easy to find someone who doesn"t regard him as a freak in the enormous Eighth Galaxy.
"Zhanlu?" Bixing sounded out. No one answered, which inferred Zhanlu was not there.
Does AI can also absent for no reason?
Biixng murmured, messing his hair while no one was looking at him at the moment. His neat hair was screwed up totally after just few seconds, drooping up and down, in and out. Then he stretched himself indolently, thought, "Fine. It feels more comfortable when there"s just me."
He changed his clothes while read through the report before. For the several months, Zhanlu and him were about to figure out the biology chip which like a rough Eden. The difference was that Eden is a network and an exchangeable platform while the chip was more like a vicious transmitting station. It radiated as the center, the more powerful, the bigger the radiation range was. When it started, it would invade human"s sense organ and intelligence systems around it without warning, just like virus. The insert method is exactly like Eden except that you couldn"t communicate with the man or the robot in your range. The chip influences people in the settled few ways which were set advanced. The man who wore the chip couldn"t change everything arbitrarily.
The other incomprehensible problem is that … Why the chip can make Spider an Achillean superman?
It didn"t happen when they trying to insert the chip into the rat.
Bixing checked the data of the rat, staring at the biology chip. A bad idea came up.
"Zhanlu, are you out there?" He asked again to the empty office.
There was still no answer.
Acting immediately after thinking of it, Bixing set the medical equipment quickly and disinfected himself nervously and excitedly. After presetting the program, he lain in the sterile cabin.
The medical system was remolded by Zhanlu, which was much more advanced than Bixing could ever imagine. It was prepared for accidents, and now it offered convenience for president Lu"s human trial.
The little painless implanting operation finished in a few seconds.
The death-seeking-lover president Lu wrote down his vital sign after the operation carefully, whistling a song named the Cat Killed by Curiosity. Then he started the chip.
What would happen?
His heart was attacked by electric-shock feeling for once. Not a torture level but enough to bound louder for a second.
Then raised an unspoken pleasant sensation, inner codes of every machine around rushed into his eyes, and his own mind was connected with the chip.
It was like on the rough waves, and outer power invaded his brain. The simply connecting had already driven him nuts. Accelerating heart rate alarmed the medical equipment, while a thought came up from nowhere — I"m almighty.
He paused, folding the solid metal handrail unconsciously.
Bixing lost all the superman thoughts when looking at the curve handrail. "It"s f.u.c.king expensive!"
At the moment, his ears suggested something to him. His sense organs seemed connect to all the electric equipment in the building, including the monitoring system, exactly like a spider on its own web.
The spider heard the sound from the mech storeroom. A few d.a.m.n students came in by lock picking!
"Just a ride. I"ve never leave the atmosphere in my whole lifetime." It must be White the troublemaker, "On the orbit only. Not leaving Beijing-ß. We"ll come back soon and our president woundn"t know anything about it."
TBC