Blue Sword

"I don't understand, Holy See." Bishop Varian said, "Why can the enemy corrupt Bishop Schrank? I mean, although I am not familiar with Bishop Schrank, his reputation in the Holy See is obvious to all. He doesn't look like a corrupt guy who can be bribed."

"If it is an extraordinary power, why didn't Raphael detect it before? Is it really the Antichrist as they said?"

"Sir Varian." Innocent leaned in front of the railing, holding a pipe in his hand, "Would you like a cigarette?"

"Thank you, I have quit smoking."

Innocent stuffed the tobacco into his pipe, lit it, and took a slow puff:

"Raphael is not omnipotent." He exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "At least where we are standing, it can't monitor it."

"Can't monitor? You mean..."

"Raphael is a program." Innocent knocked on the railing. "No matter how smart it is, it is still a program. If it is a program, there will inevitably be omissions. The only difference is between being discovered and not being discovered."

"Raphael has been maintained by professional algorithm engineers throughout the ages. In the middle of the Fourth Age, it was the Lateranos family who was responsible for maintaining it, and its patriarch Plautius inserted an algorithm into Raphael's monitoring program. A piece of code that allows Raphael to automatically ignore a small area of ​​the Lateran Palace, which is the balcony under our feet, every time he monitors the ground."

"And this balcony is where Plautius used to discuss conspiracies with other family leaders."

"You mean..." Bishop Varian understood.

"Think about it carefully, Lord Varian." Innocent held the railing and said calmly, "In the past thousand years, how many software engineers have taken over the maintenance of Raphael? How many people have violated the code management regulations, in the version Did you illegally add your own code during the change? How many people here are influenced by the Antichrist?"

"I'm not a code learner, Holy See." Varian was puzzled, "But when they upload the code to the server, doesn't anyone review it?"

"Of course there are." Innocent laughed, "But are the people who review them necessarily safe and trustworthy?"

Varian was speechless.

"There is no perfect program, and there is no omnipotent artificial intelligence." Innocent turned around and rested his arms on the railing. "Of course, there is no standing Holy See."

"Holy See, you'd better be careful what you say." Varian couldn't laugh or cry. What does it mean for you, the leader of the Holy See, to personally say that the Holy See takes pills?

"It's okay, let's go in and talk." Innocent straightened up.

Varian followed Pope Innocent all the way down to the underground of the Lateran Palace.

"Bring me the torque engine at the door." Innocent said as he walked into a basement.

There is a square box next to the door. Inside is a simple torque engine that seems to have just been assembled. Next to it is a brand new large-capacity battery. The dial shows that it is fully charged.

Apparently, someone made these two gadgets urgently and sent them over yesterday or this morning after the demon tide ended.

I just don’t know if it’s related to the accident where the civilization restorer was destroyed?

Varian lifted these two things, which were quite heavy.

Following Innocent to the end of the basement, Innocent signaled Varian to put down the two devices, and then expertly assembled them.

Then pull out the output head of the torque engine and insert it into the wall - Varian noticed that there was a gap in the wall, which was exactly the same shape as the output head of the torque engine.

Innocent pressed the switch, and the engine hummed to life, and the torque output head began to rotate at high speed, continuously providing a power source for something mysterious behind the wall.

"Is it... the backup of the Civilization Restorer?!" Varian said in shock.

"Of course we have disaster recovery backup for such an important thing." Innocent sat down on the glove box next to him and said calmly, "This is actually a semi-open secret. What is really secret is the location and location of the disaster recovery backup. quantity."

"Successive popes know most of the backup information, but of course not all, because the pope may also be corrupted by the Antichrist. Some bishops also know some, and some of them overlap with what the pope knows, but some do not."

"Of course, in addition to the Holy See, there are also secret branches of ascetic monks in other locations on the mainland, responsible for guarding corresponding disaster recovery backups."

"These ascetics have completely cut off contact with us. No one in the Holy See knows their location or their number. The only thing they know is that if the Holy See fails to activate Raphael for a long time, the backup artificial intelligence will be activated somewhere on the mainland. Then urgently recall the Michael Space Station from far space."

"And Michael carries all the Raphael data for each version change." Varian suddenly realized, and said excitedly, "No matter how much Antichrist infiltrates, it will not be able to pass through the orbital height of tens of thousands of meters and destroy Michael. Delete the data on board or completely destroy it."

"That's right." Innocent smiled. "The disaster recovery backup is required for confidentiality. Once it is sealed, it will not be updated. Therefore, the mechanical columns inside are all stored in Raphael's early works. Version."

"After Raphael is activated, a recall signal will be sent to Michael, and Raphael's data will be transmitted to the Holy See - of course, this also means that the disaster recovery backup has completely exposed itself after completing its mission. , it can only be abandoned.”

"What we have to do next is just to wait for the early version of Raphael here to be installed, to transmit the data to the ground, and for Michael to be recalled."

"Then the Holy See can begin to receive data from Michael, complete Raphael's update and reload, and rebuild technological civilization."

Innocent briefly explained the mechanism, and Varian certainly knew that this was just the tip of the iceberg. It would be impossible for the Pope to reveal all the information. To be able to reveal part of the information to him was already a sign of trust in him. .

Finally, taking advantage of Innocent's silence, he asked tentatively:

"But the Holy See, according to what you said, even for the sake of confidentiality, this disaster recovery backup should be started by you alone, right?"

The subtext is, why did you take me with you?

"Because the foundation of your Licinius family is too weak." Innocent said lightly, "Of course, I am referring to the foundation in the Holy See."

"No one doubts the strength of the Licinius family in manufacturing and commerce, but you have too little involvement in politics. Before you, the Licinius family did not even produce a single cardinal. If I abdicate, Then I rashly passed the position to you, and I’m afraid there will be controversy and turmoil during the transfer of power.”

The Licinius family's avoidance of politics was due to the fact that their ancestor, Marcus Licinius Crassus, rashly transitioned from the real estate industry into a political leader. As a result, he was defeated in the Parthian expedition to the East. The corpse's head was filled with melted liquid. Send the gold back.

Since then, the Licinius family has quickly faded away from politics. Some people say that Crassus left a will to his descendants to "never get involved in politics" - this Varian has never been heard of in the family.

However, the family is indeed very talented in business. It has gone bankrupt many times in the past thousand years and finally made a comeback. Although it has switched from real estate investment to precision manufacturing... Varian was thinking this and suddenly reacted.

Pass it to me?

Pass it to me!

Grass!