Psychics don't die from gunfire

"——Emergency situation!"

At three o'clock after midnight, Lapis Lazuli suddenly made a sound.

Under the bridge, Song Shi sat upright: "Say."

Lapis Lazuli sorted out the order of the words: "The First Artificial Intelligence Research Center in Taitai, also known as the 'Tower of Divine Wisdom'. It is located in Taitai County, one hundred and seventy-two kilometers away from us in a straight line."

"Our original plan was to invade at the physical level."

"Wait a mininute."

Chu Tonglu couldn't help but raise his hand: "You originally planned to break into the Divine Wisdom Tower directly and fish out those intelligent machines?"

"It's okay, it's sneaking in." Ai Lu replied.

"Aren't you really afraid of death?" Chu Tonglu was shocked: "I checked the information and found that the Shenzhen Tower is a key support project in Taitai County. In terms of psychics alone, there are two third-level ring guards stationed there! And that's not even counting. Those cutting-edge individual soldiers who rely on technology to increase their combat power to the same level.”

"Yes, I know you are strong! Even if you put all these together, it will only be a matter of how much time it takes!" Chu Tongluo spoke very quickly: "But attacking from the front and making such a big move is really asking for death! Wei Wei is looking for death. The people in the order organization are not blind!”

"Reasonable worries." Song Shi raised his hand and smiled peacefully: "But I have a sense of proportion."

Chu Tonglu was choked for a moment, and after a few seconds, he said slowly: "Let's talk first. I did say I would help you, but I won't do anything that will obviously lead to death. Or you tell me, what is your back-up plan? What."

"This is the reason why I called you all." But it was Lapis Lazuli who spoke next, and his usually calm voice seemed to surge up: "We have a chance to avoid physical risks!"

Song Shi made a "please" gesture.

"Since last week, we have been getting a peek into the operations of the Tower of God."

The "us" mentioned by Lapis Lazuli are the Depth 4 omnic demons who stayed in Beiting's defense front. Song Shi and others have not been locked down by the order organization so far, because the former has made great efforts.

"The progress is very slow." Lapis Lazuli said frankly: "We cannot let the Knowledge Council notice that our ultimate goal is the Tower of Wisdom."

"So the main purpose of our actions is to be completely conservative and cautious. Moreover, the network protection system of the Shenzhen Tower is extremely advanced. We dare not get too close."

"So." Ai Lu asked the core: "Your Excellency Lapis Lazuli, what emergency situation are you referring to?"

"If the network protection system of the Divine Wisdom Tower is regarded as a fortress in theory, it is integral and indestructible." Lapis Lazuli couldn't hide his excitement: "But in order to facilitate research on the abyss, the Divine Wisdom Tower has built a deep diving center inside. There is a direct interface to the abyss.”

"The existence of the abyss interface is equivalent to a gap in this fortress - can you understand? The network protection system is for the surface network, and the deep dive center is for the abyss, just like two smooth stone slabs, even if they are attached No matter how tight they are and how smooth their surface is, they are not a whole after all.”

"Flaw?" Song Shi raised his eyebrows.

"It cannot simply be considered a flaw." Lapis Lazuli tried to output a simpler and easier-to-understand statement: "This is just a congenital defect in the underlying architecture."

"In short, judging from the results, we used this congenital flaw to finally spy on a piece of high-value intelligence. No, it should be said that it was this intelligence that led us to spy on it."

Lapis Lazuli doesn’t have any bad habits of making people appetizing and is straight to the point.

"Just nineteen minutes ago, the Omnic Tower sank the imprisoned omnic through the deep dive center to depth 3!"

Song Shi reacted instantly.

"You mean that we also dive down, attack directly from the abyss, and bypass the physical level to rescue your compatriots."

"Even if they are successfully rescued, it will only be their souls." Chu Tonglu paused and suddenly hesitated: "Or should I call it consciousness? Core intelligence? Forget it, I'll just call it consciousness."

"Existences that can be called [omnics] have awakened their self-awareness. Except for some omnics that always insist on only operating on the Internet, most omnics will choose a fixed body of their own for real-life activities. "

"The 'sense of identification' with this fixed body? Let's call it that for the time being."

As the third ring of [Transcendence], especially since his biological father is a clone who is closely related to omnics, Chu Tongluo has a deep understanding of this aspect: “Just like human beings implanting prosthetics, it is possible to produce mental illnesses such as phantom limb syndrome. The disease is the same.”

"An omnic that has awakened its self-awareness also has a sense of identity with its own body. It can accept minor changes or slow major transformations, but if it suddenly changes to a completely different body, this will be a very serious problem for the omnic. Big thrill.”

"Some of the crazy AIs circulating on the Internet now are driven crazy by this kind of stimulation."

"You are now equivalent to giving up the bodies of these intelligent machines and only saving consciousness." There was no emotion in Chu Tongluo's tone, just a simple analysis: "Considering that the environment is an abyss, I don't think the damage to them will be Low."

"This is a necessary sacrifice." Lapis Lazuli said concisely: "We have no choice."

"If your body is gone, you can rebuild it. If your mind is damaged, you can find a high-level [Consensus] for a healing plan. No matter what, this is better than being imprisoned forever!"

The light patterns on the lapis lazuli fuselage flowed, and the tone became brighter and brighter: "This is the best and our lowest-risk plan, an opportunity that cannot be missed!"

"If any omnic dies because of this, there is no way it can be undone."

The omnic suddenly became quiet, and it wasn't until several seconds passed that he spoke again.

"In the name of 'Lapis Lazuli'," it said slowly, word by word: "I will bear their death."

"Then let's go."

Song Shi made a decision: "It just so happens that we don't have such high requirements for deep-diving equipment."

Conventional deep-sea salvage operations require a complete set of deep-sea equipment, otherwise the deep-sea divers will not be able to withstand the oppression of the [Abyss] halfway through the salvage and will encounter various problems.

The ideal situation is that the personnel simply have mental abnormalities. There have even been things like crazy AI and abyss derivatives that use deep-sea divers as springboards to float up and pollute the surface network.

Fourteen years ago, a deep-sea diving center of the giant enterprise [Zero Degree Network] located in Matland State was attacked by a derivative active at depth 5. It destroyed the entire deep-sea diving center through deep-sea divers as a medium. At that time, all 97 company employees inside were contaminated and turned into deformed foreign objects.

--Just for now.

Everyone present was at least a second-ring psychic, and the demand for deep-sea equipment was not so high, just enough was enough.

"I haven't dived into the abyss for a long time." Song Shi moved his neck: "Just right."

"--No, the first task is not to dive."

Lapis Lazuli spoke, and it looked around at everyone.

"Let's leave here first, and try to rush to the border of the Council of Knowledge. By then, whether the rescue is successful or not, the Council of Knowledge will definitely be able to lock our position, and it will be too late to retreat at that time."

"How long do you plan to run?"

Song Shi turned his head.

"One hour." Lapis Lazuli said: "After one hour, we will officially dive."