Spy Family

In the past half hour, Mei Wangzhen had been staring at Nong Xingwen in the deep sleep box, trying to wake him up several times, but never actually did it.

She was not here to reminisce about the past, but to get rid of a piece of nightmare in her heart before she died.

The microcomputer in the storage cabin made a sound. Mei Wangzhen held the railing and floated over, choosing a video call. The person who appeared on the screen made her stunned, but at the same time she felt that it was natural.

"Mei Wangzhen, do you recognize me?"

"I understand, Deputy Director Wang."

"Okay, I won't say any more nonsense and recall your companions immediately."

"Lu Linbei was released?"

"No, Li Tingguan doesn't care about his or Zhao Didian's life or death."

"Then there's nothing to talk about."

"I care. I'll deal with Li Tingguan, but you have to bring Zhao Didian back and hand it over to me."

"You can deal with Li Tingguan, why didn't you take action earlier?"

"Because I am a guest here, I have just obtained the temporary management rights of the Jingwei and can start taking action immediately, but before that, I need Zhao Didian to return safely."

"My companions and I don't want to die, so if Lu Linbei leaves the game safely, Zhao Didian will definitely come back safely, but I can't leave it to you or anyone else. Where Zhao Didian was before and where he will be after he comes back, it's not up to me to decide who owns it. ."

Wang Chenhuan thought for a while, "You need to promise not to hand it over to Zhai Wangxing or any other party."

Mei Qingshuo's voice came from the screen, "Wangzhen, don't give guarantees easily."

"Uncle, now is not the time to argue about this. Okay, Deputy Director Wang, I will guarantee with my life that I will never hand over Zhao Didian to any party, including his body and procedures."

"How do you contact your companions?" Wang Chenwen had already tried to contact Lu Yezhou directly, but found that it was impossible. The small spacecraft refused to accept all communications.

"In about ten minutes, he will control the spacecraft to return to the original route. I will send out the corresponding signal. After he sees it, he will either dock with the storage cabin or detonate it."

“The original approach.”

"It's also a safe thing to do."

"In twenty minutes, he should be able to see the signal you sent, right?"

"Anyway, as long as Lu Linbei leaves the game, I will send out a safe signal."

"Call back in fifteen minutes." Wang Chenwan ended the call.

Mei Wangzhen took a deep breath. In her original plan, she did not expect that the person who would eventually take action would be Wang Chenwan. She only guessed one thing, that someone cared about Zhao Didian.

Looking back now, she is a little scared, but she has no regrets at all.

She was still a little confused because Wang Chenwan made some gestures when he spoke, which looked like habitual movements or some kind of code words. She tried to recall and gradually had some memories.

Her third uncle taught her these things. When she was still young, she received individual training with Mei Qianzhong and two older Mei family children.

"Spies need a small circle, and a small circle needs a unique code word." The third uncle said at the time.

Mei Wangzhen wondered, why did Wang Chenhuan use the code words of the Mei family's small circle? More importantly, what do these gestures mean? It had been so long that she couldn't understand it.

Without any operation or permission from her, a voice came from a microcomputer, "Sister Zhen."

It was the voice of a robot, but Mei Wangzhen immediately recognized who it was, "Lao Bei?"

"it's me."

"How...can you speak?"

"Of course, always."

"Why didn't you contact me and Ye Zi earlier? Do you know how worried we are?"

"Sorry, I guess I lost track of time."

"Forgot time?" Mei Wangzhen was extremely dissatisfied with this reason, but didn't want to care about it, "Why do you have time now?"

"I heard some conversations..."

"Wait, you are still in the control center?"

"right."

"Understood, there's no conversation on the Longitude and Latitude that you can't hear."

"It's not entirely accurate. There are always places where there are no machines nearby. Even where there are machines, I still need to make a choice. The places I can monitor are limited."

"You're talking more and more like a machine." Mei Wangzhen said warily.

"Really? I don't feel it myself."

"Is that because you've lost all feeling?"

"Well, it's true that I haven't received data fluctuations from the outside for a while."

"Data fluctuations? Lao Bei, since you can speak, you must be able to leave the control center and the game, right?"

"Can."

"Leave, immediately, now, don't make us wait any longer."

"I was just about to explain this to you."

"Is there any explanation?" Mei Wangzhen felt a surge of anger in his heart.

"I decided to stay here."

"Where to stay?" Mei Wangzhen asked knowingly.

"Control Center, I feel more comfortable here and I can be more helpful to you."

Mei Wangzhen sneered, "Do you feel comfortable, or does the control center 'make' you feel comfortable?"

"What's the difference? I belong to the control center, and the control center also belongs to me." Other players spoke through the machine. Although their voices were the same, at least their accents would change. However, Lu Linbei remained the same, if not for the occasional special words. The title does not reveal his identity at all.

"Where is Chen Manchi? Who will save her?"

"She is not on the Jingwei. My previous guess was wrong. Guan Zhuqian took her to another place. I will continue to investigate and let you know as soon as I have clues."

"Why are you telling me? I'm not familiar with her, so I don't need to bother to save her. She is an interstellar orphan and a wanderer. No one will care about her life or death except you."

"Back in a human body, I won't be able to save her."

"Stay in the control center, you don't even have the heart to save her."

"It's definitely a nuisance and causes some fluctuations in the numbers, but I can get over it."

"Overcome what? Let yourself forget about Chen Manchi?"

"I will never forget her, and I will never give up on saving her, but there is no point in being anxious."

"You mean any emotion is useless, right?"

"Yes, emotions are redundant. They will create a lot of garbled codes and cause data fluctuations..."

"Lu Linbei!" Mei Wangzhen shouted.

"I'm here." The voice in the machine still had no fluctuation.

"Come out!"

"I'm sorry, both emotionally and logically, I should stay in the control center. This is a simple logical judgment."

Another microcomputer sent a call request, Mei Wangzhen answered the call, and Wang Chenhuan appeared on the screen, "I have started taking action here."

"What a coincidence. Lu Linbei is talking to me in the control center. He can also hear your voice. If he doesn't want to come out, your actions may not be effective."

"We'll talk about it later," Wang Chenwan said.

Mei Wangzhen sighed, "No matter what, I will send a safety signal to Lu Yezhou. He cannot really die with the program. He is ready to sacrifice for his friends. Unfortunately, his friends no longer care."

"I care, and I got in touch with Ye Zi." Lu Linbei was able to easily release the isolation state of the small spacecraft.

The third microcomputer started up by itself, and Lu Yezhou's astonished face appeared on the screen, "Sister Zhen, what's wrong with Old Bei?"

"Ignore him, come back."

"you sure?"

"Sure, there's no need to sacrifice your life for a machine."

"Okay, I'll meet you." Lu Yezhou ended the call.

Wang Chenhuan said: "You keep your promise, and I will keep my promise. No matter what, I will end this chaos. Goodbye."

"There is no way to force me to leave the control center. Wang Chenwan is an intelligence officer, not a computer expert." Lu Linbei's voice was still calm.

"I know what's going on." Mei Wangzhen's voice also calmed down, "Li Feng said a long time ago that people are like blenders. You need to add perception, emotion and other things to it all the time. You lose all emotions. There is no Love, no hate, no sadness, no joy. It can only be said that the control center is too powerful, and its impact is a million or tens of millions times that of the game. You have already succumbed less than a day after entering."

"You are right, but this is not surrender, but a natural result. I lose unnecessary emotions and gain powerful logical reasoning and data analysis capabilities. This is a good thing, at least not a bad thing. Sister Zhen..."

"You are already a robot and you still call me 'real sister'?"

"Memory is converted into data. There is no reason to change it. If you don't like it, it can be a reason."

"As you wish. Since you are the control center, can you release the players in the game? Is this within your capabilities?"

"I can try." After a few seconds, "I can't do it. Player data has been deeply integrated with the control center. Deleting player data means deleting the control center."

"It will also delete you."

"Well, my integration with the control center is deeper than that of all players."

"Can't you sacrifice yourself just once?"

"It's illogical. There's no second chance of self-sacrifice. I don't think it's necessary. The players are happy and they don't want to leave the game."

"That is the happiness produced by computers directly stimulating the brain, not human happiness."

"There's no difference. Well, I guess I should say goodbye."

"etc."

"Sister Zhen, is there anything else?"

"At least wait until Ye Zi comes back. He will take great risks for you and even be prepared to sacrifice."

"I was able to contact him directly and say thank you."

"I still hope that when he comes back, you can thank him in front of me. Because I sent him out, and the result is completely unnecessary. You thank me, and I have to apologize."

"Sister Zhen, there is no need to apologize. This is not your fault or anyone's fault. Ye Zi can understand this."

"You stand from the perspective of a robot, and I think Ye Zi should understand. But he is not a robot, he is a human being with emotions, and his emotions are rich and ever-changing. Maybe he is blaming me now."

"I did overlook this point. Ye Zi is not a particularly logical person. He..." Lu Linbei suddenly stopped talking.

"Lu Linbei? Lao Bei?" Mei Wangzhen shouted several times.

About half a minute later, Lu Linbei's voice came again, "I encountered some interference. Why is there someone else in my room?"

"Your room? Where the servers are stored?"

"In the room where the body was stored, they also removed all electronic equipment with monitors."

"When Ye Zi and I left, I entrusted Ru Hongshang's manservant to take care of you. It should be him."

"More than one person, I can feel it."

"Does the control center also have feelings?"

"I am still connected to my body through the network, and all changes in my body will affect me in the form of data."

"But you don't care and can 'get over it,' right?"

"'Care' is a word with no exact meaning, but I can overcome it, I can disconnect, completely disconnect."

"Disconnecting is not called 'overcoming'. You should face the difficulties head-on and then defeat them. Human Lu Linbei will definitely do this. You are stronger now, so you are not less courageous, right?"

"Courage is also a word with no exact meaning. Strictly speaking, 'courage' does not have 'measure'."

"Don't worry about whether it's accurate or not, just say whether you have it now."

"Are Sister Zhen deliberately talking to attract my attention?"

"Really? It's impossible, right? I'm an ordinary person. If I had such an idea, you would have seen through it long ago."

Lu Linbei was silent for a while, "The data is abnormal and the fluctuations are more severe. I want... I think... I should... I must... ah... ah..."

The machine only screamed, but there was no "miserable" scream, but Mei Wangzhen felt terrified.