basic swordsmanship

Chapter 2 The Engineer

There was a faint buzzing sound on the cold steel deck, which was empty and deep. After the occasional sound, there was only silence.

Deathly silence.

A young man in an engineer uniform was tremblingly hiding behind a metal workbench. He was fiddled with a portable computer in front of him anxiously. It was the most advanced model, with multiple interfaces, and could communicate with many devices on the spaceship. connect.

Now, there are several data cables plugged into this portable computer. Because there is no arrangement, the extra cables are randomly thrown on the ground, messy like a mess of hair. Some of these data cables are connected to devices that look like helmets. Some of them are connected to a data interface on the wall.

The young man was obviously very frightened, as if he was afraid of something. While operating the computer, he would look towards the door from time to time, as if he was afraid that something would break in suddenly.

This is an accessories room.

On the spaceship, there are many similar accessory rooms, and the area is not large. It seems that there are only a dozen square meters at most here, and it is specially prepared for the engineers who maintain the spaceship.The open cabinet next to it was extremely messy, and the few data cables were obviously taken out of the cabinet.

The door of the accessories room was locked, but the door couldn't make the young engineer feel safe. Because of nervousness, his finger on the keyboard made several wrong lines of code. Under normal circumstances, such a low-level mistake like his It is impossible for an engineer at the level to make a mistake.

His uniform was clearly marked with the logo of a Level 120 Engineer. Among the more than 500 million senior engineers on the spacecraft, no more than [-] could meet the standards of a Level [-] Engineer.

In other words, he is a real genius, the best of the best of humanity.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Staring at the progress bar on the screen, the engineer kept whispering, but soon, the results displayed on the screen changed his expression.

"Damn, this is not a control area, and it cannot be connected to the elite area. It must be a special interface. Damn, damn, this way, I can't go back? No, I can't stay in this damn place, Otherwise, I will die here like everyone else." The engineer muttered to himself, and then seemed to recall some horrible memories, his face was full of horror.

Go back to two hours ago.

As the top engineer in the human world, Jiang Yu's grade is actually over 50 years old.

But thanks to the rapid development of human science and technology, even when he was on earth, his body did not have any problems, especially after the bioprinter was manufactured, any human organ can be manufactured through the bioprinter, and even a complete body from head to toe can be manufactured. Printing the body is also no problem.It is also because of this technology that the United Earth Government will approve the entire human migration plan, which is the Earth-[-] plan.

As a top engineer, Jiang Yu naturally participated in this huge plan. In the man-made space, his consciousness data is of course stored in the elite area.

Before being given the order to withdraw, he was still having fun in the "drama world" he participated in the production of, enjoying the sensory stimulation brought by the top virtual world.

The plot world is a game space made for humans in the elite area.

When he received the order, he complained. After all, he was doing a very important task in the plot world, but he still carried out the extraction procedure with several engineers who also received the order.

Several of their engineers agreed that this was just an ordinary emergency maintenance task, and they could come back to continue their fun soon.

Half an hour later, they woke up in the printed bodies that had already been paired by 'Earth Two'.

Until this time, everything was normal, Jiang Yu was even talking about the 'drama world' with a few colleagues while he was still getting dressed.

The human beings in the elite area have been awakened according to the plan 5 years ago. In fact, the "story world" is mainly to restore the ability of the awakened human consciousness to adapt. Of course, the human consciousness can not go to sleep, just because the energy of the spaceship needs to be saved. .

"Lao Jiang, your exploration in the plot world is not very good. I heard that you were beaten by Professor John a few days ago and you lost miserably. Do you want me and Lao Zhang to help you get revenge?" Another one The engineer said with a smile, maybe because it was not long after he was extracted and his consciousness was injected into the new body, half of the engineer's face was smiling, and the other half was not smiling, which looked very weird.

Jiang Yu was so angry that he said stiffly, "That's only temporary, next time I'll beat Old John to beg for mercy, you guys just watch."

The other two engineers obviously didn't take it seriously, they all laughed, but Jiang Yu was not joking, he really had his way.

Of course, it's not a good idea, because he's trying to 'cheat'.

"Old Zhao, your body movements and expressions don't feel coordinated. There should be a problem with the control program. Let me show you." Jiang Yu took out a new portable computer and pretended to test it. A developed data package is secretly uploaded from the portable computer to the 'artificial space' through the special interface of the biological printer.

The plot world is a program embedded in the man-made space. It is impossible to modify the original data from the inside, even Jiang Yu, who once participated in the development, cannot do it.

To modify the basic data, only from the outside, and it also requires extremely high authority and a specific location, Jiang Yu just took a trick, borrowing the data interface of the bioprinter to decipher and upload, this kind of thing, even other engineers who have reached the fifth level colleagues may not be able to do it.

Regarding this, Jiang Yu is very complacent, because he may be the only one who can do this kind of thing, but unfortunately, he has no way to publicize his genius and intelligence.

Jiang Yu's technique was extremely fast. He connected to the network in the control room, cracked the data line, cracked the password, and uploaded the data, all in one go.

"Old Zhao, there is nothing wrong with this body. I'll restart it for you and it should be fine." After Jiang Yu finished speaking, he entered a few lines of commands, and then unplugged the data cable.

"Speaking of which, what is the reason for summoning us suddenly this time? The higher-ups don't say anything, and they're doing it in a mysterious way." Old Zhao said.

"Who knows!" As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, a sharp alarm sounded.

What happened next, Jiang Yu will never forget in his life.

There was a loud noise, and the hatch was destroyed by a huge force.

Blood donation splash.

Old Zhao and another engineer died tragically, and there were screams from outside.

Everything was so chaotic, like a nightmare.

……

The prompt on the screen interrupted Jiang Yu's memory.

"Calm down, calm down, I am the most elite existence among human beings. There are 100 billion people in the world, and there are only more than 500 people who can reach the rating of five-level engineers. To ordinary people, we are gods. We have created man-made spaces. We Invented the bio-printer, we are omnipotent, yes, I am an elite, as long as we engineers think, there is nothing we cannot do, I participated in the development of the data program in the artificial space, as long as we can find the data channel, the consciousness The data is extracted from my current printed body, and I can escape from danger, yes, I can definitely find a way to go back, as long as the consciousness data is transmitted back to the artificial space, it will be safe." The engineer took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

"The level of firewalls in man-made spaces is different. The network defense in the elite area is the strongest. I don't have time to break through now, but there are still civilian areas. Yes, yes, civilian areas. I am simply a genius. Why didn't I think of it at the beginning? Well, the defense level of the civilian area is very weak, I used to participate in the writing of the code, I only need to make a little modification to the program, and then I can use the command I set... it became..."

Looking at the 'connected' displayed on the screen, Jiang Yu almost shouted out of excitement.

However, as a top engineer, Jiang Yu knows that this is only the first step, and he needs some other steps to transmit his consciousness data back.

At this moment, Jiang Yu tapped his fingers rapidly on the keyboard, and at the same time muttered to himself: "There is no special transmission device here, and I can't call the consciousness injection program directly, but it doesn't matter, I can use the extraction program instead, even if the system is set The specified extraction program must be bound to the bioprinter, but this is not difficult for me. I only need to modify some initial codes, and then I can convert the consciousness of someone in the civilian area to my consciousness. At that time, I will Go in, he comes out, I have ready-made code for the conversion program, no need to write additionally, this can save time, what I lack most now is time."

A few minutes later, Jiang Yu stopped writing codes. In his opinion, this kind of conversion awareness does not have any psychological burden on him. It doesn't matter to me, as long as it's not me who dies.

At the same time, he heard a rustling sound outside the metal door.

It was as if something was rubbing against the hatch.

This aroused Jiang Yu's great fear.

The previous terrifying memories swept over again, and he immediately put the helmet with data cables plugged in next to him tremblingly on his head, and then pressed a few buttons.

A simple interface popped up on the screen, and there was an input box on it. Jiang Yu knew that it needed to input the converted consciousness data ID, so he immediately opened another interface, in which various consciousness data IDs kept popping up. Each of the above, Both represent one person.

Bang!
A loud noise broke the previous calm. The hatch made of alloy was deformed by a single blow, and a large piece bulged out.

Jiang Yu's face changed wildly, knowing that time was running out, he could only choose an ID number at random, paste it into the number column of the conversion program, and hastily press the confirmation button.

Next, the screen prompts that the data transfer has started, and then a progress bar pops up, showing 1%…2%….

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Jiang Yu was anxious, but he had done everything he should do at this time, and it was useless to worry any more.

This time, the god of luck did not favor him. When the progress bar reached 5%, the cabin door was directly knocked open. Then Jiang Yu only saw a black shadow flying towards him, piercing into his chest like an arrow. In an instant, Jiang Yu Yu was like a deflated balloon, with a look of fear and reluctance on his face. While he was paralyzed, he tried to grab something, but couldn't. His fingers pressed randomly on the keyboard a few times and didn't move. .

Until he lost consciousness, the progress bar on the screen only reached 7%.

It's just that he pressed the keyboard randomly just now, and he didn't know what program was touched. Another window that opened prompted: "The plot world entrance data has been implanted successfully. The target, man-made space, all civilian areas, and the plot world entrance have been successfully opened!"

"Warning, this operation violates Article [-] of the Coalition Government Earth [-] Immigration Act, please note that you have violated the law."

"Warning, you have broken the law."

The constantly beating warnings on the screen are obviously ignored by no one now.

Because at this time, Jiang Yu's consciousness has died.

The heartbeat of this printed body disappears and it enters a state of death. Naturally, the consciousness data stored in the brain will also die with it.

A moment later, another warning popped up on the screen of the device that had fallen to the ground.

"Data conversion error, no consciousness data that needs to be transferred has been detected... Data conversion error, no consciousness data that needs to be transferred has been detected!"

The warning is displayed several times, and the program interface on the screen jumps automatically.

"Timed out, the conversion program cannot be executed, and the one-way extraction program is being executed, and the current progress is 40%."

At the same time, the hole in the chest of the printed body, which was originally pierced by a mass of black matter, was slowly filled by the wriggling of the black matter, and finally the wound was filled with black matter. If you look carefully, you can see a strange The black eggs were moving in the heart of the body, and then the heart that had stopped beating slowly, and then not only the heart, but the whole body began to twitch slowly.

Outside the broken cabin, black shadows continued to walk around, but no shadows paid attention to the 'corpse' lying inside. The Earth [-] spaceship is very large, and at this moment, some The screams of people dying, but soon fell into silence.

After a few minutes.

The progress of the one-way extraction program on the screen reached 99%, and then it stopped moving, as if it was stuck. It seemed that some unknown error had occurred, and warning prompts popped up on the screen. At the same time, the corpse lying on the ground stopped Twitching, he opened his eyes suddenly.

(End of this chapter)