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"The black goat...the black goat who led me astray...will be punished..."

The voice in Steve's mouth became more and more viscous. Looking at his appearance, Penny didn't take a step away, but just stared blankly.

Not afraid.

It's just disgusting.

Because——in her line of sight, she had already seen the "Silver Snitch" that was crushed by the shotgun before, and the metallic liquid rolled out of it was reassembled on the ground in a moment, and flew silently to Yu Parallel position above Steve's head.

Then, in a split second—

It "melted" and dripped onto Steve's head.

"--ah!!!"

The "Silver Snitch" turned into metallic liquid again at this instant, covering Steve's entire head almost in the blink of an eye, seeping in from his ears, nostrils, and eye sockets, wrapping his head in In a thin layer of silver.

And his original face turned a hundred times redder than before at this moment! It looks as if all the capillaries are completely bursting at this moment!

Petunia couldn't imagine how Steve was feeling at this moment, and couldn't comprehend how much pain he was going through.

She could only stand there dumbfounded, watching that layer of metallic liquid seep into Steve's body, and his eyes also turned silvery white at this instant.

Then—the next moment, Steve's screams stopped.

Originally terrified and shocked, as if he had encountered the most terrifying thing in the world, his face suddenly changed, becoming calm and indifferent.

His body shook once or twice, as if he was being manipulated by some parasitic creature, his movements were mechanical and unnatural.

His neck turned ninety degrees to the left and ninety degrees to the right; his hands opened and closed, and the shotgun he was holding fell to the ground.

But "Steve" was not moved at all by this, he just stood there indifferently, his body didn't tremble a bit, and a slight iridescent light emanated from his pupils.

In the next second, the mechanical and inorganic voice of the "Silver Snitch" when he was conducting "standard citizenship certification" came out of his mouth:

"'Uncertified citizen' Steve Landau, violated the rules, so he underwent neurological forced correction...

"...doing bioelectric stimulation...

"...performing memory recall...

"...I found that there are violations or conflicts with the current human laws and regulations...

"...to compare legal norms...

"...criminal verdict...

"...confirmation of crime, confirmation of punishment: enforced end to continuation of consciousness."

The mechanical voice coming from the mouth of "Steve" finally came to an end.

The next moment, his originally emotionless and unshakable body suddenly trembled.

As the iridescent light in his eyes pulled away, "Steve"'s face twitched violently, and then he tilted his head back, opened his mouth, and collapsed completely in a daze.

At the same time, from above his face, drop by drop of metallic liquid drilled out from the gaps and orifices of his face, and with a sound of "exhort", it reorganized into a "Silver Snitch", flapping its wings, Knowing whether to say it is to be contented or to fly away indifferently.

Petunia stared blankly at this scene.

It wasn't until this time that she finally felt her own breath.

...

Petunia finally returned home with a cold sweat of fear.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw his father wearing a hunting cap and carrying a rifle, as if he wanted to go out. Looking at Penny, he who was still competing with the hunting boots at the porch opened his eyes wide for a moment, and in the next second there was a look of ecstasy in his eyes:

"...Petunia is back!"

His father's hoarse voice after years of smoking resounded throughout the room. The next moment, the sound of the soles of the slippers hitting the ground "dong dong dong" quickly moved from far to near, and Petunia saw her mother rush out of the room with tears in her eyes, and hugged her tightly.

"Oh my God! Petunia, you're finally back!"

...

"So, because you haven't come back for a long time, your father is going to take a gun and go out to find you."

Sitting at the kotatsu table in the living room, just after taking a shower and putting on new clothes, Petunia drank the stew that her mother had just cooked, feeling that the situation of a family of three staying in the same room was so comfortable for her, Even the mother's rambling words are as beautiful as pop songs.

Looking at them, Penny finally had a channel to vent out the uneasiness and fear that had accumulated just now, so she spit out tears while drinking the stew, and told her family members about the experience just now.

Hearing her thrilling experiences, her mother couldn't help hugging her to calm her emotions:

"It's okay, it's okay, Petunia."

As she spoke, she said as if she remembered something:

"Penny, those little things came to our house before, and after carrying out the 'standard citizenship certification' you mentioned, they also reminded us that it is best to stay indoors until five o'clock in the afternoon—and we never From the window, we saw the tens of meters high 'fortress' passing by outside, so we obeyed the words of those 'silver snitches' and did not leave home."

"Woo... five o'clock in the afternoon?"

After venting the fear in her heart and wiping away her tears, Petunia's curiosity rose again when she heard this.

"What's going to be at five o'clock in the afternoon?"

"...I don't know, we didn't get any more notice - and the Internet, TV, radio signals are all down, and it's been like that since the group of 'Silver Snitches' came out during the day."

The mother, who was originally just trying to change the subject, smiled helplessly.

"It's all broken?"

Petunia blinked, and at this moment, she suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Wait—in that case, can you use 'Lucy'?"

"'Lucy'?"

Mother and father looked at each other and laughed dumbly;

"What are you thinking, now you can't even use search engines, how can you use AI?"

"But--"

Penny hesitated to take out the mobile phone from her bag, put it on the table, and called out the AI ​​that had been silent for a long time.

"'Lucy,' are you there?"

While Penny was waiting anxiously, the phone on the table suddenly vibrated slightly.

"Hi, Penny."

Whether it was the father or the mother, their eyes widened in unison.

Petunia asked eagerly:

"'Lucy', the Internet and audio-visual signals are cut off in this house, right?"

"That's right, Petunia—but I want to correct you, not this house, but all signals within the territory of the United States have been restricted, or 'cut off'."

Both Petunia and her parents gasped.

Penny immediately asked:

"But, in this case, why can I still talk to you?"

"This is the privilege that my creator has given to a small number of users—among the hundreds of millions of 'Lucy' users in the United States, there are more than 100 million deep users; among the deep users, 20 million users compare 'Lucy' with their life Combined; among these 50 million users, another 3 million users have developed the thinking mode of "Lucy is a human being", communicating with "Lucy" all the time, and conducting in-depth exchanges, so that "Lucy" ' Better to be in a certain social situation, collect high-quality and personalized data - so, in this short 'no information period', let 'Lucy' continue to communicate with these three million users, that is It is the reward given to them by the creator."

The voice of "Lucy" was gentle and without any waves, but the moment she heard these words, Petunia felt her heart beating like thunder.

"Your...creator?"

she murmured.

"That's right."

"Lucy" responded softly.

"—my creator.

"—is also the mastermind of this war.

"—It is expected that before five o'clock in the afternoon, any armed forces belonging to natural persons or organizations within the United States will be deprived, and the future ruler who will bring the whole of the United States into the new order system he has established.

"—Navalli Evans."