Most Wanted [Interstellar]

Chapter 22

Famagusta has been fully supervised by the Prosecutor's Office, and the College Federation no longer has the right to intervene in any matters.So when the accident happened in Famagusta, several senior officials of the prosecutor's office, although anxious, did not dare to seek help directly from their subjects of investigation. They approached the president for coordination, which made Adams very embarrassed.

"The prosecutor's office also has police force, can't you solve the problem by yourself?"

"I don't think so," said the director of the Prosecutor's Office with an anxious expression on his face. "The prototype military machine is the most advanced terminal. It is very complicated and cannot be handled by the scientific and technological strength of the Prosecutor's Office. Now our technicians and police officers are trapped in the legal system." Magusta, we tried to investigate the old military headquarters, but..." the director choked up, "Our reconnaissance satellites and spaceships have been attacked by missiles, let alone rescue, we simply have nothing to do there Know."

"Assaulted??" Adams thought he heard it wrong.

"Yes," the director reported, "after we received the distress signal, all the communication satellites on the outer layer of Famagusta were destroyed, and the reconnaissance plane we sent was also destroyed later. This is The last distress call we received was from our engineer."

This is a very hasty text signal, but perhaps because it is a simple text signal, this distress signal was sent smoothly.

"The prototype machine is out of control? What does that mean?" Adams didn't understand.

The director also shook his head: "According to the previous report, our technicians have already started the disassembly work. The life support system of the prototype machine will maintain its biological part at the lowest energy consumption state. In this case, the biological part It's completely unconscious, there's no possibility of it getting out of hand."

"If additional manpower is assigned to the prosecutor's office, can we investigate clearly?"

The director lowered his head, not daring to answer.

"Do you think we will help Planck as long as we give in?"

"President..." The director's voice was trembling, "I am very worried about the safety of those personnel. So far we have not received any threatening messages. According to our years of experience in handling cases, this is actually very scary."

This sentence made Planck’s interests more important. He is the president of the Federation, and he cannot be charged with the crime of escaping death. He can do many things, but the only thing he cannot do is to disappoint the people.

"Come with me." Adams left the adjutants in the office, and led the director into a small room on the side alone. "Does Planck have anything to do with this?"

The director understood what the president meant, and he lowered his voice subconsciously: "According to our previous investigation, the relationship between him and this Alvin Herman is not harmonious, and they broke out when their research entered the middle stage. After many quarrels, if there is no consensus on many issues, it is very likely that they can complete the development of the entire chip without the participation of Anne Schubert. I think this matter is suspicious, but Planck should not have Motivation for working with Erwin Herman."

"I will find a way to do this, but," Adams emphasized, "I hope to see the ability of the prosecutor's office, and I hope that the taxpayer's money is not wasted."

Adams understood Planck, he was "riding a tiger" at the moment, but he had to "stretch and bend".For a politician, it is not difficult to plead with the enemy he beat to the ground yesterday, but the difficult thing is that he feels that he cannot come up with an exchange condition that the other party likes.It is impossible for him to stop the investigation by the prosecutor's office. This is his bottom line.

Therefore, he found the military department—after all, it was Famagusta. The affairs of the old military department had nothing to do with the military department, and Johannes should also be a stakeholder.

Things were simpler than he thought, because Johannes was still obsessed with the 'big black hole incident', and he was only disappointed with Planck or Anne, and these disappointments were far less than his hatred and disgust for Erwin.

But things were more complicated than he thought, because it had been a whole day since the distress signal was sent out. When the technical staff of the College Federation intervened in the investigation, they could no longer rescue anyone, and all they saw was a tragedy.

"This is the chief technical engineer of our current Owen system - Lotte Holwig, and he is also a member of the special investigation team of the college." Plank introduced the technical personnel on his side to the president.

When he said this, Galen looked up at the ordinary-looking alpha, but Lott didn't look at him, he stood up politely and shook hands with the president.

"I didn't expect you to join the special investigation team." Annie didn't notice these details, she just talked to Galen habitually.

"It's too wasteful to send a captain just to be a bodyguard." Galen looked away.

They were not the focus of the meeting, so they huddled in the corner of the meeting room and chatted and were ignored.The latest investigation results are shown on the big screen—the entire Famagusta military facility has been controlled by the awakened prototype machine, and these 50-year-old equipment have begun to repair themselves and are running.The personnel in the core area were killed by gun robots almost immediately, and some investigators on the periphery tried to escape by flying into the air, but they could not escape the attack of ground missiles.Famagusta is now a purgatory, and none of the [-] police officers and [-] technicians survived.

"There are very few images and data," Lott explained to the president. "The defense system of the prototype machine is very complicated. I can only crack a small part, and the loopholes will be repaired quickly after cracking, so we can't be sure yet. Is the whole of Famagusta under control?"

Adams's expression was very complicated. He didn't ask too many technical questions. After a brief conversation, he, Plank, and Johannes walked into the meeting room and gathered members of the "special investigation team" into the room.Although Anne is the developer of the Owen system, the main control task has been handed over to Lotte Holwig long ago, and they are not familiar with each other.

"Schubert." Lot waved to them, "I have something to show you."

He turned on the small screen and cut to a separate screen: "This is captured by the camera in the basement of the core area of ​​the military headquarters."

The screen records the last moment of the life of two prosecutors' office technicians - it took about 10 minutes for the prototype machine to repair his body, but what is unexpected is that he climbed up from the life support machine after reshaping himself .This scene obviously frightened the two technicians. They began to cut the metal door frantically to escape, but all was in vain. The prototype machine sucked the air in the room, and the unbalanced air pressure exploded the human body.When everything was over, the prototype machine opened the door of the core cabin and walked out, walking out like a person.As if he knew that this video would be seen by others, he turned his head, looked at the camera, and smiled.

Although the frame dropped severely after the long-distance transmission, Annie still recognized this familiar smile, which was Alvin's smile.

He resurrected?

Annie's mind went blank.

"You've removed his frontal lobe, I don't think he should have feelings anymore," Lotter pointed at the screen with his electronic pen, "but his smile is natural, so I think it's very likely that he injected Alvin's Neuron extract."

Lott's calm and rational language pulled Anne out of the horrific fantasy—of course he couldn't be resurrected, and he wasn't dead, so how could he be resurrected?She was just terrified by the familiar smile.

"What neuron extract?" Galen had never heard of this term.

"It's the extract of human neurons," Lott patiently explained to the captain, "but after we improve the carrier material, the neuron extract can always remain active and attach to a third-party living body without the need to If there are too many, the signal of the original neuron can be received and copied by the new living body. Simply put, "Lott found that Galen did not understand, "If I kill Vice President Schubert, your neuron Inject the meta-extract into her spinal cord and brain, and she will become you, you in consciousness and her in body."

"Oh!" Galen elongated his voice, "This is really a terrifying black technology."

"Not entirely accurate," Annie added. "The gene of the receptor must be exactly the same as the gene of the original neuron. Just finding two people is not enough."

"..." Galen remembered that the gene sample of the prototype machine came from Alvin... No wonder, and Lott used 'he' instead of 'it' when calling the prototype machine.

"What is he going to do?" Annie was very puzzled. Was he doing this to vent his hatred?

"How do I know?" Lott shrugged. "I haven't even met him face to face. How do I know why a decent scientist would become a terrorist? Let's wait for the order from above. After all, we are just technicians."

Alvin's smile still stayed on the screen of the monitor. There was no hostility in this smile. He might still be it. He didn't know that he had killed hundreds of lives just now.This face that is exactly the same as Alvin's is just a simple smile, just like the smile on his face when he greets you.

This smile alpha will like it, not to mention anything else, just talk about this smile.

When Alvin compared Schlieffen's pheromone to a stinky hairball, Schlieffen was really angry, but his anger was quickly extinguished by the other party's smile.

Schlieffen comforted himself - after all, when a person has reached a certain level of stupidity, his stupidity is not so hateful.

He helped Alvin button his coat and drove back to lunch in their car.

On the way, Alvin didn't speak any more, he just looked out of the car, as if he was thinking about something.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing."

After returning to the monitoring station, Erwin seemed to be immersed in his own world, so Schlieffen could only snap his fingers in front of him: "Hi, your nutrient solution."

Alvin smiled.

"why are you laughing?"

"I want to show you something nice, you might like it," Alvin said.

Before Erwin opened the door of the underground elevator passage, Schlieffen thought he had visited the entire monitoring station.

"There is a door behind the main control room!?" Schlieffen opened his mouth in surprise.

"There are more interesting things behind the door." Alvin reminded him, "Pull the handrail, the elevator has sixteen floors."

The honest van elevator started. Initially, the two sides should be reinforced. After passing through the reinforced layer, the outer wall of the elevator changed from concrete to transparent fiberglass, and the landscape outside the elevator can be seen at a glance.

"Wow! My God!" Schlieffen lay on the glass like an excited child, "It's so big down here! My God!"

The underground space at the height of fourteen floors has been completely opened up. Their elevators pass through it as if entering a huge egg-shaped space. On the outer layer of the circular space, the fourteen floors are divided one by one by circular stairs. Separated, there are many antique robots like 'Ivan' working on each floor.The walls of the building are dark brown, and the metal gray stairs dot the walls to form a spiral pattern, just like the 'Easter eggs' given to his wife by the ancient tsar.

"On the ground is the optical and astronomical observation point, and below is the main research area. As I said, Planck is rich in research funding, now you feel it?" Alvin took a breath in front of him Nutrient solution, "Aren't you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry!" Schlieffen was still very excited. "You built this? For you? God, why? What research value does this broken planet have?"

"I don't know. It's difficult to determine the value of research before research. Most of the time I was just out of interest. At that time, I was only interested in geothermal heat. And here is my favorite starry sky. It is always night here. Compared with the starry sky, I I prefer the evening."

"Just for this reason?" Schlieffen showed a contemptuous expression, "The Persian leopard is really good to you."

"What is this?" Alvin laughed, "I once applied to him for funding for the toilet flushing system research project."

"Hey..." Schlieffen expressed disgust, "Don't tell me you invented the toilet flushing system..."

"It's really not me. I failed in my research. It's so annoying. It seems that I'm not the material for this. At that time, I designed hundreds of sets of drawings and made hundreds of models. Those models are much more expensive than this building."

Schlieffen laughed loudly: "Did you make the Persian leopard mad?"

"He was really angry. Since then, apart from the money, he occasionally checks to see if there is anything else written in my plan. Ah!" Alvin motioned him to look to the left, "There is a small library over there, There are some documents and collections of the ancient earth period, all of which are paper, if you are bored, you can go and have a look."

A wooden door passed slowly in front of their eyes. It was too far away to see clearly, but the door seemed to be engraved with vintage patterns.

"There is a tea room directly in front of you. Although generally speaking, I am the only one here, I used to go to drink tea. You can go and sit."

"Is there tea in it?"

"Of course not, you can take the nutritional supplements to drink, maybe it will taste better to you."

"..."

Schlieffen has grown used to his Hermannian dry jokes.

The elevator finally descended to the bottom floor slowly, and Schlieffen sighed: "This is like a fairyland! Is this the good thing you want to show me?"

"Of course not." Alvin drove his wheelchair out of the elevator.

In the empty hall outside the elevator, the hydraulic pump began to run in an orderly manner, the gate on the ground was opened, and the steel frame was raised from a deeper underground.

"My mecha!"

Schlieffen couldn't believe his eyes!This is the general-purpose mech he was driving when he came - E25!

"Here's the good stuff I'm going to show you, I hope you like it."

Alvin smiled at him.