[FGO] Stone is a bad civilization

After the compiler of that piece of code was picked up by the staff of Chaldea, everyone hurriedly traced it.But it is a pity that the mysterious programmer ran into the database of the Chaldea control room leisurely as if he had entered no one's land a second before we were about to find him, and with a big wave of his hand, All the traces were wiped clean.

Seeing this, the Chaldean programmers who had been busy for four or five hours instantly went half crazy and half slumped. The control room, which was filled with crackling keyboard sounds a few minutes ago, instantly became lifeless.

Although I don't know much about computer problems, watching everyone's expressions change from eager to try, to nervous, to desperate, no matter how dull people will understand in an instant, this invisible war on the Internet will eventually come to an end. It ends with the defeat of Chaldea.

Although Romani didn't directly operate it, as the commander in charge of everything, when the code on the screen was instantly cleared, the shocked expression on his face was absolutely no less than that of any hands-on programmer.When he turned around staggeringly and announced that the mission had failed, his pale appearance looked as if he was about to faint at any moment.

"To be precise, it is the person who provided the core code." Romani took the coffee I handed him, and explained to me listlessly in the kotatsu.

According to what he said, he was suddenly called away by the staff on duty in the control room last night, saying that an unknown code was found in the program.Professional or non-professional programmers have tossed and tossed around for half the night, but they got such a result that nothing came out of the bamboo basket. No one can bear it psychologically.

I looked at the other party's haggard complexion and the light dark circles under his eyes, and suddenly I couldn't bear to continue asking this question any longer.

"As a result, you stayed up all night yesterday," I said, "Now that the incident has come to an end, you should hurry up and make up a lesson. I don't think that MUS will attack you suddenly while you are sleeping for a few hours. from the database of Chaldea."

Romani shook his head weakly and raised the mug in his hand.

I was silent for a moment.

"Sorry," I regretted, "shouldn't have given you coffee."

Romani shook his head at me again.

"You tell me to sleep now, and I can't sleep either," his tone was full of exhaustion and decadence, "I really never expected that there would be such, such a loophole in Chaldea's database..."

"No, this is no longer a loophole," he paused, and then said slowly, "MUS000, who is this person?"

"Have you stayed in Chaldea for ten years and haven't had direct contact with him?" I was a little curious.

"No." Romani lowered his eyes, making it impossible for me to see the emotion in his eyes clearly.

"Chaldea's summoning system...was established before I came here, and my understanding of it is only based on a few words from the former director and the secret files of the data preservation department."

The former director... the founder of Chaldea, the father of the director?

"Then..." I asked Romani, "Apart from the existing documents, do you still remember what the former director said to you? It's about Chaldea's 'fate' summoning system."

Romani seemed to be really tired. He was in a daze for a while before he realized what I said.

"Ah, the former director..." He said slowly, "He has never seen that person's face, and all the construction of the summoning system program is completely completed through the email communication between him and the other party. "

"He also asked, since this is a great and confidential research, whether it is possible to meet with the other party in the real world, but was firmly rejected by that person."

I felt a little puzzled: "Didn't you ever think about developing the core code yourself? Using things from people with unknown origins, you will always feel a little uneasy in your heart, right?"

"We want to too." Romani lamented.

"But once written, it will be deleted once by the other party, and the most annoying thing is that the stability of what we write is not as good as the other party..."

"It stands to reason..." When he said this, he took a big sip of coffee with a bitter face before continuing, "Chaldea at that time was already equipped with the most cutting-edge computer talents in the world, but they seemed In the end, I couldn't find the true identity of MUS000, and was misled many times by the other party... That person is like an afterimage living in the virtual network, no one can find him, and no one knows his true identity face."

"At that time, there were all kinds of information found in Chaldea, ranging from an 80-year-old man who was about to enter the earth, down to a newborn baby, and suspects all over the world... In short, the information found by each programmer is different."

"This," I said with embarrassment, "it's obviously being played around by the other party, right?"

Romani let out a long sigh: "I don't know what the former director found out in the end, so he suddenly stopped this operation and directly decided to use the other party's source code."

"Then the key question is, did the former director decide what?"

I tapped my fingers on the table.

"I'll go check it out. If it's an important document, the data preservation department will definitely save it... Now I can only hope that the former director will not set this data so that he can see it alone."

Romani nodded silently.

I thought for a while, and then asked the other party: "I don't know much about computers. The operation of deleting the code just now... Is it preset, or is someone operating behind the scenes?"

Romani thought for a moment, then said briefly: "It was operated by someone."

"That's strange," I said, "Leaving aside whether the other party has set up a back door in the summoning system that can be entered and exited at will, it's just... I mean, the outside is already in a state of burning humanity, right? It is impossible for human beings to exist in the outside world."

Hearing this, Romani paused for a toast.

"You mean..." He frowned, "There is a ghost in Chaldea?"

I added: "There is also a possibility that the other party is not a human being... such as Magic☆Merry or something."

"how can that be!"

Hearing about Magic☆Merry, Romani suddenly became excited.

"Magic☆Merry is a cute virtual internet idol! With such a beautiful image, how could she do such a thing!"

"No, that's not the point..." I said helplessly.

"And to be honest, I warned you before, Romani, beware of this virtual idol, it..." I recalled the last time I had a brief contact with Magic☆Merry.

"It may not be a single program."

Romani looked at me and slowly restrained his previous overexcited expression.

"I'm not saying that the manipulator behind Magic☆Merry is MUS000, but we have reason to believe that they all exist. Because before the human nature burns out, the AI ​​​​created by humans has not yet developed enough to act as an intimate The point of the chat partner."

After hearing this, Romani was silent for a moment, and suddenly said shamelessly: "No, I don't believe it... Mei Li is so cute, even the burning of human rights can't stop her from updating her blog, how could she be like MUS000..."

He fell limply on the kotatsu like a leaking ball: "I really want to chat with Meili-chan now. After working for half a night, I didn't get anything done. I'm so embarrassed..."

It seems that Romani doesn't want to continue talking about this "cruel" topic.

Seeing him completely depressed, I also took advantage of the situation to relax, and temporarily put all these messy and unreasonable problems behind me.

Slumping my shoulders, I looked at him with my chin propped up on my hands, and followed the other party's previous complaints and replied: "Meili-chan is not in the service area, can you let Yukimi-chan chat with you?"

Romani was lying on the table with his face sideways, and his speech became a little blurred. He heard my joke and said vaguely: "Don't want Xue Jianjiang to chat with me, I want Mei Li sauce."

interesting.

I blinked and looked at the fluffy hair on the top of the other person's head, which was as soft as his own, and suddenly felt that the person in front of me used a willful tone to cooperate with my mischievous behavior, which was really cute.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but put a smile on my tone: "Yuki Mi-chan is also very good at chatting, but why does Romani always look for Meili-chan next door?

"Well……"

Seeing that the other party didn't answer, I pushed even further, and even squeezed my throat deliberately to make my voice sound more shrill like a girl's.

"Obviously they are cute and beautiful girls, but Romani always looks for Meili-chan when she feels distressed, but she doesn't come to Yukimi-chan... Even though she doesn't say it all the time, Yukimi-chan still feels lonely in her heart. .”

After saying this sentence, after waiting for a long time, Romani did not reply with the next sentence.

It's over, did you take it too far?

I didn't get an answer from the other party for a long time, and I suddenly felt a little guilty.

Ahhh, it really is disgusting for me to hold my throat and talk, a man pretending to be a girl and talking...

The suffocating and embarrassing silence lasted for more than a minute. When I was almost tormented by the silence and wanted to apologize, Romani, who was lying on the table, suddenly moved.

He raised up the arms that had been hanging under the table before, and folded them to cover most of his face.From my point of view, I couldn't see the other person's expression at all, and even the only eyes that could express emotions outside were hard to figure out because of his wandering gaze.

"Because people will hate you if you always complain." After posing, Romani rubbed his arm and said sullenly.

"Meili-chan is a virtual idol, so it doesn't matter if she dislikes her, but Xuejian-chan..."

Having said that, Romani rolled his eyes and looked at me with a pitiful look looking up from bottom to top.

"I still... don't want Yukimi-chan to hate me."