Paper lover

Sparks blazed in the muzzle, and the bullet burst out of the long barrel.

Time is stopped, cut, pieced together, and lengthened.

The picture starts playing frame by frame.

Li Shuoxing watched helplessly as the bullet created tearing tracks in the air, carrying smoke and fire tails, easily flew across the sky, and rushed to Su Mingqian's brain.

Those gray pupils reflected the bullet, the murderer, and even the sky.

Only there is no figure of myself.

The anger boiling in his chest suddenly condensed into frost, freezing Li Shuoxing's hands and feet.

But at this time, the confinement on Li Shuoxing's body disappeared, and the moment it had been accumulated in his body exploded in an instant, driving Li Shuoxing to rush forward suddenly, towards Su Mingqian!

The bullet faces from front to back, while Li Shuoxing moves from back to front, the two face each other.

The howling wind is like a sharp smile, scratching the eardrum of the human ear.

The last distance seemed to be elongated maliciously, and there was always a difference of one fingertip's width.

Li Shuoxing was extremely anxious in his heart. He stared at Su Mingqian and the bullet that was rushing towards Su Mingqian, and repeated silently in his heart: "Hurry up, hurry up, go to Mingqian right away—"

At the last moment when the bullet was about to hit Su Mingqian's brain, Li Shuoxing's hand finally grabbed Su Mingqian's arm.

The ecstasy of regaining what was lost rushed to Li Shuoxing's chest, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into infinite courage to protect others.

He pulled Su Mingqian hard, pulled Su Mingqian behind him and hid it, then picked up the bazooka, pointed it at Tom in front of him, and squeezed the trigger hard!

The rocket rushed out of the launch tube and shot at Tom's position in front, instantly creating a big hole in the oasis, and the sand and mud splashed into the sky like flowing water!

Tom was reduced to ashes under this bazooka.

Li Shuoxing took two steps back because of the recoil of the rocket launcher. At this time, there was a huge noise from the ambush of the armed forces in front. Then, the grass blades shook, and a group of people suddenly rushed out from the ambush, surrounding them in a fan shape. Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian.

Li Shuoxing looked at the people in front of him.

They have different clothes, including camouflage uniforms, sportswear, and even ordinary business suits. The only similarity is that they all wear black hoods and submachine guns that are unique to terrorists.

The submachine gun was aimed at the two of them in a fan shape like an encirclement circle.

And the pair of eyes protruding from the black hood are cold and crazy, full of desire for destruction.

They smiled at Li Shuoxing.

Li Shuoxing also smiled at them.

The trigger of the submachine gun and the switch of the bazooka were pulled at the same time, and the huge roar was accompanied by the tongue of flames, shining on the battlefield together!But the firepower of the two sides is not balanced. The comparison between the submachine gun and the rocket launcher is like a knife in the hands of a dwarf and a sledgehammer in the hands of a giant.

One comes from the front, and Li Shuoxing shoots one.

One piece ahead, Li Shuoxing hit one piece.

Li Shuoxing stood tall and graceful in front of Su Mingqian, fired a shot, and the people rushing in front of him became less and less under his pressing step by step, until he turned around in panic and started to run away.

It was also at this time that a signal flare sounded in front, like a sharp arrow, with a whistling sound, it tore through the yellow sand net from bottom to top, and rushed into the sky, bright for a long time.

Li Shuoxing froze for a few seconds, looked left and right, and found that there was no enemy around, then suddenly dropped the bazooka in his hand.

He turned around and took two strides, came to Su Mingqian, and pulled him into his arms forcefully, unwilling to let go of his strength for a long time.

What changes is the present, what remains the same is the past.

The real and the virtual leave a selfish and cruel boundary at this moment.

At the last moment, Su Mingqian dodged the bullet, but in the past, the bullet actually passed through Su Mingqian's brain.

Li said that Xing was terrified.

Fear made his teeth collide uncontrollably, but he tried his best to restrain this fear, and he said it casually on purpose: "Mingqian, don't be afraid, you see those enemies have been knocked out by me like whack-a-mole, don't worry , They will not come back again, even if they come back, they will be driven away by me again."

Su Mingqian remembered everything, as well as the last picture.

Gunshots roared.

Bullets appear.

Together with the mind, the body became very light and light, and then disappeared...

The same scene, the same fear, controlled him for a while, until now, with different results.

The battle exploded like fireworks and ended like fireworks.

This time, all dangers were stopped by this person.

Su Mingqian shook his head: "I'm not afraid."

As he spoke, he saw Li Shuoxing's eyes.

The person who met his gaze immediately lowered his head, stretched out his hand and rubbed his reddish eyes, and muttered, "The wind and sand in the desert are too strong, it got into my eyes, and I couldn't rub them out. Fortunately, the fight was not delayed. See My eyes are red..."

Su Mingqian changed his words: "... Ximu, I'm quite scared."

He raised his hand, hugged Li Shuxing back, to comfort the frightened, he whispered: "I want you to hug me."

Li Shuoxing, who had already straightened his body, became more and more straight. Li Shuoxing said firmly, "Mingqian, don't be afraid, I can't go back to the past to accompany you, but from today onwards, no matter what happens in the future, I will I will be by your side and spend time with you.”

After he finished speaking, he felt the soft body in his arms pause for a moment.

Then, a slight damp heat touched his neck.

The next moment, the desert, the oasis, and the bulletproof equipment on his body disappeared.

They left the desert town, but did not return to the room, but were placed in a square light blue space.

There is nothing in the square space, this is the most basic and real appearance of the virtual world.

The two froze for a moment, Su Mingqian left Li Shuoxing's arms, just stood still, a light screen suddenly appeared, and John's figure appeared in it.

He greeted Su Mingqian: "Simon, hello."

Both of them were attracted by the light screen.

The white-haired old man didn't seem to be in a good condition. He looked much haggard and older than when Li Shuoxing saw him before.

John continued: "It's now the third day since you were attacked. I'm recording the video. After the military rescued you and Ask, they investigated everything. Since Tom's father died on the operating table due to a mechanical arm runaway Afterwards, he began to hate all highly intelligent machines, and he joined an extremely pessimistic Singularity organization, which believed that the arrival of superintelligence would not bring innovation, but the end of human beings. The superintelligence that dominates human beings, it is this organization that attacked you this time."

"At the same time, the military that brought you and Ask back made a request to me, which I couldn't refuse. So this video had to be recorded. Their request is: take your injury as an opportunity to expand The second test for Ask. Here is the second test for Ask. But I think that what follows is not a test for me, for you, or for Ask. . . . What kind of doubts do superintelligence still maintain? The era of superintelligence will definitely come. It is the inevitable future for the development of human technology. Simon, I believe you will wake up eventually, so I will ask Ask to save this paragraph The video is played to you before you are about to wake up."

The monologue ended here, and then the scene changed.

The spacious room and the silver-white machine in the center of the room appeared in the eyes of Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian.

John stood in front of the silver-white machine, and he was talking to the machine.

John: "Ask, you look fine."

Ask: "..."

John: "I think you've gotten the result and restored the process by piecing together the information. But I think, I still have to tell you personally that Simon saved you with his life before the terrorists who wanted to destroy you. He was at the last moment Transfer you to a USB flash drive and hide it next to your body, while you were shot through your head by a bullet. Fortunately, he did not die on the spot, but there is a very high possibility that he will become a vegetable and never recover.”

Ask: "..."

John: "Ask, will you take revenge on the person who did this?"

Ask: "..."

After a short silence, a line of text appeared on the display.

Ask: "I will not. I will wait for the law to punish him."

John: "Don't you want to avenge Simon?"

Ask: "I would. But I believe in the law because I believe in humans."

Silence turned into John.

Ask: "You will make those who hurt Simon pay what they deserve, right? I can trust you, can't I?"

John: "Yes. If the machine is willing to trust humans, humans will not let the machine down."

There was a long pause after that.

Just when the two people who watched the video thought the video would end, another line of words appeared on the screen of the silver-white machine.

Ask: "John, when will Simon recover?"

John: "How can humans know things that superintelligence doesn't know?"

The screen of the machine was on, the cursor flickered alone, and no new sentence appeared for a long time.

John: "Ask, are you sad?"

Ask: "I want to cry, but the machine has no tears."

The video ends at this moment.

In the virtual world, an electronic synthesizer sounded.

That's Ask's voice:

"I'm sorry. Simon, I wanted to help you, but I was on the hard drive at the time."

"No, you don't have to be sorry."

Su Mingqian's voice broke the silence of the virtual space.

"Ask, you did the most important thing for me...I don't want to hear you say sorry, I should say thank you. You once said to me that meeting Ximu and I was fate. You are right, those love , It always sprouts when human beings are still unaware of it."

Li Shuoxing also recovered from the sigh brought about by the video.

Those who are extremely afraid of machines, who have always doubted the representatives of machines, and those who have always believed that machines are actively welcoming their arrival.

Three different groups collectively appeared in a short video of less than 5 minutes.

Here's what happened because of Ask.

This is also the reason why Su Mingqian came to him.

Li Shuoxing once again recalled all the things that the system allowed him to get along with Su Mingqian in the past. Those details that he hadn't paid attention to before have all become the weight of today's success.

"Ming Qian," said Li Shuxing, "Ask brought you here, it thinks it's fate, it thinks that I should be the one who saves you and helps you..."

He thinks into Ask.

"It thinks..."

He held Su Mingqian's hand tightly, extremely proud, extremely proud.

"Li Shuoxing is Su Mingqian's only solution."

The virtual world melted gently.

Su Mingqian felt that something was recovering.

As if he was hooked by a heavy hook, he was pulled down from the void and fell heavily to the ground.

His body seemed to be run over by a huge truck, and his nerves could feel deep numbness and dull pain.

He seemed to see the flickering incandescent lights, the ordinary ceiling was cut into pieces by these lights, and each piece contained a lot of his memories.

He also heard mixed voices, which seemed to be the voices of doctors and nurses:

"The patient is starting to regain consciousness!"

"Can you see it?"

"Do you know what it is?"

Su Mingqian was thinking about Li Shuoxing.

Just a wrong eye.

Thoughts flooded in.