SHEEP

After Yi Heye put forward this opinion, Li Ju was only exchanged for a long silence.

Yi Heye froze immediately: "Just mention it casually, pretend I didn't say it."

Li Ju said, "Tell me about it."

Yi Heye's eyes lit up immediately.

"Since the 'college student' that time, I felt a little strange." Yi Heye analyzed, "Do you really believe that it was an involuntary jailbreak behavior caused by wrong instructions? He is the simplest functional robot, After the instructions are set up from the scene, there is no need for post-production debugging at all, how can there be such a thing as suddenly wanting to escape?"

Director Li nodded, motioning for him to continue.

"And combined with Lu Qing and the others, it's even more obvious." Yi Heye said, "The forces chasing and killing Lu Qing obviously wanted to prevent anyone from escaping from Area E, but that AI was forcibly escaped from the area." In this way, there are actually two different forces competing against each other.”

Yi Heye: "Maybe I'm overthinking it. I always feel that the AI ​​that was pushed out is like a spy leading the way. If he understands the way, the people behind him will naturally follow."

Director Li affirmed: "It makes sense."

Yi Heye hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "And... I want to ask you a question."

Director Li: "You ask."

"The last time I went to District A, did you find any clues to those cases?" Yi Heye looked at Director Li's expression and asked, "For example, the main company of ISSAC, such as the real source of Lost Lamb? For example, SHEEP is behind the scenes. evidence?"

Director Li was silent. Obviously, he was a little bit against the question about Area A, or he didn't know how to answer it.

Yi Heye understood his expression, so he stopped being devious: "It seems that there are no more."

"It's time to do a good investigation." Director Li paused for a few seconds, then changed the topic and said, "Take the two girls to the Security Division for interrogation tomorrow, and try to find out the details of the enemy. Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle."

Yi Heye smiled: "Okay."

"But I have to remind you, this is also the reason why I didn't want to go too deep." Li Ju looked at Yi Heye, "We have no way to reasonably estimate the danger of Area E for the time being. If it is not necessary, I don't want any of you People take that risk."

Unlike District A, which everyone longs for, District E is like a living hell, exuding a strong gloomy atmosphere, which makes people spontaneously build an insurmountable high wall psychologically.

Disease, crime, pollution...what they know may only be the tip of the iceberg.

"It's okay, Director Li." Yi Heye smiled, but there was not much light in his eyes, "I'm different from everyone else, I don't have any family and friends, and I have nothing to worry about. I take it."

After saying this, Li Ju's face became ugly. Yi Heye immediately put on a playful smile and said, "Just kidding, don't you still miss me? I am mainly worried about their technical skills. Not enough, in the past I didn’t figure out anything and just sent myself to death for nothing, I’m different, I can even kill SHEEP, what’s so difficult about me?”

Director Li still sighed heavily, and it took a long time before he said sternly: "During this period of time, you have to adjust carefully, and you are not allowed to have any wrong thoughts!"

Yi Heye put his palms together quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, yes."

After fleeing in a hurry, Yi Heye finally breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the dormitory, but couldn't sleep anymore.

Before he decided to go to A, Director Li had never tried to stop him like this.

He still remembers that when he first entered the unit, Director Li said to his newcomers: "Don't expect that I will pull you back when you are in danger. Engaging in this line of work will determine your fate." It doesn't belong to you anymore, danger, injury, even death, is part of your profession."

Facts have proved that although Ju Li loved him a lot, he never relaxed his requirements on Yi Heye because of the so-called danger—no matter how serious he was injured, he would not stop him when it was time to play, even if he was the top He would turn a blind eye to break into Area A rashly at the risk of committing a crime, but this time,...

Yi Heye was lying on the bed, looking at the Milky Way on the ceiling, tossing and turning——

Is this trip by myself really going to die?

This night was unbearable, Yi Heye, who had been suffering from insomnia for several days, couldn't take it anymore, and fell asleep very unhappy after taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor.

When he woke up, the interrogation of Lu Qing and his wife had ended, and now several leaders of Pei Xiangjin's personal interrogation were gathering together for a seminar on the case.

Seeing Yi Heye passing by the door of the office looking in, Director Li sighed, and simply waved his hand to invite him in.

Yi Heye sat in with his eyelids drooping, dozing off while listening to what they said.

"As far as I know, Lu Qing and Chen Yueqi were both sent to District E by the local authorities because they committed a murder. After they got acquainted in District E, they developed a relationship smoothly..."

Yi Heye raised his head: "Murder case?"

"Well." Pei Xiangjin said, "Lu Qing killed the bully who bullied her by mistake, and Chen Yueqi killed her stepfather who abused her when she was 16 years old."

They are all poor people, but they all committed crimes. Yi Heye thought it was not surprising when he thought of their behavior.

"Five years ago, they hid in the prison van that came to the E area to send new prisoners. Because the supervision system at that time was not complete, they escaped smoothly." Pei Xiangjin said, "It can be confirmed that, Their behavior that time was indeed spontaneous and not ordered by anyone."

Yi Heye: "You escaped by yourself?"

"Yes." Pei Xiangjin nodded, "At that time, there were actually not a few people who escaped from prison, but most of them kept their names incognito, and it was already difficult to trace their whereabouts."

At this time, the person in charge of the health management committee said: "In fact, after investigation, we can know that there have been several infectious diseases of unknown cause in the three districts, which were brought back from outside the wall by the prison escapers, including the new type of influenza that caused heavy casualties the year before last, There is also the No. S bacillus that was contained before it spread in time, all of which are related to the uninterrupted prison escape operations. It’s just that patient zero of several related infectious disease cases has died of illness, so no other prison escapes can be found to investigate."

"As for Zhao Qiangqiang who was killed a few days ago, we have already conducted a detailed investigation on his identity." Pei Xiangjin pulled out a file, "He was sent to District E for rape and murder three years ago. Escaped from Area E two months ago."

"Because of several large-scale prison escape incidents, the Border Administration of Area E has greatly strengthened border management in the past few years. In the past two years, almost no prison escape incidents have occurred." Pei Xiangjin said, " Regarding Zhao Qiangqiang’s jailbreak incident, we applied to the Border Management Bureau of Area E for assistance in the investigation. We are not sure how he left Area E for the time being, but what is certain is that if he wanted to get over the wall from under the nose of the Border Management Bureau, he could only rely on the It is absolutely impossible for Zhao Qiangqiang to do it alone."

This corresponds to Yi Heye's guess about the AI ​​jailbreak incident - there seems to be a stronger force behind them, trying to find a so-called correct way through their trial, error and sacrifice.

"Because Lu Qing and Chen Yueqi are likely to be involved because of their contact with Zhao Qiangqiang, we plan to focus our investigation on Zhao Qiangqiang and the jailbreak AI." Pei Xiangjin said, "The network security department is Try to restore their previous activity trajectories, hoping to find some commonalities, our security department is also starting from the recent cases of abnormal deaths to see if we can find more samples for analysis.”

After hearing this meeting, Yi Heye's already stagnant brain couldn't keep up, so he could only bury his face in his arms and couldn't sleep, but his whole body was terribly sleepy.

The effect of the medicine made him unable to exert energy all over his body, but he was not enough to fall asleep. The indescribable fatigue dragged him down, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Bureau Li is right, the investigation of the case will take some time, and the top priority should be to get the status back, so that he can accept dispatches anytime and anywhere.

After that?Yi Heye thought uncomfortably—what happens after the task is completed?Go back to the wall, continue to be regarded as the so-called hero by everyone, and then spend a period of time to heal the wound, and then at a good time, put yourself into the next task?

Thinking of this, Yi Heye suddenly felt tired and desperate. He knew that he was using work to numb his emotions, but even so, he still had to experience insomnia, headache, fatigue, and nausea.

What's more, he has no confidence at all to get out of this state. The days when he is so sick without medical treatment, only relying on mental anesthesia to cover up the pain time and time again, but he can't control every step he is falling downward, will it really be difficult? Is there an end?

It would be fine if I didn't go to Area A at the beginning.

It would be fine if the shot was shot at himself.

With this suffocating mood, Yi Heye stuffed himself into the training room as if masochistic.

Under such conditions of extreme exhaustion of mental and physical strength, Yi Heye can hear the beating sound of his heart being overwhelmed. It seems that he can die of a heart attack anytime and anywhere, but it makes him feel very comfortable stand up.

Maybe you can sleep well when you are too tired, or maybe you can't. When Yi Heye got off the training machine, he staggered and almost lost his footing, but when he saw the figure of another person in front of him, he still had a good face. Make him stand up straight.

Opposite was Pei Xiangjin, and that guy handed him a bottle of post-training nutrients, but Yi Heye didn't drink it, and put it aside.

"I heard from Director Li that you really want to visit Area E." Pei Xiangjin asked.

"Yes." Yi Heye looked up at him, "Aren't you going?"

"If you need me, I will definitely go." Pei Xiangjin said, "Judging from the current situation, there is a high possibility of going."

Yi Heye glanced at him, but remained silent.

"However, have you really thought it through?" Pei Xiangjin asked, "What you are about to face is not Area A based on fantasy and utopia, but Area E full of sin and pain. The tree in front of us A high wall, no longer class and law, but real life and death."

"You're not afraid, what am I afraid of?" Yi Heye chuckled calmly, a glimmer of inconspicuous darkness seemed to flash across his eyes.

"What's more, the day I returned from Area A, the wall between life and death no longer existed for me."