Under Zhuang Yu's leadership, the trainees rebuilt their defense line and coordinated with the support forces from the headquarters to launch a new campaign against the mechanical insect swarm that had lost its insect king.
Yu Tang cherished his mechanical punk insect king very much. When the situation was almost under control, he ordered Ye Hanfeng to bring down the modified insect king.
"Almost." Yu Tang checked the progress of the AI's self-learning and nodded with satisfaction, "It's flying very well."
Ye Hanfeng pressed the game controller all night, still feeling a little dazed. He rubbed his eyes and nodded.
Yu Tang asked, "How does it feel to fight the Zerg?"
Ye Hanfeng was slightly stunned.
Knowing that the other party was definitely not asking about a real-life remote-controlled mechanical bug war, he hesitated for a moment before answering truthfully: "...very scared."
It was inevitable to be laughed at for saying such things, so Ye Hanfeng prepared himself and met Xi Ji's gaze, unable to detect any contempt or disdain in those eyes.
Yu Tang watched it calmly.
Ye Hanfeng pursed his lips and continued speaking in a low voice.
"When the mechanical bugs first started to go out of control, I felt nervous, but also a little excited."
Ye Hanfeng: "I followed my father and went through many combat simulations... I thought I could lead the students to carry out effective resistance activities."
But soon, reality hit me hard.
Standing opposite those Zergs that are dozens of meters tall and have sharp horns that can easily pierce steel, even just facing those huge black compound eyes can make the chill of fear crawl up your spine.
This kind of fear cannot be offset no matter how many mecha battles are conducted or how much data and videos are recorded.
In fact, many of the trainees who followed the special forces to evacuate were injured, and some even had strong combat capabilities.
Ye Hanfeng was the top student in the military academy. His mecha operator Xin Qiang was originally assigned to the team guarding the last line of defense, but he was frightened by the overwhelming swarm of mechanical insects.
When they recounted the lineup, everyone discovered that Xin Qiang had actually abandoned his mecha observer and fled the battlefield among the evacuating crowd.
If it weren't for this, Ye Hanfeng wouldn't have to stay in the abandoned factory and be unable to directly participate in the battle.
"It's a good thing to run now," Yu Tang said. "If you run away from the battlefield, you won't be left in an abandoned factory."
Ye Hanfeng forced a smile and nodded.
He understood what the other party meant: "I know... If it's on the battlefield and the mecha escapes, I can only stay and feed the bugs."
Yu Tang did not speak.
He picked up his computer again, sat cross-legged on the ground, and reviewed the operating skills that the AI had automatically learned after a night of fighting.
… In the original novel, Xin Qiang's desertion occurred during a real battle with the Zerg.
Ye Hanfeng failed to feed the insects, and Sheng Yi rushed to rescue him. Under the cover of Sheng Ji, they safely escaped from the insect tide.
For this reason, Xiji chose to merge with Xiai, and his own will was forever erased.
…
"I will participate in the special forces' devilish training."
Ye Hanfeng suddenly said: "I want to go back to the furnace and be retrained."
Yu Tang raised his eyes from the code and asked, "Rebuild what?"
Ye Hanfeng: "Commander, I heard what you said to Captain Wu. The training method of mecha is wrong."
Ye Hanfeng was silent for a moment before continuing in a low voice: "...It's not just the mecha training method that is wrong."
The ability to observe hands has been gradually weakened over the years.
I have been recording Xiji's performance in the insect tide for three full pages, and I still regret that I didn't remember enough.
Not only him, all the observers were carefully watching Xi Ji's performance. When Xi Ji killed the insect king, Ye Hanfeng noticed that a senior observer next to him was even shaking with excitement.
In the education they received, no matter how strong the observer was, he could only get rid of the job of the so-called "nanny-type wingman" and take on a guiding position in battle, leading the mecha to carry out the main attack.
We have always believed that an observer would never be able to break away from the protection of a mecha, let alone fight alone and kill a mechanical insect king.
… What ji presented to us was a possibility we had never considered.
"I don't want to be protected by the mecha anymore."
Ye Hanfeng said: "It's not just me, the top observers in the academy... all think so."
Xi Ji was an observer, leading his men to charge into the insect tide and strangle the other mechanical insect king, Zhuang Yu, who was also an observer.
The mechas cooperate seamlessly and take turns to attack. They can work together to kill the Insect King, or fight separately.
This is the peak of combat effectiveness that an observer can truly achieve.
It was not designed to cooperate with the combat mode of the mecha, and was repeatedly weakened and tamed, gradually becoming an accessory of the mecha, and becoming a wingman that relies on the protection of the mecha to avoid being fed by insects.
“We don’t know if it’s too late.”
Ye Hanfeng said: "Many of the previous teaching materials and training programs are hard to find, but starting to explore now is better than doing nothing—"
Yu Tang smiled and said, "I can find it."
Ye Hanfeng was stunned, then his eyes lit up: "Where?"
"I know a place." Yu Tang mumbled, his eyes returning to the computer screen, "I'll sort it out for you."
Ye Hanfeng stopped asking questions and nodded heavily.
Yu Tang connected to the military's intranet and did a simple search for the original training content of the observer.
Ye Hanfeng was wrong. This part of the information was seriously incomplete. Even if some keywords could be searched, after clicking on them, there would only be a few words that did not touch upon the main point.
It looked like someone had cleaned it up on purpose.
The best fighters were involved in the conspiracy, and past training materials were maliciously deleted. In just ten years, these politicians created a talent gap between new and old observers for their own interests.
Fortunately, not long after I entered this story, I downloaded all the teaching materials, training plans and combat data of wingman mechas in recent decades.
From now on, everyone's fate will truly and completely deviate from the originally predetermined trajectory.
…
Yu Tang closed his eyes and did some eye exercises for himself.
I have just sorted out the intelligent operating procedures of the wasteland-style mechanical punk insect king. As long as I repeat this process three to five times, this modified mechanical insect king will no longer need human operation, and like a mecha, it can respond automatically through AI.
—And this intelligent AI operation program can be copied.
When Yu Tang was programming, he deliberately did not use any programming language beyond this world, and all codes were open source and available for inspection.
In this way, although the workload has doubled, it also means that even if he is not there, the rest of the people can still continue to create a controllable mechanical insect king through the program he left behind.
Now it is just a night crawler, and there may be other races and categories in the future.
Yu Tang raised his hand and pressed his forehead.
He took another sip of coffee, brought his consciousness back to his senses, and continued to write the teaching materials and training plan he had promised Ye Hanfeng.
The battle between the mechanical insects continued until after dawn.
In the sea of consciousness, Zhan Chen transmitted all the information back to the exercise headquarters.
…
Although the conservatives could have anticipated this unexpected event, they were not completely unprepared.
Even if it was just a secret arrest of the senior military staff officer named Shi, the slightest disturbance would still immediately trigger an immediate counterattack from the conservatives.
Those mermen were desperate. Not only the explosive points that were placed in advance inside and outside the exercise headquarters were activated, but also the hidden lines that had been arranged long ago were activated at the same time. An entire mecha unit defected, and at one point the entire exercise headquarters' external communication channels were cut off.
If Yu Tang had not asked me to take the Dolphin there earlier, an unexpected coup would have occurred within the alliance early this morning.
"Now let's solve it."
Zhan Chen controlled the Dolphin and threw a tightly bound conservative leader out of the window: "The mutinous mecha army had no time to surround the headquarters before they were captured by a group of mechanical bugs in an organized and disciplined manner."
Zhan Chen: "I always feel that those mechanical bugs look familiar."
Yu Tang couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.
…Of course it looks familiar.
Before this, Yu Tang urged Ji to go to the test point, and found at least hundreds of low-level mechanical insects.
After Zhan Chen completes the work of exchanging checkpoints, according to the process, these mechanical insects will be restored into data to supplement the data pool of high-level special data.
Yu Tang was quick-witted and quick-handed. Before the mechanical bugs were completely decomposed into data, he urgently placed an order in the mall to buy them back.
Zhan Chen was speechless: "What is this for? Help me to place an order?"
Yu Tang recalled the spam messages his system had received, and put what he had learned into practice: "Yes, we accept a wide range of fake order services, with good confidentiality, high efficiency, and a one-stop guarantee of sales volume and credit rating..."
Zhan Chen chuckled helplessly: "Okay... I'll turn on the shielding function so the headquarters can't hear it."
"Tell me in advance, I know what's going on." Zhan Chen said gently, "I know you won't do anything useful."
Yu Tang did not answer immediately.
After a while, the small red light on the Dolphin's operating console lit up.
Zhan Chen was slightly stunned.
… This is a kind of Morse code that I taught Xiao Guangtuan.
The electronic storm cannot speak, so most of its meanings have to be guessed.
The cookies were burnt, the milk spilled, the fishing game screen was damaged, the pillow was not in good shape, the blanket became cold and hard in the cold and wet winter, and Electronic Storm tried to learn how to dry a blanket and accidentally blew up the dryer...
I can basically guess and understand these things based on the situation in the room, but there are always times when communication doesn't go smoothly.
For example, when I listened to what those people said, I ran away from home for several days and was finally found by them, a little ball of light that was frozen to death.
I know Xiao Guangtuan must have a lot to say.
He opened the book and found an old code method that had been eliminated, wanting to teach that small ball of light curled up in the corner.
Xiao Guangtuan was not very willing to care.
The record of the fishing game stopped a few days ago. The pillow fort was always empty. The blanket was warm and soft, and there were several shiny buttons inside.
The little ball of light would rather hide in the most inconspicuous corner on the top of the bookshelf. It would shrink back if touched, and float far away to the roof if touched again.
…
This was the first time that Zhan Chen used a method that was not so honorable.
I was so cruel that I didn't make cookies for two days and there was no hot milk.
On the third day, the little ball was attracted by the aroma from the kitchen. When he pounced on the plate and gobbled it up, he was grabbed into his arms.
The electron storm was frightened and could not escape no matter how hard it struggled. It was also afraid that it would swallow up Zhan Chen's particles, so it threw everything inside out in a panic.
Zhan Chen even found a few pen caps that he had lost a few days ago.
Zhan Chen was both angry and amused. He locked the electronic storm in a soft and warm blanket, forcing it to learn Morse code little by little for the first time.
The little ball of light flickered with grievance, and after practicing for several days, it finally uttered a few words intermittently.
That was the first time the electronic storm knew it could devour humans.
It was afraid that it would disintegrate Zhan Chen into particles, so it struggled to follow the Morse code table, flashing Zhan Chen over and over again.
[Don't disappear.]
[Don't disappear.]
[Don't disappear.]
…
Zhan Chen interrupted his recollection, raised his head, and looked at the regularly flashing red lights on the Dolphin's panel.
Yu Tangyi memorized the Morse code very well: "Senior Zhan, do you find anything wrong with those mechanical bugs?"
Zhan Chen's mind was slightly moved.
No answer was given and the red light continued to flash.
"After they are recovered, the self-awareness in the program is completely wiped out, leaving only an empty shell that obeys orders."
"I can issue any commands to these empty shells and manipulate them at will."
“Very good to control.”
The little red light flashed rapidly in front of him: "Senior Zhan, do you feel that this is familiar?"
Zhan Chen felt heavy in his heart.
…very familiar.
Just like... those tool people in every book.
Those whose fate was changed arbitrarily and whose future was erased arbitrarily, became the so-called protagonists and were involved in stories one after another that did not belong to them.
The mechanical worms completely copied the consciousness of the Zerg, so they could be considered semi-organic organisms. But were they living organisms
What if... it is a human
Yu Tang did not discuss this topic any further.
He knew exactly what he was questioning and didn't want to rashly drag Zhan Chen into danger, so he changed the question: "Will the security department intervene?"
"Intervene." Zhan Chen said, "The headquarters has set up a special investigation team, led by the Ministry of Public Security, to thoroughly investigate the entire conspiracy."
The alliance's response was swift and decisive, and they didn't even bother to check where the generator of the special frequency was hidden in the energy bunker.
Just five minutes ago, the military had just issued an order, notifying the army to prepare to replace the new energy warehouse and all the old warehouses would be recycled and destroyed.
Everyone knows that there must be conservative branches hiding deeper inside, but for the military, now is not the time to be concerned with these things.
Yu Tang exhaled lightly, rubbed his wrist and nodded: "Okay... all is well."
Zhan Chen nodded and was about to go back to discuss the outcome with the person in charge when he suddenly stopped when he heard the sigh.
… that’s not right.
This time, our character design is seriously ooc.
It is true that Xi Ji’s talent is very high, but not in this area. It is impossible for him to fly the Mechanical Insect King like a remote-controlled airplane, and it is even more impossible for him to set up this game and let the conservatives suffer a bloody defeat.
With this level of character collapse, there is no way to circumvent the ban on that program in any way.
Yu Tang can intercept the ban issued by the anti-OOC program and block the body's perception of pain, but there is no way to eliminate the intense fatigue brought about by this confrontation.
Zhan Chen asked: "What is your current fatigue level?"
Yu Tang paused and did not answer.
Zhan Chen didn't waste any time and directly called up Yu Tang's background data, showing a fatigue value of 74%: "..."
Yu Tang felt somewhat guilty, so he leaned back and explained vaguely, "It was almost there."
Zhan Chen had just issued an order.
Zhan Chen asked Ji that when his tiredness reached 75% of his body's tolerance, he must stop and have a good sleep immediately.
This command will form a logical closed loop with the anti-OOC program's "once the resistance strength exceeds 75%, the strangulation warning will be triggered immediately."
The AI program cannot handle logical dead loops. Conflicts and inconsistencies will cause the data to begin to decompose and collapse, and the program will need to be locked for half a minute to reorganize.
In Xi Ji's brain, Yu Tang had already installed a virus that he had made himself and specifically targeted the program.
Once the anti-OOC program locks itself, the virus lurking in the data will set off a miniature data storm that is enough to devour the entire anti-OOC program.
…
Yu Tang quickly told Zhan Chen about the previous events one by one, sat down obediently, and explained: "Only 1% is left, and little S7 will be completely free."
Zhan Chen was fooled by Xi Ji's rare obedience: "So that's why you want to take over Xi Ji's body?"
Yu Tang nodded solemnly.
This process was not a very pleasant one, and I didn't want this little episode to interrupt the process of Xi Ji's liberation.
There is no need and no reason to endure all this.
"To 75%, that is, a good night's sleep."
Yu Tang blocked Xi Ji who was still busy taking notes, and imitated Xi Ji's posture, sitting properly on a small stool in his sea of consciousness with his hands flat on his legs.
"Captain Zhuang is about to come down from the sky."
Yu Tang said: "Little S7 is also very tired. He has not slept at all these days. Let Captain Zhuang carry him back to have a nap... I will just go back to the eye of the storm."
"Don't worry." Yu Tang assured Zhan Chen, "I've calculated that if we handle it this way, the probability of the three of us being safe is the highest."
Ji can rest peacefully beside the captain and will not be affected by the fighting between the anti-OOC program and the virus.
Zhan Chen was asked to go out and perform a mission. As a temporary substitute system, he would not be punished for the host's violation.
The host will temporarily sleep in the eye of the storm. Even if the supervisory department has some punishment that will destroy his character, he will have to get enough sleep before coming out.
Yu Tang put down the computer, regained his consciousness back to the real world, and stood up shakily.
Ye Hanfeng noticed that he was acting strange and frowned: "Commander, why do you look so bad?"
Zhuang Yu just opened the ground channel and heard this sentence. His heart tightened suddenly: "What's wrong with you, Ji?!"
Ye Hanfeng reached out and supported Yu Tang.
He was stunned by the loud roar in the earphones. He paused and said, "He must be tired. The commander has been resting..."
Zhuang Yu didn't bother to ask more questions and adjusted the flight status of his wingman.
Ten years ago, in order to adapt to Zhuang Yu's own combat habits, his wingman was the only one in the alliance that was specially modified and changed into a half-wingman and half-mech mode.
Ye Hanfeng supported Yu Tang, holding his wingman's legs with a bit of shock, and ran over with a rumble: "..."
The sound of electricity coming into a new channel rang through the headphones.
Zhuang Yu was running forward when he suddenly heard a gentle, apologetic mechanical voice: "Sorry."
The next moment, a silver mecha came rushing over at lightning speed, its taillights bright red and its sharp blade wings almost producing a piercing sonic boom as they rubbed against the air.
Zhuang Yu was unable to react in time and was tripped by the silver mecha before the finish line, falling out involuntarily: "?"
Zhan Chen landed in front of Yu Tang.
The mecha did not show any signs of abnormality. It just neatly packed up Yu Tang's things and thanked Ye Hanfeng.
The mecha took Yu Tang, lifted him up gently, and placed the special hibernation capsule in its chest.
Zhan Chen's voice rang out in the sea of consciousness, and for the first time his aura became slightly unstable: "Little ball of light."
Yu Tang was stunned.
She was wrapped in a safe and warm light. She could hear Zhan Chen's heartbeat and instinctively blinked her eyes which were sore from staring at the screen.
Zhan Chen said in a gentle voice: "I know you are working on a probability deduction program. Some things are at the top of the priority list. Please come back and add them."
"Like, I will definitely take you home."
Zhan Chen: "This kind of thing cannot be calculated by probability."