Gu Xinzhi felt a trace of warmth on his arm, and there was a faint glow in his eyes.
He tried his best to move his hand only an inch or two.
He whispered, "I can't see you. Qiuyun, are you there?"
Ding Qiuyun leaned over to look at him, but saw the young man he regarded as a comrade-in-arms from a long time ago.
When the two met for the first time, it was in the recruit's dormitory.
In the dormitory, Ding Qiuyun was the last to arrive. When he entered the dormitory, Gu Xinzhi was sitting on the only empty bunk smoking a cigarette. When he saw someone coming in, he bit his cigarette and stood up and moved to the adjacent bunk.
Ding Qiuyun noticed that he had left the cigarette case on the bed, so he leaned over to pick it up.
Gu Xinzhi also noticed it, but his movements were slightly slower than Ding Qiuyun's, and his fingers accidentally touched the back of Ding Qiuyun's hand.
He frowned and immediately pulled his hand back.
Ding Qiuyun picked up the cigarette case and looked at it: "Bad smoke hurts the lungs."
Gu Xinzhi tilted his head slightly and said nothing.
If it is Ding Qiuyun in the future, he will definitely understand that Gu Xinzhi's body language expresses "it's none of your business".
But Ding Qiuyun didn't know anything at that time. He threw the half-empty cigarette case back to Gu Xinzhi and said, "You can smoke mine in the future."
Smoking is not allowed in the army, so the two recruits secretly bought cigarettes from the captain, only to be smashed by the battalion instructor, and both of them were ordered to stand upside down on the side of the road.
The queues that came and went had a lot of discussion about the two people on top of them.
Ding Qiuyun was not embarrassed at all, and whispered to Gu Xinzhi: "This time we are too subtle."
Gu Xinzhi: "Yes."
Ding Qiuyun touched Gu Xinzhi with his foot: "Hey."
Gu Xinzhi: "Huh?"
Ding Qiuyun said: "Don't be sad, when I become the captain, we can smoke as much as we want."
Gu Xinzhi turned his face to look at him, looked at him for a long time, and then nodded slightly: "En."
After a long time, Gu Xinzhi knew that Ding Qiuyun did not smoke.
It was also a long time later that Ding Qiuyun learned that Gu Xinzhi had never touched the half-pack of bad cigarettes that he had thrown back in the past.
- It took them so long to know that they had fallen in love with each other at first sight.
Ding Qiuyun's hand rested on Gu Xinzhi's left wrist, trembling slightly.
Gu Xinzhi's bloodless right hand was approaching the only source of heat on his body, his fingertips trembling violently.
He had had vivid and terrifying dreams for so many years, and Gu Xinzhi was afraid. He didn't want this time to be his dream.
Gu Xinzhi's chest was full of hope, and his chest with three broken ribs rose and fell violently: "Qiuyun..."
When he was still three inches away from his hand, Ding Qiuyun moved, but it was a movement that even Chi Xiaochi could not have expected—
Ding Qiuyun, who had almost zero control over his body, didn't know where the burst of power came from. He staggered away from Gu Xinzhi's hand, leaned down suddenly, hugged his head, and covered Gu Xinzhi's eyes with one hand!
He also closed his eyes tightly, raised his head and let out a hoarse cry, tears fell, and two drops of water fell on Gu Xinzhi's shoulder.
Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes, and three seconds later, he reopened.
The remorse value, which has been controlled at 99 on the display, jumped to 100.
… mission is over.
Gu Xinzhi didn't know what this hug meant.
But he was suddenly relieved.
These 12 hours of pain and suffering, in exchange for this hug, he felt it was worth it.
He was lying on his back in Ding Qiuyun's arms, feeling the feeling of his warm palm touching his eyes, feeling like he was in a sleeping underground palace, surrounded by warm soil, wrapping him, making him restless and restless for several years. My heart gradually calmed down.
But he still refused to die. After a short period of peace of mind, he had a stronger desire to live.
He coughed in a low voice and called out in a hoarse voice, "Qiuyun... Qiuyun, I don't want to die, help me—"
However, Gu Xinzhi didn't have time to finish his wish.
His hand fell weakly from his left arm and fell to his side, his forehead resting in Ding Qiuyun's arms, without making a sound.
Chi Xiaochi put the person down, raised his hand, carefully wiped away the tears shed by Ding Qiuyun, restrained the huge sadness that came from the depths of his body, stood up, and happened to meet Yan Lanlan who had heard the sound.
He turned his head: "Find a place and bury him."
With tears in her eyes, Yan Lanlan poured out like a dam bursting, opened her mouth, only said the word "gu", then squatted down, sobbing.
Chi Xiaochi walked out of the resting place, leaned against the door, and looked at the gray sky.
… Outside, people who died because of Gu Xinzhi were crying for him.
From their point of view, although Gu Xinzhi broke into their lives inexplicably, and was indifferent, withdrawn, and impersonal, he was also their deputy.
... the vice-team who has been with them for over a year and never knew what it means to withdraw and fear.
Everyone regarded him as an invincible god, so no one thought that Gu Xinzhi would become the first and only sacrifice in Ding Qiuyun's team.
Chi Xiaochi gave himself two minutes to get away from the emotional influence of the original owner, and then pulled Sun Bin to the main base station.
He doesn't have much time left here, so he has to take every second: "Locate, launch."
Sun Bin cried so hard that he took off his glasses and wiped his tears while asking, "Positioning... launch, what?"
Chi Xiaochi leaned over and wrote a coordinate value on the sticky note and slapped it in front of Sun Bin: "AI's total base station."
Sun Bin's mind hasn't turned around yet: "This is..."
Chi Xiaochi said, "It blew me up."
Sun Bin: "..."
The news was too shocking. Sun Bin, who had poor psychological ability, was dumbfounded: "Team Ding, how did you get this..."
Chi Xiaochi lied: "This is the information obtained by Deputy Team Gu, cherish it."
Hearing Vice Team Gu, Sun Bin finally got some energy, but as soon as he put his hand on the console, he came back to his senses: "No, no, Team D, only the internal external defense system can be activated here. Any data Changes, those AIs can observe, if they are connected to the Internet, they catch the gap and invade from the signal source in one fell swoop, it will be completely over—”
Chi Xiaochi leaned over and sent a high-precision hard drive exchanged from the warehouse into the host.
After the dense optical flow of data weaved a dense protective net, he said with certainty: "Don't worry, I have arrangements."
What is carried in the hard disk is the result of 061 over the past three years.
If it weren't for the extreme oppression of the artificial intelligence, 061 would not be positioned as an S-level threat by the still active AI.
But obviously, artificial intelligence still underestimated the threat of 061.
In the past few years, he has been attacked and hunted many times, but he has not stopped for a moment. He has repeatedly deduced and repaired, and finally completed a set of perfect protection procedures. The base station where the system sleeps.
Everything, for this moment.
Only by destroying the AI's main system can Chi Xiaochi leave with confidence.
Human struggles may continue, but humans don't need any extra judges.
…
After realizing that the arsenal was breached, the AIs also began to observe the arsenal for 24 hours.
But in fact, they are not very worried.
In the past, those who guarded the warehouse did not dare to use weapons easily, because they knew too much about the horror of artificial intelligence, and would rather let the weapons freeze than take the slightest risk.
This group of old humans, I am afraid, will not be an exception.
Sure enough, after three days passed, the direction of the arsenal was extremely quiet. The new humans, who had been killed to the point of losing their armor and armor, were about to move, and they were surrounded by locusts again. While licking their wounds, they planned to wait for an opportunity to launch the next attack.
In their eyes, this group of old humans who took the opportunity to pick up the leaks got the treasure house, but they did not have enough strength to squander it, which is really sad and ridiculous.
The weapons stocks of these old humans may not even be as plentiful as their predecessors.
How about getting a sophisticated weapon, it's just another trapped beast.
However, when the people on the periphery and the artificial intelligence settled down, the old humans moved.
At dawn on the third day, when the new human coalition gathered in the tent again for a meeting, they suddenly heard a strange and strange sound resounding through the valley.
bang.
Immediately after that, there was a series of strange noises.
Bang, bang, bang.
… the launch pad of the arsenal actually activated.
And when you open it, there are four sets, facing in four directions.
The leaders of the new human beings were shocked and discolored, thinking that these old human beings were crazy, they realized that they could not escape, and they planned to die together.
I don't know who shouted "run", and there was a complete confusion around.
In the messy camp, everyone was asking what happened, and everyone was talking about what they had heard.
From word of mouth, the news became more and more evil, and most people chose to flee. After all, once all the things in the arsenal were detonated, they would all be burned to ashes, without exception.
So no one listens to the hoarse instructions the AI is giving them.
The AI slaves lost control, and while they were terrified, some started frantically attacking the reconnected weapon systems, while others frantically sent signals to the missile's target, begging the main system to move quickly.
However, the attacking AI finds, desperately, that an inexhaustible web completely shuts them out.
And the artificial intelligence that sends the signal is equally desperate to discover, too late.
Those old humans in the base have been planning for a long time. At the moment of connecting to the network, the missile has completed a series of operations such as aiming, positioning, and confirming the launch.
Within a few seconds, the four base stations fired missiles at the same time, three in a row, to ensure that even the underground base station was bombed to the point of the armor.
The roar shook the sky, and the fire was raging.
Missiles disappeared into the sky like meteors, and in places where no one could see, they hissed and exploded, and the brilliance scattered.
Those artificial intelligences watched as the place they were supposed to defend turned to dust, and their jaws were cracked.
The plan they built was actually destroyed in the hands of a group of old humans who they most despised and should have died when the cataclysm happened
Chi Xiaochi's twelve missiles sent three signals to all the displaced people:
Please see us.
Please fear us.
Please come closer to us.
In the afternoon of that day, three new human teams came outside the base, carrying 100 catties of meat, all firearms, and raised a white flag to signal their surrender.
Chi Xiaochi did not turn them away. While arranging for them to stay outside, he instructed Sun Yan to check whether the food and firearms they brought were in good condition.
For the past three days, Chi Xiaochi accompanied everyone to light the lamps and boil the oil, climbed up and down the ground to maintain the weapon rack, and confirmed that all the data were correct.
Sun Yan felt distressed for Ding Qiuyun's body, but Ding Qiuyun himself was unwilling to rest, so he could only scratch his ears and cheeks anxiously. Now that he heard him take the initiative to rest, he was relieved, and he opened his mouth and called: "Lan Lan! Lead the Ding team. Back to the room!"
Chi Xiaochi almost threw himself on the bed, and the coal boss jumped onto the bed and fell down beside him silently.
Now that everything is over, it's time to leave.
During the three full days of toil, Chi Xiaochi had a fever for a day and a half, even if he fainted now, it would not arouse suspicion.
The coal boss licked his hot and soft ears, obviously anxious.
061 is also urging: "Xiaochi, let's go, you are burning badly."
Chi Xiaochi turned over and put his arms around the coal boss's neck.
This is his last nostalgia and concern in this world.
He whispered to 061: "Give me a minute."
After that, Chi Xiaochi put his mouth to Black Panther's ear and said softly: "Boss, I'll sleep for a while, don't be afraid, wait for me to open your eyes again, I may... It's not me, but he will also treat you Well, you can stay here if you want, and leave if you want. It's cold here, just live well."
He held Coal Boss's paw, put it lightly on his face, and kissed again.
However, the paws were not as usual, with fluffy fluff and soft paw pads, but rather like a man's hand, with slender knuckles, which felt cool and comfortable against his face.
The hand also squeezed his face gently, like some kind of gentle rebuke and urging.
... Chi Xiaochi felt that he must have burned out a hallucination.
He closed his eyes forcefully: "Teacher Six, teleport."
The task is completed, the data is reviewed and the transmission is started.
The young man whose ears had not yet disappeared lay under Chi Xiaochi, wrapped his arms around his waist, and embraced the man who was about to fall asleep face to face in his arms, whispering to him, "Wait, I'll come right away."
After a while, he didn't know who he said to: "Listen, I've handed the things to you, how to choose, it's up to you."
After a while, there was only one person left on the bed.
The man struggled to open his eyes, coughed twice, his voice was hoarse due to the high body temperature, but he still tried his best and said loudly: "Lanlan..."
Yan Lanlan ran in, and the silver hand bell made a crisp sound on her wrist: "Hey, hey, it's here."
… here I am.
She is here, everyone is there.
Ding Qiuyun pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled silently, then closed his eyes and fell into a black and sweet dreamland with peace of mind.
When he regained consciousness, Chi Xiaochi was already lying in the renovated hut with an ice pack on his forehead.
He felt quite comfortable, so he just curled up under the quilt and didn't move or speak.
When he was resting, 061 took care of him quietly. When he woke up, he did not rush to ask him how he was feeling, but patiently decomposed and vaporized the water droplets oozing from the ice pack, so as not to flow onto the pillow and make him sleep well. Comfortable.
Chi Xiaochi reviewed his performance this time for a long time, and sighed slightly.
Only then did 061 speak: "You did a good job. Don't blame yourself."
Chi Xiaochi put his hand on his forehead: "This quarter's performance is not good." He should have given Ding Qiuyun more choices, not death or life.
061 chuckled: "It's okay, your performance is not good, and me."
Chi Xiaochi was keenly aware of the meaning contained in his words: "... Sixth teacher?"
061 explained gently: "That's right, I gave Ding Qiuyun something..."
…
Three years later.
With the arsenal as the center, Ding Qiuyun built a city.
Radiating from the arsenal, the city covers more than a thousand kilometers, and the outermost city even borders the original town.
Some residents chose to stay in their small town, while a group of people including Ding's father, Ding's mother, He Wanwan, and Jing's mother and son, along with Ding Qiuyun, migrated to the center of the arsenal.
The reason why the construction is so fast is that firstly, the old and new humans who heard the news poured in, eager to be sheltered, and secondly, there was the assistance of artificial intelligence.
For those artificial intelligences that have no hope, some are still stubbornly resisting, resisting the large-scale attack of humans, and the other part has no fighting spirit, and simply chooses to surrender to humans again, so as to ensure that the base station where they live will not be destroyed.
Of course, Ding Qiuyun will no longer let them meddle in important systems, especially the arsenal.
The system written in 061 works day and night to maintain the long-term stability of the entire arsenal.
In the past, the arsenal in this apocalypse was a fancy and useless decoration. The unambitious would not touch it easily, but the ambitious would regard it as a delicious cake, just want to grab it and use it as a bargaining chip, but Wouldn't really want to use it either.
But when it can really be put into use, it has become the most reassuring reliance in the entire apocalypse.
More and more people entered their cities, the moral consciousness that had been destroyed was revived as the crowds gathered again, and simple legal norms began to be rebuilt.
Ding Qiuyun didn't take power, he only took the management right of the central city, and other towns were built and earned their own living, but because he held the master key of the arsenal, his words were still full of weight.
The only goal he has set for everyone is development.
Because of the busy development, everyone has no time to fight infighting, planting planting, hunting hunting, selling and selling, all kinds of items circulate in each city, occasional friction, and the overall prosperity.
Ding Qiuyun looked at all this and felt very at ease.
For Yan Lanlan, there have been a lot of happy events in the city recently.
Shu Wenqing came to Central City, this time to deliver medicine and to find Yan Lanlan.
Yan Lanlan took Shu Wenqing's hand to visit the city, and ramblingly pointed out that there was another sewing shop here and another meat bun shop there.
Shu Wenqing spoke very little, but every time she looked into Yan Lanlan's eyes when she spoke, she nodded gently.
Walking and walking, the two came to a street.
Yan Lanlan rolled her eyes and saw a familiar figure in front of a machinery shop.
When her eyes lit up, the little guide dog also turned her head.
Yan Lanlan said in surprise: "It's you?!"
The little guide dog looked at her for a long time, but didn't move until she heard her voice, and then stepped up and said gently, "It's you, gas station lady."
Compared with the little guide dog she saw last time, it was cleaned up very well, and the injured paw was properly bandaged, it seemed that it had been well taken care of.
Yan Lanlan crouched down: "Have you found your master?"
The little guide dog shook his head gently: "I was brought here by another lady. She seems to need me very much. I have to send this lady home safely before going to my lady."
Yan Lanlan wanted to say something, but was dumbfounded for a while.
Because she noticed that the left eye of the little guide dog was broken, and the light in the right eye was also much dimmed, and there was probably only a gleam of vision.
She couldn't bear it, and offered to suggest, "Do you need me..."
But she soon heard a slightly anxious girl's voice: "Or! Where are you?"
A girl in a red windbreaker walked out of the machine shop. Looking at her dress and the corpse marks extending from her wrist, it was obviously a new human being.
The little guide dog turned around and said, "I'm sorry, I..."
Involuntarily, the girl picked up the little guide dog and entered the machine shop.
Yan Lanlan thought for a while, but still followed, and Shu Wenqing followed.
The little guide dog was picked up by the owner of the machine shop and was still struggling politely: "Miss, I'm sorry, it's too troublesome..."
The girl interrupted it: "Don't talk, just let you go."
The little guide dog sighed and politely said "thank you".
After sending the mechanical dog in, the girl seemed to be relieved, and said hello to Yan Lanlan and the others: "Hello. Do you know Orr?"
Yan Lanlan replied, "Well, I've seen it twice."
The girl smiled: "It was mentioned to me, saying that he met a lot of people along the way, some good people and some bad people. You should be nice to it, otherwise it won't be so close to you."
Yan Lanlan stroked the back of her head a little embarrassedly: "No, I just met him by chance..."
However, Shu Wenqing noticed some clues from her attitude: "Excuse me, who are you?"
"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself." The girl said, "My name is Xu Jingyuan, and I'm Or's friend."
In the next hour, Xu Jingyuan told them about her life after leaving the little guide dog Or.
Since she was born, she has had a tumor in her brain. Under the pressure of the tumor, she is blind in both eyes. Her parents bought Orr to keep her by her side.
After the cataclysm, her parents only had time to take her away, but they forgot about Orr.
Later, her father and mother died one after another while fleeing. She also lost her drug control and her tumor deteriorated into eye cancer. She died and then came back to life. She has been hunting with a new team of humans since then.
Later, during a hunt, she found Orr, which was about to be damaged, in a hyena den.
Orr is badly broken, his vision system is close to being scrapped, and his cognitive system is also malfunctioning.
It has forgotten its name, and its memory is somewhat reversed. In its impression, the young lady is always eight years old. It can recognize Yan Lanlan, who met by chance, but cannot recognize Xu Jingyuan, who is about 15 years old. .
Xu Jingyuan couldn't prove to it that she was Xu Jingyuan, so she didn't explain more to it, hugged it, and came to Ding Qiuyun's city with the team.
She heard that the technology in the central city is the most advanced, so she brought Or here to seek "medicine". Whoever thought of it, Or ran out while she was talking with the owner of the machine shop, and met Yan Lanlan.
Xu Jingyuan said: "The boss checked it and said that the damage is not too serious, and it can be repaired."
Hearing this story, Yan Lanlan felt warm in her heart and simply waited with Xu Jingyuan.
An hour later, the boss took out the little guide dog Orr.
Orr's eyes have been replaced with new parts, but Orr still needs to reorganize and debug the data. As long as he takes it back to rest for two days, its original function will be fully restored.
Xu Jingyuan said thank you to the boss several times, and reached out to take the little guide dog over.
Orr is a fairly independent AI, so being held around like this is a bit confusing.
It kicked its legs lightly, and politely asked, "Miss, I can walk by myself."
Xu Jingyuan categorically refused: "No."
… it has been celibate for far too long.
This time, she is going to walk with it.
Yan Lanlan watched Xu Jingyuan step out of the store.
Her red long trench coat was lifted by the wind, and inside was wrapped a little guide dog who didn't know she had found its owner.
After returning, Yan Lanlan told Ding Qiuyun, who was watering the flowers, about this happy event from beginning to end.
Ding Qiuyun put down the kettle, took out a small silver kettle from his pocket, and took a sip of wine: "Is Or is the reason why you must keep a dog."
Yan Lanlan laughed twice.
Indeed, after meeting Orr twice, Yan Lanlan has always wanted to have a dog.
On her birthday a few days ago, Ding Qiuyun picked up an unmutated, brown-colored puppy from somewhere, and tied a bow on the puppy's neck.
The puppy is very well behaved and extremely clingy, so he won't let go of his claws when he hugs Yan Lanlan.
You know, getting a live dog in the last days is more complicated than getting a tiger.
After the boss ran away, no one dared to raise animals in front of Ding Qiuyun. It was not until they saw that he gave Yan Lanlan the puppy that everyone relaxed a lot.
After making a few jokes, Yan Lanlan coughed twice and regained her composure, saying, "Team Ding, if Orr can find its owner, Vice-Team Gu will definitely come back. Everyone is working hard and will definitely bring him back."
Ding Qiuyun smiled slightly, noncommittal.
Three years ago, when the benefactor left him, System 061, who turned into a black panther and stayed by the benefactor's side, told him that he had left two more options for him.
He said that for AI, biological data is really difficult to manipulate. Only after Gu Xinzhi's death, 061 was able to invade his weakening brain waves, retaining all Gu Xinzhi's memories and storing them in a memory crystal.
If Ding Qiuyun wants Gu Xinzhi to revive, let him revive.
If he doesn't want to, it's up to him.
Ding Qiuyun held the crystal, hesitated for a long time, and finally turned the right of choice back to the team members and asked them if they wanted to do it.
He did not expect that after learning that Gu Xinzhi was saved, the team members were more excited than him.
Before he could mobilize, everyone took action.
Gu Xinzhi and the photo they left in the supermarket became the key props to restore Gu Xinzhi.
In three years, they introduced humanoid technology, Sun Bin operated the system, Sun Yan searched for suitable materials, Yan Lanlan personally did a 3D reconstruction of the face and body, and Uncle Luo ran around to transport and collect the rarest nanomaterials.
Everyone is busy, working together towards a goal.
Seeing this, Ding Qiuyun was stunned for a long time, but in the end he thought it was funny and ironic.
… After all, he was the only one who was resurrected, and he was the only one who remembered those things.
Now, everyone wants Gu Xinzhi to come back to life, and they want to have that somewhat annoying, cold and powerful Vice-Team Gu.
That's it, that's it.
Now everyone has died once, and from scratch, he has nothing to say.
Yan Lanlan accompanied Gu Xinzhi for a while, and suddenly received a text message, without even saying hello to Ding Qiuyun. He happily ran away.
Ding Qiuyun took a sip of wine and thought helplessly that he was probably going to accompany Shu Wenqing again.
Having a daughter-in-law and forgetting the captain is really bald.
He put the small silver pot back in his arms, picked up the small pot, and slowly watered the plum blossoms.
In the eternal winter, the white plum blossoms brilliantly, and the fragrance is faint and intoxicating.
Not long after, Ding Qiuyun heard footsteps behind him.
He heard the footsteps very familiar, and he couldn't think of who it belonged to, but only people from the base could enter this piece of Merlin, so he didn't look back and continued to pour: "What's the matter?"
The visitor didn't answer, but put a slightly trembling hand on his shoulder.
Ding Qiuyun moved for a while, the kettle in his hand was inclined at an angle, and a little drop of water fell on the instep of the two.
The coming person opened his arms, trying to hug the person in front of him into his arms, but cautiously retracted when he was about to touch him.
In the end, he stuffed something into Ding Qiuyun's pocket.
Ding Qiuyun was stunned for a moment, then reached out to touch: "This is..."
"… my controller."
There was boundless joy and suppressed desire in his voice: "Team Ding... From now on, please take care of your vice-captain. Can you?"