I never thought that we would meet again a century later...
"... Although it may sound weird to say this, looking at the timeline mark, within a few minutes after we confirmed that the flight was hijacked, the black box stopped writing data. It was as if something had turned it off. "
"Sir... what's wrong with you?"
Standing nearby, a group of soldiers were looking at him dumbfounded.
According to the laws of Pan-Asian Cooperation, the fleet has no law enforcement powers, and they cannot summon or investigate citizens of any member country without authorization.
Others may not be able to recognize it, but he certainly can!
"I'm back."
Turning off the black box is not difficult.
Especially the engineers from Pan Asia Airways and East Asia Heavy Industries, the expressions on their faces were more like constipation, with disbelief on their faces.
"Hmm... But although the traces of the changes cannot be erased, I haven't figured out where the specific changes were. The hackers who hacked into these memories carefully erased all the operation records. I even doubt that … Could these traces of intrusion be related to the hijacking case itself?”
"I'm Lu Zhou."
Yang Wu still refused to give up and said: "Can you tell me his identity? I want to visit him through private channels."
At a hospital dozens of kilometers away, a pair of chopsticks fell on the table.
But then again, for an ordinary hijacking, they still haven't figured out what happened on flight N-177, which is a bizarre thing in itself.
Lagrange Point Military Base.
A wry smile appeared on the commander's face.
"That is, someone hacked into the android system and used the androids as human shields to contain the hijackers... In any case, compared to the hijacking incident, this kind of thing is just an insignificant matter. I will make a report later. Come out. If people from the Security Bureau are interested, let them investigate. That is their job scope. However, I still suggest that you put this matter aside. There are methods for special times in special times. At that time, Under the circumstances, no matter what actions the passengers on the ship take, they can be tolerated."
Apparently aware of this, the commander coughed slightly and forcibly ended the topic.
Never thought of the possibility that he was still alive.
Commander: "His identity information should be registered on the flight... But I don't recommend you do this. This involves citizen privacy. If he insists on going online, your situation will be very embarrassing."
The corners of his mouth twitched, and he rambled to himself in a choked voice.
At this moment, the holographic TV beside the wall was showing a live interview, and Yang Wu's eyes unconsciously fell on the person on the holographic screen.
"Of course the most puzzling thing is not this... I cracked some of the unclaimed android memories and found traces of human alteration inside."
"Man-made changes?"
Narrowing his eyes, Yang Wu subconsciously took two steps towards the holographic screen.
The staff member thought for a while and then spoke.
Brigadier Li Gaoliang, who was watching the news, suddenly pushed away his chair and stood up.
Once bionics are no longer safe, they may not only face a high value-added industrial chain being hit hard, but also hundreds of millions of time bombs. And these bombs have been integrated into every corner of society, and there is no even possibility of dismantling them.
Pan-Asian First Fleet Command Center.
Sitting in front of the holographic computer, the information technology expert pushed up his glasses and continued with a solemn expression.
However, the premise of all this is based on the safety of bionic human technology itself.
To a certain extent, the large-scale application of bionic humans has greatly filled the labor shortage caused by the aging population in East Asia. Although these androids lack creativity, they are obedient enough and therefore have unique advantages in the service industry and pure manual labor.
But soon, the hesitation and confusion completely dissipated from his eyes.
Facing the camera and recorder interviewing him, the man in the camera opened his mouth and hesitated for two seconds.
"He's not dead..."
Wang Peng didn't hear what Director Li was saying at all, and just muttered to himself.
"I kept you waiting."
"... And it's very clean. All traces have been erased, and there's no data left at all."
That was a legend from long, long ago.
Hearing what the information technology expert said, the commander with his arms folded frowned.
In the 22nd century, with the average education level in the Pan-Asian region, the low-end and high-intensity jobs performed by androids are not what most people are willing to do.
"Impossible," the information technology expert said flatly. "From the underlying logic of AI, androids are prohibited from attacking humans. If your hypothesis is true, the problem we face may be more terrifying than the hijacking itself."
A man with a resolute face stared at the news on the holographic screen, his eyes filled with tears.
However, curiosity is curiosity, but the law is another story.
First, he killed the hijackers, and then miraculously calculated the best route to use the slingshot effect to slow down. This set of textbook-level operations simply impressed everyone. Especially for the latter, until now, aerospace technology experts from the Pan-Asia First Fleet still cannot believe that that complex mathematical model can actually be calculated by the human brain.
Seeing the excited Li Gaoliang, his adjutant swallowed and asked inexplicably.
Standing in the ruins, he had almost given up on survival, until he desperately pulled out a wrist-mounted computer with a broken screen from under the rubble and yellow sand...
Longer than the year 2050 he comes from...
As for where this feeling came from, he couldn't tell.
Turning his gaze to the sky not far away, the emotionless mechanical pupils suddenly rippled.
Therefore, even if they know that this possibility exists, most people are simply unwilling to make such an assumption.
Pan-Asian cooperation without bionic humans will fall into the double trap of labor shortages and rising producer price indexes. Even economies that cooperate with Pan-Asia will find it difficult to maintain the current fiscal model of high welfare and high public facilities spending.
Does this still require intuition
It's like I've seen it before somewhere...
It was at this moment that Yang Wu's pupils shrank instantly, matching this familiar face with a certain fragment in his memory.
"... It seems that a lot of things have happened during the century that I have been away."
"... I have to tell the great elder this news... No, what am I talking about? This is the 22nd century... His old man has been gone for a long time."
intuition
Standing next to him, an old man with wrinkles opened his mouth wide, and his face was filled with tears unconsciously.
Yang Wu: "The person who took the flight back from the hijackers and contacted us in the cockpit. My intuition tells me that he should know some inside information."
It can be said that the breakthrough of bionic human technology has, to a certain extent, amplified Pan-Asian cooperation and even the prosperity of various regions around the world.
As if to confirm the shock in his heart, the man in the camera slowly spoke.
"Let's leave this matter to the intelligence department. We can just investigate the evidence collected at the scene."
He's finally back!
Its owner!
Lu Zhou!
Ever since he was a child, the elders had always kept that name on their lips and used that person's stories - or legends - to inspire themselves.
It's him!
At this moment, on earth.
He considered ten thousand possibilities.
Commander: "Who?"
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that this face looked familiar.
"...It's nothing! You don't understand even if I told you," Li Gaoliang clenched his fists while staring at the person on the screen, and finally waved his hands excitedly, "Prepare the transport ship, I want to go back to Earth!"
However, during flight, if the black box is closed through abnormal means, this will be a major "accident".
"Although there is no surveillance video, judging from the traces of the fight at the scene, the androids were shot by the hijackers' rifles. Logically speaking, there is no need for the hijackers to shoot these androids for no reason... Will anyone take advantage of it? Exploited the loopholes in the android systems and attacked the hijackers?"
"From a century ago."
Dust-laden memories flashed by like a revolving door, and he seemed to have returned to the desert a century ago.
"Deleted?" The commander frowned slightly, "Where is the backup in the black box?"
At the former site of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, not far from the Jinling Aerospace Airport, an android tour guide who was smiling and introducing the place where Academician Lu Lu worked during his lifetime suddenly stopped.
It can be said that if it were not for that person, they would have stood at a press conference and apologized in the face of the doubts of the whole society.
It’s actually Lu Zhou!
"—Hero, can I ask your name?"
He wanted to visit that person not entirely out of curiosity, but because he felt like he couldn't let go.
Yang Wu frowned and felt a little troubled.
"Having said that, there are some things that I still can't let go of," Yang Wu frowned, thinking about the previous phone call, and continued after thinking for a while, "I want to see that person."
Everyone knows that the rescue of flight N-177 must have something to do with him.
"The surveillance was removed."
The people in the command room looked at each other, seeing expressions of disbelief in each other's eyes.