: Leading to the Final 11

At first, everything was calm and no one noticed anything unusual.

At the federal administrative center at 8 o’clock in the evening, people who worked overtime in various buildings were still working as usual, and some government department employees were still busy.

Suddenly, something strange happened.

After sorting out the last file, Yang Shan said habitually: “Eve, please file the electronic files and put them in the C-class file library.”

The printer was still outputting paper automatically, and black characters were printed on it. She stared at the printer for a few seconds, and suddenly felt something was wrong—Eve didn’t respond immediately as usual.

“Eve, please file the electronic files.” Yang Shan said again.

Still no answer.

In this overtime room where she was the only one, the printer was buzzing and printing materials. Although there were noisy voices in her ears, Yang Shan felt the dead silence.

It seems that a colleague who has been present in this office has silently disappeared and left.

Yang Shan checked the smart brain in the office, and shouted again without giving up, “Eve? Report a fault! Why is there no response… Uh, what did the operation manual say… Turn on the fault self-check?”

Before she had time to control the projection screen, four large characters flashed on the screen: “Data failure!”

Immediately afterwards, the brain automatically shut down, and Yang Shan pressed the host button in disbelief, and then the brain restarted again. This time, even the word “data failure” could not be displayed. The electronic document that she had just sorted out It also disappeared completely, the projection screen turned into a blue screen, and the sound of messy electricity echoed in the office.

Yang Shan was stunned, this was the first time she encountered such a situation.

She subconsciously picked up the communicator in the office and wanted to call the maintenance team colleague on duty. However, as soon as she picked up the phone, a busy tone came from inside: “Your communicator is in a state of no network, please connect to the Internet…”

Yang Shan hung up the communicator and picked it up again, but the busy tone came again: “Your communicator…”

She was dumbfounded, and pushed the door of the office, but the smart door of the office prompted: “Employee authentication information is lost, verification failed.”

Yang Shan frantically twisted the doorknob, smart door: “Verification failed…Verification failed…Verification failed…”

In the middle of the night, she was actually trapped in the office! Calling every day should not be called, the ground is not working, there are very few people left to work overtime in the unit, the brain seems to have malfunctioned, the office is disconnected, and even a broken door cannot be opened!

Fortunately, the electronic door is made of translucent tempered glass. For fire protection considerations, a safety hammer is equipped inside. Yang Shan took down the safety hammer from the wall of the office and smashed it on the glass electronic door.

With a bang, the door was broken.

Yang Shan shook off the broken glass and broke out of the office. As soon as she walked into the corridor, she ran into her colleague from the maintenance team. Her colleague was obviously very confused and had a panicked expression.

“The brain in my office is dead…”

As soon as Yang Shan finished speaking, her colleague said in horror: “Something went wrong! Something must have happened to Eve! It’s not that the intelligence brain in the department crashed, it’s that Eve, the main system, crashed! Such a failure has never happened before. I couldn’t get out the internal communication, so I had to change the private communication line to get out. I still broke through the door with a fire ax to get out!”

Yang Shan was dumbfounded, and she instantly thought of it—the Spearhead Viper mentioned Eve’s maintenance plan to her on the tram, and she might have done something to Eve!

Her scalp was numb, and the clothes on her back were soaked in cold sweat. Due to excessive tension, she even had a dry mouth.

“What will be the consequences of Eve’s main system failure?” Yang Shan asked with difficulty.

Colleague smiled wryly: “Catastrophic consequences! Let’s see how bad it is. If it is serious, several departments under its control will fall into a state of being unable to work. If it is serious, all the data inside the Eve host will be lost, resulting in inability to work.” Estimated losses…I think judging from the current situation, this failure cannot be serious.”

What data is stored inside the Eve mainframe? Yang Shan counted them one by one in her heart.

There are citizen data, lists of government employees, government documents, financial appropriations, tax information, experimental data, technology patent archives… and some big corporate data held by the federal government… If all these things are lost, how much damage will it cause? trillion? A dozen trillion?

Yang Shan opened her mouth and said involuntarily: “Then those paper files can come in handy…”

“That’s so inefficient, it’s like returning to the primitive society all of a sudden.” The colleague said anxiously, “What happened? I won’t have any vacation time for the next month, right?”

“Buzzing…” His personal communicator vibrated, and he answered it in a hurry, with a layer of sweat dripping from his forehead, he nodded and bowed while holding the communicator, “Yes, yes, I’m going to the Information Development Zone to repair it… …Sent a car? Okay, I’ll wait on the rooftop apron…”

“Stop talking, IGotta go now! “Yang Shan’s colleague rushed into the elevator as if his butt was on fire, and then habitually shouted, “Eve, the top floor rooftop!” ”

After waiting for two seconds, the elevator didn’t move.

The colleague slapped his head and scolded on the spot: “Wairi, why is this elevator controlled by voice? Why is it controlled by artificial intelligence! Why can’t it be done manually!”

This cannot be blamed on the Network Security Department, because the floors are blocked, and members of other teams are not allowed to enter the confidential floors, so it has always been controlled by artificial intelligence, and there is no manual button.

He rushed out of the elevator again, bursting out at the fastest speed since he entered middle age, and rushed into the fire ladder… What’s even more desperate is that he needs to climb more than 30 floors to get from this floor to the roof building!

Yang Shan stared blankly at the direction where her colleague disappeared, put her hand in her pocket, and grabbed her personal communicator. There was an encrypted communication channel in the communicator, which was left to her by the spearhead.

For a second, she had the urge to send a message to ask the other party what happened, but she forcibly held back.

Keeping secrets requires a strong mind, and controlling oneself not to explore also requires a strong mind.

Yang Shan let go of the communicator and sighed deeply.

Standing in the corridor full of broken glass, she looked through the corridor to the glass wall outside the building. Through the glass wall, she could see the layers of buildings outside.

The administrative district, the Ministry of Network Security, the Ministry of Finance, the Resident Information Management Department… the staff who were still working overtime in these departments became a mess.

They panicked, looked around in a daze, and kept calling out a name: “Eve.”

But the loyal artificial intelligence never responded to them again.

In the mechanical dawn sub-base, Kai Haidong was doing the same thing as the federal government staff. He was shocked and repeatedly confirmed: “Eden? Eden! Eve! Answer me quickly! What happened!”

Aside from his shock, he did not forget to wake up the backup system of the Mechanical Dawn Branch. Light and shadows were cast from the ceiling, and an old lady with gray hair and a white coat appeared in the office.

Dr. Chen said calmly: “According to the emergency agreement, when Eden…or Eve has an accident, I will temporarily take over the affairs of Mechanical Dawn.”

“Okay, okay!” Kai Haidong took a breath, “I will contact the internal response to find out what happened as soon as possible.”

“There is no need to contact the internal response. I know what happened. Eve sent me a message in time before the accident.” Dr. Chen said, “It was attacked, the database was damaged, and the self-destruct operation was terminated by entering a forced power-off state for self-protection. Currently off. It will remain off until the matter is resolved.”

Humans cannot prevent the death of natural aging, and artificial intelligence cannot prevent self-destruction. Eve did not prevent the self-destruct command, but delayed the process of self-destruction by shutting down the power supply. Clearing the program operation data requires power support, and the host needs to be powered on. Cut off the power supply, and the host can shut down and self-destruct. The process also stops.

Once Eve turns it on, it will still die.

Kai Haidong stabilized his mood a little, “Understood… Everything will be business as usual during the mechanical dawn.”



“…What happened?” Kai Xin couldn’t help asking after a long silence, “Did we succeed?”

“There is no negative feedback from the spiritual seeds, so it should be a success…” Amber said uncertainly.

“Maybe you should use data manipulation to check to see if Eve’s firewall is turned off.” Hei Yao suggested, “Wait…it’s a bit risky, maybe you should try to see if the system of the Network Security Department is turned off, If Eve had an accident, there should be an anomaly there as well.”

Kai Xin closed his eyes, and his thoughts entered the torrent of data.

The tentacles of her thoughts are all over the network, and she blends into it, like overlooking the city from a high altitude.

As soon as his consciousness deepened, Kai Xin immediately sensed something unusual—some buildings in the city were “darkened”.

Originally, in her field of vision, the torrent of data was like a galaxy flickering in the sky, bright and dazzling, and the place where the torrent of data and information passed was illuminated by brilliance, but the buildings in the administrative district of the federal administrative center were like a dead zone at the moment, terribly dark, It’s terribly quiet, like a black hole, no information can be transmitted, and no information can be transmitted…

Eve disappeared, its iron walls were disintegrated, its ubiquitous hands and eyes were cut off and gouged out, it disappeared!

“It’s gone!” Kai Xin opened his eyes, his tone of joy mixed with disbelief.

The three of them stood on the rooftop and looked at each other. No one spoke for a while.

It wasn’t because they were dazzled by the joy of victory… but because they were hit by something absurd. They couldn’t believe that the action would be so smooth and calm.

Is it successful with only exhaustion and hard work?

Compared with the price of blood and fire in the past few times, this victory is so strange, so… unbelievable.

Did they really win?

Kai Xin didn’t speak, neither did Hu Po and Hei Yao.

“Now we have to wait until dawn… Adam will be back by six o’clock.” Amber wanted to say something relaxed, “We can tell it the news of victory, maybe it will know without us telling it…”

But at this moment, Kai Xin’s communicator suddenly vibrated, her heart beat suddenly, and an ominous premonition enveloped her.

She looked down at the screen.

“The hunt for you is about to begin.”

Immediately after this line of words disappeared, a new line of words appeared.

“Adam won’t wake up againup. Be wary of the rebels. ”

Then this line of words disappeared again.

The last words that appeared were—”Get out of here immediately! The angel knows you are here!”



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