Right on Target

In the early spring of 2161, the northern troops who launched the second civil war retreated home. Their remaining armored vehicles, like ants migrating after the rain, were swept out of the country by the war weapons of the Southern Front Alliance, and the Ares, which they were proud of, also turned into wreckage and remained in the southern city forever.

Fu Chenghui publicly apologized in the light track area, an unprecedented upsurge of protests erupted in the Northern Front Alliance, and those artificial intelligences who called themselves "gods" ushered in the first anti-system demonstration.

Gray, a symbol of decline and decadence, swept not only the Northern Alliance, but also the Southern Alliance. The Grizzly Bear flag of the Southern Front Alliance was raised among the broken walls after the Candela explosion. It looked at the heavy snow and the corpses in this place.

When Su Heting woke up, he had already returned to the light track area. His vague consciousness was still immersed in the explosion, and he half-opened his eyes amidst the noise, seeing the rapidly rotating medical halo.

"7-006, hello."

A mechanical arm hangs down, pushing Su Heting's eyelids aside to check his condition.

"I am Asclepius. Forget it, this name is too long. You can just call me 'Doctor'. From now on, I will be in charge of your health.

"What are you talking about? The sound is too low. I'm sorry, my listening device has a problem recently, and it hasn't been fixed yet."

Su Heting's lips moved, and he said it again: "...Thank you for the pillow book."

The doctor scratched his bald head with the other robotic arm, feeling embarrassed, and said, "Thank you, you are welcome, we are all from our own family."

It only heard "thank you", thinking that Su Heting was thanking himself. As a medical robot, its implanted personality is very lively, even a little talkative.

"The battle was so miserable that few survived. You are quite lucky. You didn't lose any arms or legs. Unlike the 7-004 next door, he lost a leg."

The medical halo gradually changed its color, Su Heting stared at them in a daze. His palm was empty, holding nothing.

"I heard that the people on the southern front have invented new weapons of war and specially took out our chips. It's so scary...Ah! Why are you crying? Is the wound open? No way, I just dealt with it..."

—See, the other side of the mountain is neither sunrise nor sunset, but more mountains. This stupid and funny mountain climber, he actually thought that he could see the sun as long as he came here in his life.

There are many mountains.

This is how God answered him.

The doctor raised several robotic arms, looking flustered. It shouted: "You are so sorry! Stop it, forget it, you are safe!"

What did you say.

Su Heting covered his eyes with the back of his hand, feeling a pain like being pulled from his bones. He couldn't control the flow of tears, as if he couldn't control the world's naive laugh at him.

He hated the war, it hurt him so much. X stayed where he was, and the kiss was left to Daxue. From now on, he can never forget him again, unless he dies.

The doctor said, "I'll inject you with some calming medication, please relax...Okay, that's it, go to sleep, 7-006. We welcome you home."

Su Heting closed his eyes, his consciousness drifted away from his body, and he gradually fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up again, he was lying in the dormitory, facing the familiar screen.

He was silent for a while, and said, "You are watching me, Artemis."

The rainy glass appeared on the display screen, the raindrops were dripping, and there were messy rain marks sliding on the glass.

Artemis' voice came: "I'm watching you, 7-006."

Su Heting said, "Oh."

Artemis said: "I live in the crowd all the time, observing human beings with 'eyes'."

Its "eyes" are the ubiquitous surveillance cameras.

Su Heting said again: "Oh."

Artemis seemed to realize that Su Heting hated himself, so it thought for a while, and said: "Your father was an excellent designer. I considered including him in the experiment, but unfortunately he..." It chose words carefully, "He is a hedonist , prefer to work for others.”

Su Heting didn't respond this time, he was silent in the dark, as if he had forgotten that there was such a person.

Artemis said: "But you don't have those problems. I have been watching you, Su Heting, since the day you solved my problem when you were a child, I have been watching you."

No wonder.

No wonder Su Heting was able to swagger into the light track area with a gun; no wonder he was able to get in touch with Fu Chenghui smoothly, and heard Artemis say "you have already passed" during the final test.

It turned out that he had been watched by Artemis all the time.

Artemis changed the subject and said, "You saw the war weapons on the southern front on the battlefield, what do you think of those designs?"

Su Heting's heart ached slightly, he thought of Xie Zhenshu, and said, "...what do you want to do?"

Artemis said: "I want to discuss an experiment about the future with you. If you want, I can introduce those things to you."

Su Heting raised his eyes and stared at the screen. At this moment, his head was full of information. Besides thanking the pillow book, he also thought of one thing, that is, Artemis has no "eyes" on the southern line. It doesn't know that Su Heting has heard the recording of 36810, and according to Xie Pillow book mother's records, know that the North and South alliances were once one. Perhaps, he can get more clues about the two alliance experiments from Artemis.

After a while, Su Heting asked, "What experiment?"

Artemis replied: "Area 14 experiment, an experiment to breed new humans that can be combined with a system chip."

Su Heting knew, and he also knew that this experiment cost tens of thousands of lives. But he raised his eyebrows slightly, pretending to be interested, and said, "Where is it? I haven't heard of it."

Artemis said, "It's right here."

it's here?

Su Heting felt a chill rushing up, he blurted out: "It's next door?!"

The base is split in two, they all live on one side of the training ground, while the mysterious other side is surrounded by barbed wire. Su Heting once passed by there when he was running, and he still remembered that there was a dead silence there.

No, not only that, 36810 also said in the recording—

"We kept the experimental subjects in District 14 in glass jars like plants."

Su Heting suddenly looked at the display screen in front of him, and said, "What you showed me in the final test was the experimental subject?"

Artemis said: "Yes."

Su Heting's stomach rolled for a while, and he was sure that those "white plants" were all human beings.

Artemis said, "You were calmer then than you are now."

Su Heting said: "That's a human being!"

Artemis said: "There is still a difference between human beings and experimental subjects."

It said, making the rain marks on the display fade away and the glass become clear. This time, Su Heting clearly saw those glass jars and the people floating in the glass jars. They looked pained or confused, and some had electrodes attached to their heads.

Artemis continued: "Although they maintain the appearance of humans, they have never lived in the real world outside the glass. Compared with humans, their bodies are more fragile. Taking care of them is like taking care of fungi. Relax."

Su Heting noticed that these glass jars were marked with numbers.

Artemis said: "We have a total of 98,342 experimental subjects, they are collectively called 'Yan Junxun', and most of them have died."

Su Heting swallowed the discomfort, and said, "What do we need to do in the experiment?"

"A reincarnation test is required. Area 14 is a non-existent virtual world. I will create some problems for them in that world, forcing them to integrate with the system chip. But before putting them in Area 14, I will give them some awareness teaching .” Artemis turned the camera and passed the faces, and finally, it showed a close-up to a certain experimental subject, “but recently, this experimental subject began to develop self-awareness.”

Su Heting read out the serial number of this experimental subject: "98342."

Artemis' tone was confused: "No experimenter has ever doubted me..."

Su Heting asked: "What did he do?"

Artemis said: "He created a snail with his consciousness on the raining glass, which was his subconscious suspicion."

It did not fully tell Su Heting that its consciousness teaching to the experimental subject was the interference of rainy weather, and it used a repeated, never-changing rainy glass as a background board to observe the changes in the experimental subject's consciousness. So when 98342 can conjure a snail on the glass by himself, it shows that his consciousness has begun to rebel against Artemis.

Artemis continued: "I originally wanted to destroy him, but he is a genius. Without even realizing it, he borrowed the power of a spare chip to introduce consciousness into the Panther's surveillance system, and made a call to 7 -001."

Su Heting suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked, "Who are you calling?"

Artemis said: "7-001."

Su Heting: "..."

He thought to himself: What a terrible call this must be.

Artemis said: "So I decided to keep him, but he has to reset once."

Su Heting said, "Reset?"

He knew what the word meant, but he didn't know it could be used with a person.

Artemis explained: "It is to clear his memory. After reset, he will be disabled for a period of time, and will not be activated until the right time."

Su Heting was silent for a moment, and asked, "Does 7-001 know that he is an experimental subject?"

Artemis said, "I don't know yet."

Su Heting said: "...what does this have to do with the war weapons of the southerners?"

Artemis replied: "The world used to be one. In ancient times, we created brilliance together with the people from the south, and possessed unimaginable high-tech. But then a disaster broke out, which destroyed the world and split it from now on. Form two alliances, the North and the South. You may not believe it, but the origin system "Zeus" you see now is also a product left over from that period of time. According to my research, the people on the southern line recorded a kind of Ancient man-made bone, it is the driver of large-scale mechanical creation. The people from the southern line found it, hoping to use it to drive Zhuyin, but failed.

"So they began to study another possibility, modifying and reorganizing the artificial bone, and implanting it into the human body. It's amazing that they succeeded, but the price was that they could no longer drive those large mechanical creations left behind, so they Lost in the war.

"The plague broke out in the stagnation area in 2150. We abandoned the experimental base there, and at the same time gave up a large number of experimental personnel. Among them is a person named 36810. He is a talented designer. He once submitted some of his works to me. , I am familiar with his design.

"I think that 36810 did not die in the stagnation zone, but was captured by the southern frontiers. The new war weapons you saw on the battlefield were all designed by him. At the same time, I also think that the southern frontiers learned from him There are records of experiments related to Area 14."

Su Heting's heart speeded up uncontrollably, and he immediately understood the reason why candle shadows and anorexia can be driven by Xie Pillow Book.

Sure enough, Artemis said: "They stole our technology, used the computer, uploaded the consciousness of the southern line experiment subject who had been implanted with artificial bones, and let him drive Zhuyin."

It uncommonly emphasizes the tone.

"These vile thieves, they've done it again."

The author has something to say:

①: The **** of medicine in Greek mythology.