Guangzhou.

A moonlit and breezy night.

In the center of the city, the night view of the city is full of light.

On the side of Huacheng Square, the towering New Century Building.

The towering building, the lights are shining, and the New World Capital office at night is still bright and gorgeous, still as beautiful as a "mirror of the sky".

In the huge chairman's conference room, there were only Xu Xincheng and Lucy.

Lucy had a solemn look on his face and said, "Steve, next, I'm going to tell you my first secret. ”

Xu Xincheng straightened his back, and then leaned forward slightly, secretly taking deep breaths one after another.

Before dinner, he thought that Lucy was a mysterious mystery, and he was hoping to gradually solve this great mystery composed of many mysteries, and Lucy was going to solve some of them for him now, and of course he couldn't help but feel joy, that was the joy of knowing the mystery.

"Have you heard of the Manhattan Project?" asked Lucy.

Xu Xincheng, who was ready to listen to the riddle, was a little confused by this question, but he quickly adjusted and said: "I have heard that it is the United States' plan to develop and manufacture an atomic bomb during World War II, but I have not learned about it in depth." ”

"On December 6, 1941, with the approval and authorization of then-incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States formalized and implemented a top-secret program codenamed 'Manhattan.' President Roosevelt gave this plan 'special priority above all actions.'

The program had only one goal, and that was to develop and build the atomic bomb before Germany and other countries did.

The program convened a large number of the world's top scientists, concentrating the best nuclear scientists in Western countries at that time, except for Germany, including Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Edward Taylor, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel laureate in physics. The program lasted three years, and more than 100,000 people participated in this super project of the century, which cost a total of nearly $2 billion, about $25.8 billion today.

In the end, this plan was successfully realized.

On July 16, 1945, the United States successfully conducted the world's first nuclear explosion test and built two atomic bombs for actual combat use as planned. The first was named 'Little Boy' and was dropped on RB Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second was named 'Fat Man' and dropped on Nagasaki three days later on August 9. ”

Xu Xincheng nodded, indicating that he heard clearly, but he was puzzled, so he asked, "Hmm...... Does this Manhattan Project have anything to do with us?"

"Yes, I have a similar plan, more precisely, a bigger and tougher plan, which I call the 'Shepherd Dog Project'," Lucy said categorically. ”

"Ah!" Xu Xincheng couldn't help but shout, and he asked hesitantly, "You...... What do you mean?"

"Do you remember that Sunday afternoon three weeks ago, on the Wangyue Peak of Baiyun Mountain, on the top of the roof, our conversation?

He immediately recalled the scene, every word Lucy had said at that time, the questions Lucy had asked him at that time, especially the last question, "What if I told you that the third faction's point of view was correct?!"

Xu Xincheng replied: "Yes." ”

Of course he remembered, he remembered every word Lucy had said, every detail of the time, he remembered his astonished state, he remembered the awkward state when he didn't know how to answer that question.

"I said at the time that we would find the right opportunity to have a more in-depth discussion in the future, so let's move on now. ”

Xu Xincheng nodded a little blankly and said, "Oh." ”

"I asked two questions, and we moved on with those two questions, and I'm going to formally ask the third question, which is, what do we do if the third faction is right, if the future that the third faction predicts is about to happen?"

Lucy raised his voice and emphasized the word "we" when he said "what should we do", and he could hear that Lucy was referring to "she and him" when he said "we".

Xu Xincheng was completely stunned by Lucy's question, he really never thought about what he should do, what he should do for it, and what he could do for it if the future predicted by the Third Sect was about to happen.

He quickly recalled several science fiction movies he had watched with the theme of "The Rise of AI, the End of Mankind", and his mind came up with the scenes depicted and shown in those science fiction movies in which AI took full control of human society, enslaved and oppressed human beings, and even wiped out human beings.

In the process of imagining, his expression changed from astonishment to astonishment, and then from astonishment to horror. In the scenes he imagined, he saw himself, in those scenes he saw his existence as humble as an ant, in those scenes he saw his strength as weak as an ant, and in those scenes he could do little different from an ant.

Thinking of this, Xu Xincheng looked at Lucy, she was looking at him very seriously, waiting for his answer, he could only tell her what he really thought: "If the future predicted by the third faction is really about to happen, to be honest, as an ordinary person, I really don't know what I can do for it;

At this moment, a thought suddenly broke into his mind, "Is this what Lucy is going to do? Could it be that this is what Lucy is doing?"