Chapter 52 Negotiation and Calculation
"A lot of the information you've gotten has been a deliberate illusion from us!...... I won't say much nonsense, I'll just tell you a reality: in addition to the dead, there are twelve of your people who have been subdued by us!"
"You mean to threaten me with them as hostages?" The Director had already begun to regain his composure, having confirmed that it was a trap anyway, and regretting it would be useless, and the next step should be to remedy it so that he could get as much as possible what he had planned.
"It's just a small thing, of course you can leave them alone. But I want to remind you of one more thing...... Mu Gang!" With Chu Xuan's words, the image originally transmitted from the computer of the 'Nosmo' spacecraft completely dimmed.
"We've been discovering your lurking people for a long time...... Now that it's been destroyed by our people, you've completely lost control of the ship!
In other words, now that we have full control of the ship, as well as the spacecraft's nuclear-powered self-detonation system, if you send out any more combatants, or try to break the connection with the ship and escape, we will immediately detonate the ship!
Maybe you're still thinking about continuing to hack into the ship's computer here, or sending out a magnetic storm bomb to destroy our ship's electronic systems, but let me remind you again, I haven't been able to do anything in the past two months, and the ship's chemical chamber is located in the alien corrosion area of the bilge that is not in the range of the machine's monitoring, and I have used the minerals inside to make a batch of explosives, which are all around the spacecraft's nuclear fusion reactor, if there is a little bit of spark, I think you understand what the consequences are! ”
These few words made the supervisor's heart sink completely.
Although he didn't put the lives of the thirty people sent out at all, an interstellar monopoly company like them had no less power than a medium-sized country, and he didn't care about this sacrifice at all.
However, if the other party wants to die with him, it is completely different! This kind of self-detonation was originally intended to deter interstellar pirates, and once the power of nuclear fusion explodes, the power is almost the same as that of a hydrogen bomb. And their ship simply doesn't have enough time to pull a safe distance. As for sending someone to sneak in to stop it, or hack into the opponent's computer, what happened to the thirty combatants just now, and the man's careful arrangement, have fully demonstrated the impossibility of such an approach.
"What do you want?" The momentarily undecided supervisor could only listen to the opponent's conditions first.
"It's very simple, our superiors just asked us to bring back the alien specimen at any cost. So we just need a safe way out of here for now, even if it's only one person with the alien specimen!"
Listened to Chu Xuandi's words. The Director's eyes lit up. It seems that the other side has little experience in negotiation. actually showed the bottom line all of a sudden. So he hurriedly said: "We can agree to your conditions! But in order to prevent you from detonating the spacecraft's nuclear power after you leave." You have to send two people hostage! You must provide us with live cell specimens of xenomorphs. This is the ultimate goal of our trip. The command given to us by the head of the earth is also 'at any cost.'" If these two conditions are not met. We will not hesitate to die together!"
"Then how do you make sure that you don't chase us after our people leave?" Chu Xuan sneered.
"I'll give you a one-man space fighter. That kind of fighter acceleration ability and top speed are definitely not comparable to our large spaceship. As long as you fly for two minutes first. There is absolutely nothing that can catch up with you.
Let alone. You can also leave your earthlings on the ship. Once we have what to do. You can always signal him to detonate the ship!" The Director then offered himself a thoughtful suggestion.
And Chu Xuandi's response was unexpectedly crisp.
"I agree with you to mention yì. You can give you the alien specimens you want. But I can only offer one hostage. You may appoint any one person among us as hostage besides me. It's just that you have to stay connected to the Nosmo for a day. A day later. If I'm still safe to do so. A signal will be sent to the people left behind. You too can get out safely. Otherwise they will detonate the ship.
In addition, it is best to ensure the safety performance of the fighter you give, and attach the most advanced laser cannon and other weapons at present. If I have any accidents in one day, I will be shot in two!
At the same time, you must also send the following weapons and ammunition, plus an electromagnetic shielding system, I don't want our people left behind to suddenly have an accident or be spied on......"
The director still has to admire the other party's thoughtfulness, in this way, both sides have their own scruples, and they don't dare to do anything to the other party's fighter jet, otherwise the person died in the process of escaping, even if he can use a small aircraft to escape, he will inevitably have to send a state-of-the-art combat ship as a burial, which is definitely more than worth the loss, and he has not yet reached the point where he has to die for the other party.
And the other party also did not dare to launch the spaceship to explode immediately after one person escaped, in addition to worrying that as a hostage's companion, he himself would also escape from the scope of the explosion, and during this time, it was enough for him to take the alien specimen as a trading condition and the hostage Tongguò small flying machine that was originally one of the important targets to escape.
In this way, his original goal was achieved in a circle. Although the other party ran away alone, it was already several times better than the ending of the same end.
So after negotiating the conditions, the director temporarily interrupted the communication with Chu Xuan, and asked his subordinates to prepare what Chu Xuan wanted, although the matter was still salvageable, but inexplicably planted a big somersault, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
"What a genius, such a simple and effective method, how come I didn't think of it?" At this time, the computer expert who vetoed the hacking of the computer was sighed on the side, listening to that tone as if he had suddenly aged dozens of years.
Hearing this, if it weren't for the fact that the head of the guy in front of him was worth hundreds of millions, the director would have already smashed his fist into the other party's white-haired head, and now he still suppressed his anger and asked coldly: "I can understand that Chu Xuan is not dead, because after all, they have escaped from the monitoring of our machine during the period of fighting with the alien matrix." But I'd like to hear you explain, what did they do to our people? Didn't you say they didn't hack into our people's computers?"
"Although the machine is normal, its time has been slowed down!" The computer expert didn't seem to recover from the blow, and just muttered to himself.
"You have to know that computers don't have any sense of time, and every time they complete a certain program, they calculate it in microseconds, 1 second = 1,000,000 microseconds.
1 microsecond = 1,000 nanoseconds, nanoseconds is the most basic unit of time in the computer, these settings are stored outside the spacecraft's main controller without additional defense, but to change the 120-decimal digital controller that can only be done manually.
However, someone changed this setting to 1 microsecond = 10,000 nanoseconds, so that the machine qì person connected to the spaceship computer is equivalent to changing what needs to be completed in one minute to ten minutes, and it also affects its perception of the outside world, in its eyes, the time of the outside world is actually 10 times faster!
And that guy should have estimated the existence of our machine qì man a long time ago, and when we started to dock with the 'Nosmo' spacecraft, he started to modify it.
It's unimaginably simple to make such a change, and I'm sure that even a person in the twentieth century who knows some computer science can do it, but the effect is obviously effective, although as a highly intelligent computer, Ah Xiu will notice that something is wrong and correct himself if he takes a little longer, but it is enough to buy them ten or twenty minutes of precious time to avoid computer surveillance and get out of hibernation.
As a result, a passage out of the hibernation chamber was exactly the place they used to block the aliens, and the monitoring system was completely destroyed.
Although it is only a short section of the unmonitored, at the other end of this passage where the surveillance has been lost, if a hole is dug in the deck, and the alien erosion zone is just below, the monitoring is also lost, and they can completely lurk under our combat team along that road and launch a thunderous raid! And I estimate that the guy named Chu Xuan has already set up the trap below the deck in the past two months. ”
"But as you said, the ship's Yiqiē is still under Ah Xiu's control, and will never inform them that we have arrived, how did they notice our arrival?" the director asked through gritted teeth, but helplessly.
"When two spaceships in space are close to each other, due to the gravitational force and the artificial gravity field in their respective spacecraft, they will definitely cause a slight vibration from each other, and sensitive people can also feel it, especially when the other party is very human, it is difficult to hide from each other. ”
"But the timing of this must be quite accurate, and even if that guy is playing dead is able to move freely, how can the two Supermen recover from hibernation so quickly and show up to fight?" the Director then asked.
"They probably have headphones in their ears to communicate with, and as for how they recovered so quickly, I think there's only one possibility...... Those two men had never been in hibernation! That is, for sixty-five days, they had been lying motionless for most of the time!"
"This ...... How is that possible?" the director gasped, a normal person has been motionless in an environment of absolute silence for sixty-five days, what does this mean? You know, someone has done something practical, a normal person can stay in absolute silence for less than a day and is close to a mental breakdown!
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in another ship.
"Are you sure the plan is really okay?" asked Zheng Zha as he picked up the equipment of the soldier who had been knocked unconscious by Wang Zongchao with the force of beating the bull across the mountain.
"The success rate is above 90%, after all, we have mastered the way to escape at any time, and even if we don't succeed, there is absolutely no loss...... But you, I want to know how you are doing after 65 days of cultivation and practice in the dormant warehouse?"
"The effect is good!" replied Wang Zongchao, who was doing the same thing as Zheng Zha.
And the injuries he suffered before have completely healed, and the slight scars left by his previous cultivation on his face have completely disappeared, revealing a delicate and healthy, the whole person seems to be several years younger, because he is not very old, so now his skin is like a newborn baby's skin.
Not only that, but his skin faintly flowed under the light, and the brilliance was crystal clear, if there was nothing, there was a faint cloud pattern, which was very strange.
However, there were still a few new bruises on his body, red and swollen, and his clothes also had scorch marks from the electrocution, which were left by the ambush of the group of soldiers just now, but those guns could only cause this kind of injury, not even to make him break his skin and see blood.
"I have fully recovered from my original injuries after three days of recuperation, and I estimate that as long as the cell vitality exceeds 300, even if the limbs are severed, as long as I don't die, I can grow back.
And this hibernation state is indeed the best choice for cultivating internal strength. In the past, I often heard of people practicing in retreat, but no matter how they retreated, eating, drinking, and lazing in their daily lives were still necessary. After all, there are very few qi practitioners who can enter the realm of Bigu and Turtle Breath. However, during hibernation, the nutrients required by a qiē are injected into the body through the catheter, and the waste products produced by the qiē metabolism can also be exported from the body through the catheter. In this way, as long as you are calm, it is equivalent to practicing all the time.
After more than 70% of my bones were broken by the Empress, my internal breath was unimpeded, and for the first time, I completed the Great Zhou Tian and broke through to the realm of unstable and advanced internal force. And now, after 65 days of pranayama all the time, my state has completely stabilized, and I have made great progress! Now even if I am left alone to deal with an intact T-virus mutant alien larvae, it will not be a problem!"
As he spoke, he picked up a pair of mechs with one hand, the mecha was completely undamaged, except for a javelin stuck in its head, and the javelin did not explode, and there were no signs of rupture where it was inserted, and the wound was extremely smooth, faintly corroded and melted.
Originally, the mecha was three meters tall and weighed two tons, so if you want to move it, you shouldn't use "take" but "lift" and "lift".
But he picked up a large, empty piece of styrofoam with one hand, and then stuffed it into the space bag that looked like an ancient money bag.
"Hmm" Chu Xuan nodded when he heard this, and faced Zheng Zhe again.
"My internal force is still far from breaking through the high-level internal force, but I have also made great progress, and I am estimated to have reached the intermediate level of the intermediate internal force. Zheng Zha's answer was filled with the excitement of picking up a million on the street, you must know that sixty-five days of cultivation, if it is for the time that Huàn is in his room, it will require 975 reward points, and even if he returns to the background of the previous movie, it will cost at least 650 reward points, and the practice of returning to the background of the movie often has various dangers, and it is impossible to achieve the efficiency of practicing in the dormant warehouse.
It's just that Li Shuaixi and Overlord are more pity, they are all seriously injured ordinary people, and they can only rely on the dormant warehouse to enter the hibernation state to save their lives. Although Zhang Jie's strengthened physique is better, because he mainly strengthens muscle strength and nerve reaction speed, the cell vitality is not enough for him to grow out of the missing shoulders and arms within two months.
However, Mu Gang has been strengthened by the T virus, and two months is enough time for him to completely heal his injuries, which Chu Xuan also deeply understands.
"The T virus is indeed magical!" Chu Xuan pressed his lower abdomen, which was no longer scarred, and said with sighs and regrets:
"It's a pity that you've already used the last dose of the T-virus antiserum on me, if there is still some left, maybe you can return to the main god space and use the research equipment there to replicate it in large quantities. ”
"Maybe we can go back to the biochemical world to get it, but I don't have much confidence in dealing with some monsters there, and because of some kind of punishment, I can't go back there in the next two movies" Wang Zongchao could only laugh after hearing this, it was already very good to have such an ending.
At this time, a man walked in from outside, and he was actually carrying a human head in his hand!
"I've got this guy's head back. Mu Gang said this in his usual honest tone, which was incompatible with his ancient chivalrous behavior of "going out of the west gate and turning back at dusk".
But the wound on the human neck was not dripping with blood, but a sticky white liquid flowing out drop by drop, and in addition, there was a similar liquid flowing out of the mouth and nose of the human head, which made people feel sick to their stomachs for a while.
However, the exposed wires and chips at the skull wound reveal its identity - that of a human being.
"Well, put it in the space bag as well, this kind of computer that simulates to get along with people day and night without revealing flaws is very valuable for research!" Chu Xuan just glanced at it and said casually.
"You really can, we all thought that guy had escaped through the guò survival pod, how did you notice that it actually stayed behind and was secretly spying on us?" Zheng Zha asked with admiration.
If he were a real spy, he might have run away in fear of death. But he is a machine person, and the characteristic of the machine is that the task is the first, and his own life is second.
In the original movie, his mission was to bring the alien back to the company in a top-secret situation, but it was obvious that his combat power was not enough to do this!
In this way, he can't get alien eggs or mature aliens on his own, so why should he run through the guò rescue pod? Another way of thinking, if he has already achieved his goal and wants to run, he should set the spaceship to self-destruct before running to prevent the incident from leaking out. In his program, 'bring back the alien' and 'keep it secret' must take precedence over his own life and the life of the ship's humans.
As for what you said about him going back to the company to report the news, it's even more nonsense! This is a world that surpasses us for centuries, and interstellar communication has long been a problem. Although the communication speed can only travel at the speed of light, and there are many limitations due to the large space, there is no such stupid thing as running errands to deliver flying hair letters!"
Although "hehe" was ridiculed, Zheng Zhe was not angry at all, because the wisdom of this companion really convinced him, just like Wang Zongchao's combat effectiveness and training ability, they were also inseparable from their team.
"Then how did you find the hiding place of this Jiji man, he is very deeply hidden!" Zheng Zhe continued to ask shamelessly.
"I've also studied intelligent systems before. In contrast to the need to consider emotional factors and leapfrog thinking to figure out human actions, although the actions of human beings are obtained through precise calculations, they can be traced.
In this way, I can exclude about 90 percent of the locations in the spaceship according to the thinking habits of the machine, and the remaining 10 percent...... Anyway, I've been lurking at the bottom for the past two months, and it's not strong in combat and doesn't dare to make other moves for fear of being discovered by us, so I've used the alien blood to corrode the wall and open up many places without surveillance, so it's not difficult to find his location. ”
"Okay, that's later, and in a moment you go and hand over the arms they sent, and take care to show your physical qualities as much as possible to attract their attention. Because of the information we deliberately displayed, in their eyes, your value should be no less than that of the alien......" Chu Xuan finally commanded.