Before the intelligence advisor walked into the archon's office, he heard the archon's grumbling at the door, just as he had heard before.

"Why is the data falling back now? Will it ignite surging patriotic fervor? Tens of millions of people...... It's not the number we expected, I remember what you said before, you said hundreds of millions or even billions, remember? ”

"The Battle of the Black Star is over, Lord Archon, if you want to reach the number I said, then you must use a continuous harassment operation, as I said before...... Without live streaming from the front, everyone would quickly forget about this war! "The intelligence adviser heard that the person who was talking was the information adviser, and his situation seemed to be a little anxious. If you walk in now, you will be doing him a favor.

But the intelligence adviser was not going to do that. The team of advisors around Your Excellency is a bit too large, in fact, in many cases, information and intelligence should be the same thing, right? He put his hand on the handle in his office, only to take it back when he was fingerprinted.

"This is a war in which millions have died! And now it's less than 10 days! Are they going to forget? The Archon's tone was filled with anger, and the intelligence advisor could even imagine his mouth growing at the moment, and the saliva spurting from it.

The Archon's breath freshener was the fresh smell of light rain after the morning, and the intelligence advisor didn't appreciate it, so he turned around and stood in the doorway instead of hurrying in, and began to look at a few art paintings in the hallway.

"The average person plays more than 20 games in 10 days, and now many games use virtual magnification time, and in real life they almost feel like months have passed in the game for ten days......"

"Then edit out all the live broadcasts of the war and show them to everyone for a few months!"

"We don't have so many artists, archons," the information adviser said, "and almost no one is interested in realist subjects anymore......"

When the information adviser walked out the door, the intelligence adviser could clearly read the frustration on his face, and it seemed that he couldn't hold it out for long.

According to the intelligence adviser's understanding of this consul, the average staff member around him will not be in office for more than half a year, and now this period is even more critical...... It's almost time to accumulate to half a year's amount.

The intelligence advisor didn't knock on the door, but opened it and quietly walked inside.

The Archon's mood seemed as bad as ever, he leaned back against a chair, his eyes staring directly at the virtual image in the air, which should have been some data and reports that the information director had just put together, among which of course there were the number of people who joined the army that the Archon was most concerned about.

Since the Battle of the Black Stars, there has been a small wave of military enlistments throughout the Federation*, but this* has quickly regained its calm after causing a ripple in a short period of time, just like any famous game release.

And the consul is undoubtedly a classical person in this regard, when he meets in peacetime, he will always cite various historical wars to describe the current situation, in his imagination, this war between humans and AI, should be compared with the unification war of the unification of the seven planets, as long as the government gives the order to join the army, all the Federation people will rush forward, and the losing side can even do after the war is over, and there is no adult over 14 years old in the rear.

But the situation now seems to be the exact opposite, according to the report of the enlistment department, more than 40 percent of those who come to apply are teenagers and children under the age of 14...... Due to federal law, they are not allowed to enlist.

It is more difficult for the ruling government to amend such a law than it is to amend the conscription law itself.

So these people are purely for fun, and in a way it seems to be more telling - it seems that this war of civilizations between the Federation and the Intellect has now become a violent game that some kind of younger age group prefers and is passionate about...... Most adults don't seem to be sensitive to this.

The data shows that less than a dozen percent of people over the age of 60 have a positive view of the war – and these are the main groups of people who are most desirable for conscription.

The archon glanced at the intelligence advisors who came in and frowned, "What's the bad news again?" Is it from the Mind Body? ”

At present, the main job of intelligence advisers is to supervise military movements in the intellectual and physical fields, and to obtain first-hand military information through various means.

"No," the intelligence adviser replied, then couldn't help but smile, "That's good news." ”

"Great news!" The intelligence adviser repeated it again.

After the Archon nodded, the intelligence advisor turned on the communicator, and a video was played.

The video was short, less than five minutes long, and the Archon watched it quickly.

But he couldn't help but watch it a second time, and then a third time.

It wasn't until the fourth time that he interrupted the video that was playing, stared at the intelligence officer and asked, "Could it be some kind of ...... of theirs Deception? ”

The intelligence advisor laughed, "What can they get out of us?" Can they still hope to go back? ”

"Their civilization...... What's it called? Ambulance team? ”

"Search and rescue team, here is the video of their original speech," the intelligence adviser said, opening the video, "and we've compared the voiceprints and confirmed the other party's identity." ”

"Isn't it possible to fake the sound in a virtual game?"

"They are now wanted criminals on Second Earth, and the use of all voice and emote data has been strictly restricted, and no one can use it except themselves, this is an in-game mechanic, and it can't be changed."

The archon nodded, and watched the video in front of him for the fourth time again.

This video was naturally taken by Wu Qing and Shen Wen, and then posted on the entire network, and now the people of the entire federation should have seen it.

The background in the video is an official version of the propaganda film about the Battle of Black Star, Wu Qing and they used virtual film technology to replace the characters in the original movie with their images and became two drivers.

But their words are not the original lines in the movie, but changed to their appeals.

The spaceship in the movie is performing a dodge action, but the failure is hit, and when the spaceship is killed, the original protagonist has a head-turning action, which was originally to render some kind of tragic ending, but now it has become Wu Xiaoqing's opening words: "During this time in the Federation, we, as outsiders, witnessed this war all the way, and for every exhibitor, it was a tragedy. ”

The camera switched, and countless warships were declaring war and fighting in the airspace near the Black Star like a whirlpool, which was already the general offensive stage of the Black Star Defense War.

"You have created new forms of civilization but are not equipped to harness them, like a child playing with fire in the forest and seeing that the surroundings have become hell."

The camera pans again, from the Black Star defensive battle to the newly trained fleet of the Federation.

"You are indomitable, but your opponents are ......"

The armies of the intellect are still hovering outside the entire solar system, and 30 billion warships are reaching the black star from the outermost layer of the solar system one after another—or rather, the current black star is already the outermost layer of the solar system. Because the original two natural planets outside the black star have now almost completely disintegrated.

"Unstoppable."

"We could have stayed away from it all." The camera cuts to a server site located in the Earth's orbital layer, where a person, dressed in a KPA uniform, is staring into the black void.

Suddenly, a memory appeared out of thin air in the void - it was the most commonly used storage device by the Federation, similar to Earth's mobile hard drive. The memory hovered in the air, motionless, the man in uniform walked straight over, and then took the memory, the whole person's body disappeared in the air for a short time, and when it reappeared, it was already inside the completely closed server, and he inserted the memory into the reading port of one of the data terminals of the server at the same time.

"But our mission is for us to stay, while it's not completely out of control."

The faces of Wu Qing, Shen Wen and Xu Yan all appeared.

And then it's all text.

Ten minutes later, the conference room.

The intelligence officer had identified all of the other side's demands, and in the conference room, he reiterated them all: "The other side has agreed to cooperate with the government in the military field, including their reproduction for military ...... But at the same time, they demanded that the whole process be supervised by them and the civil organizations, mainly the KPA organization, to ensure that the whole process was in accordance with normal ethics and morals. ”

"Ethical?" Several staff officers laughed and sneered, "Do they mean that they are not allowed to be hit by the Sapient Army?" ”

"Their meaning is clear," said the intelligence adviser, "and if we use their clones to go to war, then all those who serve will be given the necessary honor and rights as ordinary citizens." The performance of all combatants throughout the war must be live-streamed, as was the case with the previous Battle of Black Star. ”

The staff officers said nonchalantly: "That's all? What is this, what we lack most now is people......"

But the legal counsel interrupted them with a frown, and asked another question: "You just said that the necessary honor and rights, what are these rights?" Including normal citizenship. ”

"That's right," the intelligence adviser said, "and they want to be able to get federal citizenship after the war." ”

"The Consuls of the Federation do not have such powers, and according to the Constitution, federal citizenship rights can only be granted to natural persons born in the Federation." Legal counsel reminded.

"They just have that hope...... These are detailed in the text, and they just want the federal government to publicly commit to a post-war referendum to allow all replicants who fought in the war to join the Union. ”

The legal adviser sneered: "Do they think such a referendum can pass?" ”

"It's up to them," the intelligence advisor said with a smile on his face, "and only if they are good enough on the battlefield will they be able to convince most of the Federation's citizens." But the more likely reality is that no matter how they behave, it will be like the current government's recruitment propaganda film...... It's just a few days of heat, and then no one cares. ”

"The people are best at forgetting heroes." The archon replied thoughtfully, "I think I can agree...... Anyway, it's all verbal promises, post-war things...... It's hard to say whether we'll be able to survive the war until now, but can we still worry about that? I'm more concerned now with the militarized application of the Replica of Consciousness...... It's been just a theoretical speculation on your part, is there any utility for this technology? ”

"Before the advent of intelligent bodies, most attack ships used primitive artificial intelligence...... We have a lot of experience in this area," replied one military technologist, "Theoretically, an AI, or a conscious replicator, can only find enough soldiers to meet the requirements if there are enough copies...... Not to mention that we now have three more. ”