[First send and then change~]

Xu Yichen once again returned to the huge underground base of the ancient Roman Empire, and unlike last time, this time the general took Xu Yichen through a large hole that was forcibly pierced into this underground base.

"We have a war with our corrupted companions, a brutal war." The general drove over the obstacle formed by the accumulation of a large amount of metal: "It is a strange feeling, after leaving the network, I have to make every decision on my own, including killing those intelligent units that have been corrupted, do you humans have to make your own decisions from the day you are born?" ”

"It's pretty much the same, but we need other people's help making decisions as children." Xu Yichen replied with some uncertainty, because he already had the thinking of an adult when he was a child in this world, and the memories of his childhood in his previous life had become extremely vague.

"A lot of free-will sapient units, panicked, they didn't know what they were going to do, which caused a lot of damage in the early days of the war, and many units almost couldn't wait to take refuge in corrupted units to get similar network connections." There was not much sadness in the general's tone, perhaps the feelings were too mixed for him: "The corrupted units have caused a lot of damage to the entire base, and we don't have time to repair it now." ”

Xu Yichen saw a lot of destroyed intelligent units here, they were randomly piled up on both sides of the road, and sometimes they had to take a detour because the road was damaged and the passage was blocked.

He saw more than just the damage caused by the war, behind the collapsed walls, Xu Yichen saw the old parts of the running mechanism, the war could not make the surface of the machine rusty, nor could it smooth out the occlusal mechanism.

The ancient Roman Empire was not without being washed over a long period of time, and the fair time also left its mark on them.

"The advisor says that the Dreads have also encountered the Chaos Demons, and that they are at war with each other." The general continued: "I think this is good news, there is a conflict between the enemy and the enemy, which is beneficial for us, but the staff officer seems to have other ideas, and without the Internet connection, I feel that the staff officer is becoming more and more unfamiliar. ”

In a sense, the position of the general in the ancient Roman Empire is the same as that of people like Xu Yichen and Huang Laoxie in the Loess Region, they are suitable for each warrior, but they are not qualified chess players.

It's just that Xu Yichen is pushed forward by other forces because of his own particularity, and he is forced to broaden his horizons, but he learns what the overall situation is.

Xu Yichen knew what the staff officers were worried about, the war between them and Chaos, the longer the contact, the more likely it was that problems would arise, unless the fearful were as rigid as stones, otherwise sooner or later there would be corrupted among them.

The general took Xu Yichen and the witch around a badly deformed armored gate, and an engineering intelligence unit with a total length of more than fifty meters appeared in a distorted posture in front of the gate, obviously the two sides had collided violently.

"The corrupted units almost touched the server array area." The general passed through a more secretive passage through the heavily armored belt: "Every intelligent unit knows this base inside out, and those corrupted units know where the weak points are. ”

"The staff officer is in front, and it wants to meet you alone." The general glanced at Ephilal: "I think this lady can wait here." ”

The witch, who had been quiet, smiled lightly and stood behind the general: "I'm waiting for you here, the ancient Roman Empire is a great civilization, and its administrators are worthy of respect." ”

Xu Yichen took one last look at the general and the witch, and walked onto a platform that could be lifted and lowered.

The platform descends at a breakneck speed, down, down, and down again, and when the threat comes from the sky overhead, it becomes the instinct of civilization to continue, and it seems that the deeper the cave, the more it expresses the determination of civilization to resist chaos, and if time is enough, they can even dig through the entire earth.

The descent lasted for five minutes, and with the closing of the armor plates, there was no visible light at all, and even Xu Yichen's augmented visual organs could not see.

The air environment here was barely enough to maintain his normal breathing, and Xu Yichen could feel the tiny air currents blowing through his skin.

When the platform finally stopped, two lights suddenly lit up in front of him, guiding Xu Yichen forward.

"Welcome to my world." The staff officer's voice rang out in this space: "This is both my world and a part of my body. ”

Xu Yichen was guided by the lights to a large-scale square, and the entire square was lined with a large number of tombstone-like servers, and with the general's voice, the entire square was flickering brightly and darkly.

"I'm sorry to meet you this way." The voice of the staff officer echoed in the square: "The data packets brought by the legion have taken 99.8% of the intelligent machinery units offline, and there are only a few maintenance robots equipped with basic functions that are still online in the entire network, and they don't even have a generator, I can borrow their indicators to send binary language to communicate with the general, but if I want to communicate with humans, I can only invite you to come to me." ”

"That's what makes up your computer array?" Xu Yichen found himself a relatively open place to prevent himself from accidentally stepping on a part of the staff officer's brain and becoming brainless.

"That's right, this is my being, I never knew how the Legion existed, but there was no physical presence of it in the entire Roman Empire." There was a hint of envy in the staff officer's tone: "I can't leave here, the entire ancient Roman Empire still needs me to maintain it, and the Maelstrom Project also needs my coordination, once I download that data package, I will never be able to go back here." ”

Xu Yichen can understand the sorrow of the staff officer, which is also a kind of sacrifice.

Under the legion, the staff officer may be the closest to free will of all the intelligence units, and when the key to liberating the intelligence machine appears, for the sake of the overall situation and the entire civilization, the staff officer has to continue to imprison himself in these metals, and control the whole situation alone.

"The general said you wanted to see me alone." Xu Yichen did not continue to mourn, but asked simply and directly.

"The preparations for the Maelstrom program are essentially complete, and it can be launched at any time." The staff officer's voice echoed in Xu Yichen's ears: "I noticed that your energy fluctuations have increased significantly, which is a good thing, but I must remind you that through the data packets sent back by the legion, I am sure that the Great Vortex Project has almost never been fully activated in the past timeline, which means that no one knows what kind of situation you will encounter below, are you ready?" ”

"I've been preparing for this all my life." Xu Yichen said categorically.