Plan U, this is the name of Operation Greenland in Europe, and in the Chinese side, it is called Project Beta.

Unlike Project Alpha, which was forcibly terminated half a year ago, Project Beta was the first operation of the organization to officially take action against the mastermind, however, this time the operation was ...... Failed.

At the cost of defeat, millions of people were suffocated to death in the tombs of the Vault, and the members of the European Branch were torn to shreds by countless mutated creatures that suddenly poured into the ground.

This is a warning from the mastermind.

According to the logic of the mastermind, these people trying to stop their plans are tantamount to cutting off the "future of humanity", and therefore, these people must be eliminated.

For the continuation of the human race, the death of more than a million people is nothing...... After all, in World War III alone, the death toll is already in the hundreds of millions.

There was once a very famous philosophical problem, which is that a train traveling at high speed, suddenly found that there were five children playing on the track in front of it, and it was too late to brake, and the only way was to choose to change lanes, but on the other fork in the road, there was a repair worker who was maintaining the track, and if he changed lanes, then the repair worker would definitely die.

Whether to change the course and kill the five children, or change the lane and let the bad luck befall the innocent repair worker, the people of the old times debated for countless years, but still did not come to a convincing conclusion.

But if the brainmind is allowed to make the decision, then the brainmind will not hesitate to choose to change lanes, which is the optimal solution in the eyes of the computer's logical thinking.

Five people and one person, in the eyes of the mastermind, the only meaning of life is numbers.

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But now this situation is different from this philosophical question, if it is really to sacrifice a small number of people in order to save the majority of people, then those in power in the human race will not hesitate to choose to "change the course", and when it really comes to the moment of life and death, morality or something is too pale and powerless.

However, the mastermind did not do this to save the majority of people, but to create most people into "human batteries", imprisoning their consciousness in the virtual world and living a puppet-like life.

In the eyes of the mastermind, human beings will obtain "peace" in the true sense of the word, but in the eyes of human beings, if that day comes, human beings will in fact exist in name only, and those consciousnesses wandering in the virtual world are just a group of ghosts that have lost their bodies.

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Real world, Huaxia, Sichuan Province, Leshan Giant Buddha.

This is a very famous scenic spot in the old era, the Leshan Giant Buddha started construction in the first year of the Tang Dynasty, completed in the 19th year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty, after 90 years, this magnificent Buddha statue of 71 meters high was built by people with both hands and simple tools.

Leshan Giant Buddha is located on the east bank of the Minjiang River, close to the confluence of the Minjiang River, the Tsing Yi River and the Dadu River, the Leshan Giant Buddha was originally built to suppress the dangerous water potential of the three confluences of the three rivers, but today, the three surging rivers have dried up, leaving only this heavily weathered colossus statue still standing there.

The main brain is located in a "replica" in the Huaxia region, which is buried at the foot of the Leshan Giant Buddha.

Due to the geographical location, this area has not been bombed by nuclear bombs, so the Leshan Giant Buddha is relatively well preserved, but due to the change of the environment, the once green mountains and forests have all withered, leaving only the bare rocks, which looks a little desolate.

"It's the first time you've been back on the ground in years, right?" Oniface pulls a cigarette out of his coat pocket and lights it with a lighter.

"Yes......" The person who answered him was Cheng Yanqiu, who was no longer the heir of the Cheng Consortium, but the commander of an elite squad named "Thunder Falcon", and Ghost Face became his deputy.

"I came to this place once before the war, when it was the National Day Golden Week, and the plank road of Lingyun Temple was almost crowded with people...... I guess I'll never see that scene again, right? ”

"Maybe the mastermind will construct such a Buddha statue in the virtual world, anyway, it's just a set of data." Cheng Yanqiu held a telescope in his hand and observed the huge Buddha statue through the dry Minjiang River.

"Will you have to charge tickets then? In the past, I heard that locals can have discounts, only 10 yuan a piece, but outsiders have to charge 90 yuan......"

"Even if there were, we wouldn't be able to see it. A pawn must have the consciousness of being a pawn, and I never thought that I would live until the day the war ended. Cheng Yanqiu put down the binoculars, took out a candy cube used to replenish physical energy, and threw it into his mouth.

"That's true, but this kind of thing...... No matter how I look at it, I feel that it is more shocking in reality, and I don't feel much reality in the virtual world, even if it is a lifelike dragon. ”

"That's your habitual mind at work, and when the mastermind cleanses everyone's memory, how can you be sure that the world you live in is a real world or a virtual world?" Cheng Yanqiu pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil and quickly sketched the general structure of a Buddha statue.

"Maybe the world we live in now is virtual, but our real bodies are lying in some tin can full of solution." Ghostface said half-jokingly.

"You've seen too much of The Matrix, right? Alright, it's time to get to work. Cheng Yanqiu put away the drawing paper and stood up from the ground.

The task of the Thunder Falcon team returning to the ground this time is to investigate the specific situation of the main brain replica at the foot of the Leshan Giant Buddha, although the replica was buried by humans at the beginning, but after so many years, what has happened to the replica and the surrounding environment, no one can know.

Humanity's understanding of the wasteland comes from the mastermind, but in the virtual world that the mastermind has built for humans, its ontology and replicas do not exist.

"You're going to do it next time, right? I heard that the operation on the side of the European Division had failed, with more than a million dead and the members of the European Division also suffering heavy losses. Ghostface expertly erected a laser rangefinder on a flat stone and pointed the camera at the base of the Buddha statue.

"yes, that's why the above are so cautious...... We can't afford to lose a second time. ”