18 Mankind's worst enemy

The people in the public room do not seem to have the self-knowledge that they are being "imprisoned", and even though they know that the current mutiny on the Minerva is an extremely irresponsible act of human civilization, they have not forgotten that they are also a group that has been "persecuted" and "betrayed" by the decision-makers of the Earth. Therefore, most of the members did not react to Lucien's rebellion, but in their hearts they acquiesced and even supported the rebellion - which can be regarded as a kind of revenge for those decision-makers! They are not participants, but they want to see the Earth's decision-makers reap their own consequences as witnesses.

So in the conference room, there was no conflict at all, the members still talked to each other as normal life, and the Russian security personnel did not have to worry about someone resisting, and the two sides formed a subtle tacit understanding.

……

"Why Lucien?" Shilka hadn't figured it out yet, "How would he know about the Earth's change in the evacuation plan?" ”

Gao Jie and Ryan explained the current situation to her: Lucien installed a backdoor program on the system of the clone survival module, because the survival module is connected to the space station AI, which makes it convenient for Lucien to hack into the AI to view the communication records of the earth and the space station, plus these communications are not deliberately encrypted because of the existence of viewing permissions, which eventually leads to the leakage of the whole secret, so that Lucien has an excuse to launch a mutiny and the capital to rebel against the security personnel.

"Miller did deceive us...... There are also Wang Chen and Mike," Gao Jie calmly analyzed, "but the current situation is not the same as last year, for the fugitives, the Minerva has long lost its usefulness, and this kind of rebellion will eventually kill itself." ”

"So Lucien is pulling us to accompany the funeral?" Ryan frowned and said, he was so serious, and he also foresaw the seriousness of the matter, "They may have contacted the fugitive fleet to prepare for a bargain, this is definitely the most dangerous step." ”

"Oh yes, they just took the correspondent for—" Shilka reacted, and the three of them nodded together.

Gao Jie pursed her lips: "Like I just said: the attacks against us may already be on the way." However, although Lucien is a straightforward and resolute person, he must have been prepared for it—perhaps doing ......," Gao Jie said, his eyes sharpening.

"I see," Ryan realized, "Lucien hasn't taken control of the space station yet!" ”

"So he forcibly turned off the AI!" Shilka reacted as well.

As soon as Gao Jie joined hands, the three of them thought of it together—what Lucien had to do now, and what he had to do, was to take control of the space station from Miller.

"It's no wonder that they haven't been seen back," Gao Jie said more confidently, "and he should be coercing the Commander into relinquishing control." ”

"The Russians are stubborn and won't give it to him easily." Ryan blinked and said that what he knew about Miller made such an inference for him.

"So we can't waste time," Gao Jie said decisively, "this mutiny must be stopped, or the entire space station will be doomed!" ”

"Agreed." "Good!" Ryan and Shilka said together.

"Do you want to consult with someone else?" Shilka suggests, and Gao Jie and Ryan wave together.

"Maybe someone is still hesitant and will be on Lucien's side, so putting Miller back in power as soon as possible can still suppress this momentum." Gao Jie's rational analysis convinced Shilka.

Ryan rubbed his hands together and said eagerly, "I don't think the guards are particularly tight, I'll go back to my room and get something, maybe I can help us." With that, Ryan ran to the Russian security guard to talk to him, only to see the other party wave his hand in a gloomy face, and then opened the hatch and greeted the corridor, and then the German security guard appeared at the door. Then, with a reluctant expression, Ryan left the room, and the hatch closed again.

"It's not good, it's the Germans patrolling the corridors." Gao Jie whispered. Shilka didn't respond, but her anxious eyes revealed that she was worried about it too.

……

Half an hour passed, the time on the screen changed to 15 o'clock, and Ryan returned with the screeching sound of the hatch sliding, while a group of space station members who wanted convenience left the room, and the two security personnel coordinated in an orderly manner.

"Look, none of them are going to resist." Gao Jie whispered.

Shilka agrees: "The herd effect, in this form, is quite scary. ”

Ryan walked over at this time and took out his PDA from his arms: "Two ladies, take advantage of the fact that they can't stand us at this time, and talk about the next plan......"

……

"Do you think you can succeed?" Gao Jie asked cautiously.

"It doesn't have to work, but you have to try." Ryan replied very rationally, "Whoever of you two understands the principle of a gun, preferably the one in their hands." He then pointed to the gun in the security guard's hand.

Shirka gestures with an "OK".

Ryan shoved something into Shilka's hand: "With this, you should have seen it!" Shilka looked at what she was holding and nodded knowingly.

"Then we have to wait for the right time", Gao Jie looked at the hatch, and the other members entered the conference room one after another, also holding their respective PDAs in their hands, "It seems that they also have to slow their time, then you are ready to act at any time." ”

"No," Ryan said solemnly, "until it's time to eat, when everyone's vigilance should be minimal." ”

"Okay, that's what you said." After Gao Jie finished speaking, he found another place to sit down to avoid arousing the suspicion of the security personnel.

Ryan carefully opened his PDA, tried to put it at an angle where others could not see his screen, and stared at the "Loading ......" on the screen with lazy eyes, while he used a very natural expression to hide the tension and uneasiness in his heart: "I hope the Russians will hold it up for me now, and don't give the password for AI control to Lucien so early!" ”

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At the same time, the Peace-2 space station, far away in Martian orbit, received a message from the Earth Fugitive Fleet, which basically stated that "pay attention to avoiding certain artificial vehicles moving at high speeds". This seemingly warm message is a clear reminder, which is equivalent to telling the space station members that the fugitive fleet has launched an attack on a target! And since Mir-2 has been told that it will not be the target of the attack, it is very likely that the target of the attack will be the Minerva space station in Jupiter's orbit!

Mir-2 had already received a message of rebellion from Minerva, but the fugitive fleet's decisive and ruthless handling of it made all the members shudder, because this message also contained a warning to the members of the Mir-2 space station, which gave them a more complex and subtle mentality: they were glad that they were not targeted, and they were sad that their fate might be the same as that of Minerva - abandoned, sacrificed, and destroyed. Unfortunately, they have nothing to do to stop this attack.

The aforementioned Sun Yu, a member of the Peace-2 space station and a good friend of Gao Jie's husband, was as shocked and dazed as everyone else when she heard the news, knowing that the human fugitive fleet had polished its edges and corners, and it was even more clear who it was ready to ram. For the rebellion of the Minerva, Sun Yu had foreseen it as early as in the message she sent to Gao Jie, and she hoped that Gao Jie could give early warning and prevent trouble, but she didn't expect this rebellion to happen. She knew that the attack on the Minerva was still inevitable, but she still decided that she could not stand idly by, even if it was just to let the people on the Minerva, including the mutiniers, know that the attack was coming!

As concocted, Sun Yu used the communication device on Mir-2 to send a message to the Minerva, and the recipient was still high-spirited, and the encrypted password was exactly the same as before.

……

Just as Sun Yu was writing the email, Peace-2 received a message from Earth: immediately hand over the control of "Slingshot 0" to the commander of the Peace-2 space station and related personnel.

This message reminded the space station members of the long-forgotten "Slingshot 0": this is a satellite equipped with six nuclear missiles, which was once sent to the vicinity of Pluto apogee as a pilot satellite of the "Earth Active Defense Program", and is responsible for guiding the direction of subsequent defense satellites. In a way, Slingshot 0 is both the "first" line of defense of the Earth and the last line of defense of the Earth. However, due to the relatively single mission of the Slingshot 0, it does not have the function of active interception, and needs to use artificial communication to guide the target and launch, considering the backwardness of technology and the distance of communication, it has almost no practical value.

Since it takes more than 6 hours for the control signal to be sent from Earth to Slingshot 0, the control authority was originally planned to be handed over to the Minerva space station, because sending a signal from Jupiter's orbit to Slingshot 0 can ideally be completed in about four hours, which is much faster than sending a signal from Earth. But now, due to the events on board the Minerva, this authority has to be transferred to Mir 2.

Although this transfer of authority also represents the trust of the Earth side and the Human Fugitive Fleet in Mir-2, due to the limitations of Slingshot 0's function, this authority is not as important as expected, so the members of Mir-2 are still unable to judge the Fugitive Fleet's true attitude towards them for the time being. Fortunately, the commander of the space station did not bother so much, and decisively asked the AI to calculate the time when Slingshot 0 intercepted the Nt fleet: mid-to-late April 2104.

At the same moment that the AI gave this result, Sun Yu pressed the send button, and the message she wrote to Gao Jie began to fly towards the Minerva space station-

It was 6 p.m. on March 14, 2104, three days before the space struck Minerva.