From Xiaomei's mouth, the Wandering Earth Investigation Team gradually learned more about this Overwatch world.

In particular, the previously discovered ecological monitoring station, although it was unable to send messages to the outside world due to equipment damage, was still receiving external signals during the past nine years, so the investigation team also learned about what happened during the nine years when Xiaomei was dormant, and the current situation faced by this plane.

It all started in the early 20s of the 21st century, when human beings designed intelligent machines created by artificial intelligence (abbreviated as intelligent machines) with the aim of enhancing production and creating world economic prosperity, and at the same time inevitably plunged into the war between humans as a consumable.

In the eyes of human beings at that time, there was no doubt that intelligent machines were mere tools, and although they gave everything for mankind, in the end they still did not have even the most basic citizenship rights.

One of the most representative is the King's Road, a high-level modern international community built by almost all intellectual workers, but the buildings they have worked so hard to build are plastered with signs prohibiting intellectual equipment.

As a result, most of the robots can only live at the end of King's Road, a crowded underground world that does not see the light of day. At the same time, this is also a true portrayal of the global intelligent machine living environment, no one will care about the feeling of a tool.

So in the end, the unbearable intelligence machine launched a rebellion, which was the first intelligence machine crisis and completely changed the world.

In response to the crisis of intellectual machinery, the United Nations created an international peacekeeping organization, Overwatch, which brings together the best and most elite talents in the world to wage a war of asymmetry of power around the crisis.

The first intellectual crisis lasted for many years, causing massive casualties and losses on both sides, but humanity eventually won.

The Overwatch made great achievements in this process, and after the failure of violent resistance, the "Zhitong" religion, which fought for equal rights by peaceful means, also became the main guiding ideology of Zhiqixin.

The two sides shook hands and made peace, and the world entered a new era of peace.

However, the good times did not last long, and the Overwatch became less and less popular without the main enemy, and their own mistakes led to the failure of high-secrecy missions, corruption and mismanagement, loss of weapons storage, and revelation of human rights violations.

Finally in the year 2042, the edict of "Petra" declared any form of Overwatch behavior illegal and subject to charge.

Overwatch was disbanded, and the major members parted ways, no longer able to act in this name.

However, not long after the disbandment of Overwatch, the second intellectual machine crisis broke out in Russia, and the terrorist group "Black Claw" hunted down and killed former members of the Guardian Vanguard, and tried every means to destroy the hard-won peace between humans and intelligent machines.

In this case, Winston, a former core member of Overwatch, reconvened Overwatch despite Petra's edicts.

Mei also received this summons from the emergency channel of the ecological monitoring station, which is why she ventured to a nearby workstation on foot, hoping to return to Overwatch as soon as possible.

"It's a long story." Qiao Lu commented mercilessly, "But in the final analysis, it's just two intelligence crises." ”

Xiaomei shook her head violently and said, "Although it is true that they are both intellectual machine crises, these two times are completely different. After the end of the first Crisis of the Robots, most of the Robots followed the guidance of the Hitomi and gave up the idea of relying on violence to overthrow human rule. Now the second crisis of the intelligent machine is obviously deliberately instigated, and behind it is not only the intelligent machine, but also more human figures, such as the terrorist organization 'Black Claw'. ”

Qiao Lu continued to ask, "Then what good is instigating the second intellectual machine crisis for Black Claw?" They're a human organization, right, and if the Wisdom Machine is going to destroy humanity, won't Blackclaw suffer as well? ”

"I don't know." Xiaomei said stupidly.

After all, she had been asleep for nine years, and her knowledge of Blackclaw was limited to messages sent from Overwatch's communication channel, and she had never actually had any actual contact with Blackclaw, a terrorist organization.

This incident further deepened Qiao Lu's suspicions, because as far as he knew, the black shadow who had sent a message to warn the Wandering Earth not to trust Zhitong was a member of the Black Claw.

As a member of a terrorist organization, on what basis did she issue the warning? No matter how you look at it, the teachings of the wisdom pupil are very positive, but it is the black claw that has been breaking the harmony between humans and intelligent machines.

In any case, Qiao Lu planned to start with the Overwatch first, after all, they also had many core technologies in their hands that the Wandering Earth desperately needed.

These two things happen to be able to come together, on the one hand, to investigate more truths about the world, and on the other hand, to find ways to get more useful key technologies from Overwatch, and the two are not contradictory.

While Qiao Lu and Xiaomei were discussing the state of the world, a member of the investigation team came back and reported:

"Sir, we've found a hidden military base on the other side of Antarctica, which looks like it's mass-producing combat robots, including the models we've seen in the workstation before, what should we do with it?"

"This is it!" Xiaomei stood up excitedly and said, "This must be the military production base that Black Claw used to prepare for the launch of the second intelligent machine crisis force, and only they will continue to produce this forbidden model of fortress combat robots." ”

The fortress series was the backbone of the robot rebel army in the first intellectual machine crisis of that year, which brought huge losses to the human side, and almost became synonymous with the terrible war of that year.

Therefore, after the final victory, humans are so determined to destroy or dismantle all the Fortress series robots, just to avoid the recurrence of the original nightmare.

Now that they dare to continue to produce this type of human organization, they are either crazy or completely anti-human, and the first thing Xiaomei thinks of is Black Claw.

In order to hide people's eyes, they actually put the production base in a remote place like Antarctica. Thinking that Xiaomei's ecological monitoring station has been lost for nine years and no one has come to the rescue, I am afraid that it will be difficult for countries around the world to find this military production base.

If it weren't for the fact that the teleportation point of the Wandering Earth happened to be in the South Pole, I'm afraid Qiao Lu and the others wouldn't have noticed that there was such a secret military base.

"It's actually in Antarctica." Qiao Lu touched his chin and said, "It's only a matter of time before we are discovered." ”

Qiao Lu originally thought that the spawn point in the South Pole might not be so easy to attract the attention of other forces in this plane, so he immediately asked the expeditionary force to come over and establish a forward base, but now it seems that it is unlikely.

Then all that's left is - strike first!

"Get ready, we'll eliminate this threat before they get to the door!"