Fifteen years ago, Dongguo, Yanjing.

"Cheng Wanli, I said can you not sit on it, these sculptures are very expensive." An ordinary-looking old man bent his waist, walked up to a Suzaku statue, raised his head, spread his hands very casually, and poked out a flexible mechanical arm from his sleeve. The finger-sized metal unit was constantly reassembled, and soon turned into a long whip three meters long, which rolled towards Cheng Wanli, who was sitting on top of Suzaku's head.

Cheng Wanli, who was looking into the distance, disappeared into the wind, and the mechanical arm found the place where he was sitting just now, and the velvet brush at the top gently wiped it.

"Old man Wu." Cheng Wanli's voice came from the Qinglong statue behind him, and although it was a few hundred meters away, the breeze controlled by the gift still accurately transmitted the sound to Wu Qiming's ears: "You tinker with these old things all day long, I heard that the Federation has begun to let machines build a city." ”

Wu Qiming immediately let out a sneer, he was old and well-informed, so he seemed unhurried, but it was this that made it difficult for him and the fiery Cheng Wanli to cooperate together.

"It doesn't make sense." Wu Qiming carefully sorted out the flowers and plants under his feet, and the entire yard was his painstaking effort, including every grass and tree here: "No matter how much authority humans give to machines, the most critical thing is always in the hands of humans, if not, the federation has collapsed at this time." ”

"You're not worried he'll overtake us?" Cheng Wanli took out a pot of rice wine out of nowhere, and for a while, the aroma of wine wafted in this wide courtyard along the breeze.

No one would have an opinion, because it was rare to see a living person in the neighborhood.

This is the former site of the Ming Yuan Ming in Yanjing, which was closed to tourists five years ago, and the Dongguo Ancient Ruins Planning Institute, headed by Wu Qiming, began the process of restoring this building complex.

Of course, modern technology is used.

"Don't worry." Wu Qiming said slowly: "In terms of technology, we are not weaker than them. ”

As if in response to his words, Wu Qiming's wide clothes stretched out countless tiny mechanical arms. They are all made up of the most basic mechanical units, which can theoretically be composed of any shape, and what controls them is the central computer in the underground of this bright garden.

In the research of artificial intelligence, the two major countries have almost handed over exactly the same answer sheet. Mechanical life is born in a less diverse way than humans, and databases, qubits, and algorithms that can self-update and iterate can theoretically construct a mechanical life.

But in the eastern country, they didn't give more permissions to the computer. Many professions have not yet been replaced by computers, and outside of Yanjing, compared to the Federation, there is rarely a shadow of modern technology. Cheng Wanli often sees the kind of flying machine that sells fresh vegetables in the air, and the smiling boss wields an ordinary butcher knife and asks you for a few taels of pork. Even though almost 300 years have passed since the birth of the computer, the people of Dongguo still follow their own habits.

But Cheng Wanli knew that this was deliberately done by the government.

The Government's opinion comes from the College.

Because the academy is history.

The custom of the eastern country is to respect history.

Cheng Wanli sat on the high sculpture, habitually looking into the distance, and his eyes fell on the Dongliu Pavilion in the distance, which stored all the history of 5,000 years and was the soul of the Eastern Kingdom.

In this restored Ming Garden, the ground is cold machinery, but the surface is full of ancient history.

This used to be something that made him proud and proud, but the facts he saw in the past few years made him a little shaken.

"It's time for dinner."

In Cheng Wanli and Wu Tianming's headphones, a man's voice came.

The breeze blew, and Cheng Wanli's figure disappeared above the statue of the green dragon. The tiny mechanical unit was assembled into an eight-clawed spider under Wu Tianming's body, supporting the old body, and crawling quickly in the garden.

In an antique palace, there is a faint smell of intoxicating vegetables. Cheng Wanli smelled this familiar smell, but sighed quietly.

At the dinner table, a middle-aged man dressed in white was skillfully arranging the dishes and chopsticks. There is no metal machinery in the main hall, and the logs composed entirely of artificially manipulated elements reproduce the gentle taste of this ancient building, coupled with the ceremonial movements and calm eyes of this middle-aged man, it seems that this is the ordinary family banquet of the feudal dynasty hundreds of years ago.

A little boy dressed in a Tang costume stood obediently aside, honestly holding a white porcelain bowl with delicate blue and white printed on it, but the bottom of the bowl was no longer kiln number and age.

"Today, it doesn't seem like many people are coming to eat." Su Bu Bu picked up a new bowl and put it down, didn't pay attention to Cheng Wanli's expression standing outside the door, just turned around and asked Su Wan to put the bowl back in the cabinet.

Yun Qianliu, who was wearing a blue printed short skirt, also came to eat, she was about the same height as Su Duan, and the baby fat on her face had not faded, she looked very cute.

There were five people, and the table was not half full, so it looked a little deserted.

"Why didn't Tiancheng come?" Su Bufu watched Wu Qiming sit down before asking.

"This kid is a little obsessed." Wu Qiming picked up a chopstick dish and ate it with relish: "The federation has newly appointed a chief data analyst in charge of the autonomous decision-making project of supercomputers, and he is very interested in this. ”

"It's good to like learning, don't get too bad." Sue is not full of kind reminders.

"I'll go back and talk about it."

Soon only the sound of chewing was left at the dinner table, Su Duan and Yun Qianliu's tutors were very good, holding the bowl and eating silently, but Cheng Wanli always felt that something was wrong, the cold chair made him sit on pins and needles, and the delicious food tasted like chewing wax.

"Wanli, you seem to have something to say." Although Su is not able to see through people's hearts, he can remember everything. Just now, Cheng Wanli's chewing frequency was fast and slow, and his eyes secretly glanced at Su Wuwu's side, and the mood of wanting to hide it could be seen.

Cheng Wanli was stunned for a moment, Wu Qiming did not stop the chopsticks in his hand, but Su Duan and Yun Qianliu, as if they felt the embarrassing atmosphere, held the chopsticks, and the speed of chewing rice slowed down.

After a while, as if he had made up his mind, Cheng Wanli chewed the food in his mouth again. The food was fragrant, but he didn't seem to have a taste for it.

"There are more and more people." Cheng Wanli sandwiched a green vegetable, and the words were not full.

"There will be more and more people." Su didn't know what he was saying, so he sandwiched a piece of fish meat for him.

Looking at the empty table, the young Su Duan licked the rice grains on the side of his mouth, a little confused.

"We're just watching?" Cheng Wanli did not move the fish in the bowl.

"For so many years, Dongguo has chosen to watch." Su Buru finally put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said softly: "Look, so alive." ”

"I watched it before, but I can't watch it now, do you want to see the end?"

"Even if the world is destroyed, Dongguo will live to the end." Su Bubu pondered for a moment, and his tone was categorical: "I promise you." ”

"What the are you going to promise!" Cheng Wanli threw the ivory chopsticks on the ground and made a clang. Su Duan and Yun Qianliu both shrank back, and Wu Qiming stopped what he was doing and shook his head.

"Even Dongguo can create monsters like us, how can other countries not be able to do it?" Cheng Wanli stood up with a loud voice and shouted at Su Wu: "Two hundred years ago, there were only ten people in the academy, and twenty years ago, there were only fifty people in the academy, but now, there are a full one hundred and thirty-seven people in the academy!" Mr. Bai Ze intends to be a god list in the past dynasties, and Dongliu Pavilion hides all the history of the world, who would have expected this point today? Dean, we're already making our own gods! ”

Cheng Wanli's voice trembled uncontrollably, and in this quiet hall, because of his words, there was a faint fear

But Su Bu Bu still had that complacent expression, because except for Su Duan, no one would know what was in his brain.

If you have more things, your head will sink and you will sit steadily.

"I know." Su didn't just say lightly: "But I have my position, I am the dean of Dongguo Academy, I can only do this." ”

This sentence vividly blocked back what Cheng Wanli was going to say.

A gust of wind swept by, and Cheng Wanli's figure disappeared. Satellites in the air captured his tracks, and the only thing that can be determined is that he left the eastern border within two hours.

In his bowl, he only ate half of the rice.

"Why did you leave?" Wu Qiming frowned, looked at the table full of food, looked at the empty seats, and sighed deeply.

"Wanli is young, courageous, and courageous." Su Buru lost his appetite, leaned back in his chair, and said slowly: "He saw it thoroughly, but he didn't want to accept it." ”

"In the future, will it really be like you say?" Wu Qiming had a worried look on his face.

"Life is evolving, and the time of evolution is recorded in millions of years. But the history left behind by the East Kingdom over the past 5,000 years illustrates one thing. Su Buchu touched his stomach, but said not simple words: "Human beings have not evolved, they have never been." The mistakes made thousands of years ago are still being made. It's just that there may not be a chance to make mistakes again in the future. ”

"Can you count the time?" Although Wu Qiming is old, he will not be stunned by this magic stick.

"Your machine can't be counted, I'm a scholar, how can I be?" Su Buxing looked at Wu Qiming and said with a smile: "In the future, the academy will trouble you and Tiancheng a lot." ”

Wu Qiming stared at Su Wuwu's eyes for a long time, but just sighed. I cleaned up my own dishes and chopsticks and walked out of the yard.

At this time, Su Duan dared to speak.

"Brother Wanli is gone?" He asked cautiously.

"Smart, powerful, see clearly, but unwilling." Su Buchu touched his son's head and said leisurely: "Someone once said that people who see the truth of life clearly, but are still willing to continue to live, are the real heroes." They were wrong. He shook his head: "People will always die, and even if they see the truth, they can't feel it." But one day, there will be a generation that will usher in the final end of mankind. At this time, people who know the whole truth, I don't believe they can continue to struggle. ”

"I don't believe it." He repeated it again.

"So what are we going to do?" Su Duan asked word by word.

Su Bu sighed and touched Su Duan's head, over and over again, until the dishes on the table were completely cold.

"I'll do my best." Su said so.

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Confederation, Capital, College of Theus.

"There's only a limited amount of data that the federal government can collect." Jiang Kui looked at the small black dots captured by the satellite, and said to Sun Wuru and the others: "All we can know is that the academy announced that Cheng Wanli had left the academy, and what he did from now on has nothing to do with Dongguo." And after that, he appeared in the Middle East and then in the countries of Europe, and no one knows what he did. ”

"That's it?" Du Shaozun was very impressed by this person, and he was also quite jealous of his gifts.

"It was a very special year." Countless data were suspended around Enron, and the trajectory of Cheng Wanli, as well as the countries in which he appeared, as well as what happened in these countries back then, were all presented: "The dream city of the Federation was officially opened, the Sun Country and the Eastern Kingdom also announced that they had mastered the research of controllable artificial intelligence, the European Union followed, St. George's Cathedral walked out of the enforcers represented by the Thirteen Priesthoods, and gifts sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and so did the Federation." ”

"At that time, the game 'Lost Oasis' had been around for three years, could it be that the organization was also ......?"

"If you insist on linking the game to this organization, I'm afraid it will have nothing to do with the Federation." Jiang Kui glanced at Sun Wuru and asked, "How is it, do you have any ideas?" ”

Sun ruthlessly lowered his head, watching Dongguo's data change in front of his eyes, no matter what, Qi Huan's appearance echoed in his mind, he seemed to feel something, but he couldn't grasp any thoughts.

Time is flowing little by little, and after adding the blessing of virtual law enforcement, you can clearly see that the world is changing according to the original trajectory. The success rate of data prediction has increased, and the secrets of this world have been peeled away little by little, including the information collected by Sun Wuru himself.

"Nameless" participated in it very early, and Dongguo's actions also began very early. The law enforcers representing the eastern country are operating all over the world, and Cheng Wanli's departure has disturbed this pool of clear water, and the data flow of the entire world has begun to become violent, as if Cheng Wanli has led a gale.

But in the end, who took him in and where he went, the federal investigation is not clear.

Times are advancing, but they won't make the world more transparent. Each country has set up its own shielding network, and the collection of a lot of data has become a problem.

As a result, this country, in the eyes of the Federation, has become a black box.

In this black box, an inexplicable conspiracy is brewing.

And now the Federation wants to break through these black boxes, and they can't stand that they can't control the situation. What happened to the Shadow United Nations, what happened to the Tius Academy, has shown that the peace of the world is slowly coming to an end.

"Go ahead." Nearly half a day has passed, and the elderly Jiang Kui is beginning to feel tired, but the data is still flowing into this system, and the central brain is consuming a lot of power to complete this time-consuming and labor-intensive analysis and prediction, because it is related to the future of the Federation.

"The last case of disappearance is related to the African Union, Admiral Qatar."