Chapter 12: The Nuclear Explosion Crisis
On the other side of the world, at three o'clock in the morning, the permanent representatives of the five countries were urgently summoned. A meeting of humanity is about to take place. Permanent Representatives have been provided with sufficient information and are fully empowered.
This is the first time He Yuwei has entered the United Nations headquarters, and she has seen with her own eyes the concentric circle conference table that can often be seen in the news, and she is quite touched, how many lives are discussed here, how many power and helplessness are here, and how many hopes are dashed here! He Yuwei really hopes that this time it will no longer be a quarrel, but a unity.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the United Nations has never faced such a helpless catastrophe since its inception, and until now we have not yet had an accurate understanding of the enemy, and everything is still a mere speculation, and we hope that there will be no more suspicion of each other for the sake of speculation, and that solidarity is more important than suspicion. Because together we are facing a threat that is likely to come from outer space. Dr. Alan Zhang, I'll leave it to you. "UN Secretary-General Nguyen Hak Van gave up his seat to Alan Zhang. Nguyen Hak Van is of Vietnamese descent at the age of 65 and has spent his life campaigning for peace between countries. In 2019, when organizing peace talks between the Houthis in Yemen and the Yemeni government, the left knee joint was broken by the rebels within the Houthis, and now the left leg is a little lame, but he never shies away from it, because it is also a medal.
"I've never been so helpless, even if I know who did it, I can barely find him, and I'm facing attacks that could escalate at any moment. The only strategy at the moment is to defend, cutting off all vital information systems to prevent another attack.
Before the attack escalated, Dr. He Yuwei and I thought of a way to try. The source of this attack came from a small storage with super-learning abilities left by the high-intelligence boron-based people, the shepherds. This storage was supposed to deal with a catastrophe 200 years later, but it fell into the hands of the madman Jin Shijie, who has been replaced by Cook the boron, making it impossible to locate it. Fortunately, there is a 'copy' of this super storage on the human computer - Xiao Cheng, and the way we can try is to let Xiao Cheng connect to the network and find the source of the attack through him.
But we're worried about another demon being released. China's national security authorities have provided credible information. If agreed, countries would be invited to cooperate around the two young Chinese, Dr. Li and Mr. Su Di. ”
The atmosphere of the discussion was not enthusiastic, but there was an exchange of views between countries, and perhaps no country would be provocative at this time. It didn't take long for China, France, Britain and Russia to choose to cooperate, and at the same time sent experts to China.
"We do not suspect that this disaster originated from extraterrestrial technology, do not oppose Dr. Alan Zhang's proposal, and do not question the potential of the two Chinese, but for the United States to maintain its independence, we will assist if necessary." An ambiguous reply from the United States also meant that it abstained from voting.
The meeting culminated in a resolution to establish a special body of the United Nations with permanent members as committees on the current crisis. The Commission has the authority to deploy global resources to respond to the crisis.
After the meeting, Jones walked up to Alan Zhang and whispered: "This is what the president meant, I really don't know what that idiot is thinking, and I am also helpless."
The airliner disaster has caused panic around the world, and extremist religiousists have begun to propagate apocalypticism. Only a small number of aircraft in the world that have been cut off from external links are still in operation, and only emergency transportation is provided. In order to ensure safety, ordinary trains that have been suspended for more than a decade have been reopened, but only to maintain the allocation of resources between major cities and a very small number of passenger traffic. He Yuwei can only stay in the United States to keep in touch with them through the 6G network, waiting for news from China.
According to the plan, Xiaocheng linked to the Internet, and Xiaocheng also carried out deep learning of global information in a few seconds, and its human-like intelligence became more and more sophisticated, but not destructive.
"Can Xiaocheng locate and attack the implementers of Saudi Arabian Airlines?" Sudy asked.
"I have screened all the traces and found no traces, it should be that Jin Shijie has carried out the demarking treatment. The shepherds can't locate it, and I can't help it. You can't get in touch with the Shepherds again since the last time you linked to them, and now you're on your own. Xiao Cheng replied.
Indeed, because Jin Shijie linked to the network, it was revealed that the shepherds were secretly helping carbon-based humans develop technology, and Cook blocked the shepherds' contact with them. This is also the reason why shepherds warn against putting storage links to the network.
"Can you stop Jin Shijie's attack again?"
"I don't have the ability to do this, and the boron-based people limit all the capabilities of AI to the exact corresponding program and corresponding instructions in order to prevent AI from harming their interests, and although I can do deep learning on anything, I can't use it to upgrade myself. I have a valve in the underlying design that can't be changed and starts self-destructing as soon as it is triggered. So if you want me to have more capabilities, I need stronger design. Xiaocheng was very helpless.
All these arrangements force humanity to survive on its own.
They've teamed up with top computer experts to learn Boron's "computer" technology. Starting from the mathematics of the boron-based people, Su Di and Li Taohui showed amazing talent, and in the afternoon they had a preliminary understanding of the super complex mathematics, program logic, algorithms, etc. of the boron-based people, but this express was much inferior to Jin Shijie, and then passed it on to the experts.
They are working to achieve the most pressing design of the moment – to stop Kim Shijie's attack. After 12 hours of non-stop, they were finally able to add a blocking attack design to Xiaocheng. This is a miracle for human beings, a miracle that even they don't believe in, abandoning all the computer science that human beings have, reshaping logic, reshaping algorithms, everything seems incomprehensible, but there is something understandable.
In the past 12 hours, the military networks of many countries have suffered many hard link attempts, and it seems that Jin Shijie has not yet achieved a breakthrough in hard links. To this end, the team strongly recommends that countries turn off physical connections to military networks or even cut off power.
The U.S. rejected the proposal to cut off the physical connection on the grounds of national security, and other countries accepted the proposal and complied.
The atmosphere in the Pentagon's war room, another command center, was even more tense. U.S. President George W. Bush, the eldest grandson of George H.W. Bush and the great-grandson of George H.W. Bush, is working with Secretary of Defense Richard Bostin and his thinkers in the tank to develop a countermeasure or wartime response to a disaster.
"General, the Northern Command ground-based * system was hard-linked a total of 79 times, and the Northern Command applied to cut off the physical connection of all lethal weapons." Colonel Goben reports to Jones.
"This is determined by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ensure that a contingent attack can be responded to in the shortest possible time." Jones replied.
Just when all efforts were focused on military cyberattacks, catastrophic surprises struck.
"General, 69 land-based* bombs under the jurisdiction of the Northern Command were automatically launched, including nine 'Guardian of Peace' nuclear bombs, whose trajectories were calculated, and they arrived over New York in 20 minutes."
"Immediately report to the tanks, inform the residents of New York to evacuate the dense area, has the Aegis been activated?" Jones stared at the radar graphics, and the dense dots on the screen were flying towards them.
"General Aegis has automatically started the interception, and it is expected to intercept in about 7 minutes and 30 seconds."
President Oliver Bush and Secretary of Defense Bosin rushed to the war room, rejoicing at the decision not to turn off the physical connection and expecting the Aegis interception to succeed. As the estimated interception time approached, the generals in the war room, including the president, held their breath and prayed for a successful interception, after all, Aegis has never had such a real combat formation since its application.
However, the interceptor warhead seemed to have fallen for an evil spirit, and at the moment it was about to make contact with the Peacekeepers, it reversed course and flew in the same direction as the land-based* towards New York.
The war room was in despair, unable to deal with the catastrophic blow that arrived 12 minutes later. Some of the generals began to hide their faces helplessly and weep, and Geben put down all the papers in his hand and dialed his wife's phone.
Jones stood behind the president and secretary of defense, calm and full of despair.
"Mr. President and Mr. Minister, please evacuate quickly to the blast room." Jones showed one last shred of composure.
The explosion-proof room is another combat command room built about 60 meters underground in the Pentagon to prevent disasters such as nuclear explosions, so it can be said that it is a miniature version of the war room.
And just as Jones had just finished speaking, the entire Pentagon, to be exact, all the power systems in the northeastern United States were paralyzed. What is puzzling is that the Pentagon has its own independent power system and a UPS system that is enough to last for 2 hours, but it has not been spared from power paralysis, and all equipment is not supported by electricity, it is just a pile of scrap metal, and the entire Pentagon has become an ornament.
The entire war room was already in despair, and the darkness only exacerbated the despair. The president and the Minister of Defense also have no access to the blast room. One can only wait with the Pentagon for the arrival of the Guardians of Peace.
He Yuwei and Alan Zhang had been waiting at the United Nations headquarters for news from Beijing, and they only learned that they were flying to New York when they received the evacuation notice. Li and the others firmly believe that the military network of the US Northern Command has not been hacked, and there is only one possibility - Jin Shijie has invaded the transmission system through the circuit.
On the streets of New York at about three o'clock in the afternoon, residents were evacuating, although the streets were quickly evacuated, no one knew that more than a dozen nuclear bombs were flying towards them, and the panicked crowd was evacuated from high-rise buildings under the guidance of the police, either taking refuge in the park or hiding in the subway. A girl who is separated from her mother in the pushing, maybe too small, or maybe thinks it's a game, she doesn't cry, she just looks for her mother in the rush of people......
Several gunshots were heard in the distance, and it turned out that a young man asked the police why he wanted to evacuate, and the police could not explain it, so they could only urge the young man to evacuate urgently......
Peace Defenders is just 90 seconds away from New York......