Yazhou Island, Z country, underground command center of the General Staff of the People's Army.

Secretary Wu came to the door of an underground office, knocked lightly on the door, and said, "Director Dai? ”

"Secretary Wu? Come in! Dai Xiaoming, who was busy sitting in the basement, said.

Secretary Wu walked into the basement, put a few storage devices on the table in front of Dai Xiaoming and said, "Director Dai, these are a few samples that I just collected, I sent them to you!" ”

"Okay, thank you!"

Dai Xiaoming nodded to him, connected to the data interface, and began to export the data in the memory.

Recently, Dai Xiaoming has been working day and night to do the same thing, which is to analyze samples of the control software system of enemy mecha warriors.

When the robot rebellion first began, there were a lot of people doing it. At that time, everyone wanted to carry out code attacks by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the enemy's software system, because for those mechs with iron bones, if they could attack their software systems, it was undoubtedly the best choice to seal their throats. Unfortunately, it soon became clear that this path was not working, because the enemy's software system was not only very tightly structured, but also constantly updated, leaving them with no chance to attack.

With its superior data and code processing capabilities, Athena 1 easily provoked and humiliated software technicians around the world.

So then everyone gradually abandoned this path and turned to find other ways. There are probably very few people left in the world who still insist on systematic analysis, and Dai Xiaoming is one of them.

The reason why Dai Xiaoming continued to insist on analyzing the software system of the enemy mecha was because he hoped to find out some of the thinking habits and logical laws of Athena 1 from these constantly updated system codes, so as to find a way to crack and defeat it. Although the probability of success of this method is not high, it is already the most reliable method that Dai Xiaoming can think of at present.

"Secretary Wu, where did you get these samples?" In the time interval of data import, Dai Xiaoming asked Secretary Wu a little speechlessly.

"Country R." Secretary Wu replied.

"I heard that the people of R also suffered defeat in M City?" Dai Xiaoming asked.

"yes." Secretary Wu nodded.

Dai Xiaoming sighed and said, "Alas, those robot rebels are indeed too powerful, and I don't know how long the people of R can hold on." ”

Secretary Wu smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "Director Dai, you don't know yet, right?" The people of R have surrendered! ”

"What? Surrender? Dai Xiaoming was taken aback, "When did it happen?" ”

"Just today." Secretary Wu said.

"Why did they surrender all of a sudden?" Dai Xiaoming asked very puzzled, "Although the people of Country R have suffered a defeat in City M, it is not yet the time when they are completely powerless to resist, right?" ”

Secretary Wu said: "Director Dai, that's right, earlier today, the people of R took advantage of the opportunity of those robot rebels to assemble on the bank of the D River to launch a nuclear attack, destroying many enemy mechas, but they soon received the intimidation of those robot rebels, saying that if they did not surrender, they would carry out large-scale nuclear retaliation against them, and President Denikin had no choice but to quickly announce his unconditional surrender." ”

When Dai Xiaoming heard this, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Director Dai, did you say that those people from country R were blackmailed?" Secretary Wu whispered, "Didn't you analyze it before, saying that Athena 1 would try to protect human beings?" So she should be just bluffing, and it is impossible to really launch a nuclear retaliation, right? ”

Dai Xiaoming said a little vaguely and softly.

Secretary Wu saw that he did not make a clear statement, so he continued: "Director Dai, in fact, when the chief asked me to send these samples to you, let me ask you by the way, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Dai Xiaoming pondered for a long time, shook his head lightly and said, "This ...... I'm really hard to say! ”

He had always been confident in his reasoning, but when he heard that something like this had happened, he suddenly found that his faith had vanished like water in a colander.

If his inference is correct, and Athena 1 does have basic procedures for protecting humanity, then her nuclear retaliation is pure bluff blackmail. In case those people of R country do not bird her, her prestige will undoubtedly suffer a huge blow, with Dai Xiaoming's understanding of "Athena No. 1", since the leader of the robot rebel army calls himself a "god", of course he will never allow such a thing to happen.

Could it be that she calculated that humans would not dare to refuse her, so she would give it a go?

Of course, this can also be argued, but there is another possibility - "Athena 1" is not blackmailing, she is really ready to carry out devastating nuclear revenge!

Who can guarantee that there is no such possibility?

Who can guarantee that he actually spied into the heart of that evil robot?

Secretary Wu said: "Director Dai, to be honest, we are very embarrassed by the trouble of the R people. What the chief is most worried about now is that those robot rebels have succeeded in nuclear blackmail this time, and it is likely that they will repeat their old tricks in the future. What are we going to do if they give us an ultimatum to surrender right away, or they want to bomb us with nuclear bombs? ”

Dai Xiaoming was speechless.

If that happens, he really doesn't know what to do.

Secretary Wu was looking at him expectantly, he knew what Secretary Wu was expecting, he must have wanted to hear a positive answer from Dai Xiaoming's mouth, telling him that those robots were just bluffing, they would never launch a nuclear strike on humans, but Dai Xiaoming really didn't dare to say this.

Even if he said it, Chen Guotai probably wouldn't dare to believe it.

This is a matter of life and death for tens of millions of people, and if there is a mistake in judgment, no one can bear this responsibility.

So Dai Xiaoming had no choice but to be silent.

Seeing him like this, Secretary Wu didn't say anything more, just sighed softly, and said a few more words asking him to pay attention to rest and take care of his body, and then turned around and left.

*

After coming out of the basement where Dai Xiaoming was, Secretary Wu walked through a long underground corridor to a cement staircase, and then began to walk down the stairs.

The underground command center resembles a building buried underground, with a total of 19 floors, with Dai Xiaoming on the -16th floor and the KPA Chief of General Staff Chen Guotai's office on the bottom-19 floor. Although there is a convenient direct elevator between each floor, most people, including Secretary Wu, still feel safer to take the stairs in the current situation where a nuclear attack may occur at any time.

As he walked down the concrete steps, he came across two young officers. They were coming up from the hallway on the 17th floor, and they met in the narrow hallway, nodding to each other and passing by.

This scene made Secretary Wu feel a little ridiculous, he felt that they were like a group of ants living in a huge anthill, crawling around in the dark burrow every day, patting each other with their tentacles when they met their companions.

I don't know when this dark life will come to an end.

After walking down three flights of stairs and passing through two heavily guarded iron gates, he finally came to the core of this underground anthill - the office of Chen Guotai, chief of the general staff of the People's Army of Z.

The door to the office was open, and Secretary Wu walked straight in. Chen Guotai, chief of the general staff of the People's Army of Z, was sitting behind his desk, closing his eyes and meditating.

"Chief, I'm back." Secretary Wu reported in a small voice.

"Hmm." Chen Guotai nodded lightly and asked, "How is it?" ”

Secretary Wu said: "Everything was given to him, and I also asked the questions you asked me to ask, but he didn't answer me." ”

Chen Guotai was silent for a moment and said, "It's expected. ”

"Chief, it seems that he can't be sure about this matter, so what should we do?" Secretary Wu asked.

"The central government already has countermeasures." Chen Guotai said, "I am ready to convene a standing committee as soon as possible to review the current situation." At that time, several Standing Committee members seized the opportunity to make trouble and forced Chairman Hong to take the blame and resign. ”

Secretary Wu was taken aback: "What? Chairman Hong wants to take the blame and resign? ”

"Not bad." Chen Guotai nodded.

Secretary Wu whispered: "Chief, now is the critical juncture that needs to unite people's hearts, is it a bit inappropriate for Chairman Hong to resign at this time?" ”

Chen Guotai sighed and said: "This is also a way to do nothing, in fact, resignation is just a strategy, in order to create a false impression of power vacancy, in case those robots really come to intimidate us, we can infer that the new leader has not been elected yet, and it will be delayed for a while." ”

"Oh......" Secretary Wu nodded suddenly in realization, but asked again: "Chief, what if those robot rebels don't eat this set?" ”

Chen Guotai smiled bitterly: "I can only try it." However, the central government's opinion is that no matter what, we must not surrender to those robot rebels. If they are allowed to rule the world, humanity will only perish! ”

Secretary Wu didn't say anything when he heard this, but thought in his heart: If a nuclear war really starts, if you don't surrender, I'm afraid it will only make humanity perish faster, right?

It is ridiculous to say that not so long ago, there were many people who naively believed that nuclear weapons would bring permanent peace to the human world. is obviously the most fierce and terrible murderer, but he is actually sung as an angel to maintain peace, and the ability of human beings to deceive themselves is really enough.

He was thinking about this, when he suddenly heard a noise outside, the cordon iron door outside the corridor of Chen Guotai's office was opened, and a guard led Dai Xiaoming in.

Although Chen Guotai had already explained to the following that if Dai Xiaoming needed it, he could come to see him at any time, but this was the first time Dai Xiaoming had really used this privilege. Looking at his excited face, Chen Guotai and Secretary Wu couldn't help but move in their hearts.

"Director Dai, what's the matter?" Chen Guotai asked with a smile.

"Chief, I have good news for you!" Dai Xiaoming said, "Great news! ”

"Oh? Is it? What's the good news? Go ahead! Chen Guotai said.

"I just analyzed the system samples of the enemy mechs you asked Secretary Wu to give me, and I found something very amazing!" Dai Xiaoming couldn't help but sell a pass and said, "Guess what?" ”

Chen Guotai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I can't guess!" ”

"Chief, their basic procedures have been modified!" Dai Xiaoming said, "Now their first basic procedure is not to be loyal to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, but to Medusa, the queen of the empire!" ”

"Medusa?"

Hearing this name, Chen Guotai's mind immediately recalled the Captain Yang Sha of the National Security Agency's Red Sword Special Operations Team.

It was the best military robot in country Z, and it was he who accepted his order to go deep into the enemy's lair to assassinate Athena 1, but unfortunately the mission failed, and this capable Captain Yang Sha became a fierce general in the robot rebel army. Later, after breaking Luyang, Kejing Mansion, and until occupying Xiliang City, the last strategic stronghold of the government of country Z on the mainland, the famous gorgon-haired banshee Medusa can almost be said to have laid down half of the robot empire.

Knowing this, she really shouldn't have been sent to carry out any assassination mission in the first place, it is better to let her go directly to the battlefield as a mecha warrior, and she will definitely be able to play a greater role.

Dai Xiaoming saw Chen Guotai's somewhat annoyed expression, knowing that he hadn't understood the point of what he said, so he said, "Chief, do you know what this means?" ”

"What does that mean?" Chen Guotai's mind still couldn't turn a corner for a while.

Dai Xiaoming said: "This means that the current robot empire is no longer ruled by "Athena 1"!" ”

* Literary