Chapter 17: A Call for Help
"Captain, isn't it here?"
"Can't you read it yourself? The signal is obviously coming from here, so what else do you ask? ”
"Hey, I said Qi Xiaowen, let me ask what's wrong? Don't you want me to talk to the captain? Your sister-in-law hasn't even become a sister-in-law yet, so it's so wide? What if you become a do? ”
"Tan Shaohui, you! What are you talking nonsense?! What a sister-in-law ......"
"That's it! Stop arguing! ”
Turning around, a scolding stopped the pair of living treasures in the team, and Mu Chengxue, who was standing on the edge of the cabin, looked down again, and in the slightly violent wind and snow, a small valley covered with ice and snow loomed.
Comparing the map information displayed by the scanning device on the eye, Mu Chengxue had confirmed that the small valley below was the place where the distress signal was sent not long ago.
This distress signal was not sent by a device made by the City of Angels, but by an ancient electronic signaling device, considering that this world has been in the end of the world for more than 20 years, there are survivors who still have this kind of equipment, and in fact, this situation was also taken into account when the flyer was made, and the leaflet was marked with a special communication fluctuation in addition to those promotional information and maps, which can be seen at a glance by people with relevant knowledge, and then can send a message to the City of Angels through that electronic signaling device.
And this distress signal is sent in this way.
However, this location seems to be a little too far away, and ......" Looking at the silent valley below, Mu Chengxue, who had lived in the apocalypse of cannibalism for twenty years, vaguely felt a trace of abnormality - even if there was a blizzard raging, the valley seemed too quiet, and there was not even a trace of human life.
In order to ensure the safety of the search and rescue personnel, the flyers in the City of Angels are not scattered at random, basically staying within a range that Lu Fan has cleared, and there are very few leaflets scattered outside this range.
However, the location of this small valley has exceeded this safe range, and there are quite a few more, less than a hundred kilometers away stands Black Dragon City, one of the nine survival bases in Huaxia.
It stands to reason that there are no leaflets scattered in this kind of place, after all, it is impossible and rare for ordinary people to leave their camp hundreds of kilometers to search for supplies in the apocalyptic world.
Mu Chengxue faintly felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't say anything was wrong.
In fact, in this case, Mu Chengxue can directly order a retreat, which is also fully in line with the action guidelines of the search and rescue personnel of the City of Angels.
Lu Fan has always felt that although the act of sacrificing his life to save others is commendable, it is not worth advocating, because everyone's life is priceless to themselves, and they have the absolute power to decide what to use, and no one can decide on their behalf.
Protecting one's own life without harming the rights and interests of others is something that no one can blame, especially in such a last days.
It is precisely because Lu Fan feels that under the effect of the upper and lower levels, the first code of action of the search and rescue personnel of the City of Angels is to ensure the safety of their own lives, and they can completely ignore the search and rescue signals in the target area after feeling that they are in danger.
Although there was such a code of action, although there was a faint feeling that something was wrong, Mu Chengxue did not immediately order the evacuation.
After all, nothing is absolute, what if someone really risked their lives and trekked through mountains and rivers in search of survival supplies and accidentally found a flyer? Didn't this command cut off the hope of those people?
The twenty years of hard work in the last days did not erase the kindness in Mucheng Snowman's nature, and she was a little unbearable.
"Maybe it's too far to see clearly, let's take a closer look, if there is really a situation, it's not too late to go."
After thinking about it for a while, Mu Chengxue asked the pilot to lower the aircraft a little higher and get closer to the small valley.
"What's that? Trees? ”
As you zoom in, a small mountain-like snowdrift stands in the middle of the valley, which looks like a large tree on closer inspection, but the branches are rather thick, and the bark hidden under the snow is faintly scarlet blood.
"Not good! Come on! ”
At the moment when she noticed those blood lights, Mu Chengxue had an alarm bell in her heart, and she turned her head and yelled at the cab without hesitation.
However, it was too late.
The thick scarlet branches shot out as if they had crossed space, instantly piercing the flying machine that Mu Chengxue and the others were riding.
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Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tingguo didn't know that this conversation between them had been recorded by the iron head who always controlled any wind and grass in the City of Angels, even if Xiao Tingcheng deliberately suppressed the words, there was not the slightest omission.
This is not to say that Iron Head pressed the eavesdropper on the two of them or in the elevator, but it is one of the basic abilities that Iron Head has with the help of this signal tower that has been raised several times, similar to the power of divine thoughts of the Immortal Dao system or the spiritual telepathy of supernatural abilities.
Not even the entire huge City of Angels, but even the vast area of hundreds of miles beyond the City of Angels was shrouded in the power of the Iron Head.
This ability is undoubtedly extremely powerful, with the strong computing power and high intelligence of the iron head, even if it is how to press a screw, how to plant a genetically modified crop, under the control of the iron head, there will be no mistakes.
It is also thanks to this that the construction progress of the City of Angels can be carried out quickly and methodically, and now, the construction of the first phase of the infrastructure project of the City of Angels is almost completed, and it is about to enter the construction of the second phase of the foundation project.
Although he has this powerful ability, Tietou's record of the conversation between Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tingguo is not unintentional, but intentional surveillance, and this surveillance behavior is not ordered by Lu Fan, but decided by Tietou himself.
Compared with Lu Fan, who has some big nerves, as a high-level artificial intelligence, the iron head undoubtedly has a lot more eyes, in fact, it can't be called a lot more eyes, but the iron head is different from humans after all, there is no negligence in thinking, the problem is considered more comprehensively, and he is used to holding all the situations in his hands.
And the reason why he wants to monitor Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tingguo is just because Tietou simply doesn't trust the two, which is not to say that Tietou thinks the two will do anything bad, it's just a simple distrust, or that except for Lu Fan, Tietou doesn't trust anyone else, including Lu Xiaoyu.
It's a mindset inherent to strategic AI – any sapient creature other than its owner is something to be guarded against.
Of course, the iron head is not monitoring all the humans in the Angel City, after all, even if ordinary humans use the genetic optimization liquid, it is impossible to pose any threat to the iron head, but Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tianguo are exceptions, one is that the two of them were given the only two high-grade genetic optimization liquids by Lu Fan, and the power they possess will become stronger and stronger over time, which is completely different from those humans who use low-level genetic optimization liquid.
If it's just that, then it's nothing, after all, the Cangnan Federation is a high-level civilization based on mechanical technology, and biotechnology is just a by-product of its development process, and it is the shortest branch of the Cangnan Federation's huge scientific and technological system, not to mention the high-level genetic optimization liquid, even the top iron head is not much in the eyes, and the user is still a human being, a creature that is extremely weak in itself, even if it will become stronger, it is extremely limited, and it is not worth mentioning in front of all kinds of powerful scientific and technological weapons in the Cangnan Federation's scientific and technological system.
But in addition to their own strength, Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tingguo are also the two managers appointed by Lu Fan, although they are limited to managing human beings, they are the ones who can talk to Lu Fan, that is, the two of them may influence Lu Fan's thoughts.
This is the real reason why the Iron Head decided to spy on the two.
And for this reason, Mo Caiwei and Lu Xiaoyu are also on Iron Head's watch list.
Of course, for Lu Xiaoyu's surveillance, Tietou is very witty in the name of 'protection', otherwise one day it will be noticed by Lu Fan, and Tietou will judge that there is a high probability that he will be directly dismantled by Lu Fan.
"It seems that the big names in the history of the Federation who determine the direction of the times have more or less a tendency to control Lori and daughters, is this also one of the necessary conditions for becoming a big man?"
In the sense, His Excellency the Marquis was looking at the handiwork made by the little human girl named Lu Xiaoyu on his wrist and smirked, and there were some rare doubts in the iron head's somewhat rigid thinking.
Subsequently, sensing that Lu Fan had noticed his prying eyes, Tietou hurriedly sent a communication to Lu Fan in a serious manner.
"Your Excellency Marquis, the No. 1 search and rescue team has sent a distress signal, and it is suspected that it has been attacked by a creature with a danger of more than 200, will you send a rescue?"
"More than 200 dangers?!" Lu Fan was stunned, and asked with some disbelief, it seems that the desolate god he has met so far does not seem to have a danger level of more than 200.
"Yes, Your Excellency the Marquis," the iron-headed answer followed with certainty
Although he didn't believe it, Lu Fan knew that it was impossible for the iron head to lie to him, in line with the principle of saving people and also wanted to see how powerful the creature with a danger of more than 200 was, Lu Fan got up and said at the same time: "Send me the location, I'll take a look." ”
"Yes, Lord Marquis"
At the same time as Lu Fan got up, the huge floor-to-ceiling window at the edge of the floor had been opened under the control of Tietou. After looking at the map information coming from the iron hair from his watch, Lu Fan's figure instantly turned into a streamer and flew out of the signal tower, and after a slight pause in the air, he flew to the northeast.
Soon after Lu Fan left, Xiao Tingcheng and Xiao Tingguo came to Lu Fan's office.
In fact, 'office' is Lu Fan's own name, and in the cognition of all human beings in Xiao Chengcheng and Xiao Tingguo and Angel City, there is another name here-Supreme Heaven.
The name seems to be derived from an old RPG game in which the place where the angels live is called 'The Most High'.
Of course, there is also the name 'heaven', but compared to 'heaven', the highest heaven is undoubtedly cooler and more wild.
This name is undoubtedly a bit of Western culture, but the name Lu Fan gave to the city was the City of Angels, so the people below naturally used it
In fact, Lu Fan also thought about changing the name of the city at the beginning, after all, this city was built on the land of Huaxia, and most of the people received were Chinese, although the Huaxia in this world was different from his original world, but the history and culture were still similar, which made him always feel awkward.
However, the limited brain hole could not allow Lu Fan to come up with a beautiful city name that was in line with both Chinese culture and his original intention of building the city, so after some torture of his brain cells, Lu Fan gave up.
It's just a name, love it!