“…… Seventeen people were injured in the clashes at the march, four of them severely, the vast majority of those injured were marchers against one side of the BILL, while angry supporters of the ACT used weapons such as Molotov cocktails and bricks to beat the smaller opponents, injuring two police officers, and Boston authorities arrested more than 40 suspects, but the vast majority of them are believed to be acquitted...... The reporter randomly interviewed several people who supported the joint defense bill, and most of them linked the joint defense bill to the Washington attack two years ago, and "if there was a joint defense bill at that time, a large number of people's lives and property could be saved" is the mainstream view............

-- The Alliance Times

***

That night, in the open navigation area of the mid-Atlantic, a container freighter was crossing the Atlantic, along with a dozen other civilian ships, under the protection of four Confederate destroyers.

Since the outbreak of the full-scale war, the ACA's submarine safari operations have continued, but unlike the previous wars in human history, the submarine safari has played a different role, with the support of the alliance's powerful shipbuilding industry, even if the ACA has high submarine technology, but it also needs to avoid falling into a meaningless war of resource attrition with the alliance, and in the year 2180, the main task of the ACA to break the ship has become a threat rather than a substantive result - as long as the ACA's submarine safari continues, The Atlantic Ocean is not safe, the alliance must spend a lot of manpower, material resources and precious time to organize the escort fleet, the ACA only needs to occasionally catch a few lone ships that are not afraid of death and do not participate in the formation, or try their luck by firing a few self-guided torpedoes far away at the fleet that is closely protected by the alliance, and maintain the continuous pressure on the alliance, a real large electric or nuclear-powered submarine formation. The Mediterranean-Gibraltar line has been put into it.

The Confederacy had almost completely conquered the Pyrenees, and with the exception of the ACA diehards who fought guerrillas deep in the mountains of Spain, most of the ACA's military forces had retreated to the African continent.

While the rearguard forces cleaned up the remnants of the ACA from village to town, liquidated puppet government officials and moles, and established new local administrations and humanitarian aid, the armed Western European Front looked at each other across the Strait of Gibraltar in the sun on Spanish beaches. While waiting for the order to go to Italy.

The Spanish reconquest was a great humiliation for the generals of the Southern Alps, and the combat units that had belonged to the Italian side almost committed suicide en masse, and after dealing with the turmoil caused by these enthusiastic soldiers, the Allies stopped all military operations on the Alpine front.

But apparently, this will not be the end, but the calm before the storm.

The best evidence of this is the Allies' exploding frequency of shipments overnight.

And the ship on which Ling Yu and the others fled from Boston was a cargo ship carrying a large number of medicines.

***

Be careful, it will hurt.

"It's okay, it's much better."

Ling Yu sat next to a shipping container with the insignia of the Confederate Army painted on it. Giving a reassuring smile to the white-haired girl, Helis took a shallow breath, then knelt on the ground, leaned down, and tore the bandage on Ling Yu's left knee, then changed into a new quick-healing bag, and then carefully rewrapped it with the bandage.

It's done.

"Thank you."

Ling Yu nodded, watching the girl throw the changed bandages into the medical trash can next to her. A somewhat pompous smile at her.

"It's nice to have you here."

Helis didn't speak, just nodded. She turned around and walked to the nearby sink and turned on the faucet to rinse the blood and alcohol off her hands.

Ling Yu frowned slightly, and sat up with his hands on the container, three days had passed, and all other injuries had already healed. Only this wound on the knee still affected Ling Yu's walking a little.

Originally, it wasn't a major injury, just a metal puncture wound, but after Ling Yu was stabbed, he also activated the overload mode to increase his sprint speed. The piece of metal stuck in his knee was like a chainsaw that almost directly cut through his left knee, and this kind of injury would not have healed in a day or two.

Ling Yu took a few steps forward, ignoring the pain in her legs, walked behind Herris, stretched out her hand, and gently placed it on the girl's shoulder.

"I'm sorry about Professor Boken."

No...... It's okay.

Helis's rinsing hands paused in the water, and the girl shook her head slightly, indicating that it didn't matter, but she still couldn't hide the sadness reflected in Ling Yu's eyes through the mirror.

"Actually, you can go to his funeral."

Ling Yu was silent for a moment, and suggested another possibility, "Arya has checked, and it seems that Rommens and the alliance have deliberately and selectively ignored the content of our presence there, there is no wanted warrant, there is not even a report on the investigation, and even the matter in Boston is blamed on the ACA...... Your word is completely safe. ”

Just because I want to be with you...... At times like these, I don't want to be alone.

Rarely, Herristan expressed her thoughts frankly, she turned her head, squeezed out a difficult smile for Ling Yu, and then looked back at the mirror in front of her, and continued to speak.

In fact, he would have realized it a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have appeared there alone, after all...... What we study will inevitably lead to such a result.

"What are you working on?"

Feeling Helis's loneliness and sadness, Ling Yu didn't continue the previous topic, but began to ask about the research, but in fact, he didn't notice that this was the first time in a year that Ling Yu opened his mouth to ask about the work that Helis was doing.

It's a dangerous ...... Swarm AI.

Helis stretched out her hands, gently picked up a little water and slapped it on her face, as if this way she could wash away the woodedness and sadness on her face, and when she raised her head, a little wise look finally appeared in the girl's eyes again.

To put it simply, just like the kind of artificial intelligence commonly used by villains in movies, a master brain controls all independent individuals, and these individuals can have a certain degree of subjective initiative, but they cannot violate the main brain, and the master brain has full access to these individuals. It can determine their memory, abilities, and even habits.

"Swarm artificial intelligence ......," Ling Yu repeated the term, "but it doesn't sound like a bee or an ant." ”

Yes, it's just biomimetic technology, not a real biological system. The biggest difference is that ants or bees will evolve themselves into a new one when they lose their leader, but once this group loses its mastermind, the subroutines can only act according to instinct, so there is no need to worry about intelligence crises.

"Well, that's not particularly dangerous." Ling Yu seemed to have some difficulty hearing this, and stretched out his hand to rub his head, "I thought something terrible would be created, such as Skynet or something." ”

Do you think I don't want to make it?

Helis looked up. looked at Ling Yu seriously, but the corners of his mouth were still slightly hooked imperceptibly.

"Little Herris-style joke," Ling Yu spread out his hand and shrugged his shoulders.

However, in serious terms, it cannot be made with the current ability.

Helis paused and continued.

It's a matter of evolution, not simple replication. First of all, when the main brain dies. What is the scale by which individuals are selected to become successors? How can the survival of the race be ensured? Is it possible to learn to avoid the population crisis caused by the demise of the repetitive mastermind? Bees and ants only have the need to reproduce, but this program system has a certain ability to learn, that is, self-awareness, which makes things very troublesome, and it is so difficult for humans to choose a president, let alone this kind of artificial intelligence. The difficulty of the algorithm and the capacity of the library are exponential.

"I understand, after all, the index is the devil." Ling Yu nodded, indicating that he understood.

But there is another problem that I have always been unable to figure out, and it is also the biggest insurance of this system.

"Oh?"

Carrier.

Helis stood on tiptoe. The girl who was not tall enough stretched out her hand, grabbed a towel from the shelf next to her and wiped it, then turned around, took Ling Yu's hand and walked to the chair next to her, motioning for Ling Yu to sit down.

This kind of program dù subroutine cannot be driven by the general CPU at all, and it is worthless to drive it.

"I thought it would be easy to build an army of people......" Ling Yu frowned.

In fact, from a scientific point of view, human beings have put drones into combat on a large scale in the middle of the 21st century, strictly speaking, AI at that time already had the ability to create an army of people.

"Then we're lucky to be alive." Ling Yu stretched his legs flat, breathed a sigh of relief, and said half-jokingly, "I guess it's because of the metal loss, right?" ”

That's right, until now, human beings have not yet had the ability to use machines to replace human soldiers in battle, a large drone needs to be adjusted every ten hours of operation, and a major overhaul is required every twenty-five hours, and soldiers only need three meals a day and one sleep, or rather, three standard energy bars plus a shot of stimulants, the more complex the machine, the higher the probability of problems, human beings now understand this comprehensive and complex system, It is still far from being comparable to the human beings themselves, who have been tempered by nature...... Of course, human beings are not evolutionarily perfect.

"So, in your opinion, this kind of procedure, with the current technical strength, does not exist at all the ability to organize a large army?" Ling Yu was silent for a moment, and seemed to understand the meaning of Helis's tirade, "Then why did the ACA pay such a big price and want this thing?" Could it be that they have mastered some black technology that the alliance doesn't know about, and can make a swarm of bees on a large scale? ”

It is possible, but it is only an inference, and more importantly, Ling Yu, if this thing really exerts its maximum power, it is no less than the virus you are tracking, a weapon that is enough to change the shape of the entire war...... So, to remind the Confederate government?

"Are you waiting for my orders?" Ling Yu was stunned for a moment.

I only obey your orders.

Helis slowly closed her eyes, raised her hand a little jerkyly, and brushed her hair.

"Do it, but don't just send it to the Liberty Hall, but also to the Academy of Sciences, Kronos & Rohmens, the War Department, the Confederate Times, and the Liberty Television, in short, to stir up public opinion." Ling Yu was silent for a moment, "We may not be able to take care of this program yet, after all, compared to the virus, this program will have an impact a little later...... Yes. ”

…… Good.

As if to take care of Helis's affection, Ling Yu rarely used a question sentence, and Helis didn't have much silence, and then nodded.

"Listen, Helis." Ling Yu subconsciously knelt on one knee, but was slightly shaken by a sharp pain from the wound in his knee, and Helis stretched out his hand to support him, but was rejected by the young man's hand.

"All things, a blood debt, I remember, Marven, Char, these guys, I won't let go of any of them, as long as I wait a little longer, I will do it...... So, can you give me a little more time? ”

Helis looked at the young man who leaned down and looked at his eyes, and suddenly opened his mouth subconsciously, but did not make a sound.

A hint of panic flashed in her eyes, and then she flickered away from Ling Yu's gaze, then nodded.

Don't take revenge, okay?

It was a word that Helis had not been able to utter, and even the moment the thought came to her, she herself felt ridiculous.

However, she suddenly realized that this was what separated the young man from herself, and it was also the reason why he became a stranger.

Well, just after revenge...... That's it.

The moment the cargo door was pushed open, it was Herris's idea. (To be continued......)