The vertical shield machine made a violent vibration and came to a sudden stop, "crunch, crunch...... Sneered...... "The steam turbine blades rotated and discharged hot white gas, the jetting device stopped working, and the black mud immediately fell and filled the tunnel, if it weren't for the three people in the cabin who removed the aluminum alloy plate of the cabinet and fixed it on the ceiling with a rivet gun, dozens of tons of muddy water would have poured into the room from the broken skylight, turning Gu Tie and his party into flies in amber. Xiao Liping raised his head from the display screen, pointed to the histogram on the corner of the broken screen and said: "Fortunately, there is no problem with the nuclear reactor, the core temperature is dropping, and the cooling program is working normally." We're safe for now. ”

"If the noisy man doesn't chase after him. Gu Tie pouted.

"Even the son of God can't dig thousands of meters of tunnels in the dark, right? The oxygen around him will soon run out. Lao Xiao pushed his glasses, and the cracked lenses finally shattered with a bang.

"It's hard to say, some of the strange things in this world are that we have seen a lot, and materialism is no longer suitable for today's world, Secretary Xiao!" Gu Tie slowly stood up with Aqiwei's support, coughing and walking towards the cabin door.

Xiao Liping pressed the button, and the hydraulic door of the shield machine groaned open, and large pieces of mud fell, and it was pitch black outside. "We went down with a rope ladder, very high, be careful. He turned around and pulled out a roll of BEAL's high-strength nylon rope ladder from the cabinet next to him, and dropped the counterweight. The winch rattled and locked automatically after a few seconds, proving that the rope ladder had reached the ground. Gu Tie took half a second to mentally calculate the result: "One hundred and fifty meters high." We're on top of that weird room. It's really stingy, even if there is no elevator, it is not difficult to repair a staircase or something, right?"

Xiao Liping said: "There is an elevator during the construction, and after the construction is completed, all lifting equipment will be cancelled for safety reasons, which is also a helpless move." He took out two sets of climbing ropes and handed them over, took a nylon rope and tied it around his waist to tie a sailor's knot, and stuck the loop lock on the zipline on the side of the rope ladder, "It's okay to slide down, the damping can be adjusted, I know that with your temperament, you definitely don't care about climbing ladders slowly." I didn't expect you to be injured, and it looks like you're going to settle down. ”

"Settle a bird's egg!" Gu Tie shouted, "Aqiwei, we don't need a climbing rope, just take a damping ring and pull it with both hands!

"You're badly wounded, stupid, don't be too strong. The Flower of the Rainforest said softly.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" the Chinese cried out childishly, and Aqiwei hesitated for a moment, but nodded helplessly. At this time, Xiao Liping had already dropped a few packages, and then began to climb down, the woman grabbed the rope and tied Gu Tie and herself tightly together, held the ring buckle and jumped forward hard, and the whole person was already in the void.

They were in the center of the top of the cube room, the shield machine piercing the ceiling of the room, stuck between the rock layer and the roof, and outside the hatch was a hundred and fifty meters high dark space. "Phew! That's right...... Forehead ......" Gu Tie exclaimed excitedly, and then the voice was stifled, and Aqiwei held him in his arms so hard that the plump chest pressed the breath of the injured person, so that Gu Tie only had the breath out but not the incoming air. Due to the large damping, the speed of the two people sliding down was not much faster than Xiao Liping, and it took a minute and a half to see the fluorescent logo at the bottom of the rope ladder, and it took another five minutes to reach the ground. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Gu Tie slapped Aqiwei hard to untie the rope, and then sat on the ground and gasped, "What are you doing, how can you shoot an action movie like this, slide so slowly, the audience in the movie theater is all fucking asleep, whirring ......"

"Hmph. Aziwei unbuckled and turned on the small spotlight on the rope set, which illuminated the space twenty meters in a radius of twenty meters. As Xiao Liping said, there was nothing to be seen except the blue resin floor, and the thick darkness was precipitating unintentionally in the distance. Gu Tie took two deep breaths and found that the air here did not have any strange smell, and it was not like a closed room underneath the dark and damp.

After a short break, Xiao Liping also reached the ground. He opened the rucksack he had just put down, and pulled out a change of clothes, a pistol, ammunition, medicine, food, water, and a spare pair of glasses. This pair of resin glasses with gold wire rim made Secretary Xiao look a little gentleman's temperament, Gu Tie sneered at him and snickered, Lao Xiao smashed a set of equipment on him: "No one has been here for a long time, although there is no danger, but you have to take some precautions." Let's use spotlights before we get to the control room in Area 07, can you walk?"

"Walking upright is my racial gift. Gu Tie replied informally. He gritted his teeth and propped himself up, and his feet suddenly became weak, and Aqiwei immediately wrapped his arms around him, "It's okay, Xiaowei." As soon as I came to this place, I felt much better, and I always felt that this place was a good fit for me. He waved his hand lightly.

The three of them changed out of their tattered and bloody clothes, put on comfortable cotton underwear and tarp jackets, and put their headlamps and equipment bags in order. Under the relaxed appearance, Gu Tie was actually confused in his heart. The intense immediacy turned into countless scattered fragments of memory, and he knew clearly that he had been to this place, but he could not retrieve the complete memory, and he could not tell when it happened. Human beings always instinctively avoid the sense of immediacy, trying to eliminate the overlap with the phenomenon of immediacy with strange behaviors, Gu Tie unconsciously hummed a song from the 70s of the last century, Karen Carpenter's Masquerade (masquerade). He couldn't remember when he had heard this song, there had never been such a nostalgic blues pop song in Gu Tie's iPod, but the melody seemed so familiar, and as he hummed softly, the lyrics slowly came to mind.

“Arewereallyhappyherewiththislonelygameweplay,Lookingforwordstosay.”

(Is lonely play enjoyable, I don't know what to say.) Aziwei turned her head to look at him, "What are you singing?"

"An old song. Gu Tie grabbed his messy hair and replied casually.

"It's good. The Flower of the Rainforest whispered.

Xiao Liping glanced back and said, "Let's go, follow me, don't get lost." And singing in such a dark place is a little scary, isn't it?" he packed his bags and lit his headlamp as he walked forward. Under the illumination of the hand-held black light, a fluorescent arrow appeared on the blue floor, pointing in the direction of the main passage.

Gu Tie refused Aqiwei's support, and slowly walked behind Xiao Liping with a folding cane. He unconsciously continued to hum:

“Searchingbutnotfinding,understandinganyway.

We′relostinamasquerade”

(I can't find it anywhere, only the masked dancer who gets lost in the acceptance bar.) The weak, deep male voice whispered, so faint in the infinite darkness that it flew away like a bird in the clear blue sky. At this moment, in the abandoned office building of the Royal Albert Port in the United Kingdom, as Wu Tianlan's fingers slid over the sensor buttons, the silky sound of Carpenter came from the terminal speakers, and the same "Masquerade", the piano sound of nearly a century ago flowed quietly in the air.

"Ah, you like this song the most, Tianlan, always play it over and over again. Dr. Bartholomew said in the receiver.

"I can't hear it enough times. Wu Tianlan said with a sigh. She stretched out her hand and gently knocked down the photo frame on the table, and Xiao Gu Tie's sunny smile disappeared in front of her, "Brandon, are you a Christian?"

"I don't go to church, but deep down I still believe in God. The old man replied.

"It's not surprising that the vast majority of scientists are theists. What do you think about suicide?"

The Bible says that life belongs to God. The book of Acts says that he (God) created from one book all nations of people to dwell on all the earth, and predetermined their years and boundaries to dwell. Man is created by God, and his life is sacred and noble, and the length of his life is in God's hands, so no one has the right to end his life except God. The Ten Commandments clearly state that you should not kill anyone, for it is a sin to kill others, and it is also a sin to kill yourself. You know that Christianity has historically opposed suicide and refused to hold funeral services for those who commit suicide, and those who attempt suicide or attempt suicide are excommunicated. ”

"I'm asking, your own point of view, not the Vatican's point of view. ”

"To be honest, I had suicidal thoughts during the dark period, Tianlan. Frankly, I think suicide is cowardly, but when a person loses all options and goes to purgatory, I think even the Creator will forgive this little selfishness. ”

"Yes, if God exists. And what do you think about the suicide of computers?"

"Computer? If you're talking about suicide code that ends a process and frees up resources, that's a common way to be programmed. To put it more broadly, in the traditional PC era, it can also be said that it is a suicidal act to terminate the running system process through the BIN command and force the running operating system, and in this sense, the virus will do this work for the computer......"

"No, no, Brandon, that's not what I'm talking about. Wu Tianlan interrupted the other party's words, "What I want to say is ......"

At this time, the behemoth in the underground cavern of the GTC headquarters outside Salzburg quietly woke up, and it used only a small fraction of its resources to cope with all the requests of global concurrency, so that it could swallow the massive data of the quantum network for a long time, and most of the resources were sleeping, waiting for something in the sleep. When an ominous packet of data is transmitted from a process, the elusive quantum cloud generates violent fluctuations like nerve impulses,1 a subtle time pointer jumps, and the awakened artificial intelligence makes a decision.

"What are you going to say?" came Brandon Bartholomew's voice. But the voice coming out of the telephone receiver is no longer the words of an old man in an Aston Martin sports car, but a false sound created by a speech synthesis. Wu Tianlan did not notice anything unusual, because in essence, "Genesis" has all the knowledge, experience, and memories of Bartholomew, and what it plays is Bartholomew himself who exists in the quantum network.