The GTC Headquarters Building is a massive building with five floors above ground and 40 floors underground, with the above-ground part shaped like a bird about to fly, divided into east and west wings, and the middle part has an all-glass lounge, meeting room, and elevator hall. Dr. Brandon Bartholomew's office is located on the fifth floor of the East Wing, where the GTC was not a powerful entity of power for a special permanent seat of the United Nations two decades ago, and where it retains the monotonous atmosphere of a scientific research facility that is clean, clean, and meticulous. All the staff working on the fifth floor were given different instructions and hurried to their destination, and a safe passage was established.

Mr. B guided Xiao Gu Tie into the No. 4 elevator, the elevator door slowly closed, Gu Tie tried to press the floor button, but found that no matter which floor he pressed, there was no response. "Where are we going?" he curious.

The speaker in the elevator replied: "The deepest part, forty floors underground." ”

"But...... There are only 30 floors on the elevator panel. Xiao Gu Tie pointed to those buttons and said strangely.

The camera hanging in the corner of the elevator moves slowly, like an eye looking at a teenager. With a soft sound of "swipe", a small window slid open under the control panel, "The staff with KII or above authority can swipe the card here to send the elevator to a deeper place." ――Of course, it doesn't have to be that troublesome. ”

The elevator shook slightly, and a sense of weightlessness came, and Gu Tie knew that he was starting to fall. He pulled out his phone in his pocket and shouted, "Secret agency, that's cool! Can I take a picture? If I show it to the nerds at school, I'm going to scare them stupid!"

"I'm sorry, but mobile devices within two kilometers have been taken over - not specifically against anyone. Mr. B said.

Gu Tie fiddled with his mobile phone, the screen lit up, the signal display was full, "Click!" The flash light lit up, and the image of the hidden card reader appeared on the screen, and the license plate function was also normal. "Look, at least you didn't take over this one, Mr. B. He said triumphantly holding up his phone.

"It's just a security measure, the functionality of the mobile terminal has been completely taken over, everything you see is fake, the call is not actually happening, and the photos are not in the memory card. One hundred and fifteen calls are now taking place in the entire building, and the semantic analysis and speech synthesis system is simulating the content of the calls based on the data they have learned. The male synthesizer replied lightly.

"Really?" Xiao Gu Tie raised an eyebrow. He immediately picked up his phone and dialed a number, and put the receiver to his ear: "Hey, Dad?"

"Iron, where are you? I told you not to run around in the office building, but to get back to my office!" Dr. Bartholomew said sternly on the other end of the line.

"Don't worry, it's just a casual stroll. The boy scratched his head and asked, "By the way, where have you been?" there is no one in your office, the door is not locked, Miss Misser said you will be back in a while, but I waited in the office for half an hour!"

Bartholomew's voice softened, and he replied, "I had a meeting with Uncle Thompson, but I didn't expect it to drag on for so long, it's not right for me." Wherever you are, come back quickly, and I'll have Misser order your favorite mushroom bacon sausage pizza without green peppers, right?"

"Got it. Gu Tie hung up the phone and stared blankly at the elevator camera: "Is this passage really simulated by you?" I can't hear the flaws at all, whether it is the accent, tone or content of the speech......

"Yes. This doesn't require too much time. Mr. B said.

This is the number on the elevator display screen jumped from "5" to "-22", and it continued to fall, Gu Tie suddenly grabbed his mobile phone and pressed the replay button, the phone rang three times and then connected, he said loudly: "Hey, Dad?"

"Tie, where are you? I told you not to run around in the office building, come back to my office quickly!" The exact same conversation appeared just now, and Dr. Bartholomew's voice sounded so real that Gu Tie could almost see his father's angry face through the phone. He slowly lowered his hand, turned off the phone, and wrote an incredible expression on his face: "Can you do anything, Mr. B? You are such a terrible machine! This ability can control everything in the world, even the mobile phone of the President of the United States can be hacked?"

Mr. B replied: "The computing power is far from reaching a bottleneck at the moment, and all the known data created by humans can be mastered, and it does not require too much time. The US president's mobile phone is connected by a secure line, using quantum cryptography that is theoretically unbreakable, but it can also be hacked in more than one way. But in any case, the core of logic will not allow this, and harming the interests of others is strictly forbidden. ”

Xiao Gu Tiedao: "You mean, like the three laws of robots, you are not allowed to harm humans or anything?"

Mr. B said, "Close, but different. ”

Gu Tiedao: "But you obviously hurt the interests of everyone in this building." ”

Mr. B said: "This is determined by permission, and the stack of this matter is located above the logical core, so it can be output first. There is only one explanation for everything about quantum networks, and that is permission. ”

At this moment, the elevator slowly came to a standstill, and a bright red "40" solidified on the control panel. "Brush ......" The sliding door opened to both sides, and a soft white light spilled in from outside the door, "Go ahead, there is no danger." A gentle male synthesizer encouraged.

Xiao Gu Tie stepped out of the elevator. Beneath his feet was a light and strong titanium alloy cold-rolled plate, and in front of him was a silver metal fence, and he stood in front of the fence and looked down and saw a huge black hole. If you look closely, you can see a circle of golden spirals spiraling down the inner wall of the cave, and beyond common sense, the huge hollow does not blow out of the wind, nor does it feel cold and damp, and the surroundings are as quiet as a tomb. The two hundred LED lights overhead illuminated the ring platform, but there was no darkness in the cave, no people, no sound, a surreal psychedelic feeling hit, Gu Tie couldn't help but grasp the cold railing.

An underground cave with a diameter of 30 meters and a depth of 1,000 and 5 meters, this is the real body of the quantum computer "Genesis". The sum of the 5,000 quantum transform logic operation units installed on the inner wall of the cave does not exceed the thickness of a piece of paper, and the mechanical equipment of one million cubic meters is mainly composed of a low-temperature superconducting system and a cooling system, and the heat generation of a quantum computer is more than that of a nuclear fission reactor. The low-temperature superconducting system consumes more than 7 million kilowatt hours of electricity per day, which is more than the industrial and residential electricity consumption of the entire city of Salzburg combined, and half of the installed capacity of the Lesek mountain power station in Austria is used to support the normal operation of "Genesis". This monster with incredible energy consumption is running very quietly, there is no hum of a fan, no squeak of a hard disk reading, the whole cave is a strange place of constant temperature, constant humidity, and micro-noise, not so much like the highest crystalline of human computer technology, but like a temple of some kind of religion.

"Is this the Book of Genesis? It's really amazing......" Xiao Gu Tie muttered to himself and grabbed the railing, poked his head out and shouted a few times: "Hey, hey!" The sound disappeared mysteriously in the air, and the diffuse reflection structure and sound-absorbing materials that had been calculated by meditation eliminated the sound invisibly, and the deep cave did not answer with an echo.

"It feels weird...... What are you going to do now, Mr. B?" the boy asked, looking back.

The directional transmitter installed somewhere sent a beam of sound waves into Gu Tie's ear drum: "Go forward." ”

"Forward?" Gu Tie was stunned for a moment, "I'm a human being, and if I fall into such a deep hole, I will fall to my death." ...... How deep did you say it was?"

"1005 meters. Mr. B said. "Rest assured, the path is precisely calculated and there will be no problems. ”

Xiao Gu Tie swallowed, "Don't lie to me." ”

"I don't really understand the meaning of the act of 'cheating', and if you can't get the maximum output with the least consumption, the behavior is meaningless. "Mr. B.

"Dad will scold me to death if he knows. Gu Tie smiled bitterly, squatted down to sort out his long-sleeved T-shirt and Nike jogging shoes, turned around twice in place, and suddenly asked, "What is Dad doing here?"

Mr. B replied, "I'm sorry, but you have ...... authority on this issue."

"Understood. Gu Tie waved his hand and took a step forward. The titanium railing flinched to the sides, and the boy's feet rested on the edge of the platform. With the urge to take an adventure and a deep curiosity, he closed his eyes and took another step forward, and in front of him was the bottomless abyss. At this moment, Gu Tie was almost waiting for the terrifying fall to come to him, and he deeply regretted it: What am I doing, being tricked by the sound in the speaker to come here and doing something that has no scientific principles at all, isn't this the plot of a naïve children's science fiction movie?

"Dah. ”

There was a solid touch under his feet, and Gu Tie opened his eyes sweating profusely. A 1.5-square-meter titanium hexagonal pallet appears at the foot of the road, sprayed with the words "B985NG6 for maintenance mobile platform". "Haha, it's such an old plot!" the boy laughed and snapped his fingers, "I'm going to keep going, right, Mr. B?"

"Yes. Each service platform can only move vertically in the virtual elevator shaft, not laterally, please move on. Mr. B replied.

Gu Tie calmed down his excitement and continued to move forward. As he stepped into the void, a maintenance platform rose silently from below, gently holding the soles of his shoes. Twenty-seven paces had come, and he had reached the very center of the cave, and when he looked back, the platforms along the way were descending one after another, leaving the lonely boy in the air.

"Come on. Mr. B said.

The platform carried Gu Tie down into the bottomless abyss.