If there is anyone in this world who lives in the husk and still thinks he is the king of the universe, that person should not be Shang Lu, but Shen Jiang.

The cockpit of the giant machine is a huge fruit shell, it is filled with a light blue viscous liquid, the girl in the shell curls up, closes her eyes, and has complex cables and pipes on her back, when she is alone in that world of her own, there will be no second person in the world who has the ability to spy on her thoughts, and the monitoring system of the Planning and Engineer's Office may be able to see the complex brain activity of the driver, but it is impossible to parse it - except for the crimson giant who stands silently in the workshop.

The spiritual world of the giant machine pilots is a secret to outsiders, they are the top geniuses in human society, with talents far beyond ordinary people, and at the same time they are the first people to communicate with the computer brain, Shang Lu said that they are a group of cyberpunk humans, this statement is reasonable, the technology of the early 21st century is far from the point where it can organically integrate humans and machines, BCI such a rough, blunt, crazy technology is a bit punk.

From a technical point of view, the BCI system essentially plugs wires into the brain – an idea that is so brutal that humans can't find the real entrance to the brain, so they choose to break down the door violently.

Shen Kang opened his eyes.

At the end of the zero-gravity buffer trim, the liquid level gradually decreases.

In order to ensure that the driver is in near-weightlessness while in the cabin, the IRGF needs to be trimmed periodically.

"Shen Jiang, are you okay?" The voice of 1047, the director of the Planning and Engineering Office, came from the headset.

"Don't be noisy, I'm talking to her." Shen Jiang said.

"She?" 1047 was stunned, "Who is she?" ”

Shen Jiang raised his head, "That's her." ”

She was referring to the Red Lotus.

1047 is confused, Red Lotus is a machine, a computer, a cold dead thing, how can humans talk to a repeater? If Red Lotus has the ability to pass the Turing test, then it is necessary for the driver to do something.

"You don't understand." Shen Jiang shook her head, the liquid level of the IRGF had dropped below her waist, and she casually clicked on the inner wall of the cockpit, calling out the control panel to look at the parameters.

"Okay." 1047's tone was a little sullen, "Work is over, do you want to go to lunch together later?" ”

"Okay."

The cockpit door opened, and Shen Jiang disconnected the cables and pipes on his body, took off his helmet, climbed out of it, and stood wet on the covered bridge and took a deep breath.

The slightly viscous buffer dripped on the metal floor, and every time she went out of the cabin, Shen Jiang felt that she was a water ghost, the outermost layer of her load-resistant suit was a strong tensile and impermeable PE fiber material, which felt rough to the touch, there was an exoskeleton on the back and limb joints, and a water-cooled mesh inside, and a set of equipment usually weighed dozens of kilograms.

The sweaty black forehead was stuck to the skin, the girl stood there with her eyes closed for a long time, slightly looking up at her white neck, looking at her shoulders and neck, she could know that she was a slender girl, but her body was wrapped in a clumsy and heavy exoskeleton, Shen Jiang turned her head slightly, not knowing what she was listening to, and transparent beads of sweat slipped down her jawline.

She looked around, and a bulging black backpack was placed on the side of the railing of the covered bridge.

Shen Jiang squatted down and unzipped his backpack, took out a palm-length white plastic box, opened the lid and peeled off the foam, inside was a sealed blunt syringe.

She flicked the syringe with her fingers, pointed it at the light to confirm that it was a colorless and transparent liquid inside, and then quickly pinned the back of her head and thrust it slightly.

The girl's body trembled slightly when the liquid was injected, and her back and neck stiffened.

After a few seconds, she exhaled, pulled the syringe off, stuffed it back into her bag, and then picked up her backpack and left the boarding bridge, wrapping it around the back of Red Lotus to the front.

She was stunned.

On the working platform in front of Honglian's chest sat a young man, leaning against the railing and carrying a wrench in his hand, knocking on the floor one by one.

The bright white helmet is conspicuous.

"Superintendent?"

"What a coincidence, leader." Shang Lu turned his head to greet her, "I'm coming to see my granddaughter." ”

"Red Lotus?"

Shang Lu nodded: "My granddaughter." ”

Shen Jiang laughed "poof", "It's really going to take advantage, if you kid is Honglian's grandfather, then what am I?" ”

"You can be a grandmother, I'm okay with that." Shang Lu said, "It's okay for you to be a grandmother, after all, you are a leader." ”

"Didn't you think you were so good at fooling before?" Shen Jiang tilted his head.

"Probably figured out something, the originally stiff cerebral thrombus was dredged again, the smart IQ occupied the high ground again, the old trees bloomed new flowers, and the rotten trees were in spring again." Shang Lu tapped the railing with a wrench, leaned his shoulders there, and scanned the crimson shell of the giant machine from a distance of a few meters, "It's so pitiful, my granddaughter is so dismantled. ”

"It's like this when it's not a whole machine in a joint training state." Shen Jiang said.

At this time, the red lotus hanging in the workshop is only half a body, no waist and legs and no arms, only a head and chest and abdomen, Shen Jiang said that in most cases the red lotus is like this - sometimes there will not even be a head, the calculation core needs to be transferred to a special ultra-clean workshop during maintenance, such a precise instrument as a gravitational gyroscope cannot be calibrated in the chaotic 110 workshop, as for the power core, it is a miniature nuclear reactor, and all maintenance work must comply with the requirements of nuclear facilities, under normal circumstances, The first thing to do after the mission is to remove the power core and move the reactor out.

Shang Lu moved his gaze from Honglian to Shen Jiang's face, stared at it for a long time, and saw that the latter touched his face a little unnaturally, and asked, "What are you looking at?" Flowers on my face? ”

"How long have you been doing this?" Shang Lu asked.

Shen Jiang didn't understand what he was talking about for a moment.

"I mean, you can't recognize faces." Shang Lu explained, "Leader, you may be the most face-blind person in the world. ”

The girl's expression tensed suddenly, "What are you talking nonsense about?" ”

"Don't pretend, you can't hide it from me." Shang Lu said to himself, "The BCI system is deeply eroding your brain, destroying the fusiform gyrus and posterior occipital lobe of your brain, making you completely lose the ability to distinguish other people's facial features, but I guess...... Not only do you not care about this, but you are trying to actively cater to the invasion of BCI into your spiritual world, you are addicted to this feeling, and you are about to be unable to extricate yourself, leader, please tell me, when you use the BCI system to connect with Red Lotus, your self-perception is Shen Jiang or Red Lotus? ”

Shen Jiang's face turned pale all of a sudden.

Shang Lu sighed: "The giant machine drivers are a group of psychopaths. ”

"How do you know?" Shen Jiang asked.

"Didn't I say that?" Shang Lu shrugged, "The BCI system is my old business. ”

"151 is a sea of people from BCI, and no one can have such a keen sense as you." Shen Jiang was a little curious, "Unless you have been immersed in this technology for twenty years and know all aspects of it, then you have to study it from the womb." ”

"It's a pity, I've been working on non-invasive BCI systems until 151, and I haven't touched the BCI used by Red Lotus." Shang Lu said, "I just followed the maintenance manual and flipped through the technical documents, which took almost three days." ”

The girl blinked stunned.

"Three days?"

"Two and a half days to be exact."

"You're partly right, but not entirely." Shen Jiang's tone gradually became serious, "There is no problem with my self-perception at the moment. ”

"I'm guessing, it's great to be able to guess part of it correctly, and if I can completely guess the mind world of a mentally ill person, then wouldn't I be a psychopath too?" Shang Lu said, "The impact of the invasive BCI system on the brain is unpredictable, and the people in the operation office call this giant machine mental interference syndrome, and before 151, I never thought that this thing could have such a big impact." ”

"There are bigger ones." Shen Jiang smiled helplessly.

"If this trend continues, sooner or later you will become schizophrenic." Shang Lu frowned, and finished the second half of the sentence in his heart: Even death.

Shen Jiang looked at Honglian, "You have to have faith in her." ”

"It's just ......"

"She's your granddaughter." Shen Jiang turned his head to look at Shang Lu and smiled very well.

Shang Lu's heart twitched, he felt that he had been sitting here all morning just for this smile.

The girl walked over, squatted down in front of Shang Lu, stared at his eyes, this time the person who touched his face unnaturally was replaced by Shang Lu, he avoided the other party's blazing gaze, and asked, "What are you looking at?" Flowers on my face? ”

"You're a genius." Shen Jiang said very seriously.

"Thank you for the compliment." Shang Lu said, "But I know this. ”

"Have you eaten?" Shen Jiang asked.

Shang Lu was stunned for a moment and shook his head.

"Let's go to dinner together? Swipe my card, you are such a genius, you should open a small stove for you. Shen Jiang threw his backpack into Shang Lu's arms at the same time, "In return, you will help me carry my bag." ”

Why did the conversation suddenly turn to eating?

Before Shang Lu came back to his senses, Shen Jiang had already gotten up and walked away.

He had no choice but to chase after him with his bag.

"Superintendent, go this way, go to me first, I want to change my clothes."

"Okay leader."

"Why do you keep holding the wrench?"

"As a maintenance worker, it makes sense to carry a wrench with you, right?"