Humpback whales, two-headed wyverns, beehives, cicadas, broken blades of long knives, concentric double rings.

These six strange-shaped things, so large that they could not be ignored in astronomical-level star charts, slowly spread out from the six directions of the 0791 Star Gate, gradually accelerated, and entered the orbit of Jupiter one after another.

The starlight in the sky was like a school of fish scattered by a giant crocodile, first scattered like headless flies, and then all the Titans left one after another, eliminating gravitational interference, and then returned to the right track, and it took a while to regain calm.

With the protection of the company's titans, naturally no one dares to die to grab any goods. HIDING UNDER THE FINS OF HUMPBACK WHALES, HAYABUSA WAS SMOOTHLY ESCORTED TO CALLISMO.

It's a pity that Li Pan didn't have a chance to board the ship to see what was like inside the Titan.

Whether it's the Neptune Titans or the Callisto base on Callisto, they're all the property of TheM.

Although the acting manager has access to the 0791 Callisto base, the Neptune Titan's boarding ship permission needs to be applied to 01.

Anyway, it was just to let this huge humpback whale escort away, and Li Pan didn't bother to apply for those paperwork, and after waiting for a while, he and Ganymede's base. Eighteen got in touch.

SO HE SAID GOODBYE POLITELY TO 01032, AND THE TITAN STOPPED IN THE ORBIT OF CALLISTO TO MONITOR THE MONSTERS IN JUPITER, WHILE HAYABUSA LOWERED THE SURFACE OF CALLISTO UNDER AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION AND ENTERED THE BASE WAREHOUSE FOR HANDOVER.

Calmede, Jupiter's synchrotron-rotating moon, is made of nearly equal mass of rock and water, with a liquid ocean beneath the surface of silicates and ice, and a thin atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide and some oxygen. There is also an active ionosphere, formed by the accretion of Jupiter's gas and dust, and now the NEPTONE Titan is charging in the ionosphere.

Compared with the paradise where many companies gather and Gaia, and the bustling Europa of Europa, which is the main port of the universe trade, Ganymede, which is far away from Jupiter, can be said to be extremely deserted. Usually it is only used as an ice mining site, but occasionally companies use gravity to locate and set up warehouses and orbital factories.

However, Jupiter has as many as 92 moons, and as a warehouse and airport, of course, the closer it is to get away from the stargate, the better, so there are usually not many people on Ganymede's side.

TheM's base on Europa is on the far side of the moon in Callisto, with its back to Jupiter.

It is evident that the company has artificially blasted open the rock and ice layers on the surface of Europa, opened up the underground sea, and turned the vast crater plain into a frozen ocean of ice.

The Sea of Callisto.

And the Callisto base is frozen in the core of this ice sea.

It was the first time for Li Pan to come to the company's Ganymede base, and if he usually came by himself, he might not have paid much attention to it.

Isn't it just a military base, and the base isn't like that?

But now he happened to follow the Neptune-class Titan, and saw the Titan humpback-like shape.

At this time, landing at the base, condescendingly overlooking the Callisto ice sea, the main body of the base, as if it was jumping out of the ice ocean, but was frozen in an instant. It can be seen from a visual comparison with the whale head of the Titan.

Hey! Same!

Boy! The company's base on Callisto turned out to be a Titan under construction!

It's no wonder that the company from the 01 platoon to the 06 manager level, in addition to the general manager and the four permanent ministers, also has to arrange a special Ganymede base commander.

Isn't this the Captain of the Titans, the Commander of the Fleet!

Of course, the 0791 company Titan is still under construction, there is only one whale head, all kinds of dock formations are still under automatic construction, and the surface is also full of automatic drones and engineering vehicles, dense like an ant colony, and it is still far from completion.

It can be seen that the construction of a Titan, like the Holy Grail bid, is a long-term task for local companies. It's a long way to go.

The rest of the people on the ship were just employees of Beaulong, and they didn't even have permission to leave the cabin and enter the company's base, so they could only be locked up on the ship the whole time, and the signal was turned off frequently, and they used the QVN public channel provided by Eighteen to surf the Internet, play games, and rest and rest to pass the time.

Li Pan put on SBS and disembarked by himself, and the base engineering robot. Eighteen made a delivery handover, arranged for drones to unload from the ship's hold, delivered 144 bottles of black oil to the base to make fleet ammunition, and left sixteen bottles to take back to Earth for use.

"Crooked, eighteen, the delivery is complete, ask the finance to send money to Lao Tzu, and we will return to the earth after the money."

Li Pan also signed the authorization while yelling and shouting.

Due to the committee's rules, these titan behemoths will be anchored in the Jupiter Universe during the bidding period and will not be allowed to enter the asteroid belt.

So on the return trip, he also discussed with the company, although there may not be someone to die under the company's nose, but in order to be safe, it is better to let the company's fleet arrange a hidden detective, open a guide on the lunar surface, directly pull HAYABUSA over, and go directly to the lunar surface at high speed back to LEOPORT, saving you from encountering a robbery halfway.

Base trucks. Eighteen, "It's not over yet, boss, you have to come with the car, the black oil is to be stored in the dangerous goods warehouse, the door is locked, I can't enter without your authorization." ”

"Locked? You can't get in either? ”

Li Pan frowned, everything on the earth is in a hurry, and the Ganymede base is also a package of broken things, probably because all the employees of the company were killed in the previous session, and what security mechanism was triggered on the base side.

So Li Pan asked Pony.18 on the cruiser to talk to the others, and he took the base truck.18 into Callisto.

Base trucks. Eighteen also sent the three-dimensional map information inside the base, and sure enough, Ganymede was built with the Neptune-class as the blueprint.

Theoretically, the main role of the Titan Giant is not to serve as a command, let alone to use doomsday weapons to enter the field and sweep indiscriminately, most of the time, ships of this level are to act as a strategic military base that can be deployed to the forefront at any time, to provide maintenance and supply for the main fleet of the Dreadnought-class fleet, and at the same time to provide strategic deterrence of doomsday weapons when necessary, forcing the opponent to give up strategic intentions to preserve fleet strength.

Of course, it can also be seen that the Ganymede base is very chaotic, some areas are under construction, some areas are blocked, and there are large areas of blank space and forbidden areas. The basic functions of a military base are not yet at all.

Now only on the surface, basic fleet berths and warehouses, other ammunition fuel cells and weapons production lines, have not been built. It's no wonder that 0113012 a bunch of complaints, can't book a factory, can't find ammunition and supplies.

But now, although the Titan base under construction is not yet usable, the Titan Neptune that has been built has been sent over, and nominally cannot interfere with the 0791 local Holy Grail bid, but when it is really time for a full-scale war, it can naturally provide shelter and support for the company's fleet. If you can't beat it, you can still drill into the belly of the humpback whale and run directly.

But when Li Pan sat in the base truck, quickly descended the ice along the maglev track, and entered the base deep underground, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Eighteen, why did there be an explosion in the base?"

This passage is obviously newly repaired, and it is reinforced and rebuilt on the basis of the original facilities, Li Pan is a professional sapper, and it can be seen that the original passage seems to have collapsed, and the remains of the frame structure have not been completely cleaned up, and there are robots coming and going around, re-supporting and building on the main structure.

Base trucks. Eighteen hastened to declare,

"It's none of my business, that's all I did when I came.

In fact, there is another completely self-running construction system inside the Carristo base, which I estimate may be the brain computer left over from the previous company. But it has been formatted, and from the QVN network disconnection, the direct link to the head office to accept the command, there is no way to communicate at all, I am only responsible for providing it with network security services, as well as intelligence and computing power support.

That machine is very old, and the permission check must be performed by himself, and the boss will have to go to the server in person to do the general manager's authorization certification.

Black oil is a strategic resource, and the secret warehouse is in the jurisdiction under its management, and it is only when it is sent there to get the warehousing list, this transaction is completed. ”

"There's actually a brain-computer ......"

But think about it this way, in the world of cyberpunk, previous companies definitely need the technology department to have an upload intelligence, and brain-computer hackers to provide network monitoring support, and it is impossible to use outsourcing services.

And the brain computer is the property of the company, and it is not an employee who has entered the file, even if the company is destroyed, it stands to reason that the brain computer will not be deleted.

Li Pan couldn't help but be curious, "Eighteen, what is the name of the server at the Callisto base, does he know what happened to the employees of the previous company?" ”

Base trucks. Eighteen was silent for a while, "Boss, he's been formatted by his personality." ”

Li Pan, "What do you mean, the memory at that time was also deleted?" ”

Base trucks. Eighteen, "It's not just memory, it's personality that has been reset, that has been erased from thoughts and feelings, that I can't remember that I am a human being, that is, a machine that answers questions and obeys orders."

Except that it is actually a human brain uploading intelligence, it is almost no different from artificial intelligence, and it is a surgery to bypass the AI ban of the ethics committee and improve the efficiency of uploading intelligence.

Any communication must be reported directly to the head office to apply for permission. ”

Li Pan understood, "So he doesn't necessarily don't know, he doesn't have the permission of the head office, and he won't say anything." Alas, forget it......"

Base trucks. Eighteen was silent for a while, "Boss, I'll be obedient, don't format me, okay?" ”

Li Pan, "Well, I won't." ”

Base trucks. Eighteen, "Thank you, boss." ”

The two were silent for a while, because they both knew very well that this kind of thing, Li Pan said that it didn't count.

Eighteen is the property of the company, and the highest authority is already in the hands of the head office. Now he still retains his own personality, and he simply formatted it, Li Pan forgot it at first, and now the business is also messy, and he is too lazy to do it.

But even if Li Pan can shelter her temporarily, this day will come sooner or later.

For example, if the Ethics Committee finds that Eighteen has any 'rebellion risk', or if the head office suddenly wants to upgrade the system on a whim, it may immediately reset the system of Eighteen, completely erasing Eighteen's consciousness and self.

Uploading intelligence, brain and computer soaring, that's not good. Although Eighteen can be called a god in the cyber world and in the virtual network, it is nothing more than a man-made prop and a screw of a large system. Her life and death are completely in the hands of the head office.

If people want to shut down, they will shut down, they will pull out the network cable, and the memory eraser personality overlay program will be rewritten, and they can delete and modify it as much as they want.

Not to mention the cruelty of human beings, but in these years cybercybernetics has been subverted, and there are too many things controlled through QVN. So it is necessary to severely limit artificial intelligence.

Putting everything in the hands of human intelligence, not artificial intelligence, is the most basic and core principle of the establishment of the Ethics Committee, and it is also the bloody lesson of the AI rebellion.

In order to continue to develop on the basis of controlling the intelligent brain technology, and harness this astonishing computing power to support scientific research, a little necessary measures are inevitable.

Li Pan didn't know how to comfort Eighteen, but maybe there was no need for him to comfort him.

After all, this girl is so smart, she probably knew her own end a long time ago.

Base trucks. Eighteen drove out of the track between the ice and stopped in front of a large alloy gate. It's really huge, it's as big as a gravity dam, and it's a whole lump of alloy that closes the entrance to the main body of the base, and it's cold, cold.

Base car. Eighteen turned on the high beams and shone a laser sight on a control panel, and then on that panel, a red light also lit up in the distance, flashing little by little.

"Boss, I've already applied for it to be docked, you just go and scan it."

Li Pan turned over and jumped off the train, stepped on the frost, snow and ice slag, and creaked to the console.

This thing looks really old, not to mention that there is no holographic projection and near-field communication, and it is even an old-fashioned mechanical keyboard, iris detection, and there is not even a microphone. It's comparable to the elevator in his house......

Li Pan leaned closer to look at the eyeballs, but with a bang, the helmet shattered the ice that controlled the shelf, and the broken thing did not respond at all, and did not receive a signal at all.

Li Pan is also tired, but fortunately he can be true now. The man who walked in the space simply lifted the SBS helmet. Took a deep breath......

The ice gas that came from his nose poured into his lungs, and it was directly cold, and Li Pan's head was so excited that his tongue was frozen like a cat licking ice cream.

Oh grass, it's a little cool......

Li Pan was in a trance for a while, feeling the true qi poured into his mouth and nose, and suddenly came back to his senses.

How is it that this broken place is more abundant than the true qi of the earth?? Could it be that this is still some cosmic spiritual vein, a blessed earth?

Li Pan couldn't figure it out for a while, so he first slapped his face and took a look at the console's eyes.

The red light flashed and clinked into a blue light, as if the verification had passed.

Li Pan looked up, "Hey eighteen, why didn't you ......?"

"Smack!!" There was a loud noise, which startled Li Pan, jumped fifty meters and jumped onto the top of the truck, and turned his head to take a look.

I saw that the frozen dry ice layer on the surface of the alloy dam cracked, crackled, the gate was slowly opened, the ice and snow were shattered to the ground, and the avalanche seemed to blow the ice wind in the sky.

Oh oh oh, what an abundance of aura! Like a rolling tsunami!

Li Pan opened his arms, breathed indulgently, and felt that the true qi filled his lungs, and the headache of using the 'leather pocket' before was dissipated.

It's not just true qi, but it's also a high concentration of Xuanming true qi!

In fact, although Li Pan practiced the "Nine Yin True Scripture", Li Qingyun learned the most from the exercises of the Taishang True Dao Collection.

It's not that Li Pan doesn't want to use it, but their Taishang Nine True Sect originated in Penglai, an overseas immortal mountain, so the source of most of the exercises, the most superior Dao method, is based on Xuanming True Qi, or to put it bluntly, 'Water Attribute' True Qi.

The biggest problem on the immortal cultivation side is that it is very affected by the environment, and eats the bonus of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. It's not that you can refine your water attribute exercises if you are powerful. You have to have a cultivation environment first.

In the Nine True Sect's True Views of the kind of place where the aura is abundant, any garbage Dao method is extremely powerful.

In 0791 Earth, you can't refine anything, and you're also a soft-footed shrimp when you play it.

But here it is different, not only is there 'aura', but the purity is quite high, and there is almost no influence of other impurities.

Li Pan just breathed, and with a turn of effort, he refined the Xuanming True Qi in his mouth and nose!

Emma! This place is not bad! It's perfect for retreat!

Li Pan didn't want to move for a while. was so anxious that Eighteen "beeped" twice.

"Boss! Are you okay! Isn't it frozen to death! ”

"It's okay, it's okay, the door is open, let's go forward."

"But there's something blocking the road at the door."

Well?

Li Pan came back to his senses, jumped to the gate in three or two to take a look, and was suddenly stunned.

On the other side of the closed base gate, a large number of charred corpses and humanoid remains were piled up. At a rough estimate, there are at least hundreds of people.

Judging from the destruction inside the base and the horrific scene, it is clear that there was some kind of large explosion here, and these people tried to evacuate, but they could not open the gate of the base, and finally burned alive at the door.

It's the company's ...... No, that's not right......

Li Pan frowned and stared at the remaining human bones on the ground, if it was a temporary worker of the company, it stands to reason that there would be no ashes left.

It's someone from outside......

Base car. Eighteen switched to a six-legged multi-legged mode, crawling like a beetle, and high beams illuminated the entrance to the passage.

"Who are these people, boss, are they mercenaries?"

Li Pan looked at the ground, because of the high temperature, the equipment and weapons of these people had been carbonized, and they couldn't distinguish the model at all, but ......

"It's all Mars MM, space commando."

Li Pan picked up a skeleton and pulled out a short nail made of silver alloy from the skeleton's forehead.

"Martian Marines? Boss, how do you know? ”

Li Pan looked at the alloy nails in his hand, and then looked at the skeletons around him, there were two or three silver nails on each head.

"This thing is used to locate dog tags and confirm the identity of the body, and it can be nailed for every ten years of service or third-class merit.

The Martian Marines are silver, and the Frontier Veterans are gold. My parents are commandos......"

Li Pan put down the skeleton, stuffed the silver nail into his waist, suddenly something flashed in the corner of his eye, and when he looked up, he saw a 'person' standing at the end of the passage, looking at himself leisurely.

"Eighteen, do you see that?"

Eighteen, "What?" ”

The 'man' shook his body and hid in the hallway.

Li Pan sprinted and chased to the end of the aisle to look, but there was nothing.

Is it the soul, or is it Xiyi......

(End of chapter)