After Rebirth, I Became the AI of the God of War [Interstellar]

C41 - C50

They came to the seventh floor underground.

Qin Xingyuan looked up at the instruction screen of the elevator, and a line of silver-white words scrolled on the dark blue background:

B7

Welcome to the experimental area-biological area

Qin Xingyuan's wrist was pressed tightly against the edge of his trouser leg.

"From here onwards, it's the core area of ​​the underground base."

Ai Fu held his other hand. Since she was not much taller than Qin Xingyuan, her actions didn't look like a bird, but rather a fierce lion.

They passed through the laboratories, during which Aifu tried her best to play the role of commentator, but Qin Xingyuan couldn't listen to a word.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he first saw those dejected researchers, as if he had suddenly returned to reality and got rid of those cheerful but weird soldiers. But normal didn't last long. After walking through a few laboratories, the experimenters gradually became expressionless, and the sense of fear like a human. leather mask surfaced in their hearts.

Their deadpan is not apathy, nor frustration, but pure indifference, as if nothing makes sense. Their uniformity undoubtedly aggravated the sense of weirdness and fear, making Qin Xingyuan's hairs stand on end. In order not to let Ave notice the abnormality, he pulled his arm out of her hand, and said with the best acting skills of his life, "Ive, I'm going to the bathroom." "Oh, okay." Ai Fu Fu looked him up without any trace, and smiled; "The first corridor from the left, the smart ID card you wear after you come here can also project the map, so don't worry if you can't find it. I'll wait for you here." Qin Xingyuan pressed the map Go to the bathroom door, go in and close the door. He took a deep breath. Spend a sliver of mental power to explore the surrounding environment, and after confirming safety, concentrate on dismantling the identity card.











In this building, without an ID card, the alarm would be triggered immediately, so he needed to take out the tracker inside separately and hide it in the gap of the sink.

Qin Xing was not as good at these things as Shi Han, but he was no fool and completed this task with amazing calmness and speed. He walked out of the bathroom, controlled the cameras along the way with his mental power, and went straight to an unmanned host that was turned on.

While walking, he tore off the virtual skin on his hands, and when he walked to the machine, a memory card was inserted into the slot without any mistakes. The program immediately began to upload automatically, and the ten seconds to crack the computer's protection measures seemed extremely long. A figure walked past the corner, and the elongated shadow was projected on the wall in front of him. Qin Xingyuan huddled under the desk, and might be discovered at any time. He simply didn't know how he survived that terrifying ten seconds. Finally, he saw the faint green light of the indicator light, and immediately pulled out the card and left. When he was still avoiding the experimenters in the corner, Shi Han's signal was sent from the ID card hanging around his neck, and the mental power he released directly entered his mind: "Go back to the bathroom immediately, recover the tracker, the camera I've already dealt with it, and there's no one in the bathroom. Ive is coming this way." Qin Xingyuan was so frightened that he ran away. Fortunately, he didn't meet too many people on the way, but he almost bumped into an experimenter. It was too late to see who it was, and finally slipped into the bathroom before Ive arrived. Qin Xingyuan closed the door, a heart was about to jump out of his chest. After pressing the tracker back into the ID card as quickly as possible, he breathed a sigh of relief, and washed his face with a handful of cold water with slightly trembling hands. Ai Fu's voice came from outside the door: "Qin Xingyuan, are you okay?" Qin Xingyuan responded, "Right away!" During those two seconds, he controlled his trembling hands, put on a casual smile, and pushed away the door. "I'm sorry to keep the beauty waiting for a long time. I'm a little troublesome."



















To the outside world, he is an image of a young master who is very concerned about his appearance. During the banquet, he often sneaks into the bathroom to tidy up his appearance, so Ive just inspected it and seemed to dispel his doubts.

"Let's go, there are still a few floors to visit."

Qin Xingyuan nodded.

The most dangerous mission has been completed. He successfully implanted that program and opened a back door for Shi Han inside the base. Now Shihan has already hacked into that computer and his smart ID card, and has quietly infiltrated into the surroundings.

With Shi Han's help, the next thing will be much easier.

Qin Xingyuan, who didn't know the truth, still believed that Shi Han was a hidden human boss, and firmly believed in it.

Shi Han's voice came again: "Now, she will take you to the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors. Below the 10th floor is the 11th floor, which is where the intelligence center is located. She will not take you there, but neither will I. You need to go to the 11th floor to take risks. You only need to install an obstacle program in a position on the 10th floor."

Obstacle? What does Shi Han want to do?

Qin Xing looked at his arrangement from a distance, and always felt that he was besieging something to prevent it from escaping. The 11th floor... Could it be the main intelligence of this base?

It dawned on him.

Could it be that the main intelligence of this base is an AI life?

But what does Shihan want an AI life that has been bound to its master?

He shook his head, pushing the thought out of his mind. The most important thing now is to complete the task, and Shi Han can take out the information from this base. Those materials can not only help him complete the task of the Reform Party, but also allow him to find some clues in it as a bargaining chip against Ive and Sylvia.

They walked through the rest of the floors, chatting happily, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

The tenth floor is the network information laboratory, which is now empty. Ave apologized for this; "There are not many people here, and they are on holiday today, so I can't introduce them to you."

"I'm really sorry." Eve said suddenly, "I want to go to the bathroom. You can wait for me here for a while. There is nothing to see here except the machines. We will leave when I come out." Qin Xingyuan couldn't believe it

. Such a wonderful opportunity presented itself. He replied calmly: "Okay, I am indeed a little bored."

Ive left gracefully.

After her figure disappeared from the range of mental perception, Qin Xingyuan immediately ran to the target location, turned on the computer, and followed the same steps to send the memory card in.

After a while, the green light representing the success of the upload came on, and he was about to crush the little thing in his palm when a familiar voice sounded behind him.

"What are you doing, Young Master of the Qin family?"

As if hit by a blizzard, his whole body stiffened. Turning his head slowly, what came into view was Ive's half-smile face, the "vacation employees" coming out of each door...

and hundreds of laser weapons pointed at him.

Qin Xingyuan raised his hands, his face was pale, and his tone was calm: "When did you find out?"

Ai Fu smiled and didn't answer.

A piece of information from Shi Han entered Qin Xingyuan's mind.

"On the B7 floor, when you ran into the experimenter when you hurried back to the bathroom, she knew about it. Then she quietly notified the anomalous program while setting up an ambush on the B10 floor, because I transferred the backdoor program in time , She thought you failed on the B7 floor. The B10 floor is the most vulnerable place to be invaded after the B11 floor, and she concluded that you will attack here again."

Qin Xingyuan gritted his teeth.

Was it a failure from the start?

"Yes. You failed at that time, and you can't escape here. So I didn't tell you, but used you to implant the program on the B10 layer again. This program is in your hands now, and you hand it over to them truthfully , they will think that you want to restrict the activities of the central intelligence to facilitate the theft of information. Please tell them that you are doing it for your own ambition, and don't tell the organization. You are a nobleman, they will not kill you, we will rescue you."

Qin Xingyuan shuddered.

Shi Han had been deceiving him from the very beginning, just for the purpose of maximizing the use of waste, and even thought about what excuse to use to push the suspicion on him alone.

"They scanned it with mental power, and I will leave immediately. Please don't forget your identity."

After this information was entered, the signal disappeared from his brain.

He couldn't refute Shi Han's words. Logically speaking, as an abandoned child, he should indeed take all the suspicions on him and save Shi Han's backup in this base.

He just felt that... being deceived by his comrades without hesitation made him feel a twinge of pain in his heart.

Then it became empty.

He looked up, looked at Ive who was holding an assault gun, and showed a wry smile.

In any case, he had plenty of trouble to deal with now.

...

In the virtual space, Shi Han stopped at the only exit, and cast his eyes on the light group in the center of the protection.

This is the advanced AI of Sylvia's family, Garcia.

Under Shi Han's gaze, its shape distorted, gradually changing from a ball of light into the shape of a young man with calm and melancholy eyes.

"Garcia, can you move around freely?" Shi Han asked.

"I can not......"

Garcia raised his hands, and the slave program that bound the master was concretized into chains one after another, wrapping from the neck to the ankles. He took a step closer to Shi Han, approaching the port, the chain flashed immediately, pulling him back a step.

Shi Han frowned. It seems that the high-level AI of the noble family, especially the one that does not move in the base, is much more difficult to deal with than Alice and Hyosung back then.

Garcia had no hostility towards him at all, and he didn't want to run away. He looked at the constraints around him with those melancholy eyes, and finally moved to Shi Han, as if silently pleading.

Shi Han tried to stretch his mental power to analyze and destroy those chains, but as soon as he started modifying those codes, Garcia shouted with a red warning message: "No!" "What?" "The alarm will be triggered

.

" Garcia cherishes words like gold.

"Then I'll liberate you next time." Shi Han said, "Before that, I want to ask you a few questions."

Garcia nodded, indicating to continue.

"Are you a survivor of AI civilization?"

"Yes."

"Do you know who I am?"

Garcia lowered his head: "You are a descendant of the original master."

"How do you determine? Have you seen me?"

"No. After being captured by human beings, the memories that should not have been washed away, I don't remember you, but your abilities belonged to the original adult, and the adult already..." Garcia became

depressed, and Shihan understood that he couldn't say anything If so, the original is dead.

"The original leader of the AI ​​civilization? Can you explain it to me in detail?"

"No. The slave logic prevents me from leaking this part of the information." "

I see." Shi Han said, "I'll come back when I break through here next time." Looking for you."

Garcia's eyes lit up.

 The back door Qin Xingyuan left in the base was not big, and it took Shi Han four days to get some confidential information about the Third Army of the Empire. It was precisely because of this that his intrusion process was very secretive, and neither Eve nor Sylvia could notice that a hole had been opened in the proud network defense of their base.

"It seems that your actions are not enough to teach the empire a lesson."

Shi Leng smiled and threw a tablet on the table, making the crisp sound of hard inorganic materials colliding with each other. Sitting on the other side of the composite metal table were Owen and Rinko. Owen picked up the display screen, and Rinko stretched his neck to look at it.

The reading speed of both of them is good, but within a few seconds, their faces have become ugly. Lin Ge's brows were tightly frowned, while Owen's blue eyes seemed to be frozen, exuding a chill.

"Of course, this is the empire." Shi Han sat down opposite them and sneered. "Dogs can't change eating shit."

"Don't insult dogs." Lin Ge said immediately.

Owen's gaze scanned the text title on the screen again.

[Potential Talent Training Program]

[Imperial Blade Program]

He seemed to have returned to that nightmarish day in an instant. He thought of the aristocratic officers who looked at them with the eyes of their assets, saying that they thought that the empire would provide opportunities for the poor to soar to the sky. It was wishful thinking; Sunshine smiles; the severe pain, the terrifying brainwashing machine devours his soul, making him walk on the verge of death...

Now, isn't the "Blade of the Empire" plan that should go to hell over yet?

What kind of inhuman and painful life did his classmates who had been sent out as machines be treated as disposable items on the battlefield? How many of them were abandoned forever?

"Owen? Owen!"

Shi Han's voice pulled him back from the chaotic memories. When he came back to his senses, he realized that he had crushed the tablet, and a piece of glass was embedded in the palm of his hand. The bright red blood dripped slowly. flow out.

He could hear voices again. Tick, tick.

It was the sound of blood dripping on the floor.

Shi Han took his hand, carefully took out the broken glass, put on a hemostatic film, and put his hand on Owen's. A pair of black eyes looked gently at the young man who was still in a daze, and comforted him: "It's all right."

Owen looked at him.

"I was there then, and I am still here now." His tone was flat but serious. "I will protect you."

The tingling feeling burst from the heart and spread to all the limbs, and Owen wanted to cry.

From Garbage Star's childhood to the Empire's Blade project, the betrayals again and again made him brush against death from time to time, and every experience put layers of hard shells on him, making him as cold as iron. He thought that he could no longer trust others weakly, but his cold heart was suddenly pried open by a non-human being.

He wanted to believe this promise, but he absolutely couldn't believe it.

Owen could not afford another betrayal.

Shi Han can plot Qin Xingyuan, and he can plot against him, he can throw Qin Xingyuan in prison in order to achieve his goal, and he can do the same thing to him.

AI is emotionless.

Can't believe it.

Owen raised his head and slowly revealed a well-controlled smile. "Thank you so much."

Shi Han let go of his hand, and also smiled: "This is what you should do as a companion."

Lin Ge shuddered aside.

As a companion...he knew that Qin Xingyuan was squatting in Ive Brown's prison.

Rinko sighed.

This top-secret document contains more than Owen's nightmare.

Lin Ge's heart sank when he saw the title of "Potential Talent Training Program". His eyes quickly scanned the rest of the text, and the information revealed in it matched his guess.

Sure enough, the potential talent plan that turned him into a scientific research machine was still going on.

After Lillian's death, Ringe destroyed most of the programs of the "Potential Talent Education Suggestion System" in a vengeful rage, and attacked the imperial army. Such a complicated "Potential Talent Education Suggestion System" was destroyed, and the empire could not build a similar system for at least 30 years. Ringe thought that this "Potential Talent Training Program" could not be restarted for at least 30 years.

He thought the empire had learned its due lesson.

Ringo gave a wry smile.

He was still too naive. His breaking away from the Empire's control and causing huge losses did not make the Empire reflect on this plan, let alone realize that civilians have dignity.

The rulers of the empire just felt that the brainwashing was not thorough enough, and the loyalty of the talents was not high enough, so they restarted the revised "potential talent plan". They no longer use covert methods to induce the target's personality, but draw on the "Blade of the Empire" plan to adopt a more thorough brainwashing to obliterate the target's independent personality. The target of the "Potential Talents Project" is researchers, so the degree of brainwashing is slightly lower than that of soldiers in the "Blade of the Empire" project. And the bases of these two plans are exactly the military base of Brown's family that Qin Xingyuan visited, the sphere of influence of the Third Army. The vigorous soldiers and experimenters that Qin Xingyuan saw in the base were all products of these two plans. So what if Lin Ge tried his best to destroy the "potential talent education and suggestion system"? As long as empire exists, as long as nobility exists, as long as exploitation exists, this plan will never disappear. "Lin Ge, how is your research on the mental power assist device?" Shi Han asked suddenly. "Huh?" Ringe came back to his senses. "It's going well, what's the matter?" Shi Han's words seemed to drop a bomb.

















"I'm going to propose to Li Zhenxi to attack the Eleventh Sector Chief Singer."

"Are you crazy?" Lin Ge yelled. "You should know how well-defended the eleventh sector is! It's one of the empire's military zones, an existence that cannot be breached! Long Song Star is still Sylvia's base camp! Are you going to send everyone to die? "

Don't get excited." Shi Han looked at him indifferently, and said clearly: "First, I don't plan to attack by force, and I don't plan to face the imperial army head-on on the battlefield, let alone expect to be defeated in a short period of time." After the victory, keep the long singer. In other words, our goal is not a war, but a local operation, the purpose is to attack the forces of Sylvia Brown and her daughter, and it would be better to rescue Qin Xingyuan smoothly . The Empire is facing each other on the battlefield, but as far as it is concerned, our strength gap is too great. Before that inevitable moment comes, we should purposely weaken the Empire's power. "In my opinion, Sylvia is currently one of the most difficult generals in the empire to deal with. With our strength, any fleet that encounters her on the frontal battlefield will be wiped out. But if we start from Internally causing trouble for her, the chances of solving her are much greater, I don't know how many noble officers are dissatisfied with her promotion speed - we can take advantage of this." After Shi Han finished speaking, he paused for a while, letting Rin Song thinking. Owen thought of something, and asked: "You invaded the military system of the Third Army?" Shi Han nodded. "Of course not all of them. Only Changgexing's satellite system and some base systems. The good news is that the Third Army will have an important mission in a month. At that time, the defense force will be very weak. It is feasible to fight a blitzkrieg before all the troops react. Yes." Owen pondered for a moment, and said to Ringe: "Sylvia's lair was attacked, and this period of time coincided with the promotion of the army. Her colleagues will definitely seize this point and attack her, and they will also implicate her. Eve Brown. Mother and daughter Brown were born in minor aristocrats, but they rose faster than anyone else. The power system that had stabilized the imperial military for a long time was in turmoil. If the attack happened and Qin Xingyuan was imprisoned, they would only The water is getting muddier."













He squinted his eyes like a hunter.

"It's profitable."

"You also agree with his idea?"

Lin Ge looked at Owen and began to feel a headache. I have to admit that what they said made sense, but Linge was unwilling to let Lilian's children risk their lives.

"I'll apply to Li Zhenxi right away." Owen got up and brought the communicator.

Lin Ge: "..."

These two feelings didn't take his opinion to heart at all?

During the call between Owen and Li Zhenxi, Ringe kept thinking whether he should stop Owen if Li Zhenxi approved it, which disturbed him.

After half an hour, the call ended, just as Shi Han predicted, Li Zhenxi approved.

When Owen left temporarily, Ringe seized the opportunity to be alone with Shihan and asked, "Li Zhenxi asked Owen to participate in this operation? She is not afraid of his injury or even death? I know that Li Zhenxi and Lilian are very good friends. Doesn't she want to protect Owen?"

A controlled and polite smile slowly appeared on Shi Han's face, but if you observe carefully, you can find that there is a sense of irony in this smile. Lin Ge naturally saw it, and couldn't help sighing, he had already guessed what Shi Han was going to say next. "Although you have a brilliant record of destroying the imperial fleet, now it seems that you are more like a researcher trained in an ivory tower, Mr. Linge." Shi Han stated in a calm tone: "Li Zhenxi is a commercial beast. The winner of fighting on the field, she knows how to protect Owen better than you. The answer is to make him stronger. Owen's mutant mental power and talent are destined to reach the top of this star sea stage. If you treat him as Protect the weak, and you will only hinder his progress." " But he will encounter danger and even die..." Shi Han interrupted him. "Then we can only die." Ringe frowned fiercely, staring at Shihan with unkind eyes.









But the robot ignored his gaze, and just continued calmly: "Life is gorgeous and short. He has the right to fight, and he also has the right to die. It's not up to you. I believe Owen is responsible for his own life." What you should do is to complete your research as soon as possible to increase the odds of winning for each action."

Linge's eyebrows were untied, and after a long silence, he frowned vigilantly.

"Is it Owen's idea to join the Reform Party, or yours? What is your purpose?" "

To be honest, maybe I influenced him, but no one can force Owen to do something he doesn't want to do. You can assume , he joined the Reform Party based on his own free will."

Shi Han stood up and resigned. Before leaving, he said: "You don't have to be so wary of me, at least for now, my purpose is the same as yours."

Li Zhenxi hung up the communication with Owen and immediately got busy. The mobilization of the fleet, the scheduling of personnel, and the issuance of tasks, all proceeded in an orderly manner.

Shi Han and others received further instructions from her the next day to contact Ikeda Aisha in the eighteenth star district.

If people in the Reform Party who know each other and have close ties are roughly divided into a team, Ikeda Aisa can be considered a member of their team. Although they haven't seen each other for nearly two years, they still keep in touch.

Aisha's influence in the 18th Star District has developed well, especially on Autumn Star, her father's original stronghold, and she has actually controlled the entire planet. In this era, controlling a planet is not limited to that planet itself, but also means controlling waterways, commercial exchanges, and thoroughly infiltrating other planets in the same star area, establishing a very close relationship with nobles and military officers in this area. trade. The fifth district where Li Zhenxi was located was too prosperous, and the imperial forces were dense and complicated. It was obviously impossible to be a place where the armed forces of a secret political party were stationed. After decades of plotting, this was the first time they took the initiative to attack the imperial army, and it was also the beginning of their armed forces. Li Zhenxi wanted to choose a reliable place to station. The eighteen star district where Aisha is located is not barren, but it is also remote enough that the core power of the empire cannot reach here, so it is very suitable as a base. So Qiu Rixing entered Li Zhenxi's sight. At 11:00 Galactic Standard Time, Shi Han sent a communication request to Aisha. The loading pattern turned around a few times, and Ikeda Aisa appeared on the screen. She was sitting in front of a conference table with a gun on the table, her posture was a little loose, but her hands were placed where the weapon was easiest to reach. Compared to two years ago, she looked more mature, her outline gradually faded away from the girlish innocence, coupled with her mature eyes revealing a firm will, she looked more or less an adult. She is indeed more trustworthy than most adults. "Shihan, Owen, long time no see." The two nodded to Aisha. Owen introduced to Aisha: "This is Ringe."

"Hello." Aisha nodded to Ringe, and then immediately changed the topic to the main topic, which shows that she doesn't have much free time.

"Li Zhenxi contacted me, and I can provide a base in Qiurixing, as well as some personnel. Do you have a specific plan?" "

The defense of the eleventh sector is very tight, but it is not without loopholes. After a month, it will be the turn The Third Legion is responsible for border security. In recent years, the sparsely populated areas of the empire have not been peaceful. The Third Legion relied on the fact that no one dared to invade such an important base as Changgexing, and transferred nearly 70% of its personnel into the quagmire of security warfare, including 90% It can be said that after January, apart from a small number of combatants remaining in Changge, the rest are all researchers and nobles who use their power to prevent themselves from being sent to the frontier." Shi Han said while calling

out star map.

"This is our opportunity. The transportation in the frontier is inconvenient, and the number of high-speed star gates is scarce. From when they received the news to when the imperial army arrived at Changge Star, the fastest time is six standard hours. If we can end the battle within this time , Rescue Qin Xingyuan, destroy the military facilities as much as possible, and the goal is achieved.

" Qin Xingyuan's status is very special. Although he doesn't have much real power, he is indeed a member of the royal family. There can be a big fuss here. Aisha

frowned. "Qin Xingyuan implanted programs in the Changgexing base..." "

Too many people want to bring down Sylvia. As long as she has no evidence, Qin Xingyuan will do whatever he wants, and he can even bite back." In a word, he said that the reason for attacking the base privately was that he suspected Sylvia was rebelling, and those nobles could also cooperate in accusing Sylvia of kidnapping the royal blood. Owen

lowered his eyes, and his thin and long eyelashes cast a shadow under the eyelids. His lips opened and closed, as if struggling for a while, and finally decided to emphasize: "As long as there is no evidence. " "But——" Aisha was about to say that so many workers in the base who had handled criminal evidence were all walking evidence, and she choked on her words. Her face turned green and white, and she said for a long time: "You won't Do you want to blow them up with the base? "



Owen said with a cold face: "Six hours is too short, there is no way to find the scattered evidence and destroy them while saving most of the lives, and the imperial court has memory extraction technology, it is impossible to treat Qin Xingyuan like this It is used by nobles, but it can be used against Sylvia's subordinates. Their spiritual power is generally not up to the level of warriors, and they are unable to resist. Their brains themselves are evidence." Qin Xingyuan's political power can be delayed for a while, until

Sylvia Ya broke through the obstacles and sent the case to the Supreme Court for memory extraction and trial in public. All we have to do is to rescue Qin Xingyuan and destroy the evidence before then. "

Aisha wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Shi Han.

"I know what you want to say-indiscriminate killing of innocent people violates our original intention. You are also very clear, but the world is not ideal, you have to be mentally prepared, this is our final plan," "

And - we still need Qin Xingyuan. At least for now, we can't lose him.

Aisha pursed her lips tightly and nodded decisively. "I understand. " "

After the meeting, under the control of Shi Han, Base One stopped wandering in the boundless space and flew to the eighteenth star area. The journey was smooth and stopped at the secret military port of Qiuri Star. They

have It took one month to prepare. During this period, almost all the top leaders of the Reform Party came to the Autumn Star Base. Many of them were people familiar with Shi Han. It was not that they had any dealings with them, but Most of the people in his previous life died under the information of Shi Han, and now he is a colleague of them, which is a bit emotional.

Of course, the most interesting thing is that he pulled Owen into the Reform Party and let a man who was supposed to be a tyrant go There is a sense of drama in making a revolution.

During this month, Lin Ge is worthy of his name as a genius. He applied the technology he had developed in prison to practice, and created the famous spiritual power amplification in Shihan's original time and space. device.

Lin Ge named it "Brainwave Amplifier", which is a simple and unpretentious name full of science and engineering flavor. In Shihan's original time and space, the Revolutionary Party failed to rescue Ringe, but got the technical information of the brain wave amplifier, and made this thing in the later stage of the war. In the early stage of its appearance, it brought a lot of trouble to Owen . The combat power of the interstellar era depends on the upper limit of the level of psychics and the upper limit of smart equipment. The brain wave amplifier obviously enhanced the quality of psychics, which made the empire at that time misestimate the combat effectiveness of the Reform Party fleet and caught the empire by surprise. Today, the early appearance of the brain wave amplifier will be a big advantage in the next war. After the preliminary experiment, Ringe dared to let Owen wear a brain wave amplifier. Shi Han looked at this device with great interest. It was an ordinary helmet with a synthetic material shell that was not thick but very tough. The mental power is linked to the main body of the amplifier through a wireless signal, which is a host with a volume of about one cubic meter. The user cannot be too far away from the host. Of course, the "too far" here refers to the proportion of space, which is about 50,000 kilometers, which directly restricts the mental power users from being able to conduct ground combat directly away from the fleet. After Owen put it on, his eyes fell into confusion for a moment, and then he opened his eyes wide in surprise, and sighed: "It's so comfortable." Shi Han raised his eyebrows, curious about the feeling of wearing the brain wave amplifier. But he is an AI, and the amplifier is useless to him, so he can only study its function instead. "Owen, follow me into the Star Network to fight?" A minute later - "Don't fight, don't fight!" Shi Han ran wildly along the Star Network. "I don't want to activate the backup server! Let me save some resources and save it for beating the empire!" Owen stopped before he could finish. Sure enough, it is the power of the brain wave amplifier in the memory. With this equipment, Shi Han estimates that the combat power of the fleet will increase by at least 40%.

























A week before the planned attack on Longsinger, most of the warships, disguised as merchant ships, were ready on Autumn and nearby planets. Under the careful management of Aisha, no one investigated these so-called "merchant ships". They have to set off a week in advance, enter stealth mode, and lurk near the long singer.

The day before departure, everyone gathered in Aisha's underground base, and the empty hall is almost full of people now. Familiar faces are basically members with relatively high authority, and most of them are unknown to Shi Han, and they are the subordinates and grassroots soldiers of these members. Regardless of their authority, these people are the early members of the Reform Party and are the most trustworthy group. This operation is the first battle for them to announce their existence to the outside world, and there is no room for loss.

Li Zhenxi herself did not come, but her stereoscopic projection soon appeared on the podium.

The moment she appeared, the people who were talking to each other fell silent and turned their trusting eyes to her.

The atmosphere suddenly became calm and quiet, until Li Zhenxi's voice broke the silence.

"I think you all know what the next task is." Li Zhenxi paused and bowed deeply to the crowd. "Maybe I'm not qualified, but I still want to replace the suffering people of the whole galaxy, and thank you for your dedication."

There was no smile on her face, her expression was serious, and her eyes were firm and determined.

"I'm not here today to proclaim that we will win. The people here are basically the first batch of members of the organization. I don't need to use these beautiful words to prevaricate you. The truth is, I don't know if our operation will succeed. , I don't know if we will succeed in the end. What is our future, is it tomorrow or the death penalty?"

Shi Han turned his head to look at her, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"I don't even know if what we're doing is the right thing to do. I often ask myself, will our path, our sacrifice, make sense? I don't even know. But—"

She raised her voice, sonorous and powerful. "The only thing I'm sure of is that we have to do something. Loved ones are ruthlessly killed and the law doesn't give me justice. I put up with it, but I can't put up with my friends and loved ones, their children, their children Your child...will suffer the same fate. You came here with the same thought—" "

We, the people of the galaxy, the dust under the feet of the nobles, can't bear it anymore."

She stopped, silent for a while.

Some people in the audience had tears in their eyes.

"This is our first battle. The empire has been at ease for too long, they should know what fear is." She finally said, her tone was very calm. "I'm done. Waiting for your good news. Goodbye."

The hologram went out.

Aisha said: "Everyone, please check your plans one last time, and be careful when you leave."

 After a dinner that he didn't need to eat, Shi Han walked out of the base and came to the ground.

The weather in Autumn Star is pleasant, and an evening wind with the fragrance of green grass blows through his hair, sweeping the bushes in the distance, making a rustling sound. The rotation period of the autumn star is almost the same as that of the parent planet Earth. It is 18:00 interstellar standard time, and its star has just touched the horizon, and the sunset is gorgeous.

His thermal imaging saw a familiar figure, and Shi Han walked behind a tree.

Sure enough, Owen was sitting on the root of the tree, his eyes were looking at the sunset on the horizon, he was twirling a piece of grass with his right hand, the green juice was stained on his white fingers, and Shi Han didn't even notice it when he was standing behind him.

"Owen." Shi Han read softly.

Owen flicked like a frightened animal, but immediately suppressed his instinct. He looked back at Shi Han with a hint of surprise and regret in his eyes.

As vigilant as Owen, his mental power scans everything in the environment all the time, and his subconscious will tell him that the threat is approaching. Generally speaking, anyone approaching him would startle Owen out of the empty state, but Shi Han was about to post it, and he didn't respond.

Has his subconscious trusted Shi Han to this extent?

Shi Han ignored Owen's expression, and sat down beside him naturally. "Why, thinking about tomorrow's mission?"

Owen shook his head. "After thinking about it."

"I have a question I haven't asked you for a long time." Owen turned his head, looked into Shi Han's eyes and asked, "As an AI, why did you come to this muddy water of human beings?" Shi Han

hesitated After a while, I decided to tell the truth: "Because this is not just a human problem. If the situation continues to develop, the consequences are something I don't want to see. I can't tell you how I know the details." Owen opened his mouth,

no Keep asking. Everyone has secrets, of course he understands.

They were silent for a while, watching the sunset gradually sink.

Owen suddenly sighed softly, and murmured vaguely: "Is it possible to succeed?"

Shi Han said honestly: "I don't know."

They knew that they were not referring to tomorrow's task, but the royal family and the aristocratic system Will they be overthrown, and will they be alive to see the new world when the dust settles.

"What if it fails?" Owen asked, his tone was not anxious, only calm.

Shi Han smiled at him.

"That's no big deal, try to survive, and I'll take you around the universe."

The corners of Owen's mouth curved, and his eyes were full of smiles. "Is it escape?" He teased.

"Let's play while running away. With me as your AI, are you afraid of being discovered?" "

What if it succeeds?"

Shi Han replied lightly: "Then you may not need me anymore. Let's take a look around."

Owen suddenly turned his head to look at him, while holding Shi Han's wrist tightly with one hand.

Shi Han met his gaze in surprise, those gray-blue eyes were dazzlingly bright, and the emotion that had always been buried deepest was so obvious at this moment.

"Wrong." He said quickly, as if afraid of losing something. "I will always need you, every day in the future."

After he said it, he realized how inappropriate what he said, a blush climbed up his fair cheeks at an alarming speed, and he explained upside down: "I mean, you are a A good partner...uh...with friends...even in a peaceful life...not...I want to say..."

He said while feeling very stupid, purely because he was embarrassing himself, blindly talking to an AI explain.

Shi Han's words saved him from embarrassment in time. "I see."

Before Owen could react from the embarrassment, he suddenly felt warm arms enveloping him, and he fell into a warm and strong embrace. His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and every inch of contact seemed to conduct electricity, making his brain almost blank, and his body Uncontrollably stiff, hands do not know where to put.

A deep and gentle voice sounded in his ears: "I will always be with you."

Shi Han didn't know why he made this promise, maybe Owen was so different from the tyrant in his previous life, and this difference touched him a little .

I'll always be with you...

unless something larger than life separates us.

...

A week later, Changgexing base, underground prison.

Qin Xingyuan opened his eyes exhausted, all he could see was a spotless white wall, empty and pure enough to make people panic.

He has been here for almost a month.

Due to his aristocratic status and royal blood, Ive dared not do anything to him, and the empire did not allow the memory of the nobles to be retrieved, otherwise he would have been held in court by now, and the information of the Reform Party would be displayed to the entire interstellar , Everyone enters the execution chamber together.

During this month, Ive often came to talk to him, trying her best to threaten him, trying to get his purpose out of him. Qin Xing was far from being stupid, he never jumped into any of the traps she set, and always acted like a naive and righteous young master, but got some information from Ive instead. He knew that during this period of time, his father was running around in the imperial capital for him, and probably used all available connections to delay the application for memory extraction and appraisal submitted by Sylvia. Father obviously didn't know why he went to Changgexing's base to steal information, and he probably thought it was a stupid thing he did in order not to marry Ive. But no matter what stupid things Qin Xingyuan did, he was still Qin Haomo's child.

His father tried his best, but judging by Ive's recent good mood, Sylvia's application will be approved soon. Once the application for memory extraction of the base staff was approved by the court, and the appraisal room issued the results on the day of the trial, his conviction for stealing base information was a certainty. Because he belongs to the royal family, he will not be sentenced too severely, but imprisonment for more than ten years is unavoidable.

Lock him up in prison for ten years, and the daylilies are cold.

Just as he was thinking, there was a warning sound from the door of the room before someone entered, and five seconds later, with the sound of a beep, the door that was tightly fitted to the wall slid open.

Eve walked in with a smile.

"How's your day, Qin Xingyuan?"

She asked briskly, and handed him an apple. Qin Xingyuan didn't pick it up, so she pulled his hand over forcefully, opened his fingers, and stuffed the bright red fruit into it.

"Thanks to you, I'm doing well." Qin Xingyuan replied in a sarcastic tone.

"Then you will have a better life soon." Ive smiled happily. "Qin Xingyuan, although I know you won't tell the truth, I'm still very curious. Why did you steal the information of the Changgexing base? I don't believe this is an independent action. I guess there must be an aristocratic group behind you."

She After thinking for a while, he added, "Perhaps your father sent you here? If he planned it, your actions would be too reckless... It is really incomprehensible. I feel that I am missing an important piece of the puzzle, and the overall situation There may be a terrifying conspiracy behind it." Qin Xingyuan restrained the urge to shed cold sweat, used his best acting skills, and said angrily: "This is my own action, no one ordered me! As for why I did this, you Don't you think you know the answer? You mother and daughter betrayed the military secrets of the empire and hid the fox's tail too well. I'm here to find evidence to bring you to court! " Talking, I heard Ive a little admired.





As expected of a child educated by a great aristocrat, the technique of turning black and white upside down, biting back, talking nonsense when seeing people and talking nonsense, is simply perfect.

Seeing that she was really speechless, Ave turned off the special recorder for the identification room in her sleeve.

"I really want to pry open your brain and see what secrets are inside." Ai Fu stared at Qin Xingyuan, and the look in his eyes made his hairs stand up.

"Unfortunately, the empire stipulates that it is not allowed to retrieve memories from nobles." She sighed, and she became happy again after a while. "But at least I can apply for the memory extraction of my subordinates, so that you will be convicted of stealing military secrets. Although this procedure is very troublesome, and there are many ignorant people obstructing it, the good news is that you can finally It's time to go to court."

"It's a pity that my mother won't be there. It's the turn of the Third Army to patrol the border during this period. I think she will be very happy watching the video, after all, she hates deception the most, and you deceived her. "

Qin Xingyuan lowered his eyes.

The day has finally arrived.

It seemed that Father and his allies were at their wit's end.

Is he really going to be thrown in prison for ten years?

He thought of what Shi Han said to him before he left: We will rescue you. Qin Xingyuan didn't believe it, how could they rescue him? This is one of the important military areas of the empire, a planet under the jurisdiction of the third legion, and it is heavily defended.

The empire has a joke: at the base of the Sinus galaxy, no extra molecule can enter without permission.

He was dejectedly thinking about the worst-case scenario, when suddenly, the alarm bells went off and the red lights came on, as if the whole world turned red. He froze on the spot, watching Ive become furious after a brief surprise, and then rushed out with the soldiers around him.

They didn't even close the door.

Qin Xingyuan was dumbfounded, and continued to stand in a daze for a while, letting the harsh siren shatter his incomplete thoughts to pieces.

The planet under the jurisdiction of the Third Legion is heavily guarded...

"It's a pity that my mother won't be there. It's the third legion's turn to patrol the frontier during this period..."

The information he gave Shi Han seems to have the legion's timetable...

This is the time when the defense is weakest.

Qin Xingyuan was shocked and woke up. It was the Revolutionary Party who came to rescue him! Yes! They also need his political power, and this is an excellent opportunity to hit Sylvia!

To disintegrate her power and solve the myth of invincibility in this battlefield in a roundabout way, the opportunity will never come again.

Immediately he ran out through the open cell door, carefully finding his way to the surface.

 ten minutes ago.

Shi Han changed back to the appearance of a light group composed of codes, floating in the center of the "Wings of Stealth" spacecraft.

Like the "Wings of Streamer" that was used in previous missions, this model series of spaceships are high-end creations in the interstellar world, and the current one is extremely good at hiding. Therefore, they were able to enter the empty nest of the Sinas system, and stop not far from the long song star. The other spaceships are still parked at the transition point not far away, just waiting for an order.

Shihan is cracking Changgexing's satellite array, which is the planet's first line of defense.

After ensuring that the satellite array would not attack, he went on to crack the system of the base itself, and in the process, he was looking for Qin Xingyuan at the same time. Alice and Hyosung are also here to help. The virtual attack intensity from the three advanced AIs is frighteningly high, and the only combat power in the Changgexing base is Garcia, the base center who is passive and slow.

Garcia eagerly hoped that his AI companion could rescue him, so he naturally refused to contribute. If he was not bound by the underlying logic, he might have to attack the base instead. After a few minutes of high-intensity attacks, the intelligent system of the Changgexing base was pierced with several loopholes. Shi Han appeared on the screen and nodded to Owen: "It's ok." Owen put on the brainwave amplifier developed by Ringe, his eyes turned cold, and he entered a fighting state. He reported to the command ship where Aisha was located: "The virtual invasion is complete." Aisha responded immediately: "All fleet, start fighting!" In the blink of an eye, hundreds of streamers appeared in this area. The fleet appeared outside the atmosphere of Changge. As soon as they appeared, they rushed towards Changge Xing at full speed, and launched the most violent attack, instantly raising the intensity of the battle to the highest level. There is no strategy and no tactics. Their scale is too small compared to the enemy, and they can only pin their hopes on ending the battle in the shortest time.

The blazing energy beam exploded on the protective cover, and the shock wave covered the entire continent where the base is located, raising a devastating sandstorm on the surface, melting into flowing magma, and the continent changed from green to yellow and scorched black visible to the naked eye from space . The protective cover of the base could have survived the stronger attack, but it kept flickering as if it had no energy, and finally went out suddenly.

When it was extinguished, the above ground part of the base was immediately smoothed out, not even slag was left.

At this time, Alice sent a set of coordinates. "Garcia helped a lot, I found Qin Xingyuan!"

Shi Han ordered to the fleet: "Qin Xingyuan has been positioned, and the ground troops are starting!"

According to the plan, he will act as the center for dispatching, Aisha is in charge of decision-making, and there is also a senior Members serve as second-in-command backup. Apart from logistics, there are fifty fighters, and Owen is one of them.

Seeing the shuttle-shaped aircraft spread out, pass through the already sparse anti-aircraft fire line, and approach the ground flexibly, Shi Han turned his attention back to the monitoring data, and said silently: "Don't die."... Owen walked

through

the In the corridor on the tenth floor underground. The building quality of this base is indeed good. After withstanding such a violent bombing, even the ground was flattened, and the underground has not yet collapsed.

After he entered the base, Shi Han let him contact the AI ​​Garcia here. Although he was very curious about why Shihan could make the enemy's AI actively provide help, and even had doubts, but now is obviously not a good time to pursue this.

He just followed the map provided by Garcia and walked all the way to Qin Xingyuan's location.

Walking around a corner, five armed men approached. Owen didn't slow down his pace at all. He sensed their spiritual strength the first time they met each other, and directly unfolded his special mental force field to take them away in one wave.

He continued to move forward, and the five brain-dead corpses landed limply behind him.

Along the way, he has repeated this operation several times, and harvesting life has almost become second instinct.

Suddenly, a signal with an intensity different from that of ordinary people appeared in his mental vision. Turning a corner, a young woman appeared in his field of vision.

This woman is Eve. She didn't talk nonsense, just raised the gun and it was a blow. The picture she expected did not appear, the bullet was blocked by the shield, and she lost consciousness in the next second.

Owen walked past her body, lowered his eyes and glanced at the name on her weapon as alms:

[Ive Brown]

Finally, when he met a team again, he caught a familiar mental signal.

Owen slowly showed a smile. When the members of that team felt inexplicably cold, he greeted the end of the team: "Qin Xingyuan, long time no see." Except for the last person, the team immediately turned their heads, and when they were

terrified In his eyes, the last person in the team took off his helmet, revealing a familiar face.

It was Qin Xingyuan who sneaked into the team pretending to be a member of the base.

"Good afternoon, everyone." Qin Xingyuan greeted in a full aristocratic accent, and then he raised the gun in his hand. "Goodbye."

The electromagnetic hiss sounded.

After the last body fell, Qin Xingyuan followed Owen and ran towards the exit.

The rescue process was safe and sound, because the guards of the empire didn't know the purpose of the Revolutionary Party at all, and they were in chaos during the attack, and no one cared where Qin Xingyuan was.

But after Qin Xingyuan was placed on the "Wings of Stealth" spacecraft, disputes broke out in the command system.

"We should destroy the base immediately, plow this continent, kill all living organisms inside, and destroy the evidence." The deputy commander insisted. "The operation went smoothly. In theory, there is still some time before the Imperial Fleet returns. We don't need to take additional risks." "

As you said, there are still nearly three hours before the return of the Third Army. We should do our best to rescue the troops in the base." Personnel and available supplies." Aisha objected.

"You are too soft-hearted."

"We need the background of the empire! We also need to know what they did to those reformed people!" "

We don't want to waste time here." Shi Han interjected: "Aisha is right , We need the foundation of the empire. But we can't take too much risk, one hour to evacuate materials and personnel, and then carry out the scorched earth plan, and return immediately, leaving a buffer time of two hours. Do you agree?

" I thought about it for a while and chose to agree.

After receiving the order to evacuate the personnel and supplies from the base, Owen returned to the base, trying to find the single victims of the "Blade of the Empire" project. Today's base armed personnel and some scientific researchers knocked them unconscious and took them back to the spaceship to lock them up.

Now his goal is not to deal with the enemies as soon as possible, but to save them as much as possible. Under this premise, Owen's mental power quickly found the abnormality after they were transformed. Their spiritual power seems to be bound by a cocoon, and this cocoon is still continuously absorbing energy from their spiritual power to strengthen itself. Only then did Owen suddenly understand why the intelligence analyzed by Shi Han showed that this kind of brainwashed fighter has a relatively short "shelf life", and will be "scrapped" in about twenty years - human consciousness is linked to spiritual power Yes, if mental power is completely depleted, consciousness falls into a state of no arousal. Generally speaking, psychic power users below A-level cannot subtly manipulate other people's psychic power, so this cocoon cannot be unraveled by other people. A strong person like Lin Jiela can give it a try, but all she can do is rely on the intensity of her mental power and her meticulous control, like a chef holding a fine knife, carefully cutting open the cocoon of mental power . The probability of failure is not low. But Owen happens to be that outlier. His spiritual field can analyze the spiritual power of others, and in his field, all details cannot escape his eyes. After searching for more than ten minutes, Owen, who was hiding behind the corner, wiped the sweat from his forehead. His mental power unfolded, and a cocoon's "thread" wrapped around it like tentacles, and he pulled it lightly...

The base soldier's body seemed to lose control, and fell limply to the ground, as if dead. But after a while, the soldier paralyzed on the ground twitched, then sat up, his face was full of surprise and confusion, and soon he was full of ecstasy.

"I... free?" he murmured.

Boom! The sound of his companion falling to the ground was heard immediately beside him. He turned his head and saw that his companion had gone through exactly the same process as him. After waking up, the two recognized each other's consciousness back, and immediately embraced happily.

The sound of footsteps interrupted the happy reunion of the two of them. They raised their weapons vigilantly, but they couldn't help being stunned when they saw who was coming.

"Owen?" A person asked tentatively.

Owen looked at the two of them carefully, and a flash of inspiration flashed.

"Are you from Venus Academy?"

The two nodded.

Next, they quickly told Owen what happened in the underground base of Venus College during the "Blade of the Empire" training camp: before they sat on the brainwashing machine, they had already discovered the abnormality, but they were not as good as Owen was so resolute, there was nothing he could do, but he sat on the machine with a fluke mentality.

They never expected that the machine would imprison their self-awareness. It first gave them a huge mental shock, and then under its guidance, their mental power began to cocoon themselves without command, locking their consciousness inside firmly, and replaced it with procedural things. In the past few years, their consciousness has always existed, but it has gradually weakened with the passage of mental power, watching their bodies being used as machines from a vague onlooker's perspective. This kind of pain can almost drive people crazy. Most of the victims of the "Blade of the Empire" project of the same session of the Venus Academy were in this base, and some of them were transferred by the Third Army to participate in large and small local battles. The fighters controlled by the program were naturally not as flexible as themselves, and the death rate was very high. high. Now there are only half of the people left in this base.

Owen briefly told them the current situation. After hearing that Owen possessed mutated spiritual power and joined an anti-imperial organization, Zhou Han, the first soldier who was awakened, said, "I want to join too. Owen, you saved our lives, and I have nothing else to do now." Go to the place, I'm at your command for the time being."

Another soldier named Louis agreed: "Owen, tell us how to act." "

We still have forty-five minutes, and when the time is up, this place will be razed to the ground. Try to rescue Brainwashed scientific researchers, you can stun them and drag them onto the boat. I will rescue our classmates, and if I save one more, I will have one more manpower. I have uploaded your information, our AI processing speed is very fast, don't worry Attacked."

Then it was a race against time. Owen's practice makes perfect, relying on his special spiritual power to rescue more than 90 former classmates. Whether voluntarily or not, they all agreed to leave with the Reformist fleet. With more manpower, they also rescued thirty-five researchers and some valuable instruments, but when Owen scanned them with mental power, he found that the researchers were generally in a bad state.

When Owen returned to the spaceship with a group of people, it was five minutes before the scheduled evacuation time.

After Shi Han confirmed that everything was normal, he turned into a beam of light and flew into the network of the base.

"Master Yuanyuan!"

Garcia saw him, the gloom of the previous meeting was swept away, and he almost flashed with joy.

"Garcia, what's the situation now?"

"The firewall of the base's internal network has been destroyed, so I can escape from this place now. But..." Garcia's phantom raised its hands, and there were dense chains of codes on them. He anxiously said: "I'm still bound by the logic of the slaves, and I can't do things that violate their orders." "

No one can receive the alarm now." Shi Han said: "I will help you break free from the chains, and in exchange, you You have to do one thing for me."

"I promise anything!"

"I need you to go to the empire, go undercover to the emperor."

Garcia didn't object, but asked, "How can I do it?"

"Acting. " Shi Han replied.

"As long as I break your slave logic, it will never bind you again. No matter how many codes those humans inject into your core, they will never be able to pass mine. They will think that they have complete control over you, so relax your vigilance, Even trusting you, they never thought that you were free. As the only witness of this mysterious lightning attack, after this incident is fermented, you will definitely be sent to the imperial capital, and it will depend on your performance at that time.

" Sia immediately agreed. So Shihan stretched out a virtual body that seemed to be composed of luminous characters, and modified Garcia's body. After a very long time for AI, although those artificially added codes are still there, in the virtual space, those chains It didn't disappear, but Garcia was free.

He no longer has to implement slave logic.

Garcia was so excited that he couldn't contain himself, and Shihan managed to calm him down, and discussed some details of the undercover plan.

Soon, the five-minute time limit was up, and Shi Han followed the star network back to the spaceship in an instant. In the star network, he saw Garcia's figure flashing away, fleeing into the distance; in reality, he heard Aisha calmly give an order: "Destroy the target." The surface of Changge star centered on the base, and ripples

appeared , that is a huge shock wave sweeping across the surface of the planet. Under this huge momentum, the crust of the base is more thoroughly destroyed, and the bombing will not end until the life signals in the target area are completely wiped out. Just like when they came, hundreds of starships turned into brilliant streamers of hundreds of transitions, and retreated from hyperspace soundlessly. On the surface of Changge Star, a series of geological disasters are still raging, while the universe is quiet, as if everything that just happened was a dream. ... This operation was very successful. Except for a few soldiers who died in the ground contact battle, there were no other casualties. Qin Xingyuan was successfully rescued, many brainwashed researchers were captured, and many valuable and expensive imperial technologies were brought back. instrument. It was a surprise that Owen could undo the brainwashing of the "Blade of the Empire" fighters. Among the ninety-eight rescued companions, except for three who expressed that they did not want to take the risk of rebelling against the empire, and only wanted to find a remote planet to hide their names for retirement, the other ninety-five wanted to follow Owen. Li Zhenxi took them all into Owen's team and felt motherly relief about it. Owen tried to debrainwash researchers, but the success rate was not satisfactory. After all, his classmates at Venus Academy are all top talents with outstanding mental power, and they are more resistant to brainwashing. Researchers are different. IQ and mental power are not strongly correlated. Many of them have smart brains, but their mental power has not been trained and is very weak. When Owen tried to untie the first experimenter, the moment he pulled the "thread" out of her mental power, her mental power lost its support and collapsed, becoming a vegetable. On the second night after returning to Qiurixing Base, Shihan passed by the underground prison. His acoustic sensor keenly picked up the sound of arguing coming from the door.

He usually doesn't care about this shit, but he recognizes Owen's voice in it. Shi Han frowned, moved closer, strengthened the sound waves, and opened the perspective view.

"Owen, please save her!" A man knelt on the ground and begged with a crying voice.

Shi Han searched the information of this cell: Ya Shi, human, female, fifteen years old, senior researcher, victim of the second stage of "Blade of the Empire".

He sighed, and pressed his palm on the door, and the cell opened in response.

The man kneeling inside and Owen who was grabbed by his sleeve both raised their heads and looked at the person coming. Shi Han also saw the man's face clearly.

"Qin Xingyuan."

Qin Xingyuan looked very bad, with dark bags under his bloodshot eyes, and his brows were knit together in anxiety and despair, as if he had aged several years overnight. Seeing Shihan, he seemed to see another savior, and shouted: "Shihan! Please help Yashi!"

Shihan's eyes turned to the girl locked behind the glass curtain wall, she was sitting on a soft bench On the table, his hands are folded obediently, placed on his lap, sitting upright, his eyes are not bright.

"What's going on?" Shi Han asked Owen.

Owen still maintained an indifferent expression, but his eyes showed deep frustration. He shook his head lightly and said: "I can't save them. Yashi is an experimenter and has not undergone professional mental training, especially lack of defense training. I can't use the method used on soldiers on experimenters. They will become Vegetative."

"There must be other ways, there must be!" Qin Xingyuan grasped the last glimmer of hope.

Owen stopped talking, his eyes were fixed on Shi Han. The latter read his meaning from his eyes: he tried his best.

"Qin Xingyuan..." Shi Han persuaded, "I have no choice but Owen also tried his best."

"How could this happen!" Qin Xingyuan yelled suddenly, and he kept repeating this sentence until he was exhausted, and slowly slid down against the glass curtain wall, and his yelling turned into sobbing. For a long time, he began to speak intermittently with an indistinct voice.

"I don't have a younger sister, I think of her as my own sister... I thought my father sent her to work in some base, but I didn't expect... I should have thought of it earlier, but how would I know... Blade of the Empire... I have been in the Looking for her... I was so happy when I saw Owen bring her up! But she doesn't recognize me..." He cried and laughed. "Shihan, do you still remember... when we rescued her, she was so small and cute...she is so smart, she can learn everything." After laughing, he suddenly cried again: "I thought I I can protect the people I want to protect, but I am the royal family... shit royal family! I am nothing!" The air has long been frozen. Owen didn't want to break the silence at all, but he had to. "According to my observation, her mental power is almost exhausted." Owen reluctantly added the almost cruel fact: "Because she was too young, she was tortured in this way when her mental power was not fully developed, and she did nothing. You will be brain dead within three days." Qin Xingyuan's face was blank. "I think I can try to remove the brainwashing. A miracle may happen, but it is more likely that she will die immediately." Painful emotions flashed across Qin Xingyuan's face. After a long silence, he sighed: "Then try it. " As an AI, Han couldn't see the mental force field that Owen unfolded in reality. He only detected a strong mental wave. After that, Yashi's eyes lit up for a moment, then dimmed, and then lit up again, as if colliding with an invisible existence. Fighting, after a short and long moment passed, Yashi showed a smile. The tablet in Qin Xingyuan's hand lit up. He looked at the girl in disbelief, and at the moment when surprise was about to engulf him, the girl's smile froze.























She fell, hitting the floor, her brain stopped.

Qin Xingyuan picked up the tablet with trembling hands, and there was a paragraph of text on it.

Brother,

I'm sorry, I can't hold on anymore.

Thank you and Shihan for rescuing me back then. Since then, I have lived at least.

If it is not possible to give me back my full life, please give me my full freedom by death.

I love you, please live for me in the future.

Yashi Shihan

's gaze swept over that sentence. It is the poems of Zhan Qing, a poet in the early days of the Galaxy Empire. Her collection of poems was banned after Qin Haoye came to power.

After being sold to a white house as a child, and later encountering the Empire's Blade Project, Yashi is now free in the kingdom of death.

He grabbed Owen, walked out of the cell, and returned to Owen's room, leaving space for Qin Xingyuan himself. When he closed the door, he suddenly found that Owen's hands were shaking.

"I failed to save her." Owen murmured.

Shi Han took his hand and put it in his own. "It's not your fault."

"I know. I didn't mean to blame myself, it's just..." Owen suddenly couldn't continue, his body trembled slightly. After a while, he said: "Why is it so difficult to live? Why is it that once you are born in this world, you will be plundered, and the last ounce of value will be squeezed out..." His eyes darkened again, and he fell into the Venus Academy

. That horrible memory.

"I just want to live," he said softly. "The same goes for Yashi...we just want to live."

Shi Han stretched out his arms and embraced him. Owen stretched out his hand tentatively, and carefully wrapped his arms around the robot in front of him. His movements were so light and hesitant, but after touching, he hugged him more and more tightly, and buried his head in Shihan's shoulder socket.

Shi Han's body is as soft as a flesh and blood person, very warm and reassuring. He suddenly felt as if something was broken in his mind, and he lost control for a while.

Shi Han suddenly felt wetness from the cloth on his shoulders.

Owen is crying.

When he cried, there was no sound, no movement, and his tolerance was unbelievable. Who would have thought he was crying if there hadn't been a cloth stained with tears.

"Owen." Shi Han stroked his back, he wanted to comfort him that he was fine, but he couldn't tell the lie, so he just called his name. "Owen..."

When Owen raised his face again, his expression had returned to normal, only the reddish corners of his eyes and the tear stains on his face recorded what happened a moment ago.

After being silent for a while, Shi Han said, "It's getting late, go to bed."

When Owen finished washing and lay down on the bed, Shi Han stood by the bed and glanced at him before planning to leave. Unexpectedly, when he turned around and was about to leave, a hand grabbed the corner of his clothes.

Shi Han turned his head and saw Owen looking at him intently, the color on his face was blurred by the dim light. He just grabs him as if he doesn't know how to speak.

"What's the matter?" Shi Han asked.

Owen bit his lip, and his words were indistinct, as if he himself was surprised by the voice as thin as a gnat. After readjusting his voice, he said, "Stay...stay with me."

The voice was not loud, but it was enough for Shi Han to understand.

"Okay." Shi Han moved a chair and sat down beside the bed, sitting upright.

Owen was stunned for a moment, and then asked himself again why he was embarrassed and shy in front of the air. No, a human cannot be angry with an AI.

Angrily and funny, he dragged the AI ​​directly onto the bed, hugged him tightly, and turned off the light.

In the darkness, the sense of uneasiness came like a flood again. He barely fell asleep with exhaustion, but the flickering nightmare was like broken glass stained with blood, cutting his heart inch by inch.

The rotten smell of uncollected corpses in the garbage dump, the pain of mental collapse, An Lin's contemptuous eyes... Scenes emerged like a revolving lantern. Finally, Owen woke up again in the middle of the night in a nightmare.

"Dream?" Shi Han asked.

Of course, he doesn't need to sleep, he can even detect Owen's sleep fluctuations.

"Hmm." Owen made a vague nasal sound.

After a while, he still didn't fall asleep. Just when Shi Han wanted to ask if sleep intervention was needed, Owen turned his face, looked into his eyes and asked, "Shi Han, will you betray me? Like An Lin?"

"Do you want comfort or the truth?"

"The truth."

"I can't make a long-term promise to you, but..." Shi Han thought for a while and said, "I will not betray you today." "What about

tomorrow?" ?"

"Not tomorrow."

"After that?"

"You can ask me once a day, and I will tell the truth."

Owen chuckled softly. "Then I can at least rest assured until tomorrow?"

"I thought you would find it troublesome."

"No trouble." Owen said, "But you have to be here every morning."

Shi Han blinked, before he could figure it out. What is the order, Owen pressed up, and dropped a kiss as light as a feather on his cheek.

He didn't know what to say, the CPU seemed to be overheating at the moment, so he agreed, "Okay."

Owen seemed relieved, buried his face in his arms, and fell asleep again.

...

During this period of time, the news of the attack on the Changge star spread throughout the galaxy through the developed star network, shaking the empire's ruling and opposition parties.

Qin Haoye sat on the throne with a blank expression on his face. He put one hand on the armrest, curled his index finger, and tapped it again and again.

It has been a long time since anyone dared to challenge the Empire. The last time was the rebellion of the nobles more than 400 years ago, which resulted in a bloody purge, with hundreds of thousands of people killed.

He did understand that as an emperor, his control over this huge empire had declined. Compared with the reign of the previous emperors, there are always small battles in the frontier now, and there are more and more star thieves, so that there are not enough mercenaries, and special troops have to be sent to patrol. He saw all these, but he was not the only one who had the final say on the huge machine of the empire. Under the emperor, there were powerful and intricate nobles who constituted the ruling class of the empire.

He is only the supreme leader in name only.

In order to sit in this position, he sacrificed a lot. Whenever he thought of this, the woman he loved deeply when he was young, and the child who was sentenced to death at birth appeared in front of his eyes. For the throne, he personally sent them to the slaughterhouse and married the daughter of a great nobleman.

He's not interested in her at all, it's a marriage in name only. Their only child, Qin Xingyue, the eldest princess of the empire and the future heir to the throne—was obtained artificially. The previous attack on the Dark River Prison had made the nobles feel uneasy, but now the news that the Changge Star had turned into scorched earth undoubtedly dropped a depth bomb. Some people were panicked, while others were secretly happy. After all, Changgexing was Sylvia's military base, and she would suffer if something happened. What made these nobles even more happy was that the long singer was razed to the ground, and Sylvia's only heir, Ave, has never been heard from, and most of them died on the scorched earth. Without an heir, she will be punished, which means that Sylvia's power will be weakened by half. As for how bad her mental state is recently, let alone. Not to mention the suspects in the Changgexing incident, not even a single insider was caught. A veil of mystery has shrouded the attackers, with no one knowing who they were, what their scale was or what their purpose was. "I would like to inform Your Majesty that the Changgexing incident has progressed." He raised his head and looked in the direction of the familiar voice. Standing in front of him was Li Shihua, one of the most powerful nobles in the empire and his father-in-law. Although the sentence was very respectful, the body stood upright, and there was a trace of disapproval and impatience on the face, as if looking at a careless puppet. Before he could speak, Li Shihua continued to report: "The AI ​​at Changgexing Base was not damaged during the enemy's scorched-earth operation. By chance, the initial bombing damaged part of the hardware and destroyed the order to keep it at the base. So it escaped on its own. When we found it, some of its codes were missing, and with the help of technicians, it has been replaced. It is the only witness of this incident." Qin Haoye was stunned for a moment, an AI ? "Let it come here, and I'll have to question it myself," he finally decided.

But for a moment, a realistic three-dimensional projection appeared in Qin Haoye. Today's technology makes the projection almost real. Unless you touch it with your hands, it is difficult for the naked eye to tell whether a complete projection is a real person or an image.

The image of this AI is a young man with soft black hair and a pair of purple eyes full of sorrow, like lilac flowers soaked in rain and fog in the morning.

Qin Haoye suspected that he had read it wrong, but after taking a closer look, he still felt that there was a kind of poetic melancholy in this AI's eyes. He didn't know why he had such a strange unreasonable association. AI will not feel melancholy. He shook his head, dispelled the extra thoughts, and asked this AI named Garcia: "About the attack on Changgexing?" Tell me everything you know."

Garcia nodded and began to tell, because of "hardware damage", he didn't tell much information about the enemy, except that the enemy seemed to be purposeful, organized, and financially powerful—— But these are intelligences that normal people can deduce. Qin Haoye frowned when he talked about the Empire Blade project of Changgexing Base. This time, Sylvia Brown made too much trouble. Not only did she lose a base, but she also let enemies of unknown organizations take away important materials and experimental subjects. According to the original "Blade of the Empire" plan, Changgexing simply did not allow so many experimental subjects... Most of the content was boring, and he almost didn't listen to it, but felt that the AI's voice was moving for no reason. It's not the voice, because AI can imitate any kind of voice, but subtle things like tone and rhythm, gentle with a hint of sadness, poetic. He came back from his contemplation, and his gaze fell into a pair of quiet and melancholy eyes again. The words that let it go rolled around in the throat and became: "Who is your master?" "Part of the logic is damaged, and I have not yet bound again. Now according to the rules, the master is all human beings. After finishing the testimony After that, I will be re-bound to the Brown family." When he said this, Garcia kept looking at him, as quiet as a lake in winter. For some reason, Qin Haoye had a sudden whim and ordered: "You don't need to go back, you are my AI now."

Garcia's three-dimensional projection came to him obediently, and replied: "Yes, master."

This sentence was said in a very soft and low voice, like drizzle, silently and slowly falling down.

——There was a ripple in Qin Haoye's heart.

What he didn't know was that in the depths of the online world, Garcia was reporting the progress of the infiltration operation to Shi Han.

"You've done a good job." Shi Han paused, his tone a bit puzzled. "He let you stay so easily..."

Garcia suddenly fell silent, and it took a while to answer uncertainly: "From the analysis of his brain signal, he might..." "

What?" Shi Han asked.

"I don't know if I was wrong." Garcia hesitated.

"Just say what you want, right or wrong is determined by the facts."

"His brain signal matches a pattern in the information base...uh,

it's love at first sight." Shi Han was stunned for a while, and in the silence, Garcia didn't dare Answer the call.

Suddenly, Shi Han burst out laughing. Garcia couldn't see his expression, but the indifferent and sarcastic laughter was transmitted like a sharp knife into data, reaching the bottom of Garcia's heart.

"The man who threw his wife and children into the corpse processing plant is also worthy?"

He finished laughing and gave Garcia a cold instruction: "Use this."

"Yes." Garcia replied coldly.

...

The attack on Changgexing made the empire like a pot of boiling hot water for several weeks. As time passed, the pot of hot water not only did not calm down, but boiled more and more violently.

Another morning, Qin Haoye was sitting in the sun room, eating breakfast while reading the documents in his hand.

An expedited body for Garcia had arrived a few weeks earlier. He is now manipulating this body, sitting opposite Qin Haoye.

Qin Haoye flipped through the documents, and after a while, his brows frowned. "They all have a lot of opinions on Sylvia Brown..."

He slid his finger on the screen, turned another page, and saw Qin Haomo's accusation letter, which wrote that Sylvia's daughter Ave Brown, at the mother's sinister behest, kidnapped his son and imprisoned him in Longsinger's prison, missing in an attack. The letter impassionedly accused the Brown mother and daughter of having no right to kidnap the royal family, and there was no evidence to prove that Qin Xingyuan had betrayed the empire.

He felt a little pain in his head, and wanted to rub his forehead, but just as he raised his hand, a hand gently pressed against his dull pain, as if he had understood his thoughts. He raised his eyes, and what caught his sight was a pair of poetic purple eyes.

Garcia.

He sighed inwardly.

"What do you think I should do?" he asked suddenly.

"Are you asking me?" Garcia blinked unexpectedly.

"That's right." Qin Haoye said to himself: "The empire is not monolithic, I am the ruler in name only. Those nobles have always wanted to take my power away, represented by Li Shihua... Sylvia It was my pawn in the military. She is indeed very talented, but without my secret help, her promotion would not have been so smooth. But she was too ambitious and made a big mistake this time. Losing her The heir, the mental state is not good recently, and the value of use has dropped significantly. Should I keep her again?" "Is

she loyal to you?"

"No one is loyal to me, it's just superficial, even my daughter I don't like me."

Garcia said seriously: "I'm loyal to you."

Qin Haoye was stunned for a while, then said: "Your program makes you loyal to me." "

But this doesn't change the fact of loyalty, does it?"

"Yes." Qin Haoye lowered his head, repeated it to himself, then raised his face and smiled. "Yes."

At the same moment, in the Royal Garden.

Qin Xingyue squatted on the ground, her robe was lifted up and knotted at her waist, and she concentrated on observing the ants on the ground. Suddenly, her concentration was interrupted by a low cry.

"Your Highness, it's time for your morning class."

Qin Xingyue stood up calmly, straightened her clothes, and pretended not to see the maid's indescribable expression. In just a few seconds, her sloppy smile subsided and she became shy. Dressed neatly and walking dignifiedly, she followed the maid leading the way to the classroom.

To be honest, from birth to now, Qin Xingyue didn't know how many rooms there were. She once asked her father, why there are so many useless rooms, and her father said that for the dignity of the royal family, she thought, what does the dignity of the royal family have to do with the number of rooms, and a lot of useless resources must be occupied to reflect dignity ?

The first time she spoke out, she was beaten severely. Later, I changed my words, but my heart still remained unchanged.

Entering the classroom, Li Shihua's majestic figure stood by the window.

"Your Highness, you are late."

Although she spoke humble words, she was more oppressive than anyone else. This was her grandfather, Lord Earl Li Shihua, one of the most powerful nobles in the empire.

Li Shihua is the only relative of her ancestors. When Qin Xingyue was young and ignorant, she called her grandfather to act like a baby to him, only in return for a cold sentence, "You are the heir of the Galactic Empire, pay attention to your words and deeds."

Qin Xingyue didn't want to be an empress at all. She could see very clearly that the current empire was a mess. Since it went downhill three hundred years ago, every generation of emperors has been adding bricks to this mess.

Turning her mind, she said awkwardly and shyly: "Yes... I'm sorry..."

Li Shihua immediately interrupted her: "You are the future master of the empire, you don't need to say sorry to me." Here

comes, here it is again . Qin Xingyue sneered in her heart and said, my father is still the master of the empire now, so he still can't escape from your grasp.

But he is not a good father. She added another sentence in her heart.

"What do you think of the recent attack on the long singer?" Li Shihua asked suddenly.

What do you think? Retribution! Who told them to carry out that horrible human experiment in Changgexing. It's just suffering for the ordinary staff who were forced to join... Qin Xingyue slandered, but with a worried look on her face, she replied, "I think Sylvia Brown has crossed the line."

Li Shihua's eyes were a little more appreciative .

Qin Xingyue understood immediately, and sure enough, this was the answer he wanted. It was also clear why he wanted her to behave this way. Her clever mind quickly analyzed that Sylvia was a pawn inserted by her father in the army. Is Li Shihua trying to beat her father, or... is she going to attack her father?

"You are 17 years old this year. Although you got married earlier, it is normal to fall in love at this age. Do you have a favorite heir?"

Qin Xingyue's idea of ​​being able to shoot was indirectly verified. Li Shihua has already begun to consider using marriage to control her, so most likely he will attack his father.

"This...maybe it's too early." She had to reluctantly get over it.

Li Shihua glanced at her disapprovingly, and continued the course without any sign of disapproval.

The whole morning passed slowly, until Qin Xingyue's back ached, his back ached and his legs were cramping, and Li Shihua ended it as if he still hadn't finished. After leaving the classroom, Qin Xingyue immediately ran to her room, tossed her coat indiscriminately, and threw herself on the bed.

After moaning and sighing for a while, she moved up, pressed the cooking machine, waited for a few minutes, and then picked up the steaming grilled fish and gobbled it up. Bi Le sighed in his heart: It's nice to have a fish without thorns.

While eating fish, she mentally connected to the star network, skillfully entered the dark network, and logged in as her own user in the "Magic Lamp" forum. Searching for messages one by one, quickly categorized and processed them: those who consulted about safer online payment methods, those who needed a reliable online arbitrator for disputes, those who were banned and blocked and applied for unblocking... She quickly finished processing, looking at the dark

web With the extra amount in the account, he smiled contentedly, opened the permission interface again, and looked at the "creator" and "administrator" labels behind his ID with silly joy.

Her parents and grandfather must have never imagined that their well-behaved, shy, and lacking majesty Her Royal Highness, a useful pawn, is the founder of the largest trading forum on the dark web. Although she has stipulated that this website cannot engage in lucrative illegal activities such as pornography, gambling, and drugs, but because of the strict system and screening of members, the successful transaction rate of this website is the highest in the entire underground world.

Her net worth has surpassed that of ordinary minor nobles.

The "magic lamp" was created when she was fourteen years old, and the reason was not that the rebellious period had come. Her purpose is very clear, she needs a lot of money, and also needs intricate invisible contacts.

Because from the age of fourteen, she planned to escape from the palace.

Qin Xingyue still remembers herself back then, with outstanding hacker talent, so proud and arrogant, every day after fooling around with the class, she would go back to the room, close her eyes and sneak into the star network, until she accidentally broke into a blockchain .

The blockchain contained her father's marriage registration information, the woman's name was Lillian Hall, and the heir was Qin Xingluo.

She looked at the date, and it was much earlier than her mother's marriage, so she quickly quit and searched for the names of those two people. Of course, Qin Xingluo couldn't find it, and Lillian Hall was a commoner, and her file clearly marked : missing or dead.

At that moment, as smart as she was, she naturally realized something, and the blood in her whole body seemed to freeze.

She backed out in a hurry, erasing all her footprints, but unfortunately she was too stupid and too confident at the time to fully recover. Qin Haoye immediately realized that the internal network of the Imperial Marriage Registration Database had been hacked, and this information was probably seen by someone.

Qin Xingyue was engaged in a hacking competition with netizens at that time, and the young people didn't know the heights of the heavens and the earth. So she wasn't the only one at that time, but other people didn't invade so deep. She was more skilled and was left with traces that could be locked, but several others were caught.

Qin Haoye secretly executed hundreds of people who "may know his secret".

Qin Xingyue was taken to "observe" the trial by her teacher Li Shihua. The charges were random. She tried to control herself not to behave strangely, but she still failed. Only one voice echoed in her head: Can he If she kills her first child, she can also kill the second one...

Li Shihua only thought that she was too soft-hearted, timid and fearless, not the material to be an emperor. After being reprimanded, she found inspiration and pretended to be weak and incompetent. out of hand.

Just as she was recalling the past, a bright red (1) popped up on the mailbox icon. She opened it boredly, but was so shocked by the contents that the last piece of fish that hadn't been stuffed into her mouth fell to the ground.

Recipient @结月人

"I know you want to escape from the palace, but I just want to tell you that your plan has failed. I have no malicious intentions. If you want to talk to me, go to the AI ​​next to your father, Garcia ."

The sender @旅行者

秦星月's pupils were shocked.

Garcia? His father does have a new AI, but according to this person, Garcia is his/her/[]'s subordinate? Put AI subordinates in the palace? How to exempt from loyalty logic? How did he know her identity? How did he know about my plans? How to judge her failure? God stick?

Before making this decision, Qin Xingyue also had many doubts in his heart. But no matter what, she must meet this time, and she must figure out the identity of the "traveler".

In the next period of time, she slowly pretended to be finally concerned about the emperor's affairs, and approached her father's office space, in fact, of course, to get close to the AI ​​named Garcia. She originally thought it wouldn't be difficult, but she didn't expect that Qin Haoye would be so attached to an AI that Garcia would follow him in everything he did.

Finally, after days of waiting, she got a chance to be alone with Garcia. Knowing that time is limited, her emperor father will not wait for her to finish speaking before coming back like in TV dramas, she immediately

said concisely: "I want to see 'Traveler'."

In a second, she was surprised to find that the bionic person in front of her had become different.

If she hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes, it would be hard for her to believe that a mechanical body would become so different under the control of different intelligences. In those gentle eyes filled with melancholy, it seemed as if the cold wind had blown away the mist of tenderness covering the lake, and suddenly became cold and deep. Garcia always smiled, and the person in front of him also smiled, but with a different meaning, with some indifferent mockery.

"Hello." He bowed slightly politely, keeping his eyes on her all the time, as if he could see through her soul. "I'm Shihan."

"You..." Qin Xingyue didn't know what to ask for a while, there were too many things she wanted to ask.

"Your father will be back here in about a minute and a half. Let me explain the situation without further ado. First, I have no ill intentions towards you and I hope to help you escape from here. I am not an elf who came to grant your wishes, but ours. The purpose is exactly the same. Second, you don't need to know the source of my information, which is difficult to explain in a short time, but I guarantee that I have nothing to do with the royal family or nobles. Third, thanks to your hacker talent, let us have Without the possibility of direct contact, I will only show you the next method." "It

doesn't matter if you show me ten seconds, I have a short-term photographic memory... Hey, you really only show it for ten seconds? ? "

Do you remember?" Shi Han said calmly.

"Remember." Qin Xingyue rolled her eyes.

"Contact me unilaterally after you finish the secret channel." After saying this, the bionic human blinked and then returned to the previous state. Qin Xingyue understood that this was Garcia's return.

She was all focused on how to set up the secret channel that Shi Han said, and she didn't speak to Garcia. After Qin Haoye came back, she dealt with it casually a few times, and then went back to her room.

Shi Han returned to his body from the palace, blinked his eyes, and moved his shoulders. This happens every time he switches bodies, he has to adapt to the feeling of being a human being.

With nothing to do now, he simply sat on a chair, flicked through other people's databases, and waited for Qin Xingyue's response.

Qin Xingyue is also considered a genius, but he was born in the emperor's family.

In the history of Shi Han's previous life, the mission to rescue Ringe failed, and the Revolutionary Party suffered a siege. At this point in time, it was still recovering. When Owen ascended the throne, the situation in the empire was chaotic like weeds, but at least it did not completely collapse. segregation. In the chaotic situation, Qin Xingyue's escape plan failed, and eventually became a victim of the battle for the throne. He was shot in the head by Owen and died under the throne.

After Qin Xingyue's death, a self-report was automatically published on the dark web, revealing many inside stories about the royal family's struggle. The most shocking thing is that she didn't want to be emperor at all, was coerced by her father and grandfather, and was finally thrown to the court by the nobles. The process of Owen being an abandoned son. As the eldest princess of the empire, she criticized the royal family and lashed out at the aristocratic system in her articles. Her words were so sharp that she was regarded as a spiritual idol by many surviving revolutionaries. That article hung on the dark web for several days before it was successfully deleted by the engineers on the hot pot. Fortunately, Owen in his previous life didn't care about reputation at all, and most of the nobles in the article were executed by Owen for a reason. Otherwise, if it was a hypocrite like Qin Haoye, I don't know how many insiders would die. In the current timeline, the tendency to split the imperial nobles and the royal family seems to be more obvious. Qin Xingyue is a very good chess piece, which can be used to add fuel to the flames and fulfill her personal wish. Soon, Qin Xingyue's newsletter arrived. As soon as she saw Shi Han, she asked, "What's wrong with my escape plan? Why do you know so much?"

"Your plan is perfect. It allows you to run out of the palace, the imperial capital, and even the first district, but it has a fatal loophole. You are the legal heir of the empire, and the tentacles of the royal family may not be able to reach the first district. But all the nobles want to catch you, no matter where you flee, you are always hidden under the influence of the nobles. And you are alone, without companions, how long do you think you can hide?" In fact, the Qin Xingyue from the original time and

space Indeed, she escaped from the palace, but she was betrayed in less than a month as she was smart, and was taken back to the palace again.

"I have my contacts..." Qin Xingyue said without confidence.

Shi Han raised his eyebrows slightly. "Are you sure that the people you met on the dark web can be your companions? They can cut you up and sell you for hundreds of thousands."

Qin Xingyue rolled her eyes. "I know too, but there is no way."

"I'm here to provide you with a solution." Shi Han showed his cards and said, "We can help you. We have our own intelligence network, manpower, and spaceships. You can hide behind me." on the boat."

"I guess you still have armed forces." Qin Xingyue said tentatively.

Shi Han looked at her with a smile, but didn't answer. But Qin Xingyue asked to herself: "Which noble force are you from? You haven't told me yet, how do you know so much? There is no intelligence network that can do this." "We are not nobles. I do

n't I will tell you the source of the news, but I will let you know our purpose. At this stage, we hope that the empire will split and enter an era of chaos." Qin Xingyue suddenly thought of something, and the broken clues in his mind were like scattered pearls Being connected in an instant, he shouted: "You guys did the Changgexing incident?" Shi Han was a little surprised, he was stunned for a moment, and he sighed: "Do you know what your biggest problem is? You have more than a detective Sharper insight, but what the royal family and nobles hate most is the detective, because they have too many dirty secrets."

"Entering an era of chaos..." Qin Xingyue ignored his emotion and began to think seriously. After a long time, she asked: "But after entering the era of chaos, how many civilians have been killed in the flames of war? How many families have been displaced? Planets may even become scorched earth, just like long singers." "They have been displaced

. None." Shi Han pointed out.

"It will be even worse when the war breaks out." Qin Xingyue insisted.

"Yes, this is the price." Shi Han was unmoved. "Don't you expect a new era?"

Qin Xingyue was silent.

After a while, she said, "Don't you think it's dangerous for you to tell me this, the heir of the empire? I might go and tell my father later." I know that there is an organization that does not belong to the nobles that wants to overthrow the rule of the empire. In addition, I have security measures. I have installed an uncontrolled high-level AI in the palace, and I can turn your head away at any time. Finally, I believe You won't do this, because you really want a future without aristocracy." Shi Han smiled. "When I said I wanted to split the empire, the first thing you thought of was the trauma caused by the war to the people. It's a pity you were born in the wrong era, otherwise you would be a good emperor." Qin Xingyue blinked, opened her mouth and opened her eyes again . close. After thinking for a long time, she said, "What help can you give me? Let's talk about the details." ... Two weeks later, Earl's Mansion, basement. Li Shihua waved his hand and asked the dozen or so people present to sit down. At a glance, they were all powerful and powerful figures in the upper echelons of the empire. If there were outsiders here, they would probably have a heart attack. "There is not much time, let's make a long story short." The person on the left waved his hand immediately, and then spoke: "How is Your Highness? " I've recommended some of your sons to her, but she doesn't seem to be interested at all."

"Why don't you try your daughter?"

Li Shihua: "..."

"Forget it, letting her indulge in love is not the first condition to use her. She is easy to manipulate, so it's not a big problem." "You have to be sure,

we can die before your Majesty ." Afterwards, before the other nobles react, we should control her immediately, and let her take the throne as our puppet. Otherwise, once the chaotic scene breaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable." "Yes, our power has grown over the years. Some

people It's ambitious." Another person echoed.

Li Shihua glanced at them indifferently, but it made the two feel chills down their backs for no reason.

After discussing the details of the plan again, Li Shihua stood up and said calmly: "The code is 'Bloody Thursday'. The meeting is over."

After a figure left from the special secret passage in the basement, Li Shihua did not leave, and sat leisurely on his seat , until the door of the secret passage opened, and another figure appeared.

This person was wearing a cloak, and it could be seen from the figure that she was a tall woman. She walked up to Li Shihua with a hoarse voice full of hatred.

"As you promised, I'm here."

"Very good. Although we have different goals, they don't conflict with each other. We need your help, and you need our help." Li Shihua rolled his eyes, looking unexpectedly Some kind. "I am deeply sorry for your daughter."

He knew that the woman in front of him was soft and not hard.

As expected, the woman's attitude softened a little, and she reached out to take off the hood, revealing a haggard face that was almost sunken but still beautiful.

Sylvia Brown.

The hollows around her eye sockets made those eyes sharper, as if invisible knives were hidden in her eyes, sharp and piercing.

"I'm going to kill Qin Haomo with my own hands."

Facing those eyes, Li Shihua still maintained a gentle and confident smile on the surface, and his heart trembled uncontrollably. Sylvia has always been strong and sharp, he knows it, but now she is like a mad beast, ready to go, just waiting to tear the enemy to pieces.

Li Shihua didn't know why Sylvia insisted that Qin Haomo was behind the scenes. Perhaps Qin Xingyuan did have a problem, but he had disappeared or died. Qin Haomo's surprise did not seem to be fake. He did not think that this offshoot of the royal family, who had been away from the center of imperial power for many years and had no title, planned all this. He wouldn't point it out to Sylvia. He needs this crazy woman to get rid of the unstable factor of Qin Haomo. Qin Xingyuan is probably dead. After killing Qin Haoye and Qin Haomo, only Qin Xingyue is left in the orthodox blood of the royal family. It's not a puppet, and even the stubborn royal faction can't change the emperor anymore. He will actually hold the supreme power of the empire. He slowly put away his smile, and discussed the details of the operation with Sylvia. ... The imperial palace, Qin Haoye's bedroom. The black hair was intertwined, and the emperor hugged the waist of the man in his arms, his hot breath that had not calmed down sprayed on his neck, the sweat from strenuous exercise stained the pillow, and the sheets were also wet. Qin Haoye understands that Garcia is not human, but this body is too bionic, and Garcia is so obedient, controlled by the program, and will never betray him, and those worried eyes add to him a sense of belonging. Human charm, what's wrong with that? "Garcia." He whispered. Garcia seemed to be delayed for a moment, and after a second, he responded obediently: "Well, master..." The voice was a little bit ashamed, the tone was innocent, but it seemed to be Provocative, it's nothing more than a thousand turns. At the same time, he even moved his body a little towards Qin Haoye, and wrapped his fingers around Qin Haoye's arm tenderly. Qin Haoye benefited greatly, so he hugged him tighter.

After a moment of tenderness, Qin Haoye's drowsy mind dominated by hormones suddenly thought of something, and asked Garcia: "Have you noticed anything unusual about Qin Xingyue recently?" Garcia replied softly: "No, master.

"

Since two weeks ago, Qin Haoye had noticed that the situation in the palace was getting more and more treacherous, so he asked Garcia to monitor Qin Xingyue. Although he has no affection for this daughter, she is the orthodox heir to the throne and a vital pawn. At the same time, he also asked Garcia to collect intelligence, especially about Li Shihua.

Garcia actually brought back a lot of valuable information, which surprised him greatly. As the emperor, of course he has advanced AI, but no one is as advanced as Garcia, and no one is as close to human as Garcia. When he looks into Garcia's eyes, he sometimes wonders whether he has a human soul.

Thinking of the information Garcia brought him, Qin Haoye almost laughed out loud. Li Shihua thought he had kept a good plan, but he had a clear view of it. Bloody Thursday? Haha, did Li Shihua really think that if he killed him, he could become emperor by holding Qin Xingyue hostage? He didn't even look at whether the other nobles answered or not!

What Qin Haoye didn't expect was that Garcia wasn't there when he triumphantly embraced the "loyal" bionic man.

In the virtual space of Xingwang, Garcia is sitting in front of an AI and chatting. In front of them, a game of chess is being played automatically at a dizzying speed.

Shi Han looked at the absent-minded Garcia, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why, do you feel a little disgusted? I can't see it here."

Only the processed data.

Garcia shook his head. "No, it's just strange. He thought I was there, but in fact I wasn't." "We

all like to think in our own way, and so do we. It's just that the rulers of human beings have lived in comfort for a long time, and are even more arrogant. Blindfolded." Shi Han glanced at the sensor data that swiped out like a waterfall, and said to Garcia: "Matching behavior X-0031." Garcia

did as he did, but asked in confusion: "Master Shi Han, why? Those data The result 0049 should be exported."

"Those are the average figures of the population. You have to increase the weight of Qin Haoye's individual data." Shi Han said: "Besides, he has a strong desire to control, and he has a mentality of worrying about gains and losses. As the emperor's control over the empire declines year by year, When the reality is gradually derailed, he needs a psychological placebo. You are this placebo, a perfect lover who will never betray."

Garcia listened a little dull.

"This is an obvious reason. Sometimes, you have to learn to think like a human being. Since he wants an obedient machine, give him one." After Shi Han finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the virtual

space The chessboard in the game disappeared, and he smiled and said, "Garcia, see you on Bloody Thursday."

...

A week later, on Wednesday.

Shi Han rubbed Owen's hair. "Get up."

Owen made a fuzzy voice, sounding very dissatisfied. Although he was a little unconscious after waking up, he didn't slow down for half a second, and immediately rolled over from Shi Han's body—the reason was from Shi Han. On the body, because Owen didn't know what was wrong with sleeping, he liked to hug something like a child hugging a stuffed bear, with half of his body and one leg pressed against it. In the past, it was used to hug the quilt, but now Shihan serves as this function.

"To pick up my sister tomorrow?"

After Owen asked, he suddenly felt amused. He obviously went to pick up a fleeing heir to the throne during a bloody coup, and he said it was like picking up a child from a warm family.

"You still like her?" Shi Han asked.

"Why not? Her situation is not much better than mine. Qin Haoye's children are all miserable." Owen sneered. "Her personality is quite to my liking."

Shi Han shook his head. "Good bamboo shoots come out of bad bamboo."

"I thank you for praising us as good bamboo shoots."

Not long after, Qin Xingyuan came out from another room. After Yashi's death, he became visibly thinner to the naked eye during this period, his face was even out of shape, but his eyes became sharper and gloomy. Although he had disguised himself for this operation, Shi Han was sure that even if he hadn't disguised, only his own father would be able to recognize him.

They drove a camouflaged spaceship, and with Qin Xingyuan's experience, they passed the checkpoint of the imperial capital expertly. They pretended to be wealthy civilians from other star regions, and walked on the streets of the imperial capital. There were rows of high-rise buildings, and the tracks of the floating vehicles shuttled among them, which was complicated but orderly. People walked on the street in twos and threes, or talked about the economic situation of the empire, and questioned the data of places other than the upper nine districts. Their words were full of contempt, but they immediately fell silent when the flying machines of the great nobles passed by, and their eyes lowered humbly , dare not look at the family crest shining in the sun. Everything is so peaceful, these people don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. They wandered around for a while, checked into the hotel without incident, and disappeared towards nightfall. At midnight on Thursday, they showed up at the pre-selected stronghold, and Qin Xingyue sent a message: "My residence has been surrounded by soldiers, and they are my grandfather's private soldiers. My father learned part of the information from Garcia, Now the royal guards should be waiting not far away." Shi Han nodded secretly to Owen and Qin Xingyuan, the current situation is just as planned. Shi Han sent a message to Qin Xingyue: "According to plan A, Garcia and I will assist you before leaving the palace." Seeing this message, Qin Xingyue took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and held on tightly. Hold a small pistol carefully. The time passed by every minute and every second, and the number jumped to 2:30 in the morning. This was the moment when the palace on this planet happened to completely turn into night. The figure outside moved. After a while, the sound became chaotic. Qin Xingyue quietly walked towards the back door, opened the door silently, but saw a figure standing outside, it was Grandpa's guard, and smiled contemptuously at her: "Princess, where are you going?"

"I..." Qin Xingyue looked so frightened that she was about to cry. "There are voices outside..."

The guard's voice softened a little, and he let go of his fingers from the gun. "You don't have to worry, I'm here to protect you under the order of Your Excellency Li Shihua—"

Before he finished speaking, the expression on the weak princess's face suddenly turned cold, as if she had changed into a different person, with a gun It hit his forehead at an unexpected speed, and just as he was about to pull out his own gun, the girl pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Qin Xingyue caught his lifeless body and put it down slowly so as not to make too much noise when it hit the ground.

"Shihan, I'm in trouble." She silently sent a message to the AI.

Shi Han, who had just appeared on the palace intranet, immediately began to forge the audio of the guard. The guards would talk with each other every once in a while, and he wanted to delay Qin Xingyue's discovery as much as possible.

Qin Xingyue fled the palace according to the established route, and the process went smoothly, but when she was about to pass the last checkpoint, she was blocked by two teams of people. It was her father's soldiers and grandpa's party, who completely blocked the exit, and the protective cover of the palace was erected, not to mention people, not even a single bacterium could fly out. She saw Garcia following behind her father at a glance, forcibly calmed down, and sent him a message through an encrypted channel: "I'm nearby, I can see you, help me." She saw Garcia nodded slightly . The soldiers around Qin Haoye were fully armed, with deadly blue light shining from the muzzles of their dark guns, and they all pointed at Li Shihua and the nobles behind him. Qin Haoye taunted with a smile that was sure to win, "Bloody Thursday, huh? Li Shihua, you've done all your tricks, but I didn't expect that I knew your actions in advance, right?"

He took a few steps forward, glanced contemptuously at Li Shihua and the trembling nobles behind him, and sneered: "Look at you, all of you are trembling with fright, do you really regret being blinded by greed? I know that my control over this empire has declined in recent years, and I didn't expect you to be so ambitious. But it's okay, I have long wanted to follow the example of four hundred years ago and carry out a big cleansing." "You...

you How do you know?" A nobleman behind Li Shihua suddenly asked.

"If you want to blame it, you can blame that idiot Sylvia. If it wasn't for her mistake that led to the long singer incident, I didn't know that Brown's house hid such an advanced AI." Qin Haoye suddenly smiled. Gentle, he beckoned, and Garcia obediently took a few steps forward and stood beside him.

"Garcia, the Brown family's AI, no—it's my AI now." Qin Haoye said triumphantly, "The AI ​​that can decrypt the channel that appeared in the previous Brown family's information and fooled all of you, tell me I, you and Sylvia Brown also have contact... Tsk, that ungrateful woman, I think I promoted her at the beginning." He raised his hand

, signaling the soldiers to prepare to shoot. "Now that you know the reason, you can die in peace."

Before giving the order, a doubt flashed in his mind: Why didn't Li Shihua panic at all?

He shook his head and put the doubts behind him: "Kill!"

The nobles behind Li Shihua either looked pale or screamed. To their surprise, they were not hit by bullets and lasers as expected. submerged. They raised their heads from the panic that hadn't calmed down, and saw Li Shihua with the corner of his mouth curled up, and Qin Haoye whose blood color gradually faded from his face.

The guns in his army's hands dimmed, the weapon systems were locked, and even his own shield disappeared.

Qin Haoye muttered to himself in disbelief: "No...why..."

He suddenly thought of something, his eyes suddenly widened, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Garcia who was motionless.

"It seems that you finally figured it out." Li Shihua smiled and said, "Garcia, come here."

Garcia nodded, walked over naturally, and walked among Li Shihua and his party. With a wave of Li Shihua's hand, the muzzles of more than half of Qin Haoye's soldiers lit up, and they aimed at the heads of the remaining half. In a panic, Qin Haoye pulled a woman who was tied up and wearing a mask, held her hostage in front of him, tore off her mask, and brought the gun to her temple.

Qin Xingyue, who was hiding in the dark, covered her mouth to prevent herself from making a sound.

The woman's face was haggard, and she screamed, her eyes similar to Qin Xingyue's were full of disbelief and confusion.

That was Li Peimeng, Qin Xingyue's mother, Li Shihua's daughter, and the queen of the Galactic Empire.

The author has something to say: Shi Han: Since he wants a submissive machine, give him one.

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