Chapter 939: Negotiate terms

A genius remembers the address of this site in one second: (Vertex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! The speaker’s expression has completely solidified, and he subconsciously looks at the cloth wrapped around Xia’s arm. The blood has passed through the fabric. It oozes out, and a large patch of black and red blood stains.
"You...you are hurt..." The speaker moved his lips laboriously before he managed to squeeze these words out of his teeth.
"It's okay, by the way, the front-end time has allowed those big consortia to concentrate their troops under our control. How many consortia have implemented this order?" Xia suddenly asked.
The speaker was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to ask what happened below, but Xia seemed to have no intention to continue speaking at all. He had to witty ignore the explosive news-he clearly understood that if he If you have to keep on asking, you will most likely be erased by the one in front of you...
"...That... there are currently 47 consortiums on our side, 19 consortiums handed over more than 90% of the private army, 23 consortiums handed over only about half of the troops, and the remaining 5 A consortium was not handed over by a soldier."
"Execute the purge order to kill all the direct managers of these five consortiums and annex all their industries."
"Will this... be too radical? In case it causes resistance from other financial groups... I am afraid that the situation will be disadvantaged by us. In addition, the Jiange Fortress has just been lost, and the Revolutionary League has imposed a great deal on us on the front battlefield. The pressure of..." the speaker said hesitantly.
"Then assign those consortiums that have not surrendered all their troops to the frontal battlefield, and let them use their forces to fight against the invasion of the Revolutionary Union, so that even if they want to resist, they will not be able to draw enough strength... Okay, you should know what to do with the rest. I have something to do now. Don't send someone to follow me."
"Where are you going? Do you really need someone to follow?" the speaker asked. Although Xia is also an evolver, his physical condition is very special. If he uses the power of the evolver lightly, it is likely to cause cell damage. Large-scale necrosis, greatly shortening the little lifespan left, and if he does not use the power of the evolutionary, he is at best only a weak young man.
As long as a thug holding a blade or iron rod could threaten Xia's life, this kind of guy would never be lacking even in the organization's control area.
Not to mention the spies, killers, etc. lurking in the crowd. Although Xia wears a mask every time he shows up in public, if someone really wants to search for information about him, he wants to get his information. Real photos are not so difficult. After all, for decades, the PROM Foundation is a well-known scientific research organization in the international community. Founders like them, they often appeared in the news back then. The man in the report.
"There is no need." Xia waved her hand and walked out alone.
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One hour later, refuge No. 009.
At the beginning of the establishment of the refuge network, a label was set for each refuge. However, among the tens of thousands of refuges, from 000 to 009, these ten refuges are all For those without residents, these ten refuges are filled with large and small computer rooms, which exist as the core hubs of the refuge network master control system-as for the control of these core hubs, all control is in the main brain. Hands.
Fortunately, after Xia grasped the few back doors in his hands, he was able to enter this refuge 009 through a secret passage...
Rather than being a shelter, it is more appropriate to call it a large underground factory. In addition to the equipment rooms, more than a dozen large-scale automated production lines occupy more than half of the space of Refuge 009— —Computer accessories are all consumables. In order to ensure that the calculation of the program can be foolproof, many precision parts must be maintained or replaced within a few months, and these production lines are assembled as the core hub logistics factory Up.
In addition to the production line, there is also a large amount of precious metals stored here. The volume of those precision consumables may not be large, but many of the materials used are very rare. When these shelters were built, the organization and the large consortia almost Most of the rare metal materials collected are stored here. According to calculations, these materials can at least guarantee the perfect operation of the main control system of the refuge for more than 20 years.
However, Xia discovered that the parts being manufactured on these production lines are no longer the precision consumables set in the program, but some new parts that he has never seen before.
Obviously, the main brain has changed the internal procedures of the production line, and these new parts produced are used to carry the "utopian world".
This is the only connection point between the main brain and the human world. If this place is destroyed, the main brain will no longer be able to control all the refuges connected to here, but if you do this, those refuges will immediately become paralyzed Problems with power and water supply may be solved, but if the oxygen supply system stops functioning, it won’t take long for those shelters to become a huge grave.
To be honest, if there is no mastermind, there will definitely not be so many people alive after the war, and humans may even fall into the desperate situation of genocide.
The normal operation of so many shelters requires a lot of computing power, and only the main brain can provide this computing power.
It is precisely for this reason that the organization dare not destroy these shelters in any way before this series of problems have been resolved.
Unless, human beings are ready to return to the surface...to face the biochemical army under the mastermind.
Xia walked through the factory area along a path paved with riveted steel plates and walked into a huge computer room. At the entrance of the computer room, there was an operating terminal that looked similar to a home computer.
Pulling a chair on the side that looked like it was about to fall apart, Xia ignored the dust accumulated on the chair that was already a centimeter thick, and sat down directly on it, activated the terminal, and the slender fingers were on the same dusty area. There was a burst of quick taps on the keyboard.
Countless strings of characters scrolled quickly on the screen, and the red warning light on the first floor of the terminal flickered frantically, and the sound of the alarm echoed throughout the computer room... However, within a minute, the sound of the alarm disappeared. No trace, disappeared with the alarm sound, and the dense string on the screen.
Instead, it is a video call screen.
On the other end of the screen is a somewhat blessed old man with obvious Caucasian characteristics. He is wearing a dark gray woolen coat. The index finger and thumb of his right hand hold a beautifully carved goblet. The inside of the cup is clear. The light yellow liquid exudes psychedelic light through the crystal cup.
"Xia...right? I saw you in the newspaper when you were young. At that time, I had just entered junior high school." The old man said slowly, shaking the liquid in the goblet.
"Your memory is very good." Xia said blankly.
"Thank you, it's a pity that I didn't have the conditions like yours. It takes decades to lie down in the life-sustaining cabin... You see, you are so young at this moment, who should have been in the soil, but I am already dying. Up."
"You should live longer than me, if I can't break free of this cage."
"What? What cage?" The old man narrowed his eyes, and the wine glass was placed on the side table.
"A prison that has shackled mankind for millions of years...Okay, it's time for business. I took the initiative to find you, not to chat with you."
"Of course I also know that you are not here to chat with me, so it seems that it is a negotiation?"
"Yes, it's a negotiation." Xia nodded.
"Your Excellency seems to have forgotten something. Negotiations require capital. After the Jiange Fortress was captured by us, you have already lost the negotiation capital. As long as we gradually devour your territory, the dissolution of the organization is only It's just a matter of time." The old man's tone began to become bad.
"This is a negotiation, but not with you, but with the mastermind." Xia Si said unmovedly.
"With the mastermind? Negotiate with the mastermind. Why did you come to me? I apply again. Our Revolutionary Federation has nothing to do with the mastermind..."
"It's not your decision, poor puppet."
"What are you talking about?!" The word puppet obviously pierced the pain in the old man's heart. His fat cheeks were flushed immediately, but he didn't dare to vent arbitrarily, so he could only stare fiercely at Xia on the other side of the screen.
"I have stated my attitude, but if the mastermind is still unwilling to show up, I think this negotiation may have ended before it even started-you have said a lot, the organization will undoubtedly lose, but even if you win. , You can't get anything."
"Are you threatening me?" The other party's tone suddenly became very calm, and the expression on his face disappeared completely.
"Yes, I'm threatening you, mastermind."
"When did you see it?"
"Just now, since you have chosen an old man as the ruler of the Revolutionary League, even if he is a puppet, he should be at least a smart puppet. The angry face just now is too artificial... Our research on human emotions and emotions is still too stylized. This is the difference between machines and humans."
"Thank you for your opinion. I will make improvements. Then, what do you want to negotiate with me-what is it?"
"surrender."
"Surrender?!" This was supposed to be a strong rhetorical question, but when it came out of the main brain's mouth, it almost became a statement.
"Yes, surrender. I can allow the organization and all forces under its control to surrender to the Revolutionary League to ensure the smooth implementation of the utopian plan."
"What about the conditions?"
"Give me the source code of the utopian program, and you have to make sure that I can integrate my consciousness with the utopian world... I know you don’t have that ability yet, but as long as the war between us stops, there will be time to study this. Technology, and I will help you further improve that virtual utopian world."
"What if I refuse?"
"I will kill everyone. Even if you win the final victory, there won't be many humans who can successfully enter the utopian world."
"why?"
"For evolution."
"evolution……"
"The flesh is the biggest obstacle to human progress. If I can completely digitize my thinking and live in this world as a consciousness, I think the future of mankind will become unlimited!"
"Mind digitization? Do you...want to become an existence like me?" The tone of the mastermind finally changed slightly, with a hint of doubt and curiosity.
"No, no, not the same as you... You are just a bunch of data, a bunch of data that is large enough, although you seem to have the same thinking ability as a human, but it is just something you pieced together from the database. ……It's like a person who can't write~EbookFREE.me~ can only cut one word from the newspaper or book, and connect them into a complete sentence...You are just a bunch of 0s and 1s... "
"Then what do you want to become?"
"A brand-new life form that does not require a physical body and can exist in this world independently of spiritual consciousness."
"I can't do it," the main brain replied.
"No... you are very close to that level. Isn't the utopian world the basic starting point for that kind of life form?" Xia stood up and moved closer to the screen.
"But that is still based on data. A pure spiritual ideology cannot exist independently. There must be a carrier, whether that carrier is a human body or a disk."
"At least... I can get rid of this fragile body first, right?... As long as I have enough time, there is nothing I can't do... I will ask you one last time, do you accept this condition? accept?"
"I can accept this condition, but I just promise to input your consciousness into the utopian world. As for your subsequent ideas, you have to implement it yourself." The main brain nodded and said.
"Very good." Xia smiled at the screen, "First, I will suppress all the rebels within the organization, and after the suppression is complete, I will announce the news of surrender. After the organization and the reform unity, I will All resources are invested in the research and development of the utopian world, turning this virtual world into'reality' completely."
"Although I think your idea is a bit unrealistic, it will not have an impact on my plan, nor does it contradict my core code procedures, so I think I can wish us a happy cooperation."
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