Black chassis stand in the quiet and huge underground space. Rows of server chassis are constantly flashing light spots. A white automatic inspection robot goes around in the maze of chassis rows, and its wheels are on the porcelain white floor tiles.
It rolled over and made a small cooing sound, and the green scanning light carefully scanned all the machines passing by, like a king inspecting his territory.
The automatic inspection robot is the latest gadget produced by the Technology Department in recent years. The purpose of its production is to reduce the labor cost of regular physical examinations for Norma, the college secretary. The principle of the small robot is also very simple. It uses intelligent sensors to continuously obtain inspection data on both sides.
Once discovered, the status information of the inspection object, overheating of lines, and unresponsiveness of the machine, which are difficult to detect manually, will be uploaded immediately through the internal network, and the people from the technical department will be notified to rush for repairs as soon as possible.
The automatic inspection robot's inspection route in the computer room is fixed. It moves forward at a speed of one meter per second in a huge space of 600 square meters. It takes almost ten minutes to complete each passage between the chassis, and then returns to the original route.
Walk through it again, twenty-four hours a day, except for a fixed hour of automatic charging at the charging pile, and the rest of the time I diligently check every corner of the computer room.
While the automatic inspection robot was performing maintenance inspections for the unknown number of times today, he encountered a problem that he never encountered before at the turn of the third aisle, that is, the road in front of him was blocked by a metal chair.
.
In the system of a small robot, if it encounters an obstacle on the road, it should be moved away immediately, because the technical department has equipped it with a manipulator and given it a certain level of intelligence. However, in the current situation, the robot is
He did not choose to unfold his robot hand, but immediately started the scanner and pointed it at the person sitting on the chair in front of him to start scanning.
The green outside scanned the person on the chair from head to toe, and compared it at high speed in the database connected to Norma. It took less than 0.5 seconds to figure out that the person was not on the college's personnel registration book. The red color of the small robot
The reminder light starts to flash, and the alarm system is ready to be activated immediately.
But at this time, a white card without magnetic stripes or patterns was handed to its scanner. Patsy Gattuso, who was holding the white card, said to it, "I have this, so you don't need to call the police."
Well, it’s already very late now and I don’t want to disturb other people.”
As expected, the speed of the inspection robot's alarm slowed down, and a question mark popped up on the electronic screen. This was not because Zhongzhi's AI allowed him to understand what it means to plead for mercy or take the opportunity to ask for a bribe. After all, it is just a robot, and its only salary is
With one hour of full power per day, the battery for the energy-concentrating ring cannot be chewed as a snack.
What really made the little robot freeze the alarm action was the white card in Patsy's hand. When the white card was handed out, the special characters recorded on the magnetic track of the card made it aware of what the card represented. So it really
He was persuaded by a word, and after a few seconds, he circled around the chair and popped out a card reader slot towards the man.
Patsy inserted the white card into the slot of this cute little guy. The permissions in the magnetic card were read. The red alarm light of the little robot went out, and the green light turned on. A【＞_＜
] symbol, probably because the "simulating human emotional expression algorithm" written into the AI intelligent program by the malicious programmer is at work.
Patsy doesn't think it's strange, because AIs that are smarter than small robots are everywhere, not to mention that he is now sitting in the "belly" of a super AI working.
"What happened?" In Patsy's ear, a dignified middle-aged man's voice sounded on the phone.
"It's just a routine inspection of the patrol robot. I have connected to Norma's backend." Passi turned his attention back to the laptop in front of him that was connected to the chassis socket. On the screen was a simple interface with only color blocks and rough edges.
It reminds me of the BIOS setting interface that is entered by pressing F12 when booting up the indosXP system.
The interface on Passi's computer is the network backend of Cassel College. The network world of Cassel College is like standing in Norma's back garden, where he can freely access every corner of Norma.
Dig out every piece of information recorded on the college network no matter how old it is.
"Now you have
Having obtained Norma's highest authority, I should not have handed this white card to you, but the situation is different now. Angers and Flamel have cut off the relationship between the school board and the college regardless of their shame.
They do not want to have too close information exchange between the school board and the investigation team before the hearing is over, which means they have been forced into a desperate situation."
On the other end of the phone, Frost Gattuso said coldly, "We are sure to win this hearing. We can imagine that once Angers and Flamel fall, they will definitely clear up some secrets that they don't want us to get.
Over the years, they had obtained some information through the power and means of the secret party, but for various reasons they chose to conceal it and not share it with the school board.
These secrets are hidden in a core storage of the Norma server. Back them up regularly and then delete the previous originals. Even we cannot obtain them through remote decoding. Your task is to copy everything in the core storage to a mobile hard disk and send it to the mobile hard disk.
Go back to the school board for security decoding."
"Yes." After Patsy responded, the ten fingers of his hands moved alternately to make a crisp sound. The next moment, his fingers began to dance wildly on the keyboard, just like a pianist dancing on the hot keys.
In the network background, windows popped up one after another and were closed. A large amount of information began to be processed. A new white progress bar window popped up in the lower right corner. As Patsy's work began, the blue bar slowly began to rise at 0%.
"In addition, regarding the incident between the Earth and the King of the Mountain, there has been a new view within the school board recently." Frost continued on the phone while working in Passi. The construction company owned by the Gattuso family has transoceanic contracting.
We visited the train station destroyed by the Dragon King in the coastal city and sealed off the ruins for survey and excavation. We came to the conclusion that this time the Dragon King's attack was not a surprise, but a high-intensity attack that actually occurred.
The battle. But the suspicion lies in the fact that neither of the two 'S, level' and one 'A, level' who were suspected to be the main participants in this battle reported any characteristics of the Dragon King."
"The school board thinks they are shielding the Dragon King?" Percy asked, and the work he was doing did not stop. Multitasking was a necessary skill for him to be Frost's effective secretary. If necessary,
He can do three things at once.
"No, if this is the case, then they will be branded as traitors who betrayed the human class. I think they are not that stupid. There are some reasons we don't know." Frost said, "It makes the school board even more
What is puzzling is why the Dragon King launched this sudden attack."
"According to the information reported by Angers in the two battles between the Bronze and the Fire King, the Dragon King who resurrected from a long slumber should have a very long period of weakness. In this period of time, compared with the heyday
They are like babies. But even so, the Dragon King still resolutely chose to attack, which made people doubt his purpose." Frost said coldly,
"Many school directors believe that the Dragon King is targeting the mastermind who participated in the Battle of the King of Bronze and Fire and killed Norton and Constantine. After all, among the hybrids present at the time, Lin Nian, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, and the orthodox code names
'Yue,' Gan, a half-breed, all participated in the Bronze Project."
"So this was an elaborate revenge?" Patsy said.
"No, I don't think that's the case. If I were the Dragon King, I would observe my enemy after reviving and choose to defeat him in the least labor-intensive and safest way, rather than risking exposure and fighting head-on.
"Frost said calmly, "The purpose of the Dragon King's attack on the train station was not assassination, but something else. At that time, there was a more important thing in the train station besides killing compatriots and enemies."
"It's a document," Frost said. "The document about Project Utero.
"'Utero, the most common thing in that document is the list of people. Is it possible that the Dragon King's own list is also in it? The temple will accidentally include the skin of the Dragon King hidden in human society, which caused the Dragon King's anger.
An uneasy commotion." Patsy offered his own opinion.
"That's what I guessed," Frost Gattuso said calmly, "but now there is no proof."
"Death without Testimony?" Patsy's fingers on the keyboard paused slightly.
"This document is of concern to the Executive Department
What was intercepted in Italy was a branch of the Temple Society. Although for the Secret Society, organizations like the Temple Society are not considered rivals. Italy is our taxi land. In the branch of the Temple Society
It was destroyed as soon as it was exposed, but at the time of its destruction, our people also suffered a strong counterattack. It was against this background that the document was discovered." Frost slowly narrated the "Utero" document excavation.
the process of,
"At that time, the family's forces were busy liquidating the remaining forces of the Temple Society. Their trump card did cause us a lot of trouble. Only a few people viewed the document and it was hurriedly passed to the hands of the headquarters commissioner. Even if
Even the school board did not know the detailed content of the document. It only roughly knew that the file contained the file of a particularly sensitive person, so after careful consideration, it was decided to hand over the document to 'S,-level student Lin Nian, who became
An ice-breaking window to rebuild trust.”
Patsy didn't ask who the sensitive person was. He had browsed Lin Nian's files in detail and analyzed Lin Nian, and he had roughly restored the matter to a complete conclusion.
"In order to prevent the pursuit and counterattack of the remaining forces of the Temple Society, we planned a perfect escape route for the commissioner who escorted the documents. Facts have proved that our plan was successful. The documents were indeed sent to China, but that is where they arrived. A major accident occurred at the train station, and then the files were accidentally destroyed."
"That document has been viewed by very few people. The school children's association should not be afraid that the document will be lost or destroyed." Passy pointed to the core. The school board dared to send this document to Lin Nian as an icebreaker. In the hands of Lin Nian, it means that the school board has long been sure of the content of this document and is not afraid of Lin Nian destroying the document.
"This is the most interesting part." Frost said calmly, "After the document was submitted to the commissioner of the department and sent, I immediately contacted the commissioner who had viewed the document to get first-hand information about the content of the document, but I The reply I got was that the commissioner died accidentally during the encirclement and suppression of the Temple Society."
Percy raised his head slightly and stopped what he was doing.
"Of course, I thought there should be more than one person who had seen the document, so I ordered to contact everyone who knew the contents of the document, and the reports I got were surprisingly uniform." Frost's voice gradually turned colder, "Everyone Everyone who read the contents of that document died unexpectedly in a short period of time. Some died in the battles of the Temple Society, and those who did not participate in the battles of the Temple Society died in even more bizarre ways...cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, and falls. Lou committed suicide."
"Reminiscent of The Book of Sawyer," Patsy whispered.
The Book of Sawyer, also known as the Book of Murder, is a Latin magic book from the 16th century that has been lost for many years. Only angels can read the secrets inside. If mortals understand and decipher the secrets, they will be able to do it in a short time. Death will come within.
"Someone is silencing people. Originally we just thought it was a whimsical genetic optimization document. After all, there have been countless organizations with such ideas and plans over the years. But when we learned that a mysterious person was silencing people by means we couldn't understand. , we realized the special nature of that document, and by then it was already too late to recover it." Frost said slowly,
"At that time, the document had been sent out. Only a few people knew about Norma's escort route plan for the document. It was already too late for the school board to temporarily recover the document. After that, the document was forwarded once or twice. It was destroyed, and the exact contents inside became a mystery.”
"Could it be that the Dragon King is carrying out mass extermination?" Passi asked in a low voice, "If the Dragon King's purpose is that document, then the place where he first appeared can reasonably locate Italy. When the document was handed over, He killed all the insiders at once, chased the documents all the way to China, and then had an encounter with the academy's commissioner at the train station, and finally destroyed the document itself... Didn't Lin Nian lie?"
"This is the most likely and most self-explanatory inference." Frost agreed with Patsy's guess and said in a deep voice, "But what I want now is not an inference, but the exact result."
"Then you must know the details of the destroyed document." Passi said, "The only person who knows the contents of the document now is most likely Lin Nian. I profiled him in his dormitory and thought he
There should be a high probability that I have read that document."
"It's very difficult to get this kind of information from him, even for you." Frost rejected the underlying meaning of Patsy's words, "The current situation is not ready for you to stand in front of the stage.
At this time, give up the idea of looking for Lin Nian. Although I hate to say this, this kind of behavior will most likely lead to your own destruction."
"Yes." Percy didn't argue.
"Besides, he is not the only person in the world who has read that document and is still alive." Frost said, "Von Schneider, the director of the Executive Department, I suspect he is also one of the insiders. The Temple Society
The document was intercepted by someone from the Execution Department. The first person to read the document was also a specialist of the Execution Department. According to the rules and regulations of the Execution Department, as soon as the Class E confidential information is obtained, it should be reported to the immediate superior. His immediate superior
The superior is the head of the execution department, and Von Schneider was solely responsible for that operation. I have reason to believe that Schneider was also an insider of this intelligence."
"It happens that Schneider has been inside the academy due to his health condition. Today, when security has been increased countless times after the Battle of Constantine, even if the Dragon King wants to break into the academy and murder a secret party leader, it will be a problem." Frost said.
, "So he is also one of the few people alive who has read that document."
"Do you need me to talk to Secretary Schneider?"
"It's useless. That man is standing on Angers' side. People like him are like stones in a pit. Once they choose to side, they will never move away. The current situation is not suitable for blatant execution.
"We have to go under the knife." Frost said coldly, "But we have no chance of regaining the contents of that document... You must know that Schneider's direct superior is Angers, so Angers is also one of the insiders."
"The possibility of obtaining information from Principal Angers..."
"Think, Patsy, as I said before, Angers and Flamel will regularly stuff some secret information into Norma's core storage. According to the cloud display, the latest backup update of Norma's storage is
"Not long after the files were destroyed." Frost sneered and said, "Report on the current progress of the backup copy."
"89%, sir." Percy glanced at the half-filled blue progress bar on his notebook and understood the scheming of Frost Gattuso, a veteran conspirator and strategist.
"Immediately return to Italy after the data is backed up. I need you to personally escort this mobile hard drive. Only you can ensure that the hard drive can be safely delivered to me with the highest probability." Frost ordered.
Passi also gradually understood the significance of sending him in person for this hearing. Frost Gattuso always likes to use one purpose to hide another purpose, and often in the end he always has two purposes.
can be achieved.
Until the end, Frost was silent for a moment and then said, "Actually, there is one thing I'm not sure about, because it's just a guess."
Patsy said nothing, just listened quietly.
Normally, in the eyes of everyone, Frost Gattuso is a terrifying figure who never hesitates and can instantly decide the tone of anything. And this kind of figure is also full of suspicion and uncertainty. These words are also
Only Patsy, the secretary, had a chance to hear it, and he would only talk to Patsy.
"The Dragon King's appearance this time to snatch the documents is related to a person that everyone has ignored for the time being." Frost said slowly.
Patsy immediately guessed who the person Frost was talking about who had been ignored by everyone, and whispered, "There shouldn't be much correlation between the two. She has an alibi."
"I'm not talking about the possibility that she is the Dragon King." Frost said, "I just think there is some connection, but the current information is too trivial to lay out the trajectory of this connection. At this point
It's such a coincidence that she chose to defect. There should be some important information hidden in the part about her in that document. If I can get that information, I think we can connect everything."
"I think that day will come soon." Patsy glanced at the progress bar that had reached 98% in the lower right corner of the computer screen and said.
Frost's side also fell into silence, and the phone automatically hung up after three seconds. Patsy was also used to such abrupt calls.
At the end, he put away his mobile phone. At this time, the progress bar had reached 99%, and he only needed the last jump to unplug the USB flash drive on the side of the computer and send it to the desk of Gattuso's acting boss overnight.
He waited patiently, and began to sort out all the information that Frost had told him before, trying to establish the "trajectory" that Frost had failed to establish. During this period, he looked at the progress bar several times, and also
I don’t know if it’s due to psychological effects, but the 99% progress bar has been stuck there and has not reached 100%.
The network is stuck?
Patsy just gave up this ridiculous idea in an instant, because he was now in a supercomputer computer room. The dedicated network line here was as thick as a human arm, and the upstream and download speeds were almost non-existent.
Patsy glanced at the time on his phone. It was now 03:03 in the morning. It was already late at night. After completing the copy, he still had half an hour to rush to the airport on the top of the mountain, where a preheated helicopter would arrive.
He was taken directly to Chicago International Airport, where the private jet owned by the Gattuso family had its fuel tank filled.
But just at this moment, when Patsy was about to turn off the phone screen, his peripheral vision suddenly fell to the upper right corner of the phone, and he could no longer move it away.
There is a place where the mobile phone signal is displayed. The mountain symbol that should have been full is now a dead gray cross, which means that his mobile phone is currently in a signal-free state.
This moment forced him to think of Frost's sudden silence just now... It was not that Frost on the other side of the ocean felt that the topic was meaningless and did not want to continue talking, so he hung up the phone, but that the interruption of the mobile phone signal forcibly cut off the conversation between them.
!
Percy suddenly looked at the computer screen. The progress bar was still stuck at 99%. It was certain that there was indeed a problem with the backup progress. Some intuition made him quickly reach out and prepare to pull out the USB flash drive, but the next moment, a red light suddenly appeared in the computer room.
, the door suddenly closed! At the same time, a blood-red "Error" message suddenly popped up on the screen of the laptop, the 99% progress bar quickly returned to 0%, and all the files backed up in the USB flash drive were cleared!
The red light flashed and the alarm bell began to sound.
Everything was a foregone conclusion, and all the efforts were in vain, but Patsy had no anger or annoyance. He just sat quietly in the red-light computer room, silently thinking about which step he had made a mistake in.
At this time, a blue light slowly lit up behind Patsy. He seemed to realize something, pushed aside the computer stand and stood up from the chair. When he turned around, he saw the previous inspection robot parked not far away, his belly
The imager attached above condensed a blue beam of light in the corridor, and finally converged into a beautiful girl in a bright blue dress wearing a white dress.
The latest portable virtual imaging technology from the Technology Department.
Patsy was no stranger to this virtual image of a girl in a white dress with her eyes closed as if she was asleep. He could even call her name.
EVA, the war personality of college secretary Norma, the real super AI personality of Kassel College, was the one who blocked his backup work.
EVA, which was condensed from scratch, slowly opened its eyes. Those bright blue eyes looked at Patsy and politely nodded to him and greeted him, "Good evening, stranger."
"Good evening. I think I should have the authority to do my own work here." Patsy said calmly as before, showing the white card in the card slot that symbolized top authority.
"You do have limits to control. The alarm sounded not because of your actions." EVA's eyes did not stay on the white card, and slightly led towards Patsy, "The alarm in the computer room sounded because I monitored
There are violent activities going on in the ice cellar. An important faculty member in the school has been seriously injured, so a necessary blockade has been carried out in accordance with the safety regulations. During the blockade period, all activities in the ice cellar will be prohibited, including those you had previously conducted.
work."
"Violent activities were detected in the ice cellar? How is that possible?" Patsy raised his head and asked.
"According to my alarm, the head of the execution department, Professor von Schneider, was assassinated in the ice cellar at 3:05 this morning. He is now in a critical stage. All suspects in the ice cellar will be blocked until they are found.
The authorized person has arrived for processing."
A strange look suddenly flashed across Patsy's eyes, but he soon regained his composure and immediately showed the white card again: "Do I have enough authority?"
"The certification has been passed. The route has been planned for you. Please contact the site for support as quickly as possible." A green light flashed in EVA's eyes, and a new pop-up window appeared on the laptop screen behind Passi. The simplest route
Automatic diagram planning.
Patsy turned to look at the screen and carefully observed the clear route map above. When he finally followed, he found that his end point turned out to be an unexpected place - the lower level of the ice cellar, the Zoological and Botanical Garden.
What a terrible place to be, and the man who attacked him was a terrible choice, Patsy thought to himself.
EVA picked up the hand, the red light in the computer room went out, and the white lights lit up one by one. Finally, the closed thick door opened automatically, revealing the straight metal corridor. The automatic elevator at the end of the sight touched the pleasant "ding" sound.
” opened with a sound, waiting for the passengers who would board from time to time.
"The alarm is on, the road ahead is clear, and your military fortunes may be prosperous." EVA turned sideways to get out of the way, and the small inspection robot on the ground also got out of the way sensibly, looking at Percy in the computer room, and the screen showed
[:)]-like symbol.
Percy glanced at EVA, then at the inspection robot, put away the white card, and walked straight and quickly to the elevator waiting for him!