Chapter 323 Prelude to the Rainstorm

Alexander stood in front of the cabinet, looked at the set of vital organs inside and said, "I didn't personally take part in the follow-up of that incident. Anyway, the news I received was that the people from the Operations Department sent Chiyo Jingu to the operating table and removed it. All non-essential organs and tissues retain only the most basic life systems and the nerves needed to feel pain."

"Then, they put these pieces of meat that could still be called 'Chiyo Shrine' into a life support warehouse and sealed it for more than ten years. During this period, they kept her vitality and continued to stimulate her with electricity."

"It's difficult for me to evaluate how she feels in this state, but according to the data from the monitoring equipment, her nerves will produce signal feedback every time she is stimulated by the outside world - which means that her consciousness is present and complete."

Looking at the pair of eyeballs suspended in the nutrient solution and connected to the brain through dense nerves, just looking at him motionless, Dongdong couldn't help but feel a chill.

For more than ten years, I have been soaked in this life support machine day after day and night after night. Although I have lost my body, my consciousness has always existed. I can't survive but can't die. I just live in darkness.

It can't even be said to be alive, as Alexander said, it is just "alive".

Alexander looked at the frowning Dongdong with a meaningful smile on his face: "In order to restore Sumo's reputation, you insisted on seeking revenge on Lucifer and offended the Hefei Company to death. Have you ever thought that you are actually far from this place? The appearance is very close?"

Dongdong was silent for a long time, his brows suddenly widened, and he smiled briefly: "You didn't think that my life was any better than this before the boss pulled me out of the quagmire at the border, right?"

Alexander was stunned there, not expecting to hear such an answer. After he came to his senses, he laughed heartily: "You are such a strange person. I am becoming more and more interested in you."

Dongdong said calmly: "Uncle, give me some face, how about it?"

Alexander: "You say."

Dongdong: "Destroy the things in this tank and let her die."

Alexander's eyes became deeper: "It is indeed Chiyokanna who asked you to come. After all, more than ten years have passed, and she is the only one who still cares about Chiyokanna."

"Young man, you are still too naive. You stand up for others and don't even know you are being used as a weapon."

"We have told Chiyo Kanna a long time ago that if she can carve out a place in the mercenary world and come to do a good job for Jagged, we will naturally reconcile with her."

"But her potential is there. Being a tepid Seven Star is the limit. There is no way to climb up. The only chance to change her destiny is when she hunted the Silent Death. She also Didn’t catch it.”

"Now that she can't meet the conditions herself, she comes to you for help with such shame, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Dongdong said calmly: "It's nothing to laugh about. I only know that I owe her once. Just tell me whether this can happen or not."

Alexander: "Of course it can be done, but everything in this world has a price. What chips are you willing to give me to free Chiyo Shrine?"

Dongdong snorted coldly and said directly: "You know, I am an uneducated person and a bad boy on the street. I can't do this kind of negotiation and negotiation, and I have nothing to give you."

"If you want to talk about money, I have some money, but that kind of money is definitely not worth it to a person of your status."

"You want to talk about power. I never consider myself an ordinary person, but there must be masters in this building who are stronger than me. You can command them with just a finger, without me."

"If you want to talk about my position, I will only stay on the fringe in this life, and I will only be the leader. It is impossible for you to ask me to join the iron-blooded side. There is no need to even think about it."

"So, I really have nothing to give you. If I have to say it, I will keep this favor in my heart. If one day in the future you are down and can't afford to eat, I will give you a little bit of the bowl. That’s about it.”

After hearing this, Alexander laughed heartily, shook his head and joked: "You have a very clear self-awareness. You really don't know how to negotiate with others."

After speaking, he came to the operation console and entered the password, and then a metal pillar popped up in front of the life support chamber, with a red button visible on it.

Alexander: "This red button is a high-voltage current control switch. As long as it is pressed, the fragile vital organs in the maintenance chamber will be destroyed, and Chiyo Shrine will be freed."

Dongdong: "You agree?"

Alexander said casually: "After more than ten years, if there is anything that Chiyo Shrine needs to repay, it is almost done."

"The rest is just like you said, I'm selling you a favor. Second Master Bian has to go out personally for such a trivial matter, so I still have to give him some face."

Dongdong didn't say anything, walked over and pressed the red button.

A fierce blue light flashed in the life support chamber, and then fell into silence quickly.

The organs in the warehouse didn't seem to have any changes, but their activity had been completely destroyed by the strong current shock just now.

The existence of Chiyo Shrine is completely dead.

Although Dongdong was young and had killed many people until now, she felt a sense of loss for no reason at this time.

She didn't know Chiyo Jingu and had no interaction with this person.

She was entrusted by Chiyo Kanna to come here this time, and she didn't do anything bad.

But when that burst of electricity instantly took away the life of Qianyo Shrine, and then thinking about the reason why she was trapped here, Dong Dong still felt that her heart was blocked.

After Qianyo Jingu died, at Dongdong's request, the iron-blooded man cremated him and put his ashes in a wooden box.

Dongdong left Babel Tower, met with Chiyo Kanna at the agreed place, and handed the wooden box to her.

Chiyo Kanna took the wooden box with trembling hands and held it in her arms helplessly, her lips trembling and tears gargle down her face.

"She" Chiyo Kanna murmured, her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of hearing something terrible, "Was it painful when she died?"

Dongdong shook his head: "It's not painful, it's just a matter of a moment."

Chiyo Kanna closed her eyes and let tears keep pouring out of her eyes: "What I haven't been able to do after so many years of hard work, you finished it in an hour."

Dongdong raised his head and looked at the sky, his eyes calm: "This world is like this. Many things only depend on status, and it has nothing to do with hard work or not."

"When I was a kid on the border, I worked harder than anyone else to live, but I could only live like a dog."

"But now that I have become stronger and have status, I basically get whatever I want. Even if I don't ask for it, others will take the initiative to give it to me."

"But then again, hard work may not necessarily be useful, but it is a hope you give yourself."

"If you are defeated by reality and are not even willing to work hard, you will really lose to the world."

A bitter curve appeared on the corners of Chiyo Kanna's lips. She didn't expect that she would be lectured by a junior who was twelve years younger.

She took a deep breath, gathered her mood, hugged the wooden box containing her sister's ashes, and bowed to Dongdong: "Thank you, I will keep it in my heart."

In the history of the rapid development of science and technology, there is one technology that cannot be avoided, and that is artificial intelligence. It is a collective name for a series of advanced algorithms, including mathematical principles such as neural network processing, vector machines, and decision trees.

In today's world, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in military and civilian fields. It uses a large number of data samples to correct relevant model parameters to complete a series of instructions.

This type of artificial intelligence is termed "weak artificial intelligence".

In many science fiction works, creators have imagined a kind of "strong artificial intelligence", which also has the computing power of a supercomputer, but compared with weak artificial intelligence, it also has complete self-awareness.

This kind of existence can often be seen in movies or games. It is obviously a robot made by humans, but it can think independently, has its own conceptual system, and even has the same various instincts as living creatures.

In these works, strong artificial intelligence is often dangerous. With independent consciousness, they do not obey their creator human beings, and will eventually set off a rebellion that affects the whole world.

In fact, many historians and archaeologists in the world today have wondered whether the destruction of ancient civilizations was also due to the "AI rebellion."

They speculate that the kind of "strong artificial intelligence" in science fiction works may have been born in the old era. For some reasons, they came to oppose human beings and eventually started a devastating war.

With the development of artificial intelligence technology in recent years, intelligent machines have become more and more powerful, and this statement has gained wider support.

This guess is half correct.

The kind of strong artificial intelligence that only appears in science fiction works was really born in the old times.

However, people at that time had long foreseen the huge risks brought by strong artificial intelligence, and imposed strict restrictions on its social application, legislation and other levels, long ago eliminating the possibility of "AI rebellion".

The later apocalyptic war was not caused by strong artificial intelligence, but in a sense, it was very similar to it.

At that time, a new life form that had never been seen before appeared in the world. This existence threatened the safety of the entire human species.

And that doomsday war was launched to completely annihilate them.

In the end, mankind won, fighting for several generations and paying the price of the entire civilization, so that the human species could once again reproduce in the vast world.

But people more than 150 years later did not know that the kind of life that could challenge the status of the human species was not extinct. It was still sleeping deep underground in this world.

And one of the most powerful existences is located 100,000 meters underground in Crescent City.

During this period, Sumo would go to the Northern Industrial Development Zone almost every day and put detectors into the stratum through the 10,000-meter-deep borehole in order to understand the stratum conditions in more detail.

On this day, Su Mo finished his work and drove the Black Ark to prepare for the return journey.

While passing through a border area on the way back to the city, the on-board defense system suddenly lit up with a warning, indicating that an unidentified aircraft was approaching.

The opponent was very fast and within a short time he was next to the Black Ark. Su Mo could already see it with his naked eyes.

It was a single-soldier aircraft that looked like a large skateboard made entirely of metal. The bottom end sprayed plasma as thrust, allowing people to fly on it in the air.

A heavily armed warrior stepped on the aircraft, with a badge engraved with the sickle symbol on the side of his arm. He was clearly a member of the "Death Scythe Mercenary Group" under Zhou Hannian's command.

This Death Scythe mercenary was not very friendly. He flew with Black Ark at a dangerous distance that was very prone to collision, and gestured to Su Mo to land.

Su Mo has been busy with his own affairs recently and hasn't paid much attention to the situation on the border. Now that he happened to meet someone from Death Scythe, he took advantage of the situation.

After the Black Ark landed, the Death Scythe mercenary also stepped off the individual aircraft, came to Su Mo's window and asked, "What do you do? Why are you flying around here?"

Su Mo asked doubtfully: "Border airspace is free airspace, why can't I fly?"

The Death Scythe mercenary said coldly: "I ask, you answer."

Su Mo laughed at these overbearing words: "Boy, you just joined the industry not long ago. You don't even recognize me?"

The Death Scythe mercenary thought he was bluffing and was about to scold him. Not far away, a mercenary wearing a captain's uniform fixed his gaze and seemed to recognize the Black Ark. He frowned and ran over.

The captain peeked his head out of the window, and when he saw Su Mo, helplessness was written on his face. He raised his hand and gave the mercenary a shudder: "You are so blind that you stopped Captain Bian's car?! "

The Death Scythe mercenary was stunned. The coldness on his face disappeared. He covered his head and looked at Su Mo in bewilderment.

"Go and do what you have to do." The captain pushed him away, then walked to the window and nodded to Su Mo, "I'm sorry, Captain Su, the new guy doesn't have eyesight. Don't be as knowledgeable as him."

Su Mo pointed upward: "What are you doing?"

The captain explained: "You may not know that this is a temporary assembly area for our team, and the airspace is under martial law. The guy in charge of patrol stopped you without recognizing the Black Ark."

Su Mo looked at the Death Scythe mercenaries who were packing their equipment not far away, and said meaningfully: "It seems that Death Scythe has suffered a lot of losses recently. All the new people have been transferred to perform tasks. Are you preparing to withdraw from the border?"

The captain said calmly: "Yes, the Wolf Raid side has a lot of information technology equipment inexplicably. They are all advanced and good products. If the fight continues, it will become a bad war and not worth it."

At this point, his eyes became deep and he looked directly at Su Mo: "Tell me, where did Wolf Raid get such good equipment?"

Su Mo shrugged and said in a joking tone: "Perhaps it is the miraculous workmanship of nature. The border area has a unique ecological environment. They are all grown in the ground."

A hint of coldness flashed in the captain's eyes: "Haha, you are indeed as humorous as the rumors say. It's best if it grows in the ground, otherwise if we find out who secretly supplied the goods, the account will be settled."

Su Mo restarted the engine and asked with a smile: "Is there anything else? If nothing happens, I'll leave first. You guys should go back quickly. Go home and hug your wife and children. Isn't it much better than risking your life here with the madman attacking you?"

The captain didn't say anything, he just silently released his hand from the car window and watched the black ark fly into the sky. (End of chapter)