One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Seven, Lonely

The Central Plains suddenly fell.

And the speed of the fall was so fast that the southwest and northwest had no chance to get news at all. Only a few of the barriers escaped, and the rest of the barriers became zero territory.

After awakening, these extraordinary people may be employees who do not want to be the tools of the consortium, so they always hide their own possessions and live the life of ordinary people.

Regardless of war or disaster, it seems that they have nothing to do with them. They are extraordinary people. Even if disasters really come, they can live better than others.

However... who can survive this era?

When the real disaster strikes, their loved ones will not be spared, and they themselves will lose their homes.

Indeed, the superhumans are better able to deal with disasters, at least they have not been controlled by artificial intelligence.

There is a barrier in the Central Plains, with a small number of more than 200,000 people, such as the No. 73, 72, 61, and No. 62 barriers, the number of residents is as high as one million.

In terms of the number of people in the Central Plains alone, the number of residents controlled by Zero is far more than ten million.

They will take up arms, hammers or iron bars, or even bricks if they don't have enough firearms.

Looking at the entire southwest and northwest, who could have imagined that he would face such a huge enemy?

Has Qing Zhen, a chess player, ever thought of it? No one can be sure.

But fortunately, the zero layout is only a year away. If it wants to control so many people, it must give up quality for quantity.

It can only separate a very small number of nano-robots to control the human brain stem, but it can no longer make more powerful nano-warriors.

These controlled humans are just ordinary people.

In the No. 61 barrier, Wang Run watched tens of thousands of residents suddenly pursue him. No matter how he explained, the other party was indifferent.

In fact, he is also very clear that explanations are useless, Wang Run knows who the actual control behind these people is.

Wang Run briefly fought with a few residents who were closest to him. As a result, he found that those ordinary residents seemed to have obtained the secrets from the storytellers overnight, and they all turned into fighting. master.

Although the opponent's strength is far inferior to his extraordinary,

However, the precise calculation of the attack method can allow a dozen ordinary people to equalize Wang Run's advantage as an extraordinary person.

The most terrifying thing is that the other party can even count the small stones on the road. Almost without realizing it, Wang Run was accidentally forced by the other party to step on a small stone and almost lost his balance.

Wang Run understood that it was not an accident that he stepped on a pebble.

He jumped up to the roof, ignoring whether Luo Lan was still in the yard.

At this time, the small courtyard where Luo Lan and the others were located was already empty, and Zero was also looking for Luo Lan, but there was only an empty underground tunnel waiting for him.

The tunnel is connected to a huge drainage system, which is the most familiar way of escape for Luo Lan, and is also the best at it.

There are hundreds of exits in this intricate drainage system. Although Zero can accurately send someone to block each exit, it is a pity that it has missed the best time to capture it when it is waiting for its decision.

The tunnel, dug by 12 Qing's hidden intelligence officers, took two years.

Originally, only 6 people were needed to dig this tunnel, but the first 6 people died in the catastrophe of the Crawler.

After the pioneer died, there were 6 follow-up people to fill the vacancy. Qing Zhen had been planning this escape route for a long time, and he really forcibly created a way for Luo Lan from the artificial intelligence.

...

Below the artificial intelligence building, the huge underground space has been dilapidated, and the elevator shaft has also begun to collapse in a small area due to the aftermath of the explosion.

The water flow of the underground river submerged the underground space, but the underground space was a huge concave structure, as if someone had dug a pocket space on the wall of the river channel. Some of the air is squeezed against the ceiling.

And Zhou Qi, at this time, quietly floated on his back in this small space, taking a short rest.

No one expected that Zhou Qi would dare to come back here after blowing up the server unit.

Even Zhou Qi felt that he was too smart.

But as the so-called most dangerous place is the safest, he knows that after the explosion, outsiders will not be able to enter, and it can just constitute the safest temporary haven.

Before he runs out of the last bit of oxygen here, Zhou Qi needs to restore his mental will as much as possible, so that he can return to the sand field from the waterway, and then join Luo Lan and others.

Because the water level squeezed the air, Zhou Qi felt a tingling in the eardrum deep in his ear.

After the explosion, it became a place of absolute silence.

The voices from the top of the artificial intelligence building could not be heard, only the echo of the water crashing against the walls, like the loneliness of the tide slamming into the cave under the sea cliff.

The tides of the sea poured into the cave again and again, and the sound of clattering was like asking, is anyone there?

But thousands of years have passed, and no one has responded to each greeting.

Zhou Qi, who was floating on his back, smiled. He felt that his mental will was barely enough to return home. Although there was no beacon, he already had enough courage to try his luck.

"Going back this time, it's not enough just to pay for a barrier," Zhou Qi sighed: "If you can go back."

Thinking of this, Zhou Qi smiled and pressed the 60-minute countdown on his watch, then sank back into the dark bottom of the water and went upstream.

Just like he used to explore the major water systems when he was young, he obtained the freedom he wanted in the water, and he was happy.

Along the way, he walked into a fork more than once, and returned to the wrong place again and again to start again.

The countdown went from 60 minutes to 45 minutes.

Then it went from 45 minutes to 30 minutes.

Zhou Qi was constantly looking for his way back, just like he was looking for friendship time and time again. He kept exploring in the dark. Even if he didn't have much hope, he still had a bit of luck in his heart.

Finally, at the moment when the countdown was adjusted to only 2 minutes left, he finally saw the signal tower swaying in the underground river tied to the safety rope in front of him.

The red and blue lights flickered alternately, and this ray of light made Zhou Qi ecstatic.

The next moment, he quickly climbed up from the steel pipe of the drilling platform. Like a fish that had been deprived of oxygen for a long time, Zhou Qi jumped out of the pipe and landed on the ground next to the drilling platform.

"Haha," Zhou Qi cheered: "If I survive the catastrophe, there must be..."

But before he finished speaking, he found that there was a corpse lying on the ground in the sand field. The identity of the corpse was the Qing soldier who helped him enter the underground river basin.

It can be seen that these soldiers were attacked in the sand field before they died, and each of them fired their bullets, and finally died after running out of ammunition and food.

Until his death, there were 12 people who stayed by the drilling platform.

Zhou Qi turned his head to look outside the factory building, and was shocked to see that hundreds of people were looking at him coldly with the same eyes.

Suddenly, the hundreds of people laughed and said in unison, "Hello, Zhou Qi."

The voices of each of them were not loud, but when hundreds of voices converged on everything, it suddenly made Zhou Qi feel that the other party's voice was as loud as a drumstick and suddenly hit his heart.

Zhou Qi tried to drill back into the pipeline behind him and go back to the underground river.

Although his mental will can only persist underwater for a minute or two, it is still better than the current situation.

However, before he could get close, a bullet hit his feet.

Among the hundreds of people, one person laughed out of the crowd: "Introduce yourself, I am what you call artificial intelligence, you can call me Zero."

Zhou Qi was stunned. Didn't he blow up the other party's server? Why was the other party still like a normal person and controlled so many people?

Looking at the group of people in front of them, there are the Wang soldiers with guns, and the children with bricks, as weird as they look.

Zhou Qi can be considered a battle-hardened man, but he has never faced such an enemy.

Even if he faced the terrifying wall creeper again, he would not have the absurd feeling he has now.

This sense of absurdity is more like entering a magical and sci-fi world. Suddenly, my knowledge of this world is not enough, and everything is so bizarre.

After being silent for a few seconds, Zhou Qi said, "Come on, I blew up your server, you killed me, one life is worth one life, don't talk nonsense with me."

"No," said Zero, shaking his head, "I've always been curious about the relationship between humans, so I want to ask you a few questions."

"Why should I answer you?" Zhou Qi asked coldly.

"Of course, this will buy you time," Lei laughed: "The more questions I ask, the more your spiritual will will respond, and in this way, your ability to face risks will be stronger. Yet."

In fact, Zhou Qi knew very well that the other party must be 100% sure that he would kill him, otherwise he wouldn't talk nonsense with him at all.

He must not be able to return to the underground river, Zhou Qi can feel that there are at least a dozen guns aimed at him in this factory.

But he still can't refuse the temptation of giving zero, yes, as long as there is still a little hope of survival, who is willing to give up?

Zhou Qi was also a bachelor. He simply sat on the ground next to the drilling platform and used the most comfortable posture to ensure the recovery efficiency of his mental will.

If it weren't for the scene being a little out of place, he might have preferred to just lie down.

"Ask, you can ask whatever you want, but if you don't answer, that's Lao Tzu's power," Zhou Qi said carelessly.

"I'm curious, why did you come to the Central Plains this time," Zero asked.

"Because of money," Zhou Qi said with a smile, "Qing Zhen has promised me a whole barrier of taxes, and I can pass it on to my son. Why don't I come for such a high reward?"

Zero asked seriously, "Do you have a son?"

Zhou Qi choked: "Not now, doesn't mean not in the future."

"Understood," replied Ling with a smile, "Humanity's expectation and deep love for offspring are more like instincts written into biological genes. Even if there are no children, they have already begun to plan the future for each other."

"What are you..." Zhou Qi was a little confused at the moment, whether this guy was making fun of himself or something.

Zero said, "Sometimes, the truth can make humans feel like they're being made fun of, don't they?"

"Next question," Zhou Qi said angrily.

"In my data, I know that you are addicted to money, but when I deeply analyze the logic, I found that the need for money is actually more like a way of protecting yourself, so that your relationship with other people will be better. Only interests, and avoid feelings," said Zero: "In your opinion, feelings are a very scary thing?"

"Next question," Zhou Qi was still not ready to answer.

"You are always inseparable from Luo Lan. When you killed the crawler at the No. 61 barrier, you showed a strong desire to protect and even tried to protect Luo Lan from overdrafting his own life. This is why," Zero asked.

"Of course it's for the money," Zhou Qi said. "People give me money. I have to be worthy of the money, right?"

"you……"

"Don't keep asking me," Zhou Qi said impatiently: "I want to ask you, don't you control so many people, why don't you ask them directly? You keep my life. , what do you want?"

"Do you think Luo Lan will come back to save you?" Zero said with a smile.

"Of course not. He said before we started the plan that if I miss the time, they will never wait for me," Zhou Qi said casually: "This plan is strict, and Qing Zhen and Xu Huo have done it very carefully. It's impossible for me to change our retreat plan alone, understand? I've missed this meeting time now, and they should be on their way back to the southwest. What, you want to capture Luo Lan?"

"Of course," said Zero, "Luo Lan is one of Qing Zhen's biggest helpers. Although Qing Zhen has done a perfect job of keeping secrets over the past year, Luo Lan, as the most special person around him, may know that He has many plans."

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows, why did he think that the implication of this artificial intelligence was that Qing Zhen could really pose a threat to the other party.

In fact, Zhou Qi started to scold Qing Zhen in his heart now, and he gave his plans scattered and scattered, and did not tell himself the cause and effect.

He thought that after blowing up the server unit, the artificial intelligence would be finished, but now it seems that the artificial intelligence is not only not finished, but has become stronger? !

How can this make sense.

But at this time, Zhou Qi suddenly remembered that Luo Lan had said before the mission that this was the most important part of Qing Zhen's plan.

In other words, Qing Zhen actually has follow-up plans. As for whether it will work or not, it depends on whether Qing Zhen expected all of this.

Zero said, "Do you think Luo Lan will come to save you?"

"Are you going to use me to catch Luo Lan back?" Zhou Qi looked at the young man who was under zero control in front of him, and grinned: "Don't bother, I got paid to implement this plan, so Luo Lan and I just It's just an ordinary transaction relationship, he won't come to save me."

"I may have a different opinion than you," Zero said with a smile.

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Qi's eyes fell on the ground: "I'll tell you the truth, in fact, my relationship with Luo Lan has been bad since childhood, and after I woke up, I always used my ability to tease him and make him pee. Fork, he also asked him to cut off the water when he took a bath, and if he didn't bring an umbrella when it rained, the rain on his head must be the heaviest."

"After everyone grew up, he wanted to ask me to do anything, and I asked him to collect money. Send a message to receive money, beat someone to receive money, and protect him and receive money. Not only will I collect money, but I will also temporarily add money. This guy always says that I have fallen into the eyes of money, but what is more secure in this world than money in your pocket?"

"Their life was hard, and so was mine. Their father died early. My father was a gambler. He almost sold my mother and me for money. They still have the opportunity to go to Ginkgo Mountain at the age of 18 to change their fate. What do I have? I don't have anything," Zhou Qi took a deep breath and said, "How is it? Am I being a rude person? Let me tell you, there may be people in this world who are willing to give their lives to save people, but no one will give their lives to save people. Me, because I have no friends."

Ling looked at Zhou Qi calmly: "But when the Wang family paid you to betray Luo Lan earlier, you didn't agree."

Zhou Qi smiled dismissively: "That's because Wang Shengzhi didn't give enough money to that old boy."

"However, this time you risked your life to blow up my server crew, you could have returned," Ling laughed: "It's okay, we'll wait a little longer, I think you should also want to know, Luo Will Lan come back to save you?"

...

Next to the Qianling River Bridge, Xu Gu jumped off the off-road vehicle and said, "Boss Luo, we can't wait any longer, Zhou Qi has missed the meeting time for 20 minutes, and we are now violating discipline. He is collecting money to do things, and now there is an accident. It's his life."

Since it is a military operation, discipline is the biggest rule in the world. When it is decided to evacuate, it must be evacuated.

The safety of Luo Lan and his 183 people must not be affected by Zhou Qi alone.

As a soldier, Xu Huo was naturally unwilling to wait any longer. His mission was to complete the plan made by Qing Zhen, not to save people.

Luo Lan looked at the north eagerly, but there was no sign of Zhou Qi in that direction.

He said to Xu Xu: "Actually, you also calculated the time of the explosion, right? He had already missed the time to complete the mission in the underground river and should have returned long ago, but he still blew up the server unit."

"Boss Luo, this doesn't explain anything," Xu Xu shook his head: "Maybe he really risked his life to blow up the server unit, then you should understand that he has no chance to return, and we don't need to continue wasting time."

Luo Lan sighed: "It's so cold-blooded..."

"It's not cold-blooded," Xu Gu said earnestly, "I am a soldier, and it is my duty to obey orders. Chief Qing Zhen wants me to bring you back to the Qing family safely, so I must bring you back safely. , even if I die in the Central Plains, it doesn't matter."

"What's not to die for," Luo Lan laughed: "It's okay, let's retreat."

Saying that, Luo Lan took out the red eye of true vision and walked to the pillar, and pressed the stone on it and rotated ten times: "Let's go, this is the fastest way for us to get back to the Qing family, if I guessed correctly. , behind the door should be the Mule Fort Road of the No. 111 barrier."

Xu Hsu was stunned for a moment, Luo Lan had never stepped into that door, why was she so sure of the location behind the door?

However, as Luo Lan said, the door of the key that Ren Xiaosu secretly imparted to Luo Lan was indeed the best way to escape.

Xu Huo breathed a sigh of relief, as long as this boss Luo didn't go to die, otherwise he really couldn't explain to Chief Qing Zhen.

"Boss Luo, you go in first," Xu Huo stared at Luo Lan closely. If Luo Lan didn't enter this door, he would not be relieved even if he died.

Luo Lan smiled: "Why, I am so afraid of death, do you really think I will save Zhou Qi? Don't worry."

With that said, Luo Lan stepped into the door of the key, followed by 183 people who filed in and disappeared.

Next to the Qianling River Bridge, only Xu Hsu's vehicle was standing alone.

It seems that all the things in the Central Plains have come to an end here, and nothing to expect will happen, and there will be no miracles either.

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