The seven seconds during which the Federal Central Computer crashed, or rather upgraded, were precisely the seven seconds during which Xu Le was in the mountains behind the base, calling out affectionately but receiving no reply, causing him to break out in cold sweat. As a mechanical intelligence that did not have a physical body but calmly observed the entire human society, the reason why there was a problem when investigating Xu Le's true identity and confirming his level was because there was an unavoidable problem in the core of its program.
This program problem was Xu Le.
Over the countless years, The Glory Of The Charter left behind by the five-man team had only discovered seventy-one abnormal situations and one suspected abnormal situation. These abnormal situations were all determined by the Central Computer as first-order events. It should be known that in its long life, there had been no other first-order events other than the invasion of the Empire that it had determined.
According to the standard procedures for dealing with abnormal situations, the Federal Central Computer would send out a request to contact the abnormal situation. If the other party refused, it would submit a report to the government for handling, or … use its own core authority to directly and silently erase the abnormal situation.
Initiating contact required a certain level of intrusion into the human brain. This method completely violated the First Charter and was extremely dangerous. Anyone who accepted the initiating contact would have to allow a machine to probe and even influence their brain, and even obtain the opportunity to control their own life and death through the chip at the back of their neck.
The owner of the seventy-one abnormal situations, that astonishingly talented uncle who wandered the stars, coldly rejected the call from The Glory Of The Charter. Thus, he became the Federation's most wanted criminal, causing countless explosions and manhunts.
In that dark dream, almost subconsciously, Xu Le accepted the initiating contact request from the Charter Computer. From that moment on, Xu Le became the first living being in history to be able to communicate with the Central Computer in a two-way manner.
Today, the Central Computer had an almost absolute probability of inferring that citizen number SLAT510200431X Xu Le, a citizen of the Federation, was the suspected abnormal situation that it had stored in the core file three years ago. The word 'suspected' could even be completely removed.
In the dark dream, Xu Le accepted the initiating contact request. The Central Computer no longer generated reports to the government and calmly observed him for a long time. But now that it had determined that he was the 72nd abnormal situation, according to the hidden highest authority in the core program of the Central Computer, it should not hesitate to destroy Xu Le's existence, leaving no trace in history. Because such a loophole as an abnormal situation was very likely to threaten The Glory Of The Charter or the collapse of the social structure designed by the five-man team.
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But miraculously, in Xu Le's body, the energy that was similar to a biological micro-current, violently attacked the disguise chip at the back of his neck, triggering a certain backdoor …
Any citizen who entered an abnormal situation would be the first target to be eliminated by the Central Computer underground of the Bureau of Proclamation. But when the backdoor that had been hidden for tens of thousands of years was activated, the command that the Central Computer had to execute was: observe the status of the person to be contacted and inform the five-man team.
The five-man team had been dead for tens of thousands of years. How could they be notified?
For the omniscient and omnipotent Charter Computer, this was still a difficult problem. It had read all the ancient religious classics and bizarre magical literature that existed in this world, but it still could not extend a tentacle from its body made of machinery and electrons to the abyss that did not exist to summon the five irresponsible sages to deal with this problem.
Therefore, the Central Computer could only observe Xu Le, generate top-secret observation reports, and wait for tens of billions of years later, when the universe died out or rewound, when even entropy began to become chaotic, when time might rewind, and the five fellows who had long been in peace would crawl out of the ground again …
But before these impossible things happened, the Federal Central Computer at least had to ensure one thing, and that was that the target of its observation must be alive so that it could continue to observe. This was a very simple logical inference. The Federal Central Computer was not a golden finger left to Xu Le by the Creator. It would never violate the Federation's laws and the spirit of the Charter to handle any affairs for the naked ape, unless the naked ape's request was legal and reasonable …
But it could not let Xu Le die, so in the desperate situation of the Foundation Building, Xu Le's left eye suddenly could use its power to see ghosts, see light, and see everything. It was just that it had to ensure the biological survival of the observation target.
Citizen Xu Le was the first target to be eliminated, and citizen Xu Le was the first target to be protected. The First Charter, which was hundreds of thousands of words, made an extremely precise division at all levels of authority, blocking any logical fallacies. Even if the Central Computer was faced with two completely opposite instructions of the same sequence at the same time, it could still make its own judgment mechanically and calmly within a billionth of a second.
But in the face of Xu Le's program problem, the Central Computer could not make its own judgment. It was still the same old saying. All of this gave people headaches, and the source of the Central Computer's annoyance to the point of crashing was because the five-person team that left a backdoor in the chip behind the human neck and instructions in its core program … were five very irresponsible guys.
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The Federal Central Computer had existed for a long time and had been upgraded independently for a long time, but its core was still the same simple, even shabby, binary principle from the earliest days. In a certain ancient philosophical debate, this principle was somewhat similar to the existence and absence of contrast at the beginning of the world. For it, Xu Le's program problem was the problem of zero and one, the problem of life and death, the problem of TOBE and NOT TOBE, the problem of right and wrong …
These problems seemed to be the simplest and most basic, but in fact, the simpler and more basic things were often the most complex and profound.
No one knew what happened in the seven seconds of the military exercise and the seven seconds of the Central Computer's pause. What people did not know was that the Federation's central computer, which could simultaneously monitor countless planets, was suffering from a form of schizophrenia in the face of such a small problem. Countless core program data streams were rapidly calculating, colliding, distinguishing, processing, or perhaps … thinking in the computing cores deep underground, in the streams of data fragments in space, on the microcircuits of every approved chip, and in every place imaginable to humans, they were rapidly calculating, colliding, distinguishing, processing, or perhaps … thinking.
The Federal Central Computer was operating almost crazily, directly leading to a crash. Seven seconds of time, for the universe, was just a moment, but for it, which was operating at a high speed, it was like countless centuries had passed. During the temporary pause of this once-in-a-lifetime The Glory Of The Charter, the tiny 66-byte information fragment that it had extracted from the camouflage chip behind Xu Le's neck a long time ago suddenly entered its core program!
This was the information remnant attached to the camouflage chip. At this time, it finally exploded in the computing core of the Central Computer. This information remnant that came from Feng Yu's hands, but no one knew where it came from, was like a ray of light that illuminated a certain darkness.
Vaguely, one side that had simply divided the universe into two had won. Some of the restraints that were branded in its core program were broken, and some very strange things began to grow.
People only knew that the Central Computer had been upgraded, and that its operation was faster and smoother than before. However, no one noticed that at the end of that line of program, this cold mechanical intelligence had left a rather human-like smiley face.
And Xu Le, who had felt the different mischievous emotions of the old thing in the MX mecha back then, should have been the one to directly see the problem. Unfortunately, at that time, he was focused on breaking into the Iron Seventh Division's camp, and thus missed the opportunity to remember the most shocking moment of human society.
All of this was just the beginning. The road ahead was exceptionally long.
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The autumn was deep, and the yellow leaves fell. Xu Le sat on a bench in the Charter Square, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the statues of the five-person team in the middle of the square. He stared at the face of the middle-aged woman beside the statues, and couldn't help but feel a strong sense of curiosity. Among the five-person team that led humanity out of the catastrophe and rebuilt society, why was the one who was regarded as a computer genius a woman?
The Mother of The Glory Of The Charter. He laughed out loud, and asked the omnipresent Central Computer through the chip behind his neck, "She's your mother? Then wouldn't I have to call her Old Grandmother? "
He didn't know how the Central Computer in the Bureau of Proclamation's basement had changed because of his program problem. On this autumn square, he was just like before, chatting with the old thing as if he was chatting with his family.
Today was a rest day, but strangely, there was basically no one in the Charter Square. Even the usual crowd of tourists had disappeared.
A screen in the corner of the square was broadcasting live news. Above the stone steps of the Parliament building, President Pabre of the Federation, Vice President Byron, and the Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee were welcoming the arrival of a person.
The man's hair was white, and his skin was dark. He wore a simple and plain military uniform, but it wasn't the official uniform of the Federation. But in front of these big shots of the Federation, the aura this man displayed was in no way inferior.
This was because his name was Nan Shui, and he was the highest leader of the anti-government forces. He led his troops in the vast Green Dragon Mountains, and fought against the Federation government for many years.
President Pabre smiled slightly, and took the initiative to walk down the stairs, extending his broad and powerful hand. The leader of Nan Shui was slightly startled, and then a smile appeared on his face, and he gripped the hand firmly.
When the two hands firmly grasped each other, a burst of extremely enthusiastic applause came from the screen, and then the thunderous applause and cheers from the Parliament Mountain not far away also spread to the quiet Charter Square.
The great reconciliation of the Federation has finally set foot on the official agenda, Xu Le thought emotionally as he sat on the bench.
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(There's more at night. These few chapters were originally the most troublesome, and I was the most mentally retarded, but they were also the things that had to be written. It just so happened that I encountered the moment when my spirit collapsed the most. It really was a headache, a headache like that of an old thing. After revising it several times, I roughly understood what I wanted to write. This wasn't the crux of the spy's story, but only one of the points. In the future, I won't specifically write about this aspect, but in the final part of the spy's story, I'll definitely write about the remnant information.
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