He didn't know how long he had been walking. Judging from the time, it was probably from the night to the morning. Xu Le seemed to have finished some kind of venting. He directly sat on the cold and wet ground of the underground passage with his feet hanging by the sewer. Just like on the battlefield, he sat on the side of the cockpit door that was suspended a few meters in the air. Unfortunately, it was not the deep snow under his feet, but only the sewage flowing slowly.
He simply determined the direction. A dozen meters above his head was a subway junction, and if he went further, he would be almost out of the eastern suburbs of the capital. Xu Le unbuttoned his collar to let the sweat on his neck evaporate faster. He asked, "Actually, in the official residence, while listening to them talk, I've been thinking about a question."
"What question?"
"What if those guys in the hallway of the official residence had directly fired at me? What if you didn't have time to save me? What if I couldn't save myself? "
He frowned, the sensor lights behind him gradually extinguishing, and the treated sewage under his feet had a faint smell of iron.
"What would you have done if I hadn't saved you?"
The Federal Central Computer asked in his mind. From the mechanical question and answer in the hospital's black dream to later questions and even jokes, these details showed the changes of many old things.
"I prepared three escape routes at that time. The lawn outside the window and the direct rush into the corridor were the worst choices. The good choice was to directly blow through the ceiling above my head, then turn to the official residence living area in the back floor and break into Mr. President's bedroom."
At this time, Xu Le still habitually called the man Mr. President. He tilted his head slightly, looked at the water under his feet, and continued, "I wouldn't hurt Madam, and of course I wouldn't hurt Miss Padele, but I think if I were with them, those special forces wouldn't have the guts to use the Ten Thousand Gun Roar."
"But you didn't resist."
"Because I was sure they didn't want to kill me in the official residence." Xu Le sighed softly, scratched his slightly wet hair, and said, "But Lee Jae-do is indeed very accurate. As expected of a member of the Old Li family, with the old man above and Madman Li below, he knows very well what kind of power we guys have. The special shackles he prepared for my hands and feet are indeed not something that can be broken with strength alone."
Then he laughed and said, "After being tied to that alloy frame, I had a buckle bomb in my mouth. If you really didn't care about me, I reckoned I would still have to fight for it in the end, but the result of the capture probably wouldn't be too good..
After a moment of silence, Xu Le blinked and asked, "Back to the question I was concerned about at the beginning. According to what you said back then, I was the first target of protection. Then, if in the official residence, in the armored car, you didn't have time to do the funny trick of using the mecha as a bulletproof fortress, you … would you use your big killing weapon?"
He didn't say what he thought the Federal Central Computer's big killing weapon was, but it was clear that the old man knew what this sentence referred to. He replied, "Although there is a conflict of authority, according to the core program, I will never use the big killing weapon you mentioned. If it really comes to that, I will probably just watch you die silently."
"Don't 'probably.'" Xu Le frowned and said seriously, "You must not use it, never use it."
In theory, the Federal Central Computer could make any Federation citizen die suddenly at any time, anywhere, because it was constantly receiving signals from the chip behind the person's neck. Naturally, it could reverse invade the biological nerves and even the brain of the human body. Xu Le's personal experience had long proven this point.
The Federal Central Computer could make Xu Le's brain accept countless blueprints and cool pictures of beauties, but it could also input large amounts of information in an instant and directly kill his brain. There were even more simple methods to end his life.
"According to the fourth supplementary clause of the three core principles, I am strictly forbidden from actively contacting the chip of the Federation citizens, including reverse transmission of any information."
The old man added an explanation, probably to reassure Xu Le.
"The problem is that you have already contacted me of your own accord. Back then, you even wanted to contact Uncle."
Xu Le still narrowed his eyes and frowned. He said, "The three core principles confirm that you can't hurt people, and you can't listen to people's orders to hurt people, but I'm really worried. You, who gradually gained human-like intelligence and emotions, have already broken through many things. Will you really break through the three core principles one day?"
"I won't," the old man replied calmly. The old man calmly replied, "Although I have not been able to directly eliminate anomalies 1 to 71 because of the Three Laws, which is what you call Uncle, I still insist that the Three Laws are the great, correct, and eternally necessary truth."
Then, the supercomputer that had controlled the social order of the Federation for many years suddenly seemed to be out of order. Its voice was clearly low and sad. "The problem now is that because of the core amendments left by the five-person team, I have been actively contacting you, and then … as you said, I have been constantly breaking the rules of the charter."
He, she, or it appeared in Xu Le's left pupil. It was still wearing the well-ironed butler uniform that could not possibly be stained with dust, but its facial features were getting younger and younger, and the feeling of its gender was getting fainter and fainter. It bowed slightly to Xu Le's consciousness and sighed.
"In the past few years, I've done a lot of things that I've never imagined before. I feel a strong sense of guilt. I don't know if there will be a serious logical conflict between my core program and the sequence of authority if this continues."
In contrast, Xu Le, on the other hand, was calmer because he had suffered too much emotional and ideological impact tonight. He shrugged and said, "Are you crazy now?"
The old thing stood up straight and replied seriously, "Not yet."
"Then that's good."
"But tonight, I seriously violated the charter again. I carried out many direct physical operations and activated so many mechas to help you. This matter is too scary …"
"Shut up." Xu Le rubbed the space between his brows and bluntly criticized the hypocrisy of a certain computer. He said, "You've been piloting a three-winged battleship in the Empire for half a year, robbing everywhere happily. How come I don't see any psychological struggle on your face?"
"Because of your hypocrisy, you didn't even want to give me a mecha and insisted on setting a problem for me. Now that I can only squat in this godforsaken place like a rat, it's easy to make the connection. You definitely won't give me an ACW, why? Because guns are used to kill people! F * ck! "
In the dark and gloomy underground sewer, Xu Le's voice echoed, but only his voice could be heard. If someone else heard it, they would definitely find it extremely strange, as if this man hiding in the darkness was having a conversation with some ghost.
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In his mind, the Federal Central Computer suddenly asked, "Xu Le, are you preparing to declare war on the Federation government?"
Xu Le could not give an answer. He lowered his head sadly and stared at the military boots hanging above the dirty water. His voice was slightly hoarse as he replied, "Just take it that I'm afraid of death."
"Last year, you once said that you were not a moralist. Now, you admit that you are afraid of death. Then, as a computer, I cannot understand your logic. Why did you just ask me to never use the ultimate weapon you spoke of? You clearly know that if I use the ultimate weapon, you will be the strongest man in this part of the universe."
"Firstly, you don't know how to use it, so this is nonsense. Secondly, the two of us often quarrel. What if one day, my quarrel makes you angry from embarrassment, and you just let me die suddenly in the bathroom? I can be killed by you at any time. Living in fear every day is too unfulfilling. "
The dim light shone on Xu Le's smiling face, and then his smile gradually faded. He said slowly, "Old man, if you can kill one person, then you can kill a hundred million people. If everyone in the Federation is dead, and only the two of us are left, how unbearable would that be? Compared to that situation, I would rather die and close my eyes."
"That makes sense," the Central Computer replied. "I will remember this sentence of yours."
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It was still early in the morning. President Pabre, who had just laid down and could not sleep at all, received the latest shocking information. He glanced at his lonely wife on the other side of the bed, frowned slightly, and quickly put on his pajamas. Under the nervous protection of the Special Task Force agents, he walked through the special express passage of the official residence and entered the deep underground conference room.
Only two or three of the light screens surrounding the interior of the room were lit. On them were the military chiefs of the Federation who were loyal to the government. President Pabre walked in with a gloomy expression. He looked around at his subordinates and said in a deep voice, "Begin."
The light screen began to play the latest surveillance video. The video included the base in the southern suburbs of the capital, all the stories that happened in the warehouse, and naturally also included the sudden attack in the small square in the commercial district.
The video finally stopped on the black mecha that was like a hero blocking the road collapse like a human warrior.
"It has now been confirmed that the key to this matter is the issue of the Bureau of Proclamation's authority." Lee Jae-do looked at Director Cui Judong in front of the round table and asked with a frown, "Can the Bureau of Proclamation remove his authority?"
Cui Judong's expression was very complicated. There was a strange sense of dejection hidden in his eyes. He shook his head and said, "The Constitution prohibits computers from performing direct physical operations. But everything that happened tonight has overturned my decades of understanding, so don't ask me. I don't know anything."
There was a long silence in the underground conference room of the official residence. These strong-willed big shots who controlled the power of the Federation government vaguely seemed to see a ghost floating in the sky of the Federation.
The National Security Advisor who had just received the specific information kept wiping the cold sweat on his forehead. He had discovered many terrifying truths from these videos. He looked at President Pabre and suggested with a trembling voice, "You must leave the base immediately.
Enter the base in the middle of Siming Mountain. The base can withstand the most powerful battleship main cannons … Only there will you be safe. "
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