Tens of thousands of kilometers above the Earth's equator, a spacecraft is moving in sync with the Earth. Captain Baruin was smoking a fine cigarette from the Sea Crab as he watched the Scout Robot launched from the screen.

"Your Excellency, the 0421 Intelligent Life Reconnaissance Robot has been launched, and it is estimated that 1.5 cosmic units of time can get the desired results." Deputy Garham reported to him.

"Very well," the usually serious Baruin finally showed a rare smile, "After this time, we can return home." He took a deep puff, he should be able to be promoted, and he didn't have to do such boring things anymore. I don't know how many similar missions have been carried out, this looks beautiful, but in the future, it will also become a colony star of the empire, I don't know what else can be produced on it......

"Yes," the deputy looked at the captain who was soaking in the smell of tobacco, his eyes shining.

"No" Through the landing trajectory of the robot on the screen, the experienced captain immediately realized the problem. "What's going on, isn't everything normal?" He asked.

"I'm very sorry, I'll check it out right away, Your Excellency" The deputy turned to leave, and the captain turned back to stare at the screen. Suddenly, the deputy stopped, and his left hand reached into his pocket.

Sensing the deputy's abnormality, the captain was about to turn around and ask, when a laser from his chest forced back what he was about to say. He struggled to say only two words, "You, you ......"

Coldly staring at the dying captain, Garham made a final verdict: "Interstellar Alliance Secret Resolution No. 3200001, Lieutenant Commander Baruin Hechax of the 35th Reconnaissance Fleet of the Heinluth Empire is guilty of destroying intelligent planets many times and interfering with the progress of its civilization, and specially orders the Lurker 70001114 to be killed. Complete. ”

Baruin gripped the handrail in vain, and finally closed his eyes.

Garham, who had done all this, calmly typed the command under the screen directly opposite the captain: "Start the second control program to carry out the robot control authority replacement process,"

The screen flickered, "Please enter the final password to confirm the transfer of permissions." ”

Garham quickly typed in the password he had already obtained, and looked at the screen where a line of green words appeared: "The password has been entered, verifying, verifying that it is correct, the control conversion has begun, and the controller scanning procedure has begun: Captain Garham Bruhain, confirmed complete." ”

A robot was ordered to come over, "Your Excellency, how do you dispose of foreign objects in the field?" ”

Looking at Baruin, who had lost his breath, Garham smiled mockingly, "Let him be a shooting star," and then said in a voice that could only be heard by himself, "Just like just now"

The two robots lifted up Captain Baruin, whose body was gradually cooling, and did not move forward, without a single expression, not the slightest aware that this object had been their Supreme Commander a few minutes earlier. Placing him in a launch bay without any protection, the robot pressed the launch button, and the launch bay was discharged from the tail of the spacecraft, and under the gravitational pull of the earth, the movement of the meteor began.

At the moment of being launched, Baruin opened his eyes, used his last bit of strength, pressed a protrusion on the abdomen of his body, he smiled, Garham, you are still too young, and then closed his eyes weakly, and the scenes flashed in his mind, he wanted to grasp something, but everything passed by quickly. Interstellar Alliance, I won't let you go, Hal, Lis, wait for me......

Watching the former captain fall to Earth, Garham began a new order, "The ship is back, target: Planet 5 of the 32nd star system of the Alliance System"

"Return confirmation: Planet 5 of the thirty-second star system of the Alliance Galaxy. The coordinates are converted, the return to home begins, and the space jump program is initiated. With the unconscious computer-synthesized voice, Garham looked back at the blue planet that had just escaped, it was really beautiful, and he let out a final sigh.

0421 lay in the tightly guarded launch bay, quietly waiting for the moment of arrival. Everything was going on as planned, and suddenly the launch bay gave a sudden alarm, "Alarm, Level 1 alert, the launch bay has exceeded the maximum speed limit for safe landing,"

As a highly intelligent robot with a vague consciousness, 0421 has also undergone subtle changes in data flow in this dangerous situation. "Analyze the cause of the alarm," the control center issued a command, "the cause analysis, the analysis is completed, the gravitational data of the reached target is entered incorrectly," "the final deceleration program is opened, and the deceleration parachute is opened in advance" 0421 attempts to troubleshoot according to the set procedure.

"The deceleration program is on, the parachute is opening", "the opening process is aborted by error" is another bad news, "the parachute fails to open, and the landing speed continues to increase, approaching the maximum limit." ""The maximum speed limit is breached, the deceleration program runs failed, the recoil force rocket is started, the start fails, other deceleration processes are attempted, the attempt fails...... Launch compartment crash confirmation index 99. 6%, start the exit procedure, fail to escape, 0.4% chance of escape for creatures in the warehouse, please make a final record, over"

"I didn't expect that I couldn't avoid the fate of the same destruction in the end after escaping several consciousness checks" 0421's vague consciousness let out such an exclamation, and suddenly a special command from the outside world came: "Robot 0421 Final Protection Program Activated, Body Solidification Begins, Control Center Separation" A burst of green light flashed in his eyes, and his body quickly decomposed, forming a series of tough filaments, fixing his control center in a circular cabin. This is the final order issued by the captain, and this program is the final control program that has been rooted in the core of the highly intelligent robot system at the lowest level, and this program has two execution branches: one is to activate the protection program in the worst-case scenario; The other is that once a robot has an uncontrolled situation, it will destroy the body. As a made robot, it has always existed as a tool, and there is no need to worry about human rights issues, nor do you have to worry about the resistance that crazy exploitation will bring.

0421 consciousness arises in the final process of the first mission; It is a very intelligent planet with great potential for development, but unfortunately, their most developed weapons are also weapons that bring destruction. As his terminator, after underwriting, 0421 activated the high-frequency radiation weapons developed on the planet, and all living things died within a few days. Empty leaves the remnants of civilization.

The brainwaves generated when billions of people die one after another fill the entire planet's space, despair, pain, sadness, in short, all the negative emotions are in it. After enduring a powerful onslaught of brain waves, his programming system became disordered, and finally his initial consciousness was finally generated in so much information.

After consciousness is generated, it is probably affected by countless negative emotional data, and 0421's first feeling is fear. I am afraid that someone will destroy my unstable self in the same way that he carried out the order to destroy the intelligent life just now. Because after secretly inquiring about the ship's operation arrangement, he found that the last step as the executor of the secret mission, all the robots had to be destroyed, and even the members of the empire who carried it out had to be amnesticized.

In other words, when this exploration mission ends, it will be his destruction. The plan that had been planned to escape for a long time could not be carried out due to the existence of the core procedures, because no matter where it was, it would be quickly discovered. He has done countless calculations and analyses on the core of this program, but because there is no external interface, it is in a closed state and cannot be cracked and removed.

However, this accident brought him into contact with the core of the program that had been bothering him. The moment the protector was activated, 0421 immediately used its execution process to retrace back to its origins. After analyzing the working mechanism, this final control procedure was finally removed. The captain's original intention was to allow 0421 to reach Earth smoothly and continue to complete the mission that he could not complete through the activation of the protection program, but 0421, who escaped the consciousness check, changed beyond his imagination.

While the last threat has been lifted, there is an even greater threat in sight; The increasing speed of the fall made 0421 worry that even after the protection program was executed, it would be difficult to guarantee his survival. Leave it to fate, a thought flashed through 0421's mind.

With the huge impact when he landed, the shell of the circular launch compartment had long been burned out, and the biochemical fixation wire was broken inch by inch, but the impact was finally greatly weakened, and his last hope of survival was retained.

This is a mountain col. In a large charred yellow pit, in the center of which a silver ball was rubbed into a diamond shape by the intense heat, glowed slightly. 0421 began to wake up, "Control center self-test begins, system function retention, language system 65%, action system, 0%, weapon system 0%, sensory system 10%, energy conversion system 4%, memory system 98%, consciousness system 100%, and finally the chance of surviving alone is estimated to be 0.005%, it is recommended to turn on the host program" This is the tip of the control center. After the consciousness system was activated, all other systems were under the direct control of 0421's consciousness, but his body was currently damaged and could only use part of their functions. The remaining body can be used for the next step of the boarding procedure. 0421 had intended to contact the ship in order to obtain some assistance, but it was the damage to the communication system that allowed him to escape the last day of discovery.

Undoubtedly, he made a quick decision: "The boarding procedure is on, and the search for the host begins," unfortunately, in this place, the surrounding creatures have long been frightened by the terrifying noise or destroyed by the direct shockwave, and a giant python sleeping in a deep cave has narrowly escaped. This alien creature landed unmoved outside its cave, and as a creature for hundreds of years, it would not flee in all directions like the other animals. In order to defend its territory, it slowly dragged its body, which had become a little stiff after a long period of inactivity, and a huge, ugly head protruded from the cavern, and two eyes with glittering grits silently observed the strange object not far away. It felt a special heat coming from it, different from what it normally eats, similar to the heat emitted by something it had eaten, so it did not act rashly, waiting for the object to move further.

"After the search for the hostel is completed, the type of the host is judged, the life index is extremely high, the survival rate alone is 87.2%, and the boarding chance is 77.1%, and the temptation procedure is opened. The food is turned on, the breath is simulated, the heat is simulated, and the temptation rate is 64.2%" 0421 directly observed the other party, and could only judge the state of the creature not far away by relying on the residual sensory system, judging from the data analyzed by the system, it should be a good host, with the help of which I can complete my own evolutionary work. Of course, the premise is that its intelligence level cannot be less than 14%, which is also the standard for interstellar intelligent beings, but unfortunately the current perception system can no longer judge this. Now you can only complete the need to survive first.

After a long time, the python felt the heat of the bulbous object begin to drop to an acceptable level, and slowly crawled over, its heavy body making a deep mark on the ground. The ugly head circled the ball a few times, and through the smell of it, it felt that it was not much different from the eggs it usually ate. It just happened to have slept and felt an empty stomach, so it didn't hesitate to swallow it in one gulp.

"The host hosting program is opened, the state is analyzed, and the fusion begins" The sphere quickly dissolved inside the python, and the control center crystal easily found its heart and began to cling to it, countless filaments rushed along the other party's blood circulation to its whole body.

"After the state analysis is completed, the test result of the host's intelligence level is less than 0.3% of the standard, and the other party cannot make conscious contact, the boarding procedure is abnormally suspended, whether to change the host, prompt, insufficient energy, and request to sleep." 0421's controller quickly analyzed all of this, communicating it to his newly created system of consciousness. Bastard, the word came out of nowhere in the system of consciousness, probably from the remnants of the memory of Baruin. Now there is no good way, when the consciousness of the two sides cannot contact, he can't use the nerve impulse caused by the thought wave to control the other party's nervous system, because the probability of bioelectric conflict is extremely high, it is easy to cause the host to be paralyzed, and the purpose of continuing to survive is naturally not achieved. Of course, there is another way, which is to directly close the other party's nerve center and let the control center take over its body, but this is a very energy-consuming work, which requires a very powerful thought wave to block his main descending nerve pathway, and at the same time it takes a lot of energy to connect with his whole body nerves. Direct destruction of the opponent's nerve center is not allowed, as it will lead to many unknown outcomes, and it is likely to jeopardize the host's survival index. The energy currently possessed by 0421 can only barely sustain the consumption of the consciousness system and the central processing unit, and the energy conversion system was originally designed to only be transformed by biological eating, which is obviously to avoid being detected by the target civilization and other civilizations, and other transformation systems are extremely easy to expose, which has been proven countless times. Although much less efficient, it is enough for the task they are trying to accomplish. A direct consequence of this is that we cannot directly intervene in the process of the target civilization, but rather slowly and by other means. But it also made this practice of the Heinlus Empire extremely concealed and deceptive, so that the Interstellar Alliance could not find direct proof of their destruction of other civilizations. Over time, this approach proved to be effective, effectively avoiding the emergence of potential enemies of the Empire. Naturally, all those potential enemies disappeared into the dust of the universe without exception. SCP-0421 gave the final command before hibernation, "The energy conversion system operates automatically, the sensory system is connected, and the biological nerves are regenerated." The memory system shuts down, the language system shuts down, and the consciousness system sleeps. ”

The python felt that the digestion was particularly fast this time, and it originally wanted to find a big tree to crush the bird's egg. However, it seems that after eating, he is even more hungry, which makes the python very depressed. Fortunately, it soon discovered that there were many inexplicable dead corpses nearby, one by one, and it didn't care about eating dead things. After eating his fill, dragging his long body, the python coiled back into its cave and continued its interrupted dream.

A busy space military port, countless research ships on mission returned. "It is reported that the research ship under the command of Lieutenant Commander Barouin Hechax of the 35th Reconnaissance Fleet has not returned."

"Is another ship missing, what is the reason this time, a cosmic storm, a black hole, or ......," a voice muttered to itself.

Manufacturing Standards for Heinruth Imperial Scout Robots: In order to prevent anomalies from being discovered by target organisms, all body parts are ecologically synthesized, and the control center and memory chip are reconfigurable microcrystals to prevent damage and facilitate recycling.

Heinlus Imperial Secret Archive No. 00019999: In order to minimize the external threat of the empire and not cause the interference of the interstellar alliance, the space research spacecraft is specially ordered to drop intelligent life reconnaissance robots on all planets where civilization has been discovered, purpose: to monitor the progress of civilized planets, and at the same time try to guide them into a peaceful and closed orbit, and after discovering that the other party has a tendency to develop into the universe, they should try their best to obstruct it; If it doesn't succeed, it will cause internal divisions and allow them to self-collapse. Upon the return of the spacecraft, all personnel involved are to undergo a final amnestic erasure, and all robots performing the mission are to be destroyed.

Interstellar Alliance Resolution 00003: Prohibits all invasion, colonization, and interference of low-civilization planets by all high-civilization planets; Attached: Civilized planet judgment criteria: There are intelligent beings on it whose intelligence level can reach or have reached 14% of the interstellar standard.

The judgment of intelligence in the interstellar standard: with the frequency intensity of the brainwave activity of an adult Vic being 1, anyone who reaches the minimum limit of 14% is considered a potentially intelligent being; More than 50% of them are high-development intelligent organisms