"From one to the seventy-one anomalies, from which point of view, there is no doubt that this male citizen has extremely high technical ability and cunning life planning. But that's not the biggest difference between you and him. ”

Xu Le's eyes of the Central Committee of the Federation showed calmly, "He is the first order of the Federation to pass the box, this is the difference. ”

Xu Le quickly got rid of the shock and regained his composure, and said with a slight frown on his brows, the external embodiment of this reason, how can the Federation confirm that he betrayed the Federation, if this matter is related to the explosion of the munitions depot on the Imperial Planet twenty years ago, your radiant tentacles are not there, how can you confirm it?"

"One, my information-gathering abilities have extended with the advance of the Union Army, and I have been on that shadowy planet for a brief period of time, and I can be sure that this citizen has caused irreparable damage to the Federation's military operations. Second, he became the first series of criminals, not because of the bombing, but because he entered an abnormal situation. Xu Le pondered for a moment, and in a calm tone, he firmly told his most important secret, although this secret had no meaning in front of the old thing.

"That's the difference I'm asking. You know very well that I'm also in an anomaly. ”

"The difference between the two anomalies is that you accepted my unsolicited request to contact him, and he rejected it seventy times. ”

Xu Le sank again, then raised his head, stared at the deeper and darker night in front of him, and said in a slightly hoarse voice,

"By accepting unsolicited contact, I am waiving the protections of Charter 1 and allowing you to access your brain through the chip.

Does this mean that you have the ability to kill me at any time, so you will let me continue to live in this universe, and then make some kind of experimental observation?"

The white dot character in the pupil of the left eye disappeared for a few seconds, and the great being who was incarnated and roamed the universe in the form of electronic information among countless satellite equipment also needed time to think in the face of Xu Le's calm and sharp suicidal questioning.

"Nope. ”

The Central Computer of the Federation finally began to answer, and in accordance with the provisions of Charter I's secrecy provisions, I am absolutely forbidden to issue any direct physical compliment to non-First Sequence 10-Body Removal subjects, and the scope of physical exchange is not limited to any range that may have a negative impact on the target's physiological indicators."

"I didn't put you in the first phase of the elimination target because you accepted the request to take the initiative to contact you, so you are no longer a suspect in the first sequence of the elimination target, not because I can control your ** life or death. ”

"Your speculation about the latter seems to me to be just a corollary of the overly complicated and superfluous tendencies of human beings in a boring literary and artistic conspiracy, not a logical rule that I strictly enforce. ”

After a few complicated and awkward words, Xu Le twisted his eyebrows and thought for a long time, and finally roughly understood what the other party wanted to express.

In those endless eerie black dreams, he accepted the request of the charter computer to take the initiative to contact, and from that moment on, life was full of absurd unrealism.

He's the only guy in the universe who can communicate in both directions with the central computer of the Federation through the chip on the back of his neck, and because of this fact, he has come back from the brink of death many times, and has been given unimaginable privileges and benefits, if those are any benefits.

However, every time he thinks of what he thinks in his head, all the old things are extremely clear, as long as the other party is willing, he can control the chip pulse on the back of his neck at any time, and let himself die silently, Xu Le will feel very terrible.

"But why?"

Xu Le still has countless questions but can't find the right words to organize the language, the glory of the charter of the Federation comes from the hands of the sacred group of five, and the legend is that it is the great crystallization of the civilization before the catastrophe, for the existence far beyond the scientific and technological level of the Federation, no matter how talented an engineer is, he still feels a little powerless, so he can only ask in a broad way like a child.

"My kernel logic doesn't fully understand your situation. The central computer delayed for a moment before answering in white characters, "This is the established procedure left over from the team of five. "Something to do with the five-person team?" Xu Le asked in shock as he looked at the continuous barracks in the distance, his eyes widened. "Regarding this matter, I have carried out a lot of calculations and information retrieval work, until countless years ago, but still did not touch the core of the event 2 According to the existing calculation results, I have come to a conclusion with a probability of about 91 percent, when you accept the active contact, there is a residual piece of information in the replacement chip on the back of your neck, which activates the corresponding program in my deep core. ”

"According to this procedure, two minutes and thirty-two seconds before you became the subject of the first series of the charter, you mentioned that I treated you with the attitude of the test subject, and according to my calculations, it is possible that the group of five had this attitude. ”

Xu Le noticed the white characters in the pupil of his left eye, and the old thing did not use the word camouflage chip, but used a substitute chip, a... A small doubt flashed, and he was attracted by the more critical content, and asked nervously, "What kind of residual information fragment?"

"According to my analysis, the residual information fragments in the replacement chip are not the process makers of the chips, those extremely complex mechanical languages should be left over from a certain existence, and I can smell the familiar smell in them, the core between us should be completely homologous, but the way it writes mechanical fables is so wonderful, wonderful that I am tempted. "The central computer, which has been answering questions like a theoretical physicist tonight, finally reveals a certain emotional ebb and flow once again when it comes to the residual fragments of information in the camouflage chip.

Xu Le is an engineer in his bones after all, and after hearing the words of the old thing, he didn't have the extra energy to worry about his own problems at all, and his body was as stiff as iron when he was shocked.

He thought with a slight bewilderment, there is actually a cognate or even higher existence in the universe that is the same as the core of the research computer? Could it be the remnants of a pre-cataclysmic civilization? There are only fragments of information, does it mean that the existence has died out in a long history? Why is there a fragment of these information fragments in the camouflage chip made by the uncle? Can humans discover it?

At this moment, what political shady, the decay of the family, the cosmic war, the prosperous life, the pink beauty, and even the strongest emotions all left Xu Le's brain, and he was stunned by the inferences expounded by the old things, just like the source of the division when he looked up at the starry sky by the sea, he was deeply attracted by the sublime that transcended the conflict of interests in the world.

This inference is very explosive, and if any engineer in the Federation knows about it, he will be as excited and demented as Xu Le, and it will be difficult for him.

"We've got to find it. Xu Le said to the old thing in a very serious tone.

"The strange F-swing program left by the five-member team should also be based on this reason to list you as a first-order protection object. Although they didn't leave a specific plan details, I've been trying to decipher the fragments of the information. But it's a pity that there are too few of these residual fragments..."The white characters displayed by the central computer of the Federation seem to carry a trace of sentimentality and disappointment at the moment" According to my calculations, in the dangerous universe, there is not much chance that the other party will be able to keep it. No one can live forever, those five, people are dead, and no computer can really exist forever, especially since the other party does not have a material supply base like the Federation.

"These chips are made by uncles. Xu Le suddenly whispered, "He is a genius in the world, maybe only he can explain all this, but you blasted him to pieces." "I say these chips have something to do with the Empire." Xu Le's body stiffened again, and after a while, he shook his head and said, Everyone knows that the computer on the other side of the empire is not even as good as your grandson. ”

"The anomalies from one to seventy-one are deeply connected to the Imperial side, and the first time he entered the anomaly, out of my surveillance, was after he returned to the Federation from the Imperial Star Domain. The third knew that the uncle had been to the empire, Xu Le was not surprised, he lowered his head and looked at the somewhat whitish cloth on his knees, and said, "If these chips are really related to the empire, does it mean that "the federation and the empire may have originated from the civilization of Xiangji before the catastrophe?" "This is not a very new or absurd inference, in fact, as early as the last two years of the thirty-six constitutional calendar, some scholars in the federation have put forward similar views, although this view has been severely criticized, but to this day, there are still many scholars publishing related papers. ”

"What do you think?" The Imperials are not the outer beetles of science fiction, nor are they silicon-based beings that I can't even imagine, they have a physiological structure, social system, and civilization model that closely resembles the human beings of the Federation. The amoeba with the lowest IQ can also see their relationship with us. "In the infinite expanse of the universe, the galaxy in which we live is only one of the grains of sand, on which life can evolve two completely identical civilizations on its own? "Well, in this way, the Federation and the Empire are really distant relatives" is a disgusting fact. Xu Le thought a little depressed.

Not a distant relative, but a close relative. The old thing said coldly and harshly.

Xu Le pondered for a long time, shook his head and sighed, "If, I mean if, the Federation and the Empire are really brothers who are lost in the universe, then... Why is it that when we meet, there is only a bloody war and nothing else?" "In addition, according to the provisions of Charter I and the current laws of the Federation, even if the Imperials are the father of the Federation, when he commits unstoppable and life-threatening domestic violence against you, you can smash your father into a patty with a hammer without bearing any legal responsibility. Xu Le laughed, snapped his fingers in appreciation, and said, "Absolutely." "Father and son are like this, not to mention that they haven't seen a strange brother for many years? The central computer of the Federation ignored his resolute mind again, and calmly issued his request, because the replacement chip on the back of your neck is related to the empire, I suggest that after you enter the empire with the Federation, Xing will inquire about the relevant clues. Xu Le replied very simply, "Okay." ”

"There is an antique building in Imperial Kyoto. I don't have a map, but it should be easy to find, because its owner is the master of the Empire. (This chapter is very difficult to write, you know why I killed the Prophet and didn't recognize the connection to science fiction, right?