Turing test

Chapter 15 Counterattack Plan

When Hua Jianian woke up, he saw Yu Shaoqing and Wei Heng lying together, both naked, wrapped in a tattered blanket.The blanket wasn't long enough to expose their tangled legs.Anyone with normal vision can understand what they did last night.

"My God! Can you two be in heat anytime, anywhere! I didn't buy a bed because I didn't want to be woken up by your shaking voices in the middle of the night, but you two can have sex without a bed?!"

Screaming, he stepped over the two of them to get food from the refrigerator on the other side of the room.Yu Shaoqing was awakened by his movement, and rubbed his eyes to get up.

"But it didn't wake you up, we are very quiet!"

He stretched his arms, and the blanket slid down his chest, revealing his lean, toned waist.After sleeping on the hard concrete floor all night, his limbs ached, as if he had been thrown and spun in a front-loading washing machine.

Wei Heng opened his eyes and raised a blanket around his waist to prevent accidental exposure of some places that should not be seen by people other than his lover.

Young Huajia started cooking instant noodles familiarly.

Yu Shaoqing and Wei Heng began to put on their clothes slowly.Hua Jianian had stored enough food, even if the nuclear bomb fell in a second, they could survive for several days, but daily necessities were very scarce, and the three of them had to share razors and towels.I really don't understand how Hua Jianian prepared.

"How many days are we going to hide here?" Facing the breakfast that Hua Jianian personally cooked on the table - three bowls of Kang Shuaifu instant noodles, Yu Shaoqing asked sadly.

"It depends. Maybe we won't have to come back in the future, maybe this place will become the first base of human resistance." Hua Jianian stuffed his mouth full of noodles.

"Uh... what plan do you have? Although it is to defeat Tianshu, I still don't know what we should do."

Hua Jianian pondered for a while, chewing his noodles while looking thoughtfully at the model train on the floor.

Finally, he swallowed the rotten food and said to Yu Shaoqing: "First go to the research institute to rescue Dr. Xie Ruihan. If we are lucky enough, maybe we can save other people too."

Yu Shaoqing nodded again and again: "Well, this must be the top priority."

"The wisdom of Tianshu is growing exponentially. If we can't defeat it in the initial stage, then we will never be able to defeat it. We haven't succeeded so far..." Hua Jianian paused and sighed, " Not once. No matter how hard I try, the train will return to the original track. But I can tell you that there is a key point on this track, and that is Wei Heng."

"Me?" Wei Heng raised an eyebrow and pointed at himself in confusion, "What's none of my business?"

"One of the keys to victory is that you must not die. If you die, we will lose all our efforts."

Yu Shaoqing shivered.In his impression, this old classmate had always had a playful and humorous face. How had he ever shown such a serious expression?

Hua Jianian's face is still young, no different from young people of the same age, but his eyes are so old, as if he is used to seeing the wind, frost, rain and snow in the world, seeing through the life and death of life, with the enthusiasm and eagerness to pursue victory, and There is a kind of bewilderment and burnout that only old people have.

Yu Shaoqing has always been skeptical about his identity as a "traveler". After going through an incredible and thrilling journey, his brain has not digested this matter for a while, and it is only now that he truly realizes that what Hua Jianian said is true.

He really came back from the future.

He knows what will happen in the future, what humanity and the world will look like ten years from now.And he went back to the past at all costs, precisely to reverse that terrible future.

"Why?" Wei Heng asked, "What's so special about me? Why can't I die?"

"After we are safe, I will tell you the cause and effect." Hua Jianian said solemnly, "Now is not the time."

Wei Heng opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end, he just stared at the breakfast that was gradually losing temperature in front of him.

Yu Shaoqing held his hand and gave him an encouraging look.Wei Heng forced a pale smile, and broke away the disposable chopsticks.

"After eating, we will set off for the research institute." Hua Jianian said.

"What's going to happen on the road?"

"We will be hunted by Tianshu, we have to get rid of them. I know there is a hidden route, but I can't guarantee 100% safety. It is too difficult to change a world, and the inertia of the world will always force it to return We have to be more careful about the original track, Yu Shaoqing!"

"Here!" Hearing his name, Yu Shaoqing reflexively responded like a student reporting for duty.

"You must protect Wei Heng. He protected you to get here. In other futures, he even sacrificed his life for you. Now it's your turn to protect him."

Yu Shaoqing's chest suddenly overflowed with an infinite sense of mission.That's right, if Wei Heng hadn't come, he would have been reduced to Tianshu's human computer.He was able to sit here and eat noodles without incident, thanks to Wei Heng's contribution.

Now it's his turn to contribute to Wei Heng.

If you can't even protect your sweetheart, what kind of man is he?

"Leave it to me!" He said proudly.

"According to my experience, a fire will break out in the research institute this evening. Tianshu is not only causing chaos outside, but also killing people inside the research institute. If we can arrive in time, we can save everyone. This is the most ideal The situation. And the most unfavorable situation... at least Dr. Xie Ruihan must be rescued."

"We will rescue them all." Yu Shaoqing said with a frown.

Hua Jianian showed an illusory smile. "I hope so."

"But how do we fight against Tianshu?"

"Isn't there a joke among those of you who study AI? 'When you really can't beat the AI, just unplug it'. We must find other people who were taken away by Tianshu and cut off their connection with Tianshu. In this way, Tianshu will lose his brain and become a pile of ghost data floating on the network, and can only occupy other people's computers to do parallel calculations for himself like a virus. It is much easier to deal with it at this time."

Hua Jianian's description was concise and clear, but Yu Shaoqing knew that things were never as easy as he said.Are the difficulties and twists and turns so easy to overcome?

"What if we fail?" Yu Shaoqing asked, "What if we don't find the person abducted by Tianshu, or miss the opportunity to make Tianshu more intelligent and dangerous?"

"What else can I do?" Hua Jianian opened his eyes wide, and looked at Yu Shaoqing with pity for the mentally handicapped, "I'll just go through time again!"

Yu Shaoqing was speechless.

He suddenly realized something.

I didn't notice it because my mind was flustered before, but now I suddenly noticed something suspicious in Hua Jianian's language.

— "I have answered it many times."

— “Of course, that was the original situation.”

——"Just getting you two to this place, I have tried and tried many times."

He always thought that Hua Jianian came from the miserable future where Wei Heng died ten years later and human beings were ruled by Tianshu, but Hua Jianian's words revealed that he had seen many futures.

Yu Shaoqing looked at Hua Jianian in disbelief. "Trembling" is not enough to describe his state of shock and fear at the moment.

This is not the first time Hua Jianian has traveled through time.

In some "world orbits", Yu Shaoqing became the carrier of Tianshu, and Wei Heng died protecting him.

In other "world tracks", Yu Shaoqing and Wei Heng escaped Tianshu's pursuit and became partners fighting side by side with Hua Jianian.

"How many times?" Yu Shao blurted out.

How many times have you traveled through time and space like this?

How many times have humans failed?

How many times have you risen again?

And how many times have we sat down in this dark, dank basement talking to you through this thrilling escape?

How many times have you been rescued and joined the resistance organization?How many times have I watched you go on a lonely journey and wait for the moment when the world changes?

How many long decades have you gone through, and then, with despair and hope, return to the original point?

"How many times?" Hua Jianian laughed.

"I'm asking you something." Yu Shaoqing's tone became severe, "How many times have you crossed? How many times have we failed?"

Hearing him use the word "we", Hua Jianian smiled.

"I can't remember it for a long time," he said.

In the dark pupils, there are swaying water lights dancing.

"I can't count how many times I traveled through time and space, and returned to the origin with memories about one time after another. I searched for the blind spots and weaknesses of Tianshu, planned routes, and collected information. I saved some people—such as you , there are also some people who have not been able to save. Sometimes I do everything possible to save a person, and sometimes I just watch my partner die because I think his death is more beneficial to the future. I have tried many times, except for the experience of failure Other than that, there's nothing left. You guys can think of me as a bad gamer who's been in S/L because I can't play the ideal ending. But I know that ending must exist. I can see other tracks , I can see what the world 'could become', I just don't know how to shift it to that orbit. Every crossing I pray it's the last. I don't want to be stuck in this hopeless loop I want to be free, but I don't even want to see the world heading towards that hopeless future."