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——I am on your left, I am on your right, I am everywhere in you.

Lin Xin answered a call from Lieutenant General Zhou Heng.

"People from the General Staff Headquarters want to see you, now!" Zhou Heng said, his voice was hoarse and deep as the phone line pulled him long and thin: "Also, bring that new thing you mentioned in your report...!"

Lin Xin responded easily: "Okay!" The handset hung up the phone neatly, and Zhou Heng, who didn't care about the other end of the phone, was obviously suffocated.

Then he put on his military cap, straightened his epaulettes, smiled in the mirror, and waved to the person who had been standing by and looked at him.

"41, let's go!" As he said, he went to hold the other party's hand.

The man pursed his lips, and stood there stiffly, without speaking. The five fingers of the hand held by him were stretched straight.

Lin Xin scolded secretly, thinking that it is not good to imitate the rotten virtue of human beings.Then he grinned wider, raised his head to look at the other party, and re-corrected the sentence just now: "Lin Cheng, let's go!"

Only then did the person standing there seem satisfied, and smiled in response, with two small dimples forming at the corners of his mouth.

The hand held by Lin Xin squeezed back hard, the temperature was very hot.

Lin Xin stood in front of the General Staff Headquarters, and the guards began to check her identity routinely.Lin Cheng stood aside, just looking at him, Lin Xin smiled at him: "I'll go in first, it will be ready soon, just wait a little bit."

Lin Cheng nodded.

Then the heavy door was opened, and before anyone outside had time to glance inside, it was quickly closed again.

Lin Xin stepped on the thick carpet and saluted a very standard military salute to the front.

The other party glanced at him, and raised the thick stack of reports in his hand: "Major Lin Xin, is this document you insist on submitting?"

Lin Xin looked serious: "Yes! General!"

The other party seemed a little annoyed: "The state allocates funds, not for you to waste on these impractical things!"

Lin Xin smiled: "But we all need such...things."

The other party was puzzled: "Us?"

Lin Xin: "Yes! Country, C22 battlefield, me...and Lu Jian..."

The other party frowned: "Major Lin Xin, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian died three months ago, and the C22 battlefield has also been classified as a peaceful area..."

"Missing!" Lin Xin interrupted the other party softly, but her tone was unquestionable.

"In the absence of death confirmation, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian should still be missing. Please don't make a conclusion about the lives of your soldiers so quickly. As for the division of the C22 war zone into a peaceful zone..." He laughed again Get up: "I'm afraid it's just wishful thinking on our side..."

"Major Lin Xin!" The other party slapped the table hard: "Please pay attention to your words and positions!"

Lin Xin was silent for a moment: "Sorry, General!"

The other party let out a breath slowly: "Lin Xin, we can understand your feelings about Lu Jian's... disappearance... The team brought out by Lu Jian has been equipped with our most elite equipment, but in the end, you Also saw it.

"According to the previous information feedback, the enemy in the main combat force is very likely to violate international conventions and use combat-type artificial intelligence. Even if you are engaged in intelligent technology, you should know that this is our weakness... "

He watched the subtle change in Lin Xin's face for a while, and then continued: "Abandoning the C22 battlefield, from a strategic point of view, has to be said to be a big failure. Personally, it is also a pity. But Major Lin Xin , this is not the time to act emotionally. We can no longer lose any personnel for this battlefield..."

Lin Xin shook her head: "About this issue, I made it very clear in the report."

The other party picked up the thick stack of documents again, but still looked at him: "So you want to use intelligent artificial intelligence?"

Only then did Lin Xin seem to really laugh: "Isn't that why I'm here? Give me a chance, I don't think you will be disappointed..."

Lin Cheng stood upright in the middle of the room.

Being looked up and down made him a little irritated, but he still stood motionless - the golden pine branches and five-star emblem on the opponent's shoulders made him realize that this person probably had a high level.

The military ranks of Lin Xin and Lu Jian were higher than what he knew before.

The other party's suspicious look made him a little dazed, but he could only straighten his neck desperately.

Lin Xin stood aside and nodded encouragingly towards him.

It seems that the general is not quite used to such a realistic artificial intelligence body - he has only come into contact with logistics-type or service-type semi-intelligent bodies for heavy physical work in the team before, with a simple and crude appearance and a flat facial structure. Even in the joints, imitation fiber lines and high-energy alloys can be seen.

He coughed lightly and signaled Lin Xin to go to the corner, with a low voice.

"Is this really artificial intelligence?"

Lin Xin nodded: "I know you will be satisfied."

The general glanced at Lin Cheng's back again: "Unbelievable..."

Lin Xin lowered his head and unconsciously rubbed the callus on his right index finger: "Actually, the technical foundation in this area is almost the same, but I prefer perfection, and Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian is also very cooperative..." He was silent for a while After a while: "So the experiment has been carried out to No. 40, and there are basically no shortcomings."

The general was very sensitive to the information points he was concerned about: "Lu Jian? Did he also participate in this matter?"

Lin Xin laughed: "Don't you think 41 is very familiar to you? The cultivation of intelligent artificial intelligence requires a set of thinking patterns and character foundations as nested models. Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian was very generous for 41's Molding has contributed a lot...

"To put it simply, 41 is like Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian in his youth. They have similar thinking and personalities... Otherwise, it is impossible for him to give back so much information and materials in such a short period of time. Absorbed so well..."

When he said this, he seemed to have forgotten the identities of the two parties, and looked at the person in front of him with a pair of eyes without hesitation: "41 He is already the best sniper, and at the same time, he will also grow into the best commander……

"More importantly, what we are most likely to face is the combat artificial intelligence sent by the enemy... Therefore, no one is more suitable for the C41 field than 22... General, I beg you to carefully consider what I said in the report proposal!"

The space was silent for a long time.The young major looked calm, just quietly watching the back of 41 who was still standing upright and motionless in the center of the hall.

The old general paced back and forth a few steps: "I read in the report, you said his name is Lin Cheng?"

Lin Xin's expression remained unchanged: "He doesn't like others calling his number, and he's always happier when he's called by his name." After thinking for a while, he withdrew his gaze: "It's probably the subconscious of an intelligent artificial intelligence. reaction?"

The general finally sighed softly: "Go back first, your report... I will consider it."

Lin Xin baked a few slices of bread and handed them to Lin Cheng.I picked up the kettle and went to the balcony to help water the hydrangea.

Lin Cheng took a few bites, but found it boring, and simply raised his head: "What did you guys talk about today? Let me stand for a long time!"

Lin Xin turned around lazily: "If you shouldn't ask, don't ask too much!"

Lin Cheng stared.Only then did Lin Xin burst out laughing: "The general praised you, saying you are handsome."

Lin Cheng snorted, frowned, and simply threw the bread on the plate.

Lin Xin ignored him, turned around and hummed a little song to continue watering the flowers.

The setting sun that is about to set is golden, and the mottled flower shadows are scattered all over the ground.Lin Cheng stood behind Lin Xin and looked at it for a while, then walked forward slowly, stretched out his hand, pressed against Lin Xin's back, and hugged his waist tightly.

Lin Xin's body trembled, her voice trembling: "What are you doing?" [Friday Forum]

Lin Cheng frowned, as if he was trying his best to remember something, and he said after a while: "Lin Xin, don't move, just let me hug you for a while..." His voice was dry, as if he was reciting lines.

Lin Xin suddenly realized, and couldn't help cursing inwardly.Many of Lu Jian's bad lines that pretend to be literary are projected onto this artificial intelligence.The body struggled slightly, and the eye sockets were a little wet for some reason.

Lin Cheng's lips slowly fell on the back of his neck, still hard, like gnawing sugar cane.

This posture seems to be a little confusing even to himself.

Lin Xin was holding the kettle in his hand, the mouth of the kettle was tilted at an angle, and the water gradually flowed out, already wet the shoes.

But he never moved.

Lin Cheng kissed his ear again, and then slowly let go.

"Lin Xin, good night!"

"...Good night." He heard the soft and angry voice that he had lost for a whole year.

But he never looked back.

Lin Xin knew that she was dreaming again.In fact, in the past few months, he has rarely had such dreams anymore.

He dreamed that the light in the spacious laboratory was very dark, only dozens of interconnected computer monitors were flickering faintly.Lu Jian just finished the battle plan in his hand, and ran behind him with a smile.

"Hey, this is not bad!" Lu Jian pointed to a human face that had just been simulated on one of the monitors: "It looks pretty good, like me!"

Lin Xin rolled her eyes: "I'm afraid it only looks like gender...he is a young and beautiful boy with double eyelids, peach blossom eyes, and dimples around the corner of his mouth."

Lu Jian bared his teeth: "So you like this kind of boy."

Lin Xin turned her head slowly and stared at him for a while, then her voice suddenly softened: "Actually, you are not bad."

Lu Jian picked out his ears: "What did you say?"

Lin Xin didn't bother to talk to him any more, and turned her head away again.

Lu Jian took a few steps closer and bent down: "This is the No. 40 No. [-] experiment, right?"

Lin Xin answered irrelevantly: "How is your shooting performance recently?"

Lu Jian said: "It's not bad, what's the matter?"

Lin Xin: "Such good eyesight, what are you doing so close? Don't rest your head on my shoulder, you're going to die!"

Lu Jian simply buried his head in the hollow of his shoulder, and his muffled voice sounded very rascal: "I'm asleep... I'm already asleep! Comrade Major, don't disturb your superiors to rest!"

Lin Xin kicked him resentfully: "I need to sleep for a while, get up first and think of a name for 41, I want to create a file!"

Lu Jian's eyes were still closed, but his hand passed under his armpit, and he casually typed a few times on the computer keyboard: "That's the name!"

Lin Xin stared at the Chinese characters randomly typed out by the other party on the monitor, and her face twitched: "Lin Cheng?"

Lu Jian finally raised his eyelids: "Not bad, what a name!"

Lin Xin groaned as if giving up: "Okay, Lin Cheng Lin Cheng..."

Lu Jian murmured and said something else, and kissed him lightly on the cheek: "Lin Xin, don't make noise, let me sleep for a while... I will go to the C22 battlefield in two days, and I will go to the C[-] battlefield in two days. I’ve been working on a battlefield simulation plan and haven’t slept since.”

Lin Xin snorted, straightened her legs, and hugged Lu Jian's head, letting him lean on her lap to sleep more comfortably.

"Go to sleep..." He stared at the monitor, and touched the other party's somewhat haggard face.

Lu Jian, who was in his sleep, smiled dazedly.

When Lin Xin woke up from his sleep, he felt a little thirsty. He wanted to sit up and go to the living room to pour himself a glass of water.He only moved a little, and he was already stunned.

In the dark night, someone was sitting on the head of his bed, staring into his eyes motionless.

The light was too dim, and the other party's facial features could not be seen clearly, only the pair of pupils shone brightly in the night.

At that moment, he was a little dazed, stretched out his hands under the quilt, and raised it unconsciously.

The other party leaned in front of him and bent down.His neck was quickly embraced by him.

"Lu..." He was still stuck in his throat when he wanted to shout, but his lips were already kissed gently by the other party in a bent down position.

Soft lips, with a fresh scent of lemon blossom, not the strong and light tobacco flavor he is familiar with.

It's just the way the lips are pressed against the lips, and the warm tongue is shrinking carefully.

The opponent's posture was stiff and his eyes were wide open, as if he was a little confused by the situation.

Lin Xin slowly came to her senses, let go of her hand, and smiled softly.

Lin Cheng sat up straight, still looking at him: "Next... what should I do?"

Lin Xin coughed a few times: "You don't need to do anything, just pour me a glass of water."

Lin Cheng let out an "oh" and stood up.

Lin Xin's fingers holding the quilt were a little white.He told himself that when the day dawned, he would clean up the meaningless behavior projections left by Lu Jian in this artificial intelligence.

Lin Cheng took a glass of water and walked back to the bed.As an artificial intelligence equipped with a sniper, his eyesight is much better than that of ordinary people, even if he moves in the dark, his recognition is not affected at all.

Lin Xin drank the water in the glass slowly: "Why are you still awake?"

Lin Cheng thought for a while: "I heard you talking in your sleep."

Lin Xin put down the cup: "That's normal, you don't have to come here to see me."

Lin Cheng said "hmm": "Also, my head hurts a little, and I can't sleep all the time."

Lin Xin was silent for a moment: "You have to be patient, there are a lot of things to learn recently, probably because you are too tired, it will be fine after this period of time."

Lin Cheng didn't speak, Lin Xin glanced at his face and looked out the window.

——Time is running out, this is his last chance.

Lu Jian had fed back too much information before, and he had to ask 41 to absorb all of it in the near future.The huge amount of data and complicated program input under the tight time allowed him to even omit the necessary sorting and screening.

It was probably because of this that the other party had so many strange reactions.

This amount of transmission has always exceeded the default maximum load when initially set.

The chip running at high speed might make the opponent's central system feel a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't care less about it.

If his report is approved above, the transmission volume will increase in the next few days.

Headaches and insomnia were probably just his initial bad reactions.

"If you're okay, I'll go to sleep!"

A stiff goodnight kiss fell on his cheek.

"Okay..." Lin Xin took a deep breath and sighed softly.

It was dawn, and Lin Xin got up in strict accordance with the biological clock.

As usual, it's a long-distance morning run, followed by sit-ups.

At the end of the morning training, the sun finally jumped out of the top of the mountain.Lin Xin went back to the dormitory, didn't even bother to wipe off her sweat, and went straight to the balcony with a spatula and a water bottle.Several pots of hydrangeas and Phalaenopsis seem to have been watered by someone, and they are blooming under the sun, fresh and ready to drip.

Lin Xin thought for a while, then called Lin Cheng.

The room was empty and no one responded.On the shooting range not far away, there was a long sigh of a sniper rifle piercing the sky.

The hour hand points to nine o'clock.

The general's guards knocked on the door of Lin Xin's office: "Half an hour later, there will be a special meeting of the General Staff Headquarters. Major Lin Xin must be there on time."

Lin Xin replied with a gentle smile: "Yes!" Thinking in his heart that the General Staff Headquarters had such an efficient reply this time, it can be seen how bad the situation in the C22 battlefield has become.

He sat down in front of the computer, copied a few necessary materials, rearranged the things he had thought about thousands of times in his mind, and then quietly leaned back in the chair, slightly closing his eyes—he knew half Hours later he had a very difficult battle to fight, but at that moment his mind was strangely filled with weary peace.

The clock said nine-fifteen.

Lin Xin stood up, tidied up her appearance, then wrote a note and pressed it on the corner of the table.

—— "Lin Cheng, I'm going to the General Staff Headquarters for a meeting. After the shooting training, you read the materials according to the previous study plan. If you are hungry, eat first, don't wait for me. I will come back as soon as possible."

The clock points to 09:30.

In the huge General Staff Office, the air-conditioning was too high.Lin Xin stood quietly in the middle of the hall, feeling a little cold.

A group of generals carrying golden pine branches and leaves on their epaulettes were tacitly silent, just looking at him from beginning to end in turn.Lin Xin looked back at each of them without hesitation, and only became slightly gentle when they met Zhou Heng's eyes.

He felt like he had returned to the scene when he first joined the DC team a few years ago and was being judged by everyone in the conference room. At that time, he was confronted with the person sitting across from him, refusing to give an inch, but his mood was exceptional. happy.

It's just that the person who made him stand in the same place with confidence is no longer here.

He thought with some regret.

Someone coughed lightly, and the silence was finally broken.

"Major Lin Xin, we have read the operational proposal you submitted about the C22 battlefield, and had an in-depth discussion overnight..."

Lin Xin listened calmly.

"Let's not talk about tactics, but there is a problem, we need you to explain."

Lin Xin nodded: "OK."

"We have read the attachment you submitted, about the design drawing of the intelligent artificial intelligence named Lin Cheng..."

Lin Xin: "So far, he is in good condition without any accidents or malfunctions."

The general stood up with a sullen expression, "Major Lin Xin, that's not what we're talking about!"

He gestured to the person next to him, a CD was inserted into the computer, and then the stereoscopic projection screen was turned on. The first thing that appeared was Lin Cheng's smiling face with shallow dimples, and then the camera was zoomed in, which belonged to a human body The texture and fibers of the grating begin to be decomposed and gradually become transparent.

"Your so-called artificial intelligence, Major Lin Xin..." The other party's eyes were fixed on the boy's body that was coldly decomposed by the data on the stereoscopic projection screen: "But why can't we see a single metal wire or an electric wire from the design drawing?" Crystals, and hardly any high-energy alloys required for artificial production..."

Lin Xin shook her head: "General, the design you mentioned is too outdated. What's more... I don't like that kind of cold stuff." [Friday Production]

The people sitting looked at each other and exchanged glances, and finally Zhou Heng coughed lightly: "Lin Xin, you continue."

Lin Xin took a few steps closer, reached out and gently stroked every symbol and information on the screen that had accompanied him many days and nights.

"In fact, it's nothing. To put it simply, I just abandoned the traditional artificial intelligence manufacturing method. The current 41 is more than 90.00% similar to a real natural person, whether it is physiological composition, thinking mode, or even moral constraints. and code of conduct..."

He paused and laughed: "I like to work with guys with the same temperature and texture, even if it's just a simulation... The noise of traditional artificial intelligence functions will make me have psychological barriers...so this The design and production of artificial intelligence uses some non-traditional technology, and the cost is a little bit expensive, sorry."

A lieutenant general next to Zhou Heng patted the table: "Major Lin Xin, you are not creating artificial intelligence, but creating humans through a third method other than natural reproduction and replication technology! You are challenging human beings." ethics!"

Lin Xin raised his head slightly, and some images of Lu Jian's feedback when he first entered the C22 battlefield appeared in front of his eyes.

The flying artillery fire, the screaming crowd, the enemy's expressionless combat-shaped artificial intelligence, carrying a highly effective and lethal weapon that can emit thousands of degrees of radiation light waves, is facing our soldiers with an expressionless face. killing and dismemberment.They simply wiped each other's faces as hot blood and cold stumps sprayed into each other's faces.

There is no compassion or pity in the eyes from the electronic analogy.

Moral ethics?His eyes closed slightly to keep some hot liquid from rolling out untimely.

There is no way out... In the face of war, these things are extremely fragile.

"General..." He calmed down a little, and found a quiet voice in his throat again: "Actually, it's not what you think, it's probably because the degree of simulation is too high, which makes you have such an illusion .Actually, you can take a look at this..."

He walked to the computer operating screen, tapped a few keys, and the brain structure of Lin Cheng was gradually enlarged on the projection, and a chip the size of a fingernail was finally clearly frozen.

"This, the intelligence central system that artificial intelligence No. 41 relies on for survival, I call it Sign... a symbol, a symbol that distinguishes human beings from non-human beings. Its existence is doomed that no matter how high the simulation degree of No. 41 is, the essence is only An artificial intelligence...an advanced artificial intelligence."

Almost everyone has their eyes fixed on this chip.Only Zhou Heng was still looking at Lin Xin: "Sign?"

"Well, Sign..." Lin Xin seemed to be continuing to explain, and also seemed to be talking to himself: "It's like the human nerve center, where the knowledge absorbed by 41 and the mode of thinking are all stored. , and also includes the simulated past and virtual memories that were originally set up for him.”

"Virtual memory?" The general frowned.

"Yes."

Lin Xin nodded: "For example, he and I are teammates in the DC team in the same year and live in the same dormitory. For example, we are both... soldiers brought out by Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jian; for example, he has always been a sniper who targets Lu Jian. Hands, even the tiny details of the mistakes he made during the assessment and the setbacks he experienced, were designed one by one..."

When he said this, his eyes turned to everyone, and he said every word: "So now, I think he hopes to enter the C22 theater more than I do."

Zhou Heng and the lieutenant general beside him glanced at each other: "Lin Xin, can I say that you are deceiving him?"

Lin Xin shook her head: "Colonel, for artificial intelligence, there is no honesty or deceit, only command terminals and programming. Just like this war can no longer pay attention to reason or principle, what we want is victory."

Everyone returned to silence, and the atmosphere was suddenly extremely oppressive.

Lin Xin stared straight ahead - he was waiting for the other party's final decision.

Time seems to stand still.

In the quiet room, there was thundering cannon fire and splashing of blood in Lin Xin's mind.

He had a hunch that he would win.

Finally, the oldest general walked up to him.

"Major Lin Xin, if your report is approved, I mean if... 41 takes over as the field commander of C22, we hope you can accompany him. As for artificial intelligence, even as you said, his tactical thinking continues Lu Jianzhong We still can't trust the model of the school..."

"Of course..." Lin Xin smiled slightly: "I never trust artificial intelligence."