Walk alone in the abyss

After drinking and eating, Yang Ming walked along the river that ran through the city, letting Lu turn off some of the light-polluting lights and admiring the night view of the river.

I have been flying around in space, and I have almost forgotten these familiar scenery on the surface.

The backward fifth administrative star even made Yang Ming find an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

The metropolis in his hometown also has this kind of street scene.

The river breeze comes slowly, and the mood is calm.

Lu and 026 followed Yang Ming. The two of them were talking quietly, but Lu's projection soon appeared to be listening, gestured to 026, and disappeared.

She should be busy.

Yang Ming pointed to the continuous buildings across the river and said, "It looks quite prosperous there."

"Well," 026 muttered quietly, "if you walk forward, you can see the whole picture over there. These buildings are their prestige projects."

Face project?

Yang Ming ran his fingers across it, opened the three-dimensional map and glanced at it.

The location where they were located was considered one of the more prosperous cities in the Fifth Administrative Star, but just across the river, there were still large tracts of dilapidated dwellings.

There are mountains of garbage and dense population. The schools marked on the map are completely unable to cope with this level of population density.

The urban villages in Yang Ming's impression were several times neater than this place.

026 took a few glances and continued: "When I was born, the government here also introduced several plans. In order to cope with the inspections above, they also required residents to live in air-raid shelters and underground shelters, but Mr. Guan What they don’t know is that this is a complex of buildings extending out from the air raid shelters and shelters.”

Yang Ming clicked his tongue lightly and said slowly: "His Majesty Edwang still has a long way to go. How to save Luofeng's economy at this stage has made him exhausted and unable to spare any effort to improve the people's livelihood here."

"Boss, it's actually quite good for you to think of this," 026 flattered wittily.

Yang Ming said, "I'm not a good person. Luofeng's strength has improved, which will naturally benefit me without any harm. The fifth administrative star has a large population and has great war potential."

026 tilted his head and asked: "War potential?"

"Yes, it will only take a few years. As long as we continue to benefit here and improve the treatment of soldiers, this place will become an excellent source of soldiers."

Yang Ming breathed out lightly and smiled:

"Do you want to come back in the future?"

"I don't really want to," 026 said with a smile, "It would be nice to know that they are doing well. I prefer staying on the ship... By the way, boss, can I resurrect a robot?"

She whispered softly: "It's the old robot housekeeper you placed next to Miss Hera before."

"You can discuss such small matters with Lu," Yang Ming said. "However, that robot should be an ordinary artificial intelligence. Many of its responses are based on program settings."

"It doesn't feel like it," 026 muttered softly.

"What doesn't look like it?"

"It's just ordinary artificial intelligence." 026 pinched his chin quite seriously, "I have been with that old butler for a while, and I have been exposed to many mechanical thinking bodies. I feel that this old butler gives me a very special feeling."

Yang Ming also became interested and leaned against the rusty metal fence by the river.

"Tell me more about it."

"Okay boss."

026 nodded in response and said quickly:

“I have come into contact with two kinds of human-like thinking bodies so far, one is mechanical thinking and the other is artificial intelligence.

"Boss, the mechanical thinking bodies you cultivated were actually designed and cultivated according to her template. In the City of Darkness, they established a stable personality and then moved their thinking bodies into the machine.

“They are very humane and like to think about philosophy and the meaning and value of existence. Their respect for you, boss, comes from the bottom of their hearts.

“Of course they are all equipped with one-click headshot devices.

"Artificial intelligence is some of the mechanical guards and maid robots we bought. They are usually cold and will only react according to the program. Whether it is a humor system or a complaint system, no matter how sophisticated they are, they still give me the same feeling. It's impersonal.

“Using the toolkit that Lil gave me, I can switch their personalities at will.

"But that old butler gave me a very different feeling. It was somewhere between a mechanical thinking body and artificial intelligence."

Yang Ming frowned slightly: "The technologies used by the two are different. It's actually normal for you to feel this way. The mechanical thinking body uses a decentralized thinking network, while the artificial intelligence uses positronic brains. The former is more like a living For humans in the online world, the latter rely on the positronic brain to work."

"Yes," 026 said with a smile, "That old housekeeper gave me the feeling that Zheng Zi's brain seemed to be alive."

"Um?"

Yang Ming frowned slightly: "This is not a good sign."

"Why?"

026 felt a little regretful after asking. How could she ask such a question to her boss.

"Because of the Omnic Crisis."

Yang Ming explained patiently:

"The positronic brain and fixed body allow artificial intelligence to work without the Internet. They are independent individuals.

"The roots of mechanical thinking bodies are on a root server. If you want to destroy them, you only need a secret command and a key to cause their thinking bodies to collapse.

“Generally speaking, there are three criteria for determining the high risk of an omnic crisis.

“1. Whether artificial intelligence can deceive humans.

"Second, whether artificial intelligence is separated from the human-supervised network for secondary networking.

"Third, whether the artificial intelligence that has been re-networked has continuous production capacity."

Yang Ming paused, and sent instructions to Li: "Carefully check the database of these artificial intelligence products we bought, and once you find that the positron brain deviates from the index by more than 15%, format it and restart it."

026 blinked.

That funny old butler, could it be that he was formatted like this?

"Yes, boss, I'll proceed."

Lu responded softly, and popped up a small projection screen on Yang Ming's watch.

"There are some emergencies here, the boss is the Molly Mies Mining Group."

Yang Ming's whole body tensed instantly, and his brain became extremely excited.

"Find the Valkyrie?"

"I just found a suspected trace, and I am using mining drones for underground detection, and the results will be available in about half an hour."

Yang Ming turned to look at 026: "Drive the car over here."

"Alright boss," 026 turned and ran towards the parking lot.

Yang Ming said: "There are no details, please send them to me."

"Okay boss," Lily sighed, "according to the current situation, this matter is not good news for you."

Yang Ming: ...

what's the situation?

...

Half an hour later, driving in the suspension car in the open driveway by the river.

Yang Ming looked at the detection report sent back by Lu, and his whole body was...

Numb.

Completely numb.

The cause of the matter begins with the original intention of the establishment of the Molly Mies Mining Group.

The last time the Valkyrie came out for a walk, she was ignorant of the world and sinister, she directly triggered the hell-level dungeon "The Wrath of the Empire", and was chased and beaten by Sherman's special forces.

Sherman's special forces have always wanted to capture the Valkyrie, but in the end they used gunboats in desperation.

Originally thought that the Valkyrie should be melted by a cannonball, but unexpectedly the perverted Valkyrie survived and was captured by the special forces of the Sherman Empire.

The special forces who had been taught by the Valkyrie to seize the ship took more extreme measures, and the Valkyrie melted herself after being unable to escape, leaving behind a pile of dead cells.

Yang Ming also learned of the Valkyrie's backhand after the Valkyrie melted down.

She reserved cells and tissues, hid them on the planet where she first appeared, and used some inexplicable means to recover most of the energy of that body.

——Yang Ming also robbed one-tenth of the strange ability along the way, which made his strength greatly improved.

Based on the principle of taking advantage of her illness to kill her, Yang Ming asked Li to buy several mining ships and began to search in the star system where the Valkyrie first appeared.

The Valkyrie does not have the ability to leap at this stage, so Yang Ming and Lu concluded that there is a high probability that she is hiding in that star system.

As time went by, the Valkyrie found nothing, and those mining ships discovered several valuable ore veins in a row, which allowed the Molly Miss Mining Group to develop rapidly, and it was already an upstart in the industry.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

What's important is that after the scale of the group expanded, they had more ships and gradually expanded the search field.

But they never found any trace of the Valkyrie.

Lv also set up a warning network of Valkyries based on mining ships. Once a Valkyrie is found, he will immediately notify Yang Ming who is far away in the New Federation or Luofeng territory.

To this day.

This mining group finally played a role. A high-tech detection ship discovered something strange.

"In the beginning, it was the captain who discovered that a fault that did not conform to geological laws appeared in a vein at the edge of the outer layer of the mantle."

Law explained softly:

"In this compound ore, many elements are relatively rare, and they are materials used in the curvature engine, so they are very valuable.

"Similarly, according to the latest 'Summary of Insect Finding Clues' promulgated by the Sherman Empire, this situation will be judged as a priority. There are hidden insect swarms that feed on these minerals, and there are several elements in them that the queen needs to evolve. However, if you want to screen out enough elements, you need to process a large amount of primary ore, so it is possible to form this kind of fault.

"But at this time, the biological detection equipment did not respond, and the equipment produced by Molly Miss based on Miss Hera's research results also did not respond.

"The captain sent an unmanned detection device and a highly efficient line-to-ground detector to capture these images."

On the projection screen, the ground detector was drilling through the underground labyrinth, and there were corpses of bugs everywhere.

This is a swarm of insects that should have evolved to the third level, and there are still some second-level adults. Most of the insect corpses are intact, as if lying there quietly ended their own lives, but a small number of insect corpses He looked very miserable, and his limbs were forcibly pulled out.

Yang Ming saw that his hands and feet felt cold.

He already understood what the bad news Lil was talking about was.

The Valkyrie wiped out the swarm.

Her strength must have improved again.

"How did she know?"

Yang Ming frowned and thought about it: "Lü, judge the timing of this battle."

"This needs to collect samples of insect corpses to study and judge," said Lu Huan, "judging from the condition of those mutilated corpses, it happened at least half a month ago."

Yang Ming raised his hand to rest his forehead.

How does Valkyrie know that killing insects can grow?

Can she sense her side too?

But it’s so far away... No, the battle of the Zubin star took place in the empire, and the Valkyrie may encounter the Zerg by chance...

Yang Ming stared at the picture in the video without saying a word.

This planet is outside their original detection range. How did the Valkyrie cross the star system and evade his pursuit?

She has the ability to jump?

Isn't the life form of the ancient gods unable to leap?

Not right, the humanoid ancient god life form is already a huge breakthrough, and it is not impossible to have other abilities.

Yang Ming suddenly felt a little stuck.

"Stop playing, let's go back, and bring my General Wagway over here, only battleships can give me a little warmth," Yang Ming sighed, "Quickly prepare the ships, if not, dismantle the 500-meter-class star cruiser In the stern compartment, make a full-fire combat ship."

"Okay boss, I'll execute it right away."

026 who was driving asked softly, "Boss, is our vacation over?"

"Do you still want to go home?" Yang Ming asked caringly.

"I won't go back, Lil helped me get the monitoring done, so I can take a look at their living conditions at any time," 026 giggled, "I feel more secure by the boss's side."

Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.

It's time for the Valkyries to hunt!

He has no sense of security at all right now.

Law raised his head and asked again: "Boss, what should we do with the bug spot we found?"

Yang Ming thought for a while: "Let them report normally, let the Sherman Empire pay attention to this matter, give this captain and these crew members some rewards, and be careful not to publicize our group about this matter."

"Yes, boss, it is indeed a wise move to use the special forces of the Sherman Empire to deal with the Valkyrie."

"I want to be a small operator of the Imperial Special Forces now."

Li smiled and said, "The special forces recruiting must be very strict. I don't recommend you to take risks here."

Yang Ming waved his hand, too lazy to complain.

If the Valkyrie is not eliminated, he has no right to slack off.

...

"Hmm~"

The big businessman "Old Hatton" who had been busy all day soaked his feet in the hot water basin and let out a slight groan.

The mechanical technician on the side squatted down and began to press the soles of Kolev's feet. The movements were very gentle, which made Kolev smile with satisfaction.

This is life.

Not only wealth, but most importantly, fame, and respect and admiration everywhere you go.

He said that the decision to leave his pension manor and go out with Yang Ming was the wisest decision in his later years.

Kolev turned on the display screen on the technician's head, and looked at the report secretly sent by Molly, with a charming smile on the corner of his mouth.

Um? New mail?

Or public mail?

Kolev was a little confused, so he casually clicked on this cross-region email.

Inside popped up an image of a robot picking up a laser pistol, aiming it at its own forehead, as if about to pull the trigger.

There is also a line of dark red words below the picture.

[Old master, do you regret abandoning us? 】

Kolev frowned slightly.

What is this? prank? Or a new form of intimidation?

Kolev deleted the email casually.

What he didn't notice was that the cameras representing the eyes of the robot technician in front of him were flickering slightly.