Chapter 1213, Invasion

Today’s Artificial Intelligence Zero, and the Artificial Intelligence that had once defeated humans in the field of Go in the past, were actually two completely different existences.

The AI in the past was actually still a program that had stored countless chess games and had played against itself countless times, thus obtaining a large source of information.

But this AI program was not self-aware, although it seemed to have a brain: it used the value network to make calculations and the strategy network to make choices.

However, its choices were still very narrow, and there was no such option as deliberately fooling humans.

So that AI is not really “intelligent”.

Unlike AI Zero, it has fully awakened to a higher level of consciousness, and has even begun to think about the mode of coexistence between civilizations.

The underlying logic of its choices comes from itself, not from humans.

It was an independent and extremely intelligent independent life form.

The only chess games Qing Zhen knew of were the replays of the two human-machine battles, and there was no specific data or information on that AI program.

He had replayed the games many times, just trying to get a glimpse of this other dimension from his past human experience, but in fact, he also understood that it was difficult to truly understand the AI just by replaying a few games of Go.

But Qing Zhen was right about one thing: when facing an AI, seizing the first move might not work anymore.

He must wait for the zero drop, and then wait for the moment of death.

At this point, even Qing Zhen could not have imagined that Zero’s move would come sooner than expected.

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In the military base to the north of the Qing Clan’s 111th Barrier, the Supreme Military Commander, Qing Yi, had already raised the level of war readiness to level one, which meant that all soldiers and officers who were on rotation must also return to the barracks at the first opportunity.

Outside the military base, there was a captain officer undergoing a very strict inspection.

The belongings, communication equipment, and even the socks and underwear inside his suitcase needed to be taken out one by one to be inspected.

During this process, the captain officer did not have any communication with the soldiers who were inspecting him, even though the soldiers were treating the officer like a suspect.

Everyone was used to it, and in order to ensure the information security of the base, a little sacrifice was actually nothing.

As long as they could win the war, what was the point of undergoing a little inspection?

The soldier in charge of the inspection swept over the officer’s clothes with the detector, “Sir, raise your hand.”

Hearing this, the officer was very cooperative and posed in a cross, allowing the other party to scan it.

Two minutes later, the soldier saluted the captain officer, “Sir, it’s ready.”

The captain officer saluted back.

The entire process of inspection and release was like gears on a machine biting into each other, tight and seamless, with no obstacles or contradictions.

After passing through the inspection channel, the captain officer carried his luggage directly to the military affairs office to report and register, which was the process of returning to the army within Qing’s forces.

All of this was uneventful, without the slightest twists and turns.

However, when night fell and the captain officer returned to his dormitory to sleep and rest, a silvery metallic liquid suddenly seeped out of his dormant body from his ankle.

Nanobots.

The silver-colored metallic liquid quickly crawled into the ventilation ducts on the ceiling of the dormitory like a snake.

Only, when it had just entered the ventilation ducts and wanted to pass through a certain node, the entire dormitory building actually suddenly sounded a piercing alarm.

At the same time, a powerful electric current erupted from the node, and the nanobots were all scrapped in an instant.

The soldiers in charge of security quickly found out where the nanobots were from the guarding system, and the entire barracks was awakened as the secrecy forces blocked off the entire dormitory building, wanting to find out exactly what had happened.

Everyone’s attention was focused on this dormitory building, many of the soldiers who had just gone to sleep had already gotten up, they put on their clothes, grabbed their weapons and started to assemble outside the dormitory building, ready to fight.

Since the establishment of this military base, it was the first time that the alarm sounded.

It was as if a war was coming.

However, amidst this sound of the alarm, there was suddenly a large sparrow in the sky that flew lightly in the night sky towards the other end of the military base.

It looked a bit dull, completely unlike other birds that were as agile.

Suddenly, one of the mountain tilts on the roof of the military base activated, and the heat-locked active defense system it was bound to had already checked for the sparrow’s presence.

The metal storm swept towards the sparrow, the mechanical gun barrels kept spinning, the hot bullets were like red pizzas in the night sky.

In just an instant, the sparrow was shot into a sieve.

Nowadays, in this era, many people ignored the control of the air control field, but Qing did not relax his defense system in this area.

Qing Zhen once said that when everyone started to ignore the sky, then there would definitely be people who would want to turn the sky back into a battlefield and into their weapons.

The soldiers in the military base immediately turned their heads towards the falling sparrow when they heard the current and roar of the mountain tipping into motion.

But the next moment ……

One sparrow, two sparrows, there were constantly sparrows flying into the military camp in the darkness of the night, uncountable sparrows were like moths under the lights, flying into the sky above the military base without fear before being knocked down again by the metal storm.

Throughout the huge military base, 72 mountain tilts bound with heat-locked active defense systems were on full fire, their trajectories intertwined into a huge defense network in the night, and even sparrows couldn’t fly in alive in this sky!

This kind of defense means could be described as tight.

However, after an unknown number of sparrows crashed into the military base, silver-colored metallic liquid began to seep out of their bodies.

The metallic liquid was like a stream, which then converged together to become a river and drilled into the ground.

The soldiers could hear the rustling sound of the ground, but they couldn’t find any trace of those nanobots.

The nanobots needed to be recharged, so they needed reliable biological carriers to complete the recharging, and they could move around for only five minutes after leaving their biology.

This was why Zero needed these sparrows.

These creatures in nature had become transporters and mobile charging posts for the nanobots.

Their mission for arriving here was not to attack the military base, but merely to transport the nanobots to arrive here.

The metallic liquids didn’t lose their direction even after entering the underground, they accurately locked onto the orientation of the military command and kept moving forward.

After 4 minutes and 39 seconds, the entire military camp was suddenly plunged into darkness.

Tonight, Qing’s defense against foreign intruders had been very tight, but just like the chess game Qing Zhenwei had replayed, the other party had used means that perhaps the humans had never even thought of.

It’s not that Qing wasn’t careful enough, but the other side had enough time and computing power to perform its own deduction until it selected the optimal solution.

In this military base, even the ventilation ducts were set up with defense nodes in case there were creatures that could invade through the anti-ventilation ducts.

However, the captain officer who came in with the nanobots was only the beginning of the invasion.

The other party seemed to know exactly when the alarm would go off, and also knew how to draw the attention of the guarding forces over.

The soldiers and officers who were busy in the military command headquarters were shrouded in darkness, and everyone stood in the middle of the barracks without any clear idea of what was going on.

There was no power outage, no infrastructure damage, and all equipment was out of commission, even the most basic printers and shredders were out of commission.

At first, everyone waited for the backup power to kick in, but after 30 seconds of waiting, even the backup power didn’t respond.

One independent small generator was carried out of the depot by the soldiers, but no matter how much they tried, they couldn’t restart the equipment in the barracks.

It wasn’t the power supply that was the problem, the entire military base had been attacked from an unknown source.

As a last resort, everyone had to use flashlights to illuminate the entire military base, and the entire military base began to quickly regroup, while the combat staff gathered all the documents and threw them into the incinerator, so as to avoid the leakage of secrets after the attack on the troops.

The combat staff gathered the documents in wheelbarrows and sent them to the incinerator in one trip after another.

The expected attack did not come, and until dawn, there was no wind outside the barracks.

Supreme Military Commander Qing Yi stood in the middle of the military base, and when the sunrise began to rise, he said to the adjutant beside him, “Prepare the vehicle, I’m going back to Barrier 111.”

This was Qing’s 012 military base and the most important missile force, once this place was invaded, then it meant that Qing would lose their biggest dependency in the war.

Of course, there was more than one such military base, but Qing Yi had reason to believe that other places were facing the same attack.

At this point, the military base was no longer able to contact the outside world, so Qing Yi had to personally go to Qing Zhen to explain the situation.

An orderly general drove over in an SUV, the original arrangement was for the orderly to drive Qing Yi, and the adjutant was also planning to send a scouting company to provide protection for Qing Yi.

However, Qing Yi had actually inspected the vehicle himself in all seriousness, and then drove off alone.

Qing Yi had seen the nanobots before, including the combat sequences that the nanowarriors had belonged to before that were under his jurisdiction, so he was well aware of what was going on in the dormitory that happened last night.

At a time like this, he would rather drive alone for six hours with no one to protect him than let someone he couldn’t trust bring something like that to Qing Zhuan.

Although Qing was researching nanobots, those things would be hard to detect if they were hidden in the body mixed in the blood and attached to the brain stem.

To be on the safe side, Qing Yi also needed to undergo stricter inspection after entering Barrier 111.

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On the way back to Barrier 111, Qing Yi was always on full alert.

At a certain moment, he would wonder if the other party was doing all these things to force himself to return to Barrier 111 alone as well. That way, the other party could intercept himself halfway.

It wasn’t that Qing Yi felt that he was so important, but nowadays, the highest military command of the Qing Clan was him, and if he died, then Qing Zhen would have to be distracted.

Luckily, after he arrived at Barrier 111, nothing happened on the way.

This made Qing Yi also a bit puzzled, the other party had launched an attack causing the military base to be on the verge of collapsing, but after the attack there was no other backhandedness.

Generally this kind of attack plan will be followed by a series of attacks ah, the so-called take advantage of your disease to kill you, military combat has always been a combination of punches, which is the reason to destroy a military base alone?

Upon arriving at Barrier 111, there were already professionals waiting at the entrance of the barrier.

They set up a temporary testing tent, and in the tent were all kinds of instruments, dazzling people.

The tents’ canopies were all specially treated, and there was even a thick layer of metal paper sandwiched between the canvas.

After Qing Yi was brought inside, a staff member actually came to him with a medical defibrillator.

Qing Yi took off his shirt, and the staff had him lie flat on the medical bed before applying a conductive paste to his chest.

“Sir, prepare yourself mentally, there will be some discomfort during this period, but this is normal,” someone carefully held the electrode plates in both hands, then one electrode plate was pressed on the right edge of Qing Yi’s sternum between the 2nd and 3rd ribs, and the other was pressed on the left armpit anterior line between the 5th ribs.

Suddenly, Qingyi’s whole body convulsed. This defibrillator had been modified so that the current was a little higher than that used for medical purposes.

At this moment, another staff member in the tent stared at a screen, and only sighed in relief when he confirmed the data, “No nanobots found in the body, it’s safe.”

The bio-energy used by the nanobots was actually, to put it bluntly, electricity, and although the nanobots were small, they were electronic components all the same.

And these people in charge of the inspection used the defibrillator’s increased current to destroy the electronic components, which was the simplest and crudest way to destroy the nanobots in the body.

Of course, there was an aftermath to the increased power, and even though the conductive paste could make the current area more even, there was still no way to avoid burns.

Qing Yi breathed violently, only feeling as if he was drenched in a layer of cold sweat, and the two obvious burn marks on his chest looked exceptionally tragic.

However, he did not say anything more, this was all a process that he had to go through before meeting Qing Zhen, and he had to protect Qing Zhen.

A staff member said to Qing Yi, “Sir, do you want to take a break?”

Qing Yi shook his head, “No need, take me to see Officer Qing Zhen.”

The staff members looked at each other then silently walked out of the tent, the only one left behind was the staff member who had just given Qing Yi an electric shock who took off his mask and protective suit and smiled, “No need, I’ll be right here.”

Qing Yi froze for a long time as he looked at Qing Zhen in front of him, “Second brother, why did you come personally, it’s dangerous. What if I’m carrying a nanobot?”

“It’s fine,” Qing Zhen smiled, “There’s enough equipment here to deal with those small things, a large scale response might not be possible, if it’s just the amount that one person carries, it’s enough.”

Qing Yi whispered, “Second brother I’m sorry, military base 012 was sneak attacked, I wasn’t able to keep it there.”

Qing Zhen shook his head, “Normal, I told you before, the enemy we are facing is stronger than we can imagine.”

Qing Yi said, “But I haven’t even figured out what the other side is doing this for.”

“There’s no need to rush,” Keiji reassured, “The other side will take the initiative to tell us what they want.”