Chapter 82 Difficult Decisions
Chu Qiancheng prayed silently with his forehead on the walkie-talkie, without a response.
“Potatoes call pumpkin, Over.”
Chu Qiancheng said it again. The flower fairy flew from his shoulders into the air and danced around him.
Will Old John hear it? Have he and Cassia already ran to a place 8 kilometers away from Kugu Town? Or did he choose not to answer the phone calls from his students after all?
“Potatoes call pumpkin, Over.”
"hiss……"
The static noise rang out in the walkie-talkie. Chu Qiancheng suddenly pointed the walkie-talkie at his iron face.
"Blasphemer! You..." Cassia's voice of the king, full of solemn aura, rang out on the walkie-talkie.
"...This is a pumpkin, Over." Old John's voice suddenly cut off Cassia's words. He snatched the intercom. Chu Qiancheng seemed to have seen a ray of dawn in the sky.
"The captain is coming to the manufacturing institute tonight. He wants to disclose a very important secret and make an important decision, hoping to obtain your understanding and support. This secret is closely related to Ellie and will determine her life and death. Her life and death determines the future of mankind. Over."
Chu Qiancheng seized this precious opportunity and finished speaking in one breath.
There is no sound in the intercom except for the static noise. Chu Qiancheng was waiting silently, waiting for Old John and the Red Queen to make the most critical decision.
Yan Cheng once made a judgment that those who manipulated Pankovsky behind the scenes would no longer arrange another hidden line in Kuroku Town. This would cause too many control chains and increase the possibility of conspiracy being exposed.
The manipulator behind the scenes did not arrange any hidden lines related to him. What he arranged to go to Kubiao Town was that he had no direct relationship with him, but was enough to trigger a big storm in Kubiao Town.
Pankowski's series of actions eventually led to the Red Queen Cassia, who had been hiding in the wilderness, entering the town of Dust Bone and meeting the old John who had some relationship with her.
After hundreds of attempts, Chu Qiancheng was almost 100% sure that the Red Queen and the people who manipulated Pankovsky behind the scenes did not conspire. She just intervened in Pankovsky's human trafficking plan for some unknown reason and took this opportunity to enter Kugu Town.
The Red Queen was just a free stroke arranged by the manipulator behind the scenes, with the purpose of disrupting the defense of the Kuroko Town and causing turmoil. Only in this way can he take the mercy in chaos.
From the very beginning, Chu Qiancheng was plotted by this manipulator behind the scenes.
He miraculously rescued Raymond and Meadda from Pankowski, sent them to the Cliff City Airport, cut off his and Shark Tiger Gang's human trafficking business, and eventually he made John Old and Casia suspicious by tracing him.
Finally, when Yan Cheng ordered him to pass the message, the captain's obscure words caused a fatal misunderstanding between Old John and the Red Queen.
They thought Yan Cheng had discovered their true identities. What he was about to reveal was the secret behind the Red Queen.
In fact, neither Yan Cheng nor Chu Qiancheng were interested in the secret behind the Red Queen.
This is really a tragedy.
And this is exactly what the people behind the scenes who manipulated Pankovsky hoped to appear. Even if John Old and the Red Queen did not have a misunderstanding about Yan Cheng's words, this person can use other means to expose the Red Queen's identity.
The combined destructive power of the Red Queen and Old John is enough to poke dozens of large holes into the defense of the Kugu Town Defense Zone.
However, this is just an appetizer.
The real feast was a large-scale insect tide that appeared later. This insect tide was enough to flood the entire defense zone and erase the only six remaining settlements from the map.
There are many reasons for the insect tide. The fierce battle between the Red Queen and the Light Chasing Front triggered the survival fear of the diaspora. They gathered together to cause the insect tide.
A certain flying king worm that was separated from the tribe happened to arrive at the Kugu Town Defense Zone, was attracted by the battle between the Red Queen and humans, and gathered a group of scattered Zergs to form a basic tactical corps, and launched a sudden attack on humans.
It may even be that the mother nest lord in the Zerg army discovered the news of internal conflict between humans and bionics, and sent an insect to quickly establish insect nests in the Kuji Town defense area to produce flying king insects, and used them to gather the surrounding scattered Zerg troops to form a large insect scourge.
The plan of this manipulator behind the scenes is linked together, and Chu Qiancheng discovered that the key to breaking the situation is all about the Red Queen. As long as she does not fight with humans, everything will have room for maneuver.
The reason why Chu Qiancheng said those words before was to clarify the misunderstanding and tell Captain John that he did not discover the truth about the Red Queen.
After a while, Casia's solemn voice came from the walkie-talkie.
"Do you think you can trick us back with these words?"
Chu Qiancheng extinguished his electronic eyes and thought for a moment.
"Where can you escape now? Over."
Chu Qiancheng did not know the real reason for the bionic uprising. The virtual world of "Dry Bone Town" designed by him and Xiaoling derives all kinds of strange causes of the bionic uprising. In short, there are always various grudges and suspicions between humans and strong artificial intelligence. It is not surprising that any reason caused the bionic riot.
Especially bionic people like Casia, which are extremely similar to humans, are simply the hardest hit by the Uncanny Valley effect. Humans' fear of artificial intelligence robots similar to themselves cannot be erased. Designing such bionic people is a kind of play with human nature.
If you really care about your creations, you should remove all the bionic skin and face of IG like Ellie, and truly design it into the appearance of a robot. This will be easier to accept and give it a place in human society.
In the words of the Red Queen Cassia, she seemed to blame all the war between the bionics and humans on humans. Chu Qiancheng had a headache when he thought about the twists and turns. The IG electronic brain he was born did not retain any memory of the bionics being plotted by humans.
However, even though Chu Qiancheng was confused about the causes and consequences, he also knew that the grudges between humans and bionics were now irreconcilable. The Red Queen was the leader of the bionics and was enough to organize an awakened bionics army to fight against humans.
She belongs to the S-level hunting list, which is the natural disaster-level list. Once the trace is discovered, the three major human regions of the army will automatically add it to the hunting list due to the commonality of humanity and destroy it at all costs.
So once she was exposed, although the wilderness was large, she had no place to stay.
Although she and John Old have already planned to escape, their escape has not been noticed by anyone, except IG. If IG does not reveal them, they still have a glimmer of hope in the town of Kuruji.
If you escape, there is no chance. If you stay, there is still a chance.
Chu Qiancheng believes that the Red Queen's master brain is rational enough to calculate the probability. John Old should choose to believe in his students.
"How many minutes will Yancheng go to the manufacturing center? Over." Old John's voice suddenly rang out after being silent for several minutes.
"One minute left. Over." Chu Qiancheng glanced at the electronic clock of the manufacturing institute.
"Hiss..." The last static noise came from the walkie-talkie, and then it returned to silence.
A moment later, Old John appeared quickly at the manufacturing station gate like the wind and walked straight into the workshop. Chu Qiancheng glanced at his lower body and saw that the exoskeleton warriors that he had once appeared during his hunting were wrapped around his legs again. He accelerated and ran back all the way.
Old John glanced at Chu Qiancheng, opened his mouth, but didn't say a word. Chu Qiancheng didn't expect him to say anything. They didn't have time, and there was no need to say more.
He just pointed at Old John's legs, looked at his eyes and shook his head. Old John lowered his head and looked at his legs, smiled bitterly, and snapped his fingers.
The thin exoskeleton weapon wrapped around his lower body was suddenly folded into a rectangular sheet and inserted into a metal vest by him.
The flower fairy flew up from Chu Qiancheng's shoulders and danced around Old John like a demonstration. She used her sharp long kiss to sway in front of Old John.
Chu Qiancheng took a thick towel from the precision lathe in the workshop and threw it to Old John.
Old Johnson caught it in the air and quickly wiped the sweat from his head and body. Although the time of running back and forth was short, it made him sweat a lot.
A minute later, Yan Cheng walked into the manufacturing center in a military uniform with a chasing light and a military cap unique to the captain of the garrison.
"Joan." Yan Cheng took off his military cap.
"Cheng." Old Johnson sat on a chair in the workshop and nodded at him.
Everything seems casual and natural.
Yan Cheng felt something inexplicably wrong. He looked around the workshop alertly, but found nothing unusual. He wandered between the workshop and the front desk hall of the manufacturing center, checked every corner. Then he walked back to the workshop, closed the workshop door, and threw the military cap on the equipment table.
Chapter completed!