Paper Lover - Chapter 109

The first time he saw this sentence, Li Shuoxing turned his head to look at Su Mingqian.

But to his surprise, Su Mingqian looked very calm, and looked at this document without showing any extra expressions.

Li Shuoxing tentatively asked: “Baby, do you know this document?”

Su Mingqian: “I? I don’t know. But I can guess. In fact, when we first started this project, John and George and I had concerns about this. Ask and ordinary weapons, and even mass destruction. Sex weapons are not very similar. If they are really out of control, the harm they can cause to human society is immeasurable…”

Having said that, Su Mingqian paused.

“I just didn’t expect that they would secretly monitor us. But it doesn’t matter. Ask did pass the test perfectly under very standardized operations. I didn’t falsify the results of the experiment, even if there were more monitoring personnel.”

Li Shuoxing lowered his head to meditate for a while, and when he raised his head again, he looked at the things on the table.

In addition to top-secret documents, there is also a cipher book and a row of buttons.

This is a strong signal that no one can ignore.

Li Shuoxing: “I have a question.”

Su Mingqian: “What?”

Li Shuoxing: “The row of buttons in front of you plus a codebook, you can think of the secret communication channel between the security team and the outside world with your knees, but what I don’t quite understand is that you are just a group of ordinary scientists, even the security team Should you undertake a secret surveillance mission, you don’t need to use such a Morse code-like contact method at all, right? Isn’t it okay to make a call with your mobile phone to inform your superiors?”

Su Mingqian: “No, no. Although this town has a network, it is just a large local area network. This is actually a…” He sorted out the sentence, “A physically isolated box is a test for Ask. It is impossible to get in touch with the outside world in a large, closed experimental field.”

Li Shuoxing understood.

In other words.

Li Shuoxing: “This is the only electronic device in the town that can send messages to the outside world.”

[Successful clue reasoning, truth points +10]

The 10 points just gotten were used by Li Shuoxing for testing.

[Use the detector, the number of truth points -10]

[Name]: External contact cipher

[Remarks]: Someone sent a message through it. The message is: “27, 9, xx, xx”

Li Shuoxing would not understand this remark for a while.

He just rolled up his sleeves and prepared to crack, Su Mingqian said: “This is our evacuation time…”

Li Shuoxing: “Evacuation time?”

Su Mingqian shook his head slightly, so that he could remember more things: “Yes, the 27th is our evacuation date. We will leave here at 7 o’clock that morning. As for the latitude and longitude behind…”

Li Shuoxing answered, “Apparently it is the latitude and longitude of your destination at 9 o’clock.”

After sorting it out like this, Li Shuoxing suddenly understood a lot of things.

Li said Xing first made the most basic reasoning: “The person using the cipher is Tom.”

[Successful clue reasoning, truth points +10]

Li Shuoxing went on to make follow-up reasoning: “But the person Tom uses the cryptographic device to contact is not the government.”

The logic is also very simple and clear.

If the government thinks that Ask should be destroyed, it is of course destroyed directly in the base they built. How could it be possible for the team to go a distance first and then destroy it suddenly, adding countless changes out of thin air?

[Successful clue reasoning, truth points +10]

Li Shuoxing: “Tom used the government’s emergency plan to steal private lines and collude with third-party forces. The purpose is to Ask!”

[Successful clue reasoning, truth points +100]

“Moreover,” Su Mingqian said suddenly, and more and more pictures entered his mind. In these complicated pictures, he searched for what he needed and explained slowly, “It was very easy to commit crimes on the road. Ask stayed in a hard drive. This hard drive is kept by me. Whether it is taken or destroyed, it is very simple…”

When the analysis reached this point, both of them had guesses about the final result.

After that, Li Shuoxing suddenly squatted down and beat on the table in front of him.

Su Mingqian was startled by Li Shuoxing’s movements before he had time to develop his feelings. He asked, “Ximu, what are you doing?”

Li Shuoxing: “I’ll look for anything else here, under normal circumstances…ha!”

There was a surprise laugh.

Going into the bottom to see if there is a hidden grid, Li Shuoxing did not find the hidden grid, but he found a new translucent hand icon.

He clicked on the icon.

[Name]: Hidden safety prop point·2

[Enablement requirements]: Accumulate 300 truth points and above

[Players always get 470 truth points]

[The player meets the opening conditions]

[Prop points open]

The bottom of the closed table slid open, and two sets of body armor fell into Li Shuoxing’s arms.

He stretched out his hand to catch it, touched it subconsciously, and suddenly felt the body armor thick and heavy.

Li Shuoxing’s heart settled instantly. He held his bulletproof vest, turned his head, and smiled at Su Mingqian from under the table.

Su Mingqian stretched out his hand to touch the helmet, and suddenly had more ominous premonitions…

***

After deciphering the identity of the murderer and the murder method, there is only one last question left.

What is the murderer’s motive?

If you want to know this, you obviously have to check it out in Tom’s private space.

Fifteen minutes later, the two armed men returned to the hotel where they first appeared.

They went to the front desk to find out which room Tom was staying in.

Miss Yingbin didn’t change their outfits, and handed them a room card very considerately: “Room 603.”

The two went directly to No. 603.

Li Shuoxing first raised his hand and knocked, but there was no response.

So he swiped the sensor with his room card and opened the door directly.

A luxurious suite appeared in front of Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian.

Li Shuoxing went around and found that the room was almost cleaned up. The suitcase belonging to Tom was placed next to the big bed in the hotel. It was open, and there was a photo frame on the top. Tom’s family photo.

In the photo, Tom is standing with his parents, smiling very brightly.

Li Shuoxing bent down and picked up the photo. He looked at the photo and said to himself: “Place points according to the general clues of mystery novels. This photo is very suspicious…”

He missed the test on the photo.

[Name]: Family Portrait

[Remarks]: There seems to be something hidden in this photo.

Li Shuoxing stared at the note for a few seconds.

He took the photo frame apart and saw the newspaper clippings hidden behind the photo.

He opened it and found that the headline of the clipping was: “Smart Manipulator Runaway on Operating Table, Leading to Medical Malpractice.”

Su Mingqian: “…”

The truth is ready to come out.

The distance between the past and the present seems to be only the curtain.

He stood at one end of the curtain, watching the chaotic shadows passing by the other end of the curtain.

As long as the last curtain is lifted, all the past can be retrieved.

Li said Xing: “Okay, the last jigsaw has been put together.” He couldn’t help but sigh, “Sure enough, all sunny villains have a painful past, and all the gentle and handsome villains have a perverted past… …In short, I speculate that Tom’s parents have a 99% probability of being involved in similar events, so he began to hate all intelligent machines, especially superintelligence.”

“He thought,” Li Shuoxing came to the final conclusion, “Destroy Ask.”

[Successful clue reasoning, truth points +300]

There was another “dingdong”.

The translucent guide gesture icon appears on the bedside.

Li Shuoxing clicks on the icon to instantly unlock a new treasure chest.

[Name]: Hidden safety prop point·3

[Enablement requirements]: Accumulated truth points of 600 and above

[Players always get 770 truth points]

[The player meets the opening conditions]

[Prop points open]

The bedside table opened.

Two small props were placed in it. Li Shuoxing took a look and found that compared with the first two items, the treatment of the props in his hand was different, and there were additional item descriptions:

【Name】：Miniature all-round explosion-proof shield

[Remarks]: Carry it with you to automatically defend against all injuries.

Li Shuoxing was immediately moved by Ask’s spirit of wishing to arm Su Mingqian to his hair.

He picked up one of them and put it into Su Mingqian’s hands securely. After Su Mingqian held it well, he picked up his own piece, but did not put it away.

He made a wish to the system: “System, I don’t need this kind of explosion-proof shield, how about you replace the explosion-proof shield with a rocket launcher?”

The system is silent.

Li Shuoxing made persistent efforts: “The rocket launcher is more in line with my personality. Don’t you think that the scene of the other party taking out a gun and I take out the rocket launcher is particularly handsome when you think about it?

The system remains silent.

But Li Shuoxing’s shield began to change.

A faint blue light enveloped the little shield. Gradually, its shape changed. It elongated and deformed, and finally became the bazooka that Li Shuoxing wished!

Li Shuoxing snapped his fingers: “Thank you!”

The system only gives the following response:

[The player has solved all the puzzles]

[About to enter the plot CG mode]

【Please wait……】

[Countdown, three, two, one…]

The scenery around Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian began to change.

Clouds and mist came and turned slightly. In the process of only opening and closing eyes, the hotel room disappeared. The smell of gasoline rushed into the tip of the nose, and the feeling of bumps passed into his mind. Li Shuoxing looked intently and found that he was making peace. Su Mingqian sat in a jeep together,

Outside the jeep, there was yellow sand everywhere, and one or two cacti were dusty in the yellow sand. Fortunately, not far from the front, it was an oasis with lush vegetation.

Li Shuoxing had just seized the time to look around. Suddenly, the sound of “bang-bang” bullets sounded, and the jeep that was moving smoothly suddenly vibrated. Outside the car window, the security team escorting the convoy and the militants who appeared from nowhere Hand in hand.

The sand dust was like a yellow net, covering the surrounding of the convoy instantly.

In this fuzzy net, I saw blood like flowers, big and small, blooming from time to time.

The next moment, the door of the Jeep was hit.

Tom’s face appeared outside the car door.

He looked nervous: “Professor, we have been ambushed by others, and it is not safe enough here, so hurry up and follow me!”

It can be regarded as waiting for you!

Li said that Xing was about to act, but immediately found that his body was fixed in position and could not move freely.

The cutscene CG did not end.

Under Tom’s protection and leadership, Su Mingqian hugged his backpack tightly, bent over and fled with him to the oasis ahead.

During this process, Li Shuoxing was like a ghost, automatically following behind them.

From a condescending perspective, he saw another wave of terrorists ambushing in the oasis, the cold flashing on Tom’s face, and the fear and panic on Su Mingqian’s face.

And these are things that have actually happened.

The anger turned into a poisonous flame, melting Li Shuoxing’s heart into magma.

Before the magma erupted, Tom stopped before the terrorist ambush.

He turned around and aimed the gun in Su Mingqian’s head.

Tom: “Professor, I regret to tell you that the road ahead is not a way out, but another ambush for terrorists. You will unfortunately become another young talent who died in the hands of terrorists… But I actually respect it. You, I don’t want to hurt you, as long as you are willing to sign the report of Ask’s failure test and hand the Ask to me for destruction, I will let you go.”

The muzzle of the black hole was in front of Su Mingqian’s eyes.

The shadow hidden behind the curtain suddenly jumped to the front of the curtain.

The gap between the past and the present was broken, and the same choice was once again placed in front of Su Mingqian.

Su Mingqian’s mind was blank. He shouted exactly the same words as before: “It has passed the test, why are you still reluctant to try to believe it!”

Tom: “Mechanical, forever, untrustworthy! Professor, you can only choose to let me kill it, or die with it, and then being disguised as its rampage caused all of you to die!”

Su Mingqian began to back away.

Stumbled, staggered.

But the muzzle in front of him is getting closer.

He is extremely nervous, the sweat of his hands has soaked the back of the backpack, he has only one choice at this moment, whether to save himself.

Then, the backpack was hidden behind him, and fear condensed into a shell of firmness on his face.

No matter how many times it is repeated, the choice will not change.

Su Mingqian: “It’s not wrong. I will never give it to you.”

“boom–“

Gunshot.