Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 776 Military AI
The central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate is currently shutting down, and more than half of the more than 40 indicators on the control panel of the power supply that should be green under normal conditions have turned red, which means that the battleship crashed just now. During the process, the AI ​​activated the safety gate to cut off the power supply actively in order to protect the central control computer from damage after confirming that the situation was irretrievable.

"Hiss... In this case, how do I restart the central control computer?" Ke Lan asked.

Although Ke Lan has dabbled in all aspects of knowledge, the battleship operation has really touched his knowledge blind spot - this kind of knowledge belongs to the secrets of the military, and it is difficult for civilian non-professionals to understand. I had the opportunity to come into contact with it. Although Ke Lan later obtained extremely high authority, it was impossible for him to have the time to study how to operate a warship at that time.

Fortunately, there is an "expert" by my side.

"What? You...you're asking me?" Mo Jue raised his finger, pointing at himself helplessly, "I... I'm just an ODST. Although the Hell Paratroopers are famous, they're just like ordinary There is no difference between the marines on the battleship. If you ask me to fly a plane, I can barely fly it, but I don’t understand battleships at all..."

"I didn't ask you..." Ke Lan smiled awkwardly, and patted himself on the shoulder.

The black armor on his body took off automatically, and he instantly turned into a three-no girl in a blue and white school uniform, with light blue short hair and red eyes.

"This, this is the girl named... Ze Luo just now?" Although Mo Jue has seen Ze Luo's ability to "transform" at will, no matter how many times he sees this strange scene, it still surprises people , "She, her ability... Does she come from the research institute?"

Obviously, Mo Jue regarded Ze Luo as a superpower "manufactured" by the research institute.

"This girl...is she in COS Ayanami Li? It seems that she was secretly reading my memory when she just attached to me..." Ke Lan complained inwardly, but responded to Mo Jue : "Ah, yes, yes, this is the top secret, and it will be silenced if it is revealed."

"I...I know." Mo Jue nodded blankly, "But whether we can get out alive...is still a question."

"Let's not talk about this now, Ze Luo, do you know how to restart this thing?" Ke Lan lightly kicked the power supply of the central control computer with his toe.

"If you want to restart the battleship's central control computer that has been cut off due to the self-protection mechanism, it generally requires the maintenance team engineer in the fleet to connect the portable maintenance terminal to the central control computer, and restart the central control computer through a series of complicated operations. The process takes between eight and sixteen hours," Zelo said.

Ze Luo knows much more about warships than Ke Lan. With Ke Lan's authority, she almost borrowed all the books related to warships in the military library, and even "internshiped and inspected" many warships internal structure.

With her knowledge reserve, she can at least be as good as half a professional warship engineer.

"But we don't have an inspection terminal, so even if you can complete those operations... By the way, can you conjure up an inspection terminal?" Ke Lan asked with his eyes brightened.

"Yes, but it's useless. Each battleship-class central control computer and corresponding maintenance terminal has a unique identification number. If it cannot be identified, not only will it be impossible to restart the central control computer, but it will also be completely locked. " Ze Luo's answer directly poured a basin of cold water on Ke Lan.

"Then there is no other way?"

"Yes. There is another way to restart, but the maintenance personnel will never use it, unless it is in an extremely urgent situation." Ze Luo still maintained a deadpan expression. Her current appearance is almost as if she never Like Rei Ayanami who came out of the screen, even Ke Lan couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

No coser can perfectly copy the appearance and temperament of an anime character, but Zelo can.

"What method?" Ke Lan hurriedly asked.

"Unplug all the cables on the power supply and plug them in again to force the central control computer to restart." Zeluo said, "But this kind of operation will generate a surge current at the moment the current is turned on, and something like The surge current generated by a large power supply such as a battleship-class main control computer will be stronger, and it will easily cause irreversible damage to the device itself and the data stored inside. Therefore, the engineers in the maintenance class would rather spend hundreds or thousands of times of time than willing to take that approach.”

"Isn't this just a cold restart of the computer? This kind of repair method is as simple and crude as the network administrator of the Internet cafe in the old era of the earth, and has no technical content... But it is this kind of operation that has nothing to do with computer knowledge, but it is It's a very effective method. It's just that I didn't expect that the battleship-level central control computer can also play like this?" Ke Lan couldn't help complaining.

"However, the surge current generated when the power supply of the battleship-level central control computer is momentarily turned on is many times larger than that of a personal computer, and the risk of this operation will be very high." Ze Luo continued.

"How tall is it?"

"If you are lucky, you will lose more than half of the data; if you are unlucky, the central control computer will directly restore the factory settings; if you are unlucky, the entire device will be scrapped directly."

"But apart from this method, we have no other means, don't we?" Ke Lan sighed, and picked up a thick and heavy cable, which was wrapped in a two-centimeter-thick, metal A protective sheath made of cross-braided wire and polymer, under which is a thicker shielding layer and insulation layer, and under the insulation layer are hundreds of twisted high-purity oxygen-free copper wires—just The length of the cable at the socket, which is less than two meters long, already weighs nearly fifty kilograms.

Although the best result of a hot restart will also lose a large amount of data archives, but in the current situation, this is undoubtedly Ke Lan's only choice.

He could only pray silently in his heart, the best thing to lose would be those irrelevant redundant data...

"Just unplug it like this? Don't you need to unplug all the cables at the same time?" Ke Lan turned to look at Ze Luo and confirmed again.

The latter nodded and said, "It doesn't matter when you unplug it, because the central control computer is already in a shutdown state. But when you reconnect the power supply, you must plug it in at the same time."

"Okay." Ke Lan unplugged the cable, and immediately, several red and green lights on the power control panel went out.

As the cables were pulled out one after another, the indicator lights on the control panel went out in large numbers, until the last thickest cable was pulled out from the socket, and the indicator lights on the top row of the control panel also went out. went off.

"Huh..." Ke Lan took a long breath and glanced at the nearly a hundred cables on the ground. Fortunately, both he and Ze Luo have a near-perverted memory, otherwise it would be really impossible to match these cables with their respective sockets one by one. On the number.

"I will leave the job of connecting to you. With so many cables, you have to plug them in at the same time. Except for the tentacle monster, you are the only one who can do it." Ke Lan said to Ze Luo.

"Yeah." Ze Luo responded, but didn't make a move. Instead, he walked behind Ke Lan, put his arms around Ke Lan's waist, and put his forehead on his back.

Before Ke Lan could say anything, the girl in the school uniform disappeared, and a pure black close-fitting armor appeared on Ke Lan's body again.

"Are you planning to let me come by myself?" Ke Lan showed a somewhat helpless wry smile. Ever since he was attached to himself in the state of armor, Ze Luo seemed to like this state.

But didn't this girl say that she wanted to experience the feeling of being a human being?Are you tired of playing and plan to change the game?

Although not yet proficient, Ke Lan has also initially mastered the use of space power - Ze Luo's power and his time-stop ability are completely from the same source, and the feeling of using it is almost the same.

Nearly a hundred invisible hands appeared out of thin air, grabbed the connectors of these cables, and lifted them up.

From Mo Jue's point of view, this scene is a bit like a supernatural story: Nearly a hundred cables seemed to come to life, standing up like a python, and the snake's head (that is, the interface) was suspended in the air, looking for Hunting target (corresponding socket on the power supply).

It wasn't until the ports of each cable were aligned with the corresponding sockets that Ke Lan waved his hand and instantly inserted all the cables in at the same time.

With Zelo's space ability, it is completely possible to interfere with the surge current and ease it to the point where it cannot cause damage to the central control computer... But Ke Lan can't do this, because this restart method relies on the surge current The impact of the current will forcibly activate the central control computer in the shutdown state.If the impact of the surge current is weakened and the "stimulation" is not enough, then the purpose of restarting cannot be achieved at all.

I saw a deep roar coming from inside the power supply, more than 40 indicator lights on the control panel were constantly flashing back and forth between red and green, and the monitoring screens covering the entire bridge began to flash—except for the lights outside the battleship. Outside the monitoring screen, a large amount of data and UI appeared on it, densely packed translucent strings scrolling rapidly like the staff list at the end of a movie.

"Om..."

After a moan that lasted for a full twenty seconds, the power of the central control computer finally quieted down, and the more than 40 indicator lights were all fixed in the green state.

"In this way, at least I didn't encounter the worst situation." Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

"The modification of the Shaojiang-class frigate, numbered SX-016, belongs to the Special Operations Fleet. The central control computer of the battleship has been activated. Please enter the triple verification code within 1 minute to verify your identity." A mechanical voice couldn't distinguish between male and female ringing in the bridge.

It seems that this AI still remembers that it is the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, which means that the central control computer has not been restored to the factory state... Next, it depends on how much data is stored in it. survived the impact of surge current.

"Start the special authority verification program, command code: Undead Crew Club." Ke Lan said loudly.

Three virtual screens composed of holographic projections descended to Ke Lan's side, enclosing his front and left and right sides, and a standard virtual keyboard appeared in front of him.Whether it is distance or height, this virtual keyboard perfectly fits the data of Ke Lan's height. Although the military AI is famous for its simplicity, it does not mean that it will be negligent in details.In order to ensure the status of the warship operator, the military AI can be meticulous in terms of ergonomics and human-computer interaction.

Without hesitation, Ke Lan immediately entered a string of 97-digit long passwords on the keyboard, consisting of English letters, Chinese characters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

A red laser shot out from the top of the bridge and slowly swept across Ke Lan's body.

Five seconds later, one operation window after another popped up on each large screen, and a line of text appeared on the virtual screen in front of Ke Lan:
"Identity verification is complete, confirmed as the *seat of the Undead Crew Club, code-named [**]. The special authority verification code and biometric data are all correct. Welcome ** Your Excellency to visit the 'Modified Shaojiang-class frigate', I am a member of this ship Controlled computer-configured military AI, number SX-016."

Looking at the missing characters on the screen, Ke Lan suddenly frowned.

He found that he seemed to have overlooked a very important issue.

When the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashed in the foggy forest, Mo Zhuorui's daughter, Mo Jue, was still underage...and if the memory of his pre-adulthood was implanted by the undead crew, then as a "communist" The "biological body" self should not have been born at that time...

It is impossible for the "Shaojiang Kai" that crashed in the foggy forest to be connected to the Ark's network, and it is impossible for the database of the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" to be updated in the past ten years.

And Ke Lan just joined the Undead Crew Club recently, and the biometric data related to him and the corresponding authority level were also entered into the database after joining the Undead Crew Club... Logically speaking, the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate The central control computer cannot identify itself.

The asterisks on the screen are even more suspicious.

"SX-016, can you answer my question truthfully?" Ke Lan asked the screen.

"Of course, with your authority, this ship's database will be completely open to you." The previously gender-indistinguishable mechanical voice sounded again.

"Then do you know my identity?" Ke Lan asked a rather strange question that Mo Jue saw.

"Sorry sir, there is no corresponding content in the database."

"Then how did you determine that I have the highest level of authority?" Ke Lan asked again.

"This ship's database only records the special authority verification method and the corresponding authority level. The identity information of all members of the Undead Crew Club is kept secret. This is also to ensure that after the ship is captured by the enemy, the Information will not be leaked."

"That is to say, if you change a member of the crew, you can only see this bunch of asterisks?"

"Yes." The AI ​​replied truthfully.

"Then when was the last time you connected to the Ark Network and updated the content related to the authority level in the database?"

[PS Thanks to sty1999 for the 5000 starting coins. 】

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