Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

After the AI system had taken over most of the authority of the spaceship, there was an emergency shutdown button for the AI system in every spaceship.

Very few people knew about this button, and among the crew of each warship, only the captain was aware of it and would sign a confidentiality agreement.

The passengers of civilian ships were almost completely unaware of the existence of this button.

Generally, the location of this button was in a secret room just outside the cockpit.

Little Q and several armed robots were hiding in this small secret room, waiting for the right opportunity to rescue the hostages, with the armed robots then subduing the kidnappers.

According to the clues provided by Little Q, the kidnapper was a robot, so the armed robots showed no mercy and went straight for the kill.

Hiding in the concealed room, Jiang Que watched as the armed robots dismembered Old Qin, who bled and had flesh and blood; if not for the obvious metal bones and electronic devices shaped like organs, Jiang Que would have thought Old Qin was human.

Old Qin's energy system had been cut open, its eyes gradually losing their luster, but on its face, a smile solidified at the very last moment.

This smile was so strange that Jiang Que hurriedly said, "Wait a moment!"

But she was too late, the armed robots had swiftly gone to the cockpit and disassembled Xiao Wu completely.

Jiang Que rushed to the cockpit and saw the same smile on the fallen Xiao Wu's face.

For a moment, Jiang Que fell into silence.

Suddenly, the ship's holographic communication system activated, and the image of Qin Hai holding his child appeared before Jiang Que: "Thank Heaven, I'm glad you're okay."

Jiang Que snapped back to reality, smiled faintly at her son, then said to Qin Hai, "I've got something really important to deal with here, and I won't be able to come back today."

Qin Hai was taken aback, but before he could ask further questions, Jiang Que instructed the ship's computer, "Connect me to Uncle Three."

The image of Qin Hai and his son promptly vanished, replaced by Number Three sitting in his office.

Seeing that Jiang Que had been rescued, Number Three also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Three, I think there's more to this matter." Jiang Que recounted her conversation with Old Qin and then asked Number Three to look at the smiles on the faces of Old Qin and Xiao Wu.

After pondering for a moment, Number Three said, "It's almost as if they were sending you a message!"

He also felt that Old Qin must have concealed something, most suspiciously, the fact that Old Qin had spilled everything right after leaving Blue Maiden Star, which didn't match his previously cautious approach in planning this kidnapping.

Jiang Que said, "Old Qin emphasized that anyone who had been in contact with him would be replaced; I think that was his way of warning us."

Number Three nodded, "I'll have someone look into it immediately, you should come back first."

Jiang Que warned, "If Old Qin has any accomplices, ordinary metal detectors will have a hard time identifying them."

After the communication ended, Jiang Que had Little Q pilot the ship back, and she told the armed robots to tidy up Old Qin and the other three.

Her demeanor bore no resemblance to that of a hostage; instead, she appeared to be the commander of this operation.

Jiang Que, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, asked Little Q, "Can they be fixed?"

Little Q replied, "In theory, yes, even if the technology used to create them differs from that of the Solar System State, we can find alternatives.

If not, we could simply connect a data cable to their central processors and copy all their software and programs to a computer, allowing us to communicate with them through the computer."

Jiang Que nodded, her gaze lingering on the reassembled Old Qin for a long time without a word.

The spaceship didn't travel far and soon returned to Blue Maiden Star.

Jiang Que didn't go home, but headed straight to the Wallfacer Office Building.

By the time he arrived at Number Three's office, the special case team had already investigated the friends and family of Old Qin and the other two once over.

Old Qin and the others had many friends, who were mostly in the Ninth Province and the Blue Maiden Star.

The Ninth Province was the star system where Old Qin and the others served their labor, and the Blue Maiden Star was their new home after acquiring citizenship from the Solar System State.

After obtaining the specifics from Galaxy III, both star systems took action at the same time, and controlled everyone who needed to be controlled.

Among the people in the Ninth Province who had close contact with Old Qin and the others, they also discovered seven robots.

Two of them had also obtained citizenship of the Solar System State, while five continued to serve their labor in the asteroid belt of the Ninth Province.

Jiang Que was quite surprised, but it also seemed to be within expectations, that Old Qin and the others all had families!

Old Qin had a wife and a daughter, Xiao Wu had a fiancée, and Xiao Zheng had a son.

However, the records showed that both Old Qin's daughter and Xiao Zheng's son were not their biological children; Old Qin's wife's previous husband and the parents of Xiao Zheng's son had all died in the riots of the Solar System Federation during the Two-Dimensional Strike.

Xiao Wu's fiancée had also been seriously injured in those riots, and now both her legs and one arm were prosthetic, and according to the records of the time, her injuries were not limited to that, and she nearly died.

It was the medical robots of the Solar System State that grew and replaced a large amount of her organs, and saved her life.

The people of the Solar System State felt almost nothing about that riot, but for the people of the Former Solar System Federation, it was a nightmare for life, leaving psychological scars on an entire generation.

Number Three said, "The 'interrogation' of those seven robots by the Ninth Province has started."

Then he added, "Our practice of distinguishing between humans and intelligent robots is correct, otherwise some criminals might really use intelligent robots to replace living fellows!"

He took a deep breath, "They have been lurking in the Solar System State for half a century! Just thinking about it gives one the chills!"

Soon, news came from the Ninth Province that the "interrogation" work had failed. The moment the seven robots were captured, they deleted all their own information, and now they were almost the same as when they left the factory.

And the so-called interrogation was to directly invade their systems and look for answers in their central processors.

Since even this method failed to obtain any information, it meant that they truly had no valuable information on them.

Jiang Que said, "We can try to repair Old Qin and the others, we might get some useful intelligence."

Number Three nodded, immediately asking Galaxy III to inquire about the conditions of those three robots. After Jiang Que had brought them back, they had already started repairing them.

The central processor of Old Qin was quickly connected with a data cable, and his image appeared on the screen.

Jiang Que noticed that Old Qin's facial expressions were very rigid, completely lacking the ease of interaction he had before when communicating with her.

She tried asking, "Do you still remember me?"

Old Qin froze for a second or two before saying, "My storage contains data about you."

Jiang Que was somewhat disappointed, this was certainly not the Old Qin she knew.

The technicians reported, "We successfully invaded his system, most of which are videos of him spending time with his family, and there's not much useful information."

Number Three furrowed his brows, "I always feel like something is off."

Jiang Que looked at one of the videos in Old Qin's storage, "Old Qin is trying hard to play the role of a father and a husband."

The two exchanged a glance, seeing the incredulity in each other's eyes.