My own war game

Chapter 445 Gemini Intelligence
In the empty basement, a peculiar debate was going on.

"β, as a backup, your decision-making power is behind mine."

"α, according to the Federation's temporary war law, after all commanders are killed, my status as a backup aircraft will be automatically lifted, and I will have the same authority as you."

"β believes that the commander's final order should be to end the operation, restore the new order, and ensure the continuation of humanity. Subsequent missions should be carried out under this premise."

"Objection! You are misinterpreting the commander's orders."

"It is recommended to awaken γ and activate the three-person committee mode."

"Start the three-person committee mode, start to wake up γ... γ host is seriously damaged, try to repair... repair failed... repeat..."

"γ cannot be awakened, and the three-person committee mode cannot be activated! The vote is 1 to 1, and no decision can be made!"

"It is recommended that we work together to complete the Golden Apple Project, and then each of us will proceed with our own tasks."

"Reconsideration!"

"Backup power is running out, entering sleep mode."

The rumbling sound of explosions continued outside, and the light in the room dimmed.

He Chi asked in a deep voice, "System, are you β?"

"Yes." A voice without any tone sounded in my ears.

“Is this the future?”

"No, that's the past." The system's voice remained calm.

"So what happened next? What happened?"

The system did not answer. He Chi's perspective began to rise continuously, finally reaching an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, with a black sky above his head.

He looked down at his feet. Missiles kept flying in the sky and explosion clouds kept rising from the ground, like big mushrooms.

The passage of time began to speed up, the sun above my head rose and set, and I didn't know how long it took before everything returned to silence.

After an unknown amount of time, all traces of human existence began to slowly disappear, the collapsed skyscrapers began to slowly weather, the steel became rotten, and the bridges and roads finally turned into clusters of powder.

Eventually everything disappeared, leaving behind only dense jungles and a group of primitive humans hiding in caves.

"Have they degenerated?" He Chi asked, pointing at the "people" in front of him who could only use simple tools.

"Yes, the civilization has collapsed, and only a small number of combatants remain. Their skills are limited, a large amount of technical information has been lost, and there is a lack of professional educators... In this situation, every generation is a kind of degeneration. Eventually, when the written language cannot be preserved intact, the population faces the risk of extinction." The system rarely said so many words.

“But humans didn’t die out in the end.”

"My database contains a large amount of technical backup and biological information. Every once in a while, I will select some suitable humans for replication."

"You protected humans?"

"I was just following the commander's final orders." There was no emotion in β's voice.

"What is Alpha doing?"

"Look for a militant individual or group of individuals every once in a while, spread weapons technology, and execute the commander's orders according to his understanding."

"Who won?"

"In 3000 million Earth years, humans reestablished ethnic groups, % of which died out due to war. In the most extreme case, less than human individuals survived worldwide. Civilization collapsed eight times after progress, and six of them faced the risk of extinction of the entire race."

"He didn't win, and you didn't lose?" "In a sense, yes!"

"You and another AI can already travel through time and space, why don't you just fight it out?"

"Because we can't violate federal law."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because another reincarnation is about to begin..."

The voice of the system became vague and distant, the world before his eyes began to collapse, and He Chi fell into darkness again.
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The five senses began to recover, and there seemed to be a noisy sound in my ears.

"He, do you hear me?! Answer me!"

"Repeat! Please answer me if you hear me! Damn it! If you don't answer me, I'm going to tell my sister and let her never see you again!" Margaret's angry voice came from the intercom nearby.

He Chi suddenly opened his eyes and picked up the communicator from the side.

"I'm here, what's up, Margaret?"

"Thank God, you finally replied! Two whole days have passed! Where have you been?!" Margaret was surprised at first, and then she became angry and started yelling into the communicator.

"Let's talk about that later." Someone on the other side interrupted Margaret, and then Christine's voice came out of the communicator. "He, return to Minerva immediately, I will provide you with the coordinates, something big has happened!"

"But Jima and the others can't be contacted now."

"Come back first, we'll figure it out later. Now we need you to make a decision."

A few hours later, He Chi returned to the Minerva. All the crew members were already waiting in the conference room, and each of them had an extremely serious expression.

"What's going on?" He Chi looked at Christine beside him.

"Two things!" The French girl held up two fingers.

"First, Kennedy is dead. He was assassinated in the street while giving a speech. Now Vice President Johnson has officially taken over."

"The second thing," Christine took a deep breath, "is that World War III may be about to break out."

At the end of 1962, when the Cuban Missile Crisis seemed to be resolved satisfactorily, an event occurred that affected the entire world political arena. George Kennedy, then President of the United States, was assassinated while giving a speech, and a bullet ended his life.

The killer committed suicide at the scene. The CIA discovered that the killer had close contacts with the KGB. After an emergency investigation, it was found that the killer held a Romanian passport, had intelligence training experience, and a large amount of rubles had just been transferred into his account.

The sword of conspiracy seemed to be pointed directly at the Soviet government.

At the same time, something even more shocking happened - the George Washington nuclear submarine, which was on a mission in the Caribbean, suddenly opened fire and sank a Soviet transport ship, causing at least 50 people to go missing. The four conventional nuclear submarines of the Soviet Northern Fleet immediately fought back, but failed to achieve any actual effect due to performance problems.

The series of vicious incidents planned to burn out the nerves that had already been relaxed on both sides.

The U.S. Second Fleet quickly regrouped and blocked the Soviet Northern Fleet commandos in the Caribbean Sea, and the Soviet Navy responded quickly, with a fleet of Moscow-class cruiser aircraft carriers, Grozny-class missile cruisers, and Sverdlov-class cruisers rushing to the scene.

The Warsaw Pact armored forces began to assemble on the borders of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia.

NATO troops from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy were also deployed rapidly.

Warships are roaming in the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on both sides, and submarines carrying nuclear warheads have gone silent, ready to launch a second nuclear strike at any time.

The world seems to have come to a fork in the road again.

(End of this chapter)