Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 769 Military AI
The central control computer of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate is now in a shutdown state. More than half of the forty indicator lights on the power control panel, which should be green under normal conditions, have turned red. This means that during the crash of the warship just now, the AI confirmed that the situation was beyond repair, and in order to protect the central control computer from damage, it activated the safety switch and actively cut off the power supply.
"Hiss... In this situation, how do we restart the central control computer?" Ke Lan asked.
Although Ke Lan had some knowledge in various fields, he had a blind spot in the knowledge of warship operation - this kind of knowledge was a military secret, and it was difficult for non-professionals in the civilian world to have access to it. Although Ke Lan later obtained extremely high authority, he had no time to study how to operate a warship at that time.
Fortunately, there is an "expert" around.
"What? You...are you asking me?" Mo Jue raised his finger and pointed at himself helplessly, "I...I'm just an ODST. Although the Hell Paratroopers are quite famous, they are actually no different from the Marines on ordinary battleships. If you ask me to fly a plane, I can barely do it, but I don't understand ..."
"I didn't ask you..." Ke Lan smiled awkwardly and patted his shoulder.
The black armor on his body automatically fell off, and he instantly turned into a three-no girl wearing a blue and white school uniform, with light blue short hair and red eyes.
“Is this the girl called… Ze Luo?” Although Mo Jue had seen Ze Luo’s ability to “transform” at will, this strange sight would still surprise people no matter how many times they saw it. “She, her ability… is she from the research institute?”
Obviously, Mo Jue regarded Ze Luo as a person with super powers "created" by the research institute.
"This girl... is she COSing Rei Ayanami? It seems that when she was attached to me just now, she was secretly reading my memory again..." Ke Lan complained in her heart, but responded to Mo Jue: "Oh, yes, yes, this is top secret. If you tell anyone, you will be silenced."
“I… I know.” Mo Jue nodded blankly, “But whether we can get out alive… is still uncertain.”
"Let's not talk about this for now. Ze Luo, do you know how to restart this thing?" Ke Lan gently kicked the power supply of the central control computer with her toes.
"If you want to restart the warship's central control computer that has cut off power due to the self-protection mechanism, it is generally necessary for the fleet's maintenance team engineers to connect the portable maintenance terminal to the central control computer and restart the central control computer through a series of complex operations. The entire operation takes between eight and sixteen hours." Ze Luo said.
Ze Luo knew much more about warships than Ke Lan. With Ke Lan's authority, she borrowed almost all the books related to warships in the military library, and even "internship-inspected" the internal structures of many warships.
With her knowledge, she can at least be considered a half-professional battleship engineer.
"But we don't have a maintenance terminal, so even if you can complete those operations, there's nothing we can do... By the way, can you conjure up a maintenance terminal?" Ke Lan asked, his eyes lighting up.
"Yes, but it's useless. Every battleship-level central control computer and the corresponding maintenance terminal have a unique identification number. If it cannot be identified, not only will the central control computer be unable to be restarted, it will also be completely locked." Ze Luo's answer directly poured cold water on Ke Lan's head.
"Then there is no other way?"
"Yes. There is another way to restart, but maintenance personnel will never use it unless it is in an extremely urgent situation." Ze Luo still maintained an expressionless look. She looked like Rei Ayanami herself walking out of the screen. Even Ke Lan couldn't help but take a few more glances at her.
No COSER can perfectly replicate the appearance and temperament of an anime character, but Ze Luo can.
"What method?" Ke Lan asked hurriedly.
"Unplug all cables from the power supply and plug them back in to force the central control computer to restart," Ze Luo said. "But this operation will generate a surge current the moment the current is turned on. The surge current generated by a large power supply like a battleship-class main control computer will be even stronger, which can easily cause irreversible damage to the device itself and the data stored inside. So the engineers in the maintenance team would rather spend hundreds or thousands of times more time than use this method."
"Isn't this just a cold restart of the computer? This repair method is just as simple and crude as the network administrator of the Internet cafe on the old earth, with no technical content...but this operation that has nothing to do with computer knowledge is a very effective method. But what I didn't expect is that the battleship-level central control computer can be played like this?" Ke Lan couldn't help but complain.
"But the surge current generated when the power of a battleship-class central control computer is instantly turned on is many times greater than that of a personal computer, so the risk of such an operation would be very high," Ze Luo continued.
"How high?"
"If you're lucky, more than half of the data will be lost; if you're not so lucky, the central control computer will be directly restored to factory settings; if you're unlucky, the entire device will be scrapped."
"But apart from this method, we have no other means, right?" Ke Lan sighed and picked up a thick and heavy cable. The cable was wrapped in a two-centimeter-thick protective sheath woven with metal wires and polymers. Under the protective sheath were thicker shielding layers and insulating layers. Under the insulating layer were hundreds of high-purity oxygen-free copper wires entangled together - the weight of the cable, which was less than two meters long at the socket, was nearly fifty kilograms.
Although the best result of a hot restart would be the loss of a large amount of data archives, this is undoubtedly Ke Lan's only option in the current situation.
He could only pray silently in his heart that the only data lost would be those insignificant and redundant data...
"Just unplug it like this? Don't we 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 shutdown mode. 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 one cable after another was unplugged, the indicator lights on the control panel went out in large numbers, until the last thickest cable was pulled out of the socket, and the row of indicator lights at the top of the control panel also went out.
"Huh..." Ke Lan let out a long sigh and looked at the nearly one hundred cables on the ground. Fortunately, he and Ze Luo both had almost abnormal memories, otherwise they would not be able to match these cables with their respective sockets one by one.
"The connection job is left to you. There are so many cables, and you have to plug them all in at the same time. Apart from the tentacle monster, you are the only one who can do it." Ke Lan said to Ze Luo.
"Yeah." Ze Luo responded, but did not take any action. Instead, he walked behind Ke Lan, put his arms around Ke Lan's waist, and then rested his forehead on his back.
Before Ke Lan could say anything, the girl in school uniform disappeared, and a pure black close-fitting armor appeared on Ke Lan again.
"Are you planning to let me do it by myself?" Ke Lan gave a helpless bitter smile. Ever since Ze Luo attached himself to the armor state, he seemed to like this state.
But didn't this girl say before that she wanted to experience what it's like to be a human? Is she tired of playing and planning to change the way she plays?
Although he is not yet proficient, Ke Lan has already mastered the use of spatial power - Ze Luo's power and his time-stopping ability are completely the same, and the feeling of using them is almost the same.
Nearly a hundred invisible hands appeared out of thin air, grabbed the connectors of the cables and lifted them up.
From Mo Jue's perspective, this scene looked a bit like a supernatural story: nearly a hundred cables seemed to come alive, straightening their bodies like pythons, with the snake heads (that is, the interfaces) suspended in mid-air, searching for their hunting targets (the corresponding sockets on the power supply).
Only after the connector of each cable was matched to the corresponding socket did Ke Lan wave his hand and instantly plug all the cables in at the same time.
With Ze Luo's spatial ability, he could completely interfere with the surge current and ease it to the point where it could not cause damage to the central control computer... But Ke Lan couldn't do that, because this restart method relied on the impact of the surge current to forcibly activate the central control computer in the shutdown state. If the impact of the surge current was weakened, resulting in insufficient "stimulation", then the purpose of restarting could not be achieved at all.
A low roar was heard coming from inside the power supply. More than forty indicator lights on the control panel kept flashing back and forth between red and green. The surveillance screen covering the entire bridge began to flash. In addition to the surveillance footage of the battleship's exterior, a large amount of data and UI appeared on it. Densely packed translucent strings scrolled rapidly like the credits at the end of a movie.
“Buzz…”
After a groan that lasted for twenty seconds, the power of the central control computer finally calmed down, and the more than forty indicator lights all remained fixed in the green state.
"It seems that at least we didn't encounter the worst situation." Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
"The modified version of the Shaojiang-class frigate, numbered SX-016, belongs to the special operations fleet. The battleship's central control computer has been started. Please enter the triple verification code within one minute for identity verification." A mechanical voice that could not be distinguished between male and female sounded in the bridge.
It seems that this AI still remembers that it is the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate, which means that the central control computer has not been restored to its factory state... Next, it depends on how much of the data stored in it has been preserved under the impact of the surge current.
"Start the special authority verification procedure, command code: Undead Crew Council." Ke Lan said loudly.
Three virtual screens made of holographic projections descended to Ke Lan's side, surrounding him in front and on both sides. A standard virtual keyboard appeared in front of him. The virtual keyboard, in terms of distance and height, perfectly matched Ke Lan's height. Although military AI is known for its simplicity, this does not mean that it will neglect details. In order to ensure the status of the warship operator, military AI can be meticulous in ergonomic effects and human-computer interaction.
Without hesitation, Ke Lan immediately entered a super long password of ninety-seven characters consisting of English letters, Chinese characters, numbers, and punctuation marks on the keyboard.
A red laser shot out from the top of the bridge and slowly swept over 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 completed. I am confirmed as the *th seat of the Undead Crew, codenamed [**]. The special authority verification code and biometric data are correct. Welcome, Mr. **, to the 'Shaojiang-class frigate modified version'. I am the military AI configured in the central control computer of this ship, numbered 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 this "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashed in the Gray Mist Forest, Mo Zhuorui's daughter Mo Jue was not yet an adult... And if the memories before her adulthood were implanted by the undead crew, then as a "symbiont", she should not have been born at that time...
The "Shaojiang Modified" that crashed in the Gray Fog Forest could not be connected to the Ark's network, and the database of the "Shaojiang Modified"'s central control computer could not have been updated in the past decade.
Ke Lan had only recently joined the Undead Crew Club, and his biometric data and corresponding authority level were only entered into the database after he joined the Undead Crew Club... Logically speaking, the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate would not be able to recognize his identity.
And these asterisks on the screen make people even more suspicious.
"SX-016, can you answer my questions truthfully?" Ke Lan asked the screen.
"Of course, with your authority, the ship's database will be completely open to you." The mechanical voice of difficult-to-determine gender sounded again.
"Then do you know my identity?" Ke Lan asked a question that seemed quite strange to Mo Jue.
"Sorry, sir, there is no corresponding content in the database."
"Then how did you know that I have the highest level of authority?" Ke Lan asked again.
"The ship's database only records the special permission verification method and the corresponding permission level. The identity information of all members of the Undead Crew is kept confidential. This is also to ensure that the information of the crew members will not be leaked after the ship is captured by the enemy."
"So, if another member of the crew comes, he will only see this bunch of asterisks?"
"Yes." The AI answered truthfully.
"When was the last time you connected to the Ark network and updated the database with information related to your permission level?"
