上海梦想 精彩片段：
Chapter 61
Caldwell and Mei Lin were just three blocks away from the No. 455 Military Hospital at No. 388 Huaihai Road. They had rushed to the Peace Hotel on The Bund, checked in and deposited their luggage. Caldwell had spent a long time looking at his face in the bathroom while Mei Lin made some phone calls. He looked much healthier even though he was tired. He longed for the familiarity of capsule memory foam. Some of the lines on his face were gone and the bags below his eyes had diminished to shadows. He almost looked normal. He had returned to the room to find Mei Lin checking the Glocks they had bought from the obnoxious kid Mozi in Zhongguancun. That was the beauty of diplomatic bags. You could bring practically anything you wanted into the country, short of an armored tank.
“Do we really need these?” Caldwell had asked.
“Let’s hope not. Yet, if you are right, this AI has to be stopped at all cost. You hack into the system and we transmit the hack to Fouler. Then it’s up to him. You would have fulfilled your end of the bargain and you get your past back. He can decide what he wants to do at that point and aggregate the resources to do it,” Mei Lin had said looking at him intensely.
“Sure.”
In the recent excitement Caldwell had all but forgotten about that. He was very close to regaining that which had been unfairly taken away from him and he wasn’t anywhere near cutting Fouler any slack for what he had done to him. Caldwell thought about Kat, all the way back there in London. The Union, Angel and Waterloo Bridge seemed like a distant memory. He wondered what Kat was doing at this moment. She had probably spent most of her time in Glyph’s trailer overdosing on movies.
They walked purposefully down tree-lined Huaihai Road. It was close to midnight. The department stores and shops had long closed and the daytime crowds had thinned to a trickle of mostly young people heading home from late dinners or karaoke and night owls heading out for a night on the town.
“Be careful in there Cad. This is very likely a rogue outfit of the PLA we are dealing with and they’d probably stop at nothing to protect their secret,” Mei Lin said, giving him that funny look again.
“Yes. You too.”
“So, what’s the plan of action once we get in there?” Mei Lin asked.
“We somehow have to find those servers. I am sure we’ll recognize them when we see them unless they have some kind of server farm made up of identical Sun machines. Given the fact that this is so top secret, it is very likely that if there is a backup of the AI, it is located on the other server. We need to somehow gain operator access to the network and relay that to Fouler.”
“You make it sound so easy.”
“That’s the easy part, relatively speaking.”
“The parameters have changed somewhat since we last had a long talk,” Mei Lin said seriously.
“What do you mean the parameters have changed?”