Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 102 NO.0065: The Gatekeeper

Coincidentally, in the team on the other side, Aconitum-23 also chose the Theseus warehouse as the location for them to place the guiding beacon.

"After all, you are most familiar with the terrain there, aren't you?"

Walking at the head of the queue, Aconitum-23 said so.

Hearing what he said in a joking tone, the expressions of 136 and the others suddenly darkened.

At the beginning, they were besieged in Theseus' warehouse. It was also there that I saw with my own eyes that my comrades-in-arms who had been with me day and night fell beside me one after another. And in the end, he was captured there in humiliation, and was taken to the company as consumables for salvaging darknet technology, living on his last breath.

There are so many places suitable for deploying induction beacons, it is obvious that Aconitum-23 chose to insult them on purpose.

Faced with such an insult, Jiang Zhou noticed that the ceramic steel claw blades buried in 136's forearms all popped out.

Seeing this, Qian Xiaying at the side hurried forward and pressed his shoulder.

"Calm down, B6..."

she said softly.

"It's okay, you can do what you want."

And Aconitum-23 said sarcastically.

"To be honest, I kind of hope that you will try this, just to add some fun to my outing... You know, although I have received orders to take you back safely, if you do it yourself If you die, it's another matter."

When he said this, he didn't even look back.

And the breathing sound of Black Falcon-136 became obviously thicker.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou also stepped forward and pressed 136's arm, shaking his head at him.

If it's really head-to-head, facing an adjuster with a depth of 4, even if they go together, they can't even make up a 1% winning rate. There is no need to lose their lives for this moment of anger.

"I see……"

After waiting for a long time, 136 slowly lowered his head, and said in a low voice:

"Senseless sacrifices are meaningless."

Then, he turned to look at the two people beside him:

"Don't worry, I won't mess around."

Seeing this, both of them lowered their hands.

Jiang Zhou let out a long breath of relief.

To be honest, he often feels very tired when he forms a team with such an overly idealistic person.

Although this kind of person will be able to generate cohesion in the team, it will make other people gather unconsciously. But it is often this kind of person who will sing all the way and lead the entire team into an irreversible abyss.

Personally, Jiang Zhou admires their ideals and action. But if he really works together, he still prefers to be with someone with a flexible style like Booker.

After all, he never thought of himself as an idealist—even if sometimes others would give him such an evaluation. But only he knows, that is his most rational choice.

Just the most rational choices, often seem the craziest.

Probably because it didn't have the expected insulting effect, Aconitum-23 said with a "tsk":

"I thought you guerrillas would be more bloody. I think back when we were in the Luxor resettlement area..."

He probably wanted to talk about his "glorious history" of suppressing other resistance organizations in the past-after all, Cerberus was born to do this-but he stopped suddenly after he started.

It was as if a hunter heard something in the forest.

After a few seconds, he said softly:

"It looks like our first guest is coming."

As he spoke, dark red lines suddenly appeared on his armor.

"A warm reminder, if you don't want to die, you all stand back... Then, let's have a good experience of Cerberus' fighting style."

The three-meter-tall metal giant said excitedly.

But Jiang Zhou, who had been following behind him, had a twitch in his eyes.

He checked the activity map, and at this moment he did see a high-threat target marked in red, approaching them.

But according to the marks on the map, the thing was at least several kilometers away from them.

In other words, the perception distance of Aconitum-23 to high-energy targets can reach a distance of several kilometers.

Jiang Zhou silently remembered this in his heart—at this moment, he had to collect all the combat information that he might use later.

On the other side, as the dark red lines on Aconitum-23's body lit up, he floated up ignoring gravity.

Immediately, the armor behind him deformed rapidly, and several vector injectors hidden under it lit up one by one.

The flame tail gradually changes from red to yellow and finally blue.

then……

"Whoosh!"

Accompanied by the sound of breaking through the air, the Aconitum-23 that had been floating in mid-air disappeared in an instant, leaving only a few straight tracks.

The speed was so fast that Jiang Zhou's naked eyes couldn't catch it.

"How about it, are you still planning to kill him now?"

Looking up at the gradually dissipating flight trails, Qian Xiaying suddenly turned to look at 136 and asked.

And the expression on the latter's face is still gloomy—since this second dive, his expression has not changed.

After hesitating for a long time, Black Falcon-136 shook his head and said:

"It's not the time yet, let's observe and observe..."

Facing an adjuster who can fly and break through the sound barrier, it's useless even if you observe it with a microscope...

Jiang Zhou couldn't help complaining in his heart.

To be honest, even if he teamed up with Bu Keliaoqi to have a righteous three-on-one, he didn't have the confidence to win the opponent.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou once again focused on the activity map of the eye movement interface.

At this moment, the mark symbolizing Aconitum-23 is almost in contact with that high-threat unit.

And the location where they came into contact happened to be not far from the main entrance of Theseus' warehouse.

…………

A structure composed of five blue concentric crystal rings, like a celestial globe, is floating slowly and firmly.

And this strange guy is the target of Aconitum-23's trip—his high-energy sensing radar detected the radiation reaction of this malicious program at a distance of five kilometers.

[Threat Assessment: Minor]

And the moment he saw the malicious program, the Delphi oracle system embedded in Aconitum-23's brain judged the threat level of the other party.

There is actually a slight degree?

This made Aconitum-23 feel a little surprised.

Theoretically speaking, with his strength, at depth 2, as long as he is not surrounded by malicious programs with an absolute superiority in numbers; or if he is not lucky enough to encounter a malicious program that rises to this depth, it is basically impossible to encounter danger. .

Even if it's a slight degree, it shouldn't be...

After all, compared to depth 2, depth 4 is simply a dimensionality reduction blow in terms of performance.

As for why the deep dive salvage industry doesn't send high-depth adjusters to harvest in the low-depth abyss and dark net?

That is because, the existence of high-depth adjustment person will create a great burden on the base-construction procedure of the low-depth deep submerged chamber.

From a theoretical point of view, it is not impossible for highly modified adjustment personnel to harvest printing permissions at a shallow level. But if it is calculated from the perspective of actual income, this will greatly increase the cost of salvage.

Anyway, there are so many low-level adjusters, and they themselves are socially unstable factors, so it's better to give them such a good place to dive deep and salvage. This can not only drain their energy, but also steadily weed out some unlucky ones, and maintain a relatively stable number of folk adjusters.

In addition, start the propaganda machine, and promote those guys who have become legends by roaming the abyss to the altar. In this way, the folk abyss wanderers who dream of being able to surpass the limit of human intelligence to become a "city of one man" like those mercenary kings will grow like leeks, and they will never be cut.

Therefore, the current model not only maintains the high mortality rate of the abyssal roamer profession, but also greatly reduces the cost of the deep-diving salvage industry—anyway, those folk abyssal roamers go voluntarily, with high risks and high rewards , The dead company doesn't even need to pay pensions.

Also because of this, like Aconitum-23, there are not many cases where it can dive to depth 2 to abuse vegetables at the level of depth 4.

There is nothing wrong with saying that this is public funds.

The speedbrake on the body was deployed instantly, and the vector injectors on the front also flashed together, and Aconitum-23 stopped abruptly not far from the malicious program.

"Om—"

The structure composed of five concentric rings of dark blue crystals also stopped after causing the air to resonate.

"You guy, do you have a personality interface? If you have something, say a few words... After all, I prefer killing to destroying."

After stopping suddenly in mid-air, Aconitum-23 asked with interest.

"Om—"

What responded to him was a wave of air visible to the naked eye, and the windows around the street were instantly shattered. And among the five crystal rings that the opponent kept changing, the two outermost ones overlapped on the same plane.

However, for Aconitum-23 with such a shock, he couldn't even make him move.

[Detected... Detected...]

An inorganic voice seemed to come from all directions of Aconitum-23.

[The upgrader of the Cerberus path was detected, no key authority, non-access object, threat level 3...4, non-access object]

[Warning, you have entered the identification area, please leave if you are not an access target]

[Otherwise, the garrison system will be activated and the authority to clear it will be obtained]

"Identification area? What identification area?"

Seeing this, Aconitum-23, who originally planned to take out the "Hell's Breath" melta weapon, paused its movements.

he asked curiously.

[Portal identification area, non-target objects are not accessible, for your survival, please visit after obtaining the access key]

The construct replied thus.

Portal identification area?

This answer made Aconitum-23 thump in his heart.

As we all know, in the abyss darknet, the word "portal" is most often used to describe "universal printer".

Dare to feel that I really found something good this trip?

Thinking of this, he stopped talking nonsense. He directly raised his left arm, and the armor covering it came off one after another, revealing the melta gun hidden inside.

The inside of the barrel was as hot as the throat of a hellhound, and it let out a low growl of "hissing" - that was the sound of the beam evaporating water in the air.

Breath of Hell - Few things can survive the horrific heat of this subatomic reaction.

However, at this time, the opponent also moved.

Four of the construct's five crystalline rings turned to the same plane at the same time.

And the color of the ring instantly turned into a fiery red.

The Delphi oracle system in Aconitum-23's mind changed its threat assessment for the opponent at this moment.

[Threat Assessment: Dangerous]