Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 103 NO.0066: Warehouse

With the sound of fire and explosion coming from a distance, Booker stopped his footsteps.

"What happened over there?"

He looked in that direction and frowned.

Nothing happened, just a depth 4 adjuster, fighting a malicious program marked as high threat.

Looking at the two red dots that were entangled on the activity map, Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

It's a pity that he couldn't tell Booker this information.

"Would you like to see it?"

So he asked.

Regarding this, Booker hesitated for a while, seeing that the continuous explosion and roar were getting farther and farther away from their destination, and finally he said:

"Forget it... let's give priority to this goal."

Malicious programs have a virus-like nature. In the abyss dark web, different malicious programs erode each other, and it is not uncommon to upgrade and iterate itself.

Since they have more important goals right now, there is really no need to get involved.

At this moment, there was another explosion, and the violent shock wave shattered the windows around them. At the same time, a stream of blazing ions that looked like a dragon's breath suddenly lit up in the distance. It is like a paintbrush dipped in paint, painting a flowing bright red trace on the buildings along the way.

Is this the intensity of depth 4?

Looking at the devastating destructive power, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but gasped in his heart.

Originally, he had already estimated in an outrageous direction, but he still didn't expect that the opponent's strength was even more terrifying than his worst imagination.

Although I have heard of the Cerberus path, which is the adjustment direction of the special type of heavy fire annihilation battle, but this expressiveness is really too exaggerated...

Also, the three-meter-high figure of Aconitum-23 is indeed tall and mighty compared to humans. But as a weapon of war, its load may not be too big... So, how did the other party squeeze such a strong firepower into it?

Forget it, it's better not to try to understand it with your common sense from a hundred years ago.

After all, it is dark web technology...

Instead of digging into the dead end on this issue, Jiang Zhou immediately suggested:

"Then how about we go around there?"

With the destructive power displayed by the opponent, it is better to stay as far away as possible.

"good idea."

Booker, who was also a little startled, nodded.

Immediately, the two tacitly bypassed the two avenues and followed a more tortuous but safer route to the "Warehouse of Theseus".

On the way, Jiang Zhou once again looked back at the battlefield not far away.

On the event map, the road leading to Theseus' warehouse is now unimpeded—the previous malicious program marked as "high threat" has been completely restrained by Aconitum-23.

Mr. Aconitum-23, thank you very much.

He sincerely thanked the distance.

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The fiery wind blowing with the smell of burning metal, Aconitum-23 tore off a piece of completely damaged armor on his shoulder, and threw it on the road that was still glowing dark red like charcoal.

"What the hell is this..."

Seeing the wreckage shattered like glass not far away, Aconitum-23 couldn't help cursing.

In the end, he still succeeded in smashing the "Crystal Globe" to pieces.

It's just that he also paid a big price for this-some price that he should never have to pay at the depth 2 position.

The damage rate of its own body structure reaches 28%. Even if all the redundant parts are used for repair, many functions of the body will still be offline in the end.

For example, the damage to the vector injector behind him made him lose his ability to maneuver at supersonic speed...

In addition, the fuel in the heart of the reactor is only 30% left. And because the heat dissipation circulation device was damaged, the maximum output also dropped by more than 50%.

As for the live ammunition weapons that were fully loaded before... now there are only less than 10% left.

Even with the most optimistic estimate, his current combat power is less than a third of what it was in its heyday.

Is he still abusing food at public expense at depth 2?

After assessing his own damage, Aconitum-23 couldn't help but doubt.

It's not just these consumptions - in the previous battle with that guy, if I didn't realize something was wrong at the end, I would directly use the stored live ammunition weapons to perform a saturation attack of clearing the inventory. Maybe, the one who fell here now is himself.

Could it be that the other party is a malicious program that floated up to depth 2 from a deeper level?

Thinking of this, Aconitum-23 approached the pile of shattered wreckage, and picked up the technology blueprint dropped by the other party.

Anyway, after being destroyed, such a malicious program that the other party can fight back and forth with him, at least he can get some good printing permissions, right?

With that in mind, he clicked on the blueprint and automatically compared it to the database in the brain-computer interface.

this……

And after comparing the database, the six infrared cameras under the Aconitum-23 visor flashed a series of intense light and dark flashes—after abandoning his original face, the adjuster of the Cerberus path, Infrared cameras are often used to make expressions instead of themselves.

Constant flickering of light and dark usually means doubt and shock.

The previous thing that I couldn't defeat without using all my strength, was really just a malicious program with a depth of 2 levels?

This is judged by the level of the technology blueprint dropped by the other party - the level of that set of technology blueprint is depth 2.

Ascension path: Theseus, a full set of adjustment permissions at depth 2.

As if realizing something for a moment, all six "eyes" of Aconitum-23 "squinted".

After storing the data ball in his own memory, the red lines on his body lit up again.

Floating in mid-air, Aconitum-23 flew back in the direction it came from earlier.

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"How much do you know about the Theseus shipment?"

Walking into the warehouse, looking up at the complex three-dimensional structure that looks like a honeycomb, Booker asked.

"It's very suitable for setting up all kinds of ambushes."

Jiang Zhou answered briefly.

Knowing what Liao Qi was referring to, Booker couldn't help but smiled wryly.

Immediately, he turned to look at the long-legged carrying structure lying on the "hive", shaped like a stick insect, and said:

"Theseus Cargo has no human employees. All the business of this company is completely run by AI. However, it is said that there is a human shareholder whose true identity is unknown... 90% of the global cross-regional transportation business is controlled by Neptune. At the moment when traffic is monopolized, it is the only company that does not rely on the authority of Poseidon to carry out freight business."

In this era, the traffic problem between various human gathering points has always been an extremely troublesome thing.

Sea, land and air are troublesome.

On land, 70% of the land is polluted into dangerous bad soil. It is full of radiation, disease, and monsters falling into the uncanny valley of the mind—the death penalty has been abolished in most resettlement areas, so the maximum penalty for dementia adjustment people is exile. Over time, the bad soil has formed an extremely dangerous environment ecology.

Therefore, if there is no powerful force to escort, ordinary people will only die if they try to cross the bad soil.

As for the sky and the sea, the predatory drones and autonomous torpedoes of the nature of the Neumann machine automatic replicator blocked them. This is one of the natural disasters that poured into the base reality from the abyss and darknet. Its number is overwhelming, and it will upgrade itself every once in a while.

Even at great cost, try to wipe them out completely, but in the end, if there is even the slightest omission, they will still be numerous again.

Fortunately, these autonomous machines migrate periodically like migratory birds or schools of fish.

The Neptune Traffic Group is the only god who has mastered the laws of their "migration". It is also by virtue of this power that the god with the logo of the trident controls almost all waterways in the sky and ocean.

Even the other gods of Olympus, if they don't want to travel through the dangerous bad land, or don't want to use the expensive rail transit, they all need to buy the navigation service of the sky and sea from Neptune Transit.

But according to Booker, this Theseus freight company, which is completely operated by AI, does not need navigation services at all. Because, when they are transported across regions, those predatory drones and autonomous torpedoes will never attack the planes and ships of Theseus cargo—this may be between AI, and there is an incomprehensible human comminicate.

In short, if the Theseus Freight Company had not stipulated the upper limit of its operations at the beginning of its establishment, the poor transport capacity would not be able to undertake the bulk commodity transportation business. I am afraid that the Neptune Transportation Group, which is the god of Olympus, has long regarded it as a thorn in the side, a thorn in the flesh, and can't wait to get rid of it immediately.

Now that it has lost less than half of the market because of this, Neptune can still hold his breath.

"Aside from that, this Theseus Cargo is also a storage business, or to put it another way - a burial business. Things like radioactive waste, insane constructs, friends who accidentally get chopped up by themselves while drunk, etc. …When people want to get rid of something they can’t get rid of, they go to Theseus Freight to buy storage and then deliberately overdue.”

Booker continued while looking around.

Because Theseus Freight is completely operated by AI, in some ways it will be very serious and dead-headed. For example, if customers store items overdue, after repeated reminders that the renewal fee is invalid, they will be destroyed in a centralized manner, and the destruction will be very clean-so many gangs like to give corpses that are not easy to handle, or other things that need to be disposed of, To handle short-term storage business.

"So, do you think that the universal printer may also have been handled for storage?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

Booker nodded.

"But when the staff of the coalition government hid the universal printer, the warehouse should not have been built yet?"

Jiang Zhou questioned this.

In other words, the original circulation equipment should not have been dismantled at that time.

"But back then, Theseus Cargo had already announced its plan to enter the Nord resettlement area. If I were those government employees, I would rather deliver the universal printer to the AI."

First send it out of the resettlement area through their logistics network, and then send it back for storage after their warehouse is built.

"Then you haven't come here to look for it before?"

Jiang Zhou asked suspiciously.

"I have been here, but I found nothing... After all, AI will not break the established principles. You can't use threats or bribes to get the information you need from an AI. Here, then this beam will become bigger."

Besides, they may not be able to defeat the defense system here.

Acting so ostentatiously, I am afraid that even the information about the universal printer will be exposed.

"However, it's different now."

As Booker spoke, the Aegis module on his body began to deform, and his voice also brought reverberation.

"This is the visualization of the Theseus freight warehouse database, and the projection of the base reality... Here, we can safely use violence to obtain the information we want."