Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 122 NO.0079: The Fire Stealer

The boat docked, but Jiang Zhou was the only one who jumped onto the pier in the end.

Charon and Hecate, the two "persons", were still on the small boat and had no intention of getting off.

According to what they said along the way, the base construction program design of the Narcissus Plain is so special that even they cannot set foot here.

Leaving aside Charon's unfamiliarity, it's hard for Jiang Zhou to imagine that the goddess of the moon, who has the power to open all paths, can't even set foot here.

"I can't set foot here because it has been specially designed and is essentially an extension of the Firewall of the Styx River...someone intercepted the part of the Styx River and created this area."

Hecate replied to Jiang Zhou's confusion.

All malicious programs, as long as there is no horse as a medium, cannot pass through the Styx firewall.

In other words, the Narcissus Plain located on the firewall was most likely created by the Abyss Wanderer.

Jiang Zhou expressed his guess, and then got a positive answer from the other party.

According to Hecate, the Narcissus Plain is closely related to an abyssal roamer organization called "Fire Thief".

However, because of the weird time concept of these AIs, Jiang Zhou can only roughly speculate that this organization called "Fire Thief" is likely to be a group that appeared during the second cyber domain war.

Of the three domain wars, the first was an extension of the Great Shock.

The coalition government at the time focused most of its attention on dealing with the increasing intrusion of malicious programs, thus ignoring the rise of super enterprises.

Because of this, the final result of the war was the decline of the coalition government, and its real power departments have been independently corporatized—for example, Vulcan Heavy Industry, which is now one of the gods of Olympus, used to build about 70% of the resettlement area Joint Industry Ministry of Super Engineering.

The third cyber domain war is essentially a spoils-sharing conference among the twelve strongest super-enterprises. The framework of the Olympian order had already laid the foundations at that time. It's just that, although the overall situation has been determined, in many details that cannot be ignored, the twelve super companies all feel that they should get more-so the war broke out.

As for the second domain war, it may be the most brutal civil war in human history, and many historians call it the third world war.

Although it was only sixty years ago, the descriptions of that war are like ancient myths and legends - the giant of the coalition government crashed to the ground, super corporations ascended to the throne one after another, the king of free mercenaries They write legends, various new age belief groups have emerged, and malicious programs emerging from the abyss and dark web are raging like disasters...

How many legends were there in that era?

It is estimated that during the five years of the second cyber domain war, about 30% of the world's population died, which became the bloody foundation for those legends—and this death toll even exceeded the "big impact" data.

It was also only in that era that it was possible for forces other than the coalition government and the gods of Olympus to be able to create such a field on the Styx Firewall.

However, as the AIs living in the dark web of the abyss, whether it is Hecate or Charon, their intelligence on the organization "Fire Thief" is limited to knowing such a name.

All in all, my next actions will be carried out without any support.

Lack of intelligence support, because Goddess Mingyue can't understand the path; lack of off-field support, after all, I am currently on the account of "Liao Qi", and I can no longer pull people off in the name of "trial".

Perhaps the only good news is that on the Narcissus Plain, I will only encounter wanderers trapped in the abyss and dark net, and there will be no passing malicious programs running out to kill me.

In fact, it is debatable whether this is good news... After all, it is hard to say which is more malicious between humans and malicious programs.

But there is no way, if he wants to return to the basic reality, he can only agree to Charon's conditions and find his steed for him.

Jiang Zhou stepped on the creaking rotten boards on the pier and was about to leave, but Charon suddenly stopped him behind him:

"Do you remember where you are going next?"

"Narcissus Plain, look for your wandering horse."

Jiang Zhou stopped as he spoke, and took out a scroll of parchment with moth-eaten marks from his bag.

Open it, and there is a transparent screen of a data board inside - Jiang Zhou is not very clear why even if it is intelligence data given to him, it has to be made into such a nondescript appearance.

It is possible that these AIs are really busy.

"If you can find him before you die, and bring him back here. Then I swear in the name of Styx, I will save you the money to go back and forth twice, and introduce you to a seamstress." Corpseman, let him restore your brokenness."

Charon raised two fingers towards the sky and said so.

Styx, goddess of the River Styx. According to legend, even the gods cannot break the oath made in his name.

But is it so serious...

Jiang Zhou was secretly speechless.

He didn't expect that these AIs would attach so much importance to the steeds they control.

But on the other hand, although Charon didn't say what depth he was in, referring to Hecate's attitude towards him, it must not be too different from her.

And to cultivate a steed that can be controlled by him, everyone knows that with his heels, it will take a lot of time and resources.

However, after roughly reading the information about the steed, Jiang Zhou doubted whether he would continue to be Charon's steed even if he brought it out.

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On the way out of the abandoned factory, Booker has been in a state of agitation.

How many years had it been since the Icarus Liberation Front had been searching for those two universal printers?

They even thought at one point that the other two universal printers had been found by someone lucky or unlucky and sold elsewhere.

But now, I have obtained the whereabouts of one of them.

And it is also a position that is too specific to be more specific.

But at this moment, Jiang Zhou was even more excited about it.

After all, that universal printer means more to him.

Could the black coffin in the storage room of Theseus warehouse [J-0001] be a "time capsule" that made me travel through a hundred years?

Even... Jiang Zhou had some even more terrifying conjectures.

Could it be that he is just a brand-new replicator printed out by a universal printer and implanted with the memory and personality of a hundred years ago?

If this is possible, would even the memory of being the creator of "Janus" be forged directly... In history, "Jiang Zhou" did not exist at all, but A smoke bomb that Janus concocted, faked his true origin?

The more I think about it, the more outrageous it gets, so far...

He stepped on the brakes on his runaway thoughts.

After all, this mind game is pointless.

And for Jiang Zhou, even if he is really a copy of Jiang Zhou's complete memory and personality from a hundred years ago, that's fine. After all, he was willing to sacrifice his own life a hundred years ago to upload his personality and continue his life in the digital world.

Both the past and the future are difficult to control, and what people can grasp is the eternal present.

As long as I am still thinking with "Jiang Zhou" thinking, then I am real.

So the key is what you should do now.

"Is there any way we can go to Theseus' warehouse and get that universal printer out?"

Restraining his emotions, Jiang Zhou asked.

Booker, who was driving, opened his mouth, just about to say something, when suddenly his expression froze.

At this moment, in his sight, a pale countdown appeared again.

55:10:22:18

The number 18 at the end quickly jumped to 17.

However, what made his expression freeze was not the string of numbers, but the words that appeared with the numbers.

[Perseus No. 3, please report to the organization on the progress of tasks related to the Nord resettlement area within 24 hours]

【Prometheus】

I wish the college entrance examination candidates Wu Yun Changlong