Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 165 NO.00a4: Burning Branches

"...That's all I want to say, you can go back."

After finishing with this sentence, Booker is disconnected and left the cyberspace where the paradox is located.

The scene of the lonely wasteland and the broken city gradually faded, and he returned to his body, taking over the visual signal of the prosthetic eye once again.

At this moment, he is still in the warehouse of Theseus, but because of the time he talked with Mr. Paradox earlier, neither the universal printer nor the array of drones trying to intercept them have long gone up.

He was left alone, alone in the same place.

As for the previous "Planetarium", it also disappeared before his eyes.

Seeing this, Booker immediately retrieved the driver of the prosthetic body. Then he discovered that, just as Mr. Paradox said, the malicious program had already been dormant in his own firewall at this moment, becoming a part of it.

Yes, Mr. "Paradox" did not destroy it, but completely took over its authority and used it for his own use.

Or to put it another way-he turned it into a collar that was locked around his neck as a punishment.

As long as Mr. Paradox is willing, He can activate this malicious program at any time and turn it into a bomb that can be detonated.

Thinking of this, Booker seemed to feel his stomach that no longer existed began to convulse.

However, even the news that a "digital bomb" was installed in his mind was not the most important part of the whole thing.

he thought.

"This 'gatekeeper' is connected to the 'gateway' you opened earlier, and behind that 'gateway', there is a 'road' leading to the 'upper realm'."

These are the exact words of Mr. Paradox.

And dismantling the idiots that these darknet AIs are used to, and extracting the real meaning from the metaphors they refer to, the real meaning of these words is also very simple-this universal printer is actually a deep dive interface!

After reaching this conclusion, Booker instantly became refreshed.

This is a complete deep dive interface!

Although it is unclear which level it is, even the lowest level delta-level deep diving interface is something that ordinary people can't imagine under the current situation where the Olympus order is completely monopolized—it's as if you can't imagine it on the Internet. For centuries, there have been civilians who have privately held tactical nuclear weapons.

Regarding the control of universal printers, the Olympus order can be said to be relatively laissez-faire. As long as the organizations or individuals who hold them do not openly confront the system governed by the entire company, they will often turn a blind eye and ignore those low-depth darknet technologies flowing in the market.

But if you have a "deep dive interface", it is another matter of nature.

The "Deep Dive Interface" is called "burning branch" inside the fire stealer, implying the branch with the flame of enlightenment that Prometheus brought to mankind.

The gods who live high on the mountain have no objection to the heroes flowing with the blood of the gods fighting each other in the mortal world-they even regard it as a landscape to appreciate, or as a pawn in the game between each other.

After all, in the final analysis, those powers are just what they left behind intentionally or unintentionally. As long as the supply at the source is controlled, no matter how those "folk people" jump around, they will be under control.

However, they can't bear any "flame" falling into the hands of mortals-because even for Olympus companies, the abyss and dark web are uncontrollable forces.

After the establishment of the Olympus order, any forces or individuals who hold the "deep dive interface" are discovered, and there are only two endings waiting for them-either they are destroyed by the power of thunder, or they are included in the In the ruling order of the company, absorption becomes a part of it.

When the "Fire Thief" organization was at its most glorious, they even held a β-level deep-diving interface like those "one-man cities" in later generations. But after the end of the third cyber domain war, the "burning branch" in their hands had a γ-level deep-diving interface left on the surface.

But it is the resource supply of this γ-level interface that maintains most of their current power in the base reality.

And now, a deep dive network interface is in his hands...

Booker tried his best to restrain the excitement in his heart—he maintained a stealthy state, and accelerated his pace of leaving the warehouse.

According to common sense, after obtaining the deep dive interface, I should report it to my superior immediately and take it back to the fire thief. But right now, he wants to keep it in the Nord resettlement area, in the hands of the "Icarus Liberation Front".

After all, this was originally what belonged to them...

Booker thought.

Moreover, after I use these suffering and struggling rebels, I have to leave a reasonable compensation for their efforts and sacrifices, right?

After determining this direction, he gradually had an idea in his mind.

Wait until this task is completed and I want to leave. He handed over the right to use the deep diving interface to Liao Qi, and at the same time developed him into a peripheral member of the Fire Stealer—and himself as Liao Qi's connector.

In this way, Icarus became an outlying organization of the "Fire Thief", and "Burning Branch" did stay inside the organization-although this was somewhat suspected of taking advantage of loopholes, but the two sides he established The oath was indeed not broken.

That is, I don't know if Liao Qi is willing to take on this responsibility again...

Booker couldn't help sighing—he always felt that he had put too much pressure on that young man. Make the other party like a chess piece being manipulated by an impatient chess player, without the slightest control over his own destiny, and can only keep moving forward under his own flickering.

But this is something that can't be helped, after all, there is too little time left for him, he has no way to guide step by step, he can only coax and trick the ducks into the shelves.

Fortunately, Liao Qi's will, understanding, and sense of responsibility are strong enough.

And when he thought of Liao Qi, the task that Mr. "Paradox" had assigned to him earlier came back to Booker's mind.

Being able to enter the "Narcissus Plain" and build a city, no matter how he did it, this shows that "paradox" is by no means an ordinary dark net AI. In the face of such an existence, the biggest strength of the "Fire Thief" organization - the headquarters hovering inside the Styx Firewall, to the other party is nothing more than a candle flickering in the wind, which can be extinguished with a hand.

Therefore, he doesn't care that his existence is known by the "fire stealers", because they have no effect on him.

What he cared about was that because of Booker's leak, another "tested" Liao Qi was exposed to danger.

Therefore, He asked Booker to keep "Liao Qi" safe in the base reality—at least until he grew to a certain level.

However, this also indirectly shows that the ability of paradox to interfere with the basic reality is still quite limited.

Luckily so...

After getting this task, Booker was relieved in his heart.

Firstly, even if Mr. "Paradox" did not ask for it, this is what he would do; secondly, if Paradox can even have such a strong interference ability in the basic reality, then Booker can only think that "paradox" "On" is like "Janus", a super artificial intelligence that has reached the "singularity".

In any case, let's temporarily close this deep dive interface first.

After leaving the "Theseus Warehouse", Booker lifted his stealth state and took to the sky, then rushed to the temporary combat command center where the hacker team was located without stopping.

On the way, he sent a message to Liao Qi on the encrypted channel.

【Liao Qi, are you there? Something happened to me just now that you will never believe...]

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"That is to say, in addition to you old thing, I have to be with you..."

After listening to the conversation between the two darknet AIs, Christie frowned and looked at Hecate, the goddess of the moon, and couldn't help but speak.

"Be careful with what you say, child. This lady is different from me. She has sunk all the way from the supreme world to this point, but she has an etiquette circuit installed in the logic program. You treat her the same way you usually treat me, I don't care. I can assure you what will happen next."

Charon, whose eyes had turned into embers, immediately reminded him.

These words made Christie shut up immediately.

And Hecate spoke again at this time:

"As you can see, I and your rider have suffered considerable loss in order to set you free, so I consider myself entitled to make a claim of you.

"This request is very simple for you. After you return to the base reality, I need you to save a person's life for me..."