Abyssal Wanderer

"Your usual business must be very good."

Early the next morning, Donata walked out of the living room on her plush slippers. After seeing the champagne bottles placed on the coffee table, she couldn't help but sigh:

"Champagne and breakfast early in the morning are not such a luxury at my house."

In this regard, Jim had no intention of explaining to her that he had been up all night. He just threw the large bag of clothes to her from the side.

"Put on this later and then go out with me."

Donata reached out to catch the large bag of clothes, and then asked:

"Where to go?"

"The seventh floor above ground, where your crazy Uncle Jin last saw a mind adjuster."

Jim replied.

According to Anthony, that crazy cyberpsycho "Jin" has never installed the Depth 3 adjustment modification "Pegasus".

So as a quasi-depth 3 adjuster, the only place where he could be unknowingly installed this thing while losing consciousness is probably the mental adjuster.

Donata nodded in understanding, and then touched the package in her hand - after seeing clearly what was inside, the vaguely expectant expression on her face instantly turned into disappointment.

"Floral dress! How come your aesthetic is different from mine..."

Donata was about to complain that Jim's aesthetics were the same as those of her old-fashioned father, but mid-sentence, she stopped when she realized what she was talking about.

Biting her lower lip, she tucked the bag of clothes under her arm and walked to the bathroom without saying a word.

This is a common thing - when someone close to you is gone, people will always think of details like this. A trivial and inconsequential detail, like an inconspicuous stain on the wall.

But it’s always the details that make people uncomfortable.

[Yes, I bought it like this on purpose]

Jim said this before Chen Wang asked.

By empathizing with Anthony in his own memory, Jim can easily deduce what style of clothes the other person usually buys for his daughter.

【Why? 】

In this regard, Chen Wan couldn't help but ask.

[Let her have an outlet to vent her emotions. She is the kind of person who will unknowingly push herself to the edge of the cliff without being reminded]

Jim raised his head slightly and relieved the pressure on his neck.

【how about you? 】

Chen Wan asked for no reason.

【What am I? 】

Jim asked rhetorically.

[Listen, brother, I know I'm just a rookie in this area, so I was originally going to stay silent and watch silently. But since you met that woman, something has changed in your state... Of course, I haven't known you long, so maybe this is your usual state, but...]

【I'm in good condition】

Jim shook his head and replied:

[Just seeing an acquaintance who should have died twenty years ago. In this crazy era, this is probably not a strange thing... As far as I know, there are no less than five ways to do it]

If I must say it, the fact that Jim was resurrected together with the First Deep Diver is even more outrageous.

[I'm not worried about this... Strictly speaking, I am also a ghost who has risen from the dead]

In this regard, Chen Wan said half-jokingly, and then he continued:

[But I have no intention of discussing the so-called cybernecromantic witchcraft with you... Even I can see that your old sweetheart, the girl named Hanel, has a problem, and it's a big problem]

Jim straightened up with difficulty and asked:

[It’s rare that we can agree on the same issue, but I still want to ask, how did you see it? 】

I can see the weirdness in Hanel, mainly because I have spent four years of close intimacy with him. In the past twenty years, Jim has deduced more than once what kind of character the other person might be if she were alive.

There are many conclusions to this kind of thought game, but none of them are like today, still maintaining the same character for twenty years - at least the performance shown, maintaining the same character.

But for Chen Wan, who met Hanel for the first time, how did he see that there was something wrong with him?

Chen Wan's answer was so simple that people couldn't help but laugh.

[Since she entered this room, she has been trying to hack into the main control computer here. Judging from the path, she probably wants to use this to try to hack into your brain-computer interface...I said always, including when she showed that pitiful look at the end]

[Not just you, she even spared Donata who was sleeping at the time, and the virus she used was extremely dangerous. If I hadn’t been patching the firewall, she might have succeeded]

The other person's expression before he finally left flashed through Jim's mind.

[Does she want to kill me? 】

he asked.

[It's hard to say...but if I guessed correctly, she seems to be planning to install a path grafting program for you. So that when you go online one day in the future, you can be pulled to a specific domain name at any time]

[Whether it can pose a life threat to you depends on what is in that domain name]

Chen Wan answered like this, and then he couldn't help but asked curiously:

[By the way, brother, what is your relationship with her? Do you two feel like you are in love with each other? 】

Regarding this question, Jim couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said:

[You have watched too many cartoons]

Then he lit himself a cigarette.

He never likes to talk about his past with others, but maybe it's because he's still hungover, or maybe it's because he needs to talk at the moment. He looked at the smoke floating in front of him and couldn't help but said:

[I wonder if you have heard of the "Skyfire Falling" incident that happened in the Eden Resettlement Area twenty years ago...]

…………

After joining the Skyfire Squad, Jim discovered that, unlike what he had imagined, this was an extremely independent offensive tactical weapon.

The existence of the "Skyfire Squad" cannot be found in any documents of the Eden Resettlement Area Government.

All traces of their existence are hidden in the government bureaucracy - funds that may have been embezzled in public infrastructure, over-reported losses in weapons warehouses, one or two intelligence lines that should have been redundant ...The above constitutes their operating budget, equipment upgrades and intelligence support.

The only way they can communicate with the Eden Resettlement Area Government is an old, non-smart phone.

A person they call the "behind-the-scenes BOSS" will contact them one-way through that phone and then delegate tasks to them.

Most of them are assassination or sabotage tasks, and those tasks are directly or indirectly related to the Apollo creatures - this is exactly what they promised at the beginning.

"It's just that I went from being used by one group of bad people to being used by another group of bad people."

Jim commented at the time.

Both the resettlement area government and the Apollo creatures are of the same species, and no one is more noble than the other.

"If I had to choose between two devils, I would choose the one with better conditions."

Regarding this choice, Hanel said:

"Because it is often weaker, it needs the help of mortals like us."

Even Jim had to admit that her perception was correct - no matter how much he disliked it.

In the first mission after completing training, the entire team of thirteen people died, with only four people left. Signing a contract with the devil did not bring them enough power to change their destiny. The devil belonging to Olympus was far more powerful than they imagined.

However, that disastrous mission eventually won a better contract for the Eden Resettlement Area. In order to quickly calm down the internal power iteration crisis caused by the assassination of political figures, Apollo Biotech obtained a supplementary contract for pollution prevention and control. , made a trivial concession.

According to big data calculations, the number of residents in resettlement areas who die from biological pollution every year has dropped by about one percent.

A redemption that is better than nothing, and no one will know, that is the contribution of the "Skyfire Team".

After the mission was over, Jim and Donata, who had escaped, looked at their "teammates" who were infected with "petrifying disease" in the trunk of the escort vehicle, and had countless bone spurs growing out of their joints and penetrating the skin. They had not seen them for a long time. say.

The assassins sent by the opponent before were lemur-type monsters that seemed to have been skinned all over - they were agile, powerful and numerous. Just being scratched by this beast will lead to irreversible infection of the virus that will calcify the ligaments and tendons in joints throughout the body.

Apollo's biological achievements in biochemical transformation are unparalleled in the Olympian order. Mass production of biological weapons has long been a feature of their company - but people who experience those biological monsters for the first time often suffer from severe PTSD.

Jim and Hanel were able to survive the attack not because of how strong they were, but simply because they were responsible for covering.

Jim kept looking back at his teammates behind him, listening to their dying breaths. At this time, Hanel, who was driving, calmed down and said:

"Maybe it will be our turn next time... We won't always be so lucky."

Jim thought the same way at the time.

However, the truth is that they were both wrong.

[We have experienced missions like that twenty times in total]

Jim said to Chen Wan.

Twenty hell-like reincarnations, sometimes the group was wiped out until only the two of them were left, sometimes more people survived. But no matter what, every mission is similarly tragic.

【Awesome! 】

Chen Wan couldn't help but sigh.

【Then what? Did you find a way to escape from that hell? 】

In response, Jim put out the cigarette in his hand, and then said:

[Then... we both had a mental breakdown and decided to die together] (End of this chapter)