Abyssal Wanderer

After Jiang Zhou finished speaking, Fanny and Qianxia Ying were both shocked.

Confirming "Mandala Password Authentication" on the brain-computer interface is essentially different from confirming "I am aware of the risks" on the computer - the latter can at most crash your computer system, while the former can actually kill you. Die yourself...or live a life worse than death.

Even if they are subjected to inhuman torture in reality, people will not easily authenticate the Mandala Code and hand over the authority of the brain-computer interface. If the person who has obtained the authority only wants the other person to have evil intentions, then in the fictional cyberspace, the term "infinite hell" will not just be a religious concept.

Or to put it another way, becoming the horse of those malicious programs is just a matter of mandala certification.

[How do you plan to get us out of the current situation...]

Hearing what Jiang Zhou said, Fanny asked hesitantly.

The answer to her question was a request for an agreement permitting data transfer. Although its destination is unknown, once agreed, the avatar program carrying her own consciousness will be transmitted to a network address that is completely outside the scope of her knowledge.

[There is no time to explain. Regardless of whether you have completed the certification or not, I will start uploading in five seconds]

Jiang Zhou said this as he looked at the Depth 4 adjuster who was gradually approaching them.

Fanny originally wanted to ask something else, but Qianxia Ying on the side said directly:

"I passed, I hope you really have a method..."

Jiang Zhou nodded slightly, and then counted down in his heart: four, three, two, one...

When he counted to "zero", he smiled slightly and activated the recall function of "City of Sages".

As if his soul had left his body, Jiang Zhou felt that he was separated from the body he had been in before. The shadowy mist held his body up, passing through three fork intersections one after another, and finally flew into the deep and vast Styx River.

At the same time, there were two new members in the visitor list of the City of Sages.

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"Hey! You three, why don't you put on your helmets and sit down as required?"

Kurt Orwell walked up to the three suspicious guys and stopped. At the same time, the cilia integrated in his "compound eyes" automatically recorded every detail of their bodies. .

It's like some kind of distributed telescope array.

Although there were many people staring at me in the entire screening room - this was normal, even in an era when prosthetic transformation had become the norm, full-body prosthetics like myself were not that common - but Several guys still looked particularly suspicious when looking at themselves.

Kurt is not an expert in micro-expression research. In fact, due to the impact of adjustments and modifications on brain areas, his ability to recognize changes in facial expressions has degraded to a certain extent - he is used to a broader and more precise vision. The emotional changes displayed by human facial expressions were as unfamiliar to him as the expressions of monkeys; but even so, he could still feel some strange inconsistency in the expressions on the faces of these three people.

The three of them were not the only ones at the scene who were unwilling to cooperate, but Kurt took the initiative to approach them.

"Sit down, put your helmet on and get inspected."

He ordered.

But even when Kurt walked in front of the family of three, Kurt still didn't dare to do anything drastic.

If the key to unlocking the "Third Last Wish" exists in one of the three of them. Then he should now have them scan another mental model snapshot as quickly and as minimally impactful as possible, and then perform a password match.

Any violent behavior that evokes strong emotions should be prohibited.

The next moment, Kurt felt something changed.

The man with East Asian appearance at the head first smiled at him, and then his expression gradually turned frightened.

"Okay... okay, we'll work together right away."

The man seemed to have changed in an instant. While pushing his wife and son back to their seats, he humbly bowed and apologized.

"I'm sorry to cause you any trouble."

He had a professional and flattering smile on his face, very much like the flattering looks of those company interns that Kurt had seen - this was the kind of subconscious reaction that people who had been in the service industry for a long time would have.

Probably because of his appearance, the child next to him looked at him and cried "Wow" loudly.

This is also a very common thing, because just like the abnormal characteristics after being parasitized or pathologically affected, humans naturally have a fear of those densely packed things on the body.

These are things written into the DNA - even if you are like me, your body is covered with millions of "eyes" that can only focus individually, transforming your body into a decentralized retina is more efficient than human eyeballs design. But for those miserable native humans, their image is still terrifying.

Because it reminds them of cysts, ulcers, or parasite eggs in the body.

Of course, that's not the problem now.

The question is, why didn't the little boy have such a big emotional reaction before?

Kurt was confused.

Just like the East Asian man in front of him who suddenly showed great respect to him, the little boy also changed from his previous vigilance and calmness to a panic reaction more suitable for his current age in the blink of an eye.

This sudden change of mood is really too abrupt.

Damn...it would be great if you could support me with an "Orps" path adjuster.

Kurt thought.

But this is not feasible. This network domain called "Eden" is not the abyss dark network territory expanded by Apollo Biology Company - it does not belong to them, but to another person from the abyss. exist.

And He only assigned an administrator position with limited power.

Nowadays, when the God King is in power and allocates and monitors all deep dive interfaces, they would never dare to run such a taboo in their own company's intranet.

Otherwise, what awaits them will be the thunderous wrath of God.

On the other side, the wife of the family of three could not help but complain:

"It's all your fault. You had to bring a light to watch this movie. It's not good for children's development to watch this kind of thing..."

While she was chattering, she knelt down and helped the child put on the sensory equipment.

Seeing this scene, Kurt didn't say anything more, he just took out the detector and stood quietly waiting.

It has always been the principle of "Third Wish Watch" to interfere with the self-operation of the "Eden Domain" as little as possible - in addition to considering the data pollution caused by the company's intervention, which affects the acquisition of passwords; by adjusting the initial parameters, we can observe The operation and interaction data of hundreds of thousands of mental models are also valuable sociological research samples for the company.

Therefore, even in this situation, Kurt allowed their actions.

And when the child was putting on the equipment and planning to sit in the immersive projector, a small episode happened.

The boy planned to just plop down into the eggshell-shaped seat like his parents did. But the first time he didn't succeed because he was too short.

His mother saw this and hugged him directly.

"really weird……"

After sitting on the seat, the boy said doubtfully:

"It wasn't like this just now...Am I getting shorter?"

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The image of the current City of Sages has changed enough compared to the broken city before.

This is not Jiang Zhou's fault - he has never had any aesthetic appreciation for architectural art, and originally planned to build the City of Sages into a minimalist futuristic style.

Of course, a hundred years later, it should belong to the classical style.

However, when he and Hecate were interrogating the director of Pluto Deep Dive, the latter helped him transform the place into a neoclassical city that blended Greek art style, and also added mist particle effects. , as well as shadowy ghosts and black dogs in the fog.

To be honest, Jiang Zhou didn't know whether it was just a background special effect or something else.

And besides that, there is...

"where is this place?"

Fanny looked around nervously, then looked at Jiang Zhou beside her and stepped back a short distance.

"Mist and Black Dog..."

On the other side, Qianxia Ying, who was staring at Jiang Zhou, said with a look of sudden realization:

"Similar to our last dive, is this the dormitory of the being who helped you?"

Being asked... or questioned like this, Jiang Zhou didn't think of an answer for a while.

After all, this was not something he had planned. He had not made any similar plans before.

And just then...

"Ladies, as well as our lord's allies, please let me take you to rest here."

A voice sounded from behind them, and an elegantly dressed, exotic woman nodded respectfully towards them.

As she spoke, she smiled apologetically at Jiang Zhou and said:

"Of course, please forgive me for going too far, if you allow me."

After all, Jiang Zhou is the master of the City of Sages - this point is bound to him by the existence suspected of "Janus". Jiang Zhou doubts that even the goddess of the dark moon can relieve this point.

Jiang Zhou nodded.

"We need your wisdom, Lady Hecuba."

Hecuba - the "Anonymous" who was summoned by the goddess of the moon to preside over the ceremony during the trial of Aeacus, the director of Pluto Deep Diving Company.

Hecate promised to give it a name after the trial. Later, Hecuba was given the name "Hecuba" - the Queen of Troy. Legend has it that after the destruction of Troy, she couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide by jumping into the sea. Hecate turned her into a black dog out of pity and kept her company.

Of course, Hecate's "name-giving" is far more complicated than it seems on the surface - it involves user name registration on the abyss dark web, unlocking access rights, and a series of other things. The name Hecuba is just to make them People on these clients can have code names.

But anyway, after that, Hecate let her stay in the "City of Sages" to serve as the builder and steward here...or as a monitor for herself?

Jiang Zhou sometimes feels this way. (End of chapter)