Abyssal Wanderer

Seeing this, Jim breathed a sigh of relief - her previous reassurances tended to bring about inappropriate emotional coping modes. And such a humorous and shameless answer by myself can pour cold water on the other person's emotions and make the other person feel that he is a bastard not worth saving.

Jim felt that he already owed her a lot, and he didn't want to owe her more in the future because of emotional reasons.

On the other side, after hearing Wang Ying's assurance, Hanel crossed her fingers and thought for a long time, and finally she said:

"Can I hear what makes you think the breaking point in the case is on the tenth floor?"

Wang Ying looked at Jim, who shrugged and said:

"Like any other investigation, one clue leads to the next, one witness leads to another..."

Then he raised a finger and pointed at the clear sky light in the dome.

"In the end, as always, the arrow of evil points higher, to those protected by high walls, not to..."

"underground."

Hanel added for him.

Jim nodded.

"It's a very inflammatory rhetoric, but it amounts to saying nothing at all."

Hanel commented.

"Confidentiality is also a part of the investigation. Being in your position, I believe you can understand what I said... I want to drag those guys at the top to go to hell with me. They now have a more convenient and faster plan. "

Jim is referring to the geothermal power station in Icarus's hands - a device held by Booker that can perish together.

Hanel's movements stopped for a moment, but as usual, Jim was unable to read any additional information from the other party's representational topology. It's like what she wanted to say was what she said, and there wasn't more subtle emotion beneath it.

Then she fiddled with the graphic device of the passport again.

"If I pass, it will bring a lot of risks to you, Officer Wang Ying, and me. In addition, I'm afraid I will continue to stick to my previous point of view, and you will take such risks to join forces on the tenth floor. No clues can be found."

She said so.

As the words fell, a piece of Hanel's private message unfolded in front of Jim's eyes.

[This is different from my previous commission. You should go underground now, not here]

Previously, Hanel hoped that he could penetrate into the interior of Icarus and investigate the infiltration of the "Orpheus Secret Cult" and the shadow of the goddess of the moon after that.

Although he understood that there was no relationship between Icarus and the Orpheus Cult, Jim originally planned to go to Booker initially.

After all, Icarus also has a universal printer in his hands, and compared to the one on the tenth floor, he can use his identity as "Paradox" to easily get Booker to agree to let Jim use the printer.

But what Jiang Zhou saw in the Eden Domain changed Jim's mind.

Hanel may be fake, and he may be fake as well - in the past twenty years, what has really been controlling their bodies may just be a "doppelgänger" created by Apollo creatures.

The real "Jim Leiter" may be the police detective who is in reincarnation, but now he is just a suture monster with Jiang Zhou's soul in Jim's body, still stubbornly insisting on calling himself this body. name.

But no matter what, at least my body is not controlled by some "evil doppelganger" at the moment.

But what about Hanel in front of him?

Before he knew whether the "evil doppelganger" was far away from him, he could not follow the other party's instructions to go to the Icarus Liberation Front and use the multi-purpose printer in their hands.

It is the heart of Icarus, and Jiang Zhou cannot afford to lose it.

Thinking of this, Jim looked at Hanel in front of him, at this person who was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, and said directly:

"I have my own opinions and information channels about the case itself. I'm afraid I will trust my own investigation more than the suggestions you make."

He didn't reply to the encrypted message, as if it didn't exist.

Hanel just looked at him. After a while, the pass in her hand lit up green.

"If you must insist so much."

After speaking indifferently, her projection disappeared from their field of vision like a ghost.

Wang Ying next to her looked at the dissipating figure for a long time. Finally, she looked at Jim with some confusion and said:

"Shouldn't she be saying this to me?"

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"Without the cloud service of Vista Intelligent Control, it is difficult to rely solely on local servers to handle the city management system. If we have to allocate twelve basic units of bandwidth for you to search for so-called suspicious persons, then the security of our city will be The situation will fall back to the level of ten years ago..."

In the tenth-floor political hall of the Nord Resettlement Area, the projections of citizen representatives floated on their seats like ghosts.

A middle-aged man with a beard who was extremely well-dressed looked at the man on the podium in the center of the hall and said emotionally.

"And we're here to solve that problem."

The leader on the podium is an old lady who is reminiscent of an eagle. The sign in front of her reads: Commissioner Bai. On the chest of this old lady, there is the coat of arms of the "Human Intelligence Ethics Supervision Committee".

Before the citizen representative could finish speaking, she raised her claw-like hand and interrupted:

"The reason why Olympus Enterprises has suspended their cloud services is because a malicious program from the Abyss Dark Web is entrenched in your LAN and has broken through the restrictions of the Styx Firewall. If we cannot remove it If the horse you are riding on is found, you will always be in the predicament of insufficient calculation power."

The citizen representatives in the audience obviously did not believe this rhetoric.

"What about the current security situation? Due to the influence of the Icarus Liberation Front, the entire resettlement area is now filled with vicious crimes. Even the citizen representative, the respected Dalí Sage, was assassinated!"

Someone in the audience shouted.

Security in the city is one thing, but having your own life threatened is another.

"I have put my best guards in charge of all key nodes in the security of the tenth floor. I can guarantee that tragedies like Mr. Dalí Sage will not happen again."

Commissioner Bai said, looking at the 3D projection of the woman next to him.

The latter immediately stood up and said:

"Nowadays, my 'echo' is responsible for reviewing the list of entry and exit security checks on the tenth floor. If you feel that even an adjuster from Narcissus Path Depth 3 cannot guarantee your safety, then I think you may need more Worrying that the 'Big Thunder' will fall on you one day - this possibility is much greater than Icarus' assassins sneaking into the tenth floor."

Héloïse Haenel said. (End of chapter)