Abyssal Wanderer

On a normal day, Wang Ying would have thought that the bastard was joking with her. But when the expression on the other person's face was as ferocious as a demon, his eyes were spinning crazily in his eye sockets, and when he said this sentence covered in blood, it was easy to believe that "Jim is dead".

Wang Ying swallowed and then asked:

"Then what are you?"

The other party continued to answer in a calm tone:

"I am nothing...I do not exist..."

This answer caused a chill to creep up Wang Ying's spinal cord.

Before she could continue asking, the man who had just claimed that he "doesn't exist" suddenly said as fast as a typewriter:

"In twelve seconds, the door to the printing room will open, and Héloïse Hanel, the security envoy of the Anthroposophical Ethics Supervision Committee, will come in. Ask her to take Jim Leiter to the medical treatment on the seventeenth floor of the lighthouse within two minutes. The department will provide first aid, but after my vital signs remain stable, please immediately transfer me to the Sacred Heart Hospital through the connections of the Public Security Bureau. During this period, stop all visitors to the hospital.

"Jim's blood type is type B. He needs about four units of red blood cells and 800 ml of plasma, and an injection of two units of 'Foxcon' to stabilize his vital signs. The shape of the wound on his neck requires the use of the Staff of Hermes The product's T-shaped 'sewing claw' allows for perfect sewing.

"In addition, there is a piece of paper eight meters away from you, with a simple drawing of 'Death of Orpheus' on it. You will find a chance to pick up that piece of paper later. That is important evidence. "

He said the above words in one breath without any emotion, and before Wang Ying could react from her daze, he fell to the ground as if the electricity was cut off.

"you……"

Upon seeing this, she limped over and held the bleeding wound on his neck for him.

And almost at the same moment, as the other party said, the door to the printing room opened. A woman with long flaxen hair rushed in with a dozen heavily armed security personnel.

The woman with long flaxen hair saw Jim lying on the ground as soon as she entered the door. She frowned and said to her subordinates:

"Go and see if that guy is still alive."

Seeing this, almost subconsciously, Wang Ying turned her head and looked at the place it mentioned before.

A watercolor graffiti fell there. In the painting, Orpheus was being eaten by many crazy women, looking up at the sky with a distorted expression, as if he was wailing.

…………

The message that neither belonged to him nor to Jim seemed to still linger in Jiang Zhou's mouth. But he only had time to hear the sound of the printing room door opening - before he could confirm whether it was Hanel that "he" said, his body fell into a deep shock.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou quickly opened the "Janus Program" on the eye movement interface, and Jim Leiter's name still had the green light on.

This means that even though "it" claimed that Jim was dead, at least biologically speaking, he was simply comatose.

I just don’t know whether it will be Jim himself or the evil twin brother who regains control of his body when he wakes up later...

"Speaking of which, what exactly is the thing controlling Jim's body..."

Jiang Zhou murmured.

It claims that it does not exist, and Jiang Zhou has indeed never felt the slightest bit of the other person's thoughts. Everything that happened before was like an invisible big hand controlling the puppet strings, controlling the body to perform all kinds of outrageous behaviors before.

But this is impossible. Because Jiang Zhou didn't think there was anything that could directly bypass the "Janus Program" and take over Jim's body.

Otherwise, the legacy left by Janus would be too weak.

In other words, the other party is most likely a consciousness hidden in Jim's mind, regarded by the Janus program as a part of Jim Leiter. In this way, it can completely reject Jiang Zhou's control and suggestions and carry out its own actions.

Maybe it's a dual personality or something else. And there is no doubt that he has higher authority to control his body than Jim - this may explain why Jiang Zhou was able to control Jim to do things he didn't want to do before.

The previous "Jim Leiter" may just be a callable sub-personality of the real ontology.

A thought pattern.

Similar to "Echo" produced by Narcissus Path.

As for the true face of that body...

Most likely a malicious program?

Jiang Zhou speculated.

Considering that I couldn't even detect the existence of the other party's thoughts before, maybe its thinking mode is not compatible with humans - if this is the case, then the other party is probably a malicious program with a mind index so low that it is heinous.

In this case, it can also explain why Jim Leiter is needed as a "sub-personality".

However, the final arrangement it made using language showed the characteristics of human thinking - human thinking is bound to language.

Since you can use language, it means that the other party can understand human thinking. Even if it has no personality, at least the other party should respond to itself.

So why doesn't it respond to itself at all?

Jiang Zhou fell into deep thought.

To put it bluntly, as a being from the Abyss Dark Web, it is impossible for the other party to be indifferent to the "Janus Program".

"Jiji."

A knock on the door outside the room interrupted Jim's thoughts.

"who?"

He couldn't help but interrupt his thoughts and raised his head.

"It's me, Purse Fanny...I have something to ask you."

The voice of the former director of the medical department came from outside the door.

Probably because of the matter between Jim and Hanel...

Jiang Zhou thought.

Ever since he told the team that the person he wanted to pull into the Eden Domain was Jim Leiter, Fanny had been looking for an opportunity to ask him.

Ask him if he knows anything about Hanel.

And now that it was the team's break time, she finally couldn't hold back and came over.

It just so happened that I also wanted to ask her something...

With this in mind, Jiang Zhou unlocked the door and said:

"come in."

Fanny pushed the door open and sat directly opposite Jiang Zhou. Before she could speak, Jiang Zhou said first:

"You want to ask about Jim...or Hanel, right?"

Fanny, who just opened her mouth slightly, was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"I originally thought that the reason for diving into the Eden Domain was because of my relationship with Miss Hanel, and that this entire salvage operation was a trap set up by Apollo Biology... It was an attempt by my old employer to make me fully fulfill my obligations. The non-compete agreement back then. Maybe even the fact that I was able to switch jobs to Pluto for deep diving was part of their plan."

Speaking of this, Fanny looked a little lonely.

Then she continued:

"But after you said that you could find the current Jim Leiter and bring him here... I really realized that it was probably someone behind you who planned all of this. Not only me, but also Black Falcon -136 and Qianxia Sakura, they also have secrets. Therefore, the existence behind you only allows us to come here, right?"

She said and looked at Jiang Zhou.

Jiang Zhou just responded with an enigmatic smile.

How did he know...

"So, is their real purpose the existence known as the Third Will?"

Fanny continued to ask. (End of chapter)