Abyssal Wanderer

what happened?

How could it be a riot control task force?

After the signal was cut off, Jim stared at the rolling snowflakes on the screen with a solemn expression.

Strictly speaking, the Riot Control Task Force is not a regular police department of the Sheriff's Department - it is a violent force formed by drawing highly reformed criminals from prisons. Initially, it was just a desperate move by the "tenth floor" to cut the budget of the severe prison in the resettlement area. But because it is so easy to use, this gang of thieves has now become the most commonly used toilet pusher in the hands of the resettlement area government.

The problem is that the riot control task force is often responsible for violent tasks such as assault, suppression, and execution. No one would let such a group of criminals whose mental indexes are always on the edge of danger and may cause "serious collateral damage" to do such a civilized job as investigating a case.

Jim had not considered the possibility of Wheely's whereabouts being exposed before, but Wheely was neither an adjuster nor had any weapons of mass destruction in his hands. Theoretically, those who followed the clues to arrest people should be agents from the Public Security Bureau. How could they be this group of murderous evil stars?

Unless... they came here to silence them.

Thinking of this possibility, Jim couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Yes, he had found it strange before - if things were like Huili said, they just uploaded some inflammatory slogans to the smart city data node, then the resettlement area government would send a riot control task force here Did the suppression cause so many casualties?

Could it be that Huili was hiding something from herself?

"What should we do now?"

At this moment, Huili's eyes were filled with tears. She looked at Jim and asked with a look of despair.

"What was it that you uploaded to the data node earlier? Tell the truth."

Jim asked with a serious face without answering the other party's question.

"What? It's just some propaganda materials of the Icarus Liberation Front... I remember there were public guidelines, agreements signed with several Olympus companies, and the full text of Mr. Liao Qi's speech before his death... …After these things are packaged and uploaded to the data node, they will randomly cover the hateful propaganda of the resettlement area government through the smart city system.”

Wheely looked at Jim, a little confused.

"What's wrong? Is there... something wrong with this?"

[Characterization topology analysis starts]

[Heartbeat, blood pressure, respiratory rate collection]

[Eye movement amplitude collection]

[Collection of Facial Muscle Influence]

[Collection of unconscious finger tremors]

[Speech rate and inter-syllable pause collection]

…

The moment Wheely spoke, Jim's eyes immediately entered a state of dilation.

This is not because Jim is absent-minded, but because he is trying to capture as much as possible the subtle changes in different physiological reactions of the other person's words.

In an instant, thousands of pieces of information poured into the implant embedded in the temporal lobes on both sides of Jim's brain, stimulating countless changes in the electrical potential within it. After less than a second of summary processing, this special structure on the temporal lobe conveyed an almost intuitive conclusion to Jim's consciousness:

She didn't lie.

"Wait a minute, did you actually suspect that I was lying to you just now?"

On the other side, Huili, who had seen Jim's incredible lie-detection skills in the past, suddenly reacted. She pointed at Jim in disbelief and exclaimed.

"No, you were deceived..."

Jim replied, rubbing his slightly hot temples.

Although it is not obvious from his appearance, Jim is indeed an adjuster - embedded in his own temporal lobes on both sides are darknet technology implants called "Water Faces". The depth 1 level can effectively analyze the topological changes of human physiological representation information and parse out the true inner motivation of a person under the external action representation.

The most applicable scenario for "Water Face" is lie detection. It can be said that as long as it is activated, unless the liar himself is kept in the dark, no lie can be hidden from the implanted "Water Face" adjuster.

For a detective, there is no more convenient ability than this.

Jim's answer was not what the question was asked, which made Wheely feel a little confused:

"I was cheated? By whom?"

After a little relief from the fatigue caused by the operation of "Water Face", Jim put his fingers down from his temples and said:

"Icarus Liberation Front...you will most likely be used as cannon fodder by those bastards."

At this point, Jim spat inwardly with great disdain.

God knows what dangerous things those guys tricked them into uploading to the data nodes...

But now is not the time to delve into this issue.

Having made up his mind instantly, Jim spoke very quickly:

"There's no time to hesitate now, Huili. You should contact your mother quickly, tell her clearly about your current situation, and see if she can use her connections in the Public Security Bureau to solve the current trouble... Don't be willful at this time, even if It would be better to be imprisoned in a house for the rest of my life than to die immediately."

Wheely, who originally wanted to pursue the topic of "Icarus", looked at Jim with wide eyes and said hesitantly:

"What will you do if you contact my mother here?"

Huili's worry is not unreasonable, and Jim himself has no doubt that Mrs. Lin Yuan will still find someone to surrender herself to Shenhu after this matter subsides.

"Before your mother sees my name on the report, I just need to pack my things and leave Nord. As long as you don't mention me in front of her in the future, I don't think she will be so determined to come to the cross-resettlement area to kill her." Me."

Jim sighed.

Hearing this, Huili bit her lip and nodded, immediately closing her eyes and trying to contact her mother.

But she quickly opened her eyes.

"There's... no signal here."

She looked at Jim, fear in her voice.

"Realm of Silence!"

Jim, who immediately realized the situation, quickly stood up and walked to the computer, pulled off the data cable and connected it to his brain-computer interface.

As he expected, the cable network was also cut off...

Those guys really came here to silence me!

"How about...how about I go out alone and tell them my mother's identity?"

Seeing Jim's angry expression at the moment, Wheely said as if he had made up a lot of determination.

But regarding this proposal, Jim denied it without thinking:

"No, you don't have the means to identify yourself at a glance, and the other party is a serious criminal who kills people as well as drinks water. It is very likely that the moment they see you, you will be gone before you can even say anything. . Taking a step back, even if they are willing to wait and listen to you introduce yourself, you can't ignore another possibility - their target is you, Mrs. Lin Yuan's daughter. If this is the case, you will go out now. Door-to-door delivery. Besides..."

Jim wanted to say something more, but what Wheely said next made him speechless.

"Even so, if I go out alone, at least I won't involve you."

She looked at Jim, trembling all over as she spoke:

"It's better to die alone than two people, right?"

The girl's voice was trembling along with her body.

Even without observing her representational topology, Jim could see that in the face of imminent death, this girl was not as brave as he imagined.

No, maybe that's brave enough.

With a vague sigh, Jim turned around and hit her on the head with another bang.

Maybe he didn't expect the other party to come here. The confused expression on Huili's face at this moment was like hearing a joke that he didn't understand the punchline of.

"Now that you say you don't want to involve me, what were you doing before?"

Jim said angrily, and then walked to an inconspicuous wall next to the TV while muttering something like "It will only cause trouble for himself" with a slight displeasure.

No matter what, it was impossible for him to stay out of the matter and watch this half-grown child tremble and walk out to die.

With this in mind, Jim pressed the hidden button on the wall lamp and opened the secret room that he had vowed never to open again.

The wall with the wall lamp turned over instantly, revealing a secret room of about four square meters hidden behind.

No way, vows are always meant to be broken...

Looking at the secret room in front of him filled with the remains of his past life, Jim thought helplessly, and then he turned to Wheely who was looking curiously at the side and said:

"Take all your things, including the toy on the coffee table, and the pieces of clothes you cut off when you just treated the wound and hide inside. If you want to survive, no matter what happens in a while - remember, no matter what happens, Whatever happens, even if I fight with them, the secret room is discovered, or the resettlement area government distributes gold bars to citizens, you should not make even the slightest noise, do you understand? "

Huili nodded like a squirrel, but she still didn't take her eyes away from the secret room in front of her.

She seemed to have a glimpse of Jim's past life.

Firearms, electric batons, police uniforms, and badges were hung on the three walls of this square secret room in an orderly manner, as if telling the story of a retired policeman. In the corner, two stacks of boxes filled with read-only memory chips were piled almost to the ceiling.

Wheely knew that this kind of read-only memory chip, which could never be changed once written, was often used as a data carrier to save files and files - could it be that Jim was a policeman in the past, and these things were the case files he kept?

Between the two stacks of chip boxes, there were some sundries piled randomly. Each item was wrapped in a plastic bag and labeled with a date and number. There are old paper books, suspicious-looking white pills, dirty gloves and scarves...

Among them, what caught Hui Li's attention the most was a beautifully framed oil painting. In the painting, a beautiful woman lowers her gaze on the light yellow coast. She is holding a lyre in her hand, and the head of a handsome man is resting on the lyre.

The woman's face was filled with compassion.

"Don't be stunned, grab your things and hide in quickly."

The sudden voice of Jim brought Wheely, who was fascinated, back to reality. Then she hurriedly packed up the rags from the clothes she had cut off when treating wounds from the sofa, then took the scissors and gel spray she had used before, and took the pistol that was placed on the coffee table before leaving, obediently. Sneaked into the secret room.

At this time, Jim stared at her eyes at the door and reminded her again:

"Remember, no matter what happens for a while, don't make even a single sound... I will solve it all."

Regaining a sense of security in a small space, Eri nodded solemnly, and then she asked the staff as if she was on a roller coaster to confirm whether the seat belt was tightened:

"They can't find this secret room, can they?"

After hearing her words, the stern-faced middle-aged man in front of him couldn't help but reveal a smile that was half mocking and half helpless.

"I think they can spot it right away."

This sentence is like putting a screw in your hand after the roller coaster starts and telling yourself that it fell from your seat.

Huili said in horror:

"Then why did you let me..."

But what Jim did next made her shut up immediately.

I saw him take down from the wall the largest and most rugged revolver that Wheely had ever seen in his life - compared with the one in his hand, it was as cute as a plastic toy.

"I told you, I will take care of everything."

His calm voice almost immediately calmed down the fear in Huili's heart.

Instead, there was another strong and raw emotion.

She blushed and nodded, desperately suppressing her inappropriate thoughts at the moment. (End of chapter)