Abyssal Wanderer

While Jim was undergoing surgery, Jiang Zhou on the other side had already debugged the data of the "City of Sages" and planned to float back to Tartarus in the base reality.

After repeated debugging, as long as he can still connect to the public network, he can get strong support from the "City of Sages" - this is not only equivalent to the computing power output of a "Theseus Path" depth 7 adjuster, but also its IP address still exists in the "Daffodil Plain" and is protected by the "Styx Firewall".

Of course, this does not mean that Jiang Zhou, who is connected to the network, has the ability to fight hackers at the depth 7 level. After all, with the current degree of transformation of his body, no matter how powerful the computing power supported by the City of Sages is, he can hardly exert one percent of its power.

What's more, the "ice wall" and "ice breaker" that Jiang Zhou currently possesses are essentially script programs written for him by the goddess of the underworld. Although extremely powerful, they are only suitable for specific occasions that have been set. Therefore, if he really encounters some cautious opponents and is tested to find out the limitations of his abilities, he is likely to be countered and defeated in an instant.

In fact, with these configurations of Jiang Zhou, if they are given to a high-level adjuster specialized in information warfare, or a geek who has been deeply engaged in hacking technology for many years, they are capable of becoming legendary characters in anonymous forums. But for Jiang Zhou, who has only a depth 1 adjustment and transformation level and whose programming knowledge is still a hundred years ago, these are completely a waste of natural resources.

"So, I still have to continue to strengthen and upgrade and improve my programming skills..."

Jiang Zhou muttered to himself while looking at the personal data interface.

Of course, considering that he may have to face the gods of Olympus in the future, it is still far from enough to strengthen his personal ability.

For those adjusters who have surpassed the limits of human intelligence, their most powerful point is actually the control over the entire human society accumulated over the years-any prosthesis or implant coming off the company's assembly line may have their backdoor installed; and any program software launched by the company may be tampered with.

Recalling the previous battle record between Christie and Perseus No. 1, seeing that they were just playing a business game, arbitrarily requisitioning the computing resources of ordinary people to fight each other through the backdoors buried in daily software, Jiang Zhou understood a truth: the so-called "freedom" of modern people is just a false illusion given to them by those superiors. In addition to the free will protected by Mandragora, ordinary people do not actually enjoy any form of freedom.

And if the secret of the "Janus Program" in his body is cracked by them, then humans may not even be able to protect their free will.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but sigh.

Even in such a bad world today, things can still develop in a worse direction.

But in any case, if you want to change such an order, in addition to strengthening your own power, it is more important to expand your influence on human society...

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but turn his attention to another name.

Booker Erwin.

After Liao Qi's death, his control over the Ikaros Liberation Front was completely maintained by him alone. Jiang Zhou originally thought that with Booker's past abilities and skills, he could plan the orderly expansion of the organization until he could completely control the entire Nord resettlement area.

But what happened to Jim now shows that perhaps things are out of control after all.

"It's really too much of a stretch to let a person who has a deterrent device and basically can't go out control the organization..."

Jiang Zhou muttered to himself.

However, given that Jim has not yet found out the truth, he does not intend to directly send an "oracle" to Booker and intervene rudely as a "paradox".

On the one hand, there are too many eyes on Booker now, and he is not sure not to expose his intentions; on the other hand, he is confident that he can investigate all of this first, and then contact Booker to wipe out the cancer in the organization.

To be precise, it is the part of him as Jim that has this confidence.

Of course, the premise of the investigation is that he, who is here, can help find out who the person who placed the order on "Dead or Not" is.

And this is also the main reason why Jiang Zhou decided to float up in advance.

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When the soul escaped from the boundless network and returned to the fragile, powerless, and easily killed mortal body, Jiang Zhou felt as if he had become a lungfish built into a mud wall - he could only survive by opening and closing his mouth and breathing the moist water vapor in the air.

He instinctively tried to sit up, but he didn't even have the strength to raise his hands.

"Relax first, Mr. Theseus. It's normal that you can't do anything right now. After staying in the deep diving chamber for several months, calcium loss and muscle relaxation, you will need at least a week to get out of bed by yourself."

A familiar voice came from Jiang Zhou's left side. He wanted to turn his head, but in the end he was very reluctant to even turn his eyes.

But after he heard the other person's voice, he already knew the identity of that person.

Carol Christie, the Abyss, the original shareholder of Pluto Deep Diving.

"Who... are you?"

Although he knew the other party, Jiang Zhou had previously contacted her as Liao Qi, so he raised his hoarse vocal cords and asked as if it was the first time they met.

"It doesn't matter who I am, but you need to know one thing right now. I am one of the very few people in the entire Tartarus who is willing to help you survive."

"Thanks……"

Jiang Zhou said with great effort.

"There is no need to thank me. This is a task assigned to me by a certain goddess that both you and I know."

The other party is testing himself to see if he is really related to Hecate.

"Then...can I survive?"

Accepting the other party's guess, Jiang Zhou continued to ask.

"This is a good question... If it was half a month ago, you would have undoubtedly survived safely, and even treated you as a guest. The guys on the board of directors were not stupid enough to have sex with a person who had caused a The lunar eclipse event's gods turned against each other."

Although the "horse" represents the penetration of basic reality by malicious programs in the abyss dark web, within Olympus, it is not uncommon for some high-level officials to conduct secret transactions with powerful dark web entities.

"what about now……"

Hearing that the other party was preparing for the "but", Jiang Zhou immediately asked.

"But some time ago, the goddess behind you banished a member of the board of directors to the depths of the dark web. Now for their own safety, they are more inclined to let you die."

Christie replied. (End of chapter)