Abyssal Wanderer

As Christie spoke, she observed the expression on the other person's face.

The expected surprise and panic did not appear on the other person's face. The man just nodded very calmly, as if what he was discussing at the moment was not his own life or death, but something else irrelevant.

"But... they didn't choose to do it when I was still in the 'deep dive' state and at my most vulnerable."

After thinking for a while, the guy codenamed "Theseus" spoke so. Although his voice was still hoarse at this moment, it was much more coherent than before.

"In other words, the members of the board of directors were unwilling, or... they didn't dare to do it themselves, right?"

As a person who had just woken up, his reaction was fast enough...

Christie thought.

The other party quickly grasped the key to the problem-indeed, even if the people on the board of directors wanted to dismantle his time bomb, they would not be stupid enough to do it themselves and offend the behemoth hidden under the abyss dark web.

Seeing that the other party had some understanding of her current situation, Christie nodded slightly and said:

"After all, getting you back safely from the Abyss Dark Web is part of the deal. In fact, not only the goddess of the moon, but even the old thing 'Charon' also hopes that you can return safely to the base reality... So at least for now, you are still safe."

In fact, the fact that she was able to rush over to provide shelter as soon as the other party woke up was a statement of the board of directors.

At this point, Christie's thinking circuit automatically read the record of her participation in the trial when she was pulled to the broken city.

Perhaps the guys on the board of directors are not really afraid of Hecate or Charon-no matter what, the dark web AI is still restricted by the Styx firewall and cannot project too much power into the base reality.

What they are really afraid of is more likely the existence behind them that calls itself "paradox".

After all, it is too incredible to be able to directly fight with the base reality on the World Wide Web and exile a director directly to the abyss layer through the "influence factor" of the director.

This either means that "Paradox" has a powerful "steed" as a fulcrum in the base reality, which can deeply interfere with the real world; or it means that the other party has mastered the ability to bypass the Styx Firewall.

And the existence of being able to bypass the Styx Firewall...

Thinking of the key point, Christie suddenly stopped this idea, and re-encrypted the record and carefully stored it back in the core database.

Before she broke through the "limit of human intelligence", even she had to be extremely careful with the information about "Paradox".

"It's safe for now..."

At this time, Theseus murmured and repeated her words.

"Yes, but for now. You are a hot potato."

In response, Christie nodded and explained:

"Not only because of the previous behavior of the Pluto Goddess, they can't trust you, but more importantly, if they accept you, they will bear serious political risks within the Olympus Order... You know, using the "Steed" to trade with AI is a serious violation of the "Olympus Agreement", and the Jupiter Group is particularly conservative in this regard.

"For this reason, the Jupiter Group even took the lead in forming a cross-company neutral monitoring organization called "Turing Police". Although nominally affiliated with the Human Intelligence Ethics Monitoring Committee, in fact, the members are seconded from the counterintelligence departments of various companies during each mission, so once an investigation begins, there will never be any mercy. ”

The provisions of the Olympus Agreement do not mean that everyone will abide by them in private. After all, directly cooperating with dark web AI is a shortcut to deep diving and salvage. But because of the existence of this agreement, everyone will act more restrained; and each company will do a good job of risk isolation before the "steeds" are found by Turing Police, so that they can cut off at the speed of light after being discovered.

In fact, through the "Turing Police" platform, mutual investigation and exposing rival companies for improper transactions with AI has now become an important part of the business war between companies...

After listening to her rambling here, Jiang Zhou finally understood what the other party meant.

After all, Christie herself is the "steed" of Charon, the ferryman of the Styx. I believe that even if the current board of directors still allows her to stay in the company, they must be prepared to completely cut off from her at any time.

In other words, if the board of directors is afraid of If the AIs behind him want to trade and cooperate with them to make up for the previous losses, and at the same time want to isolate the legal risks of cooperating with AIs... then the best way is to hand himself over to Carol Christie, and stay in Pluto Deep Dive as a partner from now on to be used.

Until the value of use is exhausted and he is cut out to take the blame.

Not bad...

Jiang Zhou thought.

Compared with the previous guess of being imprisoned in the fourth prison, or being brought to the board of directors for torture, or even being killed directly... Being handed over to Christie, a person he trusts, is already a very good ending.

Not only can he get rid of Pluto Deep Dive's surveillance to a certain extent, but he can also get the physical protection of a depth 7 adjuster.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou said directly:

"In other words, I need to cooperate with you in the future, right?"

Christie, who had just finished laying out the current situation and was about to express her intention to recruit, was stunned. After a long time, she was amused by the meaning of the other party's words.

"Cooperation... you really dare to say it. As a depth 1 adjuster, it seems a bit inappropriate for you to talk about the word "cooperation" on an equal footing with a depth 7 adjuster, right?"

Christie smiled with narrowed eyes.

"If it is between depth 1 and depth 7, then there is indeed no qualification to talk about cooperation. But if it is between Hecate and Charon's "steed", I think there should be no problem, right?

Speaking of this, facing the other party's doubts, Jiang Zhou decided to directly make a big deal, in order to increase their bargaining chips in future cooperation.

"The Abyss, Ms. Carol Christie. "

He directly revealed the other party's identity.

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Zhou immediately felt a great fear - as if he was being stared at by a dangerous predator. Goose bumps appeared all over his body, and his originally sluggish muscles began to tremble under the stimulation of adrenaline.

When Jiang Zhou asked her before, she was still pretending to be mysterious, claiming that who she was was not important, but when her name and secret identity were reported without warning, Christie's calm demeanor disappeared completely.

"How did you know? "

After the words were so cold that they seemed to freeze the blood, Christie's eyes flashed with a dangerous red light. She stared at Jiang Zhou lying on the bed without blinking - the latter's eyes only made slight contact with hers, and she felt that she could not bear this coercive gaze, and subconsciously turned her head to look at the other side.

Then, Jiang Zhou found that the other party was now on the other side of the bed.

It was not that she moved there quickly, but more like she had been there all the time.

No...not only that. No matter how Jiang Zhou shifted his gaze, the other party would suddenly appear in his field of vision in the blink of an eye. Just like the ghosts in Hong Kong horror movies, or the quantum weeping angels in an old science fiction series.

"How did you know?"

Seeing that the other party was sweating profusely and unable to speak, Christie leaned over, looked at the other party's eyes that were frozen because of fear, and asked softly again:

"Who told you?" (End of this chapter)