Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 40 NO.0028: Paida Maintenance Method

Bai Dong first raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes back and forth, then held the display screen of the detector with both hands, held his breath and looked at the result again.

[Target Mental Index: 1.000]

That's right, there is no change, not because I am dazzled.

"Leader Erwin, come here..."

After confirming again and again that she was not mistaken, she hurriedly shouted.

"What's wrong?"

Hearing Bai Dong's urgent call, Booker finally took his attention away from his sleeves, walked over and asked nervously:

"What, did the test come out bad?"

Bai Dong took a deep breath and tried his best to restrain his excitement. Then, she turned her head, looked at Booker seriously and said:

"Leader, bad news...

"This mental detector must be scrapped."

She said, and immediately turned the display screen of the instrument towards Booker.

"Look, this is completely useless!"

Bai Dong tried to make her voice sound a little regretful, but it was not very successful - the corners of her mouth raised irresistibly, and her expectant eyes revealed her true mood at the moment.

The expression on Booker's face was originally very tense, but the moment he saw the string of numbers, he immediately turned into a bitter face.

After you finish a math problem, when you find that the children who will go to the amusement park in the end are 8.3 people, you don’t need the teacher to draw a big cross on the paper, and you will know that you have made a mistake.

"this……"

Booker seemed to want to say something, but Bai Dong immediately interrupted excitedly:

"However, there is another piece of good news. In a few days, the 404 Shopping Festival will be held. The Flying Boots e-commerce platform will have a 5% discount on the entire site, and there will also be a trade-in event. Team leader Erwin, now is definitely the best time to replace equipment, you Let’s talk to the finance department. If you calculate it, you can get the sixth-generation mental measuring instrument for only about 450,000 Ore, which is absolutely historically low!”

450,000 Ore, "as long as", given the organization's dire financial situation...

Booker folded his chest when he heard the words, then raised his right hand to cover his mouth.

After a long while, he pointed at the eye-catching "1.000" on the display with some resignation, and then said:

"So is there such a possibility that the instrument is not broken, and this is the real mental index measured by Liao Qi?"

Bai Dong looked at Booker with the eyes of a mentally handicapped:

"So, you want to say that Liao Qi is actually Janus?"

"Forget it, when I didn't say..."

Booker, who was also dumbed down by what he said, covered his forehead with his hands helplessly.

But Bai Dong stood up, walked to Booker, patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Let's accept the reality, leader. Electronic products will be scrapped one day, and this instrument is already doing its job well enough."

After speaking, she walked up to Liao Qi, intending to help him take off the test helmet.

But Booker sighed and walked to the instrument that looked like an old-fashioned picture tube TV, and patted the side of the instrument unwillingly.

"It's only been used for a few years, how could it be scrapped..."

He kept muttering.

"Hiss—hiss—"

Accompanied by a burst of electric sound, the picture on the screen was changed by him.

Also at this time, the owl logo of Minerva Information Technology flickered and jumped on the display screen a few times, and then the whole screen seemed to be disturbed by something, and countless mosaic color blocks appeared.

"Um?"

Noticing this change, Booker tentatively increased the force on his hand and patted the instrument a few more times.

The chaotic electric sound stopped, the mosaic on the display disappeared, and the owl also flickered violently for the last time before disappearing from the screen.

But for some reason, for a moment, Booker felt as if the owl was looking at him.

But before he had time to pay attention, Liao Qi detected a change in his mental index on the screen.

The impossible "1" jumped to "0", and at the same time, the three digits after the decimal point also began to change.

The numbers kept jumping, and finally stabilized at a value:

[Target Mental Index: 0.978]

Booker patted the detector again, and this time, the numbers on the display did not change.

After looking at the string of numbers, and at his hand clapping the instrument, Booker shouted excitedly to Bai Dong who was beside him.

"Hey, this thing is fixed!"

"ah?"

Bai Dong made a suspicious voice.

Booker turned the display screen of the instrument to face Bai Dong who was about to help Liao Qi take off the helmet.

"I just took a few shots and it seems to have been fixed.

"Look, the value is normal."

…………

"So, no one told me, what is the number of mental index 0.978?"

After taking off the helmet, I felt like I was going to be rubbed by the blind Jiang Zhou and asked.

"very nice."

"Hmm...very talented..."

Booker and Bai Dong at the side replied respectively.

The former's voice was calm and revealed a touch of joy; while the latter seemed a little weak, like a primary school student holding a failing paper on the way home from school.

"This is not a radio, how could it be enough to take two shots..."

After Bai Dong finished answering, he continued to babble full of resentment.

"Uh... very good, how good is it?"

Seeing that the mind adjuster seemed to be in a bad mood, Jiang Zhou turned to Booker and asked.

Booker smiled and replied:

"Let's put it this way, your talent may be better than that of the former team leader Kerrett. I remember that when he completed the depth 1 adjustment, his mental index dropped to 0.972. If you look at it this way, you completed the upgrade to depth 3 before falling below 0.95 Probably no problem. And if you are willing to take some risks, upgrading to depth 4 is not too bad."

Having said that, he got up and walked to Jiang Zhou's side, and patted Liao Qi's shoulder like an old leader:

"I think we can now start preparing the printing permissions and materials required for Icarus Path Depth 2. After that, I will let the comrades in charge of procurement pay attention to the sellers of the Abyss Wanderer."

Hearing the word "purchase", Bai Dong suddenly looked up at Booker and said:

"So why don't we test it again? Maybe it was just a coincidence..."

Although she was asking about Booker, Jiang Zhou was the first to react. He took a breath and said:

"Let's not... I tested it three times just now, even Booker tested it once. There should be no problem with the instrument. It was 1 before, probably because of a system update bug or something..."

He said so, on the one hand, because the experience of testing the mental index is not good no matter how you say it.

But more importantly, Jiang Zhou didn't want them to continue on this topic...

To be honest, he couldn't figure out which of "1" or "0.978" was himself, or in other words, the real mental index of Liao Qi, a controllable element.

But the fact that he can control two bodies at the same time will make his mental index different from ordinary people, which is definitely not a problem.

Looking at it this way, the number "0.978" seems a little too normal.

But in this way, if the real number is really "1", then what is helping itself to cover up?

Janus system? The unknown existence I saw on the abyss dark net? Or Minerva IT?

God knows... Right now, the information I know is too little, and I can't deduce anything based on the clues in my hand.

"Yeah, I've tested everything, and there is no problem with the instrument, and it can be used again."

Seeing what Liao Qi said, Booker immediately agreed.

Bai Dong curled his lips when he heard the words, and went to the side to draw circles again.

Booker smiled apologetically, then turned to look at Jiang Zhoudao:

"Since your mental index is normal and stable, and now the organization is short of manpower. It should not be too late, go through the discharge procedures now."

In this era, medical technology and medical expenses have achieved great leaps.

As long as you can afford the money, and you still have a breath, or your body can roughly recover, the hospitals opened by big companies can basically be saved.

It only takes a few hours for an injury like Liao Qi's that broke several ribs to fully heal.

Jiang Zhou nodded, then asked:

"Then where are we going next? House of Chiron?"

Booker shook his head and said:

"We're going to interrogate that lobotomy guy first.

"You are more qualified than us in this matter."