Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 66 NO.0041: Open the Path

Jiang Zhou found a reason to evade the other party's proposal.

But Booker still didn't believe in evil, and had to pull Jiang Zhou to connect to the universal printer and try again.

After all, going down before could bring so many good things back, which would make everyone's heart flutter.

It has never been an easy task to dive into the abyss and dark net to salvage technological blueprints.

The Styx Firewall is two-way, not only preventing those malicious programs from entering human society, but also preventing humans from diving into the abyss and the dark web—many stowaways “drowned” there when they tried to cross the firewall. In the Styx, where no feathers ever fall.

In most cases, only through the deep dive interface on the firewall can you reach the abyss dark net relatively safely. And only when the deep dive interface is large and stable enough, can it generate a more human-understood simulated environment in the abyss darknet.

Therefore, the quality of a deep diving interface has become a crucial matter. The rigid requirement for a corporate consortium to enter the "Olympus Order" is to firmly control at least one α-level deep-diving interface.

Like what Jiang Zhou and the others experienced before, after diving into an extremely vast "map", it will not take long before they encounter malicious programs wandering in it, and after killing the malicious programs, there is a high probability that they will be able to obtain a technological blueprint... This In the eyes of those small-scale companies, resettlement area governments, or private abyss roamers, it is simply unbelievable.

In more cases, they have to take a lot of risks just to cross the Styx Firewall. After entering the abyss and dark net, it is necessary to explore and search hard, and often people suffer heavy casualties without finding anything.

In Booker's eyes, there is a high probability that Mr. "Paradox" pulled them into the abyss and dark net through an interface close to Alpha level. In other words, Mr. "Paradox" at least has the power to be on an equal footing with those fourteen god-like companies.

Then rounding up, they can also obtain the same ability to accumulate technology as those Olympian gods through Mr. "Paradox".

Because of this, Booker wants to try a few more "trials" to accumulate more foundation.

However, at this moment in the abyss dark net, Jiang Zhou has joined 136 and the others, and is using the "Lone Traveler Frisbee" to carry people across the crack in batches.

Now to pull Booker down, he can only be invited to go sightseeing beside the magnificent rift valley.

Maybe Booker will meet his old friends from the past, 136, Qianxia Sakura and the others.

Jiang Zhou can deceive Booker's cognition, but he can't put filters on his companions.

What will I say then?

Oh, it's nothing, it's just that I brought Booker, the former intelligence team leader, here. By the way, he is now the leader of Icarus, don't worry.

It can't be explained that way, right?

However, seeing Booker's strong request, Jiang Zhou agreed to try again.

After all, the choice to pull people is in your own hands, if I say no, then I can't!

So after several attempts, Booker finally gave up angrily.

But even if he gave up, he was still muttering words. For example, Liao Qi was asked to recall with him, the previous few successful dives, did he do any actions, or said something that triggered the key words.

Believe in this card-drawing metaphysics... Are you a mouse controlled by a Skinner box?

Jiang Zhou complained silently in his heart.

It was meaningless to delay another half an hour. Booker left first because he had to go to the basement floor of the resettlement area to meet with the "Tenth Floor" spokesperson, Deep Blue.

Before leaving, he gave Jiang Zhou an address and told him to go to Bai Dong's place later to "fine-tune his emotions" in order to stabilize his mental index.

Jiang Zhou glanced at the address:

The fourth floor of the resettlement area is Huimin community.

A place that is extremely familiar to Liao Qi,

Liao Qi's mad mother settled there.

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Because of the loss of all-terrain vehicles and the limited number of people that the Frisbee can carry, after crossing the gap, everyone had to choose to walk to the next piece of breadcrumbs.

In the previous separate operations, only Jiang Zhou and Qian Xiaying's group encountered malicious programs from other depths. After all, they had a car before, and they explored along the crack, and they didn't expect the monsters from the lower level to climb up, so they just followed suit.

But in the end, it was a blessing in disguise, and they obtained an aircraft from depth 4-the other two groups did not find anything that could cross the gap, and they both suffered a certain degree of injury during the search.

Along the way, after listening to Qian Xiaying talk about their experience—especially after Jiang Zhou took the liquid metal figure with a depth of 4 into the abyss with the heroism of dying together, and finally came back miraculously, everyone was in awe. His face looked in shock at Jiang Zhou who was stepping on the Frisbee to save his energy.

Such decisive decisions, such explosive luck.

They couldn't help asking themselves, if they had encountered themselves at that time, would they have come back alive like this.

"It's just luck..."

Facing their surprise and approval, Jiang Zhou answered absent-mindedly.

This is not because he is modest, Jiang Zhou feels that he is not a humble person at all - in his opinion, modesty has always been a trick for the conceited to be promoted before suppressing, and he can reasonably accept other people's evaluation of himself, no matter what Good or bad, it's actually a rare virtue.

And at the moment he was so absent-minded, it was entirely because his thoughts were occupied by other things.

The "black dog" sent by Hecate to guide him was still following them.

Although Jiang Zhou couldn't see it, he just felt it.

It's as if after returning home, although there are no obvious signs, it is the same as being able to confirm that there is someone at home.

An instinctive feeling.

More than that...

Jiang Zhou looked at the position of the next "breadcrumb imprint" on the signal source.

After losing their means of transportation, the time it took them to go to the next mark was actually shortened.

Along the way, Jiang Zhou could feel that every time they passed through the intersection, they would be a lot closer to the signal source.

Recalling the name Hecate called herself earlier: the goddess of the moon who is in charge of all intersections.

Combined with her statement, the reason why myths and legends are used to refer to powerful existences in the abyss and dark web is to avoid keyword capture and obscure their own characteristics.

And Jiang Zhou remembered that Hecate, the goddess of the dark moon, had the title of "Goddess of Roads and Crossing Paths" and acted as a guide in mythology.

In other words, the nature of the other party may be close to a proxy server or a virtual private network?

Or at least a similar concept.

After all, I had strayed into that maze in the process of constantly changing paths before.

And right now, could it be that the Goddess of the Moon who is at depth 7 is now quietly helping their team with a distance of several floors, jumping nodes unconsciously, and speeding up the return process?