Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 75 NO.004a: Hidden Pile

"autonomy?"

Jiang Zhou confirmed.

Dominion implies responsibility, and corporations have never been interested in domination itself.

Whether it is a resettlement area, a gathering point, or an ecological reserve... No matter who is ruling, and no matter what kind of system is used, as long as the ruler is open to trade and does not interfere with the free market, those super companies will not care about power .

In other words, Booker is now not only targeting the company, but also targeting the "ten layers" of government in the resettlement area.

Deep Blue was also stunned for a moment.

"At this time, you plan to break out conflicts with the ten-level government?"

Her face was full of disbelief.

As far as she knows, in order to maintain the stability of the various underground levels, the current provisional government in the resettlement area intends to strongly support the Icarus Liberation Front—as long as they do not plan to have a direct conflict with the Pluto Deep Diving Company.

"This may be the only chance."

Booker replied.

As he said, he turned to Deep Blue:

"I know you are from the tenth floor, but I checked your information and learned that you were also born underground in the resettlement area in the past. So I believe that you can understand many things even if you don't tell them... If there is such an opportunity now , if you can free all nine underground floors from the control of the interim government in the resettlement area, whose side would you be on?"

The governance rights of the various underground levels in the Nord resettlement area have always been a bad debt.

From a legal point of view, the governance power of the entire resettlement area should belong to the former world coalition government. But the coalition government of that year has long since become history along with the year of AD in the old calendar.

Today's "ten floors" resettlement area is a provisional government re-established by major companies as shareholders based on the residual framework of the coalition government.

They regard the underground levels as a burial ground for dumping garbage - whether it is literal garbage, or eliminated low-quality population - and has implemented an extremely strict one-way isolation policy, using the entire underground level as a buffer area barrier.

But on the other hand, they tried their best to squeeze out the last trace of value from the dense population of the underground strata.

Not to mention the low-end and high-pollution industries they transferred. Tempted by the status of full-fledged citizens in the resettlement area, they easily recruited the talented elites emerging from the underground levels to the above-ground levels, cutting off the possibility of the underground levels getting rid of poverty.

Therefore, although they have never fulfilled their obligations to the government for a day in the resettlement area. But they have been unwilling to give up their legal rights to govern the various underground classes.

The "Structural Security Maintenance Troop" stationed on the basement floor is the largest and most well-equipped armed force in the hands of the Nord resettlement area government so far. And they have only one purpose of existence - to carry out a devastating blow to the civilian armed forces at all levels of the underground at any time.

Even after the rise of the Icarus Liberation Front and actually controlled the area from minus seven to minus two floors, they still did not intend to release their governance rights, but only used Icarus as a useful tool for maintaining stability.

In Liao Qi's memory, if it weren't for Pluto's deep dive suddenly and high-profile announcement that he would come to the resettlement area to build a factory underground. Originally, the focus of the organization's next struggle should be on the goal of fighting for the autonomy of all levels of the underground.

It's a pity that the dimension reduction attack from the company's disciplinary forces directly damaged most of the organization's combat effectiveness. Now it seems that the goal of striving for autonomy is nowhere in sight. Even now, they have to cooperate with the ten-level government to overcome the next difficulty.

But Booker suddenly came out like this...

Regarding Booker's question, Deep Blue was silent for a long time, and finally she spoke:

"If you want to use those two grams of antimatter to build a deterrent and take millions of people in resettlement areas as hostages, I will not agree to you even if I die."

"And what if I say no?"

Booker continued.

Deep Blue was silent again.

After a while, she nodded.

After getting an affirmative answer, Booker immediately looked at Liao Qi.

"I'm also against the use of antimatter as a deterrent."

Jiang Zhou replied:

"The reason is simple, because none of us has the decisiveness to push that button, so the deterrence plan will eventually fail. But if you say you have other plans than this, and it really works ...and I will do my best to help you."

Seeing this, Booker heaved a long sigh of relief, and then he sent a document to each of the communication channels of the two, and then explained calmly:

"My plan is like this..."

...

After Booker finished his plan, Jiang Zhou and Deep Blue couldn't help but look at each other.

"Sounds like it might work, but..."

For a long time, Jiang Zhou hesitated.

Shenlan on the side took Jiang Zhou's words and continued to ask:

"But how do you get the things you need? It also includes the 500 grams of helium-3 you mentioned earlier. In just two months, this is unrealistic..."

"As I said, I have my own channel."

Booker replied:

"So, there is only one thing we lack at present, and that is time."

When Booker said this, a line of pale characters slowly appeared in his sight after being activated through the mandala.

That's a countdown.

66:12:59:04

When his voice landed, the 04 at the end of the countdown quickly jumped to 03.

…………

After Booker left, Jiang Zhou once again strongly felt that Booker was hiding a secret from him.

Regardless of the other party's previous mysterious speech and that bold plan - the suspiciousness of these two things is almost overflowing.

As far as Booker's previously revealed about his promotion path, Perseus and Jiang Zhou investigated afterwards.

Although very limited public information can be found on the World Wide Web, it is almost certain that during the Second Domain War, someone deduced this path to a depth of 7 human intelligences. As for whether it has broken through to the abyss belt, the opinions on the World Wide Web are different.

No matter in what era, there are people who are extremely obsessed with combat power. And in the rankings that Jiang Zhou saw in some fighting beast forums, the hero who cut off the head of the Gorgon Medusa in mythology, the promotion path named after Perseus, can basically be used in the debate. Ranked in the top five, and sometimes even rushed to the third - only under the two paths of Hercules and Agrus.

A path like this can only be mastered by those companies in the Olympus order.

As far as Jiang Zhou found, I don’t know whether it is true or not. In the domain war records, the Jupiter Group, Minerva Information Technology, Diana Lunar Development, and the Mercury Consortium have all used the Perseus route. Adjust the records of people involved in wars.

Combined with what the other party said earlier, that he has channels to obtain printing materials that are strictly controlled by large companies, Jiang Zhou has to wonder whether Booker has a relationship with certain companies—or some companies sent him to resettle him. The hidden stake in the district?

In particular, if the "plan" proposed by the other party is really followed, if it fails, the entire Icarus will definitely be uprooted. And the bottom layer of the Nord resettlement area will never stand up again.

But on the other hand, if the other party really wants to do this, it seems that there is no need to take such a big detour and take such a big risk-the more fancy the plan, the greater the probability of failure in the end.

So, should I continue to trust him...

He asked the bartender for another glass of gin and tonic. Jiang Zhou felt very distressed, but he couldn't figure out why.

Even if he asked Booker directly before, the other party only said that he would tell him everything after everything was dusted.

never mind.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou changed his thinking angle.

My top priority right now is to get my body out of Tartarus' prison as soon as possible. At present, it seems that at least on the issue of releasing the prisoners, the other party is on the same front as himself.

Then a minimal partnership would suffice.

in addition……

Jiang Zhou took another gulp of his wine.

If I still have a chance to mine in the abyss and the dark web before I get out of prison, I'll see if I can think of a way to scare Booker with my "paradox" identity, maybe I can come up with something effective information to come.

"result……"

At this moment, a resentful voice sounded beside Jiang Zhou.

Deep Blue was frowning, looking at Jiang Zhou and saying:

"As a result, the previous prophecy came true. Liao Qi, you really came to work in my bar... It's just that it's completely different from what I thought before."

"Booker believes in you."

To this, Jiang Zhou answered in this way.

He picked up his glass and continued:

"Actually, I'd like to believe you too, but what we're going to do next, there's no room for any omissions... I think you can understand, right?"

This is the new task that Booker assigned to Jiang Zhou—before the two grams of antimatter are printed out, stay in the bar in the dark blue area and serve as the lady's bodyguard.

Of course, the bodyguard is only in name. In fact, what Jiang Zhou has to do is to prevent her from telling the "tenth level" government this secret.

"Understood, of course I can understand. Otherwise, I would probably do the same, after all, trust is too precious in this era. But this does not alleviate the discomfort caused by it... What Erwin said earlier was that you should Follow me twenty-four hours."

Dark Blue stroked her forehead as if she had a headache, and replied helplessly.

I'm very sorry……

Jiang Zhou spread his hands.

On the other hand, if you can win the support of the dark blue interval bar, it will be a great thing.

Although this bar only relied on the force of the resettlement area government, it was able to become the talker of the underground world of the resettlement area. But before completely turning against the tenth level of government, those network resources in the dark blue zone are all real benefits.

Not to mention, Deep Blue can also serve as Icarus' hidden stake in the government of the resettlement area.

If she does prove herself to be trustworthy.

"in addition……"

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou put the empty wine glass on the table and said:

"What I said earlier, the top salary, does it still count now?"

When he was talking, the previous pair of black and white siblings came over.

"Boss, do you really want to hire this kid to watch the show here?"

Probably because he heard what Jiang Zhou said earlier, the white-skinned brother said in a low voice.

Dark Blue shook his head, then said:

"It's not to stay here and watch the situation, but to be responsible for my personal safety."

The black and white siblings were suddenly dumbfounded.

"what about me?"

The black-skinned sister pointed to herself and asked.

"You're in charge, ma'am."

After a few glasses of wine, Jiang Zhou, who felt a little drunk, said provocatively.

Hearing this, the other party immediately glared at him.

"Uh, actually..."

The dark blue on the side suddenly spoke.

"Mr. Black is the younger brother."

And now it was Jiang Zhou's turn to be stunned.

Then he just slapped my ass?

…………

"It's time to wake up, caveman."

Inside the prison of Tartarus. In his sleep, Jiang Zhou was awakened by a loud noise.

It was the hiss of countless inmates, and a familiar voice.

Opening his eyes, Ye Qian was standing in front of the cell door looking at him.

With a subtle smile on his face, he looked like a cat playing with a mouse.

"To make a long story short... Fortunately, your previous deep dive operation has indeed proved your worth. Therefore, I will reward you as promised.

"You are rewarded for upgrading to the Theseus path and becoming an adjuster of depth 1."