Crossover in the Anime World

Boom! A huge explosion occurred in the diplomat's residence. It was man-made. A brainwashed refugee became a human bomb and exploded directly, causing heavy casualties.

This case was determined to be an electronic brain invasion, with powerful hackers behind it, which is within the scope of Section 9's work.

Section 9 must take great risks to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes. The team members' electronic brains are equipped with the strongest offensive firewall. If the hackers want to attack them, their firewalls will fight back. At the same time, their bodies are all cyborgized, so they can be safe even if they fall from a height of dozens of meters. So what they have to consider is to find the hacker's hiding place, then rush in and arrest him.

As one of the few normal people in Section 9, Togusa is responsible for monitoring and analysis. In actual combat, he is usually at the last line of defense, or driving an intelligent war vehicle.

Kusanagi Motoko and others went to the refugee camp to check if there were any missing people. If you don't check, you don't know. Once you check, you will be shocked. They found that many refugees were missing. Some were taken away by the recruiters and never came back. Some just disappeared by themselves, and they don't know whether they are dead or alive.

Duran was on the roof of the building, monitoring the refugee camp through a telescope. What he saw was gloomy. The refugees' hometowns were destroyed, and they had to leave their homes and come to this closed island country to seek a glimmer of hope. It's a pity that the island country accepted refugees mainly to gain international reputation, rather than to really help the refugees.

In the current world of great contention, the island country has little presence in the international community. Although their companies are strong, many companies have already broken away from the control of the island country, bought land abroad, and established power.

The living conditions in the refugee camp are very poor. Everyone lives in tents, and the sanitary conditions are also quite poor. A beautiful girl stood on the side of the road, seducing passers-by. Many refugees gathered together to numb themselves with illegal drugs, and many people's eyes were full of anger at the guests entering the refugee camp.

All of this is a potential threat to undermine the security of the island country, but no one can solve it. Those who are high up only need to consider the international image, and do not need to really solve the problem. In society, refugees and islanders hate each other, are hostile to each other, and want to physically eliminate each other.

The refugees' self-explosion and attack on the diplomat's residence caused another commotion, and many citizens wanted to drive the refugees out.

However, the top leaders would not care. They had their own plans, and the refugees were a means for them to make trouble. As for the deterioration of public security, didn't they set up a team like Section 9 to deal with it? No problem.

Section 9 sneaked into the refugee camp to investigate. It was not that there were no clues, but there were too many clues, and they didn't know which one was the clue of this case.

"There are illegal prostitution, illegal pharmaceuticals, organ trading, illegal religion..." The members of Section 9 looked at the dazzling array of clues and felt that every clue could be a reason for the attack.

How could these be refugees? It was simply the soil for the breeding of sin, and everyone was a potential criminal.

"Is there anything about hackers?" Kusanagi Motoko asked.

"Yes, there are, stealing credit cards, making false certificates, etc." Bart took out new clues.

Everyone was helpless. They were all irrelevant clues, and they couldn't unravel the key content.

"There is really no other way, we can only work overtime." Kusanagi Motoko said: "Solve these illegal cases one by one."

"Are there any clues in the damaged electronic brain left at the explosion site?" Togusa asked.

"The damage is serious. Denise is restoring the data, but it is not optimistic." Kusanagi Motoko said: "We have to prepare for the worst."

The worst plan is to work overtime and solve all kinds of cases.

Boom, the second explosion happened, it was the hospital. The surveillance showed that a person dressed as a refugee blew himself up, and there were more casualties this time.

The islanders finally couldn't stand it anymore and took to the streets to protest, hoping to expel all the refugees.

"Accepting refugees costs a lot of money. If you expel refugees, you will spend a lot of money. Even if the expulsion is successful, who will pay for the money spent? Of course, the senior officials who accept refugees and drive them away are not the same. After all, they need to change their terms." Duran asked with a smile, as if the tragedy had nothing to do with him, making people feel that he was very cold-blooded.

"Duran, I've been with you for a long time. I feel that although we are highly cyborgized, we are still human at heart. But you don't look like a human at all, but like a monster, a cold-blooded monster. Every time you meet a victim, you don't have the heart of a human." Bart couldn't help but say.

Others also agreed that Duran's performance was indeed not like a human.

"What is a human? Your memory of being born as a human may also be just a program written by others. If your self is all artificially created, is it considered a human? If this is considered a human, then I am naturally a human too."

"..." This made Kusanagi Motoko very helpless, because she has been doubting herself. Although her memory says that she is a human and the people around her also think that she is a human, she always feels that she is not a human.

Bart treats Kusanagi Motoko as a human. Although everything about Kusanagi Motoko except her brain is a cyborg, Bart just likes her, so he treats the captain as a woman.

But is this kind of feeling love or fetishism? Is it love for humans or love for robots? Kusanagi Motoko can't tell, and feels that Bart's secret love cannot prove that he is a human.

How do we define humans? The old ideas cannot answer this question.

The currently accepted method of distinguishing humans from robots is actually very vague, that is, the soul. In other words, a substance that cannot be simulated by artificial programs alone is defined as the soul.

But since this kind of thing can be detected, it is only a matter of time before it is analyzed. The soul cannot be copied with the current computing power and program, but it does not mean that it cannot be copied in the future.

Duran believes that the future computing power can completely copy the soul, but there will be side effects. When there is a soul on every part, the more transformations are accepted, the more chaotic the soul will be, and finally cyber psychosis will occur.

At present, the program cannot copy the soul, so there is no such thing as mental illness in the whole body integration, but in the future, as the soul is cracked, mental illness will become the norm for the transformers.

But by then, what humans may pursue is cyber paradise, not mechanical ascension.

"What are you talking about, human or robot, one is the soul, and the second is the attitude of the people around us. If everyone thinks we are human, we are human." Bart said.

"It is really good to use people as a mirror to know gains and losses. Then the question is, when you have done a lot of work and accomplished a lot, but the people around you don't want to take responsibility and say that you are not human, what should you do? Or someone guides public opinion and makes everyone think that you are not human? If your human identity needs to be confirmed by outsiders, is it really reliable? Can you trust the conscience of others?" Duran asked the question of name and reality.

Some people are called people, but they are not actually human. But some people are not called human, but their actions are the same as humans. How should we judge them?

"And the soul."

"The soul is just that the computing power is insufficient at the moment and it cannot be cracked. As long as it is observed by technology, there is nothing that cannot be cracked. I think it won't take too long. In twenty years, the soul will no longer have secrets. The soul is just an ordinary part that can be installed on every modified organ to greatly enhance the power of the organ. At that time, it can even transcend time."

"???" Everyone felt that Duran was exaggerating.

Togusa couldn't help but say: "The prosthesis is indeed powerful, but it's bragging to transcend time."

"Don't underestimate technology. There will be. As long as you live long enough, you can see these technologies when you are in your seventies or eighties." Duran said firmly. The current speed of technological development is so powerful.

Kusanagi Motoko knocked on the whiteboard and said: "We are not a research institute here. We don't need to be so clear about scientific and technological matters. Now we have to solve the case. If the refugee case is not handled well, it will affect the international outlook. We are under great pressure. We must solve this case as soon as possible. Whether it is the refugees who did it or someone secretly used the refugees, they must be arrested."

This time, someone really used refugees. They hope to intensify the hatred of the islanders against refugees to get votes. It turned out that a politician put forward a radical slogan to expel refugees. In order to gain support, he used refugees to carry out terrorist attacks, arouse everyone's anger, and hope that everyone will support his policies and help him win the election.

So this case is not a simple terrorist attack, but a political conspiracy. It has to be said that although technology has advanced, people's hearts are still the same.