Indescribable cyberpunk

The valuable information provided by the killing game is not limited to the driver and co-pilot who transport the volunteers. Motoko also discovered the origin of the monster that is the source of mental pollution through surveillance cameras on the street.

The young man in the passenger seat moved the box out of the car.

It was not a pure mental pollution monster. As someone who had faced it head-on, Zhu Jue was vaguely aware of this at the time.

However, considering that the other party had cooperated with Mi·Ge, it was not that weird to create some special monsters, so Zhu did not feel that there was anything special. However, Suzi accidentally discovered that this spirit was released during the subsequent investigation. There is a special logo printed on the outside of the pollution source monster's box.

Naturally, a simple logo cannot mean anything. The reason why Suzi paid special attention was because she was in the dream of the "Zero" organization member who received the dream inquiry. To be precise, it was the number standing behind the gate. The same symbol was found on one of the special people!

Ouroboros!

The general image of this symbol is a snake swallowing its own tail, showing a tangled twist shape, which is the shape of the Arabic numeral "8". It is common in various religious myths and also metaphors quite a lot of things.

For example, in the circular structure cosmology interpreted by alchemy, the Ouroboros symbolizes the supreme work, which both integrates and contains opposites, and is a concept of "perfection" that is both clear and vague.

Ouroboros also represents "self-reference" or "infinite loop", especially those things that can constantly multiply themselves and cyclical self-development. A good example of this is the legendary phoenix, which is burning itself. Self-reproduction (or understood as "rebirth") in the process is a manifestation of the concept of infinite loop.

Zhu Jue’s tattoo on his arm.

This means that he not only wants to find the existence of Ouroboros, but also completely cut it off!

"This logo only appears on the box in the entire killing game. I have not found similar images elsewhere. However, this just shows that it probably only belongs within the organization, so it is rarely disclosed to the outside world. Of course, it is not excluded. It's because of some accidental markings, but I think it's unlikely."

While Motoko was talking, she was also sorting out the items in the drawer behind her desk. Most of them were discarded medical documents that she would throw away later.

The rain outside the window is increasing, dusk has not yet arrived, the gloomy sky and the ever-changing street lights make people feel depressed.

"Tsk, the current information is not enough to explain much. The situation of this guy Sean must be investigated!"

If the Ouroboros appearing here does belong to the same organization as the one found in the original dream inquiry, then Zhu Jue is undoubtedly at the right place this time.

Sean is the clue to all the clues they have so far. If they want to launch a follow-up investigation, he is the top priority!

"I looked up the human rights march three years ago on the Thousand Sail City network. The person who reported on Sean at that time was a reporter from the Ketchton News Agency in Community No. 17. Her reporter's name was Shirley. This is possible. It’s not her real name, because the chaos in the lower city of Qianfan City has caused many reporters to not dare to use their real names to conduct investigations, and most of the content published in the news is because they are worried about people coming to look for trouble."

The journalistic industry is not safe. There are many news hot spots in the increasingly restless Xiacheng District society, but often there are dangers hidden behind these hot spots.

"Can she find her true identity?"

Even her name is fake, so it is naturally impossible for this reporter to let others know where she lives.

"I can only try my best. The network of Qianfan City is monitored by Intelligent Brain. It is easy to attract attention if I want to hack into some databases under this network condition. In order to ensure safety, I will cut off the network once I am tracked by Intelligent Brain. Whether I can succeed or not depends on When will it find me? Community No. 17 should be in the forefront area. I don’t know how high its network security is.”

It has always been a common problem among human beings to classify things into three, six, or nine grades. Therefore, even after the emergence of Thousand Sail Racing City, the original urban area completely became the lower city area, and the people there were still obsessed with ranking.

After several years of personnel movement, community number, that is, community status, has become the default rule. As far as Zhu Jue knows, there should be nearly 40 communities in Qianfan City, each with a population of about 300,000.

Putting Qianfan Jingdu City aside, the top ten or furthermore the top five among these 40 communities can be regarded as wealthy areas to a certain extent, while the rest are all living areas for the middle class and lower class people.

But this is Thousand Sail City. No one can question the protection of the network by the three major machinery groups. Even if they are willing, they can monitor the signals sent by everyone and the network abnormalities in various regions. However, doing so will consume a considerable amount of money. Computational power is just more gain than loss.

Intelligent brains are not omnipotent. Instead of using their huge computing power to monitor people's information on a large scale, senior officials obviously want to use them in key places.

Of course, in Zhu Jue's previous life, a certain country was undoubtedly more keen on invading people's privacy.

No matter what, Suzi can only hope that Community No. 17 will not be taken seriously, at least the database she wants to hack is not among Zhinu's key protection targets.

Di~

The two were chatting when a buzzer sounded on the right side of the desk. The virtual screen that rose on the desktop showed someone outside the clinic, wearing the uniform of a furniture company. There was a truck parked on the road behind him, which should have been ordered by Motoko. Daily necessities have arrived.

"Did you buy anything like a toothbrush?"

After pausing the discussion, Zhu Jue stood up and prepared to welcome people in, and asked casually.

"They claim to be fully equipped with everything, including slippers and bath towels. There should be no shortage of toothbrushes and the like."

Motoko didn't carefully identify the items when buying them. She just found a nearby mall online.

In fact, not only were they not missing anything, they even brought much more than Zhu Jue imagined.

"What is this?"

Looking at the mechanical disc with a diameter of nearly half a meter that was pushed into the room from in front of him, Zhu Jue followed in and asked.

"This is the latest holographic projector. It allows you to enjoy a full audio-visual experience in the room. It is a best-selling item on the market now. Because you asked for everything when purchasing, we sent it to you."

"Are you sure my room can hold so many things?"

Zhu Jue lowered his face and pointed at the room full of furniture and various electrical appliances.

The refrigerator occupies less than half of the wall, the bathtub almost fills the bathroom, and the most bizarre thing is a large crystal chandelier nearly two meters in diameter.

It looks good. If this thing is installed, won't it blind your eyes when you turn on the light?

Suzi went out to go shopping and was about to ask about the situation, but found that the latter was standing on the side of the corridor, frowning and looking somewhere outside the window.

“Did you not look at the furniture when you bought it?”

"Look at the people outside under the third streetlight from left to right.

Before Zhu Jue could finish his question, Suzi interrupted him directly, pressed his fingers on his upper lip, as if to cover his mouth, and spoke softly.

Following her direction, I saw a man holding a black umbrella standing under the streetlight. From his position, his body was obviously leaning towards the private clinic. He was holding an audio-visual stick, as if he was talking to someone. What video to watch.

"He was there when we let the people from the furniture company in downstairs. I zoomed in and what he was looking at was today's weather forecast. It had been five minutes. I checked specifically and there was no unprecedented heavy rain tomorrow. , there was no extremely threatening acid rain or hail, it was just a simple rainy day, and what he paid attention to was not the audio-visual equipment at all!"

Although there were a lot of pedestrians and vehicles coming and going, this obviously purposeful behavior still caught Suzi's attention.

"Is it possible that the news about our coming here is leaked? No, the only people who know our destination are you, me, and Fu Yingxiong. Even if the news that we are planning to come to Thousand Sail City is leaked, how can they be sure that we will appear here?"

Although their action plan was reported to the top of the Yi League through Fu Yingxiong, it was only a general direction and did not mention how they would conduct the investigation or where to start the investigation.

"Perhaps the local forces noticed us, so they sent people over to check the situation. I remember the intelligence personnel of the Yi League in Qianfan City mentioned this matter. Due to the chaotic community environment, the number of small and medium-sized organizations in the lower city of Qianfan City has increased. There are quite a few, there are gangs in almost every community, and it’s not strange to be concerned about what’s happening on your own turf, especially in a private practice like ours.”

Private clinics mean medical support, and the price may be higher than that of regular hospitals, but their confidentiality and close geographical location are naturally the first choice for treating illnesses for these gangs who have to fight with others every day.

"It looks like we'll be busy soon."

Zhu Jue withdrew his gaze and left the window without looking back.

The testing of local forces will obviously not be limited to sending someone to pretend to take a look across the street.

If nothing else, when the clinic opens, they will definitely send someone over to check it out.

But before that, Zhu felt that he should first find a way to solve his own decoration problem.