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Uh~

Covering her forehead, she woke up on the sofa. The strong dizziness made Gu Yinxing get up and rush to the bathroom outside the living room after a brief groan.

Suzi stood up next to her and wanted to go over to check on her.

"Don't worry, she was affected in the illusion, that's why she is like this. She will be fine after a while."

As soon as Suzi walked to the door of the living room, Zhu Jue woke up. He heard the sound of water running in the bathroom, glanced at the empty seat next to him, and immediately realized Gu Gingxing's current situation.

"What's going on inside?"

Suzi stopped and looked back at Zhu Jue.

His state was much more normal than that of Gu Yinxing. Perhaps it would be better to describe it as unchanged, as if he had just been leaning on the sofa and dozing off for half an hour.

"It's hard to say. There are some unexpected discoveries that I need your help to verify. Follow me."

The scene under the bone tree he saw before leaving was still in his mind. Zhu Jue waved to the wind chime, got up and walked out. When he waited at the door of the living room, he slowed down a little, looked in the direction of the bathroom, and shouted,

"Ginkgo, while you are staying in the clinic, there is half a bottle of moonshine wine on the table, which can help you ease your mental state!"

There was a vague response from the bathroom, and before it could be heard clearly, it was replaced by the sound of vomiting.

"Will it get better after a while?"

Suzi repeated the last half of Zhu Jue's previous sentence in a questioning tone.

"Of course, being able to vomit after entering Gadamon's illusion shows that there is not much mental problem with her. If it were someone else who entered, it would be a problem to even move. Besides, there will be trouble for a while. She got used to it after spitting it out."

Some things have to be experienced. Rather than becoming the immobile person you say you are, you might as well vomit a few more times.

The principle is very similar to that of some people who get drunk and always secretly go to the toilet to "pick" their throats during banquets in order to drink a few more drinks to prove their drinking capacity.

"Where are you going?"

Walking down the stairs, it was already late at night. Motoko took the key to the airship and asked about the destination.

"There's no need to fly an airship. It doesn't take much time to walk."

After estimating the path just now, leaving aside the time of lurking and staying in the middle, it is indeed not that far.

While talking, Zhu Jue's eyes fell involuntarily on the street outside the door. There was a middle-aged man on the roadside carrying a carton containing a large amount of fried food and some strange kebabs that Zhu Jue had never tried. , holding an umbrella under his neck, eating wildly while pacing back and forth in the snow.

Following the route he had taken in the illusion before, as expected, Zhu Jue soon met a man on the street who was cursing on his mobile phone and leaning against the wall near him, holding a bottle of wine in his hand. The drunk man's face was flushed. Because of the light cast by the light above his head, Zhu Jue couldn't see whether there was any wine left in the bottle.

Woo~woo~

Red lights penetrated the snow curtain, and the airship with the Life Medical logo speeded into the street from the void layer of the outer neighborhood.

Stopping at the door of a house under the watchful eyes of the two, three heavily armed life medical security personnel pushed and even intimidated the surrounding pedestrians with an almost arrogant attitude, and quickly cleared the area, followed by several more wearing protective clothing. He rushed into the house, and soon ran out quickly carrying a long white bag with the Life Medical logo on the outside.

Body bag!

After retracting the team, the airship rose again and disappeared into the traffic flow in the central space.

Only a mother and her son were left standing at the door, bewildered.

"You seem to know that someone is going to die in that room?"

Suzi, who was standing across the street a few minutes before the arrival of the airship, looked at Zhu Jue next to him, confused.

"Well, I made some discoveries in the fantasy world. But why is Life Medical appearing here?"

This house was where the Ouroboros trio stayed. Zhu Jue knew something would happen here, but he thought they were coming from an epidemic prevention center.

"Corpse study!"

Suzi answered simply.

"What?"

"As the number of infected people in Xiacheng District has increased in recent times, Life Medical Group may have taken a fancy to the business opportunities there. It may also be that it wants to study the mutations of infected people, so it has begun to compete with the epidemic prevention center for infected people, regardless of life or death."

"How did you know?"

Shaking off the broken snow on the umbrella, Zhu Jue continued walking forward.

"The Rangers, when they borrowed their equipment, left a 'back door' in their system."

Suzi raised her hand and tapped her temple.

"What they can see, I can see too."

"Hey~ I don't advocate your behavior, and I won't do it next time! I found that you are not as rigid as I thought."

As Zhu Jue spoke, he lowered his body to bump into Su Zi with his shoulder. The latter took a step away, but was hit by Zhu Jue who reacted faster and leaned back in advance in a weird posture, staggering to the side.

“I was paid to help them upgrade their system, fix three vulnerabilities and expand surveillance to two communities.”

Without contradicting him, Suzi stared at Zhu Jue and spoke.

"Ahem~ We're here."

Zhu Jue looked at the street in front of him and changed the topic in a more blunt way.

For many people, this time is the most exciting time for nightlife, so the crowds on the streets are still very dense.

There are various shops on both sides of the street, most of which are restaurants and electronic product stores. The importance of the latter in this era is not much different from eating, and there are also differences. For example, there is a store closer to Zhu Jue. Standing at the door is a new type of mechanical doll, performing various actions in conjunction with the holographic projection, and the products in his hand are constantly changing.

The store opposite it has a much run-down facade, with a clear sign hanging outside: Secondhand Store (Discount Promotion).

What's interesting is that the number of customers coming in and out of that second-hand store is much busier than the one across the street.

"Where?"

When Zhu Jue was comparing the two electronic goods stores, Suzi had already scanned the area and found nothing unusual.

"Just at the intersection ahead."

Lift your hands and point forward.

Under the traffic light poles that are several meters high, people are passing by. There are not many ordinary vehicles in Community No. 23. It is not because of how expensive it is, but because of the dense population, the traffic situation within the community has not improved. There is a slight improvement. Those who had the money bought airships that were more convenient to travel in Thousand Sail City, while the middle class had convenient public transportation.

"Whether you can hack into the hue detector at the street corner is very important."

This kind of area uses movable hue monitoring devices in order to avoid errors and omissions caused by blind spots as much as possible. The number is several times more than that of the blocks where private clinics are located.

"Invading official networks, do you advocate it?"

Su Zi's tone was still very calm, but Zhu Jue sounded a little strange no matter how he sounded.

"The Qianfan City government has nothing to do with me. Invasion, invasion at will!"

Zhu Jue waved his hands generously, as casually as he did at his own dining table, but kept his voice extremely low for fear of being heard by passers-by.

It didn't take much time. The hue detector was not an important confidential device. As long as it was not destroyed but only shared, the encryption program in the device system was no different from the "no entry" sign hanging in the suburbs in Suzi's opinion. How many.

"The intrusion is completed and data reading has begun. Zhu Jue, the hue value of these people."

The stream of data slipped from her eyes, and Motoko's perspective had shifted to the sky above the crowd at the intersection. After just a few seconds, she noticed something was wrong.

"Their hue values ​​are all going up, right?"

"Although there is only a small increase, the hue value of the people crossing the intersection is generally increasing. Why is this happening?"

Selecting a dozen targets for secondary detection, Suzi quickly determined this situation.

"Of course it's the work of Ouroboros, those guys really can't take any time off!"

In Gadamon's illusion, there is a bone tree here, and the "passers-by" who present strange images in Gu Ginkgo's spiritual world invariably deteriorate physically when they pass by it.

When he discovered this phenomenon, Zhu Jue immediately realized that this bone tree growing in the illusion could affect the real world!

"There is definitely more than one bone tree in the illusion, and it affects the mental state of the residents of Qianfan City on a large scale in this way. If I hadn't gone in and seen it with my own eyes, it would probably be difficult to discover."

At this time, Zhu Jue was quite glad that he chose to find the great race to understand the situation, otherwise it would be extremely difficult for him to notice the move of the Ouroboros organization.

Although Qianfancheng's hue detector operates on a large scale, it does not record the hue status of every passer-by in real time, because it is not only meaningless in the eyes of the designer, but also adds excessive burden to the system. .

You must know that a person's mental state will change with the changes in the surrounding illusion. For example, watching a horror movie or encountering something happy or unhappy recently will cause changes in the hue value. If even this happens, it must be reported to the detection , with the population of Qianfan City, it is undoubtedly a waste of public resources.

Therefore, at the beginning of the design, there is an alarm baseline in the hue detector. For example, a limit is set at the turbidity value of 35. If the hue value of a passerby exceeds this line, it will immediately report it to the monitoring department and start This person is tracked throughout the whole process, and the small range of hue value fluctuations detected by Suzi are completely outside its alarm and monitoring range.

"Do I need to notify Newcastle?"

Although the intentions of the Ouroboros organization are not yet understood, it is certain that they have no good intentions.

"Do you think it's useful to tell him that there is a bone tree here in Gadamon's illusion, so the whole street needs to be sealed off?"

Zhu Jue looked at the people walking freely in front of him and said in a low voice,

"No matter how ridiculous this kind of thing sounds to most people, even if Newcastle believes that the Thousand Sails City government will not easily do such things that may attract attention. The Ouroboros organization may have nailed this. , you should also know the story of boiling frogs in warm water unless we take the initiative to expose it, but doing so has no meaning other than letting the Ouroboros organization know that I can enter the illusion of Gadamon!"

"Then we just sit back and watch?"

Such a large-scale mental impact, if left unchecked, would have unimaginable consequences!

"Who said it doesn't matter? It's just a different way. You wait for me here and don't move around."

Zhu Jue said as he leaned towards the center of the intersection ahead.

Turning up the collar of his windbreaker, Zhu Jue walked among the crowd, becoming an ordinary passerby.

However, if someone stands in front of him, they will find that his eyes have begun to fill with black and purple mist.

Within the trouser legs, spiritual energy is poured into the legs.

"If you feel happy, just clap your hands~"

Humming softly, Zhu Jue attracted the attention of several passers-by. He raised his hand in a pistol gesture and pointed at them.

He took a few more steps, raised his legs, and sang softly: "If you feel happy, just stamp your feet!"

Bang~bang~

Two muffled sounds shocked the passers-by around them. They all stopped and looked around blankly.

The next second, the street trembled violently, and countless cracks began to spread crazily from Zhu Jue's feet to all directions!

"Fuck! It's going to collapse! Run quickly!!!"

Someone shouted in the crowd, this is Community No. 23, and below is the street of Community No. 24. There is an empty floor of tens of meters. If you fall, you will die!

So everyone subconsciously evacuated this intersection.

In just ten seconds, this place became an empty area.

"Is this what you meant by changing the way?"

Suzi stood on the side of the street, looking at the stone-splattered street in the distance, and subconsciously asked someone coming towards her.

"Of course, it will take a week at least for them to repair it. What are you waiting for? Get out!"

Zhu Jue raised the corner of his mouth, raised his left eyebrow, swung his neck and left in the direction he came.

Since the Ouroboros organization affects the real world in this way, it means that they have a considerable need for the souls of infected people.

As long as you grasp this point, there is much to be done!