Interdimensional science and technology starting from cyberpunk

Elliot is very timid, but also inexplicably very timid.

This short few minutes of contact was enough for Lille to define this boy: a very ordinary ordinary person. He even had an ordinary job in the minds of most ordinary people.

It's strange to say that this is the first person Lear has ever met in this world whose job of making a living has nothing to do with boxing, knife fights and gun battles.

Looking through his system records, he has never even had a fight or quarrel because of loyalty. He is a completely good citizen.

But on the Internet, I often register different accounts to troll and curse people. The greatest pleasure is to participate in discussions on various major events and give advice.

His job is to maintain the Anglo-French channel——

This channel was originally an undersea tunnel that connected Britain and France. However, due to the collapse of the old network and the AI ​​rebellion, a large number of military units bombed the undersea tunnel. It took the EU a long time to restore order. Now the tunnel has been reduced to a small-scale supply and information transportation channels, and also almost unmanned logistics channels.

His job is to maintain robots, equipment, etc. according to regulations. In essence, he is actually a company dog:

Eurotunnel's company dog.

But the corporate dogs in Europe are very different from the corporate dogs in Night City. Here, the company's job is stability, especially large, officially controlled companies like Eurotunnel.

In Europe, within the protection of European barriers, crime rates are very low, and it is almost difficult for people with a criminal record to find a job.

“But it’s normal to circumvent the wall!”

[Lille: Stop talking nonsense! Why are you talking to yourself! 】

Elliot had a sullen face and inserted the personal link into the access port with trembling hands.

While working, he even closed his eyes in fear: illegal use of computer technology for profit/hacking is a felony, and what he will attract is not the ordinary police, but network surveillance!

He had even thought about waiting for him to plug in the link, the blast door of the entire building was closed, and a group of network agents rushed downstairs, then shouted "Network monitoring! Turn off the equipment!" and then dragged him away. Shot!

Click——

But nothing happened, all that happened was the door opened.

It's like he's really a maintenance man.

[Johnny: Alas. I have seen timid people, but never such a coward]

[Johnny: I mean, can’t we all just slip onto the Internet? Murphy once said that rogue AIs are everywhere like the ninjas of Arasaka Company. They are impossible to guard against and can go wherever they want. 】

[Liel: You, a person with an intelligence of no more than 3, should stop pointing fingers and talking nonsense. 】

[Johnny: Sigh. I just can't stand the coward, who is so playful and playful, and letting him pretend to sneak into the maintenance room seems to cost him his life. He doesn't need to use his brain! 】

Elliot walked into the maintenance room stiffly. He could hear Johnny scolding him in his head, but he didn't reply.

The feeling of breaking the law is wonderful. Not all places in this world are like Night City. Street kids naturally know how to find public facilities to practice their "craft".

[Lille: Put on the helmet, and then receive the ball from the center. 】

According to Muramasa, at the beginning of the 21st century, Europe began to study how to design software and hardware to match each other so that they could only maintain certain functions and not be able to do much else.

To put it simply, the computing power of Elliot, his cabin, and even the entire building is just right, and the design margin is only enough to deal with a few unexpected events.

This just-in-time design allows ordinary people to operate very stably, but most of the time, from a macro perspective, it does not support the birth of so-called "hackers".

Carrying the two flexible AIs of Lear and Muramasa is already the limit. If you want to hack, you will need a little extra help.

This extra feature is the helmet that Elliot bought from a street vendor.

Although this helmet is very suspicious, there is no other plan at the moment. All they can be sure of is that this helmet is now under their control.

The chip of this helmet is just right for hacking, which is something beyond the imagination of this "just right" design concept. In essence, this is a very old head-mounted access capsule.

Elliot put the helmet into the center console.

"You. What are you going to do?"

[Lille: I'll give you some disguise and tinker with it. Blackwalling is a very dangerous operation, and most people can't repair it. But you're lucky. I'm not an ordinary person. 】

[Muramasa: I will open the permissions of this apartment and fake some power supply damage, but my operation will attract the attention of the black wall. 】

[Muramasa: I need you to use your unique skills to help me circumvent the censorship of the black wall. 】

A black wall is not just a wall, it is a system and a defense plan. In Europe, the home base of network surveillance, this system will only become more complete.

In fact, if it were not Leal but just Muramasa who had crossed the wall and reached Elliot's system, the anomaly would have been detected through daily system updates, data synchronization and fault reconnection.

As for Lille

In cyberspace, his current image is that of a mechanical octopus. The mechanical octopus is attached to Elliot's prosthetic system, distorting his data form and forging a relatively complete and normal data image.

This disguise is all based on Lear's ability to forge codes that are recognized as "emotions" by the black wall.

There is no distinction in human eyes.

[Lille: Let’s get to work. 】

With his assistance, Muramasa, this AI who is well versed in European technology, is an AI that can hide from the black wall.

It is a killer of European electronic equipment.

Folkestone, Network Monitoring Office.

This city is located on the border and by the sea. It is an important transportation hub between Britain and France. The special geographical location also determines that the network monitoring office must be set up here.

In the office, two staff members sat on hacker chairs, with blue light flashing in their eyes.

[Network Monitoring Agent A: Something hit the inner wall, it seems that a stray AI is coming.]

[Network Monitoring Agent B: It's really unlucky. I didn't expect something to happen when we were on duty. ]

[Network Monitoring Agent A: The address is in the tunnel array. There is an indicator for the wall-climbing helmet there. Look at it openly. Maybe it's to complete the indicator. If this ticket is done well, there will be no worries about the performance of this quarter. ]

[Network Monitoring Agent A: The headquarters will immediately assign us dragon hunters for support. Let's go first. ]

[Network Monitoring Agent B: Okay, okay. I really want to continue lying down and see what these idiots are doing on the Internet. ]

[Cyber ​​Inspection Agent A: Speaking of which, did you know that recently a idiot who got a helmet fiddled with it for a long time before he could open it correctly? ]

[Cyber ​​Inspection Agent A: He searched for the reed as soon as he opened it. How stupid. ]

[Cyber ​​Inspection Agent B: Haha! After all, people like them have to take out loans to buy a Mewtwo. You should also be considerate of them. ]

[Cyber ​​Inspection Agent B: Elliot Grove, um. That's the guy, right? ]

[Cyber ​​Inspection Agent B: As fat as a pig. ]