Start with a Mechanical Hunter

"Mr. Gao, can I know your true purpose?" Miss Ke said calmly.

“Please rest assured that as the department intelligence officer, I am only loyal to the previous department chiefs. You don’t have to worry, I will leak your secrets to anyone, including Miss Yagami Motoko.”

 “I will help you do what you want to do better.”

Gao Gong smiled and didn't take it seriously.

 Maybe what the other party said is true, but the ‘secret’ itself is a form of information.

 “For example, there is a piece of news that may be useful to you.”

"oh?"

“On the third bookshelf, the fifth book from left to right, you may find a surprise.”

Gao Gong raised his eyebrows, walked to the bookshelf, and found a book with yellowed pages - "The Explosion of Life"

  It talks about some of the evolution of this planet in the paleontological period, a popular science article.

Gao Gong opened it and soon found a letter.

"This is?"

"This was sent by a former minister through some channels. I think he wanted you to see it. Of course, maybe not now, but I think it should not be kept a secret from the current minister."

 “What did Huang Juan leave to me?”

Gao Gong took it apart and raised his brows. There were only a series of names on it.

 “Do you need me to confirm the identities of these people for you?”

"Um."

Soon, marked character information appeared one by one. Most of them were cloud nobles, and they were the best among the cloud nobles. A certain elder of the Xie family, a core member of the Miller family, a certain rich bionic man, a space colonist A descendant of a deceased person, a member of the Skull and Bones Society, an organizer of the Friends Club...

“These people’s information is at an encryption level and cannot be retrieved without the authority of the supervisory department.”

Gao Gong glanced over them one by one, and gradually showed a surprised expression. However, after reading it, the surprised expression disappeared, and instead there was a trace of indescribable doubts.

Twelve branches of nobles in the clouds

That is, the group of people who colluded with alien forces, summoned the memory matrix, and invaded the fortress.

Gao Gong saw many familiar faces, such as the founder of the Paradise Club, a member of the Old Friends Club, the third-generation Miller who developed the imaginative girl, the first wise man of the Diwang Group, the Skull and Bones Society, the Fairy Tale Toy Park The founder of , a crazy entrepreneur for generations.

Gao Gong really did not expect that even the Skull and Bones Society would be developed into an insider. He thought that only the nobles in the clouds were qualified to be the alien guide party.

However, it is normal to think of the role of Skull and Bones members in the cyber tide.

 This group of people is different from the polluters of the ‘memory matrix’.

The latter is simply contaminated and instinctively longs for the arrival of this fifth-level information monster.

 This group of people is the real party leading the way.

 Their backstage is the force that actually sends the coordinates of this planet to the mouth of the memory matrix.

Those people have truly profound backgrounds. After all, those who dare to risk offending the ‘Seventh Level Civilization’ and go to the Cyber ​​Testing Site to cause trouble are by no means ordinary people in the universe.

 “Old guy Aramaki is really fast.”

Gao Gong murmured and suddenly asked another question.

“Have you told Captain Suzi about this?”

 “No,” Miss Shell replied.

 “Very good, keep it up.”

“But—” Miss Ke showed a rare hesitant tone, “Miss Suzi should be happy to join your cause.”

"She will join, but not now," Gao Gong said softly: "You have to know that behind these people is a very terrifying force. Not to mention Aramaki and me, even in the mother city, under that force It may not be enough for the eyes, so caution is a must.”

“Can’t we control this group of people first?”

“No, this is the most taboo thing,” Gao Gong shook his head.

 Although the power of the Ghost in the Shell mobile unit is used, at least on this planet, these people can be killed in one fell swoop.

 But then what?

　What should we do if the existence behind the other party sets off a cyber wave in advance?

 In the current situation, every second counts, and we can delay it as long as we can.

  Make a dojo inside the snail shell.

 He understood what Aramaki meant.

If he fails in the middle, the list will be handed over to him and he will continue to advance the matter.

 In a sense, this is Aramaki’s real ‘legacy’, not the Ghost in the Shell beneath his feet.

“Take me to see the real secrets of this department.”

 “Okay, Minister.”

Following Miss Ke's words, the entire floor began to change. A large number of bookshelves moved according to regular patterns, and sounds of "squeaking" and "squeaking" came from the ground. With the hearing of the senior engineer, it can be heard that this is not just one or two. It is not a change of floors, but a change of floors on thousands of floors.

 Finally, a hole of about three meters appeared in the center of the bookshelf.

 “Gravity Hole?”

"Yes."

"Then this place is quite far away." There are two types of gravity holes. One is the 'regional type', such as the combat center specially developed for advanced NPCs, or some large aircraft, such as the anti-gravity system of the sky aircraft carrier. This is a regional type; there is also a 'long-distance transmission type'. This kind of gravity hole is an ultra-long-distance transmission that can only be completed with the help of certain large stars.

˜Equivalent to a prerequisite technology for large-scale space transmission.

Gao Gong stepped into it, and an inexplicable force supported his body, making him suspended in the hollow.

 Then the next moment, his figure disappeared instantly.

 The star that this ‘gravity hole’ is borrowed from is undoubtedly this mechanical star.

 …

This ‘teleportation’ probably took nearly a day.

 Gaogong sinks, sinks, and sinks again.

As he sank, a familiar force enveloped him.

 Because when he was halfway down, the heat began to get higher and higher, so high that Gao Gong's body could no longer bear it.

 That's close to 5000 or even 6000 degrees.

 The pressure is also very high, about two thousand times that of the surface of the mechanically fractured star.

 Gao Gong's entire body seemed to be stuffed into an increasingly larger planet, which not only wanted to completely submerge him, but also completely swallowed him up, leaving him completely unable to stand up.

Every cell, every bone, and every neural circuit is creaking under this huge force.

Gao Gong had an idea and all the 20 free attribute points he had saved were added to endurance.

 Stamina: 232→252

  [Your health +1000 (mechanical)]

  [Your health +1000 (creature)]

  [Your physical strength +100 points]

 Although it is only a little better, it is still a good relaxation.

　　‘Is this how Aramaki came in before? No wonder this old man is so thin that he may have crushed his kidneys. ’

 Fortunately, when the surrounding environment turned into flames, the gravity of the gravity hole had undergone a second change, wrapping him like a ball.

 In this case, Gao Gong couldn't feel any gravity at all.

 He knew where he had come, the center of the Mecha Star, where the core of the earth was.

In the super high temperature of the core, the magma has almost completely solidified, but you can vaguely see some large machinery digging inside. The high temperature has coated the surface of the machinery with a layer of bright light, making every detail visible.

The high-temperature resistance of this metal exceeds that of any alloy known to senior engineers, including this set of its own mechanical body.

 The gravity cavity introduces itself into the surface of the core, a 'cuboid' with no edges visible to the naked eye.

 …

There is a saying that the best way to deal with hackers is not to install some invincible defense software, but to directly unplug the network cable.

 This approach also applies in the cyber era.

The hacking method of cyber hackers relies entirely on the pseudosensory signals overflowing from the human body.

 But there is no signal that can span nearly 7,000 kilometers, from the surface to the center of the earth. In other words, here, the network is completely disconnected.

 Any 'secret plug-in', 'brain reading information software', or 'brain wave receiver' you install on others will be completely hacked and enter a downtime state.

Furthermore, the nearly 10,000-degree high temperature here also blocks the penetration of some information life.

 After all, energy beats information.

 The headquarters of the six major supervisory departments are installed in the center of the earth.

As soon as Gao Gong's feet fell, he couldn't help but sigh.

"In the past, we always said that if the enemy threatens us again in the future, they will use their own 'Earth Breakthrough Machine' to dig into the ground and destroy both the jade and the stone. Now it seems that we are still naive. The Mother City must have been at the weakest place on the planet. A strong enough defense system has been installed, and even third-level civilization weapons cannot break through this defense system."

“Protecting the safety of this planet is also the normal maintenance work of this cyber testing ground.”

Gao Gong looked around and saw an endless space, and inside the space, there were also endless ‘cabinets’.

 “Old-school style.”

“The entire ‘Ghost in the Shell Center’ is composed of 10 million computing cabinets and is mainly responsible for all monitoring of corporate executives, model construction of evolutionary routes, simulation tests of technical directions, and warnings and reminders for illegal tests.”

“There are actually ‘illegal tests’ at the cyber testing site?”

"some."

 “Give a few examples.”

“In May of Cyber ​​Calendar 41, the ‘Red Water Group’ attempted to create liquid life. Because this life was highly polluting, we stopped it.”

“In September of Cyber ​​Calendar 51, members of the Skeleton Foundation and Death Technology attempted to create a large-scale ‘death experiment’, but Captain Motoko arrived in advance, sabotaged it, and killed the founder of Death Technology.”

“In January of Cyber ​​Calendar 52, the biological giant, Vinos Life Safety Group, attempted to conduct large-scale biochemical experiments in four colonies…”

The senior engineer listened for a while and understood. The so-called "illegal experiments" are technical experiments that may trigger a "planetary crisis". Making virtual humans, engaging in global brainwave connection, etc. are all acts of seeking death, and It is to commit suicide with all the life on the planet.

 This kind of behavior must be stopped.

 As for other things, they are basically gone.

“Do you know why I’m here?” Gao Gong suddenly asked.

“Didn’t former Minister Aramaki ask you to come here to investigate the list in your hand?” Ms. Shell expressed doubt in her tone.

Gao Gong pondered for a moment and said, "Yes, that's right."

“Based on the frequency of changes in your heartbeat, pulse, and skin pores, there is an 85.2% chance that you are lying.”