Hanhua Machinery Headquarters is a skyscraper with a dish-shaped central main engine room.
A rustling sound in the darkness was suddenly illuminated by a pair of prosthetic eyes. It turned out to be a coffee cup placed on the corner of the table. It was shaken by the explosion outside the building and made a slight collision, breaking the due silence.
Everything that happens outside seems to have nothing to do with this place. Only a dead silence and never-ending darkness is the destination.
"Alas..." As if he had a premonition of something, the man in the darkness sighed and reached out to take the coffee cup.
Immediately after there was a loud noise, fragments of the curtain wall exploded, leaving the computer room in a mess.
The sun had just illuminated the entire space, and the roar of guns poured in ferociously. Putting down the palm that was covering the coffee cup from the debris, the mastermind behind it finally revealed his true identity. He sat with calm eyes and watched the long metal hose tentacles supporting the walls on both sides of the breach, struggling to lift the huge umbrella-shaped crown of the experimental first attack shell.
After taking a sip of ice-cold coffee, the mastermind behind it waited for the arrival of Ghost in the Shell.
"Sure enough, it's you!" Dr. Dai Lin's angry question sounded in Ghost in the Shell.
"Ah, long time no see." The man put down the coffee cup and gestured with a smile.
"Daisuke Aramaki, do you know what you did?!" Dr. Dai Lin's anger could not be restrained.
"I know, do you know?" the old man asked.
"I..." Dr. Dai Lin couldn't help but became speechless: "You killed all of us!"
"It seems that you don't know who killed everyone." The former head of Public Security Section 9, Daisuke Aramaki, did not give in.
"who is it!"
"It's stupidity." Daisuke Aramaki said to himself: "Stupid politicians, stupid citizens, stupid army, stupid bureaucrats, stupid class, stupid media, stupid fools, stupid smart people."
"What happened? What happened on Mutation Day." Dr. Dai Lin needs to know everything.
"After your death, the 'Foundation Project 2573' was launched to achieve 100% prostheticization. Soon after, a new type of electronic sclerosis became popular in the slums. At the beginning of the epidemic, Major Mira reported to me, but in order not to Affected the stock market, municipal officials tried their best to downplay the epidemic. They said it was just a flu and there was nothing to make a fuss about, so that the citizens did not care. As a result, the epidemic spread and death was like an infection. When those people panicked, they could not buy one. Murai’s vaccine is said to be a miracle drug.”
“Does the vaccine really work?”
"No, the vaccine is very effective." Daisuke Aramaki changed his tone: "But it is hoarded in large quantities by the rich in the city and sold at a high price that ordinary people cannot afford. Our smart government is naturally not willing to buy it at a high price, let alone treat it for free. Poor patients. In order to force the rich to make concessions, the media controlled by the city hall began to spread rumors that the vaccine was ineffective."
"Oh my god..."
"While the city hall and the rich were quarreling, no one was really willing to solve the problem. The micromachines in the electronic brains of critically ill patients who had been deemed dead were quietly devouring human brain cells and transforming the deceased into Mutant prosthetic zombies. Later, the war destroyed the city, the rich took refuge abroad, the politicians went into exile, and everyone left was swallowed up by the ruins. Life is worse than death."
"Who is the mastermind behind this?" Dr. Dai Lin asked.
"He said his name was Hideo Kuze." Daisuke Aramaki said softly.
"The hacker who killed me?" Dr. Dai Lin cannot forget.
"Maybe, maybe not." Daisuke Aramaki laughed strangely: "He was also the first severely infected person. It doesn't matter whether his humanity was devoured by micro-machines or whether he was still the original person."
"So he also came back from the dead, right?" Dr. Dai Lin suddenly felt that the situation was serious.
"The so-called plague is both a poison and an antidote to mankind. All the fools, cowards, and despicable people will die, and only we, the new humanity, will be left."
"Is this what you call an antidote?" Dr. Dai Lin laughed angrily: "An antidote for a ruin?"
"There is a saying: 'Good medicine tastes bitter.'" Daisuke Aramaki said confidently.
"Die, old bastard!" Dr. Dai Lin waved his giant tentacle, vowing to smash Daisuke Aramaki and his host into pieces.
"You really don't know." Daisuke Aramaki showed no fear.
Everything seems to confirm what he said. The giant tentacle stopped strangely at the tip of Daisuke Aramaki's nose. No matter how Dr. Dai Lin urged, the tentacles remained motionless.
"After all this time, do you know what is the most important thing for human beings?" Daisuke Aramaki said calmly.
"What is it?" Dr. Dai Lin will definitely ask.
"Permissions." Daisuke Aramaki waved his hand gently, and the giant tentacles obediently gave in: "Everything you have now is a design in advance by the powerful. Even your roar and anger, and the justice in your heart are just 'stress' The reaction equation is just a piece of code entered in advance. Everything is manipulated by the power behind it."
"What did you do to me?" There was undisguised panic in Dr. Dai Lin's words.
"It's nothing." Daisuke Aramaki calmed down and approached step by step: "It's just a backdoor installed in your core code, that's all."
"Damn old bastard—"
With the eruption of steam, the laboratory first attacked the shell AI system, bypassed Dr. Dai Lin, the only user, and used the higher authority granted to forcibly open the cabin.
The dazzling light made Dr. Dai Lin, who was 100% prosthetic, at a loss. In other words, Dr. Dai Lin, who was transformed into a 100% prosthetic body, refused to show his true face. In fact, Dr. Dai Lin, who is 100% prosthetic, can have countless bodies. What's in front of me is just one of them.
"Ah, look how beautiful you are." Daisuke Aramaki walked to the broken edge of the computer room and praised him face to face: "You have broken away from the shackles of human stupidity and become an eternal existence."
"Old bastard. I don't need your praise!" Dr. Dai Lin struggled hard to regain control of attacking the shell first.
However, the tentacles that were raised slightly fell down weakly. Even the best efforts failed.
He watched with cold eyes and allowed Dr. Dai Lin to struggle to no avail. Only then did Daisuke Aramaki speak out: "Do you understand the permissions now?"
"You are not the old bastard I know." Dr. Dai Lin was filled with dissatisfaction: "The old bastard I know does not fight for power, does not like to show off, always follows the justice in his heart, and never gives up in the face of evil forces! The one who always trusts Major, 'bleeds the same blood' as all the members of Public Security Section 9, where did the former 'Tōda Juku Miyukara' go!"
"Perhaps the old guy you and I knew also died during the epidemic." Daisuke Aramaki waved his hand without any trouble. Several Geisha robot assistants immediately stepped forward to disable Dr. Dai Lin's brain-computer interface.
"No need to worry... you're welcome!" Dr. Dai Lin's eyes suddenly lit up and he started the self-destruction program. The 100% prosthetic body was immediately overloaded, accompanied by flashing arcs and flames emerging from the body, burning Dr. Dai Lin's electronic brain and even the entire prosthetic body.
"Huh?" Daisuke Aramaki, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly discovered something: "This is just a backup of her consciousness. Find the core of her electronic personality."
"Yes, boss." The player leader who had been snooping in the dark responded without any delay.
"Boss, it must be Laboratory No. 3." A female player speculated in the channel: "No. 1 is a 100% full-body prosthetic body, No. 2 is a matching first-attack shell, and No. 3 should be more powerful. of……"
"Electronic super brain." The player leader immediately ordered: "0215, go to Laboratory 3."
"Boss, 0215 is still in Laboratory 2, arresting Major Mira." the female player replied.
"0910, you go."
"Roger that, boss."
"To be on the safe side, we can't let go of Laboratory No. 1." The female player volunteered: "I'll go."
"Okay, go and come back as soon as possible." The words were correct, and the player leader agreed after thinking about it.
