Three days later.
When Lin Xu and others met the detective girl named Anna again, it was in a cafe on the street.
At this time, Miss Anna was still dressed in a slightly revealing outfit.
I don't know if she likes this style of dressing, or if she has some special hobbies, but Lin Xu finds it quite pleasing to the eye.
"What did you find? Do you know why the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire joined forces? And why are they just surrounding this planet but doing nothing?" Nan Zhu whispered as soon as he came up. After a series of questions, everyone looked excited and glanced around with the corners of their eyes.
I'm afraid I've put myself in some spy movie.
"Please, why did the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire join forces? Can a little street detective like me find out this kind of thing? Even the royal agents can't do it! It wasn't agreed at the beginning, but I just tried my best to investigate the planet Is there anything special about the planet?" Miss Anna felt bad after hearing Nan Zhu's question.
I just feel that my employer doesn't want to give money anymore, so he uses such outrageous questions to make me quit?
"Don't listen to her nonsense. She has watched too many movies. Just tell her the news you found out through your investigation. Don't worry, your money won't be lost." Lin Xu reached out and pushed the excited Nan Zhu back. He said while sitting on his seat.
"Okay, but I did investigate some strange things related to that planet." Anna, who only wore a tube top on her upper body, stretched her body and took out a piece of information from her bag.
"Paper?" Lin Xu was a little surprised that paper materials were still used these days.
"This place is under the control of the military. Any information in the memory is not safe and may be discovered by the military at any time. On the contrary, no one will check this kind of paper information from the old era." Anna was a little proud. said.
Then, Lin Xu saw what was written on the header of the document: Contained object: Smiling Monkey.
"Containment object?"
"Yes, it is a contained object. It is said that it is a palm-sized plastic toy. The toy is a smiling monkey. But as long as anyone sees this monkey, they will start to laugh from the bottom of their hearts. At first, they just smile. After a few days, the smile will become more and more intense, until you are out of breath from laughing, and finally die from laughing," Anna said.
"Did you die laughing?" Nan Zhu was stunned for a moment, not expecting this result.
"Yes, it is said that the smiling monkey was brought back from that planet by an agent. Now the agent is dead." Anna added.
"Then there's no way to stop them from laughing?" Nan Zhu asked in surprise.
"Yes, delete the memory, delete the image of the Smiling Monkey from their memory, they will no longer laugh, and their lives will be saved. But when I discovered this, it was already a later thing, and those who came into contact with the Smiling Monkey before that The first batch of people are almost dead." At this point, even Anna felt a little scared.
"Where is this smiling monkey now?" Lin Xu asked after thinking for a while.
"I don't know, it has been collected by the military. It is said that there are many similar items brought from that planet, and they have been collected by the military. According to the custom on that planet, such items are collectively called It's for containment," Anna introduced.
"Why does it feel a bit scary?" Nan Zhu shrank his neck and said.
"Memetic infection, of course it's scary." Lin Xu sighed.
He was now certain that this was definitely something done by humans.
After all, Lin Xu was very familiar with the containment object.
In the 21st century, it was already spread all over the Internet.
Although it was all made up by netizens, Lin Xu also followed the trend and watched it a lot, and found it very interesting.
Unexpectedly, one day humans will actually realize it.
Using high-dimensional information to interfere with low-dimensional information, items involving rules and regulations are produced, that is, contained objects.
Could humans have used higher dimensions to this extent thousands of years ago?
Lin Xu was a little surprised.
"That's right, it's memetic infection. Any intelligent life that has seen the smiling face of the Smiling Monkey will be infected. The Alliance even specially found some races that can't laugh and did experiments. As a result, people from those races also laughed, even if They themselves don’t understand why they laugh.” Anna continued.
"Have you seen pictures or videos?" Lin Xu asked.
"Same thing." Anna nodded solemnly.
"What? Do you laugh when you see pictures or videos?" Nan Zhu on the other side had never heard of such a thing and shouted in surprise.
"Yes, even if you see pictures or videos, you will laugh and eventually die of laughter. The first batch of people who saw the smiley monkey through videos and pictures are now laughing to death." Anna added.
"If someone broadcast this thing to the entire universe." Nan Zhu shuddered when he thought of that scene.
"The Alliance doesn't have time to delete the memories of people in the entire universe." Anna's expression also became serious.
When she first accepted this commission, Anna just wanted to earn some traveling expenses, but now with what she found out through the investigation, she began to become curious about things on that planet.
As a detective, how can you not be curious?
"Are you going to that planet?" Anna asked.
"Did you guess it?" Lin Xu looked at her, not surprised.
"Actually, I also found out how to sneak into that planet quietly without being discovered by the patrol." Anna said in a low voice.
"You can find out this? How did you find out?" Nan Zhu looked at Anna in surprise.
Lin Xu was also surprised.
In fact, being able to find out the Smiling Monkey was beyond Lin Xu's expectations.
This thing is obvious. It should be confidential information in the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire. I really don’t know how she investigated it.
"I'm a detective. Tracking, investigation, disguise, lock picking, and hacking skills are all indispensable." Anna said plausibly.
"Wait a minute, so you sneaked into someone else's house and found the information from the computer? You have such a method and you are still short of money?" Nan Zhu looked incredulous. .
"I'm a detective, not a thief. I have professional ethics, okay?" Anna immediately retorted.
"What kind of thief? He broke into the house and took something by the way. How can it be considered stealing? It's a detective matter. Can it be called stealing?" Nan Zhu thought of an excuse for her.
"Okay, okay, you two, stop bickering and tell me what you want?" Lin Xu stopped the irrelevant conversation between the two and said directly to Anna.
Investigating intelligence is part of the job, but entering the safe route into the planet is obviously not part of the job. So Anna naturally wants more benefits when she speaks out at this time.
It just so happened that Lin Xu also wanted to find a way to enter that planet without being discovered by the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire.
It can be considered that both parties have needs.
"What I want is very simple. When you go to that planet, take me with you." Anna said with sparkling eyes.
"Take you with me? Are you going to that planet too?" Lin Xu was stunned for a moment, not expecting this request at all.
"Yes, as a detective, how could you not want to see something as magical as a containment object? Although I don't know why the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire suddenly joined forces, I guess it has something to do with the magical containment objects on this planet. It doesn't matter." Anna's raised hair flickered like a detective radar that had found its target.
"Okay, no problem." Lin Xu said indifferently.
So just like that, one more person was about to go to the target planet.
Then the group was ready to set off.
Although it is not yet fully understood why, until now, the Galaxy Alliance and the Mechanical Empire have remained on hold and have not carried out a large-scale attack on the planet.
But most of them are related to the contained objects.
Lin Xu no longer planned to wait, and he would naturally know what was coming when he arrived on that planet.
However, before the group could return to the port and board the Skylark to officially set off, sirens suddenly sounded outside the cafe window.
A large number of armed robots flew towards this neighborhood from the sky.
At the same time, the armed robots on the ground also blocked the block. The long isolation belt pulled up by the robot blocked the entire block of people.
Immediately afterwards, more armed robots, some flying in the sky and some running on the ground, poured into the neighborhood.
"what happened?"
"What happened?"
"I don't know. The port just informed me that I can unload the cargo. I was about to go back."
"It's not like the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire are finally going to fight, right?"
"It doesn't look like it. Didn't you see the armed robots dispatched, on both sides?"
People on the street were whispering, and Lin Xu and others stood aside, observing the situation.
"Hey, I said you were caught sneaking into someone else's house to steal information, right?" Nan Zhu whispered into Anna's ear.
"How is that possible? I'm a professional." Anna expressed her indignation at Nan Zhu's behavior of doubting her professional skills.
"What's going on? Are you trying to catch a fugitive?" At this point, Nan Zhu's voice suddenly stopped because she thought that some of her people seemed to be wanted fugitives.
"No, it won't take such a big battle to catch a fugitive." Anna denied.
Nan Zhu wanted to say that it was because you didn’t know how big a deal we had done, but after thinking about it, she didn’t say it because she also felt that it was not about catching fugitives.
"It can't be, is it related to the containment object?" Mu Xiyue, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said.
"Contained object? I remembered." Anna's face suddenly looked a little ugly.
"What did you think of?" Nan Zhu asked.
"I remember it was mentioned in that document that there was a less dangerous container that escaped due to the carelessness of the caretakers." Anna replied.
"The risk is low? It shouldn't be difficult to catch them. Are they going to launch such a large battle?" Nan Zhu asked confused.
"Because the characteristic of that contained object is that it can disguise itself as any intelligent life that has ever been seen, so the block was suddenly sealed off. Could it be that they were looking for that contained object?" Anna guessed.
"It makes sense, but no matter whether it makes sense or not, we can't be searched." Lin Xu looked at the armed robots in the distance and began to check every person in the block one by one.
"Are you fugitives?" Anna guessed it easily.
In other words, she had already guessed. After all, from what Lin Xu asked her to investigate, she could tell that these people were not at least law-abiding people.
"People always have secrets, just like you. Can you accept such an inspection?" Lin Xu asked with a smile.
Anna smiled bitterly, obviously she also had a secret and could not be investigated.
"Then let's fight out?" Nan Zhu asked eagerly.
"No, we still want to sneak into the target planet quietly. If we fight now, all our efforts will be wasted." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
"What should we do?" Nan Zhu hesitated.
"It's very simple. Find the containment object before the armed robot. This way they will seize the containment object and naturally they will not block the block." Lin Xu said easily.
"Good idea, but how are we going to find it?" Nan Zhu looked around and felt that from among the hundreds of thousands of people in this entire block, it would be almost as if he could accurately find a containment object disguised as an intelligent life. It is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
"Do you know any other information? For example, is there any flaw in the containment object?" Lin Xu looked at Anna.
Now everyone is a grasshopper on a rope. Say what you want and stop hiding your secrets.
"Flaw, it is said that although he can disguise himself as any intelligent life, and even read the memory of the person being disguised, and imitate exactly the same, but it is actually composed of an unknown substance. Some scientific researchers once pretended to be an intelligent life when he , extracted some tissues from his body, they are not normal cells, they are still the unknown mass." Anna thought for a while and replied.
"This is easy to handle." Nan Zhu said with eyes brightening.
"Easy to handle? How can it be easier to handle?" Anna didn't understand.
For example, those armed robots can extract a little body tissue for testing when investigating each person.
But if we, the others, want to find the containment in advance, there is no way to obtain the body tissues of everyone in the block in advance.
But Anna didn't know that after understanding the information Anna said, Lin Xu's personal space had quietly opened, and a large number of nanorobots were released outwards.
In order to prevent being discovered again here, Lin Xu did not make a habit of releasing nanorobots when he arrived here to construct a suitable casting area.
I didn’t expect that I would be released in the end.
Soon, the spread of nanorobots had spread over a large area in the neighborhood. Although it was not dense, it was guaranteed to be present in every area.
Lin Xu's consciousness then connected with the nanorobot, controlled the nanorobot, and dived into the body tissue of every intelligent life in the block.
With the atomic-level size of the nanorobot, no one noticed that there was an atomic-level object penetrating deep into his body.
In just the blink of an eye, Lin Xu had instantly screened the body structures of hundreds of thousands of intelligent beings in the entire block.
All intelligent beings are made of flesh and blood. Even if some believe in the mechanical ascension of the Machine Empire and most of their bodies are transformed into machines, they are still made of machines.
There is only one individual, a special individual, whose body is made of some unknown substance.
That substance carries a certain kind of high-dimensional pheromone, and that high-dimensional pheromone distorts the substance of the low-dimensional world to form this substance.
If it weren't for the fact that nanorobots, as human creations, have high-dimensional characteristics, even atomic-level nanorobots might not be able to enter that inexplicable mass.
In short, Lin Xu quickly found the target container.
At this time, the investigation of the armed robots was about to reach them.
"How's it going? Do you have any idea?" Seeing the armed robot getting closer and closer, Anna became a little anxious.
"Don't worry, don't worry, it'll be okay." Nan Zhu even began to comfort her.
"Found it, let's go." Lin Xu said.
"Found it? What did you find?" Anna looked confused.
"Of course we have found the containment object, let's go quickly." Nan Zhu said, pulling Anna to follow Lin Xu quietly.
"How did you find it?" Anna was puzzled.
This time Nan Zhu didn't answer.
Several people quietly disappeared into the crowd of people on the street.
Because they walked very slowly, they did not attract the attention of the alert armed robots in the sky.
The armed robots do not prohibit people from moving. As long as they are not running or trying to escape from the guarded area, there is no problem in moving within the area.
After all, the inspection of hundreds of thousands of people cannot be completed in a short time. It is also unrealistic to keep everyone moving for such a long time.
Taking advantage of this convenience, Lin Xu and the others quickly arrived at a shop not far away that sold model battleships and aircraft.
Then he bought a flying model battleship from the store clerk.
"Master Lin Xu, do we want to expose it personally?" Nan Zhu didn't understand Lin Xu's intention.
"No, that's why we need this." Lin Xu took out the battleship model and threw away the packaging in his hand, and several people left the store.
The next moment, the model aircraft in Lin Xu's hand seemed to have lost control and suddenly hit the sky.
"Alert, alert, high-speed moving object detected." The armed robot in the sky responded immediately.
With a volley in the air, the model battleship exploded with a bang.
At the same time as the battleship model aircraft exploded, Lin Xu controlled the nanorobot, manipulated one of the fragments, and flew directly to a young man not far away who seemed to be watching the excitement.
With a pop, the rotating fragments cut off his arm.
With a snap, the young man's arm fell to the ground, with no blood flowing out.
There was only a dark, unnamed substance on the wound.
"What is this?" People nearby who originally thought the young man was unlucky immediately noticed the abnormality on the young man's wound.
Immediately the crowd became confused.
The young man's expression changed several times, he covered his wound and was about to rush out.
Unfortunately, the changes here have alarmed the armed robots.
There was no suspense about the result. Apart from the changes, the container had no combat capabilities. He was quickly caught by the armed robot, and his arm that fell on the ground was also taken away.
Then, the entire blockade was lifted and the patrolling armed robots were withdrawn.
Everything was restored to its original state, except for some onlookers who had witnessed everything with their own eyes and were warned not to speak nonsense.
"How did you find him? And what method did you use to make the exploding model aircraft just hurt him?" Anna still can't understand it until now.
Lin Xu just smiled.
"Okay, it's time for us to leave. Do you want to come with us? That planet may not be that safe."
"Come, of course, as a detective, how can you be afraid of danger." Anna shook her hair and followed Lin Xu and others to the port without caring.
Soon, the group arrived at the port and boarded the Skylark.
Then the Skylark took off, but instead of heading outside the galaxy like most of the fleet that left, it flew towards the inside of the galaxy.
However, there are also many transport ships that transport supplies to the galaxy, so the Skylark does not seem too out of the ordinary.
"Then it's up to you. The route you mentioned will not be discovered and you can sneak in quietly." Lin Xu looked at Anna and said.
"No problem, just follow my command. In fact, this route only exists because of the containment. Otherwise, who would have the ability to create a safe route under the noses of the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire." Once here, Anna stopped keeping secrets and said directly.
"Is it the ability to contain objects again?" Lin Xu nodded.
"Yes, or it may be that it is precisely because of this containment object that the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire have not occupied that planet on a large scale until now." Anna nodded.
"How did you know this information? This is not information that can be obtained by just breaking open a staff member's home." Lin Xu frowned.
"It's very simple, because what I pried open happened to be the home of a big shot." Anna shrugged.
"Okay, forget it if you don't want to say it. Everyone has secrets, right?" Lin Xu said with a smile.
"Thank you for understanding." Anna also smiled.
"But what exactly is the containment you mentioned that prevented the large-scale invasion of the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire?" Lin Xu asked the question that concerned him most.
"I don't know what it is, or no one knows. Just because of the existence of that thing, the space near that planet has become an area that the battleships of the Galaxy Alliance and the Machinery Empire cannot enter." Anna explained .
"Inaccessible area? Are all spaceships inaccessible?" Lin Xu asked.
"Yes, there is only one route that can allow small spacecraft to enter, which is the route I am talking about now." Anna explained.
"So if we hadn't met you, we wouldn't have been able to enter here, right?" Lin Xu looked at Anna thoughtfully.
"What I hope is a fair deal, not threatening you to take me with you, threatening unknown existences in the vast universe at will, but for seeking death, I don't want to be turned into a corpse by you halfway. Ana said with a raised eyebrow.
Lin Xu nodded noncommittally.
He did feel that there was a high-dimensional information disturbance near the planet, but he didn't know its effect.
I didn't expect it to be used to prevent the spacecraft from approaching.
But even if he didn't know the effect, it was impossible to stop him with this level of high-dimensional information disturbance.
Of course, there is no need to say such things.
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