Jiang Zhou briefly summarized his current situation:
It's all over.
He froze in place, not even daring to turn his head, and opened his mouth slightly to curse silently.
Just as he was about to ask the middleman what he was talking about, the person responsible for the matter had already arrived.
When did this person arrive?
Is this person TMD Cao Cao? Is it within reach?
Also, did he just hear me asking "Is the traitor Booker?"
Nonsense, I must have heard it.
Jiang Zhou felt like he was shrinking into a ball in embarrassment.
After he got a little over the top, his questioning voice might even be heard outside the porch. Booker was not deaf.
Now how to do? Just strike first, turn around and shoot the opponent in the face?
As soon as this idea came to his mind, Jiang Zhou was almost amused by his stupid idea.
When a depth 3 adjuster "isn't paying attention", he can kill him with one shot. This is probably a hundred times more outrageous than "I killed the tiger with a slide shovel".
But besides fighting like this, what else can I do? Is it possible to wave the white flag and surrender?
Just as Jiang Zhou was thinking frantically about any other way to get out of the current predicament, Booker had already passed him like a ghost and walked to Zhu Lin who was still standing in front of him.
Although I don’t know what the attack that just detonated the man’s head was, it is obvious that it did not involve kinetic energy-it was as if someone had stuffed explosives into his brain in advance. The unlucky middleman still maintained his previous standing The posture, and the position above the chin of the head, all "bloomed" completely like flowers.
"Fortunately, I came in time."
After walking up to Zhu Lin and raising his hanging hand, Booker turned to look at Liao Qi and said calmly.
Hiss...is this person planning to destroy the evidence along with himself?
When Jiang Zhou heard the other party speak, he felt a sense of despair.
Just when Jiang Zhou was about to yell at the other party for betraying Icarus and being a despised traitor, so that he could die with some dignity, Booker's next words suddenly stunned him.
"Otherwise you would have died here just now."
"ha?"
Does that mean I don’t have to die?
But what does he mean?
Booker's next move made Jiang Zhou understand what the other party meant - he pointed Zhu Lin's hanging palm at the wall beside him, and then he pressed it somewhere, and the palm suddenly moved like a beetle. It opened and made a sound like a death sigh.
Countless steel needles shot out from under that palm and were nailed deeply into the opposite wall.
When Jiang Zhou turned around at the sound of the sound, the wall seemed to be moldy, covered with countless tiny steel "fuzz".
Resisting the urge to explode, a drop of cold sweat flowed from Jiang Zhou's forehead.
"This is the enemy."
Booker held the opponent's anti-personnel booby trap that had lost its disguise, waved to Liao Qi as if to say hello, and then said:
"Remember, next time you want to interrogate someone, you must first make sure that all the prosthetics on the other person are offline, otherwise even ten lives will not be enough for you."
Immediately, his eyes naturally turned to the brain hole on Liao Qi's forehead.
"But it seems like you do have two lives, right?"
After saying that, he let Zhu Lin's hand go, letting the other person's unbalanced body fall to the ground. Then he walked to the computer calmly and pulled out the silver memory.
He tossed it up and down, weighed it, and then threw it to Liao Qi.
Jiang Zhou subconsciously took it.
"Glad to see you're still alive, Liao Qi."
Booker said.
"Why should you give this to me..."
Jiang Zhou held the memory that carried the restart permission of the universal printer and looked at Booker with some confusion.
He thought he was dead.
But now the other party not only didn't seem to be planning to kill him, but even directly returned the precious memory to him.
What does this person want to do?
"Leader Koret gave this thing to you before he died and asked you to keep it well, right?"
Booker asked.
"Ah... um."
Jiang Zhou nodded.
"Then his order cannot be revoked until a new meeting is held within the organization and a new leader is selected through a formal process. You are still the holder of Icarus activation authority. Do not give it to anyone. ,including me."
Booker said as he put his hand on the computer in the room, and the next second, the entire computer exploded with sparks flying.
Not just the computer, but electronic devices with more complex structures than light bulbs in the entire room exploded one by one. All the metal circuits were burned brightly, igniting the fabric and plastic around them.
Is this the so-called adjuster of Depth 3?
Looking at the scene in front of him, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but swallow.
Fortunately, I didn't see such a scene when I just traveled to this era. Otherwise, he will definitely think that he has come to a world where spiritual energy has been revived - maybe he is still waiting for the system to come online.
After burning the entire room back to the technological level of the nineteenth century, Booker took back his hand and strode out of the room. When he was at the door, he paused slightly and said:
"Although all records of our visit have been destroyed, no matter how useless the law enforcement agencies on the first floor are, they should be here in a few minutes. If we don't leave, we will be in trouble."
After saying that, he walked out without looking back.
Jiang Zhou couldn't think of any other choice besides following him.
…………
Booker and Jiang Zhou swaggered out of the apartment building, almost passing by the law enforcement team who came after hearing the news.
At the intersection, Booker calmly hailed a driverless taxi, and then he told the AI voice, whose voice could be imagined as a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, that they were going to Lift No. 4.
"Let's take the next elevator to the second floor of the resettlement area."
After the taxi started moving, Booker turned his head and said to Liao Qi.
Then he explained:
"The first floor below the resettlement area is full of informants from the government and companies. It won't be long before they figure out the real cause of Zhu Lin's death."
"How did you know I was here?"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Zhou asked the doubts that had been lingering in his heart.
"You have to thank Shen Lan, the owner of the Deep Blue Zone Bar, for not taking off the identification mark of Icarus on your body, and Deep Blue Zone is a long-term partner of the organization... She mistakenly thought you were the person I sent here to check out the location. .”
Booker said, lighting himself a cigarette.
I didn’t expect that traditional cigarettes still exist in this era.
Blowing out two puffs of smoke from his nose, Booker continued:
"Later she checked the car you came in and told me. When I checked the vehicle information, I found dozens of tickets issued to you by the Traffic Management Bureau... By the way, when did you become so good at driving? ? Of so many people I know, few dare to activate the 'die without regrets' mode."
It was about half an hour ago...
Jiang Zhou thought, but he didn't say anything.
Seeing that Liao Qi remained silent, Booker flicked the ashes of his cigarette and sighed. As if he could no longer ignore the "elephant in the room", he took the initiative to bring up the most sensitive topic.
"I know what you are suspecting, and it's not that I can't understand the reason for your suspicion. Indeed, the organization was ambushed by the company in Theseus Warehouse before. I also think that there was an insider in the organization who leaked the information... But that person will definitely not be me.”
Booker said very sincerely.
If you say it’s not, then it’s not?
Jiang Zhou rolled his eyes in his heart, but still said nothing.
Although the other party didn't kill him before, he even returned the memory to him. But this is all based on the premise that the other party can take that memory away from him at any time if he wants.
A native with no implants, and a depth 3 adjusted person. To be honest, these two people were sitting in the same car, and handing the memory to Jiang Zhou could only make him feel at ease.
Also, Jiang Zhou felt it was hard to say whether the purpose of killing Zhu Lin directly was to silence the other party or to save himself.
Even though Liao Qi's previous status was low, as the person who entrusted the memory to the team leader Coret, and as the possible only survivor of the Battle of Theseus' Warehouse, he would definitely have a certain say in the subsequent reorganization of the organization.
In this way, Booker, as the person most likely to be officially elected as the leader of the organization in the future, if he can completely gain his trust and have his endorsement, it can be said that the election will be a sure thing. At that time, the permission to use the universal printer will still fall into his hands, and it will be justified.
Of course, there is a strong possibility that Booker Irwin is as innocent as he said.
After all, with the current situation of Icarus, it is not difficult to seize the right to use it through violent means and start a new one to create your own power.
At this time, Booker suddenly lowered his voice and said:
"Forget it, let me tell you something. According to the information I got, the real traitor in the organization probably took advantage of the opportunity to pretend to be captured and left the Nord settlement to spend the rest of his life in some garden city... …You doubted me because I knew the location of your safe house, right?”
Jiang Zhou nodded.
Booker continued:
"But I'm not the only one who knows the location of your safe house. And if you don't doubt the others, it's just because they were either 'dead in battle' or 'captured,' right? But how do you know that those people are Did they really die in battle or be captured? Maybe their execution was deliberately blown by the company to the outside world, and the traitor himself had actually gone to be free long ago.
"Other than me, who else knows the location of your safe house? Black Falcon-136? Chinatsu Sakura? Maybe one of them, or maybe both of them, are on vacation in an ecological park right now."
Jiang Zhou looked at him silently and nodded after a long while.
"It is indeed possible."
Total nonsense.
