After saying hello to the other party, Jiang Zhou raised his knife and chopped the bionic robot's head in half.
"What exactly did it say just now..."
Only then was she shocked to realize that Shenlan, who had just come back from going around the gate of hell, looked at the head that was still flashing with electric sparks and asked with a pale face.
"Assassination."
Jiang Zhou, who sheathed his sword, answered briefly.
Then, he thought for a while and added:
"And framed."
The intention was too obvious - claiming to be a member of Icarus, and then assassinating the person in charge of the Deep Blue Zone in full view of the public. This was clearly intended to create conflict between them and the tenth-level government in the resettlement area.
At a critical moment in Icarus's partnership with Perse Fanny, someone tried to break their contract.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou took the data board from the maintenance staff nearby, then pulled out the data cable and plugged it into his brain-computer interface.
In an instant, countless pop-up windows kept popping up on the data pad. The frequency was as fast as some music games for practicing hand speed, which made people feel dizzy.
"What are you doing?"
Seeing this, Shenlan couldn't help but ask.
"Tracing back to the source of that hacker, I want to - find out -"
Jiang Zhou's speech became slower and slower, and his answers became longer and longer.
Before he could finish what he said next, after entering the deep connection mode, he sat limply on the ground.
On the other side, in Jiang Zhou's consciousness, massive data were translated by the Hongqiao brain area and instantly recognized by his brain as a visual graphic environment.
A towering wall with barbed wire rose up in his field of vision. Several search towers are like Cyclops, looking back and forth at the boundless darkness outside the wall.
At this moment, Jiang Zhou was in a factory filled with neon lights, surrounded by dozens of mannequins wearing commercial smiling masks.
Those human figures are processing wine bottles on the assembly line, their movements are mechanical and stiff.
But even though Jiang Zhou appeared here so suddenly, it didn't attract their attention at all.
At Jiang Zhou's feet, a mannequin figure was cut into two pieces, and a dark red liquid with the texture of motor oil was spraying from the fracture.
Compared to the mannequin figures around it, the mask on its face was replaced with a ferocious expression. And a series of unclear footprints circled around it.
Obviously, the fallen human figure at his feet was the control program of the previous mechanical bartender. The series of footprints around them are the traces left by the other party when they invaded.
After understanding the information translated for him by the Hongqiao brain area, Jiang Zhou immediately focused on the footprints and tried to track them.
The next moment, Jiang Zhou, who was standing motionless, saw his surroundings begin to lengthen and change rapidly.
He followed the traces left by the opponent and chased him all the way. When the surrounding environment stabilized again, he was already at the edge of the wall with a sharp snake belly isolation net.
This is the embodiment of the Deep Blue Zone Firewall.
Following the traces of the footprints, Jiang Zhou discovered at a glance the location of a certain wall, where a honeycomb-shaped hole was opened.
A human figure covered in shadow seemed to be trying to pass through the hole at the moment.
"Feeling" someone was chasing him, the assassin turned around.
"I didn't expect that the bodyguard was actually a hacker? But it doesn't matter. I have memorized your true appearance. Soon, I will also get your real name... Since you dare to sabotage my work, then you will replace that person. Die bitch.”
In this illusory cyberspace, the other party threatened like this.
Ignoring the other party's trash talk, Jiang Zhou tried to see through the shadows to see through the true identity of the person in front of him.
But he didn't succeed.
Anonymous, or a higher level hacker…
Jiang Zhou thought to himself and then said:
"Who sent you here to assassinate Ms. Dark Blue?"
"Stupid question...Didn't I just say everything? Don't you believe it?"
The assassin scoffed.
Even now, he still identifies himself as a member of the Icarus Liberation Front.
"I really don't believe it, because I happen to know that the Icarus Liberation Front never takes in people with intellectual disabilities."
To this, Jiang Zhou replied.
"Is this really the case?"
Hearing Jiang Zhou's answer, the assassin laughed again:
"But in my opinion, you are like a mentally retarded person at this moment. With your skills, if you stay in the basic reality and just control the service robots in the bar, I really can't do anything to you. . But you insist on showing off your half-baked hacking skills, and you have to catch up..."
As he spoke, the assassin's laughter gradually became harsh.
"If you don't catch up, how can I find out who's hiding behind you?"
Jiang Zhou just replied in a deep voice.
But the moment Jiang Zhou finished speaking, several walls of thorns suddenly appeared around him, entwining themselves and surrounding him.
At the same time, the mannequin figures that were in the factory earlier appeared out of nowhere. Moreover, they held various knives in their hands and wore masks with either crying or angry expressions on their faces, surrounding Jiang Zhou.
"Yes, you have to catch up to find out the person behind me... But have you ever thought that after I lock you in cyberspace, no matter how strong your physical body is in the base reality? Powerful, just by controlling some service robots in the bar, I can easily kill you while you are sleeping and the people you want to protect?"
the cyber-assassin said with a laugh.
When he talked about this, in the basic reality, all the bionic robots in the entire deep blue area stopped at the same time.
Blue light flashed in their eyes at the same time, and then they slowly turned their gaze to where Jiang Zhou and Shen Lan were in front of the bar.
The first principle of hacker combat is that the party that knows the opponent's real coordinates will be invincible.
"When you found out that I hadn't left yet, you didn't immediately log off and go back. Instead, you gave me time to write a barrier program that could trap your consciousness here... So, who is the real one? What about people with intellectual disabilities?”
I originally thought that my mission had failed and I was planning to go home. Unexpectedly, the other party actually raised his hand and gave him such a good opportunity.
The assassin, who felt that things were under control, taunted with satisfaction.
Looking at the mannequin figures around him that were gradually approaching him, Jiang Zhou's method of dealing with them was also very simple.
He snapped his fingers.
In an instant, the expressions on the masks on the faces of the mannequins started to spin like a slot machine, and then each of them returned to their previous business smiles.
Then, as suddenly as they had appeared, the figures disappeared.
Reflected in the dark blue bar of the base reality, all bionic robots entered the offline state at the same time.
Shen Lan, the black and white siblings who rushed to her side to protect her, and the surrounding employees couldn't help but look at each other in shock when they saw all the bionic robots suddenly lowered their heads and shut down.
"What's this……"
Realizing that he had lost control at the snap of his fingers, the cyber assassin was stunned.
"What happened?"
He said so.
In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand what's happening now, he just can't accept it all of a sudden.
He couldn't accept the fact that the stupid young man who was catching up in front of him, this gutter rat living at the bottom of the Nord settlement area, was far stronger than himself at the hacker level.
Even though the other party is talented in the mutation of the Hongqiao brain area, he is using an enterprise-level hacker plug-in, and the company's supercomputer provides him with additional computing power!
What does the other party use to fight with you?
How could it be possible for him to be seized of control in such an instant?
The assassin couldn't understand.
As for Jiang Zhou, this was his first attempt to use his "hacker" ability to affect basic reality after the Hongqiao brain mutation was about to take shape.
It can be regarded as a verification of one’s ability...
Not to mention the mutation in his Hongpon brain area - the doctor who performed the surgery kept sighing at how nearly perfect it was. The brain that was originally damaged by radiation sickness actually reduced the body's rejection ability. This makes the hongpon brain area that finally grows out as natural as a naturally evolved organ.
As for hacker plug-ins, Pluto Deep Dive would naturally not be able to install them for him. But it doesn't matter, Jiangzhou now has something more useful than ordinary hacker plug-ins.
That was the mark left by Hecate, the goddess of the dark moon.
Although Jiang Zhou could not parse the underlying code of that imprint at all; it was not a programming language that could be understood by human logic at all, and was closer to pure mathematics itself; but he was able to use the command script he wrote to coordinate with the Hongqiao brain area. Compiler, the ability to simply call some imprints.
According to Hecate, this is something that can protect him from those malicious programs in the Abyss Dark Web. Isn't it more than enough to deal with the hacker in front of him?
If they meet in the abyss dark web, then Jiang Zhou can destroy each other's avatar and activate the apoptosis program to kill the other party.
It's a pity that this is the World Wide Web, and destroying the avatar program will only knock people offline at most.
If you really want to kill people through the network cable, you have to find out the physical location of the opponent, then hack into the equipment around them and manipulate them to physically kill them. Or after getting the opponent's position, you can run over and do it offline.
When Jiang Zhou was sighing like this, the thorns surrounding him suddenly wrapped around him, blocking his vision.
At the same time, the cyber assassin immediately ran away through the hole in the firewall.
Although he was extremely unwilling deep down in his heart, this well-trained assassin was still able to figure things out - he was no match for the other party, so he had to go back quickly before his identity was exposed.
Based on his understanding of the leader, assassinating Shen Lan by himself would only be plan A, followed by plan B, plan C... and even the entire assassination operation might be just a smoke bomb, and the leader's real purpose is something else. .
All in all, there was absolutely no need for me to fight with the hacker in front of me in cyberspace. If his identity is really exposed, that is what is really dangerous.
Besides, reporting the information that the Icarus Liberation Front has a guaranteed "Sandman" level hacker is more important.
Especially since he also saw the other person's face - as long as he checked it in the database when he got back, he would know the other person's real name.
And a hacker whose real name is exposed, unless he is also a highly modified adjuster, will be like a bottle of Coke that has run out of gas, completely losing its greatest value.
Therefore, after temporarily locking the opponent, the assassin hurriedly dragged his substitute back.
And on the way back, he kept dropping fake traces to confuse the other party - he jumped between major servers around the world, shuttled between intersections like a dimensional maze, leaving countless misleading information, which made the opponent confused. The other party has no way of finding out his traces.
The last time he changed agents, he misled clues about his existence to a resettlement area in Northern Europe, and the assassin planned to go back.
It was already foolproof. As long as he passed through another three-way intersection, his soul would be able to return to his body.
Thinking like this, but for some reason, an abnormal fog suddenly filled the air before the last three-way intersection.
For hackers who have mutated the Hongqiao brain area, the data code will be translated into cognition that the brain can understand. According to each person's thinking habits, the image they can perceive for the same set of data and the same code is often very different.
The Hongqiao brain area will use the materials in the memory to create something that best matches its symbolic meaning - for example, the classic firewall becomes the image of a city wall, and the Trojan horse virus becomes the image of a worm.
However, in his habit, he had never recognized fog-like images in cyberspace before. Therefore, for a while, he didn't even know what was happening here.
This was a phenomenon he had never experienced before.
The sound of footsteps came, and a human silhouette gradually emerged from the thick fog.
It was a human figure whose whole body was made up of countless color blocks, striding out of the mist.
"I saw that you took too many long detours, so I came to the finish line early to wait for you."
hope you do not mind.
The man said so.
Needless to say, the person in front of me is the hacker who was in the deep blue zone before.
The assassin stayed where he was.
How can this be?
How can this be? !
Looking at the figure blocking the three-way intersection, these words kept echoing in his heart.
It is no longer the unconvinced indignation he felt before. The emotion he feels now has turned into fear...
Extreme fear.
The other party completely ignored his previous misguidance along the way, and even arrived one step ahead of him, on his only way back.
How is it done?
I have seriously misjudged something... This person in front of me, is he really a human being?
Or is it a "horse" driven by AI from the abyss of the dark web?
"you……"
No longer as arrogant as before, the assassin said tremblingly.
"So you are a member of Pluto's deep dive, and your physical body is in Tartarus, right?"
Jiang Zhou said this as he turned to look at a path at the three-way intersection behind him.
Immediately, Jiang Zhou used the mark of Hecate to see through the other party's false agents. Without waiting for the assassin's answer, he nodded and said to himself:
“Looking at it this way, it makes sense to want to kill Shenlan and provoke conflict.
"Then the next question is, what should I do with you?"
(End of chapter)
