On the busy street, several human-shaped blurry blocks of color suddenly appeared. As their resolution gradually became higher, the deep-diving salvage team gradually materialized here from the void.
[The base construction process has been launched...]
[The avatar program has been loaded...]
[The redundant information filter has been opened...]
[Breadcrumbs are now online and are expected to take effect in 40 hours]
[I wish you all success in your mission]
Notifications from the deep dive cabin were displayed on the eye movement interface one after another. Everyone looked around and observed the surrounding environment.
Different from the desolate city ruins they dived into last time, now they were in an underground city built under the steel sky, with neon lights everywhere.
"But why are there so many... people here?"
Qianxia Ying looked around and asked nervously.
They were surrounded by bustling crowds, and it looked as lively as a central business district at Christmas.
There were men and women in the crowd, old and young. Each of them has a different figure, appearance and clothing, but each of them has a lifeless poker face.
Moreover, their postures when walking were like puppets with strings on them, stiff and clumsy.
In addition, when Jiang Zhou and his group, the heavily armed abyss roaming team, suddenly appeared out of thin air, no one around them reacted appropriately - at most, they were just the people who happened to be blocking their way. , it will just consciously avoid it when it gets too close.
"Of course it's not a human being... You'll know just by looking at it using Hongqiao Vision."
Regarding Qianxia Ying's doubts, Jiang Zhou replied like this.
Hongqiao vision means that in cyberspace, the visual signals received by the brain-computer interface are restored into codes for the Hongqiao brain area to perceive.
This is a basic ability that every hacker will master. Simply put, it is to see the code of an object through graphical modeling. This is called "Hacker's Eye" in the hacker circle, and some people jokingly call it "Cyber Vision."
Qianxia Ying nodded upon hearing this, and turned her attention to a young man walking his dog not far away.
For an instant, her eyes flashed through the deep colors like the night sky...
Then, as if someone had punched her head-on, she threw her head back and took several steps back before stopping.
At that moment, a massive amount of information passed through the Hongqiao brain area and was translated into intuitive feelings that impacted her spirit.
"grass!"
Chinatsu Sakura covered her eyes and cursed softly.
There is a reason why Hongqiao Vision is called "spiritual vision" - for the existence in cyberspace, if you directly observe the nature of the other party through its graphical interface, it is easy to be hidden by the massive information underneath. Buried.
Even if Chinatsu Sakura only turned it on for a moment and then cut it off, even if she chose the most harmless-looking object for observation... the moment she saw the complete information, she still felt as if someone was holding a sledgehammer on her head. Came a while.
After seeing through the opponent's human disguise, Qianxia Ying finally saw a file; a file that recorded a citizen of the Nord resettlement area named Yang Ju.
Starting from his birth registration, this file followed his life path and ended with his death certificate. It contained countless texts, images, and video materials, so much that she felt dizzy just by glancing through them.
Chinatsu Sakura estimates that it will take several years to read the entire archive.
"You..."
After shaking her head to regain consciousness, Qianxia Ying looked at Theseus who had given her such "good advice" before, and opened her mouth to curse directly.
However, when she turned her gaze to Theseus, she discovered that this man's "spiritual vision" state had always been on.
This made her speechless - she felt so uncomfortable just by taking a glance, but the other party was looking around with Hongqiao Vision on before?
Not only that, theseus was still looking at him with concern.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?"
he asked.
And combined with the confused expression on the other person's face, Chinatsu Sakura always felt that these words sounded more like:
"That's all you do? No, right?"
"I'm fine."
Chinatsu Sakura, who swallowed the curse words, gritted her teeth and replied.
MD, for hackers, there is no way to make up for things like talent through acquisition - the growth of the Hongpon brain area determines the upper limit between different individuals.
Even though the other party was just a low-tech person before, but after installing a brain-computer interface to stimulate the mutation of the Hongpon brain area... Theseus has now become a hacker who is far superior to her at the "hardware" level.
Of course, fortunately, the other party has not installed any hacker plug-ins yet. Although he can't compare in terms of performance, he is definitely far superior to him in terms of skills.
"It's okay."
On the other side, Jiang Zhou closed his view of Hongqiao while answering.
This is partly because looking around with his "spiritual vision" on makes his temples feel throbbing and painful. On the other hand, after scanning around, he found that he could not find any useful information from the people around him.
"In other words, these people around are actually their file programs?"
Chinatsu Sakura asked as she looked around at the passers-by who behaved like NPCs.
"Huh? What you saw from them using Hongqiao Vision earlier were personal files?"
However, before Jiang Zhou could answer, Wutou-23, who was leading the dive this time, suddenly asked.
Immediately, without waiting for Qianxia Ying or Jiang Zhou to answer, he verified it himself - he grabbed an unlucky pedestrian from beside him, and then tore off that person's head.
The surrounding pedestrians saw this and did not panic at all - they continued to walk stiffly on the street as if nothing had happened.
Wutou-23, on the other hand, threw the headless corpse in his hand into the sky and watched it quickly turn into a flickering light spot and dissipate in mid-air.
Eventually, the body left behind a data ball - which slowly flew into the hands of the three-meter-tall armored humanoid.
"interesting……"
After roughly previewing the content, he threw the ball casually, then looked up at the leaden sky and said:
"Unexpectedly, the place we dived to this time was actually a mirror image of a city."
With that said, Wutou-23 turned to look at the people of the Icarus Liberation Front.
Although he couldn't express any expression on his face, for some reason, everyone could feel the other person's bad taste at this moment.
"So, be happy, rats. What is restored here is the underground city of the Nord settlement area five years ago... You are going home."
He said this with a sarcastic tone.
The people from Icarus fell into silence as they looked at the familiar buildings around them.
Here is a snapshot of information from the Nord Resettlement Underground City five years ago. The surrounding pedestrians are the personal files of the residents here—perhaps including their own files.
The Abyss Dark Web is all-encompassing and contains information about an entire real city. But it is extremely rare to be able to reach a city that exists in reality when diving.
After all, in the Abyss Dark Web, compared to the information provided by humans themselves, the information generated by AI is much more - the two are not on the same order of magnitude.
But at this moment, they happened to dive here... This probability is statistically similar to the coin standing up when tossing a coin. It cannot be said that it is impossible, but the probability is definitely much lower than throwing heads and tails.
Of all the people present, probably no one would believe that this was a coincidence.
"Then let's go back directly?"
So, someone in the team asked.
If there is any trap in this, then this is probably the most prudent choice at the moment.
"What? You just saw home and you want to go back?"
However, Wutou-23 shook his head and continued to mock.
He seemed unwilling to just go back.
"Even though this mission is an outing for me, it is still a deep-diving salvage mission for you. All of you must fill your storage space with technological blueprints before you are allowed to go back."
Then, he raised his tone and ordered.
"Then where should we go?"
At this time, 136, who had been silent before, suddenly asked.
"To be honest, I kind of want you to find 'yourselves' in this city and kill them one by one... But this seems to be too time-consuming, so let's find a location with a wide view for the time being. Put out decoy beacons and see what kind of malicious programs you can attract."
This three-meter-tall armored man said this.
After saying that, he stepped forward and separated the crowd in front of them like Moses.
When everyone saw this, they all followed him.
Jiang Zhou was walking at the back of the team. He looked at the city activity map provided for him by Hecate in the eye movement interface, thinking about some questions while walking.
For example, who brought them here?
Is it Hecate? Janus? Or something else exists.
And, more importantly...what is the purpose of bringing them here?
This is the Nord resettlement area five years ago. What secrets are hidden? Do you need to discover it on your own?
And not long after everyone left this crowded and bustling street, two stars fell from the lead-gray iron dome sky.
Those were Liao Qi and Booker. Through the marks left by Jiang Zhou, they also came to this underground city that existed in the past.
(End of chapter)
