"This place was actually created using the Nord Resettlement Area as the material..."
After figuring out where he was, Booker said to himself.
On the other side, like a grasshopper, Jiang Zhou jumped up and down the billboards to the upper floors of the building. After pretending to look around, he opened the communication channel for his teammates.
"There is no 'Paradox' around. He is probably not nearby."
While Jiang Zhou watched his other self gradually disappearing away, he opened his eyes and reported lies.
"That's it..."
Booker nodded thoughtfully, and then asked Liao Qi to come down first.
Then, the two of them found a secluded place to sit down, and Booker began to talk about his opinions.
"Compared with the simple and crude content of the previous two trials, the place we came to this time is an extremely stable environment. Moreover, its prototype is obviously the underground area of the Nord settlement area where we are... Liao Qi, What do you think of it?"
Hearing this, Jiang Zhou slowly touched his chin and pretended to be thinking, and then replied as if he was a little embarrassed:
"Sorry...I don't see any clue."
Probably not thinking that Liao Qi could give a decent answer, Booker tapped the table lightly with his knuckles, and then said:
"If I'm not wrong, this means that Paradox's trial for us has entered the next stage - He is no longer satisfied with testing our performance, but also tests our ability to solve problems, and..."
Having said this, Booker slightly suppressed the excitement in his tone:
"He wants to give us greater influence in base reality."
Is that so?
Hearing what he said, Jiang Zhou immediately showed an expression of enlightenment from the bottom of his heart - I have to say that the ability to freely control one's emotions is really useful at times like this.
So that's what I thought...
He couldn't help but sigh.
Seeing this, Booker sighed slightly and continued:
"Actually, it's normal that you didn't expect it. After all, there are some secrets about the Nord settlement area that you don't know very well."
Although he didn't know how the question turned to the secret of the Nord settlement area, Jiang Zhou immediately became interested after hearing what he said.
"What secret?"
He asked calmly.
"Do you know where the organization's multi-purpose printer came from?"
Booker asked without directly answering Jiang Zhou's question.
"Is it one of the three multi-purpose printers allocated by the coalition government to build and operate the Nord Resettlement Area?"
Jiang Zhou tentatively replied.
Although there is no relevant information in Liao Qi's memory. However, according to common sense, the universal printer within the organization most likely originated from this.
As he expected, Booker nodded.
"After the dissolution of the coalition government, the entire Nord settlement area fell into a power vacuum and chaos. The three multi-purpose printers originally used to maintain underground facilities also disappeared. At that time, most people speculated that the They took advantage of the chaos and sold them to the company.
"But many years later, when a strike and riot broke out at the Nord Sewage Treatment Plant because it was about to be acquired by a company, a labor leader discovered a multi-purpose printer in the sewage plant."
And this also announced the birth of the Icarus Liberation Front.
"Hiding it inside the sewage treatment plant? Hasn't it been discovered by anyone for so many years?"
Jiang Zhou was a little surprised.
In response, Booker nodded and said:
"What we found together at the time was a message left by a government representative who was responsible for operating the underground circulation facility in the Nord resettlement area. They said that after the coalition government announced its disintegration, they received news that these three million Printers will be requisitioned by companies above the tenth floor for their network wars... If this is the case, it will only leave endless poverty and chaos at the bottom of the settlement area.
"In order to keep a spark of hope for the future residents of the resettlement area, they decided to hide three multi-purpose printers and the technological blueprint that can restart the underground circulation facilities of the entire resettlement area - they hope that after the future cyber domain war is over, , these things can play their due role.”
This is the biggest secret of the Icarus Liberation Front. In order to prevent this information from being known to the current resettlement area government or other companies. Only each team leader and the intelligence team leader are qualified to know this matter.
After finishing speaking, Booker added.
Jiang Zhou nodded repeatedly as he listened - the fact that the other party would tell him such secrets was enough to show his trust in him.
"That is to say...the remaining two multi-purpose printers are still hidden somewhere underground in the resettlement area and have not been discovered?"
Jiang Zhou asked.
"It's like this... It's just that in order to spread the risk, the government representatives did not leave the hidden locations of the other two multi-purpose printers in their messages."
Booker continued.
Considering that the two printers have not been found for so many years, maybe they have already fallen into the hands of other organizations or individuals.
At least that's what Booker thought before.
but……
"Do you understand now? Liao Qi, 'Paradox' brought us here this time - to the information library that records massive information about the Nord Resettlement Area, just to give us this opportunity."
Opportunity to find two remaining multipurpose printers, as well as other supporting resources.
Booker became more and more excited as he talked.
Including the printed drawings of the geothermal power station, the planning of the Icarus route, and many other starting resources... It can be said that the establishment of the Icarus Liberation Front was mostly based on the legacy left by the coalition government.
One-third of the inheritance has shaped Icarus today. If two more inheritances can be found, their status underground in the settlement area will become almost unshakable.
Even after a few more years of accumulation, they might be able to compete with the interim government in the resettlement area.
Whatever Mr. Paradox hopes to do with them, strengthening their actual power in base reality must be the first thing to do.
After all, with strong influence, more resources in reality can be deployed.
Therefore, by bringing them here, it can be said that Mr. Paradox's purpose is simply obvious.
Seeing Booker's increasingly excited expression, Jiang Zhou nodded again.
Oh, it turns out my plan is so clever...
Then the problem comes.
"But where should we start looking?"
Jiang Zhou asked.
Can something that has not been found in the basic reality for so many years be found in the reflection in the abyss and dark web at once?
Rather, it would be more difficult if you don’t have a clue.
Not to mention anything else, just the "pedestrians" coming and going on the street outside are all walking large files.
If you search through them one by one, it is estimated that the time required will be enough to complete the first thousand years of the new calendar.
Booker was stunned for a moment. After a long while, he finally said:
"This is probably the content of this 'trial'..."
Then why are you so excited? I thought you had a clue...
Jiang Zhou felt a little speechless.
"However, it's not that I have no clue at all..."
Booker pondered for a while and then said:
"It has been speculated before that since the first multi-purpose printer was discovered in a sewage treatment plant, the rest are likely to be in other recycling equipment originally manufactured by multi-purpose printers.
"For example, the geothermal power station on the negative seventh floor, or the chlorophyll/krill breeding pond on the negative second floor... However, we have searched for these places before, but in the end we did not find them."
When Jiang Zhou heard this, he immediately called up the activity map of the city obtained through Hecate's blessing, and briefly glanced at the places mentioned by Booker.
Hmm... They are all high-threat areas marked in blood red, indicating that there are malicious programs that can kill you.
In other words, there’s a good chance that something can be gained there—at least the malicious programs will be killed. Ability to obtain technology blueprints.
In addition, Jiang Zhou also noticed another thing.
The geothermal power station on the seventh floor has now been transformed into a residential area. This is something he has known before.
The kelp/krill breeding tank on the second floor had long been completely demolished, but the building rebuilt on its ruins was familiar to both Jiang Zhou and Liao Qi.
The warehouse of "Theseus Freight".
That was the place where the company's disciplinary force massacred the Icarus members; at the same time... it was also the place where Jiang Zhou appeared for the first time after traveling for a hundred years.
Integer chapter
(End of chapter)
