Theseus's warehouse covers an extremely huge area, and coupled with its three-dimensional structure imitating a honeycomb, it turns into an extremely complex three-dimensional maze.
Countless regular hexagonal storage rooms are crowded together in this maze. They look like a dazzling kaleidoscope, with no end in sight.
Booker used a microwave launcher to blow up the magnetic door lock of the storage room labeled [A-0001], and the heavy door automatically popped open.
And what was inside made him speechless for a moment...
Three high-simulation life-size interactive toys owned by Venus Digital Media were lying quietly in the [A-0001] storage room. The body shape spans the three growth stages of women, and there are various types of replacement parts hanging behind it - basically completing the full coverage of the normal range of interests.
"This thing is actually refurbished second-hand and smuggled to the upper floors of the resettlement area... By the way, is this kind of thing popular among young people nowadays?"
Looking at the traceability information that popped up together, Booker was a little embarrassed and had nothing to say.
His expression at the moment was a bit like an old father pretending to be calm when a passionate scene suddenly played while watching a movie with his son.
Regarding this, Jiang Zhou acted very calmly - at this moment, he looked like I have watched more movies than any drama you have ever watched.
"What era is it... This thing is expensive and difficult to maintain. Nowadays, online matching is popular - anonymous netizens generate remote connections with avatars that optimize their appearance and figure. If you are interested, I will send it to you later. An invitation code, I grabbed a public beta account back then...but after I heard that a grandson deliberately created a female account to disgust people, I didn't use it."
Recalling Liao Qi's past, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but lament once again how technology has changed life.
"Ah...I understand this...kindness. But I still don't have to use it. This kind of young people's stuff is a bit too avant-garde for me."
Booker's expression was tense, as determined as the honest official who refused to accept bribes in the model drama.
"Are you sure you don't want to use it? The private customization function of that program is quite powerful. It seems to adjust the appearance of the avatar to Furuidu..."
Jiang Zhou suppressed his laughter and continued.
"no, I'm fine!"
Booker interrupted as he turned around and closed the door with a bang.
At the same time, he also used microwaves to ignite the noise-reducing glue on the edge of the door, and sealed the door of the storage room directly.
Jiang Zhou tried his best to hold back his laughter and didn't let himself laugh too much - he had actually guessed that the other party would answer this way. The reason why I asked this deliberately was because Booker, who was usually serious, looked extremely embarrassed, which was actually a bit interesting.
On the other side, Booker walked to the storage room next door labeled [A-0002] with a straight face, raised his hand and burned out the door lock.
Behind the door this time is a commemorative guitar covered with holographic stickers of the "Dead Silence" rock band - the instruments used by this band have been specially processed to only emit sounds in the infrasonic frequency band. To those who have not had their hearing modified, their concerts may look like pantomime performances.
Obviously, this is not what they are looking for.
"If you search violently from room to room like you, with luck it will take about three months to find it."
Jiang Zhou raised his head and scanned the densely packed compartments. Through space division calculations, he roughly estimated the number of storage rooms, and then reminded him.
Booker, who walked to the third storage room, repeated his old trick and burned the third door lock and said:
"It doesn't matter, I don't plan to open them one by one. As long as the 'treasure box' is opened to a certain extent, the manager of this warehouse will definitely lose his composure and take the initiative to find us."
After opening the door, he said this.
As soon as he finished speaking, as if to confirm what he said, a rapid intrusion alarm sounded in the warehouse.
Several brightly colored "bee hive" doors opened on their own, and thousands of swarm drones flew out. Then they flew all the way to Jiang Zhou and Booker, and finally formed a human face with no memory points.
"Dear two customers, first of all, thank you very much for visiting our company's work base in the Nord resettlement area. Everything for the customer's experience has always been the service tenet of our Theseus Freight Company, which is written into the company Source instructions for operations. So, this is not offensive. We have previously detected that two people expressed dissatisfaction with our company's service. Here, please allow me to take the liberty of asking in which aspects of our company's service are unbearable. Is there a problem? If you can tell us, we will be grateful and we will do our best to correct and optimize it."
The human face composed of thousands of drones asked in front of them in a humble tone and extremely politely.
Jiang Zhou would have almost believed it if he hadn't seen thousands of subsonic riot guns installed on those drones aimed at them.
After pondering for a moment, he said:
"I hope to find the location number of a special item in your warehouse."
The human face slowly turned to Jiang Zhou, and then continued to say in a humble voice as if he would kneel down at any time:
"If it is a service that you have purchased before, just show the order number and pass the Mandala password verification, and I will tell you everything."
"Although it is not a storage service we purchased, that thing legally belongs to us. And we just want to know the location number and will not take away the things inside... Do you think this is feasible?"
Booker on the side asked.
The human face shook its head, full of regret.
"I'm very sorry. I'm very sorry. Although we believe in customer first, the request you made has actually harmed the interests of another customer. Therefore, I am unable to meet your request. Please forgive me for our work. Disadvantage."
It said so.
"Then I would like to ask, have any staff members of the coalition government provided storage services for a multi-purpose printer in the past? And, if so, how many years of service period have they provided for, and has it expired now? You only use Just answer 'yes' or 'no'."
Jiang Zhou asked immediately.
"I have no right to disclose any information about our customers, so please forgive me."
The human face continued.
When Jiang Zhou and Booker heard this, they exchanged glances with each other.
If it were in basic reality, there would be no need to continue the conversation at the moment - you can never convince an AI unless specific conditions are triggered.
But now in the Abyss Dark Web, they have another option.
Kill the opponent, and then search for answers from the data balls exploded by the opponent.
However, it is obvious that this human face is just a clone. Booker was a little unsure about what direction the situation would develop after killing "it".
Just like in the game, you kill the clones and then get stronger clones, until finally the true body comes.
Or will the other party just hide and stop playing with them?
Just as he was hesitating, the face in front of him suddenly twitched - as if he had received some interference signal.
Before Booker could react, a sad cry came out of the mouth of the human face. Immediately, it collapsed completely and turned into many snake shapes swimming in mid-air. Then, as if they were attracted by something, they flew away quickly.
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"You, come with me."
Wutou-23, who flew back again, said this as soon as he landed.
He extended his finger and pointed at Jiang Zhou.
"OK."
In response, Jiang Zhou walked out very calmly - he didn't even ask what the other party wanted to do.
Seeing this, Wutou-23 raised his head and looked at the other people behind him and said:
"Everyone else, stay where you are. There may be malicious programs that far exceed Depth 2 around here. If you don't want to die, don't run around."
When he said this, Jiang Zhou noticed that there were several obvious injuries on the other party's body. And the movements he made seemed a bit stiff.
Is this an injury?
He thought as he recalled the fiery battle before.
But, would a depth 4 adjuster with an upgrade path be injured against a depth 2 malicious program?
"Why him?"
At this time, Qianxia Sakura on the side asked with some doubts.
When Wu Tou-23 heard this, the six red lights on his face suddenly lit up, which frightened the former into shrinking his neck.
"What? Do you want to take his place?"
he asked sadly.
Qianxia Ying lowered her head angrily and said nothing.
Wutou-23 turned to Jiang Zhou and continued:
"You have a decoy beacon on you, right?"
Jiang Zhou nodded.
"Well, you will be the bait for the next actions, okay?"
If I say I have an opinion, will you change your mind?
Jiang Zhou complained secretly, and then said:
"I know where I stand."
Wutou-23 nodded:
"So, I like to deal with smart people."
Without saying anything more, the two of them just followed the previous route to Theseus' warehouse.
During this period, Jiang Zhou found an opportunity and deliberately led him in the wrong direction in the criss-crossing three-dimensional maze. Not in the same direction of the warehouse as Booker, Liao Qi and the others.
After arriving at an open space, Wutou-23 asked Jiang Zhou to place the induction beacon alone.
Induced beacon is a signal source based on "breadcrumb imprinting" technology. It can simulate the signals of the deep dive interface, giving those malicious programs the illusion that they can pass through the Styx firewall and surface to the base reality.
In this way, malicious programs can be induced to enter a prepared encirclement.
But right now, when Jiangzhou placed the iron tower-shaped beacon, there was no encirclement around it.
There was only Wutou-23, watching him work not far away.
Jiang Zhou had a sense of being taken to the wilderness by a gangster, who gave him a shovel and asked him to dig a hole big enough to bury a person.
"alright."
Without saying anything else, Jiang Zhou raised his head and said after setting up the beacon.
In response, Wutou-23 suddenly sighed and said:
"Do you know why I asked you to come here alone?"
Jiang Zhou said nothing.
"To be honest with you, in fact, this entire dive verification operation is just a cover. Because your suspicions and accusations were completely withdrawn as early as a week ago after they were verified to be correct. And this dive, in fact, Mainly to find a suitable opportunity...
"A chance to kill you."
Wutou-23 suddenly became very frank.
It was not difficult to kill the prisoner in itself, but what was difficult was to prevent Perse Fanny from having any objections after killing him.
"I can pretty much guess it."
Jiang Zhou also nodded in response - this was indeed the highest possibility he had thought of from the beginning.
"So, is this the reason why you brought me here alone to place the decoy beacon? In the report, write the cause of death as an accident?"
Jiang Zhou continued to ask.
"That was the original plan...but now, before that, I need to confirm a few more things."
Wutou-23 nodded.
Then, without waiting for Jiang Zhou's reaction, he continued:
"The original agreement was to strangle you, a guy with amazing talents in all aspects, in the cradle. This was something my master and Ye Qian discussed together... But now it seems that I still have my master. It seems like they were all played by that bastard."
As he spoke, he raised his head and raised his voice:
"Ye Qian, you bastard are always here, right?"
(End of chapter)
