Chapter 220 It
seems that working in Monster Company is like a regular employee who can neither survive nor die. He has been through life and death hundreds of times and is too embarrassed to come out and say hello to the newcomers.
Li Pan secretly unlocked a blood seal, burned the essence and blood, and glanced at Maria.
The corpse of Azhen in front of her exudes a strange pink light, and there is a pink light belt around her neck, hanging her head like a sling. At first glance, the shape looks like a sunny doll.
Looking out along the pink light strip hanging from the ceiling, she could see that the entire apartment had been constructed into some kind of lair, or in other words, a magic workshop. The ceiling, floor, and walls were all painted with strips of light. These strips of light were bundled together like silk ribbons hanging from a willow tree, forming a strange magic circle. Finally, they gathered together and converged on the crystal that 01044 had given him. In the ball.
Li Pan tried to reach out and plucked the magic net on the wall, smelled it, turned to look at the white bones on A Zhen's body and the boiled flesh and blood in the bathtub, and roughly guessed what the material the other party used to 'cast spells and draw formations' was. what.
"Hey! Don't make my apartment look like a murder scene! What the hell are you doing!"
Maria chuckled, using her vocal cords to make a sound, tearing off a strip of flesh from her arm, and twisting it Twisting it, a flame came out, burning the flesh and blood, and collecting the light.
"Just think of it as exorcising the undead. I finally resigned from the company, but I don't want to fall into hell again. I
temporarily borrowed your apartment to use with my friends, made the phylactery, and completed the undead transformation ritual. I I just want to leave this world."
Li Pan crossed his arms and looked at him,
"Oh, resign? If I remember correctly, you didn't resign according to the formal process, right?
What, is the treatment at the headquarters very poor? I think 01 They take you seriously, right? So many people have been sent to bury you with you.
And that thing, the Ark of the Covenant, can also help with archiving, resurrection, and immortality. Isn’t this ridiculous? Why do you want to jump to the Collector’s side? Go?
Could it be that you don’t like the company’s behavior? Or do they owe you wages?”
Maria continued to tear into the meat while giggling,
“The treatment is not bad at all, at least compared to the organizations I have worked for, the company can be called I have to be trustworthy and reasonable.
However, after all, I am a scholar, not a businessman. My wish is to explore the unknown and study mysteries. I chose to join the company in order to study monsters. However, the company's attitude towards monsters is different
. It's more about collection, storage and sales. Even if the technology department will conduct limited research, it will focus more on 'future utility' rather than tracing the 'past roots'. Therefore, it may still be the SEC's way of investigating things A research institution on the origin principle is more suitable for me.
As for the Collector... Haha, you, the general manager, have a deeper relationship with the Collector than me, right?
The thing that descended at that time could kill me once, and it was definitely not You can handle it. If it weren't for some deal, how could you still be here?
Don't worry, I won't go into these things. I have seen too much, and there is too much that I can't understand. And if it wasn't With that friend's help, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape the company's control."
Li Pan hesitated for a moment.
How much does 01044 know? Do you want to kill her to avoid future troubles?
Although this apartment is already filled with unknown magic circles, at first glance, it seems that all it takes is to break the crystal ball, some kind of phylactery.
But the question is, does she really have this one life left... If the company finds out that she is still alive, what measures will it take?
However, if 01044 really defected to the collector, it might be a good thing, at least he could throw away the blame...
So Li Pan thought for a while, blinked, suppressed the blood in his eyes and smiled,
" You misunderstood. I have nothing to do with the collector. I just escaped with my life due to good luck. Now that
Miss Maria has decided to leave, I won’t talk more. I wish you all the best and don’t be fooled by the company again. I'll work overtime after I'm caught."
Maria also leaned forward and nodded,
"Thank you for letting me live. I will repay you if I have the chance." "
That doesn't matter, we don't have any grudges, and in the final analysis, it's just a colleague who switched jobs. That's all, it's none of my business..."
Li Pan waved his hand and was about to turn around when he suddenly stopped, turned his head and pointed at her curiously,
"Oh, by the way, Azhen, did you kill him?"
Maria shook her head,
"No, this body is stored in the apartment downstairs, but this body does have extraordinary potential. Although it is dead, it can still resonate with my soul, so it not only awakens my sleeping consciousness, but also responds My magic summons can also be used as material to make a phylactery, which is really rare. It's really a
pity. With such a rare qualification, if this girl had not died, she would also have the potential to become a magic apprentice." "
Yes, that's right. Ah...she also lives in this building..."
Li Pan was silent for a while,
"Is there anyone else? What is there in this building, someone with magical potential? Someone who can respond to your call?"
Maria Shaking his head,
"The magic network here is in tatters. It's no longer a magical world. It's my luck to find someone who can coordinate with the magic network. As for you, have you seen many similar people?" So isn't this the case here
? Are you looking for... the same kind...
Li Pan shook his head,
"I won't bother you anymore. I'll lend it to you temporarily. Just clean the apartment for me before you leave."
Maria nodded, "Thank you very much."
Li Pan left the apartment. , went downstairs silently,
not only he and Huang Dahe, but also the dumpling girl Azhen downstairs, turned out to be an 'extraordinary potential person'.
There are not one or two, but maybe three Whisperers in this building.
Then, will there be a fourth or a fifth...
He walked from the fire escape stairs, passed the corner of the stairs filled with excrement, urine and garbage, and stepped over the homeless people and drug addicts lying on the ground, exuding stinking odor. bankrupt.
Are there any of his kind among these people?
No, what are you thinking about? In fact, everyone is the same kind, right?
He, Li Pan, should have died in this building, but he just got lucky and got an opportunity to climb out of this cesspit.
Shaking his head and stopping his random thoughts, Li Pan walked all the way into the parking lot and scanned from a distance with his prosthetic eyes.
Remote access is prohibited and the door is locked. It is not civilian garbage. Although it is outdated, it is indeed a military system.
Did you kick in through the front door to arrest someone? But after all, it was a clue that was found with great difficulty, so you have to be cautious.
Better sneak in.
Li Pan called PONY through the communication connection,
"PONY, come to work."
PONY, "Boss? I'm on Titan now, and port access is restricted. If you want technical support, just call over there."
Li Pan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that HAYABUSA was under bombardment, and PONY also linked to the cruiser to assist. Calculated. So now I am also doing repairs on Titan, which is a bit of a headache for a while.
Company.18 and PONY.18,
both of which are backups of Shiba's personality, also share the same uploaded AI memory cloud archive. But there are some differences. In addition to the difference in single-machine computing power, PONY is actually the private money stored in Li Pan under the name of Li Pan, which is a backup of her own personality.
After all, as the company's property, Shiba's personality was formatted at God knows when. But as long as Li Pan doesn't open his mouth to delete PONY's personality, it can be regarded as saving Shiba's life. As long as he backs up the cloud archived memory, it is similar to 01044, and it can be regarded as a kind of cyber exile's resurrection.
Therefore, Li Pan now has private affairs that he does not want the company to know about, such as Panlong's business and the Whisperer's affairs, which are all handled through PONY.18. PONY naturally will not share relevant memories to cloud archives to let the company know. Although the company's 18th branch has various equipment support and stronger capabilities, after all, the authority is in the hands of the head office, and the background log records can be checked at any time.
"This is private work... I need to search for scripts in hidden files, lurking Trojans, or puppets to extract memory archives. Do you have any other reliable channels?" PONY also understands that it is Li Pan who is doing private work, so he
directly I sent a deepnet chat address,
"Look for him, Mr. Pizza, I know him."
Well, we are really acquaintances, PONY sent Mr. Pizza's physical address and ID card. Li Pan also recognized it.
"Elinio...wait a minute, isn't this the college student who was recruited to steal the Holy Grail last time? Haven't those three hackers been dealt with?"
PONY, "Of course we have, one has his memory wiped, and the other has been roasted into an idiot, but This guy from Pizza is pretty awesome. He saw through the Trojan horse and missed my bait. He also faked his own death and wiped out all the traces. So I let him go and let the company close the case. But now that he knows that he was tricked by the company, he dropped out of school
. He makes a living as a full-time hacker speculating on black coins. Boss, please take care of his business. This guy also lost a lot of money in the stock market. He eats expired pizza downstairs for three meals a day. I don’t think you need to worry about him. I can do it myself. He died of malnutrition."
Li Pan, "Also..."
Okay, let's find Yeluzi hackers this time.
Needless to say, hacking software that actively invades the system, and those Golem scripts are illegal. The Security Bureau has a special nine, Cybercrime Investigation Division to catch hackers. They are all elite cyber cyborgs and have no control over the system without logging in. Illegal hackers can be killed on the spot, especially private hackers without the protection of large companies. If they find out about your physical network, they will break in and shoot you with an RPG.
After all, these days, in a world where everything is controlled by the QVN cyber network, cyber hackers are the most straightforward, direct and dangerous lawbreakers and challengers to order.
Although companies also frequently use cyber warfare and electronic warfare, hackers who are hired by companies are at least just seeking money, and cyber attacks are just their job. But there are indeed some chaotic and evil lunatics in this deep web. Their cyberattacks have no political or economic purpose. They simply want to burn the world to ashes and prove how awesome their technical skills are.
And those privately written illegal programs leaked from the deep web have God knows how many viruses and backdoors hidden in them. They are very, very, very unsafe.
But there's nothing you can do about it if it's not safe. Although AG's smart system is first-rate, it only sells ICE firewalls and anti-virus programs. It won't illegally provide 'original hacking software'. Even if you want to buy it, you have to find a middleman. Gloves to avoid being fined for company routines. Moreover, the price of any magic doll is sky-high. After searching for a long time, Li Pan could only buy a virtual machine service script that was activated for a fee. This script means that you spend 10 million per month to start, refresh the smart system, and unlock virtual machine support for you, so that you can install private software that is not officially certified by AG. And if you plug in the magic puppet Trojan and get poisoned, you will not be able to install it. The core code of the intelligent system will be lost immediately, and AG's firewall will also have the opportunity to directly format and delete your virtual machine, clearing it together with the memory backup.
So Li Pan chatted with Mr. Pizza, paid 4,000 black gold, and bought a privately written illegal hacking toolkit from him. In this way, he used a virtual machine to automatically connect to the garage monitoring system, transmit the golem, and crack the Use the combination lock to open Victor's garage and sneak in using optical invisibility.
The garage was filled with various civilian garbage prostheses. There was a dirty operating table in the room inside. Victor, the prosthetic doctor, was lying on the operating table, logging into the QVN network using a network cable. Looking at the port data in the background, he should be watching the explosive ball game from the live broadcast perspective of the contestants on the live broadcast website.
Li Pan didn't bother him for the time being, and directly used the puppet to invade, invade the local server, and download his data files.
Don't tell me, the script written by Mr. Pizza is indeed not bad. He is indeed a master who can survive eighteen people. The puppet quickly deactivated the local ICE and retrieved a large amount of customer information saved by Victor. .
These customer information were nominally medical files for prosthetic surgeries. However, when Li Pan pulled up the files of himself, Huang Dahe, and Azhen, he discovered that there were a large number of hidden data backups, including various Fingerprint and voiceprint, iris identification, data analysis curve, and personal mental value deviation report.
Yes, it was all recorded by that elevator!
OK Victor! It turns out that you are the culprit of the elevator downtime!
Li Pan briefly browsed through the files. Everyone in the building was monitored and backed up, especially the teenagers in their twenties. Many of them had played explosive ball with him in the past, and they also had similar records and reports to them. .
But these people have two things in common. First, except for him and Huang Dahe, almost all of them are dead now.
Is it an accident, an experiment, or an awakening...
As for the second commonality, it is probably that their parents basically have experience in serving in Gao Tianyuan's military industrial enterprises or the army.
But this is not a problem. After all, this suburb and this apartment building are all veterans' assistance projects and resettlement houses for war orphans. Moreover, it is difficult to erase military resumes. It is said that those who directly join the army and fight in committees will find it difficult to find a job. But if this group of veterans were placed together and the original Whisperer project participants were allowed to sneak into this group of people, it would indeed be difficult to tell them apart.
But if you put it this way, this suburban slum is more than just this apartment. Are there surveillance cameras in other pigeon buildings as well?
Maybe, the scale of this Whisperer project is much larger than imagined...
"Ah! Ah!!!"
Li Pan was checking the report when he suddenly heard a scream behind him and turned around suddenly, only to see the seat. Victor was already screaming, with smoke coming out of his mouth, his brain smelled like mush, and his whole body was on fire!
Dry! Where did the hacker come from!
Li Pan ripped off the virtual line between Victor's brain and computer and disconnected him from the Internet, but flames, blood, and dried brain matter had already emerged through his mouth and nose. It seemed that the intracranial chip had been destroyed by the devil. Remote overload completely burned out my brain. At the same time, the server also made a sizzling sound of electricity, crackling, sparks and lightning, and the computer screen went black.
Li Pan had a sullen face, "Fuck it!" That pizza man is not good at his craftsmanship! Has anyone discovered it?
Well, Pizza actually tried his best. After all, Li Pan also saw a lot of information, right? But no matter how powerful the hacker is, he will leave an intrusion record, and some information is set to be destroyed after reading, and the police will be called when opening it. Li Pan was worried that if he kicked in through the front door and someone would simply burn the information, he went around in a big circle and conducted a sneak search, but unexpectedly it still failed.
Tsk, as expected of Takamagahara, who could fight with the committee for twenty years without showing any signs of cheating. They really can't beat them in this secret agent game.
That can only be cheated.
So Li Pan picked up Victor's body, climbed up to the forty-fifth floor, and knocked on the door of his apartment.
Maria, "What's wrong?"
Li Pan pointed to the charred corpse in his hand, "You can drive the undead, right? Can this one be resurrected? At least let me ask a few questions?"
Maria stared at Victor. After a while, he nodded and shook his head.
Li Pan frowned, "Okay or not?"
"Resurrection is not possible, but I can ask a few questions."
Maria motioned Li Pan to put Victor's body on the sofa, and then drew a devil on his forehead with his finger bones dipped in blood. print.
"My strength hasn't been restored yet, but he just died, so I can ask...five questions."
Li Pan frowned, "He won't lie, right?"
Victor turned his head sharply, "No."
Li Pan He was stunned for a moment, "Huh? It's started now?"
Victor said, "It's started."
Li Pan was speechless, "Wait, wait, let me think about it... uh, who killed you?"
Victor, " I don’t know.”
Maria couldn’t stand it. “There are only two chances left. Don’t ask him questions he doesn’t know.”
Li Pan said, “Fuck! You should have made it clear earlier so I can be ready! Okay, okay. , how did you hand over the information you collected to the contact person?"
Victor, "I watch the explosive ball tournament live every month. At this time, the local server will also be online. I will be connected to the summit to file the case and confirm it. Situation."
That's tonight! No wonder! This is not an intrusion under someone's nose! Why the hell are you so unlucky!
Li Pan thought for a while, and looked at Victor, whose eyes were burnt to death and still bleeding, and thought about many questions.
But thinking about it on the other hand, if he is the one behind the Whisperer project and arranges for a retired veteran to work on a confidential project for twenty years, and can burn him to death without hesitation to avoid future troubles, then he will not risk letting him know too much. What valuable information. And I am afraid that I am fully prepared to completely cut off the connection on this line.
So after thinking for a long time, Li Pan finally asked,
"Victor, do you have any last wishes?"
Maria raised her eyebrows.
Victor,
"I have a daughter whom I haven't seen for many years. I left her a sum of money and some relics at Ye's Bank. The key to the safe is hidden in an electric ball. The password is HANNA14AP2107." Li Pan nodded
. , "Okay, I'll hand it over for you."
So Victor threw his head back and lay on the sofa, dead.
Alas, Mad, the clue has been broken again...
Li Pan also sat down on the sofa, sitting side by side with Victor, looking up at the dirty ceiling.
"Hey, Maria, aren't you good at divination? Have you heard of the Whisperer? Can you help me divine?"
Maria looked at Li Pan and shook her head,
"0791, I don't want to get involved in your affairs, and to be honest , you are not suitable to work in the company."
Li Pan rolled his eyes,
"Why are you trying to persuade me to change jobs."
Maria looked at him,
"When working in the company, you must always be prepared and make decisions before taking action. This The jungle is full of hunters and traps, and there is no room for magnanimity or carelessness. As long as one mistake is made, you may lose your life. And the company will not waste too many resources and energy on a loser. I just
know I am not the material, so now that I have the opportunity, I took the initiative to quit. You can also choose now. You are not deeply involved with the company and are only a temporary worker. You still have a chance to escape." Li Pan laughed
. He raised his hand and patted the shoulder of Victor next to him,
"Hey, get away, you're kidding, look at him! He'll be dead if he gets an electric shock! Look at me again! I'm wearing an RS7! I can carry a nuclear bomb." Ah!
Do you know how much this thing of mine is worth! Do you know how much money I have made since I joined the company! Get away! Damn it!"
Maria looked at him quietly,
"You know what I mean, money is more important than life. ?Working for TheM, the troubles are never-ending, and good luck will always run out one day.
When that day comes, no matter how much contribution you have made to the company, no matter how many worlds you have been praised as a hero, brave , savior, all of them are useless.
When you realize that you may lose once and lose everything, it will be too late to regret."
Li Pan listened to her words, was silent for a while, spread his hands, and projected his bank The account is also broadcast publicly through the system.
"...Citizen Li Pan, the loan repayment in the next period is 14012.14, and the total debt is 289430.26."
Maria was a little confused.
Li Pan looked at the account numbers projected on his hand.
"Three hundred thousand, three hundred thousand is not enough for me to buy better anti-virus software now, but with this money, I can have a sheltered roof in Night City, and I have been able to survive for twenty years. To this day...
Do you know why I didn't pay off this debt?
Because I couldn't bear it! Do you know how hard it was for me to apply for the three hundred thousand? Do you know how many offices I went to and how many supercilious looks I received? How many people have you humbled yourself to?
So I keep this debt! I want to keep this house! Because I want to remember it for the rest of my life! My special code is never to be a poor man again! I never want to come back! Come back and live in This is in a shithole!"
Li Pan smashed the sofa with one punch, took a deep breath, smoothed his hair, stood up with Victor on his back, and walked out of the apartment.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I won't lose."
Maria sighed and stopped trying to persuade her.
(End of chapter)