As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 170 Compromise (5000 words)
"Professor, according to the autopsy report, an unknown tissue appeared in William's brain. When the unknown tissue was compared with the previous test images, it was found to be significantly atrophied."

"In addition, no unknown needle marks were found on William's body, and no traces of insect mouthparts were found. The 13 existing needle marks can be found in his medical records."

The crows circling above the Stockholm Concert Hall dispersed after Merlin left. It was obvious that these crows were controlled by Merlin.

The American side immediately checked all the people William had come into contact with during this period, even if they were just beggars passing by, and they conducted a detailed investigation.

Originally, the American side did not hold out high hopes. Based on their understanding of Merlin, it was obviously not that easy to find him.

Later, some people speculated that since Merlin could control crows, he must be able to control insects, and inject some kind of medicine through insects to control William.

This view was quickly accepted by most people.

Because the magic brain is an injectable substance, Merlin is far superior to Blue Star in the field of biology. As for biological storage alone, Blue Star's technology is still in the laboratory.

China is already aggressively selling biological storage servers, a technology it acquired from Merlin.

Beiming No. 1 is currently in short supply in the domestic market. After using it, Internet giants found that it is simply a magic weapon. Not only has it greatly improved the efficiency of production applications compared to previous servers, but it also performs perfectly in massive data calculations.

Hua Wei produced two machines and sold one, which was widely welcomed in the market. Another one will be sold to the Russian market.

After listening to this, Wei Teng said: "The fact that we haven't found any unknown needle wounds cannot rule out this possibility. Maybe the needle wounds that appeared have healed."

"Is it possible that the insect entered the body directly through the nasal cavity? When William was asleep, the insect went into his brain through his nasal cavity?"

Witten asked the staff, "Is there any evidence? If it went in through the nasal cavity, wouldn't William have a violent reaction?"

"This is just speculation on my part."

Witten nodded and said, "I encourage bold guesses, but the final report must be supported by evidence. The guesses can be returned to the headquarters as an attachment."

“How many crows were found circling over the Stockholm Music Pavilion that day?”

Both America and the European Union covet those crows, as they must contain information left by Merlin.

"At present, all the personnel we can mobilize in Stockholm have been dispatched. People from the entire European Union are gathering in Stockholm."

Zheng Li exposed all of American’s encrypted information, one piece of information among which was the list and identities of American’s hidden agents planted in various countries around the world.

After this information was released, some countries launched a massive cleanup, which was a perfect opportunity for internal cleanup.

In the past, even if we knew the true identity of some hidden players, we would not take action yet for the sake of playing the long game and catching the bigger fish.

Now, no matter whether they are big fish or small fish, they are all exposed, the fish pond is empty, and there is no need to play a long game. Just clean out the hidden players.

All the countries that were at odds with the American side took action at the first opportunity to leave no chance for the hidden player to escape.

Most countries in the European Union do not dare to go so far, but even if they do not catch the hidden players, they will not be able to stay.

His identity had been exposed, and it was impossible for him to get any valuable information if he stayed any longer. The moment Anzi's identity was exposed, his mission was over.

American didn't struggle and directly gathered all the hidden players he could mobilize to Stockholm. Since you have been exposed, go catch the crow for me.

There just isn't enough manpower.

The crow is the national bird of Sweden. Merlin’s world debut ended with a wonderful move of Expecto Guardian, in which the guard summoned was the crow.

This further led to the crow's popularity in Sweden.

In an era where everyone is a self-media, the act of catching crows was posted on the self-media by the Swedes. After people determined the identity of the crow catcher, they boycotted this behavior:
"Americans should go back to America. Swedish crows are Swedish crows!"

"The crows that Merlin left behind are not material for the American people's biological experiments."

The completeness of the information released by Merlin is far greater than that of Assange back then. The various biological experiments conducted by the American side in the information are eye-opening for everyone.

It's even more shameless than the Chinese people think.

"The American's actions are a violation of the rights of the crows."

A picture of an American man grabbing a crow's wings, with bulging veins on the man's sturdy arms and the crow's sad eyes, caused a strong protest from the European Animal Protection Association.

Protests are protests, but the Swedish government cannot stop the American side's activities without taking action.

At this time, the lack of constraints of the Europa Union on its member states is vividly demonstrated.

They cannot interfere in many affairs of member states.

After the American side's actions were made public, many of the horrific things contained in them caused a huge impact.

Countries that originally distrusted America have become even more distrustful, which is a serious blow to America's reputation.

Previously, countries only knew that when a financial crisis came, America would use financial means to reap the benefits of weak countries, leading to capital inflows and prolonging the life of its own economy.

After Zheng Li lifted the ban on encrypted data, other countries can find patterns in America's historical methods, making it even more difficult for America to succeed in its next move.

As for the more horrific incidents in the encrypted materials, there has been no official statement from any country.

Because Merlin said that he decrypted the official encrypted data of America, and the data also had pictures and rigorous logic, but this cannot be used as evidence at the national level.

America cannot even maintain its traditional allies and is effectively alienated in international affairs.

Only some countries without autonomy have to rely on America, but they also have their own little thoughts in private.

They have always had their own thoughts

Under this international situation, Zheng Li announced a multilateral trading system based on blockchain in the Magic Forum.

And take out part of the performance of the biological cloud as infrastructure.

It is equivalent to the trading system performing point-to-point trading operations by directly calling standardized interfaces.

The system is equivalent to an upgraded version of China's multilateral financial bridge plan. Technically, transactions are completely imperceptible, and any transaction between two banks is almost imperceptible.

The multilateral trading system is advancing rapidly under the leadership of China.

Except for America, all major countries on Blue Star have participated in it, with China's guarantee.

Coupled with the complete openness and transparency of the system itself, in addition to the fact that the infrastructure is the bio-cloud, the multilateral trading system has gained everyone’s trust.

First, use the multilateral trading system for some marginal international trade businesses.

If the subsequent effect is good, it can completely replace Swift.

The financial nuclear bomb of the American side is equivalent to being half useless. Considering the questionable reliability of the multilateral trade system created by Merlin, Swift has not been completely replaced.

"So far, it is certain that William is not Merlin. He has lost all signs of life. From the current investigation, William is just Merlin's vessel.

A container specially prepared for this operation. Merlin responded to us in the Stockholm Concert Hall through William's body."

"When was William transformed into a vessel? And how did Merlin know that William would definitely appear at the concert hall?"

“We believe that Merlin and the magical civilization behind it have the information warfare capability to destroy us at any time.

Our information security capabilities are vulnerable to Merlin.

Our actions are transparent to Merlin, and if he wants, he may be able to know our every move.

According to the autopsy report sent back from Stockholm, William's cells began to change about two weeks to a month ago.

But the actual time when Merlin injected the potion may be earlier."

"I mean, how did Merlin know that William would be at the concert hall that day? You know, according to the plan, William needed to coordinate and arrange work outside, and he decided to go to the concert hall on a whim."

“I don’t know. We speculate that Merlin has implanted seeds in many people who participated in this operation. When needed, he can turn anyone in the operation into a container.

However, it takes time for cells to differentiate and for spellcasting organs to appear, and no other people present had organic lesions in their bodies.

There is another possibility, that is, William is just his backup option, and the first option is actually Witten.

Professor Witten reported that he felt something unusual after Bill came on stage, and Merlin's voice rang in his mind.

As the person who injected the second magic brain into America, Professor Witten had clearly planned to go to the concert hall and wait for Merlin to appear.

Maybe Professor Witten is the first option. Merlin can completely take over Professor Witten's body through the magic brain. It just happened that William also appeared at the scene, so the second option became the first option. "

This is just the person's guess. In fact, even if William didn't want to go to the scene, Zheng Li could just take over his body in advance and then go to the scene. There would be no need for so much trouble.

If possible, Zheng Li still didn't want to expose the fact that he could control the person who injected the magic brain.

Just like a company can use some specific models of routers to know what types of web pages each of its employees browses at work, but it won’t let the employees know.

Even if employees have some guesses in their hearts when they are hinted at, they will definitely not say it openly at the company level.

Of course, some ** companies are excluded.

"Is there any way we can find Merlin? Did the signal monitoring equipment on site find the source of the signal?"

Since the owner of the magic brain can access the magic forum, some kind of signal interaction must have occurred when visiting the magic forum.

Therefore, based on this characteristic, the American side developed a device specifically for monitoring bioelectric signals.

The device can only monitor fuzzy signals, which is far from the effect that American wants to achieve.

"We can only confirm that the signal came from the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is too big. Even if Merlin is in the sea, it will be very difficult for us to find him.

Judging from the information we have so far, it is almost unrealistic to find Merlin.

If we were to continue fighting Merlin, the technical strength Merlin possesses would make for an asymmetric war.

All animals around could be Merlin, and even humans could be parasitized by Merlin.

He can appear at any time and anywhere, and anyone can become his vessel. As a professional, Wei is more cautious than most people. He still couldn't escape the fate of becoming Merlin's vessel.

Merlin showed too much this time. From a professional point of view, I think we should not continue to fight him before finding his fatal flaw.

Merlin used to be strong in information warfare and asymmetric warfare.”

This is just the opinion of American experts. Their observations and opinions are for reference only.

Ultimately, the decision still needs to be made by the decision-makers.

2024 is the four-yearly election battle between the Donkey and the Elephant in America. The Elephant Party appears to be exceptionally strong after its comeback.

In the past four years, the Donkey Kong Party has not done anything commendable in any field. In this action against Merlin, it has lost face on a global scale.

All the hidden agents around the world have been rooted out, and the encrypted data has been publicly exposed.

There is even more disunity in international diplomacy.

The Donkey Party is in a state of panic.

At this time, the election was over, and the Donkey Party chose to give up and leave the mess to the Elephant Party to deal with.

“I am very optimistic about Merlin, his actions were legitimate defense, and I can completely understand his behavior.

Targeting Merlin is pure stupidity on the part of the Donkey Party. They are pushing our allies towards other countries.

Yes, Merlin is our natural ally, and America wants to be friends with Merlin. We can cooperate in many areas, and the politicians of the Donkey Party are a bunch of idiots.

Yes, magic is cool, and America needs to put more energy into magic research in the future.

We want everyone to learn magic."

Let everyone know magic, this is something that others dare not even think about. Even in fantasy novels, magic is not so rampant.

The negative information exposed by Merlin was all done by his predecessors, and not much was related to him.

He is very good at passing on the blame.

In fact, the rotation of the American donkey and the elephant, and the replacement of an unreliable one, in a sense, also provides space for easing the tension between Merlin and American.

No matter how he performs in front of the media, with the examples of the previous four years in mind, the outside world will think it is reasonable.

"I think we need to pause what Merlin is doing. We have no means of countering it."

“I agree that magic.com cannot be blocked by any means. Merlin’s capabilities in the computer field are beyond the reach of our current cyber warfare forces.

A battle where all actions are exposed to the sight of others will only result in meaningless sacrifices.

Moreover, Merlin has no stance towards the Blue Star forces; he is completely neutral.

When we are not strong enough, we can compete according to Merlin's rules of the game. When we have mastered magic to a certain extent and have countermeasures, we can consider other actions. "

“I agree. After I saw William was parasitized by Merlin, I even suspected that everyone around me might be Merlin.

In this case, confrontation would clearly be unwise.

Moreover, Merlin’s sanctions did not kick us out of the current magic system. We can still obtain magic coins and log in to the magic forum. "

"This operation is meaningful. More of Merlin's abilities have been exposed. This is not a failed operation, but a successful test.

We get to know Merlin a little more, which is a good start.

We are currently working with Google, Amazon, FB and Apple to analyze Merlin's speaking logic, tone and pauses.

Compare it with the audio materials currently available on the Internet to see if there are any new discoveries. "

Unfortunately, Zheng Li never spoke English when he appeared in public using his identity.

In fact, when Zheng Li published his paper on magic.com under the identity of Merlin, the American side conducted a feature comparison of all the paper data in Bluestar's inventory based on the paper's word choice, sentence structure, punctuation usage, etc.

Hundreds of paper authors with a similarity of more than 60% were found. Excluding those who have passed away, there are still about a hundred authors still alive.

The American side investigated one by one, but could not find any suspicious evidence that it was Merlin.

They believe that Zheng Li’s speech in public this time is also an opportunity, and the pauses in his tone can better reveal a person’s characteristics.

The primary target of investigation is the one hundred or so suspicious authors of the paper.

"But you need to be careful, the action must not be publicized, all actions must be done using metaphors, and Merlin must not be aware of it."

The amount of data generated by the Blue Star Internet is enormous. No matter how powerful Zheng Li’s biological cloud is, it can only conduct targeted investigations and cannot achieve scanning-style reconnaissance.

The American side also does not believe that Merlin is omniscient and omnipotent in the Internet field.

"The government has treated this behavior coldly and not responded directly. In addition, it has found new hot spots in major countries to divert attention from this incident."

America's ability in propaganda is the best on Blue Planet. They can hype things up at will and often use this method to divert attention.

Many American companies have also adopted this trick.

Merlin's public appearance had a profound impact on Blue Star. America's international influence declined significantly, and many countries removed the hidden thorns in their countries.

The intelligence network that had taken decades to build was destroyed in an instant.

What's more serious is that with Merlin around, it is far less easy than before to rebuild such an intelligence network.

Even if you want to be 50, you will also consider what to do if you are exposed by Merlin again? And Merlin is exposed indiscriminately and without blind spots.

America's soft power has taken a severe hit.

What is more serious is that the exposure of encrypted data has brought the European Union one step closer to substantive unification.

The cooperation between the two parties in purchasing biological storage technology, which was about to be negotiated, fell through. The Europa League made it clear through private channels that it did not trust America.

Magic can affect and transform matter at the atomic level, and this technology is still only known to China and Russia. The two countries guard this secret very closely and it is top secret.

American was supposed to know it this month, but the time it took to obtain the biological storage technology and learn the secret has been delayed again.

China indirectly gained more strategic time. The ability of magic to influence and transform matter at the atomic level is more important than China thought.

The problem of being stuck in the production of high-precision and advanced materials was also serious before. Many technologies could not be realized in China, and the fundamental reason was the limitation of materials.

(End of this chapter)