Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 221 Promise
"Countdown. Two days." Song Shi sat on the sofa, tapping the table unconsciously with his index finger. He was thinking: "--The truth?"

The pass marked with the word "truth", like the original key, is a creation that only exists in the virtual network.

After Song Shi picked it up last night, he discovered that the former was also a secret address key that could lead to a certain place, but it could not be opened for the time being - he might have to wait for the countdown on it to end.

To be honest, until now, my understanding of this "duel arena" is still vague. The only thing that is certain is that this network domain must be related to intelligent machines.

During the past ten days, except for the initial lizard man, all the opponents he and Lapis Lazuli encountered were intelligent machines. After being in the Depth 4 environment for a long time, they all became distorted and lost their self-identity, almost like wild beasts.

Except for the intelligent machine called "F052" last night.

But the other person's self doesn't seem to be very much preserved, or it is very vague.

Thinking of this, Song Shi raised his head and glanced at the workshop, which now served as Lapis Lazuli's temporary bedroom.

The opponent's final move seemed to have dealt a considerable blow to Lapis Lazuli.

After the other party logged out of the abyss, he immediately went into seclusion and installed an external supercomputing module to collect a large amount of intelligence on F052 - mainly the other party's previous activities and the people he had contacted.

Perhaps they wanted to find out the identity of "Lapis Lazuli" in this way.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no progress so far.

Considering that what the other party had been looking for seemed to be right in front of him, Song Shi sat for a while, gave up the idea of ​​calling the other party, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast for himself.

"the truth."

Song Shi held the spoon and slowly stirred the juice. Suddenly he laughed: "Look at it this way, I also have a 'truth' I want to find out."

Why was I reborn?

What will be the "destined death" in this life?
Even, the reason why the Enlightener failed in the City of Casting Light in the previous life.

"but."

Song Shi stopped and stretched out his hand. The light above his head pierced into people's pupils through the gaps between his five fingers.

"The truth is..."

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Someone chuckled.

"…It's more interesting to uncover it yourself."

The originally dark world lit up with the flickering lines.

The cross-section of the orange solution slowly descended, flowing in and out along the pipe. With the sound of "puff" of air pressure balance, the submersible completed the logout measures and raised the hatch.

Yu Jiyi opened her eyes and slowly sat up.

There was still a smile in her eyes.

The woman zipped up the whole way and took off her wet diving suit. She lifted her slender fingers lightly, and a nearby box opened, and the clothes that had been prepared long ago floated over.

The peak of the second ring, [Consensus], even if it is in the direction of "mind", can interfere with "matter" to a certain extent. This method similar to telekinesis is an extremely basic application.

Yu Jiyi changed slowly and stretched her body.

At this moment, a pop-up window suddenly appeared.

[——What’s the situation? ]

The communication was signed: Abadet.

"Why are you pushing me so hard? I didn't sign a regular 14-hour contract."

Seeing the communication, Yu Jiyi knocked her head in distress. Her right hand had long been replaced with a top-notch disc-shaped prosthesis for hackers provided by [Zero Degree Network]. The dark golden index finger made a low sound.

She sighed deeply and decided not to leave the diving center. She raised her hand and floated to the nearby diving chamber amid the mechanical reminder of "Do not place foreign objects" and sat down with her legs crossed. "It's pretty much the same."

Without any other action, the thought was quickly transformed into text and transmitted to the other end in the suspended vision presented in the artificial eye.

"Well, how should I put it? The situation is a little different from what I initially imagined."

Yu Jiyi leaned back slightly, supporting herself with her hands at her sides.

"This place is indeed related to the Freedom Revolution. It probably does hide some secrets. I have done a lot of damn questions these days."

She paused, her tone sounding a bit gnashing: "When I was in the training academy, I hated doing homework the most!"

Abadet remained silent.

“——Someone is deliberately trying to stop me.”

Yu Jiyi took a long breath, and then suddenly said the conclusion he had reached in the past few days: "The time limit is thirteen days. Every day I go in, I have to face a lot of 'questions' similar to the simulated firewall attack and defense."

"But when I was doing the questions, I also separated my consciousness and tried to bypass the questions and delve into the essence of that network. Its current structure is a 'cage', but there are obvious changes in the design. It should have been tampered with and distorted by the Abyss."

"There is a dominant consciousness in this network domain. It is very well hidden and has the advantage of controlling the network domain. This guy's level is very impressive." Yu Jiyi raised his right hand slightly and propped up his chin: "I only touched a little trace and discovered its existence."

"It seemed to want to hold me back by using the 'question' method, but unfortunately it misjudged one thing."

Yu Jiyi smiled softly, her pupils glowing a dreamy wine red.

From the Pan-Eastern Continental Union to the Vanpusta Empire, from Eden to Yenan, looking across the universe, overlooking the world——

When it comes to the development of the "network", corporate alliances are undoubtedly the most prosperous and advanced place.

——And [Zero Degree Network] is the only supreme place for "network" research in the entire corporate alliance!

Those numerous difficult questions that are enough to make an information security engineer of a medium-sized company explode their brains are nothing more than "troubles" for the final winner who emerged from the training academy of Zero Degree Network, a member of the high-net-worth talent training sequence, and a depth 4 demon, and are far from an insurmountable "chasm".

"Can you confirm your identity?" Abadet asked after thinking for a moment.

"The other party is an intelligent machine."

Yu Jiyi raised her index finger and tapped her temple with a smile: "This is the conclusion from 'consensus'."

“After staying in depth 4 for a long time, I can still maintain my own self.”

"Correction." Yu Jiyi said seriously, "My judgment is that it was injured, otherwise it would not choose this roundabout way."

"I will upgrade the level of this mission."

Abadet nodded slightly. "A suspected remnant of the Freedom Revolution, a fourth-ring omnic. Its value is enough to attract attention. I have given you access to the backup resource library. Is there anything else you need?"

"Ah, then it seems that there is none."

Yu Jiyi thought for a moment and spread his hands: "The network domain is unknown, and the deep-diving troops can't get down - in the last two days, I can only act alone. How about this, you can allocate a few more supercomputers to me."

Abadet nodded, said nothing more, and went offline directly.

"Are you busy with the Enlightened One's business again?"

Yu Jiyi blinked and shook her head: "After I finish this, I will have to face those people."

"Oh, this is another troublesome thing. I don't know if I can meet some pretty guys who are good-looking enough."

"So hungry."

(End of this chapter)