Dream Travel

Chapter 197 Want to cooperate?

He had no technology, no random, unnecessary ideas, no background; he was just there to cause trouble.

These illegal organizations must be dealt with severely. Every single one of them should be destroyed. Nobody cares about irregular organizations anyway.

“It should be safe here.” The female member of the team glanced around: “The target has several psychic detectives. If we don’t know this place well, we won’t be able to escape their pursuit.”

As for the drones in the sky, they're alright. If they fly too low, they'll be shot down, but if they fly too high, they're harder to find in the city.

A team member pulled out a broken bucket from a corner and scattered the metal filings inside into the entrance area of ​​the safe house.

Seeing how skilled the team member was, Bai Mu couldn't help but say, "You guys are so well prepared."

Moro smiled but didn't explain much. They had been here four times, but the Elvik Disposal Bureau had more than one action team.

Even now, there are still people from the Elvik Disposal Bureau in this city, but those people don't easily contact the White Curtain, or even contact them at all.

The city is controlled by that organization, but it's too big, and it's been destroyed by war, so many devices are out of service and can't be fully covered by surveillance, which gives the authorities a lot of opportunities.

There were even other officials from other departments in this place besides them.

It's not that everyone who works in the same department is a good colleague. We're not even in the same country; we're just in similar departments. Sometimes we're not colleagues, but competitors.

Bai Mu is a rather exceptional case; he's a temporary worker.

"Want something to eat?" Bai Mu took out some snacks he had prepared from the weapon box.

"Thank you, but no need," Moro politely declined, as they had prepared food.

Because of the white curtain, Moro didn't have much interaction with the team members, and only took a short rest.

Unfortunately, I encountered a large number of ghosts as soon as I landed. Although I was prepared, I still had to engage in a battle.

The intervention of the white curtain made the battle slightly easier.

If those technological ghosts were not controlled by anyone, they would be much easier to deal with, but those things are precisely the ones that are directed by someone.

This makes some combat methods less effective.

The most troublesome thing is that tech ghosts are incredibly resilient; once you kill one, a new one will spawn in no time, making them much harder to deal with than normal ghosts.

No, even a normal ghost might not be able to defeat this technological ghost.

"You've come four times already, and you still haven't found the enemy's headquarters?"

Moro and the others didn't want to talk much, but Bai Mu was very talkative.

"...The headquarters is easy to find, the problem is that it's hard to infiltrate there." Moro shook his head; the Tech Ghost's production base was too easy to find.

Find someone who can fly, and you'll be able to see that nuclear power plant directly.

"After this operation is over, I will report to headquarters, and then the Elvik Disposal Bureau will contact the Rota Disposal Bureau."

As Moro explained the arrangements, he was practically telling White Curtain not to waste time there, as the Tech Ghost was not something that one person could investigate alone.

So many of them have tried several times, but there have been no substantial results. What can a temporary worker like Bai Mu do?
Temporary workers, especially those exposed from the start, have even less to do.

"That's good news, but I don't know much about the situation at the Rota Bureau, so I won't ask any more questions about it."

"...So what are you doing here?" a team member couldn't help but ask Bai Mu.

"Create maps, build safe houses, further understand the characteristics of ghosts, and if possible, find out the situation of the enemy headquarters."

Bai Mu answered casually, and Moro and the others nodded. Such an answer was too standard; that's what they did too.

Moro thought for a moment and said, "We can provide the map; it's not too difficult to obtain. As for the safe house, you'll have to figure that out yourself."

As for the characteristics of the Ghosts and the situation of the enemy headquarters, Moro didn't say anything and there was no need to say anything. Whiteveil had already discovered that the iron filings were useful against the Tech Ghosts.

To deal with these ghosts, only a sufficiently concentrated and powerful energy impact will work; physical attacks are out of the question.

As for the enemy's headquarters, as mentioned earlier, if it were so easy to infiltrate, they would have already done so.

In reality, Elvik's organization has many ways to send agents to infiltrate, but this is a dream world.

'Dream Erosion' can be detected on outsiders. With this stuff, how can they hide it, unless the spies infiltrated from the outside in the first place?

"Alright, then I'll go carry out the mission. Otherwise, I won't feel at ease taking the reward." Bai Mu didn't linger here. After taking a picture of the city map with his phone, he left the safe house.

After the white curtain left, Moro and the others began to discuss other matters.

They didn't stay in the safe house for long; after collecting the iron filings inside, they left.

This safe house was not exposed and can still be used later.

The map provided to Bai Mu is just an ordinary map, and its overall effect is not significant.

After moving to several different locations, the departing seven-person team arrived at an underground base. This was the base established by the Elvik Disposal Bureau.

"You've wasted almost two hours."

The base commander looked at Moro with displeasure: "You'd better have a reasonable excuse."

“We encountered people from the Rota City Handling Bureau.”

The supervisor frowned slightly. This was not a good thing in any way. Not only had the spread of the Dream Terminal increased, but there were also new competitors, or rather, unstable factors!

"I understand. How capable is he?" The supervisor didn't mention Moro and the others being late again.

After pondering for a moment, Moro replied, "Although he has shown very little, the ghosts in the city have been behaving strangely, most likely because of him. His strength is not weak."

Later, Moro also mentioned that White Curtain possessed an authorization certificate, and that such a 'temporary worker' certificate was not something an ordinary person could obtain.

It is only possible to obtain it if the Bureau of Processing attaches great importance to a certain person, but that person does not want to join the Bureau of Processing.

Or they could simply do some dirty work for the processing bureau.

The supervisor nodded and told Moro and his team to hand over to another action team. With them here, the previous team members could go back.

The Elvik Disposal Bureau primarily conducts 'investigations' regarding the Ghost Production Base.

They had investigated early enough to know the organization's name, but the organization was well hidden, and given the limitations of the era, it was difficult to find them.

The base commander wrote a new report and asked those who left to take it back with them.

Not long after they returned, the Elwick Processing Bureau arranged for someone to take a special route to Rota City.

While transportation may be underdeveloped in reality, this applies to ordinary people. For special departments, the issue of underdeveloped transportation does not exist; it simply depends on their specific needs.

The Elwick Processing Bureau was in a hurry, so they took a special line and arrived in Rota City the next day.

"Is this considered luck?" In another conference room, Borre smoked and talked to the people around him.

What was originally a serious place has become a gathering place for smokers after the people from the Elvik Disposal Bureau and the high-ranking officials from headquarters left.

"You picked it." The colleague next to him flicked his cigarette ash. "The people we arranged didn't run into any other colleagues, but the one you arranged ran into one. That's great."

"Is it possible that it's someone from our industry who's avoiding us?" Borre raised another hypothesis.

My colleague laughed and said, "Aren't you going to avoid it?"

Borre remained noncommittal, but said that hiding was definitely the way to go, and not only that, but he also wanted to observe secretly to see what kind of competitors they were.
The Rota Disposal Bureau's action team was initially quite unlucky, getting a severe lesson from those ghosts. They were forced to retreat before they could investigate much more information.

Because the casualties had already exceeded the acceptable limit, the people in that organization didn't care about the casualties at all.

Otherwise, Borei wouldn't have thought of letting Bai Mu handle this matter. If that guy went over there, he could easily cause some big trouble.

"It depends on what the director and the others think." Borre frowned slightly as he pondered; the intentions of the Elvik Disposal Bureau in coming here were quite clear.

They want to join forces with the Rota City Disposal Bureau to completely expose this organization and share Ghost Technology.

Ghost technology, huh? The Rota City Bureau of Investigation and Statistics doesn't know the specifics of this technology, but the Elwick Bureau of Investigation and Statistics knows quite a bit about it.

The question is, why would they be so kind as to come looking for us?
Why are they being so kind?

“Could it be that they’re in a hurry?” Borre’s colleague said with a laugh.

The Rota Bureau is not opposed to using the technology within the Dream World, or rather, it takes a positive attitude towards such matters.

Many technologies in the alternate dream world far surpass reality; it would be crazy not to use them.

The usefulness of that ghost technology is undeniable; it can play a significant role whether used in investigative operations or in warfare.

The problem is that the city of Elvik is not part of the country.

"So you believe it?"

My colleague shook his head: "Of course I don't believe it. I'm more convinced that they're in the midst of some important operation, which is why they contacted us urgently to avoid affecting the operation."

"Delaying time, huh?" Borei nodded. "The Elvik Disposal Bureau is just here to discuss cooperation; they didn't actually finalize a deal."

During this period of discussion, there are still many details to be finalized. Once a deal is reached, it may take ten days, half a month, or even longer.

To avoid the failure of cooperation negotiations, shouldn't the Rota Disposal Bureau show some restraint and stop sending investigation teams over to cause trouble at the drop of a hat...?

"We'll see what the director thinks. Hopefully, our director isn't too drunk." Borei stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and immediately launched into a slanderous remark.

The colleague next to him couldn't help but shake his head. He suspected that Borre didn't want to be promoted so quickly, which was why he spoke so recklessly.

After all, this guy prefers to be out and about rather than sitting in the office.

(End of this chapter)