Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

Killing him outright would be satisfying and swift, but when it comes to mental torture, the method of squeezing out the remaining value is still the best.

……

Many people and forces began to contact Joseph.

Whether for the legacy of the Loken tank or the method of controlling the mechanical guards.

But he doesn't plan to see any of them!

As the purest Avenger, he ordered the mechanical guards to destroy everything in the laboratory. Those experiments, which he considered utterly evil, were reduced to ashes along with decades of accumulated data in a fire.

The entire building collapsed with a roar. Amidst the ruins, he looked around at the rows of hyenas waiting to scavenge for his life, and with a sneer, he shot himself.

All the mechanical guards slowly took off, disintegrating into droplets of molten steel, and then re-integrating into the dark sky above Night City.

The next day, four experimental subjects' corpses and an overturned and destroyed Originium brain container were found in the sewers.

No one knows how Joseph found Loken, just as no one knows how he gained control of the mechanical guards.

This city under eternal night buries too many secrets.

……

Chapter 138 Do I really look that stupid?

As per the previously agreed-upon zoning, the various organizations began cleaning up the battlefield and clearing away the ruins.

Occasionally, at the border, some seemingly valuable storage hard drives and the like will appear, and some disputes, big and small, will occur.

But the results were always disappointing.

All the data inside has been thoroughly cleaned up.

This kind of action doesn't seem like something a vengeful madman would do, but the organizations can't find anyone to suspect.

The whole thing has a strange feel to it.

Fortunately, besides its headquarters building, Loken Tank also has many scattered industries and laboratories, which can provide a feast for those bloodthirsty behemoths.

The biggest beneficiary of this dispute is Chen Jie!

How to create Originium Arts users, how to modify Originium Arts, how to implant multiple Originium Arts into one person, and consciousness transfer... all the data in the entire Loken Water Tank headquarters, all the legacy, including Loken himself, fell into her hands.

"It will probably take another three to five years to digest this data."

Just as she was contemplating whether to pull off another big heist, news came from home.

Shih Huai-ya and the others, along with the people from the Guard Bureau, were all very worried about her.

"Fine, let's just go back to normal then."

There aren't any new ideas or good tasks for the time being. We can't exactly have the mechanical guards perform biting lighters for the whole city, can we?

Karin, along with the two members of that temporary team, have all safely returned to the Guard Bureau.

While everyone was busy gossiping about Loken's water tank, this incident didn't attract much attention even within the Guard Bureau.

She submitted a report on the entire incident to Inspector Chan.

Upon entering the sewers and encountering an attack by the Reunion Movement, she reacted quickly, activating the particle barrier of her exoskeleton.

Then came a counterattack, during which several Reunion Movement members were shot and killed, but the enemy was like rats in the sewers, endless and relentless, until finally, when their ammunition ran out, they were captured.

During the mission, the entire squad's mechs will be in a state of joint defense and coordination to prevent someone from failing to observe the danger and the team members from verbally reminding them in time. As long as any one person in the team activates the barrier, the barriers of all three will be activated simultaneously.

Ushioni and Rei also survived, but were knocked unconscious by the explosion.

Then the two of them were imprisoned by the Brotherhood, who pretended to be the Reunion Movement. They probably imagined countless scenarios, such as what would happen if the Reunion Movement members came to interrogate them...

For several days, filled with anxiety and fear, under the influence of the suspension bridge effect, two people of vastly different social standing actually developed a special feeling for each other.

They didn't see a single thing; the meals were delivered by old-fashioned robots every day, and there wasn't even a single person to talk to them.

It's like being forgotten by the whole world...

They had indeed been forgotten. The kidnapping team, disguised as the Reunion Movement, had been waiting for Chen Jie's follow-up orders. However, she assumed that the two had perished in the real Reunion Movement's attack. After a three-second moment of silence, she went about her own business.

It wasn't until her return that someone mentioned it to her.

How to do?

Let's put them back together.

For example, Salk Private Security Consultants, adhering to its friendly cooperation with the Guard Bureau, paid a substantial ransom to the Reunion Movement.

Along with this report, Karin submitted an application.

"Investigate the recent trading market for Roman alloy?"

“Yes.” Chen Jie nodded. “I’ve also seen the recent news about Loken Water Tank.”

"During the time I was captured by the Reunion Movement, I overheard them talking again. It was all a bit muffled, just fragmented words. It seemed like they had obtained some special privileges: testing, raising funds, methods to obtain large quantities of Roman alloy, natural disasters, more infected people..."

"Are you sure?" Chen Huijie frowned.

She knew more than she could; from these few keywords, she could deduce a great deal.

Access permissions—could that be a method for controlling the mechanical guards?

Acquire large quantities of Roman alloy... Summon the mechanical guards with authorization, then take control and sever all communication.

This will lead to a decrease in the amount of alloy, problems with the Black Tower, natural disasters falling on the earth, exposed Originium, more infected, and the Reunion Movement becoming even stronger!

Everything seems to make sense, the only problem is...

How did you hear so much?

It's no wonder she was suspicious; the news was simply too shocking.

"Put your ear against the wall!" Chen Jie answered quickly.

In the Ark world, the demi-humans, like the Felin race whose ears are on the top of their heads, actually also have human-like ears on the sides of their heads—that's right, they have four channels.

Your hearing will naturally improve as well.

"Alright, I approve your application." Inspector Chen waved his hand and stamped the application with his electronic seal.

"Many of the black towers in the Fifth and Sixth Ring Roads do show signs of vandalism. This task may be very troublesome and will require fieldwork."

Upon hearing the word "trouble," Chen Jie jumped up instead:

"Great!"

"I've wanted to go outside Night City for ages."

Superintendent Chen sighed. She didn't expect this young lady to actually find anything out. She just thought of it as giving her a break for her mental health after she was arrested by the Reunion Movement.

However, she planned to assign this task as a formal mission.

"I'll have Hoshiguma lead this mission. She comes from the outer ring and knows far more about the fifth ring than I do, or even Old Wei."

"And Melantha, she wants to learn swordsmanship. We can't just rely on my guidance and practice swinging. Let her go out and spar with different people."

"I'm going to submit the application to Lao Wei. The team should be leaving in the next two or three days. You don't need to come in these two days. Stay home and pack the things you need for the business trip, and also learn about the culture of the outer ring. Don't make any fools of yourself when you get there."

Chen Jie gave an OK sign.

"Then I'll take my paid leave."

"Deduct it from your annual leave!"

"Wow, is it really necessary to be so stingy?"

"Just like that char siu cat, you bunch of good-for-nothing cats, each of you is so rich at home, yet you still try to embezzle the little funding the bureau has."

"Can what you earn at home be the same as what you earn through your own abilities?"

"Alright, get lost. Looks like you're not mentally unstable." Chen Huijie waved her hand.

“After all, I’m also an infected person, and those Reunion Movement people didn’t do anything to me,” Chen Jie said casually.

Upon hearing this, Inspector Chen was taken aback, then solemnly warned:

“I acknowledge that there are indeed some people in the Reunion Movement who genuinely fight for the interests of the infected, but that does not change the fact that it is a mad terrorist organization.”

"Moreover, it may just be a slogan for the benefit of the infected. There seem to be remnants of the Ursus Empire in the upper echelons, as well as traces of ambitious people in the Kazdel Royal Court."

This information far exceeds what an ordinary inspection team leader would have access to, but she is no ordinary person either.

"I understand."

Chen Jie never expected that his casual remark would be taken so seriously by the police.

Do you think the Reunion Movement has brainwashed and turned her to the other side during this period?

Do I really look that stupid?

……

Chapter 139 Shocks the Cat for a Whole Year

Go home.

Chen Jie didn't expect that the trouble was only just beginning.

A large number of people began to greet her, express their concern, and give her gifts... The problem was that she didn't know most of them.

The middle and upper management of Salk Security Company, employees of its affiliated and partner companies, people whose names are barely known from school, people coming for blind dates, and those hoping to rise to the top and marry a rich woman...

These incessant harassing messages left her emotionally and physically exhausted.

Shih Huai-ya, who only had time to visit her after finishing her overtime work, was startled and began to grope Karin's body.

"What did those crazy Reunion Movement bastards do to you?!"

"Don't touch me, don't overthink it, I'm just tired." Chen Jie rolled over and swatted away the groping cat's hand with his tail. "I even took a stroll around the bureau during the day."

"Who knows if you're just putting on a brave face, pretending to be indifferent, but actually..."

Chen Jie instantly circled behind her, used a grappling technique to subdue Shi Huaiya, threw her onto the bed, and then began rubbing her ears:

"Have you been watching anything unhealthy lately?"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, she forgot all about her most sensitive ears being manipulated and exclaimed in surprise:

"You...you hacked into my terminal?!"

Karin is quite skilled in virtual technology, a fact known throughout the Guard Bureau.

She's usually assigned to any relevant cases. If Virtual Terra weren't so safe, the Guard Bureau would probably need an additional cyber team, and she would definitely be the team leader.

"Looks like you really did see it, you lecherous cat!"

"I was just worried about you... something related to the internet, I didn't expect it to be something like that..."

Swire was not lying.

Old Chen wouldn't let her go, so she had to figure it out herself, searching online for information about the Reunification Movement and what to do if members of the Guard Bureau were arrested...

From this point on, things that appeared in Virtual Terra started to go wrong.

With a learning attitude, she clicked on the video "Female Guard Member Captured.avi".

Amazing cats all year round!

This opened the door to a new world.

"Forget about those unrealistic plots." Chen Jie snapped his fingers in her ear.

"I estimate that Melanie and I will be going on a business trip in about two days."

"Where?"

"Outer ring road".

Why go to that wasteland?

"I applied to investigate the damage to the Black Tower and the theft of Roman alloy from its interior."

Swire rolled over, contorting her supple body into an odd position on the bed, a similarly strange expression on her face:

"My God, Miss Karin, I'm working overtime until the early hours of the morning every day to deal with the events inside the City of Light and Night, and you still have the leisure to worry about things in the outer ring."

"Someone has to do something for this land."

Chen Jie sat up, no longer playing around with Shi Huaiya on the bed, but instead looked out the window at the distant place where neon lights flashed in the darkness.

If she had a cigarette in her hand at that moment, it would be the standard look of a post-coital cigarette.