Abyssal Wanderer.

Chapter 83 NO.0052: Tracing the Source

After saying hello to the other party, Jiang Zhou directly raised the knife and chopped the bionic robot's head in half.

"What exactly did it say just now..."

It was only then that Shen Lan, who realized that she had just come back from the round before the gate of hell, looked at the head that was still flashing with electric sparks, and asked with a pale face.

"Assassination."

With the knife sheathed, Jiang Zhou answered briefly.

Then he thought for a while and added:
"And framed."

The intention is too obvious - claiming to be a member of Icarus, and then assassinating the person in charge of the dark blue section in full view, this is clearly to make them conflict with the tenth-level government of the resettlement area.

At the critical moment of cooperation between Icarus and Perse Fanny, someone wanted to break the contract between them.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou took the data board from the maintenance staff next to him, then pulled out the data cable and plugged it into his brain-computer interface.

In an instant, countless pop-up windows kept popping up on the data board, and the frequency was as fast as some audio games for practicing hand speed, which made people feel dazzled.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing this, Deep Blue couldn't help asking.

"Tracing back to the source of that hacker, I want to - find out -"

Jiang Zhou's speech became slower and slower, and his voice dragged on for longer answers.

Before he could finish the following words, after entering the deep connection mode, he sat down on the ground limply.

On the other hand, in Jiang Zhou's consciousness, a massive amount of data was instantly recognized by his brain as a visual graphic environment through the translation of the Hongqiao brain area.

A towering fence with barbed wire rose up in his vision.Several search towers look like Cyclops, looking back and forth at the boundless darkness outside the wall.

At this moment, Jiang Zhou is in a factory filled with neon lights, surrounded by dozens of human models wearing commercial smiling masks.

Those dolls were processing wine bottles on the assembly line, their movements were mechanical and stiff.

But even if Jiang Zhou appeared here so abruptly, it didn't attract their attention at all.

At Jiang Zhou's feet, a mannequin was cut in two, and a dark red liquid like engine oil was spraying from the cut.

Compared with the surrounding mannequins, the mask on its face was replaced with a grim expression.And a series of unclear footprints circled around it.

Apparently, the fallen figure under his feet was the control program of the mechanical bartender before.And the string of footprints around them are the traces left by the other party when they invaded.

After understanding the information translated for him by the Hongqiao brain area, Jiang Zhou immediately focused on the footprints and tried to track them.

In the next moment, Jiang Zhou stood motionless in the same place, and the surrounding environment began to elongate and change rapidly.

He followed the trace left by the other party and chased all the way.When the surrounding environment stabilized again, he was already at the edge of the fence with the sharp snake-belly isolation net.

This is the embodiment of the firewall in the deep blue zone.

And following the traces of the string of footprints, Jiang Zhou found the location of a certain wall at a glance, and a hole in the shape of a honeycomb was opened.

A human figure covered in shadows seemed to be about to pass through the hole at this moment.

"Feeling" that someone was chasing him, the assassin turned his head.

"I didn't expect that bodyguard to be a hacker? But it doesn't matter, I have written down your real appearance, and soon, I will get your real name... Since you dare to destroy my work, then you will replace that Die bitch."

In this illusory cyberspace, the other party said so threateningly.

Ignoring the other party's trash talk, Jiang Zhou tried to see through the cover of the shadow to see the true identity of the person in front of him.

But he didn't succeed.

Anonymous, or higher-level hackers...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself, and then said:

"Who sent you here to assassinate Lady Dark Blue?"

"Stupid question... Didn't I just say it all, don't you believe it?"

The assassin sneered.

Even now, he still presents himself as a member of the Icarus Liberation Front.

"I really don't believe it, because I just know that the Icarus Liberation Front never accepts mentally handicapped people."

To this, Jiang Zhou replied in this way.

"Is it really like this?"

Hearing Jiang Zhou's answer, the assassin laughed again:
"But in my opinion, you look like a mentally handicapped person at the moment. With your skills, if you just stay in the base reality and just manipulate the service robots in the bar, I really can't do anything to you But you want to show off your half-baked hacking skills, and you have to catch up..."

As he spoke, the assassin's laughter gradually became piercing.

"If I don't catch up, how can I find out the guy hiding behind you?"

Jiang Zhou just replied in a low voice.

But as soon as Jiang Zhou's voice fell, several walls of thorns suddenly appeared around him, and they wrapped around him, enclosing him in the middle.

Meanwhile, the mannequins that had been in the factory before appeared out of nowhere.And they held all kinds of knives in their hands, and wore masks with crying or angry expressions on their faces, surrounding Jiang Zhou.

"That's right, you have to catch up to find out who is behind me... But have you ever thought that after I lock you in cyberspace, no matter how much your physical body in the base reality is Powerful, I only need to control some service robots in the bar, and I can easily kill you who are sleeping and the person you want to protect?"

The cyber assassin laughed.

When he was talking about this, in the base reality, all the bionic robots in the entire dark blue zone stopped at the same time.

A blue light flashed in their eyes at the same time, and then they slowly turned their gazes to where Jiang Zhou and Shen Lan were in front of the bar.

The first principle of hacker combat - the party who knows the real coordinates of the opponent will be invincible.

"When you found out that I hadn't left yet, you actually didn't log off and go back immediately. Instead, you gave me time to write an enchantment program that can lock your consciousness here... So, who is the real one? What about the mentally handicapped?"

Originally thought that his mission had failed, and was planning to go back home.Unexpectedly, the other party raised his hand and gave him such a good opportunity.

The assassin, who felt that the matter was under control, taunted with satisfaction.

Looking at the mannequins around him who were gradually approaching him, Jiang Zhou's way of dealing with it was also very simple.

He snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the masked expressions on the faces of the models turned wildly like a slot machine, and then one by one changed back to the previous commercial smiles.

Then, as abruptly as they appeared, the figures disappeared instantly.

Reflected in the dark blue bar of the base reality, all bionic robots went offline at the same time.

Shen Lan, her black and white siblings who rushed to her side to protect her, and the surrounding employees couldn't help but look at each other when they saw that all the bionic robots suddenly lowered their heads and turned off.

"what is this……"

Realizing that he had lost control in the snap of the other party's fingers, the cyber assassin froze for a moment.

"What happened?"

He said so.

In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand what's going on right now, he just can't accept it all at once.

He couldn't accept the fact that the stunned young man who was catching up in front of him, this gutter rat living at the bottom of the Nord resettlement area, was far stronger than himself in terms of hacker level.

Even though the other party has a talent for mutation in the Hongqiao brain region, he is using an enterprise-level hacking plug-in, and the company's supercomputer provides him with extra computing power!

What does the opponent use to fight against himself?
How could it be possible for him to be seized of control in such an instant?
The assassin couldn't understand.

As for Jiang Zhou, this is his first attempt to use the "hacking" ability to affect the base reality after the Hongqiao brain mutation was about to take shape.

It can be regarded as a verification of one's ability...

Not to mention the mutation in his Hongqiao brain area - that is the doctor who performed the operation, and they kept sighing about the near-perfect degree.The brain, which was originally devastated by radiation sickness, actually reduced the body's rejection.This makes the Hongqiao brain area that finally grows as natural as an organ that evolved naturally.

As for the hacking plug-in, it is naturally impossible for Pluto Deep Dive to install it for him.But it doesn't matter, right now Jiang Zhou has something more useful than ordinary hacker plug-ins.

That was the mark left by Hecate, the goddess of the dark moon.

Although Jiang Zhou can't analyze the underlying code of that imprint at all; it is not a programming language that can be understood by human logic at all, it is closer to pure mathematics itself; Compiler, the ability to simply call some sigils.

According to Hecate, this is something that can protect him from those malicious programs on the surface of the dark net in the abyss. Isn't it more than enough to deal with the hacker in front of him?
If they met in the dark web of the abyss, then Jiang Zhou could destroy the opponent's double face to face, activate the apoptosis program and kill the opponent.

It's a pity that this is the World Wide Web, and destroying the substitute program can only knock people offline.

If you really want to kill someone through a network cable, you have to find out the physical location of the opponent, then hack into the equipment around him, and manipulate him to kill him physically.Or after getting the position of the other party, he ran over to do it offline.

When Jiang Zhou sighed in this way, the thorns surrounding him suddenly entangled him, blocking his vision.

At the same time, the cyber assassin immediately ran away from the hole in the firewall.

Although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, this well-trained assassin was still able to figure things out—he was not the opponent's opponent, so he had to go back before revealing his identity.

Based on his understanding of the leader, to assassinate Deep Blue by himself would only be Plan A, followed by Plan B and Plan C... Even the entire assassination operation may be just a smoke bomb, and the real purpose of the leader is something else .

All in all, there is absolutely no need for me to die in cyberspace with this hacker in front of me.If he really exposed his identity, that would be the real danger.

Besides, it is more important to report the information that the Icarus Liberation Front has a guaranteed "Sandman" level hacker.

Especially since I saw the other person's face - as long as I go back and look it up in the database, I will know the other person's real name.

And a hacker who revealed his real name, unless he is also a high-level adjustment person at the same time, he will be like a bottle of Coke that has run out, completely losing his greatest value.

Therefore, after temporarily locking the opponent, the assassin hurriedly dragged his double back.

And on the way back, he continued to sprinkle false traces to confuse the other party - he jumped between major servers in the world, shuttled between intersections like a maze of dimensions, leaving countless misleading, making people There was no way for the other party to find out their traces.

The last time he changed the agent, he misdirected the clues of his existence to a resettlement area in Northern Europe, and the assassin planned to go back.

It is already foolproof, as long as he crosses another fork in the road, his soul will be able to return to his physical body.

Thinking so, but for some reason, an abnormal mist suddenly filled in front of the last three-way intersection.

For hackers who have mutated the Hongqiao brain area, the data code will be translated into cognition that the brain can understand.According to the different thinking habits of each person, for the same set of data and the same piece of code, the images they can perceive are often very different.

The Hongqiao brain area will use the materials in the memory to create something that best fits its symbolic meaning—for example, the classic one, the firewall becomes the image of the city wall, and the Trojan horse virus becomes the image of the Gu insect.

However, in his habit, he has never recognized an image similar to fog in cyberspace before.Therefore, for a while, he didn't even know what happened here.

This is a phenomenon he has not experienced.

Footsteps came, and a human silhouette gradually emerged from the thick fog.

It was a human figure whose whole body was pieced together by countless color blocks, striding out from the mist.

"I think you have traveled a long way, so I will wait for you at the finish line ahead of time."

hope you do not mind.

The man said so.

Needless to say, this person in front of him is the hacker who was in the dark blue zone before.

The assassin stayed where he was.

How can this be?

How can this be? !
Looking at the figure standing in front of the three-way intersection, these words kept echoing in his heart.

It is no longer the unconvinced indignation before, the emotion he feels at this moment has turned into fear...

Extreme fear.

The other party completely ignored his previous misleading along the way, and even arrived one step ahead of him, on the only way he had to go back.

How exactly?
I seriously misjudged something... This person in front of me, he, is he really human?
Or is it a "horse" driven by AI from the abyss and dark net?
"you……"

No longer the previous arrogance, the assassin said tremblingly.

"So you are a member of Pluto's deep dive, your body is in Tartarus, right?"

Turning his head to look at a path in the three-way intersection behind him, Jiang Zhou said so.

Immediately, Jiang Zhou, who used Hecate's mark to see through the false agents of the opponent, nodded and said to himself without waiting for the assassin to answer:
"Looking at it this way, it's reasonable to want to kill Deep Blue and stir up conflicts.

"Then the next topic is, what should I do with you?"

(End of this chapter)