Author: Sevenfold Body

Chapter 100 NO.0063: The City of the Past

On the streets where people were coming and going, several vague human-shaped blocks of color suddenly appeared. As their resolution gradually became higher, the deep-diving salvage team gradually materialized here from the void.

[The base construction process has been launched...]

[The avatar program has been loaded...]

[The redundant information filter has been opened...]

[Breadcrumbs are now online and are expected to take effect in 40 hours]

[I wish you all success in your mission]

Notifications from the deep dive cabin were displayed one after another on the eye movement interface. Everyone looked around and observed the surrounding environment.

Different from the desolate city ruins they dived into last time, they were now in an underground city built under a steel sky, with neon lights everywhere.

"But why are there so many... people here?"

Qianxia Ying looked around and asked nervously.

They were surrounded by bustling crowds, and it looked as lively as the central business district at Christmas.

There were men and women in the crowd, old and young. Each of them had a different figure, appearance, and clothing, but each of them had a lifeless poker face.

Moreover, their postures when walking are like puppets with strings on them, stiff and clumsy.

In addition, when Jiang Zhou and his group, the heavily armed abyss roaming team, suddenly appeared out of thin air, no one around them reacted appropriately - at most, they were just the people who happened to be blocking their way.

, they will consciously avoid it when they get too close.

"Of course it's not a human being... You'll know just by looking at it using Hongqiao Vision."

Regarding Qianxia Ying's doubts, Jiang Zhou replied like this.

Hongqiao vision means that in cyberspace, the visual signals received by the brain-computer interface are restored into codes for the Hongqiao brain area to perceive.

This is a basic ability that every hacker will master. Simply put, it is to see the code of an object through graphical modeling. This is called "hacker's eye" in the hacker circle, and some people jokingly call it "racing".

"Boling Vision".

Qianxia Ying nodded upon hearing this, and then focused her attention on a young man walking his dog not far away.

In an instant, her eyes flashed with deep colors like the night sky...

Then, as if someone had punched her head-on, she threw her head back and took several steps back before stopping.

At that moment, a massive amount of information passed through the Hongqiao brain area and was translated into intuitive feelings that impacted her spirit.

"grass!"

Chinatsu Sakura covered her eyes and cursed in a low voice.

There is a reason why Hongqiao Vision is called "spiritual vision" - for the existence in cyberspace, if you directly observe the nature of the other party through its graphical interface, it is easy to be hidden by the massive information underneath.

Buried.

Even if Chinatsu Sakura only turned it on for a moment and then cut it off, even if she chose the most harmless-looking object for observation... the moment she saw the complete information, she still felt as if someone was holding a sledgehammer on her forehead.

Came here for a while.

After seeing through the opponent's human disguise, Qianxia Ying finally saw a file; a file that recorded a citizen of the Nord resettlement area named Yang Ju.

Starting from the birth registration, this file followed his life path, and finally ended with his death certificate. It contained countless texts, images, and video materials, so much that she just glanced at it and felt

Feeling dizzy.

Qianxia Sakura estimates that it will take several years to read the entire archive.

"You..."

After shaking her head to regain consciousness, Qianxia Ying looked at Theseus who had given her such "good advice" before, and opened her mouth to curse directly.

However, when she turned her gaze to Theseus, she discovered that this man's "spiritual vision" state had always been on.

This made her speechless - she felt so uncomfortable after just a glance, but the other party was looking around with Hongqiao Vision on before?

Not only that, at this moment Theseus was still looking at him with concern.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?"

he asked.

And combined with the confused expression on the other person's face, Qianxia Ying always felt that these words sounded more like:

"That's all you do? No, right?"

"I'm fine."

Chinatsu Sakura, who swallowed the curse words, gritted her teeth and replied.

MD, for hackers, there is no way to make up for things like talent through acquisition - the growth of the Hongpon brain area determines the upper limit between different individuals.

Even though the other party was just a low-tech person before, but after installing a brain-computer interface to stimulate the mutation of the Hongpon brain area... Theseus has now become a hacker who is far superior to her at the "hardware" level.

Of course, fortunately, the other party has not installed any hacker plug-ins yet. Although he cannot compare in terms of performance, I am definitely far better than him in terms of skills.

"It's okay."

On the other side, Jiang Zhou closed his view of Hongqiao while answering.

On the one hand, this was because looking around with his "spiritual vision" on would make his temples feel throbbing pain. On the other hand, after scanning around, he found that he could not find anything among the people around him.

Got any useful information.

"In other words, these people around are actually their file programs?"

Looking around at the passers-by who behaved like NPCs, Chinatsu Sakura asked.

"Huh? What you saw from them using Hongqiao Vision earlier were personal files?"

However, before Jiang Zhou could answer, Wutou-23, who was leading the dive this time, suddenly asked.

Immediately, without waiting for Qianxia Ying or Jiang Zhou to answer, he verified it himself - he grabbed an unlucky pedestrian from beside him, and then tore off that person's head.

The surrounding pedestrians saw this and did not panic at all - they continued to walk stiffly on the street as if nothing had happened.

Wutou-23, on the other hand, threw the headless body in his hand into the sky and watched it quickly turn into a flickering light spot and dissipate in mid-air.

In the end, the body left behind a data ball - which slowly flew into the hands of the three-meter-tall armored humanoid.

"interesting……"

After roughly previewing the content, he threw the ball casually, then looked up at the leaden sky and said:

"Unexpectedly, the place we dived this time turned out to be a mirror image of a city."

With that said, Wutou-23 turned to look at the people of the Icarus Liberation Front.

Although he couldn't express any expression on his face, for some reason, everyone could feel the other person's bad taste at this moment.

"So, be happy, rats. This is the underground city of the Nord settlement area restored five years ago... You are going home."

He said this with a sarcastic tone.

The people from Icarus could not help but fall into silence as they looked at the familiar buildings around them.

Here is a snapshot of information about the underground city in the Nord Resettlement Area five years ago. And the passers-by around here are the personal files of the residents here—perhaps including their own files.

The Abyss Dark Web is all-encompassing, and it contains information about an entire real-life city. However, it is extremely rare to be able to visit a real-life city when diving.

After all, in the Abyss Dark Web, compared to the information provided by humans, the information generated by AI is much, much more - the two are not on the same order of magnitude.

But at this moment, they happened to dive here... Statistically speaking, this probability is like the coin standing up when tossing a coin. It cannot be said that it is impossible, but the probability is definitely much lower than that of heads and tails.

Of all the people present, probably no one would believe that this was a coincidence.

"Then let's go back directly?"

So, someone in the team asked.

If there are any traps in this, then this is probably the most prudent choice at the moment.

"What? You just saw home and you want to go back?"

However, Wutou-23 shook his head and continued to mock.

He seemed unwilling to go back like this.

"Even though this mission is an outing for me, it is still a deep-diving salvage mission for you. All of you must fill your storage space with technological blueprints before you are allowed to go back."

Then, he raised his tone and ordered like this.

"Then where should we go?"

At this time, 136, who had been silent before, suddenly asked.

"To be honest, I kind of want you to find 'yourselves' in this city and kill them one by one... But this seems to be too time-consuming, so let's find a location with a wide view for the time being.

Put out decoy beacons and see what kind of malicious programs you can attract."

This is what this three-meter-tall armored man said.

After saying that, he stepped forward, like Moses, and separated the crowd in front of them.

When everyone saw this, they all followed him.

Jiang Zhou was walking at the back of the team at the moment. He looked at the city activity map provided for him by Hecate's blessing in the eye movement interface, thinking about some questions as he walked.

For example, who brought them here?

Is it Hecate? Janus? Or something else.

And, more importantly...what is the purpose of bringing them here?

This is the Nord resettlement area five years ago. What secrets are hidden? Do you need to discover it on your own?

Not long after everyone left this crowded and bustling street, two stars fell from the lead-gray iron dome sky.

Those were Liao Qi and Booker. They passed through the marks left by Jiangzhou and came to this underground city that existed in the past.
Chapter completed!