Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 128, Section 127: Instruments

"That's right, this is our agreement."

The executive nodded.

“However, you seem to have misunderstood. I can provide you with identification assistance, but I can't help you with the investigation. After all, Lugu is a commercial group, and criminal investigation is not within our scope of business.” He smiled politely. “If my wording was inappropriate and caused you to misunderstand, then I sincerely apologize.”

“The identity is convenient.” Su Gewei subtly curled his lip. “Now that the Deer Valley Group is under a lot of attention, this identity is actually not so convenient.”

“I believe you are a skilled angler,” the executive said meaningfully. “All you need to do is cast the lure, and those black market dealers will be eager to bite.” He subtly reminded Suger that the Deer Valley Group would not truly endorse his actions.

Su Ge nodded, left the studio, and went to the restroom to take a pill. After a day of business activities, his phagocytic disorder started acting up again, causing him to see strange double images. To maintain the carefully cultivated public image of Su Xing by the Deer Valley Group, he couldn't let the secret of Su Xing's drug addiction be exposed to the public.

Smoke swirled in the mirror as he squinted, scrutinizing his face. Since his first bio-modification, he spent significantly more time looking in the mirror, as if that familiar face could compensate for the lingering sense of alienation within him. But he also discovered that the longer he looked in the mirror, the more unfamiliar the face itself became. Shen Ke explained that this was a phenomenon of dissociation, once considered a mental disorder, but now allowing practitioners who train their consciousness to enter an observer's perspective, examining their own bodies and the subtle ebb and flow of their emotions.

As the panoramic elevator descended, he saw pedestrians disappear back into the shadows of the alleyways. Inside the building's workshops, thousands of manufacturing machines were producing various medical supplies. Judging from the morning's meeting, the negotiations between the Deer Valley Group and various parties were nearing completion. In just one or two weeks, or even tomorrow, these products would flood the market.

Shen Ke's eyes appeared beside Su Ge.

“They’re all hot commodities,” she said. “A great opportunity to make money. The black market in Yingchuan is very hungry; it can swallow up any amount of goods.”

Suger looked towards the workshop; the inventory contained a large quantity of immunosuppressants. Cyproheptadine, mycophenolate mofetil colloid…

“You’ll need some of these things,” she continued. “Given how fast your condition is deteriorating, you won’t need anyone to deal with you; you’ll be finished on your own soon.”

As she said this, the elevator was passing the fifty-sixth floor workshop, where there were more than a dozen new pieces of equipment that had been assembled and were covered with silver dust cloths.

The printing machine is printing components for some unfinished medical devices, and lasers are spraying text onto the newly formed casing:
Quantum dot neuron scanning array

【NeuroFlux QD-Array】

Socrates surveyed the machines as the elevator continued its descent, and the equipment disappeared from his sight, replaced by bio-modification raw materials from another workshop.

"What is this?" he asked himself.

“A high-precision neural activity scanner,” she replied.

He nodded, not taking it too seriously. She then said, "It has many uses. If Ruan Qiuheng had such a scanner, he might be able to figure out the cause of your phagocytic disorder." Phaeocytic disorder.

Suger fiddled with the medicine box in his pocket. His symptoms hadn't flared up much in the past two weeks, but he could sense that they were worsening day by day, as he clearly felt his dependence on the medication growing stronger. He had always had an avoidance mentality towards this illness; whenever he faced the problem head-on, he found that unless he was willing to expose his secret, he could only drag it out.

But now he sees hope, a hope that is not only related to his health, but also that figuring out the cause of his illness might reveal the source of his abilities.

"The security measures here are very tight," Suger said. "Even if you could sneak in, you wouldn't be able to take anything with you."

“Don’t worry, we’re not stealing or robbing,” Shen Ke said. “Take another closer look. What do you see in these workshops?”

“Workshop, medical supplies, workers.” Suger paused, “Workers…”

“There was no need for workers here,” Shen Ke said. “Do you remember the Coexistence Act?”

"When companies use robots for production, they must set up corresponding positions for human participation. You might say that robots are already defunct, but occasionally people use the name of paying tribute to them to evade regulation."

The elevator reached the ground floor, and Su Ge headed towards the parking lot. His company-provided temporary vehicle was parked in parking space C14. The striking contrast of crimson and silver paint on the exterior symbolized the heroic deeds of flesh against machine, and his signature—Su Xing—was on the rear, followed by the slogan: "The boundary between flesh and machine is defined by you." Looking at the paint job, he got goosebumps. Driving in this car made him feel like he was draped in a banner, proudly marching down the street, loudly proclaiming his heroic deeds to every passerby.

"That's right. Yingchuan's laws stipulate that the Zonghui Council has the right to supervise the data logs of corporate production, but it's inconvenient for them to supervise the biological brains of humans. In addition, the Lugu Group mainly focuses on the bio-modification industry in Yingchuan, and the people who are still obsessed with bio-modification are somewhat obsessed with spiritual purity. They believe that biological products without biological participation in research and manufacturing have no soul. Perhaps it's for these reasons, or perhaps there are other considerations. In any case, this new company has hired humans."

Shen Ke was still behind Su Ge when she was halfway through her speech, but the next moment she was in the car.

"The Deer Valley Group has many companies, and many positions within it are handled by independent digital beings. In reality, these digital beings are all sub-individuals derived from the group's leader; in essence, they are still 'one person,' united in purpose. Companies with this structure do not have corruption, and members have no motivation to seek personal gain. If its biotechnology company in Yingchuan also adopted this model, we would have no way to investigate. But now they have hired humans, and where there are people, there are loopholes."

Her last sentence implicitly acknowledged the superiority of digital life over humans, and Suger frowned slightly, just a slight frown. He stepped into the carriage, sat in the calfskin seat, the lake-blue velvet on the armrests feeling very comfortable.

"You already have a goal?"

"The target is easy to find."

Shen Ke raised her hand, and a list appeared in front of Su Ge. The information of 231 members from more than ten departments, including management, R&D, production, and quality inspection, quickly scrolled down and finally stopped on a man. The man was well-proportioned, with black short hair, and looked like a young man in his early twenties. The information showed that he was already 58 years old and held positions such as medical manager and clinical project manager.

“This person is an expert in bioinformatics and also conducts research in the field of the autonomic nervous system. He seems very interested in the digital drugs that were popular in Yingchuan recently,” she said. “Those deadly digital drugs.”

(End of this chapter)