Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 30: The Tiger's Den

The shift in perspective opened up new directions for Suger.

Shen Ke's reaction before her arrest was neither surprised nor angry, as if she accepted that it was only right for him to "punish" her for her offense; she was simply disgusted that he had sold her to the security bureau.

If Shen Ke has accomplices, they are most likely to share Shen Ke's suspicion that he is some kind of powerful being.

He was once bewildered when the gray-haired man called him Buddha, and terrified when the Vidyadhara Temple deduced that he was Yama, but now he feels that such misunderstandings are not entirely bad.

He could have allowed this misunderstanding to continue, or even deepened it.

The dim afternoon light shone into the room, and Suger gazed out the window, lost in thought.

He remained worried, fearing possible retaliation and the possibility of Shen Ke leaking secrets.

But perhaps what's more frightening isn't him, but Shen Ke's potential "accomplices".

……

In the dead of night, a translucent purple light shone into the pitch-black room.

Su Ge looked at the Gu Diao on his body in the mirror. A bionic cockroach robot worth 320 yuan was perched on his shoulder.

Shen Ke has been arrested for two days, but the security bureau has not come knocking. Perhaps it is because the purification ritual has not yet begun, and she is still keeping his secret.

These days he has been testing his abilities from multiple angles and has found that he can indeed connect to most electronic devices, including the robot on his shoulder.

He can hack into an aerial logistics drone for five minutes, and at most three drones at the same time for sixteen seconds. If this time is extended, his brain temperature will rise to a level that could cause him to faint at any moment.

In addition, he also tested the maximum duration for which he could activate the Gu Diao combat mode.

Due to account restrictions, his daily maximum spending limit was only 1,200 yuan. After getting used to it over this period, he began to consciously use the computing power consumed by the Gu Diao wisely, but this amount could only support him running the Gu Diao combat mode for about forty seconds.

His abilities are powerful, but their practicality is somewhat lacking.

However, the greatest value this ability can currently create lies not in the ability itself, but in the status of a powerful person it bestows upon him.

He looked in the mirror, picked up the holographic mask from the table, and the six soft legs at the bottom of the mask conformed to his jawbone. After putting it on, a silver holographic image was projected from the metal strip, covering his entire face.

He put on a coat, pulled up the hood, and the exoskeleton supported his shoulders and waist, changing his body shape.

After doing all this, he took a deep breath, calmed his anxious heart, and left the room.

……

Next to Exit 12 of Quanjin Station, a cockroach robot crawls into a narrow alley. Its sharp alloy limbs climb over the wall, cross the metal box, and enter the passageway inside the roller shutter door.

Su Ge entered the underground world again. This time, he was unguided. Only the information from the aerial logistics drone's real-world map told him that this area was called "Fengyu," a lawless place with a risk level equivalent to that of the Six Desires Heaven.

The underground passageways connect abandoned parking lots and commercial centers. The exterior walls of the residences in the large Class A civil defense project are covered with advertisements for houses for rent and sale, as well as graffiti about Pure Land Buddhism. This place used to be a sanctuary for social elites, but now it is home to marginalized people who are not accepted by the times, smuggling contraband, trafficking in human bodies and prosthetics, and worshipping deities in shrines.

Socrates saw people lying in cramped dwellings made of zinc sheets and asbestos tiles, lighting candles in their ears, seemingly believing that this would dispel the darkness within them.

He followed the path of his memory, his destination being the territory of Chengyang Gong.

The night he activated the consciousness anchor, he remembered that Shen Ke's facial recognition data was stored there, which meant that she was a regular there, or that it was her base of operations.

The cockroach robot climbs through the exposed ventilation ducts, transmitting the environmental information it detects to Suger, as if it were another eye to him.

His brain and his original senses have developed a sophisticated coordination through hundreds of thousands of years of co-evolution. The sudden increase in visual information enhances his ability to perceive the environment, but it also disrupts the original balance, giving him a sense of spatial disorientation.

He silently adapted to this feeling, just as he adapted to monocular vision and the Gu Diao.

After navigating through underground elevators and passageways, the cockroach robot entered the underground plaza filled with car shells.

Suddenly, the vision it transmitted flickered and plummeted downwards. Immediately afterward, a foot stepped down, its shadow obscuring the entire field of vision.

The image became distorted and then disappeared.

The cockroach robot has disconnected.

Su Ge had come here with Shen Ke without any problems the last time, and now he understood that there were indeed guards here.

This actually relieved him; he was most afraid that the place would be deserted.

He connected with the Gu Diao and detected twenty-three figures with vital signs in the dim space within fifty meters of him.

Next to the car body with its paint peeling off, a modder is stepping on the ground and twisting his foot left and right, completely crushing the cockroach robot.

Three hundred and twenty yuan gone. This kind of cheap robot is definitely not good for scouts.

Suger walked forward.

In the dim light, the cyborg who had crushed the robot raised his foot and looked over.

Unlike those marginalized people abandoned by the times who pieced together their bodies with various inferior prosthetics, his prosthetics had a harmonious engineering design. His arms, which shone with a metallic sheen under his loose red and blue color-blocked shirt, and his bare waist and abdomen had smooth lines that combined strength and beauty.

He held a solid metal baseball bat in his hand, the end of the bat dragging on the ground, rubbing against the cement.

Five modified humans followed behind him, each carrying either cold or firearms.

One of the modders tried to step forward to meet Suger, raising his baseball bat to block him, then nodded at Suger from a dozen steps away.

"Friend, have you come to the wrong place?"

Sug carefully observed the several modified individuals opposite him and found that they were using ordinary kinetic weapons. In combat mode, Gu Diao could pre-detect their shooting movements, and as long as he had enough computing power, he could evade their shots.

But when faced with firearms, he instinctively tensed up.

"I'm looking for Master Chengyang."

Soger's voice, after being passed through the holographic mask, became an electronic voice that was difficult to discern in terms of age and gender.

"Baseball Bat" leaned on his baseball bat, sizing up Suger, the holographic mask under his hood concealing the uninvited guest's face.

"I've never seen you before."

“Now you’ve seen it,” Sog said.

"Baseball Bat" squinted and chuckled.

He poked his chest with his thumb, and the menacing ram's head tattoo glowed bluish in the dim light.

“There is no Chengyang Gong here. If you need anything, just tell me. I am ‘Gui Jin Yang’ and I’m in charge of this place.”

“You can’t give me what I want.” Su Ge smiled, feeling that his smile was a little dry, but this dryness, after being embellished by the voice changer, took on a sinister quality.

"Oh, what do you want?" Ghost Golden Sheep chuckled. "Contraband, weapons, cybernetic bodies, or biological entities?"

"Shen Ke's backup."

Suger slowly uttered these words.

He stood in the darkness, feeling as if there were thorns in his back.

But the voice changer masked his emotions, and his rapid heartbeat was completely absorbed by the composite material layer of the Gu Diao.

(End of this chapter)