Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 40: Address
The piercing alarms echoed throughout the security bureau, the cells remained locked, and all security personnel heavily using brain-computer interfaces immediately entered the quiet room.

Normally, they would be responsible for fighting off evil spirits. But this time, the situation was beyond their capabilities—dozens of evil spirits had escaped, most of them not being fully digital life forms, but still beyond the control of the security personnel.

So when Suger left the visiting room, he did not see a scene of chaos.

The station was quieter than usual. Most security personnel were on high alert, and all potentially dangerous electronic devices were shut down. Only the holographic green plants swayed in the ventilation vents, and his heavy footsteps echoed in the monotonous light of the corridor.

He followed the signs that appeared in the corridor and quickly walked into the escape tunnel.

The elevator doors had already closed. He walked down the stairs, the emergency exit sign glowing green in the darkness. After descending seven floors, he reached the passageway connecting to the aerial platform outside. Su Ge quickened his pace, and the moment he stepped out of the exit, the light from outside shone on his face. He could see the crowd beneath the auspicious clouds and golden lotus in the distance, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Things were progressing smoothly. Although there was a sudden change in the middle, the Security Bureau's reaction was weaker than Su Ge had expected. Without Li Lou, their first reaction was not to capture the escaped demons and monsters, but to stop the damage in time. Taking advantage of the Security Bureau's evacuation of the crowd, Su Ge was able to escape in a natural way.

He left the exit and looked back; the iron gate, slightly oxidized, led into complete darkness. In mid-air, several figures slipped through the gaps in the yellow and black railings. Their black police uniforms bore white rectangular insignia on the chests and cuffs, with red feathers in the centers of the rectangles floating as if alive.

Besides investigators like Yang Guan who are not highly dependent on brain-computer interfaces, the only security personnel who can remain active when the emergency plan is activated are the Feathered Envoys of the Security Bureau.

The Feathered Robe Envoy's brain-computer interface is directly connected to a security system, which can call upon a portion of Li Lou's computing power at any time. When necessary, Li Lou can take over their brain-computer interface control and "descend" through their bodies.

At this moment, their electronic eyes glowed red as they searched for electronic devices or residents that might have been invaded by demons and monsters, but the hibernators who had just left the security bureau were overlooked.

Sug lowered his head, quickly moved away from the Security Bureau, and blended into the crowd of people performing the food offering ceremony.

The Void Realm Mandala was affixed to the inside of his thigh near his knee. It had never been detected by the Security Bureau. At this moment, it contained dozens of demons and monsters, making Su Ge feel as if a live scorpion was stuck to his leg.

He entered the nearest SkyTrain, where the advertisements on the walls had been replaced by interspersed city news broadcasts, and the voice of a female announcer echoed through the carriage.

[Attention all units and residents of Yingchuan City: The Security Bureau has been attacked by criminals, resulting in the breach of the prison. Many of these criminals are currently at large. No casualties have been reported so far. To prevent further spread of the danger, please…]

The cityscape flashed past the window.

Suger leaned back in his chair, his eyes unfocused.

His attention was focused on his consciousness, where a stream of data was combined in a complex structure, with the characters zero, one, yin, and yang intertwined and changing.

This is the digital life's hierarchy; according to Yang Guan, it's the key used to determine the highest authority. According to Su Ge, if this key doesn't contain the digital life's neural network and database, then it shouldn't have the ability to think.

He tried to communicate with Shen Ke's avatar, and Shen Ke sent him a message. Su Ge couldn't understand most of the content in the message center, and could only guess that it might be related to network addresses.

He only understood one physical address in the message:

Room 101, 42nd Floor, Tzu Chi Building, Jinggui Street

He silently recited the address in his mind, and then he thought of her titanium-white short hair and the clear, bright eyes beneath it.

……

The skyrail arrives at Quanjin Station. Suge leaves the station exit, and the sun god flies between the dark buildings.

He caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of his eye, but when he turned his head, he only caught the tail of a black cat darting into the alley.

He stared at the alley entrance for a while, then turned back into the station, focused his attention on the luggage storage area, and left Quanjin Station again, walking into the alley where the black cat had disappeared. The buildings at the bottom of Yingchuan City were completely unplanned. He walked more than a hundred meters into the narrow alley, turned twice, and saw a wire mesh fence strung between the cement walls ahead. The black cat was perched on a cardboard box under the wire mesh.

Sog walked over without saying a word. He didn't know if the changes in the Security Bureau were due to his own mishandling or if it was a trap set by Black Cat, whose appetite was never satisfied by just one Charm.

The wind from the high-rise building rustled as medicine boxes and garbage bags rolled past under the cardboard box.

"Quite an appetite," the black cat said first. "You said before that you didn't want to provoke Li Lou, but now, most of the demons and monsters in the Security Bureau are in your hands."

"If you don't do it, you'll do it thoroughly."

Su Ge's tense nerves relaxed slightly; thankfully, he didn't have to fall out with it.

He tossed the Void Realm Mandala over, and the black cat, like catching a butterfly, pressed the magical artifact under its paws.

Two seconds later, it looked up and asked, "Where's the enchantress?"

“She didn’t come in,” Socrates said. “She won’t believe me.”

The black cat narrowed its eyes.

Suger looked at the magical artifact under his claws: "These ghosts are enough for you to have a meal."

The black cat shook its head, its sharp voice turning cold, "They are not the 'Sand Counters' under the throne of Marici."

Suge was secretly taken aback. It hadn't come for the food demon, but for Shen Ke's other identity.

Perhaps it wasn't Xiongbo at all!
The duty of the sand counters is to wash the data for the gods, which also means that all the data received by the gods must pass through the sand counters.

The black cat's tone revealed that its target was not Shen Ke, but rather the Radiant Mother Marici, whom she had once served.

It could attack Li Lou without restraint, and it seemed to be plotting against the gods. At this moment, its true identity was about to be revealed in Su Ge's mind—it also belonged to the category of demons and monsters, and it was much more powerful than Shen Ke.

“I only promised to help you bring out her status. If she refuses to come out, you can’t blame me,” Socrates said calmly. “As for Moricis, she has nothing to do with me.”

The black cat stared at it with its chrome-yellow eyes. After a while, it released the magical artifact and jumped to the top of the barbed wire fence.

"You broke your promise this time, so you owe me a favor."

It glanced at Suger and jumped onto the windowsill behind the barbed wire.

"Your magical artifact?"

"Don't try to shift the blame for the mess you made onto me."

After finishing speaking, the black cat leaped back and forth between the windowsill and the drone logistics platform, quickly disappearing into the alley. The magical artifact that contained forty demonic and monster ranks was abandoned on the cardboard box like trash.

(End of this chapter)