Overturned Tower

"When a certain director is assassinated, his memory will be frozen immediately. He will immediately obtain all the information and memories of the previous day, and then use the method of 'dreaming' to input the event memories that have not been integrated by the biological brain. To recall what happened that day.

"But the two directors who were killed by me lost the 'event memory' of that day.

"Do you know why?"

Bad Day replied: "The answer is 'time'.

"There is no unified network in this world. The networks of each sky island are independent... That is to say, if there is a way to modify the time of all the clocks on the entire sky island, then it is also possible to change the memory synchronization time of the elf directors. "

"Is it the head portrait of a deer?"

Russell immediately guessed who did it: "But isn't that too deliberate?"

"So, we've been preparing since the beginning of the month."

Bad Day grinned and smiled happily: "We didn't adjust the system time much faster... we just made every second faster by 14400th of a second.

"In this way, a day will be six seconds faster; accumulating to the end of the month, it will be three minutes faster. There is no work that requires very precise time in Happy Island, which is much simpler than when I bypassed the review of Ampoule Biomedical. , and the human body cannot recognize this degree of temporal confusion.

"Wait until 00:01 tomorrow morning, the time will immediately jump back and synchronize with other sky islands. At that time, even if someone finds out, it will be too late... For 3 minutes, the director's memory will not be synchronized.

"What does that mean?"

"Meaning that ... would end up with a 3-minute gap."

Russell murmured: "In the entire Happy Island... leave 3 minutes of emptiness like a dream that cannot be remembered by any records."

Chapter 66 For Love or Hate

——Steal the sky and change the day.

Russell could only describe the plan in this way.

The deer head has the authority and knowledge of the elves, and has transformed itself into an electronic ghost.

As the top individual among psychic hackers, she can of course modify all the clocks connected to the Internet in the entire Happy Island, making them all temporarily speed up by 1/14400, and making them return to their original speed after being blank for 3 minutes...

So here's a problem.

If all the clocks one can see are inaccurate, and they are all at the same time...is it fair to say that the correct time is no longer important?

"Although there is no company in Happy Island that needs to calibrate the time, this plan may still fail."

Bad Day said slowly: "Although there are certain errors in the chaotic calculation of the 'annealing nerve center', if someone is suspicious and thinks that the error at the minute level is too large, it is still possible to realize that the time has been modified."

"The first thing they thought of was that there was something wrong with the machine."

Russell complained.

After all, how many people's first reaction would be "probably all the clocks in the world have been changed" when they find that the clock has an error of the minute hand level, and the calculation result is not consistent with other clocks?

Compared with "your own machine has been tampered with" or "you made a mistake in your operation", the latter two situations are obviously more convincing and more likely.

The "annealing nerve center" used for weather and disaster forecasting on each sky island is a small technology company affiliated to the Hudson Ocean Mining Company.

They analyze weather, humidity, air quality, ocean currents and other data every day, but no one knows what they are going to do.

Apart from a few researchers, there are not many usable employees in this vast company.

For their quality, Russell didn't think they'd be able to find out.

"But it's a possibility after all, so I didn't tell you about it at first."

Bad Day shrugged: "Because of this plan, it may not be successful. And every time it succeeds, there is a huge risk - after all, the clock stopped for 00 minutes at 00:3. The previous two times were 1 minute , this time the situation is more complicated, so I stayed 2 minutes longer.

"But at the same time, the possibility of exposure has also increased. I speculate that someone will definitely discover this secret this time.

"After all, the nightlife is becoming more and more abundant now...the number of people who don't sleep at midnight is gradually increasing. There will always be someone who notices that the flow of time is wrong at that time, and then discovers the truth and leaves evidence.

"And if enough people are aware of this, then the elves will understand why they can be killed by me out of thin air without leaving any memory."

He is very clear that this plan is used once less.

But Bad Day accepted Russell's "hire".

"In that case, won't you be able to kill the elves like this?"

Russell was a little worried.

Bad Ri, on the other hand, looked nonchalant: "Look, you've been fooled, too.

"In this method, the time of action does not have to be zero, and the time of stagnation does not have to be 3 minutes. I don't even have to stop the time of the empty island... As long as the deer head can still enter the mother tree system, she It can stop the mother tree's timer. This technique itself is a kind of blindfold, used to confuse them.

"Up to now, they don't know that our leader 'Deer Head' is 'Torki Fat'. They think that we have several powerful psychic hackers who can develop all kinds of powerful viruses... Even if this It was discovered by them, probably because they thought that we had released a kind of "prank virus that changes the clocks of the whole island".

"Oh. If they think they have solved this problem, they have fallen into a trap instead."

"However," Russell always felt that something was missing, "you also said that ordinary killing is meaningless."

"Yes. That's related to Miss Milian's mission.

"The thing loaded in that drone is a program that can completely 'destroy' them-a real virus."

"Virus?"

"That's right, a memory virus. It can radiate a certain area around it. As long as any elf director appears near that device for even one minute, that device will intercept the memory packets sent by their 'Memory Synchronization'. And enter After a few, seemingly meaningless images, spit them out seamlessly.

"These images, after being decoded by the 'mother tree' system, will become some data that exists in the form of codes only in the mother tree system. After a memory integration, they will temporarily merge with the previous memory ...The redundant data in this part will not be deleted until the next memory integration.

"If Kamaltha died on this day, this virus could destroy the 'inheritance' of the elves.

"To put it simply...according to the original 'reincarnation' process, the elves will destroy the personality of the original host, so as to ensure that the new personality born after memory fusion can be synchronized with the largest proportion of memory—that is, the memory passed down from generation to generation by the elves. .

"However, the virus designed by the head of the deer will make this step reverse. That is, instead of manually destroying the original host's personality and mind, it will instead suppress the expression of the elf's personality. This is like a huge In the machine, only a small electrical signal was reversed...but even so, it may cause the entire machine to collapse.

"And the other elves won't notice this at all, because their memories will be restored in the new memory integration link by the next day; Kamalthe itself won't feel any problem, because What was intercepted was the memory package he uploaded, and his body would not feel anything.

"——Yes. Since it is very difficult to do something to the elves themselves, it is better to transfer the thinking to their 'memory'."

"...So, the Tower of Babel is called the memory theft group?"

"It has nothing to do with that. But after you said that, I realized... We seem to have really done a lot of work on memory.

"After all, simply killing elves is meaningless."

He showed an icy smile: "The thing to kill is their inheritance—to implant a heterogeneity in the spirit of the undead."

It was pure hate.

Do your best to destroy something, and smile when you finally achieve results.

For some reason, Russell suddenly thought of Torvatus.

His freedom...is it because of "love" or "hate"?

"Let's not talk about that - [Barber]. Now let's confirm our plan."

When it comes to business, Bad Ri's expression suddenly turns cold.

Now that he looked like this, he really looked like "the most ferocious criminal in the world".

"We have all the plans, we only have 3 minutes. You have to be in front of Kamaltha after midnight.

"Spells that make him take off his glasses, but don't use time travel. It's best to keep him where he is.

"In this way, I can decapitate him from far away."

Having said that, Bad Day paused: "Or, you don't have to show up."

"...Why can't it appear again?"

"I didn't say you can't, but I don't recommend it. Kamalthe's spell is too dangerous...Once you are hit by that spell, you will definitely die. You have a heavy responsibility, and there is no need to take risks for the happiness of others."

Bad Day said softly: "What's more, even if you successfully save other people's lives...he won't know what sacrifices you made and how much risk you took.

"No one will know your achievements, and no one will leave applause for you. You will just disappear into this world out of thin air, and your death is meaningless."

"Anyone's death can be meaningless. No one is born more noble than others, and there is no need to force your own death to be more meaningful than others."

Russell shook his head.

He doesn't agree with Bad Day's remarks, because he doesn't think he is special at all.

"Singers and idols need applause, but I don't.

"I just do what I think is right."

Chapter 67 No Regrets

"...I just don't think it's necessary."

Bad Day shook his head, but he already knew he couldn't convince Russell.

It is not so much persuasive persuasion as it is a complaint of "I knew it": "That woman has been deeply involved in reincarnation and is bound to die.

"In this case, why not let her do such a dangerous thing?

"Even if it fails this time, it's just another restart for her. She only needs to tell me how many times she has been reincarnated after zero o'clock, and the suspicious man may wait a little longer. won't kill her right away."

Hearing Bad Ri's seemingly ruthless and utilitarian words, Russell actually laughed out loud.

Because this is obviously unwise remarks.

If it is a bad day, you will definitely be able to detect the loopholes in your words.But now he cares about chaos, trying to protect himself in this way.

"Although Morgan is a killer, her will is just an ordinary person. Your plan is too ideal... If a mortal fails many times, she may not become stronger because of rich experience. Too many failures lead to tension, fear, and other mishaps.

"—What you said is indeed very reasonable and logical. But you have not considered the human heart...the human heart is often irrelevant to logic."

Just like sending Qin Wuyang to assassinate Qin Wangzheng, it was full of assumptions.

Bad Day raised his eyebrows: "You just said that no one is born more noble than others."

"But I have greater courage, greater will, greater determination. I deserve it ... I need to bear greater responsibility."

Russell would never have said such a thing a few months ago.

Because one of the cores of his own personality is "timidity".

Whether it is subconsciously pleasing others, or imitating the talents and personalities of others, it is essentially because of "timidity".Imitation is the talent of the weak, and it is precisely because one knows one's own weakness that one borrows from others.

But as Russell's psychic level gradually increased, his personality was also tempered and sublimated like hardened steel.

The power called "Enlightenment" has been born in his heart.

It's not being stubborn, nor is it trying to be fierce...but deciding to regard danger as one's own experience.

"If I can't even face Kamalthe, how can I fight against something stronger than him?"

Russell asked back.

The first reaction on a bad day is that you still want to fight against something stronger than the elf director...

But then, he realized what Russell was talking about.

Dragon...?

He opened his mouth with a complex expression, but he didn't know what to say.

"Don't worry, I'll make him have to listen to what I said to buy you time."

Russell said calmly: "From any point of view, it is the best strategy for me to go in person - he dare not kill 'Ultramarine' directly, and will ask my purpose carefully first; and the space of 'cage bird' , will block him from using other objects to turn back time.

"I will be completely victorious... Of course, there is no need to worry. Until then, I have written a suicide note that will be released regularly.

"If I die here, by this time tomorrow, my death itself will change the world."

"...Then I have nothing to say."

Bad Ri said helplessly: "It would be too hypocritical to persuade you with such beautiful words as 'you'd better live on'.

"But how should I put it... Speaking of it, you may not believe it. Your father said similar things back then, but he still fell."

"People who have courage are not necessarily virtuous. Some people can't untie the shackles that control themselves, but they can save others..."

Russell shook his head.

At this moment, the bad sun around him suddenly disappeared.

He looked up and found that the delphinium was passing through the alleyway not far ahead, and he hadn't noticed Russell yet.

The corners of Russell's mouth raised slightly, and he leaned forward.

"minister?"