Overturned Tower

She did not comfort Russell, nor enlighten him.

She just asked softly.

Provided the most effective advice as a companion, as a collaborator, and as a friend.

"Do not."

Russell also calmly refused: "The remnant body of the deer head can't speak at all. And the program she implanted in our brains can also speak to us.

"That is to say, if the deer head really wants to say something, even if we don't go to her, she will still tell us here.

"After all, she can hear everything we say. And for Deer Head, whose mind is divided into many parts, there is no possibility of 'no time to contact us'.

"Since I've talked about this, she didn't say a word. It means that the head of the deer doesn't want to say anything to me.

"If I walked up to her and asked, it would be disrespectful and impolite. It would be as if I was pressing something. At that time, how can I be sure of a person who 'doesn't want to tell me these things' , the said information must be [-]% credible?

"It just so happens... I'm not the kind of useless person who can't find anything after leaving the Tower of Babel. It's better to do it myself."

His words were a little heavy.

But Delphinium nodded clearly, and replied simply and clearly: "Then I will help you... I am the best cyber detective on Happy Island.

"When do you plan to start the search, and where do you start?"

"Before she became a 'priest', she was also a psychic. I hope to know about his psychic power."

"Do you care more about ability than starter?"

"After all, he is closer to the imaginary enemy than his relatives."

"Right."

Delphinium nodded slightly, agreeing with Russell's statement.

She clenched her left hand in front of her chest, and pressed the knuckles of her left hand one by one with the heel of her right palm.

"It's not too late..."

The white-haired girl took a deep breath: "I don't know if the chairman will react suddenly; I don't know how long this 'special executive director' position will last. While it is still safe, It is better to start the investigation immediately... use all the convenience, prepare early, and save the way out."

"Okay," Russell nodded, "Then I'll go back to Tongshen Island and prepare to leave, and then I'll go find malt liquor. On the bright side, I'll transfer back the identity of 'Ultramarine' first."

"Remember to bring me food, I won't go home at night. Just stay at your house and help you look after the house."

"it is good."

After the brief exchange between the two, they split into two groups neatly.

Chapter 21 Reliable and Unreliable Ale

Perhaps there is a fact that sounds very counterintuitive.

Although Malt Wine said something like "Our next step is to go under the sun", in fact, Russell knew that the "Fuji Society" was formed in the lower city and its core members were a group of mages-their headquarters were actually in the upper part of the city. City, and in Tianen District.

It was a serious company called "Qingshui Training and Employment Guidance Center", and it even listed its name.Their largest shareholder is Tianen Group—just as Tianen Group will also invest in any other company they are optimistic about.

And this step can be achieved thanks to the malt wine that is still imprisoned on Sun Island.

Through her spells, the upper group of Happy Island, "Shimizu Media Co., Ltd.", is now almost completely controlled by her.

In less than half a year, she changed from the secretary of the general manager to his mistress, then to the mistress of the three directors, then to the chairman's mistress, and then to the chairman's young lady. son's wife.Immediately afterwards, the eldest son, who had a higher priority of inheritance, was involved in the melee of mercenaries and died unfortunately; the second son was infected by a newly awakened demon and became a familiar, attacked the angel who came to the special execution department, and was opposed by the other party. kill.

The youngest son of the chairman loves her fanatically, and has a strange quirk, seeing her as his master rather than a simple wife...

Because the godfather had warned her not to act too ostentatiously; therefore, after the malt wine gained the power to directly influence Qingshui Media, it did not attack the chairman and his third son again.

Today, she has not hidden her identity as a "non-coded person born in the lower city" at all.Even so, she, who was born without a chip, has still become a big shot on this happy island, and even the life and death of those with higher status than her are in her hands.

But even so, she still maintains a lover relationship with several directors.

——That's because of the special spell of malt wine.

The School of Embers has spells that can swap perceptions of reality and dreams.

Generally speaking, this spell is used on wine.It can make people's spirit hallucinate, so it can be used as a veritaserum; it can also be used to swallow yourself, so that some "spells that can only be used in dreams" can be used in reality. come out.

And the magic understanding of malt wine is that she uses her body as a 'cup' to hold the wine, and poisons her bodily fluids.

Whether it is kissing or having sex, or even just smelling the tiny amount of sweat evaporated from the body, it will gradually be poisoned.When the poison accumulated in the body reaches a certain concentration, as long as the ale wants, they can instantly fall into a psychedelic state.

Malt wine can easily bury psychological hints to the other party, just as demons can influence other people's minds and change their desires in dreams.

Russell, strictly speaking, did her little favors.

He only provided Malt Wine with some information when he first came into contact with the board of directors of Qingshui Media-it was from the information held by the Tower of Babel, some personal secrets about the senior management of Qingshui Media.Russell extracted information about "name, age, photo, address, personal preferences, personal relationship" and so on, and handed them over to Ale.

After Maltjiu carefully reviewed the information, he followed the heir's network and slowly controlled the entire Qingshui Media.

After that, Russell didn't do any favors for the ale either.He didn't help her hide her identity, or create a false identity for her, or help her kill anyone or bury any evidence.

Even the person who was infected by the devil and turned into a familiar has nothing to do with Russell.

Relying on her own strength alone, she went from an uncoded person to the "master" of the heir of a large group within a few months through vicious means like a senior P agency player.

It wasn't just something she could safely do with her spells.

The control of people's hearts, the grasp of the distance of interpersonal relationships, the aggressiveness of gnawing at every step, the caution of not leaving any excuses for oneself, the ruthlessness of not hesitating to the end when making a move... This is even better than Russell A woman who is one year younger, even if she doesn't get any spells or psionic powers, even if her origin is as humble as dirt, will one day become a big shot in the clouds.

It was as if she had confirmed through some channel that something might happen to Russell... she immediately kidnapped Russell's airship without hesitation to create an excuse for Russell not to arrive at the agreed time.She wasn't even afraid that she was really killed by Russell, or that Russell didn't believe her words, or that he didn't fish her out of Sun Island on the return trip, or locked her up after returning to Happy Island...

When she didn't know that Russell was the godfather, the decisiveness and courage of her decision-making had already proved her reliability.

Russell realized then... that this was a woman who was reliable and not believable.

She is unquestionably strong.Her spiritual relatives, IQ, physical fitness, psychic compatibility, gender, background, education, knowledge, and even the status of a mage, one after another, are all obstacles to her grabbing power.And she steps over it all.

Her attitude towards the godfather can be said to be anything and everything, as if she was just a little girl caught in the fire of mad love.But Russell knew very well that she must not be trusted—that she must not be considered harmless just because she had genuine admiration, fanaticism, and admiration for the Godfather.

Just as the Godfather never fully believed in strangulation.

Because of the Shadow, no mage is absolutely trustworthy—not even the Godfather himself.

After parting with Delphinium, Russell went straight back to Tongshen Island.

The scheduled large airship has been dispatched.

Russell announced his itinerary to Happy Island in advance through a formal document.After that, he set off with a group of synthetics and headed for Sun Island.

When he arrived at Sun Island, it was not time for dinner.

Russell once again reported his itinerary to Happy Island - he will arrive at Happy Island at noon tomorrow and report that he is safe and sound.

After arranging those synthetic humans to the hotel he reserved, Russell went to the "prison" where the ale was held.

As for the result... It should be said that it was beyond Russell's expectations.

He was supposed to be wearing a bondage suit, wearing VR glasses that simultaneously block vision and hearing, and ale with electric shock handcuffs, but he was wearing loose pajamas, sipping wine with his legs crossed, and no restraints could be seen on his body.His face was not as sluggish as when he was imprisoned, but relaxed and full of smiles.

And those who were supposed to guard her had already passed out drunk.

"Mr. Qunqing," Malt Wine smiled sweetly and saluted Russell, "You really kept your promise and came back to pick me up."

"Hello, Ms. Prisoner."

The young and immature hero "Qunqing" was not surprised at this absurd scene.

He just ignored the ugliness of those guards, and looked at the malt wine seriously:

"You saved me... I owe you one."

Chapter 22 Limited Future Vision

"You are welcome, Mr. Qunqing."

Malt Wine just smiled: "It's just a matter of raising your hands."

Hearing this, Russell was silent for a moment.

Behind him is the light that symbolizes freedom, and Russell stands at the door with his back to the light, his vertical pupils emitting a dark green light.

Russell said quietly: "The so-called little effort, does it mean that you, as an uncoded person, tried your best to board the airship with increasingly strict security checks, and even took great risks to hijack the captain yourself?

"And on the way, you may be shot dead by the security personnel on the airship, or you may be killed by me without saying a word, and it is even more likely that I will leave you here, deliberately or forget to take you back... all of this Everything, just to prevent me from being killed by missile groups.

"You haven't even considered what will happen if I don't believe you... If after I left you, I decided not to listen to you because of some influence, and I was eventually killed by a missile, then naturally no one would come to bail is you.

"Considering so many possibilities... You took such a big risk to save me, but I only said that I owe you a favor. Even myself, I feel that this wave of actions is not kind enough. Not so much" It’s more polite’ than ‘not polite’.”

His voice became low, and his expression was calm and solemn, without any expression.

Seeing this, Malt Wine didn't feel happy or relieved because of this, but showed a helpless look and sighed "it's true".

"So, Miss Prisoner—can you answer one of my questions?"

Russell stared into the eyes of Malt Wine, his pupils were quietly burning with pale flames.

The psychic power capable of grabbing the mind and manipulating thoughts has already covered the heart of the ale.

Any fluctuations in her emotions will be captured and analyzed by Russell's buried mind probe.

"Who the hell told you that I would be attacked by missiles?"

"Didn't I tell you everything?"

Malt Wine showed a helpless expression: "It's the mages on Tongshen Island... They were the ones who got the information that someone was going to attack you, and then notified me. You may not know, but the relationship between us mages is like this Close. Because we are small in population, we are brothers and sisters."

"you sure?"

Russell looked at her with a half-smile.

Before heading to Tongshen Island, Russell really believed in this excuse.

Take the mage group of Happy Island as an example. Although they are an underground organization, they also have their own sources of information, and they have a way to go straight to the board of directors-don't care how many traitors and traitors there are, just ask whether they can contact the directors.

Moreover, mages, as born uncoded, armed other uncoded people, such as mercenaries, killers, and criminal groups, all have a higher influence... After all, they are both illegal organizations, and their fists must have the final say.Compared with psionic energy, which is easy to lose control and may not be able to form combat effectiveness, spells are really easy to form combat effectiveness in the early stage.

It was only two years since Hang Ling became a mage at that time, and there were many other mages who did not reach this number.

And during this time, even if the psionic energy is awakened, it may not be possible to have a red shift of two or three levels.After all, whether it is growth blueshift or redshift, there is a threshold-if a person has strong and clear desires, and at the same time has a strong rationality to restrain this desire and use it for his own use, how can he So easy to degenerate into a criminal?

Moreover, the degree of psychic power is also related to emotions-illegal psychic users cannot lock their emotions into chips, so their abilities are destined to be unstable.If the psionic powers were originally related to "anger", "anxiety", "arrogance", and "fear", it would be fine, but if they had nothing to do with it... I am afraid that the situation would become weaker and weaker; and if it was related, it would be easier to lose control .

Psychic power is originally a more noble and more threshold special talent.Even in the Sky Island era, people are more likely to awaken psionic power because of the ban and restriction of chips and the deliberate cultivation of elves, but it is always more demanding than spells.

And the inheritance of magic is quite close to the people.

As long as you step through two or three dreams, you can directly get spells that increase your combat power—and as long as you have seniors and guides who are willing to guide you, you can get a rough "dream map".It can be said that it is easy for mages to obtain a mature level of combat power without bypassing some early-stage fatal areas.And this kind of inheritance mode will make the mages naturally cling to each other.

Therefore, in any sky island, these new mages are the direct or indirect controllers of the underground forces and the uncoded forces.

Only Yongquan Island and Sun Island are exceptions.

The former is because the giant dragon is active on Yongquan Island, and there are a large number of aquatic soul relatives in Yongquan Island... There are too many people who can fight, even if they get elementary spells, it will not be able to fill the gap, and the existence of the giant dragon suppresses them. The activity of illegal organizations has been reduced, and Yongquan Island has become the most orderly.

The latter is because of the existence of the sun disc, which physically divides the mages into different blocks.Even if the mages have known each other from the dream world, they cannot leave the disc they are in through legal means and enter other discs... and because of this, the mages of Sun Island cannot form a consensus and form a unity organization.

Of course, Tongshen Island also has a mage inheritance.

Russell can even be sure that behind that "rebel organization" must be the driving force of the mage forces.

A newborn mage who has been inherited must have received the guidance of the old mages who stayed on the ground.And those crazy old mages were losers in the battle of teaching methods, so it is impossible to say anything good to Sky Island.In addition, new mages must be born uncoded, that is, their parents have at least one uncoded person, and they cannot get a chip when they are born, so they are hostile to the rule of Sky Island.

Even knowing that the attitude of the mages on the ground is "equal destruction" rather than "rule of King's Landing".There are bound to be people involved.

As born uncoded, they lack education and insight.They haven't even been on the Internet, and haven't been baptized by the explosive modern information... They are naturally easy to be deceived and easy to go to extremes.Even if there is no benefit to themselves and their compatriots, there is a high possibility that they will support the hatred of those old mages and choose self-destructive revenge against Sky Island.

So this excuse made up by the ale is perfectly reasonable.In various senses, it can only be the only solution to Russell's attack... because there is no criminal organization that can "purchase missiles and intelligence" without contacting the local mage organization.

——The premise is that the person who attacked Russell is really a "criminal organization".

Seeing the half-smile expression on Russell's face, Malt Wine suddenly realized something, and opened his eyes slightly.

"The person who attacked me was a rebel AI."

Russell did not intend to tell the story of the monkey-faced eagle to Malt Wine, but he also pointed out the error in the words of Malt Wine mercilessly: "It has not communicated with anyone, and it has no accomplices. It fired at me The missiles are not purchased from any underground channels at all. It is even more impossible to know any mage, because he has never been in contact with various organizations in Tongshen Island.

"Because the purpose of my trip is to stop the rebellion caused by that AI. And its purpose is to kill me.

"It can even be said that when you were imprisoned in this place...it hadn't made that decision completely. Your informant is so powerful that he can even predict what will be decided a few days later?"

Russell scolded mercilessly.

Looking at the ale that became silent again, he asked slowly: "Because I don't know your motives, I forgive your first deception. Now, I will give you another chance."