Overturned Tower

"If I remember correctly, it was because there was a feature-length animation imported from Happy Island. The main character of the animation was a Werewolf executive with a severe spiritual disorder. He also had a rabbit assistant, a young lady who had just joined the job. Intern executive officer. In order to take care of the rabbit, he quit smoking cigars and chewed bubble gum instead. He can even blow out cigar-shaped bubbles... His brand of bubble gum sells pretty well here.”

"...You mean, Agent Gray Wolf?"

Delphinium reacted: "I've seen that too...but the content is not right? Have you changed it?"

She was a little puzzled: "I remember that Huck didn't smoke cigars...it was leaf tobacco, right? Later, he changed it to leaf sugar to take care of the rabbit."

"...Isn't this for children? Are the animations of your Happy Island so wild?"

Hearing this, Russell was shocked.

"It's called Children's Ruanguang."

Delphinium shrugged: "After all, you can urgently increase the 'happiness', which is known to everyone in Happy Island. Since the company will review the happiness, it will definitely allow employees to urgently increase their happiness to pass the assessment. Means, otherwise, if you are really in a hurry and hire mercenaries, it will be bad. I remember that this animation was even invested by the "candy factory", and their banner at the time was "no hallucinations, no addiction, Even members of the executive department can taste it every day at work'."

"It's a little outrageous."

Russell commented: "But it was indeed because of that animation that the term 'werewolf' disappeared later.

"...Why, has it become popular again recently?"

"Almost, but for a different reason."

Dr. Brain Island replied: "Recently, there is a criminal organization claiming to be 'Werewolf', which is very active... and the three sages who have almost absolute control over Sky Island, have not been able to catch them until now. This incident triggered A lot of public opinion."

When Russell heard this, he immediately thought of the monkey-faced eagle.

But he thought about it... the monkey-faced eagle should not have such mobility.And with his computing power, he might not be able to defeat the three sages.

Even in his peak period, millions of human brains were connected in parallel with perfect efficiency... Obviously, he couldn't collide head-on with the real strong artificial intelligence with the resources of an empty island.

So Russell and Delphinium looked at each other with some interest.

"—to elaborate."

He looked back at the two Dr. Zanbai and lowered his voice.

Chapter 13 Don't Bark

Taking the melodious hymns sung by the nuns as the background music, the prefrontal cortex softly explained to Russell the whole story of the "werewolf" incident:

"At the beginning, it was the director of the marketing department of Tianen Group's branch in Chongguang Island, who received a blackmail letter..."

Mr. Director, code-named "No Bark", is a middle-aged man with a gray wolf as his spiritual relative.

As the executive of the branch, he was also dispatched from Happy Island.Unlike the fiercely competitive headquarters, the competition in the branch is much looser... After all, there is only one elf director at the top of the branch.Although there are so-called "executive directors", they are essentially the same as hired store managers and do not have any real power.

In other words, after he reaches this level, there is no room for promotion.And as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, he will definitely not be dismissed - after all, it is quite troublesome to transfer someone from the headquarters to take over the job.

——Can’t go up, can’t come down, can’t go back.

Just stuck here.

So he just put it aside, stayed in Sogo Island completely, and settled down to start a family here.

Mr. No Bark was very young when he was dispatched, only 28 years old.And now he is 42 years old.He takes care of his wife and daughter with peace of mind on weekdays, he no longer cares about the company's affairs, and becomes very kind.His neighbors think that Mr. No Bark is a very polite, cultured, gentle and nice old man.

And just three months ago, Bubai received a threatening letter.

——The content of the letter required him to cancel the payment for various entertainment products.

According to the definition of "branch" governance, the branch companies of each sky island have the right to govern the affairs monopolized by the headquarters, and give priority to developing business in each sky island.Just like Ampoule Biomedical can acquire other hospitals and poach other medical scientists and pharmacologists in Happy Island, without being stopped by Tianen Group.

The unique technology of Tianen Group is memory review and editing technology, which also includes editing and production of various transcendental reality chips.But their main business is news media and cultural entertainment... including news, newspapers, TV stations, advertisements, TV dramas, variety shows, movies, animations, games, novels, and VR transcendence.Basically, it can be said that all types of entertainment that can be experienced on the Internet are under the jurisdiction of Tianen Group and its branches.

At the social level of Sogo Island, there is a tendency to resist this kind of entertainment.But because of this, fewer entertainment means will have more loyal users... which means that their business competition pressure will be reduced accordingly.

Because the residents of Sogo Island have no choice.The things released by the branch of Tianen Group have to be bought no matter how expensive they are.

The most iconic one is the "program fee".Except for the six "free programs" designated by Tianen Group, all other programs will be charged according to the viewing time.And this kind of deduction is the same as the electricity fee, there is no prompt at all when using it, and it will be automatically settled and deducted at the end of the month.

Because the mainstream view of Sogo Island is that these entertainments will make people degenerate.So even if the branch of Tianen Group used an obviously unreasonable charging system, there was no large-scale opposition—it can even be said that opposing this charging system itself means showing that you are a "lazy person" who enjoys this kind of entertainment. ", or "envious people" who wish others to perish.And such people will be alienated by other people on social media and in real life... because just by approaching them, agreeing with them, and supporting them, others may be regarded as "the same kind who are willing to degenerate".

Therefore, although there are always people who oppose it, these voices have never been able to gather together.

It can be said that these real entertainment lovers are suffering.

However, the loneliness of being socially alienated and the anguish of spending a lot of money to enjoy the things you like accumulate over time...they never disappear.

"No Barking" believes that this incident is likely to come from the revenge of such people.So he reported this matter to the branch office and the three sages on Chongguang Island, and then let it pass in his mind.

But two months ago, a gangster wearing a jackal hood bypassed the dense protective equipment and broke into the house when he was not at home.He hijacked and tied up his wife and daughter.After inserting the blocking chip at their interface, they were tied up and locked in the bathroom, and the shower head was turned on.

When Bu Bark came home, he subconsciously thought that his wife and daughter should be taking a bath.So even if he heard some voices, he didn't care.

And when he felt that the bath time was too long, and went to the bathroom to check...he was attacked and knocked unconscious the moment he opened the door.Afterwards, his wife and daughter saw the "masked werewolf" and took him away.

When he was doing this, he didn't have time to insert a chip that could block the signal in the first place.Therefore, at the moment when the non-barking head was hit hard, the "special member emergency treatment team" of Ampoule Biomedical was dispatched immediately.They took a helicopter and arrived at Bubai's home within 3 minutes, but unfortunately they did not find Mr. Bubai and the gangsters, but saw Bubai's wife and daughter tied up in the bathroom.

There is no camera at all in Bubai's home, which is what these middle and high-level figures have in common.They put too much trust in the city and crime warnings that are completely monitored by the three sages, and they will more or less do things that are not so legal.Therefore, in places where these actions may be carried out, all monitoring equipment that can be controlled by the three sages will not be installed.

He didn't bark at the surveillance camera outside the house, but found nothing.During the whole process, no criminals were found entering, nor were they seen leaving.

Soon, the executive department of Sogo Group arrived at the scene.But after they conducted an extremely thorough search, they found nothing.

Except for the footprints, the gangster clearly had his bare hands, but he didn't leave any fingerprints, and even the skin flakes didn't fall off at all.Therefore, the executive department once suspected that this gangster might be a "mechanical servant", at least there should be a layer of synthetic skin outside his skin.

But even if its own marketing director was kidnapped, there was still no movement from the branch of Tianen Group.

They easily suppressed the "threat letter" and did not broadcast news related to this time at all.But soon, rumors about this incident suddenly began to spread among the crowd... When the three sages checked the source of the rumors, they found that it was an ordinary high school student.And he himself has no memory of the incident at all.

Afterwards, the gangster put the letter asking for the ransom by his wife's bedside in the middle of the night.But the female bodyguard who was in the same room had no memory of this at all—she swore that she had never seen anyone appear in the room.But Sogo Island does not allow memory review, so she can only be dismissed.

The gangsters asked for a ransom in the form of "gold bars" and asked them to put it in a designated place.The wife who didn't bark immediately notified the executive department of Sogo Group.

The executives had a tight deployment — this time a large number of people, not just cameras, to monitor Ransom and the surrounding area.But in the end, the letter said that the time for paying the ransom had passed, but no one came to collect it.

At that time, the executive department of Sogo Group believed that it should be that there was an inner ghost among them who leaked the information about this matter.

So they took the opportunity to conduct an internal cleaning...

With the large number of unemployment and detention in the executive department, the news finally couldn't be suppressed.

The Sogo Group conveniently threw the pot away and asked the branch of Tianen Group to report the incident.And accused the incident entirely because they overpriced entertainment caused by.

Sogo Island is ruled by the Sogo Group. Among the [-] elf directors and [-] human directors, six elf directors and twelve human directors are from the Sogo Group—the remaining six elf directors are from other The Big Six, and the chaos caused by this incident made everyone feel troubled.

So it was a rare one-to-23 landslide vote.

In the end, the branch of Tianen Group had no choice but to announce the news, and really lowered the prices of most of the entertainment programs.

And the day after they lowered their pricing...

——Not barking, but suddenly returned to his home safely with the attitude of the interference chip being pulled out.

Chapter 14 It's Overdue

He completely lost his memory of the past few days - his memory stayed at the moment when he was knocked out, but his physical examination proved that he had been eating regularly during this time.Therefore, the branch of Tianen Group began to suspect that this incident was not planned by him.

But not long after, a senior executive of Ampoule Biomedical also received a similar threat letter.Asking them to lower drug prices and for the first time claiming to be from a "werewolf group".

The executive certainly didn't believe it either.

But his ending was much worse than not barking-his whole family was shot to death, and everyone was not in a state of vigilance before death, and his wife even showed a shocked expression.It's as if they didn't expect that they would be killed at all.

Totally different from the first time.

In this incident, the three sages easily found the murderer...

——It is "No Bark" himself.

After all, he himself is a company executive of the Seven Giants, even though he committed the extermination case... But because of the cause of these two incidents, it aroused enthusiastic responses among the people, and even his supporters appeared.Therefore, the issue of whether to treat him as a "hero" and amnesty has been discussed for a long time on the Internet.He has been kept in prison for not barking, but nothing has been interrogated—in other words, the Sogo Group does not seem to be very interested in interrogating him.

But then, he died suddenly in prison.By calling his chip data, it was found that he was poisoned.

However, he had no contact with outsiders in prison at all.

Therefore, this incident is considered to be the Sogo Group who killed him.

"But that's not the truth."

Dr. Brain Island added: "Although he died on the bed in his bedroom in the prison, his body was very neatly dressed. There were no signs of struggle or fighting at all, which means that he was not in the prison. He was secretly poisoned while he was asleep, but he voluntarily took poison to die. The results of the autopsy also proved this - there was a small amount of drug residue in his teeth, and the function of the drug itself was actually to lower blood pressure. In other words, he died from an overdose of fast-acting blood pressure medicine."

"Then what about the camera? It's fine if he doesn't have one at home, isn't there a camera in the prison?"

Russell asked back.

"The content in the camera has been replaced. The camera shows that he has been lying on the bed and never got up. But in the camera, he took off his clothes before lying down... But when the body was found, he was obviously wearing clothes.

"—Just like his memory with that middle school student, something was deleted in the middle."

Dr. Insula said in a low voice.

After that, there was a third incident.

The goal this time is Thoth's spiritual energy, asking the other party to increase the salary of the orphanage and nursing home staff, and to increase enrollment by 30%.The Thoth Psychic's executive is very smart and time-conscious, and he completed the other party's request immediately.

But soon the three sages found out that this incident was done by the middle school student who had lost his memory, and he jumped off the building before the executive department rushed over.

But it was also because of the good response to this incident that after that, overwhelming threatening letters flew here and there.From the directors of the Sogo Group, down to the middle school teachers who are too demanding on students' grades, thousands of people have received threatening letters signed by "Werewolf".

Those who sent the threatening letter were all arrested and brought to justice soon—their actions were clearly seen under the surveillance of the three sages, and even under the "motivation calculation" of the three sages, most of the "long-planned" The threater was arrested by the Ministry of Execution at the same time the letter was seen by the threater.On the contrary, those impulsive people who are "interested" need to spend more time investigating.

However, none of their threats was a big deal, and they didn't plan for their own welfare.So under "consensus", they were quickly released.

After that, the "werewolf" threat letter intensified, which even became a trend.On Sogo Island, which lacks entertainment, people discuss this matter over and over almost every day.It is even possible that the content of their chats is the same, they just find a topic to talk about over and over again.

This kind of high-intensity discussion has already made many people numb and disgusted when they heard it.

But in general, it is believed to be an act of defiance by "righteous werewolves".What they have in common is that the first assailant wore a jackal hood, and he had a relative of a gray wolf, and the relative of the middle school student was a tundra wolf—because all of them were canine relatives, so People once again recalled the legend of werewolves more than ten years ago.

In this magnified state of affairs, mixed with numerous threats and letters, a human director of Sogo Group was kidnapped.

He also received a threat letter in advance, disappeared without a trace, and asked for gold bars, and the criminals also did not come—and he was also released, and his memory was also missing.

But this time, Sogo Group did not dare to put him back.

So after he was released, he was placed under house arrest—but it was still a step too late.

On the same day, the executive department of Sogo Group discovered a murder case in a secret room. The deceased was a middle-level leader of the same company, who was usually very annoying.Through the remaining evidence at the scene, they found that the murderer was the director...and that director was the person who killed during the few days of his disappearance.

But this is completely unreasonable.

As a director, he can easily get this kind of person out.There is absolutely no reason to kill, let alone a motive for killing.

However, this time, Sogo Group finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

There is a high probability that this is a psionic crime... They no longer dare to imprison each other.Otherwise, if they continue to click and kill like this, they will not find any clues.It was also the first time that the three sages had lost their [-]% ability to control the situation—the opponent had the ability to confront the three sages on the network level, or at least be able to hide their own existence.

So those long-lost executives...began to learn to use human means to conduct investigations.

For example, they dispatched monitoring members to put the director of the "suspected infected" canine spirit family under house arrest, cut off the Internet and imposed 24-hour surveillance.

"To this day, there has not been a confirmed case of a 'genuine werewolf'. However, 'pirate werewolves' happen every day... especially when people realize that as long as their goals are just, they won't get What punishment time."

Dr. "Prefrontal Cortex" said slowly: "But it's not an option to go on like this. The carnival is still going on, and everyone is trying to hide and fish in troubled waters. Up to now, more and more people have done this, and they naturally won't Agree with the punishment of 'werewolf'.

"The order of the sky island exists based on consensus. When the consensus collapses, the Big Seven will lose their ability to punish in a substantial sense. You also know that the dragon has not given us real power. And if it continues to drag on, Perhaps the "werewolf" who sent the letter at the beginning may have been acquitted due to the birth of the new consensus.

"We can't find out anything, and we can't confirm the suspect at all. However, director Sally Ruth suddenly told us today that we can ask for help from the 'ultramarine' about the 'werewolf incident'.

"'He is from Sogo Island, my favorite student, and now he is a hero in Happy Island. He has the ability to read people's hearts, and he will be here soon.' That's what we heard, so Just came here to wait for you.

"So now, what do you think of this matter?"

"...what do I think?"

Russell muttered to himself softly, and asked in a low voice.

He frowned slightly, tapped his knees with his fingers, and fell into deep thought.

From this complicated incident, he saw too many things that made him feel familiar...

Towers of Babel, sheaths, monkey-faced eagles... what else.

"I'm telling the truth," Russell sighed, cleared his throat and said after thinking, "Dr. There is no personal or organizational position involved.

"But because of that, I don't really care about it right now.

"—Because as far as the information I know so far... I think the 'werewolf' did the right thing."

Russell faced the two Dr. Zan Bai, and said calmly and clearly: "It's better to say, it should have been like this a long time ago.

"We Chongguang Island should have made a fuss about 'werewolves' long ago."