Overturned Tower

Cerberus coughed, and said awkwardly: "You may have been cheated, stupid.

"We have all seen Lycaon's corpse with our own eyes.

"He has become... like that, how can he still be alive?"

"Indeed, we have also attended his funeral, and we have all witnessed his chip destruction ceremony... Let's put it this way, even if there is an extremely small probability, that is, Lycaon really did not die and was killed It’s just a person who looks very similar to him, and we treat him as Lycaon. Then after Lycaon’s personal identification code is canceled, it is impossible for him to send you any more messages.”

Singularity said and pushed his glasses, looked up at Redram, a white light flashed through the lens.

His expression was quite serious, and he thought seriously: "I think this may be the case—probably Lycaon's personal information was leaked.

"Although from your point of view, the deceased's personal account seems to have been canceled. But I think Russell should also know...that is actually just a fake cancellation. The actual operation is that this identification code is sent to the category 'Dead' ID clusters. While a PIN is in this cluster, all access to it is blocked.

"In this era, everyone has the value of existence. Every photo left in the personal space, the flow records of every transaction, the transaction records of buying different commodities from small to large, including the price of each transaction, stay Every complaint in the chat history, personal signatures that are often modified...even the drugs used before death, and the final effect on the body are all valuable."

"Yes, information is value..."

Russell nodded, agreeing to what the singularity said.

He also looked at the man with some surprise.

The current singularity is very different from his personality in high school... Back then, he was still a "liberal order" like a guardian.

The so-called liberal order is that he will not only reprimand the head office for the behavior of arranging artificial intelligence to monitor everything and infringe on people's privacy, but also reprimand people for the injustice of being exposed to the monitoring range or hiding outside the monitoring range.

The biggest difference between him and the inferior is that the singularity does not mock others like the inferior.He is more inclined to restrain his own behavior, so that he can truly stand in a "clean" place before he can confidently and boldly reprimand other people's behavior.

——But it was just a scolding.

He will not force others to correct, nor will he attack others' views because of it.Because the singularity believes that that kind of behavior also belongs to "distorting the mind and position of others with violence", which is also a kind of injustice.

Russell, back then, collected the young singularities as "self-contradictory saints."

In fact, before meeting his mentor, Russell actually had an almost malicious "fun heart" in his heart.The reason why his main friends are very different in personalities, backgrounds, and talents is not because Russell's personality is changeable and inclusive.Rather, it is based on an attitude of collecting stamps—or “opening an illustrated book”.

To stand out from the mediocre beings and become a friend recognized by Russell, there must be something special.It doesn't have to be good enough... For Russell, it doesn't matter whether one's talents are good or not.What matters is whether he is unique enough.

Singularity, is a good example.

Russell realized at the time...with his singularity's awkward personality, he might feel extraordinary pain and suffering in the future.

In a degenerate era, he hopes that everyone can abandon evil and do good, but he is unwilling to give coercive means to restrain and punish.This is actually a state of mind that is stagnant and looking forward to miracles.He didn't want to give up anything, and he didn't want to make any compromises. He wanted to save everyone perfectly, but because he couldn't bear the result of failure, he simply stayed where he was.

Just with a heart of kindness and justice, but nothing can be done, and nothing will be done.

Russell was very curious, when his mentality was out of balance-when he finally gave up the choice between "purpose" and "result" and fell to one of them, what choice would he make?

——Now it seems that he still chose the "purpose" after all.

Strictly speaking, the things he came into contact with could not be regarded as secrets.As long as one has access to Sky Island's Network Security Department, it is possible to know this kind of information... Even if one cannot access it, it is possible to deduce it.

The reason is very simple... In the era of Sky Island, even if a person died, the grievances and conflicts of interests entangled in him could not be terminated.

The distribution of property, the inheritance of secrets, the transfer of status, and even the inheritance of debts... and everything they come into contact with will be given new value as "information".

For example, Ampoule Biomedical can retrieve all the consumption records of the "dead" who have been dead for 20 years to review their living habits; Sogo Technology Group can also retrieve their personal information from the private space of all the deceased. Diaries, notebooks, photos, videos, and even the passwords of various platforms that they thought they deleted but still kept records, to gain stronger control.

From this point of view, the dead are more valuable than the living.

Because they can't speak out, and they can't resist.Their lives so far have turned into a pile of stagnant data, quietly lying in the mainframe named "Dragon", waiting for subsequent calls based on any motive at will.

"If you look at the possibility of action and the benefits that can be obtained, I think the most likely situation is that someone sneaked into the Sogo Group's computer room and copied a batch of personal information classified as 'dead' users. In this way, they can look through the chat records to find out who is the most deceitful and rich among the group who are closest to the deceased."

Singularity spread his hands and looked at everyone: "I don't think you have received that news, have you?"

"No."

"Not really."

Everyone shook their heads.

--Do not.

Russell narrowed his eyes slightly.

He keenly noticed a detail: if he was a liar, then even if he could look through the chat history to find Redram, he should not be able to use Lycaonna's banned account to send messages to Redram. right.

So, either Redram lied about it, or he didn't even notice if it was Lycaon's account.

Either...

"...Is it a liar?"

Redram lowered his head slowly, looking disappointed.

But when Li'er wanted to go up to comfort him, the giant bull quickly took another deep breath, raised his head and said firmly: "Forget it, it doesn't matter.

"I don't care about the money either. As long as he's still alive, or he's not completely dead—I didn't pay him for such a ghost reward. I don't expect to see him again... If he If it is really resurrected, it may be very difficult to reappear.

"In that case, as long as I treat him as resurrected..."

It was an obsessive, yet unwavering voice.

"But……"

Chen Sha frowned, and wanted to say something else.

But Redram suddenly said: "Renee, do you believe that there is such a thing as a 'soul' in this world?"

Hearing this, Russell raised his eyebrows.

He and Delphinium looked at each other and exchanged glances.

"……I do not believe."

Chen Sha had a complicated expression: "Do you believe in that kind of thing?"

"Correct."

Redram replied firmly: "There must be souls in this world."

"Have you seen Lykaon in a dream?"

Russell suddenly asked, "Just before you received that news?"

But he found that after his words fell, the expressions of everyone around him changed again.

He immediately reacted: "Have you all dreamed about it?"

"We dreamed it on the same day."

Li'er explained in a low voice: "We communicated the next day. In our dreams, Lycaon was the same as usual, without saying a word...Since then, we have never dreamed again. him."

"No, I dreamed about it."

Singularity slowly opened his mouth and said: "He also asked me to bring a message to Russell...

"【Do you believe in...werewolves?】"

Chapter 37 Lycaon's Death Scene

Hearing this, Chen Sha was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you mention this at the time?"

"Yes. Because I didn't expect that Russell would really come back... and after all, it was just a dream, so I didn't mention it."

The singularity pushed his glasses and explained seriously.

Russell frowned, and his expression gradually became serious.

At that moment, he thought a lot.

Monkey-faced eagle, demon, psyker, mage, artificial intelligence, Dr. Zanbai...

Russell thought about it, reached out and adjusted a rap song from the remote control panel as the background music, so as to cover the sound of their conversation.

He beckoned and motioned everyone to sit closer first.

"Tell me about it," Russell asked earnestly among the crowd, "How did Lycaon die? What about the corpse you saw?"

Under everyone's fragmented narration, Russell gradually understood the whole picture of the matter.

The reason why Lykaon was only "suspected to have been killed" was because his death was too bizarre.

According to the big data survey of the Three Sages, Lycaon has no enemies, and no one who has had conflicts with him.

In other words, there is no one who has a motive for killing him, and he died in the early morning and in the bathtub of his home.According to the autopsy, the immediate cause of death was blood loss from wrist cutting.Before his death, he did not apply for any assistance from the Executive Department or the medical unit.

So far, I am afraid that whoever comes will be judged as suicide.

But the problem is that Lycaon's head is missing.

——If it was suicide, how did his head fly out?

The people who went to play with Lycaon at that time were Singularity, Redram, and Cerberus.Because they couldn't get in touch with Lycaon last night, and the next day happened to be the weekend, so they made an appointment with each other to check the situation.

Chensha and Li'er are girls after all, and they will not go to the opposite sex's house at will.

After the three of them discovered the body, they immediately reported to the executive department, and also sent messages to Chen Sha and Li'er to explain the matter.

Subsequently, the three of them were detained by the Ministry of Execution as witnesses and suspects.

After the artificial intelligence reviewed all their chat records and behavior trajectories, they were convinced that they were completely innocent because they had no time to commit crimes, no motives, no tools, and no plans to commit crimes.

So the Sogo Group became even more anxious—because Lu Kaweng, as a promising new and important member of the Sogo Group, had many secrets in his mind.And the mysterious killer who was able to bypass the surveillance of the three sages did everything possible to take away Lykaon's head, presumably hoping to obtain some secret information from his mind.

Most of this is done by those people in the black area!

Lycaon's head was not found until two days after the body was discovered.

His head was found in a cyber church.That was the church where Russell used to take Lycaon to do volunteer work, and Russell and Lycaon often lived there.

Surveillance showed he had entered the day before his death and left after four hours of work.

But his head was found in the storage cabinet that Lykaon himself used.The cabinet itself is also a smart home, and can only be opened with Lycaon's own voiceprint password.His head was found in Lycaon's room when the church learned of his death and cleaned up his traces.

But because the chip inside the skull was not removed within two hours after death, it had been dissolved and completely scrapped.Therefore, the Sogo Group could not see what happened to him after his death from the chip.The only thing that is certain is that his head was refrigerated for a long time after death... So after two days passed, there was no corruption, and even the flesh and blood remained fresh.

After testing, it should have been refrigerated and sealed immediately after death.But this is not compatible with monitoring.

"... To put it simply, Lykaon's death was actually quite normal. The only thing that was abnormal was that his head appeared where it shouldn't be... right."

Russell simply summed it up.

"But this is the most abnormal."

The singularity shook his head: "Even the most mysterious and legendary psychic can't do this. The eyes of the three sages are all over the island. Even if he can turn off a camera, how can he be fooled?" All the monitoring and listening?"

No, there are people who can do that.This is actually not difficult.

Russell thought.

At least among the people Russell knew, both sheaths and monkey-faced eagles could easily do this.If there are sufficiently powerful psychic hackers, it may not be impossible to do simple things like "modify monitoring".

It looked like a secret room, but he didn't have a strong lock, and no one had personally confirmed that "no one came in and out", so it was just a secret room at the monitoring level.

There are a lot of ways to enter or leave, but you can't get around the surveillance cameras that can be seen everywhere outside.Then, as long as one has the means to perfectly evade surveillance, this "invisibility technique that only stays at the surveillance level" can be easily completed.

And the existence of "spiritual energy" can make the impossible possible.

Because of this, if you put the question on "how did he do it", it is easy to be confused and fall into a dead end.Just like the most useful demonic review mechanism, it is to use big data to detect behaviors to determine whether there have been unreasonable sudden changes in motivation—that is, "psychological review."

So, why would someone go to great lengths to kill an ordinary young man like Lycaon?

Or to put it another way...

Even if Lycaon really committed suicide, who would want to take his head?Could it be that the three sages really couldn't find out all this from the clues?

And why was Lycaon able to "entrust a dream" to them?Also as his friend, why couldn't Russell accept his dream at all?

You must know that there really is a "dream world" in this world - the dream worlds of the various sky islands are completely connected.

The dream world built based on the sea of ​​group subconscious is more stable than the large-scale local area networks on various sky islands, and it is also the only means of instant communication across sky islands in this world. Russell often encounters people from other sky islands in the dream world mage.If Lycaon really awakened a special spiritual power, he should be able to notify Russell as well.

and most importantly...

Why did Lycaon know that Russell would come here, and why did he emphasize the "werewolf" to him?

Russell narrowed his eyes.

Basically, the mastermind behind this incident can be directly locked on two people.

There is a special interest in Russell, and he is convinced that Russell will return to Sogo Island; the control over the monitoring network is so strong that Sogo Group can't locate him at all; knowing that this incident may cause huge losses to Sogo Group's interests, However, the three sages kept silent on this matter; Lykaon or the mastermind behind this matter directly promoted the "werewolf" incident, which caused commotion on the social level, and created a large number of special cases that could not be traced. The imitation crime directly shakes the three sages' convincing power among the people, and even shakes the foundation of Sogo Island...

—Then, this is either made of a sheath, or a monkey-faced eagle.

Considering that he was able to steal the personal information of the "dead" user, he could also use the account of Lycaon, which had already been blocked, to send messages to Redram.