The terminal room is located on the fifth basement floor of the IBC.

The alloy plate is forced to create a space underground, and in the room full of science and technology, all kinds of boxes with indescribable uses are lined up one after another. The support section's power terminal is strictly for personal use, so it's very small. The guiding terminal here gathers the financial information of the whole continent, and in order to achieve higher processing speed and storage capacity, the guiding terminal here is inevitably huge.

In the terminal room, countless screens are arranged in various states in the space, as if to allow the technicians here to see the different data in each screen most intuitively, although it seems that it is only a combination of dozens of support terminals, in fact, the technical content inside may not be as high!

According to Theo, this is a new type of information processing system developed by the Epstein Foundation, and even the high-speed cruiser "El Saiyu", which is the pride of Liber and is known as the "Pure White Wings", is also using this system.

Sensing that someone was entering, the technician who had been immersed in the keyboard turned around and said, "You've worked hard." Then he finished his work and walked over to Bell.

Everyone exchanged pleasantries, and Bell immediately said the purpose of this time.

"Oops?! Hacker?! ”

A technician was shocked with emotion.

"No, it can't be. Isn't that an urban legend? ”

"Yes, yes, how could someone who could hack into the Epstein consortium system appear so easily."

The technicians looked at the support section suspiciously, whispering from time to time, as if the support department was a malicious troublemaker. This kind of thing also exists, because they are jealous of other technicians, and deliberately hire people to cause trouble for them or something.

Seeing their distrustful eyes sweeping over Ellie, Maria Bell's heart was unhappy, and she laughed twice, and this woman who had just entered the economic world showed an air of superiority that people couldn't refuse.

"If it's not an external invasion, it's an insider who committed the crime! ...... among you Who is Silver? ”

The brown eyes narrowed slightly, and the undoubted aura of the superior made these technicians shudder, and one by one they quickly changed their words.

"yes, we must have been negligent!"

"Uh-huh, it's all because we were too slack so we were hacked into the system!"

"I didn't expect the urban legend to be true......"

"[Whispering] can understand the contrast of strength and the pursuit of advantages and avoid disadvantages, the world of adults is really dirty." Theo whispered to Hexu about the knowledge that was actually completely unnecessary.

"Ah, when the support department received the information, it was around three o'clock in the morning, you guys hurry up and check, is there anything unusual during that time?"

"Yes, yes! Investigate now! ”

As if relieved, Bell turned around and gave Ellie a big smile. Even though there was no direct sunlight, Ellie felt herself see Bell's teeth glowing......

Randy stabbed Lloyd: "What a powerful trick, Queen, this is definitely the Queen......"

"In every sense of the word...... Ellie, who can know these people, is more powerful......"

Lloyd replied somewhat absent-mindedly. Since Yu, Tatsumi, he has tried his best not to dig into the secrets of his colleagues, and with the accumulation of various trivial matters in the recent period, Lloyd doesn't care so much about identity or anything.

However, this time Lloyd still felt a little strange. Neither President Dita nor Maria Bell should be accessible to ordinary people. Ellie McDowell............ Well...... Do you always feel that you have heard the surname McDowell somewhere, is it a delusion?

Before he could continue to think about Ellie's last name, the technician's surprised voice suddenly dragged his mind back.

“！ Found, found! The mail forwarding system has been attacked! The original address of the invasion is ...... No, it's lost. ”

Should I say that I deserve to be a technician? In addition to some rough branches, he is still very capable. It only took a few minutes to find traces of the attack.

"Sure enough, it's a hacker."

Randy sighed and looked around curiously, as if the hacker's actions could be seen from the space around him. Lloyd nodded silently and said, "Moreover, there is no trace of invasion, plus the information just now, it should be certain that it is an external invasion." But the information is not enough...... Anyway, keep investigating. ”

"Please lend me a guide terminal."

Caught off guard, Theo made this request.

"Huh?"

"No, no."

The technicians tried their best to stop her, not only in case she was found by Theo and lost face, but more importantly, there were countless important information in each terminal here, not that Tiou's character could not be trusted, it was too important for them to lend the terminal to outsiders.

"It doesn't matter. It's called Theo. I allowed it. ”

On the other hand, Maria Bell was arrogant, and with a wave of her hand, she agreed to Theo's request.

Hmph, now, my score in Ellie's heart will go up again! Mariabel raised the corners of her mouth confidently.

"Eternal System...... Initiate. ”

Tio walked straight to the most important main terminal, pulled over the chair and sat down. The black cat-eared device on her long ice-blue hair glowed a faint red light at her command. Then, she placed her small palm on the keyboard and took a deep breath.

"Carry out multi-dimensional analysis, real-time control, analyze all terminal process records, analyze the differences between all hidden traces, and check all addresses......"

As she whispered the proper nouns, a large amount of information suddenly poured out on the central monitor, red letters formed complex words, complex words and complex sentences were formed, and before the others could finish reading the sentence, Theo had already confirmed its value, and quickly moved on to the next piece of information.

"I'm going to use administrator privileges to access all of Crossbell's terminals. I'll leave it to you for help. ”

The technicians were shocked by her precision and speed, and nodded their heads again and again.

As a result, only the sound of a crackling keyboard was left in the space.

In less than ten minutes, the center's guide terminal emitted a beeping alarm, and it seemed that it had been found.

"I've found it! In the underground space area B, the eighth control terminal! ”

"Yo! Well done! Tiny Theo! ”

Randy grinned and rubbed Theo's hair like an acquaintance.

"Theo-chan is the best!"

Hexu, who had already admired Theo, flew over at once, and his small body hung on the same small back.

"Ahh

Maria Bell looked at Theo with a smile, and the helpless expression on Ellie's face became more and more obvious: Bell, you are not qualified to talk about others!

"Theo, you've worked so hard."

Lloyd also gave out his commendation.

"Hehe, I want to dig Tio into the garrison."

Noelle was serious about her feelings, and it could be seen that she was really playing against Theo's ism. It is also understandable that if the garrison has such a capable technician, then at the level of combat command, it must be more convenient.

was praised by everyone like this, even Theo, who had always been cold, was a little flattered, and his bright yellow eyes turned to the screen, not looking at the expressions of the people around him.

"It's not a big deal, besides, I'm a member of the Support Division......"

"Ah, Tio-chan is shy and shy~"

"Not really."

Lotus and Theo are like Bell and Ellie before them, and the two girls are in a mess. Although in essence, Theo is cold and dealing with the strange interest of Hexu.

"Senior Lloyd, don't just snicker over there, let's go!"

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Crossbell City Bay Area, open-air ramen shop.

The duo in a white coat and a white tracksuit are unexpectedly conspicuous.

If you want to say why, it's probably a strange sound.

"Oh, oh, that seems like a workable idea. There are still a lot of technical issues though! ”

Director Roberts flipped through a few drawings. The paper was torn from a police notebook with his ideas drawn on it.

An epoch-making weapon called the Tactical Shell.

Yu's idea was: Since my Anigma II Beta can use the [Tactical Leader] function to operate other people's tactical power guides, what if instead of operating the [Tactical Power Guide on the Person], it is the [Operation Machine itself]?

The idea came from Liber.

In [Liber Mutation], Yuki Tatsumi once ascended to the Floating City, the culmination of ancient human civilization. Inside, he fought a Snake Eater called Wiseman.

During that battle, Wiseman activated a weapon called the Tactical Shell. About the size of an adult's head, flat cone-shaped, floating in mid-air on an unknown principle, around Wiseman. And, at Wiseman's command, they can attack from a point where a normal person can't attack.

Yu's idea is a tactical guide version of this thing.

A craft that can fly freely through space at the user's command, and is equipped with weapons such as firearms. In this way, it is possible to attack from a variety of complex angles.

Many times, combat masters will choose to drive their opponents to death step by step, and then kill them with one hit. For example, Osiris's previous blow, Yuu didn't know the power of his next punch, but he was in mid-air and couldn't escape.

However, if he has this, as long as he calculates the enemy's attack route, then he can let the tactical shell be deployed in mid-air in advance to defend it, avoid Osiris with fire, or crash into himself.

In short, a similar weapon.

"Anyway, I have to go and talk to the consortium and listen to their professional opinions. If only such a weapon could really be invented! Humanity has made a big progress! ”

"Wow, don't spill the soup all over the place......"

"Guest! Please don't slap the table! ”