Chapter 152: Boiled Frog in Warm Water
Belch~
Covering her forehead and waking up on the sofa, the strong feeling of dizziness made Gu Yinxing get up and rush to the bathroom outside the living room after a short moan.
Suzi next to her got up and wanted to go over to check on her situation.
"Don't worry, she's been affected in the illusion, that's why it's like this, and it will be fine after a while. β
As soon as Su Zi walked to the door of the living room, Zhu Jue just woke up, heard the sound of water flowing in the bathroom, glanced at the empty seat beside him, and immediately realized Gu Ginkgo's current condition.
"What's going on inside?"
Suzi stopped and looked back at Zhu Jue.
His state was much more normal than Gu Ginkgo...... Perhaps it would be better to describe it as no change, as if he had just leaned on the sofa for half an hour.
"It's hard to say, there are some unexpected discoveries, I need your help to verify, come with me. β
Zhu Jue beckoned to the wind chimes, also got up and walked out, and when he arrived at the door of the living room, his steps slowed down slightly, and he glanced in the direction of the bathroom and shouted,
"Ginkgo, you are staying in the clinic, and there is half a bottle of moonshine on the table, which can help you ease your mental state!"
There was a faint response in the bathroom, which was replaced by the sound of vomiting before it could be heard.
"Will it be okay in a while?"
Suzi repeated the last half of Zhu Jue's previous sentence, in a questioning tone.
"Of course, entering Gadamon's illusion can still be spit out, which means that there is not much problem with her spirit, and if someone else goes in, I am afraid that even moving will be a problem at this time, besides...... I'll have to trouble her for the next while, and I'll get used to it by spitting and spitting. β
Some things have to be experienced after all, and instead of becoming the immobile person you say, it is better to vomit a few more times.
The principle is very similar to that of some people who drink alcohol and always secretly go to the toilet to "pick" their throats in order to drink a few more glasses to prove their alcohol consumption.
"Where are you going?"
Walking down the stairs, it was already late at night, and Suko took the key to the empty boat and asked about the destination.
"You don't have to drive an empty boat, and it doesn't take much time to walk. β
Estimating the path just now, putting aside the lurking halfway and staying time, that section of the road is indeed not far.
While speaking, Zhu Jue's eyes involuntarily fell on the street outside the door, and there was a middle-aged man on the side of the road holding a carton containing a large amount of fried food and some curious grilled skewers that Zhu Jue had never tried much, holding an umbrella around his neck, pacing back and forth in the snow while eating seafood.
Following the previous route in the illusion, as expected, Zhu Jue soon met a man on the street who was scolding at his mobile phone and a drunk man leaning against the wall near him, holding a wine bottle in his hand, with a red face, because of the light projected by the light above his head, Zhu Jue couldn't see if there was any wine left in the bottle.
Woo~Woo~
Red lights cut through the snow, and airboats with life-medical symbols sped into the streets from the empty layers of the outer blocks.
Docked at the door of a house under the gaze of the two, three heavily armed life medical security personnel pushed and even coerced the surrounding pedestrians to push away with an almost brutal attitude, quickly clearing the scene, and then several more people wearing protective clothing rushed into the house, and soon ran out quickly carrying a white long bag painted with a life medical logo on the outside.
Body bag!
The team closed, and the airboat rose again and disappeared into the traffic between the central airspace.
Only a mother and son standing at the door remained, dazed.
"You seem to know that someone in that room is going to die?"
Suzi, who was standing across the street a few minutes before the arrival of the empty boat, looked at Zhu Jue next to him, very puzzled.
"Well, there are some discoveries in the illusion...... It's just that why is life medicine here?"
This house is where the Ouroboros trio stay, and Zhu Jue knew that something would happen here, but he thought it should be the epidemic prevention center.
"Cadaver research!"
Suko replied very simply.
"What?"
"Recently, with the increase in the number of infected people in the lower city, Life Medical Group is likely to see the business opportunities inside...... It is also possible that they want to study the mutation of the infected, so they start to snatch the infected from the epidemic prevention center, whether they are dead or alive. β
"How do you know?"
Shaking off the broken snow on the umbrella surface, Zhu Jue continued to walk forward.
"The Rangers, when they borrowed their equipment before, left a 'back door' in their system. β
Suzi raised her hand and tapped the position of her temple,
"What they can see, I can see. β
"Hey~ I don't advocate this kind of behavior of yours, so I won't take it as an example...... I find you're not as rigid as I thought you were."
Zhu Jue said as he lowered his body and hit Su Zi with his shoulder, the latter took a step back to dodge, but he was still reacted faster, and Zhu Jue, who leaned back in advance, bumped into it in a strange posture and stumbled to the side.
"I was paid for helping them upgrade their systems, fix three bugs, and expand their monitoring to two communities. β
Without colliding back, Suzi stared at Zhu Jue and spoke.
"Ahem~ We're here. β
Zhu Jue looked at the street in front of him and diverted the topic in a way that couldn't be more blunt.
This is the time of day for many people, so the crowds on the streets are still very dense.
There are all kinds of shops on both sides of the street, most of them restaurants and electronics stores, the latter is not much more important in this era than eating, and there are also high and low, for example, a new mechanical puppet is placed at the door of a store near Zhu Jue, with holographic projection doing various actions, and the products in his hand are constantly changing.
The faΓ§ade of the store opposite it is much more dilapidated, and there is a clear sign on the outside: second-hand store (discount promotion).
Interestingly, the second-hand store had a much busier number of customers than the one across the street.
"Where?"
When Zhu Jue compared the two electronic goods stores, Suzi had already scanned the surroundings and found nothing unusual.
"Right at the intersection in front. β
Raise your finger forward.
Under the traffic lampposts several meters high, the flow of people is staggered, and there are not many ordinary vehicles in the No. 23 community, not because of how expensive, but because of the dense population, the traffic situation within the community has not improved, and the slightly richer have bought more convenient airboats in Qianfan City, and the middle class has convenient public transportation.
"It's important that you can't hack into the hue detector at the intersection of the street. β
This area uses a mobile hue monitoring device to avoid errors caused by blind spots as much as possible, and the number of cases is several times greater than that of the neighborhood where private clinics are located.
"Hacking into the official network, advocating?"
Suzi's tone was still very flat, but Zhu Jue was a little yin and yang no matter how he listened.
"The government of Thousand Sails City has nothing to do with me, invade, invade casually!"
waved his hand generously, Zhu Jue was as casual as he was at the dining table at home, but his voice was extremely low, for fear of being heard by passers-by next to him.
It didn't take much time, the hue detector was not an important confidential device, and on the premise of not destroying but only sharing, the encryption program in the device system seemed to Suzi to be not much different from the "no entry" sign hanging in the suburbs.
"The intrusion is complete, and the data is read..... Zhu Jue, the hue value of these people is ......"
The stream of data in her eyes slipped down, and Suko's perspective had shifted to the crowd at the intersection, and after just a few seconds, she sensed that something was wrong.
"They're all going up, aren't they?"
"Why is this happening, albeit only on a small scale, but the hue of the people crossing the intersection is generally rising?"
More than a dozen targets were selected for secondary detection, and Suzi quickly determined the situation.
"Of course it's Ouroboros, those guys really can't be idle for a moment!"
In Gadamon's illusion, there is a bone tree here, and those "passers-by" who present a strange image in Gu Ginkgo's spiritual world invariably deteriorate physically when they pass through it.
At the same time as discovering this phenomenon, Zhu Jue immediately realized that this bone tree growing in the illusion could probably affect the real world!
"There is definitely more than one bone tree in the illusion realm, and in this way, it affects the mental state of the residents of Thousand Sails City on a large scale...... If I hadn't gone in and seen it with my own eyes, I guess it would have been hard to spot. β
At this time, Zhu Jue was a little glad that he chose to find out the situation from the Great Race, otherwise it would be extremely difficult for him to notice this move of the Ouroboros Organization.
Although the operation mode of the Qianfan City Hue Detector is a large-scale monitoring, it will not record the hue status of each passerby in real time, because it is not only meaningless in the eyes of the designer, but also adds excessive burden to the system.
You must know that a person's mental state will change with the changes in the surrounding illusions, such as watching a horror movie or encountering something happy or unhappy recently, which will cause a change in the hue value, if even this has to be reported for testing, with the population of Thousand Sails City, it is undoubtedly a waste of public resources.
Therefore, at the beginning of the design, there is an alarm reference line in the hue detector, for example, a limit is set up in the turbidity of the hue value 35, if there is a passerby's hue value exceeding this line, then it will immediately report to the monitoring department and start tracking the person throughout the process, and a small range of hue value fluctuations detected by Suzi are completely outside its alarm and monitoring range.
"Need to inform Newcastle?"
Although they do not understand the intentions of the Ouroboros for the time being, it is certain that they have no good intentions.
"Do you think it's useful to tell him that there is a bone tree in Gadamon's Illusion Realm, so you want to seal off the entire street?"
Zhu Jue looked at the crowd in front of him, and said in a muffled voice,
"And no matter how ridiculous this kind of thing sounds to most people, even if Newcastle believes it, the government of Thousand Sails City will not easily do such a thing that may cause concern, and the Ouroboros organization is probably pinching on this, and you should know the story of boiling frogs in warm water...... Unless we expose it, but there's no point in doing so other than letting the Ouroboros know that I can enter Gadamon's realm!"
"So we're just sitting on the sidelines?"
If the spiritual impact of this magnitude is left unchecked, the consequences will be unimaginable!
"Who said it doesn't matter, it's just another way, you wait for me here, don't move around. β
Zhu Jue said as he leaned over to the center of the intersection in front of him.
Raising the collar of his trench coat, Zhu Jue walked in the crowd and became an ordinary passerby.
However, if anyone stood in front of him, they would notice that his eyes were already beginning to glow with black and purple mist.
Inside the trouser tube, the psionic energy infuses the legs.
"If you feel happy, you just clap your hands~"
humming softly in his mouth, attracting the attention of several passers-by beside him, Zhu Jue raised his hand and gestured with a pistol and pointed at them.
Take a few more steps, lift your legs, and sing softly: "If you feel happy, you stomp your feet!"
Bang~Bang~
The two muffled sounds shook the surrounding passers-by for a while, and then they all stopped and looked around blankly.
In the next second, the street trembled violently, and countless cracks began to spread wildly in all directions from under Zhu Jue's feet!
"Damn! It's going to collapse! Run!!"
Someone shouted in the crowd, this is the No. 23 community, and the street of the No. 24 community is below, dozens of meters of empty floors, and people will die if they fall!
So everyone subconsciously withdrew from this crossroads.
In just a dozen seconds, it became an open field......
"That's what you mean by the other way?"
Suko stood on the side of the street, looking at the street with stones splashing in the distance, and subconsciously asked someone who was coming in front of her.
"Of course, when they are repaired, it will take a week to say the least, what are you waiting for, withdraw!"
Zhu Jue hooked the corners of his mouth, raised his left eyebrow, and left in the direction of his neck swing.
The fact that the Ouroboros influence the real world in this way means that they have a great need for the souls of the infected.
As long as you grasp this, there is a lot to be done!