"Harry Wallis doesn't exist."

Jessica Jones said it categorically when she reported to Michael.

She recounts to Michael the whole story of what happened to her when she infiltrated Wallis Corporation, especially when she discovered that the security guards on the top floor were really robots.

"There's no mistake, Wallis is a shell company." "The company doesn't have an actual business, it's just that someone is incorporated for some purpose, maybe to do something in the name of the company," she said. Their founder, Harry Wallis, is a fictional character, and I checked his office closely, and there was no trace of anyone using it at all. I also checked all the files, including public information and their internal company data, and found that the only image of Harry Wallis was the one used for registration, and there was no other image, not even any information about his family or relatives. ”

Michael crossed his fingers and sat back in his office chair listening.

Regarding Wallis Company, the situation mentioned by Jessica is not very rare, and there are indeed many forces and even some public figures who have many shell companies in their hands. These companies often have only a legal form and have all the necessary documents and materials required by law, but most of them do not have a fixed place of business and never open any substantive business. Such companies are so versatile that even Michael has at least a dozen of them.

However, for their boss, Mr. Wallis, there is no such thing as a non-existent event, which is not so common.

In a highly informationized modern society, it is not impossible to fictionalize a complete person, such as Michael Paso is an identity that Michael created for himself out of nothing, and even he has more than such an identity. But there are almost only a handful of people in this world who can forge their false identities so seamlessly, and the Heavenly Sword Bureau has such huge resources and countless talents in the world, but as far as Michael knows, there are no more than three people who have the potential to do as well as him in this regard.

There's also the bionic machine security guard mentioned by Jessica. The technique of coating the machine with an artificial skin to make them look almost the same as a real person is also noteworthy. If anyone thinks that this company is worth guarding with a bunch of bionic machines with such advanced technology, that in itself speaks volumes.

"But it's also possible," said Michael, slowly, "that Mr. Wallis is just a very private man and very careful." He deliberately avoided leaking photos of himself and his family, and he happened to be almost never in the office......"

"If you're asking me if I have proof, yes, I do." Jessica said, using her multi-function watch to request a link to the projection system in the room. The floating screen activates to project the interface inside her watch. She selects a copied video file and opens a surveillance footage. It was surveillance footage from the entrance to Wallis Corporation.

"Like many other companies, Wallis requires all employees to sign in and out with their fingerprints when they come to work. Here's a video I got of one day in March, and the record shows that Mr. Harry Wallis himself arrived at the office at 8 o'clock in the morning and checked in with his fingerprints. Watch out for the 8 a.m. footage. ”

She dragged the video timeline to eight o'clock in the morning, and the entrance was empty.

"And then one day two months later, again, Mr. Wallis's clock-in record came up. Let's take a look at the day's surveillance. ”

She opened the next video and dragged it until the appointed time, and the entrance was empty again.

"I see, so it seems that your inference may indeed be true." Michael nodded, "You did a good job of investigating, hard work." ”

Jessica raised her eyebrows: "So you don't need me to follow these suspicions and continue to investigate?" ”

"Not for now. I will contact you again if I need it later. ”

After Jessica left, Michael looked up and asked into the air, "Shirley, how's it going?" ”

"I think Miss Jones has a point."

Shirley said, adjusting the only photo of Harry Wallis to a floating screen and scanning the middle-aged man's face in detail. She used local recognition technology to match Wallis's hairstyle, eyes, nose and mouth to identify them, and quickly picked out five photos with matching items from the database.

A lawyer, a movie star, a politician, a business tycoon, and a wanted criminal, five different parts of the faces of five people are pieced together to form such a brand new photograph, a person who doesn't exist at all, and this is Harry Wallis.

"Interesting." Michael held his chin, "Anything else to discover?" ”

"When Miss Jones used her Skysword device to connect to Wallis Corporation's system, I tried to hack into the other party's database through her link. But I found the company's passwords to be extremely difficult to crack, and they used a unique way of coding that I had never seen before in any agency system......"

"It's harder to hack than the CIA or the Department of Defense or anything like that?"

"I think so. It's a new way of coding, and even I've never seen it before, so it can be hard to crack it by force. ”

You must know that Shirley can break through the Pentagon's top artificial intelligence in one minute, and even Shirley has always left backdoors in the systems of many government agencies, including the Pentagon, so that Tianjian can always intercept important news as soon as possible. If there is a place where even Shirley would find the system "difficult", then that place is definitely extraordinary.

"But you still succeeded?"

"It took a little more effort, yes. But my access is still restricted. "I can't say for sure, sir, but I think I've found something in the system...... Some traces of data that look like ...... Just like my kind. ”

Michael thought for a moment.

"You mean, artificial intelligence?"

"I mean, it's just speculation." Shirley said uncertainly, "But something is interfering with my probing, as if someone has erased the data as far in advance as possible before I can access each module." As far as I know, there is only one artificial intelligence that has the ability to possibly do this. ”

Michael was silent for a moment. Now the issue has begun to be officially brought to his attention.

"What did you find?"

"Not much, mostly just corrupted data, fragments of the program. But there's only one word, one that comes up repeatedly across multiple modules I've visited. I think it could be a name, the name of a project, or the name of a weapon or tool that is in development. ”

"What is it?"

Shirley didn't say it directly. She cast six capital letters on the hovering screen.

ULTRON.