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Dark night, highway.

Driving on the endless road, Karene got bored and turned on the radio and changed a few programs in a row.

"Boss, are you asleep?"

"You should understand the difference between us."

"I'm a protohuman, how can I understand...... But boss, you can tell me about the feeling of electronic brains, it is very dangerous to drive at night if you are bored. ”

Karen's proto-human beings mean that they have not undergone any mechanical transformation at all, and their bodies still belong to the category of completely carbon-based organisms, and as a result, there are also a group of people in this world who advocate the proto-human state, believing that transformation is wrong, or insulting their beliefs, or fearing mechanization, so as to adhere to the proto-human state and refuse any transformation, this kind of person insists on, modern people call fundamentalism.

"I don't feel anything special, I've been an electronic brain since I can remember, and like you, I can't understand your original human mind."

"Wow! Boss, you can't have been formatted, right? ”

"Perhaps, some unfamiliar memories always come to mind when you are dormant."

"Boss, why don't we fly to the Holy City?"

"No, the goods are ...... Smuggling cannot be inspected by any state official, and you should understand the nature of the work of our firm. ”

"But it's more than 30,000 kilometers, and even if we drive non-stop every day, it will take a month."

The two of them chatted late at night, but Kalian, who felt that she knew her boss better and better, didn't know that her boss was hiding a rather crucial piece of news.

Zhou Dong thinks that maybe he was infected with an unknown virus and had some very strange changes.

One of the reasons for this is that he has seen some "futures" that he may have deduced on his own, including the scene between him and Karen in his dream last night.

At six o'clock in the morning, it was finally Zhou Dong's turn to drive.

They had left the small city and were now entering a new city.

……

Kyoto City, Ghost in the Shell Headquarters Building.

After nearly two decades of rapid changes, the pattern of countries around the world is not recognized by people more than ten years ago, and they are being replaced as fast as electronic products.

In Asia, in particular, the national elements of various countries are becoming more and more integrated, and the Pan-Asian Alliance, which was born in response to the situation, is a representative of this.

The concept of the state, in the modern era of global village networking, is becoming more and more weak, and it has become the dregs of the old era that the new generation looks down on.

The city of Kyoto is one of the core cities of the Pan Asian Alliance, and only the Ghost in the Shell, which has made many contributions in the past and is now further promoted and expanded, is still retained, and the acquisition of a headquarters building in this truly valuable metropolis shows its importance.

The current Ghost in the Shell is a special force used by the Pan-Asian Alliance to carry out some special tasks that should not be known to the public, similar to the special forces of the former countries.

Now, in the conference room of this large building, an emergency meeting is being held.

The three-dimensional virtual image is a comprehensive all-round picture synthesized by satellites and other image sources, and the three-dimensional scene restored by mathematical modeling is the end of the commercial street that was blown up by the missile.

There is also a virtual image of a satellite plane that has been tracking a black commercial vehicle all the time.

Now, the former team leader Motoko Kusanagi has been promoted to the head of this department, and while holding great power, she has gradually learned the art of power and is less likely to go to the front line, but she is still a very good cyborg.

"Poma, have you found out where the 'Golden Apple' is?"

"I can't sneak into their core network, I can only comprehensively analyze the fringe members, and there is a high probability that they have been transferred in yesterday morning's transaction."

"In other words, now that the 'golden apple' has been handed over to someone else, who is that?"

"Mercenaries in the gray zone."

Poma is a highly mechanized biochemical person, including both eyes have been replaced with mechanical parts, 200cm tall, spent in the army during the war, specializes in setting traps, is very good at bomb research, is mainly responsible for intelligence gathering and support operations, and is good at computer warfare, and has strong abilities in fighting hackers and vaccine production, and is one of the former team members of the head of the Ghost in the Shell Department Kusanagi Motoko, and is still a member of her inner circle, managing the intelligence section under the department.

The people gathered here are almost all members of the former Kusanagi Motoko team, and the screen shows a person's profile.

After reading it, everyone was a little surprised.

"Top Secret Files?"

"Yes, it seems to be a remarkable person, my authority is not enough to apply for access to his information, I only know that he has rented a small shop in a marginal town about three months ago, opened an office, and took on some gray tasks to make a living."

Everyone fell silent, although the Ghost in the Shell is now superficial, but in fact, because of its greater strength, it is more restrained and infiltrated by the Pan-Alliance Parliament.

"Ishikawa, what do you think?"

"I think this is their trap, if it is really a 'golden apple', with its value enough to change the times, it will never be casually handed over to an unidentified mercenary escort."

Ishikawa is an old friend of Motoko Kusanagi who met when he was still in the military intelligence department, an expert in electronic brain intelligence warfare, and is good at breaking through the electronic brain defense wall and developing vaccines.

Motoko Kusanagi thought about it for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"Togusa, you take a team to secretly capture them, whether it's true or not, now we have no other clues to break through at hand, so we can only start from this aspect."

"I'm afraid it's a little difficult."

"What's wrong?"

"Just posted a bounty order on the gray Internet that was quickly put to the top, that person is wanted, it seems that someone has exposed the news that they may have a 'golden apple', as long as they can catch him alive or get a memory, the bounty is 10 million credits, if you can get the 'golden apple' from him, the bounty is 50 million credits."

“！ It's a really lucrative business, and it's worth 50 years of my salary if I catch someone. ”

"It seems that this is really a bait, but we still have to make a show, Togusa, you can catch him if you have a chance, pay attention to your own safety if you don't have a chance, Boma, you continue to monitor the Salo family."

The Salo family is currently the biggest target of the Ghost in the Shell, and due to their large and deep-rooted power, they even have tentacles in the members of the Pan-Asian Alliance, which has hindered their tracking operations for several years.

And Togusa is almost a human original body, and he likes to use a revolver when handling cases, and it is precisely because his body is not prosthetic, his combat effectiveness is inferior to that of other members, only the brain is implanted with a small number of nanoparticles, which are used for daily Internet surfing and contacting teammates.

"Understood."

"Okay, then let's disperse today."