Chapter 567: The Depth of the Criminal Web
The main reason why they dared to plan so boldly and persuade the opposition to risk inciting a riot of this magnitude was that every time the Speaker led a team on a mission, it was a big event, and it was also the time when the parliamentary power system of the entire plane was at its most vulnerable. At this point, the main force of the expedition will leave, and it will not be possible to end the trip early for the sake of a minor problem such as a riot in the rear.
And if they want to keep their jobs, the senior officials of the political institutions who remain in place must quell a significant social discord before the expedition returns, or they will basically lose their positions. Under these circumstances, it should not have been too difficult for the opposition to reach some compromise at the grassroots level.
Therefore, on the whole, the success rate of the seizure of power can still be counted on. However, the reaction of the council was much more violent than they expected, and a number of investigative organizations that had only been rumored to have been involved in the investigation.
Now they can only settle for the next best thing, to keep themselves safe first, and as for the attempt to seize power, they can only think in the long run. And the reason why the two of them were able to calmly maintain their disguised identities when other opposition leaders were in a collective panic was because they had some high-tech hardware facilities that the opposition did not have.
The advantage of working for the Plane Council is that you have the opportunity to meet many people who you would never have thought of in the past, go to places that you could not have dreamed of in the past, and see the most cutting-edge technological achievements.
As a rather lucky guy, this middle-aged man disguised as an electrician made full use of his strange experience in the Elysium plane, and obtained an agent through a series of means.
As mentioned earlier, the Council has secretly invested a number of agents for security purposes in the Elysium plane, and these remote control machines have almost 100% restored the appearance and senses of human beings, allowing the operators to carry out the infiltration mission of criminal gangs in a safe place.
As a high-level secret, the number of agents deployed is very small, and there are fewer people in the know. Its hardware is strictly controlled. If it weren't for some coincidence, this middle-aged man would not have gotten such a sharp weapon.
They had previously used a reprogrammed agent to engage with the opposition, and under their careful manipulation, most of the opposition top brass did not know their actual identity, and a few suspicions had been disposed of.
What his girlfriend said just now was that she used the agent to kill a few insiders and operate the machine to self-destruct. Such. They completely destroyed the evidence that the two of them were involved in the planning of the riot, and it was theoretically almost impossible to trace it. Of course, only theoretically!
At the scene of the murder they carried out, NCI investigators were as passive as they thought. These investigators have been busy for weeks, and some have been busy for months. It was difficult for them to find the identities of the highly hidden opposition leaders, but in the end, several key figures were found to be dead. And it's clear that he killed them.
After an in-depth investigation of the murder scene, the investigators finally followed the clues to find the remains of the murderer, or the agent of the murder. At this point, the one that had previously come to life. The Qì people, who looked almost indistinguishable from humans, had been charred in a clearing on the outskirts.
Aside from the remains of gasoline drums and accelerants, there was nothing else to be found. As for the wreckage of the machine, it had been burned to the point where it was impossible to identify the model or any serial number.
At the time of the initial examination, investigators thought it was the remains of a procedurally modified security machine. Although cases of murder using a programmed security machine are rare, they are not without precedent.
But after taking the remains back and examining them carefully, they quickly confirmed that they were not the remains of any regular military or civilian humanoids. And they don't have any similarly structured robots in their database.
This has attracted great attention from the NCI supervisor, and although the facts that have been collected are enough to close the case, Director Gibbs, who is a junior agent, knows that this investigation is not over. There may still be people behind the opposition leadership.
In order to find out the truth, he resisted the pressure of his subordinates to close the case and pay a bonus. Cooperate with other investigative departments to investigate the remains of the unidentified man. Finally, after a week of continuing the investigation with other parliamentary organizations, they made a substantial breakthrough.
After obtaining a higher level of authorization, they finally found the mechanical skeleton that attached the characteristics of the remains, and figured out that this was the remains of a rare "agent qì man", and theoretically only had a small amount of equipment in the Elysium plane at the moment.
This means that either there is a high-ranking traitor in the Plane Council. Either the emissaries behind the scenes are much more clever than they expected. In either case, they decided to begin their first interdimensional joint investigation.
Since the establishment of the Space-Time Council, its subordinate investigative department has handled hundreds of thousands of different cases. However, this was the first time they had encountered a serious case that had to be investigated across planes, due to the nature of the investigation. It is enough to go down in history.
Their first stop was the Elysium station on the Elysium plane. As the secret remote control station of the agent, it is the control area of all the agent, and it is also the point where all operation and maintenance records are kept.
What's more, it was the site of the Samaritan itself. Upon learning of the unintended release of the Qì Agents in his district, the Samaritan initially refused to admit it, believing that he had taken his work quite seriously and did not believe that anyone could steal the property of the Council under his watchful eye.
As the object of his attention, he keeps a detailed record of every repair and inspection of all agents from the moment they are assigned to him until they are finally destroyed. Under such circumstances, he didn't think anyone could steal an agent under such a strong man.
However, it turns out that even a highly intelligent AI like him has its own blind spots in observation and thinking. Investigators found a minor security breach after several days of investigating the operation and maintenance site of the agent's Qì man.
Taking advantage of this security loophole, almost anyone can steal all the required parts of the agent in batches. When this vulnerability was discovered, the Samaritan was shocked, he did not expect that there would be such a security breach in the core area under his care.
Fortunately, it's better to have a vulnerability found than to keep it all the time. With the idea of making amends, they followed this loophole and locked up a group of suspects together. These are the kind of technicians who have spent time on the space station, including the real masterminds.
Seeing the suspects they had identified, the Samaritans quickly reviewed each of their files and concluded that all of them together did not have the ability to assemble an agent from scratch.
This is not to say that the technology of the agent is so high, but in order to prevent hardware leakage from being used by criminal groups, long before it was put into use, all the control mechanisms of the important parts of the agent were set up with hardware re-encryption.
It is almost impossible to crack the code without destroying these control mechanisms. At least in Samaritan's opinion, none of these suspects are capable of doing this, but, just like there is no safe door in this world that cannot be cracked, any system will have vulnerabilities.
A lot of things that seem impossible can actually be done. After a difficult interrogation, in the end, the middle-aged man in excellent disguise was unable to continue to hide his identity under the watchful eyes of a group of professional agents.
After being recognized, he simply admitted that he was the mastermind, and confessed his method and process of stealing the agent. However, according to his confession, although he stole a lot of key components of the agent, enough to assemble several new agents, the final installation and commissioning work was not done by him. He only has one agent in his own hands.
According to him, in the underground hacker criminal organization of the Elysium plane, there was a hacker codenamed "Rune" who took the initiative to contact him and helped him get the assembly and hardware cracking of the agent he used before.
Of course, the help given to him by the "Rune" was not free, he was helped by the other party who had stolen the accessories of the agent and some of the small communication devices unique to the council as bargaining chips.
After hearing the code name "Rune", the investigators who newly arrived on this plane did not know who it was, but the Samaritans who were listening were surprised. Because he knows this guy, not only knows, but also deals with it.
A few months ago, during the Samaritan's trial run, his outer surveillance software system had been deliberately interfered with by this hacker named Rune and some other guys, causing him to lose some of his own unique number jù.
Not long after that, the hackers used the stolen data to create a virus program that targeted his core code, and uploaded it to his console in a very clever way, infecting the Samaritans at the runtime level of the software, and disrupting him for several minutes.
Although Cheng Dù was concerned, as an AI, he could only get a mild cold in that malicious attack, and with the help of his father, he quickly turned back and put most of the hackers responsible for attacking him in prison, but Rune never revealed his identity. (To be continued......)
PS: IN ORDER TO ARRANGE THE APPEARANCE OF THE REGISTERED CHARACTERS OF "BOBWANG", THE PLOT OF THESE TWO CHAPTERS IS A BIT RUSHED, AND THE BLACK CAT WILL INTERVIEW TO REMOVE THIS INFLUENCE LATER