Chapter 8 Raise the Ultramarine Flag
Happiness Island, Tian'en Park, Special Enforcement Department.
As soon as Ignorance climbed to the door, the door was opened remotely from the inside. A somewhat tired but familiar voice came from inside the office the moment the door opened.
"....., yes, I'm Zhan. Well, no problem..... okay, I'll keep an eye on it."
Sitting in the ministerial seat at the moment is a young man. There were two black lines on his face, covering half of his face like dark circles spreading out, and his tail with black and white rings hanging behind him.
He's none other than Ah Zhan. The direct executive who is trusted by Delphinium and Russell, and his real code name is "Stack" - the stack of [Stack].
At this moment, Zhan was wearing the standard suit of the head of the executive department, but it seemed a little out of place for his social animal temperament. He looked sleepy, with steaming coffee at the table, and he was on the phone with someone.
"..... yes, I know. Good. It's okay, you've worked hard."
After entering the door, he was lying at the table and coiled up by himself, just opening the tea jar and preparing to make tea for himself. He no longer wears high glasses and looks like a blind man like he used to be - after being fitted with a high-end prosthetic eye with Russell's help, he can now clearly see the blue halo under Minister Azan dissipate with a glance, which means a video call
It's over.
Seeing Ah Zhan scratching his fluffy curly hair with some distress, he asked slowly, "What's the matter?"
"What else could it be?"
Zhan sighed and reached out to press his temple, completely devoid of the minister's shelf: "The board of directors is looking for something again."
Not long ago, Stack was suddenly appointed by the board of directors as the acting minister of the Special Operations Department.
Ultramarines and delphiniums had been missing for two weeks. In terms of Stack's personality, he was certainly reluctant to accept the position - Delphinium was the senior who single-handedly brought him up, and Ultramarine was his idol whom he greatly admired. Most of these two people were assassinated by the company...... At least he was betrayed.
At this time, if you pick up the leak, it will look like you have betrayed the two of you. When they returned, Ah Zhan couldn't explain it at all.
So he politely refused the appointment from his superiors, and recommended this appointment, which most people seemed to be equivalent to a straightforward and easy change of fate, to others - for example, the girl of Paradise Bird was very good. She has a strong ability to work, and she usually works very seriously and has a strong affinity. It's like the second Delphinium minister, and everyone else must be able to accept it.
But it didn't take long for Chairman Sailun to personally give the order. He was appointed acting minister – he was the only person considered by the board. Otherwise, the Special Operations Department will be vacant. This means that the Paradise Bird and the two angels will be assigned to the headquarters of the *** Society...... It is tantamount to using another method to dissolve the power of the ultramarine faction.
Ah Zhan really can't help it. If he refuses at this time, it will undoubtedly be tantamount to an even greater betrayal. Not only will people close to Ultramarine be driven away, but the Special Operations Department will be completely controlled by the company.
But he knows his bottom - he doesn't know how to fart. Because he is not a person in a related profession at all.
His education is quite high...... Graduate student of Thien University. Although the grades are not particularly good, they can be regarded as having published several academic papers. The only problem is that Ah Zhan is actually a computer engineering major.
His original research direction was weak artificial intelligence. Ah Zhan's graduation thesis is to cultivate artificial intelligence for deep learning by retrieving camera footage throughout the Happiness Island, so as to analyze the person's height, weight, stride length, age, destination, action route and other information, and establish an information database that can retrieve the identity of the other party without seeing the other person's face.
And his ultimate goal is to use the artificial intelligence he has cultivated, combined with the body data, purchase records and browsing records provided by each person's chip, in order to predict in advance whether the other party has criminal intent.
- Yes, that is, a weakened version of the Three Sages system. When he was a student, Ah Zhan hoped to reduce the crime rate on Happy Island through this system, so that people could have a peaceful life.
This is what he wanted to accomplish from before he even went to college.
It's not that he has any bitterness and hatred in the past..... his own life is quite peaceful.
If anything, he used to admire one of his neighbor's brothers, who was much smarter than Ah Zhan, and had a gentle and cheerful temper. When Ah Zhan was young, he often went to the neighbor's brother's house to play games together. The neighbor's brother would also teach him to code—a concept he learned by his code name, "Stack," at that time. If you want to go to university in Happiness Island, you need to learn the basic skills of the corresponding major in middle school.
And this knowledge will not be taught at all in class, so you can only go to cram schools or find acquaintances to teach.
For example, if you want to become a pilot or network security engineer in the information department, you have to perform jump or deep dive in high school; If you want to major in computer engineering, you must at least master the ability to write basic code proficiently in the college entrance examination. The more advanced the university, the more difficult it is to get into this area... When Ah Zhan took the college entrance examination that year, the exam questions included simulating code results, filling in the blank space, correcting program errors, and solving complex logic problems through programming, and performing simple operations on two-dimensional arrays.
High school teachers didn't even talk about what two-dimensional arrays were, and they didn't even teach how to write code.
The neighbor's brother was studying too late because he went to cram school, and when he came back, he happened to encounter a brawl with a mercenary. A stray bullet wounded his leg, but he gritted his teeth and did not make a sound, so he survived. But eventually he bled to the ground until he went into shock, and his parents finally got him back.
But the prolonged shock hurt his brain. Although it was later cured, it was delayed for two years. Because he fell behind too much in his schoolwork and fell far behind his peers, his originally gentle and cheerful neighbor brother began to become anxious, radical and pessimistic. He stubbornly wanted to be admitted to Tian'en University, repeating year after year, and other schools couldn't look down on him - this was originally easy for him, but when Ah Zhan graduated from graduate school, he never waited for the news of his enrollment.
He didn't know if the neighbor's brother committed suicide or was killed by ***, or if he gave up studying at Grace University, or if he was still repeating his studies. After all, the exam questions at Tian'en University are also getting more difficult every year.
But this incident left a deep impression on Ah Zhan.
The person who could have been able to achieve happiness and a glorious future is obviously talented and a good person, but because of the tragedy caused by the ***, the trick that will directly change the entire future. How many people like him will there be on the entire Happy Island?
If those mercenaries had been arrested at the very beginning of the shootout, would these misfortunes no longer exist?
As a result, Ah Zhan has always had such a stubborn opinion.
His mentor had stopped him as well. His mentor had also explained to him that Sogo Island had more advanced technology, and he hoped that he would be able to change his research direction.
But Ah Zhan is also an iron brain.
He recognized the reason for death, but he was unwilling to give up. He believes that even if Sogo Island has the relevant technology, they must be very expensive, which is why Tianen Group does not buy it. Companies are profit-driven, and if he can develop the technology and sell it to the company cheaply, the company will be able to popularize it, so that crime can be monitored and stopped in time. waited until Ah Zhan graduated and joined the Tianen Group.
It became clear to him that he didn't have any unique talents.
It makes sense that no one has been doing research on this; There's a reason why Happiness Island didn't adopt this technology.
If the Grace Group had access to this technology, they might be able to stop crime—but maybe they would be stopping more than just crime.
But what really made Ah Zhan desperate was that he really understood how far Sogo Island's technology had developed... and the crime, killings, frauds, and *** that still exist on Sogo Island.
Why do you choose to commit a crime even when you know that there is surveillance to watch you? Why do you still hurt others and yourself when you know that you will pay the price, and even know that your crime will be stopped in advance? Aren't they afraid of death? Aren't you afraid that your plan will fail?
Ah Zhan couldn't understand it.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of the offender's mind, he applied to be transferred from the product department to the execution department. But because he was a more precious technician after all, Delphinium did not transfer him to the front line at that time, but let him stay at the headquarters to serve tea and water. Ah Zhan stayed here to conduct his anthropological observations.
He made the right decision.
In the executive department, Ah Zhan met all kinds of people and things. He gradually understood his own naivety in the past.
But it also means that his dreams were wrong.
So, what exactly is he going to do?
Ah Zhan was confused.
He had only come here to investigate, but he didn't want to go back. Although he didn't have a dream that he could say with confidence, whether it was ultramarine, delphinium, inferior, paradise bird... Each of them is a shining person, and each has his own dream. Working within such a group can heal the emptiness of his heart.
He has no dreams and no road.
But he envied those who had dreams and paths—and was willing to give himself to a cause greater than his life.
He used to follow Delphinium, and then he followed Ultramarine. Now, he has joined the Broker Society, relying on his ability to help others as much as he can.
However, with the disappearance of Ultramarine, the entire island of happiness gradually descends into chaos. This is true for the Executive Department, as is the Tianen Group, and the same is true for the Brokers. All he could do now was to do his best to keep everything that the Ultramarines valued.
Special Operations, Brokers, and others.
So Ah Zhan reluctantly knew nothing and went to communicate with Bishop Paradise Bird.
After the exchange, the gentle Miss Paradise Bird gave her encouragement. Under her reluctance, Ah Zhan was extremely reluctant to climb - and then on the first day, he was struck down by the pile-up of work and pressure.
All kinds of interview arrangements, all kinds of emergencies that require the involvement of the executive department, these are just small things.
Members of the Executive Department who were passive because of Ultramarine's disappearance, members of the Brokers who were dissatisfied with the disappearance of Ultramarine, who were dissatisfied with the disappearance of Ultramarine, who were sent down by the Ministry of Cyber Security for "spreading harmful speech", churches that made various demands, boards of directors who made various demands, individual directors who secretly made another request, senior executives of companies large and small who wanted to meet him, big people who made some kind of hope for him, and other big people who made opposite demands.....
Countless complex positions, like an oil painting where colors are repeatedly covered and fused. He didn't know what color he was supposed to be until the last stroke fell.
And he has no wrong chance. Not once.
Ah Zhan felt like his head was going to explode.
He felt like he had to do everything, and at the same time he couldn't do anything. Many people are full of malice and contempt for him, but what really pains him is those who also trust him and trust the light, but are hostile to each other because of their respective positions.
What would she do if it was Minister Delphinch?
If it were the Ultramarine Minister, what would he do?
Ah Zhan didn't know and didn't understand, but he didn't want to stop where he was and do nothing—if he didn't do anything, he could easily be elevated, removed from office, or used as a puppet. At that point, he won't be able to hold on to the things that Ultramarines value.
He had to do it, and he had to do it well, and at the same time, he couldn't work in the wrong direction.
He could only force himself to try to learn. But fortunately, the two angels were able to teach him a little bit about it.
And now, the board of directors has sent a new request - the actions of Dailan and the emperor will cause a lot of damage to the island of happiness, and the board of directors hopes that the executive department can arrest them.
However, the director who came to announce this task asked Ah Zhan not to act rashly, keep monitoring first, and wait for public opinion to ferment.
But before this call, another director had already said that he would protect the emperor no matter what happened.
Another director asked him to recruit Dailan into the Special Operations Department and include him
under surveillance.
And the voice of the Brokers is that they hope he can open up to this net and turn a blind eye.
"What does the church say?"
Ah Zhan looked at Wu Ming weakly and asked, "I guess the church must have sent you a message too."
"You're a quick learner."
Ignorance nodded appreciatively, his long black matte hair fluttering slightly with his nod.
He now has a prosthetic eye, but he is still used to squinting his eyes slightly: "The situation on the church side is not very good.
"I've also received three very different orders from my side. One asks us to take this opportunity to show the public 'the justice and light of the angels, and to expand the voice and influence of the church; Another order requires us to remain silent, not to give the company a handle and the direction of public opinion, and to watch the island of happiness fall into chaos first; There's also an order for us to add fuel to the fire and create news to further fuel people's discontent."
"Doesn't sound very friendly."
Ah Zhan sighed, "And what are you going to do, Mr. Ignorance?"
"The old men are old. They are not adapted to this era, but they are still trying to deal with situations they have not seen with their backward rules of the game."
The male angel, who was older than anyone in the church and had the body of a serpent, said unhurriedly, "So, they say theirs, I'll do mine.
"Chaos is a ladder. Someone will be able to walk up the stage, and someone will slide down from above. The flowers of chaos have bloomed, and unspeakable secrets have been revealed. No one is safe from this upheaval caused by talk shows now, in other words, no one will care about us at this time. Because even the 'above' will become torn apart. It's not so easy to reunite and build trust – the latter is more important than the former – but it's not that simple."
Ignorance said, "Do you know what I mean, Azana?"
".....I'm stupid, you might as well just say it."
Ah Zhan was silent for a while, and then spoke softly.
"You're not stupid at all. You're just becoming cautious."
The angel with the black aura smiled devilishly, "That's good. If you want to keep everything about Russell, you and me alone are not enough. But you have a unique advantage, and now you are the only 'Russell supporter' exposed to the surface, because you have not hidden your position at all."
"Is there anything obvious about .....?"
"It's obvious. That's why I'm telling you these things. Now everyone who pays attention to the situation on Happiness Island will definitely pay attention to you. Now the chaos has not yet fermented, waiting for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow...... There will be more people coming to you. There are Russell supporters, but there must also be people who want to take advantage of your ill-intentioned intentions. It's up to you to tell.
"—Now, please raise and hold that teal flag, Azan a."