Chapter 17: A Harbor at Night
Located on the 3rd floor of the Azabu Juban Building on Juban Street, Minato-ku, Tokyo, a petite and feminine yellow-haired Asian woman kneels in a small private room, bowing her head and sending Korean text messages on a virtual projection keyboard.
And the text message interface projected by the computer in her hand was set to privacy mode.
Opposite the small black wooden table in front of her, a tall and handsome man in white sat looking at her with a look of obsession, and said in a Korean accent of English: "Kyoko, this Horikawa burdock crab is the signature dish here, can you try it?" ”
Kyoko said impatiently in pure American English, "Well, don't you see I'm busy?" I grew up in Tokyo, so I'm tired of eating this stuff, so you can eat more of it yourself. ”
The man pursed his lips aggrievedly and said, "Oh, you said that someone was going to hunt me down and let me hide in this strange city for so long..."
Kyoko interrupted without raising her head: "That, you also saw it at the time, your parachute was tampered with, if it weren't for the pilot being my father's subordinate, let your clone stand-in take off and fall into a puddle of flesh, the real you are already a female star in the virtual world, right?" ”
The man said, "Thank you again President Yoshikawa for saving me, and I would rather not have these riches when I think about falling from a high altitude and falling to my death." But I swear, I won't be a female star anywhere, I only love you alone. ”
Kyoko said: "That, I look down on you the most for a young master who grew up in a greenhouse, isn't it just a matter of a few seconds, what is there to be afraid of." They have a saying in China, Lao Tzu is still a good man after eighteen years! When my father was on the street and slashed each other with knives and was wounded, it hurt many times more than when he fell to death, and he still misses those days very much. ”
The man said, "Okay... But what I was trying to say is that I've been hiding in Tokyo for so long, you... Don't go home tonight..."
Kyoko tilted her head and said, "Now it's our family protecting you, it's not that we begging you to hide from the enemy in Tokyo, so you make such a request to me, not afraid that my father's men will kill you?" They love to take captives and practice slashing! Do you want to know what it's like to be hacked to death with a katana? ”
The man remembered Yoshikawa's tattoos all over his body, and shrunk his neck: "Then I'd better go back by myself." ”
After a while, Kyoko said, "Well, I'm full, I'm going home to play games." ”
The man had no choice but to sigh, put down the black chopsticks holding a crab leg, put on a blue mask, and walked with Kyoko from the back door of the restaurant to the back of the building, and the two of them left separately in two low-key black Toyota electric cars.
Late that night, a medium-sized dark red electric fishing boat sailed out of Tokyo Bay and onto the open sea.
The dark green aft deck of the fishing boat, half the size of a basketball court, was completely obscured by a dark red metal shed, and in the center of the deck was a 25-square-meter transparent plastic film, the edges of which were raised from below by four five-meter-long black steel bars.
Kim Jun, who was staring at him, lay on his back in the middle of the plastic film, an expensive white Armani suit and blue shirt with more than a dozen shocking cuts, revealing a large dark red wound on his flesh, and the blood flowing from the wound stained the suit and shirt red.
There was a strange smell in the air that combined the smell of blood and sea.
Thanks to the plastic film insulation and the rebar padding, not a single drop of blood was shed on the deck.
Kim Jun-jae's eyes seemed to be staring at the shed above, and the golden safety band on his head had been removed long before he was slashed to death, and discarded beside him at will.
On the deck next to the plastic film, there is also a large yellow wooden cabinet, several large barrels of quick-drying cement and fresh water, and various parts of the electric car piled up like a small mountain.
Five men with tattoos on their arms carried Kim Jun-jae's body into a large wooden cabinet, then poured fresh water into the large white plastic buckets filled with quick-drying cement, stirred out the cement slurry, and poured the cement slurry into the wooden cabinet until the wooden cabinet was filled with cement slurry.
After the cement slurry dried, the big men "Hey! Hey! Shouting slogans, he pushed the large wooden cabinet to the edge of the deck.
With a "poof", the so-called richest man in Asia gradually sank to the bottom of the sea, and the economic empire he once controlled will be controlled by another Jin Jun, who is completely under the orders of the Silver Shield Organization.
Then, the big men went on to sink the half-worn parts of the electric car, four steel bars rolled up in plastic film, a smashed safety band, three neon katanas, and a large plastic bucket with a little dry cement left on each of them.
Within a few days, the investigative report of the Silver Shield organization was presented to José's desk.
But at present, the information that Kim Jun, who is still the eldest son of his old friend in Jose's eyes, has only obtained information in his soul is that Nguyen Jinwen is making friends everywhere in the virtual world, visiting mostly scientists, dignitaries and top rich people, and the only similar conversation content is to ask these people to leave the virtual world for no reason within a year, and they will get a huge reward at that time.
Those who were visited by Ruan Jinwen agreed to his request without exception, after all, the former prime minister of a country, even if it is a small country, would not be a casual April Fool's joke in the eyes of anyone.
With the vigorous intervention of various countries and consortia, global electricity prices are gradually falling, and the impact of inflation is gradually decreasing.
However, many countries, especially small ones, have a very serious domestic situation, some cities have been paralyzed, and the incidence of various criminal cases has increased significantly, so many people have gone to the virtual world because of murder or even suicide than in previous years.
At least in the virtual world, you don't have to worry too much about starving and being robbed.
The world's 20 billion human beings are terrified.
Now the heads of government of major countries and the core leaders of the major chaebols already know that these good things are all done by the GLS organization led by the little boy named Adolf.
However, since the news of the reward for the head of the young Mrs. Adao has become an open secret, although the senior officials of the United Nations and some countries know where he is hiding, they do not dare to touch him easily because they cannot reach a consensus.
And some bounty hunters are all over the world frantically searching for the mysterious little Adolf.
The Silver Shield Organization didn't want to cause trouble, and knew that killing Little Adolf alone wouldn't do much.
UN Secretary-General Jose and his staff also thought about immediately arresting Nguyen Jinwen in the virtual world, but after careful study, everyone thought that since GLS dared to send Ruan Jinwen into this kind of place that is completely transparent to the server itself, then Ruan Jinwen must not have mastered the core secrets of GLS.
Otherwise, in the name of global security, the United Nations was really authorized by the Security Council to send an operator to scan all the soul information of Nguyen Jinwen in the server through a resolution of permanent representatives to the United Nations, and GLS would have suffered a great loss.
Therefore, Jose decided that it would be appropriate for Ruan Jinwen to wait and see what he would change.
GLS disrupted the electricity futures market and invested a huge amount of money to raise the price of electricity, but now that the price of electricity is gradually declining in everyone's counterattack, they have not reacted at all, is their money falling from the sky?
Then their only purpose is to cause chaos in the world, otherwise there is no way to explain their money-throwing behavior.
What's in it for GLS? Jose and the others couldn't figure it out.
There is still no consensus within the Security Council on whether to use political means against GLS.
GLS seems to have moved from underground to semi-public, with some personnel making no secret of their backgrounds and identities, and of course Adolf is still nowhere to be found.
As a result, a large number of national economic and even military intelligence personnel have focused much of their energy on investigating GLS members whose identities have already been known.
But these people are very self-disciplined, doing all kinds of business "legally", and even their private lives are very scrupulous, and no one can catch the slightest trick. There is no way to get some Governments and some people in the United Nations to arrest them under other pretexts.
The Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, just below the sea, is covered with ice more than 500 meters thick.
Three kilometres further down the surface of the permafrost is a huge granite layer, and 500 metres down from the top, a cave has been excavated.
If a huge X-ray machine scans the granite formation, one can see that the cave complex is buried like a rectangular 20-storey edifice buried in the cave.
A 3.5-kilometer-long elevator shaft was dug out of granite and permafrost directly above the "building", and a 20-meter-high, 50-meter-long and wide square cavity was dug out of the permafrost above the shaft exit, and the cavity floor and four walls were reinforced with heavy yellow granite slabs.
However, there are ice shelves more than 500 meters high above the frozen soil, so the question is, why not make a shaft on the ice shelf? Because the Ross Ice Shelf is like a raft with a very loose anchorage, it is being pushed into the sea at a speed of about 1.5-3 meters per day.
Therefore, every time you want to reach this cave group or transport supplies from the outside world, you can only use a special means of transportation, which is rectangular in appearance, like an international standard size container 1A type 40ft container.
The "container" has two sets of retractable wheels on each side.
At the front of it is a slightly steerable rig consisting of dozens of drill bits the size of a human head that can quickly dig through the ice.
At the back of it is a fast ice maker that squeezes the crushed ice from the little drill bit again and immediately lowers its temperature.
This is equivalent to digging the ice while it is traveling, and at the same time plugging the ice cave behind it.
And its body can twist like an organ, ensuring that it can steer freely in the ice like an earthworm, and of course, the curvature of the steering is greater.