Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 33 NO.0021: Puppet Circuit

"This guy won't say anything."

After Jiang Zhou walked over, Booker turned his head and complained to him.

Even if he put the knife on the opponent's neck and threatened to cut off the trachea if he didn't reply, the opponent still looked at Booker with a contemptuous expression, pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Didn't say anything?"

Jiang Zhou, who walked up to Booker, asked.

"From the beginning of the war to the present, this guy has said a total of two words, 'Surround him for me' and 'Hold him for me'. Other than that, he didn't say anything."

Booker frowned.

"Why does this person look a bit like..."

Jiang Zhou looked at that guy's face and asked hesitantly.

"You mean to ask, why does he look so much like Black Falcon-136, right?"

Booker said, turning the man over, and then inserted the broken ceramic steel claw blade horizontally into the opponent's spine, paralyzing the opponent's ability to move.

Jiang Zhou nodded.

"He comes from the same genetic parent as Black Falcon-136, but the direction of modification is different."

After a pause, Booker continued:

"They are all products of the Black Feather Gene Editing Studio, a group of technology madmen who worship the abyss and the dark web. They claim to be able to artificially edit adjusters who are born to manipulate prosthetic implants without relying on universal printers."

"Adjusters can also artificially guide mutations?"

Jiang Zhou was a little surprised.

Wouldn't this be able to mass produce and adjust people?

"They themselves claimed that, but in terms of the final result, they were not considered successful. Although those 'natural adjusters' were installed with the corresponding prosthetic body, they could indeed control the prosthetic body like their arms. But Most of them are crazy before they grow up to the age where they can install the corresponding prosthesis."

After completely removing the turbine iron wings connected to the opponent's shoulder blades, Booker continued:

"The mental index of this kind of naturally adjusted person is more fragile than that of ordinary people, which is why the organization has not approved the upgrade of Black Falcon-136 to depth 3 in the past.

"Actually, the headquarters of the Black Feather Studio was destroyed by their runaway experimental products five years ago. The surviving technical backbones are said to have been destroyed by Apollo Biology and Pluto Deep Dive. Lympus Enterprises absorbed it."

Throwing the set of turbine iron wings aside, Booker looked at the guy who had completely lost his mobility and said:

"And this guy is the natural adjuster of the Raven model, with gene sequence number 66. According to the scattered information collected by the organization, among the adjusters of the 'Raven' model, this is the only person who does not suffer from high-risk cyberpsychosis A few years ago, he fled to the bottom of the Nord resettlement area, and in less than a year he became the leader of the Lobotomy Gang, which is a big disaster.

"Before, the organization tried to uproot the Lobotomy Gang several times, but this group of guys always hid it very secretly...I didn't expect that they would come to the door on their own initiative this time...It can only be said to be a windfall."

Lobotomy Gang...

Jiang Zhou retrieved Liao Qi's memory, and then a disgusted expression appeared on his face as if he had eaten a fly.

"Then what should we do with him? Just kill him here?"

he asked with some disgust.

"Illegal trading of living organs, first-degree murder, kidnapping and detention, illegal biological transformation, crimes against human intelligence and ethics..."

Booker got up and looked back at Jiang Zhou:

"Have you forgotten? We have a dedicated World Wide Web channel on the ground floor of the resettlement area. Every time we catch such a heinous guy, we will hold a public trial. We will collect every tangible evidence and invite the family members of every victim Online attendance, of course, we will keep their personal information hidden.

"We will show the people at the bottom of the resettlement area the justice and necessity of our actions...we will not publicly execute him until the entire process is completed, to deter other criminals, and to unite People's hearts."

Speaking, Booker looked down at Raven-66 lying on the ground, raised his tone and said:

"So do you understand, you bastard will die in the end, I promise. You will get the punishment you deserve under the watchful eyes of everyone."

"hehe……"

For such a declaration, the other party just chuckled and still did not reply.

Seeing this, Booker didn't intend to waste any more time. He stood up and looked at Jiang Zhou and asked:

"The adjustment and transformation of depth 1 did not bring you any discomfort, did it? Can you still get used to it?"

The latter nodded, his eyes still fixed on the guy named Raven-66 lying on the ground.

"So this person is thrown here?"

Jiang Zhou asked in confusion.

"I've cut his control loop and now he's a paraplegic."

Booker pointed to the claw blade inserted horizontally on the opponent's spine, and then continued:

"It's a serious matter to get rid of the remaining guys in Chiron's house now. This person will clean up when he comes back."

Jiang Zhou nodded hesitantly, but he always felt that something was wrong.

But before taking a few steps, Jiang Zhou suddenly remembered the "crazy" he killed in that room earlier.

It is also unable to communicate, acting with strange logic, just like a pre-set machine...

Able to ignore fatal wounds on the body, and maintain a certain degree of mobility when it is determined that the spine has been broken.

It was also at this time that Jiang Zhou heard a sound behind him...

"careful!"

Feeling something was wrong, he yelled loudly.

The enhanced limbic system, at the moment when the sound came, shouted to Liao Qi with drums and gongs in his brain: "Dangerous!"

The adrenaline pump was instantly activated, and adrenaline, which is enough to cause sudden death for ordinary people, was injected into the whole body in an instant, causing Jiang Zhou's consciousness to be slowly stretched.

He turned around abruptly, and the focus of his sight was locked on that person for the first time.

Raven-66, who suffered extensive burns on his lower body and was disarmed all over his body, stood up staggeringly at this moment.

He ignored the ceramic steel claw inserted into the spine, and moved again as if being pulled by an invisible thread.

That's right, Booker cut off the opponent's spinal cord and cut off the person's brain's control over the body.

but……

Jiang Zhou saw the dazed eyes of Raven-66 under the broken goggles.

"Give me--"

The man spoke, and his voice was stretched and distorted under Jiang Zhou's reaction speed at the moment.

However, it is not...

From the corner of Jiang Zhou's gaze, he saw that Booker also turned around, or in other words, his speed was a line faster than his own.

Booker stopped in front of him with a stride, and the bright silver carapace on his body reorganized at a dizzying speed, forming a shield in front of him.

"--kill him."

It seemed that something was using the man's throat to issue this order to the body.

Raven-66's chest suddenly opened, and inside his chest was a small, dark box. At this moment, the breathing light on the box was flickering red.

The ancient reptilian brain's keen premonition of death made Jiang Zhou feel a coldness on the back of his neck—as if the scythe of death slid close to his neck.

A fine electric light flickered on the box, and it became brighter and brighter, turning into a radiating electric arc one after another.

That guy was burnt to ashes by the scattered arc almost instantly, and then...

The black box exploded into a deadly cloud of plasma in the hallway.

…………

"Okay, we can get started."

At the same moment, the veteran who inexplicably started to close his eyes and meditate after finishing the next task, suddenly stood up and said this.

"Now? But you didn't say it just now, do you want to wait for our leader to come back?"

Someone on the side asked suspiciously.

In fact, this person is even more puzzled, why the veteran in front of him can be so sure that their leader can defeat an adjuster with a depth of 3.

And the veteran looked at the person who spoke and smiled, and continued:

"That's right, and now 'he' has returned."

…………

Tartarus Headquarters, Cerberus Command Center.

After accepting the questioning, Ye Qian looked at Director Cerberus in front of him with cold sweat all over his back, waiting for the other party's final judgment.

Although he was also called a "supervisor", the level difference between him, the supervisor of the third deep diving chamber, and the supervisor of the offensive security defense coordination center in front of him was too far.

It's as if the person in charge of both the research institute and the public toilet can be called the "director", but no one thinks that the two are the same thing.

As a quasi-high-level person who can attend the strategic decision-making conference and have the opportunity to meet the company's directors, it is not an exaggeration to say that the other party has the power to kill him.

It's just that Ye Qian doesn't know what he did to attract the attention of such people.

It can't be the thing about myself in the Nord resettlement area, right?

The director of Cerberus was silent for a long time, and finally, he slowly pointed to the transcript recorded by the automatic recording device earlier.

"Why did you arrange for a native human whose real identity has not been found to participate in the salvage mission in the depth 2 of the photosynthesis zone?"

the man asked.

Ye Qian swallowed a mouthful of saliva under the gaze of the other party.

"It's been explained before, it's because that person suffers from severe radiation sickness, if transformed into a technical slave, it will be very..."

"I want to hear your more personal reason."

The supervisor shook his head and interrupted Ye Qian's words.

This made Ye Qian's heart skip a beat, as if he had been seen through everything.

Before he could figure out how to prevaricate, the other party continued:

"I want to know, is that personal reason related to the 'puppet circuit', the component of the 'upgrade path Theseus' you gave to the gutter rats in the Nord resettlement area?

"After all, the code name you gave to that native is Theseus, and Theseus is your path to upgrade."