Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 42 NO.002a: The Puppet With The Thread

"As early as two years ago, before the high-profile announcement of the Pluto Deep Dive Company's settlement on the twelfth floor of the resettlement area, some people in the company had contacts with some gangs in the underground floor, and the Lobotomy Gang was the key support object."

After the interrogation, Booker concluded by flipping through the interrogation records on the data board.

In a sense, this is the basic operation of those large companies before they settle in the resettlement area. Before the rise of the Icarus Liberation Front in the Nord Settlement, large-scale disputes between underground gangs were no different from miniature proxy wars.

After all, the company needs to maintain the appearance of decency, and the street gangs that are supported are not only excellent eagle dogs for suppressing low-level workers, but also a good tool for putting pressure on the interim government of the resettlement area.

And most importantly, they are very, very cheap.

"Then no one came to Icarus back then?"

Jiang Zhou suddenly thought of this question.

"have."

Booker replied very briefly, as if he didn't want to continue on this topic.

But immediately, he raised his head as if he felt something was wrong.

Seeing that Liao Qi was staring at him, she continued helplessly:

"Of course there was. After all, the organization had already had a great influence at all levels of the underground at that time. The attitude of the other party could be called friendly, and the conditions offered were also very good... But in the end, the former team leader Kerrett sternly refused. cooperation proposal."

Then, he sighed again:

"On this point, we do have some differences. I tried to persuade him to consider it, but he also refused."

"Is it because cooperating with the company violates the organization's program?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

Booker shook his head:

"Of course not. Those super companies are also divided into various factions. At that time, Ye Qian's faction was really in charge of the Nord resettlement area. And Kerrett judged that the faction that came to us had words related to the Nord resettlement area. The power is not too big. That's why they approached us as 'anti-corporate rebels' to cooperate, and in the end they just treated us as pawns and cannon fodder."

As he spoke, his eyes were slightly out of focus, lost in memory.

"He believes that with regard to the planning of Pluto's deep-potential resettlement area, it will be a matter of time before we finally turn against them. Therefore, it is extremely worthwhile to affect the morale of the organization for the immediate benefit."

Jiang Zhou rummaged through Liao Qi's memory, and then asked:

"You mean, Pluto's plan to build a smart car factory at the bottom of the resettlement area?"

Booker nodded and said:

"Yes... completely shut down the energy-intensive sewage purification plant to build their auxiliary anti-gravity engine car factory. They assured the residents here that the factory will bring a lot of jobs to the underground area. But the price is The rest of the residents who have not been able to enter the factory and cannot afford the company’s purified water will have serious levels of radiation exposure in their future domestic water use.”

So the Icarus Liberation Front blew up the intelligence control center under construction, and triggered a series of things that followed.

In fact, Icarus's highlight moment, blowing up the intelligence control center, only slowed down the planning progress of Pluto's deep dive.

Jiang Zhou suddenly felt that perhaps changing the organization's name to "Sisyphus" would be more appropriate.

When it came to this, the conversation between the two was briefly interrupted for a few seconds, and then Booker suddenly broke the silence and said:

"Pluto Deep Dive's new intelligent control factory is already under planning and construction, and now the faction taking over the Nord resettlement area seems to be the one that contacted us for cooperation before."

Hearing the other party mention this suddenly, Jiang Zhou was a little uncertain whether the other party was implying something.

After all, I have accepted the adjustment and transformation of depth 1, and also bound the use authority of the universal printer. It can be said that there is only one voting meeting, and I will definitely enter the top management of the organization in the near future.

Could it be that in this matter, the other party hopes to get their own support?

Jiang Zhou, who didn't know how to express his position for a while, finally chose to take the initiative to change the topic:

"Then the faction that contacted us before, what kind of people are they?"

After hearing this, Booker turned his attention to the data board again:

"Perther Fanny, a neuroscientist recruited by Pluto Deep Dive Company from Apollo Biology at a great price, I don't know if you have heard of her, it is said that she has made great achievements in biological protein chips .”

When he said this, he spoke in a scientific tone, basically assuming that Liao Qi had never heard of it.

Liao Qi had never heard of this person.

But just like "Ye Qian", Jiang Zhou knew this person.

Although he has never met her, if he hadn't risked himself to be a human flesh mining card in the abyss dark net when he first traveled here, he should have been sent to the medical department, where the girl named "Perse Fanny" The frontal lobes were removed and transformed into thoughtless technical slaves.

Jiang Zhou didn't think that this kind of person would show much more compassion than the previous person in charge.

Therefore, he also didn't think the organization would gain any benefits from cooperating with such people.

But he couldn't take the initiative to talk about it right now.

But fortunately, Booker doesn't seem to plan to continue on this topic.

"Speaking of which, this depth 2 transformation called 'Puppet Circuit'..."

Booker said suddenly:

"I still don't quite understand. According to his description, isn't this to the extent of mind control?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhou also picked up the data pad in his hand.

Puppet circuit: Depth 2 transformation authority, divided into main machine and auxiliary machine, each main machine can connect up to six auxiliary machines.

The host function strengthens the reformer's ability to control his own emotions, and can force himself to enter strong emotions such as joy, anger, sadness, and fear by inputting instructions.

Extending from this, you can activate your own potential by stimulating emotions, such as: entering a state of anger to obtain a super-responsive force similar to the "hurricane-type adrenaline pump"; by changing the dopamine reward circuit, greatly strengthening one's own learning ability; shielding Emotions such as pain and fear make oneself in a state of absolute rationality in battle; controlling one's own heart rate, blood pressure, pupil constriction and other physiological phenomena invalidates most lie detectors and even some old versions of mental index measuring instruments .

"And absolutely real acting skills. After all, after installing the puppet circuit, they can fabricate the most realistic emotional reactions at will. Things like lying so much that they believe it, in the past, only a small number of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) can do it. Do it, but for this kind of person, it is just an order in the mind."

Jiang Zhou said as he put down the data pad, and then said:

"They can even edit the thought stamp for themselves, making themselves absolutely convinced of a certain belief."

Booker has some emotions:

"Fortunately, you took out his puppet circuit from the very beginning, otherwise our interrogation afterwards would be useless."

But these are not the most powerful places in this transformation authority.

After implanting the main machine of the "puppet circuit", the adjuster can also choose to print no more than six auxiliary machines, and each auxiliary machine can be installed into other people's bodies through a simple implant operation.

For the people implanted with the auxiliary machine, they are equivalent to getting a monkey version of the "hurricane type adrenaline pump", but for those implanted with the main machine, those implanted with the auxiliary machine become their own. A marionette in hand.

He can manipulate the other party's emotions to achieve the effect of influencing the other party's thinking.

It is even possible to directly ignore the other party's consciousness and take over control of the body when the other party's consciousness is blurred, such as when sleeping or when he is drunk.

To put it simply, this effect sounds a bit like the hypnotic-themed film and television works that Jiang Zhou knew in the past.

And the puppet circuit is like the magical pocket watch in those works.