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They hold submachine guns for firing rubber bullets, and hang "guard batons" around their waists that can be lengthened and shortened, and can also be electrified at any time to become electric shock batons.

Russell even recognized the model of the prosthesis—it was a new model of prosthetic called the Three-Fist Claw.

It was developed by Russell's teacher three months ago and Russell personally participated in the design.Russell even knew the full internals of this model of prosthetic.

In addition to being equipped with three pop-up blades, it can also fire three flash, smoke, or shock bombs in the order they are loaded, and it also has four common ports.

This stuff isn't cheap.

After all, it is still a new product, there are no pirated, imitated or second-hand goods, and all the goods are supplied directly from Sogo Island by air.

Because the supply is too small, the price can't come down at all.

Just like the latest air-system graphics card in another world, they are all good things belonging to the air system.

Those who can purchase and install immediately must be at least the direct subordinate companies of the seven giants.

Under the filming and onlookers of the surrounding people, this group of heavily armed men got off the helicopter and rushed towards the surrounding crowd.

Instead of using the stun gun, they raised the electric baton in the shape of a long stick and shouted loudly——

"Back off!"

"Video is prohibited!"

"keep quiet!"

The crowd backed away quickly in fear, and soon formed a large empty circle, and the noisy noise gradually became smaller.But even so, the onlookers near the landing pad still did not disperse.

Moreover, although these strong men in black yelled "no video recording", Russell saw those people staring straight ahead with their heads motionless as if in a daze, and knew that they must still be videotaping.

But these people didn't really care about it.

After driving the crowd out of a large open space, the six men in black stood in every corner of the open space, put away their electric batons, raised their rifles in their backhands, looked at the crowd outside, and entered the area where they might shoot at any time. alert state.

The remaining half of the men in black turned around and rushed into the empty boat.

They waved the "guard sticks" that were not powered on and retracted into the shape of short sticks, and ordered the passengers standing at the door to step back and sit back in their seats.

"Don't affect news gathering and editing!"

"The personal code of the trouble will be recorded!"

"We're going to record, keep quiet!"

Only a dull middle-aged man with a face like a frog didn't realize what was going on.

He stood at the door, watching the people around him step back, and gave them a mocking glance.

—— Immediately afterwards, without any notice or warning, he was suddenly whipped on the back with a stick.

Fortunately, the stick was not electrified, otherwise he would have been knocked unconscious to the ground immediately.

Just as the man wanted to get angry, he was immediately pointed at by six black guns.

A slender red light shot out from above the man in black's tactical eyepiece, leaving six moving red spots on the man.

The middle-aged man immediately became quiet at a speed visible to the naked eye, and politely retreated to his seat with a smile.

After driving everyone away, they left two people behind, blocking the hatch on the inside of the airship on the left and right like door gods, preventing anyone from passing through, and being careful not to reveal any trace of their bodies— —At least from the outside, it is impossible to see that there are two people hiding here.

Soon, all the standing passengers were scolded and rushed back to their seats.

Except Russell and Amirus.

When these people saw Amirus—or to be precise, when they saw Amirus' elf ears, they immediately retracted their indifferent attitude.

Except for the two guards, the remaining four people took turns to salute Amyrus.

And as for Russell...

Perhaps it was because Amirus blocked him and didn't take the initiative to introduce them.

After the old elf had already shown this attitude, the men in black seemed to have never seen Russell at all, and they didn't even glance at him.Not to mention looking at him curiously, or asking about his identity.

There were even two people standing in front of Amirus very consciously, with the stun guns in their hands, and the guards on the left and right in front.

The last two remaining people patrolled back and forth in the two corridors of the first class cabin and the public cabin.

It looks like they hijacked the airship.They are much more professional than the group of mercenaries before.

These men in black, all wrapped up in their bodies, kept absolute silence.Whether those passengers are chatting on the Internet with a calm face, cursing them in a low voice in fear, or asking the people around them in a low voice in confusion...as long as the voices of these passengers do not spread outside and affect the shooting, they do not rush out Rushing into the screen, it is a deaf ear.

Make room, keep quiet, add to the contingency of protecting the elf's personal safety—other than that, they didn't ask these passengers to do anything, and they didn't do anything to these passengers.

...Can they dispatch a full three armed helicopters and two teams of fully armed security personnel just to do such a small thing?

Russell was dumbfounded.

Although the weapons in the hands of these security personnel can only fire rubber bullets, just by hearing their abnormally heavy footsteps, Russell can directly judge that the degree of their prosthetic body transformation has exceeded at least 70%.

I am afraid that they will not die if they are shot by machine guns or bombed by missiles.

But listening to what Amirus said...

Didn't these people come here specially for him to protect him?

"This is normal."

Amirus read the surprise and astonishment from Russell's expression, so he spoke directly and patiently explained to Russell: "In the past, there were many incidents of hijacking, attacking, and assassinating reporters on Happy Island, and kidnapping reporters to manipulate , affecting the content of the interview.”

"...Why do you want to do this?"

"Because on Happy Island, the 'reporter interview' of Happy Daily is a simultaneous live broadcast on the Internet. And like the rules of other sky islands, all public interviews will be kept on file in the sect server simultaneously. Although people who happened to see the live news It must be a very small number, but the people who saw it may not save this live video - they also have the right to repost or edit it."

The old elf replied: "However, the 'Happiness Daily' itself has no right to cut or modify the interviewed news content in any form. In the comprehensive daily newspaper on the second day, they can choose to publish or not publish this paragraph at most. It is impossible to selectively publish part of the content of the interview video. Because anyone with a little authority can enter the sect server at any time to query and download these public interview videos.

"This means that once a reporter is hijacked or induced to ask unfavorable questions, or records a sudden and discordant environmental noise during an interview, it cannot be modified. And it will be permanently recorded.

"The purpose of these professional security personnel is to protect journalists personally, so that journalists will not be bribed, controlled, induced, or attacked, assassinated, or kidnapped. Not only at work, but also in daily life. will terminate."

The old elf said with a smile.

Although his expression is quite gentle, he looks civilized and calm like an old gentleman.There was no mention of any impolite words in the words, but Russell felt a very faint but clear enough ridicule very clearly.

It's like an oil stain on a white shirt, so inconspicuous and at the same time enough to be an eyesore.

Although what Amirus said was more euphemistic.

But Russell clearly realized that there was another meaning hidden in Amirus' words.

— This protection is at the same time surveillance.It's more of a threat.

In order to ensure that the reporter will not be held hostage and say "shouldn't say something", two teams of heavily armed prosthetic troops are dispatched to protect around the clock...

So, what if the people who sent these guards... personally controlled, induced, and bribed these reporters?

Chapter 13 Cyber ​​Idol Xiao Liuli

No wonder, after Amirus was kidnapped by gangsters, he didn't transfer people from the executive department of Thoth Psychic Branch, but directly transferred media reporters.

It turns out that in Happy Island, media reporters are actually a well-organized fighting unit...

Of course, it is not the journalists themselves who are capable of combating, but the highly reformed "bodyguards" surrounding the journalists.

Although Amirus said that this is to prevent the voice of the media from being manipulated and controlled.

But the real situation may be the opposite.

Whether it's the head office or a branch, or even a cyber cult—everyone with power or money can become a "supporter" of a particular reporter.

At least after arriving at the sky above the Happy Island, the network can be connected.

And just when Russell went to get the clothes, Amirus sent out a message, and immediately dispatched three armed helicopters, arriving at the scene within 3 minutes.

There is no doubt that even if the sponsor behind these "ordinary bodyguards" is not Amirus, it must be directly related to him.At least this reporter named "Xiao Liuli" was able to be influenced and manipulated by him.

But there is a problem here.

Amirus is the top manager of Thoth's branch in the Happy Island.

But Tianen Daily is an organization directly under Tianen Group.

The out-of-town branch used some means to use its influence to control a reporter from the direct media of the local head office... Judging by the ostentation, he is not an ordinary reporter.Even if it is not the top card, it must be the first line.

And most importantly, this control seems to be semi-public.

—Why did he tell me such a thing?

Thanks to his studies on Sogo Island, and a hard life in the local black market and downtown, Russell was sensitive to malice.

Russell clearly realized that Amirus had no malice towards him.

But this is by no means good intentions—accepting an interview with a reporter affiliated with Amirus will definitely bring some troubles to Russell.

And soon, he realizes that this is also expected on a bad day.

"—Come and be a hero, Russell."

The sound of a bad day echoed in Russell's head.

Russell looked out the window in silence, looking at the pink helicopter.

After the crowd was evacuated, it finally no longer hung in the air, but slowly descended.

Soon, extremely cheerful music sounded from the pink helicopter.

The sound was so loud that it could directly penetrate the sound insulation layer of the airship and transmit it to the room very clearly.

Only then did Russell realize that the equipment on the helicopter that he didn't understand just now was actually a... giant stereo?

"Hi everyone, I'm Xiao Liuli from Tianen Daily—"

A young girl's voice full of vigor and vitality resounded through the sky: "Are you feeling happy today too—"

next moment.

A cat-eared girl in a miniskirt with two streamer-like shawls on her shoulders lightly jumped out of the pink helicopter.

She has quite a gorgeous hair color - the long pink ponytail gradually fades to light blue, dark blue, and the end is dark purple like a starry sky, and you can even see twinkling stars.

What caught Russell's attention even more was her pupils.

It was a crystal color as clear and transparent as glass.It looks like a very light green tea, the color reflected in the delicate glass cup.

There is no doubt that this is also a prosthetic body.

Unlike Bad Day's prosthetic eye for combat, this is a prosthetic eye transplanted purely for aesthetic reasons.

The flowing long hair that gradually changes to starry sky color may also be a kind of prosthetic body.

——more like an idol than a reporter.

Russell immediately had this feeling in his heart.

And he's an idol with a very high purity.

Because after she landed, cheers erupted from the crowd who had been kicked out—even volunteered to support her, shouting the name of "Xiao Liuli" loudly.

That should not be a support, but a genuine fan.

The cat-eared girl also wore a pure, sunny, and gentle smile with little business traces on her face, raising her hands and waving to the crowd behind her.

It was only then that Russell noticed that her hands had actually undergone prosthetic transformation.

The end of her sleeves and the backs of her hands are branded with the trademark of "Tianen Group", which is a red and white icon with a cross nested in a heart-shaped pattern.

And that icon is made up of many metal spheres.

It seemed like a decoration, but Russell knew that it was actually a portable recording prosthesis, which was quite unpopular.If his mentor wasn't specialized in prosthetic body production, Russell probably wouldn't have known about it.

All it takes is one of these little balls to disguise itself as a mole.

When this part of the prosthetic body is exposed, it can record silently.

The densely packed prosthetics form a complex pattern, but this is actually a custom-made array of professional recordings.Compared with the single recording prosthesis, the degree of restoration is so high that I don't know where it is.

It can be said that this is the prosthetic body prepared for "interview anytime, anywhere".

In this way, her clear, glass-like eyes are probably also a kind of custom-made camera.

A whole team came down with her.

Lighting, filming, and even another recording team—this should be an auxiliary team that was configured separately in order not to reveal the audio and video prosthesis hidden on her body.

So, the equipment on her...should be specially used for stealing pictures?