Overturned Tower

If she chooses to move forward...and that's really the only defense, then everyone is happy.

But if there is any protection in the back that prevents her from closing the final general program, then when she retreats... she will also need to perform another round of calculations.

That's the new random number... there's absolutely no end to it.

Unless the delphinium chooses to flee, this is almost a death trap.

—but would she run away?

Maybe, maybe not, but anyway...

Russell suddenly realized.

The person who arranged this bomb program must be full of malice in his heart.

It's not at all the same as "a nasty joke" that the bad guy said, that person was going to blow up the delphinium...or there was the bad guy!

When the light wall collapsed, the cat went straight to the next floor.

There is still some slight redness on his body... It's not that the fur is burning, but more like the color of metal when it is gradually cooled after being scorched.

It took about five or six seconds before the red light on Russell's body was completely extinguished.

But before that, Russell arrived in the next space in a blink of an eye.

One hundred cabinets, in a structure of 5 times 20, were piled around Russell in a circle.

"This is the real caged bird, delphinium. Can you see where the door is when you're in the cage?"

A repeated voice echoed in Russell's ear: "There is only one cabinet with a button to end all of this. The rest of the cabinets are empty, and you still have 30 seconds.

"Guess what cabinet I'm going to hide the button in?

"If you know the bad guy enough, maybe you can know the number that is particularly meaningful to him..."

"——Crap, I still have more than ten minutes."

Russell couldn't help complaining: "Are you so sure that she can get here in 30 seconds?"

There simply isn't another psionic hacker defending the city here.

There is no sense of remote control, only an automatically triggered message.Like an empty city that is unguarded, nothing and no trace can be found.

But it's okay.

It's best not to waste time——

Although Russell has prepared several solutions, if the first one can solve the problem, there is no need to come up with the remaining ones.

After breaking through the defense wall, the authority of psionic hackers here... basically can be said to be infinite.

In the void of Russell's cat body, countless deformed mechanical hands suddenly drilled out, pointing at all the cabinets with precision.

The offensive program called [Thousand Hands] turned into a hundred simultaneous processes, and opened all the cabinets in an instant.

In the end, the number of cabinets with buttons was "thirteen", and the robot hand put the button in front of Russell, while the other robots disintegrated and disappeared at the same time.

Russell secretly remembered this number.

Instead of pressing the button directly, he raised his right paw and waved it.A projection of an eye pattern floats above the button.

After confirming that this button is indeed a program termination command, Russell presses it.

Afterwards, the world around him instantly turned gray and dull.The echo that was still thinking about it also came to an abrupt end.

So Russell started backing away.

Every time he took a step back, the scene in front of him flashed back.

But it's not the same as when he came in.

The walls of light have dimmed, the flames have been extinguished, and the labyrinth has sunk into the ground—only black outlines on the ground can be seen.

When Russell stood on top of the maze and retreated again... before his eyes, the world was spinning and began to vibrate violently.It's like speeding through a tunnel with your back to the front when you're playing Riptide.

When Russell opened his eyes again, he had returned to the real world.

【——The defense wall has been cracked】

The real information mark of this thing began to appear in front of his eyes.

【You have successfully hacked into: Caged Bird】

【Product Category: Toys or Children's Books】

【Producer: Veil of Ignorance】

【Production batch: not on sale】

【Audit Code: Not Approved】

[Product details: "We are the representatives of the God of Justice, clowns on the stage, and people in shells."]

[Data Transfer], [Format], [Developer Mode], [Power On/Off], [Restart]

Russell tapped lightly to turn off the phone.

As for the internal structure... Let's save it and use the developer mode to look at it later.

The red light that was constantly flashing on the iron mask finally went out completely with a beep.

"It actually broke..."

The inferior couldn't help but exclaim.

This is the first time that Russell has seen such strong emotional fluctuations in the inferior.

"...Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."

Russell couldn't help explaining: "But to be honest, the opponent's skills are really a bit poor. There is a layer of fire between the stones on both sides, except for dragging or dragging..."

Seeing the jigsaw in the scene... Russell thought that there must be a tough fight waiting for him.

... Can delphiniums and inferiors be caught in this kind of broken scene?

Russell had strange doubts in his heart.

From this completely unequal "game", he vaguely smelled a strange... smell of losing patience and breaking pots.

It's like running a team, and suddenly there is an encounter that is almost impossible to win-Russell's first reaction is, is this KP planning to tear the card?

"It's all right, kid."

But even though he was thinking so, he didn't say it, but comforted the boy.

With a click, he unplugged the magnetic connector.Retract the thread into your own prosthetic.

Russell covered his head after being roasted for a few minutes, slightly dizzy, and woke up for a while.Then he raised his hand and took off the iron mask that had been turned off on the child's face, and was about to turn around and pass it to the inferior for him to take back to study.

However, Russell saw that the inferior suddenly froze in place, and didn't pick up the mask immediately.

"you……"

The inferior's tone was a little hesitant.

Seeing that his reaction was wrong, Russell seemed to understand something.

Speaking of which... the huge mask like a hood seemed to completely block the boy's spiritual relatives.

Now that Russell turned around and saw the child's face clearly, he also froze in place.

He finally realized another trap set by the "game host":

I saw the slender boy under the mask... with elf ears.

Chapter 48 托瓦图斯

It was a very young elf with black messy short hair and ominous crimson pupils.

It looks like it is only seven or eight years old... But if it is converted to human age, it should be several dozen years old.

... No wonder.

Russell was still thinking before, as a kidnapped child, he was too calm.

There was no crying or running around, and he just stood there quietly, making it easier for Russell to operate.

Russell thought he was too frightened and couldn't move anymore... He specially comforted him.

But if it's an elf, it makes sense.

Young elves are more calm and calm than adult humans-this is not surprising.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear anything."

The youngest boy looked at the inferior, and suddenly spoke, with a cold and childish voice: "This is my thanks for not doing that in the end."

Russell looked back at the inferior in some surprise.

But he soon realized what—

If Russell's guess is correct, he probably said something like "It's better to abandon this child".

Then, it was probably scolded back by Delphinium...

In Russell's view, the inferior is a person who is extremely calm—even so calm that he is a little neurotic.

Although it sounds a bit strange to say this, Russell really feels this way.

The inferior person is like a frozen lake in the depths of winter, heavy and quiet.But if you walk on it, you will have inexplicable fear... It is a kind of fear that you don't know how much it can withstand, and it will suddenly collapse and fall.

From a rational point of view, if the variable Russell is excluded...then killing the child before the Delphinium arrives and transporting him horizontally to a desolate place to explode on a floating vehicle is the most cost-effective plan.

Put yourself in his shoes, if it was Russell, he would choose this way.

But compared to pure rationality... the inferior has a strange "ideal mania".

Russell didn't know how to describe the feeling.

The inferior person gave him the feeling that he was "always angry".

Angry at the world, at others, at self—but at the same time, the inferior always suppresses this destructive anger with rationality, not revealing it to the outside world.He is strict with himself and others... He seems to believe in an extreme and harsh "justice".

This kind of justice allows him to face elves, directors, or life and death crises without fear.

——But he will choose to compromise.

Just as he will work in Tianen Group as a "company dog" he despises; When the lunatic of "The Veil of Ignorance" threatened blackmail, he chose to submit to the opponent's rules of the game; when he planned to sacrifice the child to end all this, he chose to give up his own ideas because of Delphinium's order.

He knew that this would make the other party worse, but he still couldn't ignore the victim in front of him.

This strange sense of contradiction... gave Russell a vague intuition.

The bad guy doesn't seem to want to be someone, he doesn't have that kind of attachment—a heart that can ignore obstacles and smash everything.That's why he compromised.

He wanted "not to be someone" from the bottom of his heart.

He has a deep hatred, a definite old enemy - the more the other party does it, the less he does it; the more the other party thinks it is right, the more he thinks it is wrong.His life is like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the other party, and he spends his whole life trying to deny it.

Russell seems to be able to even profile that person through the underdog:

That should be an elf director, a high-ranking person who can sacrifice anyone in front of him at will, a hypocrite who is good at disguising and never shows his indifference, a cold-blooded person who looks down on others from the bottom of his heart, and will not respect the weak man of.

The inferior hated that person from the bottom of his heart.So I don't want to be that kind of person.

Russell remained silent on the sidelines, concentrating on observing the inferior.

"……thank you very much."

Facing the promise of the young elf son, the inferior was silent for a while, and thanked in a low voice.

Obviously, the inferior also thinks that his previous thinking was wrong.

Sacrifice one to save others—

This made Russell have a certain sense of "just partner" choice, but made the inferior one not hesitate to burn his hands with cigarette butts, but also to bear in mind this mistake.

— not based on morality, nor law.

More like because he speculated that "someone might do the same", so he regretted his subconscious indifference and rational behavior to the heart.

Moreover, Russell observed that... the inferiors had no hostility towards the elf boy.

This is not reasonable.

Generally speaking, when the hatred of elves deepens to the level of the inferior, when seeing the elf son who is still young and unable to resist him, this hatred should rise to tyranny-this is a very common phenomenon. Vengeance.