Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Half an hour later, in the office of the head of the research base.

The person in charge casually threw his personal terminal on the desk with a muffled sound. From his frown and helpless snort, it can be detected that he is not very happy at the moment.

His guard leaned against the wall, folded his arms, and remained silent as usual, like an emotionless robot.

The man with the messenger bag now sat on the carpet, fiddling with something in his messenger bag, making bursts of metallic collision sounds. However, he looked up at the person in charge who was in a bad mood, said sorry embarrassedly, and took his hands out of the bag.

The woman was very normal, to the point of looking a little abnormal. She crossed her legs and sat elegantly on the right side of the sofa. Her right hand was resting steadily on the armrest and her left hand was on her knee. Unlike the man next to her who had been trying to do something, she had hardly moved since entering the person in charge's office.

"drop."

The automatic door of the office opened, and Han Zu, still wearing pajamas, walked in. This time he looked a little better, at least he was wearing flip-flops.

"How's it going, Han Zu?"

"I've been to the teleportation lab and retrieved the tissue. I also left someone you trust there."

"How was the investigation into the coordinates?"

"Reverse coordinates. The anchor point over there has disappeared, so the Information Department can't find out the specific coordinates. What about you? What about the remaining four people? What's the result?"

"I used my connections to check around. The first three have already left the base and are probably running away. As for the last one, it was just bad luck. Just now, we found a corpse near the barracks outside the base that had half of its body destroyed by an ion cannon sentry tower. Judging from the Night Owl badge found on the corpse, it's most likely the remaining guy."

"Two were killed, and the remaining three ran away. They might come back here."

"I've already reported this matter. Now all the garrison forces around the base are being collectively rotated. They are all new recruits who have just graduated from the training camp. Their loyalty is beyond doubt, and most importantly, their background is clean. Don't worry about this."

"Where's the traitor? Any clues?"

"Hoo...give me another cigarette."

Han Zu took out two packs of cigarettes from his pajama pants pocket, threw one pack, which was still unopened, directly to the person in charge, then took out a cigarette from the opened pack, lit it up and took a puff.

The person in charge also lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and leaned back in his chair.

"It seems that this traitor is hiding very deeply, and he has put you under such pressure. Tell me, let's see if there is any way."

"Huh... I first investigated the registrant of the portable terminal, and found that the registration information of this terminal does not exist in the base's information network. However, since this terminal has the authority to log in to the base network, it must have left this base, so I investigated the serial number of this terminal again, and found that this terminal originally belonged to a researcher who died unexpectedly. That researcher was originally from our base."

Han Zu heard the connection between the two things and asked, "But according to the employee rules set by the chairman, if a researcher has an accident, then his terminal should be immediately recycled and the downloaded data should be destroyed immediately, right?"

"Huh... You're right. The last movement record of this terminal was half a month ago. At that time, the report showed that the terminal had completed data downloading and was sent to the destruction center. It seems that someone has replaced the terminal and used the underlying algorithm of the base network left in the terminal to reversely deduce the base's authority coordinates, thereby hacking the terminal. I also sent a communication to the destruction center to ask, and they did have an employee who was not quite right, but he is dead too. Now the investigation has reached a dead end."

"I guess he was silenced."

"Although the report says that he died suddenly of cardiac arrest, you have to know that with our level of technology, it is impossible for him to die of illness in any way. I agree that he was silenced, but there is no evidence at the moment. If we blindly look for it, regardless of whether we can find it or not, it will definitely alert the enemy. I have no other options now. What do you think?"

Han Zu did not answer the person in charge immediately, but fell into thinking. There was a biggest mystery about the invasion of the secret base. And maybe it had some connection with the Aurora Hotel that he had been to before. After sorting out his thoughts, Han Zu told the person in charge about his doubts.

“I think there’s something very wrong with this matter.”

"How to say?"

"The timing doesn't match. You see, this operation is clearly to take away the creature that looks like a freak from this base. Just now you said that this terminal was swapped and hacked half a month ago. In other words, the tampering with this terminal has been going on for a long time. But don't forget, I only sent the freak back here a few days ago."

After listening to Han Zu's statement, the person in charge also felt that something was wrong. Indeed, it was a bit unbelievable to prepare for a situation half a month in advance that was not even clear whether it might occur.

"Is it possible that the original target was not the freak, but something else. It just happened that you brought the freak back a few days ago. Although we haven't made any substantial progress in our research on that thing, we have indeed made it a top priority. And knowing that this thing is our highest priority, we changed our target. Is there such a possibility?"

What the person in charge said made sense. Han Zu thought about it for a while, but after reorganizing all the information about this deformed fetus, Han Zu came to a different conclusion.

"Yes, but it's unlikely. First, if it's as you imagined, then this freak isn't that big, and they could have created some chaos and taken the opportunity to steal more high-value targets, but they didn't do that. Second, according to the instructions of the Night Owl member before, she was ready to leave through the teleportation device immediately after she succeeded. When she couldn't find the target, she immediately prepared to leave through the specific teleportation device in the teleportation laboratory. This was to avoid alerting the enemy and to prepare for the next visit. Third, they sent five people at once to accomplish the same goal, but the routes were completely different. From these points, it can be seen that what they want is this freak."

The person in charge listened to Han Zu's statement, thought about it carefully, and called his guard next to him to ask him what he thought. The guard did not say much, but he also agreed with Han Zu's point of view.

"If you say so, then they must have set up a plan long ago. They expected that the freak would appear in this base. I even think that they calculated that it would be you who brought it back from the world of the Aurora Hotel... But how did they do it? Didn't they think that if anything went wrong, all their efforts would be in vain?"

"I guess they should have a countermeasure, or they are sure that I will find this thing and put it in this base, but I don't know how they did it. By the way, what kind of organization is the "Night Owl" mentioned by the woman before? It sounds like it has a very powerful background."

The person in charge put out his cigarette, thought about the organization called "Night Owl", and told Han Zu the information he knew.

The "Night Owl" organization was originally the name of a black market in Q City. It existed before Q City was absorbed by Dragon Country. At that time, the black market had all kinds of rare treasures, but 99% of the things had one thing in common, that is, their sources were all illegal, no matter what the laws were.

Guns and ammunition, illegal drugs, organs, and human trafficking were some of the most popular businesses in "Night Owl" at the time. Since "Night Owl" was a black market with a very high reputation in the underground society where crime was rampant and gangs were as numerous as locusts, it soon became the largest and only black market in Q City. As a result, intelligence, which was not the most profitable but the most useful business, also emerged.

By selling accurate intelligence, the scale of the black market grew larger and larger, and even with the help of several underground leaders, it swallowed up many black markets and small gangs in neighboring cities. As the black market grew, those medium-sized and large-scale and even underground leaders who bought and sold intelligence from here fought each other. The black market boss benefited from it and gradually became one of the underground leaders in Q City.

Time went forward, and it was the time when Q City was absorbed by Longguo. In order to eliminate dissidents, the black market boss submitted intelligence on all the big, medium and small Q City companies to Longguo’s army at that time. Within a month, they were all destroyed under the tracks of tanks and armored vehicles. The black market boss, after cutting off one-third of the black market, successfully survived this purge and even cleaned up his business by doing construction. He spent several years in a stable manner.

Five or six years ago, several countries around Q City proposed to Longguo that they jointly manage Q City. In exchange, they would provide some rare resources to Longguo for free. So, at the request of the Longguo military, more than 90% of the Longguo people left Q City, and the army had no more citizens to protect. After 90% of the Longguo people left Q City, the Longguo army also withdrew. Several small countries around also officially began to jointly manage Q City, but apart from the leading country, not many people in the world knew about this.

And just half a year after the withdrawal of the Dragon Army, the boss of the black market went back to his old business, and this time there was no hindrance from other organizations, so no one could be his opponent anymore. And those small countries that united were a bunch of short-sighted guys who only saw the profit and took it. With a little bribe, they completely allowed the existence of the black market and colluded with them.

Of course, in order not to attract international attention, the black market boss changed the black market into a giant organization and named it "Night Owl". The cover identity is a multinational top construction company. Of course, the boss who made his fortune from intelligence would never give up this business. There are rumors that now as long as there is a place, there may be members of "Night Owl". Like parasites, they quietly lurk in various inconspicuous corners and secretly collect all kinds of information from them.

"Hearing what you said, this organization is very powerful! The boss can almost be said to be the emperor of an underground empire, and they also have a hand in the Infinite Company. I thought that an organization as large as the Infinite Company should be strong outside even if there are three pillars inside."

"As for the scale, if Infinite Company is not as divided as it is now, with only a few guys who understand politics, it is no exaggeration to say that Infinite Company can rule the entire planet within 100 hours. The most advanced nuclear weapons and orbital rays are no different from the firecrackers and flashlights that children play with here. As long as we want, we can turn all employees of Infinite Company, even low-level employees like logistics personnel, into super soldiers who can operate normally in a nuclear winter. And, guess how long it will take to transform the dozens of super-power energy engines at our lunar headquarters into weapons or planetary thrusters? Only half a month."

When the person in charge mentioned the unlimited company, a look of pride suddenly appeared on his face and his back straightened up, but he soon slumped in his chair in dejection. Han Zu said for him what he didn't want to say.

"But that's the imagined situation. The reality is that due to internal strife, Infinite Company is now like a big tree that has grown crooked. If the extra branches are not cut off, it will sooner or later split due to the unbalanced weight, causing the whole tree to die. Now, those borers are crawling into the trunk through the cracks that are gradually appearing, sucking the vitality of the big tree. Employees like you are just leaves on this big tree. Even if you are willing to change, it will ultimately be a drop in the bucket."