[EU Citizen ID Verification Network: UK-2070-01-563829]
[Elliot Grove, welco to the European Fortress.]
[We have detected an issue with your residence. The property company will imdiately arrange for a technician to perform repairs. Please ensure you are at ho.]
United Kingdom, Foxstone.
In the hive-style affordable housing, Elliot pulled out the connection helt he bought from the stall, looking terrified:
"I’m screwed!"
Just now, he attempted to bypass the firewall using an ancient connection pod he found at a flea market, and as a result...
There was a big problem!
The intense electricity lted the fuse inside the helt. His legitimate prosthetics saved his life, keeping the electromagnetic short circuit confined to the helt, leaving him with nothing more than singed hair.
But his apartnt wasn’t so fortunate:
This electromagnetic short circuit directly cut off the power to his room...
This is a very serious malfunction!
He’s the only one in the entire apartnt trying to bypass the firewall. If the repairman finds out and exposes him for trying to bypass, won’t the network supervision call him in for a talk?
Once network supervision talks to him, the company will follow up with a talk, and they’ll inform him they don’t employ anyone with information security risks, then they’ll fire him. After being fired, they might hire rcenaries to kill him sowhere obscure to avoid paying compensation. His life would then end in a ditch, drifting to the Rhine River like a plastic bag, eventually being collected and shredded by a garbage compactor...
"...Crap!"
...
[Munemasa: I can hardly believe my processor...]
[Munemasa: We just... broke through the Black Wall!]
[Munemasa: And why is sothing like this ssing with the Black Wall?!]
In Munemasa’s eyes, they broke through the Black Wall.
But Lille knew, that wasn’t the Black Wall—it just looked like the Black Wall.
If his perception and estimation were not wrong, the wall they broke through was the wall behind the Black Wall, a wall that appeared almost identical to the Black Wall...
However, Lille had encountered the Black Wall; he knew that breaking through it from the inside wouldn’t look like the situation with this fat guy in that affordable apartnt back then.
In that situation, it was clear the wall was behind the Black Wall, to so extent connected with it, which circled a domain—the place the Illuminati wanted them to reach.
The wall they broke through was far from having the extremity and strength of the Black Wall...
But it was still a world-class network defense project; clearly, this was the true level of network supervision.
Lille and Munemasa were crouched within the smart control of this room, slowly attempting to infiltrate other areas to gain more computing power, allowing their "bodies" to stretch.
But they soon encountered a problem:
The good news was that the smart devices in this room were quite advanced; not only did they control the smart ho, but they could also monitor every hair of the fat guy 24/7.
The bad news was that the network security level of these devices was significantly high. It’s not that they couldn’t hack in, but hacking in without leaving traces and not attracting the attention of the incoming network repair personnel was much more difficult.
Compared to Night City’s electronic devices, which were much more free, anyone could log in, and investigators could only scratch their heads at cables and data used by hundreds of people.
In the room, Elliot looked like an overweight fat guy, with eyes narrowed into slits and a face full of horizontal at.
He was wearing a white tank top, looking quite sturdy, while his shorts revealed prosthetic knees, seemingly configured for heavy physical labor...
As for things a hacker should have? Not visible in the room; modifications a hacker should have?
If you had to say anything, Elliot’s head... seed rather sharp.
[Johnny: Never seen a hacker this fat, and this ugly, like a goblin.]
Hackers... it’s impossible for them to be fat.
Brain-consuming operations are quite energy-draining; as Lille knows, the more legendary the hacker, the more they seem...
[Johnny: I once heard from Murphy that the more badass a hacker, the more likely they are to be a scrawny person... holy crap, does that an you’re insanely badass?]
[Munemasa: Your ntal illness is getting worse; how can a hacker compare to us?]
[Lille: Sigh... this actually isn’t a ntal illness. He is actually a person.]
[Munemasa: ...?]
[Lille: It’s hard to explain in a short ti. We can’t let the repairman discover us; being caught by network supervision now would be a death sentence.]
[Lille: We need to erase our traces first. This fat guy... damn, this fat guy, seems to have a transmitter in his room. Hack into his system.]
[Lille: The European’s system, is that okay for you?]
[Munemasa: I need to call so databases... you said there was an issue with the boundless ti, now help align the ti tags.]
[Munemasa: Tell the tis of major events.]
Lille’s mind from another world began to spin rapidly, retrieving records that neither Munemasa nor himself had in their databases.
Data directly written from another dinsion...
[Lille: Listen up...]
First, they needed to align with the current ti.
The current ti is November 1, 2077.
It has been nearly a year since the Kujira-class Arasaka Carrier was hit by a ballistic nuclear missile off the coast of Night City.
However, Munemasa’s database had quite a few areas missing ti tags.
To implent a hack on European equipnt, they needed to prioritize aligning with European-related events...
Allowing Munemasa to restore so logic to the history of technological iteration and developnt.
...
This world is unlike most worlds Lille was familiar with; here, i Country disassembled, Asia shivered under Arasaka’s military oppression, only gaining room for organizational and entity developnt after Military Technology defeated Arasaka in the corporate wars.
In terms of battle scale, the second corporation war here was not sothing Lille placed much importance on, even seeing the world’s collapse and decline as gradual in Lille’s eyes.
It wasn’t a sudden collapse, which ant order hadn’t completely broken down, rely twisted at most.
Europe is the cornerstone of order in this world: the whole world trades using the euro.
Ever since i Country split under the control of four departnts due to suspected gold R fraud, the euro firmly held its position as the world currency.
The stability of currency equates to the stability of organizational entities, thus, in this world, Europe always remained stable...
Relatively stable.
[1992, the European Union ford, establishing the euro.]
[In the sa year, core EU countries, despite opposition from other mber states, ford the European Monetary Union, establishing a European Barrier prototype, closing borders to job-seeking European workers.]
[In the sa year, the Su Federation used ultra-high-energy laser array enhancents, the European Space Agency began constructing a mass launcher on the Moon.]
[1993, Munich developed the TRC bio-interface chip.]
[1994, the global stock market crashed, i Country fragnted, the EU faced a refugee surge, the European Barrier continued to mature, using weapons for large-scale clearance of illegal refugees.]
[1995, the EU decided to implent a European Fortress system in Europe, launched a surveillance satellite program, and initiated a comprehensive identity registration system.]
[2001, the European Fortress system matured, the ID card system began operation. As refugees continued crossing borders via Greece and submarines, the EU committee established a plan to create slaughter zones on both countries’ borders.]
[2007, the second corporation war erupted between Su Petrochemical and Peizhuo Petrochemical Company.]
[2008, i Country attacked the Soviet Space Platform, the European Space Agency intervened, and Europeans and Aricans erupted in war, with a teor destroying the command center of i Country’s Space Army.]
[Events during synchronization with the database that hold no significant aning are omitted.]
[2012, Europe and Japan’s laboratories jointly developed the first viable nanotechnology.]
[Munemasa: That’s enough for now.]
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