Chapter 377: Chapter 142: Gallery
On the second day, three explosive pieces of news quickly spread throughout Cri City.
The forr chanical Main Brain, the Speakerless appeared at the top of the Twin Towers.
All 134 mbers of the Cri Council were dead.
The Twin Towers collapsed.
These three pieces of news were more explosive than the last, especially for the reporters who witnessed the collapse of the Twin Towers last night, they were imnsely thrilled.
In their mory, after the appearance of the Speakerless, without a single word, all the chanical defense systems were activated. For a mont, countless laser beams aid at the tower, and after a full ten minutes of deadly firing, they successfully split the Twin Towers in two.
The scene of the collapse was astonishing.
At the sa ti, a rumor quickly spread throughout Cri City.
The recently popular Evil Jade Clan inherited the ’Speakerless’s legacy.’
All cri syndicates in the city were alard.
In an instant, countless eyes and ears were sent out, in cyber space, underground spots, and even so gangs’ safe houses.
But nothing was found.
The Evil Jade Clan seed to have mysteriously vanished.
...
anwhile, in the forr Cri City’s top gang, at a secluded Japanese-style villa of the Rice Fragrance Association, Hacker, Fire Starter, Liu Dehua, Yanzi, and Debt Collector were all gathered.
As for the other two, Mortar was confird dead, while Scissorhand was nowhere to be found.
Even though they ’completed’ the Nightmare-level task, the atmosphere was somber, and the five eyed each other with suspicion.
Hacker was the first to challenge: "What exactly happened on the 200th floor last night, and why didn’t I receive any signal?"
Yanzi rolled her eyes, "Told you nurous tis, how many more tis do you want to hear it?"
"All those dead Legislators, and those tentacle monsters that don’t show up on the player panel, and you guys instantly teleporting to the Twin Towers’ periter without knowing why, are you ssing with us!" Hacker retorted.
"Most importantly," Fire Starter said with a gloomy glare, "the item the task issuer wanted us to obtain, where did you hide it?"
Liu Dehua furrowed his eyebrows, his gaze turning sharp, "If we took the task rewards for ourselves, then why should we save you? Suspect ? Better to suspect yourself, that super robot from nowhere suddenly saved your life and took you to the Twin Towers, isn’t this story quite miraculous."
Yanzi glanced at the always silent Hei Bing No. 2, raising her eyebrows, "Where did you disappear to yesterday? You said you’d co but didn’t, were you passing information to certain people?"
Hei Bing No. 2 folded his arms, remaining silent for a long ti, then said:
"Instead of doubting each other, why not consider what to do next? You should know, right now the city is swarming with people hunting us down, including players."
"So what, can’t beat NPCs, but can’t beat players either?" Yanzi retorted, "Or are you saying NPCs would believe players’ rubbish, believe we possess the ’undying’ ability?"
"Why wouldn’t they believe?" Hei Bing No. 2 similarly retorted, "You must know, in this ga world, resurrection isn’t a secret; clone, consciousness transfer, virtual personality, just the ones I know of are three. Now everyone outside thinks we inherited the Speakerless’s legacy, so what’s strange about ’revival’."
After all the bickering, not a single problem was resolved.
Liu Dehua returned to his room indifferently, spending so ti with a mature woman, then resting with his eyes closed, until Yanzi arrived, only then did he open his eyes again.
"You expected I would co?" Yanzi asked surprisedly.
"Don’t you want to know what I discovered? Plus, you will co to ask
who among us is the traitor."
"No wonder you’re the Infinite Walker, who’s the traitor?" Yanzi indeed showed interest.
"Debt Collector," Liu Dehua replied.
"Why him?" Yanzi was astonished, she felt Hacker, Fire Starter were more suspicious.
But Liu Dehua refused to give a reason, was asked several tis, only replied with the word ’intuition.’
Yanzi pursed her lips, suspecting Liu Dehua was pretending to be profound.
"Fine then, what was the secret you wanted to tell yesterday, what issue does the task issuer have?"
He got up, took out a stack of docunts from a safe, handed them to Yanzi.
"These were left by the previous Chairman of the Rice Fragrance Association, it’s about the chanical Main Brain of Sunless City."
Yanzi leafed through briefly, there was a lot, quite ssy, but the gist showed it was docuntation of the last cyber experint.
Cri experint, unexpected disruptor, the chanical Main Brain being countered, corporation withdrawal, chanical City’s code canceled, ultimately leaving only this Cri City.
"What a ss, just directly tell the truth then."
"Alright, simply said, the group experint with the chanical Main Brain failed last ti, and a very important reason for failure was the appearance of a disruptor, who used a very special thod to reverse the group experint’s outco, severely injuring the chanical Main Brain."
"Take a good look, the docuntation says severely injuring, not exterminating, so it ans the chanical Main Brain of Sunless City is very likely still alive."
"And our task issuer is very possibly that severely injured chanical Main Brain."
"Really!?" Yanzi suddenly stood up, eyes sparkling, "If this is true, we could really strike it big! Capturing this chanical Main Brain, we could beco the first batch of players to establish a city!"
"Not that simple," Liu Dehua said calmly, "The mysterious death of the previous Chairman of the Rice Fragrance Association is very possibly because of this secret."
"Who did it, the task issuer? That ’Speakerless’? Or was it the one we saw yesterday?"
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