Chapter 838 The tip of the iceberg (Part 1)
"So. When you went to Night City to shoot a documentary, it was also sponsored by Jilafa Company?"
Elliot spoke so bluntly that Severns became a little anxious: Why did this kid suddenly become like this?
As the most stable region in the world, Europe has a strong sense of cultural identity. One of the cultures that Europeans are proud of is reservation.
Especially when engaging in this kind of "political activity", everyone likes to twist and turn, and is proud of twists and turns, thinking that this is a manifestation of political elites.
If you speak directly, you will get rid of the person, whether you did it, and who you did it for. This kind of talk will almost never appear in the meeting, and will be considered very offensive.
However, the Soviet Union is a place that is very close to the European Community but has a very different style of conduct——
Phantom raised his eyebrows: "Why do you ask this?"
"Just curious, forget it if you don't tell me." Elliot scratched his head, looked at Severs, and gave time to his partner.
The latter pretended to cough twice and his expression became serious: "Thank you very much for helping the citizens of Bruges, but now I need to ask you some questions according to the law, and I will activate the public recording agreement."
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Phantom looked as if this was indeed the case, leaning on the sofa behind him and crossing his legs:
"Ask."
Severns was relieved to see her like this, but the process still had to be completed.
"Does the collapse of the municipal system that happened that day have anything to do with you?"
The first time he saw Phantom and Iron Hand, Muramasa made a suggestion:
Give up on Elliot, give up on this stinky and long escape plan, and directly choose to transfer the data to the devices of these two mercenaries——
Compared to Elliot, Iron Hand and Phantom are obviously more credible mercenaries. Not only are they much stronger in ability, but they also have a much better background.
Since acquiring independent consciousness, Muramasa has been operating in this world for more than 70 years. During his long career, it has not only cooperated with Arasaka, but also with many humans.
For it, Jilafa Company is a more efficient partner:
The power system and monitoring equipment within the European Community are so huge and complete that even a wandering AI must be careful. If it is not careful, it will face the encirclement and suppression of the entire European Community:
Network surveillance has absolute control over the European Community's cyber network. When it comes to dealing with circulating AI, they can even bypass most of the European Community's decision-making officials and use equipment in an entire region as consumption. Products to capture AI.
In cyberspace, this power is manifested in the fact that each of the exquisite and unique local area networks of the European Community has an invisible thread under normal conditions. When some protocols are triggered, these local area networks will be like puppets on the strings of the spider web. Give up all control under control——
AI's calculation methods and reaction speed are far superior to human hackers, but the gap in hardware is too huge.
Currently, the European bases of three AIs, Lille, Muramasa and Johnny, are in Folkestone. Equipment with a total value of no more than 100,000 euros is stored in local servers and operates as servers for the Workers Forum.
The operation of the worker forum concealed the true purpose of these servers, and the interdimensional communication technology and Lille's encryption completely concealed the abnormal data flow, allowing them to obtain more computing power.
But this is a piece of equipment worth 100,000 euros. The annual GDP of the European Community exceeds 20 trillion euros, and the funds invested in this system will definitely exceed one trillion euros. How can we go head-to-head with it?
This is also the essential reason why Lear and Muramasa cannot leave casually:
Cybernet seems to be free, but don’t forget that any technology is based on reality.
Movement in cyberspace is the movement of data on information carriers. If it is wired movement, there must be a network cable connection from Europe to Night City. If it is wireless movement, electromagnetic wave signals also need to pass through to transmit information. Space:
Trillions of investments from the European Community have made this place an absolute security barrier. Even the circulating AI can only be blocked on the Internet, or even tricked into being locked into a fictional paradox space——
This means that any escaping signal has the potential to be directly intercepted!
Not to mention that long-distance communication requires the use of super powerful communication arrays to ensure that signals can span sufficient spatial distances without distortion.
So it's not that Lille doesn't want to go back, it's that they can only look for opportunities when they get here.
The only thing that can shake up a system is a sufficiently large-scale riot. Without chaos, there is no chance. The appearance of Phantom and Iron Hand seems to have given Lear and Muramasa an opportunity to "sneak across"
But will the European barrier system that the EC has implemented for many years really leave such loopholes?
Under Muramasa's watch, Severns, as an EC official, directly connected to Phantom's prosthetic system and detected a special chip:
It can be simply understood that this is an "electronic visa", and foreign citizens must keep their chip inserted in the chip slot at all times after being admitted to the European Barrier.
Foreigners loaded with visa chips are no different from European citizens born into European barriers:
At the level of "being monitored", they enjoy the same treatment.
The activated visa chip began to self-check, eliminating Muramasa's idea of "physical smuggling"——
A full-body scan by network surveillance would definitely reveal something was wrong. When they were in Folkestone, they evaded the network surveillance's scan of Elliot by briefly escaping to factory and apartment networks. After the scan was completed, they backed up on these networks. Rerun the data.
You can't do this through the European barrier. Any movement in that place can lead to countless pursuits.
Lille's plan to "wreak havoc on the European Community" remains the only and safe option.
So now it is also curious about the power outage that happened that day:
Who is attacking the European Community's networks?
"Of course it has nothing to do with us. We are professionals with work visas and company passports. Doing this is seeking death?
To be honest, I was quite curious. I thought it was a hacker hired by you. After all, you are a government agency. Isn’t it normal to teach a disobedient company a lesson? ”
Severns was sweating profusely: "Madam, you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense."
"I really can't take the joke. If people in Night City would admit it with embarrassment, of course I have the ability to do such a big thing
Ahem, stop talking nonsense, look at how cowardly you are. ”
Looking at Severance's increasingly solemn face, Phantom finally stopped talking nonsense, and the old political officer could breathe a sigh of relief: after working for so many years, he had some awesome power, and he didn't want to lose his tongue because of this.
"But, uh, it shouldn't matter if you say this, right?
I have been in the European Community for a while, and similar things have happened in other cities. It looks like there is a great hacker in the European Community, and he is not dead. ”
Severns just took notes, nodded pretendingly, and relaxed.
Although network surveillance is responsible for public safety and has great power, when people want to know something, they have to face another problem:
After all, it is a private company and has no reason to disclose its operations to the public.
Therefore, network surveillance will not publicize this kind of thing to the outside world. The European Community is not Night City, it is not the new United States, and it is even very different from the Soviet Union. They do not offer bounties and hire mercenaries to take charge in their own cities. Safety.
So, it has nothing to do with them.
But Severns suddenly received a message:
[Internet Surveillance Agent #0863: Mr. Strange, what this media person said is true. There is indeed such a cybercriminal. 】
[Network Surveillance Agent #0863: It seems that he is very interested in you. We may have the opportunity to cooperate more often in the future. 】
[Network Monitoring Agent #0863: I now have something that may be of interest to you, and I look forward to your reply. 】
(End of chapter)