Blind Spot-Chapter 74 - 069 Confidence One
Chapter 74: 069 Confidence One
Chapter 74: 069 Confidence One
Palace Garden Florist.
The night was hazy, and Xu Zhongsheng sat alone under a pavilion, with a small charcoal stove in front of him glowing red.
This faint red light, in an environment devoid of any technological elements, created an atmosphere of returning to ancient times.
Ding ding.
Suddenly, a tiny alert sound spread to his ears.
Xu Zhongsheng’s expression remained unchanged, still in his plain white clothes, he lifted his hand to place a precisely measured tea bag into the clay pot, then filled the pot with water, and gently placed it on the charcoal stove.
“Speak, what is it?” After doing all this, he finally raised his head and lightly tapped three times in the air in front of him.
At once, a fan-shaped, tea-colored light screen emerged, floating in front of him.
The screen was more than ten centimeters away from him, displaying the somewhat panicked face of a short-haired, muscular man.
“Boss, something’s not right!” the muscular man quickly said, “There’s been trouble! Just now, trouble just happened!”
“I’ve said it many times, remain calm and composed in the face of trouble, don’t panic and lose your footing,” Xu Zhongsheng said flatly, unmoved.
“Tell me, what major event has occurred that you feel it necessary to disturb me at this time?”
This time every day was his time for mental and physical refreshment and meditation. He had set a rule that unless it was something extremely important, no one should disturb him.
But now, his subordinate Yu Wengang had taken the risk of breaking that rule and angering him, to forcefully make contact.
It was clear that whatever had just happened must be very serious.
“It’s Tie Feng Group! The headquarters of Tie Feng Group has just been raided! Zheng Kai’s son, Zheng Jiayu, was taken out in front of a crowd of people, although we don’t know how it was done, the man is definitely dead!” Yu Wengang spoke urgently.
“We had just lured those three guys from Tie Feng Group over for Xindela to contact, and then this happened, this…” Yu Wengang himself seemed to find it unbelievable.
“That assassin faced down dozens of gunmen, disrupted their grenades, and even a semi-cyborg pounced on him at close quarters. With that kind of lineup, they couldn’t even stop him! Too fierce! That guy was too fierce!!”
As he spoke, his own face reddened and his blood surged. It was as if he was taking the enemy general’s head in the midst of an army!
“Can you confirm who is behind it?” Xu Zhongsheng asked softly, his face still calm.
“No way to know, there’s no identifying mark on the person, and he doesn’t appear to be a common model of reinforced human. It must be one of those special experimental models from the self-circulating cities,” replied Yu Wengang.
“Self-circulating city? Xindela is from White Star Ybeish, could it be Ybeish’s new model?” Xu Zhongsheng conjectured.
“Boss, no, with such a big event, aren’t you shocked?” Yu Wengang couldn’t understand.
“Shocked by what? It has nothing to do with us,” Xu Zhongsheng laughed and picked up a Blood Jade Tea Cup, carefully examining it under the moonlight, studying the delicate blood-colored veins and the engraved characters on it.
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“Does anyone know what we’ve done?” he spoke softly, “No.”
“We haven’t paid anything, it was just a simple matter of exploiting the situation. Humans, you see, only require a small effort to be manipulated into doing what you want them to do. Much better than machine intelligence,” he said.
“Boss is amazing!” Yu Wengang flattered decisively.
Indeed, if it were not for the cover of a strong hacker like Xu Zhongsheng, the little trick they played could have been easily spotted by officials and other powers.
“What we can confirm now is that the assassin, that black and purple reinforced human, has strong defense capabilities, moderate speed and strength amplifications, but the weaponry he carries is extremely sharp, almost slicing through anything,” Yu Wengang quickly uploaded a brief video.
The camera was aimed at the Tiefeng Group building.
With a loud bang, the building’s main entrance was broken open. A figure dashed in, surging recklessly through the security net and patrol zones.
And then slammed hard against the glass door of the entrance hall. The glass shattered, scattering all over the floor.
The video ended there.
Xu Zhongsheng patiently watched it over and over again, slowing down the playback, examining every detail.
“Indeed, the armor and amplifications are so-so, slightly better than a completely rebuilt cyborg, but that’s not the point. What are those two golden short swords?”
“Not sure. The rest was within Tie Feng Group’s internal signal jamming area,” replied Yu Wengang. “Within just three minutes, the reinforced human managed to take down Zheng Jiayu on the thirty-fourth floor, and then slipped away, disappearing into the suburban alley before the arrival of the official security squad cars. From beginning to end, Tie Feng Group was like an unguarded, weakling egg; they didn’t even put up the slightest fight!”
“It must have been Li Chengyi who notified Xindela, who then mobilized this experimental model reinforced human. Didn’t expect Xindela to completely leave the group and still have such an ace up her sleeve.”
Xu Zhongsheng watched the dark purple armored figure closely, his expression calm.
“Maybe this fellow could be a very good blade… if used properly, should be able to do a lot,” he mused.
“Right, where’s Kong Sichen?” he suddenly asked.
“Half of Tie Feng’s security elites are out dealing with previous matters, and Kong Sichen too. If he had stayed at headquarters, perhaps there would have been a good show to watch,” replied Yu Wengang, who also realized, and chuckled.
“Kong Sichen has purged many rivals for Tie Feng Group, that man acts ruthlessly but not thoroughly. He must have received the news by now, let’s wait and see how Zheng Kai and he respond,” Xu Zhongsheng chuckled.
“Maybe it will dig up some interesting stuff. During such a sensitive time with federal inspections…”
Splat!
Before he could finish laughing, the light screen in front of him burst instantly, Yu Wengang’s face flickered and twisted, turning into a bizarre smiling face outlined in black and white.
The smiling face only had eyes and a mouth, each composed of three white curved lines.
Besides that, all was pitch black.
“Damn!!” Seeing the smiling face, Xu Zhongsheng, who had been so still and composed, suddenly slapped the railing, jumped up, and his expression was out of control.
“The Night Laugh Virus!! Damn it! Xindela actually put an auto-transmitting Night Laugh Virus on that kid!!? What kind of crap is that!?”
As a type of computer virus, the Night Laugh Virus was once well-known throughout White Star, notorious indeed.
In just one night, it caused losses amounting to several hundred billion on White Star.
The super AI named “Society’s Main Controller” was also helpless.
It was only later when several large consortia joined forces, sending out their strongest network security consultants, taking a full half month to completely clear all infected devices of the Night Laugh virus, except for the samples.
As a result, only these few consortia within White Star had the means to deal with the Night Laugh virus. And only they retained specific samples.
Other people, other groups, when encountering this virus, would suffer immensely.
All infected computers and devices would, within seconds, see their total processing surge a thousandfold.
And then…
Pfft.
The screen in front of Xu Zhongsheng suddenly went dark.
All that was left was him sitting there with an iron blue complexion, motionless.
At that moment, centered around him, all the computers and chip-equipped smart devices throughout the entire Palace Garden Florist emitted a faint whiff of blue smoke.
Their chips, all burned out.
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Hongjin Company.
Ah~~~
An employee sitting at his station yawned, bleary-eyed as he picked at the sleep in his eyes.
Beep beep beep.
Suddenly, a faint alarm sounded from the computer in front of him, a brief alert that ended by the time he realized what was happening.
“What’s up?” A female colleague leaned over to ask.
“Nothing much, just Brother Chengyi asking me to help locate someone. A small matter,” the sleepy-eyed man said casually.
“No, I mean the automatic alert that just went off,” the female colleague said. “Locating stuff is our everyday job, isn’t it? But what’s with that automatic alert?”
“Who knows? As long as we’ve got the boss’s automatic defense program, nothing major can happen,” he replied nonchalantly.
“Alright, but you’re right. It triggered for just a few seconds and then stopped. Probably just some hacker who bumped into our alarm,” the female colleague nodded and relaxed.
“We’re on duty together again tonight… should we… do something?” the sleepy-eyed man suddenly raised an eyebrow suggestively at his female colleague.
“Stop it, you~~~ always thinking about that kind of stuff,” the female colleague chided with feigned annoyance.
Beneath the night sky, two figures rose, drew close, and slowly merged together…
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Drizzle persisted into the early hours at 2 a.m.
Outside the Tiefeng Group Sunlight Building, police cars were still parked one after another.
Dozens of officers from the official Security Bureau were scattered around the periphery of the building.
Midaair was filled with dense swarms of armed drones, casting beams of searchlight, circling the building non-stop like a swarm of bees.
Kong Sichen stood among a group of corporate employees, his dark face and height of one meter ninety making him stand out.
Paired with the black briefcase he always carried, marked clearly with the Flying Yi logo, his presence commanded respect.
Mecha Engineer, and a certified one at that. Only someone of such caliber had the right to carry a Flying Yi at all times.
In Yi Country, regulations are stricter than in other places, and weapons like the Flying Yi often have their weapons modules limited to reduce their lethality for easier control by the Security Bureau and Federation.
But even restricted, the true strength of a Mecha Engineer far surpassed that of any common drone pilot.
Kong Sichen was hefty, dressed in a tight black ash sweater that highlighted his bulging chest muscles and broad shoulders.
He was not a native of Yi Country but a Sutanese who had obtained permanent residency rights in Yi Country.
In the Earth-Moon region, although Yi Country was nominally the dominant power, many nations, secretly supported by White Star, were gradually challenging Yi Country.
The Sutan Federation was one of them, and one of the strongest as well.
One of the top ten valued corporate consortia in the world, Vankeerland, has its headquarters in Sutan.
“Brother Ding, my boss’s son, he was in this city district, right in the core area of Suiyang, someone barged into our headquarters alive.
Five minutes! It took just five minutes for him to be taken out!
Is this the security you tout as the best in all of Suiyang, the ‘best’ being this kind of safety??” Kong Sichen’s eyes bore into a man with a crew cut standing by a police car.
The man was dressed in a tight black-and-red uniform, fit and muscular, with a dark red long blade strapped to his back.
He was Ding Zaocheng, one of the two deputy directors of the Suiyang City Security Bureau and a strong contender for the next director.
Also, like Kong Sichen, he was a Mecha Engineer.
But unlike Kong Sichen, his skill level was even higher.
