My Cyber Psychosis is Task Prompt-Chapter 164 - 105: Schemes and Motives
After a moment of calm, he looked in the mirror.
This room was under the name of Oulos.
She installed two hundred miniature cameras and sensors during the renovation.
Everything, from the floor to the teacup, had its use, even the weight pads embedded in the slippers were meant to observe the post-surgical patient’s balance in detail...
Black Light calibrated the implant, altering brain signal parameters using the Graphene Chip.
John no longer felt unsteady on his feet.
He punched the air, trying to leap and maneuver, activating the Fighting Chip for a full set of movements.
Very fluid.
The muscle bundles allowed him to make more intense reactions, enabling the immense kinetic energy of the Alloy Skeleton to be fully utilized, balancing power and flexibility, as if reborn anew.
John tested in the bathroom.
Oulos’s expression grew increasingly severe.
Was the previous unsteadiness an act?
She called up the bathroom’s detection data: John’s height, weight, heart rate, and body temperature were displayed on the side.
"Weakness and fever?"
Oulos crossed her legs, frowning, looking at the man on the screen, lost in thought.
Brushing the system with Black Light does burden the body.
John experienced familiar side effects again, but he felt a sense of relief—a Special Inhibitor would solve the issue; the recovery of Black Light meant he could handle more modifications without being affected by cyber-psychological issues.
Though his head was still dizzy...
Compared to the deadly suffering before, it felt like a trivial cold.
John braced against the counter, water droplets falling from his chin.
He looked up at the mirror:
The invisible countdown above his head finally disappeared, but the accident mystery and psychological pressure remained unsolved.
John opened the door and walked to the bed.
Oulos calmly closed the tablet, glanced at him with a contemptuous look and said.
"Put on some clothes, stop strutting around."
John could only find a robe in the closet to drape on.
When he pushed open the closet, there was a stability test; magnetic hooks could assess finger dexterity.
"Whew~ it’s so warm, do the clothes have heating?"
John hadn’t used fancy items before, just found it new and interesting, not knowing there were over thirty micro-electric detectors inside.
Oulos propped her chin and said.
"Your Alloy Skeleton set is very expensive, with strict conditions, didn’t expect you to adapt..."
She wanted to probe John’s reaction but was interrupted by him.
"Hey, um."
John raised his hand to interrupt her. "Adaptation is good because there’s something strange in my head, unrelated to cyber-psychological issues, I’m willing to confess to you..."
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Oulos’s face was very poor.
She curled up on the sofa, with her legs folded, and the prepared words and probe process were all interrupted.
John let out a long sigh.
"I can’t beat you at playing mind games, uh-huh, big figures’ brains are full of schemes and plots, treating unlucky guys like me like monkeys, causing a messy life doesn’t matter..."
He stared into Oulos’s eyes.
A series of analysis reports popped up on the algorithm interface.
"I hesitated for a long time in the bathroom, let me be honest with you, after all, you saved my life, if you really have to put me on the dissection table... uh, better not, I’ll consider it as paying back, but at least let me figure out who’s harming me, avenge them, and I’ll hand over my body and mind to you, how about that?"
John awaited a response.
Oulos’s silence made the room very awkward.
John felt a bit of a rogue:
Only making empty promises, discussing ideals and feelings after incurring debts, just like a patron in a strip club skipping out on the bill, it was disgusting.
Oulos furrowed her brows.
The algorithm had a heavy burden on the brain.
However, she found no indication of a lie, gesturing for him to continue.
John then recounted to Oulos what he had shared with Eden in more detail, leaving out some calibration details and intentionally hiding the nearly impregnable situation about Black Light.
This was his only line of defense against super hackers.
"I know you’re hiding something."
Oulos bluntly exposed him. "But it’s okay, an open-mouthed collaborator with no secrets is actually the most dangerous."
She needed time to process the information and did not immediately comment on Black Light or ask further questions.
"I’m the middleman, John, business isn’t settled with a confession whose value can’t be judged. That implant set in your body is a prototype, and from the moment it was put in, I was betting on the table, you can’t make me lose."
Oulos waved her hand to let the curtains close automatically.
"I’ll also speak my selfishness directly, Behemoth’s body is in awful condition, there’s no hitman I can trust in Eden City, originally I could only achieve my purposes through mutual benefits exchange, now, well, you have to work for me."
She interrupted the wanting-to-speak John.
"I’ll help you investigate the truth of the accident, at the same time, Igdrasir’s battle data must be given to me, any intelligence must be disclosed to me, if you critically injure and fail in rescue, the implant must be returned to me."
"Deal."
John didn’t hesitate for a second.
"You should first supplement the missing information."
Oulos waved her hand.
The room’s walls started playing videos from the most influential news stations in Eden City.
The intercity train derailment incident was undoubtedly a major event.
According to on-site investigation results:
A defecting agent released a controlled rogue AI through special means while evading Internet Surveillance capture, causing massive casualty incidents and traffic accidents.
The director of the net surveillance office led the team to prevent the situation from worsening.
The rogue AI took the opportunity to hack into the municipal rail operation system, forcibly derailing the train at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, directly crashing near the downtown of the city...
The gray-haired state police appeared in the interview footage.
Facing probing questions, he calmly said that the net surveillance had completely cleared the rogue AI, as for the specific origin of this AI and whether it’s related to certain companies...
The state police did not provide a clear explanation.
But intriguingly, while other companies were severely condemning the terrorist crime, only Raqi Industry invested heavily and spent significant manpower and material resources to wrap up the incident.
When other enterprises tried to attack him for muddying the waters...
The state police stood out again to emphasize the threat of rogue AI, questioning the safety of any controlled AI, and applied for special investigation laws.
Major companies immediately fell silent.
Because hiding rogue AI in laboratories was almost each company’s open secret.
No one was willing to expose the others.
But there was no doubt the Internet Surveillance office was the biggest winner in this incident.
They leveraged parliament and a series of operations to elevate their standing unprecedentedly, even re-engaging with the public, expanding recruitment, and upgrading a wave of equipment strength...
"Can you see it?"
Oulos analyzed the situation for John.
Hugo Pa underestimated his former colleague, the state police.
He took charge of the net surveillance office of Eden City for one purpose only, to more efficiently eliminate any AI.
This incident was a conspiracy.
Ever since Hugo faked his death, he never escaped the eyes of Internet Surveillance; just as he escaped from Raqi Industry, they immediately detected and knew he had the backdoor to the rogue AI.
Oulos even suspected:
The accidental death of Hugo’s family might be inextricably linked to the state police.
These were all to push him to self-detonate at specific moments, releasing the rogue AI from the Raqi Industry laboratory, so that the net surveillance office could eliminate it logically without offending multinational corporations.
Hugo shouldered the responsibility.
The net surveillance achieved its purpose.
As for the uncontrollable chaos and casualties triggered, they could indirectly affect the net surveillance’s status in Eden City, expanding their law enforcement range and rights.
John was dumbfounded.
"What a lunatic!"
"Haha, now you know how great your fate is?"
Oulos sneered twice. "Of course, these are just my guesses. Honestly, I got curious about your secrets too, so I did some internal investigation."
She brought up a file on the display.
"Do you want to know the truth behind the last transport accident?"
