Chapter 130 Watchdog

It turns out that Lear was overly worried.

The difference in time and space between the two time and spaces prevents most hackers from crossing this threshold, so the server is not under attack.

But after many overclocking operations, it was crushed by the "last straw".

Half an hour later, Lille, John, Anthony and Skye put out the fire in the server room.

Lille panted and looked at the room where the black smoke was gradually extinguishing, his head still a little dizzy--

I had just made a lizard man in another world, and when I came back, I still had a body that was not used to the backward version. This fire-fighting almost cost me my life.

Lying on the chair, Lear gasped and asked: "So. Why is the server room on fire? Damn it."

Skye plopped down in the chair, looking ashen.

"I didn't know that I was debugging the city-wide line of ctOS to help Aiden assassinate the boss of the Chicago gang, but the server exploded at the last moment!

It's so pathetic, I always use this intensity, I don't know why the server burned down! "

As she said something, she suddenly thought of something and glanced at Lille suspiciously: "The boss said that you asked me to wait in the computer room yesterday to put out the fire. Did you secretly use the server to do something that I don't know about?"

"What can it be?" Lear laughed, and then asked with concern, "How about Aiden's mission?"

"Oh, right!" Skye hurriedly opened her personal computer.

Just before the server burned down, Aiden in the world of Watch Dogs also completed his last and biggest lone wolf activity.

Attacked by an almost prophetic hacker, ctOS was like a rag full of loopholes in front of Skye. As long as Aiden found the server interface, control of ctOS was in their hands.

Following hacking activities one after another, Aiden and Skye have learned everything that happened in Chicago where ctOS was installed:

The mayor of Chicago accidentally killed an engineer from Bloom Company, the developer of ctOS, and the video happened to be captured by the ctOS camera.

As it happens, this video was not only recorded, but also fell into the hands of the sponsor behind Bloom's company, the Chicago gang boss Lucky Quinn.

Quinn used this video to blackmail the mayor into expanding the scope and depth of ctOS deployment. As time went by, almost every politician in Chicago politics had a handle.

And Quinn actually became the controller of Chicago--

It was he who sent the Terminators to assassinate Aiden and injure his nephew and niece.

Aiden and his ex-partner happened to steal the database that stored the video while stealing money from the hotel, causing Quinn to overreact, and that's how things started.

As Skye and Aiden continue to investigate further, Quinn only feels fear——

Bloom Company has upgraded its system many times, but has never been able to catch it. It cannot stop a hacker hiding in the city from approaching the truth. He has never even seen that person!

This has never happened in the original game!

Quinn frantically uses ctOS to screen criminals on a large scale - but this is still a drop in the bucket.

So he directly linked ctOS to organized crime activities, letting his gangs take to the streets with guns and go door to door to search for people who might be enemies.

But at this point, the crime probability estimate given by ctOS to these criminals is still 0%!

Most of the police chose to turn a blind eye, and a small number of police officers were dealt with

This madness continues to spread, and Aiden has to use all his strength to pursue Quinn to end this madness.

Under the orders of several major power outages, traffic accidents and leaks of public facilities, the servers that were already approaching the limit in the cyberpunk world were finally overwhelmed and completely destroyed.

Under the full control of ctOS, the city is like a living thing. It monitors everyone, decides who should go to jail, and can even create car accidents, gas explosions, bridges rising abnormally, and other "accidental coincidences" to kill a person.

And the people who made these orders, like Lucky Quinn, were still accepting the mayor's thanks in the midst of the chaos--

for his charitable contributions.

This is the true face of the "city central operating system".

On the phone, Aiden sent a series of messages.

Aiden Pearce: Skye? are you still there?

Aiden Pearce: I'm about to meet Quinn in person, should I kill him?

Aiden Pearce: He is a heinous bastard, and many people believe that this comprehensive surveillance system will inevitably fall into the trap of corruption and centralization.

Aiden Pearce: But unexpectedly, he has turned the future imagined by people into reality.

Aiden Pearce: He even targeted my family.

Aiden Pearce: In other words, he just used what he did to this city on me. This is a terrible future.

Aiden Pearce: I should kill him, but I still have family.

Aiden Pearce: What do you think I should do?

Seeing the information on the computer, Lil and Skye looked at each other--

It's been 30 minutes, and Aiden is done.

In the original work, Aiden's niece died in an attack and he became extremely extreme. He did not hesitate to kill Lucky Quinn and calmly accepted the outside world's definition of him:

Private law enforcer.

There is an element of extreme revenge in it. Now the two children are still alive and have regained consciousness in hospitals in other cities.

How will he choose?

Should we punish this villain ourselves, or should we hand it over to the official judicial department?

Skye turned the page - and sure enough, Aiden had it all figured out.

Aiden Pearce: I killed Lucky Quinn.

Aiden Pearce: He was hiding in his bulletproof glass office, thinking there was nothing I could do against him.

Aiden Pearce: But he had a pacemaker installed, and it was even connected to ctOS. Maybe he wanted to use that heart to control the city in the future.

Aiden Pearce: But he's dead now, from his own pacemaker.

Aiden Pearce: You should have seen him for what he was - arrogant, domineering, unapologetic about the dead people and the chaos.

Aiden Pearce: He's a pure scumbag, and I realize that.

Aiden Pierce: I also realize that the dregs of society do not necessarily only exist in the corners of society, just like Quinn and various politicians with dirty information in the video.

Aiden Pearce: They can hold high positions and control the city through conspiracy and means. If capable people don't sanction them, who will sanction them?

Aiden Pearce: They might even be judges, police officers and prosecutors.

Aiden Pearce: I'm not a good guy and I have to kill him, right here, with my own hands, just like I kill all the criminals along the way.

Aiden Pearce: People need to see the bad things ctOS can do and I will expose everything in this dirty database.

Aiden Pearce: People who want to control the world are definitely not going to give up, but I want them to think of me every time they think about it.

Aiden Pearce: This would make me a truly notorious wanted fugitive, but what does it matter?

Aiden Pearce: I lost my right to vote, but I earned my right to exercise private law, so I guess I didn’t lose.

Aiden Pearce: Are you still there?

[ctOS accelerated research and development project has been completed. 】

[ctOS1.0 data has been fully developed, and the cross-dimensional data channel is fully open]

[Data exchange bandwidth can be increased by upgrading laboratory equipment or deploying staff]

Lear said slowly: "So. This is the end of the matter. Don't you say goodbye to him?"

Skye reflected on the past few weeks of working with Aiden across the screen.

Although Lear said it was a game, Skye felt it was not that simple.

At least to her, Aiden's image is already vivid on the page——

A thief who relied on technology to commit petty theft turned around after causing serious consequences, and finally decided to become a better person--

In other words, a scary person.

He is not the kind of person who thinks he upholds fairness and justice, but a person with a simple view of good and evil. He is a little paranoid, but also quite sober.

Skye thought for a moment and started typing.

Skye: My server crashed just now. I guess I have to stop for a while.

Skye: As for your approach - considering that the hackers and the closers are outside the law, what can I say?

Skye: But I think it’s best for you to take a break, such as going to your sister’s house for a vacation, or finding a wife.

Aiden Pearce: It's a good idea, but I don't think I'll ever have a family in my life.

Skye: Anyway, it's nice to be with you - even though I'm only online.

Aiden Pearce: Me too.

Looking at the information box that no longer popped up on the screen, Skye didn't speak for a long time.

Finally, she looked at Lear and said: "I feel like I have really gone a long way, a long way - is he a real person? I feel... that is a real world."

Lille shrugged: "Whether he is really depends on you, if you can learn something from it and apply it to reality, what is the difference between him and the real thing?

Just like the Crusaders wearing iron armor and long swords and tearing down the houses of pagans, forcing them to admit that God is real--

At this point, God can be considered real in a sense. "

Skye nodded with deep understanding, and suddenly seemed to have figured out something, and said in horror:

"So you want me to use ctOS to force the world to admit that my experience is true! I will not do such bad things!"

Lear's head was filled with black threads: "Will you die if you don't act? I'll work overtime today to clean out the broken servers and replace them with new ones."

Skye pursed his lips: "Okay, boss."