Chapter 560: Strike from Space

The so-called "voodoo" of the Voodoo Gang is actually network capabilities that are beyond the level of street gangsters and barely reach the company's business level.

Bridget is a hacker who is ambitious, skilled, and even lucky.

Cyber ​​Watch promotes itself as the last bulwark between humans and AI, humanity’s last hope, but like all street kids, Brigitte is skeptical, and that really leads her to the organization:

She studied technology on some BBS forums, and also heard some very defensible rumors about network surveillance——

"Network monitoring said that the old network is full of circulating AI, and hackers will be attacked as soon as they come into contact with it, and their brains will be burned, and the old network has been isolated with a black wall.

But in fact, the old network is full of treasures and magical AI technology, and blackwall is also a kind of AI.

Network surveillance uses AI to prevent others from obtaining AI technology from old networks, thereby gaining the upper hand in network technology. "

Therefore, Brigitte’s highest ideal as an AI is to pass through the black wall and obtain knowledge from the old network——

She also did it. Many of the technologies of the Voodoo Gang were dug through the black wall and dug out from the old network. This was the basis for their survival in Taiping Prefecture and even their rule.

But she has always been in awe when it comes to contact with AI: just like the black people under the sea facing the so-called "Voodoo", she covets this power and is also in awe of it.

She actually had contact with some AIs. They always contacted each other cautiously, testing each other, communicating with each other, and trading with each other.

And began to try to design and capture AI using the equipment obtained from Dexter

but

but

Why can someone use AI as a mastermind?

The Voodoo Gang has been developing for so many years, and for the first time it has obtained military-level advanced equipment, and it has also seen a true complete body-fluid AI. It is obviously two happy things that overlapped, but why did it become like this?

Lille saw that Brigitte, who was already incomplete, was beginning to blur. At that time, he gave her a shot of brain stimulant, combined with electrode control, to give her a boost of energy.

[Lear: Let’s do it one by one, Dexter Sean, what did he ask you to do? 】

Brigitte asked another question as if she had just woken up from a dream:

[Bridget: Is that a dangerous critical mass? 】

He seemed to be delirious, but Lille had actually already answered this question.

[Lille: Answer my question first, and then I will consider answering your question. 】

[Bridget: He asked me to use equipment to fake and cover foreign mercenaries entering Night City. 】

[Lille: Very good, second question. There is a hacker named Dante who came from Watson District. Do you have any impressions? 】

[Bridget: Yes, he specially found a building to set up equipment, equipment we have never seen before. 】

[Lille: Where? Didn't you stare at him? 】

[Bridget: In the tallest unfinished building, we will pinch his meter and secretly monitor the frequency band of his equipment. 】

[Bridget: The data is in.]

[Lille: I found it. 】

Because the Voodoo Gang was given a night to rest, the database recovered well.

Brigitte has a lot of brain enhancements. Among them, hackers like to use external memory to store ultra-complex keys. The advantage is that it makes deciphering more difficult. The disadvantage is that when she is suspended in cyberspace from all directions, her human body signs When it is also under full control, Lear can easily lock the database and key every time he wants to mobilize data.

Dante "rented" a piece of land with local gangs in each district and quietly set up directional arrays. No one knew what the one-way signals were used for.

But in Taiping Prefecture.

The characteristics of the leaked signal detected by the Voodoo Gang suddenly made Lille feel familiar:

This signal characteristic is very similar to the signal that induced cyberpsychosis in mercenaries after the arrival of Muramasa.

What's more coincidental is that when Leal blew up the Watson District and took down the Maelstrom Gang, Peralez was said to have been having a headache, and he disappeared for a long time.

During the time he disappeared, he even moved from a high-rise apartment facing Watson District to a high-rise apartment with a view of Taiping State!

Lear immediately analyzed the signal characteristics using Muramasa——

[Muramasa: This is a signal based on human brain wave frequency. The technology was provided by the AI, and this version was optimized by me. 】

In other words, Dante was the outsourcer hired by Mr. Blue Eyes to protect the equipment, and those equipment were the equipment used to brainwash and control Peralez! (Note 1)

Corresponding to the identity, Li Er suddenly set the tone for Dante's course of action:

Appearing in Westbrook, he joined the Tiger Claw Gang and changed his identity - he jumped from the Tiger Claw Gang to the Vortex Gang and deployed brainwashing equipment opposite Charter Hill - the Vortex Gang was attacked and came to Taiping State to deploy the equipment.

If the information reaches this point, Lille will at most think that this Dante is indeed not simple enough to be noticed by blue eyes and work for the wandering AI.

But the problem is that there is still an important piece of information that has not been implemented in Lear's speculation about the identity of "Dante":

There is also a Dante who was active in Heywood at the beginning, leading Valentino's young man and a group of mercenaries to investigate the deputy mayor's office, investigating Holt, and was eventually trapped in cyberspace by the Soul Killer, using special methods in cyberspace. The space sent a message to Wakako's old mistress Nanchang Xun for help.

If this hacker Dante and the current mercenary Dante are the same person

This requires adding two more events before this timeline: Dante investigating the deputy mayor's office - being trapped in cyberspace by the Soul Killer.

But if he was trapped in cyberspace by the Soul Killer during Heywood's operation, then how did he magically appear in the territory of the Tiger Claw Gang? !

Lille suddenly had a terrible guess

[Muramasa: The signal antenna is ready for use, but you'd better move quickly. The circuit here is very unstable. If you want to carry out high-intensity communication, it's best to take it easy. 】

【Signal search in progress】

[Communication frequency has been set]

[Start the directional enhanced communication mode, start the two-way communication protocol, and turn on the signal concealment]

[Lear: David, I heard the reply. 】

Team David in Badlands has been driving around in the latest, authentic Mackinac, the unique Mackinac "Mammoth" for a full 12 hours.

The powerful horsepower, tough appearance, and wild driving experience simply cannot stop.

Adecado and they are looking for the target of network surveillance: a mysterious agent with unknown origins who, according to Bryce, is also involved in the investigation of the deputy mayor's office.

but

Nothing at all.

Except that night, there suddenly was an extremely inconspicuous, but quite bright, thing in the sky that looked like something falling from the moon, something strange hit it.

David scratched his head and looked around. Adecado had completely blocked the surrounding area. Not far away was the military technology solar power distribution station, but it seemed that there was a lack of defense due to the Arasaka aircraft carrier.

Looking for people in the bad land is like looking for a needle in a haystack. They can only look for where there is an abnormality and go there.

But they didn't find the mission target Peter at the landing point.

Only a pair of blackened shoes remained. (Note 2)

【呲】

[Lear: David, I heard the reply. 】

[David: Brother, no one was found, but strange traces were found near the military technology power distribution and communication station. 【picture】】

Lille could tell at a glance that this thing was the trace left by the impact of an ultra-high-power energy weapon.

Lear rarely uses words like "ultra-high power" to describe equipment and weapons——

Because he felt that the strike marks of this thing were very similar to some high-power orbital weapons in his memory. Although these weapons had an advantage outside orbit, they also had to rely on ultra-high power to penetrate the atmosphere and achieve effective killing.

[Lille: Hack the nearby military technology site to see what is left. I will do it. Lucy and Qiwei, you will do the bridging. 】