Chapter 563: Divided intelligence, unsolved mystery

12 hours after the zero point nuclear explosion time.

Small-yield tactical nuclear bombs are no longer a huge problem today. The key is who uses them and where.

If Military Technology and Arasaka fight on behalf of their employer in a certain sea area and deploy nuclear warhead missiles, then this is an issue that can be mediated according to the process.

But if a group of terrorists pull it out like magic and detonate it in the city center, the problem is a bit complicated.

Although Night City is not a strictly controlled developed city, it is still considered a developed city. This nuclear bomb exploded in Night City today and may explode in other cities tomorrow, especially in the New America region near Night City.

So as soon as this happened, the company began to adjust its intelligence network.

[New file: Burger King’s criminal gang that buys and sells idiots and big shots]

[Event Location: Night City]

[Hereinafter referred to as the Hamburg Criminal Group]

[Logo: No specific logo, but be wary of every kitsch, neo-kitsch, and entropy burger logo that appears in Night City]

[Main members (using code names):]

[Big shot: There are also codenames such as Desert Cook, Doomfist, and Doomfist. He is between 1 and 1 in height and has great strength. He is good at using various long and near heavy weapons. He is suspected to be equipped with unknown biomass energy violent components. He has a large number of battlefield eating records. 】

[King: There are also codenames such as V and Hell Rider. He is about 175cm tall and has extremely fast reaction and action speeds. According to feedback from the violent terrorist mobile team, he has been stimulated to be several times faster than them in a cyberpsychotic state. The Sian Westan model Unknown, proficient in mobile vehicle combat, the only female (suspected). 】

[Burger (King?): No other code name, height around 170, multiple intelligence channels confirmed to be terminally ill, but doubtful (survived and won multiple fatal cyber attacks and defenses);

Suspected team leader, proficient (super proficient) in network operations, electronic warfare, tactical formulation, nuclear physics, and any other possible technical projects. Please cooperate with a technical team of sufficient size when contacting him. 】

[The degree of prostheticization is suspected to be more than 100% (there are multiple high-function additional prosthetics - expanded limb categories), a single prosthetic eye, and a large number of hacker prosthetic modifications. 】

[A large number of unknown prosthetics, models and categories are unknown. 】

【recent activities:】

The recent activities are classified as "outstanding meritorious service", but the information gap between different companies is too big.

Lear hammered his head east and west, and when he was honest, he told gang leaders and company agents like Stout that he was going to die, but he was not honest.

The lack of candor is critical, especially as the company attempts to trace the data left behind by an entire criminal gang operating in Night City.

They found that many things were problematic. First of all, the data link in Night City's cyberspace was missing. It was also possible that a secret method they had never seen was used for secrecy.

This phenomenon does not only exist when they are tracking Burger King, traffic lights, power grids

Data is missing in too many places, and there are data links that cannot be traced and restored. It is easy to associate these anomalies with the AI ​​that just caused a scene in the city, and the night that was just attacked inexplicably. The group is linked together.

Burger King's intelligence is like being partially swallowed by a black hole, making it difficult for the company to make more specific judgments; but the problem is that there are other things falling into the black hole, and there is no way to directly define it: the data black hole was created by Burger King.

Because of the unrealistic style and the existence of data black holes, as well as the fact that major companies with first-hand information do not share information with each other and even have their own ideas, their intelligence and descriptions of Lille are always unthree-dimensional, distorted, and shrouded. Under the veil.

For example, Kang Tao, they knew that the Sianwei Stan on V was theirs, but other companies didn't know.

For example, military technology, they know that Lear has absorbed a lot of technology from them, such as centaur mechas and drones.

But to be honest, even the senior military science and technology executives themselves are not completely aware of these things. Only Stout knows.

Another example is Arasaka and Network Monitor. They knew that the battle in the Tiger Claw Gang was not only against Jotaro Masaho and the deputy director of the NCPD. The two companies also had a battle in cyberspace, a battle between Black Wall and Soul Killer.

There is also Biotechnology, which was taken advantage of at the beginning. Others will never know what Burger King stole. They don't know that the lizard people actually have nothing to do with biotechnology.

If this intelligence is spliced ​​together, intelligence work will be better advanced, but how can companies share intelligence?

So it was only at this time that these high-ranking companies discovered.

A little tricky.

Every company that has ever been in contact with Burger King, every company that once thought it was just a few short-lived mercenaries, has changed its mind:

This criminal gang has had strict information security ideas from the beginning. Every seemingly brutal and reckless crime is likely to have careful thinking. From the beginning, they have been concealing it.

And today, after they did something outrageous and exerted some influence on Night City, the company can no longer track them, and the mystery cannot be revealed at all.

Twelve hours had passed since the nuclear explosion. Military Technology was the first to send a team to follow up, but all they got was the corpses on the first floor——

Susan Forrest drove a float vehicle and led an entire military technology action team to the original detonation point of the signal, the Batty Hotel, guided by the drone.

They now knew why the Voodoo Gang didn't stop them from entering Taiping State:

It turned out that all these people were dead.

Bridget sat on the hacker chair and trembled constantly. The amplitude of this tremor was rapidly decreasing-

Unstable strong currents can cause intermittent contraction of human muscles, creating epileptic tremors, but high-intensity currents can kill muscle cells, causing muscle fibers to gradually lose activity and stop moving.

At the same time, the current will also accumulate heat in the human body, eventually turning the black man in front of him into charcoal.

Yes, the part above the neck of the Voodoo Gang on the hacker chair has all turned into a charred paste.

Susan reached out and unplugged the cables on Bridget's body, scanning all the interfaces on the scene.

But her artificial eye always shows strange black and red mosaics.

[Lark: If I were you, I wouldn't try to touch those interfaces. ]

[Lark: It's a trace of roaming AI. I heard that the Voodoo Gang is a group of idiots who like to tinker with the black wall. It seems that they have successfully broken through the black wall. ]

[Lark: Or... Or our three international wanted criminals sold the captured AI to us. It seems that they found a buyer other than the network monitoring? ]

[Lark: If that's the case, the AI ​​is probably back to being on the run. ]

Lark's tone was full of uncertainty, but it was indeed a possibility.

Burger King must have captured an AI. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the AI ​​that appeared in the second half of the Extreme Metal Race was a roaming AI, and this AI lost.

This is easy to verify: Ryan has personally confirmed that it was the roaming AI that did it.

So in the eyes of military technology and other uninformed companies, Burger King must have another purpose for doing this: to capture roaming AI, and the commissioner of this task is generally the network monitoring.

However, after the race, Burger King suddenly kidnapped Mrs. Perales and attacked Ryan and Senator Perales.

It seems that if he doesn't want to keep the roaming AI, it makes sense to find a buyer.

It's also reasonable for the buyer, the Voodoo Gang, to be burned to death by the roaming AI.

That's it

It's just too reasonable, which makes people suspicious.

This is why the intelligence staff have a headache: Burger King's style of action is cunning and reckless, which makes them speculate in two extremes.

One extreme is: the motive is solid, the chain of evidence is complete, that's it.

The other extreme is: this is an illusion, what are they covering up?

Susan listened to the advice of the lark, let go of the cable in her hand, and stopped the network agent from checking the interface.

[Lark: Headache, right? I feel headache too. I guess those three guys have entered Dog Town by now. ]

[Susan: I need experienced hackers to assist in the investigation on the spot. ]

[Lark: Don't worry, there will be, I will go to Dog Town with you. ]

[Susan: You? ]

[Lark: Well, there have been some changes in the schedule recently, and I think you also need to know. I feel that Saburo Arasaka may have contacted President Miles. ]

[Lark: That old pervert seems to have something to say-not just to President Miles. ]

[Susan: I don't care about this. ]

[Lark: You're not curious about this? Arasaka, military technology, maybe Kanto, Petrochemical and Biotechnology]

[Susan: When will you arrive? ]

[Lark: I find you're really inhumane - the itinerary is confidential, and it's also confidential to you. ]

[Lark: But it's just a few days. ]