Chapter 368 Commission: The Dream Continues

The next step involves the official business of Bryce coming over.

The jammer stopped functioning and everything returned to normal.

"I don't have any authentic information in my library, and the identities of several of these mercenaries are also very suspicious."

As soon as the time came, Bryce entered working mode smoothly, and even the puff of cigarette he took was spit out before it even passed his lungs.

In this way, the biomonitoring prosthesis will not detect too obvious changes in nicotine content. A small change can also be interpreted as a gang area where everyone is smoking, all caused by second-hand smoke.

Lille was also very cooperative: "What's the suspicious method?"

"Cyberwatch has its own intelligence network and it's not normal that some people should not be passing through EC borders."

Regardless of his identity as the man who killed the Golden Son, this sniper is still an internationally wanted criminal, and a highly wanted criminal internally.

On the surface, Bryce can still reveal some basic information: This person cannot be released by the EC.

Most of these batches of mercenaries were sent by companies outside Night City to serve as vanguards, but why would they choose to let such a person come over?

Not a European company, not an ordinary criminal or a mercenary, who else has the ability to smuggle a criminal across state lines?

So this involves formal delegation.

"Network monitoring abnormal event code name AIA-1 level: Suspected unexpected data anomaly, which may involve circulating AI activities, and more resources need to be invested to proceed.

I think AI is likely to be involved in this incident. In view of your previous experience in helping Network Supervision deal with the AI ​​weapon "Soul Killer", we hope to formally hire you to assist the Network Supervision branch in Night City to investigate this matter. "

Unexpected activity - some mercenaries are documented and some are not.

The fact that these people who shouldn't have sneaked over here means that someone's control over the surveillance network has weakened, so it is unexpected and abnormal.

It can be seen that Blasey's spirits have improved a lot when AI is involved.

There is not much to think about. Anyway, AI is an external contradiction and the enemy of mankind. Just work hard.

Lear touched his chin: "Remuneration?"

"According to the market price, you will receive a bonus of 1 million euros if you successfully hunt the rogue AI. In addition, you will also gain some knowledge on how to deal with AI."

Bryce said and took out a soft screen from his pocket. It could be folded or rolled up like paper, but the content on it was in electronic form.

Lear looked over and discovered something that Bryce didn't say clearly:

The hiring agency is the Network Oversight Branch in Night City. The direct person in charge is Bryce. There is also a guarantor here.

Lucius Lane?

Does this need to be written?

Of course not. Judging from what Bryce said earlier, this commission is not so much a commission from network surveillance. It is better to say that under Ryan's recommendation and instruction, the Night City branch of network surveillance decided to let a mercenary assist. deal with.

Although it is only a temporary worker, this employment is much more formal than before——

Has Burger King become a regular army?

So should you accept this commission?

In general, after obtaining this information, it is not unexpected to need to deal with AI.

The problem is that this is clearly not part of the plot.

Even in the original plot of the game, Night City actually had no awesome mercenaries participating in the plot, and their presence was sparse.

The butterfly of his own had already stirred up a storm, blowing the original plot to pieces.

That being the case

Lille shook his head slightly: "I can take the job, but I don't want to sign the contract. It feels like signing a contract with the devil."

He chose to accept the commission not just for money, but because he could gain more knowledge on network technology by dealing with AI and enrich his arsenal.

If you don’t understand technology, you will always be a pawn played by others in such a world.

"Whatever." Bryce shrugged and put away the soft screen, "Anyway, this is actually a bounty business that has existed since the old network era.

Now talk about where you plan to start and I will provide the necessary help based on your plan. "

Bounties for circulating AI are a business that has existed since the beginning of the 21st century. At that time, hacker activities were far more frequent than today, and the number of AIs on the Internet was orders of magnitude higher than the AIs in these networks today.

The top job of mercenaries is to blow up another company under the instruction of the company, or to affect the entire war.

Hackers have one more top job, hunting these extremely harmful rogue AIs.

According to the booklet "On the Harmfulness and Development History of Fleeing AI" that Bryce previously gave, the reward for hunting down a rogue AI at that time started at 500,000 euros.

It can only be said that inflation has indeed increased significantly in recent years - and network surveillance now pays even more attention to AI than in the past.

The help provided is related to rewards other than cash. Typical company-style rewards, the only things you can get are things that are helpful in completing the task.

"I guess I have to prove first that this matter has something to do with AI, or that it has nothing to do with it, but this is the last clue I have at the moment."

Leal took out the last bullet that was ejected from the ram-type sniper rifle, and it was also the last bullet that the sniper did not fire.

As mentioned earlier, the ramjet bullet itself is actually a ramjet engine. The high speed of the bullet will suck high-temperature and high-pressure wind into the bullet, thereby igniting the fuel inside.

To achieve this structure on a 20mm caliber bullet is difficult to process. What is more important is the structural design and gunpowder formula of the bullet itself.

Of course, Lille would choose to take it apart and scan it carefully, and take out the backup for later study.

After taking it apart, I saw some interesting things.

The disassembled bullets were already in bulk. Lille pointed to the shell structure: "Look at it."

Bryce's prosthetic eye itself is equipped with a large number of information components, and is essentially a scanner with excellent performance and compatibility.

Although it is not like some extreme telephoto performance prosthetic eyes that can magnify images dozens of times, it has AI enhancement and prompt functions for some special details.

He immediately saw a line of small words engraved on the inner wall of the shell.

"Muramasa".

"Another Japanese name." Bryce squinted at the small print.

"How about it, do you have any idea about this name?"

"Maybe if this is a name left by an AI, it will be a very important clue. AIs think in strange ways."

"Then the probability that this village is an AI increases a lot, and the place where he carved his name is very subtle.

According to the normal process, after the bullet is fired, the prepared fuel will continue to burn, and the high temperature and pressure will completely obscure the fonts on the inner wall, leaving no clues. "

In this way, there is no point in leaving a name.

Engraving a meaningless message on a bullet is indeed a very strange way of thinking, just like an obsessive-compulsive disorder who must engrave a name, but considering his own safety, he does not want to leave any clues.

Bryce uploaded the name to Internet Monitoring's database and soon received suggestions for next steps.

His expression was slightly startled, and then he looked at Lear: "The anomaly level has been raised to AIA-2, and it is basically confirmed that it is AI."

Lear shrugged: "Then do you have any other constructive suggestions or help? Speaking of which, why would the existence of the black wall let the AI ​​come over? What's the principle?"

Two Japanese names, superb weapons manufacturing capabilities, eccentric behavior, and controlled weapons and other parts of unknown origin.

These are all the clues.

"Yes, I do have suggestions. As for your subsequent questions?" Bryce left the table, his prosthetic eyes twinkling slightly.

“I ordered a Dramain and we’ll talk in the car.

While you're waiting for the bus, you can decide what to do with these mercenaries - by the way, I remember you still have a prisoner? "

Network surveillance chatting in AI’s taxi?

With a subtle expression, Leer opened the door first and walked out.