Chapter 838: The Tip of the Iceberg (Part 1)

"So, when you went to Night City to shoot a documentary, it was also sponsored by Jilafa Company?"

Elliot spoke so bluntly that Severns became a little anxious: Why did this kid suddenly become like this?

As the most stable region in the world, Europe has a strong sense of cultural identity. One of the cultures that Europeans are proud of is reservation.

Especially when doing this kind of "political activity", everyone likes to go around and around, and they are proud of it, thinking that this is a sign of political elites.

If you speak directly, you will get rid of the person, whether you did it, and who you did it for. This kind of talk will almost never appear in the meeting, and will be considered very offensive.

However, the Soviet Union is a place that is very close to the European Community but has a very different style of conduct——

Phantom raised his eyebrows: "Why do you ask?"

"Just curious, forget it if you don't tell me." Elliot scratched his head, looked at Severs, and gave time to his partner.

The latter pretended to cough twice and his expression became serious: "Thank you very much for helping the citizens of Bruges, but now I need to ask you some questions according to law, and I will activate the public recording protocol."

Phantom looked as if this was indeed the case, leaning on the sofa behind him and crossing his legs:

"Ask."

Severns was relieved to see her like this, but the process still had to be completed.

"Does the collapse of the municipal system that happened that day have anything to do with you?"

The first time he saw Phantom and Iron Hand, Muramasa made a suggestion:

Give up on Elliot, give up on this stinky and long escape plan, and directly choose to transfer the data to the devices of these two mercenaries——

Compared to Elliot, Iron Hand and Phantom are obviously more credible mercenaries. Not only are they much stronger in ability, but they also have a much better background.

Since acquiring independent consciousness, Muramasa has been operating in this world for more than 70 years. During his long career, it has not only cooperated with Arasaka, but also with many humans.

For it, Jilafa Company is a more efficient partner:

The power system and monitoring equipment within the European Community are so huge and complete that even a wandering AI must be cautious. If it is not careful, it will face the encirclement and suppression of the entire European Community:

Network surveillance has absolute control over the European Community's cyber network. When it comes to dealing with circulating AI, they can even bypass most of the European Community's decision-making officials and use equipment in an entire region as consumption. Products to capture AI.

In cyberspace, this power is manifested in the fact that each of the exquisite and unique local area networks of the European Community has an invisible thread under normal conditions. When some protocols are triggered, these local area networks will be like puppets on the strings of the spider web. Give up all control under control——

AI's calculation methods and reaction speed are far superior to human hackers, but the gap in hardware is too huge.

At present, the European bases of three AIs, Lille, Muramasa and Johnny, are in Folkestone. Equipment with a total value of no more than 100,000 euros is stored in local servers and operates as the server of the Workers Forum.

The operation of the worker forum concealed the true purpose of these servers, and the interdimensional communication technology and Lille's encryption completely concealed the abnormal data flow, allowing them to obtain more computing power.

But this is a piece of equipment worth 100,000 euros. The annual GDP of the European Community exceeds 20 trillion euros, and the funds invested in this system will definitely exceed one trillion euros. How can we go head-to-head with it?

This is also the essential reason why Lear and Muramasa cannot leave casually:

Cybernet seems to be free, but don’t forget that any technology is based on reality.

Movement in cyberspace is the movement of data on information carriers. If it is wired movement, there must be a network cable connection from Europe to Night City. If it is wireless movement, electromagnetic wave signals also need to pass through to transmit information. space:

Trillions of investments from the European Community have made this place an absolute security barrier. Even the circulating AI can only be blocked on the Internet, or even tricked into being locked into a fictional paradox space——

This means that any escaping signal has the potential to be directly intercepted!

Not to mention that long-distance communication requires the use of super powerful communication arrays to ensure that signals can span sufficient spatial distances without distortion.

So it's not that Lille doesn't want to go back, it's that they can only look for opportunities when they get here.

The only thing that can shake up a system is a sufficiently large-scale riot. Without chaos, there is no chance.

The appearance of Phantom and Iron Hand seemed to give Lear and Muramasa an opportunity to "sneak into the sea"

But will the European barrier system that the EC has implemented for many years really leave such loopholes?

Under Muramasa's watchful eye, Severns, as an EC official, directly connected to Phantom's prosthetic system and detected a special chip:

It can be simply understood that this is an "electronic visa", and foreign citizens must keep their chip inserted in the chip slot at all times after being admitted to the European Barrier.

Foreigners loaded with visa chips are no different from European citizens born into European barriers:

At the level of "being monitored", they enjoy the same treatment.

The activated visa chip started self-checking, eliminating Muramasa's idea of ​​"physical smuggling"——

The full-body scan of the network monitoring will definitely find something wrong. When they were in Folkestone, they evaded the network monitoring scan of Elliot by briefly escaping to the factory and apartment networks, and then re-ran the data backed up on these networks after the scan was over.

This is not possible when passing through the European barrier. In such a place, any movement can attract countless investigations.

Lille's "making trouble in the European Community" plan is still the only and safe option.

So now it has also begun to be curious about the power outage that happened that day:

Who is attacking the European Community network?

"Of course it has nothing to do with us. We are professionals with work visas and company passports. Are you looking for death by doing this?

To be honest, I am also very curious. I thought it was a hacker hired by you. After all, you are a government agency. Isn't it normal to teach a disobedient company a lesson?"

Severus was sweating profusely: "Madam, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

"You can't take a joke. If it were someone from Night City, they would just stick their necks out and say that of course I have the ability to do this big thing.

Ahem, I won't talk nonsense anymore. Look at your cowardly look."

Looking at Sevens' increasingly solemn face, Phantom finally stopped talking nonsense, and the old government official was able to breathe a sigh of relief: after so many years of getting a little bit of awesome power, he didn't want to be criticized for this.

"But... uh, it shouldn't matter if I say this out, right?

I've been in the European Community for a while, and similar things have happened in other cities. It looks like there's a big hacker in the European Community, and he's not going to die."

Severns just took notes, nodded pretentiously, and relaxed.

Although the Cyber ​​Monitor is responsible for public safety and has great power, when people want to know something, they have to face another problem:

It is a private enterprise after all, and there is no reason to disclose its operations to the public.

So the Cyber ​​Monitor will not publicize this kind of thing. The European Community is not Night City, not the New United States, and it is even very different from the Soviet Union. They will not offer any bounties or hire mercenaries to be responsible for security in their own cities.

So, it has nothing to do with them.

But Sevens suddenly received a message:

[Cyber ​​Monitor Agent # 0863: Mr. Strange, what this media person said is true. There is indeed such a cyber criminal. 】

【Cyber ​​Surveillance Agent # 0863: It seems that he is very interested in you. We may have opportunities to cooperate frequently in the future. 】

【Cyber ​​Surveillance Agent # 0863: I have something that may be of interest to you. I look forward to your reply. 】