Night Hacker Chapter 94: A place with three feet
The night wind rustled in the rain, and the fishpond convoy began to drive into the Sanjiao area.
Before the convoy started from Kabukicho, passed through the bustling central area, and then passed the small flea area. If you continue to go east, you will be the boxing area, and if you go northeast, you will be the three-legged area.
The East River diverges deeply, forming various circuitous river courses, which become more and more like this as you go north.
If you go straight to the north and cross the big river called Kitaarakawa, you will reach the Kawago area where countless rivers intersect.
But most of the rivers there have become dumping grounds for industrial waste in the eastern industrial zone.
On the south side of the North Arakawa River, there are not so many river channels, and the towns are built on the plains.
Gu He looked out at the street through the car window. Even in the middle of the night, there were cars coming and going and lights everywhere. He looked all the way, but he didn't find any place in the city of night that was in silence.
The architectural style of the buildings in the Sanjiao District is quite old, most of them are built low. If there are no neon signs and awnings of shops that flash dimly in the night rain, they seem to be Gothic products of the past steam age.
The air penetrating into the car through the window also seemed to be filled with the smell of steam and mixed with the smell of chemicals.
"In the three-legged area, you must not walk around."
In this six-seater heavy off-road vehicle, Lorna is driving, Miss Cai Yin, Sakai Hanoi, and Cookie are all there.
In the back row, Lao Cai sat next to Gu He, earnestly teaching:
"You don't know which house is a working laboratory, where you are messing with alien species, studying strange objects, dissecting and transforming human bodies or monsters, digging data in human brains, everything is possible.
"I used to come to buy ingredients with a friend named Zade. We drank too much at a bar, and Zade went out to take a pee and never came back.
"I searched for him for a few days, and later found a bad tooth he had filled in a trash can not far from the bar."
A few girls didn't respond to what they heard. This is the three-legged area.
There are many good things here. It is a veritable "shopping paradise".
The more Gu He listened, the more he knew what a good place Shouhui Street was. At least there were still some rules on the streets there.
"However, the buildings you can see are just the two feet on the surface of the three-legged area, and it still has one foot."
Lao Cai raised his hand in a showy manner and pointed down, "It's underground."
Gu He didn't have any intuitive feeling after hearing it like this, but Lao Cai said that he would know soon.
The convoy drove for another half an hour and came to an abandoned construction site on the bank of the river called "Science Field", surrounded by houses with colorful walls and some drunken local young people swaying and shouting on the road.
The construction site has become a small square-like commercial place, lit up with lights, full of stalls and bustling with tourists.
The convoy stopped, and under the command of Lorna's walkie-talkie, some of the flesh and blood mercenaries guarded the convoy, and some dispersed to guard several intersections.
On this off-road vehicle, Gu He, Sakai Huaqing, and Cookie formed a large group.
There are two ways to transfer the upper body of the doll to the doll container, one is to connect the helmet through the ordinary, and the personality goes to the container. Afterwards, the container can take off the helmet, but the soul-shifting personality must be connected to the helmet to return to the main body. And the distance between the large group and the ontology cannot go too far, otherwise the integrity of personality will decline, like a local area network.
The other is to take the spiritual network channel. This mission is exactly what they used because of the risk of being separated. The three of them first connected with the heart network helmets, so that they could be easily located in the heart network. Sakai Huaqing and Xiao Tianxin entered the heart network, and then immediately jumped to the location of Gu He's personality Rubik's Cube to connect to his Rubik's Cube.
Since Gu He is a container for dolls and accepts their data flow, this is different from being forced into it, so the empathetic connection of the three personality Rubik's Cubes did not trigger the reaction of the heart network host.
When they exited the Xinwang, they were already in Gu He's body.
In this way, when they want to return to the main body, the personality can reconnect to the spiritual network at any time, then disconnect the Rubik's Cube connection, go offline and return to the main body, without the need to transfer between physical helmets. And there is no distance limit between the large group and the ontology, like the Internet.
The large group of the heart network channel is more flexible, but the disadvantage is that the maintenance time will be shorter.
Gu He has just been promoted to the advanced level of the container, and it should be in overdrive, and Miss Sakai is in the third gear, and the cookie is salted fish. Their personality integrity is 93% and 95%, respectively, and his It is 99%.
[Container, program status: idle, 45%]
This is still very relaxed, and he feels that it will be no problem to last a day.
At the moment, Gu Hedaqun, Miss Caiyin and Lorna followed Lao Cai into the construction site square, and immediately looked at him with some unkind eyes.
It's the gangsters who roam the area.
The largest gang in the three-legged area is the "Alchemy Union", a core member of which is an alliance of alchemists.
He also saw members of the low-tech tribe, similar to those in Kabukicho. The middle-aged man was wearing tattered cloth and shouted: "Humans imitated the gods to create Leviathan, and the result was to destroy themselves ! Electronic technology is today's Leviathan!"
"We're here to find Wilbur, we have a deal."
Here, Lao Cai told the vigilant gatekeepers that he showed a special mechanical card in his hand, inlaid with spars and numbers, and it was a pass issued to friends by the alchemy union.
When the leader of the gatekeeper saw the card, he took out his instrument and scanned it. The test was fine, so he let them pass.
After all, Caiyin Kumiko has retired for many years, and she has to rely on Lao Cai to walk in the three-legged area.
Gu He continued to follow, walked around this square to an entrance leading to the underground, walked in, and arrived at another space after a while, which seemed to be rebuilt from an underground parking lot, and it was noisier than the ground.
There are rock songs stirring with the sultry air, and there are crowds of people beside various stalls, all of whom have been verified.
"Like this underground shopping mall, this kind of place is the hidden foot in the three-legged area, and you can only enter if you have a relationship." Lao Cai said while walking, "If you want to buy really good things, you have to go to this kind of place."
"Lao Cai, do you know this Wilbur?" Lorna asked, "What is it about?"
"It doesn't count as an acquaintance, and it's not a particularly famous one, but I heard it has a personality. It is said that he is a top student in the Department of Physics of Liuguang University. He came to the three-legged area many years ago, and he specializes in strange objects and prosthetics. Alchemist."
An alchemist is somewhat similar to a food maker in some respects, but the things and methods of refining are different.
One of the great mysteries of the triple great Hermes, alchemists have extraordinary abilities in the manufacture, dismantling, refining, adjustment, and maintenance of strange objects and alien species.
It is in these underground studios and laboratories that batches of prosthetic bodies and equipment are transported to the streets of various districts, as well as those things whose success or failure is unknown. The Sanjiao District has always been a good place for treasure hunting.
On the other hand, any good achievements here and there will be quickly wiped out by the bank or the Bureau of Secrets.
Everyone walked in this underground shopping mall for a while, reached the other end of the shopping mall, and then walked into a small passage, until a thick metal gate blocked the front, and there were many electronic devices on the door.
Lao Cai has already taught you not to break the door in the three-legged area, especially the door of the alchemy studio.
Caiyin Kumiko walked up, and pressed a string of connector passwords on a worn-out small electronic keyboard on the door.
After a while, a male voice came from the door intercom: "Watermelon plus apple, what is it?"
"Watermelon and apple." Caiyin Kumiko answered the secret signal.
Gu He saw that the metal door made a magnetic sound, and it opened slowly to both sides automatically.
They were able to walk into the studio inside, all kinds of mechanical equipment and sundries were crowded and messy, everywhere was filled with smoke, and the walls were covered with numbers and physical formulas that they could not understand, as if it was the bedroom of some great scientist.
There is a huge glass water tank in the middle, with a chubby creature like a dolphin swimming in it.
Its skin is white, and there are many electronic interfaces on its body, all of which are connecting and pulling various wires, making it look old and fat, and it doesn't care about its whiskers.
A man in his thirties stood by the water tank, with curly brown hair messed up, wearing a loose plaid pajamas, his unkempt face showed fatigue from lack of sleep, but he was quite handsome.
He is Wilbur. Although he is an alchemist, he has no obvious prosthetic transformation.
"The middleman who came to receive the goods, come with me, who is Daqun?"
"I...we are." Gu He replied. Hanai Sakai easily squeezed out and said hello: "I'm an actor." Then Cookie said lazily: "I'm a fabricator."
"Daqun's doll container is a high-level programmer with high talent." Caiyin Kumiko only disclosed simple information.
"Enough." Wilbur nodded, "This miracle can be used by a programmer."
The crowd followed him to the inside of the studio ~IndoMTL.com~ Lorna looked around vigilantly as she walked.
Wilbur has put the goods away, on a wide mechanical work table against the wall, covered with a black cloth, there are many wires dragging from the water tank, it seems that the other end The transforming dolphin is connecting to the wonders on the table.
At this time, Wilbur stepped forward and lifted off the black cloth, revealing the true appearance of the strange thing.
Gu He was slightly surprised at once, and saw that it seemed to be a pair of wings, a combination of steel and flesh, and precise gears formed the long wings on both sides, both of which were more than two meters long, and each feather was lifelike and full of strangeness of brilliance.
At this time, there are still bundles of wires connecting it, and it is indeed connected to the dolphin.
Gu He heard that in his mind, Sakai Huaqing said in amazement: "It's so beautiful." Cookie also said: Then I understand.
But he didn't understand, so he asked the cookie: "What?"
"The fabricator's star is Yisu." Cookie replied, "I'm here to increase the compatibility when it's installed on you."
Caiyin Kumiko looked at the pair of long wings, and she couldn't help but be amazed after so many years since she was a child, it was really an eye-opener.
Lao Cai also sighed with emotion, and asked, "How much did this cost?"
"20 million, and provide me with strange object materials with corresponding original characteristics."
Hearing Wilbur say that the cost was at least 20 million yuan, Lorna, who also liked this strange thing, was slightly speechless.
"But money is not the key, nor are materials..." Wilbur looked at the long-winged monster in front of him, the exhaustion on his face was gone, and enthusiasm and satisfaction appeared in his eyes, "It's a formula, it's an algorithm , is the data structure, is the corresponding data...
"Wings of Chiba, this is my highest masterpiece."