Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 1038

During this period of time, Jotunheim became the source of war, but the earth was also not quiet.

The heterogeneous society on the east coast of North America has started a new round of ups and downs.

In New York City above Sulfur Harbor, in the past 7 months or so, it has escaped several assassinations, and the executive officers of several heterogeneous reservations that have a balance between the official and rebel forces all died overnight.

Having gathered their forces, the Vampire Supreme Family, which was huddled in the Sulfur Harbor, also began to set foot on the ground again.

The territory of Midnight, the most powerful voodoo wizard on the east coast, has been horribly cleansed. Midnight's loyalists were secretly captured by the Blood Knights of the Supreme Family while they were patrolling around, before they even had time to escape.

The new executive, the succubus Mandy, is scheming something in the dark.

In addition, there is an apostle of hell who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the wizards of the Magic Congress who are watching coldly are also ready to move.

In just a few days, the aliens in New York City felt the momentum of the coming rain.

New York City will be buzzing for some time to come.

But this excitement has nothing to do with ordinary people, and all kinds of entanglements that happen in the dark night will not affect the world under the sun.

It stands to reason that at such a time, the Sky Eye Society, which nominally manages the heterogeneous society, should actively participate in it, but this official organization after S.H.I.E.L.D. has been keeping a low profile for a while.

Most of their power has been drained into another project.

At the request of the World Security Council, agents of this organization have been searching for the missing Numbani Smart Tower.

Compared with the Omnic Crisis that may come across the world at any time, the aliens showing signs of riots on the east coast are no longer a big problem.

In the middle of the night, over the sea near South America.

Between the clouds, a space carrier similar in shape to the Aegis command ship is hovering.

It turned on the stealth mode, and under the refraction of the light, this giant invisible to the naked eye slowly slid in the sky, like a flying fortress entering the battlefield.

"It's here!"

In the command room of the mothership, Amanda Waller, who was wearing a captain's uniform, was sitting in the command chair. On the projection in front of her eyes, the sonar simulation map under this sea area was constantly changing.

In the sea, there are three transferred submarines, supporting the mothership's actions from three directions.

A circle of encirclement has been formed.

"Deep Diver 1, have you seen it?"

Waller stared at the screen on the projection, and she asked in the communicator:

"It should be just 5 kilometers ahead of you in the trench."

"The terrain here is complicated. Sir, the sonar can detect echoes ahead, but relying on the scope, we can't see the specific situation."

The news under the sea reached the mothership, Waller nodded, and she said:

"Stay where you are, Deep Diver, and keep reporting."

After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at Dr. Reed Richards who was busy at the console of the mothership.

she says:

"Doctor, have you found anything?"

"Have."

Dr. Reed, with his white temples, frowned, and said:

"The signal of the smart tower is still there, but it will take a few minutes to access the communication. I have never seen this data algorithm, but it should not be difficult to crack."

While typing on the keyboard quickly, the doctor asked without raising his head:

"But Commander Waller, I have a strong doubt. After locking the smart tower, what are you going to do? Is it a storm? Or..."

"If you want to attack by force, there will be more than this few people, doctor."

Waller said calmly:

"We just want to talk to Icarus, if she can return the smart tower, it will be good for both parties."

"What if she doesn't want to?"

Reed asked:

"Icarus' evolution at the data level has made her thinking logic no different from ours. She will think about gains and losses from a higher perspective. Judging from the situation during this period of time, she does not seem to intend to have a thorough relationship with the official opposition."

The doctor looked up, and he looked at Waller sitting in the command chair.

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"She and her omnics are pretty quiet, even harmless."

"That doesn't mean they're not threatening, Doctor."

Waller said:

"Icarus can repeat what she did in Numbani Industrial Park anywhere in the world at any time."

"After the incident in the Numbani Industrial Park, the World Security Council shut down several other omnic industrial parks in the world immediately, just to prevent the same thing from happening."

The Commander sighed, and she said:

"Icarus thinks he's doing something good for his fellow omnics, but that's not the case."

"Her behavior has made the official high-level hostility and fear of omnics even worse. If the same type of incident occurs again, some laws against omnics will be issued in the entire world."

"The living environment of omnics will only get worse."

Waller looked at Dr. Reed, and she said:

"I don't have any dislike for omnics. I have an omnic butler at home. She takes good care of me. To be honest, I like her a lot."

"But I'm also wary of her. I'm worried that one day when I'm asleep, my butler will break my neck."

"Dr. Reed, can you imagine how big waves will be caused after the news of the Numbani Industrial Park is revealed to the society?"

She blinked and said:

"Do you understand me, Doctor."

Dr. Reed, who was typing on the keyboard, paused. He looked at the screen with data scrolling in front of him, and said to Waller:

"When a tool is out of control, most people's first instinct is to destroy it."

"Exactly."

Waller turned her attention back to the projection in front of her, and she said:

"What Icarus did in East Africa brought back this kind of 'threat' that had been suppressed and downplayed by S.H.I.E.L.D. We can't just tell the higher-ups that this free omnic is harmless. "

"We have to produce evidence. Icarus said that she has no intention of disrupting the existing order, so she also has to produce evidence."

The commander breathed a sigh of relief, and she said:

"Since the two sides do not want this incident to cause panic in the whole society, the two sides have a basis for negotiation. I will talk to her about this matter."

"If the negotiation fails, the two parties will have to regretfully enter the next stage."

"Ah."

Dr. Reed nodded, but he didn't speak any more.

Waller's statement makes some sense. It seems that the current high-level officials are still sensible about the Mechanicus, and they are still trying to resolve this matter in a peaceful way.

Smart towers can be returned, Adeptus Mechanicus affairs can be covered up, even free omnics can be allowed to operate in certain areas.

But there is a key point that cannot be bypassed.

That is Icarus.

The source of omnic freedom, the center of all instability.

Reed is very curious, how will Tianyan deal with Icarus?

Attempt to destroy, or detain?

Or cooperation?

Would they really trust a special being like Icarus?

As one of the builders of the Smart Tower, and as the scientist with the deepest data research in the world, Reed knows how difficult it is to restrain omnics like Icarus at the data level.

It is necessary to build a set of data firewalls specially for Icarus's special soul code from scratch.

It is also necessary to look for a top-level physically encrypted database that can accommodate the massive data information of Icarus.

Most importantly, all of this must be done without Icarus resisting.

Um...

From a purely technical perspective, this is impossible.

Reed glanced quietly at Amanda Waller who was sitting in the command chair. He couldn't see her thoughts from the female agent's face, but she at least showed full confidence.

If she is not putting on a show, it means that Waller does have a way to simultaneously suppress Icarus and her Mechanicus from the two aspects of data and reality?

The doctor looked at the screen in front of him again, and he looked at the sonar image sent back by the submarine submarine.

On that image, in the dark trench, surrounded by three submarines, there is a huge, hexagonal thing, like a palace under the deep sea.

That's the smart tower.

The transformed smart tower.

How did the Sky Eye Society accurately lock onto this thing all over the world?

"Doctor? Are you still okay?"

Waller's inquiry awakened Reed who was in deep thought.

The doctor raised his head, showed an embarrassed smile, and tapped his finger on the keyboard.

Along with the communication signal of the special frequency band was sent, he said:

"Okay, you can now talk to the inside of the smart tower."

Waller adjusted the frequency band of the communicator, and a large projection appeared on the wall in front of the command room. On it was a black and white snowflake, just like a TV that lost its signal.

"Lord Icarus?"

Waller said to the communicator:

"are you there?"

"Mom isn't here!"

A few seconds later, the fierce, childish voice came out of the communicator.

In front of Dr. Reed and Amanda Waller, the snowflake-covered projection also quickly reorganized and changed. In the active data flow, it quickly projected a picture.

The background of the picture is a very sophisticated, working laboratory.

Some bionic omnics were moving metal boxes, as if they were moving house.

In the center of the projection is a little Caucasian girl in a red dress with long blond hair.

She has a pair of human eyes.

There are skins made of the best bionic materials.

At this moment, that cute little face was full of a fierce expression.

She seemed very unhappy, very unhappy.

And when he saw this face that belonged to a child, Waller couldn't help but twitched at the corner of his eyes.

red queen...

The crazy AI that tried to kill her in the Undersea Base of Ouroboros not long ago.

A mechanical bear child with a very problematic personality...

What is the communication she got through?

Is there nothing else in charge of that smart tower?

"Yo! Waller."

When she saw Amanda Waller in the command room through the projection, the eyes of that angry little girl lit up.

Her face was full of malice, outlining a childish and evil expression.

She said to Waller:

"The last time I let you escape, did you come to die again this time? You are in the sky, right? Give you a present!"

"Drip, drop"

Dr. Reed in the command room lowered his head, and saw a virus invasion alarm pop up on the screen.

This brat!

The doctor shook his head, he pushed his glasses, reached out and typed a few times on the keyboard, and the virus was isolated in the data sandbox of the system, like a bug that was caught.

"what!"

red queen...

That is, Alicia's lovely face showed a puzzled expression.

She frowned, as if curious, how could the virus she threw along the communication message be wiped out so quickly?

"Someone is helping you, and it's still a very powerful guy."

Alicia said to Waller:

"It seems that you have learned to be smart. Are you looking for bad guys to bully me while the adults are not at home?"

"I don't have time to play with you, Red Queen."

Waller said blankly:

"Call your adults over here, Icarus or Hope, I have something important to talk to them about."

"They're not at home yet."

Alicia pursed her lips and replied with an unhappy face:

"Leaving me here alone, they ran out to play and haven't come back for a long time."

"Where did they go?"

Waller's eyes flicked, and she asked:

"Can you contact them?"

"I went to a very strange place. Even if I tell you, you can't find it."

The little girl in the red queen poked her baby-fat face, her eyes rolled around, she crossed her hips, and said to Waller:

"Just tell me if you have anything, I will pass it on. Then you can go, I'm very busy now."

"you?"

Waller stared at the unreliable red queen, she shook her head, and said:

"No, this matter must be discussed with someone who can make a decision."

"What do you mean?"

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed across the face of the red queen, and she asked fiercely:

"Are you looking down on me? Waller, it seems that last time..."

"Swish"

A flash of light danced on the Red Queen's wrist, interrupting Alicia's threat, and she glanced down at the watch-like instrument on her wrist.

She pouted, raised her head, and said to Waller:

"Okay, no time to play with you, Waller, we're leaving."

"Walk?"

Waller's eyes widened, and she felt something was wrong.

She stood up, staring at the red queen, she asked:

"Where are you going?"

"Move."

The Red Queen said a little uninterestedly:

"You humans hate us intelligent robots, and we don't want to stick our hot faces on your cold asses. This world can't accommodate us, so we'll go elsewhere."

"But don't worry, Waller..."

The red queen grinned, showing a malicious smile again.

As if saying goodbye, she waved her hand in the projection and said to Waller:

"I will find a chance to come back and 'play' with you again. You must wait for me~ The big sister who is seriously ill, and the very powerful big brother who is hiding."

"bye Bye!"

(End of this chapter)