Soul echo

Chapter 637 'Ghost'

After a long silence, Qi Jingshu asked with difficulty: "...is what you said true?"

"Really." The young black man turned his head to look at the monitor, "They can testify."

[Whether you believe it or not, Ms. Qi, this is a fact. 】

The detective who was entrusted by Qi Jingshu to investigate the Illusion Company spoke at this time: [The server addresses announced by the Illusion Company are all fictitious. In fact, those servers are not used to run "Echo of Soul" at all, but to run something else. 】

[However, none of this can explain anything, and we have one of the most important pieces of evidence! 】

"What is it?" Qi Jingshu asked anxiously.

【it's me. 】

The projection equipment in the living room started automatically, and the figure of a middle-aged Caucasian man was projected into the air.

Projection nodded politely to Qi Jingshu, 【Hello, Ms. Qi, you can call me 'ghost'. 】

"Ghost?" Qi Jingshu frowned.

"No matter what he was called before, now he's just called 'Ghost'." The young black man sighed and turned his head to look at the projection, "Ghost, have you found anything?"

[I did find something. 】

With that said, the ghost projected several messages into the air, and at the same time sent these messages to the eyes of other people.

[I think you all know this person. 】

Qi Jingshu stared at the projected character information in the ghost's hand, and was stunned.

[Lilian Mirko,] In the projection, the girl smiled brightly, [became Zhong Ye's student in "Echo of Soul", and traveled with Zhong Ye for a year. During this period, she never used it once. Number of resurrections. 】

[About a few months ago, she joined the Belgrade branch of Illusion Company, but I don’t think you all know the reason why she joined Illusion Company. 】

Speaking of this, Ghost paused, [I found a case file at the Belgrade Police Station, the criminal is Lilian's stepfather's nephew, if counted, he can be counted as Lilian's cousin, he was impulsive, Intended to violate Lilian, but was beaten away by Lilian's punch - the 'slapped' I said here is literally blown away. 】

[This sounds nothing strange, but there is a premise in all these events, that is-Lilian Mirko is a patient with ALS. She has suffered from this disease for six years and is basically paralyzed. 】

When they heard 'Lilian is a patient with ALS', people's expressions finally changed, from confusion to shock.

How could a paralyzed patient with ALS and a minor girl knock out a man who was close to adulthood with one punch?

"By the way, we have another news that all of us know, but you don't know yet."

The young black man suddenly opened his mouth and said to Qi Jingshu: "Since the second half of the 21st century, the international situation on the earth has become very strange. The tense international situation suddenly ceased, followed by the explosion of technology, Dyson cloud, metal hydrogen, etc. Batteries, ultra-miniature fusion reactors...

"The above are all information that can be collected through the channels on the bright side, but there is still some information that cannot be collected through the channels on the bright side - also from the 21s of the 80st century, in the upcoming outbreak Shortly after the end of the World Wars, various groups began secretly collecting all sorts of possible supernatural connections.

"Whether it's books or props, most of these things only exist in public museums now, and what we can see on the market are imitations.

"About ten years ago, Isis Pharmaceutical Group and Jiangcheng Unreal Technology began to negotiate to form a company. That company was Phantom Company. After the establishment of Phantom Company, other companies and groups immediately invested in technology and capital. But in At that time, Phantom Company hadn't announced their purpose of establishing the company. Judging from the current situation, is a "Echo of Soul" worth the investment of so many big companies and groups?

"If you look at each of these messages individually, there may be nothing particularly strange, but if you put them together, you can detect the weirdness in them."

After hearing these words, Qi Jingshu couldn't help being dumbfounded.

No, if it is weird, the fact that countries are secretly collecting things related to magic is weird enough.

If someone told Qi Jingshu before that the cessation of the world war might have something to do with 'magic', she would definitely disdain this, but now, she has already believed it to a certain extent.

[In addition, there is a technological explosion at the end of the 21st century and this century - obviously no new physical theories have been discovered, but new things have popped up one after another. Among us, some are physicists and some are chemists , and two PhDs majoring in mathematics. According to their judgment, the earth did not have the conditions for a technological explosion at all. Believe it or not, many of the technologies we use now, such as the projection equipment I use now, are the same Something like duckweed in the water. 】

The ghost opened its mouth and attracted Qi Jingshu's attention, [At the same time, it's the same with my current state. I never believed in the existence of "soul" in this world before, but now, I can't believe it anymore. 】

Qi Jingshu looked at the ghost and pursed her lips, "...what do you mean?"

"In the 21st century, people have created many sci-fi works, including many cyberpunk games, movies and animations. The original 'future' has been realized in today's Confederate States of America. New York is the ultimate 'cyberpunk'. Nice picture."

The young black man in the wheelchair flicked his fingers again to turn on another projection screen, and a huge computer room appeared on the screen.

"Whether you believe it or not, this thing is the current 'ghost'-he used to be a living human being, but because of a disease and rapid organ failure, we were about to give up, but Rebecca experimented from the east coast. A technology was stolen from the room, although we knew at that time that it might be a trap, but we had no other way, the ghost's body could no longer hold on, so we transformed him into this thing.

"—Just like in cyberpunk works, there will always be a 'cyber ghost', and there is also a 'ghost' in New York!"

The young black man sighed, and turned his head to look at Qi Jingshu, his eyes were deep and deep, making her hair stand on end.

"The current 'ghost' is immortal, as long as the computer room is powered off, he can live forever, and he has also become a real cyber ghost, able to ignore the firewall, freely access all devices connected to the Internet, and obtain information from them .”

That is to say...

Qi Jingshu took a deep breath, turned her head to look at the projection of the ghost, and the slightly bald, middle-aged caucasian man also nodded to her.

[It's amazing to say that I can't prove that I am 'Alder Evans', but I do have all the memories of 'Alder Evans', and there is no change in personality, so I changed my name , now I'm just a 'ghost'. 】

Hearing this, Qi Jingshu fell silent.

She silently sorted out the information she already knew in her mind. Everyone knew that she was thinking, so they didn't bother her.

After a while, she sorted out a few questions.

"First, I want to know—why me?"

Qi Jingshu looked at the ghost and the young black man, and then at the display screen, looking at dozens of faces on the display screen.

"I'm just a little doctor, I don't have much family background, and I'm not a hacker like you. The world is so big. I noticed the problem. You and I should not be the only ones secretly investigating the phantom company, so why did you choose help me?"

【Not just you. 】A woman in the video said,【We are still helping other people, but we haven't decided to meet them yet, but I can also tell you that you are the most important to us among all people, because, you know 'Zhong Ye'. 】

Qi Jingshu frowned, "Does it have anything to do with Zhong Ye?"

【——Is Zhong Ye really dead? 】

The ghost said faintly at the side: [You should have been confused by this too, although the phantom company held a press conference and claimed that "Zhong Ye died unfortunately", and you, as Zhong Ye's friend, also confirmed it to his parents This news, but according to the information we found, Zhong Ye may not be dead. 】

In an instant, great excitement filled Qi Jingshu's chest, almost knocking her out.

Although she believed that Zhong Ye hadn't died since she investigated the Illusion Company, that was just her guess, and she was still not sure.

【We...we couldn't find the surveillance cameras on the street where Zhong Ye's accident happened. 】Someone in the video said, 【Neither we human beings nor 'ghosts' have found any trace of surveillance. 】

(End of this chapter)