My cyberpsychosis is a task prompt

Chapter 241: Exposing His True Colors

"Don't look at me like that, as if I'm some kind of heartless terrorist."

Orlos and John stood on an iron staircase.

The view here is excellent; you can see the smashed warehouse and the figures of people on the main roads on both sides.

"Is not it?"

John also leaned against the railing and gazed into the distance, just like the other people watching the spectacle from the surrounding buildings.

"That's a busy downtown area. What's the difference between a super-large hovercar crashing down and dropping a bomb into a crowd?"

"Did I want to throw it away? Even if I did, I wouldn't feel guilty, John. Middlemen have no conscience, and verbal provocations mean no harm to me."

She calmly took out a cigarette.

"I also want to know what exactly happened on that damn hovercar, which is why I brought you here, spent time, money, and effort to clean up the mercenaries' mess and deal with the scumbags hiding here!"

Orlos frowned.

John sighed, but didn't seem to care much. He casually chipped off a piece of rusty iron and continued talking.

"I believe you, so you're the middleman. The mercenary has disappeared, so who is the employer?"

"Myself."

Orlos took a deep breath.

White smoke billowed between two glossy lips.

This was the first time Orlos had described the details of the incident to anyone since it happened. She was telling John, and it was also a way for her to reflect on her own actions and try to fill in any gaps in her knowledge.

It started as a piece of shady intelligence.

The Faqi Group has a secret research project in the deal—it involves the ceiling for the next stage of cybernetic enhancements, which would be very helpful for those heavily modified units.

Oros came to Eden City to treat Behemoth and was very interested in this news, so she sent someone to find out more.

Therefore, this is a "commercial theft" mission.

It has absolutely nothing to do with terrorist attacks.

She selected a team of mercenaries from her pre-prepared database who were professional enough and had little connection with her.

The mission went very smoothly.

They secretly infiltrated, set up the route, and arrived at the transaction site, each person fulfilling their specific role.

Neither the intelligence personnel nor the inside agent betrayed them.

Unfortunately, an unexpected incident occurred when trying to obtain the specific details of the project.

The mercenary squad triggered an unexpected alarm.

They were subsequently targeted and attacked by the cybersecurity department.

The attack was sophisticated; two of the mercenary team's top hackers were burned to death in cyberspace, followed by a communications collapse, leaving the entire team without contact...

Orlos immediately ordered an emergency evacuation.

But fifteen minutes after the order was issued...

"That damned hovercar, the Fuki-go, just fell straight down from the sky!"

Oros exhaled a puff of white smoke.

She licked her lips, gazing at every vehicle near the explosion site at the warehouse dock.

“There’s definitely something wrong with this job, but it’s not my fault.”

she said to herself.

Do you know how tight the security measures are on the Fuki?

【Faki-go】has a dedicated backup server.

It cannot be hacked directly through the city's local area network; to compromise its internal network, one would need to go to the heavens.

The air-floating vehicle is equipped with two power systems, a main one and a secondary one, located on both sides of the elliptical body, and they operate independently.

Unless you can blow up both server rooms at the same time, it won't experience a power failure, let alone crash directly.

To destroy those security measures, simultaneously disable 32 vector engines of different specifications, disable the gliding system, and malfunction the attitude calibrator...

How much explosive charge is needed?
The answer is a miniature nuclear bomb.

Or two SS-20 ballistic missiles!

"This is a commercial infiltration. My mercenaries didn't bring any of those things on board. Unless the Faqi already has weapons stored on board, why would it have a suicide button?"

The problem still lies in the fifteen minutes of lost contact.

These fifteen minutes are the time the mercenary team has to gather intelligence. What exactly is the secret project of the Faqi Group?
What did the mercenaries see that could turn a commercial theft into a terrorist incident that led to martial law in half of the district?

Orlos's prosthetic eye stared at the passing crowd.

When she stops making crude jokes in a sarcastic tone, it means things have really gotten tough.

John nodded.

This is obviously a terrible thing.

"So what kind of tricks are you playing with when you do role-playing?"

“You’re a legendary figure in the West End. By keeping these middlemen focused on you, I can secretly gather intelligence.”

The crash of the hovercar was by no means a simple accident.

"The news has leaked. Who else besides me is still looking for that mercenary? That's where the problem lies..."

Orlos's speech slowed down.

She squinted, straightened up from her position holding onto the railing, gave a cold laugh, and whistled softly.

"Look, something's popped out of the fryer."

John followed her gaze back towards the dock.

Two flatbread delivery trucks were parked on the side of the road.

A group of employees dressed in the uniforms of the Fuzaki Group suddenly appeared and then dispersed. One group went straight to the mercenaries' warehouse, and after finding it had been blown up, they began to make phone calls to report the situation.

Only a few dozen seconds passed.

hum-

Two military-grade drones flew over Palmer.

[Equipment: Namio Hayabusa reconnaissance aircraft]

Manufacturer: Wasuzaki Kogyo

[Description: A landmark product for the Urasaki Group's foray into the urban transportation market, its rapid rise to the top of the bestseller list is due to users' unexpected discovery that the Namio Hayabusa has an extremely high modification ceiling and is highly compatible with weapon modules and peripherals.]

Orlos is the intermediary for the mission.

It's normal for her to be able to track down the mercenaries' whereabouts, and now, the Fuzaki Group has also realized that there are survivors of the airship incident and has already come looking for them.

"Those Japanese are definitely up to something. I'm the victim who got dragged into this. What a bunch of bastards! I'm going to investigate what kind of shady stuff they're hiding!"

Orlos smiled, but the light flowing deep within her prosthetic eye revealed a cold and profound depth.

She patted the railing and disappeared into the crowd of onlookers.

Oros has regained her familiar rhythm.

Her previous anger and silence stemmed from the fact that the enemy was hiding in the gaps between the city's neon lights.

And now...

Once the identities of the other people at the poker table were revealed, she immediately knew how to blackmail, manipulate, and negotiate with them.

What should we do now?

"To find her, we must ensure she is alive, or at least obtain the information she possesses. The Fusaki Group will not let her go easily."

Europa led John through the streets and stopped in front of a metal canopy.

[Shops - Raven International Distribution Center]

The dock was covered by an endless canopy, with open sides for equipment to enter and exit. In the partitioned areas, there were containers, pallets carrying goods, and countless metal shelves.

This distribution center primarily focuses on cold chain transportation.

The ground was covered with puddles.

It was wet and had a fishy smell.

Pamore was a former industrial port that was abandoned by the municipal planning after it officially opened.

However, its logistics function was not completely abandoned.

Small-volume cargo and intercity cold chain transportation are handled here. It can be said that apart from those notorious illegal businesses, port trade is the main source of Moore's open economic income.

It is backed by a Sino-Ocean International Corporation.

They were able to establish themselves and survive in Eden because of the operations of a company behind them.

of course.

Such places are definitely profitable, and there must be some powerful force entrenched there. Correspondingly, there will also be one or two middlemen whose names you can name.

(End of this chapter)