Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 350 Betrayer

For someone like 37 who has been severely brainwashed, has complete faith in the organization, and would resolutely carry out a suicide mission, Duan Mingyuan believes that the best way is to use magic to defeat magic, and his current occupation in prison happens to be a junior magician.

"What do you mean you found it?"

37 asked in astonishment.

Although the sergeant's expression was clear and accurate, she still couldn't believe her ears.

For cyborgs, Pioneers are the most mysterious and greatest existences. Only those who follow the guidance of Pioneers and purify their sins can reach the digital world after their death.

This is the ideal of all ghosts, and it also allows them to find the meaning of life.

"It's obvious."

Duan Mingyuan felt that instead of forcibly brainwashing 37, it would be better to guide her step by step to find the "truth".

He has never been a person who likes to force others. He respects every choice of free will. Although September has pointed out more than once that coercion can bring a different kind of interest to life in certain situations, he has refused it.

"Eisenberg-Adler is the key to everything. It was Shelby Albarn, his mentor, who advanced the research on artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface in the past 20 years. As early as that period, they built the framework of the digital world. Today, 20 years later, Eisenberg continued this theory and dragged the entire Prison Planet into the digital world. Do you think all this is just a coincidence?"

Although cyborgs are reluctant to admit it, in the eyes of others, Shelby is called the father of mechanical transformation. He used a mortal body to create a race between humans and artificial intelligence.

Duan Mingyuan did not lie, he just put all the facts in front of 37, and then believed in the girl's imagination.

For cyborgs with brain-computer interfaces, any factual lies will be exposed at a glance, and the truth is like a sharp knife to them.

Duan Mingyuan studies every day, and all this knowledge he learned from the owl.

What he is doing now is similar to what some journalists are doing.

By arranging and combining unrelated facts with the truth, they can create a deception that is the opposite of the truth.

"You mean... the judge?"

37 fell into deep thought, her imagination was playing a huge role.

This action and what happened in the past two days gave her endless room for imagination. When she thought about the sergeant's current situation of becoming a magician without her knowing when, she became more convinced of the truth she had imagined.

The truth shocked her.

The sergeant did not come this time to return to the organization, but for the mechanical pioneer he recognized!
37 instinctively wanted to reject the truth she had imagined, but the more she thought about it, the more she realized that the Judge almost satisfied all of people's imaginations about the Mechanical Pioneer. It even accomplished a feat that even the Mechanical Pioneer could not achieve - dragging a planet into the digital world!

Duan Mingyuan also thought so.

Except that the Judge himself did not know that it was the new Mechanical Pioneer, all of its characteristics were consistent with the cyborg's imagination of the Mechanical Pioneer.

A "god" that can be seen and materialized, no longer existing as an illusory concept in the imagination.

In fact, according to his observation, all the "cocoons" have many similarities with the gods written by humans in some aspects, but these gods do not like humans very much and are always planning to sweep them out of the planet.

After a few minutes, 37 finally calmed down from his excitement.

She knew that this was unprofessional. As the leader of a ghost, she shouldn't show too much emotion, let alone let her emotions influence her judgment.

But now she was confused.

The sergeant abandoned his code name and had the same name as an ordinary person. Everything he did seemed to prove that he had betrayed the organization. But if you think more deeply, the ghosts exist to practice the will of the pioneers. Every ghost commander is regarded as an apostle of the pioneers. They are gifted and can hear the messages left by the pioneers from the chaotic digital world. So, if the betrayal organization is the guidance of the mechanical pioneers, how should she treat the sergeant?

The commander's position on this issue was clear, and he made a decision almost immediately - after receiving 37's report, the commander gave the order concisely.

The sergeant betrayed everyone.

Execute the traitor and bring Eisenburg-Adler back to Ghost Headquarters.

The commander not only ordered the sergeant to be executed, but also changed the details of Eisenberg's treatment.

They should have delivered Eisenburg directly to their employer instead of Ghost Headquarters!
All these details spare no effort to push 37 to one extreme.

She saw the urgency and uneasiness in the commander's order. Logically speaking, considering his position as a sergeant and his contributions to the Ghost Organization, even if he really wanted to be executed, he must be sent to a military court first according to the procedure, instead of instructing her not to leak the news and taking action suddenly when the other party was off guard.

This made her believe the sergeant's words even more.

The mechanical forerunners were with them, and before their very eyes.

However, the missions that Ghost performed in the past were not necessarily the information left by the Pioneers.

This is not the first time 37 has heard this argument.

In recent years, many rebels have emerged among the cyborgs. They believe that the current commander is too close to the Flash Flag Chamber of Commerce. Many of their actions do not seem to be the information left to them by the pioneers, but rather killings for the purpose of eradicating dissidents. They have noticed that Ghost is gradually transforming from an organization formed to cleanse sins and defend their homes into an organization similar to a killer.

They suspect that the current commander is abusing his power for personal gain and turning the entire organization into a tool to achieve his ambitions.

These are often the last words of these rebels.

When 37 was ordered to execute the rebels, those people always tried to discredit the commander's image with such remarks, and they did not reflect on themselves until their death.

"Did the commander convey the order from the Mechanical Pioneer?"

Duan Mingyuan noticed 37's hesitation and asked again.

This question made 37 straighten his body. He pinched his thighs with his hands, causing a dent in his black tight combat uniform.

Because this looks exactly like the rebels' sophistry.

A certain voice in her heart kept telling her to execute the traitor in front of her and not give him any more opportunities to deceive the public.

If it were in the past, she would have followed her instinct without hesitation and chopped off the heads of the traitors with a knife - in this respect, cyborgs are the same as humans, they will die without a head, and all the chattering will end in an instant.

But what if the sergeant wasn't lying?

This question horrified 37 even more than the sergeant's betrayal.

If the sergeant did not lie... then it probably also means that those who were ordered to be executed by the commander in the past were not traitors, and her hands were already stained with the blood of innocent people.

"You reported what I just said to headquarters."

Duan Mingyuan, who was sitting opposite her, seemed to see through her heart. He asked calmly, "What did the commander say? Did he order you to execute me, a traitor?"

(End of this chapter)