The night before the promotion

Chapter 109 Invisible Enemy
After driving for a while, Ruan Linrui drove Zhou Si to the outside of the Supervisory Bureau. The tall, gray-white concrete building was right in front of them, like a huge monument, full of solemnity and oppression.

At the gate, the two armed avatars stood silently as always, like two stone statues.

Normally, people would often pass by and take photos of these majestic, armored giants, but due to the attack on Stone Keep, cracks had appeared in people's trust in the avatar's body, let alone these extremely dangerous armed avatars.

The two armored giants were like out-of-date stars. No cameras were pointed at them anymore, which made them a lot more relaxed and allowed them to enjoy the quietness.

Zhou Si stood outside the gate and exclaimed, "This is going much smoother than I thought."

"What else did you think would happen?"

Ruan Linrui guessed, "You feel like someone is watching you, and while watching you, they noticed your actions just now and tried to stop you."

She fantasized, "Say, send out an incarnation killer to intercept us on the way here?"

"I have thought about it, but it's not very realistic," Zhou Si shook his head and denied it. "Sending an avatar killer is the least efficient and most reckless thing."

The immortal was in a higher position, overlooking Zhou Si, but Zhou Si knew nothing about him. If the immortal took the initiative to attack Zhou Si, it would alert the enemy and allow Zhou Si to see his whereabouts.

"But he won't give up so easily. He will definitely take some action..."

Zhou Si thought, "There is another possibility. He feels that my current actions cannot threaten him, so he chooses to remain silent."

Ruan Linrui understood Zhou Si's idea, but still joked, "You seem to be suffering from severe paranoia now, playing a game with an invisible enemy."

"An invisible enemy? Maybe I will soon force him to show up." A smile appeared on Zhou Si's face.

After all, Zhou Si was not sure whether he was being monitored, but Ji Siling's crazy and frightened expression at the end of her life was engraved into Zhou Si's heart like an axe.

Zhou Si is facing an extremely mysterious enemy and must not underestimate him in the slightest.

When they arrived at the gate, the two did not go in immediately, but waited patiently outside.

After the stone fort was attacked, various important departments such as the Supervisory Bureau temporarily raised their defense levels. Ordinary people with flesh and blood like Ruan Linrui could naturally enter and exit the Supervisory Bureau freely, but Zhou Si was different.

As an incarnation, he needs to go through approval and notification before he can enter the Supervisory Bureau. As for those departments of the Supervisory Bureau that require confidentiality, he can only stand outside the door and wait.

Although a month has passed and the storm seems to have calmed down, that is only the government's move at the public opinion level.

The daily lives of ordinary people have returned to normal, but the war among the relevant personnel has just begun.

While waiting, Zhou Si's early warning system kept reminding him that he had been locked by a weapon. The noisy shouting gave Zhou Si a headache, so he could only turn down the volume of the alarm.

As for the source of the alarm, it was naturally the two armored giants at the gate. They seemed to be in a dormant state, but when Zhou Si approached, they had already realized the identity of Zhou Si's incarnation, and activated the weapon system, aiming at Zhou Si.

If Zhou Si shows any abnormal behavior, the armed incarnation's firepower will be poured on Zhou Si without hesitation, completely shattering his body.

"Oh, you're here."

The appearance of Li Weiyu broke this invisible confrontation. He waved to Zhou Si. At the same time, Zhou Si's early warning system detected that the other party had released the weapon lock.

Zhou Si got straight to the point and asked, "Are you all ready?"

"It's almost ready."

Li Weiyun recalled Zhou Si's previous hints to him and his needs, and continued, "I have already negotiated with Director Dong. Regarding your future actions, the Supervisory Bureau will fully cooperate with you."

In the Shenwei Building, after instructing Li Weiyu about his needs, Zhou Si made an appointment with Ruan Linrui, and then the three of them gathered here, ready to carry out Zhou Si's plan.

Passing through a series of gates, Li Weiyu led Zhou Si to a special room. Its door was extremely thick and contained a lot of shielding materials and lead layers.

Li Weiyun introduced, "This is the shielded room of the Supervisory Bureau. It will completely block any signal transmission and only retain the connection of consciousness. We will only activate this room when carrying out some special work."

In addition to maintaining a constant connection with human consciousness, the incarnation body is also closely connected to the vast Internet.

Everyone is supervised by a higher-level system, but sometimes, this higher-level system is not trustworthy, so many countermeasures are born.

Zhou Si stepped into the room. As Li Weiyu slowly closed the heavy door, when it was completely closed, Zhou Si suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of weakness.

Before entering the room, Zhou Si took the initiative to close the network connection of his incarnation body and only maintained the connection with his mind. However, he knew that this closure was futile. There must be some background programs that he could not see, still connected to the huge network.

But at this moment, the sealed door blocked all signals. No matter how secretly the background programs were hidden, they could not break through the physical constraints.

The threads wrapped around Zhou Si were cut one by one, leaving only a thread called consciousness, which tightly tied his mind to his body.

This strange feeling of weakness brought Zhou Si a completely new experience. He tried to describe it with words he already knew. It was like... like standing naked on the street, without any clothes to cover himself, exposing his ugly body completely.

"Dr. Zhou."

A voice full of vicissitudes sounded in the front. Zhou Si looked over and saw Dong Yuan standing there with a smile on his face. However, looking at that smile now, Zhou Si only felt a burst of severe chill.

Zhou Si did not forget Ji Siling's words, and that terrible guess was still lingering in his mind.

The Inspectorate was also a beneficiary of the Stone Fort attack.

Rather than justice or evil, what really drives the world forward is just different interests.

"Director Dong, I won't waste any more words."

Zhou Si didn't have much time left. The moment the door closed, Shenwei Technology should have realized that it was disconnected from the network, and the immortal must have known about it.

"The real culprit behind the Elysian Paradise, the Immortal, is not dead."

Zhou Si dropped a bombshell as soon as he opened his mouth. "I suspect he is a senior executive of Shenwei Technology, which is consistent with our initial suspicion."

"At present, I already have clues to continue the investigation, but my situation, as you can see, is that I have essentially been under the surveillance of Shenwei Technology. If the conjecture is correct, then the immortal must have been keeping an eye on me."

Zhou Si said in a complicated tone, "The situation was very unfavorable to us. We were completely passive, but fortunately, the reversal only took a moment."

"Once the immortal intends to attack you, will he naturally be completely exposed?" Dong Yuan is indeed a veteran and he immediately analyzed the pros and cons.

"Almost, but the risk is huge. After all, I'm using myself as bait this time."

Zhou Si suddenly joked, "Maybe, right now, that immortal is standing in front of my body, aiming a gun at my head."

"It might be simpler," Li Weiyun said, "such as injecting poison into your life support system, falsifying the data flow, or simply causing equipment failure and interrupting your extracorporeal circulation."

Zhou Si seemed to have accepted his fate, and said these terrifying words in a very calm tone, "Yes, my broken body is much more fragile than I expected."

Dong Yuan asked, "What do you need the Supervision Bureau to do for you?"

"First, I need permission from the high wall and large system."

Zhou Si made a request that was beyond everyone's imagination. "My mind connection may be interrupted at any time, but as long as the high wall and large system open up higher permissions to me, unless they isolate me physically, I will not go offline easily."

"At the same time, after you have the access to the high-walled system, I need you to create a copy of me, a virtual machine."

Zhou Si continued, "I don't want the Immortal to notice my next move, so after cutting off the network connection, I need to make sure that my mind signal won't be captured by the Immortal and he won't notice anything unusual."

"Then, I need the Supervisory Bureau to cooperate with me and create a virtual copy of me, a simulated signal. It doesn't need to do anything complicated. It just needs to continuously transmit signals within the Supervisory Bureau to mislead the Immortal and make him mistakenly think that I am always inside the Supervisory Bureau."

Zhou Si fabricated a prepared lie, "As a direct participant in these major events, when my body is unable to leave the life support system, it is reasonable for me to use my avatar body to negotiate with everyone in the Supervisory Bureau, isn't it?"

"You can even say that the interruption of my signal on the Internet just now can be explained by the fact that the Supervisory Bureau is a special confidentiality unit."

Zhou Si put forward his entire plan in one breath. It felt good to say these words, as if he had turned the precarious situation around a little further towards victory.

Dong Yuan thought for a minute, and then he asked, "That's a good plan, but I have two questions, Doctor Zhou."

"Excuse me."

"Even if we create a virtual machine and simulate your telepathic signals, how can you ensure that you can completely eliminate all signals?"

Dong Yuan couldn't figure it out. "These days, there are too many ways to monitor the incarnation's body."

"I know, so my body will remain in this room. I will create a copy virtual machine just to ensure that no useful information will be exposed."

"If you want to stay here, how should you act..."

Dong Yuan was halfway through his question when he suddenly came to his senses. He looked at Zhou Si incredulously and murmured, "So you need the authority of the high wall system."

"Yes, the incarnation of the body is really interesting. It confuses the correspondence between consciousness and body, making everyone lose themselves in one contradictory identity after another..."

Zhou Si walked towards Ruan Linrui and then knelt on one knee. He did not propose to her, but instead used both hands to open the back of his neck, revealing the metal parts hidden under the artificial hair.

"With the supreme authority of the high wall system, you can remove my consciousness protection mechanism, extract my thought storage core, and then place it in another incarnation body."

Zhou Si explained his plan, "My disability is completely controlled by others... I can't even break free of this body and wake up from my broken body, let alone project my consciousness into another body."

The doctors said that this was for Zhou Si's safety, but in fact it was just double house arrest, with the body trapped in the container and the consciousness imprisoned in the shell.

Zhou Si was like a bird in a cage, being held tightly in the hands of the immortal. He just didn't understand what the immortal was going to do, why he was so important to him and why he would do such a complicated and contradictory thing.

"But as long as I place the thought storage core in another incarnation's body, I can drive the other body to continue to act. After the action is completed, I can place the thought storage core back and wake up again from this body."

After hearing Zhou Si's crazy idea, Dong Yuan and the other two looked at each other, their eyes full of shock and admiration.

"You are truly amazing. You can actually come up with such a plan."

Li Weiyun exclaimed, "After using the incarnation body of the Supervisory Bureau, you can better cover your whereabouts."

Zhou Si ignored his praise and stared into Dong Yuan's eyes.

"Director Dong, your ambitions should not stop here."

"what?"

Zhou Si suddenly pointed the finger at Dong Yuan, which caught him off guard.

"After the attack on Stone Fortress, the Supervisory Bureau did put shackles on Shenwei Technology, but it was just shackles. This is a proud giant beast. What you need to do is not only to restrain it, but also to defeat it, trample its dignity to the ground, and completely wipe it out."

Zhou Si's words were filled with murderous intent and terror. "But right now, the Supervisory Bureau has no chance to further expand its victory... But I can help you."

"Take the Immortal out of Shenwei Technology. Then Shenwei Technology will have no choice but to surrender."

Zhou Si seemed to have seen through Dong Yuan's thoughts and aroused the desire in his heart.

"And you, Dong Yuan, as the director of the Supervision Bureau of Nianyan City, all of this will become your merit for continued promotion... your future is bright."

Dong Yuan narrowed his eyes, hiding his vicissitudes of life. He said calmly, "I am already an old man who is about to retire. Such words that can make young people excited are useless to me."

"Age? Age is meaningless to someone in your position, isn't it?" Zhou Si laughed, "If you work hard, you can live longer than everyone else."

Dong Yuan asked curiously, "Are you so eager for the truth?"

"It's just the lesser of two evils," Zhou Si murmured, "I have a feeling that the Immortal is a madman, a madman capable of subverting the world."

"I would rather the world be controlled by an ambitious person like you than by a madman."

Zhou Si paused, "At least you will maintain the proper social order, instead of watching people take to the streets, revel and start fires."

Dong Yuan's face was numb... and he smiled.

(End of this chapter)