Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 183 Yang Ya's Whereabouts
There was a "crash" sound.

The door was pushed open.

What greeted Li Daosheng was a pulse gun pointed at his forehead.

"Young man from the upper city, if you don't give me an explanation, you may disappear completely in the lower city." Old Yang was obviously fed up with the door of his clinic being pushed open at will.

Li Daosheng stretched out a finger and pushed away the pulse gun: "Old Yang, I'm here to look for Yang Ya."

When Lao Yang heard this address, he was stunned at first. The person who called him like this must be an old acquaintance.

"Who are you?" Lao Yang did not put away his gun, but his finger relaxed a little and was no longer on the trigger.

"You performed surgery on Yang Ya to replace her legs with a mechanical one. She still owes you some money. Have you forgotten?"

"By the way, that's a military mechanical leg."

Li Daosheng gave the details.

Old Yang finally put down his gun. Only Yang Ya and himself knew about this matter. In other words, the young man in front of him was indeed a friend of Yang Ya's girl. At least Yang Ya had told him about this.

"How come I didn't know? When did that girl make some noble friends in the Upper Town?"

Perhaps in this world, whether a limb has been modified is indeed a very obvious way to distinguish, so Lao Yang also misunderstood Li Daosheng's origins.

Li Daosheng could only explain once more: "I am indeed Yang Ya's friend, but I am not from Shangcheng District. Believe it or not."

Old Yang obviously didn't believe it. He sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and asked, "Are you here to pay back the money for that girl?"

"I'm here to find her."

Old Yang frowned: "Since you are her friend, don't you know that she is dead?"

Li Daosheng frowned slightly upon hearing this. "She once used your basement to hack into the Upper City's data. If she died in the data deluge, what about her body?"

Only after these words were spoken did Old Yang's frown finally relax. He raised his hand and pressed a hidden button under the table, saying in surprise, "You actually are that girl's friend!"

It was then that Li Daosheng realized that although the old man had put away his gun, the entire clinic was full of hidden weapons and traps, each of which was aimed at his vital points. If anything went wrong, it would definitely be enough to catch him off guard.

Even if you don't die, you have to shed your skin.

This is also information asymmetry. Because of Yang Ya's memory, Li Daosheng naturally thinks that Lao Yang is a good person and is not too wary of him.

But to Lao Yang, Li Daosheng was just a weird man from Shangcheng who was very dangerous.

So I never believed what Li Daosheng said until that moment.

"Do you believe it now?" Li Daosheng also breathed a sigh of relief. "Do you know where Yang Ya is? She's in danger now. I can help her. Tell me where she's gone."

Hearing this, Old Yang looked at Li Daosheng deeply and said, "Follow me."

Seeing him open the secret door in the basement, Li Daosheng knew that Lao Yang must have reluctantly believed him.

Entering the basement, the holographic projection still displayed the three-dimensional map of the upper city.

"You're right. Before, Yang Ya hacked into the main server of the Upper City. She died in the data torrent. I saw with my own eyes that her vital activities ceased, but strangely, her body also disappeared."

"This is completely contrary to common sense. Until two days ago, Yang Ya actually appeared on this data chair again!"

At this point, Lao Yang's face still showed some fear. "She once again hacked into the main server of the upper city, and then... left this behind and left."

Lao Yang handed over a chip.

"I haven't opened it to read, and she didn't tell me where she was going. If you really want to find her, you can see if there is any message left inside."

Li Daosheng looked down at the chip and nodded: "Okay."

"You don't have a neural interface, so use an external one." Lao Yang put some things similar to electrode patches on Li Daosheng's body, and then inserted the chip into the external interface.

Li Daosheng's eyes went dark, and his consciousness...instantly entered another space.

There is a picture inside.

It is still Yang Ya’s first-person perspective.

But this time, she successfully found a loophole in the data space and... discovered the file!

【Archangel Project】.

This is the name of that document.

Li Daosheng watched Yang Ya decrypting the document.

At this moment, a voice sounded behind him: "I suggest you don't do this."

Yang Ya turned around suddenly and saw an unfamiliar data consciousness. The other party was wearing a silver protective suit and a mask on his face.

"Who are you?" Yang Ya asked warily.

"A friend," he replied, "or rather, someone who wants to stop the Uptown project just as much as you do."

Yang Ya looked at him and asked, "How do you know what I'm doing?"

"I've been watching you," he said, "since your first hack into the Uptown system."

Yang Ya stared at him intently: "Who do you belong to?"

"Me?" He took off his mask, revealing a face covered in scars. "It was the people of Downtown who raised me."

Yang Ya noticed the other person's eyes. It was a strange face, but it had an advanced military prosthetic eye, as advanced as her mechanical legs.

"Have you known about this [Archangel Project] for a long time?" Yang Ya asked.

He nodded. "More than you know. This isn't a plan, this is a virus, a weapon."

"It's not just weapons, either."

"what is that?"

"An evolution," the other whispered. "You know our rust disease? This is the first step of the Archangel Project."

Yang Ya's face looked grim and he remained silent.

"We can't talk much here, this is their territory."

The other party said.

"I also suggest you don't touch this original document. If you want to know the contents, you can follow my data node and I can transmit a detailed copy to you."

"By the way, you should be the genius hacker of the logging gang, right?"

The man in silver clothes suddenly asked.

Yang Ya obviously didn't believe him and asked, "How do you know?"

"It's common knowledge that you're against the World Tree Corporation. Your fellow rebels are just making small fuss. The material losses they incur are insignificant to the World Tree Corporation. Only you... you are the true core, and you can inflict devastating damage upon them."

"Please tell me, are you her? This is related to whether I am willing to send you a copy of the [Archangel Project] information."

Yang Ya was silent for a moment and nodded.

"it's me."

He looked at Yang Ya for a while, then put on his mask again: "Okay, when you get out, come find me at Broken Bridge Lake in the north of the city."

……

The screen disappeared.

Li Daosheng withdrew from the consciousness space.

Old Yang was looking down at him and asked, "How's it going? Do you know where she went?"

"Since you care, why don't you take a look at it yourself? This was originally something Yang Ya left for you."

Old Yang suddenly smiled bitterly: "Forget it, I'm old, these things have nothing to do with me."

Li Daosheng pulled out the electrodes, turned over, and walked straight out.

"Hey, where are you going?"

Lao Yang asked from behind.

"Since you don't want to know, then don't ask any more questions." Li Daosheng didn't look back.

This chip was left to Old Yang by Yang Ya.

Yang Ya...Old Yang, they have the same surname.

Yang Ya was obviously expecting something, but Old Yang did not choose to read the chip.

No matter what, he has already failed Yang Ya's expectations.

Old Yang looked at Li Daosheng's receding back and seemed to understand something.

His figure leaning against the clinic door suddenly became much more hunched...

(End of this chapter)