People in Yu-Gi-Oh! The hyper-converged audience is also integrated

Chapter 401 Finding an Owner for the Card

The atmosphere, which had just been warm and friendly, plummeted to freezing point.

This question is too pointed and too direct.

What exactly is inside that can't be brought to light?

Li Guanqi's smile slowly faded. He blinked, looking quite innocent: "You're asking me?"

"I was so exhausted just now, my mind was completely blank, and I couldn't see anything clearly."

"Really, I just saw a red light, and I didn't notice anything else."

He looked completely sincere, spreading his hands with an expression that was utterly innocent.

The tall, thin reporter immediately pressed on, his tone becoming even more aggressive: "Detective Li, if I may be so bold, do you even believe what you're saying?"

"Could you reveal a little bit? Who's behind the Joker?"

"The mastermind behind it all?" Li Guanqi chuckled and shook his head.

“My friend, you overestimate me.” He pointed to the detective badge on his shoulder. “I’m just a lowly administrative staff member. What right do I have to interfere? Instead of blocking my way, you should ask your superiors.”

"Besides, I fought tooth and nail to win the duel, so what's wrong with taking a nap? Is that so strange?"

The scene erupted in uproar; the reporters were clearly dissatisfied with the answer and were about to press further.

Li Guanqi, however, did not give them a chance.

He raised his wrist, spoke slowly and deliberately into the communicator:
"Big chariot, two horses, three cannons, four elephants."

"Escort!"

The words fell.

"Om-!"

Four robots arrived at the scene from various locations, using their cold, hard arms to block Li Guanqi from all sides.

[WARNING: Please maintain a safe distance]

[Repeated: Please maintain a safe distance]

A cold, electronic voice emanated from the four robots simultaneously, forming an impenetrable iron wall that kept all the reporters and microphones out.

The reporters were turned away, but they showed no sign of backing down.

They were all seasoned veterans, and knowing that Li Guanqi's approach was a dead end, they immediately changed their tactics and set their sights on Chu Chan and Qi Mengsi, who were not far away.

"Let's go ask Detective Chu!"

The tall, thin reporter's eyes sharpened, and he led the charge, followed by a large group of people.

"Detective Chu! Was it your order to pull down the cover-up?"

"Since you've chosen a public duel, why not release the Joker's memories publicly?"

"Is the Soul Control Division protecting its own personnel? What shady deals are hidden in my memories?!"

"Please answer the citizens' questions directly!"

A barrage of cameras and microphones instantly surrounded Chu Chan, their flashes obscuring his face.

Chu Chan's face was ashen, and the pressure around him was frighteningly low.

He didn't even glance at the group of reporters, but just squeezed out four words through gritted teeth.

"No comment."

Two intelligent police officers squeezed through the crowd, protecting Chu Chan on the left and right, and forcibly opened a path.

We are not responsible for any injuries caused by accident.

The reporters were pushed and shoved, watching helplessly as Chu Chan left under the protection of his guards, unable to even get a picture of his back.

"Over here! Block that woman!"

All the cameras turned again, focusing on Qi Mengsi and Tang Xin in the distance.

The tall, thin reporter straightened his crooked tie and led the crowd toward the two women.

"Let's go." Qi Mengsi looked at the approaching crowd and uttered a single word to Tang Xin, who was still in a daze beside her.

The next second, Tang Xin felt a tightness around her waist.

Qi Mengsi's arm had already wrapped around him, devoid of warmth, yet filled with an irresistible force.

"Huh?" Before Tang Xin could react, a tremendous force came from her waist, and she was lifted off the ground instantly.

She let out a short gasp and instinctively hugged Qi Mengsi's waist. The sound of the wind rushed into her ears as the ground flew away rapidly.

With another breath, his feet were already on solid ground.

The rooftop of an abandoned hospital.

"Wow...so exciting." Tang Xin hadn't come to her senses yet.

Qi Mengsi released her grip, her expression calm and composed, and issued the order into the communicator: "Cover up, prepare to retreat..."

Before the instructions could be relayed, a startling uproar erupted from the group of reporters below.

The sound was so loud that it drowned out the cheers from the entire stadium.

Li Guanqi, who was being protected by the robot and preparing to make a runaway, paused in his steps.

Chu Chan, who was almost out of the venue, stopped and looked in the direction of the sound along with everyone else.

"Online! Someone online has leaked the Joker's memories!"

A reporter held his smartphone high in the air, the screen's light glaringly bright, and roared at the surroundings with all his might.

"Tsukitaki is trending on Weibo!"

One sentence, like a thunderclap, exploded in the dueling arena.

On the rooftop, Qi Mengsi's command came to an abrupt halt. She abruptly looked down at the completely uproaring crowd below, her eyes instantly turning icy cold.

Tang Xin clutched her wildly beating heart, finally managing to catch her breath. Upon hearing that shout, she quickly turned on her smartphone and opened the video trending on social media. Watching the frenzied reposts and discussions, her face gradually turned deathly pale.

"Instructor, look!"

She handed the smartphone to Qi Mengsi, whose face darkened when she saw the barrage of comments and messages accusing her of "double-crossing" and "wanting the mask."

I don't know what kind of logic the audience has, but a memory video has whitewashed the Joker.

In the clown's memory, before he got the mask, it was all about being beaten and abused. After getting the mask, he felt "good" and acted like a madman without any sense of pain, doing whatever he wanted.

Perhaps it's because the first-person perspective is so immersive that viewers crave to experience that kind of "exhilaration" and "freedom."

No one cares about the innocent people who are harmed by my reckless actions.

Now, Li Guanqi, who had originally planned to slip away, was surrounded again.

"Detective Li!" The tall, thin reporter, as if injected with adrenaline, was the first to squeeze back, shoving his phone screen in front of Li Guanqi, spitting as he spoke.

"The person who gave the Joker the cards was wearing the uniform of an administrative officer from the Spirit Control Division! Is this duel just a publicity stunt?!"

"Has the Joker already submitted to the Soul Reaper?" another reporter shouted.

"Detective Li! Did you already know who the mole was?!"

"Please answer the public's questions directly!"

Li Guanqi stared at the phone screen in front of him, where frame by frame, the memories the Joker gave to the card were playing.

He was silent for two seconds.

Just when everyone thought he was about to get angry or defend himself, he suddenly frowned and said to the reporter with a serious expression:

"Why is this person wearing our clothes? They have no manners at all."

"Huh?" The tall, thin reporter was taken aback.

The other reporters were also stunned.

"As a newly recruited agent, I have to investigate him, really." Li Guanqi's sense of justice erupted.

The scene fell into a deathly silence for a moment.

The reporters were completely taken aback by his unconventional reaction.

Li Guanqi ignored them and walked straight to the patrol car.

The reporters, regaining their senses, wanted to give chase, but could only watch helplessly as Li Guanqi, escorted by robots, drove away without even touching the hem of his clothes.

Outside the venue, Li Guanqi climbed into his car and let out a long sigh.

We finally managed to fool them.

He had just started the car when the supercomputing ring on his wrist suddenly started vibrating.

On the screen, there was only one short command from team leader Langley.

[Administration Building, Conference Room A-3, Immediately]

Administration Building, Conference Room A-3.

As Li Guanqi pushed open the door, a pungent smell mixed with caffeine wafted towards him.

The conference room was brightly lit, and the long table was full of people.

He was somewhat surprised that all five of his colleagues who were supposed to be on the night shift had arrived, each looking exhausted and grave, as if they had just crawled out of a crime scene. The night shift in Administrative Team Two had a full complement of six people.

There are only five left now, and there's also Luo Tianyuan, who was internally investigated a few days ago for bribery and misconduct. It's estimated that the team will have to recruit a new person in a while.

Upon seeing Li Guanqi enter, Lan Li, the group leader sitting at the head of the table, raised his eyelids and tapped his knuckles lightly twice on the table.

"Everyone is here."

Her voice was soft, and the entire conference room fell silent.

Lan glanced at Li Guanqi and announced in a calm tone: "First of all, congratulations to Li Guanqi on winning the first Heartbreak Duel. You will be rewarded with 500 points, which will be credited to your account immediately."

Several colleagues cast admiring and envious glances, and a sparse round of applause rang out in the conference room.

Five hundred points is the KPI for one month.

Li Guanqi simply nodded slightly in response to his colleagues' congratulations, and found an empty seat to sit down.

"Alright, that's enough applause." Langley interrupted the clapping, leaning forward slightly, her hands crossed on the table, her sleepy eyes scanning everyone present.

"I'm sure you all know what happened on your way here."

She didn't mention the word "video," but everyone present understood.

"Our groups one and two now have three tasks."

“First, we need to eliminate the negative impact of that video online.” Langley said, glancing at Victoria with a knowing look.

Victoria held up an electronic speaking board: "The video has been deleted, but we are still pursuing the person who leaked it."

"Have you found out who it is?" Langley asked.

Victoria tapped the tablet twice, and a huge virtual screen popped up in the center of the long table, displaying a real-time overhead view of the dueling arena from top to bottom.

The crowds were immense, like a pot of boiling porridge.

“There are over three thousand audience members, and the signal sources are chaotic. It would take at least twelve hours to screen for the source of the leak using conventional methods,” Victoria said in a cool tone.

Bai Shu couldn't help but ask, "Then where did this video come from...?"

“No need for conventional methods.” Langley tacitly covered for them. “Little Vision, please continue.”

Victoria received the order and lightly swiped her hand across the virtual screen.

The scene shifts, zooming in on the array of patrol robots that form a black curtain, with hundreds of black dots suspended in mid-air, orderly and neat.

"Once the curtain is closed, all internal communications of the patrol robots will switch to encrypted quantum channels. Theoretically, there is no possibility of external intrusion."

Her fingertips hovered over the screen, and streams of green data cascaded down like a waterfall.

Somewhere in one of the data streams, a tiny character flashed red.

"But we found an unusual, non-standard instruction packet in the data stream of drone number 73."

Victoria spoke slowly, but with an undeniable professionalism.

"The structure of this instruction packet is very special. It is not transmitted through network protocols, but rather directly tampers with the robot's underlying logic as a kind of mental instruction."

A suppressed gasp filled the conference room.

“This is… code language ability.” Li Guanqi raised an eyebrow and straightened his body slightly. He had only seen this ability in the database before, and he didn’t expect it to actually exist.

It's quite terrifying to directly translate human language into programming language.

“That’s right.” Victoria confirmed Li Guanqi’s guess. “A very rare mental ability. Among the crowd, there is the Doctor’s wedge.”

The group was slightly startled and felt a lingering fear.

Are there even PhDs among the audience? Those who can provide the prelude are more than just ordinary subordinates.

With a blank expression, Victoria swiped, splitting the virtual screen in two.

On the left is the internal log of robot number 73, where the red error code is highlighted.

On the right is its real-time monitoring perspective at the time.

A virtual red vector line shot out from robot number 73, piercing through layers of space and precisely stabbing into the chaotic audience below.

The camera then zoomed in rapidly, passing over countless angry or bewildered faces, before finally focusing on one man.

The man was wearing a conspicuous green coat and a mask. Amidst the shouting and shoving crowd around him, he remained as quiet as a statue.

A bright red box framed him tightly, and an information panel popped up instantly next to him.

【Target lock】

[Identity: Katakus Afad]

Physical characteristics and biomarkers have been recorded.

A shocking scene unfolded: the target's physical characteristics, the biobeacon, did not resemble a human, but rather...

[Biobeacon: Electronic World Biology - DouDouYao@HuolingTianxing]

From Victoria's opening remarks to identifying the suspect and revealing his identity, the entire process took no more than thirty seconds.

The entire conference room was completely silent, save for the faint hum of the supercomputing core.

Li Guanqi looked at the man in the green jacket on the screen and couldn't help but whisper something.

"Amazing."

Le Tong leaned closer and whispered, "Xiao Wei has higher-level Eisen permissions, don't tell anyone."

Li Guanqi paused for a moment, then subconsciously replied, "Oh, I understand."

Eisen is a unified AI that divides people into different classes; the higher the privilege level, the deeper the control over the network.

In a world where cameras are everywhere, every living being, including electronic beings, is under Eisen's surveillance.

If you have Dragon-level access, you can view the privacy of people with lower access levels in high definition and without any censorship from your home.

Throughout Biantana's thousand-year history, there has never been a pursuit of equality for all beings.

Inequality between people is written into the Union Act.

Having higher-level Eisen access makes investigations much easier. No reasoning is needed; just hand the case to Eisen with one click, and Eisen will compile a list of suspects based on surveillance footage and big data, along with any suspicious points.

However, Biantana cannot broadcast surveillance footage worldwide, and Eisen can only list suspects, some evidence, and clues; he cannot make a definitive judgment.

For example, Eisen had no idea what was happening inside Gulatia.

If there are no bystanders and you want to uncover the truth, you need to find the parties involved.

"I'll leave the investigation into the leaked video entirely to Xiao Wei." Langley tapped the table, bringing the topic to a close.

Victoria remained expressionless, lightly tapping the tablet to retract the screen.

The atmosphere in the meeting room relaxed briefly.

Langley glanced around, his weary eyes sharpening again: "Let's talk about the second task."

She took out a jet-black metal box from under the table. The box was engraved with intricate silver patterns and emitted a faint, chilling aura.

"Clap."

The box was opened, and a card lay quietly on a deep red velvet cushion.

It was that epic domain card—[Mental Collapse].

Even through the energy seal, everyone could feel the immense spiritual power emanating from the card, and the temperature in the conference room dropped several degrees.

"Analyze it."

Langley sighed helplessly, his tired dark circles under his eyes deepening.

"Find out everything about it: its specific effects, activation conditions, duration, mental energy consumption, side effects... and compile it into a top-level report."

With each item she had to analyze, she felt a sharp pain in her liver.

"More importantly—"

She paused, her gaze sweeping over everyone present before finally settling on the card.

"Find it a new owner."

There was deathly silence in the conference room.

Looking for an owner?
Bai Shu's eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help but say, "Team leader, this card... is too weird."

"Will we be handling matters based on this card from now on?"

“This is an order from above,” Langley retorted. “Any stubborn prisoner is no different from someone who’s naked in front of him. If this were used for interrogation, how much more efficient would it be?”

"In the detention cell, there is the lover who witnessed Gulatia, and also those legendary criminals in the Akaz prison."

"If we could unlock their memories, it would be a huge step forward for humanity and for achieving justice!"

"But what will be the cost? Who will bear that cost?"

"This is unclaimed territory."

“This time, Li Guanqi took the risk, but we can’t continue like this. Although it hasn’t been analyzed yet, I believe that extracting people’s memories will cause some damage to the brain.”

“We need to give this card a master from one of our own people.”

(End of this chapter)