Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

"You sound a little distracted."

"What?...Absolutely not." Raphael chuckled.

"Your attention is not fully focused on the online briefing. Is there any information more important than the content of the report?"

"…Well, is there anything that any of you would like to see, Kitty Cat's Hunt?"

"!!!"

There were sharp electric sounds and buzzing sounds coming from the satellite phone.

Then, Raphael heard someone say: Their biggest mistake was to entrust such high-risk and high-value tasks to man-made creatures whose operating modes they still could not understand.

"Don't be angry. Appropriate adjustments are conducive to improving work efficiency."

Some people expressed their malice without disguising themselves, "It actually thinks it is a human."

"..."

Raphael looked around the city from the rooftop. It seemed that no one had noticed what she had just done. No, it could still be found out, such as the Keyhole series of satellites that operate around the clock.

Since the outbreak of the Greenback virus, Washington has ordered that the time each Keyhole satellite spends passing over Washington be shortened to less than 40 minutes.

Not only that, the National Land Strategy Bureau also seems to have urgently launched a synchronous orbit satellite to keep an eye on the city's movements.

When weather conditions permit, the geostationary satellite's high-resolution cameras can see what people on the ground are doing.

"In short, the basic intelligence we have obtained so far is as reported." Raphael said, "The fact that Team Griffin disappeared in the Dark Zone is irrefutable. The matter is under further investigation. If there are no problems, I will continue the action."

Before she could disconnect the satellite connection, a slightly frivolous voice came from the phone.

"I heard that you interfered with the mission of the Division agents and led them to their death?"

"..."

What a nasty question, Raphael thought.

"Is there any special reason, Miss Raphael... No, Lieutenant."

"Nothing. They attacked me indiscriminately while I was working," Raphael emphasized the word "working." "After that, I gave them permanent peace."

"Really? That's good. In such a sensitive period, it would be bad if other forces regarded me as a strange existence..."

This sentence caused an uproar among the crowd.

——What does this guy mean? Raphael sat down and closed his eyes, as if taking a nap.

"Some people may feel uncomfortable if I say something that is not very rigorous. I'm really sorry, just pretend you didn't hear it."

"Well, this incident has already attracted considerable attention anyway," the guy who mainly communicated with Raphael said, "The next confidential investigation is now in your hands, Raphael, is that ok?"

"Of course."

After receiving an accurate answer, he went on to say to the others: "The matter of guiding public information will be left to you for now."

The employer said in a tone as heavy as pig iron, "I really want to catch all the bastards involved, hang them up, saw them in half, and throw them into the ice hole of the Hudson River! Don't you want to destroy New York? Then let them break into pieces, reassemble under the ice and walk to the other side."

He sneered unhappily, "We are magnanimous people, and we must always make a way for the ambitious people."

"No one would go down that road." Raphael complained, "So, what should I do next? If you plan to recycle it, I suggest sending enough people to provide support."

"Since you plan to recycle that thing, there are some things I must talk to you in private. God bless you, the world outside New York is getting more and more chaotic, but we can still maintain stability, thank God."

As the employer spoke, his heavy voice suddenly became sharp, with a hint of crazy laughter, as if he was laughing at himself, or at the fact that he had to do this.

"I just got accurate information. Since this morning, many cities around the world have been attacked by relics. The known affected areas include: Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, St. Petersburg, New York, and the Magic City."

“Doesn’t that mean…?”

"Yes, now the whole world and the United Nations Heritage Committee are paying attention to this matter, and the impact is far beyond expectations."

The employer looked at the crowd of on-site commanders who were sitting at their respective posts, monitoring data, communicating with the outside world, and staring at the large screen in the command center, and continued:

“I think there’s a possibility that … the current situation in New York is a deliberate result.”

"The way to put out a fire is to start another one yourself?" Raphael raised his hand and raised his middle finger to the air.

She was not wrong. The scene of her making the universal friendly gesture was captured in real time by a high-resolution satellite and was not only presented to her employer, but also appeared in a corner of the big screen in the command center below.

"Damn it, put that middle finger away."

He held his forehead with his hand. It was true that as long as artificial intelligence gained wisdom, it would become more and more like humans. He didn't learn any good things, but learned a lot of messy things.

If the network had not been disconnected in time during training, their only currently functioning artificial intelligence would definitely have turned into a foul-mouthed girl with a foul mouth.

Fortunately, the network cable was unplugged in time, interrupting the opportunity for AI to absorb language dross like a sponge.

Raphael reluctantly put his hand down and tasted the instant coffee he had found downstairs, while speculating unhappily:

"Although there is no definite evidence, I believe this is the truth. The Griffin Squad, which is not affiliated with the Department of Defense or the Joint Special Operations Command, the Rangers who entered New York with the mission of protecting assets but appeared in the central city, and the suddenly activated Directive 51 and its products, all tell the story behind with their unique identities and actions."

Whoever made the decision is a bastard!

Before this conversation, she also discovered many seemingly unrelated but actually connected stories from the terminal device given by Doug.

With an unprecedentedly tough stance, Washington dissolved the New York state and city governments and took over in the name of the federal government.

What was the result? What was dealt with?

The Emergency Response Agency built dozens of patient accommodation facilities to accommodate patients and isolate the source of infection;

The JTF built a dark zone wall, which was not even completed;

The SHD agents were trying their best to save people, but their indiscriminate approach resulted in many residents who were forced to take up guns in self-defense being killed as enemies, while the Purifiers and the Lex Gang, who were the real cause of the chaos, were growing stronger.

So far, have the efforts of the Waller government produced any results? So far, it seems that there have been no results.

Especially the Griffin team that was responsible for the recovery mission. They were just a standard team of six people, plus two non-combat relic experts, and they rashly went to try to recover the items.

Any ordinary person would know that this would definitely cause problems.

It is basically certain that the violent explosion in the direction of the Empire State Building half a month ago was related to this recovery team.

Not only that, the Army's decision to cut off the Rangers' chain of command was also a bold move, meaning that they abandoned these hundreds of people and left them to fend for themselves in downtown Manhattan, New York.

What is this for? Raphael just felt that the mutual calculations between humans were really terrible.

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"I have to say, we all underestimated how fast you'll grow."

The guy Raphael calls "employer" is actually the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who also serves as the director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO).

The office has been described by news media as "a highly exploratory office responsible for identifying and accelerating the development of new technologies."

In practice, the office identifies and pursues high-risk, high-reward research initiatives across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines and translates them into new, game-changing technologies important to U.S. national security.

Its main research and funding direction is the exploration of relic technology and converting existing results into technical equipment that humans can currently understand and use.

Raphael's mind core is a masterpiece created under the auspices of the Defense Science Office, although researchers still do not understand how the core works.

Reverse engineering is difficult, and the research team worked for more than ten years, but in the end there was only one working product.

Now she is having fun in Manhattan, New York, which is completely different from the well-behaved and cute appearance when she was in graduate school.

If the identification signals were not consistent, they would have suspected that the director had found a high-quality imitation from somewhere to fool them.

Although they were very worried, the researchers were also very curious and wanted to know how much of a surprise the girl who was born from replicas of the ruins products could bring them.

"Have I made any progress?" Raphael asked.

Such conversations had happened before, but not here. The time of ignorance seemed to have happened long ago. Everything was long gone.

"Of course." The director affirmed.

He was silent for a moment, then abruptly turned the topic back to the Griffin team's recycling plan:

"The failure of the Griffin team is not something we 'literati' can interfere with."

He places great emphasis on the word 'literati'.

"We were able to use collapse fluids in large quantities in bombs made during the Vietnam War in the 70s, and we also had to withstand attacks from similar weapons. The pollution it brought to humans and the environment was unprecedented."

"Collapsing fluid...bomb, what is it?" Raphael asked immediately after grasping the key words.

"The relevant information is being transmitted. Please listen to me first. The radiation level in the dark zone is still within your tolerance range, right?"

"The reading two days ago was 17 roentgens per hour, and it was only three days after the initial detection of 6 roentgens."

Raphael first reported the radiation readings, then reminded: "Yes, I can still bear it."

"Find the lost cargo and dispose of it properly."

“You may need to pay more.”

"No problem, I can guarantee that." The director said, "But after the recovery mission is completed, I think we need to talk."

"I think so too. We should talk."

Raphael hung up the phone and stood up, trying his best to understand the information sent by the director.

Parsing the massive amount of data on the SHD agent terminal requires a lot of computing power, and reading the data sent by DARPA also requires computing power to understand.

When she stood up, she found that she could hardly stand. At this moment, she really wanted to fall asleep and hibernate.

She questioned herself and said, "It seems that humanoids also need to rest?"

Raphael returned to the room, confirmed that the alarms set on the doors and windows were in normal condition, and then returned to the attic to sleep temporarily.

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"Pathological Analysis Report of ELID Infection" Sent from: ■■Military Intelligence Department; Sent to: Northern Theater Intelligence Department; Classification: Top Secret/SCI; Reading Permission: 4"

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“…collapse radiation directly induces mutations in cells during mitosis: and the genetic mutations induced by collapse radiation are regular and directional mutations.

The new mutated cells will not only continue to divide, but will also produce new organelles, releasing rays in the same band as collapse radiation, which is why the infected are contagious and have abnormal metabolism.

New radiation sources are generated by organelles within mitotic and mutated cells and by collapsed radiation sources outside the body.

These three factors constitute the way in which mutant cells increase.

We have therefore discovered the nature of α-Time and β-Time: after α-Time, the speed at which immune cells eliminate mutated cells can no longer keep up with the speed at which mutated cells increase, which is the same as cancer.

β-Time is the dividing line when the number of mutant cells increases enough to cause complete ELID infection. ELID symptoms are divided into early, middle and late symptoms using α-Time and β-Time as the dividing line.

In the early stages, patients will experience accelerated metabolism, an increase in the number of red blood cells, a decrease in the number of white blood cells, and immunosuppression.

At the same time, there will be slight auditory and visual hallucinations, and the EEG will show unstable alpha rhythm, with high-amplitude beta waves in some areas. At the same time, theta wave activity will increase significantly, and sometimes all areas will see theta waves. At this time, the patient's internal organs and bones will not be abnormal, and they are no different from normal people.

In the middle stage, the patient is still in a state of high metabolism, the number of red blood cells and white blood cells returns to normal, but the body loses its normal immune function.

At the same time, the patient will have severe visual and auditory hallucinations, occasional impaired consciousness, and be very aggressive. The frequency of alpha waves in the brain wave activity slows down and disappears, while beta waves increase significantly.

Occasionally, large-scale high-amplitude delta waves appear in groups. At this time, the patient's internal organs and skin will show irregular silicification - this is a phenomenon caused by the accumulation of silicon elements in the body when the mutant cells metabolize and absorb silicon elements from the natural environment.

After β-Time, when ELID enters the late stage, that is, after ELID-Infected, we can no longer verify the patient's brain wave conditions.

The autopsy and blood analysis of the corpses show that in the late stage, the red blood cells in the blood decrease, the white blood cells increase, and the immune system enters a super-immune state. The patient will have increased bone density and obvious silicification of the internal organs and skin.

The autopsy showed that the major elements in the ELID-Infected body had undergone serious changes - carbon dropped from 18% to 13%, while silicon increased from less than 0.1% to 5.1%.

As for those who are naturally immune, their immune cells seem to have natural antibodies against the ELID mutant cell antigens.

Unless exposed to high-intensity collapse radiation, the spread of mutant cell mitosis and organelle irradiation will be slower than the clearance speed of the body's own immune system, and eventually all mutant cells in the body will be eliminated..."

The content of the document is not comprehensive, and we can only read that the extent of damage to the human body caused by the "collapse fluid" is proportional to the time. That is, the longer you stay in the radiation zone, the greater the degree of damage to the human body.

The document also clearly points out some characteristics of ELID infection, such as the silicification phenomenon observed before, and the corresponding increase in bone density;

Abnormally accelerated metabolism - speculated to be the reason for its great strength and rapid self-repair, but this may lead to accelerated aging;

There is even mention of the possible existence of "innate immunity", a type of specific immunity to ELID infection that possesses natural antibodies to ELID mutant cell antigens.