The Joke of Fate
At Ghost in the Shell, on that super building filled with pipes, neon lights flashed, and digitized figures walked in and out, still a scene of bustling activity.
However, today was a bit of an exception. The receptionist at the entrance, the robot vacuum cleaner, and the brain-computer interface user sitting in a massage chair enjoying a brain cleansing session were whispering to each other from time to time, their expressions somewhat strange.
The reason is simple: today, their minister, who has been in office for three months and has appeared in public no more than three times, came to work again, and he even brought a beautiful female secretary with him.
An old gatekeeper who had served four directors of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division said that he was the only one of the four directors who had a female secretary.
Rare, extremely rare.
If it were before, the combative elements in the department would probably have already blocked the minister's office, but now, these people are saying they can't afford to mess with them.
One meeting was held, and all three ministers were dismissed.
Such a formidable record is unparalleled, not only in Ghost in the Shell, but even among the Sixth Division.
Even more bizarrely, the top officials of the six ministries maintained a high degree of silence; despite the deaths of two ministers and injuries to one of the three ministers, no one expressed anger.
That's weird, so damn weird!
This is why the workplace atmosphere today is quite delicate.
Meanwhile, in the ministerial conference room, Motoko Yagami was reporting to the senior engineer.
The tall First Combat Department Chief has a sexy yet heroic figure, and her aura is like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath. Even when she is standing still, she makes people's hearts tremble.
For someone like Sister Ji, who not only engages in pornography but also lesbianism, this kind of temperament is absolutely deadly.
"Wow, what a stunningly beautiful and cool girl! Not only is she handsome, but her eyes are also incredibly captivating. I can't take it anymore! I'm going to write her into my lesbian novel, and I'll be the second female lead."
Then Sister Ji turned her attention to the senior engineer in the main seat.
This Mr. G exuded an aura of nobility and divinity. His features were flawless, especially his eyes, which were like black gemstones set in his face. Just one glance was enough for Sister Ji to know that she would have to add a third male lead to her lesbian novel, making it a trio.
Motoko Yagami reported with a completely calm expression.
"Through a joint agreement among the mainframes of the six departments—'Memory Supervision Department,' 'Humanity Experimentation Department,' 'Electronic Network Department,' 'Machine Consciousness Department,' 'Cybernetic Registration Department,' and 'Ghost in the Shell Mobile Unit'—a joint investigation team, codenamed 'None,' has been formed to jointly investigate the 'Three Ministers Incident' and the true culprit behind it."
The senior engineer nodded and flipped through the files of the investigation team members. The first one was the person in front of him, "Motoko Yagami," a super android warrior and special operations master. She had completed more than a thousand missions and had only failed a handful of times.
The other nine people are also top elites from other departments, all at level 60 (the maximum level), and each has at least two boss templates.
Any one of them, if you pick them out, is a monster.
This configuration, if you know it, is meant to fight the Memory Mother; if you don't, you might think this super team is heading to shut down the planet's mainframe.
The senior engineer nodded and quickly signed his name in the electronic signature section.
This means that an inter-ministerial super task force, approved by the minister and accountable only to the minister, is being established.
This group has the highest level of secrecy and the authority to access all resources of the Sixth Department.
Seeing the senior engineer's calm expression, Motoko Yagami frowned and said in a deep voice:
"Minister, I need your help with this!"
"I will fully cooperate with you," the senior engineer said.
Motoko Yagami frowned even more deeply. Although the other party's attitude was very good, there was a hint of indifference deep in his eyes.
This was analyzed by the "emotion analysis plugin" in her brain. As the top-level "brain-computer interface plugin", it can judge the other party's emotions with a success rate of up to 3% by using factors such as facial capture, neural signal perception, and human behavioral logic.
Why doesn't the other person care?
Isn't this what he and Aragaki were investigating?
That monster in the starry sky!
Motoko Yagami was silent for a moment, then glanced at the female secretary the other party had brought, and said:
"Secretary, come with me. Joining Ghost in the Shell requires file registration."
"OK!!"
Sister Ji happily followed Motoko Yagami away.
After the other party left, the senior engineer smiled and shook his head. With the help of the minister's authority, he accessed the latest task data and quickly found the encrypted data he wanted.
Recently, many "Cybertronians contaminated by the virus" have escaped to the planet Mecha, and Cybertron has requested the participation of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division in their capture.
"So, the 'Alien Mech Invasion' has begun? The rebellious Cybertronians have become another major source of manpower for the Knights."
After thinking it over, the senior engineer, using his "ministerial authority," outsourced the task to the "Dugo Group."
Capturing a Cybertronian would not only be helpful for researching "meat technology," but would also allow for the deduction of Cybertron's mechanical life technology, which could be used to improve the Dugo Group's mech capabilities.
Just then, Miss Shell's voice rang out.
"Minister, the new six-ministry meeting will be held in 10 days. This time it will be conducted online in a completely confidential virtual space."
"I see."
"Also, Gu Yitong, the head of the Memory Supervision Department, would like to meet with you privately."
"We're not familiar with each other, so I won't see you."
"OK."
After thinking for a moment, the senior engineer added, "By the way, help me investigate the 'Punk Group' with as much information as possible."
"Yes, Minister."
A moment later, Sister Ji walked in with a radiant smile and said, "Mr. G, Miss Suzi gave me a physical examination herself."
The senior engineer sized up the other party. Sister Ji, who had sewn on a suit of android skin, was indeed quite beautiful, but her personality was too fierce.
Otherwise, being a secretary would be really nice.
Do you remember what just happened?
"What happened?" Sister Ji was taken aback for a moment, then said, "Didn't Ms. Yagami Motoko just notify me of my medical check-up?"
The senior engineer shook his head with a smile. "They're really cautious. They deleted the memory so quickly."
Unfortunately, this tactic isn't very effective against players. Once they log off, they'll know everything that happened online again.
Where Sister Ji couldn't see, a girl in white sat obediently on the sofa, holding a book and reading. Neither Motoko Yagami nor Ms. Ke seemed to be aware of her presence.
Having seized control of the "Mother of Data," Gao Yuanyuan has now truly reached a point where she is completely undetected.
Absolutely like Sadako!
Little Sadako—no, Gao Yuanyuan— raised her head, curiously examining Sister Ji, and said, "Brother, this Collapse Entity's state is so strange. Is it the 'Weaving Machine of Destiny' you mentioned?"
The senior engineer chuckled and said, "Number Four has really messed up this time."
"Hmm, Minister Gao, what are you saying?" Sister Ji said sweetly, looking like she wanted to be taken advantage of. It was a pity that this game prohibited anything too risqué, otherwise she really wanted to develop something with him.
"Pour me a cup of tea," the senior engineer said, patting the other man on the shoulder.
"Yes, Minister Gao."
After everyone left, the senior engineer opened the system panel and looked at the other party's attributes.
Name: Sister Ji (Possessed by???)
Race: Silk-Thread Lifeform (Forbidden Modification)
Level: 41
Personal Attributes: Strength 50, Agility 57, Stamina 31, Intelligence 101, Perception 102, Luck -51 points
Health: 12000/12000
Physical strength: 3000/3000
Personal system upgrade rate: 87% (200%)
A quick glance reveals many interesting details. For example, this female player underwent "life form modification," removing four systems and retaining only the musculoskeletal, nervous, digestive, and reproductive systems. The upper limit of these four systems was increased to 125%.
This kind of modification is called taboo modification, which would be a major offense in any normal civilization, but in the Cyber Test Site, it is only considered a dangerous modification.
The advantage of this modification is that it makes very high use of the remaining human body systems, reaching close to 50%.
It's important to know that achieving 30% is the standard for top-tier players.
What's even more interesting are the three question marks following her name.
Without a doubt, these three question marks are the "weaving machine of fate".
"The Machine of Destiny" not only targeted the high-ranking engineer, but also secretly took action against other Collapse Entity.
Thus, during the crucial transformation ritual involving Gao Yuanyuan, Elisa, and Gaokesi, fate intervened, and Number 0 also took action.
According to the plan of "fate", Number 0 will take the lead in breaking free from the shackles of the "Golden Rule" and then deal a heavy blow to the three of them, including Gaokesi.
The reason is simple: he must eliminate everyone who knows he has "escaped."
But at a crucial moment, fate played another cruel joke: Number 3 appeared.
That nemesis of all artificial intelligence.
The ten "Big Data Conceptual Entity" are its prey, and no one is allowed to steal a bite.
So, the 2 vs 1 battle began.
In the end, Elisa was successfully reincarnated, Gao Yuanyuan and Gaokesi escaped safely, but the "King of Information" who was successfully transformed by Number 0 was devoured by Number 3.
So, early this morning, players started wailing again because the developers had buffed the version once more.
[Big Data Conceptual Entity, the fall of the king of information, all AI, cyber hackers, and neural editors, experience gain -20%]
As for the guy who set 'fate' in motion once again, it was naturally the senior engineer.
If the senior engineer hadn't had the "monitoring window," he might not have discovered the other party's trickery, let alone caught them red-handed.
As the fourth Collapse Entity, second only to the top three, this "Fate Weaving Machine" has an extremely overpowered ability.
That is, it does not need a 'host', or rather, the death of the 'host' will not affect its strength, and it itself is a 'conceptual' existence.
As the saying goes, fate is fickle. After the death of its 'host', it only needs to find a new 'host' to rewrite its destiny.
Therefore, the idea of containment is out of the question.
Even if the senior engineer goes all out and severely damages it, it can recover to its full strength as long as it parasitizes again.
However, it shouldn't have, absolutely shouldn't have, become a parasite on a player.
The reason the Fourth Calamity is called the Fourth Calamity is because they are immortal.
Faced with a monster that is completely indestructible, even the "Weaving Machine of Destiny" was at a loss.
No matter how fate is woven, it can never truly 'kill' the player!
When the senior engineer found Sister Ji, she had just died for the third time in an accident and was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.
Then, she was recruited by the senior engineer.
There's nothing that a high-level task can't solve.
If so, then give us more tasks.
With Sister Ji's cooperation, the various abilities of the "Destiny Weaving Machine" were quickly detected.
Fate played a joke, which turned into a joke and landed on me.