frightfiction Chapter 273 The Host of the Astrological Map
Chapter 273 The Host of the Astrological Map
"Bang bang bang bang~"
After easily killing several patrolling guards, Earl William and Hector quickly walked out of the prison gate.
He just happened to see Laokis, who was blindfolded and about to be executed.
"Any last words?"
The law enforcer's questioning voice came to Laokis's ears.
"Just do it, fuck you."
There came the sound of Laokis's abuse.
"Bang bang bang bang bang~"
Laukis' body began to shake violently with the sound of gunfire.
"Fuck fuck fuck~"
The black cloth was lifted as Laukis screamed in extreme fear.
He was surprised to find that he was not dead.
What appeared before him were the one woman and three men from before, as well as a man with a scar on his face who had escaped from prison.
"A matchstick, you are very capable!"
"You can definitely help with where we're going next."
The snake girl Jecassi gave Earl William a flattering smile.
"I'm afraid not. I'm not interested in your next trip."
After Earl William mounted his horse, he said to Jackasi.
"Then we owe you one."
Jessica immediately expressed her gratitude.
"No, my friend, you only owe me a few words."
"Just say it."
"At the same time, I have a suggestion for you..."
"What you are going to look for next cannot be found in that safe."
After Earl William climbed onto his horse, he looked at the snake girl Jekasi with a smile on his face.
"I was only 7 years old when they broke into our town..."
"They were a group of people wearing demon masks. They killed everyone, including women, children and even livestock."
"They stabbed my mother so badly that I had to smear her warm blood all over my body. Let them think I was dead."
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"When I grew up, I started hunting them down. I smeared the blood of my enemies who died at my hands all over my body again."
"I killed them all, except for one."
When the snake girl Jecassi said this, her voice suddenly stopped, as if she had thought of something painful, and her face was full of hatred.
"Only the snake's head is left?"
"Tell me his name!"
When William heard this, a glimmer of expectation flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly asked.
“He has many names.”
"The devil, the bringer of hell, but most people call him-Hamlet."
Hamlet?
When Crowley heard the name, he was stunned.
He quickly thought of Dr. Burt and the new theme story line "Hamlet" that he was determined to implement despite everyone's opposition.
Dr. Bert is truly a master planner, arranging his new theme story line without anyone noticing.
The new theme story line is fully integrated into the old theme story line, forming an interlocking whole.
Thinking of this, Crowley couldn't help but become even more wary of Dr. Bert.
Klauer sent tourists Billy and Logan to the small town of Priya on the outskirts of the City of Death. It was already dark, and everyone decided to find a hotel to stay in.
Crowley suddenly received a message from Ms. Leila's messenger.
Klauer learned from the letter that the captain and his team had completed their inspection and would meet in Krako, the City of Death, in two days to discuss important matters.
Anything important?
Could it be related to the missing senior executives from Pude?
Crowley saw something unusual in the letter.
As night fell, Klauer walked out of the hotel and came to a remote place. Soon, a white mist suddenly rose, and a large potato-shaped stone appeared in front of Klauer.
"Great and respected master, we meet again. Adro has collected a lot of relevant information. Great master, shall I show it to you now?"
Adero's flattering voice appeared.
Claude nodded towards the strange rock, and immediately, the white mist became thicker, and the rough stone became extremely smooth, like a mirror. Pictures after pictures appeared in front of Claude.
Scene 1, Maeve's Tavern.
"Maeve, why are you standing there like a statue? What are you thinking about?"
Christine pulled the hem of Maeve's lace skirt with a confused look on her face, but she didn't react at all, like a lifeless statue.
Half a minute later, Maeve finally moved, and she looked no different from a normal person.
Maeve:
"Christen, have you ever experienced that sometimes the words are on the tip of your tongue but you can't remember them?"
"The harder you try to think, the harder it is to remember. Has this ever happened to you?"
Kristen:
"Most things that come near my mouth I'm happy to forget, except for that fat-faced kid from Southwell."
"That thing of his will stay with me forever."
Maeve:
"I just remember that you gave the fat-faced boy a free meal."
Kristen:
"Not only should I give it to him for free, I should pay him. The taste of a beautiful boy is simply..."
Just as the two men were talking, two groups of people in the tavern suddenly stood up, drew their guns and started arguing with each other.
Maeve:
"It's better to suppress their interest, otherwise they will escalate from gambling and prostitution to worse behavior, and the damage caused by fighting will cost a lot of money to repair."
After Maeve finished speaking, her body suddenly shook, and her mind immediately fell into confusion.
Through Maeve's blurry vision, Claude vaguely saw Christine's anxious expression.
"What's wrong Maeve, is there something in your eye?"
"Maeve, you've been shot!"
Kristen's worried voice came through.
At the same time, in her blurred vision, Maeve saw the ceiling and a revolver pointing downwards at her.
The screen began to rotate and soon came to screen two, Hive-66F, Security Department.
At this time, the thin-faced man Kidd Lee and the fat-faced man Andrei were dealing with a cyborg body.
Andre:
"Damn it, what took so long?"
We need to put this woman on the top of the next transport, and we are running out of time."
Kidd Lee:
"Wait, I'm not done with her yet, wait a moment. There's still a piece of shrapnel to be removed from her abdomen."
Andre:
"The Behavioral Analysis Unit requires that she be sent back immediately."
"Don't take out the shrapnel, fix her up and put her on the transport wagon..."
The scene continued to rotate and returned to Maeve's Tavern.
Maeve slowly opened her eyes and saw Christine speaking.
Kristen:
"...anything that touches my mouth, I am happy to forget, except for that fat-faced boy from Southwell."
"That thing of his will stay with me forever."
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"Maeve...Maeve, what's wrong with you? Why are you so motionless again?"
At this time, Christine's voice came.
After being tortured so quickly and frequently, has this cyborg turned bad?
Just as Crowley had this thought, he suddenly saw a brilliant red color suddenly burst out from the lifeless gray body of the cyborg Maeve.
Something unusual happened.
Crowley read a picture from Maeve's mind, a scribbled pattern quickly written in pencil on white paper.
Crowley focused his attention on the pattern and couldn't help but look surprised.
The picture inside actually showed a Hive headquarters staff member wearing a biochemical helmet and a white coat.
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The scene continues to flow, Hive-16F, Behavioral Analysis Department.
Bennett, the head of the Behavioral Analysis Department, his assistant Ivy, and Ms. Karen, the head of the Security Department, seemed to be discussing something while facing a cyborg with a smashed head.
Ms. Karen:
“No, I wouldn’t classify that as normal host behavior, but you describe it as being consistent with normal behavior.”
Bennet:
"He didn't hurt us."
Ms. Karen:
"He was behaving very abnormally and he smashed his head with a rock."
Bennet:
"It's possible that this is just a natural reflex of the cyborg when facing danger. It's no big deal."
Ms. Karen:
"Haha, maybe, but it's more likely that someone has set up a so-called solution specifically for similar problems, so that when they mess up, they don't have to admit it."
"Do you know why he deviated from the cycle?"
Ivril:
"I don't know, but I hope to restore some of its cognitive functions. We have successfully stabilized its brain before the data loss of the magic command sphere accelerated."
"You see, I can still use the control panel to perform simple controls on him."
Ms. Karen:
"Interesting, can we extract something useful from this thing's head?"
Bennet:
"We can try."
"No."
Ms. Karen:
"Okay then, my team will take over the investigation now."
Ivril:
"Ms. Cullen, are you kidding me?"
"Your team can't even open a crumpled tissue."
"If you want us to figure out what went wrong, we'll need higher-level access to the core code."
Ms. Karen:
"Didn't I tell you that from now on, the Security Department will be fully responsible for handling such issues? Do you have any objection, Bennett?"
Bennet:
“We have a lot of work to do. If you want to take over this, that’s fine. Just give us an investigation report after you’re done.
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Next is the conversation between Bennett and his men after Ms. Cullen leaves.
Ivril:
"I always thought you gave me this job because I speak my mind."
Bennet:
"Yes, that's right, I like that about you, and you're very good at that."
"If you are submissive from the beginning and don't have your own opinions and insights, then I hope you don't show up here."
"Ms. Cullen thinks we're hiding something, but we're not."
Ivril:
"is it?"
"Now there are obvious abnormalities of cyborgs. At first it was Walter who played the gambler, and now there is another one, Tubbs the lumberjack."
"I have seen hosts who have auditory hallucinations, but this host who can do wood carving and climb to the top of a mountain to study astrological maps is really outrageous."
"This is not a glitch."
"I don't know why you don't want me to tell anyone."
"It seems that everyone here, except me, is making their own plans."
“Also, I remember when I first started working here, the receptionists seemed so lifelike, and you would pay too much attention and read too much into their behavior.”
"You are now indifferent to the receptionists. You have become completely different, Bennett."
"Stop being so condescending, okay."
Bennet:
"Ivril, what can I say about you? The receptionist won't imagine it, but you will."
"Also, the receptionist doesn't know how to study astrological charts."
“The pattern he carved on the wood was not the Big Dipper, which has seven stars, not eight.