Chapter 117 Mail
After finalizing the departure time and personnel deployment, Ke Lan finally returned to her residence in North District 5.
Apart from a thin layer of dust covering the furniture, the room remained the same as it was when I left last time. Even the glass of Level 4 water that Asano Akira had not finished was still on the table.
"Well... according to the plot in the comics, I should say 'his aunt' to the empty room at this time." Ke Lan nodded to herself, "Okay, his aunt——"
"Perfect, the concentration of the second dimension is off the charts." Ke Lan snapped his fingers in satisfaction and put the backpack in his hand on the workbench - in addition to his own equipment, it also included those things brought out from the bottom of the sea and the deserted island. As for the stalagmites, he left them in Ivan's clinic and only took two small stone spikes the length of a dagger for self-defense.
There are too many secrets involved in the things here. If I want to take them as trophies and exchange them for credits as usual, it will only bring me endless troubles... and the best way to deal with them is probably to "sell" them to Lieutenant General Maginot.
As a representative of the military, Maginot would not only not refuse, but would also offer a very high price. ——However, those things that can be sold and those that cannot be seen in the light need to be carefully screened.
No one can guarantee whether there may be some crucial clues hidden in an inconspicuous little gadget.
After putting the things down, Ke Lan carefully checked his cabinets, bed and computer. He left very subtle marks on these things. If someone broke in when he was out, no matter how cautious the intruder was, as long as he touched these things, he would definitely destroy these marks.
All the marks were intact and the thickness of the dust was very even. Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief, pulled over a chair and sat down in front of the computer.
"Cooper."
"Yes, my master." The voice of the smart butler sounded in the room.
"Why didn't you answer when I greeted you just now?" Ke Lan was referring to the phrase "his aunt" when she first entered the room...
"Because according to AI analysis, the master's behavior is purely a case of Chuunibyou. If I answer, it will put the master in a very embarrassing situation."
"…To be honest, I feel like you're much better than Mary."
"If the Mary you are referring to is a human, then in the available population archives, there are a total of 43,609 people named Mary. If it is an artificial intelligence, excluding those programs that are not designed with personality, there are also 8,035 Marys... Master, do you need to download this information to your computer?"
"No, no." Ke Lan said quickly. Although Cooper was the basic butler AI given away by the official Ark with every room, after many "artificial modifications" by him, Cooper was completely different from when he was first installed. Not only had the algorithm been fully upgraded, he even had a highly realistic personality.
"Please lower the indoor temperature by two degrees. It's a bit hot." Ke Lan loosened his collar and turned on the computer on the table.
In addition to the commission request sent by the Soma Consortium, the mailbox was also filled with a large number of spam emails for advertising and promotion. Ke Lan glanced at them and found that there was even an advertisement for promoting female sex toys...
"The programmers in this company really deserve to be killed. They haven't even figured out the gender of the user. The big data push notifications in the old days were more reliable than this."
Ke Lan checked these spam emails one by one, and then deleted them with one click... Then, another page full of spam emails popped up...
"..." He was too lazy to even swear. If it weren't for work requirements, sometimes he really wanted to cancel his email.
“Eh… this is…”
Just as Ke Lan continued to delete spam emails, she noticed that there was a private email inserted among a bunch of advertisements.
He moved the cursor to the email. The sender's ID was "ACMS_0420". Like Ke Lan, this guy was also one of the "Top Ten Trolls" on the Ark Forum, and he had a better relationship with him among the top ten trolls.
But Ke Lan knew that this guy had another unknown identity: he was an extremely well-informed intelligence dealer. Although his fees were very high, the intelligence he sold was worth the corresponding value, and if the intelligence was wrong, he would refund the full amount. He was considered a very trustworthy guy in this industry.
Of course, whether the person who bought the wrong information has a chance to receive his refund is another matter.
There was only one photo in the email: a bottomless sinkhole occupied two-thirds of the area in the photo, and more than a dozen drones of various sizes were hovering above the sinkhole.
"Isn't this... the ruins of A-087?" Ke Lan was no stranger to this tiankeng. He had seen it on the morning news program just the day before yesterday.
"What's going on?" Ke Lan immediately sent a reply.
The other party was obviously online at this time. In less than ten seconds, he replied: "Didn't you ask me about the information of Ruins A-087 last time? How is it? It seems that you haven't explored it yet?"
"No." In order to keep the secret, Ke Lan did not tell the truth. Otherwise, with the other party's ability, he would probably be able to guess his true identity in an instant.
"It's a good thing you didn't go. Except for a team of hunters who crashed their plane and came out alive, everyone else died in there - the entire ruins collapsed." The team of hunters who crashed their plane that the other party was referring to was naturally Ke Lan and his group.
"I know. Didn't the news say that a few days ago?"
"But I have the latest information here. Are you interested?" the other party said mysteriously.
"How much?"
"It's free. It's considered after-sales service for the information you bought before."
"Then don't waste it."
"Ruins A-087... is actually a twin ruins. There is another ruin that has not been discovered yet, located directly below A-087. It was not until the glacier collapsed and the sinkhole appeared that the other ruins below were exposed... It's just that the location is a bit deep, more than 2,000 meters from the surface."