Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 220: Undead Crew Meeting
"At least we have to take her body out. If the people outside decide to use heavy weapons, there won't be even a bone left if we leave it here." Just as Ke Lan was thinking this, a faint electric sound suddenly came from Victoria's throat.
"Are you still alive?!" Ke Lan was stunned and asked quickly, "Can you speak louder? I can't hear what you are saying."
"Hiss...hiss...connect...hiss...this line...hiss...to the Ark's...hiss...main cable..."
Victoria spoke intermittently. On the side of her neck, a hidden compartment popped open, and inside this compartment was a data cable that could be stretched out.
"Connect to the main cable? What's the use? Can it save you?" Ke Lan asked, holding the interface of the data cable in her hand, "But... the main cable of East 9th District has been cut off, and there is no way to connect to the outside world!"
"Just do as I...say...hiss...that's all." After Victoria said this last sentence, she fell completely silent.
"Main cable... What's the point of connecting the main cable? You're not a robot that has run out of power..." Although Ke Lan said this, he still dragged Victoria to a pillar where a transformer was installed and smashed open the cover of the transformer with the butt of a gun.
The Ark's main cables are buried in the basic structure of the hull, but as the core building of the East 9th District, the power supply system in the Arasaka Tower is directly connected to the main cables. There is basically no obstruction or loss. The power supply system connected to the Arasaka Tower is basically the same as connecting to the main cables.
The interface of this data cable is a standard C-type information transmission interface, but fortunately the wire is made of soft copper wire instead of optical fiber. After cutting off the interface, Ke Lan twisted this copper wire together with the main power supply line of Arasaka Tower.
With a "sizzling" sound, a dazzling electric spark flashed at the connector, and the polymer wrapped around the copper wire was instantly burnt, and a pungent smell emanated from it.
"Will this not go wrong..." Ke Lan thought silently, but Victoria asked him to connect this data cable to the main cable. The main cable is not a computer terminal, and there is no port for plugging in and out the data cable connector. The only way to connect them is to use this primitive contact method... Moreover, the current of the main cable will only be greater, and the entire copper wire might be burned out.
Ke Lan had absolutely no idea what Victoria's purpose was in asking him to do this.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes... Ten minutes passed, and Victoria did not come back to life. Instead, a series of small explosions were heard from inside the transformer, and then a faint black smoke came out of the box.
However, Ke Lan's attention has now shifted to the "Iron Virgin". He noticed that during the past period of time, the range of the flesh dome seemed to have expanded a little, while the fleshy hose connected to the "Iron Virgin" had been reduced by almost one third.
The "things" in there might be coming out soon...
They couldn't stay here any longer and had to leave immediately. Ke Lan turned her head and met Victoria's empty eyes.
Ke Lan took a big step back instantly - he didn't know when Victoria stood up, but she looked a little bit wrong in her current state...
Could it be that electricity could bring a cyborg back to life? Ke Lan thought this was too outrageous. In comparison, he was more convinced that Victoria had undergone a "zombie transformation".
"Are you...Victoria?" Ke Lan asked tentatively.
"No, I'm not Victoria," she began, her vocal system looking nothing like the damage it had been showing.
"Who are you?"
"I am the 21st , Hermaphroditus. I am responsible for taking over the cyborg body of Victoria Arna, the senior commissioner of the Security Bureau. I am now preparing to carry out the destruction of the East 9th District." She paused at this point, "Please evacuate this area immediately if you are not necessary."
Although Ke Lan was very curious about the undead crew members mentioned by Hermaphroditus, another message in her words was obviously more important - she said that she wanted to destroy the entire East 9th District!
"Destroy? How to destroy it? Under the East 9th District is one of the four main power reactors of the Ark. Aren't you worried about the explosion?" Ke Lan said in astonishment.
He had thought of many ways to get rid of the things in the "Iron Maiden", but he had never considered destroying the entire East 9th District... Only a madman would come up with such a plan, and those who approved this plan must also be a group of madmen, right?
"I will separate the East 9th Area module from the Ark, and then launch it into the low- Earth orbit of Alpha Star, and bombard it directly with the Ark's main gun." Hermaphroditus said, "Now, there are fifteen minutes left before the module separation countdown."
Ke Lan was stunned. Although this plan was like a heroic act of self-sacrifice, it was indeed the most prudent way to deal with it, and it was also very feasible. As for the missing East 9th District, as long as there were enough resources, it would be no problem to build ten more districts, let alone one...
"Aren't you leaving yet?" Hermaphroditus said. Although Victoria's eyes had been dug out by Zi Yan, Ke Lan always felt that the person who was remotely controlling this prosthesis was watching him at this moment.
"Can you tell me...what the Undead Crew would be?"
"You don't need to know this yet...but I think you may become one of us in the future."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ke Lan felt the ground shake violently. Looking up, she saw that the air traffic tracks around Arasaka Tower were all broken into several pieces. Countless pieces fell to the ground, making a deafening roar.
The separation process of the East 9th District module has begun, and Ke Lan knows that he can't get any more information from this person, so he simply turns around and runs... If he stays here, he will just be buried with the things in the iron coffin.
But what bothered him was, "I will become one of them in the future."... What does this sentence mean?
Ke Lan had never heard of the Undead Crew Association. As for the "superstructure" of the Ark, the public only knew about three of them: the Consortium Federation, the Ark Army's Supreme Command, and the United Parliament Group voted by all the people of the Ark. In addition, the supercomputer that controls the operation of the Ark: the core brain, also has some decision-making power.
However, none of these organizations has the authority to decide on a plan to "abandon the entire regional module", and if they want to get together for a voting meeting, it will take at least one day just to convene the organization members.
From this point, it can be confirmed that the authority possessed by the Undead Crew Club is probably completely superior to these three organizations.
