Chapter 248 - 230 Sinister Dream (Thanks to Silver Patron Frozen)

The lights in the workspace suddenly flickered, making Reaver uneasy.

[Reaver, Lille?]

[Lille, Damn it... Run! I’ll guide you, bring the stuff out!]

[Reaver, What happened!]

Reaver was confused, if Lille was caught, his communication signal shouldn’t be this complete and normal.

But why did Lille seem so urgent?

[Lille, Don’t ask! Nobody knows you were here, I haven’t been exposed either, hurry up!]

[Lille, Oh, and flip the breaker when you leave!]

Since Lille said so, Reaver didn’t bother asking questions, he immediately went to the control room and overclocked the system just as Lille instructed!

Room 3 lost power instantly, miraculously the police station alarm didn’t go off.

The two quickly met at the monitoring room, then pulled down their caps and casually walked past a few colleagues.

Every time they passed by a colleague, their hearts pounded!

But nothing happened, until they got back to the car, nothing happened.

"Phew..."

The two let out a sigh of relief.

[Reaver, What the hell happened?]

[Lille, Your... uh, your department’s storage server got burned, I managed to control the alarm, but it will start smoking soon, so it’s better to let the alarm go off.]

Lille had just sent the message when the NCPD station’s alarm blared!

[Reaver, ?]

Reaver was full of questions, you invaded our facility, shouldn’t you be the one at risk of it being burned?

Why did our servers get burned?!

[Lille, In short, it was due to improper operation, but it’s fine, I have backups of some burned data.]

[Lille, You can apply for funds from your superiors to recover the data, I can help you, it won’t really be a loss, at a friendly price.]

Reaver let out another long breath.

So you burned our equipment, and I have to pay you to get the stolen data back?

[Lille, Don’t worry, I’ve handled the traces, no one will find out.]

[Lille, We got the stuff, come back.]

.....

Lille got out of the icy water—

It was warm water now.

Jack and V stared at him blankly, each holding a basin of water.

"...What are you guys doing?"

V said, "You just... damn, this water in the pool was bubbling, we thought you were getting fried, so we were going to add more water."

Lille waved his hand, "It’s not that bad, just did some high-level operations."

Two mechanical hands supported Lille as he got up.

The cooling tank actually had a heat exchanger, the fan behind the cooling tank was the heat exchange equipment, and the coolant was circulating.

Generally, there’s no need to change the coolant, by the time it needs changing, the person would be roasted already.

Lille got up from the docking bay, walked to the side, and recorded the equipment from Ivan into his brain—

The Dream Superdream Device wasn’t complicated, high-end Superdreams could also collect memory information, just not as complete.

But as long as he could find out where the people behind this chain were, it was enough for Lille.

Besides, this top-tier Superdream device could be used for other neuroscience research too.

Lille walked all the way to Ivan’s equipment workspace, turned around, and saw Jack and V still looking at him.

He asked, "What’s wrong with you two?"

"Your... prosthetics look weird."

Lille looked down and saw that the two arms controlled by Little Octopus were shaking a bit...

They seemed excited.

"...It’s nothing, just some neural twitches from exiting Cyberspace, it’ll be fine in a bit."

Lille said while patting his two arms hard, the mechanical hands calmed down, resting obediently on the side of the table.

V commented, "Why do they look like a sulking child? Is it my illusion?"

"Never mind that, bring in the Tiger Claw Gang member."

The two nodded, the red man was quickly placed on the Superdream chair.

The two mechanical hands swapped out technical specialist and prosthetic doctor equipment, working with Lille to complete the insertion into the cortex of the red man’s brain.

His brain was exposed, covered with patches of bio-electrodes.

With Lille’s power-up, the Dream Superdream Device reacted.

[Completed Technical Assembly, Dream Superdream Device]

[Description, Draw information from the target’s unconscious brain activity, specific directions can be attained with keyword stimuli.]

[Can record the neural operational state in great detail.]

[Reward Technology Points, 400]

[Current Technology Points, 3000]

Simply put, the Dream Superdream Device could let one experience the dreams of the target.

In a vegetative state, the target would react instinctively to stimuli, instinctively retrieving memories from the hippocampus, akin to an interrogation.

Now the decision was who would have this dream.

Lille looked at Jack and V on the couch, then turned back.

He didn’t doubt the courage of the two to see the Superdream, but the Superdream would reproduce the physical and psychological state of the target.

Experiencing the mind of a murderer, rapist, and kidnapper was not ideal.

Lille himself wouldn’t get lost in the psychological changes brought by the device, and he had Little Octopus to handle the relevant commands.

He could easily play both roles.

So, Lille put on the Superdream device, which was a ring-like piece of equipment, two glowing electrodes extending from the temples to the front of the eyes.

Then he completed the neural link through the neural interface on the nape of his neck.

Through various means, the Superdream would replicate the neural and biological state of the recorded target to the reader.

Then, Lille could experience being the red man and obtain the full process of his involvement in crimes through his dreams.

A white light flashed, and Lille immersed himself into the red man’s dream.

...

Keywords, Jotaro Kujo, Human Trafficking.

Electrode stimuli, transmitting the text as the corresponding biological signals to the red man’s brain.

Then he started dreaming, and through the device, Lille could glimpse his dream.

Lille found himself in a casino.

Maybe because it was a dream, what he saw seemed strange:

He was in a casino, but his prosthetic eye also showed gambling records, as if online and offline gambling were happening simultaneously.

"Haha! You lost! You lost!"

A gambler with a flushed face pointed at the red man.

"All gone, all lost..." the red man muttered to himself, turning away, and the scene changed.

He seemed to be home—a damp and dark place.

Sitting on the couch, the red man kept muttering some weird things until the door opened and a younger boy walked in.

The red man suddenly grabbed the boy’s arm like crazy, "Kenji, you still have tuition fees, right? Lend me some money, I lost in business, just need a little to turn things around..."

"Bastard! Get away! You gambling dog ruined our parents with your debts, how I wish you were dead!"

Complex emotions filled the red man’s chest, clearly, it wasn’t the first time he borrowed from the boy.

Lille couldn’t feel those emotions, but he could see from the rising numbers that the red man was very agitated.

The boy was about to enter when the red man turned his gaze to the bat on the table—

He swung it hard at the back of the boy’s head.

"You have no money... it’s okay, you are worth money, worth money."

The red man turned back, his height suddenly increased a lot, and he talked to a man in red and green clothes:

"How much is he worth?"

Bam bam bam...

"Not bad, you’ve got some skill, a hard hitter, but you killed him with a single blow, dead men aren’t worth much.

But live ones can, they can be sex dolls, if sex dolls don’t make money, we can film intense Black Superdreams, if they die during the filming, we can sell their organs.

But you shot him dead, now we have to pay for the bullet."

"Seems like... that makes sense."

"Alright, from now on you work for me, we always need someone who can kill."

"I got it!"

Then the red man appeared in a car, driving at high speed, passing the roadside, he stood in the van’s trunk, looking at his newly replaced cyber prosthetics, feeling full of power.

The car slowed down, he jumped out, and kidnapped a girl.

He succeeded once, extremely excited, his mind was filled with thoughts of what the girl could do, how much money she could make.

The more he thought, the harder he tightened his grip on the girl’s hand—

Crack.

The girl died.

The red man knelt on the floor, getting slapped hard.

The familiar voice again, but now the voice owner wore a suit.

"Bastard! I asked you to kidnap, not to deliver corpses! Does this place look like a crematorium to you?"

"I was wrong... boss..."

"Wrong wrong wrong, you’re useless except for killing, and you just kill those unworthy lives..."

The speaker paused, "Well, forget it, don’t do this anymore, we have professional suppliers now, you just watch over the Geisha’s delivery point."

"Yes, boss."

The red man got up, turned, and the scene changed again.

He looked up and saw the Arasaka corporate building in the distance.

Turning around, it was wasteland, surrounded by containers.

The containers weren’t carrying goods, but people.

"Jeahyun, where did you get these people from?"

Lee Jeahyun appeared.

He waved, "Don’t ask, you can’t handle it, if you could, I wouldn’t be needed.

This batch goes to Phoenix, red boxes for filming, blue boxes for entertainment, I’ve handled it for the boss."

"What about the black boxes?"

"Heh." Lee Jeahyun laughed, tapping the red man’s ear forcefully, "Don’t ask, they contain high-end goods, for the elites."

"Cloud... Cloud Peak?"

"I said don’t ask!"

Lee Jeahyun slapped the red man, his face stinging with pain.

Then he appeared in a car, driving through alleys, twisting and turning—

Finally stopping at a nightclub named "Phoenix."

Terrain, landmarks, lighting, time...

The location was set.