Chapter 890 - 169: Information of the Black Dog

"This is a Flowing AI incident, are you sure you weren’t instructed?"

The Interpol officer speaking was meticulous, sitting with arms folded in front of Sevens.

"No." Sevens shook his head, "I can assure you we knew nothing about this incident."

Although they were hiding in the house as planned, Sevens really didn’t know the Flowing AI was part of the plan—

However, in the eyes of others, all this seemed bizarre:

Why does the Flowing AI only attack EBM? Why were the workers so bold, even mingling with the Flowing AI?

Luckily, Sevens truly didn’t know; he was simply "going with the wind."

"Heh, don’t know." The Interpol officer across from him sneered, "I’ve never heard of a Flowing AI cooperating with people to attack a company, even joining your parade..."

Sevens shrugged, "You know I’m not lying, I really don’t know, no one knows.

The situation was extremely critical, the police... they didn’t receive orders from above, couldn’t act recklessly, I understand.

But what I don’t understand is why EBM has the authority to use direct force within the European Barrier?"

At this moment, he was sitting in a chair connected to his body through various excuses and neural electrodes, monitoring changes in brain electrical potentials and hormone levels; simply put, it was a 2077 lie detector.

However, unlike a lie detector, thanks to a powerful database and a backup think tank, it could not only test for "lying," but also, based on human reactions and personal background, design a series of questions, either directly or indirectly, to obtain answers.

The advantage of this machine over a lie detector was that even the person being interrogated wouldn’t know what they were answering.

But Sevens really didn’t know, almost no worker did—

Even Elliot was reassuring because Network Supervision had already assessed him.

So he proactively stated, "EBM doesn’t have the authority to use direct force within the European Barrier, if they did, they would be disrespecting the European Union.

As citizens of the European Union, resisting their forceful actions and ensuring our legal rights is always a priority; only then can the dignity of the European Union not be humiliated, right?

I’d like to remind you, this should actually be your job, but you’ve done terribly."

The Interpol officer scoffed internally—

However, he also felt helpless; clearly, Sevens indeed knew nothing, although daring, the European Union only stipulated that ordinary people couldn’t privately use and research AI, but didn’t ban cooperation with Flowing AI...

After all, there was no precedent for this?

Since there was no issue with Sevens, the headache now lay with them:

Clearly, Sevens was the kind of person who loved to stir things up in the European Union, now he’s waving this banner, what else could you say?

Moreover, they did indeed have cooperation with Network Supervision...

"We communicated with Network Supervision long ago, they believe the hacker in Bruges seems very interested in us, and we did this to lure him out, who knew he was a Flowing AI?

EBM’s attack is your responsibility, and you’ve done poorly; the Flowing AI is Network Supervision’s matter, I’d advise you to stay out of it."

The interrogator pinched the bridge of his nose, giving a slight instruction to his compatriot in his mind—

The remaining matter had nothing to do with public duty, or rather, not the kind that can be made public.

"Alright... very sorry, Mr. Strange, just now was a matter of official duty.

However, I’d like to correct your statement, Interpol was involved in ensuring the safety of workers’ activities during this operation..."

The Interpol officer paused, "Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to explain why you were hiding in the safehouse before the attack hit."

Blais laughed, laughed out of frustration.

They were simply short on cash, lacking status, but not brains. Of course, they had long prepared a safehouse from the fierce company EBM.

They didn’t see these Interpol agents when the incident occurred, but after the fact, they wanted to come forward and take credit.

But Blais also knew they really needed to cooperate—taking down EBM’s assault team, the credit would be too big, not something they could claim, and the Flowing AI matter needed digesting...

Most critically, Interpol was a military organization sponsored by the European Bank, essentially under the European Bank’s command, belonging to the European Bank.

Jilafa was rich, but when it came to Berlin, Jilafa wasn’t sufficient, it wasn’t like going to Siberia.

Then he tapped the armrest with his fingers: "Just don’t be late for the activities afterwards."

"Of course, we will even provide comprehensive security services for you."

Security?

Surveillance, more like.

"Great... my friend?"

Receiving Sevens’ response, the man laughed, a genuine laugh this time, as at least one work goal had been achieved.

"Him? Don’t worry, your friend is fine, but there’s someone you need to meet first; the European Union and European Bank intend to assign you an instructor..."

Sevens’ movement to stand up froze—

The most troublesome thing had come.

...

Despite the internet having long ceased to exist, the world now used isolated local area networks, and communication technology was advanced but inconvenient, the Black Dog incident still spread worldwide within 24 hours.

There remain numerous blind spots regarding the Flowing AI incident, but it still aligned with the European Union’s initial purpose:

They originally intended to reclaim Bremen’s land and commercial discourse rights, and the current time was as good as ever!

EBM’s stock price fluctuated violently within an hour after the incident occurred, first soaring nearly 20 points, then plummeting at once!

The incident was extremely outlandish, with a never-before-seen large-scale information warfare device emerging, resulting in an accident 30 minutes later during the peak of trading.

The European Union was very concerned about the Flowing AI, but this task would be handled by Network Supervision, they were more interested in Bremen’s interests, which they had long decided to take over.

So the fact that EBM was wiped out by the Flowing AI had to be highlighted.

The news spread on the wind, quickly reaching Night City in North America.

City Hall, Network Security Department.

This was once the office of Network Supervision, but after that incident, Night City began constructing its own network security system...

Night City even considered terminating the Black Wall contract with Network Supervision, which once led most companies to think Ryan was going crazy with independence.

But facts proved, after weakening Network Supervision’s influence, things were still fine here.

To the extent that even when the European Union was attacked by Flowing AI, no Flowing AI incident occurred here.

Network Security Office, now’s the chief technology officer, the human chief technology officer was Lark—

He sat motionless in his chair, obviously shocked by the just-received information, feeling as if hearing an impossible fantasy.

He had already transmitted the just-captured information to Night City’s "high-ups"...

But what shocked her wasn’t just EBM being wiped out by Flowing AI.

[Arasaka Yorinobu: It’s very likely so!]

[Arasaka Yorinobu: Black Dog was the last song Johnny Silverhand wrote before attacking Arasaka Tower, it wasn’t even released on the internet!]

[Arasaka Yorinobu: Only he himself or former band members could know about this song, but the other members of the Martial Artist band couldn’t possibly be in Europe, doing such things!]

[Arasaka Yorinobu: It indicates that during the attack on Arasaka Tower, the data consciousness of Johnny Silverhand stored in Arasaka Tower migrated, jumping to Europe before the nuclear explosion!]

[Arasaka Yorinobu: If Johnny Silverhand survived, he... he has no reason not to be alive!]

[Arasaka Yorinobu: He must be alive!]