Chapter 1129

Taken.

After hearing the female reporter's words, Li Ang's mouth couldn't help but curl up implicitly, then he continued to maintain a look of deep pain and asked coldly:

"Then let me ask you, a few nights ago, why did Aquarius Director break into Joshua's dream? What exactly does he want to do?"

"He wants to protect the Capital."

Oh, it turns out he wanted to destroy... huh?

"It's true."

Looking at Li Ang's stunned expression, the female reporter couldn't help but say:

"Before the Nightmare King descended, the Director asked me to take the 【Dream-Wandering Lantern】 and collect 300,000 dreams related to the Capital, creating a dream Capital that was true to life.

If you really couldn't stop the Nightmare King and let it successfully descend, then the Director would break the 【Dream-Wandering Lantern】 and let the dreams related to the Capital run out in one breath.

In this way, even if the Nightmare King descended, it would be trapped by those 300,000 dreams and would never be able to reach the real Capital. After Blood Hair Ji freed her hands, she could enter the dream Capital and kill the Nightmare King directly."

"..."

It's actually the truth...

After glancing at the female reporter's soul state and finding that she was not lying, Li Ang couldn't help but frown, feeling that something was wrong.

Not to mention anything else, if it weren't for Aquarius spreading false news and transferring the people of the Virgin Branch, leading to the failure to clean up the stronghold of the Nightmare Black Sect in time, the Fallen Soul Black Abyss could not have descended at all, and the Nightmare King's entry into reality would be out of the question.

Therefore, it can be said that the Nightmare King descent event was caused by Aquarius Director himself, but why did he want to help the Nightmare King descend on one hand, and help the Virgin Branch protect the Capital on the other? Could it be that...

"Is there any conflict between Aquarius Director and the Nightmare King?"

"Yes..."

Seeing that Li Ang guessed part of the truth after just a little thought, the female reporter looked at him with surprise, then nodded and admitted:

"In order to recover to the best state, the Director opened his soul directly and let the Nightmare King plant a mark in it. So if the Nightmare King is not killed, he can directly control or even enslave him."

No wonder...

After hearing the female reporter's words, a look of realization flashed in Li Ang's eyes.

Rather than saying that Aquarius Director wanted to protect the Capital, it is better to say that he wanted the Nightmare King to die more.

After all, even if the Nightmare King successfully descended, it would probably not be able to kill the Director, but he would have to be enslaved by the Nightmare King. Comparing the two, for Aquarius Director, it is definitely more important to kill the Nightmare King.

"Hehe, then let's say he wants to protect the Capital."

Hearing that the female reporter still maintained Aquarius Director in her words, but Li Ang didn't have any deep hatred for Aquarius Director, so he didn't dwell on it, but continued to pursue:

"I just heard you call him Director, then you continue to talk about what the situation of the Gemini Branch is exactly now? What about the Kroke Kingdom?"

"Gemini Branch... has basically stopped."

After looking at Li Ang, the female reporter hesitated and said:

"Many years ago, the Kroke Kingdom built a machine capable of thinking, but the machine named Artifi 01 didn't perform very intelligently and could only undertake some relatively basic work, but it was far better than humans in basic work.

So the scholars of the Kroke Kingdom transformed the factories and public facilities of the Kingdom, connected Artifi 01 to them, and used it to replace low-end human labor, allowing more people to be liberated from basic labor and invested in the research and development of new technologies.

At the beginning, it was just some basic production work such as planting and manufacturing. Later, it slowly handed over work such as travel, construction, defense, and auditing to Artifi 01 to do..." "These are not urgent to talk about."

Having already learned about the intelligent machine crisis in the Kroke Kingdom from the Artifi 128 captured from the airship, Li Ang interrupted the female reporter's words:

"I want to know more about what the situation of the Gemini Branch of the Cleaning Bureau is, and what happened to the people of the Kroke Kingdom."

"The Gemini Branch has been controlled, and all cleaners have undergone implantation surgery and must obey the instructions of Artifi 01."

The female reporter bit her lower lip and said:

"After Artifi 01 mastered the authority of some key facilities, it directly blocked those places completely and started cleaning up people who had the authority to stop it. Then when the Gemini Branch noticed something was wrong and prepared to destroy it, it was buried underground by it in advance."

"Sunk underground?"

"Yeah..."

The female reporter explained:

"The building complex in the core area of the Kroke Kingdom is a honeycomb-shaped block, which can be spliced together by sliding slots and connecting tracks, or can be moved up and down to a certain extent by adjusting the number of floating crystals at the bottom.

And Artifi 01 seems to know the existence of the Cleaning Bureau, and in advance, in the name of component maintenance and mechanism replacement, it transformed several nearby blocks, so before the Gemini Branch took action, it was directly sunk and closed."

"Then you can't fight out?"

"People who can fight out are not there."

The female reporter said helplessly:

"Artifi 01 has no soul, and does not store memory by soul. The 【Illusion Can】 that can modify memory is invalid for it, so its records probably have the information of most cleaners of the Gemini Branch.

And those cleaners with excellent destructive power who can break the blockade were transferred away by the 'anomalous information' it organized in advance to clean up anomalous objects. The ones left behind are cleaners with weak destructive power.

The people who stayed behind cannot be said to be not strong, but they are only good at dealing with flesh-and-blood creatures or soul memories. Facing solid walls with a thickness of more than twenty meters up, down, left, and right, they really have no way."

"The Director has the ability to solve the problem, but he only talked to Artifi 01 once, but didn't take action in the end, but went back to the Bureau to get some things, and then left the Kroke Kingdom with me."

"..."

The enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, plus Aquarius has ulterior motives, so you really didn't lose unjustly.

Keeping the situation of the Gemini Branch in mind, and preparing to report to the Director later, Li Ang continued to pursue:

"What about ordinary people? After being taken over by Artifi 01, how are the people of the Kroke Kingdom living?"

"They... are actually not bad?"

After hearing this, the female reporter hesitated for a while, then said uncertainly:

"I went back once last year. Everything there is now controlled by Artifi 01, which is actually better than when it was controlled by people. Food is also free, and even the poor and beggars have been raised.

Except that the original scholars were forcibly recruited, and ordinary people almost have no work, and need to do some tests regularly, most people seem to live much better than before."

"..."

(End of chapter)