Chapter 117: Chapter 84: Tie Clip_5
The tie clip is the best middleman on the streets of the West District.
Once he receives the message, the hunt in Oulos begins.
She gave John coordinates at the edge of the West District, then pulled out a data cable and connected it to the car’s device port.
"You’re daring to mess with the Internet Surveillance stuff?"
"Don’t worry about me, darling. Everybody’s got to have some life-saving skills, right?"
[Eden City — Far Mountain Apartment’s Villa District]
This area is a new high-end development under Raqi Industry’s real estate.
According to Oulos’ information:
The tie clip is a middleman in the West District, but his relationship with the local largest Black Gold Gang is average. Instead, he has close ties with the Owl Town gang on Sakura Cross Street, and even chose Eastern People’s enterprises for his mansion.
"Oh shit, are we going in from here?"
John just took one look and frowned.
Patrol guards and all-weather armed robots, a hovercar carrying Raqi Industry’s tactical team needs only a few minutes, then summon an emergency rescue group and the Eden City Police Station...
"When a middleman gets things done, there’s only blood in the last few steps."
Oulos reclined the co-driver’s seat, using the car’s deep dive equipment to enter cyberspace.
An ordinary hacker touching Internet Surveillance ICE would probably turn into brain toast.
But Oulos hijacked agent information to conduct query interventions on private accounts under the tie clip’s name, and launched an attack on the safe in his data bank.
She unplugged the data cable and got out of the car with John.
The Far Mountain Villa is away from the bustling downtown, close to the city checkpoint, convenient for materials supply and smuggling.
Ordinary people have neither the money nor the time to come this way.
The outer ring leads to undeveloped areas, or remote company bases, or large municipal facilities like photovoltaic power stations and city wall dams.
Street Racing Gang and wild lovers love to come.
There are many places for covert actions.
They randomly found a corner to blow up the car, temporarily delaying the action of Internet Surveillance.
The Eden City Internet Surveillance Office members are all veterans.
When the attack intention is unclear, they will first block the device’s access permissions, reverse-check their own data fortress, protect the network first, and then choose to attack.
Oulos had already finished her work.
She took John back to the Far Mountain Villa, explaining along the way.
The tie clip’s phone must be exploding with calls, suspecting Internet Surveillance has started acting against him. As a mature middleman, his first step is to leverage his connections to gather intelligence.
But he will find:
The intelligence channels he knows best suddenly refuse him.
Although there has been no substantial blow to the tie clip’s business, the lack of security is fatal for a middleman.
No matter where he is, he will return to his private villa.
Because it stores his business foundation in Eden City or rather, his life-saving chips.
"The tie clip is a reckless parasite, keeping a little secret of each client he serves, as if attending parties with a pack of explosives, dragging more people into the water, desperately climbing upwards."
"Can company dogs and political figures tolerate that?"
"Despicable methods still exist in this world because they are simple, efficient, and can let people like him, who have given up on moral baselines, reverse the tide."
Oulos’ cybernetic eye was constantly flashing.
She walked the walk, processed the information along the way, and still talked and laughed.
Eden had once warned John:
Oulos was a legendary figure in Europe. No matter her reason for coming to Eden City, her plots were never small.
She immediately surpassed the tie clip, dug out his partners, and carved up his business as easily as digging into a cake with an iron spoon.
"This guy will drive in through Gate No. 3. We should wait for him in the residential area... hmm, preferably sitting on the sofa. I’m starting to look forward to his expression."
[Mission Objective Updated]
[Enter the tie clip’s villa. (Not achieved)]
John saw the heavily armed guard posts.
Fully armored patrol team, campus area local network, CCTV cameras, and electromagnetic walls.
The gate of the Far Mountain Villa District is a building.
It adopts a separated pedestrian and vehicular lobby design.
A mechanical intelligent female butler in kimono stood in the hall bowing to Oulos, with warm lighting, a courtyard stream, and a holographic scenery stage exuding an aura of revelry.
A burly man in a suit walked out.
John was ready to draw his gun, but the other party picked up a package and handed it to him.
Passing through the sliding doors of the lobby.
The internal pathways lead to different parts of the manor, each detached villa designed according to the mountain terrain, ensuring the lighting design covers both illumination and privacy.
John couldn’t help asking.
"How did you sneak in?"
"I bought a unit."
Oulos crossed her arms, like a chilled noblewoman.
"Are you surprised? I’m just new to Eden City, not to the game. If this were in Europe, I could bring you into Neuschwanstein Castle."
"Damn, mercenaries are at the bottom of society now."
"Don’t be discouraged, darling, men shouldn’t turn into such a miser like the tie clip. Money is just a resource, and you must ensure the amount you have is moderate to exchange for more important benefits."
Oulos is a woman with broad vision, having more than enough qualifications and confidence to sneer at the tie clip.
John and Oulos were connected on a tactical channel.
[Far Mountain Villa District - No. 36]
Three all-weather Raqi Industry security robots, equipped with ICE firmware to prevent hacker control, single-soldier level exoskeleton armor, and carrying intelligent high-penetration rifles, patrolled the garden.