Just a moment's pause.

The melodious minuet playing in the corridor stopped.

"...Don't be afraid, I'll be here right away."

From the loudspeaker that was originally playing music, Delphinium's steady voice slowly sounded: "I have just called the backup float vehicle, and I will be able to get on the vehicle in one minute and twenty seconds. The journey is eleven minutes, and I will arrive when I arrive.

Breaking in through the window...three minutes is probably enough time."

"——You are not allowed to come!"

The eyes of the inferior flashed with real anger: "It's absolutely too late, this is a conspiracy-"

But Delphinium interrupted him without hesitation: "I am the minister, I have the final say. I am the best psychic hacker in Happy Island, if I can't solve it, no one can.

"We can't let it go and let innocent people sacrifice...even if it's just one person. Otherwise, wouldn't we really become the company's dogs?"

But that's different——

The bad guy wants to argue.

His will is very clear - this time the "veil of ignorance" specifically made the request.

It is a system that can only be unlocked by the "psychic hacker" intrusion mode.

What are the intrusion characteristics of psychic hackers?

Being able to use psychic powers in the matrix... and another feature is that the psychic hacker cannot exit immediately.

If a safe exit is not possible, the soul will remain in the matrix and the body will become a vegetative state.

This is definitely a trap - the bomb will probably only have seconds left at the end.

But this time the bomb was different from the previous two, and it couldn't be left alone.

If it cannot be dismantled, the bad guy must kill the child instantly to prevent the bomb from exploding and destroying the floor.

But in that case... not only did he kill an innocent person, but the damaged program would also keep Delphinium's soul inside and destroy it together.

——Can he bet?

Do you believe Delphinium can do all this?

He really wanted to believe it.

But what if... what if?

Even if he breaks the window and escapes with Delphinium, Delphinium will turn into a vegetative state and the bomb will explode; if he kills the child at the last moment, the bomb will not explode, but Delphinium will still turn into a vegetative state, and he

Committed murder.

If he escapes at this time, the bomb will explode and the floor will still collapse...

There seems to be only one option left.

If this child is killed before Delphinium arrives...

There will only be two victims.

The innocent people he killed, and himself.

The bad ones must not be judged, otherwise it will be a carnival of sin... It is best to die without a burial place and become "disappeared".

He can do this.

If you use Delphinium's chip to explode the strongest psychic energy in your body, the sound waves can directly shake him into mincemeat and melt him silently into this world.

——Based solely on the number of victims, this seems to be the best choice.

"……if."

The inferior lowered his head and stared at the boy who was wearing a mask and whose body was still trembling slightly - the boy seemed to have realized something.

His voice was as dry as sandpaper: "If you really have to..."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

As soon as the bad guy started talking, Delphinium guessed what the bad guy wanted to say, and she interrupted without hesitation: "Believe me, I am the best psychic hacker... I can do it."

"This bastard wanted to make me suffer, so he made me betray all my relatives——"

"——So, he won't let you die here. There must be a solution to this bomb."

Delphinium's cold and calm voice sounded methodically: "You have lost your calm. I order you to obey my command."

"……yes."

"Listen, I won't be able to use the disc after I get in the car. I'll be disconnected for a while, but you don't have to worry... I just asked Russell to come up and help you.

"He is also a network security engineer. He may be able to carry out a first round of intrusion - if he is unwilling to connect, you can ask him to help cut off the limbs of those people. He has a charter and has learned swordsmanship.

"——The car has arrived, I'm going offline."

After saying that, Delphinium's voice disappeared instantly.

And after her voice disappeared.

"Support..."

After being silent for a long time, the iron mask sneered and made a distorted voice: "That's too late.

"I have arranged four 'bodyguards' with a transformation degree of over 70% to wait on the first floor, armed with live ammunition, to assassinate people who enter the room. This was originally prepared for you... but if your newcomer blocks this for you

If it were a calamity, he would probably be dead by now."

"He can't die."

The bad guy, who regained his composure again, frowned and replied calmly.

"You believe him so much?"

Mask asked rhetorically.

The inferior did not answer the question, but replied: "Since you don't know that Russell is still alive, it means that you are unable to observe the situation on the first floor. After the minister spoke, you stopped talking... I thought of two possibilities.

As he spoke, the inferior stood among the silent crowd, slowly took out a metal lighter, lit it, and lit a cigarette for himself.

The moment the lighter was lit, the crowd who stood silently like statues fell to the ground in pain, twitching.

And at the moment when the inferior forcefully closes the lighter as if to vent his anger.

A loud noise as sharp as thunder exploded in their minds.

——Those bodyguards whose hearing was suppressed, their prosthetics began to short-circuit and sparks burst out.

Although these are not equipped with weapons, they can definitely be regarded as "elite" bodyguards, but they are like straw being harvested in front of the inferior ones.

"Either let Delphinium not be disturbed and come over as soon as possible; or you are worried that the abnormal network waveform when you speak will be tracked by Delphinium.

"Then I guess the intrusion method you used this time should be different from before... just like the bomb this time is also different.

"You're nearby, right."

The inferior replied affirmatively: "The straight-line distance is definitely not far, it is in this building. Considering safety, I guess you are on the first floor...are you in the nightclub hall?"

Iron Mask did not reply.

At this moment, the elevator lights up.

Russell walked out quickly.

"Want to help?"

He was holding the activated red light blade in his right hand. Before he even got close to the inferior, he had already asked: "Who do you want me to kill?"

An extremely short, powerful, and clear question.

Originally, Russell thought that the inferior ones faced a tough battle... He had to remain vigilant and not to hold back the inferior ones.

When I came up, I saw corpses lying on the ground.

...presumably it's because he can't do any last-ditch damage, so it's painful. Usually, the bad guy has a team of captors around him, who are mainly responsible for robbing the people he beats down.

Presumably my own positioning is pretty much the same.

"Or," Russell felt that his words were a little murderous, even impatient, and not good for his own image... So he quickly asked tactfully again, "Do you want me to paralyze them?"

Russell didn't know.

His previous question caused the inferior to be shaken for a moment.

It wasn’t just a misjudgment of Russell’s character – he once thought he was a timid and gentle child, but he didn’t expect it... Cats are ferocious beasts after all.

The main thing is that the bad guy even had a moment to seriously consider... whether to let Russell kill the child.

After all, the "hero's" murder responsibility seems to be lighter...?

--No.

"...so ugly."

The inferior took a deep breath of cigarette and murmured softly.

...as inferior as me.
To be continued...