Chapter 1057: Chapter 66: Reverse Deduction

Jeanne took one last look at the scene, and then began to pick up a corpse, dismantling the exoskeleton armor plate along the twisted neck.

The mechanical structure here had already been damaged by Mech-Breaking Martial Arts, so the armor plates were easily loosened, revealing the protective layer inside. Tearing through the protective layer, one can see the spine. Following the path of the detached armor plate, eventually, the entire head’s external armor can be dismantled, exposing the electronic components inside.

It was already burned beyond recognition, a complete mess of electronic waste.

Xiang Shan sighed slightly: “Take the head off and throw it to a nearby clinic, maybe there’s still a chance to save it.”

“Not very likely.” Jeanne drew out a Universal Magnetic Screwdriver, fiddling lightly, “The metal components of the cooling system are still intact within the cranial cavity, and we’re not in a vacuum environment here. The heat has directly affected the brain cells. It’s hopeless.”

Tumor Xiang Shan’s hallucination shook his head, lamenting: “Let’s take another look, maybe we can find something salvageable.”

Jeanne was not hopeful: “It’s difficult. The most heat-conductive parts have been removed, leaving only components close to the brain, and the cooling system chose to continue working when the main system shut down. Otherwise, with the atmospheric density here, survival would be unlikely.”

“If there’s even one survivor, we could directly learn what techniques the opponent used from the electronic parts.”

After dissecting several bodies, Xiang Shan and Jeanne both gave up on this idea.

But at this moment, Xiang Shan noticed something else.

On the wall behind a base, there was a small dent.

The interior lining of this house was a thin layer of iron sheet, showing a metallic sheen. It doesn’t take much force to leave marks on the wall. This lining can also effectively absorb the kinetic energy of bullets, preventing ricochets — after all, this spooky place is their main base. It seems that this unprofessional professional intelligence agency had considered the possibility of battles breaking out at their headquarters.

But, alas, the intruder didn’t fire a single shot.

The Six Dragons Sect assassin had excellent martial arts, with attacks rarely missing their mark. Besides a few footprints distributed on different floors (in a zero-gravity city, walls and floors aren’t much different), there were no other traces.

Therefore, this small dent seemed somewhat out of place.

Tumor Xiang Shan pondered for a moment, then said to Jeanne: “Go pull up that intelligence officer who’s scared stiff, and ask him some questions.”

Jeanne floated over and yanked up Amipako. At this moment, Amipako was still immersed in the complex emotions of mourning the dead and the ecstasy of surviving a disaster. Jeanne pulled him up and asked, “Have you been to this place before?”

Amipako didn’t immediately come back to his senses. Jeanne asked again, and he, as if awakening from a dream, nodded, “I’ve been here several times. Although I’m not the person responsible for contact, but…”

“What was this place originally like? Was anything unusual? And…” Jeanne pointed to the base opposite the conspicuous small dent. There were still remnants of equipment on that base. Jeanne asked, “What were the original specifications of the equipment on that base? Or is this something they modified themselves?”

Amipako didn’t waste words, directly transmitting the information: “That processor should be the terminal of their main server…”

Tumor Xiang Shan folded his arms, thinking carefully. Then, he hovered over a particular footprint.

That footprint was close to the small dent.

“From this position, and the shape of that small dent, and the model of that device…”

Xiang Shan pondered for a moment and said: “That’s where the attacker launched his attack from…”

In Jeanne’s eyes, a virtual device model had appeared on the base. Meanwhile, Xiang Shan quickly swung his arm, throwing something toward the wall.

“An external device?” Xiang Shan murmured to himself, “Stored plenty of Gu? Or is this a tool to facilitate his hacking? By directly inserting into a legitimate device, to conduct some illegal operations more conveniently…”

The projectile thrown by the Six Dragons Sect protector might either be a storage device loaded with numerous curses and Gu capable of automatically attacking the enemy, or a device that could receive the signal of the Six Dragons Sect Protector and swiftly initiate an inner strength attack.

Jeanne watched as Xiang Shan’s imagined storage device hit the wall, striking right at the small dent, then rebounded, spinning into a device interface.

According to the data provided by Amipako, that unknown indeed had an interface.

Jeanne pondered for a moment: “Then he’s quite confident… In a place like the Neutral City-State, the interface specifications are extremely chaotic.”

To ensure that the confiscated resources can be quickly utilized, most of the specifications of Hero devices follow the government, at least being compatible with government devices and being able to support a few self-created Hero rules.

But in a place like the Neutral City-State, specs were not so particular. Although the foundations of the Neutral City-State were remnants of government warships, there were not many usable devices on the wreckage.

Jeanne shared this conjecture. Amipako was baffled: “But, why did he have to go through so much trouble… I mean, if he planned to kill with inner strength, why not just follow the network line… and act directly, instead of infiltrating personally?”

Jeanne replied: “It’s simple, that unspeakable king. Now he’s also looking for the Six Dragons Sect, who doesn’t fear him?”

Amipako was startled, even glancing around a few times before nodding: “Indeed…”

Because of the taboo against encountering King Aqini on the network, few locals dared to investigate the Six Dragons Sect through the network. It seems the Six Dragons Sect wasn’t very daring to operate online either.

“On the other hand, his inner strength might not be strong enough.” Jeanne said: “Every move he makes shatters the enemy’s prosthetic body with external strength, disabling their action ability. With such powerful external strength, the probability of having strong inner strength is reduced.”

Of course, it just reduces the probability, not making it “completely impossible.”

Amipako scratched his head: “But how did he determine that one device was the…”

“If he carried equipment that could detect electromagnetic waves, he could easily identify which devices had the most intense signal exchanges.” Asgard said: “I’m more curious about how he ensured that the projectile could enter the interface… That thing, no matter how fast, can’t be faster than a bullet. Fragile electronic equipment, too.”

The hidden weapon was an electronic product, so it certainly couldn’t withstand too strong a counterforce.

Jeanne’s answer was straightforward: “Whoever dares to raise a gun gets taken down first. Then the enemy would think that the projectile is just a ‘blinding trick’…”