CHAPTER 154: CHAPTER 101: PANDORA ALGORITHM

The bullets poured intermittently.

John sat back against the pillar, crossed his legs, frowned, and brushed off the debris that had fallen into his hair and collar. He finally waited for a pause in the gunfire, sprang out, and blew Terry’s head off with a single shot.

[Countdown: 3min11s]

John was still marveling at having plenty of time.

The fallen corpse suddenly fired two shots towards the ceiling, causing sparks to fall from the steel-structured roof.

Terry’s gun barrel, glowing red, spewed flames, and it wasn’t long before the factory was filled with the smell of burning flesh.

John poured fuel over the body.

Terry’s clothes and personal items were also separately thrown into an incinerator in the industrial area.

The data connection port on the corpse was also smashed.

Flames consumed the factory.

By the time the fire department and ECPD arrived on the scene, there would be nothing left to find.

John parked the Jurassic ZT15 on the high slope of the road, looking back—under the pale sun, he could barely make out hovercars and news drones, thick black smoke rising to the sky of Eden City, dissipating before reaching high.

Bang.

The passenger side closed.

Oulos took off her sunglasses and hung them on the rearview mirror.

Her eyes showed a hint of fatigue, wearing the same shirt from yesterday, paired with hot pants, revealing a circle of beautiful Roman numeral tattoos on her thigh.

"Yes, that’s right."

Oulo was on the phone.

She gestured for John to head to the city center.

"I’ll speak with the Special Affairs Bureau, and the police won’t find anything at the scene... haha, do you think the municipal budget is air, who would waste a bio-monitoring slot on an unidentified corpse?"

The black armored vehicle smoothly drove into the city center.

Although it was a semi-military model, it had no external weapons, didn’t trigger alarms passing the hover scanners, and when going through the checkpoint intersections, uniformed officers directly made way.

Oulos had only been in Eden City for a short time.

But with the inheritance of a tie clip and her resources in Europe, she was already able to enjoy considerable convenience to a certain extent.

The senator was out of life-threatening danger.

He was neither angry nor sad, just calmly dealing with the situation and playing his hand in the turbulent political landscape.

Terry was dead.

He, with the impulsiveness of youth, ignorance, a zeal for love, and powerlessness, had become a corpse in a corner of the city, hard to identify.

No one even knew he disappeared.

Kuang Xin acted very quickly.

Before John arrived at the city center, two members of an emergency team extorting him had already been kidnapped by mercenaries.

As for the safe supposedly containing the video, it was said to be just a sudden whim of the two.

But no one cared whether that statement was true or false.

Those who knew the secret, those who overstepped boundaries...

were all dealt with cleanly.

Oulos hung up the call.

She said the senator had obtained a list from Raqi Industry, of course, disguised as a commercial secret theft incident, with some internal personnel falsely accused and subjected to corporate purging.

But that was Raqi’s family affair, not needing to pry too much.

John was curious listening—how could the senator’s efficiency be so high given his current state?

Oulos smirked wryly.

"The exchange of interests in the business world is like a giant vending machine, input the command, deliver the money, get the results, the calculation process may be complex, but the implementation path is clear."

"They’re all insidious corporate hounds."

John kept his grip on the steering wheel, providing no extra emotional response.

Oulos had no further interest in continuing the conversation.

The car parked at City Core Square.

The towering headquarters of major corporations in Eden City clustered in the distance, company employees in fine attire with furrowed brows coming and going, like rust stains hard to remove from an iron forest.

"I got hold of Hugo’s file; I need some time to check his recent social activities to see if there’s any breakthrough."

Oulos had obtained information about Raqi Industry’s witness protection plan.

Using a backstage port provided by the senator, she accessed the company’s internal data network and intercepted some information.

"Wow, look what I’ve found."

Oulos smiled, sharing with John.

Hugo wasn’t doing well, trying to secure a job in the network management departments of major companies under a new identity.

"Guess who offered him an olive branch?"

Oulos passed over an email message.

The Plato Company’s exclusive domain name, internal network, a stamped special recruitment interview letter from the HR department.

This position was prestigious enough in Eden City.

Hugo seemed entangled with Plato for some time, looking for a suitable opportunity to meet offline.

Technically speaking, he was already dead.

Plato must take time to handle the identity issue.

"It’s really strange; if Hugo wanted to seek help, why not go to the net monitoring, did he fake his death back then to defect to Raqi Industry?"

"Let’s ask him ourselves."

Oulos grinned mischievously.

Since she could intercept this information, it meant Raqi Industry was actually aware of Hugo’s job-seeking intentions and temporarily condoned this behavior.

Oulos contacted Hugo with a new identity.

She demanded a meeting; otherwise, she would present all evidence to the net monitoring office and ruin this recruitment.

Hugo fit the hacker stereotype of always being online.

He attempted to hack Oulos, looking for network loopholes, but as soon as he started, he hit Raqi Industry’s firewall, immediately ceased action, and compromised, providing an address two blocks away.

John breathed a sigh of relief inside, yet couldn’t help but ask.

"How did you know to come to the city center and wait in advance?"

"Haha."