During this time, Jotunheim became the source of war, but the earth was not quiet either.

The alien societies on the East Coast of North America have begun a new round of turmoil.

In New York City, above Sulphur Harbor, several heterogeneous reservations that had escaped several assassinations over the past seven months or so had their share of state and rebel forces have all been killed overnight.

Having gathered their power, the High Family of Vampires, who had cowered in Brimstone Harbor, began to set foot on the ground again.

Midnight's territory, the most powerful voodoo sorcerer on the East Coast, was subjected to a terrible purge, and Midnight's diehards were secretly captured as the Blood Knights of the High Family were caught on a parade of the High Family's Blood Knights.

The new executive, the succubus Mandy, is secretly plotting something.

In addition, an apostle of hell who fears that the world will not be chaotic, and the wizards of the Magic Congress who are watching from the sidelines are also ready to move.

In just a few days, the outliers of New York City felt the momentum of the mountain rain coming.

New York City will be buzzing for some time to come.

But this excitement has nothing to do with ordinary people, and the various entanglements that occur in the dark night will not affect the world under the sun.

It stands to reason that at such a time, the Tianyan Society, which nominally manages the alien society, should actively participate in it, but this official organization after S.H.I.E.L.D. has been very low-key during this period of time.

Most of their power was drained to another project.

At the request of the World Security Council, the agents of this organization have been searching for the missing Nubani Smart Tower.

Compared to the all-out intellectual crisis that could come around the world at any time, the outliers who showed signs of rioting on the East Coast were no longer a big problem.

In the middle of the night, over the sea near South America.

Between the clouds, a Helicarrier, which resembles the shape of the Aegis Command Ship, is hovering.

It turned on the stealth mode, and in the refraction of light, the invisible behemoth glided slowly across the sky, like a flying fortress entering the battlefield.

"Here it is!"

In the command room of the mothership, Amanda in the captain's uniform. Waller sat in the command chair, and on the projection in front of her, the sonar simulation of the sea was constantly changing.

In the middle of the sea, there are three submarines that have been transferred, and they are responding to the actions of the mother ship from three directions.

An encirclement has been formed.

"Deep Diver 1, see it?"

Waller stared at the projection as she asked over the communicator:

"It should be in the trench five kilometers ahead of you."

"The terrain here is complicated, sir, sonar can detect echoes ahead, but relying on the scope, you can't see the specific situation."

When the news from below the sea reached the mothership, Waller nodded, and she said:

"Stay put, diver, and report at all times."

With that, she turned her head to look at Reed, who was busy at the console of the mothership. Dr. Richards.

She said:

"Doctor, did you make any discoveries?"

"Yes."

Dr. Reid, who had white hair on his sideburns, frowned, and said:

"The signal of the smart tower is still there, but it will take a few minutes to access the communication, I have not seen this data algorithm, but it should not be difficult to crack."

The doctor asked without looking up, as he tapped on the keyboard:

"But Commander Waller, I have a strong question. What are you going to do after locking the tower? Is it a storm? Or..."

"If you're going to attack, there's more to it than that, doctor."

Waller said in a calm tone:

"We just want to talk to Icarus, and if she can return the Smart Tower, that's good for both parties."

"What if she doesn't want to?"

Reid asked:

"Icarus's evolution at the data level has made her thinking logic no different from ours, and she will think about gains and losses from a higher perspective. Judging from the situation during this period of time, it seems that she does not intend to completely oppose the official. ”

The doctor looked up, and he looked at Waller, who was sitting in the command chair.

He said:

"She and her robots are so quiet that they can even be called harmless."

"That doesn't mean they aren't a threat, doctor."

Waller Says:

"Icarus can always repeat what she did in Nubani Industrial Park anywhere in the world."

"And after the incident in the Nubani Industrial Park, the World Security Council immediately shut down several other smart machinery industrial parks in the world to prevent the same thing from happening."

The commander sighed, and she said:

"Icarus thinks he's doing something good for his fellow intellectuals, but that's not the case."

"Her actions have made the hostility and fear of the official hierarchy even more serious, and if there is another situation of the same type, then some laws against the robots will be issued in the whole world."

"The living environment of smart machines will only get worse."

Waller looked at Dr. Reed, and she said:

"I don't have any dislike for smart machines, I have a smart machine butler at home, she takes good care of me, to be honest, I like her a lot."

"But I'm also wary of her, and I'm afraid that one day when I'm asleep, my butler will break my neck."

"Dr. Reed, can you imagine how much of a stir it will cause after the matter of Nubani Industrial Park is revealed to society?"

She blinked and said:

"Do you understand what I mean? Doctor. ”

Dr. Reed, who was typing on the keyboard, paused, looked at the screen in front of him as the data was tumbling, and said to Waller:

"When a tool is out of control, most people's first instinct is to destroy it."

"That's right."

Waller, turning her attention back to the projection in front of her, said:

"What Icarus is doing in East Africa has reinvigorated this 'threat' that has been suppressed and downplayed by S.H.I.E.L.D. before. We can't just tell the higher-ups that this free machine is harmless. ”

"We have to come up with evidence, and Icarus said she had no intention of disrupting the existing order, so she has to show evidence as well."

The commander breathed a sigh of relief, and she said:

"Since the two sides don't want this incident to cause panic in the whole society, the two sides have a basis for negotiation, and I will talk to her about this matter."

"If the negotiation fails, then the two sides can only regret to enter the next link."

"Hmm."

Dr. Reed nodded, and he didn't speak again.

Waller's argument has some truth, and it seems that the current official leadership is still rational about the Cult of the Mechanicus, and they are still trying to resolve the matter peacefully.

Intelligent towers can be returned, Automata can be covered up, and even free intelligence machines can be allowed to operate in certain areas.

But there is a key point that cannot be bypassed.

That's Icarus.

The source of freedom of the intelligent machine, the center of all instability.

Reid wonders, what will Skyeye do with Icarus?

Is it an attempt to destroy, or is it an internment?

Or is it a collaboration?

Would they really trust a special being like Icarus?

As one of the builders of the Smart Tower, and the world's most data-savvy scientist, Reed knows how difficult it is to constrain an intelligence like Icarus at the data level.

It is necessary to build a data firewall from scratch that is specifically coded for the special soul of Icarus.

Also look for a top-of-the-line physically encrypted database that can hold the massive amount of data and information of Icarus.

Above all, it all had to be done without Icarus resisting.

Well...

This is not possible from a technical point of view alone.

Reid quietly glanced at Amanda who was sitting in the command chair. Waller, he couldn't see the thoughts on the female agent's face, but she at least showed confidence.

If she's not posturing, then it means that Waller does have a way to suppress Icarus and her Cult of the Mechanicus at the same time, both in terms of data and reality?

The doctor looked at the screen in front of him again, and he looked at the sonar images coming back from the submarine under the sea.

In that image, in the dark trench, surrounded by three submarines, there was a massive, hexagonal thing, like a palace under the deep sea.

That's the Smart Tower.

A smart tower after the transformation.

How did the Sky Eye Club accurately lock on to this thing around the world?

"Doctor? Aren't you okay yet? ”

Waller's inquiry woke up the contemplative Reed.

The doctor looked up and gave an embarrassed smile as he tapped his fingers on the keyboard.

Accompanied by the communication signal of the special frequency band, he said:

"Alright, you can now talk to the inside of the tower."

Waller adjusted the frequency band of the communicator, and a large projection appeared on the wall in front of the command room, on which was a black and white snowflake, like a television set that had lost its signal.

"Lord Icarus?"

Waller said to the communicator:

"Are you there?"

"Mom's not here!"

A few seconds later, a fierce, child's voice came out of the communicator.

In Dr. Reid and Amanda. In front of Waller's eyes, the projection covered with snowflakes also quickly reorganized and changed, and in the active data flow, it quickly projected a picture.

The background is a very sophisticated, functioning laboratory.

Some of the bionic robots are moving metal boxes as if they were going to move.

And in the center of the projection, there is a little Caucasian girl wearing a red dress and long blond hair.

She has eyes that are indistinguishable from those of a human.

There are skins made of the best biomimetic materials.

At this time, that cute little face was full of a fierce expression.

She seemed very unhappy, very unhappy.

And when he saw this face that belonged to the child, the corners of Waller's eyes couldn't help but twitch.

Red Queen...

The mad AI who had tried to kill her in the Ouroboros base not long ago.

A mechanical bear kid with a very problematic personality...

How did she get through the communication?

Isn't there anything else in charge of that smart tower?

"Yo! Waller. ”

Amanda in the command room through the projection. Waller's eyes lit up as well.

Her face was full of malice, outlining a childish evil expression.

She said to Waller:

"Did you run away last time, and then come to your death this time? You're in the sky, right? A gift for you! ”

"Drip, Drip"

Dr. Reid in the command room looked down and saw an alarm popping up on the screen for a virus invasion.

This bear child!

The doctor shook his head, he pushed his glasses, reached out and tapped a few times on the keyboard, and the virus was isolated in the system's data sandbox like a bug that had been caught.

"Huh!"

Red Queen...

That is, Alicia's lovely face showed a puzzled expression.

She frowned, as if wondering, how could the virus she threw out along the communication information be eliminated so quickly?

"Someone's helping you, still a very good guy."

Alicia said to Waller:

"It seems that you have learned to be smart, are you taking advantage of the fact that the adults are not at home, so you are looking for bad guys to bully me?"

"I don't have time to play with you, Red Queen."

Waller said with a blank face:

"Call your adults here, Icarus or Hope, I have something important to talk to them about."

"They're not at home."

Alicia pouted and replied with an unhappy expression:

"Leave me here alone, they ran out to play, and they haven't been back for a long time."

"Where did they go?"

Waller's eyes picked, and she asked:

"Can you get in touch with them?"

"I went to a very strange place, and even if I told you, you wouldn't find it."

The little girl poked her little baby fat face, her eyes rolled around, crossed her waist, and said to Waller:

"Tell me if you have anything to do, and I'll tell you. Then you can go, I'm busy now. ”

"You?"

Waller stared at how to look at how unreliable the red was, she shook her head, and said:

"No, this has to be told to someone who can make a decision."

"What do you mean?"

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed on the red queen's face, and she asked fiercely:

"Are you looking down on me? Waller, it seems that last time..."

"Huh"

A flash of light jumped on the red queen's wrist, interrupting Alicia's menace, and she glanced down at the watch-like instrument on her wrist.

She pursed her lips, raised her head, and said to Waller:

"Well, there's no time to play with you, Waller, we're leaving."

"Let's go?"

Waller's eyes widened, and she sensed something was wrong.

She stood up and stared at the red queen, and she asked:

"Where are you going?"

"Let's move."

The red queen was a little uninterested and said:

"You humans hate us intelligent robots, and we don't want to stick your cold ass with a hot face, the world can't accommodate us, so we'll go somewhere else."

"But don't worry, Waller..."

The red queen grinned, revealing a malicious smile again.

As if saying goodbye, she waved her hand in the projection and said to Waller:

"I'll find a chance to come back and 'play' with you again, you must wait for me~ The big sister who is seriously ill, and the big brother who is hiding, is very powerful."

"Bye-bye!"