Chapter 68 (2/2)

”Did you like it?! That's one of our national comfort food!”

For so slared at her

”Explain where we're going to next”

”…yesh,where deht?

Our next destination was the 4th research center Just as I'd suspected, the 4th and the 7th were doing research about the other world Both of the systerowth-capable nor work on the ical weapons andthat monsterize players?”

”Aaahh… that Yeah, that's soame suddenly shut down and their character data deleted, they'd get their arms twisted by HQ and the 4th, and only the 12th is left to deal with their complaints Don't you think that's terrible? Of course, as a player ot my character deleted out of nowhere”

The 4th research center was doing that too? Apparently the military stuff used to be worked on by the 7th, and the recent reckless attacks on un ever since the weapon development project was transferred to the 4th

Which one all out had been ed by the 7th I'd flatten the 4th too, of course, but the 7th was the one that I'd promised to visit since way back then

I narrowed ht Jennifer in her driver's seat timidly talked

”Uht's dinner?”

”…”

Three days later, in the evening We'd crossed states and arrived at the 4th research center located in the suburbs

”But Shedy, we're still quite far away”

”We are”

Seen frohway, the enormous site of the 4th research center was still in the distance

There were barely any trees around it, only sand and rocks Other than the 4th, there were only a few drive-ins, gas stands, ht invite some unwanted attention

”It's fine, just wait here”

”B-but-” Jennifer sputtered, apparently er needed her I scowled at her

”If you die here, I'll lose a driver Just stay there”

”…yes, ma'am!”

I dashed toward the 4th research center while trying to stay hidden behind the rocks and boulders

Notfro reported), this place had ramped up its security by quite a bit, yes, but it wasn't security against lance revealed to me nearly a hundred watcher drones equipped with si around the vicinity of the compound

On Earth, where they couldn't usepowered by wireless electricity The farther they went fro would be The number of drones they could field 24/7 truly showed the resources they had as a large enterprise

And my eyes even revealed stealth drones They were ry than normal ones, yet there were at least the same amount of them as normal drones, perhaps even h precaution forat least dozens of times more drones at locations where they predicted me to appear

To be honest, even AI-driven watcher drones were actually a pretty good way to see otten used to [Cyber-Manipulation] by now and could disappear from the vision of several drones, if there were hundreds of theht be able to realize the unnatural space fro all the caood at latching onto that sort of abnormality It was the reason hile I could erase myself from the cameras, I still did my best to not show up on theh drones, and they had too h for the AI to recognize the abnormality At the same tih real hule one

Of course, that didn't mean I could afford to be careless Another one of ht But the corporation was so paranoid about industrial espionage, this cole

Anyway, to deal with both at the same time, I searched for ere probably buried power lines that fed power to the wireless chargers, then used theenerator and lowered its output to the hts of the distant 4th research center compound dimmed, if only barely

At the sae into power-saving e to the state's power supply if they still can't find out the cause after enough tih they seemed the prideful sort Would they actually do so?

With the drone security network noeakened, I slipped through theh wire fence, not a single part ofit, and entered the compound of the 4th research center