The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 191 - 153: The Possibility of Modifying Entries_2

Chapter 191: Chapter 153: The Possibility of Modifying Entries_2

Let’s not talk about whether the profession written on his character card is a mercenary or a painter, just the mysterious coefficient alone would suffice to keep the police from seeing it.

Of course, Jiang Shu thought that Fang Yue’s current profession was more likely to be "Wanderer", considering Fang Yue used to be a painter and now he might be working as a mercenary.

If not a "Wanderer", he was very likely to degenerate.

Thus, Fang Yue would definitely not show his character card, he felt guilty.

In Lonely City, because the will of the Main Brain absolutely respected everyone’s privacy, no one could see Fang Yue’s character card without his consent.

Even by using hypnosis, threats, or violence, it would not work because this will was deeply ingrained in everyone’s social subconscious.

The social subconscious is produced by a combination of societal systems, cultures, institutions, and other series of elements, existing only in a certain society, definitely corresponding to a specific time, and a specific region.

It was precisely because of this "absolute privacy" social subconscious that many strange things happened in Lonely City.

For example, the act of destroying surveillance was highly popularized, and even if discovered, the perpetrator would not be punished harshly; for example, the periodic deletion of surveillance records, which could have been saved for a long time but due to various factors official surveillance records were not kept long.

Moreover, privately preserved official surveillance records, after exceeding the stipulated deletion time, could not be used as evidence for conviction, as their legitimacy was not recognized by judges.

Although Jiang Shu knew some inside information, he felt no need to discuss it.

Poor little Yue Yue, he’s probably in for a rough time.

"If there’s nothing else, I’m heading back now," Jiang Shu said as he walked towards the door. This matter was essentially drawing to a close.

This time the fox’s objectives were largely unmet, whether it was to tarnish the image of the police station or kill those three people from Keyin Company, he failed to accomplish them and instead lost a Key Master.

It could be said that he had the upper hand.

However, Jiang Shu felt annoyed every time he recalled that the guy he was playing against had actually been corrupted by the fox long ago—Ryan.

It always felt like a trainer stepping into the arena to fight the opposing Pokémon itself, somewhat disgraceful.

In the conference hall, what truly needed to be hidden was the ventilation ducts on the ceiling.

All ten people were hidden in the ventilation ducts and fortunately, the police station’s ducts were of good quality, easily bearing the weight of ten people.

The pretend fox might also have a structural diagram of the conference hall, but it was hard to think of it immediately due to preconceived notions.

However, given some time, he would also figure it out, so Jiang Shu chose to use "hypnosis" to throw him into complete disarray.

In such times, when one’s mental clarity was disrupted, their judgment was inevitably affected.

Coupled with his all-round temptation.

It was hard not to take the bait.

But those who took the bait were not the real fox, just merely a Ryan.

Of course, Jiang Shu felt that in such a situation, there probably wasn’t much difference between the fox and Ryan; both would certainly be tricked by him.

No rebuttals accepted, that’s right.

Jiang Shu opened the door, when suddenly, Wolf’s voice came from behind.

"Hey," he called out to Jiang Shu, "Didn’t you say you couldn’t hypnotize? How did you hypnotize the fox?"

Wolf had only seen Jiang Shu start to act in the first half of his role. Afterward, he and Kirie, following the instructions previously written by Jiang Shu on the Tablet Spirit, quietly went to catch the painter Fang Yue. Thus, in his perception, Jiang Shu had won the game by relying on his hypnosis.

Jiang Shu paused, his hand on the doorknob without moving. He turned his head and just smiled casually, saying, "I really can’t, you actually believed that I tricked the fox, just a simple magic trick. If I really had hypnotized him, making him unable to see the playing cards, then why couldn’t you and Kirie see them either? Could it be that I also hypnotized you and Kirie?"

"Oh, that makes sense," Wolf suddenly realized, he had subconsciously thought Jiang Shu was a hypnotherapist too, perhaps even more formidable than the fox.

It seems he had thought too much.

——

"Fang Yue was arrested."

On the rooftop, two people watched the distance simultaneously.

The tall and burly one stood at the edge of the rooftop, while the slender one sat on the edge, leisurely swinging his legs.

The speaker was Devil Wind.

"Yeah, I know," nodded the fox, one leg raised at the edge, both hands clutching to form a triangle, resting his head on his knees.

"I did it intentionally to have him imprisoned," he casually explained, his face showing a hint of boredom, "You should have known this already, after all, only one ’real person’ went to the police station."

"Hmm?" Devil Wind uttered a sound of confusion from his throat.

"When the time comes, we’ll rescue him, his ability is very useful, we need him, but we don’t need him as he is now," Fox said indifferently, "right now he is not frank enough, nor sincere enough."

"You hurt him like this, is there still any use in saving him?" Devil Wind was still puzzled.

But Fox clearly did not want to dwell on this topic, he simply said, "We’ll talk about it when the time comes, many times the truth is decided by what is said."

"Hmm," Devil Wind nodded.

"What, aren’t you angry?" Although Fox had never seen Devil Wind, among the current four members of the Deception Group, he was most familiar with Devil Wind, so he noticed Devil Wind seemed a bit...

Temperamental?

"Let me guess why," Fox’s lips curved up, seeming to regain his usual slyness, he thought for a moment, "Is it because..."

"I am insulting those like you?" he continued, "Like you... idealists, those police officers."

Devil Wind did not speak, he still gazed into the distance.

"Haha, how cute," Fox teased, but then he turned serious and said, "Don’t think too much, I don’t mean to look down on them. In this group now, you are the idealist, there’s also a refined egoist pleasure-seeker and a violence-supremacist. The reasons we do these things are all different, they all use the pretext of justice to cover up their own desires for violence or glory. The real comrade here is still you."

"You can’t succeed, but you’re admirable," Fox looked at Devil Wind, and found Devil Wind was also looking at him, "Like those police officers, right? You wanted to be one of them, right? But you couldn’t even afford the basic fees."

"You’ve investigated me?" Devil Wind’s voice grew considerably colder, he was very dissatisfied with Fox’s approach.

The rule of Deception Group members not to follow each other was also proposed by Fox, yet now he was the first to break it.

Suddenly, however, Devil Wind’s wristwatch received a friend request from a stranger with a mischievous fox face avatar.

He looked at Fox, and Fox shook his wristwatch, smiling and saying, "You’re different from them, this friend is worth making."

After hesitating for a while, Devil Wind finally decided to accept the friend request.

The consequences after acceptance were clear, perhaps from this point, he truly entered the core of Fox’s plan.

"Alright, then we are friends now," Fox smiled, "you are my third friend. Hmm, friends should know how to share, so—"

"I’ll take you to a place."

—

Returning to the Black Currant Theater, Jiang Shu settled into his chair, pondering his gains for most of the day.

One kilogram of Black Silver, that was the material gain.

One piece of intelligence.

The Deformed Area?

"You can use the mysterious power in the Deformed Area to modify your Character Card, to strengthen your Character Card."

"The Deformed Area is also the only place in Lonely City not controlled by the Main Brain."

"There, anything brought by the Main Brain can’t be used, you can only rely on your own strength and wisdom, and the Character Cards you’ve acquired through practice."

Fox’s words echoed in his mind.

Kirie had said that just by going to the Main Brain to "report on duties," one could receive rewards for upgrading Character Cards.

But he did not want to go to the Main Brain again.

He vaguely felt, the more the Main Brain knew about him, the less favorable his situation would become.

Then, if what Fox said was true, maybe completing the modification or upgrade of Character Cards in the Deformed Area was also a good choice.

It was very likely that Fox had completed his transformation there, acquiring extraordinary hypnotherapist abilities without even being a Key Master.

No, that wasn’t the kind of unreasonable thing a Key Master would do.

In fact, what Fox acquired must have been "knowledge."

So, for himself, what knowledge did he still need to acquire?

Or perhaps... which Character Card needed modification?

...

Deception?

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