Chapter 516: Questions and Answers about the Cat-Eared Songstress.

Central District 5, 'Shaking Ears' Bar, 4th Floor.

In the afternoon, the air was somewhat quiet, and occasionally one could hear the clinking of glasses and the sound of music coming from downstairs. As a songstress loved by thousands of orcs, Elklu was now lying on the sofa in a very unpresentable manner, with a discarded controller, unfinished snacks, etc. beside her.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the room at this time, and the nearest security personnel were also guarding outside the door, so there was no need to worry about being seen.

After sleeping for a long time, the cat ears on the sofa shook, and then Elklu propped herself up, yawned, and then sat with her eyes half open and half closed.

"What time is it, huh~~" She yawned again.

"It's not even 3 o'clock in the afternoon."

After checking the time, she barely recovered some energy, then stood up and prepared to take a shower.

Half an hour later, Elklu, who had just finished taking a shower, looked brand new. After changing into a comfortable and dry coat, she suddenly opened the door and walked out.

"Hello, boss~" The two tall orcs guarding on the side bowed their heads.

"Yeah, I need to eat something. I'll talk to the chef at the bar downstairs."

"By the way, the room is a bit messy. I'll have to trouble them to help clean it up."

"Okay."

Then Eluklu slid down the handrail of the stairs and came to the third floor. There were many busy people gathered here. Some of them were communicating, and some were lying in the soundproof immersion cabin on the other side.

"What's the situation?" Eluklu glanced back and forth, hoping to see something different.

"The progress is not ideal. Some clues that were found were cut off later." A young goat-horned orc wearing glasses and dressed as a technician stood up and answered.

"It seems that the other party really has some tricks. It's okay. You just keep looking. Anyway, they can't outlast me." Eluklu spoke confidently.

Just when others were about to agree and say something, the lights in the room flickered and suddenly went out, and the music in the bar downstairs stopped again.

"What happened?"

"Did the power go out?"

"No, it's impossible. Is there a short circuit?"

The room became a little messy. Many people were interrupted from their work and looked up to ask questions. Fortunately, it was afternoon and it was not completely dark. Not long after, someone came out to comfort and maintain order, and soon it stabilized again.

Ten minutes later, Elukelu sat in the cleaned room on the fourth floor and asked questions.

"What happened to the power outage just now? It's so embarrassing. I just finished speaking."

"I checked the hotel's power supply system and found that it was not an accident, but someone remotely controlled and turned off the switch."

"Ah? Could it be that they have already done this? Are they trying to warn me?" Elukelu quickly understood.

"Can you fight back? This is so annoying."

"Sorry, we can't do it because we don't even know where the other party is."

"What a loser." Elukelu complained, leaning on the sofa to think.

"Is there no other way to attack them?"

"It seems that there is none at the moment." The technician in front of him answered honestly.

"Huh, it's so annoying." Elukelu slapped the sofa.

At first, she wanted to use her fame to intimidate this mysterious organization, and it would be best if she could recruit them for her own use. However, she did not expect it to be so difficult to deal with. It was far from as simple as she thought at the beginning .

"Is it really that I can only report it to the Tribunal and let them handle it?"

"No, no, no, forget it. It's too embarrassing." Her thoughts were different from other singers. Or, as an orc, if she asked the Tribunal for help for such a matter, it would be very inconsistent with the values ​​of orcs

. Even if she was a singer, doing such a thing would make people think she was cowardly. "It would only be more embarrassing to ask the Tribunal for help. Wouldn't it be publicly announced that I, Elklu, was not good enough and could not handle an inexplicable organization? Then the news would report the cause and effect. I have never even seen the other party. I made enemies out of thin air and I couldn't fight them..." Elklu thought to herself.

"This would only make me look stupid. It's completely manipulated by fans."

"But it's not okay to let them go. I have to vent my anger." Elklu thought about it.

"Let's have a good chat with the people from the Tribunal. Who is the person who is in contact with me?" Elklu asked his men to contact him.

In the evening, Elklu met the visiting patrol officer of the Tribunal on the third floor of the bar. She was a blond and cold woman. She wore a dark blue uniform with a cobalt blue star tear badge on the side of her chest.

As members of the Tribunal, they usually don't wear uniforms in front of ordinary people unless it is necessary.

"Hello, Lord Elklu." She said this in a concise way and continued to stand upright.

"You are the patrol officer who is responsible for security work around me." Elklu was quite curious.

"Do you know what I do normally?"

"Most of it is clear." She nodded slightly.

"Then do you also watch me take a bath?" Elklu thought of this first.

"No, I don't usually watch it." The person simply answered.

"Do you really watch it?" Elklu was surprised.

"Yes, if the singer has an accident while bathing, or is attacked by someone, we will also be responsible. However, considering the singer's privacy, we generally do not spy on her, but only monitor her when something unusual happens."

"Let me think about it. If I were bathing in a closed basement bath, how could you see me?" Elklu thought

for a moment. "There are thermal imaging devices that can penetrate rocks and walls, as well as other life scanning devices." The other party replied.

"So this is how you see it. I thought it was a camera watching me bathing." Elklu was relieved.

"By the way, if I fight with someone, will you come out to help?"

"No, unless you are in danger of certain death." The patrol officer replied quickly.

"How do you know I will die?" Elklu continued to ask.

"The opponent is much stronger than you, force majeure, sudden unexpected attack."

"So, I understand. Your role is insurance, to prevent the worst situation from happening. As for some things that are not life-threatening, you don't care."

"That's right. If you protect too much, it will not be a good thing. There are many lessons learned in the past."

"What happened at that time, can you tell me?" Elklu was curious.

"This is confidential. I can't describe it in detail. I can only say that the singer's personality was affected by it and she didn't grow up properly."

"Before the Inquisition, I mean the singer more than 400 years ago. Who protected her at that time?"

"At that time, the federal government also had a related singer security agency."

"Do you know about the organization I've been tracking recently?"

"Yes."

"To what extent do you know?"

"The other party's origin, scale, style of behavior, past activity records, etc."

"Then why don't you destroy them?" Elklu suddenly became interested.

"This is not within my scope of responsibility. I have no right to ask." The blonde woman shook her head.

"Who do you belong to?"

"I belong to the patrol officer of the Diva Supervisory Office under the Inquisition, and the illegal network organization you mentioned is the scope of responsibility of the investigator of the Network Supervisory Office."

"How strong are you? Can you beat the two big guys next to me?" Elklu saw that she seemed to be only Sequence 6.

"If it's just a fight, I can probably tie with the two of them, but if it's a life-and-death battle, I can finish them off in ten seconds." The other party replied briefly.

"So fast?"

"Yes." The other party didn't seem to want to explain the reason, but judging from the legends from various channels, the combat effectiveness of the Inquisition personnel is indeed generally much higher than that of the extraordinary people of the same sequence.

"If a Sequence 7 extraordinary person comes to kill me, can you beat him?" It seems that Elklu's curiosity was completely aroused today.

"Sequence 7?" The other party looked at Elklu in surprise.

"If they were promoted to Sequence 7 through normal means, they are basically masters in their field. They each have their own social status and would not rashly do such a thing. In addition, there are very few such masters and they are basically registered, so they are easy to find."

"If they were promoted to Sequence 7 through abnormal means and tricks, these extraordinary people may seem very powerful, but in fact they have various shortcomings and weaknesses. Our Inquisition has been dealing with such people for many years and has extremely rich experience and means."

"In addition, even among Sequence 7, not everyone is good at fighting. Many of them are masters who focus on academics and research. In a real battle, they may not be able to defeat those professional combatants."

"What if a master-level combatant of Sequence 7 really attacks?" Eluklu was indomitable.

"I will use the special props I have to temporarily protect you, and then call for support. In a few minutes, a fully armed high-level mecha will arrive at the scene. Even a master of Sequence 7 will become vulnerable in front of the most advanced military elite mecha."

"But what if someone comes to trouble me in a powerful military mecha?"

"Lord Elklu, you are joking. Military mechas are strictly controlled. Even if something like that happens, we can call for more support, or even help from the fleet stationed in space."

After asking this, Elklu was finally satisfied.

"By the way, why did I call you here?" She only then remembered the business.

"Can't you really help me teach that mysterious organization a lesson?"

"I can help you write a report and send it to the Cyber ​​Supervisory Office." The other party replied helplessly.

"That's fine. In addition, can you tell me the contact information of the person in charge of the Cyber ​​Monitoring Office?"

"No."

"Huh?"

"This is the confidentiality clause within the Tribunal. I can't disclose information at will."

"Then how should I find him?"

"You can submit an application to the Tribunal officials, and the superiors will handle it."

"Is there any harm in such an application?"

"No harm, it will just be recorded in the Tribunal's summary statement at the end of the year, and this statement will be made public."

"Forget it, I'll think of other ways first."

After that, Eluklu asked some irrelevant questions, and then the time was up, and the patrol officer also said goodbye and left.

Back in the room, Eluklu ate the prepared lunch, slowly thinking about the patrol officer just now.

"In the end, she didn't even tell me her name, she was really cautious."

"But where do these people usually hide? I didn't even notice it."

"If we take a small spaceship to space, how can we protect them when we go there?" Eluklu was still thinking about the Tribunal personnel.

"Forget it, I can't figure it out for now. Anyway, they are usually as transparent as transparent, and I can't count on them to help."

In the next few days, Elukelu's men said that the online clues were broken. When Elukelu asked them to track it down again, they didn't know where to find the clues.

"How did they do it?" Elukelu couldn't figure it out.

"Didn't you say before that even some gray areas of the Internet platforms are their subordinates? Check from this direction."

"No, now these gray platforms have disappeared."

"Ah this?" Elukelu didn't expect that the other party could really do this.

"Impossible, is it possible that they changed one?"

"This should be true. According to our acquaintances in the underworld, many online platforms with good reputations have suddenly disappeared recently, leaving only some small platforms with bad reputations and problems."

"Can they really do this?" Elukelu walked back and forth in the room alone.

In the following weeks, Elukelu kept asking people to continue tracking, but in the end there was still no result, so that the team members gave up mentally.

At this point, the cat-eared singer could only reluctantly announce that the matter was over.

The next day, Elklu invited Alanna to have dinner at the restaurant.

"Hello, Elklu."

It was not the first time they met, but Alanna was still cautious.

"Don't be so nervous and polite, eat first." Elklu asked Alanna to relax.

The restaurant they were in was on the third floor of the critical point, with a nice view.

"Come to think of it, we haven't communicated well before. How did Alanna get in touch with that mysterious organization at that time?"

"It wasn't us who took the initiative to contact, it should be said that they suddenly came to us." Alanna explained, and then roughly recounted the whole thing.

After listening, Elklu still didn't find anything special. She probably only knew that the new ability and technology that Alanna mastered was what the other party valued.

"'Connector'..." Elklu was not very interested in this technology.

"Although it looks great, it can probably only be regarded as a toy." She said her thoughts.

"If there are 10 of you, and one of them has a special skill, and each of you has to call him out when you need it, then he will definitely not be able to do anything else, right?"

"That's right." Alana thought about it.

"This means that the person who requested and the person who helped took up their time, and only one person is working."

"Also, this connection is fine for a short time, but if it is maintained all day, it is hard to say whether there will be any serious mental problems."

"From the perspective of overall efficiency, it is not high, and it even has negative effects."

"That is to say, this ability cannot be used for main, long-term professional work, and can only be used as a supplementary means in certain low-frequency scenarios."

"For example, if you are a person with little combat power and suddenly encounter danger on the street, you can use this to ask another combatant for help. For example, you occasionally encounter difficult to understand problems and need someone to help you think about the logical relationship and so on."

"Its usefulness lies more in supplementing the corners and saving time to learn certain infrequently used abilities. It cannot completely replace personal efforts."

"In addition, as you described, because of the mental connection, you are easily influenced by your companions. This is a double-edged sword. It will make you have 'friends', but it will also slowly devour your personality."

"As for me, I like things like 'personality', 'novelty' and 'difference' the most. Although your invention is very 'novel', if its result leads to monotonous mediocrity, I don't like it very much."

Unlike Tilan, Elklu is not very interested in topics such as society and the future of civilization. So in her opinion, the 'connector' created by Alana is just a toy for a small number of people. In addition, as a cat-eared singer who likes herself, she doesn't want to share her experience and abilities with others so simply.

"I always feel that it's weird. It's obviously my song, but someone else sings it. I volunteered to do it, and I'm not happy at all."

She is more repulsive to the 'connector ring' mentioned by Alana.

"I am who I am. This is my unique style and self. I don't want to lend it to others for nothing and make them great. Even if I pay them, they have to put my name on it."

"If you really want to find another way, my personal suggestion is to give up building the so-called 'circle' and instead become a limited communication partner. At work, several people fit together as a team and temporarily share various information and capabilities. In this way, everyone can work, and when the work is done, they can separate freely and no longer connect with each other, ensuring their individual independence."

"Sharing all the time is really terrible."

"The cat's little thoughts can't be known to everyone, otherwise they can't be lazy or play pranks."

(End of this chapter)