Chapter 2: The Descent

  The night in Yokohama, Japan is still as bustling as ever, this Japanese new city that is very similar to Hong Kong, not only the streets of shops in the city are similar to those in Hong Kong, but also the residents here are mainly foreign populations who have immigrated from China.

  At this time, on the rooftop of a large luxury hotel in the city center of New Bin City, Major Kasumi Sōsuke of the Public Security Section 9, a special unit directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, was receiving consultations from team members through a special device attached to her eyes. This time, every move of her target was completely within her grasp.

  In a luxurious suite in the central part of the hotel under his own feet, a diplomat from the Republic of Gafar was trying to persuade a Japanese programmer to defect, and Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Public Security Division 6 had already received intelligence and launched an operation.

  Because this diplomat was a great nuisance, some high-ranking government officials decided to mobilize the Public Security 9th Division to take out their opponent. This organization is a secret anti-terrorism agency operating under the guise of an international rescue team, directly commanded by the Prime Minister and also known as the Assault Shell Mobile Unit. Most members have undergone cyberization and prosthetic enhancements, making them extremely formidable in combat. And Kusanagi Motoko was the most outstanding member of the team.

  Kusunoki Suzu learned from her comrade's notification that the Public Security Sixth Division had begun to prepare to take action and arrest the diplomat on the scene, so she immediately launched the operation. Her Shell Bullet unit must take out the target before the Sixth Division can bring him in.

  As the windbreaker she was wearing slowly fell open and dropped down, Kasuga Momo suddenly burst forth in a radiant glow, her curvaceous and alluring physique immediately exposed to the night air.

  She immediately jumped down from the rooftop, rapidly falling towards the ground below. During this rapid descent, she relied on her extremely sharp eyesight to spot the exact location where she had just jumped from, and suddenly a figure appeared, causing her to utter a puzzled voice: "Huh, who's that...!"

  But only for a moment, Kusanagi Motoko put the situation she had just discovered temporarily aside. She now has to wholeheartedly carry out her current mission.

  Kusanagi Sōsuke was right on the money, just a little while after she jumped off the rooftop. The space where she had been standing until then began to distort in an unnatural way, and three figures appeared from within that distortion.

  At this moment, Mu Chenxing and Lao Xia, Lao Zhou three people have successfully arrived in the world of this movie "Ghost in the Shell".

  The cool wind in the high sky at night was blowing the clothes of those on the hotel rooftop, making a rustling sound. Looking at the bright and prosperous future city in front of them, Lao Xia and Lao Zhou, these two guys who had just entered the film world for the first time, immediately began to curiously look around.

  However, at this moment, a fierce gunshot suddenly came from below. Old Zhou immediately activated his spiritual sense and swept it towards the lower part of the building. Mu Chen Xing knew what had happened, but he didn't stop Old Zhou's action. He also wanted to see how far Old Zhou's spiritual sense could reach.

  Not long after, Old Zhou regained his senses and said to Mu Chen Xing and Lao Xia: "Just now, a diplomat was beaten to death downstairs, and there are many armed personnel at the scene. It seems we've arrived just in time for the opening scene of this movie!"

  Mudan Xing didn't expect Old Zhou to finish so quickly, and his spiritual sense searched downward, saying: "Old Zhou, your spiritual sense ability has actually reached this level? In just an instant, you can perceive what's happening below. I also activated my spiritual sense but couldn't perceive such a far distance. This is too exaggerated!"

  Lao Zhou gazed at Muxin Xing with a smile and said, "Alright, stop flattering me. You young man have mainly focused on enhancing your own abilities in the aspect of mental power usage. If you had also chosen the direction of telepathy, I think it's unlikely that you would be much worse than me!"

  Lao Xia looked around at their current location, due to the height of the building itself, the empty rooftop was very windy at night. The lights from the surrounding buildings were constantly flashing, but the rooftop was still quite dark.

  Lao Xia saw the current environment and couldn't help but speak up, "I say let's leave this place first and talk about it somewhere else. This dark rooftop isn't exactly an ideal place to chat. There's a high-end restaurant downstairs, let's find a place to settle down before we continue!"

  Lao Xia finished speaking and began to use his own abilities to pry open a tightly locked metal gate not far away. Then, after beckoning to Muxin Xing and Lao Zhou, he walked straight through the gate.

  Mudan Xing and Old Zhou also knew that this was not a good place to chat, so they smiled at each other and followed Old Xia's footsteps into the building.

  Before walking into the corridor, Lao Xia released a burst of electromagnetic pulses in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, the monitors in the corridor were completely destroyed. They also didn't want to be recorded by the monitors as coming down from the rooftop, otherwise it would be easy for them to be suspected as the murderers of the diplomat. After all, those Public Security Sixth Bureau guys, when they hadn't caught the real murderer, who knows what they would do?

  After seeing that everything was settled, Old Zhou smiled and patted Old Xia's shoulder, then walked towards a luxurious suite in front of him. At the door, he stopped and directly activated his spiritual sense. Not long after, the large door of the room was opened by someone from inside, and a fat-headed big-eared fat man appeared in front of everyone with a dull face.

  Old Zhou said to the fat man: "Now you go and stroll around downstairs at the hotel, come back tomorrow afternoon, and pretend that nothing happened here, got it?"

  That big fat guy, who weighed at least over 200 pounds, nodded honestly and started walking towards the elevator. In the meantime, his expression had returned to normal, completely unlike the one that was hinted by others.

  For Lao Zhou's tactics, Mu Chen Xing and Lao Xia both gave him a thumbs up in admiration. Lao Zhou smiled and led the way into the luxurious suite.

  After entering the luxurious suite, Muxin Xing immediately released Athena and instructed her to go online immediately to search for some useful information about the items to be seized in this operation.

  After Athena received the order to go online on the computer in the room, Mudanxing, who was leaning against the sofa with a glass of foreign wine and savoring it slowly, smiled and asked Lao Xia and Lao Zhou, who were looking around: "How about it? Don't you two think it's incredible? All the feelings we receive from our five senses are telling us that this world is as real as the real world."

  Old Zhou gazed out at the night view outside the living room glass: "Yes! Although I had mentally prepared myself before coming, when I really found myself in this world, it still made me involuntarily sigh with a sense of wonder - this is too incredible! Only after I used my telepathic senses to perceive some people's thoughts in this hotel did I confirm that we have truly arrived in the future world of the movie."

  Lao Xia was using his ability to sense if there were any surveillance devices in the room, and after confirming it was safe, he sat down, picked up a cup of wine in front of him and took a sip. "Now that we're already in this world, when do we start seizing those incredible technologies within it? Those advanced technologies that are far beyond what exists in the real world, just thinking about them makes me excited."

  He swirled the amber-colored foreign liquor in his glass, chuckling and saying "Old Xia, don't be impatient! We still don't fully understand the current situation of this world. Athena is already online collecting data. At the very least, we need to know the locations of the technologies that need to be seized this time. And for now, we still need to carefully plan our next specific actions. Let's take a look at which technology to seize first!"

  "Right! As I see it, our first target is still Sword Heng Heavy Industries. That factory manufactures all sorts of heavy weaponry and develops thinking tanks. We need a large number of automated robots to build our base, so we must seize those robot manufacturing technologies as soon as possible. At the same time, we also need to obtain a batch of completed multi-legged robots. And if we want to modify those robots from military use to construction use, it will take some time. We can't do this in reality, so we have to complete this task in the movie. Moreover, that factory produces a large number of other heavy weapons, and we can clean out everything in the factory to increase our base's equipment."

  Lao Xia said to Lao Zhou, "I think there's also the Megatech Corporation in New Port City that we should take over as soon as possible. They produce androids using full-body prosthetic parts and technology, which can solve our labor shortage problem. The sooner we gain control of those companies, the sooner we'll get a large number of workers! Anyway, after the base is built, we won't have too many of these auxiliary personnel. So, we can take as many of these special robots as we want."

  Lao Xia and Lao Zhou are both doing well, now the main products of these two places are exactly solving the biggest problem they face in the real world at present, so the products of these two companies must seize as much as possible during this period of time, and can only be more, not less.

  "I think this is a good idea. We'll split up and take action separately. I'll go to the Megatech robot manufacturing company alone, use the method Old Zhou just used on that fat guy to control their CEO, and have them send all the completed robots to a predetermined location. Meanwhile, you two and Athena will head to the Xingfeng Heavy Industries and control their CEO, then immediately order them to modify those large six-legged tanks. Try to produce as many large robots for construction purposes as possible before the story ends. As for other technologies and resources, we'll take them one by one later."

  Lao Xia thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "I think it's okay, this way neither of us will be delayed. Let's start early tomorrow morning and try to complete the two main objectives as soon as possible."

  Lao Zhou also thought the proposal was good, so he agreed: "I agree with your proposal, Xiaozi. Since that's the case, let's have a good rest tonight and recharge for tomorrow's action. Now, shall we try this hotel's high-end foreign wine?"

  Lao Zhou poured himself a glass of foreign wine after finishing his speech. Lao Xia and Mu Chen Xing also poured themselves a glass, and the three clinked their glasses together with smiles.