"Ayanokoji!"
As he was leaving the hotel, Arisu called out to Ayanokoji.
The expressionless young man stopped and looked at the frail yet proud Arisu before him, asking, "Is something wrong, Sakayanagi-san?"
The thin Arisu held a thick stack of documents, but she showed no complaint, stating calmly, "I know you, Ayanokoji, one of the White Room's test subjects, and the only successful one."
Ayanokoji's expression froze for a moment, feeling somewhat annoyed, as if everyone seemed to know about his past.
Toru had pointed out his past with a single word, and now even Arisu was speaking of his past.
"The past is in the past, Sakayanagi-san. There is no need to bring it up again."
"Indeed, there is no need to bring it up again. When I saw you at Advanced Nurturing High School, I once considered you a rival, wanting to see if you, this artificial genius, truly possessed that ability."
"You do not consider me a rival anymore?"
"Because I have met someone stronger than you, a true genius."
"Are you referring to Mr. Fujiwara?"
"That's right!"
Ayanokoji looked at Arisu with a look of pity and said, "Then I think you have chosen the wrong person. Taking Mr. Fujiwara as your challenge will only bring you pain."
That person is someone who understands human hearts like the back of his hand, terrifyingly like a devil.
Such a person will only make you feel powerless, as he is almost impeccable in both physical ability and intelligence.
"Of course, I know I chose the wrong target, and I have paid the price for it. But a person always needs a goal, and he is like a sun standing in the distance, making me strive with all my might to chase after him."
"Is that so? If that's how you think, then I can only wish you success."
"Thank you for your blessing."
Saying this, Arisu walked past Ayanokoji. Leaning on her cane and holding the thick documents in her right hand, she gradually walked away.
Looking at her retreating figure, Ayanokoji felt a sense of envy.
At least Arisu had a goal, a direction and motivation to move forward.
But what did he have? He had no such desires, he was just living.
"Well, it's not like I have no goal. There is nothing wrong with honestly following orders and helping Mr. Fujiwara with his work."
"At least, I got the freedom I wanted most, didn't I?"
Ayanokoji straightened his clothes and also stepped away.
...
In the Western style house, in Toru's study, he was currently looking at the panel in front of him.
[Detected that someone's favorability towards you has reached 100 (Haibara Ai)]
[You have gained 1 point in physical fitness]
[You have gained one opportunity to draw an Advanced Technology item]
Seeing his further upgrade, Toru was overjoyed.
These system upgrade points were truly difficult to obtain.
Since discovering the secret of the system, two years have passed, and he has only managed to obtain three points.
The main reason is that a favorability of 100 is too difficult to achieve.
For the vast majority of people, even if they may have had a relationship with you, seemingly loving you to death, their favorability is at most 99, and that last 1 is very difficult to increase.
According to Toru's research, the main reason is that this last point of favorability brings about a huge qualitative change.
That is, when a woman's favorability towards you reaches 100, her feelings will be completely solidified, and it will be absolutely impossible for her to betray you.
Any other person's favorability may increase or decrease depending on your actions, only reaching 100 can make the value completely fixed.
This is why, no matter how chaotic Toru's private life is, Vermouth turns a blind eye to it.
In fact, Toru had already guessed that Vermouth should have known Haibara's identity, but the reason Vermouth did not say it in front of him, and did not even blame him for taking Sherry in, was because of her favorability towards him.
Vermouth was even willing to betray the Organization for him.
From this, one can see the terrifying nature of a favorability of 100, and also understand the difficulty of reaching a favorability of 100.
With Vermouth, Toru spent a full year grinding to get her favorability to 100.
As for Haibara, Toru spent time with her day and night, and it still took this long to get her favorability to this number.
As for Momiji, that can only be attributed to her personality. Momiji has a slight yandere tendency. Once she recognizes someone, she immediately falls for them, disregarding everything else.
Toru did not hesitate to add one attribute point to physical fitness.
Although the range added by each attribute point is not large, Toru has many women he can conquer, and he can completely accumulate small amounts to make a big difference, slowly turning himself into a true superman.
He is not in a hurry about this.
It can be said that physical attribute points are his future, when accumulated high enough, a qualitative change will occur.
What Toru is truly interested in now is the Advanced Technology point.
This is the real immediate combat power, using technology to solve the weakness of the human body.
Whether it was the bulletproof car, the 3D printing, or the shirt bulletproof vest that was not afraid of handguns, these all brought a very significant increase in combat power to Toru.
"Now there are new points, let's see what good stuff I can get this time."
With anticipation, Toru clicked on the draw.
[You have drawn the Drone AI Swarm System]
"What is this thing?"
Toru's heart stirred, and he chose to extract it.
In front of him, a rectangular box about two meters long and one meter wide suddenly appeared.
This box had a strong metallic texture, and on its surface were dense holes, looking like missile launch ports.
At the same time, Toru found a mysterious APP added to his phone.
Opening the APP, it contained detailed instructions and usage methods for this swarm system.
In each launch tube of the iron box, there were four folded drones.
There were a total of 25 launch ports, which means there were 100 drones here.
These one hundred drones could all be launched within a second, and each drone was equipped with automatic firearms.
In addition, the most powerful aspect of this drone swarm was its AI system.
That was a AI far beyond this era. It required no settings at all. Once launched, it would independently judge and attack enemies based on the surrounding environment.
And even if these 100 drones were destroyed, this launch platform also had the ability to manufacture drones, replenishing them at a rate of one every half hour.
Toru looked at the introduction of this system, dumbfounded.
These drones had a combat radius of up to 100 kilometers and could ignore all signal interceptions, including EMPs. The only way to destroy these drones was through physical means.
This powerful AI recognition, combined with the ability to autonomously manufacture drones, was thoroughly Advanced Technology.
"If this thing were put on the Russo Ukrainian battlefield, wouldn't it be invincible in small scale combat?"
Drones on the battlefield have to face various interception systems and signal interferences, and drone operators need to search for enemies everywhere.
But this Advanced Technology system completely eliminates these worries. Any signal interference is useless, and being intercepted does not matter, as they can automatically recover.
The most impressive thing is that with the AI, no drone operator is needed. Just launch them, and they will automatically find and attack enemies. Coupled with this vast combat range, it is simply a company level combat unit.
And the killing effect and capability it produces are far greater than a company.
Toru pursed his lips.
After Rena and Curacao followed him, Toru was temporarily not short of personnel for special operations.
But he lacked soldiers.
Even if he spent money to hire them, mercenaries were not trustworthy, especially since various weapons and equipment were a huge expense, and Toru's personal financial resources could not arm too many combat personnel.
But these infinitely consumable drones can completely replace combat members. If needed, he can also equip the drones with bombs.
Bombs are much cheaper.
Just thinking about activating this system when needed, with 100 drones surrounding you, capable of both offense and defense, is equivalent to having 100 powerful soldiers who are not afraid of death.
And he is the king within them, this is a true swarm.
"With this, even if the Central Intelligence Agency of America sends troops, I have the power to fight!"
Toru breathed a sigh of relief, finally feeling secure.
He is not afraid of the Central Intelligence Agency's assassination or special operations.
With his ability, he can easily detect and prevent these things. No one understands the Central Intelligence Agency better than him, no one understands the Central Intelligence Agency's methods better than him.
Toru is not afraid of underhanded tactics, what he fears most is a head on confrontation.
If Spencer really goes crazy and sends a special operations force of hundreds of people, with helicopters and heavy weapons, Toru, in his current flesh and blood body, would definitely not be able to defeat the opponent.
The power of modern thermal weapons can only be understood after seeing them with one's own eyes, and the fragility of the body in front of these weapons can only be understood after personally experiencing them.
But now with the drone swarm system, even if hundreds of American soldiers come, even with tanks and helicopters, Toru can kill them all.
Toru then thought of the All Age Authentication System that Vermouth had just mentioned.
Although he now has loyal soldiers, it would be difficult if the enemy just hid.
But with that system, no one could escape his pursuit.
"Pacific Buoy."
Toru murmured softly, he was determined to get this system.
Drone swarm plus full age identification, invincible!
(To be continued.)
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