While awaiting backup, Cui Que kept the hotel room under surveillance.
Using the Disc Plate, she had silently transmitted the strongest virus she could obtain into the Chips of the two individuals in the same room as Cold Water—it was the exclusive virus of Babel. That was the virus that, on the day Russell became a Hero, had put the entire first-class cabin of the airship to sleep.
If Cold Water encountered danger, all Cui Que needed to do was lift a finger, and she could render the two of them incapacitated, making them collapse and fall into a deep, unwakeable slumber in an instant.
Even for those who weren't as extensively cybernetic, Babel's specialized "virus" could hijack their bodies directly through the Chip.
From this perspective, Codeless were actually the safest.
In fact, even civilians often make some kind of modification to their Chips.
