In the real world, Elliot said with a grin, "Buddy, I really don't know what happened, the power just suddenly went out."
The agent glanced at Elliot without speaking, inspecting the messy room, frowning.
Wasn't it said that this fat guy bought a helmet that can breach walls?
Elliot paused, uncomfortably stepping back a bit, accidentally kicking a tool on the floor, exposing a bit of a cable on the helmet hidden in the pile of tools...
His movements were extremely stiff because this action completely... completely revealed his most guilty secret!
The helmet he bought from a street stall!
"...How did the power outage happen?" The expression under the Network Surveillance Agent's sunglasses didn't change, but inside he was... puzzled.
"I..." Elliot stammered, taking a step forward, "I bought an old helmet from a street stall, thinking of bringing it back to study, and just after I plugged it in... the power went out...