阿特米斯利用了精灵的高科技制造出“超级计算机”－－透视体，能够打败目前人类现有的计算机系统。他和芝加哥富商会面，提供这套计算机一年以交换金子。可是，这次会面却是个陷阱，富商不仅窃取了这项高科技，还伤害了管家巴特勒。
为了救管家，阿特米斯只好求救于精灵的魔法。所以他不得不又再次面对的他的敌人－－矮冬瓜荷莉队长。
EXCERPT FROM ARTEMIS FOWL’S DIARY. DISK 2. ENCRYPTED.
FOR the past two years my business enterprises have thrived without parental interference. In this time, I have sold the Pyramids to a Western businessman, forged and auctioned off the lost diaries of Leonardo da Vinci and separated the fairy People from a large portion of their precious gold. But my freedom to plot is almost at an end. As I write, my father lies in a hospital bed in
With two parents resident in Fowl Manor, it will be impossible for me to conduct my various illegal ventures undetected. Previously this would not have been a problem as my father was a bigger crook than me, but Mother is determined that the Fowls are going straight.
However, there is time for one last job. Something that my mother would not approve of. I don’t think the fairy folk would like it much either. So I shall not tell them.
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CHAPTER 9: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE
