Interdimensional science and technology starting from cyberpunk

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Huge earthquakes in cyberspace almost cause cognitive impairment to all hackers and cause them to go offline on the spot, but this virtual space is never out of touch with reality.

Muramasa, a dangerous critical mass of technical experts, easily triggered a large-scale fire:

Those hackers who were implicated by the attackers were burned out on the spot, and the hackers who used servers as protection were even worse. The exploding servers splashed out high-temperature sparks and debris, and the flames instantly spread to the entire studio!

The attack first spread along the wired and wireless connections and then burned the equipment. Countless equipment scattered in every corner of Dog Town was burned on the spot. Flames and debris caused secondary fires and explosions. A fire was sweeping Dog Town——

Looming black and red lightning continued to expand in the cable. Some drones that were close to the wireless signal connection antenna failed on the spot. The indicator light flashed twice and fell to the ground. Drone A even triggered the safe mode and went offline. , enter low-profile defensive mode.

The Nether Dog technicians looked at the mosaics and unstable signals on the visual system in confusion. At the same time, as long as they raised their heads slightly, they could see the black smoke and flames rising in the Dog Town.

What's wrong?

At the Long Beach Stockyards, the attackers struggled violently!

"Uh-huh. Ah!"

Bang!

The flaming cables erupted into violent sparks, and Susan Forrist, who had had a direct confrontation with Lear, immediately unplugged one of the cables!

In front of her, a strong black man didn't react at all. He waited until the cable was cut before speaking:

"Cut the power supply cable of the hacker who is still deep diving, you will kill her!"

"General hackers will have problems, but Lark will not. New America has used the most advanced hacker prosthetic body on her. She is no longer the person you know, Agent Li De."

"I know better than you."

The black man named Li De answered and then looked at their ace hacker, the woman known as Lark——

She kept making a chaotic metallic voice, like a malfunctioning old record player. Her body kept shaking in the access compartment, and the coolant flowed rapidly through the radiator through the pipes and then flowed back into the access compartment. .

Susan was right: at least people weren't dead, and there were no lightning sparks.

"We have to rescue her"

Snap!

"No need!" Lark's prosthetic arm slammed into the warehouse, making a loud sound, "I can handle it!"

Susan looked at this scene calmly and said to Li De, "She can handle it."

"Then we should prepare for a strong attack. It just so happens that the other party's hacker is attacking, so we can share the pressure for her on the offensive line."

"No." Susan shook her head, "The goal of this mission is not to attack completely, but to collect data."

"Collect data?"

Li De repeated this goal, feeling a little incredible.

Cyberattacks that risk lives are just about collecting data?

Seemingly reading his thoughts, Susan added: "It's just that the object is too dangerous, and the mission has been successfully executed so far."

Ever since he was equipped with this prosthetic body, Lark has never felt such strong external pressure!

As the most powerful intelligence analyst and most powerful hacker in the new United States, she also uses a customized full-body prosthetic body that enhances computing power!

Her body, limbs, brain, and especially her spine, have all been completely transformed into prosthetics during the long mission, and her spine prosthesis contains an AI that is close to dangerous critical mass.

In other words, she is the dangerous borderline person.

During the long task of mining the old network, she came into contact with those data and those dangerous critical entities according to the task requirements, and tried to learn and even control them.

The highly prosthetic body and brain provide enough computing power to allow her to carry a dangerous critical body with unclear self-awareness.

But the price is that her heavily occupied brain and nerves produce a large number of hallucinations and second consciousness.

She has suffered a schizophrenia:

One personality has to accept prostheticization and the physical problems caused by prostheticization in pain, while the other personality enjoys the powerful network capabilities brought by AI and seems to be looking for an opportunity to liberate himself.

Liberate yourself from your fragile body, abandon your frail body and pain, and embrace a complete and permanent online life.

This split personality is like a ghoul born from constantly devouring her original personality. It is also the self-awareness that the dangerous critical body inhabiting her body will have.

Being powerful comes at a price - but at least she can run rampant in the network with a strong posture, which may allow her to find opportunities to solve her own problems.

But this time, her power was broken!

Her offensive capabilities obtained by relying on AI and other intelligence were completely blocked only halfway, and the ultra-high-profile counterattack adopted by the opponent seemed to cast a wide net, but in fact it was a super-precise counterattack method that locked almost every attack line of hers and achieved Fight back.

She felt like her brain was burning!

She is no match for Lille!

Countless hellhounds were gnawing in cyberspace, and she organized her computing power to send messages in pain:

[Lark: I am not your enemy. I know how painful it is to be entangled with AI. I understand you, and I can help you! 】

Lille, who was attacking, was stunned for a moment when he saw this unencrypted message——

Not to mention he was stunned, even the AI ​​Muramasa was stunned for a moment:

Is it painful for him to be entangled with me?

[Lark: Listen, messing with the black wall will cause people to collapse. The dangerous critical body will occupy your prosthetic body, and finally your brain. I can help you. I just need you to cooperate with me. Uh——]

The huge katana in cyberspace once again penetrated the firewall made of chains, and was almost only one step away from the bird's head:

This mechanical lark does not have a bird's head, but a naked human brain. At present, the brain is constantly collapsing, and the chains she is holding are also beginning to collapse, turning into black and red data blocks and starting to scatter.

The pain caused her to lose consciousness——

[Lark: Fuck you, don’t you want to know how to be saved! I know.】

[Burger King: You know what, after I burn through your prosthetic body and leave a brain, I can slowly explore it——]

Buzz——

The piercing cyber noise suddenly blurred Lark's mind. She didn't know how long it would take until she regained consciousness again, but those hellhounds were already close at hand and were about to bite off all the chains and launch the final attack!

madman!

Lark immediately gave up all ideas of contact and executed the last step of the plan——

"Unplug. Unplug!"

A shrill scream came from her mouth. Susan and Li De who were standing by acted simultaneously and removed all the connecting devices on the spot!

The violent power outage caused an abnormal current, and the cables in the entire basement were completely burned through. All the lights were extinguished and exploded, leaving only the stench of insulation and the faint flicker of fire——

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Firefighting smoke spray.

Snap.

Susan turned on her tactical flashlight and shined it on the lark.

The latter's body was completely recurved, tense and trembling, his mouth was wide open, his expression was distorted, and the cracks on the surface of the artificial eyes and artificial skin were flashing red.

Seeing this scene, Li De felt mixed feelings and immediately injected her with a sedative.

Being strong comes at a price.

But in fact, the real power is not the lark, but the new America she works for - the lark is actually just the price.

"she"

"She'll be fine, don't forget her weapons."

"But that's prohibited by international law."

"International law prohibits the private use of AI weapons, but it does not prohibit the use of black walls. She was just counterattacked by the black wall."

"Black wall?" Li De was stunned, "The network monitoring equipment cannot be installed here, what will they do?"

As he spoke, he suddenly realized.

The bombing in Dog Town was indeed the work of network surveillance, not that Burger King.