Start with a Mechanical Hunter

The other side of freedom, Shenkeng Hotel, in a room on the third underground floor

 “It turns out that this is the case, and it’s finally solved.”

Following the words of the Bird of Paradise, the next moment, the wall began to change. First, there was a crack in the middle, and then with this small opening as the center, countless cracks appeared. These cracks were pieced together to form a gate. On the bronze gate , engraved with the number 302.

“Punk code decomposition, underlying visual data restoration, and avalanche software re-translation. Only by achieving these three points at the same time can this room be completely opened.”

Although it sounds simple, these three senior hackers spent nearly a month here before launching this encrypted gathering place.

 House 320, Third Street, East Lund District

 “Let’s go in together?”

“Of course, it’s hard to find this place, why don’t we go in and take a look.”

Then the bird of paradise pushed open the door and entered.

 Inside the door is a place similar to a coffee shop. It seems that a salon has just been held. There is still unfinished coffee on the long black wooden table.

At the same time, there was an old anti-disk machine placed in the corner of the wall, but it had no discs.

Bird of Paradise pondered for a while and said: "Put the previous disc in."

Hong did as he was told, and soon strong, jumping Baroque-style music started playing.

 In the sound of this music, one after another blurry images of people seemed to have pressed the accelerator button. They were either sitting in front of the table with their legs crossed, or two people were standing in the corner, discussing silently.

“What is this, data backtracking?” Hong whispered.

"Cryptopunk is different from any encryption method we have learned before. It seems that it can only be activated by forming some fixed conditions on certain fixed occasions," Xiuyue said with an elegant smile, "such as now."

Soon, the exciting music ended, and the smell of coffee and cigarettes still lingered in the room. There was an old-fashioned folder on the long table.

Bird of Paradise picked it up and opened it, and found a letter and some garbled digital pages.

This letter seems to be written to a person named ‘zero’—

 Dear zero, I am very glad that you chose to join us at the most difficult time in our career. I know that this must be a very difficult decision for you.

 But only by overcoming the constraints of the old society can we realize our true selves.

　　Now that you have made up your mind to complete the final transformation, after voting at the ‘Cryptopunk Anonymous Meeting’, we will take you into a new world at the end of the data.

I know you are very proficient in cryptography, so this is your final test.

By the way, be careful with the people of the Information Liberation Front. They are different from us. We are committed to privacy protection, but they are trying to use "privacy" as a special way of selling.

Yours, a true friend, a non-existent observer.

 “Transformation sites, Information Liberation Front, cryptography.”

Hiro, who extracted these three key points from the text, couldn't help but stare at these strange garbled characters.

 “No, you need to decode again? I feel like my brain is going to explode!”

Xiuyue didn't even smile. She took the garbled pages and read them carefully, and soon let out a light sigh.

“Senior Sister, why do these encrypted data look familiar to me? Are these things in the master’s diary?”

"As expected, you have peeked at the master's diary," Bird of Paradise looked at the other party deeply, then took out an old diary, skipping the nonsense and self-praising in the first half, and in the last few pages, Sure enough, I saw the corresponding numbers of some strange symbols.

Hiro was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't the old man from a punk family? Calculating the time, it's not impossible!"

“There is another possibility that he is a member of this organization,” Bird of Paradise clicked on ‘Information Liberation Front’. Judging from this letter, the two organizations, the Punk Family and the Information Liberation Front, seem to be hostile to each other.

 Through the old man’s diary, a special coordinate soon appeared.

 When they saw this coordinate, the expressions of the three of them changed.

 There is no other reason than the location of this positioning coordinate—database No. 0!

 “What a coincidence?”

"There is no identical leaf in the world," Xiuyue said with a smile, turning her neck and stretching, "But anyway, the task here is finally over, and I can finally give it to Minister Gao."

 “Flatter the horse,” the bird of paradise said coldly.

“Haha, senior sister, didn’t you say that the second senior brother is here to resurrect the old man,” Hong quickly interrupted to prevent the two enemies from quarreling again.

“Yes, I am so patient and humiliated, yet you still say that to me, senior sister,” Xiuyue said aggrievedly, every word and every action she took looked like a woman.

 “I want to inform Minister Gao of this good news as soon as possible.”

　　　…”Ah Hong.

However, Xiuyue's expression gradually stiffened, and her usually gentle face was filled with disbelief.

 “What’s wrong?” Bird of Paradise couldn’t help but ask.

"There are rumors in the ministry that Director Gao of the Ghost in the Shell mobile department killed the human director of the Humanity Experiment Department during the six-department meeting." Hiro and Bird of Paradise looked at each other, their expressions a little subtle.

“Senior brother, isn’t the supervisory department you joined the Humanity Experiment Department?”

“So, does your current behavior count as colluding with outsiders?” The corner of Bird of Paradise’s mouth was slightly raised, and it seemed that he really enjoyed watching his junior brother suffer.

“I can’t, I have to rush back to the ministry,” Xiu Yue’s expression showed a rare hint of panic, and she walked outside without saying a word.

When he reached the door, he paused and said without looking back:

“With my current status, I’m afraid it will be difficult for me to continue dealing with you in the short term, so I would like you to get the old man’s ashes from the Ghost in the Shell mobile department.”

Bird of Paradise smiled slightly, took a deep look at the other person, and nodded.

If the electronic ascension is successful, you will have a GM account donated by the planet host. If the ascension fails, the backlash will cause the ascender's body data to completely collapse, and the remaining data will become a 'high-risk electronic virus' '.

 The one responsible for dealing with this virus is the Ghost in the Shell mobile department.

 …

At the same time, in an enterprise database, Gao Yuanyuan raised her head slightly, and the data flow in her eyes was the information that was being continuously recorded.

 According to my brother, soon another ‘professional knowledge chain’ was assembled.

 How will my brother reward me when the time comes?

When she thought of this, Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help but laugh quietly.

But soon, a bright red prohibition word appeared on the big screen in front of him, and then the red words quickly covered the entire big screen, and the alarm sounded instantly.

'how come? ! ’

Gao Yuanyuan panicked. Although she was now an advanced information being and could not be stronger on this planet. She could count those who were more powerful than her with both hands. But when she encountered an unexpected situation, and she was still Without his brother by his side, he almost instinctively panicked.

As soon as the thought comes to mind, the figure disappears inside the firewall. The neurons in the brain are like stars in the night sky, and the light flow produced by neurotransmitters is like shooting stars. Sometimes when people have too many distracting thoughts, Gao Yuanyuan seems to see a Meteor shower streaks across the night sky.

She once curiously asked her brother, if every planet is a neuron and every star is a nerve node, then the entire universe is a super brain.

She remembered that when her brother heard this sentence, his expression suddenly became serious, and it was rare that he did not tease her.

No matter what, when she enters other people's minds, she will always feel an indescribable calmness, and the panic will slowly fade away.

“Little girl, don’t be afraid, it was just a little joke made by another little girl... You ran so fast!”

 A slightly helpless voice sounded.

Gao Yuanyuan ignored the other party. She knew that some corporate firewalls were equipped with an anti-tracking virus. Once responded, it would automatically enter download mode.

 She ran faster.

"Little girl...my crawlers can hardly crawl your data. I am Alyssa. You should have heard of my other identity, the search engine of the Cyber ​​Network. Please rest assured that no company The firewall can cover the brains of 30 million people at the same time.”

In just a short moment, Gao Yuanyuan has traveled through 30 million brains.

 At the same time as the voice of ‘Alyssa’, there was a sneer.

 She still recognizes her brother?

 That’s even worse! This virus actually reads my brain data!

Gao Yuanyuan panicked again and asked her brother to check her carefully. She was afraid that she had been invaded by a virus.

However, a voice coming from the bottom of her heart made the originally panicked Gao Yuanyuan stop immediately.

 “Hey, coward, don’t run away! If you run away again, I’ll beat you up!”

"…It's you!"

Gao Yuanyuan stopped and her face became complicated. She knew that no matter how powerful the virus was, it would not find out the secret deep in her heart.

 Because this is not the secret of one person, but the secret of two people.

She is just half of the personality named ‘Gao Yuanyuan’, and the other half of her personality is another person.

"Why, if you give me the good things of fear, tension, anger, despair, world-weariness, and anxiety, you can enjoy life with peace of mind, right? What about your fear now? Hahahahahaha, even if Cut yourself in half, you are still the coward who hides under the bed and dare not say a word, unlike me. Now, there is nothing that scares me. I am the real Gao Yuanyuan, no, I am her upgrade. Version, my name is Gox!”

Gao Yuanyuan stopped suddenly, bit her lower lip, hesitated for a long time, and finally made up her mind. Honkai breath suddenly burst out from her body, and the rewind system started to rotate.

The next moment, the scene seemed to have been replayed countless times. In less than a second, Gao Yuanyuan returned to the original corporate database headquarters. At this time, the firewall had not been disturbed, but the electronic guards on the ground had already walked around. The corpses were piled up like a hill. On the top of the hill was a girl with punk tattoos. She blew her green hair and lowered her eyes with bright red eyes.

“Hey, Honkai Impact, what a coincidence, so am I!”

 A more powerful aura of collapse overflowed, and all the electronic firewalls were destroyed wherever it passed. Compared with the 'rewind system', this aura of collapse was more powerful.

 Compared to the half-rewind system, this is a Honkai Impact at its peak.

 Honkai No. 9-Mutation Combination!