"Impossible! Completely impossible!"
"..."
"There's no way we can break through their firewall!"
"..."
"No! How is this possible?!"
"Those codes... They feel as if they're alive! Th-That shouldn't be possible!"
"How could this happen?!"
"..."
Mask of Torment was donned.
Frantic cries rose and fell one after another.
The researchers here weren't bookworms.
Every one of them was a top-tier practical talent.
And yet, even so!
It was as if they had learned the basic controls in an instant, only to be sent out to slay a BOSS.
Their vision went black.
They had been battered to the verge of collapse!
And they still hadn't made the slightest progress.
Forget counterattacking.
Forget reclaiming the entire information display of Ouxia from that woman.
Right now, they were trapped inside their own little circles.
They couldn't even break out of the other party's cage, so what more could they possibly hope for?!
What else could they do?!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Why do I feel like my computer has already defected?!"
"This shouldn't be possible! This is a fucking LAN!"
"..."
"Perhaps the moment we connected the computers from the LAN to the WAN in preparation for our counterattack, they had already hacked into us."
"That's impossible!"
"That makes no sense! Even if they discovered us, wouldn't it take time?"
"Could the computer itself have defected to the enemy?"
"..."
"It's hopeless. Let's just wait to die."
"..."
The more they struggled, the more terrified they became.
That was because, unlike all kinds of civilian facilities and equipment,
the Data Research Institute's machinery, computers, and information systems were all the most advanced.
Even their organizational structure and underlying architecture were entirely beyond comparison with ordinary civilian equipment.
In theory,
no matter how powerful a hacker was, they shouldn't have been able to hack into