Hidden System

In the old town, on Xiaodiren Street, on the second basement level of a large shopping mall.

Cybernetic parts were scattered all over the ground; lightweight implant guns, heavy modified bodies, and embedded engines were all good finds on the black market.

As for ordinary prosthetic body parts, there are even more plastic blood vessels, bionic circuits, bionic joints, and the like, piled up in bundles in the corner.

In the dim environment, the large generator hummed, and the extended cables were wrapped around metal pillars as thick as fists. Hanging on the pillars were unfinished robots.

The robot only had an upper body, with bio-engineered muscles just wrapped around it. It had eyeballs but no eyelids. Its bright red eyeballs would occasionally turn as the two figures moved around, and it was unclear whether this was a sign of intelligence or just a normal electromyographic response.

A mournful electronic voice rang out.

"Mr. G, we're all in the same industry, why push me so hard?"

Generally speaking, an AI that can evoke emotion in such a toneless electronic voice is at least a mid-level AI. That's right, the cyborg doctor in Little Emperor Street is an artificial intelligence.

Intelligent doctor, robot doctor, big head.

"Big Head, although we've never met in person, we've been friends for a long time, even if only in spirit."

As they walked, the senior engineer chuckled, "Motorcycle gangsters and biker thugs all got their rehabilitation done here, right? I heard you also have connections with other street gangs, including the Welfare Gang—"

"I'll help whoever pays me; that's the rule of the underworld. As cyborg doctors, we're neutral. You can't hold me responsible just because you have a conflict with the Welfare Gang!"

"Oh?"

The senior engineer dragged a chair over and sat down in front of a screen wall. On the screen appeared a huge head with teeth about the size of a fist, lined up in front of him. The entire head looked like it had been stuffed into the abdomen of some kind of mecha, making it look extremely bizarre.

"But I heard that you accepted the street technology data that Gao Jin stole from you without hesitation and happily, and even accepted the position of gang advisor in front of outsiders?"

"Coincidence? It's all just a coincidence! You have to believe me!"

The large head was pressed tightly against the screen, as if it wanted to pop out of the screen to express its attitude.

However, as Da Tou exerted force, the entire screen seemed to bulge outwards, cracks appeared, and the next moment, the screen shattered. From the broken glass, rotating machine guns were frantically spitting out sparks at this close range.

Amidst the raging ammunition belt, the senior engineer pulled out a cigarette, flicked the butt against the belt, and lit it.

Two minutes later, except for the area where the senior engineer was located, the whole place looked like it had been plowed up.

Just as the last bullet was fired, the engineer finished his cigarette.

"I thought a prosthetic doctor like you, with such a wide clientele, would definitely use energy weapons, or at least electromagnetic weapons. Turns out you're using this old-fashioned machine gun?"

The senior engineer's tone revealed a hint of confusion.

Where is your money?

"Damn it, do you know how much it costs to build a data center? All the tokens I've earned over the years have been poured into that bottomless pit!"

"Get to the point, I need the street tech you have, at least two kinds."

The senior engineer flicked his cigarette butt and said this.

"You're dreaming! This is my trump card. At worst, I'll just give you this modification site. What can you do about it?"

"That's true. For prosthetic doctors like us, especially AI like you, there are countless ways to hide and protect ourselves. But, little A—"

"Little A will obey your orders."

The next moment, the button on the senior engineer's collar lit up, revealing a huge map of the city that never sleeps.

"The thirteen locations where the AI's clones have been confirmed to be hiding are, among them, the coffee club on Rose Street..."

One by one, red dots appeared.

"Cyber Hacker, you actually hired Cyber Hacker to deal with me!!"

"By using a chain reaction algorithm to cover surrounding data nodes, we can analyze the hiding places of the main avatars and calculate the probability of them being in the opponent's big data center as 17%, 18%, 19%, 20%..."

"What a joke! You think I'm afraid of your bluff?!"

"You're just a rudimentary AI? Do you even have a personality template? Have you installed any advanced underlying architecture? What do you know?"

"Let's make peace, how about making peace? I'll quit being a consultant for the Welfare Association, and I'll give you everything the Welfare Association gave me! No, I'll pay double!"

As the calculated probability rose to 50% and the number of red dots reached hundreds, the AI immediately backed down.

"Father, Father, I was wrong. I'll give you whatever you want, okay? Just please stop calculating! Your method is going to kill me!"

"Little A wants to know, what kind of personality template did you install?"

The novice AI, Little A, suddenly spoke.

"The personality template 'hypocritical shell' shuts down the conscience of artificial intelligence and eliminates the sense of morality generated by collecting 'residual intelligent data'."

"Little A doesn't like this personality template. Little A prefers a more arrogant one, Master."

"Behave well, and you'll have bread, you'll have milk, you'll have everything."

After giving a perfunctory response to Xiao A's words, the senior engineer held up three fingers.

"House prices are rising, commodity prices are rising, and my prices have gone up too. I now need three kinds of street tech."

When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

Even artificial intelligence has to bow down.

The big head has to bow its head.

[You have acquired Level 5 Street Tech: Neural Driver]

[You have acquired Level 6 Street Tech [Enhanced Cybernetic Signal]]

[You have acquired Level 6 Street Tech [Fixed Brainwashing Program]]

[You have completed the first job change quest: trade/plunder/steal ten exclusive modification blueprints for prosthetic doctors]

"Implementing brainwashing procedures?"

The senior engineer raised an eyebrow. "You didn't actually install this program on every single modified prosthetic body, did you?"

"So what if it is?" AI Big Head said indignantly, "Others may not know, but don't you? If prosthetic doctors aren't ruthless, how can they be black market doctors! If you have any morals, give me back this scientific data!"

The senior engineer chuckled and said, "If I were you, I wouldn't risk being discovered to implant the red program. Gangsters are easy to bully, but if you install this thing on your company's employees, believe me, the security department will come knocking on your door the next day. These thugs trained by the company's will are no weaker than Cyber Hacker."

"You've broken the rules! In street warfare, you don't attack neutrals!"

AI Big Head was still indignant. It seems that his personality module wasn't installed completely. If he had truly "abandoned his conscience," he wouldn't even feel anger.

"Rules," the senior engineer chuckled, "In a few days, there will only be one rule in the outer city, and that's my rule!"

After leaving Little Emperor Street, the senior engineer switched to the task panel.

[Job Change Quest: Advanced Upgrade]

Task details:

1. Trade/plunder/steal ten exclusive modification blueprints for prosthetic surgeons (Completed)

2. Perform a Level 2 mechanical civilization modification on yourself (armament/AI/energy) (Completed)

3. Conduct a large-scale prosthetic experiment.

The second task was completed first; the carbon atom reactor and the shuttle-shaped mayfly gun were both advanced modifications.

The first blueprint I got from the Desert Butcher, the four blueprints I got from the Welfare Helper, plus the five I got my hands on today.

It's finally down to the last step.

In fact, this final step can be completed at any time if the senior engineer wants to.

While reforming the members of the welfare group, he was also busy.

The mission requirement was "a large-scale prosthetic experiment," but it didn't specify what type of prosthetic it was.

After all, a biological prosthetic body can also be considered a prosthetic body.

Lady Hongmeng, who had been mostly silent, suddenly spoke up.

"I never imagined that someone so young would be not only a prosthetic doctor but also Cyber Hacker."

The fact that Lady Red Dream was able to build a regional network shows that she must be connected to some hidden entities in cyberspace.

"Only with excellent professional skills can one adapt to more roles. In the new era, male escorts naturally need to be versatile."

Madam Hongmeng ignored the engineer's ramblings and said meaningfully:

"So, you're from that circle?"

"That circle, which circle?"

"Arasaka Rebels"

The senior engineer paused, then turned to stare at Madam Hongmeng.

The "Arasaka Tower Fall Incident" takes place one year in the future. The plot revolves around Arasaka Tower, the largest public data center on the planet besides the mechanical mother city "Deep Web," and one of the mother city's core assets, being compromised by a group of Cyber Hacker called "Tyria."

Are these people starting to become active now?

The senior engineer thought for a moment and asked, "Where did you hear about this group, Madam?"

Madam Hongmeng smiled and said, "These people are quite restless. I heard that some of them recently came to the City That Never Sleeps, seemingly plotting something."

What are they planning in this city that never sleeps?

Is there any major plot development in The City That Never Sleeps?

In Gao Gong's memory, there are two major plots about the City That Never Sleeps. One is that the City That Never Sleeps was captured by the Knights, but thanks to his little butterfly, the beast tide never broke out.

The only remaining major plot point seems to be the incident of the Nightless City's main brain and the machine being artificially replaced.

Are any hacker activists involved in this storyline?

What is the plot of this story?

The old generation of mobile phones has been replaced by the new generation, which is more radical and more aggressive.

That does sound like the style of those 'Tyria'.

"What does Madam mean?" the senior engineer asked in return.

"I want order, even the bare minimum," the black liquid slowly flowed from the crevices of Lady Red Dream's face.

"Then you and I are not enemies," the senior engineer said with a smile.

Madam Hongmeng gave Engineer Gao a deep look. "Remember what you said."

"Mr. Hong, you can come out now."

In the darkness, a bald, muscular man covered in gold beads emerged, his custom-made suit stretched taut by his muscles.

There seemed to be a group of people standing in the darkness.

"Madam," Mr. Hong grinned, revealing a mouthful of gold teeth.

"Old Hong, there's some money you can make, but there's some you don't need to make."

Madam Hongmeng stepped forward and blocked the senior engineer's path.

"Madam, it's just business, there's no need to make it so tense. We're old friends," Boss Hong said with a stiff smile when he saw the black liquid on Madam Hongmeng's face.

"Go back, tonight will be peaceful."

"Lady--"

Lady Red Dream stopped speaking, and black liquid began to ooze from the cracks in her skin. This behavior was very similar to that of the old woman with the virus, the Weaver of the Deep Web.

However, unlike the old woman, the black liquid on Lady Hongmeng's face turned into red droplets when it fell to the ground, a phenomenon that reminded the senior engineer of electronic rain.

As if on cue, a light drizzle began to fall from the sky. Unlike the usual clear rain, this time the rain was red.

The buildings on both sides, including skyscrapers with hundreds of floors, began to slowly dissolve under the influence of the rain.

"This level of big data application, and this level of virtual reality technology—"

"No wonder she's Rose Rich Woman's friend."

Boss Hong didn't say anything. Instead, he took out a cigar, put it in his mouth, took a deep breath, and exhaled a puff of smoke.

Boss Hong's lungs began to bulge like bellows, and soon, thick smoke covered his entire body. Even from a distance, the senior engineer could smell the nicotine, and there seemed to be something else besides nicotine.

"Interesting."

In the mist, Boss Hong's burly figure would occasionally swell up a bit, as if some monster was about to crawl out of his body.

However, as the rain intensifies, the fog is always washed away by the rain when it reaches a certain limit.

Finally, the smoke thinned out, revealing Boss Hong, who was soaked to the bone.

Boss Hong glared at Madam Hongmeng with hatred, then spat his cigar onto the ground. "They've breached the contract! 24k Gold Diamond Security will not be involved!"

After speaking, Boss Hong turned and left. Soon, the figures in the darkness had mostly disappeared.

Lady Hongmeng said nothing, but still elegantly fanned herself with her small fan, her hair ornaments swaying slightly.

The senior engineer clicked his tongue twice, making up his mind. A rich woman's friend is a rich woman, and an elderly rich woman is also a rich woman. It's not unreasonable for him to sacrifice himself and serve this kind of rich woman.

[Your character - 1]

Red Dream Club

Idol Adorno's new group, "Black Seven Lucky Gods," made a successful debut. They went on a killing spree at their concert, creating illusions and doppelgangers, killing one by one, group by group. In the end, the concert was a complete success, and not a single fan left alive.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Sister Ji's mouth dropped open, and even Miss Sakura was very surprised. She never expected that this suddenly appearing boy would be so amazing.

"This is nothing," said Ahong, who was sweating profusely from cheering, as he took off the "Issue no Ai" headscarf, a must-have for otaku.

"A large number of people is not a big deal. The other side is not a secret system and can only deliberately pile up data. As long as we find the vulnerability in the other side's program, dealing with these capsule people is not that difficult."

"What is the secret system?" Sister Ji asked quickly.

Have you ever heard of data concept bodies?

Otaku have no resistance to tentacle girls, and Ah Hong answers every question from Sister Ji.

"I know," Miss Sakura interjected, a rare occurrence for her.

"A stealth system is equivalent to a data concept without personality. It may be the main execution program of a large research project, the data boundary of an ancient Internet, or even an old version of a mechanical mastermind, that is, a remnant of a mechanical system."

"Uh, I still don't understand," Sister Ji blinked, completely bewildered.

"Simply put, they are unfinished buildings in cyberspace. Although they are unfinished, there are still a lot of bottles and jars inside. Even an ordinary person who gets the key to this building will gain unimaginable power."

Miss Sakura looked thoughtful.

This description sounds so much like that of a lady.

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