Ancient Database
Electronic rain was falling softly as Xiao Yu walked curiously down the street.
The electronic rain here is gray.
The City of the Lost People is completely different from the City That Never Sleeps. It is more like a collection of fishing villages than a city, but compared to a normal fishing village, it has a bit of a punk vibe.
The senior engineer released her, ostensibly for investigation, but in reality hoping she would try her luck, since her third template, "Imperial Orphan," was practically the prototype of the old man's lovemaking machine.
If you throw her out, she might just hit some old man with a white beard.
Xiao Yu had no idea what the senior engineer was thinking. She was full of energy in everything she did, and besides, this place gave her a particularly familiar feeling.
In the city of the remnants, most houses are iron fences made of mechanical fish skeletons. Some fish baskets are soaking in water. Xiao Yu picked one up and found it contained fresh fish meat. Living by the sea, they seem to have mastered a way to neutralize the radiation from the meat. Of course, the taste is definitely not very good.
A building piqued Xiao Yu's curiosity. It was a temple located in the very center of the city of the remnants. There was no plaque, and inside was a three-meter-tall ancient robot. The robot's armor resembled ancient lamellar armor, and in addition to circuitry, it also had ropes and belts on it.
Xiao Yu circled around to its back and discovered a line of ancient characters. "Mechanical Soldier - Asteroid Landing Battle - Ordnance Department Rewards"
Xiao Yu climbed up and searched for a long time with wide eyes, but he couldn't find any start switch or even the mecha engine.
"Hateful!"
After working hard for half a day without any results, Xiao Yu couldn't help but hit the big drum next to her, and a muffled 'bang' was heard.
Xiao Yu turned around abruptly, but the statue showed no sign of moving.
"That's strange, I felt it move just now?"
Xiao Yu has a special sensitivity to machinery.
The other person's dark eyes seemed to be trying to tell a story.
Xiao Yu puffed out his cheeks, clenched his mechanical hand, and suddenly punched the drum from a distance. With a loud thud, a line of light suddenly appeared on the surface of the statue.
Xiao Yu walked to the opposite side of the statue, counted them, and found that there were nine large drums like these in total.
This reminded her of the wooden dummy she used when practicing ancient mecha techniques as a child.
Xiao Yu took a deep breath, raised and lowered his hands, and high-temperature gas shot out from the gaps in the mechanical body. Almost at the same time, a dense array of fist shadows surged out from around the little angel.
The essence of gunnery lies in the control of high-temperature gases.
The stirring drumbeats began to rise, forming a magnificent and inspiring melody. Under this melody, it was as if countless mechanical armies were marching in the sky, on land, and in the sea, destroying everything in their path.
As a result, cracks began to appear on the statue; these "cracks" were actually filled with electrical circuits.
It turns out that ancient robots used the "wireless charging" method.
After finishing the "Mech Breaking Formation Song" move, the statue—no, the mech soldier—suddenly jumped down from the altar, its two red-glowing eyes facing Xiao Yu, and strode over.
Height verification in progress —
"Weight check in progress—"
"Gene sequencing in progress—"
"Measurements show the following: Height 152cm, Chest circumference A, Head circumference —"
Xiao Yu was furious, "My bra size is clearly a B!!"
"Detection complete. Welcome back, Collapse Entity 7."
"What's going to collapse?"
The mecha soldier turned around, and the upper body of the mechanical body began to slowly split apart, revealing the hilt of a large mechanical sword.
Xiao Yu immediately recognized it; it was the knife her "cheap grandfather" had used in the holographic projection.
With a loud cracking sound, amidst the sparks, a large sword almost as tall as Xiao Yu was pulled out.
Dragon Scale (Guardian Version of the Electric Knife)
Category: Melee Weapons
Quality: Level 2 - Electromechanical - Excellent (Weapon of War)
Weight: 21.4kg
Length: 140cm
Basic Attributes: DPS (Damage Per Second): 2418~3600, Attack Power: 806~1200, Rate of Fire: 3 attacks/second, +368 Electronic Damage, +77.5% Critical Hit Chance, +68.2% Bleed Chance
Knife Spare Slot: Empty; Plug-in Slot: High-Energy Battery, Battery Level: 7%
Note: Wielding your sword within the encrypted nine-bit circular code, you will become the emperor's most powerful guardian.
Xiao Yu couldn't see the knife's attributes, but she could clearly sense how terrifying it was. The blade was golden and made up of countless serrated teeth the size of scales. Each tooth seemed to be able to rotate independently, and when hundreds of teeth rotated at the same time, it was practically a berserk weapon.
Moreover, Xiao Yu could clearly feel that he was intimately familiar with this knife, almost as if they were connected by blood.
"Honkai Impact 7, please follow me."
Xiao Yu quickly followed behind the mechanical soldier, and they walked all the way to the edge of a cliff. The mechanical soldier looked back at Xiao Yu and jumped off without hesitation.
Xiao Yu looked at the sea a hundred meters deep, took a deep breath, and the waterproof system on the mechanical body started to operate. The gaps were sealed one by one by the inner armor plates. With a sudden leap, he plunged into the water.
Almost simultaneously, senior engineers also entered the cyberspace.
Entering cyberspace in the city that never sleeps involves first plunging into a sea of data and integrating one's own simulated signals into the deep network layer.
However, the data signal was extremely poor on the high seas, and the sea of data did not exist at all. When the high engineer's visual signal was restored, he felt an amazing sense of pressure in the surrounding air. When he looked up, he saw a super huge starship floating in space, scattering a shower of meteors.
Upon closer inspection, each "meteor" is a drop pod, equivalent to a paratrooper of a Level 2 civilization. Many drop pods begin to transform in mid-air, turning into super mechanical soldiers. Some land successfully, while others have half of their mechanical bodies explode, with figures jumping out from among them. These are the Empire's mechanical modifiers, while others are directly ignited by energy cannons fired from the ground.
Those that were destroyed were directly reduced to data fragments.
On the ground, there were one after another "asteroid creatures," whose shapes were very similar to marine radiant beasts.
"Interesting, the game starts with a battlefield."
Seeing that several at least B-level radiation beasts were aiming at him, and the energy nozzles lit up, the senior engineer immediately lit his hands with fire and ignited the delivery pod. The delivery pod shattered in mid-air, and countless energy beams flashed by. At least one-third of the delivery pod was blown up.
At the same time, "Virtual Invasion (Modified)" is activated.
The radiated beasts on the ground showed obvious signs of discomfort. Their crimson patterns lit up, and flesh spores sprouted from their bodies, blooming into flowers of flesh. Upon seeing this, the radiated beasts began to run around frantically, but to no avail.
In the end, the surrounding radiated beasts disappeared, leaving only a giant flower with a diameter of 3 meters, stuck in the ground. Under the effect of 'simulated data programming', it quickly reassembled, and soon, a handsome young man emerged from the petals.
[You have killed the sea monster data entity, experience +5000]
[You have killed the sea monster data entity, experience +5000]
The senior engineer looked down at the bright red lines on his arm.
In reality, A-grade bloodlines haven't been implanted yet, but on the internet, with coding skills that surpass civilization levels, they can be implanted into the skin and encoded.
"Night Star?"
Looking at the atmosphereless sky and a yellowish planet "not far away," the senior engineer could confirm that this was the satellite of the planet Jili.
"Is this Xiao Yuanshan's memory? A memory from an asteroid landing operation?"
As a Type II civilization, it's perfectly normal for them to set foot in space. But judging from this, is there extraterrestrial life on the satellite? Or is it an outpost for an invasion by some space pirate group?
The scene didn't change; it remained the empty, cratered surface of the asteroid.
If it were normal internet browsing, it should have already been redirected to a network node, but in this situation—
"Do you need help?" The voice of the bird of paradise suddenly echoed in my mind.
"Thank you, no need. But could you please keep an eye out for anything unusual around here?"
As an experienced hacker, the senior engineer has a wealth of theoretical knowledge, but in reality, he is only a level 5 hacker novice, and his virtual perception is not that strong.
"I see."
With chip technology and remote hacking activated, the senior engineer navigates through one "crater" after another.
These lunar craters are almost all the same size, around 500 meters, which indicates that they were not formed naturally, but were created by orbital weapons.
Soon, the senior engineer encountered another group of "radiation beasts". This time, the senior engineer went all out, and terrifying code flames spewed out, igniting one physical body after another and disintegrating the physical body into various types of code.
In reality, Xiao Yu, who was diving, seemed to hear the screams of sea monsters.
After an unknown amount of time, just as the senior engineer had finally collected enough code and was preparing to leave this deep web layer, Bird of Paradise suddenly spoke up, saying somewhat uncertainly:
"I've detected a human brain IP, but I'm not sure if it's a trap."
"You can't find it?"
"The other party's methods are very sophisticated; it's impossible to be certain."
The senior engineer raised an eyebrow. "Someone who can make a top hacker hesitate must be no ordinary person."
"Then let's go in and take a look."
Soon, amidst the flames of code, a large door slowly took shape as the IP was injected. The senior engineer grasped the doorknob and pulled hard.
The next moment, a huge hole suddenly appeared, and the senior engineer lost his footing and fell straight into it.
The hole seemed bottomless, with no end in sight, but the senior engineer gradually felt an immense heat.
The heat was so intense that it caused the engineer's body surface to begin to melt, especially his facial features, which melted away instantly.
"They immediately erased my sensory codes; someone was definitely up to something!"
The "Collateral Algorithm" was activated, and countless chains of flame emerged from the body, trying to hook onto something and escape from the data loophole.
The result was unexpected; the enemy also had an algorithm, and strange robots were pulled out one by one, disintegrating into machine code in mid-air.
This machine code blocks the surrounding transition nodes.
"Oh!"
The senior engineer sneered, and the states of "spy countermeasures," "vulnerability expert," and "memory optimization" were activated one after another.
Countless machine codes were captured, retrieved, and analyzed.
Among the fragments of the system, the senior engineer discovered an "ancient database"!
The next moment, a chain of flames pierced the darkness and hooked a familiar face—it was Xiao Yu in reality.
Before being completely melted, the senior engineer used the "Xiao Yu" connection to jump out of the mire.
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