The Resurrected Mechanical Overmind

"Dick, what are you looking at?" Another councilor's voice suddenly came from behind.

"It's nothing, it's just—"

Representative Dick turned around, and Tong Kongmeng flinched. He saw his colleague smiling at him, while countless blood vessels were gushing from his eyes.

"Yeah, Dick, your pinball club has made another good deal."

A councilor standing next to him, with his arm around a female companion, also laughed. On his and his companion's faces, thumb-sized tentacles swayed slowly in the cold wind outside.

"You, you all."

Dick's eyes twitched, and he slammed his hand on his waist, drawing a pistol. At the same time, he pressed his body against the wall and slowly moved outwards.

"Dick."

"What's wrong, old friend?"

"Should we get you a doctor? You look very nervous."

Suddenly, a sticky sensation came from behind him, as if some soft substance was slowly wriggling on his back.

He suddenly turned around, and Tong Kong shrank back.

The wall disappeared, replaced by an eyeball. The wriggling thing was the wall's eyelid, slowly flipping upwards, while the enormous eyeball, at least ten meters in diameter, was scrutinizing itself with great interest.

Cold sweat broke out all over my body in a flash, making me feel as if I were soaking in a liquid.

Bang, bang! Bang bang bang bang—

Gunshots rang out

"Aaaaaaahh..."

Gunshots rang out continuously, and Dick screamed in agony as he fired.

The door was slammed open, and the pachinko club member rushed into the dark corridor, beginning a frantic escape.

More and more shouts rang out from all around.

"Dick!"

"Dick!"

"Dick!"

Finally, a figure blocked his way. As he turned around, an old face was revealed. It was the former president of the pinball club.

"Dick, where are you going?"

"President, I—"

Dick paused for a moment. In his memory, the old boss had died three years ago in a gang fight. The current boss was a clone of the old boss, only in his twenties, and not nearly as old.

"Why are you running away if there's no speaker to convene a meeting of all members of parliament?"

"No Speaker?" Dick repeated.

"No Speaker!"

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As the last member of the Ryuto Slashing Team was stabbed in the abdomen by Andy Lau, dealing double damage and pinning him to the wall, Andy Lau turned around, drew his sword, and slashed open the throat of a severely wounded team member.

All fifteen members of the Ryutsu-nii group were wiped out!

"You, you, you—"

The group members stared at each other with wide eyes, their expressions filled with disbelief.

"Are you surprised that my combat chip can simulate all your attacks?"

Liu Dehua wiped his hands with the other person's clothes, and then put his coat and suit back on.

"Then you should ask your president, Hiroshi Yamamoto, why there are obvious prosthetic holes left in your implants."

"Once a thug, always a thug, you idiot."

Liu Dehua glanced at his watch; five minutes had passed, meaning he had ten minutes left according to the plan.

He quickly ran down the stairs, and unexpectedly, there were no enemies along the way. He easily rushed into the basement and pulled the switch.

The entire Twin Towers went dark in an instant.

Even if the backup power restarts, it will still take five minutes.

"How could it go so smoothly!?"

Liu Dehua was completely baffled. Let alone at such a critical moment, even under normal circumstances, such an important place would have at least three teams of mechanical lookouts and one team of security personnel patrolling.

"Andy Lau, you succeeded! That was amazing!"

A sharp voice came through the earphones. Needless to say, it was Swallow, the only mature loli in the Akatsuki family.

This middle-aged woman who performed the loli transformation doesn't have a particularly impressive track record, and many people don't even know her. However, among players, or more precisely, among Pixiv players, she is a very famous and highly skilled individual.

This person cracked the game's anti-sexual harassment system.

This system was originally designed to protect players, but this female boss managed to find a legal way to circumvent the protection system, turning this green game into an adult game.

Liu Dehua was able to have close contact with his sister-in-law thanks to her.

Therefore, Andy Lau was exceptionally polite to this person.

"We succeeded, and it went surprisingly smoothly."

Just then, a mechanical eyepiece suddenly flew over. Liu Dehua's expression changed, and he was about to make a move when a familiar, sharp voice rang out.

"What the hell? The way you're doing this makes me feel so unfulfilled. Didn't we agree that I would be there to support you?"

At this moment, in a monitoring room on the first floor, a group of burly men with their heads blown off sat behind monitoring equipment, while in their arms, a white-haired old loli held a microphone and licked the blood off her fingers.

"Let me see, what's the situation on your end?"

As she spoke, Yanzi turned on the surveillance video.

"Hmm, the guards on the first floor withdrew beforehand. Is someone secretly helping us?"

"Hacker, are you a hacker?"

"Bullshit! Who has the time for that? Unless, my main personality awakens!" The hacker let out a strange laugh. "That would be interesting."

"After all, he's one of your players."

Hacker, Level 18 Cyber Hacker (possessed by demons). Compared to other professions, players who choose the hacker path face greater risks. Normal players might only encounter problems with their prosthetic bodies, but for hackers, if something goes wrong, it's 100% a brain problem.

For example, this person encountered a problem while developing a backup personality, which prematurely revived and then took over the person's place.

The hacker in his backup personality state is both a player and not a player. When the player is online, he is online; when the player is offline, he is still online. Therefore, he levels up faster than anyone else. With the system and NPCs combined, it's exactly the rhythm of a native transmigration novel.

So he became the number one hacker in the crime city.

Keep in mind that even the genius hacker Ahong is only at level 25.

"But I did get rid of those corporate hackers, a bunch of low-level trash. I am now invincible, wahahaha."

Liu Dehua and Yanzi fell silent for a moment, which was unusual. In their memory, the backup personality of a hacker was always gloomy and dark. This was the first time they had seen someone so arrogant.

"Hacker, you're awake?" Andy Lau asked tentatively.

"Or is there something wrong with your personality again?" Yanzi asked bluntly.

"Hehehe, that idiot number two, in order to speed up the upgrade process, actively split his personality into 5 parts, wanting all five personalities to upgrade at the same time. As expected, it backfired. Now I am number 3."

"Your style is pretty much the same as the original," Yanzi complained.

Liu Dehua calmed himself down and said evenly, "So, do you still want to do missions with us now?"

"Of course, I need to reach level 20 as soon as possible, master personality repair programming, and once that's done, I'm going to wipe out those fakes! I'm going to be the number one hacker among gamers!"

This guy actually thinks he's a player?

This number three is really a weirdo.

Liu Dehua mentally complained as he quickly reunited with Yanzi while calling out to the others. Only one person responded, but this person was not the debt collector, but the one who started the fire.

"You said you were almost inside the Twin Towers, how did you get in?"

"Well, they came in through the main entrance."

"What?! The main gate?!" Yanzi roared in anger. "Do you know how much of my charm I sacrificed to sneak in?"

"Don't tease me, big sister. As the first player to break the game's anti-pervert system, you are the number one pervert among us players. It's the handsome NPCs who need to be careful, hehe, cough cough."

As the igniter spoke, he spat out a mouthful of corpse oil, at which point he looked exactly like an American zombie.

Even so, he still stared ahead in awe.

Compared to his appearance, the one standing in front of him was the real monster.

At this moment, hundreds of mechanical eyes and ears, dozens of sniper positions, more than a dozen armored vehicles, and a dense swarm of gang elites attacking from all directions rained bullets down on the collider.

This super robot neither dodged nor evaded; bullets struck it without making a sound, and it even actively merged with the robot.

This also led to its size getting larger and larger.

It even surpasses the buildings on both sides.

The igniter used the "Detect" skill dozens of times and finally managed to discover some skills.

Liquid metal absorption:???

Sound wave digestion:???

"Hey, there are more and more people, this is really troublesome."

The next moment, the collider's muscles accelerated, its body heated up, and it quickly entered a state of explosion.

A pair of giant steel hands shoved forward, and the next moment, a violent shockwave ignited five or six armored vehicles.

At the same time, the robot charged into the crowd at a speed disproportionate to its size, wreaking havoc and instantly killing anyone it attacked, with four-digit damage numbers flashing continuously.

So the person who started the fire followed him blankly, and amidst the flames and explosions, no one noticed the seriously injured patient.

Does this quest have any special NPCs to help? And why have I never heard of an NPC of this level before?

The Akudama family divided the Fall of the Twin Towers mission into three phases.

The first phase involves an inside-outside coordinated operation to infiltrate the Twin Towers.

The second phase involves cutting off the power and allowing hackers to infiltrate the Twin Towers' operating system.

In the third stage, enter the Crime Council, use the key given by the quest giver to open the mechanism, and fall into the Twin Towers.

In fact, this task was not assigned to the Akudama family alone, but only they were capable of accomplishing it to this extent.

More importantly, the mission requirements were strange; the Twin Towers had to be notified in advance to activate their full defensive capabilities.

This is the strangest mission completion condition.

"The debt collectors didn't follow. Are they dead?"

The white-haired loli finally reunited with the Liu family's superstar. The two were braving the gang's firepower and, with the help of a hacker, forcibly broke into the upper levels.

"I don't know, he's probably dead."

"Oh."

"Jump out the window."

Without any hesitation, Liu Dehua and Yanzi smashed the window and rushed out. Almost at the same time, more than a dozen laser beams crisscrossed the room.

At the same time, two hovering pedals caught the two people.

We do not trust any member of any organization.

I will never hold any member back.

This is the rule of the Akudama family.

Anyone who violates this rule will be killed by the entire family and forced to quit the game.

At this moment, Liu Dehua's health was only one-third of what it used to be, and almost half of his prosthetic components were broken. As for the white-haired loli Yanzi, her face was so pale it was almost transparent, which was the result of bloodline backlash.

"Damn it, a bunch of useless trash. How are we supposed to complete the mission if this keeps up?" Yanzi lay sprawled out, looking more like an old woman than a little girl.

"I never planned to complete it in one go. It's a nightmare-level mission. We won't succeed easily without wiping out the entire team a few times." Liu Dehua calmly threw out the empty magazine and reloaded.

"Besides, we're still investigating the background of the quest giver. You've experienced the NPCs in this game before; double-crossing is the norm."

Yanzi sneered, "I think you're the one trying to double-cross them. Honestly, what have you discovered?"

"I'll tell you after the mission is over," this time, the Invisible Traveler's attitude was very frank, which made Yanzi suspicious.

This small group originally had ten top players, but three of them were assassinated by their own people, fell out of the top tier, and were then expelled.

Two of them were killed by this person.

"Surprisingly smooth," came the hacker's surprised voice through the headset.

Just as the hacker said, the two floated all the way to the 200th floor without being attacked at all.

"Hey, I'm getting more and more suspicious that someone's up to something. Is it the mission issuer? A gang leader? Or someone in the Crime Council?"

After diving into the 200th floor, the two felt increasingly uneasy, and this unease reached its peak when they entered the council chamber.

The venue was packed. Everyone there was a representative of a criminal organization, a true bigwig in the city of crime.

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However, at this moment, they all sat quietly without saying a word.

"What the hell is this?" Yanzi asked in astonishment.

Liu Dehua acted immediately, walked up to a criminal councilor, and gently pushed him, causing him to fall to the ground, his eyes filled with dark, empty sockets.

"Hey, what's going on over there? Is the internet down? Are all the people dead? I can't sense any sensor signal at all!"

Liu Dehua's eye twitched violently.

"Pretty much, they're all dead."

"Damn it, look in the middle!" Yanzi tugged at his sleeve in alarm, pointing to the very center.

In the center, on a white jade chair, sat a humanoid figure with intertwined tentacles, one hand resting on the armrest and the other on its head.

"You've finally arrived."

The same thought popped into their minds at the same time.

"Hey, what's going on over there? Signal, signal—"

The signal was cut off.

The next moment, the other party gently beckoned, and in an instant, the muscles in Liu Dehua's chest tore apart, and a black key shot out, landing directly in the monster's palm.

"Damn it, give us back our stuff!"

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Without saying a word, Yanzi picked up the children's machine gun and started firing, but she missed.

The tentacle monster slowly rubbed the key and inserted it into a hole in the armrest. The next moment, a palm-sized black box emerged from the council platform.

"Thank you for your hard work," the tentacle monster waved its hand lightly. The next moment, the two felt a dizzying sensation, and when they came to their senses, they found themselves on the outskirts of the Twin Towers.

With numerous reporters present, all the mechanical surveillance cameras began to rise into the sky above the Twin Towers, and an enormous mechanical giant phantom appeared at the top of the towers, its terrifying aura instantly suppressing everyone.

Only one person has ever achieved such a feat.

The mechanical mainframe of No Sun City—Chairman Wu!