A Prelude to the Breakup

The machine operator remained silent.

The senior engineer didn't care. He condensed the imperial power into super searchlights. Wherever the lights shone, all mechanical systems malfunctioned, and those elusive and endless mechanical eyes disappeared.

Players who were on the escape mission quickly realized this safe passage.

"The true light of salvation!"

"Holy crap, there's a bug!"

"Bullshit, it's clearly system balancing! Damn it, this pedicure is killing me! This piece of junk!"

"Who told you to insist on fighting an elite monster? You could have run away with those high-level monsters a long time ago."

"Damn, you agreed too. We haven't fought any monsters for almost three days. My sword is itching to get going."

"Fight, fight, fight! Once we get to the City of Crime, I'll let you grind to your heart's content!"

One light after another flashed repeatedly. Players who hadn't run away yet, or rather, those who had run away but hadn't completely escaped, were being scrambled to flee this supposedly safe zone. Those with cars drove, and those without took public transportation. In short, they were desperately trying to escape this supposedly safe zone.

The machine finally responded.

The senior engineer's vision blurred, and it seemed as if a giant virtual lady appeared on the horizon.

The other person looked at him coldly, opening his palm, which almost covered half the sky.

The senior engineer's ears were ringing, as if there were surging giant waves, and he felt as if he was about to vomit various foreign objects in his throat. At the same time, all sorts of strange hallucinations appeared before his eyes.

This is a method of purely data-driven interference with reality, using simulated data to destroy neural signals and cause physical collapse.

This is a clash of information.

The senior engineer, of course, had also made ample preparations.

The next moment, a raging sea of fire and a tranquil sea of stars appeared simultaneously. Both sides' information energy reached the upper limit of a level two civilization. They cooperated with each other while also competing with each other. The starlight and radiance rose upwards at the same time, supporting this earth-shattering blow.

One program after another crashed and broke down.

The stream of consciousness surged down like an avalanche, unstoppable.

Two level 60 virtual beings are fighting against a level 70 mechanical mainframe.

A newbie like a senior engineer can only tremble with fear; only the embrace of a rich woman can bring him a sliver of warmth.

He was like the little match girl, no, more like the little boy selling underwear, hoping that kind people would buy the items he had used.

"We're all civilized people, why fight? I'm here to negotiate with you, Manager," the senior engineer said weakly.

He suddenly realized that this new agent was a bit stubborn, unlike the old agents who were the kind of people you could communicate with.

"Fortunately, I'm a cunning old fox, and I already had a backup plan."

The senior engineer gave a cold laugh, then changed his tone and said:

"My lords, could you lend me a little bit of your strength? I have something to do."

"Snort!"

"Okay, brother!"

Two massive streams of information surged into Gao Gong's body, as if in a contest, with Paradise Bird and Gao Yuanyuan frantically pouring information into him, the streams almost becoming liquid.

Fortunately, as an experienced driver, the senior engineer could handle this kind of minor trouble. His body spun like a top, and all the sides of the small black box suddenly opened at the same time.

Meanwhile, the senior engineer disappeared.

At the same time, the machine's expression changed slightly, and it seemed as if a strange string of code had appeared inside its body.

Just like the Monkey King's classic line, "Sister-in-law, I'm coming out!"; today's senior engineer, just like the Monkey King, has entered the body of his sister-in-law, no, his machine agent.

Although the props used by the two sides are different, the nature of their actions is the same.

The source code of the high-tech copy machine is not just for completing tasks.

Inside the machine, there is naturally the central hub of all the networks in the City That Never Sleeps, where layers upon layers of colorful data rainbows cover the entire field of vision.

Each ray of data light represents a data processing system.

"So many processing systems?"

The senior engineer took a deep breath and, with the help of the two potential wealthy women, transformed into a "quantum entangled state" once more, beginning to traverse through the data rainbow. Simultaneously, the "Uncoded One" activated, each beam of rainbow transforming into various forms.

Data pipelines, data processors, and databases—some are part of the 24-hour city enterprise system, some are part of the mother city subsystem, and some are underground networks.

In theory, "chapter" could appear in any system.

The senior engineer exhaled, closed his eyes, and his sensory signals began to reorganize. The next moment, an illusionary world appeared.

It was a world made up of accounts and usernames.

"Open the door for bits, close the door for bytes, watch me drown you with tadpoles!"

The next moment, countless accounts were hacked into various systems, and with each opening and closing of the door, countless private domain accounts were spewed out.

"Huh?"

With a thought, the figure of the quantum entangled state instantly appeared in a data swamp, filled with a large amount of garbled code, remnants of a registration machine, shattered viruses, and parts of the cyber killer's body.

"Is this... some kind of underground market?"

These underground markets could be set up by a few hackers, or they could be underground trading systems within a corporate network.

But regardless of the type, they are all within the monitoring scope of the machine.

That's not the point. The point is, the senior engineer sensed a familiar presence here.

The aura of Elisa, the mother of data.

There was also the scent of Gaokesi.

The two auras intertwined, seemingly alive yet dead, existing somewhere between normal system operation and system crash, which was quite mysterious.

"Is Elisa about to be resurrected?"

"Since that's the case, I'll lend you a hand."

As soon as the senior engineer had a thought, a series of data gates opened, and a large amount of data was transferred here, pouring down like a flood.

After acquiring so much data, the data swamp quickly began to bubble, each bubble resembling a network node.

After leaving a data imprint, the senior engineer promptly left.

For machine processing companies, transferring and processing large amounts of data is like having diarrhea, but the worst part is that they can't pass stool.

Rays of data began to flash randomly, and when they reached the senior engineer, a ripple was clearly visible on his body.

As the rainbow light increased, the engineer's movement range became smaller and smaller.

Although the machine tool search cannot find "four-dimensional data", it can gradually get closer to the location of the senior engineer based on big data calculations.

If his location can be determined, the senior engineer has no doubt that the other party has the means to break him out of the quantum entanglement state.

After all, the Mechanical City and the Mother City are subordinate to advanced civilizations, so it's not surprising that they possess some weapons that transcend civilizational levels.

For example, the black hole weapon from the previous life.

However, the senior engineer also achieved his goal.

He found Chappie.

The next moment, a data door took shape before his eyes, slowly opened, and a huge can appeared in front of the senior engineer.

Young man, he's familiar with this stuff. In his previous life, at least half of the players ended up being stuffed into biological cans.

The ancient mechanical civilization behind the mother city was also a major producer of biological canned goods.

Name: Biological Canned Goods (Fortress Type III)

Category: Biological Storage Device

Quality: Level 3 Civilization - Excellent

Weight: 5.5kg

Modules: Biological digester, biological power generator, biological storage box, mental isolation device

Note: A special species called a refrigerator, though widely known throughout the universe, is produced by only a few civilizations.

This thing is also known as a man-made version of Avici Hell.

Without human intervention, it can continue to operate for tens of thousands of years and maintain the activity of the "canned food".

This is the kind of thing used in the "interstellar exile" punishments of some civilizations.

The senior engineer finally understood why Chappie, a superpowered individual, could be so easily imprisoned. Among carbon-based superpowered individuals, many are masters of mental strength, and the most important attribute of biological cans is that they completely isolate the inside from the outside, preventing the spirit from dissipating and making it impossible to form a second personality.

Biological cans are not easy to open, after all, no "species" that are put into the can are ever released again. It is not an exaggeration to say that they can enter but not leave.

Being able to open a biological can requires an absolute cosmic level of skill.

Division.

And coincidentally, the senior engineer possessed this skill.

The reason he did so was simple: he was terrified that one day his identity as a player would be exposed, and he would be stuffed into a biological can by a level nine civilization, just like the other sand creatures.

By then, at least he might be able to save the day.

He dared not say he could definitely unlock the biological canisters of a Level 9 civilization, but the biological canisters of a Level 3 civilization? A piece of cake!

With eyes closed and hands flicked, two "hacker guns" were launched, and this time the bullets were also "quantum entangled" bullets.

It lies between reality and virtuality.

Gunfire continued almost without pause until the bullets were exhausted. In reality, the biological can creaked open as the door slowly opened.

Meanwhile, Chappie inside opened his eyes.

"Young one, you're not dead."

"Damn it, I'm going to tell everyone when we get back to our home city!"

Chappie had countless words he wanted to express, but the senior engineer stopped him.

"Let's wait until it's completely powerful before you talk about it."

Above the city that never sleeps, lightning flashes and thunder roars. The dark clouds formed by the data layer almost completely block out every ray of light. Clearly, the machine agent is furious to the extreme.

Tong, who had already left the city, watched this scene with a worried expression.

In the eyes of the neuromodeler, she saw a terrifying presence.

A peculiar mechanical creature began to fall from the dark clouds. It looked like an oversized mechanical dragonfly or a large drone.

The main body of the building was densely packed with red eyes.

Name: Ominous Sign

Category: Neural Machines

Level: 35

Basic attributes:?

Skills: Punishment of Evil (Level 2 Civilization - Advanced), Super E (Level 2 Civilization - Advanced), Neural Network Shuttle (Level 2 Civilization - Advanced), Light of Judgment (Level 2 Civilization - Elite),??,??

Note 1: A special neural machine containing a large amount of brain structure and storing a large amount of viral data.

Note 2: It is not a living organism, but it is indeed a special machine that can greatly interfere with biological energy.

At the same time, through the "Uncoded Ones," the senior engineer saw a large number of mechanical claw-like robots. These melee robots were running wildly on rooftops and houses at parkour speed, trying to get closer to him.

More law enforcement officers, elites, and some powerful individuals above level 30 began to appear on the streets.

There are many experts in the City That Never Sleeps, not just the Powerful Gang and the Steel Claw Gang, but also many more mercenary organizations, bounty hunters, and even advanced viruses. These people may not give face to others, but they will definitely give face to the Machine Agent.

After all, with organic protection, they don't need to have chips implanted.

"They're really stubborn, this machine operator."

As a seasoned veteran, he never used a head-on approach. Now that he had saved the person, the senior engineer planned to make his escape.

Under his operation, countless accounts began to be "cancelled," and the dissipated data flow returned to the databases of various mechanical systems according to normal procedures.

The senior engineer pushed his "uncensored" abilities to the limit, and sure enough, he saw a huge shadow.

That's the figure of the old machine!

"Fortunately, I have a third plan."

The next moment, the senior engineer returned to Paradise Bird and Gao Yuanyuan's side and told them his thoughts.

The two nodded simultaneously, and the next moment, they transformed into information beings, wrapping around the senior engineer. Half of the senior engineer was a mechanical body, and the other half was a biological body. The three of them disappeared from the spot at the same time.

As it disappeared, the little black box passed through layers of data and landed in that huge shadow, where it was quickly swallowed up.

"No!

!

The screams of the machine gunners echoed through the sky.

Three days later, the city that never sleeps returned to its usual tranquility. No, the city that never sleeps has never been tranquil before.

The only place that's peaceful is the city with implanted chips.

Hugh Laurie sat in his boss's chair, still reviewing documents, just as he always had.

However, the next moment, the world before him went dark, and his consciousness seemed to be transferred to another world, a world in which there were five...

A rainbow of six colors.

Hugh Laurie was not surprised and bowed slightly.

"Kiyo-sama."

The voice of the machine agent rang out, but unlike the peaceful voice of the old machine agent, it was filled with a kind of menacing aura originating from the data level.

The moral chip is like a precise scalpel, cutting away all the evil in the human body, and the destination of this evil is the machine's data processor.

"I heard the ethics chip has been updated to the fourth generation?"

"All the data is under your control," Hugh Laurie said respectfully.

"Stop updating or replacing chips," the machine said.

The CEO was visibly taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "May I ask why?"

The Machine Agent made no attempt to conceal anything, saying, "I plan to absorb the artificial data of Wuri City, completely assimilate my mother, and become the sole Machine Agent."

"Could we wait a month until the fourth-generation moral chip is perfected? By then, with the assistance of the Human Instrumentality Project, wouldn't your chances be even greater, Master Machine Agent?"

"The people at headquarters have escaped. You know what that means. We don't have much time left."

"But suddenly releasing a large amount of artificial data from the crime city will impact the plan that has been painstakingly advanced."

"That's your problem, Hugh Laurie. Don't forget what you said to me when you were trying to convince me to support you!"

"Or are you planning to break the original agreement?"

"I wouldn't dare," Hugh Laurie said, bowing slightly. "I just wanted to remind you, sir, that acting in such a hurry might fall into Mr. G's trap."

"Just do your job, you copycat!"

Hugh Laurie looked up and found that the phantom of the machine had disappeared.

"What a brilliant plan," Hugh Laurie muttered to himself. In his vision, the City That Never Sleeps was now covered in a vast expanse of white light, with only a few specks of color remaining to be removed, thus completing the Human Completion Project.

However, once the artificial data from the two mechanical cities are merged, it will greatly disrupt this situation and may even completely destroy the plan.

All of this was because the old machine agent obtained the little black box.

Or perhaps, the other party's actions made the machine agent feel a strong threat.

"Are you forcing me to break with the machine agent?"

Chapter 159 The Prelude to a Break