Starting as a Mechanical Hunter
Chapter 360

God of the Cyberfolk

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Although the City Council is jokingly referred to as a business association, basically every councilor has the backing of one or even several companies. There are too many people who engage in full-blown brawls in the council chamber for the benefit of their respective companies.

However, once a bill is passed, its execution is very fast because the executors are cold and ruthless machines. They can execute every proposal in the parliament without any discount, no matter how unreliable or inhumane the proposal may seem.

AI has humanity, robots don't.

Soon, wherever the physical bodies of the various cybernetic races reside, it could be a morgue, an abandoned underground tunnel, an air-raid shelter, or even an ancient parking lot.

The raging fire began to burn wildly.

A massacre of tens of millions of people!

In this frenzied and progressive era, the number of cyber people is enormous, accounting for a quarter of the population of the City That Never Sleeps, and that's just the publicly known figure.

Those who, for various reasons, were unable to keep up with the times became the outcasts of that era.

The only reason they survived was the dreamlike, illusory world.

Drug trials, human modification, and moral shifts can all happen at any time in this uncertain world, but the world of anime and manga will never change.

In the eyes of these people, illusion becomes reality, and reality becomes illusion.

So when the moral chips were implanted on a large scale, no one expected that the most vehement resistance would come not from gang members or corporate giants, but from these shut-ins.

Since we can't eliminate you on a spiritual level, we'll have to deal with you on a physical level.

Inside a morgue, a raging fire was burning fiercely, and the smell of burning from the Maillard reaction mixed with thick smoke, just like a kitchen on fire.

Although cyber forces are fiercely resisting online, including but not limited to private network nodes, mindshare domains, and storing taboo data in memory.

But in reality, they are powerless to fight back.

A stream of thought data rapidly took shape amidst the flames, condensing into the senior engineer's 'quantum entangled state.' Frowning as he watched this scene, he flicked his hands repeatedly, and soon, a large amount of chaotic data began to converge into his palms, and one after another, phantom images of two-dimensional girls appeared.

It's clear that many cybernetic enthusiasts would rather suffer a personality breakdown than not protect their two-dimensional waifus.

They were well protected.

"I don't understand why you're going to all this trouble. I didn't think you were the kind of person who would offer cheap sympathy," the bird of paradise's voice rang out.

It's clear that she strongly disagrees with the senior engineer's behavior.

"Compassion, if used well, is not cheap."

After absorbing all the Cyber race data, the senior engineer moved and disappeared from reality as if traversing the void.

Almost immediately, a violent white wave surged in, but nothing was found.

When a person is about to die, the data collapses.

What the senior engineer did was to collect this data in those fractions of a second.

Then they ran away quickly.

From a network perspective, the entire regional network of the city that never sleeps is now completely clean, not only cracking down on pornography, but also on perverts.

In fact, the senior engineer did take a certain risk by sneaking in.

The code for a Type III civilization is an energy code, while the code for a Type IV civilization is a four-dimensional code, which is a quantum entangled state.

For the cyber test field of planetary units, this means that in most areas, one can move around freely.

But this does not include Mechanical City.

As his appearances became more frequent, a strange sense of threat grew stronger.

The senior engineer was certain that the machine agent must have obtained some kind of "divine artifact" from the mother city—something specifically designed to deal with him.

Although their development directions are different, in the virtual realm, the ancient mechanical civilization behind the mother city may not actually possess more advanced knowledge than itself.

However, the gap in hard power is obvious.

A Type VI civilization is a galaxy cluster-level civilization, a group with hundreds of galaxies, equivalent to a hundred times the size of a galaxy-level civilization.

As a supercluster civilization, a Type 7 civilization is also a hundred times larger than a high-level civilization at its peak, even on a purely cosmic scale.

To defend such a vast cosmic territory, no means of means is sufficient.

The more ancient a civilization is, the more treasures it holds, a point that the senior engineer has a deep understanding of.

So apart from rescuing people, the senior engineer basically didn't appear on the Never-Night City network during this period.

Just wandering around the vicinity of the local area network.

It wasn't that he gained nothing at all; to his surprise, he discovered that he wasn't the only one who saved the Cyber race.

On a "flying machine" drifting in the sea of data, Gao Gong, Paradise Bird, and Gao Yuanyuan were sitting.

The bird of paradise would occasionally rub the handrails and windows, like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world before. However, with her touch, all these decorations turned into strange data.

Seeing this, the senior engineer smiled and said, "Don't worry, the methods I used are beyond the detection of the planet's mainframe."

Teach me!

Before the senior engineer could speak, Gao Yuanyuan blurted out, "Yes, but there will be tuition fees."

The bird of paradise narrowed its eyes, and after a long while, it snorted coldly and stopped talking.

The atmosphere was a bit strange.

The senior engineer coughed lightly, about to say something, when Gao Yuanyuan pinched his cheek. Gao Yuanyuan's eyes lit up, her voice sweet but with a hint of perversion. "It's the first time I've seen what you look like in cyberspace, brother. You're so handsome~"

Oh no, this woman has seen the beauty of my Rich Lady Aiai Prototype.

This is quite remarkable; will this filial piety not have gone astray?

The senior engineer quickly killed his sister to prove his Dao—no, he should have taken Gao Yuanyuan's little hand. Wait, why is there another one? Turning his head, he saw that the Bird of Paradise had a cold expression, but its palm was pinching the left cheek of the Rich Lady Aiai Prototype, and its palm was even trending downwards.

Oh no, he forgot this woman has a serious thing for young boys. He felt that if this continued, she might lose her virginity. So he chuckled dryly and said:

"You all stay here, I'm going to see someone."

As soon as the conversation turned serious, the two girls immediately became solemn. Gao Yuanyuan asked worriedly, "Brother, are you going alone? Don't you need me to come with you?"

"Don't worry, we won't enter the Never-Sleeping City network this time. Besides, I have a rough idea of what they're using to track me. Your forces are too strong; going there would only make it easier for you to get caught."

"Okay, then be careful, brother."

The senior engineer nodded, lightly tapped his foot, and the aircraft began to fade and disappear. The next moment, he fell into cyberspace.

The three features, "Virtual Proof," "Top-Tier Programming," and "Human Brain Maverick," have been activated.

The senior engineer suddenly gained the vision and capabilities of AI.

The senior engineer used the knowledge 'Electronic Hacker's Handbook'.

In the profession of Cyber Hacker, all knowledge is equivalent to ability.

The key is whether you know how to use it.

[Electronic Cowboy Handbook] lv10: Data flow is your reins, information flow is your trail, and emulation devices are your racehorses. In the cyber world, you will gallop freely.

The world suddenly looked different to the senior engineer.

In reality, a box of holographic equipment was being delivered to the city that never sleeps when a holographic projection suddenly turned on, revealing not only countless naked beauties but also an option for an incredibly cute young boy.

A household android was sweeping the floor when suddenly, electronic lights flashed several times in its eyes.

On the mechanical eyeline flying in the sky, the Rich Lady Aiai Prototype flashed by in the electronic eyeball.

In a television broadcast, the figure of a boy flashed by.

Cyberspace does not exist out of thin air. Every living person is a miniature signal station, and various simulated devices and access devices are the infrastructure of cyberspace. After data transformation, it becomes a colorful and ever-changing cyberspace.

As he ran, a flash of mosaic light appeared in the engineer's eyes, and at the same time, two golden Desert Eagles appeared in his hands.

The "Uncensored Ones" and "Hacker Gunners" are activated.

Gunshots rang out, hitting one "artificial node" after another. The data converted from human hormones was transformed into temporary hyperlink protocols under the micro-management of the senior engineer.

The senior engineer surfs through a network of human bodies.

Various kinds of sensory and conversion devices are like a well-built highway.

The data components of the human body are the most complex, like a narrow, winding path.

Only senior engineers can continuously open backdoors in the "humanoid data station" to switch pages.

This requires not only top-level hacking skills, but also top-level biological knowledge.

[You have mastered the second-tier skill 'Human Surfing', attribute points +2, specialization points +2, skill points +5]

Human Surfing (Level 2-Advanced): The human body becomes a proxy server, and human hormones are transformed into server data. You can achieve supersonic speeds between individual human connections; this lightning-fast switching of human accounts is something most hackers cannot do.

Note: Sophisticated hackers aren't scary; it's perverted hackers who are the most dangerous. They can not only manipulate your mind, but also make you secrete love hormones, loyalty hormones, and—surf your body, regardless of gender.

"Tsk tsk, what a pleasant surprise! I actually got a skill, and a second-tier one at that, a biology-based and hacking-based skill. Seems promising."

Biological transformation belongs to the category of carbon-based species, while hacking skills belong to the information sea.

Initially, the senior engineer firmly believed in the carbon-based + mechanical route because the most powerful and terrifying civilization in the universe followed this route, so it was only natural for him to copy, no, to borrow from it.

However, it seems certain that he will take this path. But he can combine his knowledge from his previous life with mechanical and carbon-based skills, and who knows, he might come up with a serious skill like "human surfing".

Thanks to his "human surfing" ability, even top hackers can't match his speed in switching between pages. After all, they take the main roads, which are crowded and noisy, and there might even be cyber assassins checking them. He, on the other hand, takes the narrow, clean, and hygienic paths.

The senior engineer quickly found the target he was looking for.

It was a corporate communication pipeline through which large amounts of encrypted corporate data traveled from the city that never sleeps to the outside world.

At this moment, one after another, Blackwing Assassins descended from the void and began to surround and kill their target.

Although Blackwing Assassins are only the lowest-level cyber killers, they are still more effective than ordinary antivirus software. However, even ten Blackwing Assassins working together could not take down their target.

Their opponent was a typical nerd, with messy hair, beer-cap glasses, and slightly protruding hair.

The fact that such an image can still be created after the reconstruction of the mimicry data shows that this person's "otaku" tendencies have reached unprecedented levels.

However, this was somewhat beyond the senior engineer's expectations.

In his mind, due to the constant injection of drugs or experimental modifications to their bodies in reality, the bodies of cyber races have long since lost their human form. Therefore, under his strong obsession, their image in cyberspace often undergoes a 180-degree transformation—equivalent to a handsome guy in an otome game.

The senior engineer also developed a series of "handsome guy accounts" between different races, which sold quite well in the cosmic network.

Although his reputation plummeted by a full 10,000 points later due to the large number of victims.

But the ability to maintain a 'realistic image' in cyberspace illustrates two things.

The first thing is that, as a cybernetic, all the aftereffects of his real-world modifications have been cured.

The second thing is that his perception level has broken through to three digits.

Either way, it's all too amazing.

Unless--

The senior engineer narrowed his eyes and looked at the other person.

As expected, although the appearance of the cyber killer made this otaku a little flustered, he seemed to have anticipated this situation.

Streams of black data emerged from it, and whenever the data stream struck a cyber killer, the killer would collapse on the spot, turning into countless lines of code.

A true shut-in! The kind that can kill instantly.

Virus? Information weapon?

Soon, the senior engineer confirmed the other party's methods.

Religious code!

Moreover, it contains religious codes that lean towards cults.

"What the heck?"

The mosaic in the senior engineer's eyes grew thicker and thicker, quickly escalating from AV quality to a legal channel.

Meanwhile, the mosaic on the enemy's body gradually decreased, and they quickly transformed from cavalry into infantry.

"The Dark Otaku Bible?"

"That name sounds familiar."

As far as I can remember, this seems to be a free cracked software circulating among cybernetic users. It is said that the creator was a veteran hacker who went into the business world.

A trinity of personality, data flow, and cracked software.

Wouldn't that make him a god?

The senior engineer clicked his tongue in amazement. He never imagined that under the immense pressure of the machine generation, the cyber race of the City That Never Sleeps would actually produce a cyber god who possessed divinity.

The mark of divinity is the ability to control 'religious code', and also the ability to control such malevolent cybernetic code.

This kid has potential!

However, having potential is one thing, but with the continuous arrival of assassins, including the Red Wing Assassin, this new god is becoming somewhat unstoppable.

"Ahem, it's so lively here."

The senior engineer stepped out of the human body data and, under the gaze of all the men in sunglasses, took out a small spinning top.

"This tool is a lost treasure of the cloud-dwelling aristocracy!"

"Testing... Testing..."

"Target locked, 45% chance, it's the wanted hacker—the prototype."

The Rich Lady Aiai Prototype revealed a smile that could launch a thousand ships.

The next moment, the virtual realm was activated.

Virtual Realm: The virtual realm is the space in which many informational beings live. It is also a dimension beyond space and time, and can be called five-dimensional spacetime.

Amidst a shower of data light, the senior engineer grabbed Capsule Man H, and the two vanished instantly amidst the intertwining data.

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