The Main Brain G

If the senior engineer remembers correctly, his last nightmare-level mission was to stop a beast tide.

I almost killed myself.

This time it was another nightmare, but a different kind of nightmare.

[Mission: The Tide of Laughter]

Difficulty: Nightmare

Mission Briefing: Between giant corporations and the streets, neon lights flicker. Each ray of light represents either sealed or distorted humanity. Monopolists roar, utopia has risen from the earth—a paradise of thoughtless gods, or perhaps dark humor?

Mission Objective: The Pale Knights are dispatched; let their howls fill the city.

Determining the winner:

Success conditions: 1. Suppress the will of the giant - the White Angel; 2. Suppress the mechanical mainframe and disrupt the moral chip implantation plan.

Failure conditions: 1. The Azure Angel devours the Machine Generation, transforming into the will of the World Enterprise; 2. The old and new Machine Generations merge, advancing to a Level 5 Main Brain.

Task Reward 1:

Your faction receives a "Bat of Laughter" chip implanted, granting +1000 experience.

For each "Laughing Infected" infected in your faction, you gain 100 experience points.

For each virtual executive captured by your faction, you gain 10,000 experience points.

Killing a high-ranking member of the law enforcement department grants +30,000 experience and +1,000 reputation.

Task Reward Two:

Mechanical Puzzle Fragment*1, Specialization Points*4, Skill Points*5, Lottery Chances*5, Mechanical Puzzle Fragment*2

Task Reward 3:

Original timeline changed by 2%, Mechanical City reputation +8000, one professional knowledge chain.

Task Reward Four:

Faction Points +10000

The city that never sleeps was swallowed up by the beast tide at its peak.

Now that the beast tide is gone, a tide of natural disasters has appeared.

The senior engineer replaced the role of the "Knights," which is quite fitting in a way.

Moreover, the rewards for this "nightmare-level" mission are significantly higher than the previous one.

For senior engineers, a single "professional knowledge chain" is worth more than all the rewards from the previous task.

This actually makes sense—because this is a cyber testing ground.

In the cyber test site, dealing with corporations is much more difficult than dealing with the army of radioactive beasts.

In cyberpunk-style games, movies, and novels, there is often an ending where the core of a giant corporation that you painstakingly destroyed turns out to be just a branch, or the CEO of a company whose president you killed with great difficulty turned out to be just an avatar, and the real mastermind is someone else.

Players who progress through the later stages of the planet's storyline will deeply appreciate this point.

Essentially, shutting down a company is equivalent to suppressing a technological path, which is far beyond what can be accomplished by force.

Even if the senior engineer is now level 90 and can suppress the mainframe's mechanical army and the army of law enforcement officers purely by force, punching the machine generation and kicking the illusory building, the other side can solve the problem with just one enterprise's data upload.

You can't just tear the cyber network apart.

At least level 90 cannot do this.

Therefore, the only way to fight against a company is to use products to compete with products, big data to compete with big data, and corporate will to compete with corporate will.

The senior engineer treats the players as products, using the characteristics of the "Super Brain Civilization" to simulate big data, while he himself plays the role of the corporate will.

The last point is the most difficult.

Fortunately, this "corporate war" is a bit special.

As a large amount of white light appeared, the sky also began to become 'covered with dark clouds'.

This phenomenon is actually caused by the "mechanical brain" activating the entire mechanical city's mechanical system, resulting in the ejection of "energy waste."

This indicates that the machine generation also sensed something was wrong and started competing with the other party for computing power.

'Bang' 'Bang' 'Bang' 'Bang'

On the road, pedestrians were shot in the head without warning, their brains splattered all over the ground.

When it comes to headshots, players and NPCs are treated equally.

One after another, "missile silos" opened, and a large number of mechanical eyes gushed out. Hundreds of thousands of "mechanical flies" swarmed everywhere, surrounding the illusory building so tightly that it was impossible to breathe.

A series of sharp, whistling sounds, the result of countless metals rubbing together, rang out in an instant.

In a building with hundreds of floors, the bulletproof glass shattered almost simultaneously.

Hugh Laurie!

!

This domineering CEO with gold-rimmed glasses seemed to have anticipated this scene, letting the giant hand formed by the mechanical eyeliner break through the supporting pillars, crush the floors, and grab it.

Looking out, it was as if the god of machinery had reached out a hand from the dark clouds and squeezed a huge hole in the building.

Hugh Laurie was pulled into the dark cloud, where the violent radiation instantly rotted his body. All his hair fell out, his skin wrinkled, and numerous pustules emerged.

Until I was pulled in front of a red eyeball.

A violent mechanical roar erupted.

"You betrayed me!?"

Hugh Laurie smiled slightly, though his lips soon turned to thick saliva.

"Everything is proceeding according to your plan: the ethical chip, the Human Instrumentality Project, the next phase of the mainframe advancement. Our company has no intention of disobeying you."

"Then why are you trying to steal my computing power, and at this particular time!"

The domineering CEO's entire skeleton was also crushed. In addition to the fractures in the bones, there were also shattered electronic components, especially in the skull area, where there was a series of chip sockets.

Hugh Laurie's voice disappeared, replaced by a frenetic electronic sound.

"We are merely assisting your plan. After all, in the final step of the plan, all living beings on earth will belong to you—this naturally includes us."

"Angels, of course, must serve before the Lord."

Hugh Laurie's body was crushed, but beams of white light shot out from between his fingers. Each beam was a phenomenon of a large number of algorithms condensed to the extreme. These beams of white light frantically pierced into the body of the mechanical main brain and began to assimilate it.

Human Completion!

The mastermind is complete!

Ji Dai never expected that the other party would be completely unconcerned about her death, and even use her as bait to lure her over.

Its purpose is precisely to let the will of the enterprise devour itself.

"After I die, angels will descend upon the earth."

The next moment, tens of thousands of employees in the virtual building simultaneously had white light appear in their eyes.

The simulated data of the city that never sleeps begins to materialize, and a large number of white threads begin to appear in the air, from human brain to human brain, from data node to data node.

"To suddenly strike from behind while the two female protagonists are entangled in a passionate embrace, isn't that a kind of NTR?" the senior engineer muttered to himself.

However, for someone like Gao who is familiar with the plot, this is a highly likely scenario.

But for players, it's a completely different story!

At this moment, players probably only have three thoughts in their minds.

"Holy crap, a cutscene suddenly appeared!"

"Holy crap, the cutscene is randomly killing people!"

"Holy crap, I'm getting a feeling of kidney deficiency. I hope I don't get disconnected."

Many players suddenly disconnected while walking around.

The extraction of computing power does not distinguish between players and NPCs.

The combined computing power of tens of millions of people, during this period, was equivalent to the computing power of a mother city.

The senior engineer looked towards the direction of Wuri City, where streaks of black light pierced through cyberspace and entered the mechanical city.

The machine dealership cannot simply surrender; it must accelerate the process of absorbing the old machine dealership and, after absorbing it, suppress the will of the enterprise.

"Everything turned out exactly as you predicted!"

Data was transmitted at the speed of light, and "No Speaker" appeared behind the senior engineer almost instantly.

At this moment, the former mechanical mastermind stared at the sky in shock, and then looked at the senior engineer's back with even greater shock.

New generation of pressurizers, old generation of pressurizers

Corporate will forcibly devours the machine generation

Even the counterattack from the new generation of machines pulled it over.

Everything was within the other party's calculations.

"Give me a hand, let me borrow a shell company."

Speaker Wu gave a wry smile. Did he have a choice now?

If a company's will prevails, it is doomed to perish.

If the new generation wins, it will also be suppressed, and its source code will become a stepping stone for the opponent's advancement.

"I hope you can do what you want to do!"

In the gallery of the City Without Suns, all the paintings began to melt.

Although the mechanical mainframe "No Speaker" has long been defunct, its "remaining existence" can play a crucial role at certain times.

For example, right now!

Reality vanished, and the senior engineer felt as if he had fallen into a code abyss.

Surrounded by endless data, programs, and system code, even with all his "hacker traits" activated, the senior engineer still felt suffocated.

Is this the legendary programmer's hell?

There is no interval between body, time, programming, and suffering.

"Yuanyuan!"

"Brother, I understand!"

The next moment, half of Gao Yuanyuan's power merged with Gao Gong's, and countless hyperlinks emerged from Gao Gong's body, forming a series of 'website portals'.

Websites and URLs flashed by in the engineer's ears. With each door he passed through, the engineer felt as if he were getting closer to the "abyss".

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Finally, with the help of his younger sister, the senior engineer arrived at the bottom of the abyss.

It was a massive mechanical hub deeply embedded in the '9-3 Guanzhong Plate', with countless pipes extending from it to the surface.

The area alone is terrifying, equivalent to almost half of the city that never sleeps. The mechanical energy is even more terrifying, approaching 100 million.

Of course, this includes all the enterprises, factories, and production bases within the machinery city.

"There's not much I can help you with. Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Enough with the nonsense."

The senior engineer took a deep breath, and the next moment, countless data doors sprang up from the ground, and resource locators danced wildly.

"Alright then, I can activate my main brain's central processing unit."

The next moment, the mechanical hub beneath the engineer's feet disappeared.

Instead, there was a huge, seemingly endless iron gate, and on its surface were servers, processors, and all sorts of computing units.

In the engineer's ears, it seemed as if he could hear the roar of thousands of radiators.

"Don't lose sight of the source of the data," the Speaker warned finally.

The senior engineer's figure slowly sank, and in the end, he calmly said:

"I will not lose my way, for I myself am the source!"

The senior engineer has disappeared.

In the City That Never Sleeps, strange code instructions are issued from the mechanical mainframe, traveling from a civilian server to a public data center, and then to a corporate database.

The next time the senior engineer reappears, he will no longer be Mr. G—but rather the mechanical brain, G.