Capturing a Warship (Part One)

Powerful organisms are capable of sensing danger.

But when the enemy is outside the atmosphere, even a senior engineer wouldn't know that a group of mechanical thieves has his eye on him. In fact, after dialing a number, the senior engineer didn't leave Arasaka Tower, but instead booked a room, seemingly waiting for something.

A moment later, a virtual projection suddenly appeared—a holographic image of a waitress. The 'waitress' smiled and said:

"Sir, what would you like to order first?"

"I don't think I ordered room service, did I?" the senior engineer asked, raising his eyebrows.

"No, there isn't any," the waitress's image suddenly started flickering, her smile became pixelated, the picture became increasingly blurry, and even the lights flickered, like a classic scene from a horror movie.

However, the light did not disappear; instead, it suddenly became extremely bright, illuminating the entire room. The blinding light forced the engineer to shield his eyes from the light. After the light dimmed slightly, an aged voice rang out.

"Did you succeed?"

An elderly man appeared before us. He had little hair, with a bald patch in the middle, but upon closer inspection, the white hairs sticking up on both sides were all thin, long nerve wires.

The old man before me is none other than the infamous enemy of the corporation, former head of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, Aramaki.

"You actually came in person!" The senior engineer was somewhat surprised.

The reason is simple: most super artificial intelligence is basically in mainframe mode. That is to say, its main body is a huge computing center hidden in a place unknown to anyone, and it only drives a series of clones to deal with problems.

But the one before them was undoubtedly the real body, because the powerful signal he emitted could only be generated by the real body. His aura alone seemed capable of turning reality into a virtual space.

"Have you found the person behind this?" Aramaki continued to ask.

The senior engineer nodded, then shook his head, and finally shrugged, saying, "Go see for yourself."

The senior engineer stretched out his palm, which began to split open, revealing an additional insertion point. Without further ado, Huang Juan flicked his hand, and several nerve threads were inserted into it.

The next moment, a large amount of encrypted data flashed in both of their eyes, and that huge, strange data collection under the cosmic starry sky was also loaded.

"Ah--"

Huang Juan clutched his head, the electronic eyes clicking away, and sparks flew from the back of his head.

The existence of a "memory matrix" is destined to be the nemesis of artificial intelligence. Even a single image can cause serious information interference to the other party.

Finally, as an electronic eye exploded, Aragaki came to his senses, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes. Cosmic information monsters, hidden Adventists, information pollution—this was far beyond his expectations.

"No wonder, no wonder every time I got closer to the truth, the enemy either went mad or mysteriously disappeared. I originally thought it was a tightly organized force with single-line communication and the ability to eliminate traitors at any time. But I never expected that they were a group of people who didn't even know they were infected, or rather, seemingly normal madmen!"

"You're right. In a sense, the Adventists are a bunch of madmen, and madmen who act solely on instinct."

"You mean, that powerful information entity doesn't seem to have fully awakened yet?" Aragaki's intuition was quite sharp, and he uttered the engineer's implied meaning in one sentence.

The senior engineer didn't speak, but nodded.

Aragaki fell silent for a long while before letting out a long sigh, "Our enemy is more powerful than we can imagine."

As a fellow information-based life form, Aragaki, this super AI, is best able to understand the terror of the 'Memory Mother'. He even suspects that even if the Mother City were to intervene, it would be ineffective in preventing the other party's information contamination.

"I must remind Deep Web Lady!"

Arakawa left in a hurry, knowing full well that he could not possibly stop such a powerful monster on his own; only the Mother City could protect this planet.

The senior engineer was also curious about what DeepWeb would do if it knew about the "Cyber Tide" in advance.

But whatever she does, the planetary storyline, following the inertia of history, has begun to change little by little.

"All done, time to go home."

"Sister Du, according to our satellite system, we have located Mr. G's position, and he is moving in our direction."

In Dugo Technologies's laboratory, the secretary is reporting to Director Du.

"Oh, you're back?" Director Du stood in front of the control panel, constantly manipulating the robotic arm to adjust the large mech in front of her, without turning her head. But only those who knew her well knew that Director Du was happy.

"However, there's some bad news," Secretary Bean Sprout hesitated for a moment before saying, "It seems that besides us, there are others also monitoring Mr. G."

"Surveillance?"

Director Du turned his head, frowned, took the "pen" from Douya's hand, and tapped it lightly. The next moment, a projection of a communication satellite deployed in low Earth orbit appeared.

As a company moving towards becoming a large military organization, having its own satellite monitoring system is a necessity. In fact, a prerequisite for participating in the global corporate war is having its own military satellites.

Dugo Technologies's satellite system was purchased from its partner, Mas. The system, named "Tianji," consists of 30 military communication satellites. It can provide all-weather, all-around monitoring coverage of the entire planet and has powerful signal jamming and counter-monitoring capabilities.

The image shows that, in the engineer's coordinate system, there is a coordinate system of the same type, which is at the height of the radiation layer and is synchronized with it.

"Notify the senior engineer and also notify the hacker team to hack the signal. Let's see who has the guts to mess with my people!" Director Du said coldly.

Three minutes later, Douya pressed the earpiece under her artificial skin and whispered, "Sister Du, the hacking failed. The other side seems to have a very strong signal defense system, and we can't synchronize with their signal."

"This level of signal defense system is usually only installed in the headquarters of level four enterprises," Director Du muttered to himself, then suddenly remembered where the senior engineer was going and his expression changed.

"No, there's another type of weapon that also possesses this level of defense system: starships, Cybertron's mechanical warships!"

"Sister Du, Mr. Gao's signal has been connected!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a holographic projection flashed out, showing the senior engineer, who chuckled and said:

"Director Du, it's only been a few days, and you already miss me that much?"

"Are you aware you're being followed? It's most likely a Cybertronian warship. What exactly did you do in the Mother City?"

"Cybertron, tracking?"

The senior engineer paused for a moment, then subconsciously glanced at the gloomy sky, but unsurprisingly saw nothing.

Could it be that his trickery was discovered? Impossible, he cleaned up the mess very well.

"Director Du, are you sure it's warships? How many warships?"

"Based on the hacking results of our hacking team, there is only one large signal defense system, initially estimated to be one ship."

Director Du's hands moved rapidly across the holographic screen:

"Now I'll give you some coordinates. These are all places with high population density. As long as you go to these places in a short time, you won't be targeted."

Without a doubt, Director Du's point of view is reliable. No matter which mother city it is, there is an ironclad rule: do not interfere with the experiment, especially destroy a large amount of 'experimental data'. As long as the senior engineer runs to these places with a lot of people, he at least doesn't have to worry about being killed by a sudden attack.

Cybertronian warships are designed for space warfare and are products of a Type III civilization. Their damage is close to that of "civilizational weapons," meaning they can inflict at least hundreds of thousands of damage. If an engineer is unlucky, he could be instantly killed.

However, after pondering for a moment, the senior engineer slowly shook his head, rejecting the suggestion and instead proposing another unbelievable method.

"You want to capture this warship, a Cybertronian warship!?" Looking at the senior engineer's projection, Director Du's mouth opened wide in an adorable way, his expression unusually out of control.

Do you know what you're doing?

"Of course I know this is going against Cybertron," the senior engineer said meaningfully, "But I also know that once the corporate war begins, Cybertron won't have time to bother us."