Personal Data Encryption

The name "Soul Recognition Technology" sounds strange at first, much like the facial recognition technology of the old era.

Of course, in this era, let alone facial recognition, even personality recognition may not work, so soul recognition has emerged.

As it turns out, it's doing quite well, serving major corporations. With this identification technology, commercial spies, embedded personality software, Cyber Hacker, and information thieves are all exposed.

In the era of cyberpunk, soul recognition technology has become even more powerful. Once a soul has been identified and certified by the soul machine, it will control it. Soul Master, Personality Yama, Pale Death God—these are all nicknames for the future "Skull".

However, the current soul recognition technology is in a life-or-death crisis; in such a short time, no member of Skull and Bones can arrive nearby, and 'Skull' can only rely on himself.

"It's a very peculiar technology. We once tried to crack this small company's products, but strangely enough, we couldn't replicate them," Boss Huang chattered on.

"That only proves the incompetence of your science and technology department."

Copying ideas from small companies and then investing massive resources to iterate at a speed a hundred times faster than the small companies is a common practice for large corporations. However, this approach doesn't work on Skull and Bones members.

"Boss Huang" is the corporate representative of Confidential Electronics in charge of this corporate war. He's the bald guy covered in "graphics cards." Actually, to be more precise, they're not "graphics cards" but "computing cards." The former converts electronic information into graphics, while the latter converts it into "high-density information," which is more complex and has more variations.

At this moment, the shape on 'Boss Huang's' skin kept changing, sometimes it was a projection of war, sometimes it was the face of a brain-computer interface modifier, or sometimes it was a change in the virtual realm.

"Mr. G, what do you think?" 'Boss Huang' suddenly turned his head and asked Senior Engineer.

At this moment, the three giants had disembarked from their flagship and entered the mechanical hub of a mechanical city. There were a large number of "recognition machines" that resembled "mirrors". It was certain that this was an underground base of "Soul Recognition Technology", but it was still unclear whether it was a branch or the headquarters.

The three walked by, and their figures were reflected on the mirror.

"Perhaps you are just a branch on a technology tree," the senior engineer casually remarked.

Whether it's "classified electronics" or "soul recognition technology," in the senior engineer's view, they are actually just technological fields within the "artificial data space" of a Level 2 civilization.

The civilization of "artificial data space" is a rare type of Level 2 virtual civilization. Most Level 2 civilizations are either carbon-based or mechanical.

The ultimate goal of this civilization is to achieve the transformation of life forms, not the temporary transformation of cyberspace, but a permanent one, transforming "civilization members" into virtual life forms. Technologies such as consciousness uploading, brain-computer interface modification, and cyber networking are all part of its technology.

The "Electronic Brain Project" is also an information revolution at a certain stage.

After five or six such virtual revolutions, this civilization will reach its upper limit and can then advance to a higher level.

In the time-limited hellish quest, [Civilization Totem], the senior engineer must collect professional knowledge from all systems.

The senior engineer had already collected most of the knowledge about the other two civilizations. For example, he had collected five of the six knowledge systems of the "Brain Domain Civilization" and five and a half of the six knowledge systems of the "Modifier Civilization".

On the contrary, in the "artificial data space," he only collected one type, which was the "artificial neural network" that Sister Rose rewarded the little wolf dog with.

It's highly likely that behind the products of "Soul Recognition Technology" lies a knowledge chain of this civilization, which is why he chose to take action.

"Different branches on a technology tree, that's an interesting way to put it," said 'Boss Huang,' a chatterbox who never stopped talking. "I also tried to acquire shares in this small company, but unfortunately, the kid didn't know what was good for him."

"If you acquire it, you're just swallowing it whole," Dr. Manhattan sneered from the side.

"Hahaha... Your dry humor is as interesting as ever, Manhattan, no, fake Manhattan."

"Boss Huang" said with a smile.

Manhattan paused, glanced at the senior engineer in front of him, then turned to look at the "graphics card monster" beside him, a hint of confusion in his eyes. "W-what do you mean?"

"When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; when nothingness is taken for existence, even existence becomes nothingness. You certainly don't think you're a fake, right? But after listening to what I'm saying, you'll definitely think about it, but the more you think about it, the more something seems off. You don't have many memories of 'Manhattan,' and you probably have even fewer memories of me. This is not right for an old adversary."

"What did you do to me?!"

Manhattan was enraged, and blue, high-temperature flames erupted from his body. With a flick of the flames, the surrounding mirror surface shattered inch by inch. He grabbed Boss Huang and lifted him up. Manhattan was over two meters tall, while Boss Huang was only about 1.4 meters tall. Compared to him, Boss Huang was like a dwarf.

Flames engulfed 'Boss Huang's' features, burning away his skin and piercing his bones, but also making 'Boss Huang's' smile even wider.

"If the real 'Manhattan' were as easy to deal with as you, that would be wonderful."

Within the charred black hole of 'Boss Huang's' eye socket, 'Manhattan' seemed to realize something, his expression changed, and he quickly tried to let go. However, he then discovered that he could no longer let go at all. The out-of-control energy flames surged wildly into the other's body until the last flame was consumed, and 'Manhattan' was gone.

A charred, smoking humanoid figure, with most of its body showing bones, stood in place, talking to itself.

"Thank goodness, the card wasn't burned!"

The next moment, hundreds of 'calculation cards' on his body shot out in all directions and inserted into the slots of the mechanical mainframe.

'Bang,' 'Bang,' 'Bang,' 'Bang...'

One monitor after another turned on, one surveillance camera after another lit up, and even the unique "recognition machine" of "Soul Recognition Technology" was turned on again.

Soon, a holographic projection appeared, and the figure of "Boss Huang" reappeared. However, this time, the "Boss Huang" on the holographic projection was not covered with "graphics cards".

"Phew, these young people these days are dangerous. If you keep developing like this, will there still be room for us old guys in the Cyber Test Site?"

As soon as the holographic projection of "Boss Huang" swept his gaze across the screen, an "energy detection device" on the mainframe immediately activated.

The energy column surged wildly, operating at almost 100% power.

"Haha, as expected, Manhattan is trapped too."

During the corporate war, all the mechanical mainframes were in a dormant state, with virtually no energy consumption. But now, the power consumption of the mechanical mainframes is rising wildly, which can only mean one thing—"Boss Huang" has switched to the location of the mainframe engine. Sure enough, a blue fireball with a diameter of one kilometer is burning wildly, with flames spewing from the energy chamber as if it is about to burst out at any moment.

Most corporate executives are easy to kill but hard to kill, commonly known as "thin-blood monsters," but these two are not only hard to kill, but also extremely powerful fighters.

If it weren't for this, we wouldn't have gone with the senior engineer to capture the "enemy leader" when the battle was already decided.

Boss Huang stroked his chin and pondered for a moment:

"But it's really interesting. It's not about copying a personality or cloning a body, but about completely copying the original. If it weren't for my personal data encryption technology that prevented the other party from obtaining the memories, I'm afraid they would have succeeded."

"Boss Huang" looked at the senior engineer in front of him again. This Mr. G seemed completely unaware of the situation here and was still strolling around leisurely.

"It seems Mr. G has also been infected, but his situation appears to be different from ours."

The senior engineer was indeed infected.

In fact, ever since he prepared to capture "Skull" alive, he had anticipated that the other party would definitely retaliate. Therefore, he had long ago asked Gao Yuanyuan to use her imagination to prepare for IP address tracing and teleportation to control the other party in one fell swoop.

The result was somewhat unexpected. In the "data space" created by the "biological computer," all four walls were covered with countless small screens. On these screens, Gao Yuanyuan, dressed in a white dress, kept appearing, jumping from one small screen to another as if she were lost. If she were to climb out of the screen again, she would be the standard "Sadako."

The senior engineer found it somewhat amusing, and couldn't help but smirk.

"Brother, what are you laughing at!"

Seeing that she was working hard while the engineer was just laughing foolishly, Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help but stomp her feet and act coquettishly.

"Haha, I wasn't laughing at you, please continue."

It wasn't that Gao Yuanyuan lacked ability, but rather that the other party used some unknown means. Every time Gao Yuanyuan opened the other party's "mind," the IP address she found would be redirected to the location of the engineer.

"Don't worry. With your own abilities and Number 13's authority, there's absolutely no way you won't be able to find out their location. I can sense what kind of attrition tactics they used, but there's definitely a limit to how much they can consume. Once that limit is reached, they're finished."

With 68 virtual life forms, two virtual boss templates, and half of Number Thirteen Collapse Entity 3rd, possessing two Ancient Information, they are not so easy to deal with.

To put it simply, Gao Yuanyuan is a sweet and innocent girl with no murderous intent and has not yet turned evil. If she were to turn evil, there would be no one on this planet she couldn't kill.

More importantly, the senior engineer knew one thing.

The Skull and Bones members have undergone too many forbidden modifications, distorting their life forms to an exaggerated degree, making it impossible for them to perform operations such as consciousness uploading or physical cloning.

Compared to corporate executives who have all sorts of "life-saving measures," they only have one life.

Therefore, they are easy to kill.

Of course, the senior engineer also understood that a guy with only one life is bound to be in danger, because he only has one life himself.

As life forms integrate, they gradually change and become unreplicable.

Suddenly, the "biological computer" started making a "buzzing" sound, and the light would disappear intermittently. The senior engineer realized that the guy with one life was about to fight him to the death.