Gaokesi

The underlying structure of the data node had developed a problem. It was a dangerous thing.

Because this could cause the entire data node to collapse.

Once it collapsed, all the creatures, AIs, cyberfolk, and data lifeforms within the data node would die.

If hundreds of thousands of people were connected and logged into this data node, then once the node collapsed, all of them would suffer brain death simultaneously in reality.

Even in the Mechanical Age, where human lives were treated like weeds, this still counted as a major accident.

High Engineer used the bug User Data Loss. For a moment, the world high above gradually turned into characters, numbers, and code.

"Do it!"

Although Ah Hong was underage, he was already a veteran in the cyber hacker profession. The Mirror Neuron Algorithm immediately activated.

The next moment, the data began to reorganize. Countless characters spread across the ground, and buildings rose from the earth one after another. The surrounding dark clouds turned into black smoke from mechanical buildings, and an industrial-punk landscape began to take shape: engines, industrial pipes, and all kinds of mechanical components.

An industrialized city—or, conversely, an industrialized cityscape.

"You're completely unreliable. The underlying structure had a problem, and you didn't even notice."

"I'm an information hacker, not a cyberbody hacker. I work on the network layer, not the application layer."

While the two were bickering, a "pager" at Ah Hong's waist suddenly rang. Its sound was like an alarm.

"Careful, wild viruses are coming!"

There was no need for the warning. High Engineer had already seen figures moving all around them, with strange robots pouncing toward the two of them.

They were called strange because the robots looked as though they had been cobbled together from cyberbodies of completely mismatched models: damaged gorilla arms,