A Surprise Move

Motoko Kusanagi's "Turing Capture Plan" was proceeding in full swing.

From time to time, missile barrages and showers of light rained down from the sky, but nine out of ten fell wide of the mark.

Some, however, landed near the ship district, stirring up towering waves.

Besides that, large quantities of cracking software began invading the fleet. The cracking software of Section 9 was nothing like the ordinary stuff on the market. Once deployed, vast amounts of virtual illusions generated automatically. For a time, reality and the virtual world interwove, while sensory simulation codes and brain viruses clashed endlessly over the ocean.

Even so, the fleet continued its mighty advance toward its ultimate goal: circling the planet once.

Once it completed the so-called "global circumnavigation," Turing would be able to ascend to the divine throne.

Gao Gong silently watched the scene.

From time to time, he switched panels to check on the dozen or so high-level players he had summoned.

Half their portraits had already gone dark, and that was with Section 9 constantly harassing them from the perimeter.

Under normal circumstances, most of them would probably already have been wiped out.

Motoko Kusanagi's tactics are correct. If she directly sent agents to infiltrate the enemy fleet, or used a mechanical army to wipe them out, they would probably be brainwashed by the other side's "Nancha Horror" on the spot. Long-range bombardment combined with virtual software infiltration clearly restrains Turing.

Gao Gong could see it too. Before completing its ascension to the divine throne, Turing's methods were still incapable of covering the entire planet. Otherwise, the armed space station's orbital strikes should have targeted Section 9 in the mother city, not the ship district.

One sampan after another exploded, while ordinary lifeboats were swept away in huge numbers.

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