The Great Blackout

The sky roiled with dark clouds, as if doomsday had arrived. Data fluctuated rapidly within every network cloud layer, while antivirus data in light-screen form rained down from the heavens like streaks of rainbow light. More and more data flooded the seas, the land, the new Mechanical City, and even the memory storage systems of every electronic brain.

"Antivirus. Antivirus. Target: Mr. G."

A brain-computer user muttered to himself. Then, as if he had received some kind of command, he began pursuing the target at high speed. During the chase, sunglasses grew at the corners of his eyes, while his coat transformed into a black suit.

On the streets, besides the men in black suits, there were also men in red, purple, and white suits. They constantly went in and out, entering reality from virtual nodes, then stepping from reality into new nodes, as if searching for something.

But soon, one of the Cloudwing Assassins changed expression. He looked up and saw that, at some unknown point, the walls of Mechanical City had begun rising continuously. Countless codes converged upward, quickly climbing higher than the clouds and enclosing one of them. The city then sealed itself off completely and began sinking amid a rumbling sound. Many cyber assassins tried to break out, but they were helpless before the "Wall of Code," which was on the level of a planetary firewall. Even the highest-level Cloudwing Assassins lost connection to the cloud database storing their data in the Mother City.

The coded city sank, sank, and sank, piercing through the surface and passing through the mantle until it reached the planetary core. In the end, the signal was reduced to ashes and annihilated amid the core's searing heat. Before many of the cyber assassins could find a way to escape, they were