In Right Dragon City, Big Shot was carefully Soul-Seizing when the lights suddenly dimmed. The entire city vanished into the night.
At the same time, a piercing alarm sounded. "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
What enemy attack was there? The city's power consumption had simply surged in an instant, tripping numerous protective switches.
Normally, however, this was no different from the precursor to an Insect Race assault. No wonder there were alarms besides the electrical warning.
The scorched stench of burnt insulation immediately rose from all across the city.
Big Shot snorted coldly. "Bold indeed. You actually dare to fight back... Do you really think no one can handle you?"
It had to admit that their string of previous successes had made both it and Feng Jun somewhat complacent. They had underestimated the artificial intelligence's vigilance.
Only later did the two learn that their greatest giveaway had been the extraction of consciousness from the Left and Right Capitals.
If they had cut off the network and power while extracting consciousness, they would not have alerted the artificial intelligence. But with so many people in the Left and Right Capitals, Feng Jun and Big Shot could not possibly do that.
Since they had chosen to extract consciousness directly, the artificial intelligence quickly noticed that something was wrong and naturally had to investigate.
Once it looked into the matter, however, it discovered that its own split consciousnesses in Lower Dragon City were also vanishing. It immediately exploded: What are you trying to do?
A counterattack was necessary, and it had to be fierce. At the same time, it had to fight for control of the automated weapons. The only regret was that it had no idea where its opponents were, so it first put on a grand display: You little rats hiding in