The whole affair was strange, but as with crop circles, its mysteries were impossible to unravel. Nie Yun could only treat it as an amusing research topic and hand it straight over to Earth's archaeologists.
Back in his lounge, Nie Yun connected his personal terminal to the warship's AI Core.
"How may I help you, Commander?"
"Oh, nothing much. I'd just like you to cooperate for a moment." Nie Yun flexed his fists with a rather sinister smile.
"Cooperate?" The AI Core had barely voiced its question when it discovered that, with a few flicks of Nie Yun's fingers, its various alarms and system defenses were being shut down one by one.
Meanwhile, an enormous torrent of data was using the personal terminal in Nie Yun's hand as a springboard to flood the AI Core's main system.
Inside the main computer room, the army of Mechanical Insects had long since taken their positions. At Nie Yun's command, they began devouring components in order of importance and priority.
"Warning! Warning! Disabling these modules will reduce this unit's early-warning capabilities by 58%! Please confirm shutdown. Commander, this unit must remind you that your actions constitute a suspected serious operational violation..."
"Force shutdown!" Ignoring the red warnings filling the screen, Nie Yun pressed the final Enter key. More than half the alerts instantly vanished.
"Warning! Warning! External data intrusion detected. Early-warning module disabled... Warning! Hardware modules missing. Activating backup hardware... Backup hardware unresponsive again. Early-warning module intercepted by external data..."
Nie Yun's eyes had already turned silver. Countless streams of data cascaded through them as he desperately intercepted the Fallen Angel's AI Core's distress signals through his personal data terminal.
Using top-level access, data interception, and hardware devouring, Nie Yun launched a three-pronged assault to corner the Fallen Angel's AI Core!
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