"This... was actually a trap."
Taloy stared at the six walls imprisoning him, streams of code flowing across their surfaces.
All his abilities in the Digital World had been sealed.
And only one faction possessed the ability to imprison digital consciousness.
It was the very faction he belonged to—Mechanical Supremacy.
But how was that possible!
On the Mechanical Supremacy Forum, Digital Confinement was a high-end technology, requiring at least ten billion survival points' worth of resources to redeem.
Even Mechanical Supremacy players would not redeem this technology unless they had to.
The reason was simple: its applications were far too limited. It could only target digital consciousnesses or intelligent data cores.
Only Mechanical Supremacy's Disciplinary Department used this technology, to imprison internal traitors who had uploaded their consciousnesses.
For that very reason, there was no way to break out of this Digital Cage.
Only the controller held the key.
In other words, he could not escape.
The Digital Cage paid no heed to any of this. Chains made of code wrapped around Taloy's hands and feet and pulled taut.
Taloy hung suspended in the air, his limbs spread wide.
"Who the hell are you? How do you have our Mechanical Supremacy's internal technology? Taking Greenfield was the Overmind's order. Do you intend to defy the great Mechanical Overmind? You fool, let me out..."
"The Mechanical Overmind?"
Yu Yuan read the message Alpha Wolf had sent, unsurprised.
When he learned that people from the Land of Blood and Mechanical Supremacy were attacking Greenfield, he had already guessed that the Blood Grand Duke and Mechanical Supremacy's leader were behind it.
Most likely, the Blood Grand Duke had discovered what Greenfield looked like.
Greenfield was the spitting image of Wormwood.
As Wormwood's husband and a suspected traitor, the Blood Grand Duke would not