Bang!
Hansen had only just expressed his misgivings about Lier when the backup Server behind him blew up!
He knew that kind of explosion all too well: whenever Rogue AI attacked their equipment, black-and-red lightning would appear, exactly like when Lier had operated it just now!
Years of education had taught him to equate this phenomenon with the unknown, the mysterious, and the powerful. The sight made his heart race.
"What now?"
"The Blackwall. The company's using its own equipment to host the Blackwall. The signal's a little too strong here. Is your comms still working?"
Only AI Servers completely enclosed in a Faraday Cage could avoid being scanned by the Blackwall. Muramasa just now clearly hadn't been.
So the backup and the Muramasa from one minute ago were waiting in the Marvel Universe for Lier to restart them.
Hansen frowned and looked over at his subordinate Jago. The latter swallowed and shook his head.
Militech and Arasaka were now exerting pressure together. Their former big brother and their former big brother's rival were attacking them at the same time. It was an attack by the people who knew them best!
Whether in terms of technology or equipment, they were bound to be completely outmatched, so the Network was simply unusable!
Even the OCT Network Domain of the Burger King Crime Syndicate had lost most of its communications functions because of the electromagnetic shielding.
Lier's limited Cross-Dimensional communications bandwidth couldn't support large-scale communication to begin with. It had always been used only as an encryption method and for emergency communication. It simply couldn't handle communications on that scale!
That was what people meant by brute force: the company couldn't crack Cross-Dimensional encryption, but it could still indiscriminately cripple it. All it had to do was invest enough.
Now, Lier felt