"Can't beat him online, so we unplug him offline?"
Lucian folded his arms and watched the screen with interest. "All right, you're in command. Whatever's fastest."
"Understood."
Over the speakers, Jade Balance's voice remained utterly flat as it began calling out a death list:
"Cabinet three in section A, cabinets seven and twelve in section B. Those are his first redundant logical processing nodes. Blow them apart."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The task force members stationed at the corresponding positions pulled their triggers without hesitation.
The specially made large-caliber armor-piercing rounds instantly tore through the olive-drab metal cases. The densely packed transistors and tape reels inside exploded into dazzling showers of sparks, sending thick smoke billowing out.
"Aah!"
On the monitor, Zola's pixelated face suddenly contorted, letting out a piercing scream.
The once-impregnable first firewall burst open with a massive breach as those three physical servers were destroyed! Vast torrents of data surged through the gap, instantly swallowing huge swathes of territory.
"You bandits! You have no honor!"
Shocked and furious, Zola frantically marshaled the remaining cabinets' processing power to intercept and contain the assault, trying to transfer his core confidential data to peripheral servers. He even tried to escape through the external network cables.
Unfortunately, he was facing a monster that played by no rules.
Jade Balance's emotional personality module might still have been developing, but the raw computing power behind it came from dozens of supercomputing centers that Hydra had spent a fortune building around the world under Simona's arrangements!
In sheer computing capacity, Jade Balance was already the undisputed overlord of this Earth.
And that was before counting the band of burly men playing dirty, carrying out physical demolition inside Zola's "cerebral cortex" with guns!
"He is attempting to transfer memory slices to section C."
Jade Balance precisely