Starting as a Mechanical Hunter-Chapter 415 - 166: Miniature Cyber Space

Damn, you guys aren’t playing by the rules!

According to the classic style of villain organizations having invincible group battles and insisting on duels, shouldn’t you come at us one by one?

First, a hacker or two to tangle with us, then a couple of helpers to employ a war of attrition, and then we find your lair, bomb it for a while, and finally engage in a boss fight, where after a fierce battle, you get persuaded by rhetoric and commit suicide voluntarily.

This is the style you people should have!

How come you start with the big guns?

Not playing by the rules!

You guys would be out by the third Chapter in a novel.

For some reason, Gao Gong’s urge to rant skyrocketed.

And the encrypted node they hyperlinked and teleported to indeed matched the style of a ’villain organization lair.’

Blood-red data streams cascaded down like a waterfall from the cliff.

With the seasoned perception, Gao Gong smelled the rich undertone of codes, It’s a kind of electronic perception, imprinted deep in the mind beyond the senses.

This feeling is very mysterious, a hundred times more wondrous than the chills running through your body.

’So, the Akatsuki Organization, oops! Holy City Organization has already deduced all the information technology of Cyber Space, incredible!’

Although in Gao Gong’s opinion, Cyber Space doesn’t count as an advanced method.

After all, in the universe, there are dimensional networks, space-time hyper tunnels, and other interstellar or even cross-black hole super information networks.

In fact, some Information Civilizations and Insect Race Civilizations are naturally equipped with Cyber Space.

But this is from the perspective of the Master of Level 6 Civilization.

In reality, even Level 3 Civilizations rarely replicate Cyber Networks, to say the least.

After all, it demands far too much technology.

But Cyber Networks are just like mobile ecosystems, simply building an ’Android system’ isn’t enough; you need the capability to bring various apps into your ecosystem.

In this regard, hackers are powerless.

However, with this ’mini Cyber Network,’ at least Cyber Killers would not come knocking.

Moreover, this kind of ecosystem provides hackers with a fearsome boost, capable of growing to match the corporate will of large companies.

Gao Gong showed a thoughtful expression.

He finally understood how the world’s number one hacker managed to gather ten top-notch hackers to form the 11 Arhats.

Philosophy is one thing, but profit is another.

Compared to Gao Gong’s amazement, Paradise Bird was much calmer, after all, she was very familiar with the members of the Holy City Organization and had been here before.

The two walked forward, between the waterfalls were electronic altars, functioning similarly to apps or traffic portals on ancient mobile phones.

’Good lad, you’re actually stealing data from Cyber Space, I’ll report you later!’

Gao Gong stared at an altar; on the altar, a viscous black substance was continuously accumulating. On the edge of the altar, a figure squatted, swallowing the black substance with gaping mouthfuls, emitting odd humming sounds, like crying and laughing.

’A hacker who swallows the dark side of personalities, is it Nightmare.’

’A completely corrupted Cyber Race.’

Gao Gong clearly remembered the fame and skills of these 11 Arhats.

Although the universe has more exaggerated existences, for a man, the first encounter is always deeply impactful.

Back then, the 11 Arhats overthrew Arasaka Tower, which shocked the entire Mechanical Split Star player community.

Soon, Gao Gong saw another electronic altar.

On that altar, there was a ’Hyperlink Bridge,’ resembling a Nether Bridge made of code, with ghostly winds sweeping and viruses thriving on it.

Each ’death personality’ crossing the bridge would mysteriously vanish.

Some ’death personalities’ suddenly woke up, looking around in panic, then tried to run back, only to be pulled back by various viral arms.

’This method of feeding viruses with personality, Mr. Pintou?’

Gao Gong was certain that at this rate of ’grinding experience,’ it wouldn’t take long for all the hackers of the Holy City Organization to reach Level 60 and become Informational Organisms.

On this planet, achieving individual information ascension is every hacker’s ultimate pursuit.

However, purely grinding experience might have side effects.

Gao Gong squinted his eyes, staring at a figure on an electronic altar, Terria.

Or rather, a clone of Terria.

The aura of the other party was not much weaker than Paradise Bird, but in terms of purity, it was far inferior to Paradise Bird, who ascended by sheer willpower.

Maybe the other party brought the two of them in to show off their technological prowess.

But it was clearly a bad move.

For an experienced space traveler, it only takes a glance to know what color the other’s... uh, hoofs are.

This method of aggressively achieving cross-civilization advancement is indeed effective in the short term, but from a long-term perspective, it has significant issues.

Gao Gong immediately understood why the other party was trying to resurrect ’Ancient Evil Gods’ globally.

Fight poison with poison, huh.

After walking for about five minutes, Gao Gong reached the core of the encrypted node, a massive square table, surrounded by white pillars rising skyward, and the surface of the pillars bore strange religious codes.

On the high-backed chairs, one figure after another gazed down coldly like deities.

’How did the style shift from the Akatsuki Organization to the Tarot Association? Are you all traitors too?’

Terria, Electronic Dream, Super Worker, Nightmare, Mr. Pintou, and one unfamiliar face Gao Gong didn’t recognize.

Among the 11 Arhats, there were a total of 6 present.

If that unfamiliar face is also a future member of the 11 Arhats.

Paradise Bird was clearly displeased with this condescending angle, snorted coldly, and the next moment, a raging code flame began to scorch the entire hall. Although quickly swallowed by the underlying code, as the ’concentration’ of the flames rose and transformed into informational flames, even the foundational code of Cyber Space couldn’t completely digest this top-tier hacker tactic. Cracks began to appear on the ground, and complex lines of code intertwined like ’lotus root fibers’.

Gao Gong didn’t mind this condescending gaze; after all, he was often looked down upon by Rich Ladies in this manner.

However, to display his manliness, he resolutely took a step forward—by hiding behind Paradise Bird.

So many monsters, too scary, Rich Lady Love.

As another masked man, Terria, the top hacker of Mechanical Split Star, slowly stood up from the high-backed chair.

The next moment, all the white pillars emitted a golden radiance, a dense stream of data formed by religious codes.

Wherever the data stream passed, all the cracks were smoothed over, and the radiance forced the informational flames out of the ’application’.

Paradise Bird’s eyes blazed wildly, a giant bird silhouette vaguely visible behind him, for a moment, the entire data structure of the encrypted node seemed to ignite.

However, as the golden light gradually extended, what was suppressed was Paradise Bird, this Level 60 Information Life.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of a boss from the Holy City Organization, going to such lengths to master religious codes. However, as I recall, the core processing units of religious codes are highly centralized, which also means that in terms of computational architecture, they’re not stable and are easy to be dissected and infiltrated."

"That’s why they can’t form a computational revolution on their own; they must experience a post-industrial revolution boom in computing power through chips to complete supercomputing."

"Without computers, what’s the point of virtual machines?"

As a top-tier hacker, Gao Gong’s few words immediately lit up Paradise Bird’s gaze.

The next moment, instead of confronting the golden light, the informational flames formed blade-shaped data structures and embedded themselves into the gold light formed by the codes.

With each strike, a plethora of cracks oozed out from the golden light.

This indeed lacked the stability of ordinary sensory codes by a wide margin.

It’s like a normal person and a psycho; the severity of stimulation by the same words is entirely different.

The two people stood up; they were Nightmare and Mr. Pintou, while Super Worker and Electronic Dream hurriedly stopped them.

If they stepped in, the situation would change.

"Hey, dare to attack our leader, don’t underestimate our organization."

The unfamiliar face suddenly jumped out, waving a hand planted with hacker chips. Trojan horses, viruses, address attackers, personality attackers, thought substitution, illegal malware—a hundred attack methods poured out.

This time, Gao Gong couldn’t stand idly by. Even though his hacker profession was only Level 10, he still knew plenty of leveraging techniques.

All hacker traits lit up, he chewed twice and spit, countless little bubbles sprayed out, each bubble was an artificial IP, each bubble matched an attack method, quickly enveloping them, and transferring them into the flames.

The next moment, the bubbles popped, and under the scorching of the informational flames, these hacker weapons were burned into various formatted files, then disintegrated again, turning into discarded codes.

Paradise Bird’s face turned cold, waving his hand, thousands upon thousands of Flame Bird cracking little programs emerged, wildly surging toward the opponent. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

The unfamiliar face panicked, fully unleashed the chip’s power, and pitched countless hacker skills.

The opponent blocked the small programs but couldn’t stop Gao Gong’s maneuvers. One by one, IP bubbles suddenly burst out from the flames, covering the opponent’s face, as if suffocating, their body flipped, collapsing to the ground, streams of data flowing between their eyes, nose, and mouth, and their facial features visibly twisting and shrinking.

"Aaaaaah, what the heck!?"

The unfamiliar face’s hands turned into a data state, and with a fierce tear, a human skin split open, but another unfamiliar face emerged from the original one.

Another tear, and yet another unfamiliar face.

Not only was the appearance, but the opponent’s personality was also assaulted by numerous virtual personalities.

Strange memories surged in, trying to take over.

In the ’Escapee Game’, all the unused human brain IPs where Gao Gong came from were freely given to the opponent.

"Aaaaahhhhhh——"