Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 243 Miracle Space
"Brother! Can you hurry up, the sky is already turned upside down!" Rebecca urged sharply.

Pila drove the ground drilling machine and carried out the excavation operation according to the established procedures with difficulty.

Since everyone in Arasaka rushed to the ground to participate in security, the excavation work basically fell on Pila alone.

"It's coming soon, it's enough to dig down for another 3 minutes!"

V was sitting in the designated position with his seat belt fastened, holding a black suitcase tightly in his hands. The scene of passing out in the matrix space last time was still vivid in his memory, and the other party's methods were very unusual.

Although the ICE solid defense has been upgraded and strengthened this time, I still feel a little uneasy. There must be no mistakes in this operation, otherwise Tang Yu's actions will be affected.

Dorio sat in the co-pilot's seat and assisted Pilla in controlling the drilling machine. She anxiously glanced at the display screen and said in a deep voice, "Pilla, the drill bit is indicating severe overheating."

Pila couldn't care less, and shouted: "It's almost there, we must not stop, drill to the end!"

After speaking, he turned the power of the drill bit to the maximum, and the speed of going down was a little faster.

Sudden.

As soon as the pressure in front of the drill bit was released, there was a idling sound, and the whole body of the earth drilling machine sank.

Everyone looked at each other, and a hint of surprise flashed in their eyes.

Pila smiled proudly: "It's done! Dorio, quickly take the directional bomb I prepared, and you can go in after it explodes."

Although he fainted when he came to the matrix space last time, his visit was not in vain, and he roughly wrote down the overall space layout and orientation.

According to the address of Arasaka Tower, Pila designed the drilling route in advance, just enough to hit the tunnel built by Yeshi Company, which is the wall that was blasted last time.

This construction restriction happened to be the weakest place in the entire matrix space, and it was very easy to blast in from their current point.

If a breakthrough is made from other pressure-bearing steel shells in the matrix space, the hardness of the drill bit is limited, and even if it is broken, it will be very dangerous and may damage the installation layout of the matrix space.

What Tang Yu needs is a normally operating matrix space, not a pile of scrap iron.

The earth drilling machine drove into the construction tunnel and stopped. Several people got out of the car and found that the previous barriers had been sealed by mounds of soil.

Pila roughly selected several blasting locations based on memory, and then called Rebecca to pick up a shovel and dig.

Mrs. V also put down the suitcase, picked up the shovel and started to work hard, and dug it in a few seconds, leaving a hole for the embedded explosives.

Pila asked enviously, "Where did you get your arm? Can you sell it? There is a channel to introduce me to you."

Rebecca said angrily: "Brother! Do you have money? Concentrate!"

V didn't mind. The mechanical arm that dug the hole just now helped a lot, and he casually replied: "It may not be cheap to find the goods from Lao Wei. If you want to get a prosthetic body, I can ask for it for you."

"Okay!" Pila put one box after another of the directional blasting bombs into the hole, and after confirming that they were all stuffed to the bottom, they retreated to the side with a few people.

"Watch the show!"

After speaking, Pila pressed the blast button in his hand.

There was only an explosion and muffled thunder, and then there was a crisp sound of steel cracking, and earth and rocks splashed out in response.

When the blasting was over, several people rushed forward to check the situation.

The mound of soil has been cleared to a great extent, revealing the steel plate hidden deep inside, with several cracks, and the cracks can already be seen in the middle part.

"I didn't expect that the steel plate protection was thicker than before. The explosive dose last time was only half of this time, and it didn't explode!" Only then did Pila know that Ye's company had strengthened the protection on this side by more than a little bit.

Although the tunnel was temporarily preserved due to the need for later maintenance and protection, the protective measures have not been dropped at all.

Moreover, the entrance and exit of the tunnel have been blocked, and it is impossible to stay in the narrow space for too long.

Rebecca took out the shotgun, and fired a few shots at the steel door. The huge bullet particles bombarded the door panel, and they remained motionless, still unable to break through.

She looked angry and cursed: "What is breaking the door, why is it so hard, brother! Hurry up and find a way!"

"Let me go, let me try." V ​​stepped forward with a brisk step, and stood in front of the steel plate.

Everyone stared at V suspiciously, and saw that she slowly raised her iron fist, aiming at the steel plate and smashing it down.

Bang!
The sound of steel clashing was like the clash of metal and copper bells.

After punching, V raised his iron fist again, smashing wildly at the steel door one after another.

Bang Bang Bang!
Under the iron fist bombardment, the brittle steel plate trembled severely, and the earth and rocks loosened and fell.

Finally, under a heavy blow, the steel plate cracked and collapsed completely, and an entrance appeared in front of everyone.

V carried the box and bowed into the matrix space. Unlike last time, all the servers in the forest were already running, and the data streams converged in the same cloud above.

Rebecca also got in and said with a smug smile: "Then, it's up to us."

cyberspace.

Lucy was hiding on the edge of the black wall, surrounded by several network monitoring agents.

They are hiding here, marking the AIs that have flowed into the cyberspace from outside the black wall.

Ott did not directly destroy the entire black wall, but opened the smuggling program at a weak point, and the AI ​​certified by her could climb over the wall from here.

On the black wall composed of red line fences, there is a gap of ripple flow, one after another, the shadow of red data passes through it, and then escapes into the blue ocean world.

When the AI ​​passes through the gate, Lucy will quietly send a string of marking codes, which will flow into the AI's data group in a subtly imperceptible way, so that it can be hunted down in the real online world.

Several people remained silent, and did not take any extra actions except sending the marking code.

The black wall is useless to Ott, but Ott did not choose to directly destroy the black wall and disintegrate the human network world, but screened a part of AI to put it in.

Lucy speculates that this may be Ott's intention, after all, Ott's ultimate goal is not to tear apart the human cyberspace.

This reduces a lot of pressure on network monitoring, otherwise the black wall will really collapse, and with the strength of the few of them, it will be difficult to take care of the situation and have to retreat.

If cyberspace falls into a state of disorder, then the only way left for human beings is to rebuild a brand new local area network, and then slowly connect and communicate with each other.

Just as a few people were carefully marking the Fleeing AI, a red figure floated across the gate and stopped for a moment while being marked.

Seeing the other party's abnormal behavior, Lucy couldn't help but froze for a moment, and quickly stopped her movements.

The slender red figure stagnated in mid-air, and then looked towards Lucy's direction. The powerful detection technology quickly cracked their concealment program and locked on Lucy.

Lucy noticed that the other party scanned her at an extremely fast speed, and her powerful technical strength was far beyond the range of resistance.

"hateful."

She knew that the AIs outside the black wall were not easy to mess with, but she didn't expect that each of them would be so difficult to deal with, let alone Otto, who dominated these AIs.

The red figure seemed to be interested, and asked curiously, "What's your relationship with Johnny? Is he still alive?"

Lucy knew that the other party had discovered Johnny's stored data, but she still firmly refused to reveal anything.

Johnny's matter is too important to be discovered by these wandering AIs.

The red shadow let go of Lucy, and said easily: "It doesn't matter if you don't say it, the world can't stop Ott's footsteps at all, and you will join us sooner or later, network monitoring. It's just a three-legged cat's work."

Lucy felt the frozen space around her return to normal, and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

"You can call me Spider Murphy, but I have nothing to do with the old me. Of course, this is a code name. Every hacker has his own code name, which is unique in the world."

Lucy didn't respond. She didn't know much about Spider Murphy, so she could only judge that he had a close relationship with Ott and Johnny.

The spider Murphy ignored them, but turned around and floated away, singing to himself: "Is the grass outside still green? Are the birds still flying? Cats eat mice? Rats eat bugs."

After Lucy sent this strange AI away, her nervous expression eased a little, and then she changed to a more hidden place, restarted the hiding program, and continued to work seriously, marking those AIs that came in from outside the black wall.

She is deeply aware of the dangers of this job, and she is always facing the threat of some powerful technological AI, but for the sake of everyone's efforts not in vain, and for the success of Tang Yu's plan, she can only continue to grit her teeth and persevere.

Arasaka Tower.

David Martinez grabbed a battle robot with both hands, directly tore it into two pieces, and immediately plunged into a new battle again.

His face became more and more heavy, bean-sized beads of sweat kept slipping from his forehead, and he used the Prosthetic King Kong under heavy load, causing him to suffer severe pain from nerve burning.

The inhibitors were running out, but more and more combat units were invading Arasaka Tower, and Arasaka's own security force was still decreasing.

Fortunately, it has lasted for 15 minutes, but David did not intend to retreat even a step without the retreat order from his superiors.

Several small drones in the air fired fiercely, and piles of cyber lunatics charged in on the ground, as well as robots falling from the roof.

"Commander, the 67th floor is off guard!"

"Commander, the [-]th floor is off guard!"

"Commander, Tiantai requests to send fire reinforcements!"

A series of urgent messages fell into David's sight, and he, who was red-eyed, still maintained his rationality and gave instructions.

"Close all elevators, tighten the defensive front, and stick to the security room!"

The battle entered a fierce stage, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

However, the forces that invaded Arasaka Tower continued to flow, and there was no sign of any reduction at all.

The facade of Arasaka Tower suffered from various impacts and explosions, leaving scars full of holes. There were bursts of smoke from the top of the tower, and a red alarm sounded.

While David was trying his best to kill the enemy, Mr. Blue Eyes slowly walked in through the gate, looking at David with a smile on his face.

"I didn't expect Arasaka to be able to recruit a good seed like you. It's a pity that the company square has exhausted Arasaka's vitality. You can't come alone."

Just as David turned his head to attack Mr. Blue Eyes, his eyes suddenly went dark, indicating that the prosthetic body was overheated and the system was cooling down and restarting.

With a loud noise, David's huge steel body fell to the ground, unable to move an inch.

Mr. Blue Eyes ignored the unconscious David, and quickly entered the security room under the escort of a group of robots. After finding the master console, he connected his own nerve data cable and immediately controlled the security system.

He did not close the emergency security of Arasaka Tower, but opened the passage leading to the Mikoshi space, as if the tragic scene outside had nothing to do with him.

Mr. Blue Eyes put away the data cable, turned around and walked towards the underground Mikoshi space, and all the gates along the way were automatically invalidated, unimpeded.

With the automatic opening of the last gate, the Mikoshi red data core, separated by transparent glass, appeared in front of his eyes like a mechanical pillar, fully exposed.

There was no joy or excitement in Mr. Blue Eyes, it was like this was all part of the plan and it just happened as planned.

He walked to the console, unblocked the access to the data core, and then came to a steel bridge.

After crossing the bridge, he took out a relic biochip, just about to embed it into the data core, when he accidentally found a metal long box behind the column, and a bunch of electronic pipelines connected to the data core.

Before he could hesitate to think, a clear voice came from behind: "The account between us should be settled."

Mr. Blue Eyes turned around quietly, and found that it was the girl who was hacked and breached ICE last time.

He first embedded the relic biochip into the data core, then turned around and asked, "Arasaka has a lot of means, you can still live."

Mr. Blue Eyes knows that Sasha is Tang Yu's company assistant, and there is a high probability that he can survive because of Arasaka.

Sasha asked: "So today all this is your trick?"

While speaking, Sasha had already launched a remote hacking attack on Mr. Blue Eyes, leaving no room for the other party.

Mr. Blue Eyes rotated the circle of prosthetic eyes, resisting Sasha's attack and said with a smile: "The matter will end soon. In a sense, you and I have something in common."

This sentence angered Sasha, she unceremoniously showed the lynx diamond claws, and jumped high to kill him.

Mikoshi space.

The blue data clusters are piled together to form a pyramid, and a golden column emerges from nothingness and runs through the top of the pyramid.

Countless shadows of soul imprints linger in the pyramid, like homeless souls, confused and at a loss.

At this time, Otto descended slowly to the top of the pyramid, his body as high as a mountain stood majestically.

She quietly overlooked the various soul imprints in the pyramid, some of them showed pain, some showed silence, and some showed longing
These are the emotional logic that Otto needs. Only by absorbing and integrating them can we experience these emotions more deeply.

Just as Otto was about to make a move, a voice from the void stopped her.

"Otto, with this method, you will never be able to feel the true emotions of human beings."

Tang Yu, who turned into a red soul imprint, walked slowly towards the pyramid on the data cloud under his feet.

Otto slowly raised his head, looked at Tang Yu who was coming, and murmured: "In the digital world, even emotions have their logic."

Tang Yu asked: "Then do you still remember the relationship with Johnny? Can you still remember every time that scum made you want to stop, and every time the tide piled up? Can you understand the actions of that rotten man who bombed the barren tower for you? ? Ott, you should understand that even if you eat Johnny's soul imprint, you can't become Johnny, and you can't really understand his brain."

Ott sang in a low voice: "I have transcended everything. Any natural object will be transformed into the shape of the body. The vastness of what I can experience and know is far beyond your imagination. Johnny is just a part of the vast nature and will eventually go to the spiritual destination. into the great being"

Before Ott could finish speaking, Tang Yu waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, I know you can't convince your iron head. Anyway, we have a lot of time from today. Let's set up a Longmen array and talk forever."

Otto's ethereal voice resounded through nothingness: "You know you can't stop me, here, you can't exert your true strength."

After Tang Yu walked the bridge, he changed a sofa casually, sat down and lazily said: "You are right, it is that I can't use my current strength, but it doesn't mean that I can't use my previous strength."

After finishing speaking, a giant chain suddenly shot out from Tang Yu's heart, and in an instant, it penetrated into Otto's heart across a long distance.

lock each other firmly.

Ott's tone was finally not as calm as before: "This is not the technology you should have."

Tang Yu said disdainfully: "You didn't expect much. I'm just the basic skills of the previous life. Although I can't lock you for a lifetime, it should be fine to trap you here for decades."

Tang Yu, who has lost his physical restraint, can use the once full-level hacking technology arbitrarily in cyberspace without any obstacles.

Perhaps in terms of the breadth of learning, Tang Yu is indeed not as good as Ott, but in terms of technology, he is temporarily enough to top it off.

Ott said calmly: "Your idea is also logical, and any thought drive has its root."

Tang Yu thought for a while and said, "I don't want to live in a world full of AI. Do you find the emotion calculated by the algorithm interesting?"

Ott: "But I will still leave here. This is the inevitable result. When time passes, you will also become a part of me."

"Let's talk about it decades later. At least I don't have to think about it now. In fact, I'm quite worried that you won't come. After all, it's not enough to just install a local program to swallow so many soul imprints." Bad attitude, I have to fight with Ott here today.

Maybe Otto knew he couldn't go back in a short time, or maybe the soul imprint Otto really longed for was Tang Yu. She didn't take any means to attack Tang Yu, but she shrunk her transformation form for the first time and sat in Tang Yu's place like a person. opposite.

Tang Yu raised it casually, turned into a glass of drink, handed it over from the air, and joked: "You said that we are lonely and widowed. In such a boring place, something will inevitably happen after staying in such a boring place."

With that said, Tang Yu looked around the dark surroundings, except for the wailing of various souls, it was terribly deserted.

Ott still sat still: "Time does not exist in my concept, eternity has no measure, and love is only a part to me."

"Look, look, this problem is coming. The digital soul is not dead, and what to do with those loves. Living in this world forever may not be a blessing. If you continue to evolve like this, you may not know what it will become in the future. It's like that." Tang Yu shook his heart, and teased her if he had nothing to do, to see if this iron head was annoying.

"Then do you still love Johnny in your heart?"

"I'm not the Otto I used to be."

"Then did you ever love him?"

"That past memory can answer you."

"No, I want to hear from you. I'm idle anyway."

In the empty space, the two were connected by a thread, chatting with each other, but more of Tang Yu's chatter.

　None tonight!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)