Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 739: Chapter 264: Void Master’s Armor

[Detecting large-scale ’Special Information’ invasion, defense mechanism activated]

[Detecting large-scale ’Special Information’ invasion, defense mechanism activated]

First, a small screen went black with a ’sizzle’ sound.

The Rich Lady Love Prototype slowly rose, with a flick of her hand, a staff glowing with electronic radiance appeared. The tip gently tapped the blackened screen, a mental wave visible to the naked eye flashed through, and with an explosive sound, the monster hidden behind the screen shattered.

[You killed the ’Artificial Soul’, experience +100,000]

Artificial Soul: A type of artificial information life, undetectable by ordinary network defense devices due to its access to the ’High-level Information Layer’.

Gao Gong twisted his wrist, and the tip of the staff hit the ground. In the next moment, four ’Rich Lady Love Prototypes’ were summoned, each wielding a weapon, stabbing the monster that had hacked in.

Each stab killed one, and an ’Information Stream’ disappeared behind the screen.

However, as the ’small screens’ were largely hacked, even with four virtual clones, they couldn’t keep up with the speed of the invasion.

[Your Electronic Defense Wall is ineffective against ’Special Information’]

[Your ’Virtual Invasion’ is ineffective against ’Special Information’]

’Cyber Hacker’ is just a secondary position for Gao Gong, capped at level 20, which greatly limits his operation.

But Gao Gong wasn’t too panicked; this situation was expected.

In the next moment, the ’Data Space’ generated by the biological computer vanished, replaced by an abandoned ’Hospital’.

Ancient Information — Ward.

Gao Yuanyuan, dressed in a nurse’s outfit, had an expression gloomy enough to shoot a horror movie.

Most of this soft sister’s personality was white, but there was also a part that was white-cut-black, which had a lot to do with Gao Gong.

She herself could get hurt, but would never allow anyone to harm her dearest brother.

In the next moment, countless ’nurses’ emerged from the corridors, rushing towards the white shadows at the hospital’s perimeter, pinning them onto stretchers, and pushed them towards the ’Dean’s’ dissection room.

’Why can’t I enter the other’s brain.’

Since absorbing ’No. 13’, this was the first setback for Gao Yuanyuan in such matters.

And on the rooftop of the hospital, Gao Gong silently watched all that was unfolding.

The level of ’Special Information’ is lower than ’Ancient Information’.

However, the fact that the former can be mass-produced makes it troublesome.

”Indeed, if there is an information-side civilization, then it’s unsurprising that some forces on this planet have developed information weapons,” Gao Gong murmured.

In low-level civilizations, which are civilizations of levels 1~3, information weapons are exceedingly hard to resist because there are virtually no means to limit them.

The legendary ’Punk Group’ is a most typical example.

”Souls cannot be eradicated.”

A chilling voice suddenly whispered in Gao Gong’s ear.

Gao Gong abruptly turned his head, seeing no one, but his shadow on the ground was outlined like a skull.

”The human body is a vessel, personality is also a vessel, only the soul is eternal.”

The shadow extended strands of black tentacles, climbing up along Gao Gong’s feet, but peculiarly, Gao Gong didn’t notice them.

As one ascends each level, changes in information exceed perception range.

’Skeleton’ methods go beyond the five senses and even evade innate biological instincts.

But Gao Gong’s ’Consciousness’ had already reached 957 points. Although this attribute couldn’t directly elevate combat power, it was particularly useful in certain aspects.

”You’re right in many aspects,” Gao Gong suddenly said, ”but I have to add, information can not only exceed human perception, but information itself can also repair information.”

”Guess what I’m wearing?”

The black tentacle suddenly experienced a ’burning’ pain as if a red-hot pincer had seared it, causing it to retract to the ground.

At some point, Gao Gong, or rather, the Rich Lady Love Prototype had donned a red cloak, this ’cloak’ having a Qilin on the back, black patterns on the sleeves, black grids on the edges. Its stitching patterns resembled a special nonary grid code, emanating terrifying golden light, not Emperor’s Might, yet more suppressive for information entities.

Name: Void Master’s Armor

Category: Virtual Equipment

Quality: Tier 3-Excellent

Weight: None

Attributes: Information Resistance: 200,000, Defense Recovery: 100 points/second, Attack Range: 3*3 meters

Operating Mode: Consciousness Control

Mode One: Bingguo

Mode Two: Reignforce

Mode Three: Mechanical Faction

Status: Repaired

Note 1: Advanced information equipment manufactured by the Planet Host to carry specific functions.

Note 2: Once the top figure in the Ancient Empire’s Information System, possessing powerful information manipulation capabilities.

This piece of equipment, needless to say, belongs to that old relic, Xuanyuan X.

It’s worth mentioning that he handed this thing to Gao Yuanyuan for research, and in the end, his sister came back and told him some amazing news.

That is about the ’Ward’, this piece of ancient information, which can not only repair human information damage but also repair information equipment.

Precisely because of this information defense equipment, Gao Gong chose to make himself bait.

He glanced at the Information Resistance — (170000/200000)

Just one touch takes away 30,000 blood volume, thankfully I have equipment, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to withstand a few touches from you.

Information system attacks have a very nasty trait, which is that they mostly cause ’True Damage’. Gao Gong’s current Mechanical Blood Volume is 30,877, Biological Blood Volume 64,527, which is a blood bull level everywhere, yet still cannot withstand a few touches.

With a thought from Gao Gong, the entire cloak emitted a rich golden-red radiance. Where the light shone, any existence on the virtual level turned into complex programs, symbols, letters, and numbers.

Reignforce!

And the ’Skull’ was forced out as well. Unlike other virtual entities, the translucent flame on its body seemed to be separated by a faint white mist. It was this mist that prevented Gao Gong from clearly seeing the composition of the entity, seeming like some kind of number or like dense maggots.

”How many people’s brains have you absorbed to twist into such a state?” Gao Gong said disdainfully.

’Skull’ didn’t answer but looked warily at the information equipment on Gao Gong, after all, its previous owner was an ’Electronic Ascender’, with a dangerous aura that only it could perceive.

Gao Gong glanced outside the hospital, where the zombie tide-like white shadows had been ’operated’ on almost entirely, ancient information was equivalent to ’Rule’, far surpassing the opponent’s manufactured ’Artificial Souls’.

’Skull’ apparently noticed this too, a twitch at the corner of his eye, the cost to manufacture these ’Artificial Souls’ was very high, and these artificial souls were corporate assets, linked to itself. For every consumption, it weakened by one degree.

”Aren’t you going to make a move?”

Gao Gong retorted.

”Two of my little partners have escaped your control. If they come over, you’re finished.”

’Skull’ was silent for a moment, the madness in its eyes seemed to become substantive.

The next moment, the maggots inside the ’white mist’ started turning to ashes, at the same time, the entire hospital began to shake violently, the visible scenes being deleted.

”Brother!”

Gao Gong grabbed Gao Yuanyuan’s small hand without turning his head, preventing her from hard fighting with the opponent, letting the opponent banish that piece of ’Ancient Information’, returning to the artificial data space created by the ’Biological Computer’.

At this time, the four walls in east, south, west, and north, all the small screens were burned through by transparent flames.

Meanwhile in reality, thick smoke began to rise from Gao Gong’s body.

The ’Boss Huang’ and ’Manhattan’ who had escaped danger exchanged glances, both with somewhat odd expressions.

Gao Gong stared intently at the skeleton phantom in the flames; every fractured screen reflected the skull’s fragments.

”Mas lied, I sense a kindred spirit aura on you!”

This was the second sentence Skull uttered, and also the last.

And Gao Gong suddenly laughed, laughing so broadly that his gums were exposed. Those weren’t a young man’s teeth; the upper and lower molars had long been worn down, leaving only the roots.

’Gao Gong’ extended his palm, slowly opening it to reveal two pills in his palm, one blue and one white.

”You took the second one, in both virtual and reality, you chose the wrong place.”

In Skull’s eyes, at first, there was astonishment, then it seemed as if a raging fury was about to erupt. It opened its mouth but couldn’t speak, yet from the way its lips moved, it clearly indicated, ’Merkel’!

”Tsk tsk, indeed, the saying goes that an old bandit never dies, and it’s true.”

In reality, Gao Gong, holding his sister’s small hand, reappeared from another place.

Four hundred years is just a moment, whether from a civilization’s perspective or a planet’s lifespan, but having undergone the turbulence from the Civilization Era to the Cyber Era, having sufficient experience and fearsome skill, indeed justifies the title ’old bandit’.

”Mr. G compliments this old man too much, I’m just a man nearing end-of-life.”

An old man wearing ancient clothing, with impeccably groomed white hair, half-bowing, holding a cane, smiling at the approaching duo.

”Without the pill you gave him, maybe, I would have had to just kill him.” Gao Gong shook his head, said.

Gao Yuanyuan, somewhat socially anxious, disliked the presence of others, slightly bowed towards the old man, then vanished from reality.

”I didn’t expect, such a young girl to become the last ’Destruction Form’,” Merkel sighed, ”nor did I expect, after 17 corporate wars, technology to advance to this extent, actually managing to gather those ’Destruction Forms’.”

”You know of the Destruction?”

”Of course, the term ’Destruction’ was coined by Miss Deep Web. The Miss Deep Web of those years was just like you today, Mr. G, a luminary distinguished in her era.”

”Deep Web—” Gao Gong had repeatedly heard this name, of course, this ’Deep Web’ was ’No. 1 Destruction Form Deep Net’, not the ’Mother City Deep Net’.”

Just at this moment, Boss Huang and Dr. Manhattan too noticed the anomaly, hurried over, upon seeing the two, clearly understanding that the Research Association and the Johnson Group, tycoon Murdoch and Mr. G, had long reached a secret agreement.