Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 756: Chapter 280: No Choice

As a super corporation, data confidentiality is always a top priority option.

If you are a hacker, when you hack into a corporation and try to obtain some secrets, the first thing you will face is the endless electronic defense walls.

Even if you can infiltrate them one by one through certain operations, what you will encounter next is a certain ’data confidentiality project’.

This could be a combination of thousands of confidentiality software or dozens of neural editor teams patrolling the network tirelessly day and night.

Moreover, even if you can open the ’confidentiality project’, next there will be various documents that are nine fake and one real, or nine real and one fake.

Within many of these documents, electronic viruses are buried.

Don’t think that super corporations don’t play with viruses; they play exceptionally well.

There’s a saying that those who can hack into a super enterprise database are at least among the top ten super hackers.

Generally speaking, this is the hacker’s famous battle.

However, all the above operations, Gao Yuanyuan doesn’t need to do.

She only needs to find a high-level executive, open up a human brain, or find a database and enter a database.

All viruses, firewalls, and surveillance systems are useless against her.

’Virtual Network Underlying Architecture’

’Virtual Firewall’

’Signal Processing Module’

’Virtual Warehouse Technology’

...

”Who are you!?”

Finally, a high-level executive responsible for network defense, during a random network patrol, passed through the complex virtual maze and saw a girl in white dress sitting calmly in the virtual level, ’reading’, with her little feet swinging back and forth.

The girl looked up and gave him a slight smile.

In the next moment, the image seemed to ’rewind’, and when the executive came to his senses, he found himself standing at the entrance of the maze, paused for a moment, and muttered to himself.

”Ah, I remember now, I suddenly wanted to inspect the database tonight.”

”How did I end up daydreaming?”

And when he followed the original route to where the girl was supposed to be.

There was no sign of anyone.

”Is there anything wrong with the data defense module?” he asked.

”Nothing is wrong,” the artificial intelligence replied.

Apparently, it had also been rewound.

...

[Task Completed——Experience +1,000,000, Skill Points *10, Specialization Points *10, and one random virtual side skill upgrade.]

[Tier 2 ’Hell-level’ Quest Chain Second Link——’Clues of Cryptopunk’]

[’The First Avalanche’ Task Second Ring: ’Clues of Cryptopunk’]

Difficulty: Difficult+

Task Brief: In the ’Place of Illusion’, you decrypted the Cryptopunk 331.4131 file, and at the same time, discovered the meeting place of the ’Punk Clan’, Donglun Special Zone, Third Street, House 320, so the target is quite clear.

Task Objective: Find the remains of the ancient city ’Lent’ and the meeting place of the punks.

Task Reward: Experience +1,500,000, random ’Punk Killer’ blueprint.

”The first ring of the task is completed? The speed is quite fast.”

It had been barely half a month since Gao Gong sent out the hacker group to carry out the task.

From a ’Hell-level Task’ perspective, this wasn’t slow.

At this time, Gao Gong, basking in the sun on the starship’s deck, felt a lot of emotions; he finally enjoyed the treatment of being a boss, solving problems with just a flick of his hand, thanks to his subordinates.

This feeling, it’s pretty good.

He drew the reward of ’one random virtual side skill upgrade’.

[Your Tier 2 skill ’Unmanned’ has been upgraded to ’Tier 3 Information Black Cavalry’]

The original skill description was like this.

Unmanned: You break through the barriers of code with the naked eye to glimpse the truth of the world

Now the skill description is like this——

Information Black Cavalry (Tier 3): The surface of the sea of information forever rises and falls, and you, as a cavalryman, can walk on the sea.

This introduction, it inexplicably feels a little lecherous.

By the way, is this still a ’Field of View Skill’?

Gao Gong used the skill ’Information Black Cavalry’.

In the next moment, Gao Gong felt his body disappear, degraded from physical cells to chemical substances, degraded a third time into various signals, and finally, even the signals disappeared.

And the surrounding world also changed, no longer a material world, nor a data realm, but an indescribable interactive world.

All the ’information’ passed through his body and then passed out from the other side again.

Gao Gong tried it, stepping into the ancient database ’Black Bar’, the bar was empty and there was nobody, and then with a thought, the ’Black Bar’ disappeared too, leaving only a more intense wave of information, like black seawater, about to completely engulf him, it was a strong suffocating feeling.

He wanted to jump out!

Then, he heard a ’whinny’ sound, in a trance, he seemed to see a black horse, riding it from the information layer to the data level, the ’Black Bar’ flashed and then ’Man and Horse Unity’, and he soared high again.

This time, he seemed to see a pure white radiance.

Gao Gong opened his eyes and found himself back in his body, pondering slightly, and said:

”So this is a perception skill.”

Previously, ’Unmanned’ allowed Gao Gong to see changes in the data layer with his naked eyes, roughly equivalent to opening a blind spot vision for himself.

And now, this ’Black Cavalry’ completely breaks himself down to dive into the more profound sea of information beyond the data layer.

And when he couldn’t hold on any longer, the ’Black Horse’ would appear, leap up, and bring him back to reality.

And the identity of that Black Horse was very clear; it was his own ’body’, returning from the information layer to the physical layer.

”A very ingenious skill mechanism.”

Compared to the purely vision-opening ’Unmanned’, this skill’s mechanism was more complex. But for Gao Gong, the virtual experienced driver, ’complex’ equaled ’useful’.

He thought of several operational stances in an instant.

For example, the simplest: once he was infected by an ’electronic virus’, he could ’Black Horse Leap the Ravine’, jump into the information layer, and then leap over the ’electronic virus’ back out.

In this way, even the most dangerous ’electronic virus’ couldn’t do anything to him.

It seems this skill could also resolve rejection issues.

But this would require further study.

As the saying goes, ’Good things come in pairs’, soon the system’s prompt rang again.

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Virtual Network Infrastructure]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Virtual Firewall]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Biological Signal Processing Module]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Standard Virtual Network Protocol]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Life Transformation Protocol]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Personality Anchor]]

[You have acquired Professional Knowledge - [Memory Storage Anchor]]

Would you like to perform professional knowledge synthesis?

Yes

[Virtual Network Infrastructure] + [Virtual Firewall] + [Standard Virtual Network Protocol] + [Life Transformation Protocol] + [Personality Anchor] + [Personality Anchor] + [Memory Storage Anchor]

A large amount of knowledge shattered, merged, poured into Gao Gong’s brain, forming a new Tier 2 Camp knowledge chain.

[You have acquired Tier 2 Camp Knowledge Chain [Cyber Network]]

Cyber Network (Tier 2): It is the fundamental theory of the Cyber Network, the line connecting the physical world and virtual space, a virtual technology that all civilizations turning to virtual civilization must master.

Pure virtual civilizations are extremely rare, most are fostered by artificial intelligence itself, and this foundational theory of creating virtual spaces that can accommodate ’virtual life’ from physical laws is the ’Cyber Network’.

Even in the Cyber Test Field, a place where civilizations randomly modify and technology randomly progresses, the influence of ’Cyber Space’ ranks in the top three for the test field.

Gao Gong finally revealed a satisfied smile.

His past life’s route finally had a successor, Gao Yuanyuan could also create her own virtual space now.

So this is how it feels to win by lying down.

”You smile so lewdly.”

A voice interrupted Gao Gong’s happiness.

Gao Gong opened his eyes, only to see the Little Woman staring at him curiously.

”Why are you here causing trouble instead of working,” Gao Gong said lazily.

”The Corporate War just ended, there’s no work to do, besides, she’s also in there,” the Little Woman pointed to her head, and with a slight sensing, Gao Gong could feel a vast spiritual power like an ocean.

Brain-in-a-Vat, Little Lady No. 2.

”Why is she here?”

Since she could transform, this ’Information Monster’ had always been in a semi-wild state, either polluting Radiation Beasts or on the way to polluting Radiation Beasts. In a sense, she did succeed, though she couldn’t break through the ’Planet Host’, transforming into this planet’s Gaia’s Will.

But to be honest, the Mother City also had a hard time dealing with her. She, like Ye the Big Lolita in the Electronic Brain Plan, became an immortal monster.

”Wasn’t it your scare tactics,” the Little Woman pouted, and nervously looked around, and said, ”The thing you mentioned is too terrifying, she hasn’t come out much lately.”

”Really?” Gao Gong said surprised, ”She is not you.”

The Little Woman rolled her eyes and said, ”I’m not kidding, but her staying inside is not entirely out of fear. She’s preparing to plant another tree to fight that ’monster’ you mentioned.”

Plant a tree?

Gao Gong froze for a moment, and his mind quickly turned to realize, is she planting that ’Radiation Life Tree’, that super unstable SSS+ monster.

”Ambitious.”

Gao Gong could only evaluate it this way.

It was obvious that the other party had their eyes on the ’Memory Mother’ ability, which, in a certain sense, was a super deluxe version of the ’Brain-in-a-Vat’.

If she could absorb the ability of the ’Memory Mother’, then the planet’s Planet Host would no longer be able to stop her.

She might even cultivate a super biological civilization.

But whether she could achieve it, Gao Gong was extremely doubtful.

The Fusion Route cannot be achieved by merely planting a tree.

And the terror of the ’Memory Mother’, without confronting it directly, is really hard to imagine.

”So, what are your thoughts?” Gao Gong looked at Huang Yuanli. Since she deliberately brought up this topic, she must have her own thoughts.

”I mean,” the Little Woman said coyly, ”if she encounters any danger, could you save her?”

”Difficult.”

Gao Gong shook his head.

Taking the Fusion Route is like walking a tightrope.

And dealing with the Memory Mother is akin to walking the tightrope with a third leg.

Only someone like me, who has a system, has time-traveled, has perspective, and has a rich lady, in short, with so many advantages piled up, dares to attempt it, and is at any moment ready to escape.

It was the ’Cosmic Relic’ that gave him the final confidence.

Otherwise, he would have fled long ago.

Seeing the Little Woman’s disappointed expression, Gao Gong thought for a moment and said, ”Let’s put it this way, when she chose to do this, her life and death were already beyond our control.”