Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 813: Chapter 337: Knight of Destruction’s Nest

”It’s you!!”

0’s pair of golden hourglass eyes stared coldly at Gao Gong.

The two might never have officially met face to face, but the number of times they’d crossed blades was anything but small, and they’d been digging into each other the whole time.

tried to kill Eliza and absorb the Big Data Conceptual Body; Gao Gong was likewise reconstructing the Punk Clan.

But for now, Gao Gong still had the upper hand.

Because the controller of Database 0 wasn’t the 0 in front of them, but the 0 that had been eaten by Gox.

also knew the situation was extremely unfavorable to him; once he delayed long enough for the other side to completely digest Database 0, he’d never be able to take back his own body again.

Golden rivers once again spread out from under his feet, and silhouettes of ”punk virus” figures crawled out from the golden river water one after another.

The electronic viruses accumulated over the past decades in this 0 Virus Vault had all been transformed into punk viruses by the other side; their danger level jumped up a whole tier.

”Nobody move—let me handle this myself!!”

Gox roared, and in the sky’s data layer, bright crimson fissures split open one after another—Xuanyuan X, Skull, Giant Spirit God... more than half of the top 50 hackers on the Mother City Wanted List arrived.

Shamate Old Man Lei looked at Xuanyuan X, his eyes bulging.

”Didn’t this old bastard ascend already? When did he get refined into a data puppet?”

The next instant, two massive forces slammed into each other: data layer versus data layer, cracking software versus electronic viruses, Punk Clan versus Punk Clan.

Two Avalanches poured in without end; although the golden Avalanche was far higher in Tier than the white Avalanche, the ”white snow” split open countless mouths, gulping down the golden Avalanche, and moreover, the ”white Avalanche” had fused the power of Destruction and began mutating like crazy.

The hourglasses in golden 0’s eyes sped up by a factor of two; in the next moment, Gox’s body rapidly melted, turning from a rebellious loli into a loli of flesh and blood.

Yet along with Gox’s signature manic laughter, strands of flesh burst out through the skin; more and more twisted Goxes appeared—distorted human forms, fractured Virtual Personalities fused with electronic viruses—various mutants took shape and charged toward the other side.

Unfortunately, there were still far too many electronic viruses.

made a grasping motion, and over ten thousand punk viruses slammed down; at the same time, the golden hourglass began to flow in reverse, 0’s figure swelling without limit, golden rivers winding up around his body—Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 3 Peak.

His Aura even surpassed that of an Information Lifeform, becoming something indescribable.

Shamate Old Lei’s expression changed; he stepped in front of his disciple, ancient data continuously converting into encrypted data, and shouted:

”Don’t look! One glance and you’ll be converted!”

Sure enough, several super hackers entangled on the battlefield merely glanced over and their bodies began to mutate, covered head to toe in golden collapse code; they soon completely dissolved, and moments later, several imposing figures crawled out of the golden rivers.

”You little brat dare act tough in front of me!”

Xuanyuan X’s white hair flared, his entire virtual Aura seeming to turn into a black hole; imperial-era aircraft carriers, large Mechanical Men, Transformer legions, the Xiao Family Army surged forth to blanket the sky, even reversing the battlefield for a moment.

An 87th-level National Preceptor with four boss templates, even if not at his peak, was still terrifying when he went all out.

A grave look flashed through golden 0’s eyes; he’d crossed hands with this old thing back in the day—it was a very troublesome guy.

The golden hourglasses in his left and right eyes both rotated 180 degrees.

Nearly a third of the punk viruses exploded on the spot, turning into golden dust; wherever it passed, everything Xuanyuan X had summoned, all those virtual machines, were blasted into nothingness, and the golden dust, momentum undiminished, surged madly toward Gox.

Gox took a deep breath; the bizarre Mutants began a second mutation, their levels skyrocketing one by one—Level 50, Level 60, Level 65, the numerous Mutants seemingly intending to tank this move head-on.

But a petite white figure suddenly appeared in midair.

Gao Yuanyuan’s eyes likewise turned into black VHS tapes, and countless transparent spiders crawled from her hands into the Void.

The next instant, the entire Database 0 let out an indescribable sound, as if something huge was being forcibly stuffed into this Box.

It was a ”data city” built from countless data—the super computing center as its foundation, data-linked employees as network nodes, company operations as data flows, executives as node switches.

It was the database of a Super Corporation!!

By leveraging the super Authority formed from half a Destruction Form, one Mother of Data, and one Brainstorming Girl fused into one, Gao Yuanyuan brute-forced an enterprise-grade database over here and shoved it in front of the enemy’s attack.

The next instant, the city walls formed by the corporate firewall were submerged; countless Antivirus Software turned Electronic Guardians hadn’t even made it out of the city before they disintegrated as well.

The city’s foundations—one data center after another in the real world—either exploded or caught fire.

The officials of the city, the many AIs hired by the super corp—low-level AI, Intermediate AI, Advanced AI—aside from the Advanced AIs, who managed to upload their Consciousness and flee back to their own data centers in an instant, the rest were basically wiped out in one wave.

Just from that one strike, the digital asset losses might already be in the tens of billions.

And Gao Yuanyuan didn’t hesitate for a second; as the corporate database collapsed, she once again unleashed her big data crawler ability, hauling up another digital city and planting it in front of her.

”Who told you to butt in!” Gox gnashed her teeth in rage, wishing she could bite this coward to death.

”You only said nobody else is allowed to interfere. Am I ’somebody else’?” Gao Yuanyuan suddenly said playfully.

Gox was momentarily speechless, and finally could only snap in exasperation:

”Just stop bothering me!”

”Of course, I’m only lending a tiny hand!”

”I don’t need your help.”

”I’m not helping you, I’m helping myself.”

That move from Gao Yuanyuan was downright brutal, she directly dragged out enterprise-level databases to suppress those electronic viruses.

And regardless of who owned those data, or whether the super corporations were willing or not, it still had to open up enterprise firewalls to block this terrifying tide of electronic viruses.

There was even a certain chance of pulling out an SSR deck during the summon.

For example, one of the four biological giants, the Corporate Will of Vinos Life Safety Group — that super biological computer that called itself ”Mother”!

Mother shot a resentful glance at Gao Gong in the rear, apparently thinking this was Gao’s idea.

But she had no choice except to intervene. The sky flushed red, a Cyber Network biological cloud was summoned, at least fifty S-Level Data Bodies dropped from the heavens, unleashing all sorts of bizarre superpowers, sweeping the battlefield in one go, then actively cutting the connection and vanishing.

”An old acquaintance, huh!”

Gao Gong couldn’t help but laugh.

Back in the Corporate War, she was insanely arrogant. Pity that times change — now this Large-scale Biological Computer had fallen to the level of a big summon creature.

’Speaking of which, I really should pay her a visit when I have time. How come my personal biological computer stopped after upgrading to 6.0?’

Wasn’t this thing supposed to keep upgrading as its level went up?

The hardware is in place, so is it a software issue?

With Gao Yuanyuan suppressing the electronic virus army, Gox could go all out. All kinds of level 60, 70 Mutants charged straight up to Golden 0, attacking in various suicidal ways.

Very soon, Golden 0’s body was covered in wounds, containing electronic viruses, Punk Virus, and some even more bizarre mutant powers.

The power of the ”Civilization Poison Core” was indeed strong.

But Gox had absorbed the Civilization Poison Core as well, and she was a complete Destruction Form, with another personality, Gao Yuanyuan, helping out.

In terms of Authority, she was definitely not below the other side.

Seeing the frontline stabilize, the two-faced girl firmly pressing down Golden 0, Gao Gong withdrew his gaze, turned to Black Rose, and pondered for a moment:

”Give me a hand, Sister Rose.”

Black Rose nodded, and her palm once again brushed across Gao Gong’s body. The Authority of the ”Metabolism Queen” activated.

The ”metabolism” inside Gao Gong’s body abruptly surged to over ten thousand times normal.

But this time, relying on the immense Endurance gained from cultivating in the Star Core, Gao Gong brute-forced his way through it, relying purely on his normal state to withstand this powerful force. His whole body flushed crimson, like he was about to ignite.

A trace of surprise flashed in Black Rose’s eyes.

She hadn’t expected her little wolfdog’s body to have gotten this strong already. Black Rose subconsciously licked her red lips... not bad at all.

As his body went through upgrades and replacements at tens of thousands of times the normal speed, inspiration suddenly struck in Gao Gong’s mind. The Black Forbidden Throne surfaced once more, and among the sixteen S-Level Radiation Beast tattoos that formed the Forbidden Throne, one of them slowly faded away.

It had been refined.

[You have digested the S-Level Radiation Beast Bloodline ”Divine Master”, Consciousness +500, Biological Energy +20000]

In a daze, Gao Gong seemed to see a humanoid creature filled with Divinity, howling in grief, its body melting bit by bit in the torrent of high-speed metabolism. However—

Why is it ”Consciousness” again?

He glanced at his Gao Da-level Consciousness of ”2727” points, and for a moment Gao Gong didn’t know if he should be happy or sad. It was higher than the sum of his five main Attributes, close to 3000 points of Consciousness. Gao Gong felt he was not far from piloting a Planet-level Mecha.

But he clearly wasn’t walking that route, damn it!

Fortunately, the twenty thousand Biological Energy made Gao Gong’s Aura climb once more. This time, entering Great Serpent Mode, he could even suppress the Box instead.

Spatial Power poured into the ”Box”. This time, Gao Gong didn’t intend to ”make a wish”, but planned to rely on his own strength to forcibly manipulate the Box’s Rules.

The suppressors on his body snapped open again, Fusion Mode’s power spilling out without end. As it filled up, Gao Gong took a deep breath and clenched his hand.

The entire Database 0, one of the foundations of the Cyber Network, was being gathered bit by bit into his palm.

This was Gao Gong’s true objective for this trip.

This Virus Database 0 would become the ”Data Nest” for him to forge Knights of Destruction.

And Golden 0 clearly saw this scene as well. The rage on his face was about to turn solid. Ignoring everything else, he lunged at Gao Gong in a frenzy.

This was his body, and also his source of power.

However, a savage voice rang out from above his head.

”Seems like you forgot about me, Gox!”

Just one opening was instantly seized by the violent girl, and in the next moment, Golden 0’s four limbs were torn off and devoured.

His head was grabbed by Gox and smashed hard into the ground.

Brain matter splattered.