Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 866: Chapter 34: The Fall of the Fortress (End)

The Cyber Tide, from its early stages, through the middle period, to its peak period, would only grow stronger.

The power of each wave would only become stronger.

After the first three waves, the subsequent waves were ’Conceptual Parasitism’ and ’Pheromone Virus.’

The former controlled all the enterprises in the world.

The latter turned the world into an ant society.

Inside the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, the silhouette of Miss Ke appeared for the first time, a petite shadow composed of electronic phantoms.

With her operations, not only the building of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, but all buildings in Mother City engaging in ’data transmission,’ their tubes inserted into the floor surfaces slowly withdrew, inserting into the void.

At the center of the Deep Net, on top of the virtual Number One building, the gigantic virtual Tower Spirit, Veronia, let out an excited scream, the virtual Brain was slowly pulled out of the building, over a hundred data tubes attached to its head, each tube with a large amount of unfinished transmitted data, these virtual data were absorbed by Veronia, causing her to grow a deformed physique, her abdomen swelling continuously, limbs pitifully short, head larger than her body.

Within the virtual Number One, all office personnel showed the opposite, amidst ’crack’ sounds, their heads continually shrank, eyeballs first popped out, followed by white brain matter, while their abdomen shrank, large intestines expelled outside.

Similar occurrences were happening in the thousands of Mother City buildings.

The virtual silhouette of ’Miss Ke’ continuously rose, finally suspending within the radiation layer.

Besides her, five more figures appeared.

They were respectively —

The Gentle Supervisor of the Memory Supervision Department

The Woman of Humanity from the Humanity Experiment Department

The Electronic Lady from the Electronic Network Department

The Miss Consciousness of the Machine Consciousness Department

The Registrar Gentleman of the Prosthetic Registration Department

In the eyes of six Super Intelligences, the same red glow emitted.

”Mother City is out of control, Mother City is out of control, taking final response plan.”

”All high-risk experimental subjects, delete all!”

”High-risk experimental subject number one, Mr. G...”

...

And in the headquarters of all Super Corporations, similar events were happening.

Vinos Life Safety Group

Hundreds of layers of the building have been filled with the scent of blood, the building’s surface already covered by a giant placenta.

Countless employees began to flee, yet these escapes were destined to be futile, after a few steps, a mature woman’s voice rang out.

”Good child, why are you still outside? Hurry back to mother’s embrace.”

This employee looked at their body slowly melting in terror, heart, liver, spleen, and lungs gradually disappeared, the body shrinking segment by segment, turning into an infant, then grabbed and stuffed into the darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, the headquarters of this biological giant vanished, a nearly kilometer-large pregnant woman appeared, her abdomen was transparent, filled densely with ants inside.

...

Holy Brain Group

Ye the Big Lolita had long instant-teleported outside the building, looked at the scene before her with twitching eyes.

Seeing a park as large as Mechanical City covered by a giant Brain, the Brain slowly contracted and expanded, with each contraction, countless employees were squeezed into meat paste, then from the meat paste, countless ’ants’ crawled out.

Ye the Big Lolita did not fail to try saving some, almost putting herself into danger.

The Holy Brain of Holy Brain Group completely transformed into a Super Brain.

Suddenly, Ye the Big Lolita’s expression changed, she directly opened the Dark Space and disappeared from the spot, but moments later, a large number of ants crawled out from the void, the remaining dark aura quickly devoured clean.

...

Most corporate wills were parasitized by the Conceptual Body, only a few enterprises could resist.

At the headquarters of ’Electronic Grid,’ ’Pure White Shell,’ ’Artificial Will,’ and ’White Bionics,’ the surfaces of these four giant buildings were covered with ’ants.’

However, whenever ants tried to rush into the building, they were repelled by divine light spilling from doors and windows.

The Authority of the Metabolism Queen especially restrained the wave known as ’Pheromone Virus.’

And within the entire building, aside from the research side Bionic Men, there were no other types of Bionic Men.

On each floor of the building, it was filled with specially designed Bionic Men known as ’Black Rose.’

Outside the first floor door, countless ’ants’ slowly accumulated, forming into a black ant human figure, then countless nanomaterials filled the ant swarm, forming a familiar yet unfamiliar silhouette.

Bionic A

The Bionic Man stared at the door for a while, before directly walking inside.

...

There’s such a saying.

In industrial society, enterprises are ant colonies, humans are ants.

Now, Gao Gong has become an ’ant.’

Within this Cyber Test Field, one among countless ’ants.’

And around Gao Gong, were densely packed ants, they climbed out from Memory Worm Eggs, becoming part of the Memory Mother.

Gao Gong silently opened the System Panel.

Biological Energy permanently decreased by 50,000.

Hurting straight to its core.

Facts prove that when city gates catch fire, the fish in moat will suffer.

’In ant society, one is either a giant or an ant, there is no second option.’

Then Gao Gong opened Divine Knowledge.

In an instant, all the ants disappeared, replaced by an endless storm of chaotic information, the storm composed the hair of the ’New Memory Mother.’

The gigantic woman’s hair covered the entire planet, while her other hand grasped a ’sun.’

The voice of ’Namshabu’ had fallen to the point where it was inaudible.

Gao Gong tried to gaze into the distance, seeing only the core of the small sun, the throne transformed by the ’Planet Virtual Machine’, where the divine fire was nearly extinguished.

Turing had disappeared.

”What does it matter if it’s successful, can you defeat her?” Gao Gong murmured to himself.

Once the Planet Virtual Machine collapses, relying solely on the No. 3 Destruction Form means certain crushing defeat.

With a thought, Gao Gong activated ’Fusion Mode’.

And as he transformed into the ’Ant’, it started expanding little by little, turning back into Memory Worm Eggs; these eggs began to transcend from a ’low-dimensional’ existence.

Finally, a god-like palm shattered the void, illuminating the place in purple light, and Gao Gong in Fusion Mode appeared once more.

Glancing at the system panel, in Fusion Mode, Mechanical Biological Energy had reached 4 billion.

That’s a figure seldom seen even in Level 3 Civilizations.

Meanwhile, a shadow also emerged from the low-dimensional realm, and the ’Supreme Messenger’ appeared.

Gao Gong finally saw the true form of the opponent, resembling an alien like ET, with a body like a bamboo stick, and eyes taking up a significant part of its face. On its wrist was a shadowy thread that seemed to connect to another dimension.

The opponent’s Cosmic Relic is a thread?

Gao Gong glanced around but saw no sign of 3rd Generation Miller or Patriarch Xie. Whether they escaped or perished was unclear, but Gao Gong guessed it was likely the latter, as the opponent’s condition was also poor, with large amounts of black blood flowing out of their skin to fill the shadow gaps.

Despite Gao Gong’s poor condition, with Biological Energy cut from 230,000 to 180,000, thankfully his Mechanical Energy was also 190,000; otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to enter Fusion Mode, let alone emerge from low-dimensional space.

Although everyone was in dire straits, Gao Gong at least maintained his composure, and upon seeing the opponent, he smiled sardonically.

”Where are your Cloud Nobility, Messenger?”

The Thin Alien smiled gracefully, and a splash of black blood sprayed from its mouth.

”The loss of one or two pawns is insignificant, as long as the Cyber Test Field is destroyed, it’s all worth it.”

Gao Gong suddenly realized:

”Is it enough just to destroy the Cyber Test Field? I thought your real target was the Level 7 Civilization behind the Cyber Test Field.”

The Thin Alien’s expression froze.

”Where did you get that information?”

”Where I got the information is irrelevant, what’s important is that you might not even be able to achieve the basic goal.”

”I don’t believe it.”

”Let me prove it to you.”

Without another word, Gao Gong sat cross-legged in midair and entered ’Information Golden Core Mode’.

Almost instantly, his mind connected to the seabed.

On a withered tree at the seabed, he entered the body of ’Forest Leopard’.

Forest Leopard, an SS-Level martial arts prodigy, had become fully embedded in the tree.

”This might be your best chance; I will assist you, Gaia,” Forest Leopard suddenly opened his eyes.

”I understand.”

This was the voice of the Brain-in-a-Vat.

...

The Thin Alien looked at him with a peculiar expression; its black pupils enlarged to cover almost half its face.

It was tempted to suddenly attack the opponent.

But then thought about the opponent’s confident look just now; in this situation, if a conflict arises, who wins or loses is uncertain.

However, the Thin Alien was quickly drawn to another matter.

Amidst the chaotic information storm, a sun suddenly brightened, breaking through the ’low-dimensional’ ’ant society’, and slowly ascended into the sky.

The final ’Namshabu’ echoed——

’God said: I am a refuge; wherever you seek, there am I.’

The sun grew increasingly bright.

’God said: Life is in Him, and this life is humanity’s light. Light shines in the darkness, yet darkness does not accept light.’

The radiance was intensely dazzling, momentarily covering the planet.

’God said: In the path of righteousness lies life, and in its way, there is no death.’

Within the radiance, one silhouette after another reappeared; clearly, amid the Cyber Tide, Turing protected all beings.

’God said, let there be light, and there was light.’

The light grew brighter, increasingly brilliant, until it reached the peak and then suddenly disintegrated, transforming into millions of beams of light shooting toward the world.

’God said, what is drawn from humanity will ultimately be returned to humanity.’

Turing appeared once more, standing atop the now-disintegrated ’Planet Virtual Machine’, silently observing the planet, with eyes hollow, devoid of divine light.

Finally, Turing nodded and collapsed backward, breathless, entangled by countless worm-formed ’Silk Threads’, dragged into the darkness.

’Namshabu,’ capable of manipulating other people’s thoughts like designing and controlling programs.

But when human thoughts are consumed by Memory Worms, then God will also fall.

Fortress, Aramaki, Zero— their plan succeeded and yet failed.

They managed to defeat the First Generation Memory Mother.

Then, they were inversely devoured by the new Memory Mother.

The world bosses function in a turn-based system, not possessing just one life.

And the new Memory Mother born from ’Conceptual Parasitism’ and ’Pheromone Virus’, resembled a planet-sized ’Zhenzi’.

Since humans fear ghosts, naturally gods would fear ghosts too.