Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

The underlying structure of the data node has a problem, which is a very dangerous thing.

Because this could lead to the collapse of the entire data node.

Once collapsed, all beings within the data node—AI, Cyber Race, Data Life—will die.

If hundreds of thousands of people are logged into this data node, once it collapses, those hundreds of thousands of people will simultaneously experience brain death in reality.

Even in a Mechanical Era where human lives are as cheap as grass, this counts as a major incident.

Gao Gong executed the bug ’User Data Loss’, and for a moment, the world high in the sky gradually turned into characters, numbers, and code.

”Move!”

Ahong, though not of age, is a seasoned veteran in the Cyber Hacker profession, and the ’Mirror Neuron Algorithm’ was immediately activated.

The next moment, the data began to reorganize, laying out massive characters on the ground, buildings rose from the ground, surrounding clouds turned into the black smoke of mechanical architecture, and an industrial punk style started to appear—engines, industrial pipelines, and all sorts of mechanical components.

Industrialized city, or conversely, urbanized industry.

”You’re really unreliable. The underlying structure has problems and you didn’t notice?”

”I’m an information hacker, not a prosthetic body hacker; I operate on the network level, not the application level.”

While the two were bickering, suddenly, a ’pager’ at Ahong’s waist started to buzz like an alarm.

”Be careful, a wild virus is coming!”

No need for another’s reminder, Gao Gong saw shadowy figures around them, bizarre robots lunging at them.

It’s bizarre because these robots seemed to be cobbled together from mismatched prosthetic body parts, with damaged gorilla arms, reverse mechanical legs, opened up electronic brains, and variously sized endoskeletons.

”Prosthetic body loophole, the most common virus.”

Issues with prosthetic bodies interfere with neural signals, and once these signals are uploaded to Cyber Space, they naturally generate an endless stream of wild viruses.

Ahong swiped his palm, bringing forth a virtual screen.

[Battle Angel No. 1, No. 3, No. 5 Descend]

[Data Charging...]

The next moment, three mechanical girls, Aidolu, descended from the sky, wielding chainsaws, mechanical hammers, and kinetic samurai swords, charging in three directions, dismantling countless prosthetic bodies into parts as they went.

This is the ’antivirus software’ created by Cyber Hackers themselves.

As veterans dealing with viruses, hackers’ self-made ’antivirus software’ is far more aggressive than generic electronic defense walls.

Ahong proudly glanced at Gao Gong, only to see countless codes splitting and reorganizing in Gao Gong’s hands, coalescing into two silver Desert Eagles.

The next moment, Gao Gong darted out like lightning.

”Hey, don’t show off!”

Ahong thought Gao Gong was competing with him. Although these were low-level wild viruses, they were still viruses, and once they invaded their logged-in accounts, resolving the issue would be troublesome.

But what made his eyes nearly pop out was that the opponent’s movements were like a magnificent dance with guns, vaulting and flipping between industrial equipment, performing actions no normal person could.

In this process, every programming bullet fired unerringly hit a robot.

The robots would then shatter into code like glass fragments.

Source Code Killer max: To you, the slicing of program logic, data structures, and algorithm programming is like a butcher dissecting an ox. Any level of AI life is just a pile of crude blocks—a single pull could collapse mountains and sea.

Gao Gong could even achieve One-Hit Kill on these low-level viruses.

The prosthetic body viruses slain by the Battle Angels might regroup, but those killed by Gao Gong were dead beyond resurrection.

Gao Gong’s solo damage output far exceeded that of the three Battle Angels.

Ahong hesitated for a moment, realizing that although this guy wasn’t a Cyber Hacker, he seemed to have a thorough understanding of the profession.

Especially with all sorts of strange and odd methods, surpassing even Cyber Hackers themselves.

’Could this guy be some ancient monster from the Civilization Era?’

As far as Ahong knew, some hackers from the Civilization Era had to go into hiding due to being wanted by the Mother City. Some even replicated their personality code, casting it into the big data, and emerged anew decades later with the breakthrough of certain network technologies.

This way, not only did they evade being fugitives, but they also gained powerful abilities granted by Cyber Space.

However, this kind of ’reincarnation’ held considerable risk, with most personality codes getting lost in the Data Maze.

Only a small fraction succeeded in reincarnation.

Gao Gong did not expect the other side to connect him with the old generation of hackers.

He was racking up experience joyfully; these ’prosthetic body viruses’ awarded a lot of experience, with each giving 1000 experience points.

In a short moment, he had farmed hundreds of thousands of experience points.

These were all personal experience points, not Alliance Experience.

After the last ’prosthetic body virus’ was eliminated, Gao Gong reluctantly put away his Desert Eagles.

”Let’s go, what are you standing there for.”

”Oh.”

The two hadn’t gone far before a loud rumble echoed; they looked up to see within the world of pipes and machinery, two super large octopus tentacles descending from the sky, moving forward step by step, causing a quake-like effect with each step.

Every time its foot touched down, numerous mechanical parts attached to it, making it appear increasingly robust.

”This should be some large combat machine from reality, with this form, a destruction model Octopus Monster?”

Ahong’s expression gained a rare hint of tension.

”Let’s wait for it to leave before we proceed.”

The Octopus Monster is a Mechanical Mother. In reality, it’s a level 76 super boss, while in Cyber Space, its danger only increases.

Gao Gong gladly accepted the other’s suggestion.

However, in the next moment, a sudden change occurred as shark-shaped missiles descended from the industrial smog-covered sky, crashing like a meteor shower onto the two super tentacles.

The furious data explosion engulfed the surroundings.

The two were dumbfounded watching this scene.

Someone actually dared to attack this monster!?

Gao Gong, with sharp eyes, saw a figure on the surface of a giant missile.

”Hahaha, you Mother City trash, go die, go die!!!”

Explosions continued to ring out.

Within the smoke created from data transformation, a group of people charged out, led by a tattooed young girl, wearing short shorts, a leather bra, braids, pupils changing colors, laughing wildly and twistedly.

The group rushed past the two, and the crazy girl inadvertently glanced at Gao Gong, suddenly coming to a halt.

”Sister G, run, the Mother City monster is catching up!” a human form data entity shouted.

Sister G seemed to turn a deaf ear, walking to Unparalleled Shota, staring straight at him, extending her colorful fingers, pinching Gao Gong’s tender face.

”Hey, you look pretty cute, how about becoming my little brother?”

Gao Gong shyly smiled: ”Sure.”

”What should I call you, sister?”

”My name is Gox, but everyone generally calls me Ginx. You can call me Sister G.”

Gao Gong’s gaze fell on the opponent’s wrist, seeing her wear a pink wristband with a familiar ’G’ letter on its back.

”Sister G, your wristband is so pretty, the person who gave it to you must have great taste.”