Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Gao Gong was right, he indeed had nothing to do with this.

As a third-tier antivirus software, the most powerful features of the Red Wing Killer were twofold: immortality and virus hunting.

Ordinary viruses could even be instantly devoured by them.

But the two individuals before them—one was a crazy girl who treated viruses like tattoos, the other was a bug itself—these two were veritable nemeses.

The most important fact is that this is not Cyber Space, but a virtual realm where the underlying rules have been rewritten.

There was no way they could be immortal.

Gao Gong watched gleefully as they restored their human form, got smashed, and then restored their human form again, continuing to get smashed.

Finally, the delightful system prompt sound rang out.

[Mission accomplished, Reward: One Data Enlightenment]

Gox and the Big Black clasped hands joyfully.

”What should we do with these two corpses, throw them outside?” Big Black, whose real name was Black Code, asked.

”You idiot, if you throw them outside, what if they resurrect?”

Gox thought for a moment and had no good idea. Leaving them here was not viable, as someone might follow the clues back, yet throwing them outside seemed unreliable too. Suddenly, she turned and looked at Gao Gong.

”Little pet, do you have any ideas?”

Gao Gong was about to speak when he suddenly let out a soft exclamation.

”What’s wrong?”

The Source Code Killer, as Gao Gong’s only full-level skill with a Master’s Certificate, its potential was far beyond the system panel description.

Gao Gong’s sensing of the source code even surpassed some AI who lived by it.

As the two Red Wing Killers perished, a part of their source code disintegrated—this should be a part of their consciousness—and the other small part mysteriously vanished.

This disappearance was very peculiar.

If this were Cyber Space, this part of the source code merging with the underlying structure would be normal.

But here it is a small Metaverse, so this piece of source code could never integrate here.

Then there’s only one possibility.

There’s another Antivirus Guardian here!

And it’s a top-tier kind.

Therefore, the source codes of fellow Antivirus Guardians automatically converge.

Inside the liquor store, Xiuyue’s expression suddenly changed. In his hand, a stream of green data appeared abruptly. Although he reacted quickly and grasped them in his hand immediately.

But his complexion was unpleasant.

The Red Wing Killer had invaded here and was even killed!

This would have been alright, but the most crucial factor was that, due to his identity as the Machine Consciousness Department’s director, the source code was automatically absorbed.

Deploying the ’Cyber Killer’ authority here has become troublesome.

”Will it be discovered?”

Xiuyue muttered to himself, and the next moment, he raised his head sharply. In the sky above, accompanied by Gox’s wild laughter, shark missiles descended from the sky.

Electronic mosaic covered the entire store.

The virus missiles exploded above, yet couldn’t penetrate this layer of mosaic.

”Sure to fail rather than succeed!”

When Xiuyue walked out of the liquor store, the initially somewhat disheveled uncle was already dressed in a white suit, with gold-wire glasses hanging from his ear.

His gentle appearance fully showcased what is called a refined beast.

Under the cover of the shark bomb’s disruption, a mass of Black Code quietly appeared behind him, swiftly transforming into a massive black figure, with an enormous fist fiercely pounding towards his head.

If this punch hit correctly, it wouldn’t be just a ’monitor black screen’—Xiuyue’s entire network implantation chamber would ’black out’.

”A bug is not irreparable.”

With his words falling, the fist of Black Code slammed fiercely into a pristine white wall.

Looking around, Black Code found only pristine walls - above, below, left, right, front, back.

This mysterious ’white house’ was still slowly contracting.

”Haven’t seen the self-repair of the program that comes with the Electronic Defense Wall?”

”Die!”

Xiuyue’s silhouette flickered, dodging Gox’s claw strike. In his eyes, not only were her eyes blood-red, but Gox had turned into a red code entirely.

Trojan virus, worm virus, backdoor virus...

Various viruses fused to form something even more dangerous.

”A little tricky, no wonder Mother of Data hasn’t made a move for years, she was rearing such a monster.”

Gox stared at his opponent fiercely, suddenly letting out a roar.

In the next instant, an area of ten streets turned red centered on her, a terrifying virus even causing the Electronic Defense Wall to halt its operation.

Faced with such a horrible assault, Xiuyue also became serious, slightly raising his gold-wire glasses—a sign that the algorithm was being activated.

Mechanical giant pillars, gears, and foundations rose from the massive data flow in just three seconds.

A massive Mechanical City emerged from the data flow.

The red viral light collided with the mechanical wall, absorbed by gears, spindles, and engines, and transformed into the city’s power.

Xiuyue stood on the city wall, looking down at the two.

In his pupil, a bronze-colored bullet suddenly appeared.

This bullet was ejected from the wall, meaning it bypassed all execution programs in the algorithm.

Centering on the axis of his body, Xiuyue’s half-body turned ninety degrees.

The bullet grazed past the glasses, although avoiding the vital point, a crack inevitably appeared upon the mirror.

Xiuyue displayed a flash of murderous intent in his eyes, located the bullet’s direction of presence.

He saw an exquisite young man holding a silver-white pistol and smiling slightly at him.

”A level 40 King of Hackers, didn’t expect there to be such a formidable hidden character here!”

”But your opponent is not me, oh.”

Xiuyue also knew this, with the ground, streets, and buildings all vanishing.

Replaced by an endless sea of data.

Data, formed the enormous waves, battering the Mechanical City’s walls, representing Miss Cyberpedia’s, Mother of Data’s wrath.

”Heh, heh, heh.”

A gigantic visage surfaced from the sea.

It was the face of a middle-aged woman, grand and terrifying. Ordinary AI would suffer data disorder and code collapse from just a glimpse.

”Deep Net, Deep Net!”

”Do you want me dead so much?”

Xiuyue sighed softly, knowing that a slightest leak and all plans fall through.

Because Mother of Data surely tracked down everything.

Gigantic waves from all sides crashed into the Mechanical City, with code digestion capacity failing to match the speed of data generation. Soon, the algorithm’s wall began to reach a precarious state.

”Activate now, mend the fold.”

Xiuyue pulled out a communicator, pressed a button.

Next moment, Gao Gong lifted his head.

Another appeared at the level of Big Data computation.

The void brought countless 0s and 1s, enormous black pipes appeared, descending from the sky, puncturing the water surface, vehemently absorbing the vast data stream climbed from Cyber Space by Eliza.

Gao Gong knew who the opponent was, one of the strongest Big Data Monsters, a fusion of global signal base stations, the ruler of neural signals, the Pipe Sovereign.

Using one Big Data Monster to oppose another.

A masterstroke of conception.