Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 839 - 838: Invisible

Lost World, 47th floor.

It's been several hours since Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai discovered the edge of the Lost World.

At that time, those humanoid puppets crawling out of the broken pipeline emitted alarms, saying [Detected, living target]

[Target identity verification: Security Guard, passed]

[Program judgment: Destroy fluid energy pipeline]

[Searching disposal method]

[Strategy: Exterminate]

[In execution]

and directly attacked the two of them.

These security guards, fearless and in groups, had no special abilities, relying solely on their bodies to fight,

but their bodies were extremely tough, comparable to perfect-level extraordinary materials, ordinary machine gun bullets would bounce right off.

The sharpness of their fingers rivaled that of a high-frequency cutting blade: they were agile and flexible, able to bend in all directions,

and with slightly poor eyesight, all one could see were the afterimages they left while bouncing back and forth on different planes.

Apart from their somewhat rigid and inflexible enemy strategy, each security guard was more lethal and dangerous than a Lv20 player.

Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai expended considerable effort to injure several security guards and escape the encirclement,

only to find that the security guards didn't continue their pursuit, giving up the chase at a corner 1,500 meters away and returning to the wall, repairing the energy conduit, and crawling back into wall cracks and broken pipelines.

After several tests, Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai finally confirmed that

the security guards, like the mech beasts, would attack living targets, especially flesh and blood living targets (recognized as intruders),

and the function of the belt was to release identity verification particles with a half-life, making the security guards consider the wearer as one of them,

thus not actively attacking.

However, this "charm" effect is quite limited,

if the wearer performs actions not conforming to the security guards,

such as attacking other guards, destroying energy transport conduits, or removing the belt in a short time,

they would still be marked as an anomaly and attacked.

They would stop only once out of the security guards' patrol range.

At this moment, Li Ang sat on the metal wreckage, pondering deeply for a long time, then lifted his head and said gravely, "Hmm... I suddenly thought of something."

Liu Wu Dai, who was waiting for the result from the substance analyzer on the amber-like liquid, turned his head and asked, "What?"

"Those security guards are likely driven by artificial intelligence, right?"

Li Ang rubbed his chin, a gleam of intelligence in his eyes, "Is it possible to trick them by exploiting the inherent flaws of artificial intelligence?"

"..."

Liu Wu Dai furrowed his eyebrows slightly at the remark and softly said, "You mean using hacker programs to infiltrate the AI system of the security guards, making them obey us?

That seems unlikely,

because this is an unknown otherworldly realm,

the civilization that created the security guards may differ from humans in physiology, language, and logical thinking.

I previously tried using the automated hacking program provided by Whalesong to hack the security guards, but it had no effect at all.

If even Whalesong couldn't accomplish it, it's unlikely that any other organization could..."

"I'm not talking about infiltration, but rather exploiting loopholes."

Li Ang casually picked up a piece of metal debris and used Alchemy on it, refining it into a human-height rectangular metal plate,

on one side of the metal plate, there was a painting.

A half-human, half-fish girl wearing a broken, cool swimsuit, arms crossed in front of her, looked pitiful and aroused sympathy.

There was only one regrettable thing, this half-human half-fish was not human on the upper body and fish-tailed on the lower,

instead, it was human legs on the lower body and a fish head on the upper body.

"???"

Even though Liu Wu Dai and Li Ang had been in each other's company for a long time, they were still momentarily confused by this painting, and subconsciously asked, "This is..."

"A violative image."

Li Ang said matter-of-factly: "The original inhabitants of this world are half-human, half-animal creatures.

Since they could develop such advanced mechanical life forms as security guards and builders,

their internet technology must be quite advanced too.

The photo I'm holding, seen as too revealing and vulgar by the natives,

would certainly not pass online audits,

turning into a bunch of mosaics, or directly clipped out and not displayed as a white image.

If I wield a shield crafted from a violative image, I might achieve 'invisibility' in the security guards' sight.

I can do anything without being obstructed."

"..."

Liu Wu Dai's lips moved a bit, remained silent for a moment, and eventually said, "...You can try. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

But it needs to be globally broadcasted in case of a battle later."

Though most lone wolf players are pragmatic and don't care much about reputation or image,

Liu Wu Dai, however, as the future heir of the Liu family, would inherit the family enterprise and commercial empire,

if global audiences saw her fighting alongside a man wielding a vulgar image shield...

"We'll see."

Li Ang put the metal shield into the sodium ring, stood up, dusted off his hands, and casually asked, "Are the results from the analyzer out yet?"

"Yes."

Liu Wu Dai nodded, taking out the printed sheet from the analyzer, which still carried the warmth of the printer. Li Ang glanced at it.

"This amber-like substance can basically be confirmed as the energy used by the Lost World's civilization."

Liu Wu Dai said softly, "It's similar to petroleum, composed of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, a colorless to brownish-yellow heterofluoros liquid at room temperature, poorly soluble in water, flammable, with an aromatic smell.

But its overall calorific value far exceeds that of the same mass of gasoline.

Previously when we broke those security guards' bodies, a small amount of brown-yellow amber-like substance flowed out from their corpses.

And the light yellow powder inside the machine beast engines can basically be confirmed to be made from the amber-like energy."

Li Ang nodded indifferently, and based on the observations from the insect nest units,

The main reason for the machine beasts attacking the builders, besides obtaining the metal materials and parts necessary for reproduction, is also to steal the amber substance in the builders' engines,

essentially being oil thieves.

This also explains why machine beasts haven't bred to cover the entire Lost World—they need energy to activate.

For energy, machine beasts would proactively attack much larger builders,

and engage in wars with different machine beast groups,

according to information observed by the insect nest on the 44th floor, some sufficiently large machine beast groups would even invade the edge of the Lost World, going to the 44th floor walls, to steal amber energy—even if such actions would bring the slaughter by the security guards.

Li Ang didn't reveal this information, pondered for a while, and slowly said, "The natives of the Lost World, the corpses we previously discovered, have undoubtedly been dead for a very long time.

Yet the energy system here is still functioning normally, sustaining the security guards, builders, and machine beasts.

This may indicate that somewhere in the Lost World, there are still devices extracting and refining energy,

and some confidential facilities still operate normally..."