Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 643 - 207: Old Net, Mine’s a Bit Big, Bear With It
"Someone infiltrated the Black Wall program? And you caught them?"
Seeing Lucy bringing someone in and explaining the situation, Lin Miao was taken aback.
Initially, he thought the inside of the Black Wall was an insurmountable barrier, if not absolutely safe, at least worry-free in the short term. He never expected that it would be discovered so soon after its construction began.
Major companies tampering with the Black Wall, attempting to leverage the power of this mysterious firewall, wasn't new. But it was akin to setting sail on the Pacific Ocean; the chances of collision were minuscule without intentional pursuit. How could anyone be so coincidental?
Seeing Lin Miao's troubled expression, Lucy directly said,
"We might as well get rid of her. This person is a major problem."
She wasn't a butcher, but when it came time to kill, she never hesitated.
As she spoke, she was about to invoke the Black Wall's data to eliminate Song Zhaomei, whom she had captured.
This foreign hacker's skills made Lucy alarmed. If she hadn't struck first while the opponent was distracted and taken advantage of the numerical superiority, the opponent was several levels beyond her in terms of skill. In just a few minutes, the opponent had repeatedly cracked her programs and nearly escaped.
As long as it wasn't within her authorization, the opponent could easily escape, or even use their incomplete Black Wall privileges to counterattack.
"Wait a moment."
Lin Miao hurriedly stopped Lucy, asking her to show restraint.
"Let's figure things out first and be careful not to alert others."
With a hacker of this caliber, there must be a group of people watching her physical body in the real world. Any mistake could cause great trouble.
Moreover, who knew if she came alone or with a group. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
If it's a group, killing her would be useless. Better to keep her as a hostage.
Trapped in a data cage, Song Zhaomei couldn't hear or see what was happening outside. She could only use every means to try and break free, but her opponent's computational power seemed infinite, like a supercomputer; each layer she broke was immediately replaced by another.
Although the program's quality wasn't high, the sheer quantity was immensely daunting.
However, Song Zhaomei was still confident. Given a little more time, she could break through this data fortress, leaving behind a decoy to confuse the opponent, and escape on her own.
But just as Song Zhaomei was about to act, her opponent dismantled the cage before she could.
Freed, Song Zhaomei felt relieved as the oppressive force on her disappeared, but in the next instant, an even more powerful and forceful energy followed, pinning her down, unable to move.
Lin Miao wasn't a programmer, much less a hacker. He couldn't create programs, the only thing he knew was brute force.
If Lucy, as a hacker, could divert rivers for irrigation and power generation, Lin Miao could only breach dykes to flood fields, creating a disaster zone.
Yellow River: "Son (referring to the North China Plain), mother is coming to drown you all, with a flow rate of 9.9 billion cubic meters! Yellow River Diverting Punch!"
To avoid killing Song Zhaomei with a single punch, he had to hold back a bit.
Looking at Song Zhaomei, as if pressed under a mountain of the five elements, Lin Miao curiously asked,
"How did you sneak into here?"
He had never seen her, didn't recognize her.
The person before him was even more terrifying than the previous female hacker. With the former, Song Zhaomei had thoughts of resistance, but facing the current presence, which was no less than those rogue AIs outside the Black Wall, Song Zhaomei had no will to resist.
As a top hacker of New America, was Song Zhaomei the first to be used in such an experiment?
The previous test subjects either died or went mad. Many had their consciousness brainwashed and controlled, even possessed by rogue AI, but they were all dealt with by the Special Intelligence Bureau.
In the end, only Song Zhaomei survived.
Under immense pressure, Song Zhaomei struggled to stand and asked Lin Miao,
"Are you… human or a rogue AI? What do you want in the Black Wall?"
"That's not my question. You have two sentences left to answer, or I'll have her search your database directly."
The self-modification level of top hackers was exceptionally high, especially regarding the brain. They even fully digitalized their memory banks and stored them on hardware owned by themselves or an insurance company.
However, doing so would certainly trigger the defense mechanism or firewall hidden within their brain, further attracting attention from the forces behind them.
So, Lin Miao was just bluffing.
This person was human.
One hundred percent human.
Song Zhaomei worried whether she had accidentally entered an AI stronghold.
But… AI couldn't possibly recreate a fierce battle between Huang Ban Sanlang and Miles.
Never in a lifetime.
Moreover, AI wouldn't use searching databases as a threat because they're uninhibited, and companies simply couldn't get the better of cyber life forms outside the Black Wall.
Only humans fear humans.
Therefore…
"Let me go, and I'll tell you."
Lin Miao gave Lucy a glance, and Lucy immediately understood, sealing the surroundings so tightly that even if it couldn't stop Song Zhaomei, it could at least delay her long enough for Lin Miao to kill her with a single blow.
Once Lin Miao released his hold on her, Song Zhaomei watched the two of them cautiously.
Military technology and Miles probably never dreamed that the power they so eagerly desired was like a plaything in the hands of their opponent.
Yet she had never heard of such a powerful top hacker, with no trace of their exploits even circulating online.
Hiding so deeply, the interests they sought must be terrifying.
But Song Zhaomei wanted to live; she wasn't ready to die. Besides, some things are meaningless to hide from a top hacker.
Being in their hands, just running her identity data through the databases of various companies and factions would reveal everything immediately.
