[Network Monitoring High-Level Program List: Evil Dragon]
[Type: Anti-Invasion]
[Description: A software specifically designed to detect Demons and Ice-breaking programs, this antique software has been in use since the old net era. Not only is it outstanding in anti-invasion capabilities, but it is also widely studied and utilized by AI hunters due to its targeted recognition of Demon program groups.]
[Blais’s Notes: An antiquated program, yet also a very useful one.]
[Since the collapse of the old net, wild hackers’ skills have plumted. Although this program has been overused by hackers from the old net, new era hackers rarely get the chance to study them.]
[We’ve laid out so paradigms on the network and specifically monitor hackers who use these types of programs.]
[Now, if soone pulls out this kind of program, they are either on the monitoring list or hackers from major corporations, educated through systematic training.]
[Of course, there’s another possibility: it ca from the other side of the Black Wall.]
Evil Dragon!
However, it was not that formidable—
Little Octopus appeared in cyberspace at the first opportunity to grasp the Evil Dragon, which seed attracted and bit at it in response.
This is why it’s said that programs in cyberspace appearing lifelike doesn’t necessarily an they possess high intelligence.
Because, if it had intelligence, it would have felt awe when facing this Octopus nearly ten tis its size—
The flas of Evil Dragon smashed onto Little Octopus, causing almost no damage. Instead, Little Octopus enveloped the program set and leveled it with a massive stream of information.
[Little Octopus: Urgh!]
Afterward, Little Octopus opened its tentacles and spat out a mosaic-like red and black Data Block—
Data Blocks in cyberspace no longer possess an offensive nature.
However, these Data Blocks are almost impenetrable to hacking, like stubborn spores with no offensive power, but if touched actively, one would beco contaminated with data from the Black Wall.]
Lille looked at Little Octopus’s data body.
On the tentacles of Little Octopus, the flas of Evil Dragon had actually caused substantial damage, leaving behind a large area of dark red scars.
And these scars seed to spread continuously; Lille could feel how tough this program was to deal with. It’s just too bad... Little Octopus could handle attacks similar to the Black Wall.
Firstly, the scale of the program was too small; its possible attack speed was far less than Little Octopus’s processing ability.
Secondly, Little Octopus seed to have gained experience from being smacked by the Black Wall.
[Little Octopus: Big bro, I feel...]
Suddenly, Little Octopus started throbbing vigorously, making Lille’s eyebrows raise.
[Little Octopus: I feel like I’m going to evolve!]
Its tentacles flared out wildly, and the black scars began to shrink, with the speed of the recovery getting faster and faster.
[Lille: Don’t be so dramatic, where did you learn that?]
[V: Damn it, military technology’s unmanned cha! Lille, what are you doing!]
[V: The unmanned cha has gone haywire!]
Little Octopus disconnected the excess computing power to shrink down and then perched on Lille’s shoulder, blinking its eyes.
[Little Octopus: Big bro, I’m heading back.]
Then it disappeared, reappeared on a small ICE in cyberspace symbolizing V.
Lille twitched the corner of his eye and also exited cyberspace.
...
The Bimong Armored Vehicle contained an unmanned cha firing in a manner reminiscent of an Arasaka cha, but its dual large-caliber technical weapons had been replaced with twin-linked four-barreled machine guns!
(For size reference, see the Arasaka cha, do a quick test.)
Just as Little Octopus scrapped the Evil Dragon, the entire cha suddenly erupted in electric sparks, its joints jerked violently with unnatural force, breaking its own limbs!
Murky liquid seeped from the joints, and the cha shuddered uncontrollably, leaving Brick beside it terrified—He was familiar with this; Hackers burnt out would spark electrically, and if machinery were involved, it would burst into flas!
Unfortunately, the military technology’s unmanned cha used fla-resistant components, hardly enough to catch fire at this temperature.
In other words, the cha had barely made two movents before it was blown to scrap by the hacker!
But in the next second, the cha Brick thought was scrapped suddenly entered combat mode, its indicator lights flashing erratic, dangerous red lights as ammunition poured out!
The exaggerated firing rate propelled bullets like lasers towards Bimong’s cargo hold, creating a cacophony of ’dinging’ and ’dangling’ on impact, the whole armor heating up, glowing red, then warping and bursting!
Bang!
Suddenly bullets flew wildly without care!
Jack and V, seeing this, took cover behind a rock, but the deranged cha seed to regain consciousness, gradually turning its gun barrels—
Bullets in a laser-like stream cut through Bimong’s armored vehicle cargo hold, sweeping step by step toward the rock Jack and V were hiding behind!
Without a doubt, even the rock couldn’t stop this kind of assault!
[Jack: Lille, think of sothing quick!]
[Lille: Use the other gun.]
[Jack: You’ve marked too small a weak point, I’m afraid I’ll miss!]
[Lille: Afraid of what, just hit it!]
Jack pulled out from under his clothes that golden an piece equipped with a long adapter sleeve, now looking even more like a sawed-off shotgun...
He touched the gun and imdiately raised it to aim at the unmanned cha that was about to break out of its shell:
Having gone through so much had conditioned him to trust Lille unconditionally.
But holding such a short gun in his hand, his body instinctively made him aim with one hand—it was just a pistol, after all.
The specially made bullet was loaded into the chamber, and Jack stood up to shoot!
Bang!
The imnse force changed Jack’s facial expression in an instant; he felt as if he wasn’t using a pistol but a hand cannon!
The mont the bullet left the barrel, the entire adapter burst into flas as it was forced out with the bullet, the explosion slightly altering the bullet’s trajectory, but its exit velocity was so fast that it barely had an impact.
The recoil instantly shattered Jack’s already unsteady wrist, and his expression shifted from surprise to terror as he saw the exploding adapter and the pistol flying towards his face—
The bullet penetrated the yellowed armored plate, and in a clash of internal and external forces, it pierced through 150mm of reactive armor in an instant!
The kinetic energy, carrying the tal that had turned liquid, scattered as the bullet completely penetrated the unmanned cha’s sensors, skimd past the central processor, and exited through the other side!
Boom!
Sparks flew in every direction!
For the onlookers, it seed just a flash of sparks before the bullet shot out from the Bimong Armored Vehicle, hitting a distant rock and kicking up a bit of dust.
What was left behind was a fist-sized hole that had completely penetrated both the vehicle’s armor and the unmanned cha.
Jack got hit squarely on the bridge of his nose by the golden projectile that had been flung into the air; he quickly snatched back the out-of-control gun and covered his nose, staring at the scene.
The scene was left with only the scrapped cha making sizzling sounds, accompanied by the wind and the crackling of flas, even the Vortex Gang underlings missing limbs and arms made no sound.
Exaggerated, way too exaggerated.
That vehicle wasn’t just so roadside pick like the Canary G240, and the cha wasn’t so little man’s toy.
Brick, with one arm component malfunctioning and dangling beside him, stood still as the underlings on the ground looked at him, not knowing what to do.
In the end, Brick was still the first to step forward; after all, he was still the boss.
"Hey!"
Jack and V looked at him, and that look made him shrink, "You..."
Words reached his mouth, but as part of the Vortex Gang crazies, he still wanted to save so face in front of his underlings.
However, the sight of Jack in the desert, especially with blood and chanical fluid mixed on his body, just didn’t allow him to stay tough...
Everyone says the Vortex Gang is crazy, but who knows that madness is just their camouflage—
At least for Brick, when his life was in others’ hands, he could still tell what was more important.
He was trembling—
because the look in Jack’s eyes was clearly one that spelled death for him.
So Brick dodged Jack’s gaze and turned to V:
"Do you need us to send the rchandise back for you?"
This question even amused V, who shook the dust from her body, "Robbing the vehicle?"
Brick nodded, "Robbing the vehicle."
Soon V received a ssage from Lille.
[V: What do you say, kill them? Is this the boss of the Vortex Gang? Doesn’t look so tough to .]
[Lille: Let them go—have them move out the rchandise we want.]
[V: Let them go? Are you sure? This guy’s got a 20,000 euro bounty on his head... just 20,000 euros?]
[Lille: Let him go, get the rchandise first.]
Jack clicked his tongue and glanced at V, then turned to walk in the direction where the motorcycle had uncontrollably flown off to.
He had nothing to say to the Vortex Gang.
"No worries, keep on robbing, we’ll just take what we need," V beckoned, "You guys, carry so stuff out, the rest is all yours."
Brick swallowed hard.
Damn, I’ve t a Living Bodhisattva.
"Sure! Brother, may I ask your distinguished na? From now on, the Vortex Gang’s got your back..."
He’d barely gotten the words out when Brick suddenly rembered that bastard Royce had betrayed him and run away!
If he returned too late, would the Vortex Gang still be his?
Thus his expression abruptly changed, "Hero, have you considered taking a commission? I..."
V shook her head, "Get moving with the goods first."
"Damn, right now I..."
Brick was about to say he didn’t have the ti, but V raised her eyebrows and he imdiately corrected himself, "I’ll start moving it now!"
With that, he turned and hurried towards the underling Doom Doom trapped under the vehicle, straining to pull him out from beneath it.
Had this been at any other ti, both Jack and V would’ve comnded the boss for his prosthetic strength.
But tis had changed.
It was Brick who had to marvel: Cyber beasts in Evil Land.
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