A new communications tower stands atop the Floating Fortress.
Although the engines of the Floating Fortress suffered significant damage during the battle, for Latovia, repairing this fortress is more convenient than building a new one.
Lille is probing the network.
This world never had the Jing Yuan-Brage Protocol, so the encoding thods are quite primitive. Long before cyberspace was shattered by the battle between Lille, Zola, Jarvis, and Ultron, it was a chaotic assembly of building blocks connected in various ways.
There were weak connections between different building blocks, with no colossal entity. Even the world’s largest supercomputer operated rely as a larger sphere...
Very primitive.
Now it’s different indeed, as Lille taps into the network painstakingly maintained by the European Union through a communications array, he sees a dilapidated cyberspace.
Links symbolizing a common communication protocol have beco very fragile and break after maintaining random communication tis, except for communication channels using professional equipnt for direct connections which can last sufficiently long.
Before the communication line disconnects, the surrounding data vibrates as if attracted by the signal of the call, lively, eventually turning into aningless communications noise——
At this ti, if the communication equipnt is good, it’s just an overload of current, if bad, it will burn out, causing severe damage.
A very... strange situation, Lille cannot capture the source of the damage at all, it’s as if a perfectly healthy creature on earth suddenly drops dead while walking on the road.
When researchers start investigating, they find the creature died simply because it got too much sun, drank too much water, was blown by too much wind, or even ate too much, but this used to be its routine life.
In cyberspace, Lille is reconstructing the software of the communication array, and a towering signal tower begins to take shape——
This tower uses technology from Arasaka, replicating the thod Munemasa used to escape from Night City to the Arctic, theoretically, this communication array will also be able to directly connect to New York through the EU’s satellites...
Before an inexplicable cyberspace virus sabotages the communication.
[Zzz...]
[This is an encrypted communication from the Atlas Group, if you receive this ssage...]
[Lille: New York, this is Latovia, I am Lille.]
[Lille: Is there anyone?]
...
[Zzz...]
[Is there anyone?]
In an underground bunker in New York City, when Lille’s voice appeared in the space again, Martin was stunned.
For a mont, he wondered if he was just dreaming of hearing Lille’s voice because he wanted it so much.
Bang!
Martin grabbed the receiver and the intercom:
[Martin: Lille? This is Martin, you...]
[Lille: Verify digital code, communication protocol EM3336521.]
Martin paused for a mont, imdiately inputting this code into the safe below the communication desk——
According to Skye, as the chief technician of the Bloom Company, she and Lille had a communication key known only to them, theoretically existing in their minds.
However, Skye had already set off for a regional territory...
The maintenance of the underground bunker was managed by an AI once used by Skye to manage social networks.
...
[Communication code...]
[Who are you?]
Lille was taken aback, the communication code was correct, very open-ended, but the tone was off, clearly, Martin would not say the following words.
[Martin: Lille, on our side...]
[Are you the boss? I miss you so much boss, when are we breaking out of the underground to take over the world?]
Lille raised an eyebrow, realizing sothing was wrong, this was an AI.
And a very lively yet rudintary AI at that.
[Lille:...How are things?]
Lille ignored this AI.
[Martin: While you were away, I negotiated with President Barnes. On my side, I’ve had Skye, Michael, Peter, and Gwen form a team, they will smuggle prosthetics and other goods into Ellis’s controlled area.]
[Martin: Ellis and Rocksen completely sealed the sounds inside, only the dia is heard, I think the situation inside isn’t good, with a likelihood of cri breeding.]
[Martin: President Barnes will send... Hydra Crushers for covert transport.]
With just an exchange, Lille understood what Martin ant.
Clearly, he believed that the residents of Ellis’s controlled area could never be on the sa side as him, dismantling those regions from the inside was the only strategy he could think of to constrain Rocksen’s developnt.
In simple terms, it was about bringing the spirit of Night City and old New York into those districts, letting forrly unscrupulous Rocksen taste the might of criminals as well...
Once they ignored laws and paved the way with money, now that they hold the power, the consequences of ignoring laws should act upon them.
But... Lille felt that this approach might not be very effective.
[Why not talk to ? Boss, oh right, you may not know yet, no, it’s that I haven’t introduced myself to you, though I haven’t given myself a na yet...]
[Lille:...This works too. Any news from the African headquarters?]
[Martin: The latest information shows they’re dealing with Rocksen’s unmanned forces...]
[Lille: Highly unlikely, if you can’t see unmanned forces in Arica, it ans Rocksen can’t control unmanned cha in such a network environnt either.]
[Martin: What do you think the situation is then?]
[Lille: I think...Africa is resisting other enemies.]
[Skye calls a robot that scolds people, or a bitch robot, I speak a bit rudely but always straight to the point, boss!]
[Lille: Ti is running out, I will send you so blueprints, Dr. Otto and Dr. Tumus can manufacture these things.]
[Lille: Moreover, I’ve broadcast once about the cris in Eastern European human laboratories by Rocksen and the i Country governnt, but I guess spreading on the Arican Continent still has to rely on manual conveyance.]
[Lille: Wait for my next communication.]
[Martin: Understood.]
[Boss!!!]
[Lille: And for you, do not expose yourself on the external network, the environnt is very complex.]
[Received!]
Czzz——
The ultra-long-range communication caused a tidal wave throughout cyberspace, before this wave completely burned out the equipnt in the communication, Lille forcibly shut down these devices——
To be precise, he controlled the Faraday cage to lock it, completely isolating electromagnetic interference.
This wave was irresistible, absolutely impossible to escape from the impact, the only thing to do was to flee.
Everything before him turned into nothingness, and Johnny suddenly appeared beside Lille:
[Johnny: Don’t you feel a sense of familiarity?]
[Lille: Indeed... a little.]
The unavoidable indiscriminate attack, Lille experienced it the first ti he entered cyberspace...
Only the Black Wall could achieve such an effect.
But in terms of destructiveness, this peculiar wave was far milder than the Black Wall, in target locking...no traces of locking could be seen at all.
The network of this world was experiencing very complicated changes, which Lille temporarily could not understand.
But with advancents in industry and technology, Lille would eventually have the opportunity to comprehend them.
[High Energy Concentrated Oil has been filled, cross-border experint ready.]
[Unstable Energy about to explode...]
This ti, identical words appeared simultaneously in Lille’s central processor and the "system screen".
But there was one slight difference: at the overlap of these words, an extra line appeared on the system:
[Congratulations.]
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