Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 481 - 16: Hidden Manor

As a world-class hacker and a Level 60 Virtual Life, Paradise Bird’s taboo is being challenged on a virtual level.

The enemies whose brains were burned, personalities erased, and turned into error codes by her are the best examples.

Even if the opponent is Gao, the same rules apply.

In the next moment, she no longer cares that she is inside the opponent’s ’body’. Terrifying flames erupt, and a rolling Fire Cloud instantly covers the entire Brain Disc. Countless bird shadows flicker; these ’cracking programs’ almost immediately penetrate into various human body systems, assembling into ’Neural Cracking Programs’ in the Neural System, turning into ’Downtime Programs’ in the Sports System, and becoming ’Chemical Hormone Cracking Programs’ in the Endocrine System, trying to forcefully hack into Gao Gong’s physical body in an unreasonable manner.

"Senior Sister, are you serious?" Ahong said in shock.

As for Aidolu, she looked at a holographic screen not far away. The red numbers on the screen marked the number of ’hacker cracking software’ attacks.

100,000

An ordinary cyber hacker operates about 100 hacker software simultaneously.

An AI hacker simultaneously hacks into 1,000.

And a top-tier hacker on the Mother City Wanted List operates a minimum of 10,000.

After transforming into Information Life, this cracking program edited through Sensory Signal rises to an unprecedented level.

Even enterprise-level firewalls find it difficult to withstand this information density.

However, unexpectedly for Paradise Bird, the cracking program encounters unprecedented resistance as soon as it penetrates. Chemical signals upgrade into Sensory Signals, chemical substances become firewalls, and biological membranes in the Biological System can even directly convert Sensory Signals back into biological signals and then absorb them.

The entire body seems to have turned into a data black hole.

Paradise Bird takes a deep breath, and dozens of holographic computer projections appear, with ’keyboards’ moving as if by themselves.

As a top-tier hacker, ’micro-control skills’ are undoubtedly master-level.

Countless systems are invaded and conquered, as Gao Gong’s body tissue data continuously appears on the holographic screen.

However, as the perspective expands to cover the entire Brain Disc, one would find that the enlarged Brain Disc has turned into a ’desktop computer’.

And in the glow of the desktop computer’s screen, an image of Paradise Bird is reflected.

It has directly transformed from 3D to 2D.

The giant black shadow sitting across from the computer finally reveals its face, a visage completely pieced together from mechanical bones, revealing the contours of none other than Gao.

Biological Computer, Mechanical Controller.

Gao Gong skillfully manipulates the keyboard.

"Hahaha, just kidding. Isn’t it just a medical exam? At worst, I’ll examine you back later."

Hearing Gao Gong’s voice, Paradise Bird, though with a frosty face, slightly slows down the cracking speed, suspiciously scanning her surroundings before confirming the screen, momentarily stunned.

"How did you master informational techniques?"

Logically, a top-tier Tier 1 Biological Computer should be crushed by a Tier 2 top Information Life.

But firstly, Gao Gong’s ’biological hardware’ is excellent, yielding strong performance scores.

Secondly, being once an experienced Tier 6 veteran, give him a crowbar and he could leverage the entire Doujinshi Realm.

And a Biological Computer is just such a thing.

Paradise Bird closes her eyes, her body suddenly fully informatized, causing the ’computer screen’ to blur all of a sudden. Then, a face with branded scars squeezes out of the screen, first the head, then the body, completely naked, a form of informatization that in some ways resembles bareness.

However, neither of the two minds; one is indifferent to trivialities, and the other also ’indifferent to trivialities’.

Information Stream tangled on Gao Gong’s Mechanical Body.

Engines throughout Gao Gong’s body start to run at full throttle.

Signals intertwined, inside Paradise Bird’s brain, a small ’Virtual Machine’ is being established.

Just as Keramos transformed Gao Gong.

Gao Gong can likewise perform ’computer modification’ on others.

And there is a term for this modification called signing a ’protocol’.

Ultimately, when Paradise Bird returned to Human Form, she looked at the counterpart with complicated eyes.

As a super hacker pursuing freedom, she couldn’t quite determine if this choice was right or wrong.

From friend to subordinate, that is a significant change.

And on the Alliance Panel, there was also a ’ding’.

[Level 60 Virtual Life, Strelitzia joined the alliance, Alliance Experience +5 million, Leader Reputation +5000]

So Paradise Bird’s real name is Strelitzia, a standard feminine name, with a touch of small-family elegance, truly opposite to her usual style.

A top-tier hacker can deceive you in ten thousand ways if she wants to.

However, once the ’protocol’ is branded in the Source Code, unless he dies, the ’protocol’ is unbreakable.

This decision she has contemplated many times.

Trust and even allegiance are not blown by the wind.

Gao Gong, single-handedly, defeated the Illusionary Union. His strategies and moves in Du Gao Technology and the Electronic Grid were all witnessed by Strelitzia, and the most appealing to her was undoubtedly the path taken by Gao Yuanyuan, involving elements she couldn’t comprehend but was deeply impressed by.

Being on the same side, Gao Gong had no time to waste words.

"I have a few things I need you to handle."

Strelitzia nodded, her attitude much more deferential.

"First, I need you to help me contact some hackers, preferably experts in the industry. I want to assemble a large hacker team."

Forming a hacker team is to prepare for future Corporate Wars. Without a hacker team, a corporation is at a disadvantage in war.

"No problem, the old man still has some connections from the past, and Ahong and I know some people as well."

If Gao Gong remembers correctly, when Ahong approached him, he even invited him to join a ’hacker website’ as a member. Although it led to nothing, Gao Gong remembered clearly. At this stage, players are just beginning to grasp the threshold of such hacker organizations, and the next step is merely completing tasks and gaining reputation. It’s likely not until the mid-stage of the Planet Plot, when Corporate Wars conclude, that one can become an official member.

But time waits for no one; by the time players fully grow up, it’ll be too late.

"Also, take Ahong away with you when you leave. There’s a place..."

On the Mechanical Split Star, there are many so-called ’Pre-Civilization Ruins’, known among players as ’graveyards’. There’s a profession called ’Archaeologist’ that can gain various rewards through ’grave digging’. It’s not highly difficult and the rewards are quite rich, making it very popular with players. At one point, it even caused a ’grave digging craze’.

Of course, some ’grave digging’ ends up empty-handed, while others lead to a big payoff, purely relying on luck.

Some particularly lucky players leapfrog in strength through this process, growing exponentially as if with cheat codes.

This largely stems from the stuff they dig up from graves.

Gao Gong remembered a certain ’graveyard’ that directly elevated a grave-digging player from a third-rate to a top-tier player— because he dug up a ’Golden Finger Grandpa’.

And now it seems, this ’Golden Finger Grandpa’ is actually a ’Secret System’, a virtual project from the last era, similar to the power Lady Red Dream wields.

Ahong, having been backfired by using a code weapon from the last era, can only recover his strength, or even exceed it, with the help of another entity from that era.

Gao Gong remembered, that ’graveyard’ was called ’Hidden Manor’.