Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 522 - 56: No. 5 Destruction – Purple Energy Strings

Looking at the three Rich Lady Love Prototypes simultaneously staring at her, Dida took a deep breath and nodded.

Only then did she truly realize the terror of the Cyber Killer, which, according to legend, could make countless artificial viruses tremble.

Whether it was the Level 15 Holy Separation Soldier, the Level 20 Holy City Warrior Elite, or the Level 30 Gear Priest, anyone who came into contact with Gao Gong was inevitably transformed.

Thus, the Rich Lady Love Prototypes multiplied, from one to three, from three to ten, from ten to fifty...

The Cyber Killer had a terrifying ability—so long as it was in Cyber Space, its virus-like proliferative capacity was limitless.

In some sense, it was also a virus, and it was the only officially sanctioned one.

With a heavy crash, the Level 30 Gear Priest, a nearly three-meter-tall ’Quasimodo’ composed mostly of gears, swung its Heavy Hammer, smashing three advancing Rich Lady Love Prototypes away. However, it was caught off guard as another slipped under its crotch. Gao Gong’s figure quickly melted, turning into red mercury, spreading from its thigh. Soon, the gear monster’s pupil turned red, emitting a strange hiss, its whole body shrinking segment by segment, eventually turning into another Rich Lady Love Prototype.

This Rich Lady Love Prototype extended its hand, and in the next moment, dozens of gears oscillated in its palm and fingers.

"This is the limit of a Level 1 Civilization."

The upper limit of a Level 1 Civilization is Level 30, meaning, under the current civilization system, no monster can exceed Level 30.

Beside them, the Shotas wearing sunglasses shrugged boldly.

"That’s it."

"Not interesting."

"This gear technology feels a bit like a ’Construct’.

At this time, in front of the Holy City’s core building, the Saint Sophia Cathedral, one after another Rich Lady Love Machine emerged, and as far as the eye could see, it was filled densely with Unparalleled Shotas, numbering no less than five thousand.

Among them, a Rich Lady Love Prototype turned around and looked at Dida, "What do you feel?"

A Rich Lady Love Prototype turned around, and countless Rich Lady Love Prototypes simultaneously looked at Dida, instantly making Dida feel like she was the focus of all attention.

’Is this Heaven?’ Dida muttered to herself, pondering for a moment, then said, "Something’s not right. While we were fighting, the data here didn’t seem to migrate. It felt like everything was frozen."

Gao Gong nodded, the girl’s perception still as keen as memory. It was now somewhat like a hacker infiltrating a computer. Although the ’antivirus software’ was still running automatically, both the C drive and system backend were in a ’non-responsive’ state.

Logically speaking, this was impossible.

In the Subconscious Realm, the most dangerous tactic was the ’human wave strategy.’

If any existence disrupts the ’unspoken rules’ here, the world would react with intense rejection, and all subconscious fragments would attack like mad dogs until the world collapses.

This is why, even viruses do not dare to easily invade such ’data nodes,’ and the AI of Cyber Space treats it like a home base.

However, Gao Gong was wantonly transforming soldiers in the Holy City. Nobles, vendors, even strolling wealthy ladies, were ignored completely.

Under normal circumstances, these ’subconscious fragments’ would frantically attack him.

Gao Gong was already prepared to transform an entire city’s inhabitants.

"So, there’s only one other possibility," Gao Gong looked up at the ’Saint Sophia Cathedral,’ and outside this cathedral, the sound of bells and gears turning was faintly audible, rhythmically combining, strangely feeling sacred.

"Someone beat us to it and transformed this world before we acted."

"You mean, the Earth Net Group?" Dida asked in surprise.

Gao Gong merely placed one hand on the ground; in the next moment, the unique transformative ability of the Cyber Killer was activated. The ground disappeared, replaced by the ’code layer,’ where a multitude of sensory signals combined to form drifting or wandering data columns, resembling little waves.

Their ankles were submerged by the data columns, but only their ankles.

As the range of data columns began to expand, they encountered obvious resistance on the cathedral, where lines of purple-black energy circuits lit up, blocking the data columns out of thin air. When the data columns spread along the ground to the inner city walls, the walls disappeared, replaced by large and small Gear Machines, each equivalent to a ’super-sized engine.’ And just like pumping water, the engines absorbed the data columns, consuming the world’s ’data’ as energy.

"This—"

Dida looked at the entrance of a ’Gear Machine.’ For some reason, she suddenly had a strong urge to enter.

Then, a hand pressed on her shoulder, the icy touch causing her to startle awake. Unbeknownst to her, she had once again transformed into a ’Human Form Data Body’ state, her body surface developing several cracks. Each crack emitted strong data fluctuations and... an energy reaction?

[Your blood volume permanently lost 50 points]

[Your information energy permanently lost 200 points]

"In the universe, there’s a saying: the most powerful Information Technology controller may not be an Information Civilization but an Energy Civilization."

"Energy Civilization?" Dida was stunned, then replied.