After I stopped trying, a rich woman trained me into a demon emperor.

Eileen stared at the scrolling global comments on the live stream screen. The image that Sheng Hui had painstakingly built over decades was shattered in this one night.

She suddenly burst into laughter, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

"Zhou Ran, do you think the White Tower is a server?"

"Wrong."

"The White Pagoda has no physical form; it has long been parasitized in the cloud systems of all the hospitals in Jiangcheng."

Emergency dispatch, intensive care equipment, cold chain logistics, insurance auditing, hospital backup power grids...

Each link is a part of it.

"If you want to destroy it, you have to cut off the city's medical lifeline with your own hands first."

She raised her chin, but the words she uttered were laced with venom.

"Weren't you going to save someone?"

Come on.

"Use the lives of all the sick in the city to buy your justice."

Zhou Ran's fingers, gripping her shoulder bone, did not loosen their grip at all.

The sea breeze blew across the deck, carrying a salty, fishy smell.

There was a moment of silence on Chen Ya's end of the communication cable.

Give me the permissions.

Jiangcheng, Xiao Family Manor.

Inside the underground array, all the screens lit up simultaneously, each displaying real-time operational data of a hospital.

The route of the emergency ambulance.

Operating parameters of ventilators in the intensive care unit.

Precise temperature control in pharmaceutical cold chain.

Operating room shift schedule.

Blood bank inventory.

The status of the insurance review interface.

The White Tower of Holy Radiance has no physical server room at all; its roots have long been embedded in the city's medical lifeline.

If it is forcibly removed, the entire city's medical system will be destroyed along with it.

Chen Ya stood in front of the control panel, her sleeves neatly rolled up, her ten fingers leaving a blur of typing on the keyboard.

She didn't even raise her head.

"Zhou Ran, transfer all of Eileen's permissions, the Marcus chip, Zhao Tao's key, and the residual data in Zhao Shijiang's core chip to me."

On the deck of the Santa Maria, Zhou Ran glanced at Eileen, who was being held down by the demon soldiers.

"Give it to her."

A cold, sharp smile curved at the corners of Eileen's lips.

"You know nothing about the White Pagoda."

"Once it detects a forced external intrusion, it will automatically lock all life support systems."

"The elderly lying in the intensive care unit in Jiangcheng, the injured waiting for life-saving treatment on the way to the emergency room, and the patients who are kept alive by cold chain drugs will all be buried with your so-called heroic deeds."

Chen Ya's voice came through the communicator, completely calm.

"You talk too much nonsense."

Eileen's expression froze.

Chen Ya continued, "This only proves that you are stalling for time."

On the screen, the system structure diagram of the White Pagoda was forcibly unfolded.

It wasn't tree-like, but a spider web.

Each hospital is a core node.

Each pharmaceutical company is an extension branch.

Insurance companies and emergency dispatch centers are two nooses wrapped around the outside.

Sheng Hui implanted a large number of virtual realm chips into the underlying layers of these systems.

The chip is only responsible for optimizing the data flow on a regular basis.

Once activated, it can arbitrarily tamper with the system's priority.

This caused the ambulance, which should have arrived in five minutes, to be delayed by three minutes on the road.

This caused the life-saving drug to be stuck in the review process for half a day.

To restart a critical piece of equipment in the intensive care unit when the situation is most critical.

There's absolutely no need for a major fuss.

Even the slightest, insignificant deviation can lead to countless deaths.

Xiao Rou stood to the side, holding a natal Gu that had just completed its molting process in her palm.

"The chip smells of gray wires."

Chen Ya pressed the Enter key.

"mark."

Xiao Rou closed her eyes.

In an instant, countless Gu worms that had already been dispersed throughout the major hospitals in Jiangcheng were simultaneously awakened.

They silently slipped into the gaps in the instrument, attached themselves to the chip's interface, and followed that familiar gray thread smell.

One.

Ten.

One hundred pieces.

On the main control screen, the red dots representing pollution sources began to multiply rapidly.

Lin Qingxue sat in the center of the formation, her face covered with black silk, but the eye between her brows quietly opened.

Her voice was soft, yet exceptionally clear.

"At Dongcheng Third Hospital, there are 32 pieces of equipment in the intensive care unit, seven of which are connected to Baita."

"The emergency dispatch main unit at Jiangnan University Affiliated Hospital has been completely contaminated."

"Three chips were hidden in the cold chain system of the pharmacy at the South District Maternal and Child Health Hospital."

"And... there are seventeen pairs of eyes watching outside the manor."

Chen Ya's fingers paused for half a second.

"How many?"

Seventeen.

Lin Qingxue raised her hand, her slender fingertips making seventeen virtual taps in the air.

Each time she clicked, a disguised overseas IP address would light up on the screen.

At the same time, seventeen hidden hiding places on the outskirts of Jiangcheng were marked in red.

Lin Qingxue lowered her hands and said calmly:

"They wanted to locate the manor from the back door of the White Tower."

"I turned their gaze back."

Wang Pangzi's voice immediately rang out on the communication channel.

"Coordinates received!"

"Guys, time to deliver the food!"

Qin San coldly added, "Liveners first."

Fatty Wang grinned and said, "I understand. Even if we beat them half to death, they're still alive."

Outside the seventeen nodes, the figures of the demon soldiers descended like ghosts.

Before those overseas superhumans could destroy their equipment, the door to their hideout was violently kicked open.

Fatty Wang, carrying his gleaming golden staff, strode into the first underground machine room.

Inside, five hackers were frantically preparing to format the hard drive.

Fatty Wang raised his hand, flicked the Buddhist beads on his wrist, and the burst of golden light transformed into a large net, pinning the five people firmly against the wall.

"Everyone, don't rush to delete the database and run away."

"Here, this service is considered an extra time offer and costs extra."

Inside the manor, Chen Ya's arrangements were carried out in an orderly manner.

"Xiao's Energy Group, immediately connect to the backup power grid of all hospitals in the city."

Xiao Hongli immediately responded: "Connected."

"Su Qingling, Su Qingwu, switch the tidal array to communication voltage stabilization mode."

Su Qingling's voice was a little tense: "I understand."

Su Qingwu added, "The core of the array will be integrated into the main network in thirty seconds."

"The official emergency response department should immediately activate the manual dispatch plan."

Chen Ya picked up another dedicated phone and spoke very quickly, but her words were as steady as a mountain.

"All ambulances will switch from the intelligent dispatch system to manual dispatch. The hospital's power will remain unchanged; there will be no power outage. The cold chain logistics for medicines will be taken over by Xiao's backup fleet. The White Tower system does not need to be shut down."

The person on the other end of the phone clearly didn't understand.

"Mr. Chen, how can we clean up the system if we don't shut it down?"

Chen Ya's gaze fell on the constantly rotating black and gold rune in the center of the array.

"replace."

"We won't cut it off."

"Make it think that it still has everything firmly in control."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ran raised the white bone pen in his hand.

Eileen's pupils suddenly contracted.

"You can't write this!"

"The White Tower is just a system, it has no life! Your rules will be devoured by its data deluge!"

Zhou Ran said, "Even a system that grows up on the backs of others has to acknowledge its responsibilities."

Using Eileen's authority as ink and the residual data from Zhao Shijiang's core film as a guide, he wrote the first sentence in the void.

The White Tower cannot access the life system.

The moment the handwriting was completed, the surveillance screens of all the hospitals in Jiangcheng flickered violently.

The White Pagoda began its counterattack.

Millions of data streams converged into a torrent, rushing frantically towards the heart of the manor's array.

It is trying to prove that the living system is an integral part of itself.

The operating frequency of the ventilator.

Dispatch instructions for ambulances.

Temperature control records for medicines.

A vast database of medical records.

It dragged out each item and used it as its own talisman.

Chen Ya said coldly, "Separation list."

Lin Qingxue's eyes turned.

Xiao Rou's Gu worms marked all the nodes.

Xiao's backup energy supply was seamlessly provided.

The Su sisters' magic array stabilized the communications.

One by one, functions directly related to life were temporarily stripped from the White Tower's control and replaced.

All that the White Pagoda can utilize are empty shells.

Zhou Ran wrote down the second sentence.

The White Pagoda must not use illness as a shield.

The third sentence.

All hidden nodes in the White Tower are archived as evidence.

Under the cover of night in Jiangcheng, vibrations simultaneously emanated from the server rooms of countless hospitals.

One by one, the gray interfaces buried deep in the system's core were forcibly pulled out by an invisible force.

The White Pagoda's counterattack methods began to change.

It no longer attacks the system itself.

Instead, they made a desperate gamble by releasing the last file that was encrypted to the extreme.

Zhou Ran felt a slight burning sensation on the pores of his chest.

The white bone pen automatically hovered in mid-air.

A document was forcibly opened in front of everyone.

The filename is very short.

**The remains of an imperial prince.**

Chen Ya's fingers stopped typing.

Lin Qingxue's brow twitched slightly.

Zhou Ran narrowed his eyes.

The image shows archived photos taken 27 years ago deep underground at the First Maternal and Child Hospital in Jiangcheng.

A metal box covered in runes.

Inside the box was the skeleton of an infant without a skull.

The researcher's note next to it read in a flamboyant style: "Non-human skeletal structure, no Blue Star soul record, suspected to be the source of the forbidden runes of the ancient gods."

The lingering resentment of the Moon Emperor once issued a single supreme command to Holy Radiance.

Searching for the remains of the emperor's son.

The location is in the basement of Jiangcheng First Maternal and Child Hospital.

Eileen also saw the document, and her expression froze.

Even an executive of her rank did not have full access to this document.

Chen Ya said in a low voice, "The White Tower is transferring this document."

Zhou Ran said, "Stop it."

"We've already stopped it." Chen Ya's voice held a hint of tension for the first time, which she quickly suppressed. "The signal isn't being transmitted outwards; it's drilling underground towards Jiangcheng!"

At the same time.

The former site of Jiangcheng First Maternal and Child Hospital.

A muffled, loud thud came from beneath the abandoned building.