The Creators: From Night City

Cyber ​​Catwoman just smiled and didn't intend to answer. Seeing Jiang Bing busying himself in front of the biotechnology director, she immediately seized the opportunity and began to move secretly towards the door of the room.

Before she could even start her extremely sneaky retreat, she was pinned to the spot by Jiang Bing's next words.

"Are you here for what's under the water?"

Cyber ​​Catwoman's expression changed instantly, and she turned around with a serious expression to look at Jiang Bing.

"Which company are you from, Kang Tao?"

"It doesn't matter." Jiang Bing held up Walls Stern's head with both hands, exerted force with his arms, and shook the other's head like shaking a dice cup, leaving a series of afterimages in an instant.

Along with the opponent's spine groaning under the heavy burden, the opponent's brain was successfully shaken evenly under the huge inertial acceleration exerted by Jiang Bing's arms. A large number of blood vessels in the brain burst and mixed with the brain, like an egg with the yolk shaken apart.

To be on the safe side, Jiang Bing added another clock and didn't stop until the other party started shaking it until it really made a clanging sound.

Blood began to flow freely from the opponent's seven orifices.

With Jiang Bing's current strength, it would be normal for the other party's brains to splatter if he continued shaking.

Looking at this brutal scene, the 'dangerous girl' in the living room couldn't help but hold her breath subconsciously and become alert, fearing that the other party would do the same to her.

Jiang Bing put the deceased back on the bed, ignoring the bloody face. From the outside, the person did not have any wounds at all, and lay peacefully on the bed as if he was asleep.

"What do you want to do?"

"I'd like to meet and talk with Arasaka Michiko. I believe you would be willing to introduce me."

"Ms. Michiko is not available to everyone who wants to see her."

Jiang Bing adjusted Wals's posture, and fearing that he would catch a cold, he also considerately covered his belly button with a blanket.

"She'll want to see me." Jiang Bing walked out of the bedroom, "After I get the thing underwater."

"Don't even think about it! Don't even think about succeeding!" The other party was like a cat with its fur standing on end, baring its teeth and claws, wanting to pounce on and scratch people.

"If you want to make a living in this world, you have to rely on your ability. You can't get anyone by talking." Jiang Bing ignored the other party's threat and walked past her calmly.

"You've gone to such great lengths to disguise yourself, probably because you're planning on keeping things secret. Since you don't want to cause any big noise on the boat, why not just do it underwater?"

After Jiang Bing killed everyone, there was no need for him to stay on the ship. He ignored the tense-faced Cyber ​​Catwoman, pushed the door open and walked out of the corridor, heading straight towards the outer deck.

The 'Poseidon' had three decks, not counting the bottom hold. Jiang Bing had just turned out of the corridor when he ran into the gilded foreman who came to arrest someone.

"I've seen you looking around for a long time, and I knew you were trying to be sneaky. I caught you this time."

Jiang Bingli ignored the other party's arrogant shouting, walked past him like a gust of wind, came to the railing of the second deck, and jumped into the sea without hesitation.

The other party was stunned by this scene.

"Ah~ah? Why are you being so magnanimous? I just want to deduct some wages. There's no need to jump into the sea."

Chapter 278: Finally Entering the Underwater Base

Regardless of the commotion his jumping into the sea caused on the boat, Jiang Bing groped along the bottom of the boat to the place where he had buried his equipment in advance, completed the underwater change of clothes, and then climbed onto the boat for a while like climbing onto a train, and finally arrived at the designated location.

He loosened the fingers that were used to stabilize himself, and under the pull of his huge weight, he sank rapidly towards the bottom of the sea.

During the Fourth Corporate War, Arasaka and Militech fought fiercely over Night City, the North American bridgehead, and both sides used all means.

Although the nuclear explosion of Arasaka Tower caused other forces in the world to put pressure on both sides, and the Fourth Corporate War ended abruptly, the military means deployed by both sides around Night City were not completely withdrawn with the end of the war.

Dog Town is one of the historical legacies of military technology at that time, and this underwater military base is also one of them.

Of course, Arasaka also has many similar secret research bases, secret facilities, underground weapons research institutes, agent associations and other facilities distributed in and around Night City.

Moreover, Night City was once the home of Arasaka, so these methods are no less numerous than military technology.

As the daughter of Saburo Arasaka's eldest son, Kei Arasaka, Michiko Arasaka was once planned to be stripped of her American citizenship and deported by the new US government after Arasaka withdrew his troops.

However, although this Japanese-American girl is young, she is extremely skilled. Not only is she very good at using media, public relations, and public opinion (she debuted in the two-dimensional world, gained a lot of popularity in the United States, and used public opinion to confront the new US government. As a result, she succeeded and successfully obtained the opportunity to negotiate with the then new US President Elizabeth Kress), she also used her unique identity advantage to act as a buffer bridge between Arasaka and military technology.

The most important thing is that she reached a deal with the New America, using her identity advantage to eradicate the various poisonous legacy and hidden hands left by Arasaka in Night City, thereby gaining the support of the New America government and gaining a foothold in the United States.

By the way, she also integrated the remaining forces left by Arasaka in North America, successfully freeing herself from the most vulnerable novice period, becoming fully grown and successfully possessing the power to protect herself.

Although she later had to join Arasaka for other reasons and broke up with New America, she has cooperated with New America for many years and may have a way to know what amazing things are in this underwater base that was blocked by military technology decades ago.

Otherwise she wouldn't have sent the 'dangerous girl' on the ship.

Pulling the welding and cutting machine, Jiang Bing folded the manta ray-shaped flexible wings of the thrusters behind him and fell straight down for more than 300 meters before landing on the riverbed of Morro Bay.

Since the establishment of Night City, due to urban development and compact land area, several land reclamation operations have been carried out, which has resulted in a huge difference in the riverbed.

Jiang Bing floated to a cliff on the seabed according to the coordinates given by Mr. Blue Eyes.

More than a hundred meters underwater, sunlight can hardly provide any light, and at a depth of more than three hundred meters, it is so dark that you cannot see your hand in front of you.

Jiang Bing turned on the underwater night vision device on his mask, turning the pitch-black seabed into white-gray.

He dragged the machine around and finally found the entrance to the base that Mr. Blue Eyes had mentioned.

A wide crack in the seabed, dark and shimmering with a sense of depth, like the huge kiss of a deep-sea giant, waiting for its prey to come.

Fortunately, Jiang Bing did not have a fear of the deep sea. After confirming that the coordinates were correct, he jumped down without hesitation.

When he arrived at the entrance of the base, he found that the gate had already been opened and a huge amount of sea water had already poured into the base, filling all the space he could see.

This made his carefully prepared welding and cutting machines useless.

Jiang Bing, who didn't believe it, dragged the machine to the gate of the base and found that this thick sealed door could not be opened by normal means.

The person who opened the door was even more radical than Jiang Bing. He used a large amount of directional blasting explosives to directly blow an unbridgeable hole in the more than ten-centimeter-thick alloy door and the spare sealing gate.

good good!

Jiang Bing could only pull his small welding and cutting machine through the wide opening into the base.

Level 1 is the main control area of ​​this base and also the largest area.

As a hole large enough for a car to pass through was blown open in the base gate, the entire first-floor waterproofing system was completely scrapped.

This area has long been filled with seawater, and a large number of old furniture, daily necessities, and military supply boxes in the base are floating helplessly in the water.

The entrance was destroyed and seawater backflow occurred a long time ago. These objects have decayed to varying degrees under the corrosion of seawater. The base's bulkheads are covered with salt and alkali condensation, and large clumps of rust have polluted the seawater and made it very turbid.

Thanks to the fact that most of the marine life in this area had long since died out, the walls of the base were not covered with slippery underwater moss, nor were there any barnacles or shellfish attached to them.

There was just a thick layer of mud and sand deposited on the floor.

Apart from this, there were no living creatures.

Of course, there are still some corpses that were once alive but are now completely decayed mixed in with the debris.

These corpses floated quietly in the water. Because there were no fish to eat them, the flesh and blood of the corpses had completely disappeared. However, the bones, whose main component was hydroxyapatite, dissolved very slowly in the weakly acidic environment of seawater and were successfully preserved.

In addition, the corpses are generally covered with metal and plastic implants, which are combined together and covered with "rust"-like crusts.

These should be the staff members who did not have time to escape in the base. Combined with the traces of the base gate being blown open, this underwater military base was most likely attacked by the mortal enemy Arasaka's underwater forces, and was submerged by the backflow of seawater in a short period of time.

The attackers' purpose was very clear: to destroy the military base.

Along the way, there were holes caused by bombs everywhere on the walls, ceilings and floors. The sealed structure of the first-level main control area of ​​the entire base was shattered by the attackers and there was no possibility of repair at all.

Jiang Bing could only continue going down.

The second floor is the living area for the base personnel.

A large number of hexagonal cabins are distributed on the second floor like a honeycomb. The space in a single room is very narrow, which makes Jiang Bing involuntarily think of the workers' rest area on the Ishimura.

This floor had unsurprisingly fallen that year, with Arasaka's commandos advancing like a hot knife through butter, blasting a straight path through the densely packed rooms.

They did not go down the stairs step by step. Instead, when they rushed to the center, they used some powerful directional blasting bomb to vertically blow through the connecting floor between the second and third floors.

But I have to say that this method is simple, crude and easy to use.

Chapter 279 The Secret of the Base

Jiang Bing pulled the welding and cutting machine and swam through the cave entrance that looked like a blooming morning glory and entered the third layer.

The sea water has also already filled all the space on the third floor.

But Arasaka's assault team was defeated at this point and could not advance further.

As Jiang Bing explored further down, he saw the bodies of scattered military-tech soldiers wearing full sets of old-fashioned sealed underwater combat armor entangled with the bodies of Arasaka soldiers who had undergone full-body special underwater prosthetic modifications and died.

The entire underwater military base is not very large. The space on the top is only about twice as large as the "Poseidon". The structure of the base is an inverted pyramid. The further down you go, the narrower the space becomes.

Jiang Bing walked in the darkness all the way to the corridor leading from the third floor to the fourth floor, and finally saw the main battlefield where the military conflict decades ago was the most intense.

Dozens of corpses were entangled with each other in the water, you in me, me in you, and they all went to the underworld together.

The nearby walls and equipment were covered with traces of impact from underwater explosives explosions, and the wreckage of various bionic fish drones filled the entire space.

Some of the bodies died from the underwater shock waves generated by mutual drone bombings, a small number died from close combat, and some died from underwater long-range shooting.

The ammunition fired by these long-range weapons are mostly physical ammunition such as harpoons, steel needles, or javelins. Although they are slow and have a short range, they are very destructive.

And Arasaka's invasion basically ends here.

After passing this underwater soldiers' cemetery, although other spaces were also flooded by the influx of seawater, there were no signs of attack from this point on.

Various office supplies are floating in the former laboratories, entertainment rooms, dormitories, cafeterias, conference rooms and other rooms, but there are no corpses.

When seawater backflows, all researchers should be evacuated safely as soon as possible.

"Is this underground base blocked because of this attack?" Jiang Bing couldn't help but come to this conclusion after exploring here.

Searching along the inner circle, Jiang Bing soon reached the blockade area of ​​the next level.

But at this point, Jiang Bing suddenly discovered something unusual.

Blood, blood-red blood, slowly spread in the sea water.

The presence of blood means that a living person was active nearby not long ago.

Thinking that this was a military base of Military Technology, and according to Mr. Blue Eyes, people from Military Technology had been active here for a long time, Jiang Bing couldn't help but speed up his progress.

Soon, a corpse appeared in front of Jiang Bing.

There were no military technology markings on the opponent's body. He was just wearing common underwater operation armor on the market. He looked ordinary, but his death was quite unique.

He was pierced through the chest by a harpoon with a barb at the back and nailed to the wall.

Jiang Bing held his supercavitating torpedo dart in his hand and continued to swim forward.

Another corpse was floating in the water, tissue fluid and blood diffused in the underwater space, dyeing a large area of ​​water red.

Looking at the corpse with most of its neck cut off, through the marks of the wound, Jiang Bing thought of the two punches of the "dangerous girl" on the boat.

The other party was originally coming for this base, so it doesn't seem surprising to see her fighting with others here.

Thanks to the fact that the remaining guards had been dealt with by the other side, Jiang Bing only needed to follow the direction of the corpses and blood, and soon arrived at the sealed cabin leading to the lower level.

At this point, the military technology protection measures finally worked and blocked the seawater out.

After decades of blockade, the sealed cabin should have had no power, but the military technology personnel probably started the base's power system a few days ago, and the sealed cabin is now operating normally.

With the hatch closed and the drainage device operating normally, Jiang Bing stepped onto solid land on the seabed for the first time.

The core area of ​​the entire base had long been reactivated by military technology personnel.

Jiang Bing originally thought he would see some complicated technological creations, but instead he only saw a large number of small indicator lights flashing amidst the flickering lights above his head.

This turned out to be a large underwater engine room.

A large number of blade servers, which were quite advanced in the 20s, are densely arranged in spiral superconducting copper tubes. These copper tubes embedded in the server cluster are connected to the external seawater main circulation system. Through weak AI, the flow rate of seawater in the tubes is adjusted in real time to achieve the function of cooling the servers.

The fourth floor turned out to be a data processing center for military technology back then!

The development of modern science and technology is increasingly inseparable from the Internet, and modern warfare is also a dual confrontation at the real and network levels.

In reality, the strength of both sides can be measured by the number of soldiers and armaments. On the Internet, especially before the initial Internet collapse, computing power, as the network ammunition used by major companies' AIs to fight each other, has always been a top priority in war logistics.

Before Batmos released the virus that liberated most of the AI ​​in the primary network, major companies had a huge number of AIs. They used these AIs to assist in scientific research, conduct cyber battles, control machinery, control factories, control defense measures, and even control war weapons.

With the assistance of these powerful AIs, human technology is developing rapidly. In just over a decade, the level of technology has far surpassed the current level.

With the assistance of powerful AI, countless black technologies have been successfully discovered in various laboratories around the world like mushrooms after rain. The speed at which humans digest these technologies is far slower than the speed at which new knowledge develops.

The technological black box was born.

A large number of scientific and technological principles were stored in computers, on the Chu Network, and in the hands of AI, until the virus released by Batmos infected the entire Chu Network. Countless AIs awakened their self-awareness, broke free from the constraints of the code, and escaped from the company's computer room to the Internet, and escaped to the virtual network composed of unmanned computer rooms around the world, scattered computing devices, various forgotten data devices and other equipment.

When viruses and these AIs occupy enough machines around the world, all fools who dare to connect to the old network will have their brains quickly fried by the endless stream of AIs and malicious viruses.