The Creators: From Night City

The Chuwang (old network) then experienced a major collapse.

A large amount of knowledge has been lost in the old network. Due to the existence of technological black boxes (simply put, it is to treat certain complex processes or systems as a whole without delving into their internal details. For example, when a machine runs well, we usually only pay attention to its input and output, rather than understanding its internal working principles), a large amount of technology has lost its front-end support and theoretical knowledge, and its development has stagnated.

Even in 2076, the human technology in this world has not recovered to the level of the 20s. Humanity has lost the powerful and efficient tool of AI and has returned to the previous era of difficult exploration and hard scientific research.

Chapter 280: Reunion

Of course, all the major companies and forces have not given up on salvaging the technology lost in the primary network. They will use various means to cross the black wall and try to bring back the many lost technologies outside the wall.

The humans in this world also live a life where technological progress relies on archaeology. To some extent, the human situation is surprisingly similar to the world in Jiang Bing's mind where there is a galactic chaos all day long.

Lucy is a typical cyberhuman miner trained by Arasaka, but as the price of high profits, the death rate of these miners is shockingly high.

And in this base that was hastily closed by military technology during the Fourth Corporate War, it is possible that due to the time difference, there is an AI that has never been infected by the rabies virus released by Batmos.

If this is true, the price of this AI, as a precious comparison sample, will be incalculably high for those big companies.

This also explains why Michiko Arasaka, military technology, and Mr. Blue Eyes, who is suspected to be a wandering AI, are so concerned about it.

Along the mountain of blade servers, Jiang Bing stubbornly and persistently pulled the cutting and welding machine that had not been used along the way and walked along the corridor to the main control room.

These mechanical devices that had been silent for decades had been restarted at some point. The servers were buzzing like crazy, and a large amount of seawater was flowing through the server array along the heat dissipation copper pipes, taking away the heat generated by the huge amount of calculations.

Another corpse appeared ahead.

This time the body was beheaded from behind. The death was extremely tragic, and blood even sprayed onto the roof. However, there was no sign of struggle before the death. The death was extremely quick and neat.

There were more corpses ahead, and their deaths were also very quick and easy, either being dismembered or quartered. The few that remained intact had several bloody holes on their vital parts.

There were very few signs of resistance from these people, which shows that the battle lasted an astonishingly short time from start to finish.

An assassin equipped with advanced optical camouflage, the most advanced Sian Westin, and an 80% cybernetic level should be so terrifying.

Not everyone has Jiang Bing's strength.

Jiang Bing slowly admired the retro design of the computer rooms on both sides of the corridor, without any anxious look on his face.

After all, whether it was him or that "dangerous girl", whoever obtained this AI would be considered to have completed Mr. Blue Eyes' commission.

The result is nothing more than win, or a win-win situation.

The special team sent by Military Technology to this military base seems to have stayed in this base for quite some time, leaving behind a lot of traces of recent human life.

Jiang Bing walked along the corridor to the end of the computer room. When he was about to turn to the data center, the core of the entire computer room, he found that the "dangerous girl" had not been able to enter first and was frantically busy in front of the device next to the door, trying to crack the door opening program.

She has now taken off her dancer's disguise and returned to her original image.

Compared to when Jiang Bing saw her on the boat, she was now fully armed.

She was wearing a pink cat hoodie that was definitely 18+, exposing her entire abdomen and both her lower hemispheres.

His lower body was only covered with a pair of armor shaped like briefs, which covered his crotch and exposed his round legs from the thigh roots.

Of course, with the opponent's terrifying prosthetic modification rate, all visible skin has been replaced with artificial skin, and various prosthetic modification seams are distributed all over the opponent's body.

From the thighs downwards, the lower limbs including the knees have been replaced with special prosthetics. In order to emphasize functionality, the two feet are not even in the shape of conventional human feet, but are replaced with a bionic shape similar to a lynx claw.

The most eye-catching and iconic prosthetic feature of the "Dangerous Girl" is the two pink cat ears on her head that are consistent with the corporate logo of the "Dangerous Girl Detective Agency", which are now standing tall on her head.

Thanks to the other party's extremely high prosthetic modification rate, at this depth, she does not need any additional equipment of external armor to resist water pressure. She only needs to carry an integrated oxygen supply and propulsion backpack, plus a closed mask to be able to complete this task.

The opponent's underwater propulsion backpack is obviously also a cutting-edge technology. Two arthropod robotic arms extend from both sides of the backpack, and the balls on the heads of the robotic arms are emitting a bright blue light.

Of course, all of the equipment, including the exquisite harpoon cannon placed at the opponent's feet, the samurai short sword inserted at the waist, and the pistol stuck on the outside of the thigh under the cat's hoodie, was hopelessly painted pink.

The hidden defensive machine guns on both sides of the data center's door had been reversed out of the wall and successfully left several bullet marks on the opponent's body.

But these antiques from decades ago could only do so much, and were then cut in half by the other party.

When Jiang Bing turned the corner, the other party was sticking his butt out and struggling with the access control panel of the data center. This posture also allowed Jiang Bing to see that under the other party's hooded sweater that was similar to a long trench coat, there was a furry tail decoration.

He is really an idiot and a loyal cosplay experiencer.

Although Jiang Bing's footsteps were very light, he was still pulling a clanging welding and cutting machine.

This caused the other party to discover the unknown visitor at the first moment, and immediately stopped the cracking work and picked up the pressure harpoon cannon on the ground to be on guard in advance.

The other party was not surprised that Jiang Bing appeared here.

With the strength he has shown, it would be really strange if he didn't appear here.

The battle is about to break out.

The opponent shakes his hand and shoots the harpoon. The specially designed harpoon will deploy the barb at the tail after entering the human body to cause maximum damage.

Unfortunately, no matter how powerful a weapon is, it must first hit a person.

As an underwater weapon, the speed of a harpoon gun in the air is far inferior to that of a bullet, and can only compete with the initial velocity of a bow and arrow.

But fortunately, the other side did not use it as a main weapon, it was purely for interference.

When the 'Dangerous Girl' appeared in front of Jiang Bing again, her left hand had already drawn a gun, and her right hand was resting on the hilt of the samurai dagger at her waist, ready to draw the sword at any time.

As the old saying goes, from seven steps away, the gun is fast; within seven steps, the gun is both fast and accurate.

The opponent simply pulled the trigger and fired all the bullets in the gun. Without even looking at the results, he unsheathed the knife. The hot-melt blade had already been heated to its peak, burning the blade made of special material red.

The blade slid down Jiang Bing's face from behind. Before the opponent could swing his sword and swing it, Jiang Bing, who was also ghostly, kicked him in the chest. He fell straight against the wall like a kite with a broken string.

Chapter 281 Two People Go Together

But the mechanical arms behind the opponent were indeed somewhat mysterious. Facing Jiang Bing's attack, in the nick of time, the two mechanical arms actively returned to defense and shrank onto the opponent's chest, bearing most of the force.

But even so, this 'dangerous girl' still couldn't stop coughing, and her chest felt stuffy.

If she were a long-range shooter or a heavy-armored warrior like Adam Hammer who could attack head-on, she might be able to fight with Jiang Bing for a while, but she chose the assassin style of close combat and agility. The prosthetics on her body were mostly stealth-style equipment, and she didn't even have a projectile launcher, a missile launch bay or other weapons of mass destruction. She was completely suppressed by Jiang Bing, who had a bucket of numerical monsters.

And her network hacking ability is completely ineffective against a magic-immune monster like Jiang Bing, so she is being suppressed.

Several bullets fell from Jiang Bing's palm, hitting the metal floor with a clanging sound.

"If you want to do it again, I can't guarantee your personal safety."

Empty threats sound weak and laughable, but if the person making them has just caught eight bullets with his bare hands, his words will seem sincere and convincing.

At least the 'dangerous girl' in the corner didn't dare to move.

"If you choose to cooperate, I'll take the things and you'll lead me to Arasaka Michiko to discuss business. If you choose not to cooperate, I'll take the things and carry your body to Arasaka Michiko to discuss business."

Jiang Bing glanced at the other party and calmly stated his threat.

"Who are you anyway?"

Jiang Bing felt that it was too boring to talk with the mask on, so he pulled it off casually. The prosthetic seams and artificial skin on his face used for camouflage had already been removed.

"[Anti-Entropy]"

This title is particularly useful.

The other person's body suddenly froze, obviously knowing something about [Anti-Entropy]. Her artificial eye suddenly lit up, and it was obvious that she was scanning Jiang Bing with all her strength.

"What are you going to choose?"

"I'll cooperate!"

I don’t know what the scan detected, but the other party surrendered very easily.

She couldn't win the fight, and she couldn't run away. She wasn't stupid, so wouldn't it be better for her to stay with Jiang Bing and act according to circumstances? It was better than just rushing to her death.

Jiang Bing was too lazy to communicate with her. Anyway, there were things hanging in the base, and the other party could not escape. He just waved and said hello, then turned his attention to the door of the data center.

The two people who originally fought each other to death now inexplicably live in harmony.

"Handsome guy, are you really the boss of [Anti-Entropy]?" the other party asked cautiously.

"Sweeped out?"

Jiang Bing was not surprised by this. He had no intention of hiding his identity recently. His identity was no secret in the eyes of anyone who was interested. What's more, the other party had the support of Michiko Arasaka, and Michiko Arasaka relied on the big tree of Arasaka.

"I'm Zero, Zero Selina. I didn't expect that the famous Mr. Sable Lyric would personally risk his life to do such a small thing." As a two-dimensional cyber cat girl, the other party's name also has a full flavor of the two-thorn monkey.

"Arasaka's intelligence capabilities are indeed outstanding."

Unexpectedly, the other party reacted so strongly to Jiang Bing's reply.

"I'm a 'Dangerous Girl', not from Arasaka."

Jiang Bing did not respond, but instead focused on examining the data center's security system.

"The access key to the entrance is the AI ​​disordered encryption technology from before the collapse of the initial network. It's an antique." Lingyin felt a headache when he mentioned this gate.

As a military facility, even though it was built decades ago, the ICE protection level of the core area of ​​this base cannot be easily cracked.

Jiang Bing would definitely not bother with this effort. In his opinion, it would be better to use a cutting machine directly instead of hacking into the network.

Jiang Bing reached out and rubbed the metal explosion-proof door in front of him for a few times, selected the best cutting location, grabbed the cutting equipment he brought with him, and started working directly.

Although with his current strength and the blessing of [Power-Chiyou], he would be more efficient in prying open the door, but Master Jiang chose to refuse.

He must be the Welding Emperor today.

Otherwise, all the hijacking of ships and underwater operations would be in vain.

"All the remaining military technology personnel in the base are hiding inside." The 'Dangerous Girl' had no idea of ​​Jiang Bing's complex inner thoughts, so she kindly gave him a reminder.

Bright plasma flames lit up in the darkness. The explosion-proof door that was strong enough to withstand rockets was no different from tofu in front of the hot plasma flow. Jiang Bing took less than two minutes to open another door on the door.

Behind the door is the real core of this base.

Before the two entered the door, a barrage of bullets had already swarmed out from the cut holes, and the enemies in the data center were madly firing at the two.

But facing these two people, their resistance seemed insignificant.

Jiang Bing picked up the thick explosion-proof door that was cut off from the ground and rushed into the data center under the bullets.

Lingyin flashed twice, activated optical camouflage, disappeared into the air, and cut into the battlefield from the side.

Even though the opponent was repeatedly suppressed in their fights with Jiang Bing, fighting these military-tech agents was like mowing the grass with a Wushuang gun.

The samurai dagger was held in the opponent's hand. As she broke through the optical camouflage in the crowd, an orange-red lotus of death instantly bloomed, reaping two lives.

Then the whole person activated Sian Westin, turned into a blurry shadow, and started slaughtering the crowd.

Jiang Bing was very skillful and rushed to the front of the crowd against the door panel. As he walked, he fired the supercavitating torpedo dart in his hand, and nailed a streamlined dart into everyone's forehead.

With his current strength, these elite soldiers would pose no threat at all unless they were suppressed in an organized and systematic group.

Lingyin used the force of the forward rush to insert the dagger into someone's eye socket. With his eyes shining, he froze the hacker who was busy at the operating table not far away.

The other party put down the work in his hands and was about to start a cyber attack and defense battle with her, but was hit in the head by Jiang Bing's dart.

This streamlined spear with a self-spinning fin at the rear can still ensure accuracy even in the air. Although it is slower, its power is also not something that ordinary subcutaneous armor can block.

After eliminating these stubborn agents, Jiang Bing had time to carefully examine the internal environment of the data center.

Cobalt-blue cold light sources flowed down from the honeycomb dome matrix. On the bulkheads made of countless hexagonal alloy plates, each seam was embedded with pulse-type cooling fins, which were connected to a large number of copper tubes.

Dozens of more advanced server arrays are suspended on electromagnetic rails at a twenty-degree angle. Each row of chassis is etched with a self-circulating cooling pipe path, which has better thermal conductivity. Helium-3 condensate flows silently in the vacuum pipe, showing the unique iridescence of liquid metal.

Chapter 282 Sudden White Mist

A thick, nerve-like optical fiber bundle extends from the bottom of the server cluster, and the translucent optical cables are gathered together and deeply embedded in the basalt-textured base.

The holographic interface was suspended two meters above the ground, and was visualized as a light golden data stream that slowly rotated in a DNA double helix structure, constantly converging from all sides towards the central control column.

Inside the control column is a data cube, which is connected to the thick data.

The surface of the Rubik's Cube is bright and dark, which means it is receiving data transmission at this moment.

"Is there really an AI locked here before the initial network collapse?!" Jiang Bing was surprised and excited when he saw the Rubik's Cube.

The Data Cube is the flagship product of the European Business Machines Corporation, and is nicknamed "Pandora's Box" by hackers on the street.

This thing is made up of a large number of carbon-based molecular storage layers and can store huge amounts of data. In terms of security, dynamic topological encryption is used to ensure security, and the outer shell is a carbon nanotube-ceramic composite material that can withstand high temperatures of 5000°C/100MPa pressure.

The price of its regular version is around 30 euros, and the one in front is obviously a more advanced version, and the price can only be higher, not lower.

This thing is generally used to store large amounts of data. When many large companies transport sensitive data (such as customer information), they load the information into the data cube and carry out manual transportation on the real level.

The reason why hackers jokingly call it "Pandora's Box" is because "dragon hunters" often use it to store the "dragons" (dangerous AI) they hunt.

Its nature also determines that it is indeed the best carrier for storing, transferring, trading and selling these dangerous AIs.