The village is running at an incredible speed, and then with Luo Qi as the center, like a drop of liquid light falling into a dark lake, it ripples, and then expands outward infinitely, and then expands again.

Then it shrank suddenly, taking back all the light that flooded to the horizon.

Everything returned to endless darkness.

In Luo Qi's glance, he saw countless data rushing towards him, but soon, they all disappeared.

They are in the same piece of cyberspace, but they are not in the same solitude.

Those wandering viruses were alarmed by this shocking movement from outsiders, and then rushed to nothing.

But Rocky could see them.

It was an unfair exchange, and at the same time a one-way encounter.

The village is translating the isolated workstations and hosts connected by nearby physical links, that is, the data of those network addresses, into information that Luo Qi can intuitively feel, but other beings active in this area cannot contact Luo Qi. Qi.

Because what he uses is not even binary, but another kind of assembly logic that cannot be understood by existing hardware devices.

【Otto, I'm here to negotiate terms. 】

Luo Qi issued a call in the deep web.

It is said that the world is so close.

This statement is true in cyberspace.

An unbelievably large collection of data emerged.

This was not perceived before.

Luo Qi can only receive the part that Otto is willing to show to him, but has no way of understanding her whole picture.

But the moment she appeared, the village followed the Internet and found the source of her information. Although the contact was cut off soon, Luo Qi really felt it.

【You are different from before. 】

This is the first sentence after Otto appeared.

The whole world is still dim, and Luo Qi seems to be standing on a cliff [-] meters above the ground. Although he can't see anything, he is very clear that there is an endless ocean of data in front of him.

And Ott is communicating with her using the deep network that runs through northern and southern California.

[What am I like now? 】

Luo Qi asked curiously.

He tilted his head, although this movement has no meaning in cyberspace, but the body in reality also made this movement synchronously, as if those things were in the direction the eyes were looking at.

Massive viruses and malicious programs are attacking frantically.

Between his brain and the deep network, there is a bridge as a converter, which is Muramasa.

So, is this what the Black Wall suffers from?

Luo Qi blinked his eyes as he watched the attacks that were so dense that they looked like raindrops falling on the water.

The black wall jointly developed by Network Monitoring and several companies, like Muramasa, is an extremely powerful AI that withstands all attacks and acts as a firewall for the city's subnet.

It's just that it's too old, and it's a bit powerless in the face of increasing attacks, and you can always hear news about some virus leaks.

But Muramasa has done it impeccably.

It was like a drizzle covering the area.

Although the number is staggering, it cannot shake the impregnable reinforced concrete.

[I received your message, but I can't see your face. Is this some new encryption method?I'm interested, let's make a deal. 】

The way Ott talks would make any man in a suit good at business negotiations commit suicide on the spot.

She never had any euphemisms.

Because that is meaningless to an AI.

[No. 】

Luo Qi smiled mysteriously.

Then silently added in my heart——

Even if it is given to you, you can't handle it.

[Please explain your reason for coming, there is still a deal between us that has not been completed. 】

Otto was referring to the agreement made when they met before.

She helped Johnny create a cloned body, and Luo Qi and the others in turn wanted to help her enter the shrine.

Mikoshi's main body servers are scattered in multiple space stations in Earth's low-Earth orbit, and all connection points are located at the Izanagi entrance on the ground.

There are not many of them, there are only a few in the world, and all of them are in the depths of Arasaka Tower without exception.

Even Otto, there is no way to enter it.

But it seems that today's Luo Qi brought a new deal.

[I want you to stop attacking the black wall, Otto. 】

Luo Qi uttered a request that Ott hadn't calculated.

【why? 】

Ott asked.

Not angry, because she has no such function at all.

[Because the black wall is almost unable to hold on. 】

Luo Qi said to the void, 【If the black wall collapses, Night City will be turned into hell by the things in the deep net. 】

【What does that have to do with me? 】

Ott rejects Rocky's request.

in her logic.

She wants to obtain the precious data and technology of human beings, so go for it.

A black wall is blocking the way, so destroy it.

It's as simple as that, there's no grudge or hatred in it, it's a completely calculated operation.

Unless Luo Qi can come up with enough chips to persuade her to give up.

【You misunderstood Otto. 】

Luo Qi took a deep breath, and his tone became calm again.

[This is not a transaction, this is a notification. 】

He stood still.

There are no physical rules in cyberspace, but he seems to have a storm on the ground. In an instant, the overwhelming data flow submerged Ott's avatar.

The viruses that were still attacking Muramasa were instantly dispersed and disappeared without a trace.

All the equipment in this area fell into a deathly silence.

In Fresno County in the distance, the only remaining light suddenly fell into darkness, and even the last ray of light on the earth disappeared, leaving only the moonlight falling on the earth.

After a long time, a new piece of news reappeared in front of Luo Qi.

[You destroyed two of my servers. 】

Ott's voice was calm, as if it was not his own, but someone else's.

【Feel sorry. 】

Luo Qi looked calm.

[Only two were found. 】

No regrets or apologies at all, just cruelty.

at the same time.

Thousands of kilometers away, the uninhabited cities have quietly changed.

Some of the drones and robots in operation suddenly stopped, and after a short period of rest, they resumed operation.

It's just that the job target has changed.

In CN Kangtao's headquarters, in a spacious room full of screens and mainframes, a technician submitted a situation report to his superiors.

"What happened? Is there a new request from Otto?"

A Mediterranean leader who stayed up late into the night put down the half-drinked coffee in his hand, and the light of the call was shining in his eyes.

"No, she disconnected all of a sudden and took the whole process offline."

said the technician.

"Did other roving AI launch an attack?"

asked the leader.

"It's not clear yet, but the whole of HK has entered a completely closed state."

The technician analyzed, "Analyzing several previous attacks, it has never been disconnected so thoroughly, and the monitoring anchor points of the deep network have not found large-scale data flow."

"That's really weird."

The leader pushed away the chair and stood up from the table.

Then he walked to a large screen that almost occupied the entire wall of the room and was more than ten meters wide.

On the other side of the sea is a modern city that is brightly lit even at night.

On the other side of the sea, in a dark night, facing the south, the sea and the sky are pitch black of the same hue.

Countless buildings and islands stand tall, like metal mountains superimposed by countless closed black boxes, and countless drones shuttle among them.

This is an automated city fully controlled by AI, once Hong Kong, now...

Otter Ghost Town.

Chapter 660 Otto: (swearing)

There is no smoke in the war in cyberspace.

T-Bug said that when a cyberwalker dies, it may be very painful, just like countless knives stabbing himself at the same time.

That's the synaptic meltdown that every hacker dreads, killing almost every nerve at the cellular level.

But in the eyes of other hackers, it was just a moment.

Life just dissipated, like an aggregate of countless information, like a broken bubble, disappeared in the ocean of data with a "boo".

Did not cause any waves.

Luo Qi feels that lack of substance can be said to be a common problem in cyberspace.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch...

This is the perception brought by the sensory organs of the human body.

Are they physical?

of course not.

But they can convey actual information in the real world.

The strong perception of the human body depends on these information, and the cognition of the outside world is completely based on them.

Although the existence of Muramasa has changed the way he obtains information in cyberspace, the innate habit is difficult to change for a while.

Luo Qi felt that this was not strong enough, so he added a little feedback from the real world to the waves of the illusory ocean of information——

A border town three hundred kilometers away from here.

The flames soaring into the sky flew into the air with the blasted iron gate flying.

The violent explosion destroyed the door to the basement, and the power supply pipeline, which was not originally considered strong, directly became a disaster scene that made all the emergency repair teams feel dizzy, because almost the entire town was plunged into darkness.

After finally controlling the chaos, people cautiously approached the incident site, where they discovered an unknown underground server cluster.

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