I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

Night City is one of the few megacities in the world, and it is also the front line of the confrontation between Arasaka and military technology. Naturally, it attracts the attention of chain companies around the world.

As long as you stay in this city, you will have the opportunity to encounter the most advanced technology of various companies - after all, the number of agents here is among the best in the world.

So in fact, Sun Yang does not need to send humanoids to various parts of the world to collect certain technologies. He can obtain information from all over the world by staying in this city. This place is like the center of a spider web.

But some things require offline activities to obtain, such as the strange AI born from the Internet mentioned by Antonina.

This type of peculiar AI had been discovered a long time ago, but with the network disaster caused by Batmos, the global Internet was divided into local area networks mainly composed of giant cities, and this type of peculiar AI could no longer be found.

After all, the original first network, that is, the global Internet, has turned into a wasteland full of offensive AI and roaming AI. The most companies can do is train bot hackers like Lucy to search for the remaining data in it, but they are powerless to do more things.

But this is not a problem for Antonina's cyber attack and defense team. As a humanoid that has spanned several worlds and mastered both radiation code technology and XCOM psychic network technology, she can allow humanoids with electronic warfare capabilities to enter the world behind the black wall and search for the content behind it at high speed.

During the search, Andonina's humanoids clashed several times with the violent AIs behind the black wall. These AIs were indeed powerful, and even professional network attack and defense humanoids might not be able to defeat them.

However, since the humanoid's mind core can be backed up, when it finds that the network attack and defense cannot be defeated, the humanoid sneaking across the black wall will not hesitate to completely delete all its own data to prevent those wandering AIs from reading it.

After Antonina detects that the infiltrating humanoid has deleted all the data, she will re-import the mental data that was backed up before the infiltration into the body and explore it again.

Although self-protection is one of the underlying codes of the humanoids, for the sake of data protection and technical protection, all humanoids that have infiltrated the Black Wall have backed up and modified their core mental codes to adapt to the brutal network attack and defense.

Sun Yang's hackers, on the other hand, have the ability to resurrect an unlimited number of times, and as long as they come back alive, their skills will definitely become stronger. This is an advantage that no other company in the world can possess.

Even those chain companies, at most, let the controlled AI perform design, development, and organization work, and it is absolutely impossible to let them explore what is on the other side of the black wall. This is equivalent to releasing wild animals back into their original environment.

Training excellent hackers is an extremely long process. Even top companies can only train hundreds of hackers each year who can sneak into black walls to search for information and whose loyalty is relatively reliable.

These hackers are often hunted by AI outside the black wall due to their lack of skills, lack of vigilance, and too much bad luck, and become wanderers in the cyber wasteland.

Therefore, the company's black wall exploration progress is not fast.

Due to the powerful performance of the humanoids and their ability to act an unlimited number of times, Antonina quickly found clues of these cluster network AIs on the other side of the chaotic black wall, and led a large number of humanoids to fight against those virus AIs and wandering AIs in the cyber wasteland on the other side of the black wall.

While the humanoid's mind core is theoretically considered an AI, in reality, AIs don't often empathize with each other simply because they're all AI. It's common for them to band together for support and then attack each other. Furthermore, the old network on the other side of the black wall is rife with malicious AIs that attack anyone they encounter.

For humanoids, as long as the enemy identification code and data records do not match, they are all enemies, no matter whether you are keeping account books or responsible for financial advice.

In this cyber attack and defense battle, Andonina also saw those roving AIs who had worked tirelessly to snatch the hacker's body and break into Night City offline to see Sun Yang.

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In the vast cyberspace, Antonina still easily crossed the blockade of the black wall today, leading dozens of humanoids to search for the remaining traces of the cluster AI.

The attack from the old network came immediately, and the humanoids led by Antonina immediately used strange algorithms to resist the attacks of these AIs and launched a counterattack.

More and more attacking AIs tried to launch DDOS attacks, or simply analyze the humanoid firewalls and break their defense devices. However, this behavior only made these AIs more confused.

DDOS attacks were useless against humanoids. Antonina had already obtained several rooms' worth of equipment from Sun Yang to defend against them. Decoding the humanoid's firewall was even more difficult.

An extremely concise but difficult to parse code, and a second firewall made of some unknown thing. The offensive AI will take about an hour just to try to parse this thing, and this time is enough for the humanoids to destroy the invading things in the future.

After deleting all the data of these wild AIs, Antonina received a new communication request.

"You've finally agreed to meet us, Antonina and her team. Have you thought it through? You should know who is truly willing to help you." The figure on the other side of cyberspace was erratic, but Antonina could still tell from the identification code that the person had been to their company before.

[Get lost.] Antonina directly mobilized server resources to feed this ungrateful AI all kinds of garbage content, making you come here with a flattering face and cause a lot of trouble.

Aren't you an AI? Try to get rid of these things containing electronic viruses. Of course, if you can't handle it, just delete yourself on the spot.

Antonina was too lazy to even deal with these guys, so she just threw them outside and let them out when she needed to fight.

Soon, after searching hundreds of suspected nodes, Antonina locked the data storage location of this cluster AI. This AI has prepared a large number of backup servers specifically for extending its lifespan.

There is no need to catch them all, just pull out the main body at the key data transportation node.

After Antonina repeatedly infiltrated and compared data, the humanoids finally began to disperse throughout the world. Sun Yang's orders were quickly executed.

574 Recycling Mission (I)

Several aerial transport vehicles, approximately 25 meters long and 8 meters wide, departed from Night City. These vehicles resembled hovercrafts in appearance, but their interiors were vastly different.

These aircraft are equipped with three different modules, one is equipped with a ground fire support module, and the other is equipped with an airspace control module. These two aircraft are responsible for ground fire support/scanning and air counterattack/scanning.

The last type of transport aircraft can carry up to 24 fully armed tactical humanoids and automated iron-blooded factories.

Two aircraft equipped with ground-to-ground and air-to-air modules are responsible for the escort mission, while the remaining aircraft are filled with humanoids and automated iron-blooded factories.

This is Crouch's ultimate solution for aerial transport: the "CC-1 Convertible" transport aircraft. This transport aircraft integrates all currently available technologies for humanoids. However, due to numerous requirements and limited models, it was ultimately split into three common modules.

Although the three modules perform different tasks, the aircraft still has performance that is unimaginable for other hovercrafts in this world.

Crocchi retained all the stealth technology he could collect as a basic framework. In non-combat mode, these aircraft cannot be observed by radar or the naked eye.

Only traces of firing during combat would reveal their positions, and if the enemy lacked effective means of observation, they would be blown up into the sky by invisible artillery at a long distance.

Even without anti-ground and anti-aircraft modules, the basic transport aircraft also has a 50mm plasma turret and a 20mm coaxial electromagnetic cannon installed under the nose as supporting firepower. Most ground units cannot withstand such firepower.

T-dolls that have passed the "Battlefield Flight and Close Support" exam can control aircraft using remote control or wiring.

If none of the humanoids present can fly, the aircraft's built-in simple AI control system can also carry people to their destination, or perform ground attack and scanning missions.

This is an insurance program for an aircraft, and Antonina wrote it using the code of the Fallout world.

This overly concise automated system can only be issued new commands through specially converted coded commands from the humanoids, or by direct wired operation by the humanoids.

"I'm giving one last mission briefing," AN94 called out over the humanoid LAN. "This mission is to recover the clustered AI hiding in the Siberian industrial complex and perform a personality cleanse on it. Success is the only option."

"If the operation is hindered, the second batch of experimental combat troops and experimental Dragoon main battle tanks will join the battle, but we will also be detected by the local Soviet rapid reaction force. In this case, all tactical humanoids and Iron Blood troops will back up their data and cover the recovery team's evacuation."

"After confirming the recovery team has returned to the main base, all humanoids must ensure that the self-destruct mechanisms of all equipment are activated. We cannot allow the Soviet authorities and Supec to gain access to this technology. Does anyone else have any questions?"

The Rebellious Squad, to which AN94 belongs, undertook this mission. Aboard their spaceship were Griffin's elite squad. Only those T-dolls who ranked among the top in average survival time and mission completion in previous battles were allowed to participate.

After all, even among Griffin's veterans, there were some teams that were easily defeated no matter how hard they fought. Whether due to bad luck or mental incompetence, these dolls could only follow behind the assault teams in the breakthrough, or serve as instructors for the new tactical dolls in collaborative training.

There was no response from the communication channel. The humanoids were simply checking the action plan for any flaws.

The transport plane flew northward across the Bering Strait at a speed of 3010 kilometers per hour. Such acceleration would be unbearable for a human pilot, but it was of no concern to the humanoids.

In the aerospace realm, the human body is far more fragile than steel. If humans lose their advantage in complex thinking and decision-making, the skies will be dominated by machines.

The aircraft rose into the clouds thousands of meters high and easily flew over the air defense system deployed in Vladivostok in the Far East.

Su Petrochemical's light fighters were patrolling and circling nearby, and their radar waves swept across the humanoid transport planes countless times, but nothing appeared on the human pilots' screens.

"Who designed these planes? They look outdated and useless," RPK16 finally asked after the humanoids' aircraft passed through Su Shihua's air defense positions. "Each one of them is like a sparrow."

The advanced fighter jets in this world tend to be miniaturized. As companies compete with each other to control costs and defeat opponents within budget, large-sized jet fighters are being eliminated one after another - because they consume too much fuel.

Su Petrochemical uses an F36 Comet produced by General Dynamics, which is a combat aircraft with extremely high speed, excellent maneuverability, and equipped with a 20mm cannon.

As of 2077, the aircraft has been upgraded several times, slightly improving its performance and range, and can carry four air-to-air missiles.

However, due to the small size of the F36, it can carry very little fuel, and the air-to-air missiles it uses cannot be too heavy.

This results in its cruising radius becoming extremely short and its missile performance being average. It can basically only hover around the air force base and act as an airport defender.

The transport aircraft used by the humanoids can easily withstand the machine guns and missiles fired by the F36. In the face of such attacks, the shields carried by the aircraft can easily take them with their faces.

After all, the F36's cannon and missiles are designed to shoot down light fighters of the same size in air combat, so there is no need for powerful large missiles.

However, the humanoids' transport aircraft were massive, with built-in fusion power systems that were unimaginable for aircraft of this era. The humanoids could even equip the aircraft with shields, something the F-36 couldn't even do.

It has a huge size, super long battery life, and is full of black technology from the world of XCOM and Fallout.

For example, it is like a natural boxer who is 160 cm tall and weighs 50 kg fighting against a boxer who is 220 cm tall and weighs 120 kg.

This 220cm boxer quietly tells you: My heart is nuclear powered, I have a shield outside my skin, my fists are much heavier than yours, and your attacks can't even break the shield.

Therefore, the result is often no suspense. If a fight really breaks out, the transport plane can let its shield withstand a round of missiles and machine guns, and then the transport plane with an air attack module can fire missiles to shoot down these sparrows.

"Don't try to understand these companies' abstract thinking; they even calculate the cost of fighting a war," AK12 commented. "Building these sparrows is worse than building large, long-range fighter jets."

Sometimes size is equal to combat power: the bigger, the stronger. Only a large enough body can carry more fuel and larger missiles, thus having a longer flight radius and greater firepower.

After the humanoids chattered and commented on these funny close-quarters combat fighters, the CC-1 convertible finally slowed down in the Siberian wilderness.

An abandoned military base hidden in the ruins of the city appeared in front of the humanoids.

[Signal detected.] The nearby "CC-1 Convertible" continuously sends scanned information to the AK12.

"Don't alert the enemy yet. Land one kilometer away from the detection range. Everyone move forward on foot. Have the Iron Blood Automated Factory find a place to deploy. We need ground fire suppression or support... Commander, do you have any comments?" AK12 gave various instructions in a split second.

The second batch of support troops has successfully crossed the Far East Defense Zone. Commander Sun Yang has assigned the AR team to carry the Spiral Sword.

"Looks like they're ready to clean up our mess..." AK12 couldn't imagine what the commander would do when he arrived. He felt like he'd kill all the enemy troops coming to support him. He had the ability to do that.

"Please ask the support forces to stand by. The recovery mission will be carried out in one minute." After saying this, AK12 pulled out the connecting wire at the back of his neck and finally checked all the weapons and tools.

After scanning the surrounding area and confirming there were no unfamiliar signals nearby, the anti-aircraft aircraft took off to perform a security mission. Meanwhile, several transport planes stopped in front of a hill.

A cold winter wind swept across the Siberian wilderness. The transport plane stabilized its stance with its nozzles, then released its mountings. The figures fell to the ground like dumplings.

[All personnel have landed, no abnormalities.] Reports from various teams came over the humanoid internal network. The AK12 performed a final self-check, confirming it was in good condition, and then instructed the humanoids to activate their stealth modules and infiltrate the base.

Oasis Universal Transport Aircraft Project - CC-1 Convertible

The fuselage is 25 meters long, 8 meters wide (including the engine), and 6 meters high (including the engine) in vertical hover/landing mode.

—No crew members, controlled by a simple AI automated program, and can be remotely controlled at any time by a T-doll with a "Battlefield Flight and Close Support" certification via the Zener Protocol (PS: For information on how to obtain the "Battlefield Flight and Close Support" certification, please pay attention to the relevant information on the bulletin board.)

——Empty weight 34 tons, maximum take-off weight 254 tons

The main vertical takeoff and landing functions are accomplished using an anti-gravity device. The high-powered plasma vector engine provides enough power for this nearly aerodynamically unremarkable box to truly soar into the sky while carrying a full load of 24 fully-armed tactical T-dolls. Furthermore, the four engines, mounted at the four vertices of the aircraft's top-down view, assist in the anti-gravity takeoff and landing. The power pack is a tail-mounted nuclear power pack, amplified and redesigned from the Dragon Knight, increasing output power while ensuring safety. It also features a built-in self-destruct system, remotely controlled via the Zener protocol. The general altitude is 5000 meters, with a maximum ceiling limited to 10000 meters. The maximum speed ceiling is the same as above, with a maximum speed of 3010 kilometers per hour. (Commander's note: That's enough, don't fly too high... No unauthorized modifications allowed!)

——Weapon configuration: a 50mm plasma turret located under the nose, and a coaxial 20mm electromagnetic cannon

Armor Protection: Only armor-piercing rounds capable of penetrating 1500mm of armored steel, and 2100mm of armored steel at a depth of 1 meters, can threaten the CC-'s four main engines. The main fuselage structure is internally reinforced to ensure it retains its shape after a free fall from an altitude of meters.

——Tactical module selection:

1. Tactical humanoid airborne module

This module is the default configuration, located in the middle of the fuselage. It features two rows of universal hardpoints, allowing for mounting two Dragoon main battle tanks, 24 fully-armored tactical T-dolls, or one Dragoon main battle tank and 12 tactical T-dolls. If necessary, it can also be equipped with an automated Iron Blood Factory, providing more tactical options.

2. Ground Attack Support Module

If this component is installed, it will occupy all hardpoints in the entire passenger area, rendering the CC-1 unable to carry the "Dragoon" main battle tank and tactical humanoids. This module contains a psionic terrain detector, three heavy water-cooled plasma rapid-fire cannons arranged in a triangular pattern, six 35mm heavy water-cooled electromagnetic cannons, a self-destruct drone printing chamber, and six drone release ports. It can instantly scan complex urban terrain within an area of ​​2500 square meters and 30 meters deep with millimeter-accurate terrain scans, and use artillery and drones to launch precise air support. (PS from a related test humanoid: This thing can only attack places where grenades can be thrown, and it cannot directly enter places where grenades cannot be thrown. It is somewhat useful, but not much.)

3. Airspace Control Module

This module will still occupy all the attachment points of CC-1. It was created to completely control the airspace with a radius of 250 kilometers and an altitude of less than 7000 meters. It is equipped with a high-power phased array/psychic composite detection radar, which can continuously track and lock aircraft that enter the conventional radar clutter area or drill into the valley. It can track and lock up to 500 targets of the size of a normal adult male at the same time. The rest of the area in the module is used by missile printing chambers and launch ports. There are up to 50 launch ports. The ammunition racks and automatic loading devices attached to the printing chamber ensure that the module can launch 15 missiles within 500 seconds. The missile is the first generation of supersonic air defense missiles independently developed by Oasis. It is 0.9 meters long and 0.2 meters in diameter. It uses a ramjet engine with a maximum speed of 1000 meters per second. The warhead is a conventional high-energy explosive, and it attacks through a proximity fuze and prefabricated fragments.

4.VIP transport module

This module doesn't utilize all of the CC-1's hardpoints, allowing the CC-1 to transport four more fully-armored tactical T-dolls. The module houses a comprehensive suite of life support systems and backup energy systems, allowing a VIP with only one intact head to survive. The stored medical supplies are sufficient to keep the head alive for up to six months. The module can sustain up to ten human brains.

575 Recycling Mission (II)

This city, built on the Siberian wasteland, had been nearly completely destroyed during the corporate war. From a distance, the surface city looked like a vast ruin. Only its exceptionally well-built underground bases had survived.

According to records collected by the humanoids, after Su Petrochemical participated in the corporate war, orbital strike systems and army combat units from other companies attacked the city.

Satellites orbiting the Earth activated their deployed laser cannons and heavy warheads, vaporizing the defenses of the city connecting the Far East and the Moscow region.

The Militech troops and their close allies, the Lazarus Corporation, which provided mercenary services ranging from small-scale infiltration to swarm operations, completely destroyed the city's infrastructure, leaving only a vast amount of rubble and the concrete buildings that survived the bombardment standing tall in the cold wind.

After the corporate war ended, Su Petrochemical was unable to clear the ruins and rebuild the city. As a profit-oriented company, they chose a new address and built a new one.

Cleaning up the ruins of a city is much more difficult than finding a place to build a new one. After Su Petrochemical packed up the technical data and recyclable production materials and took them away, only the production facilities that were difficult to move were left.

There are no official records of this incident after that, but according to unofficial sources, after Su Petrochemical packed up all the equipment and took it away, only a few scavengers and homeless people were left here.

These marginalized people could not survive in the city and could not endure the harsh environment of Siberia, so they built small settlements among the ruins, relying on the ruins for shelter from wind and rain, and settled in the still sturdy buildings.

Some time later, rumors circulated that the scavengers had been killed by automated machines that had suddenly activated within the city. However, since the area had been abandoned, Yesu Petrochemical simply sent someone to investigate.

According to the public investigation results, investigators from Su Petrochemical confirmed that it was only the aging of some automated equipment that had not been transferred that caused the line failure.

As for the murdered scavengers, naturally no one cared; Su Petrochemical had no obligation to compensate them. The area around the city had long been marked as a no-entry zone; anyone entering without permission would not only receive no compensation but also face charges and fines from Su Petrochemical.

Today, this huge ruin in the Siberian wilderness has become a complete ghost town. No one knows what is going on in this city.

And Antonina found clues in the old network and found the important node of the cluster AI.

In this world, this type of AI is called a Transcendent AI, and each region's network contains one. In areas with large user bases and well-developed network infrastructure, the AI ​​appears intelligent and wise. In areas with poor infrastructure, the AI ​​appears unsociable or less intelligent.

After Antonina communicated with the transcendental AI in various regions, she found the right person.

The Soviet Union's transcendental AI was called "Duchess" or "Duchess". Compared with transcendental AI in other regions, the Soviet AI was very immature in terms of intelligence level and was quite easy to be deceived.