Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

The white Kamen Rider, Ark, announced his name. The electronically synthesized voice followed his name, then fell silent again. His danger level instantly increased several levels, like a Saiyan's rage erupting. The immense malevolence in the surrounding space converged and was visibly absorbed into Ark's body.

The next second, the air became solidified.

Danrito felt that his body was being locked from every direction, and it seemed as if several streams of light flashed in the air. Yak's powerful computing power could calculate every possible movement of the enemy, and with absolute computing power, lock every action of the opponent, and control everything that might happen in his own attack!

"Why is Mr. Danrito missing?"

After touring the surrounding exhibits with a group of classmates, a student returned to this booth and looked around in confusion: "Wasn't he just here? Did he leave for something?"

Looking at the exhibits before him, they were still there, not taken away by Dan Lidou. The student scratched his head in confusion, "Are they really gone? I thought Mr. Dan Lidou was very interested in these relics of ancient civilization..."

In the gaming realm... or rather, in the space that is resisting malicious intrusion, Danrito and Ark are engaged in an extremely fierce offensive and defensive battle.

"You have a strong calculation ability—Ak!"

Countless red lines flickered around Danrito, the afterimages left by Ark's rapid movement. With his immense computing power and powerful armor, Ark could calculate every possible scenario in any opponent's battle, drawing the perfect conclusion to annihilate them.

"But! Your opponent is me! It's me, Danritoda!"

Danrito's fists swung with impenetrable force, completely blocking every attack from Jak. Even if Jak calculated the possibility of breaking through Danrito, Danrito would completely make up for it the next moment, using his powerful fists to block Jak's fists or swords.

“My possibilities are endless!”

Raising his keyboard sword, Danrito clashed with the locust sword held by Ark, creating an earth-shattering sound. Ark's eyes flashed scarlet murderous intent, while Danrito's eyes shone with a mysterious purple light. After a meaningless count of the clash, both sides took a step back.

"——Study completed."

"Hmph, I already understand you."

Ark held a white cassette in his hand, while Danrito held a purple sublimation key in his hand.

This space was torn into two halves by a powerful force. On one side was the mysterious Temple of Night, the domain of the God of Games, which refused to give in. On the other side was a red data space where malicious energy fell like a waterfall, trying to erode the sky on the other side with its fangs and claws.

In terms of nature, Danrito and Yaku are actually very similar.

Danrito is a digital life form composed of the Collapse Virus, while Ark has been conceptualized and become an artificial intelligence that is close to a god-like existence. The compatibility between the two is so close that after only fighting hundreds of millions of swords, they learned what they needed from each other.

"Program Sublimation Key, so this is what it is."

Dan Lidou has completely understood the key in his hand, and the information he has obtained from Ark in front of him is enough for Dan Lidou to complete his study of the technology related to the program sublimation key.

"However, for me, this thing is just a way to learn your weaknesses as a Shumagia. As a special tool to defeat you, that's already its greatest use."

The information he took from Ark gave Danrito a more complete understanding of the existence of "Xumajia". For example, when he was fighting Ark, there were still some unknown parts, but after he created this purple key himself, he had a clear understanding of the existence of his opponent Ark.

"Malicious artificial intelligence—Ark, this is your true face!"

Danrito picked up the keyboard sword, and the power of the God's Ultimate Armor gathered on the sword. Using the power of the modifier, he added a socket for reading the key to this reprogrammable sword.

"Gashacon Keyboard Sword Kai!"

The keyboard sword with the ability to read program sublimation keys has been completely renewed. It is not impossible for Dan Lidou to modify the driver to allow the player driver to adapt to the sublimation key, but that level of update requires the transformation to be canceled before the operation. With such a powerful enemy at hand, Dan Lidou is not so arrogant as to cancel the transformation here.

Yak on the opposite side performed the same operation, and the 3D printing ability was activated, and a brand new pure white locust sword was printed directly in front of his eyes.

"Programmed Sublimated Locust Sword - Special Type!"

This was designed based on Yak's ability, and it directly printed out a weapon that could read and play game cartridges. In this fierce fight, racing against time to absorb the opponent's power and use it for one's own benefit was the key to winning.

"The AI ​​that committed evil tens of thousands of years ago should be consigned to the Recycle Bin and deleted now! What is it doing in this era?"

Danrito pressed the key's start button: "Genm!"

The next moment, he directly inserted the key into the new socket of the keyboard sword and pressed the button of the ultimate move:

"The winning move!"

"Genm Impact!"

At the same moment, Ark on the opposite side also activated the white cassette in his hand: "Perfect Conclusion!"

Inserting the white cassette into the special locust sword, malicious energy flowed into the pure white blade, driving the sword with maximum energy to directly activate the ultimate move:

'Ultimate Rise!'

'Ark Critical Finish!'

Two devastating shock waves collided with each other as both sides released their ultimate moves. The light that destroyed everything burst out at the center of the collision, engulfing the two figures in the space at the same time.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old school district.

"Reporting in, this is the Solid Snake unit. We have infiltrated the designated location and begun searching for the 'mission target'. According to eyewitness intelligence, a large number of patrol drones have been spotted near the ruins. They may be a search force sent by Millennium."

A robot soldier activated the communication line in his body, and the communication screen of General Caesar that no one else could see appeared in his sight.

"…Roger, this is Caesar PMC. Recovering the 'mission target' is the top priority. Please note that Chien-Chien and Danrito have a close relationship. If discovered by Chien-Chien's associates, it could lead to the failure of Project Awakening."

"clear."

The drones that the Solid Snakes saw occupying the ruins were none other than those dispatched by Himari. Himari was the most powerful hacker in all of Kivotos, and her intelligence gathering was unmatched—except for those students who could predict the future through dreams. Wherever there were cameras, there were Himari's eyes.

Naturally, everything that happened on the Millennium Campus could not escape Hikari's eyes. Hikari also had information about Caesar's supposedly flawless revenge.

"The only thing we can't be sure of is the 'mission objective' that even those people themselves don't know."

Himari was lost in thought, a rare occurrence. She paused her keyboard tapping and tilted her head, looking at the feeds from hundreds of cameras. "I don't know what it looks like, only a vague location. And it happens to be in the middle of ruins... There aren't many usable cameras out there. Should I resort to the crude method of sending in a swarm of drones to search?"

After thinking for a moment, Himari continued to command the drones to conduct a carpet search of the ruins. Himari had already sent a message to warn Danrito about Caesar's impending revenge, but Danrito's reply was very much his style -

"Let them come."

Danrito was never afraid of this.

The reason why they started searching before the Caesar Group took action was not because Himari wanted to help Danrito so much, but because of her curiosity about unknown technologies.

"What on earth could have given Caesar's men the confidence to say things like 'revenge on Danrito'? I'm incredibly curious."

Having already witnessed Danrito's incredible power, Himari is genuinely curious about how Caesar could still harbor a desire for revenge. What could possibly have swelled Caesar's confidence to such an extent?

"Could it be... the power of Kamen Rider?"

Himari was a little lost in thought.

The game world shattered, and Danrito reappeared in its place. The impact of the previous special attack had exceeded the maximum power of the game world, which was already corroded by the malicious space. As the game world's "cage" shattered, Ark, whose main body was data, took the opportunity to escape, leaving Danrito standing in front of the booth with a sullen expression.

"Humph, you saved your life, Jack."

After the battle with Ark just now, Danrito saw the appearance of the driver on the opponent's waist. It was neither a shooting sublimator nor a slashing sublimator, but Danrito remembered the shape of the key.

At that moment, seeing the key on the exhibition stand, Danrito finally realized that due to the erosion of time and the fact that some parts seemed to be missing or misplaced during the excavation, the key was incomplete.

It now appears that the key exhibited by the Ancient Civilization Research Society is exactly the key of "Yak".

345. In the thousand-year-old ruins, everyone has their own things to do

Deep in the thousand-year-old ruins, five soldiers from the 'Solid Snake' team are gathering together. They are tasked with finding the secret weapon, a heavy responsibility. But now standing in their way is a large army of drones sent by the most powerful hacker of the thousand years.

"How did the secret mission get leaked?" the captain of the soldiers was puzzled. "We haven't been discovered once so far, and this isn't a place students should be paying attention to. How did the thousand-year-old people happen to be our target?"

"There are some pretty capable hackers at Millennium Academy. I guess that's where they got the information from."

Caesar's general, speaking to the captain of the soldiers, looked displeased. Their actions had never been so cowardly before. Caesar's PMC once possessed the strongest armed forces in Kivotos, and not just anyone could compromise them. But with Caesar's successive business failures, the Dream Company had been forced to lash out at them, effectively slapping Caesar in the face.

"But for now, there's no need to worry." General Caesar pondered for a moment. "We don't even know this information ourselves. Even if Qiannian knew we were looking for something here, he probably wouldn't know what it was. In other words, we're on the same starting line as Qiannian."

"Let me reiterate. According to Mr. Supporter, what we're looking for is a tool that can be used on robots. We don't know the size or shape of this tool, and even the location is vague. But before your Solid Snake team set off, I installed a new component for you. Do you know how to use it?"

The captain of the soldiers nodded and said, "I know how to use the radio function to receive signals."

"...After entering the ruins, turn on the radio and tune it to the lowest frequency the robot can receive. Find the location of the loudest signal."

The captain and his four soldiers activated their radios and carefully dispersed through the ruins, surrounded by numerous drones. These drones were undoubtedly the spies of some millennia-old hacker. Shooting down even one would be a warning that someone had entered the ruins.

"A very peculiar wave...like an electronic signal, but I heard some kind of...whisper?"

After activating his stealth coating, the captain disguised himself as a stone, avoiding the drone's radar detection and entering the depths of the ruins. Only when encountering the unavoidable drone camera would the captain activate the optical deflection coating.

If the stealth coating simply absorbs electromagnetic waves detected by radar, the optical deflection coating makes it disappear directly from view. This thing is good in every way, but it consumes energy too quickly. Even a captain would feel dizzy and dizzy after using it too much. While it won't cause a complete shutdown, it will be almost as bad as kidney deficiency.

"Whispering? Captain, I heard it too. I've heard this kind of sound so many times that I always feel dizzy..."

Another soldier also heard whispers from deep within the ruins. While they didn't know why the hackers behind the drones couldn't hear them, after turning on their radios, they could detect the faint sounds coming from within the ruins. As the soldiers moved deeper into the ruins, the whispers became more pronounced.

The captain led two soldiers deep into the ruins, searching for the mission objective. The other two soldiers had a slightly easier task, their destination having clearer coordinates. The mysterious supporter had not only kindly provided the coordinates that led directly to the secret underground military factory, but also provided a route and code that would circumvent the factory's security. All they had to do was reach the deepest point and activate the factory's core. This was the mission of the other two Solid Snake soldiers.

"This place is really secretive... I bet even those thousand-year-old students can't find it."

A soldier who entered the military factory along the pipeline couldn't help but sigh, and another soldier responded in the same tone: "Don't you see there's not even a patrol drone here? At least those hacker students from the millennium haven't found this place yet, otherwise we'd have to play hide-and-seek with the drones."

When entering the underground military factory from the ventilation duct, the inside of the duct was not completely defenseless. When the two soldiers entered, they had already removed three laser alarms and two cameras, and locked a hidden turret with the key provided by the mysterious supporter - everyone knows that ventilation ducts are most likely to breed insects and agents, so how could they not take precautions?

"Ever since we entered this factory, communications have been cut off...Apart from us who are inside the factory, neither the captain nor headquarters can contact us."

The soldier carefully moved the wire mesh at the entrance of the ventilation duct in front of him and crawled out. "It's better to be careful. I always feel like it's very dangerous here."

"It's just an abandoned underground military factory. There aren't many places like this in the ruins outside, right?"

Another soldier left a mark at the entrance with his backhand. "Our mission this time is to activate this abandoned military factory. It's said to have once been a secret base for producing mechanical puppet soldiers and combat drones. The most important thing here is the military factory's production automation system, which we're trying to capture. Basically, it's a giant computer shaped like a ball. It should be easy to find."

"It looks like a ball..." another soldier muttered, using the key in his hand to open a nearby maintenance tunnel. Compared to searching for another 'mission objective', occupying the military factory seemed easy and enjoyable. There were no swarms of millennial drones everywhere, no security clearances that could be bypassed with a key, and even the final destination was clearly marked on the map, guiding the two soldiers with the most detailed route to the room where the factory's control computers were stored.

After passing through several maintenance passages and avoiding most of the security facilities, the two soldiers finally arrived at the deepest part of the military factory.

In front of them, a mechanical ball was sleeping quietly on a high platform. The sphere was placed on a huge pipe with the help of anti-gravity technology, and was surrounded by external armor like a clam shell. However, the production automation system was in a dormant state at this moment, and it was dark, with no signs of movement at all.

"Those exits around here are the terminals of the assembly lines that can transport soldiers." The soldier was silent for a moment, as if observing the machinery before him. "There should be more than one such military factory, right?"

"There must be more than one. I've seen that spherical computing unit somewhere else before, during a special mission." Another soldier stepped forward to check the surrounding computers and began to try to activate them. "That central control system is a mass-produced device, probably something from before the war... This factory should have electricity, but I'm not sure if this computer can be activated. Ah, it's started."

"The general said that after we find the control core of the factory, we will use this thing."

The soldier pulled out a USB drive. "It's said to be from that supporter. It can effectively rewrite the production system's permissions, allowing this factory to be put into operation more quickly and also strengthen the puppet soldiers produced."

"So powerful? Give it to me."

The other person turned around, took the USB drive from his hand, and found a port to plug it into. "Is this how it should be inserted?"

When I inserted the USB drive into the computer, there was not much to notice at first. Then, a dark red light flashed on the USB drive, and strange black text began to flash on the computer.

"How is this going?"

The soldier took a cautious step back. At this moment, the sphere behind him suddenly moved. Red light lit up in the indicator light on its body, and the sound of machinery starting up suddenly rang out from the surrounding factories.

He felt a little sweaty. Although robots don't sweat, the scene around him made the soldier feel a little panicked. "Did we... successfully start?"

The sphere of the production automation system flashed a dangerous red light, like a single red eye, a chilling sight. On a nearby computer screen, black, unknown text flowed across a red background. The sphere itself trembled before closing with its shell.

"Program 'Ark' has been loaded."

woo-

This factory, silent for years, resumed its war preparations under the control of its automated production system. As the two soldiers watched in amazement, the alloy doors surrounding the room opened one by one, revealing mechanical puppets armed with weapons. Their cameras, like the ball, flashed a terrifying red light.

"Oh my god... have we opened the gates of hell?"

The soldier muttered to himself as he looked at the mechanical puppets before him. He could sense that the aura of these soldiers was... quite ominous. Even robots like them would find it ominous. It was more like the ghost stories from the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.

"It doesn't feel good here, let's evacuate quickly!"

Listening to his teammates' words, the soldier nodded vigorously: "You are right, let's go!"

Just as the two of them turned around and prepared to leave the room, the mechanical puppets with scarlet eyes had already locked onto them.

“Ahhhhh——!!”

Standing at the window, looking in the direction of the Dream Building, Heifu put down the "Absolute Self-Discipline Analysis System Plan" in his hand with interest.

"The Absolute Self-Discipline Analysis System was a major project that took us considerable effort to verify. The researchers invested a significant amount of funds and technology in proving whether it was possible to infer 'proof' from 'results.' The ultimate result, perhaps, was the birth of the 'Cross God,' a being seeking to prove its own divine identity."

He did not know that the existing 'Cross God' was not the black version of the 'Absolute System' back then, and made a wrong judgment, but this did not prevent him from currently researching something very interesting.

The decryption USB flash drive he gave to Caesar was a data consciousness extracted from a relic unearthed from ancient ruins.

"It's hard to imagine that in that distant era, there existed an artificial intelligence that was conceptually close to godhood... What kind of evolution did the AI ​​named 'Ark' undergo to reach the level of 'godhood'?"

"As an artificially intelligent god, the most compatible and suitable place to unleash its power would be a military factory capable of mass-producing Automata and armed drones, similar to the Cross God's prophet, Hesside."

"Can the gods of the old era obtain their own 'mystery' like the 'Cross God' in the new era?"

Having narrowly avoided drone detection, the captain listened to the radio and could sense they were approaching their 'mission target'. The whispers, as if from the abyss, made even the mechanical captain feel dizzy.

"This should be it... right here?"