Chapter 279 - 260 Chain Reaction (Still Silver Godfather Forzen’s)

Strictly speaking, cyberspace is a generic term that physically consists of the most basic electrical signals, and then, through various methods, allows humans to perceive these signals.

As an electronic life form, the Zola project was initially intended to transfer consciousness into electronic devices using a device called the "Consciousness Register."

Unlike the Soul Killer from the Cyberpunk World, Zola had no assistance from the "Yihara-Bragg" protocol to help realize its vision.

He skipped this step entirely.

This was a testament to Dr. Zola’s wisdom, but it also meant he was not invincible in the network world because he had barely encountered any rivals in this realm!

To a great extent, Lille’s current state was completely equivalent in form to this electronic life form, with no so-called technological gap!

In fact, the technology Lille used was more suitable for human perception of data streams!

Moreover, Lille had rich cyberspace combat experience, even with technical guidance from network surveillance, which was more than sufficient to crush Zola!

Zola’s consciousness was drawn into the ctOS data fortress, where he saw the entire scrambled data barrier he had created undergo a massive transformation—

In an instant, the world inverted.

After the inversion, all the dirty data represented by the abnormal currents attached to the devices had their links disrupted!

From the powerful invasive elements corroding the fortress, the parasitic blight on ctOS turned into dust and dirt on the sturdy barrier—

Yes, they were still conspicuous, but what harm could they do to a solid barrier?

And in the next moment, the barrier began to wriggle!

Much like a living organism, its structure began to change, moving ceaselessly, crushing the dust and grime bit by bit!

Zola wanted to escape; it was the first time he had seen data movement on such a scale!

He lacked the corresponding technology, and in his eyes, it was as if the ctOS system had rebelled, effortlessly crushing his hack; the data streams which were useful moments ago now had turned into unreadable, chaotic currents!

He couldn’t understand what had happened!

But he couldn’t escape!

His consciousness retreated through circuit after circuit, quickly leaving the ctOS system, arriving in the tangled network of New York...

Then he felt his consciousness crash into something.

Some incredibly potent information barrier had locked onto his escape route, intercepting these currents carrying information that symbolized his consciousness.

And the changes in these intercepted currents and coordinates, at this moment, seemed to construct an octopus tentacle in his consciousness...

No, if perceived from this perspective, it was... it was a giant octopus!

There was an octopus in the network!

Zola, like an investigator strayed into a horror world, had his imagination sparked anew by Lille’s network attack, beginning to understand piecemeal what Lille was doing...

It was terrifying!

Lille stood atop the Little Octopus, directing it to release a data recognition sonar—

The octopus’s tentacles pulled at the data within this electronic space like marionette strings, gently tugging...

The entire space was like the calm sea surface suddenly having ripples!

The ripples screened out the coding groups Zola used to monitor the entire world, one by one red nodes appeared within Lille’s perception...

All were Hydra’s surveillance nodes planted within the network, Lille had just collected enough of Hydra’s communication frequencies!

However, an unexpected event occurred:

With the slight modifications from Lille and the Little Octopus, these fluctuations would search for similar signals on the internet, then diffuse again at the tracked signal nodes, repeatedly searching—

Maybe because Hydra had planted too many surveillance nodes around the world, the fluctuations surged wave after wave with the wireless internet domains, eventually spreading across the entire internet!!

The ripples in the chaotic internet environment eventually evolved into waves, then became a tsunami!

The tsunami swept across the entire internet!

Even Lille was shocked by what was happening right now on top of the octopus!

He had merely constructed a sonar similar to the one used by the Dragon Hunter according to the network surveillance’s approach!

The detection sonar was only a probing program meant for targeting enemies, yet with Lille’s "slight modifications," it ran repeatedly in the chaotic internet.

Interfered with by various programs and computers—

When the changes reached a certain degree, they became uncontrollable and unobservable, termed as chaos.

Chaos turned normally harmless programs into extremely destructive fluctuations within the network!

At the same time, all of America’s internet faced obstruction and collapse due to this cyberspace chain reaction!

The data waves caused by the chain reaction also washed over the hackers in cyberspace, scattering them!

But Lille rode the octopus, inherently meant for survival in the vast ocean—

In contrast, Zola was like a human who had just learned to swim, capable of easily dealing with novices in a calm lake, but utterly incapable of resisting the tidal waves!

Moreover, this wave was specifically aimed at him!

His consciousness deviated in an instant, with numerous erroneous information converting into currents exceeding safety limits, burning through his circuit boards!

In the real world, one communication cable after another exploded and snapped, sparking wildly, especially those key lines monitored by Hydra...

This dramatic phenomenon spread from New York all the way to the other side of the continent, to those military fortresses!

"Disconnect the link—disconn..."

Bang!

The servers in the bunker violently exploded as Zola blew up his own communication servers, severing external communication!

In the pitch-black bunker, exposed wires sparked, illuminating the shattered screens.

The bunker fell silent.

At that moment, many external servers where Zola resided also burned out, with countless memories lost with the damaged servers.

To a hacker...or rather, to a digital life form like him, human cognition would fall into a massive decline.

And the human mind’s protective mechanism in such a moment was to black out.

Zola shut down.

His accomplices frantically tried to reach him, but they couldn’t.

Their phones were too emitting black smoke.

And this fluctuation had already become unstoppable.

Lille had invested a total of 5000CCU computing power, triggering the first great shock in the Marvel World’s network environment, bringing direct data logic from the human perspective into the network.

The tsunami swept across North America and then transmitted through the internet to various parts of the world.

Due to geographical separation, a massive signal decay occurred at the network boundaries of each continent before entering their respective internet domains, changing once again.

Leaving a profound mark on the internet.

In some high-performance processors and systems, this date was deeply remembered.

Remembered by data, becoming an anchor point.

...

The electrodes on Lille’s body suddenly detached, and he climbed out of the cooling tank, steaming!

"So this is network warfare in the internet..."

Lille wiped away the coolant from his face, although the liquid would evaporate quickly even without his efforts.

He was just too shocked.

The network technology in the Cyberpunk World was far more advanced than here, but there was one thing they lacked:

A world-wide internet.

The cyberspace in the Cyberpunk World resembled neatly divided and orderly worlds.

Compared to those clear-cut LAN-constituted networks, the scale and chaos of the internet were beyond imagination...

In the Cyberpunk World, Yihara and Brage first used this technology to enter cyberspace with computing power likely less than 1CCU.

He originally only intended to fish out Hydra’s signal in New York, and if it spread to North America, all the better; now, what he got was indeed caught.

There was no need for him to handle it; the network directly collapsed.

Lille had considered that combat in the network environment of 2076 might differ from the internet environment...

But such chaos could not be foreseen or controlled; he seemed to have opened a can of worms.

Before he could continue his thought, his nose caught a pungent smell—

Bang bang.

"Boss! Boss! Can I go in to put out the fire?!"

This voice sounded like that boy Christopher...

Lille looked up sharply to see the room filled with black smoke and flaming machines!

The two octopus arms behind him unplugged the fire extinguishers and started putting out the fire furiously—

"Get in here! Don’t use water!!!"