Chapter 519 - 490: Electromagnetic Frenzy (Part 3)

The Jing Yuan-Brage Protocol is the foundation for the rapid development of Cyberspace. It is a genius algorithm that converts electronic information into data that humans can perceive and control through the Five Senses, making information as easy to use as one’s limbs.

In terms of hearing, meaningful data streams are reflected in tones that conform to human auditory perception. Although it may not be as pleasing as music, the pitch of the tones can often be distinguished. The higher the pitch, the more important and prioritized the data. The more simultaneous frequencies there are, the more chaotic and dense the data.

In terms of touch, data streams with temperature are meaningful. The higher the temperature, the denser the data. The roughness of the surface texture represents the closure and structural reliability of the data, while the amplitude of vibrations sometimes indicates the type of data—whether it’s text, images, or video.

In terms of smell... few hackers use olfactory encoding, mainly because the software for olfactory Cyber Modulators is complex and expensive.

In general, hackers either block it, or discernible data streams will be encoded by hackers into identifiable smells. Some commonly used smells will be bound to those most familiar, such as the smell of smoke, alcohol, perfume, etc.

Taste is also a high-end sense that similarly requires advanced Cyber Modulators and software. Sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy tastes are bound by hackers to certain designated data, with the intensity representing data density.

Aggressive data streams will instantly elevate voltage to the extreme, usually indicating that the information density has peaked. In such cases, all the Five Senses ultimately converge, transforming into a sensation of pain.

Hackers who begin studying this transformation protocol can write their own Cyberspace avatars and, using the limbs of Cyberspace, control everything within it in a way that’s almost indistinguishable from real-world activities.

The difference, however, is that in reality, you might be a muscle-wasting cripple, but in Cyberspace, as long as your brain functions well and your programming skills are high, you can become a powerful warrior capable of unleashing a nuclear punch to destroy an entire area of software or even hardware.

The only limitations on hackers are their technology, equipment, and imagination.

But all of these are data types and information annotated and recorded in hacker textbooks by the Jing Yuan-Brage Protocol. No matter how imaginative they are, they all ultimately return to the fundamental ways humans originally encoded electrical signals, fundamentally conforming to basic human cognitive logic.

For electronic information whose underlying logic is completely unlike humans...

The data turns bright red, with darker shades representing terrifying data density. Sharp, incomprehensible audio fills the brain, combined with the tactile modulation module, delivering both ultrasonic and infrasonic vibration frequencies.

Ears go deaf, brains bleed, followed by drastic temperature changes, unprecedented and indescribable tastes and smells. The memory is filled with data that can’t be modulated, memory becomes fuzzy, and thoughts become chaotic—

Ultimately, they break through a cyborg’s personal ICE, shutting down or even burning their prosthetics. More severely, they sever the systems humans use to control these artificial constructs, causing them to move autonomously!

The products made by humans, once the best helpers, suddenly seemed to come to life, speaking in a language humans couldn’t understand, functioning independently within bodies and society...

This is the direct experience of rogue AI materialization! The most dangerous rogue AI entities aren’t just in the network but in the real world!

But Lille had to first solve the trouble that Munemasa caused in the network: all surrounding wireless communication frequencies had been hacked!

In the mixed reality, Lille saw the red virtual shadows resembling blades, even burning towards their equipment out of thin air!

Stssss—

The three Octopus Arms were clad in slightly red Iron Armor, confronting these hacked data head-on!

But it lasted less than a millisecond: the moment Little Octopus resisted the hack, Lille physically burned his wireless Cyber Modulator, and a receiver module ejected from both Jack and V’s prosthetics—

Munemasa was a bona fide rogue AI that had existed for a long time. Even if its primary function wasn’t network technology, continuously launching network attacks might eventually lead to failure.

Rogue AI instinctively extends towards networks. If one didn’t want their prosthetics to suddenly develop a "Machine Soul" and get killed by their own prosthetics, most humans had only one choice: turn off all communication modules and ensure they aren’t connected to any live circuits.

The Data Knife was a skill for Lille, but instinct for Munemasa.

And many people, if unprepared and directly facing a rogue AI, could have all their prosthetics rendered useless in just one touch, maintaining only basic mechanical structure and function, perhaps even needing muscle power to move.

But Lille had an AI on his side—

Lille opened his eyes. The glowing War Blade was thrown high, traversing the air like a missile, crashing in front of the car!

Bang!

Mackinaw made an emergency turn, perfectly avoiding the giant blade!

"What’s going on?!" V banged on the car door. Just now, her Si Anweisitan shut down!

It wasn’t just her; Jack’s Prosthetic Eye also shut down; these prosthetic eyes had a basic scanning function that could analyze circuit currents.

The principle wasn’t "electric-eye coercion." Rather, it was through local network and visual information for circuit analysis, so if this function wasn’t turned off, they’d see the red virtual remnants on the wires.

But that would be extremely dangerous, even though the scanner’s cables to the brain-machine interface theoretically wouldn’t zap their heads, but that’s just theory.

It’s always more cautious to be safe against a rogue AI.

The Octopus Arm took advantage of this gap to directly connect to V’s neural link: Little Octopus could manage multiple body regulation systems when networked, but not when completely isolated.

From a computer psychology perspective, this was its nature. Analyzing from data structure, Lille could only think of it as Little Octopus’s source code being very loosely coupled, splitting into two equally conscious AIs once they separated.

It hung reluctantly on Lille’s head:

[Little Octopus: Boss, are you sure? Da Mai won’t care about you while driving.]

[Lille: I’m certain. Hurry up.]

[Hardware Restart: Thousand Replacing "Reality Distortion"]

[Hardware Start Override Control: Thousand Replacing "Reality Distortion"]

Little Octopus popped into V’s vision with a bang, crouching on her shoulder.

However, what V saw was different: Lille in the car had fully deployed heat dissipation fins, steam continuously puffing out!

Lille himself seemed stiff, suspended in mid-air, with three Octopus Arms moving under his rigid control...

This scene looked strange to V, let alone Little Octopus, whose mouth hung open:

The Octopus Arms’ structure was incredibly complex, which was why Dr. Otto designed the AI to assist in movement—

The human brain’s computational power might be enough to drive it...

But the human brain, apart from controlling the body, isn’t designed for easy multi-thread processing!

Two Octopus Arms locked in place, one connected to Jack’s body, isolating his external communications and rebooting his malfunctioning prosthetics.

Since Munemasa appeared, it had been 10 seconds, and Lille had completed the team’s backup transition—

He had indeed considered how to deal with Munemasa’s emergence.

The enemy was closing in.

Jack had remained calm, holding onto the car body and squatting in the cargo hold. When the error frames cleared, he opened his eyes:

The Valentino Gang couldn’t keep up anymore.

There were probably fewer enemies, but they were clearly more frenzied.

The legendary Mackinaw was indeed an all-around armored vehicle but still had limits.

The Iron Hammer-30 cannons had long run out of ammo, the electromagnetic locking system was down, the electromagnetic suspension was down, the electrostatic adhesion system’s power reduced by 80%, the four-wheel micro-control system regressed to pure mechanical transmission, armor damaged, active defense bombs depleted...

Except for having enough fuel, everything else was running thin. The usable weapons boiled down to Jack’s Burning Knuckles, raccoon dog, and Yinglong Submachine Gun.

"Mano..."

"We still have support."

The car sped along the elevated road, seeing a tall sign flickering with electric light in the distance—

The Tiger Claw Gang’s iconic "Unmatched in the World" landmark.

The Centaur Mecha controlled by Munemasa continuously spewed flames from its exhaust pipe, converting this bipedal urban mecha into a high-mobility battlefield mecha.

The mecha drew the huge blade from the ground, increasing speed a bit more...

As the AI-controlled cyber psychotic army passed under the sign, a large shadow suddenly jumped off the arch!

The shadow thrust the Samurai Sword deep into the car’s roof, piercing the driver’s neck, the current burned out the mercenary’s entire prosthetics.

It was a familiar face—the leader of the Tiger Claw Gang, Maekawa Takeshi.

The prosthetic’s back, glowing spray paint flickering with the Tiger Claw Gang’s emblem—

"Unmatched in the World."