[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-570":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152545,1495,"Chapter 564 - 535 Unfinished Project","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-570",570,"\u003Cp>Lille took the hard drive in his hand and first sent it into a disconnected secure module for inspection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a disconnected environment, any program can only run on the existing architecture, losing the remote control of hackers, which makes it difficult to evolve further intrusions, unless there was an AI hidden inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was an AI hidden inside, the battlefield would become an isolated mini-domain separated from the outside world, potentially occurring only within the memory device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the external network were introduced, it would also risk allowing the viruses inside to spread to external networks—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In cyber warfare, bringing in more resources to support the hacker is a double-edged sword. Although in theory, the side with massive computational power has a high advantage at the start of confrontation, there are still examples of such sides being reversed, like Bartmos from the Cyberpunk World during the internet era, who could perform such operations despite their complexity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this all assumes a massive gap in technical capabilities between the offensive and defensive sides, which is not an issue for Lille’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, so-called surprise attacks and hacking sometimes aim at this kind of mental relaxation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Little Octopus: Big brother, there’s no problem at all, not a single issue. That woman’s got something.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hard to say,\" Lille shook his head, \"The situation is still quite complex. Maybe he already knows about the intelligence leak... I mean the person or thing still in charge at Stark Industries right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Information is being output.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The database was very simple; it contained Tony’s personal projects that he was busy with before his disappearance. The key project is...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille’s eyebrows raised: The key project was just as he thought, the Iron Soldier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Iron Soldier project was a military robotics project, so extensive in scope that even Lille had to acknowledge the Marvel World’s main character’s ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Communicator and perception technology, communication and network technology, energy and mobility systems, lightweight and high-strength materials, modular weaponry, downsizing of large weapons, active defense systems, coordination and tactical algorithms...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it appeared to be a solitary lump of iron and was rather clumsy before Ultron took over, Tony had in fact several versions of upgrade plans ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting with replacing infantry and paratroopers was just the beginning; there were also transport vehicles, armored vehicles, heavy armored vehicles, and even helicopters, transport planes, fighters, bombers, and small unmanned transport vehicles...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all these were sent to the battlefield... it indeed wouldn’t be just a bit of trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stark Industries itself mainly deals not in low-end products like guns and hand grenades but in missiles: short-range missiles, medium-range missiles, long-range missiles, and even intercontinental missiles, as well as heavy weaponry fitted on various military units, including the military vehicles themselves or the equipment they used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mounting these on the Iron Soldier or teaching the Iron Soldier to deploy them was also a direction for upgrades, and it was clear that the plan was suited for total warfare in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting aside everything else, an intelligent robot capable of supersonic global cruising flight just needed a nuclear bomb in its chest to make most countries wet their pants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was definitely commercial secrets, and many of the ideas were quite inspirational with mature designs; no wonder Pepper hesitated to take out this stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what surprised Lille was not this, it was the content following the project folder, a plan for a... different direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Project Progress Record; TimeѨÞλ¥Ωβρж✞; File Δ↭]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: The Iron Soldier has been deployed in combat, but it is more clumsy than I imagined. I should upgrade its intelligence control system, but this might involve some security issues. I need to spend some time on this.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I told Dalio that once the Iron Soldier is delivered, there is no second control center. I didn’t lie to him, but I didn’t mention that the Department of Defense has my backdoor, and I can access their satellites.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Project Progress Record; Time۞ѨÞ; File ∴♞8]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: They killed Eric!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: The Iron Soldier won’t be disrupted by hacker technology this time, damn traitor.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Project Progress Record; Time҂↯₯҉; File ḉ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Atlas was interested in nuclear fuel, and I don’t know what the kid has learned, but we can’t let terrorists get their hands on nuclear fuel.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: But... I’ve seen what the military does in Somalia, are those things really necessary?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I admit I’m shaken, the Iron Soldier is efficient, I thought it could reduce casualties, but the truth is, it’s also an excellent killing machine, human intelligence, yet lacking corresponding conscience.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: A lot has surfaced on the internet recently... things I never knew before, and that security captain from Atlas, Frank Castle.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: They say the CIA let them traffic in Afghanistan... I can’t understand, I don’t believe it, Dalio says it’s fake, but Rod kept silent.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: If the Iron Soldier had replaced that soldier named Frank, I might never have known about this, we, might never have known these things.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Perhaps people... we shouldn’t let war drift too far from us, just like... the old guy faced the enemy, thinking only we can bomb others, but others won’t bomb us.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I can’t stop the military from dispatching fleets, but I think I can delay the upgrade of the Iron Soldier... this version should be enough, right?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Maybe I should try a new direction.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[New subproject (unfinished): High-performance armoured exoskeleton]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tentative project name: Mark 0]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Project data has been damaged.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille was surprised by this passage that clearly came from Tony’s introspection, and even more surprised by this unfinished Iron Soldier subproject...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive mobile war fortress that could give the user enough protection and lethal power, enough sense of security to see the battlefield with his own eyes, to step into the battlefield with his own body, to let him... truly become...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Project progress record; Time π≠۞!Ё⇌↯; Archive ℤʬꙮ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Some people have started calling me a war hero and a superhero, but clearly, the last hero they cheered for now seems to be with Atlas.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: If we’re truly the right side, we should also have such a real hero, not the kind that hides behind the scenes.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I like the name hero, it’s flamboyant, maybe one day I can wear it and give it a try myself?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Or maybe I’m just crazy, I should build this thing like the old guy and then pick a hotheaded youth like Steve Rogers to go in.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: But first, I’ve got to build it—I need Vibranium, if it really is as magical as they say.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equipment that could actually let him become the superhero he envisioned—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Iron Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: And then I’d go blow up the terrorists, and moreover, no need for indiscriminate bombing...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: This thing is really driving me crazy, I’ve seen so many civilians’ corpses, so much blood, limbs, and...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: God, that child looked only about one year old...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I’m going to fly to New York, fly to Washington, fly to the Middle East, fly to Africa, fly to... fly to that kid’s house, grab their necks and ask them why they’re waging war?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: Haha, I really am crazy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ψ₤≈: I can’t even figure it out myself.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it looked like even if he did manage to create this thing, he wouldn’t dare to wear it.\u003C\u002Fp>",1234,"2026-06-03T12:33:32.470Z","2026-06-03T12:33:39.371Z",1,"novelbin.me","9f795ad83887667681a223895321d1a41d7e1cc71a994608ddd984b2e14a2697","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-735","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-734",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]