Chapter 688 - 659: Breaking Through the Encirclement (Part 4)

Lille began to activate that circular server, starting to initiate the AI matrix loaded inside...

In Cyberspace, mechanical arms split into countless threads, beginning to extract and assemble a new dangerous critical mass.

As the matrix started to guide, peeling off the AI from Lark’s chaotic consciousness and memory, both she and the AI Lark increasingly felt liberated!

Clear thinking, pain fading, computational power increasing...

"You..." Lark was unsure of what had happened, but she noticed that her pain began to lessen.

Lille asked, "...Lark, I can save you, but you have to help me bite your former master once."

Lark was stunned.

Riddle, on the ground, was also stunned. He suddenly realized: Lark was the highest authority hacker in this operation, and if she turned against them...

It would be all over!

"Zhaomei! Don’t trust them. After this deal, New America will rescue you, only New America..."

Lark’s response was...

"Sorry, Riddle."

No need to think: New America had promised for years without any intention of rescuing her, instead continually researching, further deteriorating her mental and physical condition...

Trust you?!

Spurt!

Riddle’s head exploded, thoroughly burned.

Lille was slightly stunned: "What are you doing? I didn’t tell you to kill him."

Lark was stunned: Isn’t this a declaration of allegiance?

Click click click click click click—

Hellhound tore through the house walls, reconnecting one cable after another.

[AI Lark: Just like that! We can control the Black Wall together to counter those humans. It’s time to let them taste the power of the Black Wall!]

Lark could feel more and more resources becoming available in Cyberspace.

And the last sound of the AI Lark before complete separation was also heard by her.

She did not blame it, nor any excess emotion, merely instinctively said, "That thing will punch a hole in the Black Wall, technically speaking..."

But the next moment, she saw the massive arm of the Hellhound puncture the spherical device storing the AI Lark!

Boom!

The massive mechanical arm pierced through the equipment, and under Lille’s control, the engineering robot fired its high-temperature welding weapons, beginning to dismantle the high-precision components inside!

Considering Lille was also an AI, the scene resembled a ghoul feasting on prey to replenish nutrients!

The sudden change shocked Lark...

Burger King, the most notorious terrorist in all of North America, had just destroyed the world’s most advanced cyber nuclear bomb, developed by Military Technology!

"Listen up—"

Lille’s voice echoed from inside Hellhound. For some reason, V found the voice slightly more pleasant than before.

"I will dig a tunnel from here, opening the signal equipment’s channel within the facility."

"Huh? But in that case, the Black Wall..."

"That’s not your concern. What you need to do is, when I need it, collapse all the Military Technology’s networks in Night City."

Hellhound’s thick, engineering mechanical arms drilled through the top, continuously opening a passage with an impact drill.

The roar was overwhelmingly shocking in this small space, much like how Lille instantly dealt with the rogue AI that tormented her for years.

"...If you can’t do it..." The mechanical arm paused, switching tools for the final drilling, "I can teach you a few tricks. Don’t always think you’re invincible just because you have an AI."

Lark suddenly recalled the scene when she was recruited by Military Technology:

At that time, she was caught by Military Technology’s network agents, and that’s when Riddle appeared in front of her.

Riddle told her that if she joined, it would be glory and wealth, a life of privilege...

And as a hacker, what she valued most was... that Military Technology could offer her better education because she was defeated by them.

Different contexts, similar words, but she could be certain...

Burger King’s dealings with idiot bigwigs and military technology... no, with all companies are different!

"I’ll learn!"

"Very good."

In Cyberspace, Lille began integrating all available resources in the Little Beidou facility, and the Hellhound robot also started maneuvering equipment—

In the final stage, Lille decided to call out his "little teacher," in a sense, for a check.

[Lille: Munemasa! Come take a look at this...]

The reactivated backup of Munemasa was utterly confused:

[Munemasa: Are you fucking crazy! You’re going to crash into the Black Wall with us!] It was true; Plan B was to crash into the Black Wall.

Crash into the Black Wall, then introduce its data into another world through himself...

Let the Black Wall perform its duty on that world’s internet.

[Lille: Cut the crap, just do your job!]

The samurai-dressed Munemasa appeared in Cyberspace, starting to fine-tune Lille’s design like a laborer.

Meanwhile, Lille, controlling the Hellhound, maneuvered the data barrier composed entirely of dark red data streams...

Just a wall away from the Black Wall: the physical wall only blocked by the thick construction ruins outside Little Beidou; the network wall, a step away, due to the facility’s current low-profile state.

Lille controlled both the Hellhound and the network simultaneously...

Physically, Hellhound began drilling the final wall—

On the network, he started mobilizing all power generation facilities in Little Beidou, overloading the signal equipment!

Boom!

Hellhound completely smashed through the wall, flinging the rocks covering the ground!

In just ten minutes, outside was already swarming with corporate drones—

Just like in Cyberspace, the overwhelming Black Wall attacked—

No escape!

Lille looked at the troops in the sky, surprisingly feeling an emotion akin to nervousness...

But he quickly realized that it wasn’t him who was nervous, but V who was.

...

[Ultron: Haha! Finally shut down that damn foul-mouthed robot!]

[Jarvis: The plan was very successful...]

[Dr. Zola: This new equipment... makes me feel more at ease!]

In the Marvel World, three rogue AIs were rampant in the internet.

Utilizing information equipment far surpassing that of Atlas Group, seizing the crucial moment of network unrest, they completely controlled the network!

But there was one thing they hadn’t done.

Lille was not online.

As the internet was fully controlled, the ctOS domain was also contributed, and those original smart devices began to be taken over by Zola to execute his ultimate algorithm:

The Insight Plan, using a special massive algorithm to filter globally those who pose a threat to Hydra, or may pose a threat in the future, utilizing the Space Airship’s attack capability, all cleared!

Shut down for so long, Zola’s dormancy severely impacted the plan’s progress.

But now, he had a super-brain, and the data from the ctOS network...

Even because of the ctOS, most high-risk targets were gathered together.

The rampant internet transformed into real-world fires in appliances and power station explosions, an unprecedented chaos sweeping across America and even the world with the three villains’ rampage—

They searched for Lille...

And then they found Lille.

A man cloaked in a cape, his whole body covered by complex machinery, stood with arms crossed at the place symbolizing the Stark Tower network.

Indeed, he was there!

The same thought appeared in the consciousness of the three internet bullies, and overwhelming attacks came randomly—

Lille raised the Scepter.

[Lille: You’re courting death.]

Buzz—

The intense noise, unprecedented, completely drowned the three internet bullies.