Chapter 790 - 69: The Ghost in the Factory

[Johnny: What the...]

[Johnny: Is that a human?!]

You can’t blame Johnny for feeling incredulous because the Iron Pilot in the factory slid even faster after taking down the enemy!

In the Cyberpunk World, the top-tier combat prowess in Johnny’s eyes is divided into two kinds: one like Adam Hammer and Shai Yituo, who have almost entirely replaced their bodies with machinery.

The power, hardness, and speed of machines are superior and can carry more weapons. Rather than calling them humans, it’d be more accurate to say they are bio-computers externally connected to powerful combat mecha.

Relatively speaking, these guys are lethal weapons in head-to-head combat.

The second type is exemplified by Morgan Black Hand, with prosthetic modifications? Yes, but most of their bodies remain original, executing missions based on Si Anweisitan-boosted reflexes, seasoned combat experience, and pre-battle preparations.

The former usually appears inflexible, while the latter, although agile, appears relatively weak due to human body limitations...

But the thing that just skimmed over the wall, from a human perspective, seems beyond the norm.

Over 100km/h moving speed, and still manages to shoot with deadly accuracy in an indoor shooting environment?!

After taking out the enemies on the platform, the boosters at the Iron Pilot’s waist intensified, further increasing speed!

This thing shuttles through the mountain-based factory like a flying shuttle moving at high speed, constantly using the factory’s internal pipelines, zigzagging to track its companion, that gigantic robot!

Lille immediately realized what world this was, it’s "Titanfall"!

That gigantic robot is one of the features of this world, a gigantic combat robot known as a Titan, and that soldier skimming the wall resembles its pilot, the Iron Pilot!

Not only that, Lille’s decoding work was becoming increasingly smooth, soon finding previous communication records from the factory’s database...

This Iron Pilot is precisely the protagonist Jack Cooper from "Titanfall 2"!

This world has already stepped into the interstellar era, with the main conflict occurring between the giant military company IMC and the frontier resistance. IMC uses ruthless means to oppress and harvest frontier residents’ resources, resulting in many casualties, ultimately sparking resistance.

At this point in time, IMC discovered a strange energy "Holy Chest" on a planet called Tifon Star and transformed it into a cross-temporal stellar fragmentation weapon. Once successful, it can instantly transfer the energy from the Holy Chest to the resistance’s homeland—

With such a weapon, they could continuously destroy the resistance’s homeland until they submit.

However, after successfully using the Holy Chest to blow up a satellite, IMC encountered an accident during the second experiment...

Evidently, the Holy Chest is the energy Lille is chasing this time.

The essence of the Holy Chest weapon is to transmit massive energy anywhere in the universe, and energy transmission technology is undoubtedly Lille’s next essential piece to fill!

Moreover, the Holy Chest in this accidental explosion created a unique space-time distortion phenomenon in IMC’s laboratory...

Whether it’s energy transmission or space-time change, these are the technological barriers Lille needs to break through now.

This accident not only disrupted IMC’s plans but also emitted a massive energy wave, catching the resistance’s attention, which dispatched fleets and land forces to investigate.

Jack Cooper is an Iron Pilot of the resistance—

To be precise, he is only a provisional Iron Pilot at this moment.

Only by truly observing his skills can Lille realize how astonishing Jack’s combat capabilities are!

There exists a very delicate balance between these Iron Pilots’ body enhancements, modifications, and external equipment, entirely different from the endless prosthetic enhancements for power pursuit in the Cyberpunk World.

Yet in terms of combat power, Jack stands at the pinnacle of that world!

This, to some extent, also indicates: combat capability absolutely isn’t all about weaponry...

Reflecting on the past, Lille thinks that among those he has seen, perhaps only V and Jack might reach such heights.

The exaggeration lies in the fact that Jack has just started using the Iron Pilot equipment now...

Johnny’s astonishment is also Lille’s astonishment, but he couldn’t stand there gawking like Johnny.

[Johnny: What should we do? This guy’s a killing god... Isn’t anyone going to stop him? Terrorist Mobile Team?]

[Lille: Terrorist Mobile Team... You wish.]

[Lille: If you have nothing to do, clear out the sector.]

The science and technology of this world are already quite advanced, and in information technology, they completely avoid the embarrassment of being overrun by AI like in the Cyberpunk World, with Titans’ combat cores governed by somewhat intelligent AI.

This gigantic factory also has AI management, but the factory’s vastness forces Lille to cautiously hack it:

If he triggers the security system, he will be locked down in several sectors within!

[Communication system malfunction, new communication permissions written in.]

[Lille: We need to help this Iron Pilot.]

[Johnny: Help him? Give him a few more minutes, and he’ll wipe everyone out!]

Johnny’s not exaggerating; Jack’s operational efficiency is terrifyingly high!

A soldier with a movement speed almost on par with a shuttle maintains a hit rate of over 95%, with no shooting voids since Jack intersperses close-range attacks while firing and snatches the weapon from the enemy’s hands, completely eliminating any "reload downtime."

And this 95% accuracy rate refers solely to his weapon accuracy. If explosives are also included to calculate the kill rate, thus far, his kill rate is 100%!

Every enemy along the route has been taken down!

Johnny’s comments brought Lille to a brief silence, but he still said:

[Lille: Just help him, at least the other side has numbers.]

Having hacked into the communication system, Lille started listening to the IMC communication channels using the factory’s security communication system.

[Ash: Rest assured, I won’t execute you simply.]

[Ash: Hurry to the dome.]

Lille gradually began gaining more access to the factory.

The grandeur of this factory indeed exceeded Lille’s expectations. Factories of this scale are extremely rare in the Cyberpunk World; if it were moved there, it could almost become the largest industrial manufacturing factory in that world.

Ash is exactly a mercenary working for IMC, seemingly trying to lure Jack to the topmost test dome of the factory.

This IMC-owned factory’s buildings are not for lodging but for military training and testing.

From the current scenario, Ash is controlling the factory, trying to collectively transport other resistance members indoors to the dome, setting up a combat training ground there...

Then sending IMC soldiers continuously to wear down Jack and his comrades.

But as long as Jack reconnects with his Titan companion BT-7274, they have a chance to breach IMC’s defenses.

And with Lille’s help, the IMC hidden within the factory could potentially be wiped out...

But the resistance certainly wouldn’t collaborate with a factory.

With this thought, Lille began transmitting encrypted information to BT via the communication system.

[Lille: BT-7274, I have a way to help you achieve victory.]