Chapter 250: Backup

A light white paper crane, flapping its wings, slowly descended before Batmos, who felt as though he were plunging into an ice cave.

In the next instant, Li Cheng's figure replaced the paper crane, appearing out of thin air; he had activated the Instant Thunder skill in advance, and electric light flickered between his clothes and skin.

At this critical moment of life and death, Batmos no longer cared about hiding his trump cards and directly brought out his most cherished item.

It was a red ladybug with the number one thousand printed on its back.

【Item Name: Millennium Bug】

【Type: Consumable Item】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Special Effect: Chaotic Moment. After a one-minute delay, create a chaotic space with a diameter of one thousand meters, causing all things within the space to become disordered; manifestations of this chaos include but are not limited to object fusion, matter annihilation, time acceleration or reversal, soul swapping, and eternal stagnation; the delay process can be canceled at any time.】

【Consumption: None】

【Cooldown Time: None】

【Usage Condition: Proficient mastery of at least three computer languages, excluding PHP.】

【Remark: Due to the appearance of a bug, we interrupted the experiment.】

This perfect-grade consumable item, shaped like a red ladybug, was the materialized product of the famous Year 2000 computer vulnerability known as the Millennium Bug from the real world, capable of creating an extremely domineering reality-distorting explosion.

Within a range of one thousand meters, let alone high-rise buildings or concrete fortresses, even a Level 30 player, or indeed a Level 40 god-like transcendent, would be killed without mercy.

Batmos pinched the Millennium Bug with his left hand, tapped the wall several times with his right, and hastily released a skill that caused the walls on both sides to shift horizontally, clamping straight toward Li Cheng.

At the same time, he retreated rapidly, his form once again stained with green light as he attempted to digitize his body and flee the area urgently along network cables.

The combo was smooth and coherent, but unfortunately, it was utterly useless.

Li Cheng casually tossed out an electronic pet egg, from which jumped Hui Yu; wielding a skull-shattering hammer, she smashed the concrete walls closing in from left and right with just two strikes, saying, "Is that all? The force isn't even comparable to Weibo's Boss Jia."

As for Li Cheng himself, he activated the Double Jump skill and dashed forward.

His movements were so fast that in Batmos's vision, who had not activated his Data Domain to enhance reaction speed, only a faint afterimage could barely be seen; before Batmos could react, Li Cheng was already upon him, gripping his skull with a single hand.

Temporary Skill—Brain Entropy Extraction, activate.

Batmos trembled all over; faint light, like a soul, seemed to emanate from his body, strand by strand, being extracted and stripped away.

His body shook incessantly, his eyes rolled back, and foam spilled from his mouth.

If an ordinary player suffered this extraction of brain entropy, they would likely die on the spot, but Batmos was, after all, an elite of the Whale Song Guild and still possessed means to save his life.

Green data flowed from the back of his neck, slowly rising to construct a head belonging to Batmos.

Its expression was indifferent, its features rigid; this was not Batmos himself, but his personality backup—

During script missions, players might suffer brainwashing, charm, mental manipulation, memory deletion, or memory alteration from external sources; to prevent such situations, the Whale Song Guild developed this unique secret technique,

which allows a personality backup to be stored and automatically awakened upon detecting that the body has lost control.

"Stop!"

The voice of Batmos's personality backup was calm, yet the speech rate was rapid: "I have already activated the Millennium Bug bomb; in forty seconds, the entire block will be blown sky-high." "I know, but I just want to fly up to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun."

Li Cheng said casually; he had already extracted all intelligence regarding the Millennium Bug through the Brain Entropy Extraction skill and was very clear about the item's power,

"Additionally, I also know that the Millennium Bug's explosion can be canceled at any time, so I want to negotiate a condition with you—a condition where I do not kill Batmos right now."

Hearing this, Batmos's personality backup paused; his logical thinking array operated at extreme speed, nearly burning out as it struggled to comprehend Li Cheng's intent.

The current situation presented two possibilities.

A: Li Cheng, while Batmos's main body is controlled by the Brain Entropy Extraction skill and unable to leave the mission, directly crushes his skull, killing him and taking the Toy Factory Key, while simultaneously risking being killed himself by the Millennium Bug bomb.

B: Li Cheng does not kill Batmos and cancels the Brain Entropy Extraction skill, allowing Batmos to regain consciousness; the latter would then either immediately activate this mission's special ability to leave Toy City with the Millennium Bug bomb and return to the real world,

or repay kindness with enmity, leaving the bomb behind while teleporting himself back to the real world.

In possibility A, Li Cheng faces too much risk; in possibility B, Li Cheng suffers too great a loss.

If Batmos's personality backup wished for the main body to survive while making the outcome acceptable to the opposing Master Pi Fu, he must propose a third possibility.

C: The personality backup voluntarily reveals the main body's weaknesses, ensuring that even after Batmos regains consciousness, he dares not engage in mutual destruction with Li Cheng; this is the only possibility acceptable to both parties.

This multiple-choice question was not difficult to answer; the personality backup immediately said, "The VR glasses in the black canvas bag, the smartwatch worn on the left hand, and the hidden chip beneath the skin of the right wrist are all Batmos's bound items."

Dealing with smart people is refreshing; Li Cheng, while controlling Batmos's skull with one hand, cleanly took the glasses, the watch, and the chip with the other.

The Information Integration Glasses displayed that among these three items, two were of Perfect quality and one of Excellent quality, with effects corresponding to accessing the network via consciousness, enhancing data control capabilities, and reducing the risk of mental collapse.

They constituted the cornerstone of Batmos's personal power system.

Having taken these three items, Li Cheng dispelled the effect of Brain Entropy Extraction, allowing the hacker to regain consciousness.

"Hah—"

Batmos took a deep breath, first looking at Li Cheng who had taken his key items, then at the personality backup floating beside his head, instantly understanding what had happened,

before turning his head to curse furiously at his own personality backup: "You actually sold me out?! Damn your old mother."

"Sorry, I was saving you; otherwise, you would be a corpse right now."

The personality backup replied coldly, "Moreover, I am you, so my mother is your mother."

This statement was indeed correct; continuing to curse would make Mother Ba unbearable.

Batmos clenched his teeth tightly, sighed with the resignation of one who admits defeat, and pressed the Millennium Bug once more to cancel the bomb.

Now that others were the knife and chopping block while he was the fish and meat, the hacker was straightforward, spreading his hands and saying, "You won; what do you want me to do?"

Li Cheng nodded and said, "I want you to eliminate Gouchen, Frankenstein, Joker, and Eugene."

". What?" Batmos's features twisted somewhat; if he could eliminate those people, how would he have ended up in such a predicament?

Li Cheng laughed heartily: "Hahaha, just kidding to lighten the mood; cheer up."

Batmos's expression became even more constipated; "Big brother, could you please move your hand off my skull when you say things like that? I'm scared."