"Information transforms all things, and energy is the source of information."
Gao Gong withdrew his hand, and Dida once again became a little lady in a black dress with a wide-brimmed hat. However, her face, neck, and abdomen had three long cuts that couldnât be mended.
"Source Code Level injuries," Gao Gong glanced at her and said, "Such injuries can only be healed once you ascend to Advanced AI. As for the blood volume and information energy you permanently lost, thereâs nothing to be done."
"Letâs go. I already have a good idea who the opponent is. On this planet, not many can execute pure energy reactions."
Numerous Rich Lady Love Prototypes flooded into the cathedral, creating an aura and feeling as though attending a rich ladyâs feast.
Like all famous cathedrals in the world, the style of Saint Sophia Cathedral is sacred, radiant, glorious, with marble pillars and indistinct statues of the Holy Spirit on the walls, along with the emblem of the Holy City, the Gear Crossâa golden cross forged within a large gear, placed atop the cathedral.
Gao Gong looked up as the staircase twisted circle upon circle, hundreds of times up to the rooftop. On the way up, the walls were hollowed out and displayed countless âreligious symbolsâ.
"This is!"
As her gaze swept past a glass cabinet, Didaâs eyes suddenly tightened, and she saw a blood-stained âpocket watchâ.
She was very familiar with this âpocket watchâ; it belonged to her old friend, the item of a level 38 Advanced AI.
"Take your friendâs gear, itâs a nice Tier 2 equipment," Gao Gong said softly.
Inside this cathedral, there were not only no guardians but no living people at all.
However, Gao Gong had somewhat grasped the opponentâs operation.
"Well, letâs work."
"Yes, letâs work."
"Big work it is."
Inside the brain disc, eight Gao Gongs rubbed their fingers, and in the next moment, their extraordinary speed flashed madly across the keyboard.
He spent considerable effort to craft the âGaiduâ system specifically for this momentâs equipment.
Gaidu once, and youâll know.
The two strongest capabilities of search engines are crawler technology and big data technology.
On the screen, this subconscious realm transformed into a white âcocoonâ, while the search engine, at full firepower, was frenziedly invading.
Meanwhile, outside the Holy City, on the sea, enormous waves collided with each other and directly transformed into âdataâ, mutually deleting. Thick tendrils stretched from the sea floor, causing even the worldâs âspace architectureâ to start collapsing, revealing the colorful cyber space.
Clearly, Gao Gong was not acting alone at this moment.
And in Terria, the city walls began to crumble, huge gears ârumblingâ as they turned, violet-black radiance flashing through the gearâs gaps. In workshops, ports, and shops, difference machines also jumped rapidly, everything accelerating.
Then, a factory began to emit smoke, a shop caught fire, and more places started to emit astonishing heat.
The historical fire finally emerged along the timeline of history.
On the âscreenâ, as the âGaidu Systemâ kept invading, a large net appeared on the âcocoonâs surface, within which numerous âpreysâ entangled by data streamsâthese preys were individual AIs.
"Intruder, reveal your name!"
"Who are you, sir?"
On one of the hundred screens before Gao Gong, one screen suddenly flickered and turned to mosaic. However, it was the second, third screen, clearly indicating the opponentâs sophisticated counter-invasion technique. Although they couldnât lock onto Gao Gongâs location yet, they were able to cut off his invasion.
If Gao Gong remembered correctly, the âEarth Net Groupâ, this cyber space faction, its top members, were the first batch of âSuper Brainsâ.
Simply put, âSuper Brainâ is a bunch of mad scientists who upload their brain data to mainframes, thus giving birth to top-level AIs; the planetâs earliest âbrain-machine interface technologyâ was also invented by these people.
And âEarth Net Groupâ is also one of the behind-the-scenes winners of future corporate wars, with a very straightforward objective of promoting human brain-machine integration, thereby creating a complete âcyber spaceâ, without humans, only cyborgs.
On this planet, they are dedicated adherents to âartificial data spacesâ.
"So, whatâs the purpose of these fake AIs capturing real AIs?" Gao Gong muttered to himself.
At this moment, inside Saint Sophia Cathedral
The ground was shaking, cracks were forming on the walls, even the statues of the Holy Spirit were splitting, exposing peculiar net-like codes that drove the gears, causing the walls to start pushing inward.
A large number of âRich Lady Love Prototypesâ began to brace the walls, yet these cyber killers could only slow the wallâs closing but couldnât halt its transformation.
Through the windows, faintly seen, numerous fires had already blazed through the Holy City.
"So urgent, I was about to have a good chat," Gao Gong muttered to himself.
"The murderer isnât the Earth Net Group," Dida reclaimed the pocket watch and suddenly spoke.
"Oh? If not them, who could it be?"
Looking at the walls revealing the distinct codes of the Earth Net Group, Gao Gong asked with interest.
"Unclear, but itâs evidently misleading us."
"Reason?"
"I parsed a trace of its aura, and itâs not the aura of an AI," Dida touched the scar on her face, suddenly opening her mouth from which countless codes spewed into the air. With her virtual programming, they transformed into a unique and intensely destructive program structure.
"Youâre as sharp as ever!"
In Gao Gongâs memory, the last advanced civilization Dida joined was a super energy civilization, and sheâs indeed gifted in energy sensing.
Gao Gong twisted his neck, slowly stood up, and all other Rich Lady Love Prototypes stopped obstructing, quickly merging into his body, which made his aura grow even stronger, gradually breaking through the limits of the Red Wing Killer, reaching a higher level.
"I know you donât want to show yourself, but since we met, why not greet properly?"
"For instance, tell me which number Destruction Form you are!"
Gao Gong looked up, staring at the âgear crossâ atop the cathedral. The gold on the cross appeared to melt, emitting dazzlingly bright radiance.
Arriving here, he understood one thing, why with the current âtechnological levelâ, the differential machine, expected to be obsolete, would trigger the first punk revolution, and why the differential machine base had traces of energy technologyâthe source was right here.
The Destruction Form interfered with history!
And the relationship between Destruction and this planetâs civilization is far deeper than he anticipated.
"Unwilling to talk? Then I guess Iâll have to investigate myself."
After merging all âCyber Killersâ, Gao Gong took a deep breath, breaking through âRed Wingsâ, reaching the âSilver Wingsâ level, acquiring an extra ability called âViral Transformationâ.
And coincidentally, he also has âDestructive Energyâ, and with 99.1% Destructive Energy, itâs handy to craft temporary viruses targeting specific traits.
While in Didaâs eyes, this worldâs sentinel suddenly emitted an aura completely âcontraryâ to the world. Countless gears floated from his surface, spinning inversely, rapidly generating a Trojan program.
And the name of this Trojan program is âConstruct Virusâ!
In the next moment, Gao Gong vanished. On the roof, countless gear phantoms began slicing the gold on the gear cross.
Trojan virus principleâparasitic system, working from inside.
Simple destruction canât injure a Destruction Form, but when the same âdestructive auraâ is integrated, itâs entirely different.
Gao Gong seemed to have entered a new world, one composed of countless âglowing threadsâ.
In this world, energy particles vibrated in a special way. Each vibration affected particle properties, thus impacting space structure. With just one glance, Gao Gong was noticed, and in the next moment, the light beam vibrated, ejecting him out.
But at the moment of ejection, with remarkable speed, Gao Gong invaded a âlight beamâ and assimilated it with himself.
[Your Destructive Energy reached 100%, entering the second phase]
In the brain disc, all Gao Gongs stood up, speaking in unison:
"No. 5 Destruction: Purple Energy Strings!"
On the screen, the âsubconscious realmâ was completely enveloped by Earth Net, disappearing in the sea of data under countless hyperlink protocols.