Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 691 - 216: Local Area Network Weapons

Gao Gong opened the ’Purple String Space’ for at least the thirtieth time.

Beside him, Black Rose gently embraced him from behind.

In the next moment, an indescribable feeling of heartbeat emerged from the depth of his heart, just like a long time ago, when a school-uniformed girl handed him a big lollipop.

’Do you want it?’

That was a warm flow surging from the bottom of his heart.

Gao Gong smacked his lips a few times and said:

"Sister Rose, although the surge of adolescence is quite nice, it doesn’t quite match your queenly aura. How about we try a CEO and male secretary scenario next time?"

"Too talkative."

Gao Gong shook his head. In the purple spatial world, innumerable threads began to spontaneously extend into the void, starting to form new mirrors.

Unlike the previous rhombic mirrors, the current mirrors looked somewhat like ’computer screens,’ and indeed, the 4K kind.

The reflected images were different too, some clearly appearing to be in the virtual realm due to their bizarre, dreamlike quality, while others seemed to enter people’s brains.

Different brain areas emitted sensory signals of varying frequencies, condensing into different types of snowflake screens.

And most of them portrayed real-world scenes.

However, calling them real-world scenes might not be entirely accurate, for screens with 100% virtual scenes would occasionally flash by, such as a gigantic virtual idol or a full-on ’human-form’ zombie squad in code, led by an ’index directory zombie.’

It felt like Nightless City at night with its ’holograms fully activated,’ presenting high technology.

Yet, most scenes were in the wilderness.

"This time, we must catch it!"

Ye the Big Lolita murmured beside him, with the teddy bear in her arms making an encouraging gesture.

"Yeah, yeah, next time for sure, next time for sure."

Gao Gong replied with a visible perfunctory tone.

This time, he rarely entered ’Great Serpent Mode.’

That’s also why he could let the ’Purple Energy Strings’ enter the virtual level.

Since deeply merging with the ’Purple String Space,’ he couldn’t use this move anymore; using it would turn him into ’human-shaped amber,’ sealing the space in place.

However, after encountering Black Rose, this move got unsealed.

In the process of searching, Gao Gong glanced at the ’system panel.’

Within the ’personal system,’ among his eight major systems, each one’s human body transformation rate was fluctuating at a relatively fast frequency.

For instance, while the sports system was decreasing, the neural system was increasing.

Or when the respiratory system decreased, the digestive system increased.

And it was precisely this peculiar ’rise and fall’ that temporarily broke the ’space seal,’ allowing entry into Great Serpent Mode.

And the cause of this strange fluctuation was naturally the ability of the ’Metabolism Queen.’

Directly accelerating the secretion of certain biochemical substances to interfere with the ’transformation rate,’ indirectly affecting the ’Purple String Space.’

That was when Gao Gong realized that compared to the abilities of ’Number 5,’ Sister Rose’s ’Number 11’ might suit him better.

Admittedly, the ’Purple String Space’ brought immense convenience.

But this ability to arbitrarily alter the transformation rate was more suitable for his ’fusion transformation.’

With it, not only ’Great Serpent Mode’ but also other ’Super Modes’ could be developed.

Could such an ability be mimicked with bionic technology? Must find a day to research this with Sister Rose.

"Hmm, located again this time."

In the ’4K screen,’ a familiar aura of destruction flashed and disappeared.

"Go, go, go! Xiao Yu, guard the door!" urged Ye the Big Lolita.

"Why am I guarding again?"

’Doomsday Black Emperor’ voiced dissatisfaction.

"Nonsense, you can’t go in; what else can you do but guard?"

"Wooooo..."

Almost simultaneously, the other three had transformations. Gao Gong transformed into the ’Rich Lady Love Prototype,’ and Black Rose’s powerful bionic ability allowed her to directly cross the barrier between virtual and reality, as for Ye the Big Lolita, her overwhelming spiritual power seeped through to the other side as well.

"Hmm, this time it seems like we’re inside someone’s dream space."

Gao Gong looked up, seeing the highway beneath him stretch forward, then vertically upward, reaching another suspended district in mid-air.

No matter how much the reality is tampered with, it wouldn’t turn into this.

But if it’s a ’virtual world,’ it seemed too real.

Then there’s only one possibility: a juncture where reality and virtual meet—like a ’dream realm.’

Black Rose closed her eyes, and in the next moment, all the pedestrians on the road closed their eyes.

When they opened them again, they bore the signature emerald eyes of ’Black Rose.’

Ye the Big Lolita was not to be outdone; with her scarred tiny hands grasping the air, in an instant, a terrifying spiritual power surged like an ocean, enveloping the entire ’dream realm.’

These two are truly fierce.

Though the dream realm is born of humans, at this moment, it is pervaded by the power of the virtual layer, becoming extraordinarily powerful. To control it requires an almost miraculous level of power.

Gao Gong suspected that Ye the Big Lolita’s ’consciousness’ attribute might have surpassed ten thousand.

Just relying on spiritual power can rival the Destruction Form.

But I support the young woman.

"It seems like just an ordinary person’s memory space, no!"

Black Rose grabbed the Rich Lady Love Prototype, a thought flashed, and she gave a coordinate. Seeing this, Ye the Big Lolita hurriedly clung to his other arm.

"I feel like I’m just a delivery guy."

Gao Gong sighed, and the next moment, a purple light flashed, and the three of them disappeared from where they were.

When they reappeared, they were on a street filled with cameras.

On either side of the buildings grew thick fleshy tendrils, each piercing through a passerby’s head. Strangely enough, even though they’ve pierced through more than half of these faces, these passersby moved as if following pre-written code, acting on their own whims. Occasionally, when they opened their mouths, the tip of the tendril inside resembled a flexible tongue twisting inside the oral cavity.

At the end of these tendrils was a Super Giant Tree in the center of the street. The tree trunk surface lit up with circuits, and the base was a tangle of electrical and data wires, densely packed, creating a lump the size of a small hill in the cement ground. It looked more like some sort of fungal aggregation.

"What the hell is this!"

With a single ’investigation,’ Gao Gong scanned across.

Name: Biomechanical Aggregation (Fern)

Race: Mutant Life

Profession: Biomechanical Knight

Level: 49

Personal Attributes: ???

Status: Switching in progress

"Switching?"

Gao Gong furrowed his brows looking at ’Fern’. Undoubtedly, this was an advanced professional of the Knight Order, and had entered the ’Biomechanical Unity’ mode.

But his current status puzzled Gao Gong. What’s he transforming in someone else’s Dream Realm?

"This guy’s spiritual power is not weak."

Ye the Big Lolita frowned. For her to give such a comment, his ’consciousness’ must be at least over a thousand.

And this Great Knight called ’Fern’ obviously wasn’t on the spiritual path, which made it all the more peculiar.

’Switching? Isn’t that thing supposed to forward signals.’

Of course, Gao Gong also remembered its other role, ’support for virtual local area networks’.

As soon as the three appeared, these flesh tendrils sensed them, rapidly twitching. Where they passed, the ground cracked into debris, even producing sound bursts.

The next moment, the tendrils shot over like lightning.

The Rich Lady Love Prototype’s palm turned, transforming the Hacker’s Gun, firing ’Source Code Killer’ level bullets.

Source Code Killer max: Your slicing through program logic, data structures, algorithm programming is like a master butcher dismantling a cow. Any level of AI life, in your eyes, is just a pile of crude blocks; pull one out and the mountain crumbles.

The bullet struck the tendril, not causing the expected disintegration but instead creating small, Little Finger-sized blood holes, stimulating the opponent to further attack.

’Tier 3 Informational Organisms?’

With Tier 2 methods, it’s truly hard to cause much damage to Tier 3 informational organisms. After all, there’s a whole ’tier’ of difference.

Luckily, Gao Gong wasn’t worried about being in any real danger.

Black Rose stepped forward, skillfully twitching her wrist, catching one of the tendrils. In the next moment, her flesh rippled with waves, activating the top-level bionic ability. In an instant, dozens of tendrils shot out from her arms, abdomen, chest, thighs, and other parts, entangling and tearing with the opponent.

Gao Gong was well aware of the danger level.

"Indeed quite impressive," Black Rose remarked in amazement, glancing at Gao Gong, "You’ve got a bit of that vibe."

On the other side, Ye the Big Lolita was not to be outdone either, her eyes turning pitch black. The bear in her arms made a hammering gesture, and the hundred-story-high buildings around them bent like arms, pounding on the ’Biomechanical Tree’, each blow breaking a large number of tendrils.

"Humph!"

Ye the Big Lolita expressed her pride.

Black Rose glanced at her and slightly shook her head. At least in terms of ’distorted worldview’, she wasn’t comparable to Ye the Big Lolita.

Gao Gong also wanted to try out his new methods.

A Level 30 Cyber Hacker has limited means.

But with the version 5.0 ’Biological Computer’, it’s a different matter.

Gao Gong simultaneously activated both ’biological local area network’ and ’Cyber Network Browser Entrance’.

In an instant, a white door appeared next to his hand, and as he opened it, with a swoosh, two rows of at least 100-meter ’weapon racks’ were revealed. On the racks were rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers, samurai swords, spring blades, six-barreled Vulcan cannons, hand grenades, etc., all available, even a giant half-body mecha.

These were all ’code weapons’ he’d programmed for himself in his spare time.

This is one of the greatest advantages of the ’Information System’, if not the greatest.

For instance, the mechanical system’s weapon attack is 1, and it will always be 1, even if you manufacture ten thousand of them, it remains 1.

But in the ’Information Ocean’, the attack value of ’1’, if well managed, can become 10, 100, or even 1000.

The ’Information Ocean’, where you dive endlessly, never knowing what’s below, is the essence of this system.

Gao Gong lifted a rocket launcher, etched with unique ’Flame Code’ patterns.

"Let me see if a single blast can take you down."

Gao Gong pressed the button.

Suddenly his expression changed, lifting his arm suddenly, causing the rocket to barely graze the tree’s body, exploding a wild mushroom cloud in a distant district.