Author: Sevenfold Body

Chapter 103 NO.0066: Warehouse

As fire and explosions came from the distance, Booker stopped in his tracks.

"What happened over there?"

He looked in that direction and frowned.

Nothing happened, it was just a depth 4 moderator fighting a malicious program marked as a high threat.

Looking at the two red dots intertwined on the activity map, Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

It's a pity that he couldn't tell Booker this information.

"Want to take a look?"

So, he asked.

Booker hesitated for a while, seeing the continuous explosions and roars getting farther and farther away from their destination, and finally he said:

"Forget it... let's give priority to our goal this time."

Malicious programs have virus-like properties. In the abyss dark web, different malicious programs corrode each other, and it is not unusual for them to upgrade and iterate themselves.

Since they have more important goals at the moment, there is really no need to get involved.

At this moment, there was another burst of explosions, and the violent shock wave caused the windows around them to shatter. At the same time, a stream of blazing white ions that looked like dragon's breath suddenly lit up in the distance. It was like a ball full of paint.

Like a paintbrush, he painted a flowing bright red trace on the buildings along the way.

Is this the strength of Depth 4?

Seeing the devastating destructive power, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but take a deep breath in his heart.

Originally, he had already estimated in a more outrageous direction, but he still did not expect that the opponent's strength was even more terrifying than his worst imagination.

Although I have heard of the Cerberus Path, which is a specialized adjustment direction for heavy firepower annihilation warfare, this expression is too exaggerated...

Also, Wutou-23's three-meter-tall body is indeed tall and powerful compared to humans. But as a war weapon, its load is not necessarily that big... So, how did the opponent use it to be so powerful?

The firepower was crammed in?

Forget it, it’s better not to try to understand it based on your common sense from a hundred years ago.

After all, it is darknet technology...

Without continuing to dwell on this issue, Jiang Zhou immediately suggested:

"Then how about we go around that way?"

Considering the destructive power displayed by the opponent, it is better to stay as far away as possible.

"good idea."

Booker, who was also a little frightened, nodded.

Immediately, the two of them bypassed the two streets in a tacit agreement and followed a more tortuous but safer route to the "Theseus Warehouse".

On the way, Jiang Zhou looked back again at the battlefield not far away.

On the activity map, the road leading to Theseus's warehouse is now clear - the previously marked "high threat" malicious program has been completely contained by Aconitum-23.

Mr. Wutou-23, thank you very much.

He thanked the distance sincerely.

…………

The hot wind blew with the smell of burning metal. Wutou-23 tore off a piece of completely damaged armor from his shoulders and threw it onto the road that was still glowing with dark red flames like charcoal.

"What the hell is this?"

Looking at the wreckage not far away that was shattered like glass, Wutou-23 couldn't help but curse.

In the end, he succeeded in smashing the "Crystal Celestial Globe" to pieces.

However, he also paid a large price for this - some prices that he should never pay in the depth 2 position.

The damage rate of its own body structure reaches 28%. Even if all redundant parts are used for repair, many functions of the body will eventually be offline.

For example, the damage to the vector jet behind him caused him to lose his supersonic maneuverability...

In addition, only 30% of the fuel in the reactor core is left. And due to damage to the heat dissipation circulation device, the maximum output has also dropped by more than 50%.

As for the live ammunition weapons that were fully loaded before... now only less than 10% are left.

Even the most optimistic estimate shows that his current combat effectiveness is less than one-third of what he was at his peak.

Are you still in a position of depth 2, doing abuse at public expense?

After assessing its own damage, Wutou-23 couldn't help but wonder.

It's not just these consumptions - in the previous battle with that guy, if I hadn't realized something was wrong in the end, I directly used the stored live ammunition weapons to perform a stock-clearing saturation attack. Maybe, the one who fell here now is

On his own.

Could it be that the other party is a malicious program that rose from a deeper position to depth 2?

With this thought in mind, Wutou-23 approached the pile of broken wreckage and picked up the technological blueprints dropped by the opponent.

After all, after being destroyed, the other party, a malicious program that can fight with me back and forth, can at least get some good printing permissions, right?

With this thought in mind, he clicked on the blueprint and automatically compared it with the database in the brain-computer interface.

this……

After comparing the database, the six infrared cameras under Wutou-23's visor flashed a series of violent light and dark flashes - after abandoning his original face, the adjuster of Cerberus's path,

They often use infrared cameras to make expressions on their own behalf.

The constant flickering of light and dark usually means confusion and shock.

The thing that I couldn't defeat without using all my strength was actually just a level 2 malicious program?

This is judged by the level of the technology blueprint dropped by the opponent - the level of that set of technology blueprint is depth 2.

Upgrade path·Theseus, full set of adjustment permissions for depth 2.

For a moment, Wutou-23 seemed to realize something, and all six "eyes" of Wutou-23 "squinted".

After storing the data ball into his own memory, the red lines on his body lit up again.

Floating in mid-air, Wutou-23 flew back in the direction it came from before.

…………

"How much do you know about the Theseus shipment?"

Booker asked as he walked into the warehouse and looked up at the complex three-dimensional structure that looked like a honeycomb.

"This place is very suitable for setting up all kinds of ambushes."

Jiang Zhou answered briefly.

Understanding what Liao Qi was referring to, Booker couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Immediately, he turned to look at the long-legged transport structure lying on the "honeycomb", shaped like a stick insect, and then said:

"Theseus Freight has no human employees. All the business of this company is completely run by AI. However, it is said that there is a human shareholder whose true identity is still unknown... 90% of the world's inter-regional transportation business has been controlled by Neptune.

At a time when transportation is a monopoly, it is the only company that does not rely on the authority of Poseidon to carry out freight business."

In this era, transportation problems between various human gathering points have always been an extremely troublesome matter.

It's troublesome on land, sea and air.

On land, 70% of the land has been polluted into dangerous bad soil. It is full of radiation, diseases, and monsters that have fallen into the uncanny valley of the mind. Most resettlement areas have abolished the death penalty, so there is no need for people undergoing treatment for dementia.

The maximum punishment is exile. Over time, the bad soil has formed an extremely dangerous ecology.

Therefore, without strong force to protect them, ordinary people who try to cross the bad land will only narrowly escape death.

As for the sky and the ocean, they are blocked by predatory drones and autonomous torpedoes that are automatic replicators of Neumann machines. This is one of the natural disasters that pours into the basic reality from the abyssal dark web. Their number is overwhelming, and every other

It will be upgraded on its own over time.

Even if you pay a huge price and try to completely exterminate them, in the end as long as there is just a little bit missing, they will still become numerous again.

Fortunately, these autonomous machines will migrate periodically like migratory birds or schools of fish.

The Neptune Transportation Group is the only god who has mastered the rules of their "migration". With this power, this god with a trident as his logo controls the sky and almost all channels in the ocean.

Even the other Olympian gods need to purchase navigation services in the sky and sea from Neptune Transportation if they do not want to travel through dangerous bad lands or use expensive rail transportation.

But according to Booker, the Theseus freight company, which is completely operated by AI, does not need navigation services at all. Because when they carry out cross-regional transportation, those predatory drones and autonomous torpedoes never

Attacking the planes and ships carrying Theseus' cargo - this may be a communication between AI that humans cannot understand.

In short, if Theseus Freight Company had not set an upper limit for its operations at the beginning of its establishment, the poor transportation capacity would not be able to undertake the bulk commodity transportation business. I am afraid that Neptune Transportation Group, as an Olympus god,

I have long regarded it as a thorn in my side and a thorn in my flesh, and I wish I could get rid of it immediately.

Now that it has lost less than half of its market because of this, Neptune can still remain calm.
To be continued...