Starting as a Mechanical Hunter-Chapter 403 - 159: The Omen of a Rift

The Mechanic remained silent.

Gao Gong didn’t mind, condensing Emperor’s Might into beams of super detection lights. Wherever the lights shone, all mechanical systems failed, and those elusive, endless Mechanical Eyeliners disappeared.

The players on the great escape mission quickly realized this was a safe passage.

"The true Light of the Savior!"

"Damn, there’s a bug!"

"Bullshit, it’s clearly system balance. Damn it, I’m exhausted from fixing my legs! This broken piece of metal!"

"Who asked you to insist on fighting an Elite Monster? You should’ve run off with that group of Advanced NPCs long ago."

"Damn it, you agreed too. We haven’t battled monsters for nearly three days. My sword’s been itching for action."

"Fight, fight, fight! Once we reach Crime City, you can hunt to your heart’s content!"

The lights flashed repeatedly. The players who hadn’t run yet or had tried but failed to escape completely were frantically fleeing this so-called absolute safety zone—some driving, others taking the ’11 bus’ on foot.

The Mechanic finally reacted.

Gao Gong’s vision blurred momentarily, as if a gigantic virtual lady had appeared on the horizon.

The lady looked at him coldly and opened her palm, seemingly covering half of the sky.

Gao Gong’s ears were roaring, as if a massive wave surged through them. His throat felt like foreign objects were trying to escape, and various bizarre illusions appeared before his eyes.

This was pure data-level interference disturbing reality, reversing the destruction of neural signals with sensory data, leading to physical collapse.

This was a confrontation on the information level.

And naturally, Gao Gong was well-prepared.

The next moment, a raging sea of fire and a serene sea of stars appeared simultaneously. The information energies of both sides reached the limit of a Level 2 Civilization, cooperating while also contending with each other, with starlight and firelight soaring upwards to brace against the gigantic palm.

Lines of code crashed and fell away.

Avalanche-like streams of consciousness surged down, unstoppable.

Two Level 60 virtual lives were opposing a Level 70 Mechanical Main Brain.

Little greenhorns like Gao Gong could only shiver in fear, finding warmth only in the embrace of a rich lady.

He was like the little match girl, no, actually a boy selling underwear, hoping some kind-hearted person would purchase his used goods.

"We’re all civilized people, no need to fight. Mechanic, I’m here to negotiate," Gao Gong said weakly.

He suddenly realized, this new Mechanic had a hard head, unlike the old one, which was more communicative.

’Luckily, my sneaky self had prepared a second plan.’

Gao Gong sneered coldly and changed his tone, saying,

"Two masters, could you lend me a bit of your power? I have something to do."

"Hmph!"

"Sure, big brother!"

Two massive flows of information energy rushed into Gao Gong’s body, as if in competition. Paradise Bird and Gao Yuanyuan were pouring data into Gao Gong desperately, as if the information was dense enough to become liquid.

Thankfully, as an old hand, Gao Gong could handle such minor troubles. His body spun like a gyroscope, and all faces of the little black box suddenly opened simultaneously.

And Gao Gong disappeared at the same time.

Simultaneously, a strange look appeared on the Mechanic’s face, as if a peculiar code had entered its system.

Just like Brother Monkey’s classic phrase, "Sister-in-law, I’m coming out"; now, Gao Gong, like Brother Monkey, had entered the Mechanic’s body, but not in the same way.

Though the tools they used were different, the nature was the same.

Gao Gong wasn’t just replicating the Mechanic’s source code to complete the mission.

Inside the Mechanic, which was naturally the hub of all Nightless City’s networks, layer upon layer of data rainbow light overlapped, colorful and covering the entire horizon.

Each data rainbow light was a data processing system.

’So many processing systems.’

Gao Gong took a deep breath, borrowing the power of the two apprentice rich ladies, once again converting into ’Quantum Entanglement State,’ and began shuttling through the data rainbow lights. At the same time, the ’Unmanned’ activated, turning each rainbow light into various data pipelines, data processors, and databases. Some belonged to Nightless City’s enterprise systems, others to Mother City’s subsystems. Some even to underground networks.

Theoretically, ’Chapai’ could appear in any system.

Gao Gong exhaled, closed his eyes, and began restructuring the sensory signals. The next moment, an illusionary world emerged.

It was a world consisting of accounts and ledgers.

"Open the gate with bits, close it with bytes. Watch me drown you in little tadpoles!"

The next moment, countless accounts hacked into various systems, and the gates opened and shut, spewing out countless private domain accounts.

"Huh?"

Gao Gong’s thoughts moved, and his Quantum Entanglement State form appeared instantly in a data swamp, filled with gibberish, remnants of registration machines, fragmented viruses, and parts of a Cyber Killer’s body.

’Is this—a certain underground market?’

These types of underground markets could be set up by a few hackers or perhaps serve as an underground trading system for enterprise networks.

But no matter which it was, it still fell within the Mechanic’s monitoring range.

That wasn’t the priority; the focus was that Gao Gong sensed a familiar aura here.

The aura of Mother of Data, Eliza.

And the aura of Gox.

The two auras were intertwined, living and dead alike, hovering between normal system function and Downtime, incredibly profound.

’Is Eliza close to resurrection?’

’Since that’s the case, I might as well lend you both a hand.’