“Not good! They're breaking in!”

From within a skyscraper in New York City, America, came a roar, “Stop them! Don't let them in!”

This was one of several command centers temporarily set up by Prometheus.

A giant LCD screen hanging on the wall clearly projected the observer perspective of a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) match.

Facing the LCD screen, behind twelve rows of ten computers each, sat staff members in company uniforms, wearing headsets and microphones.

They were responsible for coordinating and directing the game characters controlled by Prometheus in this match. This PUBG game was affected by the Killing Game.

Commonly used network attack methods such as remotely controlling other people's computers or attacking servers could not be used.

There had to be someone actually sitting in front of the computers at the real-world locations of the 160 players at the start of the game.

The supervisor in charge on-site was a balding, middle-aged white man.

His well-tailored suit couldn't hide his out-of-shape, obese figure. His sparsely haired head was covered in sweat. He looked unremarkable,

and was out of place in the near-future decorated command center, surrounded by hundreds of formally dressed, unsmiling employees.

But no one dared to mock this ordinary supervisor named Graham because of his appearance.

The last Lv15 player who joked about the supervisor's weight was sent to the biological weapons department to conduct scientific research.

More accurately, to be researched by scientific researchers.

Human body modification, injection of experimental drugs with unknown hazards, replacement of all body organs except the brain with mechanical prosthetics,

being locked in a cage every two or three days to fight with bizarre biological weapons in order to test the combat capabilities of the biological weapons, and so on.

An ordinary Lv15 player would indeed be a dragon among men in other places.

However, Lv15 players cultivated by the Prometheus Laboratory Company heavily relied on company products. All their enhancements came from the company's generous rewards.

Most of the equipment they used was also provided by the company for a fee. Both parties had signed a contract certified by the Killing Game.

Once a player left or betrayed the company, the various biological and mechanical enhancements on their body would quickly break down without maintenance.

The equipment and props they used would also automatically return to the Prometheus Laboratory Company's warehouse due to contractual restrictions.

In the eyes of the real company executives, ordinary Lv15 players were just slightly more advanced wage earners. To some extent, they were considered "consumables" that could be normally depleted.

"Damn it!"

Graham, the notorious company executive, watched the Special Affairs Bureau's Light Giants pouring in through the cracks in the earthen wall and roared, "Where's the network technology team? Have they locked down the real-world locations of the opposition?"

"Locked them down,"

A middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader of the technology team stood up and said somewhat tremulously, "But the Special Affairs Bureau has already prepared network defenses. All the network nodes used by each computer have been strengthened. It will take at least 10 minutes to half an hour to break through."

"Fuck."

Graham cursed with a grim expression. He didn't ask the technology team if they could hack into Bluehole's servers, change some underlying game mechanisms, and give the FPU a huge advantage in the game. That was simply impossible.

First-person shooter (FPS) online games generate a large amount of data every time a shot is fired. In order to reduce latency, developers allow game data to be calculated within the user's local client. The server only accepts the calculation results (which is also the fundamental reason why FPS game cheats are difficult to eliminate).

Now, the server carrying this game has been affected by the Boundary Corridor.

Both sides' cheats can only tamper with the data calculations on their own local client. There is no way to go against the flow, control and affect the server, or even shut down this match.

"Then,"

In the noisy environment, Graham raised his head and looked at the network technology team leader coldly, "Can you hack the power supply of the streets or even the city where those computers are located?"

"Ah?!"

The technology team leader was dumbfounded by the leader's whimsical idea, but still hesitated and said as a professional, "This is very, very difficult.

Industrial power substations have two types of mechanical and electric operating mechanisms. The former is physically isolated and cannot be hacked. The latter requires internal network permissions within the substation—which is also physically isolated from the Internet to some extent..."

Seeming to notice Graham's expression, the technology team leader panicked and quickly added, "However, in purely theoretical terms, there is still a slight possibility of realization.

We can hack into the personal information terminals of the power plant network management personnel, find the software that assigns permissions from them, obtain permissions, and then enter the administrator's machine to turn off the power in a certain area according to the player's computer IP address.

We can also try to hack into the power center dispatching station or the regional dispatching station and issue fake instructions to the local operators on the front line..."

Graham said coldly, "How long will it take?"

The technology team leader's lips蠕动, hesitated for a moment, and still said with difficulty, "Under undisturbed circumstances, it may be 30 minutes, or it may be 3 hours, and it may only cause interference to the power supply in a few places—the Special Affairs Bureau must have thought that we would do this and will definitely implement protection for the power system."

Hackers are not omnipotent, at least they have no way to deal with physically isolated internal networks—they are not the Whale Song people, who can use extraordinary powers to connect to the Internet through the void.

This is a struggle between the Special Affairs Bureau and the Prometheus Laboratory. Whale Song originally had a bad relationship with the latter, so how could they come to help? It would be good if they didn't kick them when they were down.

"Do you think the FPU can last for 30 minutes?"

Graham glanced at the Light Giants pouring into the earthen wall cracks on the big screen, his face terribly gloomy.

"Forget it, do it."

He let out a heavy breath and waved his hand without further investigation.

The technology team leader was pardoned and quickly sat down, issuing instructions to his subordinates in front of the computer desk.

As for Graham himself, he picked up a walkie-talkie-shaped communication device and said coldly to his subordinates distributed around the world, "Teams 1 and 2, block the gap at all costs.

Teams 3 and 4 retreat,

Everyone else executes the optimal combat plan."

The so-called optimal combat plan was actually to let the FPU assimilate itself.

But now the employees were controlling game characters, so they didn't feel bad even if they died. They immediately pressed the keyboard and dragged the mouse to make the characters fly into the air,

or cast Fa Xiang Tiandi (Law, Form, Heaven and Earth), turning into ten-meter giants, summoning vehicles, and throwing themselves and the vehicles toward the gap;

or fly to the FPU, letting the FPU's clones pinch the game character's neck and constantly import green data into their bodies.

Prometheus's Fa Xiang Tiandi cheat seemed to have a higher technical content. It actually had a collision volume consistent with its size,

and could also pick up vehicles such as Jeeps and sedans and use them as weapons to smash at the Special Affairs Bureau's Light Giants.

The latter's collision volume and physical contact effect were still the same as when they were normal size.

When hit by a Jeep, they were sent flying.

The few people at the front were even directly wiped out of their health bars by the huge damage caused by the vehicle crushing them. They fell to the ground and died on the spot before their teammates could even rescue them.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the other Light Giants opened fire one after another, sweeping the vehicles with their guns.

However, the cheat used by Prometheus was very outrageous. They actually covered the surface of the vehicles with a layer of frying pans, blocking the bullets of the Light Giants.

Then, they used the collision volume of themselves and the vehicles to form a concave human wall, blocking the gap.

"Need,"

An FPU suspended in mid-air, pinching the neck of a game character model, with green data streams constantly flashing in his eyes, muttered to himself, "A little more time..."

As the Special Affairs Bureau speculated, the FPU itself knew that this map was very suitable for him to exert his abilities.

Generally speaking, competition arenas try to pursue fairness and justice as much as possible. This situation is very likely that the Killing Game believes that Li Risheng's strength far exceeds his, and the possibility of winning in a one-on-one fight is extremely low.

Therefore, it specifically designed such a scene, adding a large number of off-field factors that can be used by the FPU.

There is still a chance.

In the real world or the script world, it is extremely difficult for the FPU to assimilate transcendents or even ordinary humans.

But this is the game world.

Even the most complex and massive game, the amount of data inside is negligible compared to the real world.

The Prometheus colleagues' desperate delay successfully bought the FPU a little time.

He pinched the necks of twelve players who were rushing over and quickly assimilated them into his own appearance.

In the end, a full fifty black suits with sunglasses floated over the city of Lions.

Each black suit inherited a portion of the FPU's main body's extraordinary power, and these assimilated clones were still game characters, able to use the cheats provided by Prometheus.

[Skill Name: Misaka Network - Pseudo]

[Type: Mental Psionic]

[Effect: Conformal Brainwave. Emits brainwaves. If there are common waveform brainwaves around, it can convert the brainwaves into electronic signals to connect with each other, forming a network. Within the brainwave connection range, information can be transmitted to each other at the normal thinking speed of the brain, improving computing power]

[Consumption: Consumes at least 4 points of sanity value per second. The more brainwaves connected and the more complex the information transmission, the higher the consumption of sanity value]

[Cooldown: 3 minutes]

[Usage Requirements: Intelligence attribute greater than or equal to 14 points, Perception attribute greater than or equal to 13 points]

[Note: Can our hearts feel it?]

The effect description of this skill called [Misaka Network - Pseudo] is very vague.

What does it mean to emit brainwaves to connect?

To what extent can the improvement of computing power reach?

How is the sanity value consumption calculated? If it exceeds the limit, will it directly reduce the sanity value to below 50, making the whole person go crazy?

The vague effect description and the huge side effects make this skill seem to have a very low cost performance.

But only the user, FPU, knows how powerful this ability is.

The thinking fluctuations emitted from the fifty clones intertwined in the air, condensing into an invisible and intangible dense network.

Touch, smell, taste, vision...

The information collected by the senses of fifty people simultaneously appeared in the minds of each body.

This is not a simple series or parallel connection. The FPU can feel each other's feelings. It did not slow down the brain due to too much information. On the contrary, brainwave sharing also gave the FPU an additional approximately 2000% computing power.

With the blessing of massive computing power, the FPU's ability to manipulate data has once again improved.

The strong sense of satisfaction of controlling oneself and the surrounding world is constantly emerging.

Power,涌了上来...

Boom!

A huge burst came from afar. The FPUs turned their heads in unison.

The Prometheus employees who formed the concave human wall were sent flying one after another, splashing green blood all over their bodies. Before they could land, they turned into flat wooden boxes.

The one who made the move was Li Ang.

He maintained the posture of swinging the Basha Henglan Spear, stepping on the back of a Light Giant and charging towards the FPU cluster.

The remaining Prometheus agents below quickly flew up to stop him, but were intercepted in advance by a large number of Light Giants who poured in from behind.

The two sides fought together,

Turning into tree hangings, Luffy hangings, shrinking hangings, self-aiming hangings, absorbing bullet hangings, airdrop smashing hangings...

Various cheats were superimposed together, and the entire battlefield was transformed into an arena for the gods.

Green blood flowed horizontally, and there were casualties every moment, turning into a flat wooden box lying on the ground.

The corpses lying all over the ground below did not affect Li Ang's charge.

He stepped on the back of Xing Hechou's flying sword, leaped up, and then used the Ti Yun Zong (Ladder Cloud Ascend) to create invisible steps out of thin air under his feet. He stomped hard, suddenly accelerated, and rushed towards the FPU cluster like lightning.

Buzz—

The blade of the Basha Henglan Spear cut through the air, creating a scream, and slashed towards the neck of the FPU at the front.

So fast!

This thought flashed through the minds of the FPUs. Watching the game recording was one thing, but facing this deadly blow was another.

Dodge it.

As soon as the thought was produced, the body responded.

The FPU who was targeted retreated quickly.

Other individuals raised their hands, absorbed guns from a distance, and fired at Li Ang, weaving an airtight net of fire to cover the retreat of their compatriots.

"Pans come!"

Only Xing Hechou shouted loudly,

Hundreds of frying pans from the countless wooden boxes lying on the ground were unsheathed and flew towards Xing Hechou.

Various frying pans in the hands of the gods and immortals on the battlefield were unsheathed and flew into the sky.

Two streams of frying pans,

Covering the sky and the sun,

Stuck together, they actually built a frying pan wall in front of Li Ang, blocking all the bullets.

"Good!"

Li Ang praised, reached out to hold the pan shield, used Ti Yun Zong, accelerated again, and re-approached the FPU.

Another spear slashed down!

This time, the FPU had nowhere to avoid, but a smile appeared on their faces.

The data modification ability was activated. The bones of the FPU's body instantly deformed, as soft and boneless as plasticine. The entire upper body folded backward, avoiding the tip of the spear by a hair's breadth.

Ordinary Luffy hangings, plus the super computing power given by the Misaka Network,

Allowed him to precisely control his body structure and avoid physical attacks.

Hmph, although Li Risheng is powerful and has heavy moves,

unstoppable, his biggest flaw is that he does not have sustainable large-scale energy attack methods.

Luffy Hanging is his best nemesis!

The FPU and all the Prometheus staff in the New York command center thought so - this was the unanimous conclusion they reached after watching the Sky Arena match.

However.

Somewhere in the real world, [Sunset Melting Gold], who was using the Whale Song tool to peek into this game, shook his head.

He had experienced the [High-Dimensional Hacking] mission with Li Ang and knew the true trump card of that Li Risheng...

Bang—

Li Ang's arm holding the Basha Henglan Spear suddenly stretched out halfway, and like the rubber man Luffy, he suddenly changed the trajectory of his arm.

The spear filled with divine power directly hit the FPU's head, cutting it down extremely rudely, splitting the entire person in two.

The two sections of the body were forcibly separated. In the cross-section, strings of green data were still constantly flowing.

Isn't it just Luffy Hanging? I have it too.