Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 58 NO.003a: The Valley and Hackers

"I was born in the 80's on a bright energy saving treadmill and grew up eating hermit crabs but mother why can I see that bowl of parasites infesting baby embryos my typewriter cut her hair so my breath is my language please guest Would you like a cup of earthy semi-skimmed milk essence with No. 4 concrete..."

Under the spotlight, in the half-open coffee shop like a stage theater, there are large fluffy animal dolls in front of every guest table-a pink rabbit without ears, a monkey without a tail, and a crooked mouth. Brown bears, everything.

And a humanoid machine covered in liquefied metal, wearing a waiter's apron, floated on a tray, shuttled back and forth in front of each table.

It held a coffee pot, asked questions that would never be answered, and poured some black liquid for guests who would never act.

Listening to it muttering words like this, Jiang Zhou felt that what this thing poured was definitely not coffee.

"The mental index of this thing, I'm afraid it has completely fallen into the uncanny valley of mind."

Retracting her head and leaning against the bunker, Qian Xiaying said quickly in a low voice.

The illogical and non-stop words of that strange humanoid machine made her shiver.

Thinking that the other party might not understand, she turned her head to look at Jiang Zhou again.

"I'll explain the specific meaning to you later, now you just need to know the thinking mode of this thing, we can't predict it... In short, let's go back first."

she said so.

In fact, Jiang Zhou, who already knew what the uncanny valley of mind was, nodded, and the two of them took cover alternately, and tiptoed back to the all-terrain vehicle.

Until then, Jiang Zhou pointed to the weird coffee shop in the distance and asked:

"Since projectiles may explode from its body, shall we act according to the previous plan?"

"It took more than 400 kilometers to find this one that seems to be able to fly. Maybe there will be no such shop after passing this village."

Qian Xiaying said, and took out a spike pistol with a muffler installed from her storage space.

"Talk about the current situation... We now need to deal with a malicious program that is suspected to have a depth of 2 levels, falling deep into the uncanny valley of the mind."

She continued:

"But there is good news. It doesn't look like a professional combat AI, but more like a service-oriented AI. But with this appearance, I feel that it is more like it is specially used to create those urban horror stories."

"Or a strange core."

Recalling the weird words and deeds, Jiang Zhou talked about the cultural concepts he was familiar with at that time without thinking.

"What core?"

Qian Xiaying, who had never heard of this concept, asked casually.

"In the native community, some pre-New Calendar cultural concepts."

Jiang Zhou rounded the road.

Regarding this, the other party gave an "oh" without thinking too much, and then said:

"There is no time to discuss the other party's cultural value now. All in all, act according to the plan."

She said, lying on the grass beside her with a gun.

A gust of wind blew by, and Qianxia Ying disappeared directly in place, only a few ice-blue butterflies danced where she disappeared—that was the mark she gave Jiang Zhou.

Jiang Zhou, on the other hand, carried the "Candle Dragon" Gauss rifle and climbed into the cab of the all-terrain vehicle again. He glanced at the scanner on the car, under the flying butterflies, Qian Xiaying's life response was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The plan is very simple, let him be the bait, and use the protection of the alloy body of the all-terrain vehicle to buy time for Qian Xiaying's hacking later.

If the problem still can't be solved in the end, he in the driver's cab can just kick the accelerator and shake off the other party.

The last piece of tactical memory Jiang Zhou absorbed was the specialization of rifle use, but shooting at short and medium distances, and sniping at a distance of more than 500 meters are completely different skill directions.

Therefore, when Jiang Zhou rolled down the car window and put the Gauss rifle on the car door, he took a long, deep breath.

With the first shot, he misses the post of the coffee shop.

The second shot, because of the trembling caused by the recoil, the bullet deflected farther.

In the third shot, the muzzle was corrected according to the point of impact, and the bullet shattered a vase three meters away from the opponent.

...

Simply pull the trigger to the end, and the needle-thin bullets of the Gauss rifle formed a line. Jiang Zhou used the gun as a paintbrush, and followed the traces of the bullet holes, causing the line of fire to shoot on the head of the strange figure. Within two seconds, the opponent's liquid metal head was pierced into a nail head by the bullet.

But it was unmoved.

Along his head all the way down, neck, chest, belly, genitals, thighs... The kinetic energy of the electromagnetically accelerated bullet made the opponent back again and again at first, but soon he returned to his previous stability.

Not even responding to this?

While secretly frightened by the opponent's hardness, he wondered why the opponent didn't respond at all when he was hit. With an idea, Jiang Zhou pointed his gun at the plush doll "customers" in the coffee shop.

In an instant, the fine-grained bullets tore the rags and cotton wool, and the whole coffee shop became a mess.

"Crack..."

Just at this time, the Gauss rifle ran out of bullets. Just as Jiang Zhou was about to pull out the magazine, he happened to see that strange figure of liquid metal turning his head towards him in the magnifying glass.

The hollows in the liquid metal are the facial features of the other party. With a distance of about 600 meters, their eyes just collided with each other.

Then, just like in a horror game, the opponent suddenly pulled into the distance like a flash.

From the perspective of the magnifying glass, it seems that the other party has suddenly pasted that poor imitation of a human face in front of his eyes.

Putting down the gun, Jiang Zhou happened to see the other party rushing towards him at an extremely unreasonable speed in an extremely awkward and strange running posture.

"This is your future this is why you've been here I don't need you to stress the fact that everyone dies I don't like being here I don't like this job where are you I'm behind you I'm beside you I will rush to the next workplace soon, do you not like me..."

The calm tone of the previous standard announcer became extremely rapid and terrifying under the influence of the Doppler effect.

It took less than four seconds for the opponent to rush from 600 meters away to his eyes—Jiang Zhou didn't even have time to replace the magazine in the Gauss rifle.

With the structure of the human body, it is physically impossible to reach this speed with the opponent's funny but terrifying running posture. In fact, the other party just put on a running posture, and the real reason why it came to him so quickly was the floating Frisbee it was stepping on under its feet.

"Boom!"

The strange face was slapped directly on the car door, and the needle bullets from the previous Gauss rifle were nailed to it.

Jiang Zhou subconsciously threw the butt of the gun at the opponent's face as a melee weapon, but was grabbed by the opponent instead.

"Why bother me why accept me why reject me why forget me why remember me why create me why destroy me..."

The gun was easily pulled out of Jiang Zhou's hand, and then shattered into parts all over the place, the liquid metal man kept mumbling.

Jiang Zhou tried to pull out the Scorpio from the holster, but the other party had already removed the entire alloy car door before that.

"grass!"

And just before the other party was about to drag Jiang Zhou out directly, countless ice-blue butterflies appeared between them, and then fell on the liquid metal figure like fallen leaves.

The opponent's movements instantly slowed down.

Jiang Zhou recalled what Qian Xia Ying said to him not long ago.

hacker? So you are a C language boss?

This was Qianxia Sakura's first reaction when she told herself that she was an "Anonymous" hacker.

After all, he was born in a technical position, and Jiang Zhou understood that the so-called hackers and hackers are not just staring at the green data rain falling on the screen in Hollywood movies, and then holding the keyboard and typing the code, they can directly paralyze Lost the magical existence of the entire city.

Of course, their old club "Olympus Group" was indeed hacked. However, the intrusion method found out after the investigation was nothing magical—it was to throw a USB flash drive at the door of the company, wait for the unlucky guy in the company to pick it up and use it cheaply, and then use it to obtain employee accounts to invade the company's intranet.

It's that simple and rude.

However, Qian Xiaying explained that the hackers of this era are different from the stereotypes of the year-this is actually another kind of adjustment and transformation, an adjustment and transformation based on the brain-computer interface installed by everyone.

After a very small number of people are installed with a brain-computer interface, the nerves in the brain will be stimulated to re-grow, and a mutation similar to a benign tumor will occur. And this mutation will eventually grow a new brain region between the brain and the brain-computer interface.

This brain area is called Hongqiao.

Modern technology can perform a certain degree of neural editing on this brain area through the brain-computer interface. Hongqiao has strong plasticity and can be artificially guided to strengthen other functions of the brain, such as strengthening memory or sense of balance.

But doing so is reckless—because of the close connection between Hongqiao and the brain-computer interface, it can install corresponding plug-ins, so that users can use imaginary images supplemented by natural language constraints to achieve real-time programming.

In other words, if the people who have the Hongqiao mutation are properly guided, they can gain the ability to see through the codes of the constituent parts on the World Wide Web or the Abyss Dark Web, and hack into the other party to seize permissions.

Of course, according to what Qian Xiaying said, with her ability, she must use some other means to physically contact the opponent's "stand-in" in order for the hack to take effect. And during this period, her body will be in an undefended state.

Many hackers will choose media such as nanometer data wires to extend the scope of their abilities. But with her transformation authority, the Mirage 4 self-sensing nano inkjet can do this more safely.