Chapter 464: The End of Technology

The war is over.

Immersed in the joy of victory, the loot was distributed, and the rich material rewards made the witches of Nistor Company happier than ever.

After several days of high-intensity battles, they felt exhausted, and they wanted to start resting immediately, but they couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

Because a person has left from their lives.

The man who connects everything, when he is around, he naturally blends into the crowd, which is not surprising. But when he did disappear, they felt empty again.

The witches gathered, the excitement faded, and they were distraught.

"Where's the boss?" 102 was in a hurry. She returned to the Shijin Building, but she couldn't find him at his usual haunt. She had a lot of joy to share.

"He went to another world." 101 said calmly, she was also sad in her heart, but she couldn't show it.

"The boss is dead!" 102 burst into tears immediately, "I don't want it!"

101 originally wanted to explain the specifics, but was infected by his sister's tears, and turned to the wall, his eyes flushed.

He went so far that no one could keep up.

"What if he doesn't come back?" Qian Meng stood in the corridor with her hands behind her head.

"If he doesn't come back," Miyako Kazama lit a cigarette, "we will follow Master Faroza to an ancient path and repeat all the history that happened in the past."

"So he... is he really in danger?" Wei Shiyue was very surprised to hear the witches' conversation. She also knew very well that without Xu Yang, the entire organization would completely lose its cohesion.

Du Qianqian hid the diamond ring in her palm without saying a word. This is not a good opportunity to hand over the ring, and she wanted to cry.

Now Du Qianqian's mind has drifted to a distant place, if he can only see him in memory, how terrible it would be.

Seeing Yoshioka Mizuiro squatting on the ground motionless, Pan Ruiyi couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

"Look at the technical documents left by the boss." Yoshioka Mizuiro is a hacker and witch, and understands Xu Yang's situation, "He dived too deep. The consciousness completely left the body, protecting our backs on that battlefield... until now Fifty hours, non-stop for a second."

"Can you go in and find him?" Pan Ruiyi said hurriedly, "You can also dive in like a hacker and see what you can do."

"Needless to say, I also want to go in." Yoshioka Mizuiro stood up, quietly wiped away his tears, and walked quickly to the information room, "His end... shouldn't be trapped to death in that kind of place!"

She went to the information room with the other witches, and found that the little fool at the door had been moved to the side by Faroza, so tired that she was lying on the ground to sleep.

Faroza stood alone at the end of the room, staring at Xu Yang's sleeping technology cabin. It has not been opened yet, which is unusual, because the war is over and the hackers have stopped attacking.

"I'll go find him." Yoshioka Mizuiro said.

Farosa looked at Mizuiro Yoshioka sadly, which made Mizuiro Yoshioka want to dive into it more than any threat or persecution.

102 moved another technical cabin, Mizuiro Yoshioka saluted Farosa, then climbed in and stuck the data cable behind his ear.

Lila also arrived immediately after finishing the work at hand. She observed Xu Yang's state in the information network, which was extremely broken, on the verge of limit, completely divided by the network unit, deeply shocked, unable to return to the body completely.

"Once she makes a mistake, she will also get lost." Lila looked at Mizuiro Yoshioka's technical cabin.

"Trust 'Bacchus'." 101 said softly, "This is the second witch to see him."

【Sea of ​​Hillis】

The flood of information on the Internet has ebbed, but the amount of Internet snooping on Nistor remains high. Most of them are enthusiasts, who come to visit the hacker cemetery out of respect and curiosity.

A total of 370 hackers died in battle in the Sea of ​​Hillis. Their consciousness dived deep into the sea and was countered by cyber demons. They were emptied, deleted, archived, and turned into discarded data of equal weight.

Today, on the empty data battlefield, only the "beast" turned into by cyber goblins is left. It is too threatening, and people keep it at a respectful distance, and dare not get too close.

A few hours ago, a group of the most powerful hackers on the list were impressed by the reward, and carried out a joint operation with Digital Ark to carefully design a data virus targeting the Sea of ​​Hillis, which put the cyber ghost in trouble.

It must temporarily leave the Sea of ​​Hillis and retreat from the line of defense, otherwise it will be killed by the data virus.

But it didn't back off.

It stayed and suffered all the damage from the data virus. Its remaining rational files were decomposed and turned into monsters close to "beasts". It turned into a disorderly expansion and crazy data consciousness, floating in Hillis In the ocean, it integrates with the system, exerts its performance to the upper limit, and is guarded by it from the shallow interface to the bottom source code.

Its last thought was to kill all intruders, and its original will sank to the deepest part of the system.

Other well-known hackers accessed the Sea of ​​Hillis from the outside. They wandered around the defense line known as the hacker cemetery, silently observing the endangered beasts. The guardians, like the Sea of ​​Hillis itself, had reached the load limit, and the broken spirit Like a broken spiral structure, distributed in the system from top to bottom.

Yoshioka Mizuiro also saw those hackers when he dived and asked them to leave.

"We are not hostile," they replied, "We are visiting a lost friend."

"You know each other?"

"No, we don't know who he is, but he can use the Sea of ​​Hillis to explain that he has seen those things on the data dunes with us. He is a warrior, braver than us cowards who are outside the order There are many. We dare not enter, look, this is the necropolis of hackers, there will never be such bloody offensive and defensive battles in the past few decades, we are standing on the remains of history."

"Can you help?" Yoshioka Mizuiro asked.

"Search deep, his consciousness file has been entered into the source code." The hackers said, "As long as it comes back, it can subdue other crazy parts."

Yoshioka Mizuiro's spirit was floating on the top floor, not daring to approach the furious spirit left behind by Xu Yang, it was a kind of self-defense.

Her entry slightly disturbed Xu Yang's digital mind. His consciousness, as described by hackers, entered the source code of Sea of ​​Hillis, just like entering the eternal black box of subconsciousness.

Xu Yang's sleeping will was awakened by Yoshioka Mizuiro's entry, he looked up and saw Yoshioka Mizuiro's spirit, far away.

"Look at you." A voice sounded, "The prototype machine I gave you has been played by you."

"Todd?" Xu Yang dimly remembered the owner of the voice.

"The water in the Sea of ​​Hillis is deep."

"You've been here?"

"I told you before, I am a piece of code left behind."

"You came to warn me not to mess around." Xu Yang said, "I went too far."

"No, no, no... you've already done it."

"What has become?"

"Sea of ​​Hillis itself," said Todd.

Xu Yang raised his head, his destructive spirit indeed spread to every unit and code in Sea of ​​Hillis.

"I have become a digital life." Xu Yang had an epiphany.

"Yes, that's part of what it was designed to do."

"It's very quiet here." After Xu Yang accepted this reality, he felt unprecedentedly calm. He could observe his dying spirit and the entire crumbling code world.

"This is the end of technology." Todd said happily, "This is in good shape, congratulations, you have actually controlled the entire Sea of ​​Hillis, and you can do whatever you want. You can use it to expand and embezzle every device, and finally put The Sea of ​​Hillis in all regions joins together, merges all the networks of the entire world into one, and the true Internet age will come, and you will become a digital god."

"Both I and the system are broken."

"But it can also be repaired. You are a digital life. If you think about it carefully, you can create new codes in your body just like humans create new cells, infinitely proliferate and replicate."

Xu Yang tried to repair himself in the system space, and a piece of code quickly emerged.

"But I'm not a professional programmer." Xu Yang said.

"Digital life is infinite, and you have about 10,000 to 20,000 years to squander, which is enough for you to develop your own language."

"You know a lot about... Todd... who the hell are you?"

"Uh, I'm a hacker hired by 'Seven Seals'."

"Is the king of hackers doing things for others?"

"Of course, the Seven Seals do not allow the core of the lighthouse to privately occupy the Sea of ​​Hillis, and a part of it must be made public. Even the core of the lighthouse cannot escape the supervision of the Seven Seals. But my value has been exhausted. This is what I do. The last transaction."

Xu Yang saw the strings floating, and the basic source code was woven into Todd's smiling avatar with a fat face.

"You live in data." Xu Yang said, "Your ontology is hosted on the server."

"Everyone is like this, so are entrepreneurs, and hackers should be like this." Todd's head shuttled through the source code at super-light speed, "Look, I can fly, digital life."

Xu Yang looked at the shallow code area, and noticed Yoshioka Mizuro who had turned into consciousness and took risks to dive.

"I will kill her." Xu Yang tried to leave the source code, "Those things I left behind... a part of me that is crazy... how do I get it back?"

It's not only Xu Yang who is dangerous, but also the data viruses planted on him by hackers, they will also infect Mizuiro Yoshioka, and her accomplishments are far inferior to Xu Yang's, and she will be destroyed in an instant.

"You are a digital being." Todd's program left the last words, and then disintegrated itself from the source code, "You have become!"

Xu Yang was groping in the system, he dived too deep, cut off the last relationship with the physical body, as Todd said, completely turned into a digital life.

While calling the anti-virus program, he led the way for Yoshioka Mizuiro, separating her from Xu Yang's crazy side.

"Xu Yang!" Yoshioka Mizuro felt that she saw him, but it was vague, she didn't dive deep enough.

"I am a piece of code. Instead of killing me, they drove me into the depths of the Sea of ​​Hillis, but instead made me stronger." Xu Yang said, he was incarnated into everything, almost a god, and his consciousness and spirit transcended the human body Every piece of machinery is a part of him.

"Then what should we do?" Yoshioka Mizuiro said eagerly.

"There is nothing to do." Xu Yang expanded in the cyberspace, acquired a digital mind in the true sense, and consciously devoured tens of thousands of terminal devices in Xisheng Shrine, and his cognitive and analytical abilities continued to expand, surpassing The limit of mortals, as he expected, can continuously expand knowledge and ability to infinity, "This is not a bad thing. From now on, the Sea of ​​Hillis is me. I live here, and I am everything."

"Everyone is waiting for you!"

Xu Yang was silent for a while. For a long time, his spirit retreated in the sea of ​​Hillis, trying to retreat the branched consciousness. His spirit merged with each other, just like the split fragments reuniting into a whole. This is a long process. In fact, it is simple for the digital life, in this state he can do everything, and now all "he" has become a part of the digital life, and all he has to do is return inward.

Returning to the starting point, Xu Yang floated as a whole in the Sea of ​​Hillis. The idea of ​​surviving as a human being overcomes this needless sense of detachment.

"Let's go." Xu Yang silently checked himself to make sure that his consciousness had come back, and then tried to find a way to return. He had to spend a few hours to return to the uplink and re-adjust to the small human body. The damaged Sea of ​​Hillis will also take time to repair.

He wants to go back, back to the people and things he really cares about.

Yoshioka Mizuiro watched all this dazedly and stayed with him.

... After a long time, the technical hatch opened, and Xu Yang was covered in blood.

"He's not moving!" Faroza yelled hoarsely. She and the other witches had been waiting for hours.

"It takes time for the spirit to return." Yoshioka Mizuiro unplugged the cable and yelled, "He wants to come back, he told me he decided to come back!"

For at least half an hour, the witches waited with bated breath, and slowly, Xu Yang stretched out a hand from the technical cabin.

Faroza began to cry.

"Welcome back, master." Lila gently picked up Xu Yang, and Faroza walked to his side.

"...will never leave again." Xu Yang hugged Lila.

"Let's go? Where are you going?" Faroza asked with tears, "You are crazy, you are covered with wounds!"

"I made up my mind to go to a faraway place, but when I thought of you crying, I came back." Xu Yang wiped away Faroza's tears.