Chapter 1136 Another Assassin

Xiangshan fell to the ground.

Xiangshan turned his neck and looked at the boy's trembling fingers. This should be an unconscious action simulating "typing the keyboard". Xiangshan tried to spy on the content of the boy's input from the movement of his fingers at first, but he soon gave up. This is just a kind of "self-suggestion" action, and the movement of the fingers does not strictly correspond to the actual input content. Besides, Xiangshan really broke his cervical vertebrae, and the damage to the central nervous system made his fingers not so obedient.

But the instructions entered by the boy were not affected.

Xiangshan remembered a "legend" in the hacker circle.

It is said that some geeks take the initiative to use drugs to improve their cognitive abilities.

——Ah...actually...

Improving cognitive abilities mainly strengthens the speed of reading and understanding, strengthens the ability to process high-level languages, and remembers more "possible operations".

Then it is "faster to find vulnerabilities" and "faster to extract permissions".

Finding system vulnerabilities and implementing attacks is actually a repetitive task. Flexible use of various hacker attack tools can automate this work. But just using attack tools provided by others is not a hacker, at most a chicken with subjective initiative. This is where the difference between masters and novices comes in.

The strong will train themselves to be sensitive to security vulnerabilities and will creatively use techniques that ordinary engineers will not touch. For them, tools are an extension of their hands and feet.

And what about going one step further?

That may be what Xiangshan has done before.

Xiangshan once used martial arts AI to replace the mapping between "consciousness-limb movements" and used his own consciousness to directly control the martial arts honed by supercomputers.

And the hacker's attack tools can also be used as "external plug-ins" for consciousness.

This is probably what the boy is doing now.

He attacked Xiangshan's prosthesis at a speed that Homo sapiens could not imagine, and through limited feedback, he established the concept of the prosthesis operating software in his mind, and then constantly adjusted the direction of the attack.

It may be difficult for humans living in the past to imagine the power of this kind of consciousness intervention. But it is not difficult to guess its extraordinaryness by analogy with Xiangshan's achievements.

As early as a dozen or twenty years ago, Xiangshan could rely on similar operations to gain an overwhelming advantage over all traditional martial artists.

And these hackers are probably the same reason.

Xiangshan quickly realized the crux of the problem. After he executed the old "Vulcan", he connected to the wireless signal of this house, hoping to take over the monitoring system of this house through legal operations. This can avoid risks to a certain extent.

However, when Xiangshan connected to the wireless signal, he put himself in the home court of the boy.

When the information exchange occurred, the poison followed the signal into the prosthesis.

Xiangshan stumbled to his feet and wanted to kill the boy. But almost all the prostheses were performing wrong operations. Xiangshan lost his balance and almost fell to the ground. The anti-fall program took over the body, and Xiangshan instinctively stretched out his hand to support the ground. But this hand also began to tremble rhythmically.

The chainsaw sword that killed "Vulcan" was at hand, only a few centimeters away from Xiangshan's arm. But Xiangshan's movements of reaching out were repeatedly disrupted. Xiangshan felt that his prosthetic hand had returned to the state of a robot at the end of the twentieth century. The grasping ability like motor impairment could not hold the hilt at all.

Xiangshan forced the prosthesis to restart. He soon fell into the dark void. This body is not his. His brain is trapped in this prosthesis that is interfered with by others.

In this brief darkness, Xiangshan thought. After a few seconds, the prosthesis restarted and he finally regained a little control.

Ah, but not much.

Xiangshan still couldn't block the connection of the wireless signal. Although the operation panel directly connected to the consciousness showed that he had turned off the network connection, he didn't know what the boy had done. Now it was just an icon without practical meaning. The uploading and downloading of data continued.

Xiangshan gave up the chainsaw sword. The top of the boy's head, including the back of the head and the upper part of the cervical spine, were all prosthetic, but the front and lower end of the neck were all flesh. If he could move normally, he could quickly twist off the boy's head.

Xiangshan took two more steps. Then his feet lost control again. Xiangshan fell to the ground in embarrassment.

His palm was only one foot away from the boy's neck.

- Think about it on the bright side... at least the kid didn't sound the alarm directly...

Perhaps the boy was blinded by hatred and didn't sound the alarm at the first time. He seemed to be determined to kill Xiangshan himself.

——Just a little bit more...

Xiangshan's vision was suddenly covered by an alarm. The boy seemed to have found the key point. He was trying to overload the processing equipment of Xiangshan's prosthesis.

Xiangshan's palm moved towards the boy's neck little by little.

There was a sudden sound of objects collapsing in the kitchen. It seemed that many bottles and jars were knocked over.

——Is there anyone else?

Xiangshan felt a sense of despair in his heart.

Then, a sudden inexplicable tingling attacked Xiangshan.

——No... No, this feeling is...

This is EMP. When the electromagnetic pulse swept through Xiangshan's prosthesis, the tactile component cut the magnetic flux lines to generate current, forming a strange feeling.

The strong interference made Xiangshan's eyes blurry. A large number of noise points appeared out of thin air.

There is a third person in the room.

The man who appeared later picked up the chain sword that fell towards the mountain, and cut the boy's neck without hesitation. Blue-purple blood spattered and even darkened the ceiling.

The man directly pulled a piece of metal foil from "Vulkan"'s body and wrapped it around the boy's head. Then, the new assassin tore off the blood-spattered goggles and threw them on the ground.

Xiangshan was slightly better. He then raised his head and looked at the man who killed the boy.

The assassin was wrapped in a very thick down jacket, and his hood covered his mouth and nose tightly. Counting the goggles she wore just now, she had almost no skin exposed. The heavy down jacket made it difficult to determine her figure, but judging from her demeanor, she must be a woman. In her left hand, she held a stick-shaped machine that looked a bit like a shotgun, which should be a directional electromagnetic pulse generator. This stick had been pointed at the boy's head just now.

Until Xiang Shan saw her eyebrows.

"Xinyu?"

Xiangshan couldn't help but exclaimed.

Although there are many scabbed and ulcerated windows between the eyebrows and behind the eye sockets, these eyes look a bit strange. But Xiang Shan is certain that this is Zhu Xinyu who has been missing for a long time.

"Ah, it is indeed you, Shan'er." Zhu Xinyu sighed. She looked at Xiang Shan carefully, looking left and right, "He has become more handsome, but he is still as pleasing to the eye as before. I can't even recognize this face."

Xiangshan stood up and wanted to get closer. But Zhu Xinyu raised the chain sword and stood between the two of them: "Come less, come less. I can't be sure whether you are true or false yet."

Xiang Shan said: "You really know...You are here to kill Vulcan?"

"Indeed. The chief security officer of the team behind the scenes." Zhu Xinyu kicked the overturned ice cream bucket on the ground, turned around and walked to the kitchen, grabbed the steaming coffee pot, and poured herself a cup. "Kill these two guys, the mastermind behind the scenes will be stabbed in one eye - oh, I'll freeze to death."

"How did you get in? How long have you been here?"

Zhu Xinyu pointed to the refrigerator in the corner of the kitchen, "I don't know if you know it, but next door to this kitchen is a large cold storage divided into upper and lower floors. That old boy Vulkan said, 'Even if the world is destroyed in a nuclear war, To live independently for ten years' is the standard for storing food."

Xiangshan was shocked: "What a...crazy design idea. If he is a survivalist, why doesn't he go underground?"

"He has no choice." After Zhu Xinyu drank the coffee, he poured another cup and blew twice, "Anyway, he can live a very luxurious life in this room, but in essence he is just a prisoner of luxury. This old boy is very afraid that the conspiracy will be revealed and the world will be in chaos, so he stores a lot of food. And he is also superstitious about organic food, so he has a special cold storage area that relies on a few robots to operate it. It’s been…forty days, it seems. If you want to ask me when I noticed you, it was when ‘Because I’m Batman’ popped up—his, it froze me to death.”

Xiang Shan was silent for a moment: "You haven't been discovered for forty days?"

"These two brothers can't enter the cold storage at all. There are only robots in it. As long as you can follow the logistics into the cold storage, you can hide it for as long as you want. For me, the biggest difficulty is, 'Can I hack into this place before the robot opens the box? system'." Zhu Xinyu drank her third cup of hot coffee and then put down the cup with satisfaction, "But unfortunately, the loopholes used by 'Vulcan' some time ago included the parts I published. I had a clue - what was even more unfortunate for them was that I found that the router here contained the 'gadget' I wrote about when I was young, and this guy was too lazy to reinvent the wheel and used it. Some open source tools. But in the end, my level is higher. Even if the code is open source, the two brothers did not realize that the inconsistency inside is essentially a security vulnerability... The robot cannot detect me, and the monitoring system was taken over by me. I even get to go to the toilet occasionally."

Xiang Shan couldn't help but ask: "This won't be noticed?"

"Tsk, that's right, they quite trust their monitoring system." Zhu Xinyu said. "And I have probably mastered the loophole in the prosthetic eye used by the mastermind behind the scenes. As long as I don't make a sound, they will automatically ignore the visual information related to me even if they are only a few meters away."

Xiang Shan applauded: "Awesome, breathtaking..." He couldn't help but ask: "What's going on with these two guys?"

"Half brothers. In South Asia, although polygamy is not very legal, it is traditional in some cases." Zhu Xinyu kicked "Vulkan" in the head with her toes: "This young man has done it a long time ago. As a programmer, he is out of tune with his family's religious background and hopes to break away from his family. This younger brother, who is very different in age, is the only person in the family who is close to him, and he seems to be the one he cares about the most. I'm not sure. Which one of them is the one involved in the series of actions behind the scenes, but now the younger brother should be stronger than the elder brother. "

"Damn, you know so detailedly..."

"I stole their diary." Zhu Xinyu said, "They seem to think that the information written on the paper carrier is safe. There is not even a lock on the diary."

"It's really traditional enough." Xiangshan restarted the prosthetic body again, stood up and moved his hands and feet a few times: "In other words, you know all the information here?"

"Only the part that can be stolen. I thought they would do something to kidnap all of humanity here, but unfortunately they didn't. Although the data was made by these two brothers, it is not stored here. To put it bluntly, these two brothers are not qualified to share that illegitimate power."

"Okay. Let's follow the original plan and take away all the storage devices. Take away all the paper documents." Xiangshan connected the monitoring signal to his visual system. This time it was very successful. It was probably because Zhu Xinyu opened the door for convenience.

While searching for all the potentially useful content, Xiangshan asked: "By the way, where have you been these days? I mean, after the night you pointed a kitchen knife at me last time..."

"I don't know if you are real or fake. What if these two Vulcans are also fake, and you are a fake person who is acting as me with two stand-ins?"

"Hey, hey, hey, swear to God. We just killed two people, at least one of them is a top hacker. I don't think we should say that no matter what, right?"

"What if it's fake?" Zhu Xinyu responded coldly, "In fact, I have seen many people killed. Really."

"Ah?"

"I've seen many people killed. I still can't confirm whether they are real or just pretending to be me." Zhu Xinyu said, "Including some old friends."

Xiangshan was silent for a moment: "Who are they?"

"Xu Daozheng from the prosthetic development department, remember?"

"Brother Xu..." Xiangshan pressed one hand on the marble countertop, and the cracks expanded silently, "I... Old Xu? This..."

"I was put in a sack in Peking. At the Sports Science Research Center."

Xu Daozheng, one of Xiangshan's old friends, even knew him earlier than the initial team of the Rama Park. In the late 1920s, when Xiangshan was still tinkering with 3D printing in Professor Liu's laboratory at the Basic Industrial Training Center, he knew Xu Daozheng. At that time, Xu Daozheng was the assistant of another professor next to Xiangshan's laboratory, mainly tinkering with mechanized prosthetic design.

He led the development of the first batch of prosthetics for Superman Enterprise, which were provided to disabled people in the fire, police, and military. .

This news shocked Xiangshan for a few seconds. He quickly lost his temper: "Dead? Are you sure there's no hope?"

"He was stabbed and disposed of with biochemical waste." Zhu Xinyu said, "And you'd better pray that your senior is really dead. Otherwise, he is most likely the mastermind."

Xiangshan shook his head and smiled bitterly. This topic was really hard to continue. He asked another question: "Speaking of which, how did you confirm the existence of the mastermind? What did you do after that day?"

"The code actually used in the company's management system and the code you saw in the office are actually not the same person. I also found clues from all kinds of inconsistencies." Zhu Xinyu said, "After that? After that, I secretly took two copies of the information and gave them to Yogmoth and Nia Guti respectively. Yog soon had problems, but I could contact him inexplicably. At that time, I felt it was a big deal, so I kept an eye on Nia. Similarly, I was not sure whether she was a real person or a member of the mastermind, so I kept observing her from a distance. Until the killer appeared in front of her..."

"Wait a minute..." Xiangshan was a little stunned. He asked a question, "For something like this, you would never consider joining forces with me?"