Immersed in the joy of victory, the spoils of war were distributed, and the generous material rewards made the witches of Nisto Company happier than ever.
After several days of high-intensity fighting, a feeling of exhaustion came over them, and they wanted to start resting immediately, but they couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
Because a person leaves their lives.
The man who connected everything, when he was around, he naturally blended in with everyone and was not surprised. But when he really disappeared, they felt empty inside.
The witches gathered together in despair.
"Where is the boss?" 102 was very anxious. She returned to the Solid Gold Building, but could not find him at his usual place. She was full of joy that she wanted to share.
"He went to another world." 101 Danran said. She was also sad in her heart, but she couldn't show it.
"The boss is dead!" 102 immediately burst into tears, "I don't want it!"
101 originally wanted to explain the details, but was infected by his sister's tears and turned to the wall, his eyes red.
He went so far that no one could follow him.
"What will we do if he doesn't come back?" Qian Meng stood in the corridor, holding his hands behind his head.
"If he doesn't come back," Kazama Miyazaki lit a cigarette, "we will follow Lord Falosa down an ancient path and repeat all the history that happened in the past."
"So he...he is really in danger?" Wei Yueyue was very surprised when she heard the conversation of the witches. She also knew clearly that without Xu Yang's presence, the entire organization would completely lose its cohesion.
Du Qianqian said nothing and hid the diamond ring in her palm. This was not a good opportunity to hand over the ring. She wanted to cry.
Now that Du Qianqian's mind has drifted to a distant place, it would be terrible if he could only be seen in memories.
When Pan Ruiyin saw Yoshioka Suise squatting on the ground motionless, he couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing?"
"Look at the technical documents left by the boss." Mizuro Yoshioka was born as a hacker witch and understood Xu Yang's situation, "He dived too deep. His consciousness completely left his body and protected us on that battlefield... until now.
Fifty hours, non-stop."
"Can you go in and find him?" Pan Ruiyin said hurriedly, "You can also dive down like a hacker and see what you can do."
"Needless to say, I also want to go in." Yoshioka Mizuro stood up, quietly wiped away his tears, and walked quickly to the information room, "His fate...should not be trapped in a place like that!"
She and other witches went to the information room, and found that the little fool at the door had been moved to the side by Farosha, and was so tired that he lay on the floor to sleep.
Falosa stood alone at the end of the room, staring at Xu Yang's sleeping technical 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.
Falosa looked at Yoshioka Mizuiro sadly, which made Yoshioka Mizuiro want to sneak in more than any threat or coercion.
102 moved into another technical cabin. Yoshioka Mizuro saluted Falosa, then climbed in and inserted 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. He was extremely broken and on the verge of the limit. He was completely divided by the network unit. He was deeply hit and unable to return to his body intact.
"If she makes a mistake, she will also get lost." Lila looked at 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 subsided, but the amount of Internet snooping on Nisto Company is still very high. Most of them are enthusiasts who come to visit the hacker cemetery out of respect and curiosity.
A full 370 hackers died in the Sea of Hillis. Their consciousnesses dived deeply into the sea and were counterattacked by cyber monsters. They were cleared, deleted, archived, and turned into waste data of equal weight.
Nowadays, only the "beast" turned into a cyber monster is left on the empty data battlefield. Its threat is too great, and people stay away from it and don't dare to get too close.
A few hours ago, the most powerful hackers on the list were moved by the bounty and carried out a joint operation with Digital Ark to carefully design a data virus targeting the Sea of Cylis, putting the cyber ghost into trouble.
It must temporarily leave the Sea of Hillis and withdraw from the defense line, otherwise it will be killed by the data virus.
But it didn't retreat.
It stayed and suffered all the damage from the data virus. Its remaining sane files were decomposed and turned into a monster close to a "beast", turning into a disorderly expansion of crazy digital consciousness, floating in Hillis.
In the sea, it integrates with the system and maximizes its performance. Everything from the shallow interface to the bottom source code is under its care.
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 lingered on the edge of 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 their broken spirits were like
Like the broken spiral structure, it is distributed in the system from top to bottom.
When Yoshioka was diving, he also saw the hackers and asked them to leave.
"We have no hostility," they replied, "we come to see a lost friend."
"Do you know each other?"
"No, we don't know who he is, but he can use the Sea of Hillis to show 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.
A lot. We don’t dare to enter. Look, this is a hacker’s graveyard. There won’t 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 deeper, his consciousness file has been entered into the source code." The hackers said.
Yoshioka Mizuro's spirit floats on the top floor, not daring to approach the furious spirit left behind by Xu Yang. It is a kind of self-defense.
Her entry slightly disturbed Xu Yang's digital mind. As the hackers described, his consciousness entered the source code of Sea of Silis, just like entering the eternal subconscious black box.
Xu Yang's will was awakened by Yoshioka Suise's entrance. He looked up and saw Yoshioka Suise's spirit, far away.
"Look at you." A voice said, "You have played tricks on the prototype I gave you."
"Todd?" Xu Yang vaguely remembered the owner of the voice.
"The water in the Sea of Cylis is very deep."
"Have you been here this whole time?"
"I told you before, I am a piece of code that was left behind."
"You came to warn me not to mess around." Xu Yang said, "But I went too far."
"No, no, no...you are already."
"What happened?"
"The Sea of Cylis itself," Todd said.
Xu Yang looked up, and his destructive spirit had indeed spread to every unit and every code in the Sea of Hillis.
"I have become a digital life." Xu Yang had an epiphany.
"Yes."
"It's very quiet here." After Xu Yang accepted this reality, he felt unprecedentedly calm. He could observe his own dying spirit and crumbling code world.
"This is the end of technology." Todd said happily, "This is in good condition. Congratulations, you have controlled the entire Sea of Hillis. You can use it to expand and annex every device, and eventually destroy all areas.
The Sea of Hillis connects together and merges all the networks in the world. The real Internet era will come, and you will become a digital god."
"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, multiplying and replicating infinitely."
Xu Yang tried to repair himself in the system space, and codes emerged quickly.
"But I'm not a programmer." Xu Yang said.
"Digital life span is infinite. You have about 10,000 to 20,000 years to squander it, which is enough for you to develop your own language."
"You know a lot...Todd...who the hell are you?"
"Well, I'm a hacker hired by Seven Seals."
"Does the King of Hackers also do things for others?"
"Of course, the Seven Seals do not allow the Lighthouse Core to embezzle the Sea of Hillis. Part of it must be made public. Even the Lighthouse Core cannot escape the supervision of the Seven Seals. But my value has been exhausted. This is what I did.
The last transaction.”
Xu Yang saw the string floating and the basic source code woven into Todd's avatar.
"You live in data." Xu Yang said, "Your ontology is hosted on the server."
"Everyone is like this, entrepreneurs are like this, and hackers should be like this even more." Todd's avatar shuttled through the source code at super-light speed, "Look, I can fly, a digital life."
Xu Yang looked at the shallow code base and noticed Yoshioka Mizuro who turned into consciousness and took the risk to dive.
"I will kill her." Xu Yang tried to leave the source code, "Those things I left behind...the crazy part of me...how can I take them back?"
The danger is not only Xu Yang, but also the data viruses planted on him by hackers. They will also infect Yoshioka Suise, and her achievements are far inferior to Xu Yang's and will be destroyed in an instant.
"You are a digital being." Todd's program left these last words before disintegrating itself from the source code.
Xu Yang groped around in the system. He dived too deep, and his last relationship with the physical body was cut off, and he completely became a digital life.
While he was calling the program to kill viruses, he was also clearing the way for Yoshioka Shuise, isolating her from Xu Yang's crazy side.
"Xu Yang!" Yoshioka Shuise felt that she saw him, but the lake was not clear because she did not dive deep enough.
"I am a piece of code. They did not kill me and drove me into the depths of the Sea of Hillis. Instead, they made me stronger." Xu Yang said that he incarnates all things, is almost a god, and his consciousness and spirit are transcendent.
The human body is limited, and every piece of machinery is a part of it.
"What should we do?" Yoshioka Mizuiro said eagerly.
"What to do if there is nothing." Xu Yang expanded in the cyberspace and obtained a true digital mind. He unconsciously swallowed up tens of thousands of terminal devices in Xisheng Shrine. His cognitive and analytical abilities continued to expand and surpass
Beyond the limits of mortals, "This is not a bad thing. From now on, the Sea of Hillis is me."
"Everyone is waiting for you!"
Xu Yang's spirit retreated in the Sea of Hillis, and each of his bifurcated consciousnesses retreated back. His spirits merged with each other, just like the divided fragments reunited into a whole.
He returned to his starting point as a human being, floating in the Sea of Hillis. The idea of surviving as a human being defeated this sense of meaningless detachment.
"Let's go." Xu Yang checked himself silently. The damaged Sea of Hillis still needed time to repair.
Yoshioka Mizuro watched all this with dazzled eyes.
The technical hatch opened and Xu Yang was covered in blood.
"He doesn't move!" Falosa yelled.
"It takes time to return mentally." Yoshioka Mizuiro unplugged the cable, "He wants to come back. He told me that he decided to come back!"
Slowly, Xu Yang stretched out a hand from the technical cabin.
Falosa started to cry.
"Welcome back, Master." Lila gently picked up Xu Yang, and Falosa walked to him.
"...I'll never leave again." Xu Yang hugged Lila.
"Go? Where are you going?" Farosha asked with tears in her eyes.
"It's far away, but when I think of you crying, I'm back." Xu Yang wiped away Falosa's tears.