SFS Chapter 411 unfolds once again.
Chapter 411 unfolds once again.
Chapter 411: The Scene Reenacted
"Lin Qi, any news from the boss?"
Zuo Xiao's figure emerged silently from the shadows, holding a severed head in her hand. Blood dripped from her fingertips, making a crisp dripping sound on the metal floor.
Lin Qi looked up from his computer screen, glanced at the spoils in Zuo Xiao's hand, and raised an eyebrow slightly. The head's expression was contorted, clearly indicating that it had experienced extreme fear at the last moment.
He couldn't help but tease, "Tsk, you brought back souvenirs again? Who's so unlucky this time?"
Zuo Xiao casually tossed the severed head onto the table beside him, a few drops of blood splattering onto the keyboard. Lin Qi frowned, but said nothing.
She found a chair, sat down, and put the blade back into its sheath.
"Envan Technology's last informant, Wan Shi Makarev. On the surface, he's a candy merchant, but he's quite kind-hearted; during the war, he even donated twenty boxes of candy dolls to an orphanage."
"candy?"
Lin Qi's fingers flew across the keyboard, bringing up relevant information. "Could it be one of those 'mutant' candies?"
"Clever." Zuo Xiao sneered. "Yingguang Pharmaceuticals' next-generation gene-polymerizing agent is hidden in candy. They want to develop a mutation technology similar to Gene Earth, using children as guinea pigs."
“When I found this guy, he was playing games in bed with his secretary.” She paused, a mocking smile playing on her lips. “For the sake of his reputation, I had no choice but to cut his head off. That way, nobody will know what he did in the end.”
The three giant corporations have done countless atrocities on Mechanical Earth over the years, but the members of the Thirteenth Squad have no time to play the role of righteous heroes. Killing them is just a matter of convenience.
The Spark Organization has occupied Revelation III for more than half a month. Most of the dignitaries who were supposed to leave have already done so. Those who remain are either spies or looking to make a quick buck.
If these people were lined up and executed one by one, there might be some innocent people. But if they were executed one by one with a gap in the line, there would definitely be some who escaped.
Zuo Xiao moved closer to Lin Qi, her gaze fixed on the error messages that kept popping up on his computer screen. Lin Qi's fingers mechanically tapped the Enter key, but his eyes were somewhat unfocused, clearly indicating that his mind wasn't on the code in front of him.
"Network surveillance truly lives up to its reputation as the strongest intelligence agency on Mechanical Earth," Lin Qi couldn't help but exclaim, before leaning back tactically and slumping onto the sofa.
Upon hearing this, Zuo Xiao pulled out a tissue and slowly wiped away the bloodstains that had just splattered on the table.
"Their firewall is like a tortoise shell; they have three different keys. I really wonder, don't they find it troublesome to unlock it themselves?"
Zuo Xiao didn't look up, but simply replied, "Who knows? Didn't you always claim to be the number one hacker on Mind Earth? What, are you complaining now?"
“You don’t need to provoke me with those words,” Lynch’s voice remained calm, but his fingers stopped tapping. “I know my own strength. Mechanical Earth is far ahead of us in network technology, and this firewall was designed by the founder of network surveillance. There is a gap between the best and the worst.
The moment he finished speaking, the computer screen suddenly went black with a "snap." Lin Qi froze, his eyes fixed on the black screen, his fingers hovering in mid-air, as if time had frozen at that moment.
"What... what kind of technology is this?" Lin Qi's voice was filled with disbelief. "They can actually force my terminal offline directly through the network? These guys are truly terrifying!"
Zuo Xiao stood to the side and couldn't help but cough twice.
She raised her hand and pointed to the smoking power line next to her, her tone slightly teasing: "Um... if I'm not mistaken, the circuit breaker has tripped."
Lin Qi followed his finger and saw wisps of smoke rising from the power line, with a burnt smell filling the air. His expression shifted from shock to embarrassment, and finally to helplessness.
Zuo Xiao turned around and tried pressing the light switch in the room. Just as she had said, the light bulb did not respond.
"Wait...it seems like it's not just us whose power went out." Lin Qi's gaze suddenly fell on the window. Although it was daytime, he remembered that the signs of the restaurants on the street outside the window had been flashing lights before, but now they were all off.
"Is this... a problem with the power system?"
Zuo Xiao was somewhat surprised. Logically speaking, with current technology, there are already quite a few backup power sources available. Even during the Xinghuo assault on the government building, the power system didn't experience such a large-scale outage. But now, looking at the streets outside the window where everyone was without power, for some reason, a strange sense of unease welled up in his heart.
"what--!"
A piercing scream tore through the night sky, like a sharp blade stabbing into eardrums. Zuo Xiao and Lin Qi turned around simultaneously, their gazes quickly locking onto the window.
On the street, people were frantically fleeing in their direction, their footsteps chaotic and disorderly, mixed with terrified shouts and gasps.
Their faces were filled with fear, as if some unspeakable monster was approaching from behind.
"what happened?"
Zuo Xiao drew her plasma longsword from her waist; her combat instincts told her that danger was approaching.
Lin Qi did not answer; his gaze was fixed on the end of the street.
Suddenly, a screeching sound of metal scraping against metal rang out, and then a mechanical sentry rushed out from around the corner.
"Those are... mechanical sentinels?" Zuo Xiao was somewhat surprised. These things had been cleared out by Lin Xuan after Xinghuo occupied the main city. The boss seemed to be very resistant to these robots.
But now that these sentries have appeared in the city district, that's a big problem.
Before they could react, the mechanical sentinel had already locked onto its target. Its serrated blade swung violently, its trajectory almost invisible. A woman standing by the roadside didn't even have time to scream before her head flew off, blood splattering onto the street and staining the ground red.
"Damn, what's this thing doing?"
Zuo Xiao instantly took several steps back, blocking Lin Qi's path. She wasn't sure if there was only one mechanical sentry, nor was she sure if it was being controlled by someone. If so, its target was likely the two of them... or maybe even their boss.
However, the mechanical sentry seemed to have entered indiscriminate attack mode. Without pausing, it caught up with the fleeing people, and the machine gun on its head quickly spun, emitting a low hum.
The next second, flames spewed out, and bullets rained down like raindrops. Before a row of passersby could even dodge, their bodies were instantly pierced through, blood and bits of flesh splattering everywhere, and a thick stench of blood filled the street.
"Run! This robot has gone mad!" someone in the crowd screamed, their voice filled with despair.
But soon, something even more desperate happened to them.
The billboards, trash cans, hovercars... and even the decorative light strips on the trees along the roadside all seemed to suddenly come to life and began to indiscriminately attack every passerby.
Looking out the window at the devastation below, Lin Qi's face turned extremely grim.
He finally understood why the perfectly good power system had suddenly collapsed.
The machine crisis that occurred on Mechanical Earth years ago seems to be... happening again.