More than fifty years ago, legendary network hacker Lucky Buttermoss single-handedly destroyed the global Internet.

Since then, the Internet has become a dangerous place plagued by malicious programs and rogue AI.

Network monitoring has established a black wall to isolate these threats and prevent those hackers who are still outside from returning.

They call it killing two birds with one stone.

Although I don’t know if the network monitors are really the builders of defense lines who stand up for mankind as they are portrayed, but at least one thing is correct.

That is outside the black wall, which is indeed an extremely dangerous space.

Even so, many people regard it as a treasure trove of secrets and send death squads to the old network day and night to dig out the buried data.

Arasaka Company is one of them.

In order to achieve this goal, they even established special departments and agencies to train orphans, just to have more expendable talents to explore the old network.

Lucy must have a great understanding of this.

And not long ago, Arasaka, for the first time in history, caught a wandering AI at a huge price.

The significance of this thing is extraordinary. You must know that human beings have lost the help of autonomous consciousness due to black walls. The AIs used by people today are just items that cannot think for themselves.

At least, that's the case on the surface.

In other words, this wandering AI is the only specimen with independent consciousness that is rare to find now, even though he only has a crazy consciousness to attack everything in his mind.

But the data records in his mind showed that those possibilities were indeed real.

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When Bai Xing arrived home, it was already noon. After opening the door and walking in, he took a bottle of drink for himself from the refrigerator.

Sitting on the chair in front of the bar, I opened the drink with a pop, raised my head and took a big sip, and then let out a big sigh of relief.

The stress and fatigue of the morning seemed to have been washed away.

However, at this moment, a strange male voice spoke.

"White Star, male, 18 years old, was captured by a camera in Night City for the first time on January 26, 2076. His previous experience is unknown. Unfortunately, he was captured by the duo of the Holly Team when he was wandering, and the Holly Team was taken away.

After the destruction, he officially entered the cyberpunk circle and joined the Mann team three months later..."

This information was so detailed that even Bai Xing himself didn't know some of the details, yet it came from the mouth of a strange man.

Shirahoshi, who had narrowed his eyes happily from drinking the ice coke, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

There is an intruder!

"Platinum Star" immediately appeared next to him. By judging the direction of the sound, he quickly turned around and struck out with a palm!

Snap!

When the sword fell, Bai Xing's bar counter was immediately split into two halves.

"No hit?" A question arose in Bai Xing's heart. His ears were definitely not wrong. The voice just now did come from behind him.

As if his eyes suddenly glanced at something, he squatted down, swept away the broken wood on the ground, and picked up a small tape recorder that was split into two along with the bar.

"It's stuck under the bar. It seems that the enemy arrived several steps before me. I have to be careful. Maybe there are many traps set in this house." Bai Xing wrinkled as he looked at the palm-sized recorder in his hand.

He frowned and thought.

"Well first of all, the purpose of this tape recorder should be as a bait!"

Realizing this, Shirahoshi did not hesitate, but asked "Platinum Star" to stop time immediately.

Then he quickly turned around and began to search for enemies that might be hiding in the dark places of the room.

However, what surprised him was that he did not find any signs. Even with the eyesight of "Platinum Star", he could not detect any attack from the enemy.

"This is unlikely." Bai Xing was not sure of the other party's intention. "The recorder started suddenly. That means the enemy must have known that I had returned home. Maybe they were hiding in the dark and watching me open the door and come in."

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"In this case, when I squatted down to check the recorder just now, my back was completely defenseless. The enemy had no reason to let this opportunity pass."

Whether it was the front or the back, the left or the right, or even the head and the feet, Bai Xing looked at it all.

But no, there is no.

Four seconds passed, and Bai Xing found nothing.

Time also begins to flow again——

Huhu——

At the moment when time returned to normal, a subtle voice sounded in front of Shirahoshi.

The next moment, the clothes on Bai Xing's chest were suddenly cut into pieces, and some blood immediately flowed from his clothes.

"What!"

Bai Xing ignored the surprise and could only quickly throw a few punches forward to push back this invisible enemy.

However, the enemy was also extremely cautious. Shirahoshi's random punches only hit the air in front of him. It was obvious that the opponent immediately backed away after succeeding.

But Shirahoshi also gained a brief respite.

"The whirring sound just now should be the sound of some extremely sharp knife cutting the air." Bai Xing couldn't help but think.

He shook his clothes, and several broken pieces of wood came out. It was the pieces of wood that he had stuffed into his clothes that helped him weaken the opponent's attack.

Otherwise it wouldn't be as simple as it is now, just a few shallow wounds.

At this moment, the enemy lurking in the darkness spoke.

"It seems that the information is not wrong. Your strength is pretty good. After a long time, there is finally a target who can survive my first blow."

"You have such a loud tone, but are you just a scared person who dare not show up face to face?" Bai Xing immediately shot back.

"Don't waste your time trying to provoke the general. I, Toru Fujiwara, will laugh at such low-level tactics."

Fujiwara Toru?

Shirahoshi caught a name from his words. Judging from the name, the enemy was most likely a killer sent by Arasaka.

Moreover, Shirahoshi didn't have many forces that he had trouble with. Apart from biotechnology, the only one he could think of to be involved was Arasaka.

So is it really that bastard Sirzati...

It's true that I didn't take action when I was at Arasaka Tower, but as soon as I walked out, I immediately sent killers to my house to ambush me.

"So, you are from Arasaka?"

Bai Xing continued to talk about the topic. In this case, he wanted to continue the topic so that he could have more time to find the other person.

"Haha, are you still looking for me? I advise you to give up. I am equipped with the most advanced optical camouflage skin. Even if I stand in front of you like this, you won't be able to notice it!"

As soon as these words came out, Bai Xing suddenly thought something bad and quickly asked "Platinum Star" to stop time.

"Damn it, is he hiding it in his voice?"

Shirahoshi immediately moved from his original position. He was sure that Toru Fujiwara had definitely launched an attack. The sound this time was very similar, and even the sound of "whooshing" through the air was covered up by the opponent's words.
Chapter completed!