Please call me CyberGhost King

Chapter 287 Time Amber
What's in cyberspace?
Malware that can kill people in a few nanoseconds, the roaming AI in the brain that can follow the network connection, and the data vortex that can instantly turn a normal person into a madman.

Who is in cyberspace?

Corporate hackers wearing cryosuits, full of prosthetics, fully armed, and occupying half of the power grid, they are full of malice towards all cyberwalkers, cyber madmen lying in ice baths with wires stuck in their heads, they can attack anyone for profit, in short, there are no normal people.

Entering cyberspace is more like being entered than entering.

To put it bluntly, this is a data stream that can directly enter the human brain. It bypasses all ordinary senses. Vision, touch, hearing, etc. are all useless here. Only the brain can help humans understand its essence.

Therefore, without professional equipment, there is no need to wait until your brain is exhausted. In the face of huge data streams, your brain will directly implode, and the internal pressure in the head will increase several times in an instant, which is simply unbearable for humans.

After entering cyberspace and withstanding the surge in brain pressure, can you roam in it without any worries?

Of course not. This is not a directly concrete world. When you open your eyes, you will see that cyberspace is full of 0s and 1s, and pixels falling like rain.

If you don't have the ability, you can't move an inch in it, or even move at all. If you try to move, you may crash into a data fortress and be crushed into broken data fragments by the defense system.

A networker must have the ability to visualize everything in cyberspace, a mass of data streams, and you must be able to discern its essence.

A data stream may be a heavily defended data fortress, a violent data whirlwind, a dangerous AI, or a hacker with bad intentions. Everything is a raw data stream that you have to distinguish and visualize on your own.

In short, cyberspace is not a place that ordinary people can play with. Equipment is secondary. First of all, you must have the ability and knowledge. Otherwise, no matter how good the equipment is, it will be useless.

Having equipment but no ability is like holding a nuclear bomb in your hand but not knowing how to use it, or like having a strong body but not knowing how to punch or kick.

For Ke Ling, it is not difficult to distinguish. He has a strong ability to understand and learn, a large amount of knowledge reserves, and exaggerated data processing capabilities. In his eyes, the messy data streams are divided into various vivid and concrete images.

Ke Ling was in a war fortress. He was standing on the wall of the fortress. The war fortress under his feet was built by Song Zhaomei and his team. This was the core area of ​​the entire "Shadow World Cyberspace". This data fortress stored all the research results of the "Shadow World".

Standing on the city wall and looking out, there are two smaller fortresses not far away. Apart from that, there is not much else.

The newly constructed cyberspace of "Shadow World" cannot be that messy. The most conspicuous places are the data fortresses built by "Arasaka" and "Military Technology" respectively, where they store their own research results.

Although all research results must be summarized and reported to the headquarters in the end, there is also competition among everyone. Where there are people, there will be differences and factions. What's more, two parties that don't get along with each other will definitely be on guard against each other.

Of course, things like "war fortresses", "fortresses, city walls" are all scenes that are visualized in Ke Ling's eyes. Different people may visualize different things.

Some data fortresses will also cover themselves with a layer of cloak to discourage people from taking action. This is usually the case with data fortresses of large companies.

Of course, personal data streams can also be disguised and given a layer of skin, a bit like a network vest, or Cosplay, disguised as all kinds of things, including spaceships, apocalypse knights, superheroes, cartoon characters, and fantasy creatures.

Ke Ling didn't do anything outrageous. His image in cyberspace was exactly what he looked like, and he used his real name to go online!
Entering the "Shadow World" data fortress, Ke Ling found the "Divine Carriage". This cyber soul prison was naturally embedded in the data fortress. It was located at the bottom of the heavily defended fortress, just like going from the ground to the underground prison of the castle.

In Ke Ling's eyes, the "divine carriage" was like a series of separate prisons, where all the copied and captured electronic souls were monitored separately one by one.

These prison cells are all highly closed. The electronic souls inside cannot communicate with the outside world or other electronic souls. They are all isolated.

Johnny Silverhand had been imprisoned in it before, but unlike the outside world, the electronic souls in this "divine carriage" seemed to be not very active, or were in a state of "inertness".

This state of imprisonment did not seem to have much impact on them. At least it was much better than Ott Cunningham's state of wandering outside the "Black Wall". They all looked very honest and calm, as if they had completely adapted to this state.

Think about Johnny Silverhand. Given that guy's personality, if this kind of imprisonment really had a strong sense of reality, Johnny Silverhand would definitely go crazy before Otto Cunningham.

In fact, Johnny Silverhand's evaluation of this period of time is just that it was painful and unbearable to look back on, but if you ask him to really describe it, he actually can't really say what he feels like.

Come to think of it, it’s unclear when these electronic souls “stored” in the “Shinto Column” will be used.

If they are really kept detained like this without any special treatment, then by the time they are needed, they would have gone crazy. This is definitely unacceptable.

"That's not bad."

Ke Ling began to deconstruct the source code of this "divine carriage". This ability to "render inert" electronic souls is simply the essence of the essence.

If it does not have this ability, the usefulness of this "Shinto shrine" will be greatly reduced. Anyone can make an "electronic prison", but this is not the case with an "electronic prison" with this effect.

"Let me call you Time Amber."

Soon, Ke Ling deconstructed the ability of "Time Amber" from the source code. He had the highest authority inside the "Divine Carriage", so it was very easy for him to separate this ability.

In fact, there is an easier way, which is to get the data directly from the headquarters of "Arasaka", but knowledge gained from books is always shallow, so it is better to try it in practice.

The ability of this "Time Amber" is to make the "electronic soul" inert, which may be effective against crazy AI. But this thing also has its disadvantages, that is, its complex structure, and it is a bit lame to use it for attack. Unless the target is a weakling, it is difficult to hit it directly with this thing.

Fighting in cyberspace also requires physical skills. If you throw "Time Amber" but it doesn't hit the person or wrap him up, then it's naturally useless. Amber, Amber, will only work if it wraps up the person.

Fighting in cyberspace may sound a bit abstract. Everyone usually carries "puppets" with them, and most attacks rely on "puppets".

This kind of "puppet" usually has a virtual image. For example, the online walkers of the "Voodoo Gang" like to make themselves into vampires, witches, etc. Once a fight breaks out, the "puppet" will pounce on and attack.

To describe it more vividly, the battle in cyberspace looks like a chaos in time and space, with all kinds of puppet battles, vampires, paladins, spaceships, magic, guns and all sorts of other things. Of course, these are essentially data packets.

Netrunners will put up a "shield" to resist enemy attacks, which is something like "ICE" and "firewall".

Particularly powerful network operators, such as corporate dogs with the support of company servers, can also rush forward for hand-to-hand combat and directly crush the opponent with their powerful computing power. This is called "breaking all laws with one force."

Although it seems abstract, this is what cyberspace looks like in the eyes of cybernauts.

"We can optimize this space-time amber. It would be a shame if such a powerful effect could not be used in battle."

Ke Ling put "Optimizing Time Amber" on his schedule, but there was no rush about it. After all, he didn't have to face the threat of a large army of combat AI for the time being, and even without "Time Amber", Ke Ling was not afraid of fighting in cyberspace.

Everyone is using the most advanced equipment and there is no technological gap. With Ke Ling's own abilities, he doesn't believe that anyone can threaten him.

The intelligence attribute, the characteristic of not being afraid of burning the brain, and the real killer "Soul Killer" directly made Ke Ling invincible. To put it more arrogantly, he even wanted to stand in cyberspace and shout "Who dares to kill me?"

In the cyberspace of the "shadow world", naturally no one dared to attack Ke Ling, but in the outside world, whoever came would die! Once the "soul killer" appeared, they were all captured and put into the small dark room in the divine carriage!

Ke Ling experimented with it and found that the original version of "Soul Killer" was the most convenient to use, and it was also the most suitable for combat.

The later versions have become more experimental, after all, Anderson Herman does not need to fight with the "Soul Killer".

After studying the "Soul Killer" and "Time Amber", Ke Ling shifted his attention to these replicated electronic souls.

To be honest, we all exist as a bunch of data, and it doesn't seem difficult to devour them, especially when facing these "lazy souls" who can hardly resist, it becomes even easier to do.

Netwalkers can directly connect to an individual's brain-computer, just like in "Inception", and then enter the other party's brain-computer to steal secrets. In cyberspace, even the connection step is omitted, and everyone is face to face.

As long as you break through the opponent's defense, you can basically do whatever you want, but usually you only extract some secrets. It seems that no one will really devour the defeated person whole.

The reason is simple. Such a huge data stream contains a person's entire life. The impact of directly swallowing it is too great for ordinary people to withstand it. Even if the brain can withstand it, who is the person after the swallowing and combination?

“That is to say, devouring other electronic souls might really make you stronger, but most people can’t afford the price, so no one would do that. It’s equivalent to suicide.

But Ott Cunningham doesn't care about this. He doesn't even care about the memory of his original identity, Ott Cunningham. It won't have any effect if he absorbs more."

Ke Ling made a guess, and this conclusion made his eyes light up.

Ott Cunningham can withstand the impact of devouring other electronic souls, and is not afraid of being affected by the memories of other electronic souls. It's the same for him!

Ke Ling was confident that he could handle these huge data streams, and these memories were unlikely to affect his mind. When it came to mental protection, the [Extreme System] was not ambiguous at all, and no one could influence his mind.

Thinking of this, Ke Ling thought he could give it a try. If it didn't work, he could spit it out again. If there was a problem with swallowing, he could just cut it at the speed of light.

Ke Ling randomly selected a lucky person and saw from the nameplate on his door that this guy was a regional executive of "Biotechnology". There were people from various companies in this "shrine", and it was hard to say that these people had not contributed to the technological advancement of "Arasaka".

This "biotechnology" executive was pulled out of the cell, and the effect of "Time Amber" quickly began to lose effect. Ke Ling simply threw another one and put it on this guy.

After putting this amber on, the executives of this "biotechnology" company immediately became obedient. Without saying a word, Ke Ling directly swallowed all the data into his own data.

Unexpectedly, this "Time Amber" seemed to be working at this time. The huge mass of data was particularly obedient, and Ke Ling's swallowing did not arouse much resistance from it. It was easily suppressed by Ke Ling.

“It actually has this effect.”

Ke Ling was also stunned by the result. The swallowing went extremely smoothly. It was suppressed by the "Time Amber" and the [Extreme System]. Those messy memories were directly thrown into the trash can by Ke Ling. This time, even the pressure on the brain was reduced. The information that needed to be processed suddenly decreased sharply, leaving only some knowledge-based things, which were classified and saved.

It's funny to say that a senior executive of a "biotechnology" company doesn't actually have many truly practical things in his mind, because whatever knowledge and data this guy uses on a daily basis are all retrieved from chips, networks, and databases.

If I have to say, this guy is probably the one with the smartest brains among these electronic souls. After all, "biotechnology" companies still value personal ability, which is a bit like "governing the country with technology". However, not all management positions in the company are technical talents. This guy is probably a professional manager.

(End of this chapter)