Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 524 - 458: Helis Sea

Chapter 524: Chapter 458: Helis Sea

[Helis Sea]

"Hey, rookie, don’t break this beauty. I’m Todd, leaving this recording here because you’ve been booting up non-stop for over 12 hours. Yes, I know everyone’s excited about new tech, but don’t fry your neurons to a crisp, there’s more to life than surfing the net, think about your future."

"This is Symantec Information Security Company. We have never seen an adversary as tough as you. Fight with us, we’ll pay you $204,000 a month. Stop wasting your youth here, will Nestor Corporation pay you that much?"

"Hi, esteemed ’Electronic Phantom’,

We are honored to inform you that you have been removed from the service client lists of the vast majority of companies, neutral zones, and free towns worldwide. Due to your relentless opposition, we have included you in our partners’ unified blacklist. Wherever you access the public network, we will find you, destroy you, kill all your relatives, to compensate for the immense trouble you’ve caused us.

— Digital Ark Senior Technical Support Specialist, John Doe."

"Stop playing god, I know where you got Helis Sea from. I was there, I know what Todd gave us. But I sold the tech to the company, made 120 million, what about you? Who are you dying for? Idiot, you’re still here, piloting this nearly collapsed prototype system, you’re going to die, your consciousness will be extinguished here."

"Hey, big fool, the longer you stick around here, the more attention you attract. We’ve turned the project to breach Helis Sea into a bounty, the world’s top hackers are bidding against each other."

"We’ve found the machine principle, it’s a prototype. Just find enough zombies for a kamikaze attack, and it won’t have a leg to stand on, being forced to sacrifice part of its own consciousness to engage in equivalent combat."

"Fellow hackers around the world, 15 hours have passed, we have launched 37 trillion attacks against Helis Sea, compromising 65% of its defenses. If we continue at this rate, by this time tomorrow, we will have Nestor Corporation in the palm of our hand."

"You’ll pay for the 120 comrades we lost, Cyber Specter, we won’t stop."

At first, hackers from around the world tried to communicate with it, but they gradually realized that the spirit guarding Helis Sea had turned into a maniac beast.

Under the onslaught of their massive data viruses, the Cyber Specter’s external signs were forced to shift from superficial data to more "corporeal" deep data life, meaning that the operator’s fusion with Helis Sea deepened, enabling it to create stronger defensive effects and completely isolate the current adversaries.

"Why won’t you back down?"

"Shut down Helis Sea!"

"Die die die die!"

But the hackers did not relent and continued their assault.

New Xisheng offered a hefty price to hire them to breach Nestor Corporation’s network services, a project paying hundreds of thousands per hour is not an everyday occurrence.

They hooked up their servers and automated attack programs, thousands of hackers from hundreds of teams in their tech pods, freezers, and hacker chairs, launched their attacks, determined to conquer Helis Sea.

Too close!

They almost succeeded—as countless hackers went on their rampage, the safe range of Helis Sea got smaller and smaller, and the area for the mad beast to roam became more and more restricted.

Right behind it!

The communication channels and network modules connected to 20,000 combat units were right there—

"Where’s the enemy!", the Elite Soldiers, synthetic humans, their information processing arrays merely a stone’s throw away! Once hackers breached Helis Sea, they could easily flip their friend or foe recognition, turning them into berserk machines that would massacre comrades and citizens alike, treating allies and civilians as enemies.

Those brave Nestor soldiers, with their military network communication implants clearly distinguishable, would be instantly shut down once hit by a cyberattack, causing them to fall one by one in the middle of their march, self-destructing, collapsing!

Numerous shuttle machines, factories, production machines, command centers, computing centers, normally the first network targets to be locked down and destroyed in corporate warfare, were still functioning normally and flawlessly up to now.

And at the very core of these communication links sat Lila Nestor! She sat behind all information terminals, with her meticulous and cold intellect, processing and arranging everything, planning Nestor Corporation’s flawless offensives, allocating their limited human and material resources to the most suitable places.

Lila’s cold face, those millions of machines ready to be captured... all protected by a single barrier.

This is the impregnable network security service, Helis Sea, protected by millions of defense units and guarded by the Cyber Specter!

Time kept ticking away, and that nightmarish entity grew increasingly vicious, turning into a giant, merciless ghost roaming in Helis Sea, cruelly eroding and devouring everything that delved too deep. The closer to the data system, the easier it was to be killed.

Countless hackers met their demise in its predation!

And there was a sudden change among the ranks of the hackers.

"This is Xisheng Shrine, it seems we’ve been attacked."