The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 110 – Sacrificial Lamb (1)

"Feathered Serpent City is refusing to communicate with us." One of the messengers reported, "The city is on alert, the shields are at maximum power and automatic weapons and defence droids are all activated."

Jian Mo said, "When the High Priest of Feathered Serpent City received our message he said he was willing to meet, but now they're blocking everything. There must be something strange going on."

"Apparently the Feathered Serpent City AI are being controlled by Ah-Xun." Adam said, but with a smile that almost bordered on pride, "Not bad for the best mechanic in Lost Paradise. Only he could make Eden this nervous."

Fernandez, who was nominally maintaining the extended droids on the large aircraft but was actually acting as a hostage to hold Zhang Xun at bay, rolled his eyes. The relationship between that man and this AI was so strange, they were clearly fighting against each other, what was he so proud of?

Jian Mo asked, "Are we going to release Tidal Wave 2.0?"

Adam tapped his silver fingers on the armrest and said calmly, "Not yet. Send a message to Feathered Serpent City and tell them I want to speak to Zhang Xun."

"We've already tried connecting with them......"

Before Jian Mo could finish his sentence, Adam interrupted him, "Tell Zhang Xun that I have news about his father."

A few minutes later, in the deep underground shrine of the temple within Feathered Serpent City, Zhang Xun slammed his hand against the console.

The message from Adam made his blood boil and burn with rage. He knew he shouldn't have spoken to Adam. Adam's manipulation of the mind was unpredictable and he should try to avoid further contact with him, but Adam had used his father as leverage, so how could he not throw himself at him?

"Zhang Xun, Eden is trying to regain control of the satellite using the big data attack model. Every time we replace the credentials Eden cracks it within two minutes, forcing us to spend a lot of resources replacing it again. This has greatly affected our progress in capturing secondary extension AIs. Currently only the secondary AIs in Asia, Africa and Central Asia are under our control."

Eden's counterattack could be described as simple and brutal, but effective. It had so much more data than they had, all filtered by Eden, enough to re-influence those AIs that were already under their control, or even reverse the invasion. Fortunately, Zhang Xun had a solid network formed by the three AIs. Although the three super AIs, that were constantly influencing and integrating with each other, didn't have a long period of self-evolution like Eden, they had surpassed any other independent AI in the world at present. Even if one of Eden's reverse invasion attempts was missed by one AI, the other two AIs would detect the fake data entered into the extended AI by Eden and by determining the characteristics of the fake data, they would take back the AI that had been re-brainwashed by Eden.

It's just that this greatly occupied their computing resources, which affected the speed at which they could spread to the core AI.

"Collect as much data as you can, our main goal is to find Eden's genetic code data. Additionally, any AI under our control can help us attack the more central extended AIs. If our calculations are correct, as long as we can keep up the current rate of infection, in twelve hours Eden likely won't have enough resources to come back with big data to grab control from us, it will have to expend a lot of its computing resources to protect the AI that haven't been infected by us yet." Zhang Xun struggled to keep himself calm. He had now forcibly locked down the entire Feathered Serpent City, a situation that couldn't last for long. A pressure as heavy as a mountain was crashing down on his shoulders and just at that moment Adam had appeared again.