Chapter 106: Chapter 101: Entering City Hall Again

"Hey, Old V, how have you been lately?"

"Are you talking about the city center incident? Yeah, it was pretty terrifying."

"That’s right, I want to buy a batch of equipment, mainly biological semiconductors and bioconductors for powering prosthetics, I’ll send you a list of the models."

"Uh... once we settle the payment over here, we’ll transfer it to you."

"Alright then, thanks, Old V."

The newly repainted black and red-striped Mackinaw arrived at the edge of City Hall, just as Lille had expected. The lockdown order came in drips and drabs, like a constipated patient. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

There was still half an hour before the meeting time.

The remote backdoor Lille had set up at the City Hall node had already been cleared out; obviously, the hacker on the other side wasn’t a slouch.

But when they tried to trace it back, they encountered enormous trouble. They couldn’t track Lille down in the cyber network at all.

In the car, V was holding a raccoon dog and asked, "Did you call Old V? What did you buy this time?"

Lille explained, "We got attacked by a Biotechnology agent last time, exposing our problem—we’re strong in frontal assaults but lack specialized equipment.

Was that agent any good? Honestly, even though he had the backing of a Super Corporation, the gear he had might not be worth as much as ours.

If we fought head-on, his combat strength wouldn’t be that formidable.

But a quality piece of Optical Camouflage can execute a meticulous plan, pivoting the situation with individual force."

This is the core business capability of spies and agents, those who work with information.

"Makes sense—so we’re getting one too?"

"We can’t—Optical Camouflage and Subdermal Armor have a high conflict. Since you guys chose the more useful Subdermal Armor for the frontlines, we can’t install this thing."

Jack and V’s Subdermal Armor covered a wide area, adding this kind of prosthetic to their skin would increase the probability of malfunction and loss of control.

This is why it’s beneficial to have a prosthetics doctor in the team; Lille wouldn’t let them blindly install prosthetics.

Lille added, "I want to create a new piece of equipment, but it’s still just an idea for now; I’m still perfecting the design."

As he spoke, Lille opened his system panel.

[Cross-Dimensional World Status]

[In another world, Skye has already helped Aiden Pearce reach the core of the mystery and has attracted the pursuit of the Chicago Gang]

[Skye and Aiden used ctOS to create a major blackout in downtown Chicago, completely erasing their traces and performing a countertrace against the Chicago Gang’s leader]

[Victory is within reach]

[Skye has uploaded the relevant data of the major blackout to the server, you can check it accordingly.]

[ctOS development progress: 70%]

[Current Cross-Dimensional Data Channel openness: 70%]

The major blackout, the ultimate weapon against the cyber network.

A large-scale, widespread blackout causes irreversible damage to servers, but the execution difficulty is really high.

After all, 99.9% of important facilities and equipment in the world have backup power plans, so causing a major blackout can’t be achieved just by operating in the network.

However, the ctOS development progress was quite satisfactory; those 500 Technology Points were well spent—this way, Lille could experiment with his next idea.

Although there was a gap between 2011’s computer efficiency and that of 2076, this gap could be filled with quantity—after all, it was a computational gap.

The smallest military-grade ICE server could shrink to fit in a car’s trunk. While 2011’s computer level might not be high, Lille could use an entire warehouse of computers linked for computational operations.

With 70% data channel openness, the bandwidth obtained could almost be used for real-time fast cracking, placing the fast-cracking computational part in the server of another world.

The speed might be slower, but it’s safer—after all, if the computers burned, they burned. Even military-grade ICE tracking programs couldn’t trace the time or location information of the burned servers.

[You found Skye.]

[Lille: Has the XMSC chip arrived?]

[Skye: It has, the assembled computer is right next to me, the system is set up as you said, but what is this pure computational computer for?]

[Lille: I have my own ingenious use for it, stay in the server room with a fire extinguisher, if it catches fire, just spray.]

[Skye: Are you serious, boss? You’re going to light a fire in your own place?]

[Lille: Stop whining and just spray if I tell you to, consider it your performance bonus.]

[Skye: Got it, boss.]

After dealing with that, Lille needed to contact Dr. Conners.

[You chose to communicate with Dr. Conners via phone]

[Lille: Doctor, I remember you said that the Osborne Group obtained a batch of genetically modified spiders with extremely superior traits, can you produce a batch of similar spiders?]

[Dr. Conners: In theory, yes, the attenuation rate algorithm has been validated on spiders, so achieving it wouldn’t be difficult—for me, it’s not difficult.]

[Dr. Conners: But Osborne Group holds a patent in this area, so...]

[Lille: I urgently need to validate the attenuation algorithm, can you cultivate a spider like that right now?]

[Dr. Conners: You want to validate the attenuation algorithm again from multiple mature individuals? I’ve already tried; the result is what it is now...]

[Lille: No, I have other uses, you can ask Matt to transfer the money from the company, there’s still some in the deposit, please hurry.]

[Dr. Conners: Alright... but just one, if we produce it on a large scale it would involve a patent issue, I really don’t want the Osborne Group to catch us.]

[Lille: Thanks, Doctor, please be quick.]

After finishing the matters over there, Lille made another call to David and Lucy over here.