Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 839 - 271: Adam’s Hammer and Informationalized Warfare_2

Everyone knew that Hansen was just playing them, the so-called security business on the outskirts of the Cleaner base reconstruction project was nothing more than surveillance plus encirclement. The players were already on guard, usually letting the intelligent construction machines work upstairs while they hunched underground to command the brick-moving.

The forum was full of people offering ideas and strategies, analyzing the situation, and sometimes a ten-thousand-word analysis would pop up, guiding players on how to exploit economic loopholes and invest in stocks.

But after a few complete losses, no one believed that crap anymore; the stock market in the game was even more mystical than the A-shares.

What was unexpected was Hansen's decisiveness. Not only did he cooperate with the gangs outside the city to provide cover, but also struck with thunderous force, directly using heavy artillery and missiles to blow down the buildings that belonged to the players.

Many players were dumbfounded, watching as the buildings collapsed as if their main beams had been pulled out.

"My house! I just took out a mortgage to buy it!"

"No one said my house would be used to film the opening CG. Damn those dog planners, why make the building destruction so real? I'm gonna fight them to the end!"

"My wife is still in the house! My wife!"

"Huh? Since when did you have a wife?"

"The robot wife I built myself QAQ, she can't even speak yet."

"Who would've thought that even in a game we could be set up by capitalists? These dog planners didn't even give a notice, knowing well that those buildings were going to be destroyed, yet they dared to sell houses, what's the difference from selling pre-owned houses like in a damn dog scheme?"

For a moment, the players were all riled up. Many had spent money or even taken loans to buy the base houses, eagerly preparing to decorate, but Hansen's round of bombing wiped out all their investments. Who wouldn't go mad?

But what could be done? 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Bring two cartons of Wangzai milk to find the dog planners?

That's certainly not possible.

But bringing two guns to trouble Hansen, they were more than willing.

Fierce fighting broke out around the Long Beach Waste Yard, as players were prepared, Hansen's first wave of attack didn't achieve the expected results, it even backfired, thoroughly infuriating this group of people.

"Charge to Gemstone Cyan, chop off Hansen's old dog's head, and seize that Dog Town emperor's seat!"

I don't know where I am, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

I only know I'm about to go on a killing spree.

If it were a head-on assault, then Netherworld Dog's combat power wouldn't be weaker than the players, at least unless they were Wildman, such high-level veteran players. Otherwise, going 1V2 or even 1V3 would be very difficult.

But unfortunately, this is a war.

Starting from the seventies, the split, the financial collapse of the nineties, corporations came to power, until the old web destroyed in the 2020s, the cyber world wars were missing some crucial elements.

That is the completion of the information warfare construction.

Because there was no Gulf War inspiration, the United States that could afford this set collapsed, European NATO had never fought such a battle, and the Soviet Union relied entirely on nuclear bombs and iron flood to crush the Middle East, even in the fourth corporate war later when the network was advanced, corporate network battles were limited only to team communication and hacker intrusion.

Information warfare is not mutual data offense and defense between network hackers, but an operational system established with the Internet as the center. Besides meeting the most basic communication needs, it also needs to realize the tactical information sharing of each unit to achieve coordinated operations.

This is not only the battlefield for players but also an experimental battlefield for some people to perfect a highly informationized warfare system. Coincidentally, anyone who has installed a neural connector is equivalent to directly receiving a tactical terminal, making them modern soldiers equipped with information warfare and ad-hoc networking with just a little training.

Moreover, Dog Town's building terrain has long been recorded on the official website, and dozens of tactical deductions have been carried out with the Netherworld Dog as the opposing target, and the process and results of each deduction are published on the official forum for players to review at will.

Although those people may not understand the composition of the Netherworld Dog Team, and the number of prosthetic bodies and weapons equipped, they definitely offer valuable reference material.

Even more, players have something that only exists in theory in the real world—strong AI.

During this time, the wandering AI White Model—[Skynet], defeated by the player's network army and then its data cleansed by Lucy, has now become the prototype of Super Earth's war AI, with its functionality and refinement more precise than the system functions used by players outside Dog Town, and it's under continuous development.

"Drone swarm has taken off, acquiring battlefield status, connecting to the friendly units' information network..."

"120 meters to the right outside the base, 16 Netherworld Dog Team members found, one armored vehicle, two heavy machine guns, threat level III"

"12 unidentified model robots found, suspected equipped with automatic rifles, rocket launchers, threat level II, location marked."

"70 meters to the north side of the base, found 38 Netherworld Dog Team members, five armored vehicles..."

Information on enemy units, friendly units, both sides' firepower deployment, ammo count, player health status, artillery positions and range, etc., is all collected, processed, and marked uniformly, also connecting to logistics and the frontline simultaneously.

Theoretically, players only need to yell they're running low on bullets in the network, and they don't even need to shout; their terminal will automatically calculate ammo consumption. Once the total amount of ammunition within the area hits the set yellow line, the drones will airdrop supplies.