Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 858 - 277: The Great Free-for-All (Part 3)

"I don't know either, it seems like someone has hacked into the Hellhound's control network and then went further to hack into the Chimera."

"Who is it?"

Hansen paced back and forth anxiously. You know, the ICE on the Chimera can wipe out an entire squad of elite hackers, how could it be silently breached without him knowing?

"I need to take a look first..."

Aurora attempted to connect to a Hellhound that was dismantled live by the furious Hansen, but within half a second, she recoiled in fear as if she had seen a ghost, disconnecting the link between them.

"Damn it! It's AI! A rogue AI has taken over the Hellhound!"

"What? What on earth is going on down there? Aurora, why is there a rogue AI?"

Unexpectedly, Aurora was even more panic-stricken than Hansen.

"This shouldn't be, the Matrix core is still preserved in Little Beidou, any AI that invades the Little Beidou Laboratory should activate the Matrix core and be restrained and controlled, how did it escape?"

"What Matrix core?"

Hansen swore he had never seen the thing underground, nor had he ever touched it.

If that thing went wrong, the blame certainly wouldn't be on him.

But no matter what, things were racing toward an unpredictable direction, and that direction was absolutely not what he wanted to see, and he was powerless to stop it all.

"Everyone, shut down the Hellhounds around you immediately! I'm only saying this once, if you don't want to die, shut them off for me!"

Hansen's roar on the channel left all the Netherworld Dogs stunned, they didn't know why the Colonel suddenly issued such a strange order.

Sure enough, after a brief hesitation, the robots that rushed to the surface and the Hellhounds originally following the Netherworld Dogs suddenly turned their guns and fired at the closest person.

Rat-a-tat-tat—

An automatic machine gun mounted on a Hellhound suddenly erupted, turning several soldiers around it into a pile of mud.

Whizz—

A single missile hit the tail of the Octant drone in the sky. The iron bird wasn't shot down by the players, but instead was struck down by its own people's missile, trailing smoke as it crashed into the Gem Cyan Hotel.

A group of shocked Netherworld Dog soldiers wanted to command the Demon Lizard Tank to turn its turret and knock down that largest Chimera first.

No matter what Colonel Hansen says afterwards, if they don't knock it down now, everyone's going to die.

However, the Netherworld Dog soldiers clearly underestimated the treacherous mechanical forces. Even before crawling out of the ground, the Chimera had already begun heating up its plasma weapons, and after a brief 2-second charge, a crimson laser torrent struck the Demon Lizard that hadn't had time to turn its turret, its surface armor quickly melted, and the operator inside turned to ash without uttering a single scream, even surrounding explosive counters got burned to residue.

The 120mm main cannon could definitely pose a significant threat to the Chimera, but the premise is it has to hit, if it misses everything goes to waste.

The mobility of both sides isn't even on the same level.

Distant players watching the scene were dumbfounded.

What's going on?

We haven't even launched a proper attack yet, how come you've had a civil war?

To fight the Netherworld Dogs, the Wildman's initial plan was to feign attack in Dog Town, wait for the outer players to clean up those gangs, then infiltrate from the passages found by Taiping Continent Red Barrel Femme Fatale, and surround and dismantle Gem Cyan from inside and out.

But now it seems like that's not needed.

Plans never catch up with changes, but players weren't ones to stick rigidly to the script anyway, so upon realizing the situation was off, Sword Saint immediately led others to launch the second assault.

Sword Saint: "Charge, charge, charge!!! Capture that big guy, and we'll be prosperous!"

Pinocchio never lies: "Oh my, I'm a leg enthusiast, and it has five legs! Is there anything else so coincidental in this world? I'm going to put black silk, white silk, fishnet stockings, lace, and suspenders on it and glue it for me!"

Masked Rider: "Bro, your XP is a bit too weird."

Pinocchio: "Just asking if you guys want it or not?"

Everyone: "Want!"

Who wouldn't like a robot maid that can wear five different types of stockings at the same time?

Damn it, shoot and explode!

Beneath the Gem Cyan Hotel, things quickly developed into a chaotic melee, Hellhounds fighting Netherworld Dogs, Netherworld Dogs fighting players, players fighting Hellhounds, bullets and shells flying everywhere, emphasizing you're in me and I'm in you, it's a brawl upon meeting.

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The excitement on the surface was destined to be unrelated to what's underground.

In the dark, narrow tunnels, Alex and Li De were huddled tightly inside without moving, let alone breathing, they didn't dare to indiscriminately release their body temperature, all communications had been cut off, and the nightingale was nowhere to be found.

In this sunless Little Beidou Laboratory, isolated and helpless, they could only pray that the patrolling Hellhound in the server room below would leave soon.

Alex only wanted to drag Miles underground to give her a good beating.

At the very least, make this woman experience the terror of being chased by a pack of Hellhounds.

Fortunately, Li De had set a small mechanism on the way, a box wobbled and fell, and the noise quickly attracted the Hellhound below, allowing the two to finally breathe a sigh of relief and crawl out of the tunnels.

"I swear, once back, I'm not doing anything anymore, being a New America agent is just not human work."

"Quickly install the explosives, Alex, you'll need to stay alive to discuss changing jobs."

To prevent Song Zhaomei from doing anything, the rogue AI had shut down all the monitoring systems, thus preventing the Hellhound from using surveillance to find Li De and the others, giving them the chance to plant explosives.

"I wonder how Song is doing over there."

Li De was still very worried about Song Zhaomei's safety, as he heard she'd been subjected to many inhumane experiments under Miles's control.

His worries were not unfounded; Song Zhaomei indeed found herself in a predicament, and not just her, but also the players who tried to hack into the control network via captured Hellhounds were lost within this dream program woven by Zeta Technology.