"If possible, can you add EMP defense to the equipment design?"

In the cyber world, EMP weapons are no longer just a sci-fi concept. They don't even need a nuclear explosion to be mass-produced. Recently, players in Big Sur suffered from Huang Ban's EMP missiles, with a large number of electronic devices and cyberware control chips being destroyed.

If it weren't for the fact that the players' cyberware wasn't very advanced at the time, the losses would have been even greater.

"Thank you for your suggestion. We will try to meet your needs in future designs."

Although some of the work is not Anne's responsibility, out of respect, she still recorded the other's opinions. Directly interfacing with frontline personnel is always the fastest way to improve design.

Rather than a designer just making decisions and sending a bunch of useless equipment to logistics and the frontline, never learning from past mistakes.

"By the way, where's the street kid?"

Wildman was a bit curious. Although most players were mocking the street kid for having a cyber romance, saying he was an introverted homebody easily manipulated by the officials, who would be overwhelmed by the intimacy system once the official server opens.

But who knows how many of them are just sour grapes because they can't have it themselves.

"Agent Mr. is performing a mission in cyberspace..."

Yoshida Saki felt a bit embarrassed. To prevent the other from worrying, she hadn't even told him she participated in the experiment.

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The quest tasks on the old net continued to be completed systematically by players.

Besides the instances initially marked by Lucy, players wandering the old net gradually uncovered new data fortresses from the old era.

Although not all data found in these fortresses is useful, the AI occupying them inherently has considerable value. As more rogue AIs, malicious programs, network viruses, and out-of-control Demonic Puppets are captured by players, their power on the old net even exceeded that of Horizon Corporation in reality, snowballing rapidly.

For example, the Sky Net of Super Earth, the Gungnir of Valhalla, Atom from Steamed Bun Studio, the Guardians of the Giant, and so on.

These were once boss-level AIs entrenched in data fortresses, with immense quantities of data, the strongest and most expensive batch.

Meanwhile, low-level AI white models are in a state of oversupply.

Only individual players would buy these AIs to try raising them, like the idol group of Youzi Chef, which are not particularly powerful AIs.

The number of these small-scale programs on the old net is at least tens of millions to hundreds of millions, possibly even billions...

[Adamson Museum of History, Culture, and Art] is the latest data fortress discovered by the players.

However, this isn't a data fortress with secret data. Just like its name, it's merely a museum. There's no boss, not even many malicious programs.

But it records a lot of information from the old net era before the network collapse, a paradise for those who enjoy setting and lore.

And the museum in cyberspace isn't dull with dry text or photos. It's originally an open exhibition space with unique ways to display exhibits; otherwise, how would they sell tickets?

No need for static programs, the data flow here constructs the shape of a large museum under program control and constraints.

Inside the museum, the exhibition areas are divided into different sections, naturally not displaying any authentic artifacts.

Players entered the museum from the historical animal section, where a lot of books and photos were floating around.

The street kid, being a mercenary, naturally wanted to explore, and immediately flew toward the largest book in the center of the section.

Unexpectedly, although these books are individual programs, they have no aggressiveness, making this place surprisingly peaceful in the perilous old net.

The book in front of the street kid seemed to sense an interested visitor and floated easily in front of him.

[Birds of the United States]

[Author: James Audubon]

[Program Creator: Albert Quick]

Driven by curiosity, the street kid reached out and opened the book, and the environment around the players suddenly changed.

Green grass spread at their feet, towering trees sprang up, beautiful flowers bloomed, and they were wrapped in dense jungle in the blink of an eye, but the signal still indicated they were inside the museum.

The street kid reassured, "Don't panic; it's just an environment display program, nothing dangerous."

madao: "Like Mewtwo?"

The street kid: "Sort of, but not as good as Mewtwo; only sound and visuals."

Relaxed, the players began to enjoy the surrounding environment.

Then a man with long black hair walked past the players, using a stick to gently part the bushes, seemingly afraid of disturbing something.

Behind the bush were several small birds pecking at berries.

"These are Lesser Prairie-Chickens."

Like a tour guide, the man began introducing these spirits hidden in the bushes to the players.

"They are usually 40-45 cm long and weigh around 750g. See the red air sacs on the throat? That's the males' marker..." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

madao couldn't help but marvel, "Is this an author-themed holographic documentary? That's amazing..."

The street kid shrugged, he wasn't interested in birds.

As a child, he mostly watched nature shows or snakes with Austin.

"But it doesn't seem valuable."

"No." madao shook his head.

"These things have more cultural value than finding a few AIs. Birds of the United States is one of the top avian works in the world, recording numerous extinct bird species, and if this program can fully restore those birds' biological habits, appearances, and sounds, it would sell for a fortune outside."

"But let's check out the others first, I'm sure we can find something big here."