Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 31: The Mountain God of Fengyu (Part 1)
Su Ge needs to prevent Shen Ke from leaking secrets and also find out Shen Ke's purpose in approaching him.

However, Shen Ke was already under the tight control of the Security Bureau. If there was any way to break through, he could only think of the possible backup of Shen Ke.

His words had barely left his mouth when a commotion erupted in the darkness.

Many figures approached from behind the wrecked car body.

Su Ge's heart was in his throat, but he also realized that he hadn't come to the wrong place—if Shen Ke had nothing to do with this place, these people wouldn't have shown hostility so quickly.

While adjusting his breathing, he hypnotized himself—that he was Yama, the demon king, who had come to demand an explanation.

He had mentally prepared himself for a long time before coming, but when the moment actually arrived, he couldn't help but feel nervous. Suddenly, he remembered hearing that when giving a speech, you should see the audience as cabbages. If he were wearing the Vision System, he could indeed see the cyborgs in front of him as cabbages, but unfortunately, he had deliberately left all electronic devices behind except for the Gu Diao and the cockroach robot.

He tried to imagine a group of cabbages hiding in the darkness, watching them menacingly. Before the image could even form in his mind, his unbridled thoughts suddenly eased the tension.

……

Gui Jin Yang couldn't see through Su Ge's true intentions and chuckled, "Then you've come to the wrong place, friend. If you want something like this, you can only go to her yourself."

“You don’t need to tell me what to do,” Su Ge said. “If you don’t know, just let Cheng Yang Gong come out.”

Su Ge couldn't confirm the relationship between Cheng Yang Gong and Shen Ke, but the divination Cheng Yang Gong performed after leaving the deep-sea room that night was quite intriguing.

[With sincerity, light, success, and perseverance, it is auspicious to cross great rivers.]

He looked up the interpretation of this hexagram. "You Fu" means "capture a prisoner," "Guang Heng" and "Zhen Ji" indicate that this is an auspicious omen, and "Li She Da Chuan" can be abstractly understood as "there are dangers ahead, but you can turn misfortune into good fortune."

Yang Guan's explanation of the Ksitigarbha divination made him realize that divination in this era was no longer an ethereal metaphysics; those powerful digital beings seemed to have transformed into the all-knowing Laplace's demon in the virtual universe.

Cheng Yanggong was not a high-level digital life form, but a failed "ascended one." However, his divination was very accurate; that very night, Shen Ke was arrested by the Security Bureau and became a prisoner.

Even though this era was dominated by so-called gods and Buddhas, Su Ge did not believe in ethereal divination. Instead of being in awe of Cheng Yang Gong's mysterious prophecies, he thought that this guy might be a breakthrough.

Su Ge's tough stance made Gui Jin Yang even more wary. He shook his head and said, "No one will tell others about their backups. It's no use asking Cheng Yang Gong."

"If Chengyang Gong is useless, then let's make Chengyin Gong, or some other kind of Gong."

Su Ge's gaze swept over Ghost Golden Sheep and his henchmen, surveying the entire underground space. The electronic voice beneath the silver mask echoed in the dim light.

Someone will always know.

Ghost Golden Sheep squinted his eyes.

A faint clicking sound came from the darkness, and his henchmen and those watching from a distance picked up their weapons.

None of the weapons they carried were high-end products bound to consciousness anchors; almost all of them came from illegal printing factories. Most of these weapons were melee weapons, partly due to regulations, but also because, to some extent, they were like hunters of the old era, prioritizing the preservation of the prey's hide over the killing of the prey. With the aid of cybernetic implants, the killing points and areas of melee weapons were highly controllable.

These figures, wielding knives and clubs, appeared among the wreckage of the old vehicles, resembling wronged souls from an ancient battlefield.

Socrates began to wonder if his relentless pursuit of his goal had gone too far.

At this moment, Gui Jinyang raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to step back and prevent the conflict from escalating further. He smiled and said, "Isn't this friend being a bit unreasonable? If there's anything, we can sit down and talk. There's no need to be so aggressive."

As he spoke, a figure hidden in optical camouflage approached Suger from behind, just like the gray-haired man who had ambushed him in the Six Desires Heaven.

Unlike before, the Gu Diao's sensors now detect changes in odor molecules and subtle sounds.

The infiltrator approached within three meters of Suger, then suddenly quickened his pace. He grabbed at the back of Suger's neck, where the fiber optic nerve bundles between the brain and spine are usually concentrated. If his palm touched it, a targeted electromagnetic pulse would paralyze the enemy.

The grab missed its target. The Gu Diao dodged to the side, grabbed the intruder's wrist, and slammed him down. The prosthetic body collided with the cement, sending shards of stone flying!

The intruder yelled "Ah!" but before he could get up, Su Ge stepped on the back of his neck and immediately dared not move again.

[1.7 seconds] Suger silently calculated the time.

Two more modders pounced from the side and rear, wielding pry knives. These alloy knives were straight in shape and had a special structure. The toughest material was used to make the tip and blade. They were not for chopping, but for prying and stabbing. The surface had a matte black finish, making them almost invisible in the darkness.

Suger's adrenaline surged, and with his attention highly focused, he discovered that their movements were much slower than those of Qiu Lianglongzhi's apprentices.

He suddenly realized that these people were just marginalized individuals abandoned by the times, like himself, and not some well-trained gangsters.

He loosened his grip on his foot and unleashed a fierce spinning back kick, striking the attacker's wrist from his left rear. The black alloy blade flew high into the air, with only the unpolished, sharpened edge reflecting the dim lights of the dome, flashing a sliver of light.

The attacker, who had lost his knife, was momentarily at a loss.

Suger pulled back a step without any extra movement, dodging the other man's slash while catching the falling knife and blocking the second thrust. The two knives were pressed tightly together, and he twisted his wrist twice, causing the other man's knife to slip out of his control!
With a clang, it flew sideways, embedding itself, hilt and all, into the cracked seat of a nearby abandoned vehicle. The tip of the blade protruded from the other side, grazing the cheek of a modified human aiming a gun.

[5.2 seconds]

Socrates counted the time, only managing to pull up his hood slightly before a gust of wind rushed towards him, and the shadow of the metal baseball bat was already right in front of him!
Ghost Golden Sheep's prosthetic body was clearly a level above other modifiers. Gu Diao instantly calculated several countermeasures. Su Ge realized that although raising his hands to strike the blow would block the blow, the blade would be bent.

He dodged to the side, but the metal baseball bat suddenly disintegrated, revealing its true form like a coiled silver dragon, instantly transforming into a long whip that lashed out. The electrodes at the tip of the whip emitted pink electrical halos and hissed like snakes.

Judging from speed and strength alone, Gui Jin Yang is far inferior to Qiu Liang Long Zhi, yet even Gu Diao failed to anticipate this move, considering it was military equipment from the last century, and perhaps such weapons did not exist back then.

The metal whip carried a powerful electric field visible to the naked eye. Even before it got close, the Gu Diao had already determined that the attack exceeded the electrostatic shielding threshold of the exoskeleton.

Suger didn't have time to retreat out of the whip's reach, nor did he dare gamble on the reliability of the insulated handle of the alloy knife in his hand. Without hesitation, he used his ability. Considering the possibility of causing death, he didn't hack into Ghost Golden Sheep's brain, but instead focused on Ghost Golden Sheep's right hand holding the whip.

Gui Jinyang's right hand stiffened. Gu Diao seized this moment, moved close to Gui Jinyang, and plunged the pry bar into the gap between his palms. With a sharp, drill-like turn, the whip flew out of his hand with a clang and a trail of sparks. Then, with another loud crack, the supersonic whip tip exploded in mid-air.

Before Gui Jinyang's right hand could recover from its stiffness, he was kicked in the abdomen and fell heavily to the ground!
Before he could get up, the pry bar was moved forward and pressed against the ram's head that was emitting a bluish light on his chest.

[5.2 seconds]

For the third time, Suger silently counted the time in his mind, then lowered his head and pressed Ghost Golden Sheep for answers:
"Now that we've sat down, let's talk. Where is Lord Chengyang?"

Gui Jin Yang braced himself on the ground with both hands, tilted his head back and breathed slightly, his electronic eyes following the blade to Su Ge.

Suge has activated the Gu Diao's highest level of stealth mode.

The energy modules that receive wireless power emit radio frequency currents, ionizing the air into cold plasma clouds that envelop themselves. Combined with the Gu Diao composite material layer, the electromagnetic waves scanned by the Ghost Golden Sheep are almost completely absorbed.

Ghost Golden Sheep seemed to see a miniature black hole, even darker than darkness itself, with only a faceless silver mask floating in the dimness beneath the hood.

Gui Jinyang's chest heaved, his heart trembling. The loss of control over his right hand just now made him realize that the opponent might be a powerful digital life form.

He was panting, suppressing his fear, but said defiantly, "You're pretty good at fighting, huh? But so what if you can fight?"

Sog frowned, noticing the gravel on the ground tremble slightly. A commotion came from behind him. He gripped the insulated handle of his pry bar and turned around to see a huge figure slowly emerging from the darkness.

It was a giant that, by sight alone, was almost ten meters tall.

Su Ge had seen projections of gods and Buddhas, and the ever-changing forms of demons and monsters in the electronic network, but this was the first time he had seen such a colossal creature in reality, as if it had crawled out of myths and legends.

"This is……"

"Fengyu Mountain God".

Ghost Golden Sheep stared intently at Su Ge, a cruel smile spreading across his face.

"You'll soon regret coming here."

(End of this chapter)