Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 162 Deep Dive Team
A strong feeling of weightlessness came.

Amidst the flickering spectrum that was enough to trigger photosensitive epilepsy, the surrounding scene changed wildly, as if falling from a high altitude and rushing to the bottom of the sea in an instant. The part floating on the sea that belonged to the Thousand Star City quickly collapsed and disappeared.

It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it seemed like only a moment.

When the bizarre scene finally stopped changing, everything was completely different.

Looking up, on the pale earth, pieces of broken walls and ruins stood indifferently, as if a giant of unimaginable size had clenched his fist and was smashing a modern city to pieces.

But anyone who is here will never regard it as a "urban ruin".

Because of the color.

It's not the dilapidated gray, nor the color of reinforced concrete. These broken walls and ruins all have a weird color that is extremely uncomfortable and almost challenges the limits of the human eye.

Just like the "uncanny valley effect", when the appearance and behavior of robots become more and more similar to humans, humans will have positive emotions towards them. However, when these similarities reach a certain level, this emotion will suddenly drop sharply, bringing great disgust and horror.

The colors of these ruins are very similar to reality and conform to the general aesthetic of mankind, but for some unknown reasons or differences, they still give people a strong sense of discomfort - it is simply another "uncanny valley effect."

Even normal people are likely to develop mental problems if they stay in such a place for too long, just like the "claustrophobia" caused by staying in a small and dark environment for a long time.

"——Confirmed, has dived to depth 3, but the exact landing location is unknown."

After speaking briefly in the communication channel, this company member affiliated with [Zero Degree Network] and also the captain of this deep-diving team raised his head and looked at the two figures in front of him.

Although they can use the "sharp needle" technology to make a brief breakthrough, directly chiseling a small area and sinking to a deeper depth, due to the firewall protection of Thousand Star City, they can only ensure the "specific depth" of the landing point, but not the "specific location" of the landing point.

——But at this moment, without the suppression of Thousand Star City, they no longer need to disguise themselves and can show their full appearance!

The exoskeleton power armors on the three of them were the "Bronze Riders" used for frontal assaults, while the last person's exoskeleton was the "Zhi Le Bird" used for specialized information warfare.

Equipped with "NY421" assault rifle, alloy dagger, artificial eye and enhanced heart and lung, various tactical equipment including electromagnetic grenades, temporary supercomputing enhancement components, and network module units.
This is a standard elite deep diving team.

Theoretically, they could already defeat the network protection project of a medium-sized enterprise. This was the confidence given to them by the cutting-edge technology of Zero Degree Network, the leader in the information field of the Enterprise Alliance.

If it weren't for the direct request from the woman who was sent from the headquarters because of the increasingly arrogant momentum of the Enlightened Ones and was listed in the high-net-worth talent training sequence, they even felt that only two people would be enough to complete this mission - "capture the guy who is suspected to be the remnant of the intelligent machine."

"Depth 3"

Song Shi suddenly felt like laughing.

So he laughed.

"Hey guys, I don't understand anything. I was dragged into this for no apparent reason."

He looked at the people on both sides. On one side was the deep dive team of Zero Degree Network, and on the other side was the man in beach shorts. At this moment, the latter's clothes were slowly dissolving.

"You can all see that I'm just a nobody. I don't want to cause trouble, and I don't want to hear any intelligence at all." Song Shi was still laughing: "If I say I'm leaving now and I keep my mouth shut, can you let me go?"

"They won't care about that."

The man in beach shorts suddenly spoke, his voice subtly low: "Can't you see? They will never let anyone get away! Use whatever means you have. Let's fight together, maybe there's still a chance of survival!"

The deep diving team in front turned a blind eye to what the two said. One of them threw out a few compressed capsules. The compressed files inside were decompressed at a speed of frames, and quickly spread out, turning into a cube barrier that was 20 meters long and 20 meters wide, enclosing the space.

——A temporary LAN is formed and the blockade is established.

This is also the power of virtual deep diving technology in this era.

Just like a normal person learning a foreign language, he needs to mark each word in the foreign language with the annotation of his native language, and learn and memorize them one by one. Even if he later reaches the level of proficiency, he still needs to go through the process of understanding "foreign language", "translation" and "native language" when he hears the conversation in this foreign language - compared with native speakers, this requires an extra transformation in the middle.

Today's virtual deep diving technology can transform abstract things such as data and code into concrete images, which is equivalent to skipping the process of "foreign language" and "translation", avoiding inefficient conversion, and directly entering the "mother tongue" stage!
Granted, this will still result in extremely uncomfortable scenes like this one, but the technology is still great.

Whether it is the equipment of this deep diving team or the cube barrier in front of them, they are all manifestations of this kind of concretization.

——Ah, ha.

The leader of the deep dive team loaded the rifle and pulled the trigger without hesitation!

They have blocked off this area. If someone destroys another person's substitute here, their consciousness will sink and their real body will turn into a vegetative person who has lost their cognitive ability.

【Zero Degree Network】Corporate principles: "Information" is wealth, "intelligence" is the foundation.

——Don’t let any insider escape!

And then, in the expression of surprise that had not yet fully emerged, a terrifyingly surging wave of flames suddenly spread out from the reflection of the artificial eye!
"Information correction! Information correction! Second ring psychic! Suspected to be on the Great Source Path!"

The captain's right arm clicked, and a thick protective shield unfolded. He suddenly nailed it in front of him, completely covering his entire body, and shouted loudly: "Correct the combat plan! The first combat objective has been shifted, and the tactical objective is: annihilation!"

When they saw the passerby affected by the incident forcibly falling into Depth 3 but not showing much discomfort at the first moment, they concluded that he was a "psychic", but they did not expect it to be the second ring.

——Moreover, a psychic flame of this intensity, at the peak of the second ring? !
Looking at the analysis provided by the database and the tactical terminal, the captain put up a protective shield and at the same time the vector nozzle on his back sprayed out explosively. It was obvious that he had made a judgment and accelerated his charge towards the enemy.

But the next moment, his expression suddenly changed.

With the continuous impact of flames, this protective shield, which could theoretically withstand attacks from large-caliber machine guns for a period of time, was actually melting at a speed visible to the naked eye - no, not just melting, but while melting, a part of it was quickly turning into ashes.

"No! The winning rate shown on the terminal is too low! Retreat!"

"Notify the higher-ups to activate the 'anchor' and pull us up!"

“Retreat—”

"——You can kill people if you want to, and leave if you want to?"

Dodging the rain of bullets, Song Shi sneered.

Instead of pulling out the heavy sword, he summoned a "fire" and then extinguished it.

The next moment, the barrier space, which was almost "rendered" and could be ignited by even a spark, was instantly transformed into a sea of ​​fire that was almost slurry in the burst of "spark".

If they were in an open area, they still had no chance of winning, but with the high mobility of the powered exoskeleton and their equipment, they could at least fight for a while. However, the barriers set up in advance blocked the enemy and also blocked their combat space.

When Song Shi directly used a "fire seed" and "rendering", the space was like purgatory at this moment. The constantly compressing and surging flames completely engulfed the four people, and wisps of dark ashes rose up.

Half a minute later, following the will of the ruler, the sea of ​​fire that flooded the space slowly parted, leaving only the captain who was still holding on, and three piles of black ashes mixed with a few lumps.

When he saw the three piles of ashes, Song Shi seemed to be aware of something and glanced at the man in beach shorts - the latter was also surrounded by flames, and although he was not burned, he was completely trapped in the spot.

But soon, he withdrew his gaze and came to the captain who was in a very disheveled state, covered with scars, and half-kneeling.

Song Shi looked down at the other person.

"I asked, and I answered."

(End of this chapter)