Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 357 Spirit Realm
Inside the hovercraft, the screen showed images of the area near the Night City Club.

【Communication functions in the target area have been basically restored.】

Ambani listened to the group's armed dispatch information coming from his brain machine and looked at the [Feathered Envoy].

"Since they have already put up an armed resistance, just ask [Li Lou] to intervene and control the target."

The [Feathered Envoy] nodded and began to connect with [Li Lou's] [personality].

Although he was somewhat surprised that the target of the mission had discovered clues of the investigation in advance, Singapore and Malaysia Port was, after all, an autonomous corporate city-state with very powerful corporate armed forces. With the help of the Brahma Group, it would not be difficult for the Security Bureau to capture these two level three warriors.

Once Li Lou controls the target, all the data carried by the two people will be read by Li Lou. By then, it will be easy to find out whether the mastermind behind the scenes is the Brahma Group or someone else, just as Ambani said.

But soon, the [Feather Robe User], with his eyes flashing red, shook his head.

[The target is not at the mission location, and the owner of this club has also disappeared]

"how is this possible?"

Ambani's confident expression suddenly froze. He knew that the [Feathered Envoy] would not lie, but he could not accept the fact that one careless move could lead to a complete loss.

"The riot control forces will rush in immediately, lift the level 3 fire restriction, and control all suspicious targets!"

In the video, the Brahma weapons equipped with anti-electromagnetic interference modules blasted open the heavy metal plates outside the Night City Club. The doors and windows on each floor and the ceiling on the top floor were all destroyed by the hot melt guns. Tall and agile figures like tigers and leopards rushed into the dim dance hall and began to search for the mission target.

"Confirmed to be safe, but there is no mission target that matches the facial data."

A mechanic who looked like an officer connected to the communication frequency of the floating command vehicle and reported to Ambani in a low voice.

"impossible!"

Ambani opened the car door, raised his voice, and jumped down from the top floor lobby of the club.

[Feathered Envoy] glanced at the figure digging three feet into the ground on the screen. He remained silent, with only his eyes flashing red light.

[The culprit, pretentious]
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blah blah~
There was a constant sound of footsteps, crashes, and the crackling of flashing neon signs.

Chu Qing held Yangzi in his arms and Qin Huai on his back, and they walked briskly under the big black umbrella, dodging armed drones cruising at low altitudes from time to time, and moved away from this troubled place at a very fast speed.

The armed forces mobilized by the Brahma Group and the Security Bureau were like a tide, almost filling up the narrow Guiliu Street, but Chu Qing was able to stroll leisurely in the tiny gap as if he was in an empty space.

He kept turning between buildings and alleys, and soon passed a low-rise apartment building and turned into a dark alley. In front of him was the entrance to an underground shopping mall, and the dilapidated fire-fighting facilities were still dripping with rusty water.

The Coral Tower where Shao Siming was located had been blocked and controlled by the Security Bureau. Qin Huai was not interested in risking exposure by trying to lurk and meet up under other people's noses, so he simply asked Yangzi for a safe house elsewhere for temporary transit.

Chu Qing turned into the underground passage, which was far away from the security bureau's search range and no longer had to worry about being exposed.

Qin Huai put away the [Qiqi Umbrella] and jumped down from behind Chu Qing. The [Bai Ze] external brain, which had recovered from the electromagnetic pulse, also helped adjust Yangzi's brain-computer and woke her up from self-protection.

"Where to go next?"

"The underground beehive. Shao Siming is waiting for us there."

Yangzi simply twitched twice and then returned to normal. When she heard Qin Huai's question, she opened the elevator door in front of her and motioned for the two to follow.

"Is this a beehive? It's really dirty."

After traveling through the underground world for more than ten minutes, what appeared in front of Qin Huai was a connected building consisting of hundreds of hexagonal cells with a volume of eight cubic meters.

The pool next to it was almost dry, and the accumulated water reflected the neon lights like waste electrolyte, with some iron racks and platforms scattered around.

All kinds of black and blue garbage bags were scattered around, blocking the doors and windows tightly, almost as high as the roof. Cockroaches in the garbage pile climbed up the walls, and the gaps between the concrete and tiles were filled with the brown-yellow color of lime.

Several marginalized people leaned against the cold and hard door frame, occasionally taking out disposable chips from their pockets and inserting them into their data interfaces, with a dazed and intoxicated look on their faces.

"Come with me, she's on the top floor."

The three of them followed the iron frame to the row of beehives on the top floor. After swiping open the door, they saw a 64-cubic-meter cage with four white walls and no furniture.

Shao Siming, dressed in purple, sat cross-legged in the middle of the room, with three other cushions beside him.

"I heard from Yoko that you are being targeted by the Security Bureau?"

"It's just a small matter. They won't have time to bother with us later."

Qin Huai didn't reveal too much. He chose a cushion on the west side and sat down, then applied to join Shao Siming's communication frequency band.

Chu Qing and Qin Huai sat opposite each other, leaving the empty seat on the north for Yang Zi.

"Shall we start trying to locate it now?"

After Shao Siming approved the connection requests from the three people, he started communicating directly using his brain-computer interface in the frequency band.

"Yes, but before that, we have to divert the attention of the Brahma Group that is targeting us to other places."

After Qin Huai passed on the overview of what had happened during this period to Shao Siming, he began to use the Yin-Yang School's database to understand the basic situation of the Brahma Group.

The business scope of the Brahma Group is extremely wide, and its three largest pillar industries are: ascension business, prosthetic body sales and incense output.

The ascension business is mainly realized through the [Lotus Pure Land], providing ordinary believers with incomplete temporary ascension.

[Lotus Pure Land] is a super-large spiritual space. The mainframe is usually stacked into a pagoda, with a very large volume and extremely terrifying operating power. Compared with the dark web space of Baishijing, which is only the size of a mountain, the difference between the two is huge, whether in terms of the sophistication of the construction or the stability of the data.

Even the Taoist [Dongtian Paradise] has a considerable gap in functional completeness and comfort compared with the Brahma Group's [Lotus Pure Land].

The way this business is conducted makes Qin Huai feel a chill down his spine. To put it simply, believers can temporarily upload their consciousness to the [Lotus Pure Land] built by the Brahma Group by offering their thought data and enjoy supreme bliss.

According to the value of your thought data, you can freely choose to live in any of the thirty-three heavens. Among them, the highest level of the four heavens of the formless realm, believers can do anything in it, what they think is what they think, and what they think is what they get.

Similarly, the time believers enjoy bliss in the Lotus Pure Land is also linked to the value of the thought data they offer.

If you are unable to continuously provide valuable thought data, they will kick you out of the [Lotus Pure Land] on the pretext of experiencing tribulation, and return to reality to fend for yourself.

The most common method they used was to make the believers unknowingly share the task of the Sand Counters. Once they were exposed to polluted data for a long time, these worthless believers would naturally no longer be able to stay in the spiritual realm.

Prosthetic sales, as the name suggests, is to learn from other companies' various prosthetic designs, replace related materials to develop self-developed products to gain profits. Needless to say, incense is the main business of the Brahma Group. After the believers enjoy the bliss in the [Lotus Pure Land] and then return to the boring and miserable reality, their faith will only become more devout.

As the direct lineage of the Four-Faced Buddha, the Brahma Group has three pillars that are advancing in unison. Not only does it have no shortcomings, but it also has a great influence in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong by virtue of its advantages in resource linkage in multiple fields.

There is a lot of information in the Yin-Yang School's database about how to fight against Buddhist monks. To sum it up, it is to pay attention to the protection of [position] and not to provoke the guardian gods and so on.

Qin Huai touched his chin, and a brilliant idea came to his mind.

"Ms. Shao Siming, do you know where the Lotus Pure Land controlled by the Brahma Group is?"

"I know. What do you want to do?"

Shao Siming turned his head and spoke with a somewhat cautious tone.

"Don't worry, this is not an act of attack. We just want to give Brahma a big gift to facilitate our subsequent actions."

"Okay, who made me decide to board this pirate ship of yours? Let's go into the spiritual realm."

Seeing that Qin Huai was unwilling to reveal more, Shao Siming stopped asking and closed his eyes.

Suddenly, Qin Huai's pair of lively eyes, which had been disguised as brown, quickly turned back to their original blazing golden color.

At the same time, Chu Qing's eyes, like the vast green mountains, suddenly emitted a bright divine light.

[Spiritual Realm Connection in Progress]

The deep and mighty sound echoed in Qin Huai's ears, followed by an indescribable expansion of nerves.
It was very similar to the feeling of entering the dark web, but clearer. The surrounding scene was rapidly pixelated, and the figures of the people around me strangely became transparent and dissipated, turning into a piece of black and white noise that gradually faded away.

Suddenly, Qin Huai's feeling changed completely. In front of him was an endless, directionless, twisted and dark space. Not only did it have no specific material form, it was also filled with light and mist, like a wormhole in the universe.

Suddenly, chessboard-like grid lines spread out under him, and countless buildings of different shapes, large and small, appeared on both sides of his body, placed on the road drawn by the grid lines.

These data buildings occasionally have protective measures such as ice torches, arrow towers, and sky domes, which together with endless shadow illusions form an endless matrix space.

"This is what the spiritual realm really looks like. If you didn't have [Heavenly Questions Song] and [Status], you wouldn't be able to see the inner world beneath the shiny surface of the cybernetic network."

Yangzi's figure emerged, followed by Chu Qing and Shao Siming.

"Each building represents the database of a certain device in the world. It may be the [Consciousness Anchor] of an ordinary person, the [Personality] of a practitioner, or the [Godhood] of a certain god or Buddha."

Shao Siming smiled slightly, and in a flash she was no longer wearing the purple dress, but a long windbreaker and sunglasses like those in The Matrix.

"In the spiritual world, we can use hacking techniques to invade them. Ordinary people and practitioners can do it. We can steal thought data, make mischief, explore company secrets, and disrupt religious activities. This is no different from the dark web."

"But we cannot be discovered by Li Lou. He has at least one level of security protection for each data building. Every time we intrude, it will trigger Li Lou's ICE search."

"Moreover, when intruding, data ripples will be triggered, exposing your position, which can easily attract those [Sand Counters] and demons. There are believers of gods and Buddhas everywhere here, and they will look for opportunities to capture valuable thought data. Therefore, it is very troublesome to take action in the spiritual realm. If you don't have a clear goal, it's best not to move."

Shao Siming was sharing his experience and knowledge with Qin Huai, a novice hacker, while outputting huge amounts of information and data.

The surrounding spiritual realm changed again, becoming like a boundless large circuit board, and on the circuit board there was an entire city.

Whether it is a wide street or a narrow alley, every road is filled with data buildings of different styles, crowded high-rise buildings, and various neon signs flashing dazzlingly.

"The Lotus Pure Land of the Brahma Group is not far from here, how about a competition?"

Yoko whistled, straddling a retro-styled grey motorcycle, with half of her fingers exposed and wearing big sunglasses, like a biker gang.

"Come on."

Qin Huai snapped his fingers, and a fiery red motorcycle with a ferocious appearance and cool color appeared beside him.

"There is no physical distance in the spiritual realm. As long as you have an address, you can get there. The time it takes actually depends on the level of your status and the proficiency of your hacker skills."

Shao Siming spoke calmly and also rode on a dark, elegant, high-tech motorcycle.

Soon, the navigation track was highlighted in the communication frequency band of the four people. Chu Qing twisted the accelerator, and the exaggerated angle of the dark blue motorcycle under his crotch rushed out first.

The dazzling red motorcycle was speeding along the bizarre circuit board streets like a ghost of time, accompanied by the roar of its engines. Four motorcycles of different colors bypassed the oncoming data buildings and quickly approached the pagoda with Buddhist chants in the distance.

They were surrounded by constantly changing light and shadow, and various spiritual illusions appeared and disappeared alternately. Behind the car were the afterimages of dazzling and psychedelic light bands in blue, red, black and gray.

The Lotus Pure Land of the Brahma Group is a Tang-style stone pagoda that incorporates many Hindu styles.

The base of the pagoda is square and covers a large area. The walls are light gold in color and surrounded by stone railings. The upper and lower sections of the railings are decorated with pearls, clouds and other decorations.

There are three gradually receding platforms on the base of the tower, with four levels of staircases and crouching lion-shaped balusters, forming a nine-story tower body. Each floor has column capitals, brackets, gabled arches, climbing beams, balustrades, and Shu columns. The eaves are upturned and the top is like a spire.

The Four-Faced Buddha sits high above the Sumeru Pagoda, with a canopy of Dharma wheels below him and a cross-shaped Buddha flame on his back. The sun and the moon are reflected on his sides, not daring to compete with him for brilliance.

On the circuit board road in the distance, four small black dots with dazzling lights and shadows suddenly rushed forward and pressed the brakes almost at the same time.

stab~
The phantom sound of tires rubbing against the ground was heard. Qin Huai looked at the pagoda not far away, waved his hand and put away the motorcycle under his crotch.

"It's a draw this time. We'll compete again when we have time."

Qin Huai looked at the four-faced Buddha towering in the clouds, then turned to look at Shao Siming: "How do we get in?"

At this time, Shao Siming and Yangzi were both covered with a layer of hidden light, and their facial features were blurred, as if they were wearing a layer of wrap-around holographic mask.

There is a white yang fish on Yangzi's face, and a black yin fish on Shao Siming's face.

Chu Qing followed suit, and without him making any movements, a golden horn grew on his forehead, and his facial features were mostly covered with gold powder.

"Knock on the door. You're here to deliver something. Just go in openly."

Yoko said seriously.

"Come on, if you can get in openly, why bother disguising yourself like this?"

Qin Huai rolled his eyes, and two small bright silver horns grew on his forehead, and his facial features were also covered with silver powder.

(End of this chapter)