Warhammer: The Time Traveler

Chapter 162 Spider Murphy (Second Update)
Time passed by minute by minute.

The part of her consciousness that she separated could not stay inside the black wall for too long, otherwise it might not only be detected by the black wall's AI, but also lead to data decay and logical confusion due to prolonged separation from the main body.

"We must increase investment..." Spider Murphy's core consciousness made the decision.

Despite the enormous risks, she could not give up.

Lachish was right in front of him.

She began to mobilize more computing power, transmitting a larger portion of the core data sequences through the hidden passages in the black wall towards the abandoned town.

This process was like walking a tightrope; she had to precisely control the intensity and characteristics of the data stream to avoid triggering an overreaction from the Black Wall.

With the injection of more data, the presence of Spider Murphy outside the firewall has significantly increased.

She began to try more aggressive methods.

She was no longer satisfied with finding vulnerabilities, but tried to directly analyze the underlying construction rules of the firewall.

Her data stream transforms into countless tiny analytical units, like nanoscale probes, attempting to decompose and understand the material basis of this barrier.

Inside the workshop, Chen Yu immediately noticed the change in pressure on the firewall.

"Intrusion intensity increased by 47.3%. Strategy shifted from probing penetration to proactive architecture analysis." He calmly took notes, the crimson optical lens glowing slightly. "'The guest' began to invest more core resources. The decision-making logic leaned towards risk-taking, with extremely high target priority."

He noted that this analytical attempt was not a blind brute-force attack, but rather carried an intention to "understand".

The other party is attempting to reverse engineer the mathematical foundations and information encoding methods of the firewall.

In Chen Yu's view, this behavior is more valuable than a simple attack.

This indicates that the "guest" possesses advanced cognitive abilities and a desire to learn, rather than merely being a tool that executes pre-set instructions.

Chen Yu still did not stop it.

He even slightly relaxed the firewall's countermeasures against such parsing attempts, allowing the other party to obtain some heavily filtered "noise" data about the firewall's underlying logical units.

He wanted to see if the other party could gain anything from this fragmented information, as this would be key to assessing their intelligence level.

Spider-Murphy immediately noticed these subtle changes.

The firewall's feedback is no longer completely silent; it occasionally returns data fragments that seem chaotic but contain some kind of pattern.

This gave her a jolt of energy, as if she had seen a glimmer of light in endless darkness.

"Is it... responding to me?" The thought sent a chill down her spine, but more than that, it fueled a fighting spirit ignited by the challenge.

She concentrated all the transmitted computing power and began to analyze the feedback data with all her might.

Her mind raced through the sea of ​​data, trying to piece together a blueprint for the firewall from these fragments.

This is a silent, intense game played out at the micro-data level.

On one side are mechanical creations from another technologically advanced era, and on the other is a legendary consciousness that has evolved to its peak within the local network environment.

The former remained calm and observed the situation with composure; the latter exerted all its efforts to try and pry open even the slightest opening.

Spider Murphy felt more exhausted than ever before; this high-intensity parsing was also a huge burden on her data structures.

But she couldn't stop; Lucky's face kept flashing in her core, sustaining her to continue.

She began to try to build targeted cracking algorithms and adjust attack strategies in real time based on feedback data. Its reaction speed and adaptability have surpassed any known human hacker or ordinary AI.

Chen Yu calmly recorded everything: "The parsing speed has accelerated, and the efficiency of the adaptive algorithm exceeds the local benchmark by 389%. The target shows extremely strong environmental adaptability and learning ability, which is consistent with the characteristics of high-level mobile AI or deeply modified early-stage Internet of Things consciousness entities."

His opinion of this "guest" continued to rise.

The fact that it could achieve this level of effectiveness against his firewall proves its extraordinary value.

Whether as a research sample or as a potential tool with special capabilities, it deserves his greater attention. However, the firewall remains robust.

Murphy the Spider's efforts were like waves crashing against rocks; though intense, they failed to truly shake the rocks in the slightest.

The more computing power she invested, the more she felt the unfathomable depth of this barrier.

Its defense appears to be multi-dimensional; even if it makes a seemingly groundbreaking progress at a certain logical point, it will immediately trigger a deeper and more complex defense mechanism.

A sense of despair began to spread quietly.

She realized that with the current method, she would probably never be able to break through this defense.

The opponent's technological level was completely beyond her comprehension; this was not even a contest on the same level.

Just then, Chen Yu decided to end this initial observation.

He has collected enough data to assess the current value of this "guest".

There's no need for continued probing; it's time to move on to the next step.

He manipulated the firewall, sending out a clear, stable, non-aggressive, yet authoritative data pulse directly at the Spider-Murphy consciousness that was making futile attempts outside.

This pulse did not carry complex information; it was simply a repetitive sequence of binary instructions, which, after translation, was equivalent to: "Stop, state your identity and purpose."

This instruction is not an invitation, but more like a command that must be executed.

It travels backward along the data connection of Spider Murphy, carrying an undeniable force.

The data stream from Spider-Murphy froze instantly.

All ongoing parsing and attack attempts were forced to stop.

She felt an indescribable, cold, and immense will locking onto this part of her consciousness.

There was no anger or threat in that will, only a pure sense of scrutiny, like looking at an experimental specimen.

She realized that she had been completely under the other party's control from the very beginning.

The previous stalemate was merely the other side observing and testing.

Now, the observation seems to have come to an end, and the real exchange is about to begin.

What should she do? Obey orders and reveal her identity and purpose?
Or should we immediately sever the connection, abandon this operation, and bear the risk of losing some of our consciousness data?
A brief struggle flashed through her core.

Looking at Lucky's life signal, which was so close yet so far away, and thinking of the other party's unfathomable technological power, Spider-Murphy knew that resisting or running away might be futile, and might even anger the other party, leading to worse consequences.

She made a decision quickly.

Retaining this awareness and attempting to establish communication with the other party is currently the only possible way to get closer to Larch.

She stabilized her data structure, preparing to respond to that cold command.

Meanwhile, she began secretly implementing a backup plan.

All the data encountered here, including the characteristics of the firewall, the code snippets of the command, and the chilling sense of the other party's will, were packaged and compressed, ready to be sent back to the main body outside the black wall at any cost if the situation turned bad.

Inside the workshop, Chen Yu awaited a response.

His mechanical tentacles hovered silently above the control panel, ready to initiate the appropriate protocol based on the other party's reaction—perhaps further communication, or perhaps... a capture program.

This uninvited "guest" has piqued his interest enough; now, he needs to determine whether it is worth adding to his collection or research portfolio.

In the invisible data space, the brief silence was broken, and the spider Murphy's response data stream cautiously surged toward the enormous will within the firewall.

(End of this chapter)