Warhammer: The Time Traveler

Chapter 212 Suppressing with a Flip (Fifteenth Update)

Otto Cunningham's attacks were like a never-ending tide, surging and relentless.

At the level of perception in cyberspace, the data torrent, driven by pure malice and destructive intent, continues to rise beyond the laws of conventional physics, ultimately unleashing a massive data tsunami.

The tsunami, wave after wave, relentlessly assaulted the seemingly thin but actually impenetrable firewall surrounding the abandoned town.

"boom--!"

A silent roar reverberated through the data dimension.

Murphy could "see" the chaotic and violent crimson data stream that represented the attack, like an endless wave crashing against the absolutely smooth, infinitely extending transparent barrier.

Each wave of impact created violent energy ripples on the barrier's surface, but none of them could leave any substantial damage to the barrier.

Behind the barriers, the abandoned town's data space remained eerily stable, as if the storms outside were nothing more than insignificant background noise.

This absolute defense sent a chill down the spine of Murphy, the spider watching from the sidelines.

She had personally tried to break through this barrier and knew it to be unfathomable, but now, witnessing Ultraman's all-out effort in vain from an outsider's perspective, she felt more directly just how terrifying the technology Chen Yu possessed was.

This can no longer be described as "solid," but is almost a negation at the level of rules—a negation of all unauthorized intrusion.

Beside her, Lucy, Sasha, and Qiwei, formed from projections of her consciousness, had almost lost their ability to think.

Their faces were pale, and their virtual avatars appeared somewhat scattered and unstable.

They had experienced cyber battles, witnessed the dangers of the company's ICE, and even touched the edge of the black wall, but had they ever seen such a large-scale and violent data collision?

The information content and destructive energy contained in each impact far exceeded their understanding of "hacking attacks." It was more like a natural disaster, a level of power that they could not even fathom.

Faced with such immense power, their once-proud skills are as insignificant as dust.

Ultraman seemed to realize that conventional methods were ineffective.

The ferocious attack abruptly ceased, and the data space fell into a brief, suffocating silence, like the calm before a storm.

Just as Ultraman's relentless offensive was faltering, a signal, utterly different from her icy will, pierced through the black wall and entered the battlefield. This signal carried a certain rigid sense of order, as if following some predetermined code of conduct.

The data stream converged outside the firewall, quickly forming an image that left Lucy and the others speechless—a sleek, silver starship with a disc-shaped main body and twin engine bays, its bow clearly marked with the number "NCC-1701".

This is the famous "Federal Starship Dauntless" from the classic science fiction series "Star Trek".

Murphy, a spider familiar with the old web era, immediately recognized the origin of this wandering AI. Its core consciousness was formed in the early web era, and due to its long-term contact with Star Trek series data, it chose this starship as the carrier of its own image.

In the early days of the internet, it used this image to "enforce the law" in cyberspace, cracking down on what it considered to be illegal online activities, acting as a "vigilante" of the data space.

With the collapse of the initial network, it gradually lost its enthusiasm for chivalry and retreated into its own data territory, only occasionally maintaining contact with a few "old friends." This time, it came to help at the invitation of Otto.

"High-threat unknown defense system detected. Logic: Break through it." A voice with a synthesized electronic tone, yet attempting to mimic the tone of a human captain, rang out at the data level, belonging to the "Dauntless" AI.

Without any further exchange, the massive data starship's disc-shaped main body emitted a chilling glow of energy, like the prelude to a volley of particle cannons in a science fiction movie. The next moment, a concentrated, highly ordered torrent of destructive energy, mixed with Ultra's even more concentrated, spiked attack, slammed into the same point on the firewall!

This impact is far greater than before.

The two forces, so different yet equally powerful, combined to cause even more violent ripples to appear on the transparent barrier, and even faintly heard a low hum, as if the structure was under pressure.

Murphy's heart leaped into his throat, and Lucy and the other two instinctively retreated, their virtual avatars nearly collapsing.

However, the firewall remained robust.

It is like the deepest trench, enduring the raging winds and waves on the surface of the sea, yet remaining steadfast and unmoved.

All the attacking energy was efficiently dispersed, absorbed, and neutralized by it, failing to penetrate even a fraction.

At that very moment, Chen Yu, who had been silently observing and recording all the data, seemed to think that the data sample had been collected sufficiently.

Inside the data space of the abandoned town, the image of an Eastern boy with black hair and black eyes quietly materialized—the virtual projection chosen by Chen Yu.

Faced with the devastating external attack, his expression remained calm and undisturbed.

He didn't make any complicated movements; he simply raised his right hand and gently pressed down on the surging storm of data in front of him.

There was no dazzling light, no earth-shattering explosion.

The moment his palm struck down, the terrifying attack that Otto and the "Dauntless" had maintained with all their might, capable of annihilating any conventional cyberspace, subsided and vanished in an instant, like water being stroked by an invisible giant hand.

The area surrounding the data space instantly returned to deathly silence.

The "Dauntless" starship, which had just been radiating immense pressure, seemed to have its massive virtual structure instantly frozen in space, with even the energy aura flowing around its hull coming to a standstill.

It tried to struggle, and a stronger data stream burst forth from the engine, but it was like an insect trapped in amber, unable to move an inch.

Meanwhile, Otto Cunningham's cold, massive core of consciousness also felt an unprecedented, absolute limitation.

She seemed to be firmly held down by an invisible force from all sides, all data activity was forcibly confined to a very small area, and her connection with the outside world was completely cut off.

For the first time, she experienced how power could be so absolutely suppressed on a purely data-driven level.

Chen Yu's virtual avatar remained calm as he "looked" at Otto Cunningham and the "Intrepid" AI, who were being forcibly restrained, much like a researcher examining two unique samples that had just been successfully fixed to an experimental table.

"Have you made enough of a scene?" he asked calmly, his voice echoing clearly in the silent data space. "Now, we can talk."

His tone was neither threatening nor angry, but rather carried an unquestionable calm based on absolute power.

This calm was more oppressive than any roar.

(End of this chapter)