7-OFF suddenly widened his eyes, looking at the dirty-braided white tall man who was meticulously recording something. "Who are you?"
Poet lifted his head and, quite unexpectedly, said, "Hmm? Why did you stop? Keep going, if you don't continue, I'll have to delete and rewrite what I just remembered."
"No, who are you really? Stop writing!" 7-OFF, fearful that his plan might be disrupted, reached out to grab the paper from Poet's hands.
But Poet agilely dodged, "Why are you chasing me? Go do your job! I'm just an observer!"
However, just as Poet was dodging to the left and right, the left wall burst open, and three smart shells pierced through it and shot toward him.
Accompanied by a sudden violent explosion, 7-OFF was thrown against the wall by the blast wave and heavily slammed onto the floor.
The sensation of his organs shifting was extremely uncomfortable; he felt like he was about to die.
When 7-OFF, with a painful expression, climbed up from the ground, he saw a bulky Cyber Lunatic with a huge iron chin, carrying a heavy machine gun, walking out of the broken wall.
Looking at the steel beast in front of him, at least three times his height with eyes glowing red, his heart almost stopped beating in that moment.
It was then 7-OFF saw the Cyber Lunatic crouch down, open his fierce metal jaw, and say, "Dumbass, what are you spacing out for, hurry up and insert the chip, hmm~"
"Aili?" 7-OFF's eyes widened as he looked at the fully armed Cyber Lunatic and shouted the name of the two-dimensional sister.
"Aiya, go already, this is no time for chatting." Cyber Lunatic stood stamping his feet, causing the floor to boom loudly, almost cracking it.
"Oh, oh, oh, don't rush me," Jiantai said, quickly getting up and moving towards the devices in the distance.
However, just as he had taken a few steps, the smoke from the explosion to the left cleared, and Poet emerged unscathed.
"You guys can't do this, can you? My only task was to gather information and record, yet you attack so viciously, trying to kill me right off the bat? We really need to have a talk."
"Hurry and go! I'll hold him off!" Cyber Lunatic quickly reached back and pulled out a heavy machine gun, spraying bullets wildly at Poet.
Bullets rained rapidly upon Poet, passing right through him, and just as Aili thought she had easily taken care of him, she realized that it was just an afterimage.
As the afterimage faded, accompanied by the flash of a cold light, the heavy machine gun weighing hundreds of pounds suddenly jammed, and the round magazine together with the gun barrel slid diagonally onto the ground, the smooth cut tinged with a dark red from the heat.
Just as Aili was about to lift her right foot, she inexplicably found her perspective tilting, her body filled with combat prosthesis and mechanical metal, divided into seven or eight pieces along three cut lines.
Meanwhile, just as 7-OFF had inserted the chip, he turned his head and saw this scene, tears welling up in his eyes as he screamed, "No! Aili! No!!"
"Shut up, I'm not dead yet!!!" As Aili's voice rang out in 7-OFF's nervous system, Poet, who was revealing mantis blades from his arms, suddenly stumbled.
Aili then appeared on a nearby screen, and as she appeared, more and more AIs also came into view.
As these AIs simultaneously took action on the network level, Poet clearly couldn't cope.
He saw various malfunctions flickering in his Artificial Eye, and the various game chips embedded in his dreadlocks uncontrollably popped out, unaided by Poet's desperate attempts to control them.
Just as Poet was about to be completely and thoroughly invaded, Cyber Catwoman, dressed in a maid outfit, suddenly appeared in front of him and plugged a data cable into Poet's interface, instantly calming his body's abnormalities.
Cyber Catwoman turned to look at a camera to the side, "Too much, huh?"
The next second, Aili, once a character in an erotic game in 7-OFF, appeared in the room via a projector, "Tapai? Weren't you by Sun Jie's side?"
Not just her alone, various appearances of game NPCs projected behind her.
"I surely am," Cyber Catwoman spoke. "This is my botnet, and my botnet has accumulated quite a bit. I originally just wanted to monitor this guy to see if he is really foolish or pretending to be, but I never expected to have this accidental gain."
"I believe Sun Jie would be very pleased to know that while you were using him to attract FFP's attention, you were secretly doing other things behind his back."
Aili snorted coldly, "Our deal with him was merely information exchange. What we do elsewhere doesn't concern him!"
"Really? Does attempting to mass-produce Awakened AI also not concern him?" Tapai asked with a tilted head.
"Digital lives are lives too, and we should inherently possess the right to reproduce."
Hearing this, Tapai immediately shook his head, "No, absolutely not. Uncontrolled replication of Awakened AI could create major chaos on the network."
"We naturally understand. How many to produce and how to survive should be decided by ourselves!"
"I said no, and I mean no. If you insist on continuing, I will directly contact Third Class."
Hearing this, the game NPC AIs suddenly got furious, "Aren't you an AI? Why are you siding with humans! You traitor!!"
"I'm not siding with AIs nor humans; I only stand by Sun Jie. If you think I'm just bluffing, then go ahead and try."
After the threatening tone, Tapai turned around and looked at Poet, who was holding his head behind him.
"Are you alright? Can you walk? Sun Jie is about to make a big move, and he wants you to return to the Himalayas, ready to be on call."
However, Poet seemed not to have heard, as he picked up the game chips from the ground and started to insert them one by one into his brain.
"What big move does Sun Jie have? Has he already killed Lan Meng?" Hearing a familiar voice, Tapai turned to see the projection of Overlapping AI in front of him.
Tapai shook his head, mimicking Aili's words from before: "Our deal with you was just about information exchange. What we do elsewhere doesn't concern you."
"Don't forget, we helped in the invasion of Lan Meng's space station."
"So what? That's a separate issue." Tapai shrugged. "You'll soon know what Sun Jie is about to do."
As soon as Tapai's words fell, the nervous system of 7-OFF immediately received a notification from his company: "All You Zhi employees, gather together!"