"F*ck!"

John's vision was immediately filled with a mosaic.

A sharp pain pierced through his spine from the top of his head.

The Alloy RCH was forced to slow down, the hack was still going on, and he could feel Oulos trembling all over, seemingly enduring immense pain.

The Divine Concealment had taken over the entire network of the area.

Oulos was suffering a huge blow in the cyberspace.

"Damn it, are you okay?"

[...Huh, not dead yet, but I can't stop their hack... that bastard [Fakihi Haruhiko] is really arrogant, they're trying to kill us for those rebelling against Fakihi to see...]

Oulos' voice was very weak.

Screech—

The piercing sound of brakes interrupted their conversation.

A heavy armored truck that was driving next to John suddenly changed lanes.

John braked urgently, withdrawing from the gap between the truck and the guardrail, while that truck crashed directly into the sound barrier and flipped off the overpass!

Boom—

Thick smoke and flames rose into the air.

The explosion's loud rumble overpowered the faint police sirens.

[Warning: Eye reboot 71%↑]

John's vision was filled with a mosaic and a torrent of data, as if someone had put a messy bunch of white muscle fiber in front of his eyes.

The speed of the Alloy RCH decreased again.

John stared blankly ahead, his eyes widening.

"WTF!? These Eastern People are insane!"

All vehicle systems on the overpass were taken over by the [Divine Concealment].

A series of harsh screeching brakes sounded in succession.

The vehicles in front began to decelerate and swerve sideways, colliding with each other, forming barriers in the middle of the road.

John turned his head back.

The vehicles behind him revved their engines, crashing toward him!

The Alloy RCH was caught in the middle.

John forcibly activated Sianweistan, his mind stretched to the limit, dodging narrowly in the brief visual shifts!

But the room for maneuver was getting smaller!

The scorching Messiah's Eye seemed like it was going to burn in his eye socket!

[Warning: Eye reboot 88%↑]

"I'm going blind, whew~ the bad news is, the Eastern People are making such a big scene, even if we stop, get to the side with our heads down, they won't let us live..."

John adjusted his breathing.

Oulos' voice appeared on the team channel.

[About the Black Light you mentioned before...]

"Are we going to talk about this in our last minute of life?"

John laughed bitterly.

But Oulos asked seriously.

[If I physically connect with you, will you fry my brain?]

"...No, I can control it now."

[Warning: Eye reboot 91%]

"I'm going blind, whatever idea you have, do it fast..."

John drove his motorcycle through the jagged barricading vehicles.

He had already pushed himself to the limit.

The two of them were pressed closely together.

Oulos fumbled near her mechanical heart.

She wrapped one arm around John.

Then she bit into the data cable from her other wrist, hesitated for a moment, and plugged it into the data slot on John's neck.

The Alloy RCH was shaking wildly.

"F*ck!"

John shrank his neck, nearly falling onto the motorcycle.

A myriad of notifications flashed before his eyes.

[Data fragment detected... Response jump... Data verification, verification complete waiting to reboot...]

[Hack terminated, access restricted.]

[Data supplementation failed, reboot, emergency plan retrieval...]

"What is this?"

John forcibly steadied the motorcycle, unable to contain his panic, immediately responded.

"What did you do?"

This situation was unforeseen by Oulos as well.

She tightly clung to John, with a stream of light passing through her Messiah's Eye.

[It's my trump card, John, F*cking Squid, don't make wild guesses, I didn't intend to harm you... It... it's a program I got, it can make you immune to remote hacker attacks for a brief period.]

Oulos explained while checking and talking over the team channel.

[...It doesn't work!?]

John could no longer answer the question.

The Black Light was boiling, rampaging, chaotic data tumbling in the depths of his mind.

This wasn't the first time something like this had happened.

The Black Light reacted similarly when John initially accessed the [Pandora Algorithm].

Oulos' [trump card] was not without effect.

The Black Light was reading the data, conducting some sort of "upgrade."

This process was extremely brief.

"Huh—"

The breath John was holding came out, vision restored, he narrowly avoided a burning car.

[Hack detected, marking authorized user...]

The Black Light was boiling.

The Messiah's Eye uncontrollably switched to scan mode.

Buzz—

John's consciousness was pulled into cyberspace.

The roads, vehicles, and skyscrapers all turned into outlines filled with data.

This was the sight in Oulos's eyes.

A virtual network world.

Hundreds of thousands of cameras surrounded the overpass, extending into a sea of red data ready to consume them under the control of Divine Concealment.

John had been to cyberspace before.

It was during his first kill in a black clinic.

The foolish prosthetic doctor dragged him and himself into a local network.

It was his first time killing with Black Light.

And the first time he saw Black Light run rampant in cyberspace.

John felt a familiar dizziness, his body temperature gradually rising, as if something were trying to burst out.

Data rapidly disappeared, centered around him.

Like black light spreading.

It resembled a flood breaking through a dam, overflowing between the segmented grid, overshadowing the data chains with a posture that transcended network rules.

[...Authorization terminated, hacking rejected.]

John broke free of his shackles and returned to the real world.

"Pfft—"

He spat a mouthful of blood into the air.

The smell of copper mixed with the spittle scattered by the fierce wind.

Oulos was terrified by John's intense reaction—his eyes, ears, nose all bleeding...

She immediately pulled out the data cable and shouted on the voice channel.

[...John, John! Can you hear me?]

"Cough, cough, it worked!"

John had no time to explain in detail.

The Black Light had terminated all remote hacking attempts by Divine Concealment, but the resulting side effects almost killed John on the spot.

Oulos was speechless with shock.

The situation on the scene had already descended into utter chaos.

[John, ahead!]

She exclaimed on the voice channel.

A flaming car rolled threateningly close.

Sianweistan was activated again!

The world became extremely quiet.

The smoking hood, scattered cargo, clear bullet holes, arcs of electricity dancing on the metal surfaces...

All of it came crashing down irresistibly!

The Alloy RCH suddenly seemed imbued with a soul, scraping past at an incredibly sharp angle.

Rumble—

The vehicle, wrapped in thick smoke, soared over their heads.

The balance calibrator of the Alloy RCH issued a warning.

John barely managed to pull it back from the brink of losing control.

Oulos was tossed around.

The burning vehicle grazed her skin.

The strap tied around her hair was severed by a bullet, her black-dyed short hair liberated in the wind, and the stray strands were swept into the storm of smoke and fire behind them!

Oulos hadn't yet reacted...

John grabbed her hand, pulling her forward!

Her entire body pressed tightly against his back.

The work jacket was slightly warm.

The area with the cooling patches felt a bit cold.

Sianweistan emitted a faint hum.

John slightly turned his head, his pupils reflecting a glimmer, shielding Oulos with his arm from an unavoidable bullet.

Pop—

A pale blue electric arc burst open.

John's subdermal armor split open, exposing the muscle bundles, with the dark shadow of the alloy skeleton faintly visible.

Buzz—

The Alloy RCH disabled its auxiliary systems!

Performance and freedom burst to the extreme!

The air around the pressure outlet subtly distorted!

The black motorcycle streaked like a stream of light over the overpass, the roar of its engine echoing over Eden City.

Divine Concealment realized John had slipped their control.

The Hovercar immediately gave chase, auto turrets firing ground-level barrages!

Bullets whizzed behind them.

The collision-controlled vehicles continued to explode, smoke rising, flames obscuring the distant city's vibrant neon lights.

The black motorcycle accelerated through the chaos with suffocating speed.

The end of the road was the checkpoint at the district border.

Crossing it would mean officially entering the West District, marking the success of their escape!

Beep, beep, beep.

Alarms sounded around the checkpoint, yellow warning lights flashing, as three rows of interlocking metal pylons rose from the ground.

The black motorcycle did not slow down.

Its tires lightly bumped the steps, soaring into the air!

The Alloy RCH turned the bike sideways in the air, moving parallel to the ground, riding on the sound barrier of the overpass!

The high-speed spinning tires left behind afterimages.

The feeling of losing control surged like waves.

John pressed down on the gear, revving to the limit, maintaining fragile balance with the power of the alloy skeleton.

Buzz—

The Alloy RCH flew off the overpass.

Oulos held her breath, clearly seeing the direction of the motorcycle's fall.

It was the fork of the overpass spiraling downward.

The angle of the motorcycle's leap was completely insufficient to reach the opposite road, resulting in them plummeting from nearly ten meters high.

This would be fatal.

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