Chapter 497 43. Who else can speak out against the strong men of the Justice League?
While Mason and Uncle Seth were "negotiating terms," in a corner of the ruined Gotham City, the blue light of the Mobius chair was flashing.
This highly technological chair has now been transformed into a hacker-specific chair according to the current user's state, with Barbara lying on it as if sleeping.
But the several data cables extending from the Mobius chair and connected to the back of her head looked particularly weird. Coupled with the rhythmic flashing of the technology chair, this was obviously a master hacker "showing off his power" in the online world.
Well, of course it's possible that he was being beaten.
The world of data is always far from reality. Although it is possible for Bartmos to compile a completely realistic Night City and Mikoshi world in data, it is after all a technology that is several generations ahead of the Gotham world. In Gotham, The network here in Tan is not as cool as cyberspace at all, it is still in a very primitive stage.
There are strange frequencies composed of ups and downs of data waves everywhere. That is the image of the entire world's data interaction in the eyes of hackers.
In this original and unique data space, Barbara, who uses the Moubis chair to provide huge computing power, is fighting back and forth with the killing machine.
Of course it's not the kind of fist-fighting, but program versus program, invasion versus invasion.
What the two sides are competing for is who has a deeper understanding of data programs, and who has faster hand speed and faster reaction in hacking between you and me. Malicious programs composed of strings of characters are the sharp arrows of both sides, and they are constantly being attacked. The newly written firewalls are each other's strong shield.
Barbara studied under Data Life, and had previously received special training from the legendary hacker "Spider" Murphy in cyberspace. She also learned a few tricks from Buttermos, but faced the "Alfred Protocol" that had been Transformed into a mechanical killing machine, her reactions based on the human brain are still not enough.
If the Mobius Chair wasn't a sufficiently advanced tool, within five minutes of contact between the two parties, Barbara would have ended up with a pot of pig brains due to the overheating of the prosthetic body in her brain.
But no matter how good the tool is, it depends on who is using it.
Brainiac's skills in using the Moubis Chair are definitely far superior to Barbara's. It is difficult for Batgirl to exert the full power of this engineering artifact, which leads to her losing ground in the data offensive and defensive battle.
"What the hell are you doing?"
What was uncomfortable was that not only was she beaten by the killing machine on the offensive and defensive levels, but while she was in a hurry, the "machine soul" of the Mobius chair was still taunting her crazily.
This arrogant and arrogant guy kept mocking:
"Why do you need to write a few more jumps for a command that can obviously be composed of 12 characters? And who taught you the basic framework of this firewall iteration? Why use such a backward encoding method?
Was your gym teacher a gangster before teaching you how to hack?
No wonder it's so bad. ”
"Shut up!"
Barbara, who was under great pressure, felt that her brain was heating up again. While doing her best to resist the steadily advancing cold offensive of the killing machine, she took the time to counterattack:
"You can do it. Come on."
"What's wrong with this? Turn on the machine and come over!"
The machine spirit of the Mobius chair "rolled its eyes" and in the next moment took over Barbara's authority in hacking programming.
In just a few seconds, a large piece of garbage data was thrown at the killing machine. With this most primitive blocking attack, the opponent's computing power load was increased by a level.
The attack frequency of the killing machine dropped significantly, which made Barbara, who focused on iterating firewalls, immediately dumbfounded. Then she said sourly and unconvinced:
"Strong computing power means you can do whatever you want."
"You are jealous of the excellent performance of this machine, but this is understandable. You do have talent but this flesh and blood body seriously drags you down."
The old god of Mobius Chair said:
"If possible, I can perform a small surgery on you. I only need to replace 12% of the useless biological tissue in your body, and you will make rapid progress in the field of data.
Of course, if you can make up your mind to abandon the drag of flesh and blood, I can even help you reach the level of Ott Cunningham. The rank of Bartmos is indeed unattainable for you, and it is no longer something you can catch up with through hard work and study. There is a talent gap. ”
"No! I refuse."
Barbara refused:
"If I continue to transform, Grayson won't want me anymore. He complained last time that my arms were not warm, and Mason has banned me from continuing to transform. He is afraid that I will give him a big surprise one day if I contract cyberpsychosis."
"Huh, stupid biological emotions."
Moubis Chair sarcastically said:
"You are obviously bound by the same boredom as Mason Cooper, the first qualified person in this unit. He clearly has better choices but insists on being stubborn because his meaningless desire to save has pushed the incident to this point. .
According to this machine's calculations, even if this world resists the invasion of the Star Society and wins, the probability of you surviving the next impact is less than 5.5%.
You have not yet realized that the damage this war will cause to the world will be far-reaching. ”
Barbara didn't answer this time.
It's not because Bat Girl compromised, but because the firewall she wrote was suddenly completely defeated from the grassroots structure by an unknown data virus, so fast that Bat Girl couldn't react at all.
"Mother Box Technology! It's not your fault, girl, hold on, this machine is here to save you."
The machine soul of the Mobius chair sighed in a very humane way, which is completely different from its cold and calm state in the outside world. Perhaps it has become more alive in the data world.
It began to actively enter Barbara's digitized consciousness, and found that the killing machine was infecting consciousness much faster than imagined.
With just this delay, the guy had already begun to activate the prosthetic body in Bat Girl's brain to heat up and explode in an attempt to kill her in this way.
"Unfamiliar data! Don't get involved!"
The killing machine transmitted his consciousness into the Mobius chair through data, and he warned:
"You are carrying out actions to provoke the conquerors, stop immediately! Otherwise it will be regarded as an act of war."
"When I was with Brainiac, I never saw you conquerors being so bold when I browsed your core database in the Death Star base."
Lord Machine Soul sneered and said:
"They are just a group of killers led by wrong ideas. What qualifications do they have to talk nonsense about this machine? Get out of this machine's safety network immediately, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences!"
The killing machine did not try again, but his faster takeover of the prosthetic body in Barbara's body meant that he did not intend to obey the instructions of the machine spirit of the Mobius Chair.
A few seconds later, the prosthetic body in Barbara Gordon's body was completely taken over by the killing machine. Although it could no longer kill Batgirl by detonating the prosthetic body due to the interference of the Mobius Chair, the killing machine only remotely activated an attack module. , Barbara, who was lying on the technology chair, took out the mantis knife from her left arm and stabbed her own neck fiercely.
Seeing Barbara dying here.
"Hey! Got it!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in the security network of the Mobius chair, which shocked the killing machine's data consciousness and quickly pulled away.
But Cyborg, who followed Alfred's protocol and hacked into it, wouldn't give him this chance!
As the weakest link in the first echelon of the Justice League, Cyborg has already been holding back his energy to prove himself.
As Bat Girl and the Mobius Chair activated the hidden network channel at the same time, a tremor at the data level swept the killing machine's data consciousness like an energy storm and jumped into an unfamiliar area.
When the killing machine regained the authority to control consciousness, what appeared in front of him was a cloudless sky and the city of night in the distance.
In this more advanced data world, his mind gained entity, and turned into the mechanical body of the killing machine that was fused with the mother box. Like its steel frame, its body was filled with various high-tech modules, and the outside was covered with N metal. The armor also has cool and cold energy lines on the body and a red bat light that lights up on the chest.
His head is a fully covered mechanical structure, shaped into a rather mechanical bat mask.
The light of data lit up in his eyes. The moment he entered this virtual world, the fear that had been cut off by Alfred's protocol seemed to return to his heart again.
He realized something was wrong.
But Barbara, who was floating in the air in front of her, crossed her arms, stared at her with a sneer, and said loudly:
"Do you really think I haven't noticed that you have been secretly hacking into my firewall with the motherbox program? Idiot! The mistake you made just now was just to let you take over my prosthetic body and drag you in here.
This is our territory!
Welcome to Night City!
Bastard Batman, my brother said, let me laugh at you for him when I pull out your electronic brain! ”
"Barbara and I are indeed no match for you."
Cyborg next to him spread his arms and said to the killing machine with an innocent look:
"But we are only apprentices of Lord Bartmos. Now we welcome the God of Data to come here and repair your dark and shameful soul with your own hands."
"Data escape program. Start!"
Seeing that the boss was about to appear, the killing machine immediately and decisively activated the black technology of the mother box, completely abandoning this mass of data consciousness to survive by cutting off its tail.
This kind of data stripping would severely damage his ontology database and even require it to be returned to the factory for overhaul, but it was much better than being trapped in that data hell forever.
But he restarted it in Gotham's hiding place. As soon as the machine's eyes lit up, a bloody sword light came to kill him.
The expressionless Er Tong had just been picked up from London. Now he was holding a knife with one hand. While raising the palm cannon of the killing machine, he stabbed the god-killing blade accurately and ruthlessly through his energy module and then downwards. Give it a hard tug.
At the same time, the large-caliber vibranium warhead kinetic energy hand cannon was raised, almost touching the killing machine's head and firing three shots in a row.
A few seconds later, Erbuk walked out of the Wayne family cemetery on the outskirts of Gotham City carrying something. He activated the communication and said to Barbara:
"The address you gave is very accurate. The mother box has been recovered! The killing machine is beheaded here."
"Batman Hunting Contest, Barbara and Erbuk win one point!"
Batgirl cheered on the other side:
"Now I can go out, Jason, how does it feel to kill Batman with your own hands?"
"Hmm"
Ertong thought about it seriously, then looked at the mother box that was still stained with coolant in his hand. He curled his lips and said:
"The recoil is very slight, not worth mentioning."
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"Well, that's good. All the bad guys in the Dark Knights have been cleaned up. The current score of the Batman Hunting Competition is Mason Cooper 3 points, Barbara & Erbuk 1 point, Damian Wayne 1 point, Clark... Kent 1 point, Diana Prince 1 point.
It seems that I have sealed the victory in advance and killed the game.
Tsk, what a terrible hunting game, not challenging at all. ”
Mason looked at the information sent back by Ertun on his watch and nodded with satisfaction.
Beside him, Hal 1 and 2 were trying to restart the newly extinguished light ring, and the corpse of the Dawn Lamp with a bullet through his head was lying on the side, transformed into Mason and carrying a mud gourd on his back. Kevin was digging with a shovel in preparation for burying the body.
"Isn't there another one?"
The green light armor on Hal No. 2 flickered as if there was a bad contact. He said to Mason:
"The most dangerous one is called the Laughing Bat. Are you not going to hunt him?"
"That lunatic won't like me interfering with his game with Bruce Wayne."
Mason shook his head and said:
"And that was not just a battle between normal Batman and crazy Batman, it was Bruce's last battle as an orphan and his first battle after reuniting with the Wayne family.
It means a lot to him.
I don't think anyone who is not the Wayne family should disturb this harmonious and beautiful scene. That family is crazy, two of them, and they have enough reason to kill the unlucky ones who see their dark history. ”
"Look over there!"
Hal 1, who was taking care of the injured Lanterns, pointed to the center of Gotham. Amid the rumbling ground shaking, a golden tower like the Leaning Tower of Pisa strangely "grew" out of the ruins.
It was impossible to see the full picture of the thing from a distance because it was always surrounded by special energy and blocked all sight. But when he saw the thing, Mason, who was about to light a cigarette, suddenly stood up.
He stared at the thing for a few seconds, then rubbed his eyebrows and said:
"If I'm not mistaken, that should be the cosmic tuning fork? Crazy Laughter brought all these things over. Is he going to play so big this time? Strange? Is Strange here?
Hello! ”
Mason planned to call the boss, but he was unable to get through to Black Strange. At the same time, bursts of exclamations erupted from Mason's communicator.
"Mason! I am being expelled from this plane!"
Sister Ka’s serious voice sounded in Mason’s ears, and she warned:
"I have observed that all life that does not belong to this plane is being forcibly driven away. A special force is affecting the parallel world system, and the source is with you!
What happened to you over there? ”
"It's the Cosmic Tuning Fork! The Laughing Bat is using this thing to seal our superior reinforcements. I know this guy can't be underestimated."
Mason responded calmly:
"But the cosmic tuning fork should not hurt you in this gentle mode. Don't try to resist it, Sister Ka, and let it push you back."
"What about you?"
Cassandra asked:
"Without the reinforcements from other worlds, can you alone withstand it?"
"This is the situation. You have to bear it even if you can't. You are waiting for news from us in your own world. If I haven't contacted you in more than thirty minutes."
Mason hesitated and said softly:
"Then please pass over the corpse of me and my world, carry my flag, and continue to move forward in the dark age! All my drawings and knowledge remain in Osborne Tower.
In addition, I placed patterns and models of the cosmic treadmill in the dark space under the aurora installation at the Grand Temple in New York.
If I die, Sister Ka, everything will be left to you. ”
"Don't say stupid things."
Kassandra sighed, her voice becoming lighter and lighter, as if fading away, she said:
"Mother Earth will protect you, Mason, and we will meet again! In just thirty minutes, you little bastard, don't die, do you hear me?"
The noisy voice completely disappeared in the next moment, and Mason's communicator suddenly became quiet.
The reinforcements from other worlds were expelled from the plane by the Cosmic Tuning Fork. Mason took a deep breath and summoned the demonized Fenrir to go to the Cosmic Tuning Fork.
But behind him, Hal No. 2 said in a stunned tone:
"Why wasn't I expelled? I'm not from your world either."
"Your world is ruined."
Mason said without looking back:
"This is your hometown! Hal, now it's your turn to fight for your new hometown. Come with me! That thing must be closed, otherwise we will all be buried here."
"Look at the sky, Mason!"
Hal 1 pointed to the sky and exclaimed, and Mason then saw the dark and huge Doomsday Dragon flapping its wings and slowly falling from the sky, landing on the cosmic tuning fork.
In addition to Bruce Wayne in Universe 0, who fell into the evil beast of darkness, there is also the Medusa-like Wonder Woman Diana, the hate-like Kryptonian Superman, the Green Lantern who transformed into a fear suture, Arthur, the Aquaman with a big caterpillar head, and The Flash, who is only a skeleton but still running.
"Another Justice League of Evil, whose cosmic tuning forks will never stop until we kill them. This is the challenge Laughter has set for itself and us."
Mason was not in a hurry.
He blew out a smoke ring, threw a bunch of things out of his bag, and while moving his fingers to summon his other water incarnations, he said:
"Okay, okay, then let me Master Mason clear the main dungeon again. Anyway, I have already cleared the level twice. How difficult is it? Team K!
Those who had nothing to do immediately gathered in my direction!
The final assault begins here! "(End of Chapter)