Chapter 997 Ha, do you think such a backward method of DDoS attack will be useful to our Steam Engineering Society?

There are still quiet areas in the currently chaotic Port of Chardeau. For example, there is an unusual peace outside the door of the large database that manages and stores the calculation orb data information.

It was like seeing a ghost. All the machines with computing orbs in the entire city were obviously out of control, but this place, which should be regarded as the core area of ​​the data network, was as quiet as a chicken. There were no rampaging walkers coming here. Even

The faucets controlled by computational orbs on both sides of the street are still performing their duties.

But the quietness amidst the chaos makes this place even more weird.

Especially for those who are about to enter it to perform special tasks, such a quiet area is more like a cunning giant beast with its bloody mouth open and waiting for ignorant prey to step into it. Its disguised silence is just to avoid being attacked.

Scare away those cowards.

Ruyi, who was chewing hard candy, wore a mechanic's coat and a halfling's iconic mechanical goggles. He was dressed like a trumpet pilot and looked very majestic.

She turned the small pistol she was issued around in her hand. From time to time, she would pop out the magazine, glance at the bullets professionally, and then insert them back. As soon as she put the pistol back into the holster, she would take out the weird-shaped one she made.

The adventure assistant clicked on it and clicked wildly.

That was a little Tetris game she "wrote" for herself.

It can also be regarded as a kind of intellectual feedback from learning the arrangement of psychic factors from the old flywheel during this period. Being able to make this kind of puzzle game by yourself shows that Ruyi is already a master in the field of logic writing of computational orbs.

This little guy just couldn't stay still, like a true restless halfling rather than a foreigner.

In addition to her, there are almost fifty Halfling players around who are preparing to perform tasks. These are all the Halflings in the players currently. Two-thirds of them are Halfling assassins, and the remaining one-third are Halfling assassins.

One includes professions such as mechanics, psionicists, and doctors.

It seems that the professions are quite complete, but compared to the total number of 6,000+ players, the reality that it is less than one percent is really sad.

However, considering that the racial talents of halflings are not outstanding among the optional races, and there are also debuffs from frontal combat, in an absolutely real game, it can be seen that players who can insist on playing halflings with such negative BUFF are all

I really love the "small" image.

"Teacher, what do you think Mr. Murphy is doing now?"

Ruyi, who was bored with waiting, asked in a low voice to the expressionless old flywheel in front of him.

This interrupted Old Flywheel's lament about the "scenery" of his hometown tonight. He turned the mechanical goggles on his eyes twice, allowing him to see more clearly in the dark night. After seeing a Transian-style car

After the carriage turned around the corner, Old Flywheel whispered:

"An outstanding leader like Lord Murphy must be doing some major things that will affect the situation on the mainland, just like followers like us are also shouldering a major mission tonight.

The machinery in the whole city is out of control. If we cannot deal with this chaos in the shortest possible time, even if Port Chardeau survives tonight's crisis, the city will completely lose its vitality due to internal destruction from the grassroots.

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My disciples, the future of halflings now rests on our shoulders."

This kind of NPC tone made Ruyi curl her lips. The alien hacker complained in his heart that when he first met the old flywheel, this guy was still a very majestic and heretical engineering master who could defy the heavens and the earth. But now he has been

Lord Murphy was "tamed" and turned into an insect who calls himself a "follower".

Is this the appeal of the mainline NPC?

Let these guys who are obviously difficult to deal with become as well-behaved as chickens. Well, this is probably the legendary "personality charm"?

"Someone is coming!"

The assassins among the halfling players quickly spotted the approaching carriage, and these guys immediately prepared for battle.

However, most of them are newbies who entered the game at the end of the Black Catastrophe. They are inferior in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment. Ruyi, who is very "fat" due to the resource supplement of the Silver Moon Group, is already the best equipped among the halfling players.

The big boss.

She is barely an old player. She was already a serious "professional" after being "acquired" in reality. Therefore, she is basically familiar with all the forces in the game. The one in front of her is riding in the Transian Embassy's car.

Come over on horseback, and the NPC escorted by the mountain folk wing cavalry can be seen as "friendly personnel".

Therefore, Ruyi stretched out his hand and shook it, telling the surrounding players of the same race not to panic.

She followed the old flywheel forward and stood at the street corner waiting for these guys. The carriage quickly stopped in front. Professor Malcolm's special carriage opened the door, and then as Ruyi watched in astonishment, ten people jumped out of a carriage.

Several heavily armed halfling mechanics.

Depend on!

Although we are all short and occupy a small space, how on earth did you cram so many people into such a narrow space?

Just when Ruyi was complaining that this carriage was actually a terrifying Bharat-style vehicle, Old Flywheel had already taken a step forward and stretched out his hand towards the old halfling with a mechanical cane in front of him, with a hint of emotion in his tone.

With strong nostalgia and complexity, he said softly:

"Minx, I haven't seen you for a long time. Look at how you look now. You look like a bad old man who is shaking when you walk."

"I'm shaking when I walk because I was injured just now, you bastard senior brother."

Master Minx's reaction was even more enthusiastic.

He cursed and did not hold Old Feilun's hand. Instead, he strode forward and gave his senior brother whom he had not seen for many years a hug that was so strong that Old Feilun felt suffocated, and then said in a hoarse voice:

"I saw him and he was a 'scholar'! That bastard lied to us and failed everyone who had expectations of him."

"Oh, I guessed it."

Old Feilun knew who Minx was talking about. He reached out and patted his junior brother on the shoulder and said:

"I guess little Bach may have guessed it, but she is currently assisting Marshal Loren in the Cato region to resist the attack of the Bone-gnawing clan. She cannot come here and we will talk about these things later.

Now we must deal with the chaos in the city. I haven't been back for a long time, and you have to lead the way inside this big database."

"That's exactly what I'm here for!"

Minx glanced at the mechanical masters gathered behind him.

These are the absolute backbone of the Port Chardeau Machinists Guild. Many of them are from the same era as him and Old Flywheel. It can be said that the current mainstream engineering field on the mainland is led by these people.

go ahead.

The mechanics who were invited were also ready, each carrying a variety of strange but powerful equipment.

Several broad-shouldered and heavily armed mountain cavalrymen were carrying some heavy instruments and wanted to go with them to the building in front of them. As an area for data exchange and aggregation of the computing orb that supported the entire Port of Chardeau, the large database was hidden in

The dangers are not few.

Halflings who are not good at fighting need the help of these powerful mountain people.

Minx did not spend more time reminiscing with the old flywheel. After the two parties confirmed the collaborators, Minx personally opened the door of the large database, and everyone filed in through the slowly opening gear-shaped mechanical door.

"The main processor must be taken offline immediately. Without its central communication, the data exchange between the computing orbs in the city will be cut off, and the destructive programs released by scholars will no longer be able to share data and cause more damage."

Minx pointed to the passage on the left and said to Old Flywheel and the players:

"You go there! We will destroy the energy system along the middle road. This will temporarily shut down the entire large database and block the new walkers specially developed for war that have not yet been activated."

"etc!"

Ruyi said loudly:

"So, even if we destroy this place, it will only make it impossible for those rebel machines to communicate? I thought you had some kind of remote control center, and as long as you control it, you can remotely shut down all the machines.

Isn’t this ultra-classic ‘mechanical brain’ setting not present here?”

"Of course, we definitely have this most basic control core based on cybernetic principles."

Minx pointed to the blocked road on the left and sighed:

"But that thing has been locked by the scholar's destruction program. With the technical power he has shown, I don't think we can recapture the mechanical brain that remotely controls all the computing orbs in the city in a short time.

Look at the traces around, friends, all the security machinery in the entire big database has been concentrated in that area. The machinery here are security units specially developed by halflings, and the parameters are very exaggerated.

In the current situation, even getting close is difficult.

Even if the energy here is forcibly shut down, there is an independent backup generator there that can support it to continue operating for at least four hours.

But it will definitely shut down after dawn, so we just need to hold on until the first ray of sun rises.”

"Does the city need to be exposed to more danger? This is obviously a difficult option in the campaign plot. I know it is dangerous, but it is also cool. We foreigners like to challenge high difficulty the most. You go and deal with the other two areas.

Come on, leave it to us!"

Ruyi excitedly waved his fist and said:

"Let's try to recapture it. Once we succeed, the mechanical chaos in the entire city will subside in an instant. In this way, it can be regarded as the halflings themselves saving our city and civilization! Well, this is what the main line of the race should be.

The gold content!

Brothers and sisters, do you want to go on an adventure with me?"

She turned back and shouted to the halfling players, and the next moment there were cheers and shouts. The halfling players obviously thought that this scenario battle was a difficult option like Ruyi, but they were not afraid of it.

After all, everyone knows that the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish.

"this"

Minx hesitated.

He glanced at Old Flywheel, who nodded and said:

"Don't worry, leave it to them. My disciple Ruyi's attainments in the field of data security of computing orbs are stronger than all the old men here combined. Although she hides it, I believe she must have her own unique way to do it.

Complete this difficult task.
To be continued...