[Task: Delivering Timely Assistance (Completed)]
[Reward 1: Messiah-Medusa V]
[Reward 2: Kingston-Radium Point Grip I3]
John's mind also flashed with task settlement information.
He leaned against the wall waiting for the car, not daring to reveal any weakness.
The average morality of Eden City isn't worth testing, a luxury sports car with a weak owner can easily attract dangerous elements.
Dragging his exhausted body, John left the East District Commercial Street.
The roar of Eisenberg's engine couldn't drown out the screams of the partying men and women, and the neon advertisements flickered and floated on every skyscraper in the city.
The nights in Eden City are more alluring than the day, even the most famous radio programs are scheduled for the midnight slot.
The hurried criminals were also actively operating tonight.
Police sirens and red and blue lights flashed constantly.
The hovercars buzzed above the city, and conical beams of light continuously probed the dark, icy streets.
John sat inside the car, everything in front of him gradually became blurred.
He had to pour cold water from the vending machine on his face, trying to alleviate his high body temperature and his diminishing consciousness.
He felt a little better, and turned up the volume.
The broadcast was a crime news alert, switching channels, and a host with a duck-like voice was telling sleazy jokes without a bottom line.
The red light at the intersection flickered and disappeared.
John was about to move when suddenly a warning line flashed in front of him, and the car system popped up a warning message.
[Chip interference detected, pause traffic.]
Cars in Eden City generally come with systems.
It's currently being interfered with by some kind of chip, and those with such technological means are typically large corporate giants or government agencies.
[Remove restriction? No.]
John didn't want to make things more complicated, choosing to wait in place.
Other vehicles on the street also obediently stopped behind the zebra line, all the street lights switched to red, and the pedestrian crossing projections turned into scrolling warning subtitles.
A road leading to the central district was cleared...
The police drove by in cars equipped with machine gun turrets, followed by two helicopters brushing against the billboards, circling high buildings, and the radio said that a cyber-psychosis outbreak had occurred, with special operations teams rushing to the scene.
John bent down slightly, and saw:
A giant armored aircraft swept over, its high-density alloy shell painted with the Special Ops logo.
Faint explosions and gunfire were coming from inside the city.
John had no intention of watching the excitement, much less dragging his injured body to watch the police and bandits in a gunfight, saving his own life was more important.
The car wheels crushed the lights of the night.
Eisenberg passed the barricade line, scanned by drones, and left the outskirts of Eden City.
[Eden City III Landfill]
As John approached, he received a signal from Black Light.
The Atlanta Virtual Network automatically connected via Bluetooth, adding the Black Spider to the managed devices, enabling him to check Black Spider's status from any corner of the city in the future through the network.
He maneuvered past block obstacles, pulled out the console, and skillfully created the blank chip needed for the Special Inhibitor.
The Black Spider also ended its dormancy, proactively pulling out the hidden prosthetic body remnants, connecting interfaces to wipe remaining biological information.
John, sweating coldly, inserted the crafted chip.
[Special Inhibitor (Destroyed)]
"Damn, this really sucks."
John's body had undergone a tremendous change.
A second ago, his immune cells fought more fiercely than corporate wars, then as the inhibitor was inserted, the negative state disappeared instantly.
The Black Light in the depths of his mind also issued a small task.
[Subtask: Independent Equipment Debugging]
[Reward: Emergency Protocol 13324 (Program)]
John focused his attention according to the instructions on the Virtual Network Chip, now able to remotely retrieve Black Spider's device information.
Unfolding it opened up a brand new interface.
A red outline appeared in the corner of his retina, similar to a weapon system, capable of detecting the modifications and operational status of the Black Spider.
[Task Objective Update]
[Explore the device "Black Spider" independent warehouse (Not Achieved)]
John swiped to see the detailed information, seeing its current exploration results, which the system referred to as a warehouse.
[Special Consumables X3]
[Windfall Accounts x5]
These are the items Black Spider has accumulated.
The special consumables contain prosthetics with residual biological information, only the technology and formula mastered by Black Light can convert them into inhibitors.
If he continued to concentrate...
He could even see the specific models and damage conditions of each wreck, but it hardly mattered since not everything could trigger a task, and John hadn't figured out the specific mechanisms and rules.
He swiped away the money on the leftover accounts—recent expenditures had been quite large, and there would be plenty of places to spend money in the future.
The windfall was quite considerable, though not excessive.
After all, the bank isn't foolish; if the account owner died, a large sum of money left lying unused would have been devoured long ago, leaving only these negligible leftovers.
John turned the remaining materials into Special Inhibitors, tucking them inside the pocket of his bulletproof vest.
All reserved materials were thus depleted.
[Subtask: Independent Equipment Debugging (Completed)]
[Reward: Emergency Protocol 13324 (Program)]
The Black Light in John's mind flashed again, followed by a continuous stream of special codes sweeping past his eyes.
John had received similar knowledge, just like the transformation diagrams for the Black Spider, which appeared in his mind after being loaded by the Black Light.
He focused mentally, as if flipping through files on a computer.
[Program: Emergency Protocol 13324]
John pulled out the console, inserted the data cable into Black Spider, and then his hands flew skillfully over the keyboard, just like a senior engineer who had worked in a corporation for many years.
He didn't understand his own operations at all.
The Black Light downloaded a special program package through the link, containing network protocols and symbols he had never seen before, which displayed as a jumble of bizarre characters on the screen.
Yet John felt like he could read them, his hands skillfully completed the program editing, installing it in Black Spider's background.
[Program Loading...]
He took out a Special Inhibitor from his pocket and inserted it into Black Spider's idle slot 3.
[Module Slot 3: Emergency Self-Rescue Code (Active)]
[Description: When the user encounters an emergency, it will activate protocol code number 13324, automatically locate coordinates and proceed to rescue...]
After reading, John couldn't help but think it was impressive.
The Black Spider was a fully-terrain mechanical modification.
It inherently possessed mobility and operable mechanical arms.
If one day the Black Light within John overloaded and he collapsed in some corner of the city...
The Black Spider would interrupt its exploration and dormancy modes, executing the emergency protocol content and using all means necessary—via network location, program signals, etc.—to find John, inserting the Special Inhibitor into his interface at any cost.