Time passed second by second, and Lin Feng's goggles showed the captain and the others' actions.

They walked out of the passageway, missed the patrol, and circled around into the main control room of the platform, silently hacking into the data center of Arasaka Platform.

"Done."

The captain pushed open the narrow door again, poked his head in, and helped everyone out.

Jerry, the assault team leader in charge of protection, was the last to emerge. Meanwhile, the Arasaka soldiers patrolling the platform had their internal programs hacked by the Night Raven Squad's hackers, and all of them were put into standby mode.

"These Arasaka soldiers have independent life detection systems inside their bodies. Once a life-threatening situation is detected, they will send a message to the main control center of the building. In addition, the independent life detection system will synchronize the soldier's data every three minutes."

Upon seeing Lin Feng, the captain thoughtfully approached him and explained the current situation in detail.

In those few minutes, the main control room of the platform switched to the monitoring screen from several hours ago. The two hackers also switched the patrol soldiers' data back to the corresponding time point, so that the soldiers in standby mode began to patrol mechanically and complete the synchronization of all information.

"This is the nearest access point, which will allow us to enter Arasaka's main control center."

"The main control center is located below the sacred palanquin. Once you have the necessary permissions, you can open the elevator shaft and enter the palanquin."

As the captain spoke, he drew a path on the virtual map in front of him with his finger, eventually bypassing the palanquin and pointing to a dark area.

Just as he was about to continue, Roger, gun in hand, positioned himself between the two, staring into Lin Feng's eyes and demanding sharply, "Where is Johnny?"

Lin Feng's pupils dilated slightly. He glanced at Rogge and pointed to the location of the palanquin: "He's inside the palanquin."

shrine...

"Fuck you, are you messing with me?" Roger cursed out, raising his pistol and pointing it at Lin Feng's forehead without warning.

Lin Feng subtly avoided Rogge's gaze, reached out and pressed down on the rather excited captain, moving his gun away. He then met Rogge's eyes again and said calmly, "Johnny is waiting for you."

"Where is he?!" Roger growled, each word distinct. The suppressed rage in her eyes was like a volcano about to erupt, ready to be unleashed on Lin Feng at any moment.

"Mikado."

Lin Feng's gaze was intense as he reiterated the importance of the divine carriage, saying without fear, "The explosion destroyed his body, but his consciousness remains."

Upload consciousness? Copy thinking?

Lin Feng wouldn't explain everything, nor would he do so at this time. All Roger needed to know was that Johnny was alive and waiting for her.

Roger's eyes narrowed, and the intense killing intent stung Lin Feng's cheeks. Finally, he abruptly put away his pistol.

"You have three minutes. Ultraman will help you get him out."

Three minutes was the shortest time he could anticipate. Once Ultraman gained Arasaka's authority, kidnapping the consciousness within the Kamikoshi would only be the beginning; releasing the electronic ghost was the key.

"This is what you owe him."

Lin Feng emphasized this sentence again, then turned and followed the captain toward the upper exit of the station.

Ultraman is a sharp sword. Once this sword is drawn, Arasaka will briefly fall from grace. Johnny and Rogue... are merely an excuse, a pretext to show them some mercy when Ultraman's sword strikes Arasaka hard.

Lin Feng knew exactly what Ultraman wanted and what he would do. It was precisely because of this that Arasaka chose to keep Johnny.

As they officially entered the lower level of the Arasaka Tower, Kaiser, who had not been assigned any specific tasks by the captain, left behind a series of explosives along the way.

Lin Feng tacitly approved of this behavior and was unable to stop it.

Kaiser's goal was clear: to silently follow at the back of the group and place explosives in seemingly illogical places. But if the explosions caused by these explosives could trigger a chain reaction underground, the meaning would immediately change.

After dodging a patrol of robots and opening a sealed door with the help of a hacker, they evaded the soldiers patrolling inside the Arasaka Building and finally entered the main control center of the Arasaka Building.

The large hexagonal room was lit with cool lights, and rows of flashing terminals were running frantically, providing the Arasaka Building with an enormous amount of computing power.

Inside the room were four Arasaka hackers on standby, and behind them were three more hackers reclining in hacker chairs reviewing data. Behind the room's transparent glass walls were some moving robots and staff members pacing back and forth.

The captain pointed with his finger, and the three team members beside him immediately lowered their bodies and slowly followed the captain.

A chip was quickly inserted into the neck interface of these people, and in an instant they stood there blankly, just like controlled sex dolls.

"Connection successful."

Hacker Lindsay was already crouching down next to the three hackers. He deftly pulled cables from his arm and inserted them into the hacker chair, quickly dragging the three hackers into a fake data stream.

"Ten minutes."

The countdown was synchronized to everyone's visual system. They only had ten minutes. Once the ten minutes were up, the hackers would break away from the false network information and trigger Arasaka's defense system.

And this does not include the time for evacuation.

“The Divine Carriage’s network is independent. Once connected, we can rescue Johnny from inside.” Lin Feng hadn’t forgotten his promise to Roger. He walked to one side of the glass wall and ordered the squad leader, “Open the passage to the Divine Carriage.”

"Yes, sir!" The squad leader decisively repeated the order: "Open the passage."

The hacker, Lindsay, immediately looked up in the opposite direction from the glass wall, and saw the door in the spot he was looking at open instantly, revealing an elevator shaft leading underground to Roger.

Roger steeled his resolve and charged forward without looking back.

Watching the figure disappear, Lin Feng, having finished his chores, went to a terminal and spread out a map of the area near the main control center.

The main control center, the sacred palanquin, and Arasaka's secret laboratory.

Lin Feng clicked on the map of the laboratory area, and several monitoring screens quickly switched to the main control center screen, revealing Arasaka's secret to him.

"Electronic ghost".

"Parasyte".

Hacker Lindsay synchronized the information he found to the communication network, with a specially highlighted laboratory standing out.

"Zombie virus."

Inside the room, which glowed with green light, wandered four humans dressed as homeless people. Black blood dripped from their faces. One of the zombies had grotesque features, twisting its massive shoulders and mechanically banging its empty head against a bloodstained door.

"Experiment Log 23: Controllable parasitic cells, neural network access successful, no rejection reaction."

"Experiment Log 32, Zombie Virus Mutant Strain 02, Human Cells are Enhanced, Physical Performance Improved by 30%".

"Experimental record 47, zombie virus variant 29, human brain enhanced, brainwaves increased by 50%, Relic biochip implantation successful."

"Experiment Log 78, Parasitic Beast Cell Immune Zombie Virus".

...

One after another, bloody experimental records appeared before Lin Feng's eyes. In an invisible way, he seemed to see a towering tree growing on this land of Ara-saka, a tree covered with corpses.