Chapter 109 King Chujiang

"boom----"

Starting from the lower deck, the massive fireballs from the explosion rapidly spread outwards, one after another, connecting in an instant to form lines, and then to a surface, even affecting the parking compartments where vehicles were parked.

A volcanic wave, carrying debris from the ship's cabins, exploded with deafening roars, completely igniting the cruise ship.

Before the three sides in the melee could even react, they were stunned into place by the earth-shaking changes.

The deck beneath our feet had begun to collapse, and a massive fire ignited the dark sky, rapidly engulfing the entire cruise ship amidst the churning waves.

The unexpected happened at that moment.

The dark, boundless waves of the high seas suddenly surged violently. Unlike the awe-inspiring yet rhythmic sound of the waves in the night, the waves, one higher than the other, seemed to be angrily shouting something.

Soon, countless flying fish-like data runes emerged from the waves, and the dark, towering waves carrying the data streams crashed heavily onto the detonated Victoria.

But upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the data did not emerge from the waves...

Instead, the entire angry, roaring sea is composed of densely packed data.

A sudden storm arose, towering waves surged, and lightning abruptly tore the sky apart. Then, deafening thunder, carrying the boundless rage of the heavens, crashed into the cruise ship that was swaying in the sea of ​​data, gradually capsizing and sinking into the water.

Compared to the natural disaster, this cruise ship, known as the "city on the sea," is now as insignificant as a toy boat, at the mercy of others.

Then...

A huge, indescribable dark shadow appeared beneath the cruise ship.

Time stands still at this moment.

In a dizzying spin, it was as if the entire sea had been singled out by some force.

...

[The program "Jin Dou Cai" has applied for data repair.]

The program "Li Zhonghan" has requested data repair.

The program "Han Wei" has requested data repair.

【_program……】

Countless program codes rapidly scrolled and slid up the floating screen, more and more codes appearing on the screen...

In the end, the entire large screen was covered with dense code names, and sharp, piercing alarms filled the monitoring room.

[_error!!]

After another sharp, high-pitched alarm, the floating screen displayed a screen full of strange, swirling gibberish.

"What's going on?!" The engineers and prison guards rushed over, only to be stunned by the garbled text on the big screen. "The system has crashed?!"

The mental prison was on high alert.

All engineers were urgently transferred to the central prison, where the lights were on all the way to fix the paralyzed interrogation AI system.

"Immediately check all the work logs for tonight!!!" The system manager gave the order, and all the engineers sat in front of the floating screen, staring intently at the dense data characters that were forcibly displayed.

“This plan is a kill-on-the-sea operation,” one of the engineers asked his colleague after reviewing the general outline of the interrogation plan. “Kill-on-the-sea operations have never gone wrong before, how could this happen so suddenly…”

"The virtual container [Ferry Prison] has experienced an explosion, mirroring the real-world event in a 1:1 scale." The colleague's expression was grave. "Such a large-scale explosion..."

"No wonder there are so many programs requesting repairs at the same time..."

"My God," the engineer slumped into his chair, his head throbbing, "So the system crashed because thousands of virtually destroyed programs simultaneously requested repairs?"

"We'll have to work overtime," a colleague said, equally annoyed. "Fortunately, no prisoners got into trouble this time..."

"Wasn't this interrogation plan just about sending Xin Que in as the only criminal to be interrogated?" the engineer thought to himself. "Wait a minute, all the other procedures were destroyed, so what about Xin Que? I hope she's alright!"

The group immediately requested permission to view Xin Que's mental data.

The data fragment, which had been peeled off and was in a blurry shape, was barely recognizable as humanoid and lay quietly asleep in the observation and monitoring cabin.

"We were somewhat affected," the engineer breathed a sigh of relief. "The AI ​​in charge of the middle management, [King Chujiang], acted in time."

The floating screen has been restored to working status after intensive repairs.

The surveillance footage shows...

The vast ocean of information has been woven into a square cube.

The left half is the sky, and the right half is the sea.

After being thrown into the sea, Xin Que lost her sense of direction.

All she knew was that this space had undergone a dramatic transformation.

Xin Que forcibly maintained his reason and thinking, which had been destroyed by the seawater, and managed to guess that this dizzying sensation was probably of the same type as the last time he had experienced the upheaval in the city.

so……

As the Data Ocean Cube was once again twisted like a Rubik's Cube by the opponent, Xin Que was uncontrollably thrown from the deep sea into the sky by a giant wave.

As she fell, she saw clearly the procedures governing this hellish situation, or rather, the controllers of it.

The statue, constructed from data, wears a blue square crown, has a short face and a wide mouth, holds a jade tablet filled with surging rune data in its left hand, and stares angrily down at the data sea cube floating in its right palm.

As Xin Que plummeted from the sky amidst the howling cold wind, she strained to focus her gaze on the statue.

The statue has no eyes, but its ferocious expression and the thunderous roar behind it clearly indicate that it is in a state of extreme rage.

"You have been escorted to the Second Hall, where you continue to commit heinous crimes..."

"Three thousand people, all reduced to ashes because of your one thought..."

"Unforgivable crime!"

The solemn, mechanical sound almost blew open Xin Que's eardrums.

Almost as soon as the sound of the statue ended, Xin Que fell through the last layer of clouds and crashed heavily to the ground.

Struggling to straighten up, Xin Que followed the footsteps that seemed to appear out of nowhere and looked up ahead.

Sixteen bottomless prison gates, like round towers, surrounded Xin Que, followed by a death-dealing trial.

Xin Que slowly stood up from the ground, looked up at the figures wailing in pain inside the sixteen tall prison doors.

There were many familiar faces.

Jin Doucai, Han Wei, Secretary Wen, Li Zhonghan, Arnoun...

Xin Que looked around and heard a cacophony of screams, sounds of executions, wails, and interrogations.

If the world before her eyes weren't a series of alternating flashbacks of the truth and a scroll of hell, allowing her to briefly glimpse the truth of this layer of hell, she would probably be one of the groansing and crying for help among the humanoid programs right now.

...

"Could we find a weakness in Xin Que's emotions during the simulated execution by [King Chu Jiang]?"

The engineer asked the administrator AI, which had been restored to normal operation.

“Having experienced such a massive explosion, comparable to a real one,” he frowned in thought, “should have brought me to the brink of a mental breakdown.”

The administrator AI's gentle but mechanical voice rang out, "Okay, execute the command immediately."