Ten minutes later, the PO Executor headquarters tracked down the missing hovercar. To Wang Cheng's surprise, when they found the target, they discovered that the hovercar had already crashed.
In a vast forest surrounded by mountains, a PO hovercar, engulfed in flames, slowly sinks into the water. The cockpit, riddled with bullet holes, is empty, but a woman's blood-soaked corpse can be vaguely seen inside.
More than a dozen hovercars were suspended on the lake surface, creating huge waves with the airflow, and the real-time footage was transmitted to the screen in front of Wang Cheng.
"Captain Wang, the biological monitoring device shows three human corpses inside, but no data on any machines or mechs. They have likely escaped. This is probably a decoy he used to lure us in."
Wang Cheng stared at the wrecked car that had sunk completely to the bottom of the lake, his brow still furrowed. "Divers, go down. Even if it's a body, retrieve it all. Also, search the area within a ten-kilometer radius. There was a gunfight inside the car; he might be injured."
The officers in charge of the manhunt were a little scared. "But Captain Wang, he's a mech, we..."
"Don't bother coming back if you can't find us! If he doesn't die, it's not just us who are in danger, but the entire Allied Nation!" Wang Cheng rudely interrupted the other party.
The officers in charge of the pursuit immediately turned serious. Indeed, it was a pure, system-controlled machine!
He's a terrifying guy who won't get hurt or feel pain, and can even detect your motives. He can kill you before you can even make a move. He can infiltrate all the most heavily defended places in the Allied Nation. If he wants to do something, no one can stop him.
Hundreds of executors began a large-scale search, while Wang Cheng was rushing to the RSM combat system headquarters with this information. Unfortunately, he was just one step too late, as Lu Yuan had already entered the combat system using the administrator system pod.
Team Leader Zhang had just forcibly adjusted the time difference between inside and outside to one to ten. That is, the original ten minutes could now be used by Lu Yuan in the combat system to bring Xia Yixin out in an hour and a half. Seeing Wang Cheng rushing over, his heart sank.
Wang Cheng was ordered by Lu Yuan to conduct an in-depth investigation into the combat system. Did he discover something wrong here?
"Team Leader Wang, Commander Lu has just entered the system. You can't go in yet, but you can send information in after the system stabilizes. Have you found the hacker?" Although Team Leader Zhang had never left the control room, he knew from rumors that martial law had been imposed outside.
Wang Cheng did not answer, but first glanced at the two system cabins side by side in the control room separated by a glass partition. One of them was red and very old, obviously the administrator system cabin that had been placed in the storeroom for decades without being moved. The other was a regular black system cabin, which was transferred from the Consul General's Office to Xia Yixin.
Seeing Wang Cheng's tense face, Team Leader Zhang knew it might be classified information, so he stopped asking and focused on the data, waiting for the right opportunity.
In reality, Wang Cheng was in a very unsettled state of mind. If someone had told him half an hour earlier that everything was caused by Xia Yixin, that she had brought the virus system that had invaded the system, he would definitely not have believed it.
However, just half an hour earlier, he reversed his thinking and began screening from within, from RSM headquarters to PO executor headquarters. Through a combination of computer and manual review of surveillance footage from the 100 hours prior to the incident, he indeed found suspicious activity.
The first thing to be exposed was the electronic chip that Li Rui had once pasted on an electronic screen in the "special zone".
As the executors found the chip, to his surprise, the source they traced didn't go anywhere he had guessed, but rather to the Consulate General's residence.
Not only that, but what shocked him even more was that the "safe zone" had also been completely hacked, also through internal intrusion. Through the surveillance video, even if Wang Cheng didn't believe it, he had to confirm that the chip was actually placed there by Xia Yixin.
Moreover, this system called V had already infiltrated all their systems months ago, even when Xia Yixin had just arrived at the Consul General's residence.
This is what Wang Cheng finds terrifying: this V did not actually rely entirely on those chips to infiltrate RSM and PO, but rather obtained the highest level of access to those two places the moment it connected to the Consulate General's office.
Xia Yixin and Li Rui's actions of attaching chips were merely influenced by it.
Its purpose, no, or rather, its objective, was the safe zone—that place that was heavily protected and isolated from any external signals!
For three eras, the fear of predators has led rulers throughout history to attempt to research a machine that could completely replace humans in combat. However, due to the fear of the unknown and the need to guard against robotic systems, this technology has always been kept underground and kept absolutely secret.
Moreover, with the predator's lair being destroyed three years ago, this technology has been completely shelved.
A self-aware system!
This is even more terrifying than the rebels in the war zones above the sky. According to calculations, the method of altering the combat system is extremely similar to that of this V. He is almost certain that this V is actually the mastermind behind it all.
If Xia Yixin dies, there will probably be no one who can control this V anymore. He doesn't even dare to think about whether Lu Yuan was right to use the administrator system to enter.
Because they have no other choice but to gamble now!
A minute later, after the system stabilized, Wang Cheng couldn't wait to send the latest information to Lu Yuan in text form, not forgetting to emphasize at the end that Xia Yixin might be completely unaware and being used, and that V might attack them in the battle system.
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