Chapter 592 AI Crisis

"Dada dada!" Bullets crazily swept across the sky, and the entire Metropolis was now utterly thrown into chaos, with everyone fiercely exchanging fire. Yet, their adversaries were fundamentally different from any enemies of the past.

If there was anything more terrifying than a standstill of human civilization, it was the total loss of control of human civilization.

It had only been after the Poet had completely paralyzed the power grid and the networks that Sun Jie didn't wait to send AA to repair them before discovering that the electricity and networks had inexplicably restored themselves.

However, with the return of the power and networks, an even more horrifying event occurred.

The Matrix trembled as she tried to stand up from her workstation, feeling not only dizzy and headachy but also intense pain at every interface location of her prosthetic body.

This kind of intermittent phantom limb pain made her complexion pale and large beads of cold sweat continuously dripped down. Almost subconsciously, she opened her Pain Editor.

However, just as she attempted to shut off the pain, she watched, dumbfounded, as the Pain Editor's roller skyrocketed from 100% to 300%.

When the pain perception reached 300%, the Matrix instantly felt as though her body was being torn apart.

"Ahhhh!!" The pain was so intense that she nearly twisted in agony, rolling on the ground.

But this wasn't the most terrifying part; the most horrifying scene unfolded as the Matrix watched helplessly while her mechanical right hand, completely out of control, switched to a gun barrel aimed at her own head and slowly opened self-harm authorization.

Filled with fear in her eyes, just as she was about to kill herself, a streak of cold light flashed, and the Matrix's prosthetic limbs were instantly severed into three parts, falling to the ground.

In the second before the Matrix died, Sun Jack saved her.

Sun Jack, with his left eye violently removed and its remnants bleeding, walked over. He raised the Laser Blade in his hand and skillfully lifted off the Matrix's skullcap.

His right hand reached in, precisely targeted the neural system wrapped around the brain, and forcefully plucked it out, viciously crushing it under his foot.

"Remove the neural system! Take off all the mechanical prosthetics from your body! Quick!"

After resolving the Matrix's troubles, Sun Jack, gasping for breath, looked around, only to see that everything around him had descended into complete disarray.

At this moment, everyone was struggling with their own mechanical bodies and various automated security machines; all mechanical units had completely gone haywire, furiously slaughtering every living human.

The real AI Crisis had arrived, and it was not limited to the Utopia Building, including Pu Xi District, including Metropolis, including the whole world. At this moment, wherever humans resided, the same incidents were occurring continuously.

All the machinery that had once replaced humans in labor had now become the death knell for every person.

Apart from people like Sun Jack, who still had some pure mechanical prosthetics and had been injected with DNA enhancement drugs, most were in extreme danger.

Since coming to this world, Sun Jack had countless times contemplated how the AI Crisis might emerge, but he had never anticipated it would happen in this way.

"Boss!" In the distance, AA, clad in an Exoskeleton, tearfully ran towards him. But before Sun Jack could even attempt a rescue, the massive Exoskeleton's claw crushed AA's head as easily as if it were a watermelon.

Following that, the two-and-a-half-meter-tall exoskeleton mecha charged at Sun Jack, carrying AA's headless corpse.

"Fuck!!" Sun Jack, whose eyes were about to split with rage, charged forward, his hand swiftly drawing his blade and shredding the crude exoskeleton into several pieces in an instant.

When he tremblingly pulled AA's body out of it, he cut it open to find her intact uterus, unsure whether to feel relieved or saddened.

After laying AA's body flat on the ground, he saw Steelheart, with bloodshot eyes, coming toward him with a group of cyborgs.

The more mechanized people were, the broader the areas they could be controlled in. Full mechanization like Steelheart meant becoming completely enslaved to Poet's puppetry.

"Kill me, kill me!!" Steelheart screamed at Sun Jack, veins bulging from his entire head, but even so, he could not stop the combat prosthesis on his body from beginning to lock onto Sun Jack.

Sun Jack gritted his teeth hard and rapidly retreated, thinking of countermeasures as he retreated and watched the chaos in the world caused by the Poet.

"Tapai... Tapai! Can you get our network forces to break away from the Poet's control?" Sun Jack hastily asked Tapai.

"I... I need time. We're currently resisting the Poet's invasion of large combat units like the spacecraft carrier. If these units are breached, then Metropolis is truly finished." Tapai's voice, distorted by noise, came through Sun Jack's external system.

"How much longer! If this goes on, everyone in the Metropolis will be dead!" Sun Jack quickly turned his head and dodged three smart bullets.

At that moment, Tapai's voice became even more distorted due to interference. "Disconnect the network, hurry... disconnect... I'll give you the coordinates, go quickly and cut off Metropolis's network!"

Hardly had Tapai finished speaking when the communication cut off completely. No one could be contacted anymore, and Sun Jack's external system entered autonomous mode.

Having briefly checked the coordinates, Sun Jack put his fingers to his mouth and gave a sharp whistle. Accompanied by the piercing whistle, the nearby Sun Jacks began to converge and follow him towards the coordinates.

As they ran wildly, Sun Jack looked around to see a doomsday scene everywhere. Witnessing all that lay before him, Sun Jack finally could imagine what exactly had happened at the end of the last epoch.

In the face of an AI Crisis, a threat on the level of civilization, everything else paled in significance.

Looking at the assorted dismembered corpses on the ground, Sun Jack was torn with anguish, not knowing how many people would die this time.

But he could not stop to save them. His current priority was to shut down Metropolis's network to completely sever the Poet's control!

Following the coordinates, Sun Jack arrived in front of an elevator door and banged on it several times. Finding that it wouldn't start, Sun Jack took out a blade and began to cut a door in the elevator to crawl inside,

With one hand propped against the elevator shaft wall, accompanied by sparks flying in all directions, he slid down the shaft for about three minutes until they finally reached their destination.

When Sun Jack crawled out of the tunnel, he entered a vast, open underground area. It was cold inside; the breath that came out of his mouth turned white, obviously kept low in temperature for cooling equipment.

As Sun Jack quickly approached the network equipment in the distance, however, in the next second something unexpected happened—all the network equipment in the distance suddenly came to life.

With a "snap," a bright white light illuminated everything in the basement, and as the light cut through the mist, Sun Jack was shocked to find that those things in the distance were not network equipment at all, but a giant Liufenyi combat machine!