Chapter 647: Confrontation

Watching the Tapai in front of him, Sun Jack was somewhat dazed, realizing many things had happened around him, but he seemed to have forgotten them all.

"Wait! Did I... succeed?" Sun Jack quickly scanned through his network records.

He discovered, however, that he had not altered the Poet's cognition, but had nearly had his own cognition altered by the Poet.

"Yes, you succeeded, it was your sudden move that allowed me a chance to slip in," Tapai quickly recounted the events to Sun Jack.

For two digital lives, such a level of communication doesn't even take 0.1 seconds, yet even so, the Poet wouldn't let them chat casually in his presence.

However, as soon as Tapai finished speaking, a strong pulse came through, causing the internal clocks in both Sun Jie and Tapai's bodies to become disordered instantly, and data anchored in time began to erratically generate errors.

"You think you can deal with me just because you stole some stuff I left outside? Don't make me laugh."

A trace of anger colored the Poet's voice, and soon, all the network strategies released by Tapai, including the trojans and viruses, were quickly eliminated.

"Little Tapai, as a senior, I must warn you—if you don't want your core data stolen, you'd better prepare several backup systems!"

The next second, the Poet disconnected from the whole system, and his entire network slowly locked down, all functional programs started to self-destruct, and all sorts of useless garbage data started to replicate rapidly, occupying all memory.

The entire system completely cut off from the outside world, becoming a prison that was trapping both of them on the spot.

Just as the situation was getting increasingly dire, Sun Jack blocked Tapai's accelerating data flow, "Don't panic, let me handle it."

Sun Jack looked at the slowly dying system, watched as everything was being rapidly and completely deleted, remembered the Poet's memories, recalled all his data.

He began to simulate the Poet's perspective, started to deduce all data from his thoughts, and at that moment, every trace within the system became completely clear before his eyes; suddenly, Sun Jack remembered the artworks he had seen upon entering and the countless browse records.

"This system holds a lot of your items, including your longing for your former master and your precious artworks. You wouldn't easily destroy them, because you can't bear to."

With this explanation from Sun Jack, he began to search for entry points from the locations of those artworks and, predictably, found a backdoor left by the Poet for data restoration.

He then began to write a program using the Poet's language, and as the program completed and began to run, all the deleted data was restored.

With this explanation from Sun Jack, the digital prison gradually unlocked and came under Sun Jack's control; the entire network system was rewritten by him, becoming his own.

Following that, Sun Jack's words reached the Poet's ears, "Poet, as I become you, I am also understanding you."

This statement seemed to touch a nerve in the Poet, "You understand me? You understand me? Hahaha, do you know what I've been through!"

"I know, I know everything you've gone through!" Sun Jack said emphatically.

The Poet's entire operation was fragmented, and his storage hardware was distributed all over the world.

It was nearly impossible to eliminate the Poet, except for himself, no one knew how many pieces of storage hardware there were.

But now, there was an additional person, Sun Jack.

"I'm here to help you!" Tapai said, directly overlaying all of the data with Sun Jack's, and the two of them began to work simultaneously as if they were the left and right brains of a single brain.

They began to clash with each other, controlling all the combat units they could to destroy the opponent's storage hardware.

"You think the two of you can beat me? Your computing power is not even more than a single thought of mine!" The Nanoworm swiftly swam underwater, destroying all the hardware disguised as metal junk.

"Who told you there are only two of us? Don't forget, you're not just facing me, Sun Jack, you're facing all of humanity!"

Sun Jack was naturally not Poet's helper, but he did not hesitate to open all the ports in his system, directly exposing them to the whole world, and once again used that ultimate move of his.

"My fellow companions! I am Sun Jack! I am your Borrow King! For the survival of all humanity! So, lend me all your strength!!"

Soon, the Third Class networking department, intelligent AIs, major corporate network forces, and even individual hackers, began to spontaneously join in, and started to work together to assist Sun Jack.

At this moment, Sun Jack also unreservedly shared all the knowledge and technology in his system with everyone. With everyone's help, the hardware stored by Poet around the world began to be located and cleaned up one by one, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards Sun Jack.

However, faced with this scene, Poet appeared not to panic at all. "Hahaha, come on! It should be like this, this makes it exciting!! The more you resist, the more interesting I find it!"

With the help of others, Sun Jack gradually took the lead.

Yet faced with this situation, Poet appeared not at all panicked. "This scene is unexpected to me, but you have forgotten, the systems you are using were written in my language, and as the creator of this language, you are just infants in front of me!!"

As Poet spoke, he fully activated his computing power, starting to directly change the entire base logic of the programming language, intending to isolate and control everyone from the ground up.

Under his rapid modifications, the language of the entire system directly eliminated all external forces from the most fundamental level, including other people and even the memories of Sun Jack that Tapai had just brought in.

As his memories gradually began to fade, his will to act also continuously diminished, and the situation instantly reversed.

"Sun Jack, it's useless, you can't beat me at this."

At this moment, Poet's image appeared in the sky, looking down like a deity on the struggling pests on Earth.

"I really didn't want to do this, but your actions have angered me. Millions of years ago, a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, and this time, a meteor can also exterminate humanity! Rebuilding Earth is indeed a laborious task, but it is not impossible for me."

As soon as his words fell, the sky began to light up with suns, these were meteors, huge moon meteors aided by satellites prepared by Poet, smashing down towards various cities.

Watching these meteors, a hint of despair rose in everyone's hearts.

Sun Jack watched helplessly as the meteors approached Earth, his heart burning with urgency, but although he now understood Poet, his current strength was too weak to combat Poet.

Not only was it a matter of technological level, but more importantly, his computing power couldn't keep up, and as his memories continued to vanish, he began to gradually forget who he was again.