Gravity is in effect.
Liao Qi ripped off the key on the auxiliary anti-gravity engine and allowed the heavy all-terrain vehicle to have a perfect free fall.
And the three people in the car... two of them and one AI, all flew into the air briefly without any support.
The graphic grid on the edge of the crack was connected, and the howling wind sounded outside the window.
The liquid metal humanoid machine's head was blown open like popcorn, with hot breath remaining, and it was slowly healing. The hands that were pinching Jiang Zhou's neck continued to slowly increase their strength to strangle him.
Jiang Zhou felt that the opponent's previously cold hands were now hot, but he soon realized that this was a feeling caused by blood stasis.
Feeling this, Jiang Zhou controlled Liao Qi's body and kicked on the car door on the other side.
The car door was kicked out, and Liao Qi also used that force to eject, accurately crossing Jiang Zhou and hitting the opponent.
He grabbed the opponent's neck and pressed its steaming head to the edge of the crack.
"squeak--"
It was like the sound of a train braking. During the rapid fall, the opponent's originally incomplete head wiped out a series of dazzling sparks on the edge of the crack.
The edge of the fissure is the transition zone between different depths of the abyssal dark web. As bedrock, its material is not limited by the basement construction program.
In other words, at least within the framework of the agreement, it is indestructible.
So, like grinding on a grinder, the opponent's head was smoothed.
But even so, the other party had no intention of stopping twisting Jiang Zhou's neck.
The noose of death tightened around Jiang Zhou's neck.
Then fall faster, even faster...
Jiang Zhou, whose consciousness was nearly blurred due to lack of oxygen, thought to himself.
As long as he falls a little more, he can...
Deep sleep kept flooding into his head, and even his fingertips gradually became numb and dull.
It won't be long before he will fall into a deep sleep.
However, the moment he crossed a certain depth, Jiang Zhou suddenly woke up.
It's as direct as flipping the switch from "off" to "on".
Hypoxia?
In cyberspace, why do I need to breathe?
Jiang Zhou woke up instantly and realized that he no longer needed "oxygen".
In fact, there is no so-called "oxygen" for him to breathe.
At the same time, the opponent's clenched hands were strong enough to break Jiang Zhou's neck.
But he still didn't die.
Just by shrinking his neck slightly, Jiang Zhou penetrated the opponent's hands strangled around his neck like a ghost.
There is no such thing as a collision volume anymore.
The fall has stopped, they are floating... no, they are suddenly still in mid-air.
Not only gravity, but also inertia no longer exists.
"Although we are still far from falling to the bottom of the abyss..."
As Jiang Zhou "said", he distanced himself from the other party in a single thought.
From Liao Qi's perspective, this scene was as abrupt as a poorly produced low-frame stop-motion animation.
Jiang Zhou recalled what he had previously asked Qianxia Ying:
"Then what will happen if...you jump?"
You won't be thrown to death, because at a certain point, the laws of physics simulated by the base construct will break down.
You will fall into the abyss dark web of other depths. Because you will not be able to recognize everything around you, your mental index will drop irreversibly, and you will eventually go completely crazy.
But Jiang Zhou's mental index was completely abnormal.
Although he would feel dizzy for a short time when absorbing the tactical memory, after that, he did not have any visual or auditory hallucinations as 136 and the others feared.
After the Depth 1 transformation, the mental index detector once displayed the impossible number "1". Even if that number is just a machine failure, according to Booker, his talent is one of ten thousand.
And after falling to the current depth that is said to be enough to drive ordinary people crazy, Jiang Zhou didn't feel anything abnormal about his mental state.
Rather, there is nothing unusual.
"The timing of this drop was just perfect."
Jiang Zhou said.
"Yes, otherwise I would have almost ended up explaining it here."
Liao Qi, who also distanced himself, replied like this.
Alternately present the inner self-talk through dialogue.
Or maybe...his existence itself is already abnormal enough.
The current depth is enough, and the physical laws simulated by the base construction no longer take effect.
The display interface of the liquid metal humanoid still encapsulated the other party's program code, but Jiang Zhou could "feel" the huge amount of information on the other party.
At the moment, neither the other party nor oneself can kill each other through "physical" means.
Between each other, they need to compile their own "ice wall" and "ice-breaking program" based on their own intelligence and computing power for offensive and defensive confrontation.
Until one party's source code is completely destroyed.
As the other party is an AI, it goes without saying that he has the source code. As a human being, the stand-in program is Jiang Zhou's "source code".
Once it is destroyed, the apoptosis program on the brain-computer interface will be triggered, causing physical death.
So the question is, Jiang Zhou’s Hongqiao brain area has not yet installed any offensive and defensive plug-ins. In addition, the amount of intelligence and computing power expanded by Liao Qi’s Depth 1 transformation can beat a system that is definitely deeper than Depth 2. Malicious program?
Jiang Zhou wanted to give it a try.
Since his consciousness can be maintained here, he at least has the qualifications to give it a try.
Based on past experience, Jiang Zhou almost instinctively wrote an "ice wall" that acted on the bottom layer of the network protocol to protect it from the stand-in program.
In his perception, this process became a translucent gray spherical shield, wrapping and protecting him and Liao Qi.
This is the image of the "ice wall" recognized by Jiang Zhou. If another person is not crazy at this depth and sees all this, the other person will probably see another scene based on their own perception.
City walls, shields, watchdogs, guards...all the concrete concepts related to "guarding".
Very crude...
Jiang Zhou thought as he looked at the occasionally flashing data on the spherical shield.
But in his opinion, this is effective enough.
So let’s look at the other side…
The "ice-breaking program" that the liquid metal humanoid self-compiled before has taken shape - it is a tsunami formed by data, and it is hitting him overwhelmingly.
Putting aside the quality, the other party is simply a monster in terms of computing power.
The lead-gray spherical shield did not last for three seconds before disappearing without a trace like ice and snow under the blazing sun.
As for Jiang Zhou and Liao Qi?
Seeing the disparity in weight between the two sides, he ran away long ago.
…………
The so-called running away actually means changing agents continuously.
Once the coordinates are completely locked, it is impossible to escape.
In response, Jiang Zhou directly released Liao Qi back - after all, he and Jiang Zhou shared the same path, and with one more person, there was an additional possibility of being caught.
Then he began to run around in the digital maze. As he ran, he left traces of his disguise, confusing and disturbing the AI that was chasing him.
With the crisis approaching behind him step by step, Jiang Zhou felt as if he was a boy sent as a sacrifice in the labyrinth of the Minotaur - engaged in a futile and useless struggle.
The difference in magnitude between the two sides was so great that he seemed to be able to hear the bull-headed monster making a heavy roar just a wall away from him.
This belongs to both "Icarus" and "Theseus". Can I find a way to escape or kill the other party?
On the way to escape, Jiang Zhou complained deep in his heart.
Or, is there anything that can help him?
Jiang Zhou's mind flashed to the previous behemoth rising from the abyss.
what is that? A creation of Janus? Or Janus himself?
Since I have been brought to this era, I am more or less responsible for some after-sales service!
It was getting closer and closer, and Jiang Zhou seemed to be able to "feel" the other party's breath on his back.
In Jiang Zhou's mind, the road ahead was a fork in the road.
He "picked" one of the paths and hastily "thrown" signs of confusion onto the other two.
But the next moment, Jiang Zhou was stopped.
One, no...three.
In front of the three-way intersection, three dignified and elegant women suddenly appeared.
The three ladies looked the same and stopped at various intersections.
They have skin as pale as the moon, and they hold torches, poisonous snakes and daggers in their hands.
"Huh? Is this a feeling from the physical plane?"
The three of them said at the same time when they saw Jiang Zhou.
It's like a voice.
Jiang Zhou wanted to shout loudly to the other party to get out of the way for him, but it was already too late.
The malicious program behind him has already caught up with him.
"There is also a feeling from the oldest era..."
The three ladies who stopped Jiang Zhou spoke in unison again before the malicious program was about to capture him.
