536: 180 536: 180 ——What happened…

This was the only thought that flashed through Isin Bluetooth Vine’s mind.

His normally chaotic brain seemed to quiet down in this instant…

No, it might be the complete opposite.

Many neural pathways that should be shut down were forcefully opened under the stimulation of electric currents, and the inherent noise almost occupied his entire brain.

But his surface consciousness seemed to have been stripped away.

He could now only grasp this little bit of thought.

It was as if an organ called “soul” had been peeled off.

——Why is this…

Isin Bluetooth Vine laid down his weapon and then clutched his head.

A string of characters flowed out of his brain.

The surrounding monitors turned one after another, leaving a blank space in the center of the office.

This was also one of the privileges of being a Vice Captain.

His office desk surface had several secret compartments that opened, revealing interfaces.

Xiang Shan unceremoniously sat down at Mr.

Isin’s workstation and pulled out a wire from his wrist, plugging it into the interface.

His consciousness stretched within the Secluded Crane Knight Order’s system.

Every setup from the Turing Lineage over these two hundred years was at his disposal.

Xiang Shan used Mr.

Isin’s account to make continuous jumps within the system or to deactivate some safety measures or download some data.

And Mr.

Isin’s body trembled slightly.

This method of reversely inputting information into a human brain shared a base principle with psychotropic drugs, only it was more precise.

Psychotropic drugs can be seen as a “bug in the body.” The brain is a computer composed of chemical substances, with some fragments derived/expressed from the genetic information pool forming membrane transport proteins and ion pumps.

These membrane transport proteins were originally only supposed to react to one or several substances——those substances are akin to “entering commands” into a computer.

But the security of this computer was indeed quite poor.

The creator didn’t define what constitutes legal and illegal operations at all when designing this thing, so this chemical computer would also voluntarily identify some “structurally similar” foreign chemical substances as “commands.”

Abusing psychotropic drugs is roughly “finding the ‘pleasure reward settlement system’ BUG and exploiting it to gain unfair advantages.”

The secret technique created by the Eighth Martial God was even more refined.

With the resurfacing memories, Xiang Shan also found the “electrical signals that can trigger specific ion pump reactions” —— which was akin to artificially created exploits.

After all, the underlying principle of this technique was not different from “psychotropic drugs.”

After being hit by this move, one might still retain a little bit of thinking capacity, but their brain would generally be a mess.

And like most psychotropic drugs, once this move was executed, it would have long-term effects.

Of course, it was not about addiction nor was it absolutely irreversible.

But it would inevitably cause immense subjective torment.

Xiang Shan re-concealed his connection to the satellite station.

Over there, the firewall had been reconstructed, as if patched.

However, Xiang Shan was hacking from Mr.

Isin’s terminal, using Mr.

Isin’s account, which bypassed a considerable number of restrictions.

“Now I’ve got some free time,” Xiang Shan sat at the office desk, “There’s no information about the Six Dragons Sect in the system, huh…

Of course.

That Old Dog is a hacker after all and knows how to gather intelligence.

If you guys were to bump the related records onto a computer, you’d probably be uprooted by the next day.

Maybe you have special encryption skills?

Or have you made extensive use of non-electronic computers?”

Mr.

Isin made minor adjustments and set his gaze on a drawer.

Only then did Xiang Shan notice that this desk actually had such a primitive structure.

He pulled open the drawer and inside, there were actually old-fashioned folders.

Xiang Shan took out the folder and flipped through it.

He then went silent for two seconds.

“Punched cards…

you’re relentless.”

This was equivalent to a storage device and program entity used on purely mechanical computers.

Unless there was a special machine that could enable information conversion between electronic computers and purely mechanical computers, not even King Aqini could hack into this thing.

“Is this really necessary?” Xiang Shan sighed, “Isn’t it better to just not install networking capabilities in a computer from the start?

Why use such a far-fetched method?

Aren’t there many other encryption methods?

You guys are really hardcore.”

Some static came from Mr.

Isin’s synthesizer, as if he wanted to say something.

Xiang Shan scratched his head.

Indeed, he could control this man’s brain to perform some operations.

But that was more or less to the extent of “using someone’s hand to unlock a fingerprint scanner.”

Even with the Eighth Martial God’s secret technique, it was impossible to freely hack into a person’s brain.

“Let me think, what you mean is, you don’t know why either?

Or is it simply a hobby?

Or perhaps a way to maintain cohesion and shape group culture?” After a moment of thought, Xiang Shan shook his head, “Speaking of which, you are indeed from the Six Dragons Sect, right?”

Mr.

Isin nodded, “There is no mistake…”

“Oh well.

What is the purpose of your Six Dragons Sect’s existence?”

“To pursue truth…”

“Isn’t this no different from the Scientific Knight Order?

Why don’t you just be proper Scientific Knights?” Xiang Shan’s finger pressed against his forehead, looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Vice Captain’s office.

The faint sparks below had already been extinguished.

“Scientific Knights…

The rigid…

system…

outdated ethics…

it’s all wrong…” Mr.

Isin’s brain struggled to organize his thoughts.

Numerous concepts were pieced together in his cerebral lobes, forming speech.

And the still-existing Self-Consciousness could only watch all this happen.

Xiang Shan looked at this disciple of the Six Dragons Sect, “So in your eyes, what is ‘correct’?”

“Firstly…

we must eliminate the Father of All Machines…” said Mr.

Isin, “His authoritative existence itself is an obstruction and blasphemy to the development of science…”

“What’s wrong with Yawgmoth Voigt?”

“Hard to comprehend…

The Order of Scientific Knights has put too many resources into his whimsical needs…

We keep designing lifeforms that can grow in extreme environments…

He seems to be pursuing ‘self-healing’ machines…

The evolution of technology may be deformed.

And we might not even be able to perceive it.”

Xiang Shan nodded slightly, “You’re also opposed to the authority of the Father of All Machines.

But your understanding of scientific ethics is even more radical than that of orthodox Scientific Knights, isn’t it…”

“Because…

change is necessary…

we are the correct ones…”

“So it’s not ‘we have to do it this way’ but ‘we choose to do it this way for fast and effective realization of our goals’?,” Xiang Shan nodded again, “Then the next question, what is your status within the Six Dragons Sect’s system?

Can your understanding of this issue be regarded as the understanding of most people in the Six Dragons Sect?”