Luoqi's refusal came out of his mouth.
Only then did Brigitte realize that things were completely over; this guy simply couldn't be understood with normal corporate thinking.
Just as Brigitte was about to show a surprised expression and wanted to say something.
A massive force came from above her head, smashing her directly into the ground.
Flesh and blood splattered; Brigitte, who had been standing perfectly fine moments ago, instantly became a corpse.
And Luoqi, who had originally been not far from Brigitte, had already flashed beside her corpse.
It was obvious that this was Luoqi's masterpiece.
At this moment, Luoqi's Tyrant cyberware was fully activated, and the red light emanating from his spine cyberware faintly reflected on his face.
Luoqi once again descended like a tyrant, and this time the ones suffering were these guys from the Voodoo Boys.
Brigitte died suddenly, and the Voodoo Boys immediately raised the weapons they had just put down and aimed at Luoqi.
"Brigitte is dead!"
"We should have killed this guy a long time ago, this beast! Open fire!"
Having lost their leader, these Voodoo Boys members immediately began to pour fire onto Luoqi.
But what they should have understood earlier was that these things were of no use to Luoqi.
No matter how they struggled, the outcome was actually the same.
In Tyrant state, these Voodoo Boys seemed to be frozen.
Luoqi instantly went berserk, shuttling among these Voodoo Boys members, sending them to hell one by one.
And Rebecca on the side wasn't idle either; there weren't even enough Voodoo Boys members for her to kill, so how could she let Luoqi take them all?
Soon, the two killers began a massacre of the Voodoo Boys in this so-called secret base.
Luoqi and Rebecca were highly efficient; in no time, all the Voodoo Boys in the entire base were annihilated.
The entire underground maglev tunnel was covered everywhere with the corpses and blood of Voodoo Boys members.
The dilapidated underground base, coupled with this ghastly scene, was like a base that had been breached during the apocalypse.
Finishing off the Voodoo Boys members in the base also officially declared the demise of the Voodoo Boys.
As for the individual Voodoo Boys members still at large outside, they only needed to be slowly dealt with by Lisandra.
These Voodoo Boys hackers couldn't detach themselves from the network.
And their distinct online behavior style could be easily recognized even by ordinary hackers in Night City, let alone Lisandra, who was a top-tier artificial intelligence.
Having lost the protection of the Haishen Subnet, these Voodoo Boys hackers were like rats in the cyber-space.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were universally reviled; even if Lisandra didn't act, NetWatch would clear out these remnants for them.
In the base, Luoqi easily found the location of the Haishen Subnet's server.
Looking at the server in front of him that controlled the network of Pacifica, Luoqi didn't hesitate to insert his data knife into it.
As the data knife was inserted, Lisandra also successfully entered the innermost core of the Haishen Subnet.
This was a domain controlled only by the Voodoo Boys; no one else had ever set foot here.
Even Network Surveillance had always wanted to obtain the information within, but had never been able to successfully get involved.
Having lost the Voodoo Boys' maintenance and with the help of the data knife, Lisandra quickly took control of the entire Haishen Subnet.
All the data stored in the entire data fortress was acquired and received by Lisandra.
This included a large amount of intelligence stolen from other companies' data fortresses.
The Voodoo Boys' long-term presence in Pacifica had also allowed this data to accumulate to a terrifying amount.
Of course, most of this was not very useful to Ascension Technology.
What truly interested Luoqi was the Voodoo Boys' exploration data regarding the Blackwall and the Old Net beyond the Blackwall.
"Lisandra, what are your thoughts on this Blackwall?"
The projection in front of Luoqi was displaying a scene from cyberspace.
At this moment, Lisandra was standing beside a colossal Blackwall.
In cyberspace, Lisandra looked down at this marvel located in the network space, the Blackwall.
This was her first time encountering the Blackwall up close.
Lisandra had always known about the existence of the Blackwall in cyberspace.
But exploring the Blackwall was not her task, so she had never attempted to interact with it.
And because the Voodoo Boys wanted to study and release the Blackwall, the Haishen Subnet was naturally very close to the Blackwall.
Having now infiltrated the Haishen Subnet, Lisandra easily reached the vicinity of the Blackwall.
"The Voodoo Boys' data indicates that the Blackwall is actually a powerful AI used to filter and identify whether transmitted data is legitimate.
And that is indeed the case; I can feel that the Blackwall is indeed an AI structure."
Lisandra reviewed the information left by the Voodoo Boys, and as an AI herself, she confirmed the truth of this discovery by the Voodoo Boys.
And Luoqi was not surprised by this.
"The Voodoo Boys, a laughable gang.
If I'm not mistaken, they discovered the secret of this Blackwall and believed that the Blackwall, being an AI, would one day evolve into the most terrifying disaster."
That's why they kept talking about disaster and apocalypse all day, hoping to find a solution from the powerful AIs outside the Blackwall." Luoqi mercilessly mocked the Voodoo Boys, who were now history.
"That is indeed the case." Lisandra confirmed Luoqi's statement.
"Lisandra, are you capable of passing through this Blackwall?"
Having annihilated the Voodoo Boys and encountering the Blackwall for the first time, Luoqi was also curious about what the Old Net beyond the Blackwall was like.
After all, the Blackwall not only prevented AIs from the Old Net from entering the new cyberspace but also isolated human hackers from the possibility of exploring the Old Net.
Perhaps only companies at the level of NetWatch and Arasaka were capable of sending hackers into the Old Net to explore and obtain data.
As for groups like the Voodoo Boys, while they claimed to have been exploring the Old Net, they actually couldn't even get through the Blackwall at all.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed Johnny Silverhand's memories to lure out the super AI Alt Cunningham from the Old Net to help them pass through the Blackwall.
So even though Luoqi had obtained the Voodoo Boys' data, he still didn't know what the situation was like beyond the Blackwall.
Hearing Luoqi's question, Lisandra tentatively sensed the Blackwall.
"If I force my way through, I can do it, but I need time to break through its restraints." Lisandra commented.
"Will you be harmed? Crossing the Blackwall seems very dangerous?"
"The Blackwall will attack all data streams and AIs that force their way through it, but it currently cannot harm me."
After thinking for a moment, Lisandra believed that with the Blackwall's strength, although it would trap her for a while, it wouldn't be able to harm her.
Lisandra continued.
"The strength of this Blackwall doesn't seem as powerful as advertised.
If there are truly countless rogue artificial intelligences behind the Blackwall, then the Blackwall cannot completely block them. At least some top-tier artificial intelligences can still choose to cross the Blackwall."
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