"Shit!"
V pulled out his gun, almost pulling the trigger on the robot in front of him that suddenly started twitching bizarrely.
At that moment, Lilith, who had everything under control just a moment ago, suddenly lost her voice, replaced by the robot she once controlled, now violently convulsing.
It's hard to imagine a robot suddenly twitching incessantly as if electrified, but the scarier thing was that after the twitching stopped, the robot eerily stood up straight.
The camera on its head stared directly at Mercer and others, as if analyzing something, but soon it saluted Mercer, then looked at the other robots nearby as if receiving an order.
Next moment, the other robots started twitching too.
Moreover, the computers, screens, all electronic devices in the room began flickering like crazy.
The robots on either side of the room, after twitching, stepped forward in unison — their forehead lights glowing bright red, guns in hand, safety releases, suddenly marching neatly towards the door.
"What's this..." V wasn't quite sure of the situation but instinctively looked at Mercer: "You hacked them all? What about Lilith? Is it sorted?"
"It's a tug-of-war, but Lilith can't escape."
Mercer showed a slightly surprised smile: "It instinctively wanted to isolate and backup the virus-stricken area without realizing my Black Light virus could bypass her ICE and network protocol.
When she realized the virus was far more troublesome than imagined and tried to abandon the server for survival... she had already taken Black Light to her home."
"Home?" V asked.
"Other Moon servers, maybe even Mars — anyway, now Lilith is trying desperately to save herself, and in my calculations, she won't last, this time, she's in big trouble."
Mercer knew clearly that AI's essence is similar to a program; programs rely on computers and servers, and Black Light's corrosion is comprehensive.
Black Light not only targets the AI program itself but also infects and controls any equipment that can provide computational power.
If Lilith had immediately realized the virus's terror upon execution and abandoned the entire virus-loaded server, disconnecting her AI core and server connection instantly, there might have been a slim chance of survival.
But Lilith's mistake was — she tried to fight back.
It wasn't arrogance but a split-second decision based on experience; she or anyone couldn't have imagined how scary Mercer's Black Light is, a virus program long beyond conventional.
Before new network protocols and antivirus programs are developed, Black Light, a super virus bypassing ICE programs and attacking from local protocols, is virtually indefensible.
Especially after Venus mobilized computational power to assist the attack — the terrifying computational power isn't just Mercer's Dog Town servers but also the Busan Ghost City super server lent to Mercer by Ultraman.
Combined, it's almost like a super AI with ample computational power, giving a virus USB to the opponent's server first and then launching a surprise attack.
Lilith almost couldn't resist; Black Light and Venus knocked her down together, skipping straight to the aftermath from fierce battle.
Mercer couldn't declare victory now because Lilith is still struggling like a cornered beast.
She deployed all roaming AI attached to her server, calling all available computational power, programs trying to delete Black Light and temporarily writing antivirus programs to delay Black Light's erosion.
At the same time, she tried to counterattack — like throwing a virus at Mercer's server, triggering other defense protocols, even attempting similar retaliatory actions against Mercer like mutual destruction...
"So..." V watched the robots reach the door, yet the double isolation door remained bizarrely unopened, and the robots tried crazily to manually pry it open: "Did we... succeed?"
Lark's face darkened, turning sharply to Mercer: "Are we in big trouble?"
"Hard to say... but wasn't our purpose here to completely eliminate the threat?" Mercer chuckled, then took a folded Octopus Arm from the suitcase, tossed it to V.
"Stop dawdling, get ready to run." As Mercer finished his words, the room flashed blinding red light.
"Emergency protocol activated!" Inside the base, a cold female voice accompanied by Sasha's electric sound emerged.
V quickly grabbed the Octopus Arm and attached it to Mercer's shoulder, while foolishly asking: "What's an emergency protocol?"
"It means this damn place might explode!!!"
Lark screamed, needing no orders, sprinting towards the door, opening the electronic panel, pulling her data cable, trying to hack the door.
"Don't bother, if hacking was needed, wouldn't need you... step aside."