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Chapter 280 - 257 Backup

Chapter 280: Chapter 257 Backup

The light white origami crane, fluttering its wings, gently landed in front of Bartmos, who seemed to have fallen into an icy cavern.

The next instant, Li Cheng’s figure replaced the origami crane, appearing out of nowhere. He had activated his Instant Thunder Skill ahead of time, with sparks of electricity flashing between his clothes and skin.

In this life-or-death moment, Bartmos had no choice but to use his trump card, pulling out his most treasured item.

A red ladybug with the number one thousand printed on its back.

[Item Name: Millennium Bug]

[Type: Consumable Items]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Chaotic Moment. One minute delay, after which a chaotic space with a diameter of one thousand meters is created, causing all things within to become disordered. The manifestations of chaos include but are not limited to object fusion, matter annihilation, acceleration or reversal of time, soul swapping, eternal stasis. The process can be canceled at any time.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Use Conditions: Proficient in at least three programming languages, excluding php]

[Note: Because of a bug’s appearance, we suspended the experiment]

This consumable item shaped like a red ladybug, a tangible manifestation of the famous computer bug from the year 2000, can create an extremely tyrannical reality-twisting explosion.

Within a kilometer range, forget about skyscrapers and concrete fortresses, even a level 30 player, or a Transcendent as godlike as level 40, would be shown no mercy.

Bartmos pinched the Millennium Bug with his left hand and tapped rapidly on the wall with his right, hurriedly activating a skill to move the walls sideways, aiming to crush Li Cheng.

At the same time, he quickly retreated, his body once again covered with a green glow, trying to digitize his physical form and flee urgently along the network cables.

A smooth combo of moves, but unfortunately, completely useless.

Li Cheng casually threw out his Electronic Pet Egg, and Gray Rain emerged swinging the Skull Shattering Hammer, easily crushing the concrete walls coming in from both sides, "Is this it? Even the pressure from Weibo is stronger."

Li Cheng himself then activated the Double Jump ability and surged forward.

So fast was his movement that Bartmos, who had not activated the data domain to enhance his reaction speed, could only catch a fleeting glimpse of an afterimage. Before he could react, Li Cheng was already upon him, gripping his skull with one hand.

The temporary Skill—Brain Entropy Extraction—activated.

Bartmos’s body shivered, and feeble lines of light, resembling his soul, started emerging from him, being stripped away strand by strand.

His body trembled uncontrollably, eyes rolling back, foaming at the mouth.

An ordinary player subjected to Brain Entropy Extraction would probably be done for on the spot, but Bartmos, after all, was an elite of the Whale Song Guild and still had a lifesaving trick up his sleeve.

From the back of his neck, green data flowed out, slowly rising and constructing a replica of Bartmos’s head.

Its expression was indifferent, features stiff—not truly Bartmos, but a backup of his personality—

Players in Script Tasks might face brainwashing, charm, mental manipulation, memory deletion, or memory tampering from external forces. To prevent such situations, the Whale Song Guild developed this secret technique,

which could store a backup of the personality, and would activate it autonomously if the body lost control.

"Stop!"

Bartmos’ personality backup spoke in a calm tone but at a quick pace, "I have activated the Millennium Bug Bomb, in forty seconds, the entire block will be blown to smithereens."

"I know, but I just want to fly to the sky, shoulder to shoulder with the sun."

Li Cheng said casually. He had already extracted all the intelligence about the Millennium Bug using the skill of Extracting Brain Entropy and was very clear about its power.

"Additionally, I also know that the explosion of the Millennium Bug can be canceled at any time, so I want to negotiate a condition with you, a condition to not kill Bartmos right now."

Upon hearing this, Bartmos’ personality backup paused, its logic thinking array ran at high speed, almost to the point of smoking, as it understood Li Cheng’s intention.

There are currently the following two possibilities.

A, Li Cheng, while Bartmos’ real body is controlled by the Brain Entropy Extraction Skill and unable to leave the task, could directly crush his skull, kill him, take away the Toy Factory Key, and he himself might also get killed by the Millennium Bug Bomb.

B, Li Cheng doesn’t kill Bartmos, cancels the Brain Entropy Extraction Skill, and lets Bartmos regain his consciousness. The latter would either immediately activate the special ability of this mission, take the Millennium Bug Bomb and break away from Toy City, returning to the real world,

or he would seek revenge, leave the bomb behind and teleport back to the real world.

Within the possibility of A, the risks for Li Cheng are too high. Within the possibility of B, Li Cheng would suffer too much of a loss.

Bartmos’ personality backup, if it wants the real body to survive and the opposing Ant to accept, then it must propose a third possibility.

C, the personality backup takes the initiative to disclose the real body’s weaknesses, so that even if Bartmos regains his Divine Wisdom, he wouldn’t dare to risk mutual destruction with Li Cheng. This is the only possibility both parties could accept.

The choice isn’t a hard one; the personality backup immediately said: "The black canvas bag’s VR glasses, the smart watch worn on the left wrist, the hidden chip under the skin of the right wrist, are all Bartmos’ bound items."

Dealing with a smart person is satisfying. Li Cheng firmly controlled Bartmos’ head with one hand, and with the other hand neatly took away the glasses, the watch, and the chip.

The Information Integration Glasses showed that of these three items, two were Perfect, one was Fine, their effects were ideological access to the internet, enhanced data control capabilities, and a reduced risk of spiritual collapse, respectively.

They are the cornerstones of Bartmos’ personal Power System.

After taking these three things, Li Cheng lifted the effect of Extracting Brain Entropy, allowing the hacker to regain his consciousness.

"Heh—"

Bartmos took a deep breath, first looked at Li Cheng, who took away his key items, and then looked at his own personality backup floating beside his head, and instantly understood what had happened,

he turned his head and cursed at his own personality backup: "You actually betrayed me?! Shame on your old mother."

"Chill, I was saving you. Otherwise, you’d be a corpse right now."

The personality backup coldly replied: "And I am you, your mom is my mom."

That was also true; to continue scolding would be too much for Ba Mu to bear.

Bartmos clenched his teeth and let out a resigned sigh, then pressed the Millennium Bug, canceling the bomb.

Nowadays, like the fish that finds the knife at its throat, the hacker was also straightforward and spread his hands, "You won, what do you want me to do."

Li Cheng nodded and said, "I want you to take out Gouchen, Frankenstein, Joker, Eugene."

"...what?" Bartmos’ features twisted a bit—he wouldn’t be in such a situation if he were capable of taking out these people.

Li Cheng laughed heartily, "Hahaha, just a joke to lighten the mood, cheer up."

Bartmos looked even more constipated—buddy... can you move your hand from my head while you’re saying this? I’m scared.