268: Chapter 269 "Order Wars" [Clone City]: A [Hacker] with some martial arts skills

The [Hacker]’s fingertips tapped incessantly on the [Virtual Keyboard], wrapped in a dense flow of blue data. The quantum computers that once filled the walls had transformed into countless wriggling chunks of meat; the very building he had chosen to ensure his safety had now become a flesh-and-blood cage trapping him inside.

Even though the [Hacker] had rushed toward the door the moment the building began to mutate and rapidly fleshy-ize, he was still whipped back inside by the giant flesh tentacles outside. Fortunately, wrapped in the blue data stream automatically generated by the [Dream Spirit] [Virtual Keyboard], the [Hacker] did not suffer any injuries.

The blue data stream formed a giant egg, enveloping the [Hacker] and floating within the building that had turned into a massive, wriggling mass of meat. On the walls of the flesh building, countless tiny nerve bundles frequently reached toward the giant blue egg, attempting to invade and take over the [Hacker]’s nervous system to control this "weak" [Host].

Inside the giant egg of blue data, the [Hacker] gave a self-deprecating laugh and muttered to himself, "I'm really being looked down upon... Although I'm just a Hacker, I do know a bit of fisticuffs!" With that, the blue egg emitted a "Crack! Crack!" sound as it shattered. The [Hacker], his entire body covered in blue data streams, suspended himself in mid-air. He gripped both ends of the [Dream Spirit] [Virtual Keyboard] with his hands and snapped it hard. Amidst a burst of blue data streams resembling electric sparks, the [Virtual Keyboard] was broken into two halves, and two miniaturized versions of the [Virtual Keyboard] floated beneath the [Hacker]’s hands.

The [Hacker]’s fingers rapidly tapped on the miniaturized [Virtual Keyboard]s. Countless dense blue data streams transformed into bullets as solid as substance, blasting toward the slender nerve tentacles rushing at him as the egg shattered. A ring of blue data flickered across the surface of the nerve bundles hit by the blue data bullets. As more and more data bullets struck the wriggling walls of the flesh building, the flickering data streams turned the dark-red flesh of the entire space into a bright blue. Once the entire flesh space was completely covered by the blue data streams, the nerve bundles ceased their attack on the [Hacker], and the fleshy walls stopped wriggling.

"Intrusion successful! The control of this building is mine! Next is..." As several blue strips resembling network cables extended from the data streams covering the [Hacker]’s body, the nerve bundles he now controlled stretched upward to actively connect with them. The [Hacker]’s deep pupils were covered by blue data streams, and the entire flesh building effectively became his eyes and body.

The [Eye Demon], who was watching over twenty [Host]s being besieged by a sea of giant flesh tentacles in the Tower Plaza, couldn't help but exclaim, "As expected of an [Unknown Existence] with special abilities, to actually be able to seize control of a [Clone City] that has already turned into a Giant Flesh Altar from my hands. Though it's just a dispensable small flesh building... Hahaha... This is getting more and more interesting! I look forward to sacrificing you all to an Unspeakable Higher-Order Existence! That way, I shall become even more perfect!"

The [Hacker], who had been continuously consuming a large amount of [Dream Power] to maintain his [Talent] "Overload State," suddenly felt the [Eye Demon]’s highly aggressive gaze from across a great distance and through countless flesh buildings. The blue data streams that had been flowing smoothly over his body inevitably faltered for a moment. A drop of cold sweat rolled down the [Hacker]’s temple as he grumbled, "What a monster!" Using the flesh building he controlled as an entry point for his intrusion, he began to hack and seize control of the surrounding flesh buildings, flesh ground, and flesh tentacles. As the flesh that had been emitting a dark-red glow turned to a bright blue, with blue data streams occasionally surfacing on the flesh, the [Hacker]’s exclusive fortress continued to expand.