144: Chapter 144 Server Physical Exorcism

In the detention center's interrogation room, the pale, harsh light shone onto Su Yang's ashen face.

Gu Changan held the ticket, which was still damp, and tossed it onto the table.

The sound of the paper sliding across the tabletop seemed exceptionally jarring in the silent room.

Su Yang lay prone on the floor, his body still twitching involuntarily.

The "Citywide Public Beta" he was so proud of had completely failed.

But the glint of madness in his eyes had not yet been extinguished.

"Gu Changan, so what if you won this round?"

Su Yang raised his head with difficulty, baring his blood-stained mouth in a hideously menacing grin.

"The app has already been distributed; it's like a seed, planted into millions of terminals."

"My server is on the dark web. It's quantum-encrypted, using algorithms provided by the Main God."

"As long as the server exists, the app will continuously auto-generate new domains and iterate itself."

"You might save this batch, but you can't save the next."

"As long as people still harbor greed, my Blood River Demonic Technique will spread across this planet."

Gu Changan looked down at his watch; the hands ticked precisely.

Ignoring Su Yang's wild ravings, he pressed the wireless communicator at his ear.

"Chen Xiaobei, haven't you broken through yet?"

The impatient sound of Chen Xiaobei typing on his Keyboard came through the communicator.

"Boss, it's no good. The underlying code of this thing is too tough."

"Its bounce programs are switching back and forth between tens of thousands of botnets globally, and it has quantum entanglement encryption protection."

"It will take at least a month to hack in remotely, and in that time, it can update hundreds of versions."

Gu Changan listened without a flicker of emotion on his face.

He didn't even frown.

Su Yang heard the conversation and laughed even louder.

"Did you hear that? A month!"

"In a month, this Earth will have long since become my Blood River territory!"

Gu Changan looked at him as if he were watching an immature, delusional teenager.

"Quantum encryption is indeed powerful; a month is certainly too long."

Gu Changan turned around and spoke coldly into the walkie-talkie.

"Chen Xiaobei, don't waste your brain trying to decrypt the code."

"Lock onto its physical coordinates for me, even if it's just precise to the street."

Chen Xiaobei's voice paused for a moment, then began working frantically.

"Physical coordinates? Let me check... the backtracking characteristics of the data flow..."

"Found it! Due to the large volume of data feedback just now, its real physical beacon was exposed for a second!"

"It's right in Donghai City, on the third basement level of the Su Group building. It has an independent power supply and climate control System!"

Gu Changan put away the walkie-talkie and looked at the now-frozen Su Yang.

"Is this what you meant by invincible on the network?"

Su Yang's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpricks.

"How dare you... that is the Forbidden Ground of the Su Group, you don't have a search warrant..."

Gu Changan had already walked to the door, his voice drifting from afar.

"A search warrant? Illegally setting up an illegal radio station, severely damaging the computer information System."

"I'm taking people to tear it down by force; I don't need your permission."

Su Yang slammed frantically against the iron door, the chains clanking.

"Gu Changan! You can't destroy it! That is my life's work!"

Ten minutes later.

Donghai City, Su Group building.

Three pitch-black riot armored vehicles smashed directly through the first-floor revolving doors of the building.

The piercing sound of sirens echoed through the empty lobby.

Special Police wearing exoskeleton armor poured in, their submachine guns glinting with cold light.

"Bureau of Anomalous Affairs on official business! Everyone, get down and cover your heads!"

Gu Changan, biting on an unlit cigarette, walked steadily toward the elevator.

Several private bodyguards hired by the Su Family tried to step forward to stop them, but were immediately pinned to the wall by two Special Police officers using electric shock shields.

"Third basement level, elevator access is locked."

Chen Xiaobei reported over the communicator.

"No problem, we'll take the stairs."

Gu Changan walked to the end of the second basement level, where a fifty-centimeter-thick alloy bulletproof door stood before him.

Pasted on the door were a dozen dark red talismans, emitting a nauseating stench of blood.

This was the physical firewall Su Yang had set up.

The combination of talismans and modern technology could indeed withstand ordinary explosions.

Gu Changan walked to the door and reached out to touch the cold metal.

"Is this your Demonic Path Foundation?"

He drew a ruggedly styled, large-caliber revolver from his waist.

The gun was engraved with golden soul-suppressing patterns; it was a new product from the Special Research Institute.

"Director Gu, should we use hydraulic shears?"

The captain beside him asked in a low voice.

"Too slow."

Gu Changan aimed directly at the hinges of the bulletproof door and pulled the trigger.

Boom—!

The specially made spell-breaking bullet erupted with a deafening roar in the narrow corridor.

The red light on the alloy door instantly dissipated.

Those talismans, which were originally capable of withstanding missiles, were as brittle as waste paper in the face of industrial-grade spell-breaking power.

After two shots, the door crashed to the ground.

The scene inside the basement was exposed to everyone.

It was a room filled with a bizarre cyberpunk aesthetic.

Hundreds of black servers were stacked together, with countless dark red fiber optic cables plugged into the floor like blood vessels.

In the center of the room sat a semi-transparent water-cooled mainframe.

What flowed inside the mainframe was not coolant, but viscous, fluorescent dark red blood.

The humming sound of operation echoed in the room, carrying a frequency that made people feel unsettled.

"Boss, that's it! That's the Main God plugin server!"

Chen Xiaobei's voice was laced with excitement.

"It's sending data packets to the dark web; interception has failed!"

Gu Changan walked up to the blood-red mainframe.

The download count was frantically jumping on the screen: 4.2 million, 4.5 million...

Every jump in the number represented one more person in the city being eroded by the Demonic Seed.

"Spreading cult information, illegally controlling computer information Systems."

Gu Changan raised his gun and pressed it against the blood-red water cooling tank.

"Su Yang, you'll have to spend hundreds of years sewing in prison to pay off this astronomical electricity bill."

Bang!

A muffled sound.

The blood-red water cooling tank shattered instantly, splashing viscous blood all over the floor.

Violent sparks erupted from the motherboard, mixed with the stench of charred flesh.

The red fiber optic cables that had been flashing frantically instantly went dark at that moment.

The oppressive bloody aura in the basement dissipated without a trace as the server stopped running.

All over Donghai City.

Countless citizens who were staring at their phone screens looking at "Cultivation Techniques" found that the app had frozen.

Then, a blue screen.

Immediately followed by a System prompt: This application involves violations and has been shut down in accordance with the law.

Inside the detention center.

Su Yang, who had still been raving frantically, suddenly shuddered all over.

He violently spat out a mouthful of thick black blood, his entire body shrinking significantly.

His Lifebound Treasure was connected to the server's Divine Soul; being "physically exorcised" at this moment directly injured his Foundation.

"Destroyed... everything is destroyed..."

Su Yang collapsed on the floor, his eyes completely losing their luster.

His Physical Body was already in tatters; that was the sequelae of Possession.

As he was now, even moving a finger was a struggle.

"No, I haven't lost yet."

Su Yang stared fixedly at the ceiling.

"I am the Old Ancestor of the Blood River."

"As long as the Primordial Spirit remains, what does it matter if I lose this skin?"

His breathing began to quicken, and his heart rate became extremely strange.