Mercer and the food truck owner packed up two synthetic hot dogs, and also packed two iced colas, and returned to the tent.
Lucy was sitting by the box, carefully checking the chip with a circuit tester.
"Take a break and have something to eat." Mercer placed the cola and hot dog next to her, but Lucy didn't even look up: "In a bit... I don't know which CPU core is the problem, I have to repeatedly power it to troubleshoot..."
Mercer didn't disturb her, sat down by his computer, connected it to the hacker chair, then connected himself to the hacker chair, and entered a deep dive in the meditative posture of the hacker chair.
[Mercer: Is the program now running into the NCPD database?]
[Venus: Detecting... Please wait, I need to continue network analysis to provide you with more accurate analysis.]
In the Cyber World, Mercer gave Venus a body, a cute short-haired black cat.
At this moment, Venus was sitting on Mercer's lap, its eyes sparkling with data, while Mercer patiently awaited its feedback.
He is now trying to use Venus to replace himself for handling some simple online matters, and as Venus's intelligence increases, the speed of processing data and information is also increasing at an incredibly rapid pace.
In other words, its intelligence is getting higher, and its utilization of computing power is becoming more efficient.
It has to be said that in the network world, AI's talent is still too strong. Mercer even thinks—at most in a month, as long as it has a decent server, it can completely become an AI capable of autonomous operation, decision-making, and even self-thinking.
And once its intelligence fully matures, in AI's strong fields like data analysis, retrieval, and integration, even Mercer may not necessarily be its match.
And this is exactly what Mercer hopes it can achieve, that a mature Venus can save Mercer a lot of 'grunt work' and become his reliable assistant in the cyber world.
[Venus: Based on the Magic Puppet Program's operation, I believe we have successfully gained server access to the NPCD database.
Moreover, I believe we can take it a step further, using the Magic Puppet Program to hack into NCPD's road monitoring system and command and dispatch system, providing convenience for our upcoming actions.]
Mercer smiled and patted the cat head of Venus in Cyberspace: "I'll leave it to you, how about it?"
Venus rubbed its cat head against his palm: "Of course, master, I'll do my best."
After speaking, it got up and ran off into the distance, disappearing in an instant.
The Sorcery Puppet Mercer left in the NCPD server was originally a lurking Sorcery Puppet he kept in the city council's residence server.
Its sole function was to hide in the updated data from the residence when NCPD updated data from the city council server, sneak into the NCPD's server, and provide Mercer with a remote hack interface.
And now Venus connected and drilled into the NCPD server through that interface.
Unlike Mercer, who remotely calls server computing power, essentially still using his brain to manipulate this computing power, which has a certain delay and cannot be precisely controlled.
As when saving Qiwei, although he used the computing power of a server there, strictly speaking, Mercer only used that server to run his deployed Sorcery Puppet Program.
It's less about him using the server's computing power and more about simply using the server's computing power to run a program.
Unless he can directly wire his brain to the server as at Arasaka, he can perfectly use his brain to digest server computing power and call it precisely.
Of course, the precision of use and how much server computing power he can digest depends on the limit of Mercer's brain.
And the network delay caused by remote hacking is unavoidable for humans, even with deep dives.
Because in essence, a deep dive is just humans temporarily giving up all perception of their reality and putting all brain computing power into Cyberspace.
Unless Mercer uploads himself with the Soulkiller, completely disconnects from the body, and becomes a complete data-conscious entity, he can't entirely eliminate this delay.
But Venus is different, as an AI, it is essentially a special program composed of core code, and once it enters the opponent's server, it can fully mobilize the server's computing power 100%.
To use an anthropomorphic analogy, it's equivalent to connecting its brain to the 'body' composed of the server, not only eliminating any delay but making it more lively and powerful than in Mercer's body.
[Venus: I might need you to check the program for me... I need your guidance in this area.]
In less than ten seconds, Venus completed all the preparations inside the opponent's server.
It found and hacked into other servers through NCPD's LAN, and successfully obtained access to all systems, including NCPD's road monitoring system, personnel dispatch and command system, etc.
No matter how strict the defenses are, you can't guard against internal threats. No matter how powerful the ICE on NCPD's server is used, it can't beat a Magic Puppet Program that operates directly within the server.
Not to mention, the programs are operated by an AI with a certain level of intelligence.