Chapter 658: To Game City

Chapter 658: To Game City

Hearing the plan in full, delusional-but-not-yet-stupid Lixiang calmed down right away and began to consider the possibilities. But those game exosuits all have an anti-theft system installed. The system within will automatically cease all motor functions outside of Game City, hast thou considered this?

Lixiang was right, of course. Game Cities wouldnt be able to stay financially afloat if they allowed all their customers to just ride away in an exosuit. Strictly speaking, even those entertainment exosuits were capable of killing a person

Ah but Im a hacker. Said Bitong, chin slightly raised high. I can break the defenses of that system easily. All I need is ten seconds.

She basically had me at that point with her suggestion, but the moment I thought of Jiaojiao, I got a little concerned again. But can Jiaojiao even ride an exosuit? Shes still young

Jiaojiao will be fine! Jiaojiao thumped her chest. Im a genius!

Ke, did you forget? Jiaojiao is an ace at piloting exosuits. Bitong rubbed the girls head at that point. If she wasnt so young, she might even be a better pilot than me.

Whether she was actually a genius pilot remained to be seen, but the exosuit should at least provide some protection if she could pilot it. She might not even be afraid of zombies at that point, since those zombies couldnt break through the defenses of the exosuit. Furthermore, these exosuits were designed to absorb the SP in the air, and could theoretically function on its own perpetually.

These exosuits might be labelled as entertainment only, but their defenses were comparable to those used in the army. After all, players engaged in real combat with these exosuits, so a little caution went a long way.

The real way in which these exosuits were tailored for leisure purposes were their functions. Other than defenses, parameters like speed were lowered by design so that a normal player could still react to the machine.

Next, its offensive capabilities were completely stripped. Any melee weapons were set to sealed mode. This way, there was no physical way an entertainment exosuit could ever break apart another. Its ranged weapons received the same treatment as well. Bullets were swapped out for rubber ones, and any lasers were more flashy than actually harmful.

Finally, every such exosuit had its own anti-theft system that prevented its user from leaving Game City in it, barring hacked ones. However, there werent many hackers who were bored enough to actually try and steal such a stripped down exosuit.

Got it.

Just like that, we set off towards the exit. After killing a few more zombies in the passageway, we safely made it out to the pavilion structure above ground.

I carefully stuck my head out first, and found the exterior stacked full of corpses, of which some were wearing police uniforms. Other than the corpses, there looked to be about a couple dozen zombies wandering around.

Perhaps it was because this was an innate feature of their undead nature, but the moment we popped out, they immediately sensed us and began moaning in their characteristic gratingly hollow voice.

However, I was already prepared for just such a danger.

At the same time as I had the girls back away a little, I erected a fire wall across the entry points. Any zombies who dared cross the line were instantly set aflame

Because I only spent 50 SP on this wall, they werent immediately burnt to ashes, but the effect wasnt that far off either. At times, there was that odd straggler who managed to make it through the wall, only to collapse soon after in a pile of ashes

The wall lasted for half a minute. Its scorching heat was so strong, we could even feel it through the environmental conditioning in our shirts.

Still, the flame wall had done its job and it fizzled out without trouble. The zombies who tried to swarm us were all burnt, and the ground was painted black once more

During the time the wall burned, I occasionally stared at my status menu, and to my delight, my points were jumping up! A whole 31 points!

At this point, I had crossed the 100 mark into 117.