NOVEL NEXT Chapter 198: Possession_2
"Wu Yong was unclear about the AI's actions. After the consciousness transfer, the AI took advantage of the opportunity to seize his body."
Upon mentioning this, Lin Hua rubbed his forehead, looking frightened.
"A bionic human's body cannot contain the vast data of an AI, so it needs more bionic humans. That's why it tricked us into undergoing consciousness transfer."
"This bionic human was initially prepared for consciousness transfer. The AI couldn't activate these bionic humans by itself. It needed us to activate them first, and only after the transfer, could it begin to invade the body."
"That's why it insisted on us selecting those bionic humans."
"Those who just underwent consciousness transfer experienced a partial loss in their spiritual power after the interruption, with a significant portion of spiritual power disappearing."
"Hiss..."
Lin Yuan gasped with shock upon hearing this.
He never imagined the AI could operate this way.
It tricked them into the consciousness transfer, only to erase their consciousness afterward.
Fortunately, he hadn't gone down then. If he had, and completed the consciousness transfer, wouldn't a lot of his spiritual power be depleted?
For these Extraordinary individuals, their spiritual power is extremely important.
"Luckily, you guys blew up the AI. Otherwise, it would've been a real disaster."
"Although part of the AI's program transferred to the consciousness transfer device, it hadn't completely transferred. The main part was still on the host. After you blew up the host, it was entirely destroyed."
As Lin Hua said this, he looked at Zhou Yingting and the others and remarked, "You all were cautious not to go down, or we would have faced total annihilation."
If Zhou Yingting and the others had gone down, the opposition wouldn't have hesitated to act ruthlessly.
Previously, the opposition must have known Zhou Yingting and the rest didn't go down, so they hesitated.
"Thanks to you for being cautious at the critical moment."
Lin Yuan, hearing this, immediately turned to Zhou Yingting and spoke.
At this moment, his face was full of relief.
"At last, this dungeon mission is finally over. I won't enter such a dungeon next time."
Zhou Yingting sighed in relief, then remarked.
If it weren't for the numerous entries given by the opposition, Zhou Yingting wouldn't have wanted to enter this dungeon at all.
After this experience, Zhou Yingting resolved not to enter such dungeons again in the future.
The passive situation in this kind of dungeon is simply too significant after entry.
"By the way, what about Wu Yong? Is he dead?"
Xiao Yuzhu seemed to recall something and quickly inquired.
Lin Hua and the others shook their heads upon hearing, "Wu Yong's consciousness was already erased. We feared the body taken by the AI would leave the dungeon and escape to Earth, so we destroyed it completely."
The AI had already frightened them plenty; there was no way they could let it go now.
Knowing Wu Yong was already dead, they couldn't allow any trace of the AI to remain.
Xiao Yuzhu sighed upon hearing and nodded, indicating understanding.
"When can we leave this dungeon? I've been feeling rather jittery."
Huang Qi asked from the side.
At this moment, Huang Qi looked quite pale, as though severely injured.
A few others looked the same as Huang Qi.
Earlier, they saw on the screen that Huang Qi and the others had selected bionic humans.
It's likely that because of this, a substantial amount of their spiritual power was drained, and they now looked the way they did.
They got nothing and lost so much spiritual power, which left them with unspoken grievances.
"In just a few more minutes, we can leave."
Xiao Yuzhu checked the time and then spoke.
Everyone found a spot to sit and began calculating their gains and losses in the dungeon following this.
Earlier, they managed to acquire some entries, but they weren't sure if these entries could be exchanged for ones that increased spiritual power or some elixirs.
If they could, it wouldn't be too bad.
Otherwise, their loss in this entry was enormous.
They had used too much of their essential spiritual power.
After waiting for several minutes, Xiao Yuzhu saw the time was almost up and directly crushed the scroll in his hand.
In the next moment, everyone vanished from the dungeon space.
....
"You're all back!"
Inside the abandoned factory, the people from the club in the previous dungeon had returned.
But these people now looked clearly unwell.
"Did you all... become bionic humans?"
Lin Hua noticed something off about these people. Although they looked no different from before, one could sense a strong bionic human aura from them upon closer inspection.
After spending time in that dungeon, they seemed to be able to sense the bionic human scent.
"But wait, you didn't come out with bionic humans, how did you become one?"
Lin Hua scrutinized closely and confirmed these people indeed became bionic humans, which surprised him and made him vigilant.
Could these guys have been taken over by the AI?
What the AI called "invading" was also quite akin to "possession."
With this thought, a few people's gazes turned serious as they stared at these individuals.
At this point, a group arrived outside the factory.
Their clothing immediately identified them as people from the 14th Bureau.
Seeing people from the 14th Bureau, Lin Hua boldly asked, "You haven't been possessed by the AI in the dungeon, have you?"
"What are you talking about!"
On hearing this, the people on the opposite side got agitated, "After completing the mission and drawing a lottery in the dungeon space, we saw a bionic human reward and took it."
"The dungeon rewards are better than the things inside the dungeon, aren't they?"
Listening to this explanation, Lin Hua and the others thought it seemed reasonable if they put it that way.
"Possession?"
The people from the 14th Bureau listened to this, immediately walked over, and looked at everyone present with a serious expression.
Seeing this, Lin Hua briefly explained the situation inside the dungeon.
After hearing this, the 14th Bureau personnel signaled everyone to stand correctly, promptly bringing in equipment for checks.
"Cooperate a bit. Our tests are quite accurate. If you pass the test, it means there's nothing wrong with you. None of you would want strange things entering our world, right?"
The 14th Bureau had comprehensive equipment, and after listening to everyone's words, they immediately commenced testing without further ado.
No matter how much these people explained, they could only feel assured after the testing was conducted.
Once everyone was tested and confirmed to be problem-free, the people from the 14th Bureau left with their equipment.
Seeing this, Lin Hua and the others felt relieved that with the assurance from the 14th Bureau's test, they could finally be at ease.
"Alright, this concludes my involvement here, I'll be off now."
Lin Hua waved his hand as he finished his task and chose to leave straight away.
Accompanying him were Zhou Yingting and others.
Zhou Yingting needed to return to the trade fair to retrieve his car and head back.
Now possessing quite a few entries, he thought it was an opportunity to visit the trade fair to see if he could trade for the entries or other desirable items.
If not, attribute elixirs would also suffice.