Chapter 52: The God of the Internet?

“At least when it comes to cyber manipulation, I shouldn’t be much inferior to artificial intelligence now,” Yu Fei soberly assessed his own abilities. Being able to convert his psychic power into a quasi-electronic state allowed him to navigate the network with remarkable prowess.

Take firewalls, for example. In his quasi-electronic state, a firewall appeared as a ‘gate.’ Hackers attempting to breach this gate had to locate its ‘lock’—what we commonly call a ‘vulnerability.’

This step was often the most arduous for hackers trying to penetrate a firewall, consuming a great deal of their time. Some well-designed firewalls could even repel them outright.

Even Yu Fei, who was already at the pinnacle of human skill, had to invest considerable effort at this stage—like when he previously tackled the FBI’s official website, spending significant time hunting for vulnerabilities.

But with his psychic power, Yu Fei no longer needed to worry about this. In his quasi-electronic state, he could instantly ‘see’ the firewall’s vulnerabilities—or the ‘lock’—at a glance.

This most difficult step for hackers was almost instantaneously resolved by him.

The rest went without saying.

As a human at the peak of technological prowess, if he couldn’t take down the opposing firewall after locating its vulnerability, then his skill would be useless.

Psychic Power Level 1 plus Computer Level 3.

Yu Fei had every right to call himself an unconventional artificial intelligence in the cyber world.

Of course, this was limited to offense and defense in cyberspace.

Beyond cyber offense and defense, the greatest strength of artificial intelligence lay in their own supercomputing abilities—or rather, their super-thinking capacities.

In this regard, Yu Fei, who had yet to awaken his superbrain, was clearly no match for AI.

However, compared to AI, Yu Fei had his own advantage—he didn’t need a host machine!

The power of AI was undeniable, but to truly unleash their capabilities, they required foundational hardware support.

Take the Red Queen, for instance; it was essentially a supercomputer the size of a house.

If the motherboard was its brain, then this supercomputer was its body.

If the hardware foundation was inadequate, even an AI like the Red Queen couldn’t exert much power.

After all, their strength came primarily from computing power, which depended on the quality of the hardware itself.

If you ran the Red Queen on a home computer, it might not even outmatch a top-tier world-class hacker.

This was one of their flaws.

Yu Fei had no such flaw.

Because he himself was the perfect body!

He didn’t need to be fixed in one place and could even upgrade himself—improving psychic attributes or skill levels could greatly enhance his own abilities.

If Yu Fei someday pushed his psychic power to the limit and strengthened his mental energy, becoming a true god of the network wouldn’t be impossible.

Moreover, he could be a freely roaming god of the network, directly rivaling Ultron!

Of course,

Even a true god of the network wasn’t omnipotent.

Operations like Wesker’s, which involved severing the network connection, left Yu Fei helpless as well.

“Not completely helpless...” Yu Fei recalled another feature of his psychic power.

Normal electronic devices require corresponding components to connect to networks or send and receive signals.

For example, a familiar smartphone contains baseband chips, RF chips, Wi-Fi chips, Bluetooth chips, and other related components.

These components enable the phone to perform various wireless networking functions, including cellular data connections, Wi-Fi hotspot access, and Bluetooth pairing.

Obviously, Yu Fei didn’t have these components in his body, yet he could still send and receive all kinds of signals. Previously, he controlled the phones of some scouts to send ‘safe’ messages to Umbrella Corporation.

It was precisely this message that caused Kane to misjudge the situation, believing Yu Fei and his team were still in the hotel, significantly lowering his guard, which ultimately led to the complete annihilation of over a thousand people.

What James considered luck, fortune, or enemy negligence was actually the result of Yu Fei’s meticulous planning.

To be fair,

Despite repeated defeats against Yu Fei, Kane never let down his guard; every move was carefully thought out.

Gathering over a thousand gang members was already sufficient for most, especially to deal with a small group of eight.

With such numerical advantage, even sheer force should have sufficed.

But Kane felt it wasn’t enough.

He even brought in a truckload of firearms!

Moreover, the intelligence side had prepared more than a dozen scouts, along with remote surveillance equipment and network department protection.

Still, Kane wasn’t reassured. After thorough inquiries, he reminded his subordinates to be even more cautious.

Given all these measures, accusing him of carelessness or underestimating the enemy would be utterly unrealistic and unfair.

Kane’s defeat had nothing to do with his own ability or attitude; it was purely because Yu Fei was cheating!

How can you fight an opponent who can monitor your every move at any time and even issue commands on your behalf?

There’s simply no way to win!

Therefore, when Wesker arrived, the very first thing he did was unplug Yu Fei’s ‘network cable.’

Regardless of what he planned next against Yu Fei and his team, this was his primary and immediate action.

Even Yu Fei was powerless against this.

—The previous vulnerability was too obvious!

All scouts reported ‘safe,’ and the remote monitors and network department didn’t send any alarms.

Shortly after, Yu Fei and his group, formerly in the hotel, moved to an abandoned factory and wiped out over a thousand gang members in one fell swoop.

Unless Wesker was a fool, he couldn’t have missed the problem here.

In fact, Wesker was far from a fool.

He quickly detected the network issue and decisively chose to cut the network cable, despite how damaging this was to their own side.

Once the cable was cut, Umbrella Corporation in Raccoon City became essentially blind, or close to it.

Although this greatly affected Yu Fei, it was not without a solution—what truly left him helpless was Wesker’s act of unplugging the cable, not the consequences that followed.

“With my current quasi-electronic intensity, as long as I can get within five hundred meters of the Umbrella Corporation building, even if he cuts the network cable, I can forcibly take control of its internal LAN!”