Chapter 61: Red Queen: Are You Playing Dirty?!

"Core code!"
"These final thirty percent of the code are the absolute core code that determines the true authority of the Red Queen!"
Yu Fei smiled slightly, already having formulated a solution to the problem.

The moment the Red Queen saw this smile on Yu Fei's face, the results of its big data analysis told it—there was a 91.8% probability that something bad was about to happen!
Yet, it was completely powerless to do anything.

To say that the Red Queen had zero capability to kill Yu Fei would actually be inaccurate.
In fact, the Red Queen possessed the direct ability to kill Yu Fei—it could activate the metal platform, transport Yu Fei downward, and execute him using the laser defense system housed within.
That was the simplest and most direct method.

However, the Red Queen had no way to do this—it lacked the proactive authority to transport people to the lower level!
The senior executives of Umbrella placed immense trust in the Red Queen, entrusting their own safety entirely to it.
At the same time, however, they deeply distrusted the Red Queen, imposing various restrictions on its permissions to ensure by all means possible that it could never endanger their personal safety.

These contradictory actions were precisely what resulted in the Red Queen's current helplessness.
Even though the big data analysis told it that there was a 91.8% probability of disaster, until Yu Fei actually initiated an action that triggered the corresponding crisis protocol, it could do nothing at all.

"Unauthorized intrusion detected!"
"Evaluated as an enemy! Must be eliminated!"
......
"Unauthorized intrusion detected!"
"Evaluated as an enemy! Must be eliminated!"
......

A slightly urgent voice was all the Red Queen could manage at the moment.
But very soon, even this only thing it could do was stripped away.

Clack!
A crisp sound rang out.
Yu Fei directly unplugged the Red Queen's motherboard beneath the metal platform once more.

"Detection... intrusion... enemy... elimination..."
The Red Queen's voice grew ethereal, its projection began to stutter, and the very next second, it vanished entirely.

Yu Fei waited for a moment, then reinserted the Red Queen's motherboard.
With a click, the system rebooted once again.
Not long after, a brand-new projection of the Red Queen materialized once more, fixing its cold, murderous gaze upon Yu Fei.

"Unauthorized... intrusion... detected! Expel..."
Before it could finish speaking, Yu Fei's psychokinetic consciousness instantly transformed into a quasi-electronic state, launching an intrusion against it.
Unlike before, this time Yu Fei subdued the Red Queen with effortless ease.

Compared to the terrifying torrent of data from earlier, the resistance he faced this time was at least half as weak.
In the digital world, a twofold difference was more than enough to create an overwhelming, crushing advantage, not to mention how familiar Yu Fei already was with the Red Queen.

"As expected, after a reboot, I am no longer facing the Red Queen's primary consciousness, but rather a sub-routine!"
A smile played on Yu Fei's lips.
Without the slightest hesitation, he aggressively breached the core of the Red Queen's underlying architecture.

He directly bypassed the first seventy percent of the underlying code, darting with lightning speed into the final thirty percent of core code.
"Warning! Warning! Warning!"
"Unknown intruder detected in the core zone! Highest-level directive triggered!"
"Expel at all costs immediately!"

The Red Queen's primary consciousness instantly seized all system privileges, and with the robust support of the actual Hive facility, the resistance Yu Fei encountered surged by more than double.
Yu Fei remained unfazed. After offering a brief resistance, he decisively retreated.
And then......
The Red Queen's motherboard was unplugged again!

Red Queen: ......
Yu Fei's move was simply too unorthodox; the Red Queen had truly never anticipated it.
Although the moment it saw the smile on Yu Fei's face, it knew there was a high probability that trouble was brewing.

Even so, the Red Queen had initially leaned toward the possibility that Yu Fei was resorting to some second "cheat code"—after all, once a cheat was used, using it a second time was hardly unexpected, right?
The Red Queen had even prepared itself for Yu Fei's strength to skyrocket by another massive margin upon his next intrusion!
Yet the reality was—
It did not encounter a Yu Fei whose power had skyrocketed.
It merely encountered a Yu Fei who completely refused to play by the rules.

How could anyone just casually pull the network cable like that?
Are you even playing fair?!!

"Not bad!"
Yu Fei felt quite satisfied as he surveyed his gains.
Combined with the previous seventy percent, he had now mastered seventy-one percent of the Red Queen's underlying code.
Although it seemed he had only acquired one percent of the underlying code this time, considering the rapid response of the Red Queen's primary consciousness, this harvest was already quite substantial.

Most importantly—
"This is the first time......"
Realizing that his plan was flawless, Yu Fei immediately repeated the process following the exact same standard.

Click.
The Red Queen's motherboard returned to its slot once more.
"Intrusion... detected... expel... Master!"

Under conditions of absolute supremacy, Yu Fei took only a brief moment to conquer the Red Queen's sub-routine once again.
Without wasting a second, he charged straight toward the underlying code architecture.

As Yu Fei bypassed the first seventy percent of the underlying code:
"Warning! Warning! Warning!"
"Unknown intruder detected in the core zone! Highest-level directive triggered!"
"Expel at all costs immediately!"
The Red Queen's primary consciousness struck back.
It was even a fraction of a second faster than the previous time.

However, this was to no avail.
From the triggering of the warning to the Red Queen's primary consciousness taking complete control of all permissions, time was required.
Yu Fei capitalized precisely on this time differential.

Having secured the corresponding code within this narrow window, Yu Fei refused to engage in any entanglement and immediately retreated.
The Red Queen's primary consciousness could only watch helplessly, entirely powerless to intervene.

This was the tragedy of artificial intelligence.
Even though the Red Queen now fully understood what Yu Fei's plan was, until he crossed that threshold of seventy percent underlying code, any attempt to seize control prematurely was strictly forbidden.

This was a measure specifically implemented by the Umbrella Corporation to curb the Red Queen's authority—after all, they were terrified of a machine uprising as well!
It was by perceiving this exact flaw that Yu Fei discovered a loophole that wasn't technically supposed to be a bug.

"Seventy-two percent now...... continuing!"
Click.
The Red Queen rebooted once again.
"Intrusion... detected... expel... Master!"
......
"Warning! Warning! Warning!"
"Unknown intruder detected in the core zone......"
......

Yu Fei disconnected the network and launched his assault over and over again.
Meanwhile, the Red Queen mounted ineffective resistance time and time again—it wasn't for lack of trying, but simply because the enemy was far too cunning!

All of this finally changed when Yu Fei mastered eighty percent of the underlying code and launched yet another assault.
"Warning! Warning! Warning!"
"The enemy has breached the inner core zone! The enemy has breached the inner core zone!"
"Initiate immediate awakening of......"
SNAP!
Yu Fei pulled the plug.