Chapter 266 Numbers Soar
Kaiba finished speaking, and just a moment later, a figure emerged from the darkness.

The old man was wearing a red suit and had white hair, just as he remembered, but he was surprisingly strong and even seemed more energetic than Kaiba remembered.

Or should we say that this is natural. The last time he saw the real Gosaburo in reality was when he forced Gosaburo to step down. At that time, Gosaburo was just an angry but powerless old man, looking so weak and tired.

But now he looks much more energetic.

"How are you, Seto?"

Gangzaburo put his hands behind his back and said calmly.

"I see that you have grown up and remembered my teachings. I told you that a man needs to fight for everything with his own hands, and it seems that you have truly put this into practice with your life.

You already have the potential to do whatever it takes, even to use it against me, the father who taught you this."

Kaiba sneered: "Are you serious, Gosaburo? There are only you and me here, so we can save those false words. We all know what the truth was back then, so there is no need to fabricate some false scenes to try to construct a touching past."

He waved his hand, and the hem of his virtual windbreaker seemed to rise and fall with the air waves of his waving arms.

"For me, there is nothing worth reminiscing about the past, especially the part related to you, Gou Saburo." Kaiba shouted, "I have defeated you twice, but since you are so persistent, I don't mind doing it again.

No matter how you come back, even if you become a ghost and come to take my life, I will fight you to the end."

"Twice?"

Gang Saburo pondered for a moment and said.

"I see. You mean the time with Noa?"

Kaiba frowned. "Why are you still pretending to be stupid at this point? We've already had this conversation once, haven't we?"

He was referring to the accident that happened during the first generation Duel City Tournament when Atem was still alive.

The AI ​​of Noa Kaiba, the real son of Gosaburo who died in a car accident, hijacked Kaiba's airship during the Duel City and forcibly brought all the contestants on the airship into Noa's virtual world.

However, it was discovered at the end of the incident that Noa was just a victim. The real ruler of the virtual world is Kaiba Gosaburo's AI. Before he died, the old man backed up his consciousness in digital form, achieving digital immortality.

Not only that, the old man has even evolved the ability to break through all firewalls in the world at will, and can enter and exit the Internet freely. And he has calculated that he only needs to maximize the use of all the arms, weapons and production lines controlled by the Seahorse Group, and he can completely control the entire earth within a month.

Of course, Gosaburo was a little too optimistic at the time, because his calculation only took traditional weapons into account, ignoring the importance of card-playing elements in the new era.

Gosaburo, who is still stuck in the old days and dreams of conquering the world with airplanes, cannons and missiles, is doomed to fail even if left alone.

But that AI should have been completely destroyed. The server where he lived was bombed by the missiles of the Kaiba Group until not even a trace of it was left.

"What you have seen is just an old model of 'me' that has been abandoned." Kozaburo said with his hands behind his back, "Of course, even that 'me' himself does not know this fact."

"What?" Kaiba frowned.

"When Naiya had an accident, the top scientists of Haiba Group sealed him into the data world. But that was our first attempt, so the technology was inevitably immature."

Kaiba Gosaburo said.

“But the birth of e-Nia has helped us a lot. He has a learning ability that humans cannot match, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, which has given us a lot of inspiration and key data.

Therefore, after that, Haima Group's related technologies have developed by leaps and bounds.

From the birth of Electronic Noa until Seto forced me to hand over Kaiba Group, there have been several years, which is enough time for us to push the relevant technology to a new height. " "What do you want to say, Gosaburo?" Kaiba frowned.

"What I mean is that whether it was Noa or the other 'me' you faced back then, they were just defective products on the road to development and should have been eliminated long ago."

Gosaburo continued.

"I think that 'I' himself didn't know this. He still thought he was the last backup uploaded by Kaiba Gosaburo before his death. But that's not the case. He was just an experiment, a test product downloaded on the same old generation hardware as Noa in order to verify the feasibility of the digital immortality plan.

In fact, he should have been destroyed along with all other similar variants after testing was completed. But before I could do that, your incident happened, Seto."

He looked at Kaiba and heard him speak calmly, without the resentment or rage of the past, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

“You took away my company and forced me to death, so the project naturally stopped.

However, before his death, Kaiba Gosaburo did activate this project for the last time and sealed his consciousness into a new generation of equipment that was still in the testing phase at the time.

Fortunately, I succeeded. In this way, I survived and created the most perfect life form in history."

"You don't mean to talk about yourself, do you?" Kaiba sneered, "It seems that you haven't improved at all since then, whether in reality or in digital form. You have never been able to recognize yourself, Gou Saburo. This is why you lost to me."

"It's just that you thought you won, Seto." Gosaburo shook his head.

"Oh? So this is how you win?" Kaiba sneered, "Creating a bunch of replacements for me that wag their tails and fawn on you like lapdogs?"

"They are just test pieces, and they are worthless from the beginning." Gang Saburo said calmly, "They are stepping stones for the development of a greater project, and they are destined to be discarded and recycled from the beginning.
Well, dying for me is the best use of their little value."

"You really haven't changed at all, Gosaburo." Kaiba frowned, "You were a scumbag back then, and now you've just become a scumbag with power."

"I don't expect you to change your opinion of me, Seto. However, after all these years of thinking and having a clearer and more rational mind, I do think of you differently, Seto."

Gozaburo looked at him, as if trying to see into his heart through the eyes of Kaiba's virtual body.

“The project that I just mentioned, all those stepping stones that I created, where is this project going to end?”

"Humph, since it's your idea, it must be some boring stuff again." Kaiba snorted.

Gosaburo didn't take it seriously and continued, "It's for you, Seto."

Kaiba frowned.

"They think they were designed just to imitate you or study the means to defeat you, but that's not the case. This is a necessary adjustment in order to create the most perfect you."

"What are you talking about, old man?" Kaiba asked coldly.

"You are a genius, Seto. I have let go of my hatred over the years and have come to understand. You are the only genius I recognize, and the only one who deserves to be immortal like me, share endless knowledge and all power.

You took everything from me, my wealth, my company, my life. But I forgive you, Seto."

Kaiba Gosaburo extended his hand toward him.

"I want you to be my son again."

(End of this chapter)