Evolutionary Bionics

Little Finger hesitated, then the senior engineer realized his grammatical error and coughed, "Don't overthink it, please understand it literally, it's purely a scientific discussion."

Littlefinger shook his head and said, "Her mother wasn't an android, but a native prostitute."

"So his father was an android?"

Littlefinger hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "You could say that."

I still don't understand.

"Alright," Littlefinger sighed, "I'll start from the beginning. I wasn't born in the City That Never Sleeps, but in the faraway Land of Freedom. Do you know what the Land of Freedom is?"

"Sky warships on the ground, the money pit of the second generation of the Mother City."

"Pretty much. My dad, who was also my mentor, was a prosthetic doctor who specialized in performing reproductive modifications for the rich. You know, the rich can do whatever they want to the most perverse things. At first it was just about size, then it was about the material, and then it was about shape. You probably can't imagine, it had a whole row of..."

Little Finger rambled on as he introduced the beginning.

"Later, on a night when electronic rain was pouring down, in front of a club, my dad and I saw a little girl whose limbs were broken because she refused to serve customers. Blood filled her joints, and it looked terrifying. I was terrified."

"Dad took her home and replaced her body with a prosthetic. Because Dad had a mistress named Old Rose, we called her Little Rose."

"It's strange, Little Rose is very suitable for prosthetic modification. According to Dad, she has almost 100% prosthetic compatibility, which allows her to easily master more advanced and dangerous prosthetics."

"So, while I was still out there cutting appendixes and slicing chicken skin, this little rose had already started making her way in the underworld and had gained quite a reputation."

"Little Rose always kept her background a secret, and we were too embarrassed to ask. It was Dad who found out first. It turned out that her mother was a prostitute, and her father was a android nobleman from Cloud City."

"This android nobleman's power is extremely strong, traceable back to the six major android groups that rule the entire android world. Although we don't know why he came down from the throne or why he conceived a child with a prostitute, that's how it happened."

"As Little Rose grows up, we can vaguely sense that there are forces constantly testing and fighting. In order to protect her, and also to protect ourselves, we begin to constantly hide from each other."

"During this process, Little Rose also began to fall silent, began to pursue power aggressively, and even began to actively contact some very dangerous things in the underworld."

"If her father were here, he could have persuaded her not to go down a certain madness. But during an assassination attempt against her, her father was also taken care of by the assassin and was seriously injured, while Little Rose was kidnapped by the enemy."

At this point, Littlefinger took a deep breath and downed half a glass of wine.

"... On the very first day after Dad's burial, Little Rose appeared. After paying her respects to Dad, she told me the truth. It turned out that after she was kidnapped, another force rescued her. And this force was the android rebels, that infamous terrorist organization."

"They gave her two choices: either join the rebels or join a force that could provide her with sufficient protection."

"What did she choose?" the senior engineer asked.

"Sister Rose chose to join them and become a dark web assassin, while I followed in my father's footsteps and became a physiotherapist on the other side of freedom."

"About seven or eight years later, I occasionally heard that a top assassin had emerged on the dark web, who had assassinated many important figures, including the administrators of the mother city. This top assassin was called Black Rose, and that Black Rose was Little Rose from back then."

"When we met again, her body had been completely transformed, and she had become a full-fledged android."

"She told me that she had left the dark web and was now a freelance assassin, and asked if I would like to go with her. She needed a prosthetic doctor she could trust."

"It's obvious you agreed," the senior engineer said.

Littlefinger shrugged and said, "Before my father died, he told me I had to find Little Rose and protect her. What choice did I have?"

"Later, we went to several continents one after another. I had a vague feeling that she was looking for something. She probably didn't find it. In the end, she seemed to be disappointed. So we moved to this radiation zone. I went back to my old profession, and she became an assassin agent and started to run a small underground force."

"You know more or less what happened next," Littlefinger glanced at Engineer Gao and said with some grief and indignation, "I've been licking her boots for so many years, but I never expected to be beaten to it by a little wolfhound."

Although Littlefinger said that, he wasn't really angry. His feelings for Rose were more like those of a brother and sister.

Littlefinger sighed and said, "About a year ago, the Dark Web found us again, and for some reason, Sister Rose actually joined that organization again and even started contacting their higher-ups. I tried to persuade her several times but couldn't, and then this mission came about."

"Is this a trap?"

Littlefinger thought for a long time, but he wasn't sure. "That's a possibility, but it could also just be an accident. Rose never does anything that doesn't benefit her—except for you!"

Finally, the middle-aged man glared at him.

The senior engineer chuckled, "Who says I'm making a bad deal? Five minutes of charging provides three hours of continuous use. It's a great value!"

Seeing the other person staring at him with wide eyes, as if to say, "How could there be such a shameless person in the world?", the senior engineer coughed and quickly changed his words, "In any case, finding Sister Rose is the top priority now. Do you have any clues?"

"It wasn't originally there, but the fact that the bartender turned into Sister Rose gave me some ideas."

"Oh? Please go ahead!"

"As the ace of the dark web, Sister Rose is proficient in various close-quarters killing methods, long and short firearms, and some clandestine network intrusions. It can be said that she has no weaknesses at all."

The senior engineer nodded. The ace of the dark web must be a character above level 40, and proficient in all weapons; that would be quite formidable.

"But only I know best that Rose's strongest method is not actually using weapons, but a move created based on her talent. With this move, everything and everything can become her weapon. I have only seen her use it once. That time, she wiped out all the enemies on the entire seventeenth floor."

"She named this technique 'Evolutionary Biomimicry'!"

"Evolutionary bionics!?"

[Task complete, experience +20000, random bionics blueprint]

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