City in the Sky

With their boss in person, the henchmen naturally had to come and pay their respects.

Sun Tu, Daisy La, Huang Wen, the pilot, and Jia Zi—these are all old acquaintances, top-notch hunters equipped with the 'Hunter Module.' To put it bluntly, the senior engineer knows their bodies better than they do themselves.

Seeing the cracks on Sun Tu's body, the senior engineer raised his eyebrows. "Your injury is a bit serious."

Sun Tu said nonchalantly, "It's alright, we can just get a new one later."

As a 100% mechanical being, that's quite a powerful statement.

However, Sun Tu changed his tone and said ingratiatingly, "But it would be even better if you could personally help me change it."

"We'll see when the time comes," the senior engineer said noncommittally, then looked to the other side. "And what's wrong with her?"

At that moment, Keiko Matsushima was sniffling with tears welling up in her eyes, while Daisy was comforting her.

Upon hearing this, Daisy said helplessly, "Her cherry blossoms are spoiled."

"Oh? That's really strange," the senior engineer raised his eyebrows, took the smart katana from the other person's hand, and drew it. The blade was like warm red jade, but it was broken in half.

The intelligent blade is an "excellent" level piece of equipment, and the famous sword Benizakura is said to be a family heirloom of the Matsushima family. It is an ancient sword that has been passed down since the civilized era and can be seamlessly matched with the combat chip "Ranzakura Mad Dance".

No wonder Keiko Matsushima cried so bitterly when her family heirloom was broken.

The senior engineer patted the other person's head.

"I'll fix it for you after a while."

"Can you fix it?" Keiko's eyes lit up, and she stared intently at the other person with a gaze reminiscent of a Japanese anime character.

"Not now, we have to wait a while."

This kind of intelligent knife is itself a kind of low-level artificial intelligence. To restore it, not only must the blade be reforged, but the "soul of the knife" must also be restored.

Repairing artificial intelligence—only Cyber Cowboys can do that.

That will have to wait until he goes to the Machinery City to change his job.

The senior engineer walked to the spot where "God" had been severely injured, where "Gilbert," the cyborg monster, was licking the blood off the ground.

The senior engineer waved, and the giant beast came over affectionately, rubbing against him.

The others' expressions changed when they saw this.

The powerful aura emanating from this monster felt almost identical to that of a god.

"How are you feeling, hmm? Are you sure?"

The senior engineer communicated with the mechanical white leopard in a special way, and his expression gradually turned to surprise.

According to Gilbert, the bloodstain gave him a very familiar feeling.

In other words, the so-called "god" is very likely also a genetic fusion.

"Interesting, there's actually a high-level artificial life form in this desolate place."

"Let's go and take a look at other places."

The group first visited the wounded, then went to the place where the spoils of war were piled up, and sure enough, they saw many strange things.

"They even bring guitars to war?"

At that moment, the senior engineer was holding an electric guitar, looking surprised.

Name: Frenzied Flamethrower

Category: Mechanical Guitar

Quality: Whiteboard+

Weight: 5.5kg

Basic attributes: None

Additional attributes: Intense, Frenzy

Blazing Fire: By playing specific electronic sounds, you can increase the Flame Boy's base attributes by 6%~10%.

Frenzy: The soaring electronic music ignites the fighting spirit of the Flame Boys, making them even more fearless.

Note: This is an incredibly energetic guitar.

"This is truly bizarre."

A basic weapon actually has two additional attributes, and the key point is that the attributes are not bad.

Unfortunately, this only applies to the Flame Boy.

What's the underlying principle?

There are fifty-three of these electric guitars in total, enough to organize a music festival.

In addition, the senior engineer also saw a guitar that could breathe fire, a motorcycle covered with steel spears, a platform made of loudspeakers, and a handheld grenade spear. Although they were all basic items, the additional attributes were all kinds of strange, ranging from critical hit rate to hormones.

It's not that it's useless, it's just that it's incredibly frustrating.

The aesthetics of this land of fire...

What interested the senior engineer most were the five "human-headed oil tankers".

Equipment: Modified exploration vehicle

Model: Imperial Industries Alien Exploration Vehicle "Order" Type III

Durability: 75%

Armor: 12530

Mobile module: Mechanical tires, mechanical legs (damaged), climbing mode (damaged)

Energy module: Diesel engine (already replaced)

Weapon Module: Headshot System

Manipulation mode: low-level neural network

Exploration Module: Extraterrestrial Material Extractor

Note: A punk-style combat vehicle that combines low-end and high-end features.

The senior engineer finally understood why the mecha weapons couldn't penetrate it. The prototype of this thing was a survey vehicle from an alien base, and its armor was stacked extremely thick to cope with the harsh environments of other planets.

On the other side, Sun Tu was saying to the wriggling creature with a look of disgust:

"Hey old man, could you please stop pointing your head at me? It's uncomfortable to look at."

On the tanker truck with human heads, more than twenty wriggling heads were grinning and snickering at Sun Tu.

"Grandson, grandson."

"Gorilla, gorilla."

"No penis, no penis."

Sun Tu's eye twitched; he really wanted to pull out a machine gun and shoot the other guy.

"Alright, stop playing around. Open the car door and let me see what's inside."

"Okay."

As soon as the crawler had a thought, the head in the driver's seat shook, and the heavy door slowly lifted up with the sound of the air pump.

Looking at the truck full of wriggling heads, Daisy couldn't help but remark, "Old man, what's it like with so many heads?"

"How does it feel to have so many hands?" The wriggler rolled its eyes.

As the only creature hunter above level 20, the Creeper has been riding high lately.

The reason why bio-hunters can rival high-level mechanical hunters is largely because bio-hunters can modify their bodies to transplant some species' bug-level abilities into themselves.

The worm's acquisition of "morphosis" was accidental.

However, based on the "transformation," the senior engineer implanted "rotten cells" into him, which is a product of biotechnology.

"Rotten Cells" are not the cellular structures of a particular type of radiated beast. Rather, in the environment of a beast tide, some modern weapons, such as fighter jets and armored vehicles, are contaminated by the beast tide's energy and transformed into rotten fighter jets and rotten tanks, which then turn to attack their own people.

What is extracted from these weapons are 'rotten cells'.

By incorporating 'rotten cells', the Worm can transform any advanced weapon into 'one of their own'—a truly terrifying ability.

As the hatch opened, everyone could see the internal structure of the tanker truck.

The inside of the "tanker truck" wasn't filled with oil, but with countless black pipes leading to human heads.

As the wriggler operated, the pipes stretched out like splitting snake balls, one by one, looking like countless human-headed snakes dancing wildly.

"Cloning technology, extraterrestrial exploration technology, and old-fashioned diesel engines, that's really impressive."

Even a seasoned and knowledgeable senior engineer couldn't help but sigh at this moment, realizing that punk was truly punk, and eccentric was truly eccentric.

Who would have thought that an alien exploration vehicle would become the mount of a "god"?

They seized a total of five such "mounts".

Half an hour later, the senior engineer sat in the main seat of the temporary command post, listening to Huang Wen's report.

"In this battle, we killed a total of 5,341 members of the Flame Motorbike Gang and captured 85 of them."

"We lost 36 mechanical hunters, 43 were lightly wounded, and 56 of our mechs malfunctioned."

Although the casualty ratio is exaggerated, it is not surprising. The new mechs have already reached the level of a second-level civilization. It is normal to use the standard equipment of a second-level civilization to deal with the weapons of the industrial age and win a crushing victory.

"Have Helly and the mechanic team quickly gather information on any issues with the mechs and ensure these problems are resolved before mass production."

"Also, there are compensation payments for the families of deceased hunters, so don't be afraid to spend money on this," the senior engineer paused, "As for those without families, according to their wills, if they wish to have their minds made into a mind box, it will be placed in the hunter's grave and will be worshipped by new recruits every year."

"Um."

In addition to the 'Weapon Modification Hall', the 'Warrior's Graveyard' is also an essential building.

This can enhance the cohesion of an organization.

"Also, why are there so few prisoners? Did you kill them?"

"No, the Flame Boy's mind seems to have been completely brainwashed; he rarely surrenders."

Huang Wen had a corpse brought over, and when he opened the back of the head, he found a cheap brain-computer interface, which was made of plastic.

In the not-too-distant future, virtually every intelligent being will have one.

"This brain-computer interface technology wasn't developed by these natives; it's probably outdated equipment from some large corporation that has been modified into a brainwashing device."

"That's what I think too."

"Didn't you say you also captured a high priest? Bring him over to see him."

Huang Wen nodded, and soon a man with two heads was brought up.

This high priest also had a brain-computer interface implanted, but the problem was—he had two heads.

In fact, a head that flatters:

"Greetings to the supreme Godslayer! You created Ragnarok, you ignited the war against the gods, and your fame will shake the entire world of fire!"

The other head cursed loudly:

"Traitor, lowly person, evil spirit destined to be infested with maggots."

Soon, the one who had been brainwashed was gagged.

The senior engineer chuckled. "Let's get straight to the point. If you want to live, that's fine, but it depends on how many of 'god's' secrets you reveal, such as the origin of this fire boy."

"The Flame Boy was born in the Hall of Fertility, which is guarded by General Quill, the strongest female warrior of the 'Gods'."

"After General Quill was imprisoned, the new guardian of the temple was Cerberus, a monster that God had made in exchange with an alien deity."

"The Palace of Fertility is an ancient temple that existed before we conquered the divine realm. It possesses knowledge that is beyond our comprehension."

"In addition, God dwells in a heavenly palace, a heavenly city with beautiful flowers, pure springs, and a throne where divine fire is lit..."