A Snake-Bladed Weapon with One Stripe
Early in the morning, Gao Yuanyuan stood at the doorway where the walls had been repainted white, looking expectantly at Engineer Gao.
"What, aren't you going to work? You're going to be late for work." The senior engineer, who was clearing the table behind the door, looked up and said.
Gao Yuanyuan pouted slightly.
Aren't you going to see me off?
"How can I deliver it to you every day? I'm not a sister-obsessed person."
"Snort!"
Gao Yuanyuan gave a soft hum and then left, tossing her newly tied ponytail.
"Speaking of which, my adopted sister's birthday is coming up soon, I can't miss this opportunity to win her over."
After clearing the dining table, the senior engineer leisurely went downstairs, opened the door of the storefront, glanced at the somewhat empty glass cabinet, and muttered to himself.
"Time to go buy more stock."
The business of cyborg doctors is quite good. Before players changed their job to become cyborg doctors, the citizens of Nightless City had the impression that these black market doctors were only expensive and had no other problems.
This preconceived notion persisted until the birth of the first player-controlled cyborg doctor.
The player single-handedly disrupted the market, making the citizens of Mechanical City understand what it means to recklessly modify machines and what it means to get something cheap but not good.
Otherwise, how do you think players could create something that even the R&D departments of large companies couldn't develop?
Not only in combat, but surgical modifications can also bring a lot of experience. The senior engineer's personal experience has exceeded 1.3 million.
Once the prosthetic doctor and biologist sub-professions are successfully promoted, and personal modifications are completed, with 1.3 million experience points, it should be enough to support the senior engineer to level 30.
After thinking for a moment, the senior engineer decided to draw the previous rewards first.
After eight consecutive draws, the senior engineer obtained a popular science book on alien plants, 6,000 experience points, and three blueprints.
These three blueprints represent: [Neural Tube Modification], [Dopamine Maturing Agent], and [Medullary Strengthener].
"Wow, what a day this is, everything's going so well!"
Among them, dopamine schizophrenic agents are rare, widely used psychoactive drugs, while 'neural tube modification' and 'medullodium enhancer' are both excellent modification blueprints.
The two systems strengthen the nervous system and the circulatory system, respectively.
Neural tube modification (superior): When your health drops to 0, the brain secretes neurochemicals, transmits electrical signals, activates biological activity, temporarily restores 10% of your health, and adds the skill "Near-death strike".
Medulla Medulla Enhancer (Excellent): Agility +4, Perception +5, Reaction Speed +10%
Everything else is fine, but the 'neural tube modification' grants him an extra life, which is more useful than any skill for an NPC like him.
When it comes to one-on-one combat, the senior engineer believes that there are few in the entire city that never sleeps who can rival him.
However, city dwellers have never been known for their martial ethics; if they can't win a fight, they call for reinforcements or resort to long-range bombardment.
Historically, this is how Great Knight Steel was defeated.
He didn't want to end up like that guy, getting hit head-on by a space-based weapon.
Therefore, the senior engineer has kept a low profile since he came to the city.
Walking into the back modification room, they opened something wrapped in a long strip of cloth, revealing a katana that hissed.
These are the spoils from last night.
Name: One-Patterned Serpent Blade (Assassination Alliance)
Category: Intelligent Cutting Tools
Quality: Excellent (A powerful weapon of war)
Weight: 6.6kg
Basic Attributes: DPS: 1500, Attack Power: 500, Attack Speed: 3 attacks/second, Attack Range: 1.6 meters
Additional attributes: Armor Penetration (+13.% armor penetration damage), Blood Rip (+8.7% bleed damage)
Additional Skill: Stealth Serpent Blade
Plugin bar: Smart Chip · Entangling Snake
Note: One of the nine legendary assassination swords forged by the Assassination Alliance's top swordsmiths. Legend has it that if all nine swords can be gathered, a legendary ultimate assassination mission will be unlocked, a mission that may change history.
"A top-tier assassination sword, it's on par with Keiko Matsushima's family heirloom cherry blossom sword."
This sword has an interesting appearance. It is a normal samurai sword, divided into two parts by a central blade line. The blade part is transparent, and the mark of that blade line looks like a twisted snake mark.
If the blade itself is considered a normal knife, then the tsuba (handguard) is completely different from the normal knife structure. Three small metal snakes pop out from the tsuba, wrap around the handle, hissing and flicking their tongues.
"This is a bit strange. Is the AI for this knife simulating a snake?"
The senior engineer gripped the knife handle tightly, and the next moment, three small metal snakes hissed as they emerged from their holes and bit his hand.
On the system panel, all sorts of negative statuses suddenly appeared.
[You have gained the temporary status "Serpent Blood Sacrifice," your health is decreasing at a rate of 3 points per second.]
[You gain the temporary status "Bloodlust," making you frantically thirsty for blood while wielding this sword.]
[You have gained a temporary status: Genetic Pollution]
[You have gained the temporary status, "Assassin - Serpent"]
[You have gained the temporary status, "Big Data Cutting Technique"]
This is the first time that a single weapon has brought five temporary statuses to the senior engineer.
And they're all negative.
The blood flowing from the senior engineer's palm gradually covered the blade.
At the same time, a trace of blood appeared in the senior engineer's right eye, and his temperament became cold and manic. On the left tactical prosthetic eye, a large amount of combat data flashed wildly: wind speed, humidity, speed, strength, direction, angle of force, and success rate of killing from various angles.
The senior engineer, wielding a samurai sword, seemed to have transformed into the most dangerous assassin of the assassination alliance.
The five blood-dripping fingers gripped the hilt tightly, and a streak of blood extended along the 'snake line' to the tip of the blade. After the tip was stained red, the blade gradually disappeared, then the hilt, the engineer's hand, forearm, upper arm, and finally his entire body.
The senior engineer's voice came through the air.
"Energy obscuring, no, visual interference, no either."
"This is a genetic adjustment. Although we don't know if it exists on this planet, there are probably a lot of carbon-based life forms in the universe that can become invisible."
"Did the Assassination League decipher a fragment of a stealth gene, or did they find a stealth creature?"
The senior engineer's figure gradually came into view. Although his demeanor remained cold and sinister, his eyes had regained their clarity. He glanced at the three small snakes that were frantically sucking blood and sneered.
"You think a mere combat AI can control me?"
The next moment, his body began to swell, and his fingers began to thicken and grow larger. Sharp spikes pierced out from his fingers and stuck into the metal snake. The decrease in his blood volume stopped, and the amount of blood he lost even began to increase.
Numerous cracks appearing on the surface of the high-performance building block are a sign of "genetic collapse".
However, when the cracks spread to the location of the "bright red tattoo," instead of breaking the tattoo, the cracks healed completely in just three seconds as the fleshy spores opened and closed.
Genetic pollution depends on the level of the target; an ant can't move an elephant.
The next moment, the blue veins on Gao Gong's body began to throb and turn red. They split open his skin and emerged from his muscles, moving around the samurai sword like giant pythons. Corrosive liquid continued to drip onto the ground, etching small holes into it.
The intelligent blade trembled with a buzzing sound; at least, it was certain that the emotion it conveyed was not happiness.
[Your temporary status, 'Serpent Blood Sacrifice', is lifted.]
[Your temporary status, 'Bloodlust', has been replaced with 'Blood Devour,' absorbing 3 health points per second when attacking enemies.]
[Genetic pollution is suppressed]
The three small metal snakes also released their mouths and wrapped around the engineer's forearm like wrist guards.
Genetic contamination: The Serpent Blade has absorbed a large amount of blood from its various owners, as well as a large amount of genetic fragments from its enemies. These genetic fragments gradually corroded the blade, turning it into a demonic blade that gnaws at its master, ensuring that every assassin who wields it suffers a terrible death.
The senior engineer roughly understood the background of this serial killer; he was actually an elite member of the assassination alliance, which was quite unexpected.
"This might be an opportunity."
The senior engineer stroked his chin. The old assassin's last wish—this mission had always existed, but he had been putting it off.
It wasn't that he wanted to make Miyamoto Sanzang die with his eyes open in disgrace, but rather that he genuinely didn't have the time, and it would be difficult for him to do so.
Infiltrating an assassin organization is no easy feat. They employ various methods to verify identities, making it virtually impossible to fake one's identity. Moreover, once an assassin's contract is signed, it essentially means being bound to the organization.
Even if a faction leader is willing to become an assassin, no one would dare to hire him.
But now, he suddenly has a suitable candidate.
Carry a knife but no umbrella on a rainy night.
In his previous life, the City That Never Sleeps was breached by a beast tide, and this person probably joined the Knights at that time, becoming a mechanical hunter.
But now that he has suppressed the beast tide and the City of Never Sleeps will not be breached, his chances of becoming a hunter are extremely slim.
He can't be a hunter, but he can be an assassin.
Given this player's skill level and the fact that players are immortal, it won't be difficult for him to rise to the top.
In this way, the other party escaped the fate of becoming an AI worker, while the other party was able to complete the assassin mission and plant a pawn in the assassination group.
This is a win-win situation!
What needs to be done now is to get the other person to increase their favorability as soon as possible, so as to reach the threshold for the 'hidden mission'.
Looking at the still buzzing snake blade, the senior engineer flicked his wrist and unleashed a set of very strange assassination techniques. This swordsmanship was extremely bizarre; each flick of the wrist was like a venomous snake emerging, silent yet deadly.
[You have mastered the basic swordsmanship]
[Your basic swordsmanship has been upgraded to the advanced level, 'Assassination Serpent Blade', influenced by the combat chip.]
[Data generation in progress, your 'Assassination Serpent Blade' has been upgraded to level 2]
[Data generation in progress, your 'Assassination Serpent Blade' has been upgraded to level 3]
[Data generation in progress. Your 'Assassination Serpent Blade' has been upgraded to Elite, gaining the skill 'Serpent King Blade'.]
Serpent King Blade: A deadly assassination technique where a snake coils around the victim, and the blade devours them.
[You have gained the additional status effect "Poisoned"]
[You have gained the additional status effect 'Entangled Blade']
"Wow, big data upgrades are really fast."
Experience upgrades are essentially just stacking skill data, which is no different from big data upgrades.
The senior engineer smiled and walked out of the modification room. Outside, three little players were peeking around.
"Since you're here, come with me to the black market to buy goods."
With a "ding", the task of "purchasing goods" was released.
"Slow down, boss, I'll pull the cart for you."
"Dad, I'll carry your bags."
"Boss, is there anything else you need to do?"
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