A Different Style of Assassination Mission

The senior engineer closed his eyes, and in an instant, countless nerve bundles pierced out from under his skin, intertwined and connected with each other, forming nerve nodes, and finally became a "brain in a vat" pieced together from neuronal nodes.

This is the hidden brain region of the senior engineer, and Gao Yuanyuan's brain is stored here.

Just like Ah Hong's virtual machine, this is a hard drive that belongs exclusively to the senior engineer.

The next moment, the surrounding environment disappeared, replaced by a beautiful scene.

In his previous life, the senior engineer had traveled all over the universe and seen all kinds of scenery, so he copied them according to the memories in his mind.

The dreamlike Pandora Flower, the fairy-tale-like radioactive nebula, and the exotic plants growing on various high-gravity planets.

The senior engineer felt as if he had entered a dream world.

In the forest, Gao Yuanyuan was leaning against a unicorn, engrossed in reading a book. When she saw Gao Gong approaching, she quickly put down her book and said sweetly, "Brother, you're here."

"Hmm, are you settling in well here?"

"At first, I felt like I was dreaming, but then I realized that I could actually do something myself, which made the feeling even more amazing."

Gao Yuanyuan gently slid her finger, and as she did so, a rainbow bridge appeared in the distance, sparkling and dazzling as the sunlight fell.

Can neural signals be edited at will?

The senior engineer opened Gao Yuanyuan's attribute panel and, sure enough, her attributes had changed drastically.

Name: Gao Yuanyuan

Race: Cyber Life

Grade:??

Personal attributes:???

Professional knowledge: Virtual information security level 9, cyber programming language level 9, neural communication technology level 9...

Skills: Advanced neural traversal, virtual personality editing, corrupted artificial intelligence, advanced electronic control,??????

The senior engineer is currently at level 19. A question mark will only appear after level 30, which means that Gao Yuanyuan must be at least level 49.

Most importantly, as a type of virtual life, electronic life possesses the ability to invade electronic brains at will, even the most advanced Electronic Barrier are useless. The reason is simple: Electronic Barrier are also made of electrical signals, and as long as they are electrical signals, they are ineffective against Gao Yuanyuan's attacks.

Just as the assassins would not die as long as they were in cyberspace.

The relationship between the world of electrical signals and Gao Yuanyuan is like that between the ocean and fish.

Fish can never drown in the sea.

"Brother, what are you thinking about?"

When the engineer came to his senses, he looked at the other person and saw that Gao Yuanyuan was looking at him with concern. Her eyes were no longer empty like Sadako's, but like the stars in the sky, bright and dazzling.

"Did it absorb some of the source code from 'Dance of Gensokyo'?"

The senior engineer smiled and said, "Now that you know about the orphanage, what are your plans?"

Gao Yuanyuan's eyes dimmed. "I never imagined that my memories over the years were actually fabricated. The children in the orphanage weren't my students at all, but my deceased companions."

Seeing that the other person's eyes were showing signs of emptiness again, the senior engineer thought for a moment and said, "Actually, they may not be fake. Just as artificial intelligence is also intelligence, memory data is also memory. Thinking patterns plus memory data are the way most intelligent life exists."

These words might sound a bit convoluted to others, but Gao Yuanyuan understood them perfectly.

"Brother, do you mean they can be resurrected?"

"If you mean resurrection and returning to the state you were in a decade or so ago, then I'm afraid that's not possible. But if you mean surviving in another form of life, then I can say with certainty that it is possible."

"Their neural circuits and brain data are stored in the chip. If you can combine the two, they can survive in another way, such as AI, androids, clones, etc. As for what form they will take and how much intelligence they will retain, that depends on your skill."

"Brother, I'm willing to learn!"

"Alright," the senior engineer smiled, and with a thought, a large amount of memory data was copied into this hidden brain disk, turning into books that quickly piled up into a small mountain.

"Part of this is from that experimental project, and part of it is from my memories. If you can integrate them all, then reviving those 'dead' children will be no problem at all!"

Gao Yuanyuan couldn't wait to immerse herself in books.

Seeing Gao Yuanyuan immediately get into study mode, the senior engineer nodded in satisfaction.

His choice to follow the carbon-based + mechanical route in this life meant he was destined to never repeat his past mistakes.

Even if you switch to Cyber Hacker, it's still the same. Hacking is a secondary job, and its upper limit is level 20, not level 30. A senior engineer cannot program himself to become the main AI, nor can he create another virtual world.

Therefore, he needs an heir.

Gao Yuanyuan, who was transformed into a virtual life, is the best person to inherit this legacy.

She is very well-behaved, very talented, and extremely trusting of herself.

More importantly, she can always maintain a "childlike heart," and her negative emotions are transformed into pseudo-data that is absorbed by another personality.

This can greatly reduce the stress on the "virtual personality".

Virtual life forms are difficult to kill, but if "death" is defined as a drastic change in personality, then the speed at which virtual life forms "die" may exceed your imagination.

In his previous life, the senior engineer suppressed his own "backup personality rebellion" at least eight hundred times, if not a thousand, which greatly slowed down his progress in the tech tree.

Maintaining a childlike heart is like choosing "easy mode," which, in the eyes of this experienced senior engineer, is the best thing.

Without disturbing Gao Yuanyuan, the engineer voluntarily withdrew from the brain disk.

For a while, Gao Yuanyuan will be busy, which will prevent her from being bored and changing her personality, such as adding a "sister complex" attribute.

A fetish for married women is the only viable path!

On Red Leaf Street, two gangs are engaged in a street battle.

Since the arrival of the machine, the City Council of Never Sleeps announced the issuance of three additional "Maintainer of Order" licenses, and the entire outer city has been in an uproar.

Various street battles are constantly taking place.

At this moment, in the small group chat created by Sister Ji, Sister Ji was recruiting people everywhere.

"@I love Baozi, @I'm a muscle man, @Red Flower Fairy, @Airplane, there's a mission, a bodyguard mission, come quick!"

"Sister Ji, I'm busy, I'm doing a guild quest." Red Flower Fairy said.

"Yeah, Sister Ji, I've been fighting with people every day lately, it's been incredibly fun."

While speaking, the pilot took a selfie, his electronic mohawk standing out prominently, changing color depending on his mood.

"You're doing this useless modification again," Sister Ji complained.

"Whether I'm strong or not depends on the version, but whether I'm cool or not is for life. I plan to get myself a holographic projection of Guan Yu in a few days to celebrate successfully joining the Welfare Guild!" - Airplane

"Oh, you successfully changed jobs?"

"Not only me, but Xiao Jiji and Honghuayao have also successfully changed jobs. Now we are official members of the Welfare Gang."

"You've all joined the same gang? You can't put all your eggs in one basket, young men. If you keep doing this, how will you ever be able to act in Infernal Affairs again?" Sister Ji was furious at their lack of self-respect.

"Hey, Sister Ji, don't be angry. We've inquired around too. Most official gang members only have one driving talent, one fighting skill, and one gang-specific cybernetic modification after changing jobs (they might not even have that yet). But joining the Welfare Gang will give you an extra exclusive mechanical skill. This mechanical skill can enhance cybernetic efficiency by 7%. Don't underestimate this small bonus; as the number of cybernetic devices increases later on, the boost from this skill is definitely comparable to an 'advanced talent.'"

"Compared to other gang-specific modifications, this is definitely the most cost-effective ability."

Sister Ji rolled her eyes repeatedly.

"I don't care how strong you are or not. The problem is, I need someone to take over my mission. You have time to type, why don't you come over and help?"

"Sister Ji, this guy rushed in too fast during the fight and died. He's waiting to be resurrected now," Baozi sent a gloating emoji.

"Damn, how did you know about this, Brother Bao?"

"@I love Baozi, he's dead, but you're not, right? You can come and be my conscript!" Sister Ji.

Baozi sent an awkward smile emoji.

"Sister Ji, they're busy, and so am I. Business has been booming these past few days. Those gangsters are either coming in to repair or replace their prosthetic bodies. I've almost maxed out my basic repair skill, and now the boss has taught me my second skill, 'Prosthetic Body Repair.' I reckon I'll be able to become a prosthetic body doctor soon, and then I'll give you a 20% discount."

"Boasting, blatant boasting! I'll draw a circle around you and curse you!"

"Don't come to me for any more prosthetic body repairs."

"Dad! I was wrong!" the plane immediately admitted defeat.

"@Sister Ji, I'll take this mission. Send me the address." - Black Ice No. 2

"Second Brother is still the best," Sister Ji sent a thumbs-up emoji.

'...'

In the end, Sister Ji recruited two new faces to do the task together. One was called "Gold Miner" and the other was called "Katana-san". Both of them were high-level players above level 6, and were only one step away from changing jobs.

It's worth mentioning that their jobs are quite interesting. The former works at the Never-Sleeping City's garbage dump, where he is responsible for processing human parts. It's said that he can sometimes find some decent prosthetic bodies. The latter is a "labor dispatch worker," which means he is a company employee who hasn't been promoted yet. He works for an organ trading company, and his main task at present is to collect corpses everywhere to accumulate enough points to be promoted.

"@PP boss, why haven't you shown up lately? You're not involved in any fights anyway."

He got hacked to death and, out of sheer boredom, spent his time on a plane looking for people to chat with in groups.

"Don't even mention it. Tax payment date is coming up, and the company is pressuring us to work overtime every day. We don't have any free time."

"You're already working 007, how much more can you work?" the plane asked, puzzled.

"Naive. Do you even know what 'brain-specific functional development' is? Do you know what 'virtual machine development' is? Do you know what 'mind software development' is?"

"I don't understand, but it sounds impressive! What does it mean?"

"Brain regional development" means assigning different brain regions to different tasks, allowing one person to do the work of seven or eight people.

"Virtual machine development is like putting your mind in a virtual machine, where time flows at a rate of 10 to 1. In other words, ten hours of work in a virtual machine is equivalent to only one hour in real time."

"As for 'mind software development,' it's about removing all your emotions and transforming you into an automatically programmed software, so you'll just keep grinding and grinding and grinding..."

"Work until the end of time!"

PP's boss posted a photo in which Pleasant Goat has dark circles under her eyes and a pale smile, looking like she might turn into a wisp of smoke and fly away at any moment.

"Honestly, if I didn't enjoy being a neuro-editor, and if these tasks didn't offer enough experience, I would have killed myself and switched to a different account long ago."

"Butt, take care of yourself. If you really can't take it, just hang up," Season said with concern.

"No, Sister Ji, I can still work hard! I must become the first neural modifier!"

"I'm not going to say anything more. My colleague at the next table jumped off a building, and now I'm taking over his job."

"It's time to request the installation of a 'workaholic' personality chip from my superiors."

"..."airplane

I love Baozi.

"... carrying a knife but not an umbrella on a rainy night."

"Hey, Umbrella Bro, you're here?" (Airplane)

"What's Umbrella Bro been up to lately?" (Airplane)

"Needless to say, they will walk in the darkness, killing without a trace. The long night is coming, and I will begin my watch now, until my death. I will not marry, nor will I have land, nor will I have children. I will not wear crowns, nor will I vie for glory. I will faithfully fulfill my duty..." (Airplane)

Player 'Airplane' was banned from speaking for one hour.

"You talk too much nonsense." - Sister Ji

"But Umbrella Bro is probably indeed on some high-end assassin mission," Baozi agreed.

"That's right, assassin! It's a unique high-end profession among players right now. It's so cool, I'm so envious!" Sister Ji said.

Same as above. Master of Slacking Off

Same as above. (Wandering Trojan Horse)

Two more junior players made their presence known by praising each other among the veterans in the group.

"... I am unworthy of such praise."

He sighed softly on a rainy night, carrying a knife but no umbrella. Only among players could he regain his lost self-esteem and shattered integrity.

At this moment, in a locker room

The middle-aged woman coldly reprimanded, "If you are still ranked last in the third roadshow, then I regret to inform you that you will become an eliminated killer group."

After the middle-aged woman slammed the door and left, an androgynous agent walked over seductively and said with a coquettish smile, "Young men, don't be discouraged. As long as we can boost the ratings for this talent show, they won't dare to do anything to us."

"Sister Jiaojiao, do you have any ideas?" one of the group members asked excitedly.

"We're going for a sexy look!"

When thongs, masks, whips, and bondage outfits appeared before him, Yu Ye, carrying a knife but no umbrella, quickly understood what it meant to take the sexy route.

Mother City, Deep Web.

It was a world enveloped by electric currents and streams of data.

Bionic humans, AI, data entities—all sorts of data life forms appear in a cyberspace that is completely embedded in reality.

Amidst the ripples in the data, a curvaceous figure slowly emerged, with fiery red hair, a tight leather jacket, and captivating eyes.

Sister Rose walks among the dazzling lights of the enterprise, her figure appearing and disappearing with the migration of big data.

While both are assassin missions, Rose doesn't act unless she's absolutely sure of it, and when she does, it's a big one.

Her target is Aramaki, the head of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, one of the six core departments of the Mother City, and known as the enemy of giant corporations.

A level 60 main AI.