Overlord Dragon and Mountain Suppressing Tiger

The management team started arguing in front of the senior engineer.

"If you hadn't fired Dong Gang, the tax audit for this quarter wouldn't have failed!"

"Firing Dong Gang wasn't a decision I made alone; it was a decision made by all the board members," a man with gold-rimmed glasses said coldly. "Isn't it a bit too late to try and shift the blame now?"

"Now we're considering how to resubmit our taxes. If we fail to pass the tax review, our entire management team will be replaced. You should understand what being replaced means: dismantle our brains, erase our memories, and feed our personalities to the company's will..."

As the senior engineer was listening intently, the man with the gold-rimmed glasses suddenly gave him a cold look, then turned and left. The other men in suits quickly chased after him, and the words "Life Industry" and "Dong Gang" could be faintly heard.

"Dong Gang, that name sounds familiar?"

The senior engineer had a sudden idea, connected to cyberspace, logged into Google's massive search engine, and dug up news articles one by one.

Several senior executives of Nevernight City were dismissed due to missing crucial business data. These included Dong Gang, the head of Life Industry and the Neural Splicing Project...

Dong Gang, 46 years old, Chief Scientist of Life Sciences, was a leading researcher in the field of neuroscience before joining Life Sciences, specializing in neural connection prostheses...

One by one, holographic projections appeared. Compared to the refined, bespectacled man from before, this chief scientist was extremely unkempt, with curly hair, a double chin, and a big belly, looking very much like Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man.

The senior engineer found a publicly available video of a speech.

The "Doctor Octopus" on stage spoke with a slight stutter, but that couldn't hide the fanaticism in his eyes.

"If my experimental project succeeds, then the use of prosthetics will reach a new level. Please take a look."

Doctor Octopus stretched out his arms, and the next moment, his arms began to disintegrate, with each arm splitting into more than a dozen blank prosthetic bodies. With his will, these prosthetic bodies began to rotate around the other person's body.

This action caused a stir among the audience.

Anyone in the know can see that this is neither a simple anti-gravity technology nor a pre-tuned operating program.

Instead, it's a new type of neural connectivity technology.

In a sense, this breaks through the constraints of prosthetic bodies.

Prosthetic bodies, or bionic prosthetic bodies for short, are used in Type I civilizations to replace certain organs and limbs, and they have made great strides in the medical field.

At the second level of civilization, they were transformed into weapons, possessing more functions; prosthetic bodies became weapons, becoming armed prosthetic bodies.

But in any case, their function as body parts has not disappeared, nor can it be eliminated.

Human body modification is one thing, but deformation is another.

This involves a scientific challenge: the alteration of life forms.

The operation of this "Doctor Octopus" clearly broke through this obstacle to some extent. The prosthetic arm can reassemble and reassemble, seemingly able to become any shape desired.

"This technology is somewhat reminiscent of a super cybernetic army."

The senior engineer stroked his chin, deep in thought.

After the completion of the Electronic Brain Project, the three mother cities received the computing power of all life on the planet, greatly enhancing their scientific research capabilities. Many super projects made progress, one of which was the "Super Cybernetic Legion".

The biggest difference between this "cyborg legion" and the ordinary "mechanical legion" is that they are immortal.

The entire cybernetic army has formed a special life form, and all cybernetic bodies can be separated, combined, and recombined to form super soldiers of various forms.

These super soldiers are at an average level of 50.

More importantly, each cybernetic life form in the legion has no vital organs and can be separated, combined, and recombined at any time. Unless every cybernetic body in this cybernetic legion is destroyed, the opponent will be able to "resurrect" indefinitely.

In the later part of the storyline of Machine Rift, this "cyborg legion" is also known as the "Undead Legion," a counterpart to the infamous Rebel A.

The two sides have clashed more than once, with each side winning and losing, but the one at a disadvantage is actually the rebel A.

The senior engineer didn't know whether, according to the normal plot, Doctor Octopus had joined this super project.

But the research direction is correct.

However, it is clear that this project is still in the development stage and has various problems.

The prosthetic body is not of a high enough level and is prone to inducing cyberpsychosis.

Dong Gang hadn't been operating for long when the blank prosthetic bodies fell to the ground. He was panting heavily and had to get several needles inserted before he recovered.

Even so, he received a lot of applause from the audience.

"Was it because of this opportunity that you joined Life Industries?"

The senior engineer then searched for Life Industry, but found very little information. He only knew that it was an emerging company in the City That Never Sleeps that had received several rounds of funding from large corporations and that its focus was on cyber psychiatric drugs, neural splicing, and chip modification and development.

"We need to find an opportunity to get in touch with this Dong Gang."

In the eyes of the senior engineer, the data code kept refreshing, and the jumps of several data nodes locked Dong Gang's location in reality.

That's what makes Cyber Hacker so amazing; as long as they know the other person's name, they can follow the network cable to their location.

Of course, this is also because Dong Gang was fired and the company lifted its data protection on him.

Next, one company representative after another came in and went out. Some looked worried, some breathed a sigh of relief, and almost none were happy.

Large-scale projects are hundreds of times more difficult than ordinary renovations.

The mother city was urging him on like a death knell.

This has made every tax day a life-or-death test.

Of course, this doesn't mean these companies are innocent or deserving of sympathy.

Ninety percent of the forbidden experiments at the Cyber Experimentation Site were provided by this group of corporate monsters.

Group drug trials

Group personality experiments

Mass human modification

One person goes crazy and a whole bunch of people go crazy; one person dies and a whole bunch of people die.

"Congratulations, you have passed this year's tax audit," a large-breasted AI suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and the big rabbit almost slapped the senior engineer in the face.

"It seems that being self-employed is still the best option."

The senior engineer looked up at the entrance to the VIP room. Outside, a high-level AI was accompanying a senior executive from Wonderful Interconnect as they walked out, chatting and laughing.

"Beautiful Interconnect is a major taxpayer this year," the big-breasted AI said enviously. "If I were one of their executives, I wouldn't have to worry about building a database."

"Aren't you afraid they'll install a moral chip on you?"

"What's wrong with installing a moral chip?" the big-breasted AI puffed out her chest. "It means we're truly in love."

The senior engineer waved his hand, declining the invitation to exchange data with the big-breasted AI, and strolled home.

Although the underlying logic of AI is not yet determined, he can create a character's face first. It's been a long time since he's created a character's face, so he can go back and try it out.

Before they had taken two steps, an explosion suddenly erupted from the office building next door. One mechanical eyeliner after another flew over, transforming into a wall composed of thousands of 'little octopuses,' their red eyes lighting up simultaneously. The next moment, thousands of energy beams shot out at the same time, engulfing several middle-aged men in suits who had just rushed out.

"It went bankrupt and restructured." The senior engineer stopped and muttered to himself.

More than one person stopped to watch, each with a different expression.

According to the highest regulations of the parent city, both management and employees are considered assets of the company.

Once the company goes bankrupt and is liquidated, the management will be liquidated, and the employees will be disposed of as assets to be auctioned off.

Starting a company in the machinery city is a legitimate form of "venture capital".

All along the way, the senior engineer was pondering what kind of face to create: white hair, leg rings, cat ears, backless, long legs, mature woman style, or perhaps a little breakthrough, such as a emotionless, red-eyed, or mechanical girl.

Ah, what a happy problem!

When they returned to Hanging Street, they unexpectedly ran into someone they hadn't seen in a long time.

God of Gamblers Ko Chun, no, the leader of the Welfare Gang, Ko Chun.

Gao Jin's stout body was hidden in a small corner, his small, beady eyes scrutinizing the people around him with a strange look, making him look like a tiger locked in a cage.

When Gao Jin saw the senior engineer, his expression immediately turned honest and sincere, and he greeted him with a hearty laugh.

"Master, a day apart feels like three autumns; I've missed you so much."

Do I want you to die, or do I want you to die? That is the question.

However, the senior engineer didn't intend to ask; it was pointless.

Ever since the "birthday celebration" ended and the senior engineer humiliated the other party, the fat, dark-skinned man has been giving the senior engineer the cold shoulder and has even brought out another prosthetic doctor to challenge the senior engineer.

From the perspective of a senior engineer, since the gang leader in front of him was no longer going to provide him with blueprints, it meant that the other party had no further use to him.

However, for a while, the senior engineer was busy switching to Cyber Hacker and didn't have time to deal with the other party. Who would have thought that the other party would actually come to his door.

"Boss Gao, you never come here unless you need something."

In the renovation room, the senior engineer had Baozi serve tea to the other party, and under Baozi's furtive gaze, he got straight to the point.

"Hehe, how could that be?" Gao Jin rubbed his hands together, looking honest and simple. "I've been busy with organizational development and personnel reform for a while now."

"Organizational setup, personnel restructuring—so, Boss Gao got a 'security maintainer' license?"

The law enforcement agencies are essentially security companies in a cyber society, an upgraded version of gangs.

In the city that never sleeps, gangs are illegal organizations, while those who maintain order are "franchises".

These days, the gang wars in the outer districts are mostly caused by these three newly issued licenses.

"Just a little bit more, just a tiny bit more," Gao Jin said, finishing his tea in one gulp.

"How much is this little bit?"

"All the connections had been taken care of, but who would have thought that a newcomer would block our way?"

"Who?"

"Evil shills."

"Oh, an old-school gang," the senior engineer glanced at the other party. "Your Welfare Gang is the real big fish in the river, while they're an old-school gang, the tiger that guards the mountain."

"So, you're competing with the thugs for a spot to take a picture."

"Yes."

"Looks like you've run into trouble?"

"Yes."

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