Beastman Continent

In the corporate district, in a certain building, lies the human testing center of Life Sciences.

This place is like a high-tech cold storage warehouse, filled with all sorts of human experimental devices, brain extractors, arm modification points, nerve massage chairs, and all the tools needed by senior engineers to adjust cells.

Clicking on a petri dish, the green number on it lit up—10404150

In an area smaller than a sink, there were so many cells, and these were all blank cells with DNA fragments removed, essential materials for biological experiments.

Next to the sink is a device resembling a desktop computer, called a "gene editor," which is used to adjust DNA.

Next to it are fist-sized "glass spheres" with fine lightning inside. These are special gene culture dishes that can simulate different types of environments, provided you know the specific parameters of that environment.

The senior engineer was very satisfied with the equipment; he had really picked up a bargain. If it weren't for the massive killing spree by the Unreal Engine, the cost of the equipment alone would have been more than what he had paid.

Next, as long as we use these devices to create the [Planetary Gene Stitching Network], there shouldn't be any problems.

Of course, it is indeed quite difficult to create a level 16 creature blueprint using equipment from a level 2 civilization.

But if a genius can calculate the parameters of a nuclear bomb using an abacus, it's quite reasonable for him, a former level six civilization elder, to create level four civilization biological equipment using level two civilization equipment, right?

The brother and sister, who were the company's driving force, exchanged a glance. The older sister tugged at the senior engineer's sleeve and dragged him in front of a holographic projection. With a grab of her hand, the holographic projections lit up, and countless pieces of data appeared.

These are all research projects of "Life Industries". Due to bankruptcy, the major laboratories were either auctioned off or closed.

However, the data still belongs to this company.

The senior engineer roughly understood what the other party meant and nodded.

"Open all the documents and let me take a look."

The next moment, a series of prompts appeared on the system panel.

[You have obtained a Level 6 research blueprint for "Brain Cell Research - Mental Illness"]

[You have obtained Level 6 research data: Image Breeding]

[You have obtained the Level 8 Biological Blueprint [Artificially Cultivated Flesh - Medicinal Human]]

[You have obtained the Level 6 Neural Blueprint [Virtual Personality - Hippie Spirit]]

[You have obtained the Level 6 Neural Blueprint [Virtual Personality - Punk Soul]]

[You have obtained the Level 8 Neural Blueprint [Swarm Intelligence] (Incomplete)]

[You have obtained the Level 6 Neural Programming Blueprint: Neural Driver]

[You have gained the professional knowledge - [Personalized Compilation], Intelligence +2]

[You have gained professional knowledge - Cognitive Science, Intelligence +2]

[You have gained the profession knowledge - [Beast Gene], Intelligence +1]

Personality editing: Personality is a combination of human dignity, reputation, and value, not a single factor. To create a virtual personality, the first thing to edit is the personality's individuality, which involves a great deal of professional knowledge.

Cognitive science: How humans acquire, process, retain, and utilize information involves both psychological and physiological aspects. Improving human cognition is a major step in human evolution.

Bestial genes: the survival instinct of organisms, containing an expansionist need at the microscopic level.

These three pieces of knowledge are all at level 10, the maximum level, but they don't have much of an impact on senior engineers these days.

After all, his brain has a huge storage capacity, and it still houses three living people.

Its storage capacity is equivalent to a small database.

[Personalized Editing], [Cognitive Science], [Animal Genes], plus the previously acquired [Artificial Psychology].

On the civilization panel, a professional knowledge chain lit up.

This professional knowledge chain is called [virtual personality].

Above that, there is actually another chain of professional knowledge that has been illuminated, which is the knowledge chain of cyber hackers, called—[Neuroediting Technology].

Once you complete another lit-up occupational knowledge chain, you can light up another civilization panel after "Creator Civilization".

Brain-based civilization.

After digesting three professional knowledge points in a short period of time, the senior engineer will be able to understand most of these materials.

Before bankruptcy, Life Industries had sixteen experimental projects. Completed projects became blueprints, unfinished projects became incomplete blueprints, and those that were cut or failed became pure experimental data.

The senior engineer glanced at the siblings' expressions and asked, "Which of Life Industries' best-selling drugs are they?"

The younger brother stretched out his hand, and five kinds of medicine appeared.

"Smart drugs," "Mental stabilizers," "Biochemical beauty drugs," "Virtual drugs," and "Haptic connection drugs"

The senior engineer clicked on the first one.

Smart drugs: greatly improve memory, analytical skills, creativity, and other cognitive abilities.

"Does it really have that effect?" the senior engineer asked.

"It works," the older sister said.

"There are also side effects," the younger brother said.

Of the remaining four, one is a psychotropic drug, one is a beauty product, one is a drug that acts like a 'virtual machine', and one is a pornographic drug.

"Let me guess, are smart drugs the best-selling?"

The senior engineer stroked his chin and said.

"No."

"This one sells the best."

The younger brother pointed to the medication for stabilizing mental health.

The senior engineer paused, then asked, "Why?"

"Make the mentally stable man unstable."

"Let him think he is stable when he is mentally unstable."

"..."

The senior engineer finally understood why this medicine was the best-selling one; it was suitable for both normal and abnormal people, making its applicability incredibly broad.

"Alright, let's get to work."

The Demi-human Continent is a city area roughly half the size of the City That Never Sleeps. To enter the Demi-human Continent, one must first take a boat, and it must be a specially made boat, because a tributary of the Sulfuric Acid River separates it from the main city area. The river is teeming with monsters.

A legislator once proposed building a bridge across the river to connect Asia Island with other major urban areas and facilitate governance.

The next day, the senator was assassinated.

Once you cross the river, you'll find the whole world is completely different. The modders here prefer to use exoskeletons, and these close-fitting exoskeletons are shaped like ancient armor. The weapons on the exoskeletons are mostly melee weapons, such as electromagnetic knives, electric drill guns, and serrated swords.

It felt like stepping into an ancient mechanical world.

At this moment, in the family's dojo, Daisy was dressed in a simple black outfit, and next to her was Keiko Matsushima, dressed in the same style but in a children's version.

The two women had their eyes closed, as if they were meditating.

Daisy's eyes remained fixed, and her breathing grew longer and more labored.

Keiko Matsushima's eyelids kept twitching, clearly indicating that she was slacking off.

Then, the high school girl secretly opened her eyes a crack and looked at Daisy.

In the candlelight, Daisy's skin texture was exceptionally clear, looking like—a spider web?

The next moment, Daisy stood up without any warning, made a knife with her hand, and swung it in the air.

The row of candles in front of him suddenly split in two.

Then it disappears as electron specks.

Technology is advancing, and so are training methods.

These 'holographic candles' test not only the 'dynamic capture capability' in the real world, but also the 'signal capture capability' of mechanical entities.

If Daisy had a character panel, she would know that at this point, she had already reached the maximum level of 30.

The door opened, and an old man walked in. Upon seeing this scene, he showed undisguised admiration.

"Daisy, you have actually reached the level of 'not a single detail is missing, not a speck of dust' that the patriarch spoke of."

"Your computing power is truly astounding!"

Daisy remained calm. "It's not that my computing power is so great, it's just that my perception has become stronger."

"Also, if you go any further, watch your head."

With the help of the light, the old man discovered that, without him noticing, thin spider webs had covered the entire room, each web as sharp as a steel wire.

The nearest spider silk was only a few centimeters away from his throat.

The old man's expression froze instantly.

Daisy and Keiko Matsushima are both members of the Ajina family. Their family is a small family, the kind that is small in size but big in influence and shallow in content.

The reason the two went to the Iron Sand Desert, a remote area, to seek wealth was naturally due to their experiences of family infighting and even being oppressed.

Two weeks ago, the all-new Daisy returned, along with a bunch of high-ranking hunters.

The following plot includes classic storylines such as "The God of War returns and finds his daughter living in a doghouse" and "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a poor young girl."

Daisy personally cleansed the entire family, and especially after she mastered the divine skills of the first family head, her position was basically as stable as Mount Tai.

On the walls, ceiling, and floor, palm-sized mechanical spiders began to roam, spitting out spider silk. Soon, the powerless head of the household sat down opposite Daisy.

At least on the surface, Daisy showed enough respect to the old patriarch. She beckoned, and Keiko reluctantly served tea, making a face at him as she did so.

The old patriarch didn't care, he just sighed and said, "The new Demi-human Union Conference is about to be held. I wonder what the final decision will be. Although we are mercenaries all over the world, we can't just go against the machine generation in our hometown."

The Demi-human Union is a family foundation jointly established by all families in the Demi-human Continent.

Shares are allocated according to the strength of each family, and a general meeting is held to vote on any issue that involves the overall interests of the Asian continent.

The combined shareholding of the Daisy La family and the family to which Keiko Matsushima belongs is only 5.6%, which is really not much.

The top five families in the Asian continent—the Kobayashi, Miyamoto, Black Hawk, Xiao, and Yao families—collectively hold 51.3% of the shares.

In other words, as long as the five major families reach a consensus, the other smaller families have no right to make any proposals.

However, the Kobayashi family has recently experienced a change in its fortunes. Their most promising heir, Kobayashi Hidemoto, was seriously injured, and the family is now embroiled in a fierce internal power struggle over the succession.

Daisy listened calmly to the patriarch's complaints. According to him, the Demi-human Continent had always been an autonomous continent and never yielded to external forces.

Moreover, the continent of Ajin is notorious for producing mercenaries, so installing "moral chips" on them would be tantamount to cutting off their livelihood.

Now, they're not too keen on joining the "Virtual Alliance" and becoming part of the law enforcement.

However, even with the combined strength of all the families in the Asian continent, the chances of winning against a rising corporate giant plus a mechanical mainframe are not high.

In short, it's a real dilemma.