Scarlet Rebirth

In the sealed human laboratory, the mechanical monster skillfully picked up a test tube and extracted the biological cells inside.

On its opposite side, the high-tech organism was idly rolling its eyes.

Before he could say anything, the mechanical monster kicked him mercilessly, flattening his jaw.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

The senior bioengineer shrugged, countless blood vessels gushing from between his teeth as he began repairing his mouth, and he indeed became much more obedient.

We have to thank those 3000 points of biological rejection; now, the biological body of the senior engineer is showing signs of a personality split.

A quick glance at the biomodification rate revealed it to be 53%.

Five tubes of reagents can increase the modification by about 15 points, and the rest will naturally be left to the "Crimson Queen".

Invest 100,000 experience points to raise your level to the maximum.

[Your Slaughter Hunter has been upgraded to level 10 (second job advancement) max, with Stamina +5, Strength +8, and Agility +7.]

[The conditions for job change have been triggered. Do you wish to change jobs?]

I decisively clicked "no".

The next moment, the crimson queen cells began to boil, and red patterns instantly covered her entire body.

There is a tendency for female engineers to switch majors.

Unlike the docile mechanical entities, the more powerful the biological component, the stronger its own will. As the saying goes, machines strengthen the liver, while biological components strengthen the kidneys. Among the four major civilization systems, the corrosiveness of biological civilization has always been the strongest.

A colossal, crimson phantom of a queen appeared on the ceiling, coldly gazing down at the senior engineer.

The senior bioengineer was not only unafraid, but even had time to make a funny face.

The mechanical monster shook its head, pressed a button, and the next moment, five test tubes were simultaneously inserted into the organism.

Five enormous phantoms simultaneously crawled out from the senior engineer's body.

The Crimson Queen sneered, and crimson flower packets rained down.

"There's a new development!"

Tong looked up. "I've found some new information!"

"Hmm, what news?" Chappie yawned, sat up, and shook off the empty beer cans covering his body.

"I discovered a very interesting secret transfer order within the Unreal Alliance's internal network."

"What order?"

"Two people from the newly formed security department were reassigned to cause trouble for Mr. G."

"These are what these two people look like."

Tong flicked his fingers, and two holographic images were ejected, manifesting as two human figures.

"Security Captain Roger, and the reconstructed mech warrior, Heavy Hammer David."

A lean and strong man wielding a shield, and a half-human, half-machine being at least five meters tall, appeared before Chappie.

Chappie paused, "Reconstructed mech warriors... isn't that Legion technology? And that guy from the Humanity Experimentation Department has connections with Cybertron?"

Although the six departments are public sectors of the mother city, their degree of closeness to the three mother cities varies due to their different functions.

For example, the Electronic Networks Division and Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division have the best relationship with the Deep Web, and the leader is even a Deep Web member; while the Machine Consciousness Division and Cybernetics Registration Division have been dealing with Cybertron for many years, and many of their members are from the Legion.

The Humanity Experimentation Department, entirely located in the fortress, naturally comprises people from this mother city.

"Heavy Hammer David is not only from the Legion, but also the strongest guardian of Arasaka Tower. The Heavy Hammer series is a key project developed by Arasaka Enterprises."

"Arasaka Tower, that old man Arasaka has lived for almost two hundred years, hasn't he? This kind of old thing always has to get involved in everything."

Chappie muttered to himself, "What do we do now? Notify that guy?"

Tong thought for a moment, then shook his head, his eyes gleaming.

"Adding flowers to brocade is nothing compared to providing charcoal in the snow. We'll go later."

"But we need to find a good reason to let that collider guy test the waters first."

Half an hour later, on a street in the Santo Domingo district, at the other end of the street, was a take-off and landing platform.

"Rich woman's fifth rule: As a qualified sugar daddy, you must always keep an eye on the rich woman's money. After all, the more the economy declines, the more young men with similar interests will appear on the market."

"Keep an eye on your current rich wife, and look for newly minted rich wives. Remember, the future of a young, ambitious man is boundless; no rich wife falls from the sky."

The collider put away the manual with a satisfied look, then looked at the two drop pods descending from the sky on the take-off and landing platform.

With a creak, the door to the drop-off bay opened, and two figures stepped out.

The collider stood up and fixed its gaze on the figure that was even taller than itself.

"Military aircraft? How come there are all sorts of random things in this rural area?"

"Virtual property, residential apartment, 12th floor, unit 1205."

Baozi looked up at the apartment building in front of her.

"Putting everything else aside, the staff housing is really well done; no wonder they're in the real estate business."

I registered my identity at the entrance and was quickly approved.

The virtual profession has a "visual imaging project" that makes even an ordinary apartment look like a villa with the help of "visual imaging".

30 square meters can be transformed into 80 square meters, and 80 square meters can be transformed into a villa.

This is much more cost-effective than sharing the cost among all parties.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

As the doorbell rang, Baozi opened the medical record—Guo Man, his body was fine, but his prosthetic body had some problems. He had the hallucination generator adjusted by the boss and then had it removed by Baozi himself.

The suggestion to dismantle the illusion generator came from his imagined wife.

This "wife" is actually temporary simulated data, meaning that dismantling the illusion generator was actually Guo Man's own idea.

Perhaps he already knew it was a scam by the company. He could deceive himself before, but after the moral chip was installed, he could no longer fool himself.

The doorbell rang for a long time but there was no answer.

Baozi's medical robotic arm spun, and a door opener popped out.

As a prosthetic surgeon, it's perfectly normal for me to know how to pick locks, right?

The door opened, and a strong smell of alcohol mixed with the stench of sweat hit me.

Bottles, dirty clothes, and even feces were scattered all over the floor.

Baozi cautiously walked through the living room and saw a photo on the table.

That's a photo of a family of three.

Baozi reached out, but grasped nothing.

"Memory projection, no wonder."

Baozi shook his head, pushed open the bedroom door, and a corpse hanging from the ceiling appeared before his eyes.

"Grass!

"Um??"

Baozi cursed first, then suddenly realized that the other party was not completely dead, or rather, the other party was "resurrected".

"Employee No. 19204710, because your body is company property, wanton damage will cause unnecessary losses to the company."

"Your memory download process will now begin. Any costs incurred during the process will be deducted from your salary."

"Download complete. Have a pleasant day at work."

The ceiling flipped over, and Guo Man fell down, regaining consciousness. He gasped for breath, and after a long while, he finally saw Baozi.

"Hey, Dr. Baozi, what are you doing here?"

"I'll come and check you again."

"Oh no! I can't do it now, I'll be late for work, I have to get to the company!"

Guo Man immediately opened the wardrobe and found a new work suit. His whole body was dirty, but this work suit was very clean.

"Doctor, I don't have time to entertain you anymore, I have to go now."

When they reached the hall, Guo Man had already dashed out. Baozi glanced at the table and noticed that the family photo had disappeared sometime during the day.

"Interference from the moral chip, this part of the memory wasn't saved?" Baozi muttered to himself.

He suddenly realized something.

In an abnormal era, it is itself highly abnormal to desperately demand that others be normal.

"Hello?"

"Collider, why isn't your holographic projection on?"

"How can we operate it if it's broken?" the collider said weakly.

"Wait a minute, let me set a location for you," came Chappie's voice.

Soon, the surrounding simulated data began to converge, and the virtual personalities that descended from cyberspace began to rapidly reorganize.

A level 40 super hacker and a level 40 neural modeler collaborate, allowing them to go anywhere on the planet whenever they want.

"Holy crap, how did you get beaten up like this?!"

Seeing the three-meter-tall mechanical muscle man beaten to a pulp, Chappie was half gloating and half surprised.

The collider struggled to raise its only intact middle finger.

"Damn it, didn't you guys tell me to hold back and deliberately admit defeat?"

All the energy systems and computing cores on the collider were destroyed. If it were a normal robot, it would be absolutely dead.

But the collider is not an ordinary robot; it is a memory metal robot.

At this moment, all those damaged parts are as if a thousand welders are re-welding them, constantly reshaping and restoring them to their original state.

Memory metal, one of the end products of the mother city, can be restored even if it is shattered to pieces, as long as it is not damaged at the microscopic level.

In just ten minutes, the collider, whose eyeballs had been blown out and whose processor had been destroyed, was almost fully restored.

Shedding its several cracked miniature engines, the collider stood up, tore off its tattered clothes, revealing a monstrous mechanical body with muscles made of twisted steel wires.

"Remember to reimburse me for my losses later!"

"How is it?" Chap asked.

"Very strong, definitely at the level of a mother city."

"If you were to go all out, how much of your skill would you need to use?"

"Eighty percent," the collider told the truth under the intense gazes of the two men. "Okay, I might have to go all out to have a better chance of winning."

"What, you mean you'll lose again?" Tong asked in astonishment.

"Of the two, I always thought the strongest was the reconstructed warrior who used a military machine, but actually Roger was the strongest. He even gave me a feeling of Captain Motoko."

"So strong?" Even Chappie was taken aback.

"I don't understand either," the collider stroked its chin, "Could it be a gender-swapped clone of the captain?"

At this point, the integration of the bio-engineering into the senior engineer's body also reached a critical stage.

On the system panel, the integration rate is constantly increasing.

[Your movement system modification rate +1%]

[Your movement system modification rate +1%]

[Your movement system modification rate +1%]

[Your Strength +20]

[Your respiratory system modification rate +1%]

[Your respiratory system modification rate +1%]

[Your respiratory system modification rate +1%]

[Your Stamina +10]

The musculoskeletal and respiratory systems saw the biggest increases, but the talent for the Radiation Beast was not unlocked.

The reason is simple: in the illusion, the bodies of the five giant radiated beasts were covered with flesh spores, which had long since been absorbed and left only as dregs.

Their bloodline talents naturally transformed into pure primary attributes.

The five bloodlines grant the senior engineer 30 points of strength, 30 points of agility, and 20 points of endurance.

With the addition of 30 points to Strength, the senior engineer finally has one of his main attributes reaching three digits.

[Your strength has reached 104. Please select your enhancement direction: Mighty Grip, Mighty Giant, or Inflatable Bloodline.]

The corresponding development directions of the three are also very clear: Popeye, Hulk, and Gear Second of One Piece.

The senior engineer naturally chose the last option without hesitation.

Invigorated Blood Veins (Enhanced): Gain powerful strength by accelerating the body's circulation. Strength increases by 1 for every 200 points of bio-energy consumed.

[Due to the biological plugin, your enhancement skill has mutated.]

Inflatable Blood Vessels (Mutation): Gain powerful strength by accelerating blood circulation in the human body. Strength increases by 1 for every 150 points of bio-energy consumed. It can also gain special transformation effects by tapping into the body's potential radiation power.

Tsk, those five bloodlines weren't a waste of time.

Ultimately, with the final modification of the circulatory system, the biological modification rate remained at 65%, an increase of only 12%, 3 points less than expected.

Movement, breathing, and illusion increased by 6%, 4%, and 2%, respectively.

However, the next moment, the engineer's entire body melted away.

At the same time, the organism's reproductive system begins to expand rapidly!

Although it's embarrassing to talk about, the most powerful modification of carbon-based life forms is actually reproductive modification; the name "carbon-based livestock" isn't given lightly.

In just three breaths, the bio-modification rate reached the level 20 cap, 75%.

With a thought, the mechanical body and the biological body began to re-merge.

The mechanical monster grabbed the flesh and stuffed it into its abdominal cavity.

Next, rejection surged, rising from 3,000 to 15,000 in just a few breaths.

Then, in an instant, it rose to 18,000.

If you turn it around, that's the speed at which the stock market crashes.

There is a hard rule in biological modification: once biological rejection exceeds biological energy, even a miracle is impossible.

However, the senior engineer does not plan to use the "Planetary Gene Stitching Network" for the time being.

The talents Overload and Dragon Knight are used simultaneously.

In an instant, countless steel spikes pierced out from under the skin and flesh, each one burning hot, as if clamping down on a large piece of pork, billowing smoke.

Meanwhile, the engineer's appearance began to deform, and waist-length red nerve bundles appeared. His facial features became delicate, indifferent, and aesthetically pleasing.

His eyes were bloodshot.

Our old friend, the Scarlet Queen, has been resurrected!

At this moment, the Crimson Queen was slowly prying herself open.

If this gets out, then the Scarlet Queen might truly be resurrected.

Moreover, it will be stronger than before, because all the biological plug-ins on the senior engineer's body, the Eye of Truth, and the bloodline of the Radiant Beast, have been assimilated by the other party.

With a thought, the neuronal armor completed its transformation and once again engulfed the Crimson Queen.

In the blink of an eye, the senior engineer's bioenergy increased by 5,000.

This is the function of top-tier bio-plugins.

However, the next moment, the fleshy blanket emerged from the gaps in the armor.

I almost forgot, the flesh and blood giant carpet can control mechanical systems.

The mechanical body's built-in energy nozzles opened, and in the blink of an eye, the engineer burst out of the building.

"Damn it, I don't believe I can't crush you!"

The Hunter talent, 'Species Butcher' and 'Gene Slayer', were activated simultaneously, and the senior engineer's body began to transform rapidly.

The object of the transformation was none other than the "Radiation Duke".

Within seconds, the energy stored in the carbon atom reactor was completely depleted, and the engineer turned into a mini sun, his body covered in countless cracks, and terrifying high temperature and radiation engulfed his body.

"It's too high-profile in the city, let's find another place to mess around with you."

In an instant, the engineer burst at twelve times the speed of sound, smashing through the mechanical surveillance system's blockade and disappearing into the sky.

Roger and Heavy Hammer David, who were heading towards the high school, were clearly taken aback.

What a coincidence, this guy left the city at this time?