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"Boss, are you even listening to me?!"

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Hanging Neck Street, 3-301.

The senior engineer sat on the sofa, one hand supporting his knee and the other rubbing his temples.

Opposite him, Xiao Yu was making a big circle with her eyes wide open.

The mechanical soldier leaned against the wall, like a sculpture of armor.

The senior engineer was a time traveler, not an omniscient and omnipotent god. To be honest, after the machine agent said the last sentence, he really wavered.

They were even considering whether to abandon the mission.

If the machine agent is the new student, this is clearly a trap.

If the machine is from the older version, then why say this?

To be honest, he was quite certain about his identity as a machine agent before.

The reason is simple: the machine is the main brain of a machine, and the style of a machine is closely related to the development path of the machine city it is located in.

If there are many arms dealers in this mechanical city, then without a doubt, this mastermind is on the heavy metal route and might even be a battle maniac.

However, if the network enterprises in this mechanical city are relatively developed, then the main brain of this mechanical city is most likely a virtual main brain.

Different technological approaches will affect the style of mechanical systems.

The reason why the senior engineer was so certain that the machine was the old machine was largely because of its aura, which exuded a strong old-school style—the kind of style where a mechanical legion is mobilized and everything is physically destroyed.

If it's a new generation of devices, it should be operating on a virtual side. The moment you meet them, you should perform a Virtual Invasion.

But now he's not so sure.

After all, Unreal Engine is pursuing the path of personality chips.

Therefore, the emergence of personality confusion, personality switching, and the dark side of personality is only natural.

"My head hurts."

Especially when there's a chattering girl next to you.

"Boss, did you hear what I was saying?!"

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Xiao Yu's eyes widened, and she began gesturing again.

"I know, I know. Isn't it that Councilor Hu who's suspected of being a wife-killer and daughter-abusing maniac? Your Aunt Qin must have taken some kind of drug to be tormenting her own son, right?"

The senior engineer pointed to the other party's dragon-scale broadsword, "One slash, one kill. Problem solved. Is such a high-level weapon something you're saving for pedicures?"

Xiao Yu pursed her lips, her eyes reddening.

"Boss~ please help this young lady," Little A said, conjuring up another long leg as she rubbed against Engineer Gao.

However, this time, the senior engineer hesitated, which was unusual for him.

He hesitated not because of Xiao Yu's request. In fact, what the girl considered shocking was commonplace to him.

In the universe, the joys and sorrows of billions of people unfold every moment. To be honest, the ups and downs of a family are no longer enough to provoke a senior engineer's nerves.

"Did you find anything?" The senior engineer finally raised his head and asked calmly.

"Strangulation marks, binding marks, and whipping marks were found on the body. Preliminary conclusion is that Representative Hu's wife was beaten to death with a blunt object."

"According to information I collected online, before Mrs. Hu's death, this Congressman Hu frequented underground clubs and spoke recklessly. If it weren't for his close relationships with several local tycoons, he would have been impeached and removed from office long ago."

"After Mrs. Hu's death, Representative Hu's personality changed drastically. He stopped appearing in brothels and began advocating for legislation against domestic violence and for maintaining healthy family relationships. He became a leading advocate for moral reform, seemingly having completely reformed."

"But more likely, he was implanted with a moral chip, which is the trial version developed by Beautiful Interconnect," the senior engineer suddenly said.

"So the abusive husband became a stay-at-home dad, but what about the other one?"

According to information retrieval, Councilor Qin's son suffers from phantom limb syndrome, an incurable condition in today's medical environment. Its specific symptoms include excruciating pain upon any movement of his body, accompanied by screaming, urinary incontinence, and body spasms.

"In the past few years, Councilor Qin took her son to visit countless renowned doctors, but to no avail. Incidentally, according to television gossip, she had intimate relationships with several of these doctors."

"Sleep with someone?" The senior engineer asked expressionlessly.

During this process, she encountered Xiao Fengzi and submitted the proposal for a "welfare community."

"However, this proposal was blocked by the business class of the city that never sleeps. Every time it was proposed, it ended in failure. It was during this period that Councilor Qin's scandalous affairs were exposed, including several videos."

The senior engineer rubbed his knuckles and twisted his neck. "So, it's not that she installed a moral chip, but that she implanted a chip in her son, that boy named Xiao Jie."

"It seems that even filial sons become weary of caring for a chronically ill parent, and similarly, filial mothers become weary of caring for a chronically ill parent. Therefore, under the shackles of morality, Xiao Jie has become a normal person, even if it only appears that way. For Ms. Qin, this will ease her conscience, won't it?"

"Based on the current information, it seems to be so."

The senior engineer stroked his chin and gave a strange smile.

"Most of the suffering in the world is nothing more than ethics failing to restrain human nature, and bestiality crushing humanity. Even if this isn't a cyberpunk test site, these kinds of things still happen all the time. Young lady, in this situation, can you still pick up your knife?"

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into tears, knelt down on the ground, and wailed loudly.

Just then, the door was pushed open, and Tong He walked in with a gloomy expression. He was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene.

"The agency won't release them, right?"

Tong nodded with a grim expression.

"Looks like you'll have to come with me to the city of crime."

Chappie is now a hostage, and the only thing that can get him back is that mysterious black box.

"But if we all leave, who will take charge?" Tong looked at the collider. The collider paused for a moment, then chuckled dryly and said, "You can ask me to fight, but asking me to deal with a mechanical mainframe is giving me too much credit."

His expression turned serious again.

"To be honest, Heavy Hammer David and Roger are nothing compared to our colleague from the Humanity Experimentation Department. He's the most dangerous. I seriously suspect he's going to cause trouble during this clash between the two machine agents."

"And the Holy City Organization members, Chappai would have been the most suitable person to deal with them," Tong added.

"Actually, there's another option: you can stand on the same side as the new machine generation," the senior engineer suddenly said. "In that case, the three major gangs, including the emerging giant Virtual Alliance, will all be on your side."

The collider paused for a moment, then chuckled dryly, "Master, you're joking. That guy from the Humanity Experimentation Department isn't our colleague. His men just fought with me. The Holy City Organization is the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division's mortal enemy. As for the machine, our colleague is still in its hands. Even if we want revenge, we have to save him first."

"And most importantly, news about our minister!" Tong said calmly.

The senior engineer smiled, unconcerned, and simply asked, "Little A, has there been any unusual news in the City That Never Sleeps lately?"

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"There are two points. First, Virtual Union has acquired four more well-known companies, which has made business people feel insecure, fearing that this emerging giant will set its sights on them. They even lamented that no one could stop the expansion of this giant's power."

"It's perfectly normal for local private enterprises to lose to state-owned enterprises. Next one."

"Negotiations between the Demi-human Continent and the Phantom Alliance have broken down, and the Phantom Alliance's army is pressing in. The mechanical warriors of the Demi-human Continent are all living in fear, and perhaps a civil war is about to break out."

Xiao A only found one video clip online, which was less than ten seconds long.

However, in this video, a large number of security maintainers are deployed in all directions of the Demi-human continent. In addition to the security maintainers, there are also high-ranking members of the top three gangs, and even a large number of mechanical informants.

Clearly, the agency has taken sides again this time.

"It's definitely a case of 'a storm is brewing,'" the senior engineer muttered to himself.

"I do have someone in mind who can take charge after we leave."

"Who?" The collider and Tong's spirits lifted.

The senior engineer raised his chin and pointed at Xiao Yu, who was wailing loudly.

Xiao Yu looked at everyone in confusion, thinking that her crying had worked, and immediately cried even harder.

"Her!?" The collider's lips twitched. "I'd be better off going!"

"This one is too young, it won't do," Tong said tactfully.

"No need for all that trouble," the senior engineer stood up, walked up to Xiao Yu, and said in a strange tone, "Didn't you always complain that the blank shell was inconvenient to use? You can just leave it out."

The next moment, the senior engineer grabbed Xiao Yu's head, twisted it 180 degrees, and pulled it out.

Holy crap!

"You--"

This startled even the mechanical soldier, which leaped up and pounced on the engineer, only to be swatted away by the greatsword that appeared instantly.

Without a combat module, it's not the Xiao Yuanshan of yesteryear.

The next moment, the 'Machine-Splitting Greatsword' began to transform in mid-air, taking on a human outline and quickly becoming a small female mechanical body. Its appearance was almost identical to Mas's Firebird Suit, except that there were no 'One Heart, One Body' and 'Useless Heaven and Earth' on the mechanical hip bones, but four large characters appeared below the chest.

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Xiao Yu was clearly stunned for a moment. Then, in the next instant, hundreds of enhanced three-phase nozzles lit up simultaneously, and the violent power even caused Xiao Yu to slam his head against the ceiling.

Countless energy patterns appeared on the mechanical body in an instant, and the whole person turned into a glowing girl.

This mechanical power is more than three times stronger than that of the previous body!

"Since you don't like using a whiteboard, then you can use mine."

If Xiao Yu had a control panel, she would know that she had suddenly gained more than a dozen mechanical skills and talents.

Even without a template, she could feel the insane power within this new body!

If Mas's sharpness is ferocity, then this body is utter madness!

She couldn't even see the upper limit of this body.

"So," the senior engineer looked at the two of them, "Has she passed the test yet?"

Tong and the collider remained silent. You've been so generous; what else is there to say?

Just then, a regular knocking sound suddenly rang out.

"Excuse me, is this the home of Dr. G, the prosthetic doctor? I'm here for a medical consultation," an aged voice rang out.

"Who?"

"Old man, old bastard, old scoundrel," the voice outside the door paused, "After all these years, he's only managed to build a small street gang of less than ten people. What a useless old codger."

"By the way, this organization seems to be called the Powerful Gang. To be honest, I don't like such an arrogant name at all."

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