Collapse Energy

Life Sciences, Human Experimentation Center

"Boss, they're bullying me~~~"

When Xiao Yu, with a bruised and swollen face, pitifully sidled up to him, the senior engineer's eyes twitched.

Xiao Yu looks terrible, terribly terrible. His short hair has turned into an afro, his face is covered in bruises and swelling, and his body is in even worse shape. Many parts are cracked, the carbon atom reactor is emitting black smoke, and half of the energy injection holes are cracked. There is no doubt that this is the result of excessive energy consumption.

Putting aside other losses, a carbon atom reactor is a Level 7 mechanical product, a standard Level 2 civilization masterpiece. This thing can withstand an hour of use even when installed on a small spaceship. How the hell did you manage to blow it up?

The senior engineer roughly rubbed the other man's cheeks with both hands, saying each word clearly, "What did I tell you before? I told you to keep order for others, not to cause trouble. And you're supposed to fight a whole group by yourself? Why didn't you just take on a knife and storm the headquarters of the Phantom Alliance?"

Xiao Yu's eyes lit up. "Boss, is this really okay? Can you give me an even better mechanical body? I feel like I'm ready again!"

"You're nothing!"

The senior engineer waved, and the mechanical body transformed back into a sword. Xiao Yu's head was ejected and caught by a mechanical arm on the wall. A tube was inserted into the back of her head, and Xiao Yu's eyelids began to blink rapidly. Before entering a state of deep sleep, the battle girl was still unwilling to give up and shouted:

"Boss, lend me a high-level mechanical body. I'll slay my way to the highest heavens with a single strike!"

Are you some kind of reincarnation of a top soldier?!

How could you have the nerve to say such a cringeworthy slogan!

I got goosebumps all over when I heard that!

The senior engineer turned around, and the acquaintances, some sitting and some standing, all had strange expressions on their faces.

Jarvis, Qin Chunzi, Madam Hongmeng, Jack K, Collider, Tong, Dong Gang.

Every single one of them is a humanoid monster with a boss template.

"But to be fair, it's quite lucky that this chuunibyou girl wasn't killed," the senior engineer muttered, while someone else felt a sense of relief.

"Boss, it might not just be luck. Miss Xiao Yu really made a name for herself this time," said Xiao A.

"Yes, there's always new data that's willing to break through the server's limitations, cough cough," Madam Hongmeng's face paled slightly, and she gave a self-deprecating laugh, "But I can't do it."

"A mysterious girl single-handedly defeated two opponents, severely injuring Old Power and the third-generation Steel Claw. Isn't that too strange?" The collider muttered to itself while browsing the news.

As a warrior of the Mother City, he could say that he looked down on the individual combat strength of 99% of the people in the City of Never Sleeps. There were only two or three people, and even he himself thought he might not be able to win.

This includes these two people.

Among them, Old Pava was his colleague, and might even be of a higher rank than him, which goes without saying. As for the third-generation Steel Claw, as a senior figure who aspires to establish a world-class military group, it is not surprising that his combat power has exceeded the upper limit of the Mechanical City with the support of the entire group's scientific research capabilities.

Xiao Yu fought two opponents and still won; that's just unbelievable.

After thinking for a moment, the senior engineer called over Tamil, who had returned to report.

"Tamil, you're a witness, what exactly happened?"

Tamil said admiringly, "The situation was chaotic at the time. Miss Xiao fought against two powerful figures all by herself. There was lightning and thunder, and shadows were flying everywhere. At one point, she severed the arm of the mechanical sorcerer Naga and plunged her knife into the abdomen of the mysterious boy. Although Miss Xiao was seriously injured, she awakened the martial spirit of the mechanical warriors of the subhuman continent. The negotiation team had no choice but to retreat..."

"Don't tell me that the old man from the Powerful Gang, and the leader of the Steel Claw Gang, are afraid of being surrounded because of that damned martial soul?"

One of them is a boss from a hidden faction, and the other is a boss from a large faction. They each have at least two boss templates attached to them, and their levels are no lower than 50. In addition, one of them is the mother city's database, and the other can summon corporate will. How could they possibly fear a siege?

Tamil hesitated for a moment, then said, "The situation at the time was hard to describe. Miss Xiao Yu was clearly in some kind of state, and according to Chief Yao Xue, those two were not seriously injured as the news reported, but they were only slightly injured. If the fight had continued, one of them would have been left behind."

"That intense?"

The senior engineer blinked. He knew his own situation best. With his mechanical body alone, he could only fight a level 50 faction boss with a 37% chance of winning. He was a 30% chance, and even with the support of Xiao Yu's three templates, he estimated that it would be a 55% chance at most.

The gap in levels is very difficult to bridge.

Is my skill in manipulating machines really inferior to this stubborn person?

The senior engineer couldn't help but fall into self-doubt.

"Ahem, we'll talk about that later. It seems you two are also quite badly injured?"

The senior engineer's gaze fell on Jack K and Mrs. Red Dream. If he remembered correctly, he had given Daisy their phone numbers before he left.

These two got into a fight while intercepting a powerful gang member.

"You'd better be able to solve the chip problem, or I'm not playing along," Jack K said with a gloomy expression, his implanted skin cracking and revealing scars.

It looked like he had been severely beaten.

As for Madam Hongmeng, although it's not apparent on the surface, the senior engineer could sense from the overflowing simulated data that her injuries were no less severe.

"The remnants of the old era could not ultimately resist the tide of the times," Madam Hongmeng's tone was surprisingly desolate.

Jack K's eye twitched.

In a sense, both of them were people from the old era.

In addition, there's the equally injured collider, Tong, the captured Chapai, and Xiao Yu, who completely destroyed his mechanical body.

Our own combat strength has indeed been severely damaged.

"Remember, I was planning to leave here, but you called me here. You have to resolve this issue!" Jack K said bluntly.

"Of course," the senior engineer smiled.

After the high-end combat force left, the senior engineer inquired about the project's progress and was very satisfied with the result: the "Bat of Laughter" chip had entered the initial stage of mass production.

Dong Gang also brought good news: he has completed all the technical challenges of "brain deformation" and is now developing "large-scale human body deformation" according to the senior engineer's vision.

"Boss, I gained a lot of inspiration from my conversation with Professor Yu. You can have a good chat with her."

Finally, Dong Gang, a self-proclaimed research fanatic, surprisingly recommended someone to the senior engineer.

Professor Yu?

The senior engineer remembered very clearly that before leaving the City That Never Sleeps, he had someone recruit a bankrupt biologist and then had the player secretly send him out to be in charge of the gene restoration work on Fuqing Island.

This professor's surname seems to be Yu.

But judging from Dong Gang's tone, is this professor a woman?

Could she be a female psychopath?

That's like meeting someone from the same boat.

"Let me see what's going on. How did this chuunibyou girl become so fierce? Is chuunibyou really a powerful force?"

"Or is there something special that makes you willing to suffer severe damage just to release her?"

After everyone left, the senior engineer waved his hand, and the next moment, the mechanical greatsword transformed into human form once again. Cracks covered its mechanical skeleton, showing that the girl really didn't consider herself an outsider and was attacking it relentlessly.

The mechanical and biological entities quickly achieved deep integration.

At the same time, the mechanical body's memories were quickly transmitted into the senior engineer's mind.

First, there was a dense golden light that covered the field of vision, especially the sword and the blade within the golden light, which were the core elements.

The senior engineer was stunned.

"A solidified energy weapon? Holy crap, and Emperor's Might too! Are you some kind of martial arts prodigy? You learned it after just one look! And you even fused it!"

The Emperor's might itself is not lethal, but when it is combined with swords, it becomes a different story.

Weapons imbued with imperial might are devastating to mechanical beings, delivering a critical hit upon a critical hit.

No wonder those two guys ran away. If it were Senior Engineer himself, he would... wait a minute, the skills are his own, the mechanical body is his own, and even the user is his own employee. Why would he run away?

However, that alone is not enough.

With all three boss templates unlocked, they certainly possess destructive power that transcends level limits, but the fact that they could make two super-powerful bosses flee in terror suggests there must be something else involved.

Soon, the senior engineer noticed that during the exchange, the blade of the Dragon Scale Greatsword gradually became covered with a layer of black substance, and wherever the sword passed, huge afterimages remained in the air.

When this thing struck Old Power's clones, it killed them one by one. When it struck the rocket rain summoned by the third generation of Steel Claws, it also wiped out a whole group with a single strike. And instead of exploding, everything that was engulfed by this black blade light disintegrated into fragments.

It was precisely because of this bug-level attack that the leaders of both factions had no choice but to flee in disarray.

"What the heck? Advanced dark matter? Annihilated stardust? Supernova energy?"

The senior engineer stared at it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. Then, when he scanned the system panel, in addition to the headache-inducing "62% damage", there was an inconspicuous "black blood vessel" below the health points and above the mechanical energy.

Honkai Energy: 36% (Charging)

Honkai energy?

Literally, isn't this the kind of energy only Collapse Entity possess?

Let's not even talk about when you became pregnant with my child, but when did I become pregnant with your child?

Without a doubt, Honkai energy is a type of advanced energy, possibly the most advanced energy in this cyber test site, bar none.

After all, this is something that even advanced civilizations haven't figured out, or rather, want to figure out.

So this thing can be replicated?

The senior engineer was both surprised and delighted.

Goodness, why didn't you say so earlier? Now that I'm carrying your child, I naturally forgive you.

I'll fix my body and make it back for you!

Young lady, keep up the good work! Leave lots of seeds!

On the senior engineer's side, there were many elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people, as well as various losses. The other side was not having an easy time either, with powerful factions, deep web weavers, and steel claw gangs. Almost every senior executive was injured.

Being injured is bad enough, but the real problem is that the agreement wasn't reached and their home was burgled.

That's fucking awful.