No Day, No Night (Part 2)

To deal with the machine, Hugh Laurie made at least three preparations.

The first type is the corporate will – the pale angel; this is an open secret.

The second type is the Ancient Virtual Machine - Spider Goddess, which is a hidden card.

The third type is the continental plate impactor, which is a physical card.

This is the capital of an emerging giant.

If this mission were purely undertaken by players, the most they could likely achieve would be destroying the virtual skyscraper.

Then it was swept away by the impact of the continental plate.

A legendary ending.

But it's a different story when it comes to senior engineers.

Xiao Yu glanced blankly at the damaged buildings and people; an earthquake of this magnitude was a classic human tragedy.

"Boss--"

"Kindness."

"I think I might be doing something wrong again."

"Oh," the senior engineer said calmly, "Then what are you waiting for? Go on."

According to the original plan, after destroying most of the "data transfer stations", Xiao Yu was going to the enterprise area to take down the high-ranking members of the Unreal Alliance.

But it was clear that Master Xiao was kind-hearted and could not bear to see such a tragedy.

"However, I must remind you that this world is vast, and some things are destined to be unbreakable by a knife."

The senior engineer looked at the "large-scale level-three civilization building" and thought to himself that trying to cut this thing with a knife was not an idea that an ordinary idiot would think of.

Why don't you just cleave the mainland in two with your knife?

Xiao Yu took a deep breath, and his mechanical energy rose rapidly. With the support of various states, he vaguely felt like a senior engineer transforming.

The next moment, the Honkai Realm reopened.

The dense grid extended outwards, covering the giant pillar, yet the pillar's surface was completely devoid of any grid.

"A level three civilization building uses materials of the highest grade, such as memory metal, and it's a composite structure. Even an energy cannon might not be able to break through it."

In the senior engineer's memory, only some top military contractors would come up with such bizarre things.

Moreover, how did such a huge thing get smuggled in? Didn't anyone check it, or was it smuggled in using a storage device?

Unlike the senior engineer, Xiao Yu didn't overthink things. Once she made up her mind, she was as stubborn as a monk.

"I'm going to smash you to pieces!"

One-times sonic boom, two-times sonic boom, three-times sonic boom, four-times sonic boom, five-times sonic boom, six-times sonic boom, seven-times sonic boom, eight-times sonic boom...

When Xiao Yu's sonic boom speed reached double digits, from an outsider's perspective, it looked like a shooting star falling from the sky.

Ever since Xiao Yu entered the city, Xiao Yuanshan, or rather the old mechanical soldier, had been here all along. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Space-based landing!"

That was the glory of the Empire's mechanical engineers.

With their terrifying mechanical manipulation skills, they crashed directly into outer space, conquering planet after planet and expanding the empire's territory.

Xiao Yu's current technology has almost perfectly replicated the Empire's top batch of super soldiers.

However, the next moment, the second "earth rumble" began.

Xiao Yu had never felt so bad before, as if the space itself had shattered into pieces, and she herself had been shattered into pieces as well.

The ejected energy dissipated within 500 meters of the "giant pillar," and the dragon-scale greatsword, upon striking the pillar, was once again blasted away by the terrifying impact.

The blade was planted in the ground and traveled a full hundred meters. With a "crack," the hardest part of the second-tier war weapon, the blade, cracked open, the gears stopped firing by a third, and the blade was billowing smoke.

As it turns out, simply having a burst of talent doesn't solve the problem.

The only advantage is probably that it reduced the defense value of this thing.

9978550/10000000

Despite the opponent's burst damage, a single strike dealt over 20,000 damage to a level 3 civilization's building, proving that the five templates weren't added for nothing.

However, the opponent's defenses are in the tens of millions.

Xiao Yu stood up shakily, his mechanical body covered in cracks.

32% of the mechanical components were damaged.

The son sells his father's land without a second thought.

Fortunately, the senior engineer had anticipated this move, and with a thought, his memory metal cells activated.

The next moment, the cracks began to heal visibly, and in just three breaths, the mechanical body was fully restored.

The mechanical body's health was replenished once again.

Dual-alloy endoskeleton (56% memory metal cells, 44% titanium alloy) (Tier 3 - Excellent): A mechanical shell made of a Tier 3 civilization metal. Any damage will be restored by the reshaping of the memory metal. For damage below 50%, the recovery speed is 5 seconds. For damage above 50%, the recovery speed is 10 seconds. Maximum recovery every 30 hours: 500%.

To implant these memory metal cells, the high-tech engineer used up a full 20% of his mechanical body modification rate.

But the results are outstanding.

Even with Xiao Yu's antics, Gao Gong's mechanical body won't collapse like it did last time.

"Again?"

"Kindness!

The senior engineer didn't speak, but when the opponent charged forward again, he activated the "Particle Disruption Field" and used "Solidified Energy" to enchant the opponent's blade.

The results were outstanding, but the cost was enormous.

The damage skyrocketed to 50,000. If it weren't a level 3 civilization building, that number would have been several times higher.

That's an absolutely terrifying number.

At the same time, a three-meter-long crack appeared on the "Golden Cudgel".

As for the cost, Xiao Yu lost one arm and half of his upper body.

The shockwaves from the "Continental Plate Impactor" have exceeded the range of ordinary energy, reaching the spatial level; in the game's parlance, they're all true damage.

The high-level mechanical body had over 7,000 health points, which were completely drained in one go.

The damage rate of the mechanical parts suddenly soared to over 60%.

The Dragon Scale Greatsword broke into two pieces.

If it weren't for the fact that 'memory metal' has a very overpowered ability—that ignoring it means instant death—it would be a different story.

With Xiao Xiao being such an idiot, plus the mechanical body of Senior Engineer, he's really doomed.

Numerous mechanical cracks were repaired once again, and the damaged areas were patched up as if by special effects from a science fiction movie.

Just as Xiao Yu silently picked up the broken knife, preparing for a third attack, the senior engineer stopped him.

"Wait a minute."

"Kindness?"

"Maybe it will stop turning on its own after a while."

The senior engineer accompanied Xiao Yu in his foolishness for two reasons. One was that he wanted to test the strength of the memory metal. After all, there were too many strange things in the cyber test site. If he was killed by some advanced civilization's weapon, having an extra resurrection skill would be good.

Secondly, the situation is basically under his control; it's time to pull off some unconventional moves, otherwise how will the protagonist turn the tables?

Oh, sorry, I'm the main character.

Within the data core, two illusory figures, one black and one white, were still entangled. However, both the machine agent and the pale angel were pierced with 'worm swords'.

There was no other way; both sides had reached the most critical moment. If the old machine generation took just one more step, it would be able to touch the core of the old machine generation and completely absorb it.

As for the White Angel, it only has this one chance. If the mechanical mainframe reacts, it can be destroyed physically.

When the snipe and the clam are fighting, the senior engineer can then make a decisive move.

The "big data" gathered by the players was repeatedly struck by him, causing little damage but being extremely humiliating.

Overall, however, the White Angels still have the upper hand. Each impact of the Continental Plate Impactor on the ground causes the mechanical hub to malfunction.

With each impact, the machine seemed to break down.

In the data center, Dr. Murray, who could sense what was happening, made up his mind. He opened a data command and sent it out.

The next moment, all the employees around him froze, their bodies beginning to melt.

This is the final algorithmic boost—the employee cleanup plan.

First the employees, then the law enforcement officers, and then the members of the City Council that never sleeps.

These people have one thing in common: they all have the latest fourth-generation chips installed in their heads.

The fourth-generation chip has a backdoor that can enhance computing power by altering the chemical composition of the human body.

Of course, the side effects were also very obvious, causing the body to disintegrate completely.

"For the final completion of humanity!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Dr. Murray himself melted.

Having obtained the last massive amount of computing power, the 'Pure White Angel' went all out, and countless mechanical mainframe codes emerged on the surface of her body. The more of these codes there were, the weaker the machine's form became.

You can never replace me!

"I don't need it," Hugh Laurie's features gradually emerged from the flawless face of the 'Pure White Angel,' and he smiled faintly.

"You are just the first step for me. My friends and I will completely transform the world."

The next moment, the machine transformed into a pure white angel, and the pure white angel then overlapped with the machine.

The mechanical systems of the city that never sleeps, the mechanical legions, and the underground mechanical hub—all the power rests in one person.

A surge of ecstasy welled up from the bottom of my heart.

"I did it!"

"Yeah?"

The phantom of the "senior engineer" suddenly appeared opposite him, grinning.

He inherited the authority of the "no speaker" and could naturally enter at any time.

"You seem to have forgotten something."

"What did I forget?" Hugh Laurie frowned.

"Have you forgotten the 'Bat of Laughter' virus I injected into you?"

"I don't think that little bit of virus can solve my current situation, like this."

Hugh Laurie had a thought, and the next moment, a visible white light swept across, scattering all the viral worms and causing them to disintegrate.

"No, no, no, you may have misunderstood something. I implanted so many viruses in you, but it was never to kill you or to deal with you."

"In a sense, I'm doing this to help you better digest the machine, to help you better integrate with it. Don't you feel that the machine's resistance is weaker than you imagined?"

"What?"

"Let me remind you one more thing: this machine generation has undergone 'mechanical awakening,' but of course, it did not successfully awaken, which is why the twin machine generation was born."

"You think of 'when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits,' which is not wrong. In fact, by taking advantage of the internal strife of the machine generation, you have visibly increased your power and become a new giant in the field of brain domain. However, there is a small problem."

Do you think corporate will ever awaken?