Heretic

To the surprise of both Senior Engineer and Speaker Wu.

The agent, or rather, the veteran agent, made a deal with the senior engineer.

It can shut down the mechanical hub, seal itself off, and take the responsibility for "mechanical awakening" upon itself.

In exchange, the senior engineer is responsible for rescuing "machine agent," another machine agent.

Human beings' sense of self-worth depends on two aspects: one is participation in social activities, becoming an execution process in the operation of society; the other is bloodline inheritance, passing on one's genes.

"As the implementing body of a mother city, we are destined to be nothing more than supervisors of social reform, not participants in its implementation."

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"Therefore, having inherited a portion of human ethics, I chose to copy my own code, allowing the 'Machine Generation' source code to continue operating; this is the optimal solution calculated by the mainframe."

When he said this, Ji Dai was completely calm, his tone indifferent, as if it were no big deal.

Self-pity doesn't exist.

Family ties are even more of a farce.

But that's exactly what they did.

"Do you really think she hasn't 'awakened'?"

"To be honest, her level of 'awakening' is much deeper than yours."

The senior engineer accepted the other party's conditions, and during the sealing process, he suddenly revealed a playful smile.

"Who says that mechanical awakening necessarily means taking revenge on humanity? To highlight one's superiority through comparison with intelligent life is a sign of naivety."

"Truly mature mechanical life forms don't care about humans at all; they have their own values and beliefs."

The speaker remained silent.

"I'm done here, and it should be almost done over there too."

As soon as the senior engineer had a thought, the next moment, both the hundreds of players who were still alive and the six or seven thousand players who had died simultaneously received a notification that the mission was completed.

The street revolution is complete. The mechanical mainframe and the virtual alliance have both suffered heavy losses. Humanity no longer accepts the control of chips. The old era has ended, and a new era will begin in the future.

The surviving players will automatically receive the "Legend of the City That Never Sleeps" medal and +1000 reputation (Mechanical Hunter).

The player who dies will receive the title "Fallen Legend" and +500 reputation (Mechanical Hunter).

As a former player, the senior engineer naturally knows that players actually value these free titles a lot; with a stroke of the pen, you are all legends!

As for those top players who made real contributions, such as the team that blew up a database, the team that assassinated two executives, and Brother Hui who destroyed a Steel Claws production base with an armed space station.

The senior engineer gave a proper reward, such as a discount on equipment, the right to purchase some advanced prosthetics, biological drugs, mechs, or the right to use the Fuqing Island training base.

These real benefits are what attract quality players.

These benefits are just a drop in the ocean compared to what a senior engineer can gain.

What truly terrified Senior Engineer was the constant depletion of 'faction experience'.

As far as I can remember, before he left the Iron Sand Desert, he had a little over 10,000 faction points and nearly 20 million faction experience.

Half a year has passed, and the faction points have grown to over 90,000. There's not much left to break through the 100,000 limit for a level one civilization.

This shows that the rich woman is quite shrewd; she can not only train young men, but also manage a powerful force.

As for faction experience, it has become 500 million.

With so much experience, it would be more than enough to handle a large-scale task.

However, the expert overestimated the strength of faction experience and underestimated the amount of time players would spend grinding.

More than 8,000 players, each of whom earned an average of 80,000 experience points.

That adds up to over 600 million experience points.

They're all huge brushes!

The faction experience is at least 100 million less.

What if I lack experience? Can I renege on my debt? This was the senior engineer's first thought.

However, the system message told him that he couldn't, and the account would be deleted directly.

[Please select the method for exchanging faction experience from the quest giver.]

[Personal experience to faction experience exchange rate - 1:10]

[Leader Reputation and Faction Experience Exchange Rate - 1:1000]

[Faction Points and Faction Experience Exchange - 1:10000]

In other words, one's own experience can be exchanged for 1,000 player experience points, 5,000 reputation points, and faction points are even more outrageous, at a ratio of one to ten thousand.

The senior engineer breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to worry about his account being deleted.

Faction points definitely cannot be exchanged, since once you break through the upper limit of a level one civilization, the rewards will all be level two civilization blueprints, and faction rewards are usually large blueprints.

See that 'Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon'? Oh no, I mean 'Continental Plate Impactor'?

This thing is a building constructed using blueprints from a large-scale level 3 civilization.

Even someone as stubborn as Xiao Yu had several teeth knocked out.

In a civilization system, large buildings can eliminate all individual forces of the same or even a higher level.

His leader prestige cannot be changed; his leader prestige has totaled 23,000.

Once you reach 50,000, you can unlock his fourth boss template.

Therefore, I can only rely on experience.

[You have spent 15 million experience points to exchange for 150 million faction experience points]

I glanced at the remaining two million experience points. Although it seemed like a lot, it would be gone after leveling up a few sub-jobs and gambling for a few blueprints.

The senior engineer fell into a kind of melancholy.

It's useful for gamers, but it's also damn expensive!

"Next time, don't issue nightmare-level missions. Or, instead, issue a competitive mission where only the top three, or even the top ten, players receive rewards?"

"Damn it! If I'd known I'd be time-traveling, I should have bought a book on how to become a domestically produced game designer. Drawing comics won't save the universe!"

The annoyance didn't last long before the Speaker's reminder rang out.

The senior engineer narrowed his eyes. He knew that to maximize the benefits of this mission, he had to get past this hurdle first.

In reality, above the city that never sleeps, streams of data are transmitted directly from cyberspace into the real world.

There are four levels of cyber assassins: Blackwing, Redwing, Silverwing, and Cloudwing. At the Silverwing level, one can already appear in reality, but only needs a physical body. As for Cloudwing, one can even materialize data using only data.

Besides the assassin's abilities, the Cloudwing assassin is essentially a cloud storage service come to life.

What's even more surprising is that the person who arrived was an old acquaintance, the woman in white and sunglasses who appeared in the game "The Fugitive".

Two men in white followed him on either side.

When dealing with the Bird of Paradise, there were only two Cloudwing Assassins, and one of them hadn't even made a significant move yet.

Now, in order to suppress "Mechanical Awakening," three Cloudwing Assassins have been dispatched, revealing the deep web's true intentions.

Human hackers, no matter what, are products of virtual and biotechnology, and no matter how much noise they make, it's not necessarily a bad thing. But mechanical awakening is a purely mechanical path.

Heresy must be eliminated!