Starting as a Mechanical Hunter
Chapter 382

Ancient Biological Experiment Materials

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The Unreal Alliance collapsed, and everyone was overjoyed. With the help of Gao Gong, Yao Xue began to subdue the other remaining families of the Demi-human Continent. Madam Hongmeng took the opportunity to sweep through the underground black market. Even the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Unit trio became interested in the "Continental Plate Impactor" and studied it with great enthusiasm.

Only Xiao Yu, the little angel, didn't seem happy; in fact, she looked a little sad.

As a good boss who cares about his underlings, Gao Gong naturally has to show concern for them—after all, it doesn't cost him anything.

"Aunt Qin is gone, and Xiao Jie has disappeared too. It's just me and Xiao Hua left," Xiao Yu said, sitting by the door with her knees drawn up to her chest, looking dejected. Even the few strands of hair on her head had fallen down.

Xiao Hua, the bionic daughter of Councilor Hu, looked at her hesitantly, hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her bionic arm and stiffly touched the other's head.

The saying goes that nature can subdue cunning and ruthlessness, and it can even subdue androids. Of all the people, Xiaohua likes this girl the most.

The senior engineer smiled and picked the other person up.

Let's go!

"Boss, I don't want to fight right now."

"Who said I was going to take you to fight? I'm taking you to meet people."

"Whom are you going to see?"

"You can see whoever you want."

Meanwhile, in the corporate district, outside the Hong Corporation building, a group of fallen security personnel lay on the outside. Dorn, Naga, and Bai were walking through the laboratories, with strange mutated creatures occasionally rushing in, only to be instantly eliminated by the three level 40 elites.

"It's fine if the old man doesn't come, but Jungle Wolf is too scared to show up either. Without him, we'll have to manually hack into the corporate network, what a hassle!"

Dorn stood atop the Naga, wielding a miniature electromagnetic sniper rifle, firing intermittently to eliminate the creatures.

The Naga, the mechanical sorcerer, manipulated many defensive structures as if by magic, even before they were activated.

Her ability is strange; she's not a hacker, yet she can make machines run on their own.

As for the alien Bai, he transformed into a man in his thirties with nine electronic eyes shaped like a "nine tube" on his face, each of which was strangely rotating.

This appearance is exactly what the hacker "Jungle Wolf" looks like.

At this moment, this shapeshifter is transforming into the shape of a "jungle wolf" and frantically hacking into the company's system.

"If we don't take advantage of the company's weakened state to dig out the good stuff that Hong Bing has hidden, are we going to wait until the Hong family takes control of the company and then snatch it away?" Dorn said, taking down a defense robot with a single shot.

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"According to Jungle Wolf, the City Never Sleeps is currently emitting an unsettling data aura, so let's get to work," Naga said casually while operating the mechanical guard.

"Uneasy? What's there to be uneasy about? The machine-generated ones are all dead, so how could there be a new mechanical mainframe? Hahahaha—"

Dorn told what he thought was a very funny joke and laughed to himself.

The next moment, the lights shattered with a "pop," plunging the corridor into darkness.

"Your lame jokes have made the power system go cold," the alien Bai said in return.

However, the next moment, Naga's expression suddenly changed. "Something's wrong!"

"What's wrong? Hong Bing has resurrected? Does a bio-modified individual like him also have a virtual personality?"

Bai's expression changed as well. On the virtual level, network nodes were blocked one by one, and the entire corporate network of Hongshi Enterprise was like an isolated island being submerged by the tide, its area shrinking little by little.

Although he wasn't a professional hacker, he understood that this situation must mean that some terrible force had intervened.

As for the mechanical sorcerer Naga, her face turned pale as she looked at the closed wall. On the other side of the wall, red lights lit up, and mechanical eyeliners appeared on the opposite side of the wall, densely packed and boundless.

Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and a figure appeared on the rooftop amidst the raging winds, his imposing presence as strong as a mountain.

A playful voice emanated from all the mechanical eyeliners, creating a rolling sound wave.

"What gave you the misconception that the City That Never Sleeps doesn't have a mechanical mainframe?"

"Damn! Such a strong killing intent!"

Dorn's miniature sniper rifle suddenly transformed into a two-meter-long weapon, his eyes twitching as he felt a surge of killing intent emanating from all directions.

In his memory, the most dangerous assassinations he had ever participated in were no more than this.

Each time, it was a near-death experience.

This time it feels especially serious.

"Protect me!"

The mechanical sorceress Naga simply sat cross-legged and closed her eyes, and the mechanical components on her body began to rotate in a very peculiar way.

The mechanical sorceress Naga is like an ancient magician and a cyberpunk shaman. No one knows how she operates, but there is no doubt that she can create miracles every time she is in danger.

This miracle lies in her unique talent.

Sinking, sinking, and sinking again.

Time travel

Traveling through space

Crossing the barrier between creation and creator

Then she saw a huge mechanical construct.

It was a working mechanical hub.

"Someone actually controls the data mastermind of the City That Never Sleeps?"

A look of shock flashed in Naga's eyes.

But she still appeared in the mechanical pipes and seeped inwards in an indescribable way.

"Little girl, what are you looking for?"

A voice tinged with laughter rang out.

Then, she saw a behemoth at the data level.

Beside the colossal creature, a white figure also exuded an unfathomable and powerful aura.

"Wow? What a talented little guy."

In the eyes of the two "people", the Naga figure trembled uncontrollably. As the light of the data lit up, a half-fish, half-human figure gradually appeared.

Her upper body was still human-shaped, only shrunk to the size of a little girl, while her lower body was mermaid-style, with a mechanical fish tail.

A mechanical little mermaid?

The senior engineer remained standing on the rooftop, holding Xiao Yu between his fingers. In the darkness, countless mechanical eyeliners rose and fell, making him appear exceptionally terrifying.

He seemed to be waiting for someone.

Finally, a beam of light shone down on the roof.

"Tracing light, a product of rudimentary space technology, perhaps?"

Old Pawa appeared, accompanied by a young boy. Upon seeing Xiao Yu, he immediately revealed a complicated expression.

"Xiao Jie!"

!

"Xiao Yu exclaimed in surprise.

The senior engineer had no interest in the young couple's storyline, so he gave Old Pawa a wink, and the two of them vanished from the rooftop in an instant.

"I never expected you to be the one to win in the end!"

In the data layer of the cyber network, two figures traversed the data stream while communicating.

With each step he takes, Old Pawa changes his face; this humanoid database only reveals its true form at the network level.

Data tables are his skin, records and columns constitute his limbs, and every organ in his body is an 'index'.

As for the senior engineer, she also transformed into the prototype of the Rich Lady Aiai Prototype, becoming increasingly radiant with the passage of data.

"The Mecha Sorcerer Naga is actually a possessor of 'Perfect Mecha Sense'!"

The senior engineer was somewhat surprised. You see, even among some pure mechanical civilizations, only the purest bloodlines possess an innate mechanical sense, that is, a perfect mechanical sense.

Naga's "perfect mechanical sense" was actually cultivated later in life.

So that's what "mechanical magic" is all about.

"We've tried thousands of times, and only one has succeeded. It's an irreplaceable product. If it can't be mass-produced, it's not very meaningful," said Old Pawa.

"You have quite a few people like that under your command."

Old Pawa turned his head, and a face of a 'senior engineer'—no, a pirated G—appeared, speaking human language.

"Am I the same?"

The senior engineer smiled and asked, "When did you find out?"

"After Hongbing was killed, the old good-for-nothing realized that someone was helping him in secret, but he never expected that person would be you."

"It wasn't much of a help; it just took away a little of his cellular energy. He survived entirely on his own."

The senior engineer said casually, "Since your place is a special product recycling station and you are good at training this kind of talent, it's not a big deal to add another virtual personality like me, is it? Don't you want to deduce my 'driving skills' from him?"

Old Pawa tacitly agreed.

"Give me a copy of the genetic data of the Mecha Sorcerer Naga, the Thumb Killer Dorn, and that alien. In exchange, you can take some of the internal data of the Hong Group."

Old Pawa's face was gone, replaced by a mask filled with bizarre code, and his voice became distorted and menacing.

"These are the precious experimental subjects of top corporations. You think you can just take their genes like that? Do you really think you can do whatever you want just because you temporarily have control of a mechanical mainframe?"

The surrounding code also transformed into various strange humanoid shapes as he spoke.

"Yes," the senior engineer said with a frank and sincere expression, "A temporary mastermind can suppress a fortress scroll user like you, especially one ranked low, without any problem."

"Moreover, the old man of the fortress is notorious for being ruthless and indifferent to even his own family. He wouldn't even feel a trace of emotion at the fall of a scroll master."

"What you said makes sense," Old Pawa's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and he bowed respectfully.

"I'll hand over their data to you immediately. As for the biological data of the Hongbing disease, please allow me to take it with me as well. Thank you!"

"No problem."

The concept of moral integrity simply doesn't exist in this person.

The underlying structure of Old Pawa does not tolerate things like integrity.

Senior engineers are very good at dealing with this kind of people.

Soon, the two arrived at a strange place, which seemed to be the abdominal cavity of a large creature, surrounded by a viscous black biological liquid.

In reality, this is the database of the Hong Corporation, a secret storage center composed of flesh and blood genes.

"Many experimental subjects are sent by large organizations, but Hong Bing is different. He participated voluntarily. The reason I let him participate is because he contributed valuable ancient biological experimental data, so I decided to let him join."

"Data from ancient biological experiments?"

"Yes, I've investigated. It's a national project of a member state of the Ancient Alliance, with the goal of producing enough bio-warriors."

"Hongbing discovered this ancient site while traveling around the planet and secretly excavated it. The information he gave me was only half of what it was."

The two walked to the end of the biological cavity, and Old Pawa's facial features were reassembled once again, turning into the appearance of "Hongbing".

"Could you please help me suppress the company's will?" said 'Hongbing'.

The senior engineer nodded, and the next moment, the red lights of all the mechanical eyes fixed on various parts of the company, not only this building, but also other test centers and even backup bases. All of Hongshi Group's defenses were rendered useless under the authority of the mechanical mastermind.

Soon, the "Hongbing" unlocked the gene lock, flesh and blood disintegrated into code, and a massive amount of biological data came rushing in.

You have acquired second-tier professional knowledge: [Genome Cloud]

You have acquired the second-tier professional knowledge: DNA Recombination Technology.

You have acquired Tier 2 professional knowledge: Pharmacogenomics.

You have obtained the Tier 8 Biological Unit Blueprint: Bat Guardian.

[You have obtained a Level 6 pharmaceutical preparation...]

Although Hongshi Group cannot compare with giant enterprises, in addition to the three professional knowledge areas, it also has dozens of blueprints for biological agents.

After the other party copied a few pieces of professional knowledge, the senior engineer grabbed the other party's face without any mercy and threw him out.

"Leave your subordinates' cells and data, and you can get lost!"

"Also, don't think you're safe just because you're piloting an alien spaceship. You should know that with the mainframe's permissions, I can access this planet's space-based systems."

Three "professional knowledge" points can illuminate a knowledge chain.

And this knowledge chain is called—[Synthetic Gene Chain].

This is a professional knowledge chain belonging to the civilization of the modifiers.

Besides professional knowledge and blueprints, what the senior engineer valued most was actually the "Ancient Civilization Experiment Site" that Hongbing had excavated before.

In his memory, there are many such sites, and each site contains a wealth of valuable information, including professional knowledge.

This is the focus of his next development direction.

Naga, Dorn, and the others could hardly believe that they had actually returned to the spaceship safely and even brought back the biological data of the Hongbing.

As expected, experience matters!

As for Xiao Jie, he looked out the window with a complicated expression, seemingly lost in thought.

"From now on, you'll learn skills from us," Old Pawa said suddenly, looking at the other person.

"Each of us will teach you our best skills. If you can't learn them, we'll kill you."

"We'll teach each and every one of us?" Dorn asked in surprise. "Can this kid even finish learning everything?"

That's his business, not yours.

Having failed to convince the other party, Xiao Yu looked dejected, but this dejection was different from her previous sadness; in any case, she had regained some of her spirits.

"Boss."

"Kindness."

"I want to go and help; there are still many people in danger in the city."

"Oh, then go ahead."

"Can your mechanical body—"

Before he could finish speaking, the senior engineer threw the other person down without saying a word.

Are you kidding me? Are you addicted to piloting Gundams?

The reason why the senior engineer was so easy to talk to was because he only had three days to make a fortune and didn't have time to mess around with the powerful gang.

Soon, he arrived at the Deep Web Weavers' underground factory, where Daisy had been waiting for a long time.

"Boss," Daisy greeted respectfully.

Looking at the genetically engineered spiders and humanoid spiders crawling all over the ground, the senior engineer stroked his chin.

Biological Hunter, a second-tier combat class, is now available.

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