The "Skull Has a Bump" Faction

Cyberworld is touted as a 100% realistic game.

Therefore, in most cases, the system plays the role of a helper; it does not provide a backpack or blueprints that need to be crafted by the user.

At most, I'll occasionally give you some sweets.

Aside from the addition of a faction panel, the NPC system seems to be no different.

This time, however, the senior engineer finally felt the great "power of the system".

Oh no, it should be called 'Civilization Correction Power'.

In the senior engineer's view, this thing is like a super cheat code falling from the sky.

Civilization Correction Power (Cyber Test Site): At the same civilization level, it can cause the enemy's technology tree to regress to the previous branch node and interrupt the growth of that branch.

It's a bit of a mouthful, but it can be summed up in one sentence: restore factory settings.

If the senior engineer uses this tactic against Elisa, the "Mother of Data" will collapse at the data level, her personality will dissipate, and she will revert to the underlying structure of cyberspace, never to regain her personality.

If the engineer uses this tactic against Hugh Laurie, all the morality chips will malfunction, and the "Human Perfection Project" will be ruined.

This move has a similar attribute to "Sophon," directly locking in the prospects of a certain technological path.

In the chaotic cyber testing grounds of technological development, this move is undoubtedly akin to a dimensional reduction attack.

"How exactly was this achieved? Was it a micro-level lockdown, or a change at the level of consciousness?"

"I have a strange sense of déjà vu."

In the universe, there are many things that even advanced civilizations cannot explain.

This kind of existence is called a "spectacle".

According to legend, upgrading the "megastructure," a cultural treasure, to the highest level will elevate it to the status of a "wonder."

This "spectacle" is so powerful that it can even distort the rules of the universe.

Although the "Civilization Correction Power" is far from that powerful, at most it modifies the growth of a branch on a technology tree, but the principle is similar.

Of course, the conditions for using the "Civilization Correction Power" are also relatively strict, for example, they must be of the same rank.

For example, if a senior engineer is currently at level 29, then what they can modify is a certain technological branch of a level one civilization.

For example, changing certain parameters of electric vehicles to make them more energy polluting than gasoline vehicles.

That's a bit of dark humor.

In short, since returning from cyberspace, the senior engineer has been thinking about how to make the most of the "Civilization Correction Power".

In corporate warfare, this is absolutely a decisive weapon.

As for Elisa's suggestion, the senior engineer naturally had no objection.

With Baidu in hand, I have the world at my fingertips.

The terms of their deal were that Elisa would help the senior engineer gather information about Honkai energy online, while the senior engineer would collect Honkai energy carriers for her in the real world.

Elisa probably felt that she got the better deal.

After all, no matter how well a senior engineer develops, he will ultimately be nothing more than a "planetary entrepreneur".

If she collects enough Honkai energy carriers and offers them to that advanced civilization before the mother city, the benefits she receives will be ten or even a hundred times that of a senior engineer.

But all of this is contingent on the cyber test site remaining intact.

But in reality, once the cyber tide arrives, human society will collapse, cyberspace will disintegrate, conceptual beings will reincarnate, and even the mother city will be unable to take care of itself.

The senior engineer even suspected that the ancient civilization behind the mother city had encountered problems.

Otherwise, why would an outsider dare to sabotage an experiment conducted by an advanced civilization?

All realities crumble before the true torrent.

Therefore, the senior engineer readily agreed.

Since it's an impossible promise, why not just agree to it first?

Director Du no longer has time to deal with the young wolf dog; she has already found a new love, and that new love is this massive mechanical creation, a level-three building—the Mechanical Hub.

This made even the senior engineer itching to try it out.

He currently possesses a complete professional knowledge chain consisting of three parts—

Virtual personality, mechanical brain, mechanical complex.

Dr. Rong, one of his scientist henchmen, also possesses a complete professional knowledge chain. "Mechanical Life."

In theory, he could try synthesizing a "professional knowledge chain".

After all, betting on 'knowledge' is never as exciting as betting on 'knowledge chains'.

The experience of betting on "blueprints" is measured in tens of thousands.

But when betting on "large-scale blueprints," you have to add two zeros to the end, calculating in the millions.

After glancing at the experience points, the senior engineer sighed softly.

Even a hero can be brought down by a penny.

I should have squeezed the players a little more; why give them so many perks?

However, the senior engineer suddenly remembered that among the mission rewards, there seemed to be a "corporate legacy".

This thing seems to be able to yield 'large blueprints' as well.

[Do you want to enable 'Corporate Heritage'?]

The senior engineer clicked "confirm," and the next moment, four pale "memorial portraits" appeared in front of him, their faces ashen and their eyes wide open, as if they were about to crawl out at any moment.

Hugh Laurie, Dr. Murray, and two other old men I didn't recognize.

"Wow!"

The senior engineer was speechless.

"System, are you doing this on purpose?!"

[Please select inheritance]

This seems to be a multiple-choice question.

"So, you can choose twice regarding corporate legacy?"

The system remained silent, which seemed to indicate that it had tacitly agreed.

"Interesting."

The senior engineer rubbed his hands together, thinking that since he had just met a rich woman, his luck shouldn't be too bad.

Hugh Laurie, Mr. President! You're the one!

[You have obtained a set of rare EVA discs]

"..."

Looking at the familiar cover featuring two women and one man, the senior engineer remained silent for a while.

"System, can you give me an explanation?"

[Under the Corporate Law of the Machine-Splitter Star, personal assets are also considered corporate assets.]

Do you think that just because you said that, I won't want to kill you?

"Little A".

"Little A is here."

"Help me look up these two people's identities online."

"Yes, Master."

Soon, the identities of these two unfamiliar faces were revealed. Litt was a senior management talent in the supply chain, who was said to have been poached by Hugh Laurie with a large sum of money to solve the problem of insufficient product capacity. The other was an old man named Sundar, who was even more interesting. He was the partner of the domineering CEO and a senior director of another chip giant, but unfortunately, he died in the city that never sleeps.

"System, can partners also be considered company members?"

The system did not respond, which seems to be a default decision.

The senior engineer originally wanted to choose Dr. Murray, but if another EVA package were to come along, he would probably be spitting blood.

As for the remaining two, the cutting-edge technology in the industrial chain wouldn't be of much use to him—

[You have obtained a Level 2 Civilization - General-Purpose Chip Production Machine]

Name: General-purpose chip manufacturing machine

Category: Small-scale Civilization Buildings

Quality: Level Two Civilization

Weight: 5 tons

Note: Chip technology is the end product of chip technology and the foundation of the new era of electronics industry. Through it, you can produce any type of chip on the market.

A small icon appears, featuring a strangely shaped "washing machine".

The senior engineer clicked on it, and the next moment, a holographic projection of a "washing machine" appeared in front of him.

The entire "washing machine" is about two stories high. The top is the microcircuit design module, the middle is the lithography module, and the bottom is the 3D printing module.

Three main modules, right?

In addition, there is an external display screen that allows manual adjustment of the chip's size and parameters.

Wherever the senior engineer points his finger, the corresponding mechanical drawings will appear.

Roughly counting, there are about 30 or 40.

In a Level 2 civilization, a "general-purpose chip manufacturing machine" is equivalent to a "lithography machine" in a Level 1 civilization.

Unlike lithography machines, this is equivalent to integrating the entire chip production line into this "washing machine," and the chip production efficiency is one chip per minute.

One photo per minute, 60 photos per hour, and 1800 photos in 30 hours.

The senior engineer finally understands how so many chips suddenly appeared.

If a dozen or so of these machines were mass-produced, the production capacity would be terrifying.

"Chip technology, robotic brains, virtual personalities..."

The senior engineer's gambling addiction began to burn fiercely again.

While I wouldn't dare gamble on the knowledge chain, I can still give advanced blueprints a try.

In the senior engineer's memory, the three knowledge chains he possessed contained all the knowledge required for a kind of "advanced blueprint".

[Whether to split the secondary professional knowledge chain - mechanical complex]

Yes

On the crafting panel, the "Mechanical Complex" section split into seven different professions.

[Industrial Materials Science], [Mechanical Modification], [Mechatronics Engineering], [Exoskeleton Design], [Energy Development], [Composite Materials], [Large-Scale Engineering]

The senior engineer dragged the two professional knowledge fields, [Mechanical and Electronic Engineering] and [Composite Materials], into the synthesis panel.

Following the same pattern, the senior engineer also broke down the professional knowledge chain of "virtual personality" into "brainware engineering," "memory modification," "cognitive science," and "neuronal technology," and dragged them in.

In the area of "mechanical brain technology," the senior engineer selected "brain chemistry," "brain structure," and "brainwave control."

Generally speaking, the amount of knowledge required for gambling on blueprints will not exceed 5.

The senior engineer immediately increased its number to 9.

Although the number of knowledge points has only increased by 3, the margin for error has plummeted.

However, this is without knowing the experience ratio.

[Mechatronics Engineering] + [Composite Materials] + [Brain Engineering] + [Memory Modification] + [Cognitive Science] + [Neuron Technology] + [Brain Chemistry] + [Brain Structure] + [Electroencephalography]

[Do you want to select knowledge synthesis?]

Yes

[Synthesis failed]

Well--

Eighty thousand experience points are gone.

Even if you know the ratio of experience to knowledge, you may still fail if you have more than five types of knowledge, and you may very well end up with nothing.

But the more knowledge one has, the more important the resulting blueprints become.

After three consecutive failed attempts, the senior engineer finally gambled and got what he wanted.

[Integration successful. You have researched the Level 10 electronic neural blueprints for the [Super Brain Enhancement System]]

In his previous life, in a level-three civilization, the civilization path that the senior engineer followed was called the "Superbrain Civilization," so you can imagine how important this thing is.

A book-reading app recommended to me by a friend I've known for ten years, Wild Fruit Reading! It's freaking amazing! I use it to read aloud and listen to books while driving or before bed to pass the time. You can download it here.

The appearance of this "Super Brain Enhancement System" is that of an ultra-thin helmet, almost like a semi-transparent glass, with faint circuit patterns on the glass surface.

Compared to the relatively common "brain implantation" approach in the information age, this technological branch is called "brain enhancement."

Also known as the "brain-bound" school.