The True Mechanical Goddess

Back in the City That Never Sleeps, the single-minded girl Xiao Yu did one thing: she cleaved the "Continental Plate Impactor" with her knife—that super earthquake weapon that was hundreds of meters long and as thick as a dozen people could hug.

The effect... is basically negligible.

At that time, Xiao Yu realized the truth of the world: big and rough is the way to go!

A high-level mechanical body in her hands can at most kill a hundred law enforcement officers; but a super mech has the power to destroy the world!

Unbeknownst to her, as she focused on operating the machine, wisps of golden light flowed through the access ports on her body, covering 100,000 mecha modules. Wherever this golden energy enveloped the mecha parts, they seemed to come alive.

Behind these five super mechs, on a high-level stealth fighter, Director Du, Ms. Qiao, Secretary Douya, Daisy, and Qin Chunzi, these female executives, were either calm, nervous, or thoughtful. In front of them, on the holographic screen, was a battlefield shrunk tens of thousands of times.

Prison Island, a place used by the Holy Brain Group to imprison some super test subjects, is also the place where the Dark Girl is imprisoned.

Originally, given the girl's mental stability, she shouldn't have been imprisoned here. However, for the sake of the success rate of a certain internal experiment, the owner of the prison island forcibly took the girl away.

This is the real reason why Ms. Qiao was willing to cooperate with Director Du.

However, at this moment, Director Du's focus was not on this. A large amount of data was being transmitted into her brain through the battle. As a super AI and a super engineer, in her eyes, this dangerous operation was just a test of weapons.

"The connection processing time between each mech module exceeds one second; this aspect needs further improvement."

"As expected, integrated AI can only play a supporting role and is completely incapable of adapting to complex battles. At least for the next five versions, it will be impossible to create unmanned super mechs."

"Energy weapons need to be enhanced, but this involves 'active energy utilization,' a skill possessed only by the most elite military contractors."

"As for the manipulators, their mental connection efficiency is too low, only able to achieve a maximum of 45%. However, Xiao Yu can achieve 80%. Is this the Honkai energy he mentioned?"

Director Du had long heard about "Honkai Energy" from someone. According to that person, it was a project that former civilized countries had been researching since World War II, with the aim of fighting against the Mother City.

In her eyes, Xiao Yu's mental perception was undergoing complex changes. These changes made her naturally compatible with any mechanical body. She now understood why this girl, who was only 16 or 17 years old and had not undergone any rigorous training, could possess such high personal combat strength.

"Mr. Du, the defenses on Prison Island have been breached, but our men haven't found the warden. However, they have discovered some very interesting things."

More than a dozen electronic spiders crawled out from Daisy's slender body. The spiders' compound eyes lit up and shot out holographic projections. Some of these projections appeared in tunnels, some in prison cells, and others in scientific research sites.

"Ah!"

Ms. Qiao suddenly screamed. In a projection, she saw the image of a bloody, mangled young girl, with countless nerves protruding from her body and twitching unconsciously. But the girl herself was dead beyond dead.

"She is not No. 550, but a clone of her. It seems that you are also very interested in her incredible spiritual power," Director Du said calmly.

This is a truism, but what Director Du meant by saying this was to indicate that the other people in the Holy Brain Group would also be interested in this girl, and that cooperating with him was the only logical thing to do.

After all, she's a mechanical engineer.

Besides this screen, the other holographic projections also showed twisted corpses, dismembered clones, and even some strange creatures, such as newborns with heads larger than their bodies.

And it is clear that these tragedies were not caused by them.

Just then, Director Du seemed to hear something and looked up slightly. On the aircraft, dozens of neural editors' "network access pods" lost contact at the same time. Meanwhile, a large number of signals began to merge, and a spherical prison model began to appear out of thin air, with more than a dozen escape routes marked out.

"I see."

Director Du nodded and turned his gaze to an escape tunnel at the bottom of an island, from which the prison's master could even dive directly into the sea.

"As expected, a cunning rabbit has three burrows."

Ms. Qiao clearly saw this as well, pursed her lips, and said, "What if she takes Xiao Wu and runs away?"

"Very likely."

Director Du nodded and calmly said, "Activate Plan Two."

Option Two?

To Ms. Qiao's astonishment, a shallow ripple appeared on the sea surface. The ripple turned into a wave, the wave into a crest, and the crest into a raging torrent. Even the sea surface, the air, and the seabed tectonic plates began to tremble.

Unseen by anyone, countless metal drill bits were launched from the seabed—thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. These drill bits pierced the surface of the prison island with lightning speed, and began to rotate rapidly on the mechanical joints every ten meters.

At the same time, countless metal robots spewed out from the seabed. These robots were not there to attack, but to carry out large-scale seabed operations. Various kinds of reinforcement machinery were attached to the joints of the drill bits.

In just ten minutes, a massive metal network covered the entire island. Then, accompanied by the interweaving of hundreds of thousands of metal drill bits, to Ms. Qiao's astonishment, the waves on the sea surged one after another, even creating several large ocean currents and eddies on the outer perimeter. As large amounts of hot bubbles rose from the seabed, bright red cracks appeared on the seabed plates, the result of magma overflowing from the Earth's core.

Super Mode (Heat Extraction): The bottom layer of the 'Earth Element Breakthrough Machine' is composed of a 'Heat Extraction Device'. Once it penetrates the earth, the device will activate and extract heat energy from the earth's core over a long distance, reducing power consumption by 40% and increasing power by 50%.

The terrifying heat energy inevitably brought terrifying power. As the drill and retrieval net took shape, the seawater slowly split apart, as if the ocean had been cleaved in two. Under the massive mechanical operation, the entire prison island was slowly "pulled" out and suspended in the air.

Looking around, the water flowed like a waterfall, and in the center of the waterfall was the entire prison island. At this moment, the prison island had become a floating island. Even the level 40 and 50 defenders on the island showed expressions of astonishment and confusion.

Civilized buildings and equipment of a civilized level possess power far exceeding that of any individual.

"Now, they can't escape," Director Du said without turning his head, leaving Ms. Qiao with an incredulous expression.

How could this emerging conglomerate possess such terrifying power?!

"Let's go, let's land on the island."

The hatch opened, and Director Du was about to step out when, after taking only two steps, everything suddenly went black.

"Kindness?"

Looking at the boundless darkness within his field of vision, Director Du frowned. Had someone shut down their senses?

At the same time, Xiao Yu also woke up from the state of "human-machine integration". After a moment of surprise, he suddenly realized that all five super mechs had entered a shutdown state.

Director Du stretched out his hand and found that the skin on his palm was slowly turning into ashes, revealing some faint metallic textures. The same was true for his face; the bionic skin began to disintegrate, revealing the characteristics of a mechanical body.

Director Du's face slowly darkened. She disliked her current appearance very much, especially the exposure of her mechanical body.

The next moment, a terrifying commotion emerged from the seabed, transforming into a giant wave thousands of meters high. On the seabed, a colossal creature slowly materialized, and the island even began to tear apart under its influence.

At the same time, the five super mechs suddenly lit up and entered "autopilot mode" simultaneously. Currently, only Director Du can operate this mode—it is the authority of "mechanical divinity".

The more the mechanical faction accumulates, the stronger the machine's will will become, and the more 'divinity' will accumulate.

This is why, before leaving the Iron Sand Desert, the senior engineer insisted on transforming Director Du into a humanoid "machine will".

In a sense, Director Du is the strongest in the "Mechanical Hunter" camp, because if she wanted to, she could even forcibly get on and drive the top-level mechanical body of a senior engineer.