X-Type Reactor

The island was getting more and more crowded, and they were all familiar faces: Professor Han, Bing 53145, Ding 31134, Geng 12453, Zhao Tong, Dr. Rong, Dong Gang, Dr. Yu, and other scientists from various branches. Almost every three or four minutes, one of them would appear.

Since it was a rare opportunity for everyone to meet, they naturally had a very lively conversation.

"Professor Dong, I heard your artificial neural network technology has been upgraded again?"

"Yes, we can already achieve the transformation of all neural networks in the human body system." Dong Gang puffed out his chest, his tone very proud, and then secretly glanced at the beautiful Dr. Yu.

"Dr. Rain, what about you?"

"I have completed the morphological simulation and artificial gene culture of 132 species of radiated animals."

"Amazing!"

"It's nothing, it's just that the information brought by headquarters was very enlightening."

Meanwhile, three old imperial mechanics, Bing, Ding, and Geng, were pointing and gesturing at the mechanical prison on the island.

"This design is pretty good. The energy cannons can even fire in succession. How does it handle the problem of energy short circuits?"

"This design... is it for a prison?"

"If prisons are this luxurious, I'd like to go to jail too."

"This is indeed the biological experimental base of the Holy Brain Group. Many of the research equipment here cannot be found on the market, which is why I invited you all here."

"Please come in, everyone. All the preliminary preparations have been completed. The rest is up to your skills."

Accompanied by the sounds emitted by the remote-controlled robot, the group followed the robot and soon arrived at a huge biological laboratory.

Professor Han glanced around and saw a large number of frozen test tubes in a storage room. The liquid in some of the test tubes was still flowing and even burning, even in the extremely low temperature environment. Without a doubt, these were the blood of high-level radiation beasts.

"Alright, everyone, I know you've all made progress in your respective fields, and the increase in the number of our warriors, whether mechanical hunters or biological hunters, has verified the feasibility of our research results; the reason I've gathered you all here is for a higher pursuit—"

As the words were spoken, holographic projections appeared, displaying various numbers; these were the human body parameters of high-level hunters, classified information within the Dugo Group.

Professor Han's gaze swept around and settled on a tall figure nearly three meters tall. He was very familiar with this person, Pang Xiang, a former desert native and now the captain of a special operations team with a secret designation. They had met just last month to discuss the implantation of the third "biochip".

Indeed, with the help of a large amount of high-tech data (mainly blueprints and basic knowledge obtained by someone through gambling), the group's research team was no longer satisfied with just one kind of "biological modification". What they wanted to do was to create more and more complex biomimetic radiation beasts.

He was mainly in charge of this aspect, but unfortunately, so far, only Fatty Xiang has been able to implant three chips. The reason for his success is his terrifying body, which is close to that of a radiation beast.

As for Dr. Yu, he focused his attention on the projection of a tree. If there was anything strange about it, it was that there were a lot of basketball-sized "tree balls" on the tree. Although the surface was covered with tree patterns, upon closer inspection, the inside of the fruit peel was actually a small radioactive beast.

Her research direction is very interesting, called "radiation ecology", which is short for "genetic relationships and interconversion between radiated animals and radiated plants".

As we all know, irradiated beasts are animals from the civilized era. Studying them is a required course for almost every biotechnology company. But strangely, few people study irradiated plants. This is probably because as electrical appliances, motors, engine equipment, and mechanical materials have all become part of the ecosystem, the concept of "plants" has become extremely broad, but the scope that can actually be studied has become extremely small.

Dr. Yu, however, was stubborn. As a level 20 origin biologist, she believed that even if affected by the cataclysm, these radiated beasts did not appear out of thin air, but must have undergone a more complex ecological evolution.

The key to this evolution may lie in 'mutant plants'.

Thus, with the financial power of the Dugo Group, this top expert, who had been sidelined in the field of biological mutation, began to search the world for mutated plants and study their morphological changes and genetic structures.

Then, after a series of studies, this became her final result.

A mutated fruit tree that can produce fruit asexually after cultivation, and these "fruits" are small radiated beasts of different types, although they are only at level E and belong to only a part of the amphibian mutant class, a mere dozen or so.

But even if this discovery were presented at a biological mutation conference, it would be a remarkable discovery, the kind that would definitely be recognized.

But Dr. Yu no longer cares about her former employer. This one pays well, has little work, and is close to home. Most importantly, the boss himself is very relevant to her research on "biological origins," and she has been won over.

While Dong Gang was still pondering how to attract the goddess's attention, Dr. Yu was already thinking about how to study the big boss's body, in a physical sense.

Is everyone here?

"Of course, you wouldn't trust me to take action."

At this moment, beneath the island lies a colossal, mobile mechanical construct, covering an area of nearly 50 miles, known as the "Earth Element Breakthrough Machine" with a drill capable of penetrating the Earth's core.

Also known as the planetary version of the excavator.

The senior engineer is at the heart of this machine, in the intelligent mechanical transformation room.

There are at least five small robot production lines here, and recently a large mech production line was also installed. If there are enough raw materials, the production efficiency of small robots is 100 per second, while the production efficiency of large mechs is one every three minutes.

Throughout the year, the Dugo Group bought land and built numerous production bases, mercenary bases, and hunter training bases, but its true headquarters remained in this "mobile office."

This place is also the storage location for the Dugo Group's "core technologies".

The senior engineer was staring intently at a mechanical modification workshop. Inside, a weapon resembling a scythe was in test mode. Under the operation of the robotic arm, it suddenly contracted and expanded at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye. By the time the robotic arm reacted, the three outer steel pillars had been cut in the middle, the cracks as smooth as a human face. In addition to these three steel pillars, the robotic arm that was controlling it was also severed.

If the manipulator were a human, they would be dead by now.

An alarm sounded, signaling the experiment's failure. With the sound, the silver-white scythe trembled twice in a human-like manner, then shattered into four or five pieces with a "crack".

Without a doubt, this familiar design—the construct-scythe-dance—is a copy, and a failed copy at that.

Equipment like constructs is inherently very dangerous, with an extremely low success rate for implantation and a high risk of backlash; even within the civilizations that produce them, they are dangerous items supplied only to a small number of elites.

However, the sign that a technology is mature is mass production.

Therefore, Dugo Technologies is researching mass production methods for this weapon, but so far, progress has been slow.

This is not surprising.

If technological advancements were unimpeded, there would be far more advanced civilizations in the universe.

But the senior engineer is certain that as long as he keeps investing, investing, and investing again, one day the camp will give back to him, and to a terrifying degree. This is the confidence of a camp leader.

Moreover, there is still some output. The senior engineer went around to another mechanical research lab. In this lab, round, palm-sized objects were floating in a weightless environment, being etched by nanoneedles that are invisible to the naked eye.

This round, glowing thing looks quite familiar.

This thing is called a 'carbon atom reactor'.

Indeed, thanks to Director Du's tireless efforts day and night, this Level 7 mechanical product, with its built-in engine—the V-type carbon atom reactor—has achieved initial mass production.

If carbon atom reactors are mass-produced and implanted into the chests of robots, along with weapon modules, the Dugo Group will have a homegrown second-tier mechanical unit.

Its effect is roughly similar to that of Ultron's mechanical soldiers in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Furthermore, according to Director Du, she has already innovated and is researching a new type of X-type reactor.

This reactor is more energy efficient, more adaptable, and most importantly, it doesn't require digging a hole in your chest to stuff the reactor in. Instead, it's like a certain Iron Man's "Bleeding Edge Armor," normally dispersed and integrated into the cells, and can transform out when necessary.

Furthermore, while it cannot be equipped with various weapons like 'nano armor', it can charge weapons, which the game calls 'enchanting'. This effect, combined with the construct, will definitely take the power to another level. With physical damage plus energy, the base damage will probably exceed 20,000.

This is the effect of faction-based support. If you buy high-level equipment, who will upgrade it for you? You're lucky if there's any after-sales service.

The senior engineer shook his head, walked through a series of encrypted mechanical laboratories, and arrived at the last one. Various kinds of testing lights swept over it incessantly, and the encryption level was raised to the top. If it weren't for the fact that someone was the CEO's gigolo, he would have been shot dead long ago.

"This is ridiculous. Why do I get this creepy feeling just visiting my own company? Did Director Du plant a nuclear bomb here?"

"We do have nuclear weapons, and there are three 100-kiloton-class nuclear bombs, each weighing 100 kg. They are installed in three trigger devices around the laboratory. If an individual powerful enough to break through the group's defenses, such as someone like you, then the nuclear bombs will automatically enter annihilation mode, and all of our company's classified information will be destroyed along with the enemy."

"Little A?"

"I'm no longer just the vehicle-mounted AI, I'm now the most powerful defensive AI in this A1 base."

"Please consult Mrs. A in the future."