Spatial Technique-Stringfire
On this planet, there are only two kinds of companies: trust-type monopolies and disruptive, madmen's companies. The former dominates technology, while the latter overthrows it.
The members of Skull and Bones undoubtedly belong to the latter category, and the reason they have been able to carve out a path in this cyber society and even thrive is largely due to their greed for cutting-edge technology—a reckless greed.
The senior engineer was certain that his small bait would be bitten off by the other party.
The best outcome would be for him to influence Skull and Bones through Mas influence, and through Skull and Bones, to undermine the foundations of monopolies.
This is important for his future plans.
Two days later, at the flight base's experimental center, holographic images appeared one after another. In these images, bizarrely shaped, heavily modified mechanical beings appeared on Atomic Island. They looked like they were on drugs, shouting all sorts of strange things, such as "Team up, team up, let's start grinding, brothers!", "Don't steal it, this is my spawn point!", "Let's get started, let's save Professor Sechenov!", and "Selling mimicry machines! New model girls, perfectly evading all censorship forces! Sister Ji makes a cameo appearance!"
Miao Miaomiao was silent for a moment, then asked, "Where did you find these strange people?"
They are indeed eccentric. Players at this stage have already tasted the benefits of body modification and know that no matter how high their level is, it's not as good as getting their bodies into shape. However, because they have limited modification resources, they often focus on one type of human body system and work hard on it. Many even consider the bizarre to be beautiful and pursue a kind of fringe aesthetic.
For example, a person who is over three meters tall has various crooked and twisted hands on their two-meter-long shoulders, holding all sorts of small weapons. If you didn't know better, you might think they were some kind of "master of limb extension".
This deformed appearance is undoubtedly the result of the 20% overhaul of the 'muscle system,' causing skeletal deformities, and the failure of other human systems to keep up, resulting in a height that directly rivals that of a bio-giant.
This "King of Limb Reattachment" even proudly raised twenty middle fingers to the players around him.
"I may not have much else, but I have a lot of fingers. Come on, let's see who's tougher!" Brother Cha said arrogantly.
"I've never lost a game of rock-paper-scissors."
The other one has an overly advanced nervous system but lags behind in muscle evolution, resulting in nerve lines as thick as a little finger piercing through the skin, and the nerve connectors are filled with various prosthetic plugs, making it look like a power bank covered with mobile phones.
"Hey Bao, do you have a spare 'Combat Boost' plugin? Mine's broken, give me one, I'll transfer the money to you."
"Wait a minute, let me look."
There was a rustling sound from Bao Ye's body, and finally he pulled out a "human plug-in" from behind his butt and threw it over.
"No need for money, just patronize my business when you have time."
"Well... I'll just transfer the money," another player said, wiping his sweat.
As a prosthetic doctor, this "Bao Ye" should have been as popular as Baozi, receiving enthusiastic support from other players. However, he has advanced to the level of "Master of Neurosurgery," a genius who can induce mental illness in patients even if they don't have one during surgery.
Players' lower limits are indeed very high; losing a few parts doesn't matter much. However, if their brains are seriously damaged, suicide is the only option. Therefore, as a rare profession, Bao Ye is a rare case of "few people visiting and few horses riding in his saddle".
Other players, while not as outrageous as "Brother Cha" or "Master Bao," also have their share of serious issues. For example, there's the centaur-type player who installed four legs on himself, the quadruped-type player who raised a high-level female android, and then transformed himself into an android dog.
Compared to them, the hunters in the Iron Sand Desert are like elementary school students, completely out of touch with the rapidly advancing aesthetics of this new era.
"..."
The senior engineer was silent for a moment, then said, "Anyway, now that everyone is here, the experiment can continue. I'll go downstairs and keep an eye on things."
One advantage of the "mechanical virus" is that it has almost no effect on you unless you are a machine. This is why even the most dangerous mechanical virus cannot meet the standard of a "civilization disaster" because it cannot cover all types of civilizations.
As soon as he finished speaking, he placed his palm against the crack in the door. On his skin, blood-red bubbles began to rise, like exploding lava or burning flames. This was a sign of a dramatic increase in energy. At the same time, alarms sounded from all parts of the orbital spacecraft.
Miao Miaomiao, who was getting closer, felt a wave of dizziness and an instinctive shiver running through her body. She thought with some horror:
"This level of energy fluctuation is probably only comparable to a few forbidden experimental subjects within the company."
"How did Dugo Technologies achieve this level of modification?!"
The upper limit of an individual's modification potential is often determined by the technological level of a faction.
The level that the senior engineer is demonstrating now is something that emerging groups like Dugo Technologies could never achieve.
In the blink of an eye, the engineer's physical body vanished, leaving only her mechanical form in place. Turning her head, the empty mechanical eye sockets stared coldly at her, and a monotone electronic voice slowly rang out.
"Let's continue the experiment."
The other party now gives Miao Miaomiao the exact same feeling as those strange people underground.
At the same time, the engineer's physical body appeared on Atomic Island. Unlike before, the engineer now looked more like "Dr. Manhattan," the blue-skinned, powerful bald man in the comics who could enter the quantum state.
He is now a purple energy being.
In the blink of an eye, the senior engineer appeared in the encrypted laboratory of Atomic Island. His semi-transparent purple eyes swept around, and the next moment, countless test tubes trembled, and molecules invisible to the naked eye began to accelerate.
In a daze, it seemed as if countless voices were ringing in my ears—
"It's either copy or perish; what we want is to be copied!"
"We are not viruses, we are evolution itself!"
Life, creating life!
"We will completely redefine the existence of mechanical life!"
"Let's spread the virus first," the senior engineer muttered to himself, waving his hand lightly. The next moment, all the test tubes exploded, and the virus molecules spread wildly, rapidly spreading throughout the entire island.
"Moreover, since this is a second-tier hell-level mission, the robots on Atomic Island are no match for it. It's a good opportunity to test this tactic."
Countless energy bubbles lit up on the skin once again. In the Purple String Space, 100,000 points of advanced energy were emptied in a few breaths, and then began to recover rapidly under the action of physical laws.
This happened three times. The senior engineer's vision began to change. Space shattered, and countless thin purple threads wrapped around the fragments, turning the entire world into a world of threads. At the same time, a purple flame began to appear in the senior engineer's palm.
"String Fire!"
As the ball of flame burst into the space, it instantly covered all the purple lines, burning along them to the other end. In the mirror, there were robots from Atomic Island.
In the players' eyes, these ancient machine monsters first froze simultaneously, and then in the next instant, rampaging energy overflowed wildly, reaching levels 10, 20, and 30.
All the ancient robots temporarily gained 30 levels due to the effect of spatial energy!