Monster Shell

The senior engineer knew that the three major companies were bound to cause trouble.

Rose knew this too.

Having led the three major android groups for several years, she had long since figured out the workings of android society.

While it may seem that every android possesses free will, in reality, few carbon-based civilizations can match its control over personality, humanity, and thought.

It is a truly highly totalitarian world.

Totalitarian regimes do not rely on bloodline succession or military monopoly, but rather on a Gestalt will.

The difference between Gestalt will and honeycomb will.

The will of the hive is an absolute will.

Gestalt will is more like an aggregation of thoughts. Each person's brain is a factor, and by integrating them, Gestalt can be produced.

In the cyber era, it manifests as corporate will.

Therefore, once Black Rose merged with three super-android companies, it was destined that a battle must be fought between her and the Gestalt will.

The backdoors in the 'Grid,' 'Will,' and 'Body' were left on the senior engineer, originally intended to be used against the Black Rose.

Black Rose needs to use this kind of backdoor to leverage the power of the "Metabolism Queen" to launch a counterattack against Gestalt.

In an instant, Gao Gong's metabolism surged, as if someone had stuffed hundreds of thousands of people into his body, and these "people" almost burst every one of his bodily systems.

The senior engineer also knew that he had to act as a bridge to complete this "troop transport".

The next moment, Orochi mode was activated.

Wherever the pure white aura passed, it turned everything into dust.

At the same time, transparent spatial flames wrapped around the body of the Great Serpent Engineer. Where the flames spewed out, they pierced through the void, revealing three slender black shadows.

These three, within the "Body Without Intent," joined forces to seal the Black Rose.

With the power of the 'Metabolism Queen', one of her bodies visibly swelled up and turned into a ball of flesh.

The senior engineer could tell that it was 'will,' the most intelligent and powerful 'artificial will' on a spiritual level, yet it was also the weakest and most powerless against physical attacks.

The next moment, she exploded on the spot.

Countless pieces of flesh and blood gushed out of her body like snakes, as if piercing a snake pit, spraying endlessly.

Logically speaking, this is impossible.

No matter how biomimetic a human body is, once life ceases to function, what remains are various polycarbonate and polyester materials.

However, the "Metabolism Queen's" ability transformed it into living flesh and blood.

This disintegration of flesh and blood, in turn, severely damaged the "Gestalt Will".

The second thing to crash was 'Grid'.

Similar to the previous scene, except this time what was sprayed was blood-stained nerve threads, like fine, long, and damp rain.

However, when the "Metabolism Queen" attacked the last "Black Rose", she encountered considerable trouble.

Numerous cracks appeared on Black Rose's porcelain-like skin, but these cracks did not explode like the two before.

This is not surprising.

Although her predecessor was hacked and the company's will seems to be all looks and no brains, this is because she is not good at virtual things. Her specialty is "combat bionic body".

Her frenzied metabolism didn't overwhelm her.

Instead, wisps of blue light emerged from the darkness, seemingly repairing her 'body' and making her physique more suitable for this level of 'physical metabolism'.

"She's using the 'Inanimate Body' function to forcibly alter her body's parameters to adapt to us."

The engineer heard Black Rose's voice, her tone as cold as Arctic ice.

The senior engineer remained silent. The next moment, spatial flames pierced through the void and landed on the 'Black Rose'.

The other person's body surface instantly turned charred black and visibly carbonized.

Two 'Collapse Entity' joined forces to attack, and with their Honkai abilities developed to a high level, such treatment is rare on the entire planet.

However, the stronger the 'string fire', the brighter the 'blue light'.

It seems that the special Tier 3 civilization building, the "Body Without Intent," is resisting the Honkai in this way.

"Could your back door be any bigger?"

"Black Rose asked."

"..."

The rich woman is getting increasingly extravagant.

The senior engineer remained silent for a moment, then, bearing the weight of his humiliation, said:

Give me a minute.

"30 seconds."

"Good!"

Within 30 seconds, the senior engineer watched as the "pure white shell" transformed into the "Black Rose," its eyeballs burned away, and a pair of dark purple eyes as bright as stars grew out.

After the skull burned away, a new skull grew out, and the 'red hair' swayed slightly, causing changes in the spatial parameters.

Similarly, her arms, thighs, and abdomen underwent subtle changes, becoming more sexy and dangerous.

Both of them understood that the current situation was not being resisted by the three entities: the "pure white shell," the "artificial will," and the "electronic grid."

Instead, it was the corporate will of six android giants, each contributing a portion of their "Gestalt will," joining forces to resist the two's refining.

Unlike the Hive Consciousness, for example, if you kill the Hive Consciousness's avatar, the "Queen of Blades," the Hive Consciousness will be severely damaged even if it doesn't die.

But the Gestalt will is completely different; no matter how many of its bodies you kill, you cannot cause it the slightest damage.

Because its core is the entire bionic human society.

From this perspective, it does resemble the memory matrix somewhat.

30 seconds passed in a flash.

A quick glance at the system panel revealed that the "secondary carbon-based fusion" was being rapidly calculated and completed with the biological computer running at full efficiency in version 0.

Without time to check the properties of the secondary carbon-based fusion, the senior engineer immediately chose to release it.

A second liberation based on Orochi mode!

The next moment, the engineer felt something change; the surrounding space was rapidly expanding and shrinking.

The purple string space opened up, and the spatial lines were torn apart in the endless stretching.

However, the 'rhomboid mirror' formed by the spatial coordinates also kept replicating in this state, and the entire space seemed to have become a purple mirror sphere, completely enveloping the senior engineer.

Did I turn into amber?

Thoughts melt away like snow, and in the process of melting away, one seems to "see" time flowing by one's ears, species evolving through loss of control and reproducing through control, physical laws being violently stuffed into machines, and technological logic being brought into life in the same way.

Division and mutation form a co-evolutionary holistic system.

As for the senior engineer himself, in this process, he seems to have become an "outer shell"?

Inside the box is an indescribable "biosphere"?

It seems to involve not only living things, but also technology, physical laws, intelligence, and systems.

After the 'snow' completely melted, the senior engineer finally snapped out of his daze and spat out a white wave of spatial debris.

Looking down, he realized that in the second Orochi mode, his entire body had become transparent, resembling a human-shaped piece of purple jade.

It is almost impossible to move.

This change was unexpected by the senior engineer.

The Purple String Space had become completely integrated with him.

Unlike the "stagnation" that the senior engineer felt, the Black Rose parasitizing the senior engineer's body felt that the "back door was wide open".

An endless stream of metabolism surged wildly into the body without substance.

Nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, respiratory system...

Countless chemical substances gushed forth, and the fog completely enveloped another 'Black Rose'.

Heat, respiration, oxygen, protein synthesis, the interaction of matter and energy, and the transformation of chemical substances together form a towering phantom of a queen.

Black Rose stared intently at the other person, her voice rising from her throat—an angry, electronic tone.

"You will destroy the entire android world!"

"Why do you think I want to control all the bionic giants?" The giant phantom approached the other, its red hair covering its eyes being blown away by chemical fumes, revealing an extremely crazed eye.

"I'm going to completely destroy you!"

Half an hour later,

In the office building that can pierce the clouds

Countless android employees reappeared in the lobby, offices, and laboratories, hurrying along, as if the previous emptiness was just an illusion.

The senior engineer leaned against the doorway, wearing a close-fitting leather jacket that vaguely revealed the modified prosthetic body inside, along with thick, coarse cloth trousers—essential equipment for scavengers and bounty hunters, capable of offering some protection against the bites of low-level irradiated beasts.

This wasn't the senior engineer's own outfit; it was an image created by Sister Rose.

This image seemed out of place in this top-tier workplace, and many white-collar workers showed expressions of disgust as they walked by.

The senior engineer felt a bulge in his jacket pocket, and upon checking, discovered it was a pack of Factory Brand cigarettes. Ignoring the stares of others, he pulled one out and put it in his mouth.

But just as it was lit, someone snatched it away, took a deep drag, and exhaled white smoke from their bright red lips.

Those who witnessed this scene felt their eyes nearly pop out of their sockets.

The person standing before them was none other than their top boss.

"You changed your body?" the senior engineer asked, raising an eyebrow.

The Black Rose before him was different from the Black Rose in his memory. She was more like the "pure white shell" from before, with porcelain doll-like skin that made her look like a young girl.

"From now on, this will be my body."

"What about your original one?"

"Are you that concerned?" Black Rose smiled seductively, her bright red nails flicking at the other's chin.

The senior engineer pondered for a moment and said:

"Being in an unfamiliar place is never a good thing."

"You'll get used to it quickly," Black Rose said, squinting. "This body is incredibly powerful."

The senior engineer sent out a probe, which, apart from a bright red question mark, showed a column for bioenergy with many zeros.

Thirty million units of bioenergy!

The senior engineer's eye twitched violently.

The filling of two types of Honkai energy, the six paths of "Gestalt will", and the frantic repair of the "body without substance".

What kind of monster was created?

"Is it alright to leave now?" the senior engineer asked again.

"They won't be able to cause any trouble for a while," Black Rose exhaled a puff of smoke, looked into the distance, and chuckled.

The senior engineer nodded, placed his hand on the other person's shoulder, and the two of them vanished in an instant.