Crystal Chip Monsters and Energy Monsters
Sister Ji is genuinely looking at handsome men.
Unfortunately, there weren't many handsome men in the Research Association, and even fewer muscular guys. Most of them were stiff-looking mechanical men.
Mechanical engineers are also a type of STEM guy.
Science and engineering students are generally not fond of dressing up, and the cyber age is no exception in this regard.
After all, even their little goldfish has been converted to electric drills, so what more can you ask of them?
"But the people here are really high-ranking."
In the Cyber Test Grounds, a high level doesn't mean it's hard to fight, but it does mean it's hard to die.
Sometimes, you've successfully assassinated a senior executive of a company and are about to hand in your mission, only to find that he's resurrected within a day.
Its respawn time is faster than the player's.
According to the legendary assassin "Carrying a Knife but No Umbrella on a Rainy Night," to assassinate a high-ranking executive above level 40, one must kill him at least three times: his original self, his clone, and the backup of his personality stored in the company's database.
This type of executive is particularly common in this Research Association.
"This force seems a bit different from the others," Sister Ji muttered to herself.
The "Freedom Beyond" she frequented was a high-level map, with many descendants of governors, second-generation nobles from the Cloud Kingdom, and heirs of high-ranking officials, but the density of "high-level monsters" was still not as high as here.
As she curiously looked around, Sister Ji suddenly narrowed her eyes. She was looking down from the fourth floor and saw the glass door on the first floor open, and several mechanical men in suits walked in. These mechanical men were very different. The one in the lead had a blue energy glow on his body and an exceptionally powerful aura, especially his eyes, which were completely white pupils.
The remaining two are a 'mechanical energy ball' the size of a water tank and a super-sized head soaking in a floating health capsule.
"A half-energy life form that, like myself, underwent forbidden modifications! And its level is far higher than mine!"
"Beep beep—"
[Your exploration skill has failed. The planet's energy level 10 administrator, 'Manhattan,' has rejected your exploration.]
[Your exploration skill failed. Dr. Freeman, a Level 9 planetary energy manager, refused your exploration.]
[Your exploration skill failed. Dr. Bai, a Level 9 planetary energy manager, refused your exploration.]
Of the three, Manhattan frowned and looked up, meeting Sister Ji's gaze. The next moment, Sister Ji seemed to see a burning blue fireball hurtling towards her.
[You are under mental oppression from 'Manhattan'. All attributes are temporarily reduced by 10 for 30 hours.]
Fortunately, this "Manhattan" only retaliated slightly before being led into the elevator by others.
"What the hell is that?!"
Sister Ji rubbed her head, feeling a sharp pain between her eyebrows.
"Wait, planetary energy, isn't that artificial mini-sun in the sky above Free Shore made by 'planetary energy'?"
Just as Sister Ji was guessing the other party's identity, the representative of Planet Energy, one of the second-stage forces in the Southern Hemisphere, had already taken the elevator to the top floor of the Research Association building. The entire top floor belonged to the president.
"The president is inside, so I won't go in," the receptionist said.
"Thank you for your help."
Manhattan nodded, his pure white eyes devoid of any emotion, which sent a chill down the spine of the receptionist.
Hopefully, the guild leader can handle these energy monsters.
Soon, Manhattan met the legendary chairman, whose face was both handsome and wild, with a strong physique and a thick back. He might not be the type of girl, but only a married woman would know how good he was.
The "President" looked up and met Manhattan's gaze.
The next moment, a small blue sun with a diameter of over a thousand meters reappeared, its terrifying heat seemingly capable of burning through the void.
However, the next moment, thick tree roots burst forth from the 'little sun,' as if a terrifying tree had absorbed the heat energy of the other and transformed into an endless entity.
The "Little Sun" was stripped away, leaving only its scorched core.
Manhattan took a sudden step back, flames flickering on his blue skin.
An energy-based being that cannot control its own energy is doomed to lose.
The legendary "President" is indeed very strong!
"Mr. Manhattan is here, but unfortunately he's a little late. Otherwise, he would have been able to meet the representative from 'Secret Electronics'," the senior engineer said with a smile.
"Have those graphics card monsters already arrived?" Manhattan had a bad feeling.
Confidential Electronics and Planet Energy, two mega-corporations, fought the fiercest and were the most hostile to each other in the corporate war.
"Yes, they have signed a written agreement with us to abandon the brain-computer interface route and switch to virtual reality headset technology."
The senior engineer handed over the documents that had just been signed.
Manhattan took it and carefully looked through it.
The senior engineer took the opportunity to sized up the three men.
A level 60 executive can quantify over 90% of the data.
Two level 55 super scientists with over 60% energy conversion.
This is enough to demonstrate how much importance Planet Energy attaches to this negotiation.
Moreover, Planet Energy is one of the few energy giants in this corporate war.
With abundant radiation and abundant energy minerals across the globe, the planet has a natural advantage in igniting energy technology.
Even with fierce competition, Planet Energy firmly maintains its position as the number one energy technology company.
According to the Research Association's data, the enemy demonstrated three types of Tier 3 civilization weapons on the "energy side" during the war, one of which was a "gaseous laser fog" capable of covering half a continent.
Wherever this laser passes, all living things in the fog are destroyed; its destructive power is immense.
However, while this kind of "open and aggressive" tactic is useful in military warfare, it is not very effective in "corporate warfare" because it makes it easy for the enemy to "steal your base".
It unleashed its full power, finally eliminating the enemy's military forces and seizing a mechanical city, only to have it snatched away from the virtual world by someone else.
In particular, the "Secret Electronics" group of graphics card monsters and chip monsters are very effective against them and are also very good at stealing bases.
Therefore, these "energy developers" had no choice but to resolve the issue through negotiation.
The senior engineer glanced at the two energy science PhDs on his left and right, his eyes flashing, and said with a smile, "I once accidentally obtained a scrap of a super energy technology. You two are both experts in energy technology, so why don't you take a look at it for me?"
What he showed the other party was the blueprint for the [Type I Dyson Sphere] obtained through a system gamble.
A Dyson sphere alone is only a level 6 blueprint, but hundreds of thousands or millions of Dyson spheres combined together can light up a level 3 civilization building, and a very rare energy-side level 3 civilization building at that.
Project Dyson Sphere!
Dr. Freeman, the one whose spherical energy body had a slight magnetic field fluctuation on its surface, received the technical data from the senior engineer.
He hadn't taken it seriously at first, but after only a couple of glances, the sphere expert became excited; this was exactly the kind of thing he was researching.
"My technological calculations are correct! As long as we build enough large enough star harvesting stations, we can extract an inexhaustible amount of energy. This Dyson sphere is exactly what I envisioned; its design is ingenious..."
Then the senior engineer turned to another "Dr. Bai" and said:
"Dr. Bai, I've heard you're a master of energy engines. I'd like to ask, if we were to design a mech capable of traveling and even fighting in space, what level of energy engine would be required?"
"Outer space operations?" The 'Super Big Head' looked thoughtful. "You mean outer space? A vacuum? A nebula? The outer reaches of a star? The asteroid belt? Different cosmic environments have completely different requirements for energy engines..."
The system of Planet Energy, this super-corporation, is called the "Energy Doctor System," which has ten levels.
Each level needs to develop the corresponding level of energy technology and modify itself in that regard.
Once the 'Level 9 Energy Blueprint' has been modified, one can enter the true management level.
Therefore, every senior executive in this company is a tech fanatic.
The senior engineer's words hit the nail on the head.
At this moment, "Dr. Bai" was having a heated debate with Senior Engineer:
"You mean, with ancient military aircraft technology, it's possible to develop a machine for outer space combat? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
The senior engineer smiled slightly, did not answer, and directly showed the other party a video.
The protagonist in the video is none other than the "Black Emperor of the End".
Dugo Technologies's team is testing the performance limits of this machine; the test in this video is for outer space combat.
"Impossible, this is impossible! How could it break the second cosmic velocity?"
Dr. White has gone into a state of madness.
Manhattan's eyes flashed with helplessness as he saw his two colleagues being caught by the other's fishing hook.
The more they transform towards "energy life," the less interested they become in "mundane things," and the more they pursue the "essence" of energy. This is good most of the time, but now it's a time of corporate warfare, and they don't have many bargaining chips on their hands.
"How did those graphics card geeks agree to these conditions?" Manhattan asked directly.
To be fair, the Research Association's conditions are not harsh, and are even quite lenient. They offer virtual helmet technology sharing, the same voting rights as Research Association members, and you can even embed your own brain-computer interface technology under the virtual helmet. The only condition is to ensure that the virtual helmet has a 50% market share in the Southern Hemisphere, which is also a condition for entering the third phase.
Simply put, it means obeying orders but not official pronouncements.
After the corporate war ends, you can continue quietly developing your brain-computer interface technology under the banner of "virtual reality helmet".
If they were in each other's shoes, he would absolutely never offer such lenient terms.
"I placed an order for a batch of advanced chips with Confidential Electronics in the name of the Research Association and Dugo Technologies."
Dugo Technologies's "chip" production was a reward he obtained a long time ago by refreshing the system: "Level 2 Civilization - General Chip Production Machine".
This thing produces chips incredibly fast, almost like a sow.
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 the technology and the foundation of the new era of electronics industry. Through it, you can produce any type of chip on the market.
However, with the advancement from second-tier mecha technology to third-tier star mecha technology.
A Tier 3 Star Armor naturally requires a Tier 3 chip.
This "general-purpose chip manufacturing machine" is no longer working well.
"Is that all?" Manhattan asked suspiciously.
Those chip monsters are a bunch of lunatics.
What they love to do most is to randomly extract a person's memories from their entire life and fill them into a completely opposite virtual personality, producing a "fully personalized" physical body.
For example, a "destructive personality" might be filled with harmonious, warm, and clean memories of the first half of one's life.
Creates a monster with an unfulfilled desire for destruction.
These kinds of monsters are very suitable for the Cyber Test Site.
"Want to know? Come here, I'll tell you a secret," the senior engineer suddenly said mysteriously.